skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess is that GCHQ was doing this to cover their asses, knowing that they would be blamed if the data were to be stolen from the Guardian by a foreign government. They don't care if the same thing happens in Brazil or elsewhere, since they're not responsible for it.
The spray absorption method though might increase the abuse. I wonder how would the body react to the overdose.
It takes a little more than one sentence to be the top dismissive comment around here. Keep working at it though. You'll make it : )
Should have hired a tech co-founder
Firefox 3.6 with the theme named Strata and the plugin named Fission had progress bars that looked almost identical to this, including the glow effect.

It gave me a feeling of nostalgia seeing this.
Big Brother Is Watching
You are correct.

I can't remember calling a landline last couple years, except for public offices and banks.
I would consider Maps, Gmail, and G+, CRUD applications. What does it take to not be a CRUD application? I'm not sure. I think every web-based application in which enormous amounts of data are stored and manipulated qualifies as a CRUD application, even if they involve lots of intelligence and batch processing on the backend. Many of them are CRUD with a Big "R," as they mostly involve consuming data. Maybe my definition of CRUD is too broad.

Knowledge graph and instant search are amazing feats, but with thousands of engineers working all day at Google, each of these products seem to be only incrementally improving, as you say, and I would almost expect quantum leaps forward in terms of new products. But Google probably has all sorts of things in their pipeline.

These products were already incredibly impressive, as well as huge hits, and I use them every day, so I'm not really dissing them so much as I'm noticing a lack of new, hit products.
Sorry, by "Congress" I wasn't referring to the version in place 35 years ago in the post-Watergate Era.

As you note, the Congress of today has rolled back FISA and added new, more pliant laws (e.g., Patriot Act).

We are in a different era where all three branches are gladly pushing the reasonable clause far beyond the intended use. That's the result and it is Constitutional because all three branches say so.
I don't think nearly so many people would find this idea objectionable if the loading bar was placed at the bottom of the screen, not the top.
> As for the calculus interview, that sounds like fair game. PMs are supposed to have some PM interviews and some SWE interviews, and math is a perfectly acceptable area to ask SWE candidates

I upvoted you because it's not fair to down-vote people who are on topic, but you're not correct when you assume that of all things calculus (!?) should have anything to do with hiring a PM.

I honestly fail to see how solving some Cauchy sequence-related stuff 10+ years after you finished your studies has anything to do with managing a bunch of programmers. And I'm not saying this as an I-hate-maths guy, in fact the only A+ I got in college was in calculus, but were I to be given such a question during an interview I would have just left.
Yeah there's another error in the Floobits section. The bit about earlier coverage was mistakenly copy-pasted from the section about Standard Treasury.
I agree, I think that's one of the hard things to balance. Force the information down a user's throat, and they'll hate you for it. Don't give them enough information and you end up with users who have poor experience.

Honestly, I think the best on boarding experience is a super-intuitive design. But that's just me.
Jim Tavare on The Kevin Nealon Show
Representing State Machines with Co-Routines in Python
Or that it's not open source.
Article claims that Prim's 10% weekly growth is "low by Y-Combinator standards", but in "Startup = Growth" pg wrote that 10% weekly growth is great growth pace, and above 5% is good. Has the baseline of YC companies improved that much?
MongoDB: Now with Hive compatibility
Stupid. A botched LSD trip may leave you permanently paranoid and insane. Psilocybin is as far as anyone should go for "good mental health." There are better ways.
Does anyone have any tales of using Dovecot

I've been using it on a server at home to basically archive my email (since the account I use to receive new email gets fussy if it gets too full) for a number of years now; it's worked great for me. I particularly like the fact that as of version 2.0, it supports sieve filtering out of the box, including a ManageSieve server, so I can easily set up complex filtering rules.
The letter quoted from the NSA doesn't ever say the word 'copyright', it says "intellectual property rights."

I was curious based on the initial headline, because in general, under US law, things created by the federal government are not under copyright.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the...

Although things created by contractors might be.

