skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pick other issues you have concerns about (human rights, animal rights, dubious banking practices, tobacco etc) and you get 2 birds with one stone.
Right. So what happens if a company decides to protest and not pay taxes? Government is going to make its life very difficult, to say the least. How is this a company's fault if a gang of bandits steal money from it to finance nasty things?

It's like saying "Let's not go to this bar anymore, because mafia comes in every now and then and confiscates profit from the owner". Owner is not responsible and the mafia is going to invade every bar you switch to, because it follows the money.
Maybe that means it doesn't suck to be a gas attendant, or maybe that means everybody knows it sucks to be a gas attendant, or maybe that just means that nobody gives a shit about gas attendants at all.
Now they're going to all look the same...but worse!
The museum of failed products
Doing the right thing is worth taking a little risk. As a side note, some people send out a crap resume while on unemployment so they don't get interviews. In theory you need to look for work, but if you have a fair amount of savings and want to spend the summer surfing then it's a 'safe' way around the rules.
My opinion:

You don't have to be loyal. Instead, be professional.

That means you retain many of the qualities of loyalty -- dilligence and an eye for the advantage of your client or employer -- without being afraid to ask for the going rate for your services.

A professional is also prepared to argue for the best interests of the client and to refuse to act unethically, even when the client doesn't want to hear it. Our cousin professions enjoy pretty strong legal support for the latter.
I love everything about this proposal is relatively low-cost and will utilize technology in a way that will transform the relationship of the two communities and solve a real growth issue: nasty conjestion on an relatively new stretch of highway.
In fact, Bootswatch already supports v3, and for themes that support both, it handles that appropriately too.
I'm not at all a big fan of Bootstrap 3's new look, but the change to border-box alone is a great reason to use it. Applying custom styles to buttons and inputs in Bootstrap 2 is a huge pain due to box-sizing: content-box.
All of this controversy aside, do you have any real reference point for what a conversation between a government official and a journalist sounds like, let alone a goading one at that?
Tesla Model S achieves best safety rating of any car ever tested
We know what they'll say: its limited, necessary, etc.
But the answer is nonsense.
Nginx doesn't handle LINK:

http://lxr.evanmiller.org/http/source/http/ngx_http_parse.c
Partaking in arguably illegal wars. Killing and torturing innocents at military bases. Kidnapping people and flying them off to be tortured (mainly a US hobby, but helped by the UK), lying to press and parliament about what is happening, helping out dictators etc. There are parallels to be found.
I hope that if I'm ever a CEO, I'll have the decency to point out that while I am friendly, I am not a friend.
It depends on what you are trying to prevent.

If you run your own MTA/IMAP server and lock down the OS and BIOS sufficiently -- including encrypting the hard drive -- you can be fairly confident that your at rest emails, including metadata, will not be accessed without your knowledge. But there's not much at all you can do to prevent mail sent to or from your machine from being intercepted. Configuring your MTA to only converse over TLS will help, but ultimately you have no good reason to trust the other mail server.

You can encrypt all your message bodies using either PGP or S/MAIL, but that requires the people you are conversing with the have key pairs, and doesn't protect metadata.
> You should never outsource your value proposition.

I really liked that. Well said.

As for the NSA issuing statements of any kind, I just ignore them these days.

I can't speak as to the requirements in terms of managing large systems of compute clusters, but I will speculate that no matter how "smart" their algos are, at some point, they've got to have a few hundred devoted souls doing QA/QC... probably young Air Force recruits. I simply do not believe they're getting value out of the data without substantial QA/QC.

