skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
vendor lock-in, risk management, privacy of data
Shoot us an email to bugs@cloudbill.com! would love to see it!
> It could also have been to make more public that Greenwald has a younger gay Brazilian partner, something we gloss over in this crowd, but for which he'll be judged harashly for in other social circles.

Well, it's not like the Guardian is really terribly popular amongst bigots, anyway... If he wrote for the Daily Mail I could see your point.
Please don't link directly to auto-playing video pages. At least not until browser vendors get their acts together and indicate which tabs are generating sound. (No, I'm not interested in a long list of excuses as to why that's hard to do.)
OS X is a distribution of Darwin. iOS is derived from it.
I guarantee that they were not expecting the intensity of the reaction on this one.

A lot of stories, like the LavaBit shutdown for example, never elicited the strong backlash that it should have. It was however, well known in security and technology media circles.

Because it is a slow(er) Sunday news morning, the reaction on twitter to this story has been quite intense, and that is translating into a huge amount of print and broadcast news stories.

If this was intended to intimidate journalists, that would have been achieved through the inevitable reporting in specialty blogs and twitter feeds of those intensely interested in the subject.

This controversy on the other hand, is blowing up in their face, which will result in reporters making the next 72 hours hell for the various authorities involved on both sides of the pond.
They forgot the most important part: having a good idea.
Automatically creating beautiful video summaries out of text articles
Does it only throw a compiler error if you use 0 as a constant? Let's say you have a function that returns an int; does it force you to check if that int is non-zero before using it in division?
This is just bad PR for FB all around. You guys handled this poorly. It's obvious the OP held no ill intentions when he posted on MZ's wall - if anything he seemed to have been driven to it in order to get your attention to a serious bug which your team specifically claimed not to be a bug. Your ungrateful response is typical of a large corporation only out to save face.
If you have really low power sensors, you could use the technology to power it indefinitely in conjunction with other power generating modules.
Nice! A complete clone of GAE is really handy to be able to use in some cases.

Note that you can also run Java GAE apps on JBoss AS or OpenShift with CapeDwarf: https://www.jboss.org/capedwarf
If it is indeed terrifying, have they not become terrorists themselves? They may not blow you up (well unless you live in Afghanistan or Pakistan or so) but this is another one of those signs that something is quite wrong. Unfortunately not the first story, this, and it'll probably not be the last, either.
The arrow shapes are not a "vim" thing, they're a powerline thing. Especially as an earlier commenter mentions, the powerline core is independent Python code now, usable in other terminal apps like tmux, etc.
Did anyone else read this and immediately wonder, "how many watts?" 1.5 pages of prose and no hard numbers. Years in the industry reading marketing white papers and such cause things like this to really set off the bullshit detector. I'm not saying it's not possible, but, just give me the power (in watts) that is being transmitted by a prototype device. If you don't put that number as a feature bullet, I automatically assume you've got something to hide.
Actually, most companies that aren't Google (finance, government, military, enterprise) realized that simply sticking with Oracle is even a better move. I don't know if you know this, but Oracle is making more money (profit) than Google (Oracle is also a much larger company than Google). They wouldn't be doing that if people were staying away from them. Lawsuit aside, even Google itself (and Facebook, and Twitter) runs most/much of its software on Oracle technology, so I guess they're doing something right. It's just that HN is skewed in favor of smaller-scale software. When you're in the major league, Java is often the only smart option.
Is the World Ready for Game Criticism?
I hope someone writes a "I've decided to move on from 'finding myself' and get a nice job at a big prestigious software company" article, as a way to close the loop.
I was playing around with Ratchet last year trying to set up something exactly like this.

what you have looks great so far.

additionally I was getting my web app to host mockup images, sketches or just notes so I could think about the app flow and still be able to click around. I was doing it with express so I could parse markdown files (for the raw notes).

I would say keep using angular as its very fast to add new pages. sliding page transitions and grabbable affordances would be the most useful things I think.
> It looks like the act of printing stories critical of the state is already being punished

I've just finished reading a pamphlet written ~370 years ago, in 1644, called "Compassionate Samaritan", authored by a very interesting character named William Walwyn, where he had this to say about the religious establishment of his time:

> There they brand men with the name of heretics, and fasten what errors they think are most hateful to the people upon those men they purpose to make odious. There they confute all opinions, and boldly they may do it, for as much as no liberty of reply or vindication in public is allowed to any, though never so much scandalized by them. And that men may not vindicate themselves by writing, their next interest is to be masters of the press, of which they are lately become by an ordinance for licensing books; which, being intended by the Parliament for a good and necessary end, namely the prohibition of all books dangerous or scandalous to the state, is become by means of the licensers, who are divines and intend their own interest, most serviceable to themselves in the stopping of honest men's writings, that nothing may come to the world's view but what they please - unless men will run the hazard of imprisonment, as I now do. So that in public they may speak what they will, write what they will, they may abuse whom they will, and nothing can be said against them. Well may they presume of making themselves masters of the people, having these foundations laid, and the people generally willing to believe they are good.