Anyhow, the takedown letter, as usual for this sort of thing, is very vague about exactly what 'intellectual property rights' the complainer holds are being violated, making it even harder to judge if their complaint is justified. At least as quoted in the OP. Who knows.
"While most just forget, the rest think they know better."

And they're clearly correct, as the planes don't crash, no one scolds them for causing delays or equipment to malfunction. The planes take off and land just fine.
I've looked into this a bit. I don't think it's just Chrome but rather YouTube has some sort of beta flag for enabling the pjax style page loads. Try Incognito in Chrome and see if you still get the bar.
You have two different problems here. First, learning to write software. Second, building your own startup ideas.

Observation of a techie turned solo founder: Building and running a business is a full time job, entirely separate from writing the code. As a lawyer, you're probably better prepared for that now than the average programmer. You might well be better off finding a problem and a solution, and outsourcing or hiring talent to solve it.

If you want to code for the sake of coding, go for it! But if it's just a means to another end, it's probably not your best approach.
Not wanting to be in possession of key material which could tie the original message back to you would be a good example. PGP messages are not deniable.

I was thinking more of a situation where a worker trying to expose abuses has knowledge of how to use a computer but does not have a computer at home that they can trust. Either it's shared, is running an operating system that cannot be trusted (due to malware or other reason), is under active surveillance (not necessarily by a state-level actor), otherwise untrustworthy, or the leaker simply does not own one.

In that case there is no safe way to generate and store a PGP key, and possession of the associated key is a great way to break anonymity.
Frienemy: "A "toxic" person who poses as a friend but subconsciously or consciously wishes you harm."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Frienemy

Fair-weather friend: "A friend who is only a friend when circumstances are pleasant or profitable. At the first sign of trouble, these capricious, disloyal friends will drop their relationship with you."

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fair-weather%...

What you're left with are friends, hopefully.
50-100 lines? How horrifying.

function mklist(v, ...)
if v==nil then return nil end
return {value=v, next=mklist(...)}
end

function listeq(a,b)
if a==nil or b==nil then return a==b end
if a.value==b.value then return listeq(a.next, b.next) end
return false
end

function revlist(list, sofar)
if list == nil then return sofar end
local next = list.next
list.next = sofar
return revlist(next, list)
end

function test()
assert(mklist(1,2,3).next.next.value==3)
assert(mklist(1,2,3).next.next.next==nil)
assert(listeq(mklist(1,2,3),mklist(1,2,3)))
assert(not listeq(mklist(1,2,3),mklist(1,2,5)))
assert(not listeq(mklist(1,2,3),mklist(1,2)))
assert(listeq(mklist(1,2,3), revlist(mklist(3,2,1))))
assert(not listeq(mklist(1,2,3), revlist(mklist(1,2,3))))
end
It diverts my attention and somehow I think that some activity goes on at the top of the screen. It actually makes me think a new tab was opened. I don't understand why we need this.
Balance... HR taking over is a disaster, but equally if sales takes over, or marketing takes over, or IT takes over, or engineering takes over...
Every Known YC-Funded Company Since 2005 (Includes Today's YC S13 Demo Day)
Serious question: how practical / realistic is it for a programmer at 30 to switch to a career in law?
Apple now allowing up to 200 test devices per dev account
I think the concept itself is ridiculous. It's 2013 guys, UI response should be instant. If it's not, you need to rethink what you're doing and ponder your life in general.
Chatrooms, Meet Bitcoin - CoinChat Pays You to Chat Online
I think you're brilliant, but I don't know if you are right here. PJ is a private person, kept her name out of the blog for a long while, and I've never seen her make an issue of her sex. This error is made frequently in the Groklaw comments, and I haven't seen her correcting them. While disputable, it's not clear to me that it's more respectful to correct an irrelevant factual error than to follow the authors lead.

The "basic respect" part is tricky. While getting this correct may imply more respect, it also reinforces the idea that the difference is relevant. For example, if she was identified as "Miss Jones" and you happened to know that she was married, does it merit a correction to point out that she is actually "Mrs. Jones" to show proper respect to her status as a married woman?