Alternatively, perhaps they're simply not getting any real value out of the system because it doesn't really work as a sieve. If you already have a target, then parallel construction is probably greatly improved.
> Just because he didn't follow unwritten rules of disclosure

Are you refering to those unwritten rule that are written here: https://www.facebook.com/whitehat
You'd think any of them with a brain would have twigged that collecting all this data is completely stupid because it is so dangerous. Of course it will get in the wrong hands sooner or later. If they are collecting enough data to make files on everybody, organised crime would have a field day nobbling juries, and blackmailing businesses and law enforcement for a start (let alone the political ramifications of foreign services and bad actors being able to pressure those in positions of influence). When you think about it, this kind of data collection is completely antithetical to national security.
The whole point is that it's not freely sent. Craigslist declined to send it to 3taps any more, blocked their IP address, and told them they were no longer welcome to use the site at all, in addition to adjuring them to stop republishing ads from CL. They were well within their rights to do so.

When your argument requires changing the facts, there's something wrong with it.
> "software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."

I used to think this was true. For me, the perceived inflection point where perceived speed of software started improving was somewhere around 2008. This may be because I switched to a mac in 2006 and the releases around that era had a big performance focus.
This. We won't get anywhere if we imagine that these programs are instigated by moustache-twirling villains bent on harvesting our personal data. In all likelihood, everyone involved believes that they are acting for the best. The real threat is a slow shift in the expectations of privacy.
Inside Ingress - a postmortem
I'm no web designer, just a developer with a casual interest.

Can you explain what this low-contrast thing is all about? Why would anyone think this was a good idea, except perhaps for UI elements that were explicitly disabled.
boi_v2 noted a similarity between specific actions. No reasonably intelligent adult could read his comment and come to the conclusion that he thinks they are gassing Jews; the exaggeration is your own. Take your "bravery" bullshit back to reddit.
Absolutely not unless you are a co founder or have a significant share in the company.
Wrong.

Depth of field is dependant on f-number and sensor size. A small sensor camera can have a fast lens, but essentially no depth of field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circle_of_confusion
"Apple never failed to exceed expectations"

Really? The Lisa, Apple III, Apple USB Mouse, MobileMe, and Apple TV all exceeded expectations? Most people consider that to be a list of Apple failures. How do you say they exceeded expectations?
The new PowerShell Desired State Configuration in PowerShell 4.0 (Windows 8.1) looks interesting... almost a bit Chef-like?

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn249912.aspx
Some go to experience new things where new isn't necessarily good or pleasant. I have traveled to various countries where people live in various states of dereliction and despair and I have lived with them there. I have spent weeks living in slums and living in much the same manner as everyone else there. Being cheap isn't a concern, I have the funds to travel pretty much anywhere. Experiencing something far outside of your regular existence is a humbling and exhilarating feeling. Living in what pretty much everyone would describe as a slum taught me a significant amount about ingenuity, patience, other people's coping strategies, humility and hostility.

Why do poor people like traveling to Hollywood?
As I said, there's plenty of room in the market for competitors. I hate how poor the CL user experience is and how indifferent the company seems to their users. I'd love to see them disrupted. Nonetheless, my desire to see competitors succeed doesn't give the competitors the right to republish CL ads. Yes, it's tough to get around CL's first mover advantage but that's why successful innovators get paid the big bucks.
Facebook Should Buy Stripe
A friend of mine did want to go into porn as a young teen. She decided not to one she was old enough, because it did not pay enough. There are a lot of people out there and most of them don't think like you do.
Five Successful Startups That Started As Blogs
Misleading title, USD funds were frozen, not actual bitcoins.
Is the golden wall.[1]

It isn't power, it is the illusion of power and the attempt to keep it up that corrupts.

Is all the lies you have to tell people about the things you claim to control and all the fakes you have to pull all the fucking time, just to make people think that you genuinely have some clue about what is going on so that you can retain authority.

But you never do.

No one can.

For all the technology in the world, nobody can do more than the amount of time they have and their ability to comprehend, and after a while the amount of information becomes a hindrance and you wish you could plug the flow, and you would in a moment, apart from the fact that if people thought you were not watching it for even a second, forever trapped in watching it with far too much to understand, that you wouldn't know what was going on and you can never let that happen.