Now, anyone can replace "the divines" from the (very long) quote with the current establishment and the "heretics" and "honest men" with, well, the few honest men of our times.
The idea that the Hyperloop would have airport-style security comes from Musk, not me.
Wasn't Obama the 'hope' candidate?

I agree that hope is better than despair but hope seems to be a bit of a tarnished word after the last 4+ years.
I was wondering about the watts for a different reason...

From Wikipedia:

"Although the long term effects due to ultrasound exposure at diagnostic intensity are still unknown,[24] currently most doctors feel that the benefits to patients outweigh the risks.[25] The ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) principle has been advocated for an ultrasound examination — that is, keeping the scanning time and power settings as low as possible but consistent with diagnostic imaging — and that by that principle non-medical uses, which by definition are not necessary, are actively discouraged."
I do not understand what bathrooms have to do with any point I made.
I think it's unnecessary to feel frustrated. "intelligent, free-thinking hackers" can make their judgement on a technology if they are given complete information about it, which is the case here since, as pointed out by the other comment, Go is an open source project.
Well, if you can hide the fact you ran over someone, did you really run them over?
Show HN: Autogenerated transcript summary for YouTube videos
Wow does this ever miss the point. It's not that nobody is willing to drive to Hayward. It's not that Hayward is on the moon. It's not that nobody would go to Hayward to get on the Hyperloop. Millions would.

The point is that the transit time from SF to Hayward is part of the SF/LA transit time. That's all.
You are as bad as that guy. What has region got to do with intellect? I am from North India, from the home of the Buddha. Are you really basing your argument on those grounds?
The article requires an account to read.
I've always found it odd that people talking about sexism use 'woman' like it's an adjective. Common use has made it one, but it used to be just a noun. Anyway, my point is that we don't say "man founders" or "man drivers" or "men professionals".
Hyperbole in title. MakeGamesWithUs has not cracked the education code. They are working with and for extremely motivated students. There are many problems with education that I see my teacher and school administrator friends face. One of them is how to approach the students who don't want to learn.

MakeGamesWithUs enables motivated students to complete a game app within a relatively short time period by offering up a esprit de corps and creative/design resources that can help the student fulfill her initial vision.

If they can figure out to replicate what they are doing (my guess is the tight-knit community of mentors and project management they have in-house is the secret sauce) to other locations and possibly to outside the Palo Alto bubble, then they may be onto something. Until then, they are a very attractive (and increasingly competitive) summer internship of sorts for kids who are going to/have graduated from some of the best high schools in the country.
Sharp.

I do think this is driven by fear and incompetence rather than malice but you could easily be right. I'd love to be a fly on the wall in the various offices dealing with the fall-out from this, especially the interface boundary between the foreign affairs and the anti-terror branches.
The problem lies with both the project managers and the developers. How many developers take the time for self improvement by reading clean code or code complete. None, many of them think / assume that when they have finished college, their days of learning are over.

That same developers become project managers after a couple of years, still thinking they have learned everything they need to know when they were in college years back.
> India needs to adopt an archive and extinguish
> policy with its many regional languages.

My, oh my! I've read some pretty bizarre things on the net and this is right up there with them. Many smaller regional languages in India are under pressure and if they eventually go extinct then that's unfortunate but perhaps that's the way it is. But to suggest that languages need to be willfully stifled let alone in the case of major regional languages for the imposition of Hindi as the lingua franca of the "arts and sciences" is just bizarre.

The republic would fall apart before that happens.

> but at least for the sake of 95% Indians who
> don't really speak English, it would be good
> to give them access to the STEM fields without
> forcing them to learn a totally different/new language

Learning Hindi would mean learning a totally new language for the majority of Indians. Many would rather learn English as a second language.
Greenwald has been doing this for years. His prose is always over the top, but the man is really savvy (courtroom experience, maybe). I'm going to count myself very surprised indeed if this can provoke him into doing even the smallest detail differently than he intended.

If anything, he's chuckling that he managed to provoke them to this kind of outrageous action. Rubbing his hands with glee. (Shades of "You want the truth? You can't handle the truth!")
Future aircraft design: Slow down to go faster?
Fuck that. Let them charge me and let's see what the judge says.
Alternative explanation (without endorsing either): it took 9 hours because nobody high enough could be found that would sign off on keeping him longer.
FUD. What proof are you referring to that Google is "directly, deeply, and intricately involved in said scandal?" Should the industry drop C++ (Microsoft) and Java (Oracle) support or similar (Scala, Python, etc)? AMD and Intel processing? All American companies; completely ludicrous.
Stop it with the paywall sites already.
The great irony being that as they lose their legitimacy they're gaining power by labeling more people/activities as terrorists/terrorism.
Monthly Review #1: introspection and lessons learned
This is incredibly tone-deaf in light of recently released results that show huge benefits from police wearing body cams.
Brazil has a tit-for-tat policy when it comes to how their citizens are treated. Backpressure could come from all kinds of interesting directions.

