skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Article III of the constitution is amazingly brief. It doesn't even explicitly create the supreme court's power to determine constitutionality.
Which would result in quite a lot of spam sent via GitHub's forwarder, which would then be marked as a spam server in Gmail and other providers, which would result in GitHub's server being blocked.
They look at fractals and spirals and enjoy seeing the pretty pictures with all the symmetry and colors. However when an explanation of how the series is generated and how it can vary is presented, interest is feigned and the core concepts still elude them. It's almost as if they don't like getting their hands dirty in a different medium.
On the note of lying, Obama just explicitly denied exactly this in his press conference an hour or so ago.
Bought Few's book. Information design is something I'm really interested in, yet I haven't found too many resources on it, other than Tufte's books (obviously) and a couple others. One of my favorites is Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference by Robert Harris [1]. It offers little discussion, but is an excellent catalog of all of the various ways you can represent data.

For more exploratory information design, check out the stuff by Nicholas Felton. He's a big quantified-self guy who every year publishes a really nicely designed annual report of his life [2]. I emailed him once asking for more sources on info design and he linked me to the site of a course he taught that contained some great resources [3].

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195135326/

[2] http://feltron.com/

[3] http://interactiondesign.sva.edu/classes/spring11/informatio...
At a point in our nation's early history, we decided to trust Constitutional interpretation to the Supreme Court. There were cons to that decision - the Constitution is our social contract and thus it's interpretation is ultimately up to the people - but on the whole I think it was a good one.

But, if for whatever reason, this Judicial review cannot occur - whether that be willful avoidance by the DEA for "Parallel Construction", or various activities related to the FISA Star Chamber - that's a problem that needs to be solved, lest the constitution lack any enforcement ability whatsoever.
I think there integrating location finding into google+. Its not a great answer, because I'm not sure how location sharing works in google+, but under preferences you can make you location available. Then when people click on your profile they can see where you are.

As someone who used to use latitude occasionally to get together and find friends (fairs, small towns)I think I'll miss it.
It's only slightly less accurate to state that Windows is completely described by its binaries.

Both statements depend on your ability to devote time and appropriate expertise to discerning the documentation.
Thankfully, it's not up to her to decide. She's pretty much never had a real job, working in government since the 60s.
The problem is there's no big business in protecting privacy, and therefor no lobbying money. The NRA is driven and funded by gun manufacturers.
My best math teachers never made us engage formalisations. What they would do is manipulate us into having an arguement, or construct an apparent contradiction. We then discussed the problem until we all agree (often without the Teacher talking). The inevitable result of this is that everyone learned formalisation: because it makes for really convinving arguements.
This is exactly how I log people out,

POST /_session
GET /_session
DELETE /_session

(CouchDB API)
Capitol rewards behaviour benefiting capital.

FTFY!
Yes, because there is no reason to believe that the german government has any interest in the active surveillance of digital communications.

/* sarcasm */
I see Obama as a false hope.
Ask HN: What was the cool flipping credit card form posted recently?
About a month ago, someone posted a project of a credit card form that you could flip over to enter the security code. I forgot to save the link to that project. Does anyone remember this, and can you share the link?
I wish senators had karma. Sometimes one of them "posts" something that makes me really just want to reach for the down arrow.

Feinstein suggested that the definition comprise only journalists who make salaries, saying it should be applied just to "real reporters."

In a debate about journalists, that was clueless, offtopic, and unhelpful.
I wasn't trying to liken the founder to a toddler, I was just trying to paint a mental picture. "College kid in a business suit" isn't very descriptive :)
Hey, everyone in California, I have an idea: let's vote Feinstein out.
They tend to rot on my system. The problem is that no-one really wants to pick up someone else's half-finished work unless they know the person really well and believe in the project, which is unlikely since they'd already be working on it and it wouldn't be dead if that were the case.
It seems to me that NSA is working directly against the interests of American technology companies. Ironic. I think this is going to be remembered as the high-water mark of American Social Media.

I grew up in Michigan and well remember the demise of the auto-industry. They had a good thing going, and thought it could never end. People grew complacent.

There is no guarantee that American technology business will continue to dominate. Eric Schmidt's "you have no privacy" attitude was both arrogant and short-sighted. We've needlessly shot ourselves in the foot.
Obama is a liar and a hypocrite. Bush was a liar and a hypocrite. Clinton was a liar and a hypocrite. Bush Sr. was a liar and a hypocrite.

Did all of these individuals go into office intending to become liars and hypocrites? Or is it more likely that the political system is so dysfunctional that it's not possible for anyone who takes office not to become a liar and a hypocrite.