[1] I nicked this phrase from Harry Mulisch, from his book "The Discovery of Heaven". Is a good book.
It certainly can be dangerous, as can any country, and I consider myself lucky to not have had any problems, but I can't think of another country I have been in that felt safer to me. And more time there only verified that feeling. There is a certainly a strong chance I would feel otherwise if I was a woman.
Facts matter not when the Labor Department gets involved. I walked in with a legally-binding contract done by my attorney and singed by the guy I fired. He was required to sell a certain dollar amount in 90 days. He sold exactly zero. Zero. The Labor Department mediator made me pay him several thousand dollars in ADVANCE COMMISSION I withheld at the time of firing. In reality, per the agreement, he owed ME several thousand dollars or advance commission he, effectively, never earned because he sold nothing. It didn't matter.

This happened because I told him I was letting him go because he did not sell anything. He (and the Labor Department folks, I'm sure) came up with some bullshit reason why I should pay him money anyway.

Had I given no reason whatsoever it is likely that there would have been less grounds to even bring forward a case. I'm summarizing something that is a bit more complex than the above but the overall idea is very much there.

Regrettably what you have to do is smile every day, take notes, document everything and, if the decision to fire is made, simply fire people without any explanation whatsoever. It goes something like this: "I'm sorry. I have to let you go. Here's your check." And walk them out immediately.

Oh, yes, if you can you should really consider having a witness to the firing. I was laid off twice in my life and both times there were three people in the room. Years later I would understand the reasons behind something that seemed weird and almost demeaning to me at the time.

I don't like having these kinds of relationships with people I work with but the legal framework in our state pretty much dictates you act this way for simple self preservation.
Ask HN: What are some non-Bitcoin digital currencies to watch out for?
I'm fascinated by the ongoing saga of Bitcoin as one of the first decentralized digital currencies to get much traction (as well as the ensuing seizure, subpoena, and general regulatory intrusion that U.S. regulatory authorities are just beginning to mount) but I'd like to know: where else can I look to explore this brave new economic world?

Ripple is another decentralized, "open" system, that even purports to play nice with Bitcoin exchanges. I'd love to hear the opinion of HN on its viability and the viability of all such systems.
It describes Stalinism as it already existed at the time.

1984 was neither prophetic nor cautionary; it was merely descriptive.
The top 10 Chrome Extensions of 2013
3 more ways the government will think you're a terrorist
New Twist on Crowdfunding for Startups
Why stop at the browser? http://bellard.org/jslinux/
"the front section that would normally contain a gasoline engine is used for a second trunk."

I guess somebody has veto'd "frunk". Oh well.
"It is possible to game the regulatory testing score to some degree by strengthening a car at the exact locations used by the regulatory testing machines. After verifying through internal testing that the Model S would achieve a NHTSA 5-star rating, Tesla then analyzed the Model S to determine the weakest points in the car and retested at those locations until the car achieved 5 stars no matter how the test equipment was configured."
- This is how you take on the Big Three
Contracts are not types and do not really behave like types in many ways.
"Off the record" is not an actual legal thing.
> The Model S lithium-ion battery did not catch fire at any time before, during or after the NHTSA testing. It is worth mentioning that no production Tesla lithium-ion battery has ever caught fire in the Model S or Roadster, despite several high speed impacts. While this is statistically unlikely to remain the case long term, Tesla is unaware of any Model S or Roadster occupant fatalities in any car ever.

I can't help but feel this is a bit of a jab at Boeing. :)
This is not entertaining (or, reading into subtext, absurd) at all. It is widely accepted that complete physical destruction of hard drives is required to avoid future forensic recovery, which is what Rusbridger is referring to when he mentions "passing Chinese agents."
So, does anyone want to give odds that Tesla will be a disruptive force in the automotive industry throughout the next decade?
Sorry - I didn't see this comment. I'm running Debian Sid. I believe that have the Nvidia card disabled (in the BIOS). I haven't had a single issue with my Drivers.