If this wasn't officially sanctioned from above there will be fall-out.
You might be over-rating the usefulness of code hot-swaps in production with Erlang. Erlang devs I've talked to have looked a little green in the gills when I asked about it.

Coming from Python and Ruby, being able to just deploy a jar is a dream.
Yet given the NSA's surveillance scandal and Google's long history of a close & secretive working relationship with the NSA

I'd love to hear evidence of this relationship instead of your speculative fear mongering.
I don't hate wires so much that I want to be bathed in high-power ultrasound.

And you know what, I have an invention that means your laptop will continue to work in almost any position - you won't have to keep a clear view between charger and laptop. You can turn around, lie down, have a colleague stand over your shoulder. There are some limits, sure, but it gives you a fair bit of freedom to move, and it allows a ton of power to be more effectively transmitted along its full length (with negligible loss), and you can use it anywhere you can find consumer power. It's called a 'wire'.
I don't know how they progress through the IP space, but couldn't they simply solve this by doing it in a deterministic manner? At progress N they should easily be able to tell that A has been scanned. Iterating three times through the IP space all IPs that haven't answered should have gotten the connection attempts.
1.-NERDTreeFind (Have it mapped to ,nf)

2.-Adding the package name to a file and typing BundleInstall

3.-Basic window management... (Have it mapped to Alt+hjkl)

I know how to do all of these very easily from first week of serious usage. I'm using vim for less than a year and wouldn't call myself a "vim power user".

I think it's a little bit adventurous to judge an editor that popular for that long time based on seemingly (seeing the use cases you said) limited personal experience.
Maybe you should stop the heavy drinking. Swift and violent revolution? That'll work just dandy, let me go get my AK-47 out of the storage grease.

FFS don't talk nonsense and if you must don't do it here.
Javascript for Microcontrollers
What are some of the funniest and cleverest advertisements?
In the recent "I am a Seattle cop, AMA" over in /r/seattle, the officer said: "I'm torn on body cameras and confused about the public perception of them. People really didn't want us to have a drone that could fly for 10 minutes but they want us to bring cameras into their homes." [1]

I will admit that I am both pro-body cam and anti-drone, but I'd never thought of it that way.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/1jp0hu/iama_spd_off...
But you see, this is exactly the wrong kind of conversation. You can't say "nobody trusts Oracle" while Oracle is bigger and more profitable than Google, and while the majority of important software worldwide is built on Oracle technology. Oracle won't pay attention to this kind of statement because it's obviously false. The truth is that most companies do trust Oracle.

What we can and should say is that Oracle is losing the trust of the Silicon Valley startup crows, and that this is a very important population segment. It's like a candidate being elected but gradually losing the young vote – it's a bad sign that Oracle would do well to consider.
What really burns me is how the "Jobs" people treated his criticism as being motivated out of money. From Ashton Kutcher:

http://blogs.computerworld.com/mac-os-x/22659/jobs-ashton-ku...

> "Woz is being paid by another company to support a different Steve Jobs film. It's personal for him, but it's also business. We have to keep that in mind."

Seriously? Woz is the guy who gave his Apple stock shares to co-workers he felt were slighted in the IPO. Hello, he's the guy who wanted to give his groundbreaking engineering behind the Apple away for free.

Woz is an engineering legend...but if there were a Hall of Fame for generosity and integrity, he'd be in there too. Shame on the "Jobs" people and it's great to see the lukewarm/negative reviews roll in for their shit sandwich of a biopic.
> As some mentioned in the comments, even the Mafia has basic engagement rules to leave family members alone.

That was actually mentioned in the article.
Learn Xamarin or Corona SDK. Cross-platform, so you just need to learn one programming language. That's the best advice I can give you.
Angry much?

You must realize having a thousand non-compatible incoherent languages isn't practical in modern, technological, Internet-driven society.

In fact, they should all be sidelined and replaced by English. Problem solved. There are already more people speaking English in India than there are Americans.
Guantanamo is not a UK facility.
I would suggest to make it compatible with 10.7 :)
My sense from obama's recent remarks is that there is definitely some change under consideration as a result of the snowden revelations and greenwald's important involvement. So I disagree with you pretty strenuously. And I do think more people care about this than you think, both in the tech and non-tech worlds.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-nsa-secrecy-...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/217550/google_watchdog_white_...
That is really, really, cool.
I've seen a few comments that say the same thing. Care to elaborate how far their "care" really goes? Are they doing something about it, or is just like any other news in America where it's dinner-table conversation, but nothing else.
You could also look at what Upworthy is doing: a "mission-driven" company engineering viral content for the purpose of promoting social awareness and other things they find to be generally healthy for society.