We've seen that electing different individuals to the same offices isn't solving these problems. It's time to start figuring out how to fix our broken institutions.
To be fair, it's also possible that enthusiasm for bitcoins would be much lower if the Joe Randoms of the internet didn't feel like they could get in on the gold rush. I suspect that is a big part of why people are interested in it. From that perspective, it seems like a good idea to sell some of the ASICs, even if that is a loss under the constant-demand assumption.
This would be an interesting fodder for case studies... Any empirical examples for benchmarking?
Depends on use case. Location history, you can just keep using Google Maps. Telling others where you are: http://www.glympse.com/, but that is more for a specific period of time rather than passively sharing it as Latitude did.
Exactly.

It will be just another tasteless joke, until they are made just as transparent for us as we have been transparent for them, all these years.
In a way, this exists through public opinion, primarily approval ratings.

And true to the concept of imaginary internet points, clearly has no value. Feinstein is still a senator.
People are hating on Intuit, and this is classic monopolist behavior, but for anyone familiar with monopoly behavior it's clear what to do.

Make a startup that does simple tax-filing. Get 20million for you and your team for a years work. Then you'll have some golden handcuffs, but the next round of entrepreneurs will take your place, repeat, and milk intuit for all their monopolistic paranoia's worth.
They go on my GitHub. Most as public, some as private. The only ones that stay private are the ones that have some code I worked on for weeks solving a very specific problem that I may use at some point in the future for a business.
I only regret that I have but one upvote to give for this post.
I suspect the original "The administration has now lost all credibility" (http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2013/06/ny-times-changes...) was more accurate.
The problem is that "(officer) safety first" is fundamentally in conflict with the "serve and protect" mantra that gets peddled by every PD in the country. Sometimes the police can have both, but when they can't and have to make a choice, that choice makes very clear where their priorities lie.
Seriously... this was my first modem from 1985.

http://i.imgur.com/1A3dvzh.jpg
I think Obama believed most of what he campaigned for.

Why do you believe this? Is it entirely due to the "secret information" theory, where the President is sat down his first day and told all the skary sekrit stuff?
I think Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)[0]is really cool and has the possibility to enable many many cool devices. The low power requirements allow devices to run for weeks on a button cell, and the fact that it uses the same hardware as the original bluetooth implementation mean devices only need software updates to enable it. The latest iPhones have BLE support, and google added BLE support in android 4.3[1].

BLE is already used in devices like the Pebble Watch. If you are interested in hacking with a BLE device, check out the SensorTag[2] from TI. Its a tiny $25 board that contains a whopping six sensors:

* IR temperature Sensor (contactless temperature measurement)

* Humidity Sensor

* Pressure Sensor

* 3-axis Accelerometer

* Gyroscope

* Magnetometer

They also provide example iOS and android source code. You can download the iOS app in the app store.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth_low_energy

[1] http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/bluet...

[2] http://www.ti.com/tool/cc2541dk-sensor
This isn't a fair perspective. Recruiters are legitimately annoying. Especially as many recruiters obfuscate the hiring process so you can't just skip them directly to the company they're fielding. There's a long litany of abuses they take part in quite frequently, ranging from knowingly introducing you to companies you're not qualified for just because you're a "programmer" to deliberately making the hiring process for a company difficult without their direct participation.
Yes! Why is support for PUT and DELETE not specified in HTML specs? Also, why hasn't a browser implementation gone ahead and added support for both of those verbs as an extension beyond the spec?
Investigating a baseball player carries little or no risk for a politician. It's a safe, easy political win.

Worse yet: even the richest athlete in the world is at a grave disadvantage when confronted by the enormous power and resources of the federal government. These type of vanity investigations are nothing more than the institutional bullying of a private individual for political gain. It's frustrating and furthers the perception that congress is filled with opportunistic cowards.
The US government has been making a huge issue of who is a "real" journalist as to ensure journalist protection does not happen spread to very articulate, well informed, level headed bloggers.

This is serious.
Of course he has to say this, how else is he to response? But In reality what defines being "patriot" doing what you believe is right for your country? Then Snowdown is a patriot.
He may have already been on the CEO's "radar" so to speak and this was the tipping point. The CEO didn't say "you over there, put that away" rather he called him out by name and fired him on the spot.
Presidents seem to generally be rather piss-poor judges of character.
(Bank) Simple released a new payment form that was kinda like that a week or two ago.
> At the moment the only way for an intermediary to know whether a request is finished is because it understands these methods, and this is also true of any extension methods

I read the HTTP 1.1 RFC differently. Requests must indicate a body with a Content-Length or Transfer-Encoding header. Responses always have a body (sometimes of length 0), unless it is a response to a HEAD request or has one of a very small number of response codes.
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616#section-4.3
Coursera: Universities are Dead
(Shrug) As long as it's legal for me to quit with no prior notice, it should be legal for the company to fire me the same way.