I have a w520.
By "planning decision" I mean to use this knowledge to make a decision which is more likely to lead to a successful project.

Sorry, still not clear to me what you mean. Please clarify.

Consider the converse to your statement: It can sometimes be advantageous to spend all your time learning as much as possible about the way things are normally done while approaching the job from your own strengths and knowledge.

Nope. The converse of what I said would be: It can sometimes be advantageous to spend all your time learning as much as possible about the way things are normally done before trying to contribute to projects.

"you may delay contributing if you wait until you reach that status before trying"
Certainly. However, contributing is also an important part of learning, and you are unlikely to get to expert status if you delay in contributing.

Yes, exactly. Fits with what I'm saying.

I'm sure you'll have something to say, so I'll leave you to have the last say. Thanks for the discussion.
>>You don't get good grades, your life is going to suck with high probability.

Very true for some one poor, not some one who has a means to set up a business. Which I'm pretty darn sure is true with the US society too. Or anywhere in the whole world for that matter.

Regarding 2) That has both its positives and negatives. In India if you run into trouble there is a massive extended family to fall back on. In US, you have to deal with it yourself.

Regarding 3) Lack of hygiene or presence is not a cultural thing. West was equally dirty during and before industrial revolution.
Ask HN: Do you work for any of the included companies? (Dell/HBGary/AT&T/etc)
A recent discussion on Endgame Systems[1] with a user here yielded an interesting result, defense of the company by virtue of the commenter working at a similar unnamed entity. Some time later a thread here on Snowden's husband was being flagged, evident by it's sinking rank yet simultaneous rising votes and valid commentary.

This led me to wondering a few things, first: What number of users here are embedded at companies like Endgame Systems, SAIC, HBGary[2], Google while receiving monetary remuneration for work rendered. Second: What are these users feelings on the end result of their labor? Drone strikes, renditions, exploits used on dissidents, airport terminal blackholes, destructive malware aimed at dangerous industries like Iran's nuclear program. Have they been forced to defend involvement in these things to themselves even if only for being an AT&T technician maintaining installed hardware? Or do they find themselves responding with flagging articles they have probable conflict of interests in?

The short of it: What is their rationale for being complicit in these times?

Companies one may find themselves to be employed with, posted from Barret Brown's[3] Project PM[4] and Telecomix's Bluecabinet[5]:

Hunton & Williams,
Endgame Systems,
Blue Coat Systems,
Berico,
Glimmerglass,
Bunker Communications,
Qorvis,
Booz Allen Hamilton,
L3 Communications,
Palantir,
SAIC

[1] http://wiki.echelon2.org/wiki/Endgame_Systems

[2] http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/HBGary

[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/vivien-lesnik-weisman/the-strange-case-of-barre_b_3738448.html

[4] http://wiki.project-pm.org/wiki/Main_Page

[5] http://bluecabinet.info/wiki/Blue_cabinet
Elon has mentioned how much they prioritized safety in designing the Model S. I'm glad to hear that their efforts have paid off.

This is great news for Tesla as it opens their market even larger as the car can appeal to those seeking safety and not just performance or lower carbon footprint.
And if your loyalty to yourself and your professional ethics are in conflict with the wishes of your employer, it is far better to follow your true loyalties.

Though it might come at great personal cost if you end up having to flee to Russia.
I don't think Bootstrap was ever meant to be a UI "theme" in and of itself and developers, like yourself, who use it (and sell it) like that don't understand what they're doing.
Sensible applications of loyalty are a two way street - are they paying you fairly, are they developing you as a person? If they're not investing in you, being loyal to them is just stupidity. Match your commitments, that way if they stop you're not left going - "But I gave you everything and now I've got nothing!"

Your allies and your friends don't weaken you or leave you to rot. Anyone who does isn't worthy of your loyalty.

