skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're interested in integrating Persona into your website, I've made a couple of examples of how to do it:

https://github.com/workhere-io/personaexamples

There's also a demo that shows how Persona works (doesn't save any of your info):

http://personaexamples.workhere.io/
Hopefully he would become a whistleblower, but with such a bleak outcome for Snowden I can sympathize with his not wanting to.
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I haven't looked at the others, but Minecraft stuttered very badly for me. I got the distinct impression that real performance wasn't considered.
I've been using Ubuntu for almost ten years now. What got me here:

- Package management: DEBs were sooo much easier to deal with than RPMs.

- Hardware support - usually everything just seemed to work or there was a forum discussion with a solution on what to do about it.

- Good variety of included packages.

- Excellent support forums, even if you are doing non base Ubuntu stuff there's probably a discussion a 'google' away that covers whatever issue you have.
So, even tough Canonical does not-so-pleasant things to the UX, you can easily find ways to fix your experience and back to developing.

If you have similar positive experiences with Mint, why switch? Figure out what you are missing or looking for first.
It also isn't much better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FRA_law

Finland has considered laying cable around Sweden to avoid them snooping on all their traffic.
I never understood or its never clear if one could have a private MediaGoblin, such that one has to login to view the content. The "private" ones with family photos still are public to anyone, maybe I am missing something.

I actually attempted to get it going on my VPS just a few days ago but got stuck on celery, missing some config (dont have the msg left) but might attempt it in the future again.

I like the dark design at least, I never understood who came up with white and bright pages to watch on a computer monitor, its not a book.
The canary trick is roughly on par with "I was NOT served a letter on July 20, 2013, which did NOT say the following..."

To be honest, I'm even a little nervous that something as innocuous as "I wish I could tell you more about the circumstances leading to the decision" could be seen as communicating the presence of an NSL indirectly, and lead to contempt of court.
Haha amazing, who knew blink had such a story behind it...

Ty for the link
It appears big data can make us better artists
Here's my speculation, to be buried 450 comments deep:

The government said, "you must update your software to compromise your encryption, and deliver us this information we have a warrant for." Lavabit said, "well, no, that defeats the purpose of our business". The gov't said "we don't care, we have a valid warrant" and now Lavabit is out of business.

If I'm right, nobody's files were compromised because Lavabit refused, but I imagine that doesn't bode well for returning user data because there could be huge legal consequences if one of the confirmed users is strongly suspected of XYZ.

If I'm right, it shouldn't prevent the owner from starting a new secure email service outside of the US. I suggest Iceland.
You must get tired of that. I would have changed my name to 'Lorenzo' or something at age 18.
Many countries in Asia that were poor and underdeveloped when I was a child now have better standards of living than I had in a developed country at the time. Africa is a big place but some countries are making clear progress. It is wonderful to have Bill and Melinda come in and give your free access to drugs but if you have a strong economy you can look after your own which is far more sustainable.

Cheaper rockets might seem like a plaything until you consider poor countries having better access to geospacial data for crops planning or easier access to education. Same goes for Internet.
Really interesting tip (#2).

We've just entered into the B2B world and it's been every bit the eye opening experience you've described. Neither of us counted on how long it would take to close deals. We've figured out a few of these things along the way (trying to make sure we have an advocate and a buyer) but there's a lot of other good advice in this article that we'd never considered.

It can be very hard to read what a company might be thinking/discussing internally about your product. We actually do a bit of free work up front to show people what we can do and even then it can be quite hard to get useful feedback. Oftentimes we've come to the conclusion that they're just not interested only to find that on the next phone call they're ready to start paying.

Having come from a consumer world it's quite demoralising starting off in B2B. You often feel like you're never going to get anywhere but with enough persistence we're managing to make things happen.

Comments like yours (and articles like this) are very good for lifting the spirits :)
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A reliable and ubiquitous means of communication is essential for logistics. If we need to know where and when we need vaccines, food, and water then what do we have now? Shoddy cellular infrastructure that's poorly reliable and easily disrupted.

What is logistics?[1] The management and flow of resources from the point of origin to the point of consumption, for example food items, materials, equipment, liquids, and staff. Abstract items like inventory information and security information are also essential to everyday life in developed countries.