I really don't understand the European notion that a private-sector job is some sort of government-sanctioned entitlement.
Skeuocard

http://kenkeiter.com/skeuocard/
Let me guess, this will be used as a way to legitimize the FISA court. Nothing to see here - move on. See, your rights are being protected.
Try Life360. While family-oriented only in name and marketing at the moment, we are cross-platform on iOS and Android and also have a Latitude importer.

http://www.life360.com/latitude

We're also working on some new features that will make the app less "family oriented" and more universal for everyone.
I don't see the government as very patriotic either.
Until the recent revelations about the NSA, we also believed (perhaps naively) that the U.S. had data protection laws that prohibited spying on citizens without a warrant. It may be just a matter of time before we find out that Germany has murky laws and secret courts that disregard fundamental legal principles just like the U.S. does, or that the German intelligence agencies work closely with the NSA. So if I really wanted secure e-mail, the only thing I could really trust at this point would be to encrypt my message on my own machine using a transparent, open source program like PGP. Once you rely on a third party to encrypt your e-mail for you (or even to provide you with encryption software), you're vulnerable to their being strong-armed by a government to give up your data.
I am not saying that this specific service is good for the privacy of their users. I am saying that this move, phasing out non-SSL email, will _force_ the rest of the world to add SSL to outgoing email connections, thereby protecting all email worldwide from passive interception.

Right now, I think about 75% of email traffic is encrypted between sender and recipient, so this would protect that remaining 25%. (Percentages _greatly_ dependent on who and where you measure.)
Talk about govt friends. The govt friends here are the only ones that get dollars at the official rate. They are supposed to be importing food, medicine, electronics,etc.

They ask for $1mill from the govt for importing 1000 refrigerators at $1000 each. They get them at Bs.6.3 so they have to pay Bs.6.300.000 for the $1mm

They import only 500 refrigerators and bribe everyone from the national guard, customs officers,etc. to say they imported 1000 refrigerators, paying their supplier only $500.000.

They sell the 500 refrigerators at Bs.15 per dollar, keep the rest of the $500.000 outside of Venezuela and then sell enough of them at the black market rate of Bs.35 to buy the next $1mm at the official market rate.

Then they ask for more dollars from the government. And the cycle continues.

Multiply this by a LOT more. Almost every govt official is in on it and it has produced a ton of multi-millionaires.
>You insult people who have experienced a police state by calling what we are experiencing a police state.

Surely as a logical, intelligent HN poster you understand that this is not a valid counterargument? It is rhetorically quite a persuasive statement, but if you have a strong argument why is an emotional appeal necessary?

>A police state has no distinction between legislation and executive.

So when secret courts start popping up, what does that mean to you? When repressive arms of the state are free to exercise unrestricted surveillance despite prohibitive legislation, what does that mean to you?

The names of things mean very little. How they function is what's important.
Can't vouch for this book, but coincidentally just read about it today-- "The Essential Knuth" by Knuth, Daylight, and DeGrave.

Donald E. Knuth lived two separate lives in the late 1950s. During daylight he ran down the visible and respectable lane of mathematics. During nighttime, he trod the unpaved road of computer programming and compiler writing. Both roads intersected! -- as Knuth discovered while reading Noam Chomsky's book Syntactic Structures on his honeymoon in 1961. "Chomsky theories fascinated me, because they were mathematical yet they could also be understood with my programmer's intuition. It was very curious because otherwise, as a mathematician, I was doing integrals or maybe was learning about Fermat's number theory, but I wasn't manipulating symbols the way I did when I was writing a compiler. With Chomsky, wow, I was actually doing mathematics and computer science simultaneously."
> But In reality what defines being "patriot" doing what you believe is right for your country?
That is a very loose definition. By that definition, every soldier including William Calley [1] is a patriot.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Calley
If you're implying he's got a gun to his head, he should just step down and say "I can't do my job any longer".
Real senators keep and serve the society's justice.
">Reading the original post and now this, I am making up my mind about NEVER doing anything as a favor."

In my experience, good people don't ask for such favors.

Everyone who has asked or expected that from me has let me down. My relationship with the first and only person who talks compensation as a first course remains friendly and lucrative.
I wonder if you could plop this thing on a cheap pan/tilt device like Galileo (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/449163977/galileo-your-i...)
even better: legally require the tax laws to be simple
The demo account is available on the blog post :)
"supporting the idea that humans are not all created equally, but still consider they deserve the same rights and freedoms."

So, er, why? If you acknowledge that people aren't equally capable and endowed, what sort of sense does it make to place the same legal requirements on them?

Why should I be required to see as far as somebody else when driving? Why should I be prevented from making API requests on a public system (when I know how to do so safely) when somebody less trained or malicious would bring on down time?