Hofstadter skewers this in one of this examples: "Ble conveniently sidesteps the fact that there is a tradition in our society of calling unemployed blacks 'Niss' and employed blacks 'Nrs.' Most blacks --- in fact, the vast majority ---prefer it that way. They want the world to know what their employment status is, and for good reason. Unemployed blacks want prospective employers to know they are available, without having to ask embarrassing questions. Likewise, employed blacks are proud of having found a job, and wish to let the world know they are employed."

I don't have an answer, but thought you might enjoy thinking about the issue in the context of Hofstadter's article.
What about using a secure electronic drop box like Wikileaks does? Crypto still works.
No it was a jab at GM, google volt fire.
Thanks. Filters sound interesting too. Probably spam filtering would be my biggest concern moving from google apps, I don't really care about the webmail.
There is no way that YC now considers 10% weekly revenue growth low. That's 142x a year. I'm pretty sure any investor would be happy with that kind of traction, especially if the company has their unit economics figured out, like Prim appears to have.
A better interface and lots of marketing.

Jk, the main difference is that mailpile wants to be fully web-based, whereas Enigmail is a fat client. I guess they plan on working heavily on key generation and storage (which is typically the sore point in tools like Enigmail).
absolutely. yet if it won't work properly with the monitor turned on, there's little use for it.
Looks fun. Couple dictionary issues, but those can be fixed. Anybody know of the best free dictionaries for word-games?
I wouldn't call any person who advocates an oppressive police state a libertarian.
RoboSimian, NASA's entrant in the Darpa Robotics Challenge
Of course they do! We nerds are the smartest people in society and frankly everything would fall apart if it wasn't for our intellectual heroism. Naturally this makes us the #1 threat to the Evil Overlords, with whom we shall soon have a final showdown on the fields of Nerdageddon.
How does #3 work? The merchants store their inventory in Amazon warehouses? Or do they use Amazon software to track their inventory?

Re: #2, so Amazon is playing the role of FedEx/UPS?
It's not copyright: government product is public domain. I don't know what the law is for the NSA logo though. Here's wikipedia:

Certain works, particularly logos and emblems of government agencies, while not copyrightable, are still protected by other laws similar in effect to trademark laws. Such laws are intended to protect indicators of source or quality. For example, some uses of the Central Intelligence Agency logo, name, and initialism are regulated under the CIA Act of 1949 (50 U.S.C. § 403m).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_the...
The link to Normalize.css on the home page is a 404.
Not sure I understand. You want to eat less or have more food deliveries so it's always fresh ?
a) AWESOME JOB -- spent last 10 hrs making eh?

b) Awesomely devious! I love the fake loading animations. Dude you are a fucking genius!

c) Did I mention awesome?
Clueless HR. For example, I'd been writing air traffic control software for a contractor of Lockheed Martin. When that contract finished, I applied to do the same at Thales and was turned down on the basis that there were "too many jobs" on my résumé. I explained that there were a lot of jobs because I was a contractor but they still refused to even see me. That was a big shock as I was told I got the LM job because I had a lot of experience. They wanted someone who had been programming for more than twenty years, which is fair enough when you're trying to avoid flying one plane straight into another one.
5 Design Jobs You Can Do for Your Business
But it is not instant. This is used when you are making an external HTTP request over the Internet, to a server that may or may not respond instantly (if at all), over a link that may be saturated at any point in time.
Thoughts on Android vs iPhone
I always pre-fetch my life, so my life is instantly there.
Show HN: updt_me - delivers RSS/Atom feeds straight to your Twitter DM inbox. 
Hey HN, newbie programmer here, back for yet another show-and-tell. Would love some feedback!

# What

[@updt_me](http://twitter.com/updt_me) is meant as an RSS reader via twitter. The idea is pretty simple - you follow @updt_me and send a tweet mentioning the handle, a keyword ("START") and a feed URL. Now, whenever there's a new post on the feed, @updt_me sends you a DM with a link to the post. (Hence, the need to follow...)

