skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
knock yourself out:

http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/135/7/2245

Of course, you could have googled this up yourself in 10 seconds but I guess people believe what they want to believe.
Ask HN: How much RAM do you have? Think you need more?
I have 8 GB RAM on my 2010 MacBook Pro. With Vagrant running, I frequently get under 300 MB of available RAM. Do I need 16 GB?

How much do you have and do you think you need more?
Indeed, I hadn't considered that.

Though, if you are pinning in an app and not just in-browser, you can bundle your internal CA cert in the binary and sidestep the whole mess.

This is what I advise my customers that have security-sensitive stuff do. The PKI can no longer be trusted.
I know you'd probably prefer people stay in the US, but would you like to make a recommendation for our viewers at home looking to get away?
It seems like the most secure way to send a message these days might be snail mail. While I know the feds to open it from time to time in specific cases, they definitely don't open all.
They replaced the step where you had to enter your "Persona password" with one click confirming your gmail credentials to Persona. You have to do it just once.

(And not even once per website, just once in a lifetime.)
I would love to read that blog post too! It's great to understand how the other side thinks about things.
This makes it so gmail users don't need yet another password to log in to Persona-enabled sites. It effectively turns Persona into a superset of "login with Google".
Arrested, probably.
Indeed. Seems like an Americanism to use "make up" only as synonymous with "fake."

See definition #1:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/make_up

Around here (UK) I hear "make up" to mean "create" all the time... If it is fake or real depends on context, and "just" isn't enough to form an opinion.
I tend to be fairly transparent and vocal. Sometimes it gets me into trouble, but usually it works out for the best.

Good. Me too. Gets me in trouble all the time; I'll never change.

And I agree with you motivation for leaving... I just would have rather read "I quit X to start Y." I don't care what "Y" is. Might not have made front page. Hmm, karma or cash... which is better?
P. S. Why were those persons angry? Maybe you didn't make it clear that you collect fixed "service" fees? You should write it somewhere in the menu, or else it's a rip off.
the poisonous behaviours of individuals and the wide-spread arrogance typical in most Lisp communities

Is that really true of most Lisp communities, or just Common Lisp's?
I think the trick here is that lavabit can't share data even with a warrant. Their inability to do so is pretty much their entire business model. That protects people from unwarranted intrusions, but it also insulates people from legitimate investigation. If they build a backdoor for only duly authorized warrants, they are no more or less obligated to comply with an NSL.
Probably arrested, held in jail optionally in solitary and eventually charged with large crimes of violating a national security letter. I'm not sure but considering other recent events probably leaking top secret government info. Followed by jail time and possibly financial ruin. Don't fuck with the US gov. They are publically making it very clear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveilla...

This guy didn't break the law, just "offended" the gov and his life "is over" in that he has a 7 year jail sentence and financial ruin to look forward to when he gets out.

Bradly Manning offended the gov and broke the law, and is facing over a lifetime in jail after some torture like jail conditions pretrial (and nearly faced execution).

Blogging a NSL would probably get you somewhere in between.
no, they don't open the mail, but they scan all the addresses as part of their routing process. We should assume that all postal "metadata" is stored forever.
No, it's the reverse. The nazi era and the Stasi have resulted in a modern Germany that is fiercely oppositional to anything that leads in this direction.

There are very strong open source, transparency and anti surveillance movements in Germany. Stasi is the entire reason WHY we have strong privacy laws here.
Google4Entrepreneurs: Hangout With Elon Musk and Sir Richard Branson
This is a really cheeky one, but is (sortof) relevant. I run an IT consultancy doing the usual desktop/server support work, and have worked with a couple of startups. Both decried the lack of decent (cheap!) IT support for developers, so they could focus on developing software rather than fixing PCs, and setting up networks.