I've been laid off before, I didn't feel bad about it - I was loyal to them and they were loyal to me, and when the relationship ended we went our separate ways, both the richer for it.
Once again the posters title was overruled despite the fact that it was on top of page 1, the posters title was a quote taken directly from the article, and the post was generating good discussion.
You could smash the drives that store individual's private keys, but beyond that - that's one of the benefits of a truly decentralized system.
I'm sure if the defendant had comparable legal counsel, the ruling would have been different.

Unlikely. You do not have an automatic right to content just because you can access it. If a website operator says that you, AsymetricCom, are no longer welcome to visit their website, that is their right as owners of that business property. Changing your username or IP address may allow you to circumvent their ban, in the same way that wearing a disguise may make it possible for you to enter a shopping mall that you've been banned from, but you're still in breach of the owner's lawful order to stay off their property.

As I've said before, just because it's easy doesn't mean you have the right to do it. Put yourself in the position of the injured website operator; do you want the right to ban people from your website if they persistently abuse it? O course you do, same as any business reserves the right to refuse admission/service to troublemakers.
Agreed.

Perhaps another good journalist could score a one-up on this one? That aside, it doesn't seem coherent that the owner of the laptop containing the sensitive materials would voluntarily agree to conceal the names of the agents, and at the same time let their machine/drives be destroyed by the same sleuths (crooks?).

Seems fishy, but then what is not given the circumstances.
Favorite quote: "[T]he exact number is uncertain due to Model S breaking the testing machine"
"Of note, during validation of Model S roof crush protection at an independent commercial facility, the testing machine failed at just above 4 g's. While the exact number is uncertain due to Model S breaking the testing machine, what this means is that at least four additional fully loaded Model S vehicles could be placed on top of an owner's car without the roof caving in."

I don't have any frame of reference for how this compares to other vehicles, but damn, that is impressive.
Financing Your Next Startup As An Uber Driver
Honestly, the differences look fairly indistinguishable to me.
Same here, 15".
If less tax is raised in UK, do you think that's actually going to stop things like this happening? Of course not, it's just going to make life slightly shittier for British people. The way to fix this is to make it a big enough political issue in the UK that the government backs off.
Doesn't the technical architecture of the Bitcoin system make the seizure of actual Bitcoins by a third-party impossible or at least very difficult?
> your worst enemy

Fundamentally, this is what the social contract is about. The individual has a right to fight the state if the state no longer protects his life, liberty, or property. Clearly, the state is actively pursuing Snowden's liberty if not his life. And there's little chance it would protect Greenwald's liberty.

Thus, for the whistleblower, the state is their worst enemy.

And any of us may find the state has become, in the blink of an eye, our worst enemy. Especially anyone who operates a server.
Why did you need to install VS on the build servers?

It is not needed to build web apps. My current company (a .NET web shop) has a strict rule of "no VS on the build server". I know that it's needed to build some things, like unit tests that use MSTest, the built-in Visual Studio Setup Projects, but not plain ASP.NET or ASP.NET MVC websites.
You can see a slight darkening around the edges; it's easiest to see on the default gray button. I agree: this needs to a be a stronger indicator.
Which browser? Works fine for me in Safari 6 at any zoom level.
It has the same sized sensor as a 35mm film camera...

Small point of clarification: 35mm still photography cameras have the long side of the image aligned with the sprockets, (864mm² total usable area) while 35 motion photography has the short side aligned with the sprockets. (334mm²) The RED ONE had a 35mm motion photography-sized sensor, (Super 35) the 5Dii had a 35mm still sensor, of course, being principally a still camera.
This is straight out of Kafka.
If you scroll to the bottom of the page the sidebar will eventually scroll down and show them. Still an error though, and the irony, given the context, makes it a bit comical.
MacBook Air battery woes show the downside of the quest for denser batteries
I'm rather happy with http://bazqux.com/

Granted, it's a one man shop, but he's charging $9-$29/year, so hopefully enough to keep it running.
It's written in Haskell and Ur/Web, is quite fast, took my Google Reader takeout with no issues (400 feeds scattered across 35 folders)
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