Materials, distribution, and supply-chain management -- the bedrock of business development in developed nations -- require consistently available communications infrastructure, and there is no Comcast or AT&T in Africa. Those that rise to meet the challenge get embroiled in political infighting and corruption.

There's something to be said about air supremacy, and there certainly is none in Africa. What other air-based telecommunications infrastructure is there? Satellite communications is expensive and extremely difficult to implement.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistics
If you're buying a secure email service, the compromise of that security would be a bigger screw-job. Lavabit must have shut down in the interest of its customers, otherwise why would they have shut down?
What is the state of tag-obscuring devices these days? I would imagine this piece of crowdfunded hardware might prove useful: http://www.nophoto.com/pages/how-it-works
Actually what you speak isn't hard to do at all.

We have a long list of ideas (one you speak of and many more) we'll be shooting video of in the coming days and weeks.

We're thinking there are a ton of use cases and innovative/interesting things that can be done using http://SpeakerBlast.com :-)
"Our Session encryption scheme:

1. User starts our Java-applet.."

Funny, I stopped exactly here as well =)
NSA to cut system administrators by 90 percent to limit data access
Non-broken PDF links: http://intelreport.mandiant.com/

For anyone not aware Noisebridge runs TOR exit nodes out of SF. https://www.noisebridge.net/

I'm curious if their FBI policy is to say "I don't know anyone who runs Tor nodes".
I wouldn't really call it a 'clampdown' as the word has negative implication. I would call it a 'legitimization'.

Federal judges have acknowledged that Bitcoin has the underpinnings that constitutes it as a currency. This is HUGELY exciting.

Disclosure: I work in financial regulatory reporting and am bullish on bitcoin.
I swear I thought Weed was the name of a startup, and the guy was the name of a tech guru lol, thats why I skipped the article first time it was on first page. If I knew , i would have clicked it the first time hehe
There's a precedent of selling the product pretty much at cost and maintaining a profitable company. 80% of Costco's profits come from selling annual memberships, their product markups pretty much cover the costs of operating the warehouses, and yet even WalMart rarely beats Costco on prices

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/costco-ceo-c...
There's a normalizing scriptlet bookmark I got from here on HN:

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Wish I could credit the source.
Monopoly profits, from the very beginning of capitalism, have always been necessary for significant investment. Micro textbooks are just wrong. For most businesses the supply curve slopes down, not up.
right, but incoming and outgoing emails from lavabit servers won't necessarily be encrypted, unless the other party is using GPG or whatever - it's just the way they're stored.
I think the author was just trying to avoid the other, perhaps more controversial, unfalsifiable analogy, which relates to faith based theories (I don't want to offend anyone either).

I agree that the Marxist part at the end disrupts the flow of the article. The article would have been better served if it kept within a financial analysis context.
hi, I've just sent you a couple of papers I've recently written about designing patent commons from scratch rather than retro-bashing them together (context: NZ's Christchurch rebuild as the world's test bed for sensors in the built environment). get in touch if you're interested.
Now I get it; thanks.

In my experience, when using Django or one of the other WSGI-based Python web frameworks, the steps to complete a complex request are serialized just as much as in Rails. The single-threaded process-per-request model, based on the hope that requests will finish fast, is also quite common in Python land.

You mention that GC is a nightmare for high-percentile latency. Isn't this just as much of a problem for Go? Would you continue to develop back-end services in C++ if not for the fact that most developers these days aren't comfortable with C++ and manual memory management?
Once upon a time, green-on-black was the best thing available, and to programmers my and jwz's age, it was THE FUTURE.

But to this generation, it's denigrated as "retina bleach".
In Maryland the cameras don't trigger unless you're going at least 12mph over the speed limit.
yeah, changing the bylaws is certainly an option, but if possible, I don't want to do anything that could even remotely be intepreted as setting the precedent of waffling on the issue.
By that logic any company with more than one acquisition is a failure.

Build vs buy analysis still applies, and "running circles around" could get expensive, as at early stage it's difficult to tell which innovations will pan out and which will fail.
Does anybody have the firefox devs discussion on this matter. Blink was my favorite indigo child of tags. When clients wanted more attention to a div i would blink it, and they would quickly realize the error of their ways.
That link just goes to their homepage. Here's the pdf: http://intelreport.mandiant.com/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf
It's not.