Does anyone have any suggestions where would be the best place to network with other startups or techie businesses to offer our services to them?
Good idea. But I'm a little further down the coast from y'all.
Books (and pasta machines) as monitor stands. XSLT, really?
It depends on my system. Both my work MacBook Pro and personal MacBook Air have 8GB of RAM. There have been times where I've been 10GB in to swap, and the performance of the system makes me think I'm actively paging.

However, for most cases on my work/personal laptop the 8GB of RAM is plenty.

On my desktop PC, however, I have 12GB of RAM. I use this primarily for gaming, and I have definitely used 8+ GB on this box. The one time, admittedly, Windows Update was using about 9GB of RAM for no reason. But I have had games get up above 3GB in usage.

Also, are you sure your RAM is unavailable and not just used for disk cache or something?
Fukushima's Radioactive Water Leak: What You Should Know
He is also fully in control of his own destiny, being independently wealthy and running his own company.

If he wants to delay the next Quake engine by a couple days so he can speak at a conference, no problem. He can afford it, and it's up to him when his next product comes out.

Most people either answer to a boss, or are not rich enough to purposefully pass up on new business. So it's not impossible, but to do it well takes a level of means that most people don't have.
> You put your data into a server owned by someone else. Game over.

That's admittedly a good point, and is the same reason I don't personally use SaaS (even in the user-brings-the-software mode) where I don't encrypt the data for myself.

But most people don't seem to care about that and are perfectly willing to use SaaS, as long as they can be assured government isn't able to indiscriminately peek at all their data (just the hardware host). If you're that kind of person, this might be the thing.

I am looking forward to a real solution to that problem though, as it would be useful in situations where you simply can't rely on trusting the hardware host (e.g. handling sensitive PII).
Find Your Dream Shampoo
Hello, I didn't say stand up to, but for (i.e. on behalf of) . The most he can do is stand up to the government, for his users, in court, deleting servers would not be a wise move, and I wouldn't expect it of him, would you? Just standing up and saying no in a climate like this takes some courage, for which I admire him.
I use 8gb on my mid 2010 MacBook Pro and find that it needs to be rebooted every so often to clear the memory. Since Lion OS X likes to hog all the RAM for some reason.
Considering what just happened to LavaBit, your advice doesn't make any sense.

If they were outside of US-and-friends jurisdiction, they wouldn't be shut down and there wouldn't be a gag order.
Startups definitely go either way. If you're trying to get under the departmental budget line and then up-sell, then you might be what I call a "New Enterprise" startup. If that's the case, don't worry about the initial revenue -- you'll get more.

I wrote a blog post on how to figure out whether your startup is New Enterprise or Old Enterprise: http://brandonb.cc/is-your-b2b-startup-new-enterprise-or-old...

I think once you answer that core question, the pricing and sales model fall into place more easily.
Should you use a Sass mixin or extend?
Well done! Is there a way to see more articles once you reach the bottom? Also what font did you use for the webpage icon?
um okay. If it is what we think it is, what makes you think that he will wrestle with Feds if Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft and other billion-dollars giants were not even interested pursuing the legal way?

Most likely, this is all so secret with secret courts foreseeing secret rulings that unless he has solid capital to burn on legal defense, he won't get far. He won't get far probably either if he has the money. I am sure courts would stretched it in infinity. And I am sure the owner is businessman more than a libertarian.
Google, Yahoo, MS, etc don't encrypt their data and they had the same choice to make when served with a NSL or whatever. They fought through legal channels to some degree before caving. Shutting down operations was technically possible, though infeasible. They could have spoken out publicly and accepted the consequences. I doubt they think twice about handing over data requested in a warrant nor should they.
DC, Maryland: Speed Camera Firms Move To Hide Evidence
Here, yes I agree that's what it sounds like (and that it's an overreach in general, unless there's something I don't know).