It's far better simply to say that either everyone has the same capabilities, or to say that they ought be afforded benefits and restrictions that match their talents and deficiencies. Doing neither is unfair nonsensical from a societal standpoint.

As for the mass of idiots, no. I'd rather have a ruling elite, because they presumably be reasoned with--or removed in favor of a better elite. A mass of morons weighs heavily upon us, especially in the disinformation age.
Well, when the NSA is spying on and potentially blackmailing the Supreme Court itself, then it really doesn't matter.

Watch this vid with Siebel Edmund's where she says that the NSA has basically just extended to a massive degree the level of blackmail that intelligence has used since the days of Hoover.

The 4th branch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3esnkqM7E&feature=share
> I thought someone would say this and I'm afraid it's bullshit. You can just put the REST operations in the URL.

That breaks the basic, clean, clear model of HTTP:

URI: specifies the resource against which an action
is to be performed
Method: specifies the action to perform against the
resource

In favor of a muddy model of:

URI: specifies a combination of the resource against
which an action is to be performed, and some
information about the action that is to be performed
against the resource
Method: specifies incomplete information about the
action to be performed.

Why on Earth would you want to do that?

> This also has the advantage that you aren't artificially restricting yourself to CRUD operations.

I'm try to think of an operation in a system that can't be fairly clearly represented with the semantics of HTTP/1.1 verbs + PATCH, and failing.

> Some operations do not map to those, e.g. logging out (DELETE user? ... No... DELETE session? I guess?).

DELETE session is pretty natural. PATCH session to change the status to closed or, if the session status is its own resource, PUT closed to the status, are also options.
No. I think it was an outstanding achievement. I'm proud it
was (partly) a British creation. It was an engineering marvel.

But was my summary inaccurate?

I find endless applauding of its greatness tough to stomach when it was just a mode of transport for the mega rich and given how much it cost.
So is the goal to spin up remote development machines and do something via ssh?
Alternatively, quit your whining that you entered a profession where you're not as marketable, and don't minimize the problems people have even if they appear trivial.

I don't think you know much about how recruiters operate...they're very annoying and antagonize the process for small businesses/boutique firms. There is a reason why hiring managers will say they don't want recruiters.

Often, they obfuscate the process so you can't skip them to contact the representative company directly, and they'll embellish your resume in ways that make it impossible for the company to contact you directly.

I am in the camp that considers them more a nuisance than anything for many purposes, and while I appreciate that it might seem nice to be hounded by them, I share the parent's scorn, as I've never had a positive experience with them. And even if I had, it wouldn't invalidate what I've said.

tl;dr - Peoples' problems are peoples' problems. Other peoples' problems don't make them go away.
It's better to be subject to just your government instead of both your government and the self-proclaimed world police. The US terror machine needs to be avoided at all costs as it's the greatest threat to peace and freedom worldwide.
I think you're glossing over things. How to use a mouse. The difference between moving your mouse cursor and focusing a text field. How to double click. (most new mouse users have trouble with this) How to turn the machine on and off. Clipboard. I don't have much experience with non-Windows OSes, so I won't comment on that. But everything inside a computer is necessarily more abstract than a door handle, since it doesn't physically exist. IMO that makes it harder to understand necessarily.
So who was writing the translation software?

This appears to be the product the author was spamming to generate leads for, and from comments in the story and elsewhere it seems like it wasn't very good. But it seemed a bit weird it didn't feature more prominently in the narrative. Was this the stolen "data"?
Reddit already has that for spoiler alerts.
> Except that that is almost never the way you would go about logging someone out.

Its the way I would go about logging somebody out. Why wouldn't you?
What if I as a user don't want it? Why force me to get it?
Err, that's just the money that the founder got IN ADDITION to the sale, in order to stay with Yahoo.

Tumblr was sold for 1.1 billion.
I tried every day in August before realizing that no date in August would work. An 'x' or something or changing the icon to a cancel icon might have worked better. Also the calendar icon did absolutely nothing when clicking on it. Same thing with the email icon.

Sliders for inputting numbers? As my only option for inputting numbers? No thanks!
There's a big gap between the philosophies of "Everything is public by default" and "Secretly giving all of your private communications to the NSA". The former is utopian, though naive. The latter is just old school tyranny.
It sounds like the minimization procedures allow you to search for any US person's name, not necessarily to find the intercepted communications between a foreign person and that specific US person.

For example, to find communications where parties A and B were discussing US Person C.
Absolutely nothing. According to the linked help page, a fake email address must be provided to git config. They'd need a separate copy of the repo with the blinded email address for public access. It's not hard to do but I imagine it would bother repo maintainers that an individual user could cause different repos to be served. Of course, everyone could just decide that email in commits isn't worth the privacy risk. It's a trade-off.

For the curious: Downloading all the repos and extracting email addresses takes 1-2 days and costs <$50 on AWS.