See:
https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge_Tor/FBI
marquee's already gone in FF isn't it?
Obviously you're being somewhat facetious. If you're good/confident enough to write your own crypto, go seems fine as it's open source so you can inspect it. I don't trust myself to write my own crypt for important things, so obviously I would not use Golang for that and I would pause before using the Golang crypto module, but that's probably a bit paranoid. In general, I would probably use Golang on projects. I use Angular.s and Python and those have been funded in ways by Google.

Things like Google App Engine/Data store are an issue b/c your backend is Google's backend...fundamentally the same issue Gmail faces. If the NSA/FBI/DEA/TSA mistakenly fingers one of my customers as a drug dealer or "terrorist" or thinks they are associated with a drug dealer/whistleblower/"terrorist", google will hand over all my apps data.
Of all the big internet giants, I think Amazon will be the hardest to disrupt.

Androind could eat away at Apple. Google's search could in theory be disrupted. Facebook seems more vulnerable by the day. Microsoft is a dead man walking.

But Amazon has this entire subsystem of distribution centers filled with inventory risk. People focus on the website, but I think the real magic is everything that happens behind the scenes. The barriers to entry are enormous.

I once created a comparison shopping service. When we talked with users, we heard over and over, "I just go to Amazon. I trust them. I don't shop around online." Or, "I have Prime, so I'll save money on shipping anyway." It made the entire space seem pointless.

An internal Amazon company motto is, "it's still day 1." That's their view -- that it's still the early days of the internet. That's why they reinvest so heavily, because it's still early days.
Discussion from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6170392
Small correction, St. James Infirmary was on Moffett Blvd, how I loved that place before it burned down.
Ask HN: Which companies are looking for Rails devs in Seattle?
I am new to Rails and I have been looking around for companies that work with it but it seems like nobody is hiring for Rails devs. Maybe I am looking in the wrong place or I'm in the wrong place.

Anybody know if there are any companies hiring Rails devs especially ones that are new to the framework?
Here in NZ, they have started putting up signs that show your speed instead of taking a picture and issuing a fine. They have found that displaying a vehicle's speed has a much stronger impact on speed (and accidents) than tickets.
Yeah, I didn't mean it like Brazil would be anything near 'an example to follow', I was just trying to illustrate how the landscape can be different everywhere else, also to the scope of how the population interacts with their state, for which Brazil definitely has a long way to go...

The picture I was going for would more of how it would not be so simple to have this elsewhere in the same manner, the starting point being that, I'd think, without a good Boogeyman, most peaceful countries do not have especial exception laws to walk over the basics of democracy, without secret laws, secret courts, secret interpretations, it's way harder, possibly impossible in some countries to get to this situation, not to mention technical limitations, budget(imagine the disparity between Inteligence and Military spending around the world x US), media, 'political temperature'(most of Europe and Latin-America are liberal/libertarian-leaning, currently, no?), public and judiciary scrutinity... Basically the framework of democracy is meant to prevent this kind of thing, there may be holes, but still.
This is the correct answer as far as I can tell, or saying something along the lines of free-lancing as someone else mentioned.

There's no reason for hyper-precision on a resume when it comes to dates.
I think that your interpretation of the report is incorrect. What that report shows is that fatal accidents are more likely on roads that have higher speed limits, which is quite a different thing from saying higher speeds caused the accidents.

And, in fact, there is evidence that people do in fact judge safe speeds appropriately. Look at report FHWA-RD-92-084 [1], which was sponsored by the Federal Highway Administration and concludes that raising speed limits did not have a significant effect on speeds of motorists. Lowering the speed also did not have a significant effect on speeds, with the result that people simply ignored the speed limit and drove what they thought was appropriate in both cases.

There was also evidence that lowering the speed limit did not, in fact, decrease accidents.