I wonder though, whether this presumed requirement to install spying software is being done by only an executive-level NSL or by a court order/warrant.
Lavabit shuts down
I can't speak for Macs, but I am very pleased with my 16Gb setup. I probably almost never use it all, but I do get above 8 Gb.
Not only is it logical to rage quit a game after losing, but optimal as well.
The deleted threads do vanish from the home page, but they stay online. There is a GreaseMonkey script if you really want to find them. As a long time active MeFi member, I'd peg the deleted thread rate at less than one per day.

I'm pretty sure it's been discussed in MetaTalk too, so some creative searching of that sub-site might turn up the number.
While this specific example may not be one of academic fraud it is important not to underestimate the ease in fabricating data, especially if it is for a project no one really cares about. You can't even apply the logic of 'if this is from a respected lab it must be authentic' because papers from such labs are rarely reviewed with care by either the editors of the journal or the PI (the professor in charge) due to the reputation of said professor.

What I find far worse is the lack of rigor in many labs, little errors like overgrowing your cells or incorrectly calibrating an instrument can cause drastic phenotype changes that renders any results moot without being obvious, no one would bothers to check that the basics of lab work are correctly implemented. I have personally witnessed such errors, which when caught, were not reported as an addendum. The problem with these errors is that there exists data to back up the claims but the data is invalid, but that is extremely hard to prove. Often when a lab with a systematic error affecting their results is questioned they would simply repeat the experiments and send the raw data to the investigator and that would be that.

Fabricating data on the other hand is much easier to prove as there is no underlying true data, such as instrument measurements, and the experiment will never be repeatable.
Back in the 1990s there used to be computer magazine ads for this. The ads included spaces for you to hand-write various letters and numbers. Anybody remember that? Mail it in and they mail you back a font.
What I find interesting is that the lavabit homepage says that the owner has been fighting this for 6 weeks, but the reporter that released Snowden's email address did it July 13th.

The Government has been trying to get into Lavabit longer than that.

Although, perhaps they already knew that Snowden was using Lavabit and started the process immediately after his flight to HK.
I wrote a service so you don't have to do any of that: https://persowna.net/

Just add the .well-known file to your site, and that's it.

EDIT: Actually, I might just open-source this and keep the hosted version for people who want convenience.
As a veteran of the USPS software industry, I wouldn't worry too much.
As I mentioned below, I also wrote a service to turn your domain into an identity provider (so you can log in with you@yourdomain.com): https://persowna.net/

It's free for now, and will probably always be free for individual usage.
Hmm another tremor... I wonder how long until the big one hits.
Keep in mind all your actions are being observed and collated somewhere. If you don't want hassle with your next police run in, or worse, don't live in the US and don't want "special attention" next time at the border, think twice about donating...
Fukushima leaking radioactive water for ‘2 years, 300 tons flowing into Pacific daily’

Here is an updated rt article on the current situation:
http://rt.com/news/japan-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-164/
Sorry, updated that.
You could choose to take a job where you are required to lie, but no-one can force you to take such a job.
Good lawyers cost quite a bit more than $350 an hour. Many of the "top" law firms charge north of $1000 an hour these days, below that $500-600/hour for a good quality lawyer is about what I'd expect. Fairly insane but it's one of those things where if losing is more painful than that price, you have no choice.
Okay, so that is equivalent to 1 person working 40 hour weeks for 7 weeks. So, one person pulling $6K a day. ($1.5M/yr) I think you could find legal support for less than that.
At the rate things are going, smoke signals encrypted with a one-time pad.
Macs are based on BSD and such wouldn't use paging as Windows does, only swapping in case if you are reaching 100% of memory.
This. The reason I've stuck through some complete bullshit is because I valued the team, not the company involved in creating the dream team by mere happenstance.
by the time he is done wish courts defending their users, Feds will be given chances to copy all users data over and over again about 250 times. So it doesn't matter whether he loses or wins. Not a bit.
"Sure, he's a tool...but now he's our tool."
This Recycling Bin Is Following You
Orange in such big area is blinding.!!
To your point - yes, adding on an extra 18% doesn't make much sense when they could have simply incorporated that into their menu prices. You will never be certain how the money is divvied up, regardless of whether you are paying additional tips or not...