People overestimate the impact of the Internet, but they also underestimate it; I have a suspicion that the dissolution of traditional mass media will make it easier for interest groups to influence the public sphere via social networks, using propagation techniques similar to those that Upworthy is currently harnessing. That's what I find fascinating about Upworthy: using social media marketing strategies to sell ideas instead of products.
Is there any way to 'catch' a divide by zero panic in go?
Hard as it may seem to believe, India was not modeled on the US. On the whole it has dealt quite well with its diversity of languages and cultures. If that is too hard to imagine, perhaps you can try imagining Europe.
Obama is on the record saying that these changes under consideration have nothing whatsoever to do with Snowden, Greenwald or the leaks.
Angular 1.2 supports animations between ng-views, which would mean you wouldn't have to build very much.

http://www.yearofmoo.com/2013/08/remastered-animation-in-ang...
The solution I employ is Click2Plugin, native to Chrome and an extension to Firefox (and Safari?). I have it enabled on everything but Youtube.
Assuming it's not a division by constant zero that's caught at compile time, it panics. Go's panic/recover system seems conceptually similar to try/catch and exceptions, but they aren't a drop-in replacement for exceptions due to some differences in both style and execution. There's a good blog post[1] on the Go blog going into more detail about defer/panic/recover, if you're interested.

[1]: http://blog.golang.org/defer-panic-and-recover
I can't think of any legitimate government questioning someone and not allowing an attorney to be present. This is really scary.
Esperanto. I vote for Esperanto. Burn your Shakespeares and your Homers and come learn STEM in the One True Language.
this is not a thing that we can do.

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGtP6ZQ6Lt8
If this treatment proves 100% successful against a given kind of cancer, and the procedure is developed to the mass-production stage, I would imagine we'd start getting cancer. Then you'd only get the tiny initial tumors nuked and correspondingly not suffer cytokine storms when large amounts of cancer tissue dies at once.
I doubt they used the same port in every scan.
Google desperately needs to be brought to heel.
That seems almost as easy as achieving 100% literacy.

BTW: India isn't a modern, Internet-driven society yet. We are still getting people to be able to read and write.
How much will the service cost? Presumably they'd have to charge money for it, since the alternative business model would be something unspeakably horrible, like selling users' personal financial information. And it would be nice to see a privacy policy before providing your e-mail to get an invitation.
As a Brit, I agree. But, the scope is different. The US threatens literally every country on earth..... the UK?

Ah, bless. Its almost funny, isn't it?

All we can do is harass our own, in order to suck up to Uncle Sam.

TBH, I find UK behavior worse. Its not on principle, its sucking up. My country turns my stomach at times, and this is one of them.
According to the Open Source Definition[0] "Open source doesn't just mean access to the source code." Clause 6 requires that to be Open Source "The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research."

[0] http://opensource.org/docs/osd
Where did it say that you could not refuse to answer the questions?
Online regional Indian spats are always entertaining.

There's so much pride dripping from every word forming a pool of vitriol towards anything not-like-the-speaker.

(and if "Language and Culture are central to Identity" perhaps we should cultivate a larger view of the world? Being blindingly obsessed with culture and history isn't healthy. Forming your entire identity around the past leads to moronic things like never ending wars because someone slighted someone else's father two hundred years ago.)
True. It's a good excuse, but still doesn't fly in my books. I do understand that fact based movies need to introduce some drama that requires some nips here and some tucks there, but not to the extent that Wozniak has claimed.

And he being there in person has some weight to what he says.

Jobs worship was already out of control during his second stint, with success of iproducts, but to revise the history to such an extent that it takes credit away from pretty much everybody who worked towards making Apple a successful company is not entertainment.
There is a reason why that proverb about studying history and repeating it exists. Too bad not many people like to study history, it is not like we haven't been here before.
A/B Testing for Publishers
This is an excellent example of newspeak - looks and sounds like speech, but completely lacks meaning.
Trust me, I know such places, and I have no romantic notion of the Mafia. But I think there's a way to compare things that doesn't equate them. Same for the Greenwald quote in the grand-grand-grand-...-parent.
I've spent one hour of my life in Germany, when I was 11 years old, in a transit lounge in Frankfurt. I have 'visited Germany', but not in any real sense.
"Why yes, I shall protect myself and others who work for the public from accountability by banning cameras that document our work."

Perfect, you can just watch the culture trickle spread from the Federal Government to the local ones.