1. http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel/index.html
As an aside, is it possible, and therefore cheaper and more beneficial to the trolled party, to just endlessly stall and delay with various tactics, such as stretching out response times as long as possible and then responding with a proposed (low ball) settlement, awaiting the response to that, waiting again for a long period of time, proposing another (low ball) settlement, shuffling around the contacts at an organizaton, etc. Or is there some requirement to come to a conclusion within a specified time?
>I tensed up as he began to tell me that the Chinese have been utilizing the Noisebridge TOR exit node. He made it seem as if it was a very real threat

>“There are times when they slip back into Cold War thinking and Cold War mentality,” Obama said on air Tuesday evening. “What I continually say to them and to President Putin, that’s the past.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/08...
It is rare for an engineering founder to assert leadership for an extended period of time, but when it happens, amazing things can follow. Microsoft, Oracle, Facebook, Github, SAP all come to mind.
BTW, this visit isn't a special or unique thing. The Feds periodically stop by, asking about traffic that came through Noisetor. There's even a procedure in place for handling the situation:

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge_Tor/FBI
I found this thread about someone getting raided and 20 computer taken for running a TOR exit node.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/11/30/1521208/raided-for-ru...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4z09el30f8 Trevor Moore's take on this idea.
The problem with this whole profit "debate" about Amazon is that most people don't understand that public corporations are not like households or small businesses. Generating a profit is not the same as a person's savings. If a company can reinvest their excess income in new ventures that will drive growth that will increase revenues and thus the stock price. That is a much better use of capital then generating a profit, which is then taxed at 35%, and having either having that cash sit in the bank, buying back stock, or paying it out as a dividend (which then taxes the person receiving the dividend). I'd much prefer a company that has recognized opportunities to invest in then one that inefficiently uses my capital.
I'd wager most who hate green on black don't spend much time in terminals. I'd be blind by now if they were locked to black on white.
Everyone knows amber-on-black was the only acceptable terminal configuration. :)
> declaring Bitcoin as currency is too narrow.

Courts deal with the issues in the cases before them. The relevant issue in this case was whether an investment sold for bitcoin involved a transaction of "money" for purposes of the Exchange Act of 1934, making it subject to various securities-related rules.

The status of other altcoins (or even bitcoin's status as "currency" in any sense other than the specific context of the Exchange Act) was not an issue before the court.
The alternatives are Mediatek and Rockchip, and the community-at-large has an odd definition if they're considered open.
Why do our taxes in part support this invasion of privacy by NSA/FBI on American citizens ?
please put a disclaimer about quora's log in requirement shenanigans. I "signed" up using one of my gmail acct, not sure if my contacts got spammed and ended up never seeing the actual post because the pop up never closed.
I live in MD and got a few of these speed camera tickets around the state. My registration was up so I went to the MVA (dmv) to take care of it. Nope. Cannot do anything about that because these X private companies have a hold on your account. Okay, I'll pay right here right now, I just need my registration taken care of. No, sir that isn't possible. You must drive around to every corner of the state with this sheet of paper and have them sign off saying that you paid. It took me a month to get my registration together.
I believe you're wrong here. HN is not just about tech. It has always had room for substantive articles about anything interesting. Is this article substantive? I'd say it's surprisingly so, for such a short piece. It contains a mix of anecdote, data, and history. I learned three or four things I didn't know, and I've read occasional stuff on this issue in the past.

The graph alone is worth the visit.
The Internet has no idea what arbitrage is.
Adding another option to about:config that most users will never need or see does not cause cognitive load in any real sense.
I wonder if that has more to do with the number of drivers passing it per day, the immediate response to the drivers actions, or an assumption that the signs take a picture anyway. I would assume people choosing to speed would not care about a sign.
Keep in mind that changing "jobs" does not imply or require changing companies.
I think it's also because there's no career path. Sure, the pay is good, but you feel like in 15 years you're still going to be in the exact same role. Whoever you're going to work for, they're going to want you as an engineer.

The only thing to look forward to are starting your own company or becoming a CTO, but let's face it, a very small percentage of people are going to ever actually do that. Some people look forward to that big pay day, but it turns out that's not too realistic for a ground-level engineer anyway.

I think in other types of role people look forward to the next step in their career, whatever that step might be. As an engineer, you just look forward to becoming an older engineer.
Thank you for researching / posting / emailing that :)
It means that the particular defendant in this particular case can't get out of a securities fraud case because the investment contracts were sold for (and the interest offered in) bitcoins. (As a trial court decision, it has no binding in effect on any other case, and, in any case, the ruling is narrowly written to be specific to the context of the specific law at issue, not the definition of "money" more generally.)