That being said, patrons are accustomed to paying an additional fee when dining out; so rather than simply raise prices (which I'm sure would elicit grumbling and/or loss of patronage), they maintained the expectation of paying an additional amount for the service they've received.
You could always try making the argument that more people riding means less people driving. Thereby making the roads less crowded for everyone who continues to drive.
New Rust runtime turned on. What next?
Well I (and probably most Mormons, and IMO the Old and New Testament) would absolutely agree with you that service out of sincere love for others and a desire to do good is far more noble than serving with the thought of reward. I don't believe "all you have to say is I believe", because I think faith is not faith if you're not willing to back it up with your actions. Likewise, serving for a reward is better than no service - but it misses the point of actually becoming a happier, more loving person. I think a person who sincerely believes in God and believes we are, in any sense, his children, should feel a natural love towards others and a desire to serve Him and them. I think if a pastor feels they need to motivate with the thought of reward, they've already missed out on that very fundamental point. Going to heaven would be nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason you do good. If it gets you to start serving, great, but I don't believe anyone's going to heaven who doesn't sincerely love their fellow man.

The thing is, though, it's not like I invented my beliefs because I needed a reason to serve - I believe because of (though you may disgaree) rational reasons and experiences I've had that although I can't reproduce them or verify them to others, I consider empirical as far as myself is concerned. If I sincerely believe that to be the truth and a source of great happiness, I wouldn't call it a waste that I spent 2 years inviting others to try achieve the same. If they decline, that's fine and I think no less of them, but it's not like my beliefs are the only reason I have for trying to serve others. I still serve in other ways and for other reasons - believing in God doesn't mean I wouldn't try to do good otherwise.

>> Not all atheists lack spirituality, and not all are moral-less. You can totally believe in a greater cause without having to invent things.

Wholeheartedly agree - I hope I have not implied anything to the contrary.
Even if they are through various UK dependencies like Jersey and the Cayman Islands?
Keys Duplicated - Take a picture of your key and get one back.
Bitcoin, please.
Here's a totally speculative hypothesis: He started IV as a sort of Xerox PARC that would also make money; the idea was to hire really smart researchers, advance the state of the art, and license the results to other companies to productize. This didn't work (perhaps the research was low-value because it was disconnected from the needs of the market, or perhaps technology transfer is really hard) and rather than admit defeat they pivoted into patent trolling.
My wife gets angry if I don't tip 20%, so a place with a built in tip that is less is a bonus for me.
How do I check if my RAM is being used as disk cache? Is that known as "swap"? I'm using the FreeMemory app which tells me that 371 MB is free right now.

I have a 120 GB SSD with 8 GB free.
This is new? I must've been in the group since I'vehad the Top-of-page refresh bar for many weeks if not two months now
Please don't tell THEM IRC is not dead.
Well if you're ever in town... :D
How to import CSV files with JackDB
Right, during a period in which pot use increased.
This is a great story about an ISP owner having to deal with National Security Letters:
http://www.shiftfrequency.com/madison-ruppert-owner-of-small...
Very cool!

In undergrad I made a super-ghetto optical frequency-multiplexed parallel port; it hadn't occurred to me to do the same with web audio.

Hmm....
TL,DR: "This experience has taught me one very important lesson: without congressional action or a strong judicial precedent, I would _strongly_ recommend against anyone trusting their private data to a company with physical ties to the United States."
I personally wouldn't have expected Google/Yahoo/MS/etc. to cave, but that's because I would have naturally assumed that as U.S.-based providers that they may eventually be served with a U.S. subpoena and simply wrote it off as a valid possibility.

I think most people expect that the Fourth Amendment would have applied to email hosted at these places, but that's because they don't understand how the case law has been applied to things like this.

If people really just want cloud-based email they can check from multiple devices, that does have "normal court protections", and without having to host on their own PC this kind of thing is a possible solution. There are existing turnkey software frameworks to make it work too (e.g., Kolab, which is developed by some of my fellow devs in Europe).
Assuming they could maintain that for a full year, $6K a day is only 2.2MM. Also keep in mind that these hotshots don't do much of the grunt work, they offload it to any number of junior associates (which that hourly rate has to cover, in addition to other business overhead). Still not a bad gig if you can get it.
"Fruitarian Rapsody"
Extensive discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6181081 and here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6180846.
Congress can legally pass laws abridging freedom of speech, and has always been able to do so. For example, if someone were to talk up and threaten my life, that is not legally protected speech. Nor is blackmail, for that matter, nor the famous adage of shouting "fire!" in a crowded theater.

For that matter, Congress can legally restrict speech in certain national security issues, and has, again, done so for a very long time. The Supreme Court has (in my opinion, correctly) understood that restricting people handling classified documentation from repeating that information is, without extraordinary circumstances (more on that in a second), completely legal, for example.

The trick here is the sheer breadth of the NSLs. I completely agree that they're unconstitutional, and I sincerely hope they are struck down in court. But I hope that I've just highlighted why this isn't a slam-dunk situation for those on the receiving end of an NSL. Add in that, at least so far, any disputes with NSLs have to be taken up with the FISA court, and even wins against NSLs don't actually count as binding precedent, because FISA itself does not create binding precedent.

Congress can, in certain circumstances, make laws restricting freedom of speech. This isn't one of those instances. But suing our way to that conclusion will take time, money, and personal risk for the petitioner.
http://gizmodo.com/somebody-read-government-goons-shut-down-...
ok, again in your website, looks better, is your service free or subscription based?
Key exchange is still a huge issue. Sure, you can post a public key online, but I have no guarantee it is actually your key. How do I do business with somebody new?

The core problem with widespread crypto use today is not encryption, it's trusted key exchange.
Thrown in jail for contempt of court I assume.
I'd really rather not have a copy of, say, my house key made by some random website and then mailed to my home. At least the mechanical cutter at the local Ace Hardware, even if somehow record my key shape, doesn't know where I live.
I would hope that if they've received an NSL ordering them to wiretap their own email, that the NSL is at least limited to specific targets of an investigation.

But some people do strongly believe in throwing out the whole bathtub if that's what it takes to keep the data safe, and to those people I will certainly tip my hat, even if I disagree myself.
I'm not sure I catch your drift. I don't see how being an accessory enters the equation at all (how can you be held responsible for providing information you simply do not have?), and there are no current laws concerning "assault guns".
I happen to personally believe that the guy is guilty of attempting to fake the data - but it is certainly a plausible explanation that should not be discounted.
Ask HN: Non-Commercial Project Funding
I have an idea that I think is pretty interesting, and I'd like to be able to carry out. It deals mostly with data, but has a very strong social component in that its principal objective is to promote public access to information. Since this objective is not commercial, I would be looking for outside funding at least in the beginning, and maybe in the future look for more permanent sponsors in order to maintain the platform.

My question is: without starting an NGO, what are my options in terms of grants? I know that organizations such as the Knight Foundation fund this type of project, but they ask for a 501c(3) tax number, and we are two lonely hackers. Thanks in advance.
Because the list of mere sympathizers, while surely long, is not nearly as bad a list to find oneself on as a list of material supporters. Squeal all you want, but if you want to speak with your wallet... Watch out. That is of course assuming that donations are even possible and that the recipient is not the target of an international banking blockade designed specifically to financially starve politically undesirable organizations.
France’s $16M anti-piracy agency fined only 2 people
For those that have never lived in DC, the cameras are everywhere. Inside the district they have a bunch of white lines where you are being measured for speed so that the camera's two photos' time stamps can (presumably) be examined to make sure you were actually speeding.