# Why?
Well, I don't use twitter frequently but I do have an app on my phone. My RSS reader slowly grew into a mammoth pile of feeds that I eventually stopped caring about. My source of news these days, is aggregators and forums like Reddit and HN.

However, I do pay attention to my DMs on twitter. So I decided to create an RSS feed reader with Twitter as the interface point.

# How
Whenever you see a feed you want to follow, all you have to do is follow the user @updt_me and send out a tweet of the form "@updt_me START <feed_url_here>", for example:

"@updt_me START http://barrettsheridan.com/feed".

Whenever the feed has a new post, you'll receive a DM with the link and the title of the post.

The site is currently running on a free Heroku instance with tweets being grabbed every hour or so. Might increase the frequency if the project picks up traction. :)

What do you guys think? Any ideas? Suggestions? Feedback? Thanks, in advance!! :)
Ah ok, I use wildcard ID's so I haven't created one in a long time. Never thought of that issue.
this is exactly how i picture my kids' growth. With books and some nerdy hacks.
Overshoot Day: Living too Large on a Finite Planet (Op-Ed)
Problem for Bezos: Mall Becoming Cheaper than Amazon
I used some of this code to implement a more orthodox utility using flags instead of different syntax for different commands.

https://github.com/parski/Wormhole

It works great! Great blog post.
But not this time. ;)
Good, you started rethinking it by describing the problem. It's a start.
When I read site-wide I thought it would be progress bars reporting on time-demanding process initiated somewhere else on the site. Silly me - it is site wide as in across your screen...
The government got a trademark for Ada, the computer language, in 1979 for the obvious reasons. Like Sun and Java, except I gather they don't play games with access to their verification suite (i.e. I just found copies on-line).
compu-what-tion? You mean accurately predict how long it'll take an ajax request to load? Pfft, an exercise in futility, easier to just fake it, and probably just as accurate :)
Why is the idea that app.net is a paid version of twitter so pervasive? That's what I thought until today. Perhaps it's my fault for being wrong, but if that particular mistake is so widespread, perhaps app.net is also making a mistake by not addressing it harder.
That's really cool.

What surprises me more as an appharbor customer though, is that you've moved to Heroku! I must have missed that news...
The Girl Talk Shop: Powering Album Sales with Gumroad
What do you mean? The SWF progress bars are one of the few that can actually be relied upon. A good example: http://armorgames.com/play/12141/kingdom-rush

The Microsoft installation progress bars are the ones I remember as being ridiculous. Often going backwards, showing ridiculous install times, etc.
The Psychology of Goal Achievement
All interesting points you bring up danso.

It can be good to set expectations as much as you can, which isn't easy to do. Importing contacts during onboarding, for a product who's core value improves the more relevant people you can interact with is a solid practice, even if the majority of your users don't do it.

To your point on Twitter, instead of "like" remember they do have "favorite" which is a pretty similar form of feedback. It also appears the way they handle getting those initial interactions is encouraging other to "follow" you. They can do this even better if you actually do import your address book :)
What have you done...now I'm going to play Winterbells for the rest of the afternoon.
This gives the pointer a blue beachball on Mac Safari. Is that intended? Have never been sure what the blue beachball's supposed to be.
Makes more sense why it has the falcon doors then. I personally think they are a very poor choice for an suv/wagon/crossover vehicle. If I want an SUV, I want a roof rack to carry my stuff and I can't put one on a car with falcon doors. If I could put a roof rack on this car, it might actually be worth it to me.
Is this something that may be unique to the bay area though?

I went through several rounds of interviews with a couple different startups, and two of them were non-responsive to the point it was annoying. I can understand startups being less "professional", but some of them treat you more like a number than some of the bigger corporates I've worked for.
Also for diapers... I know you were being facetious, but speaking as a parent, a company that can deliver diapers and formula within a few hours is going to get a lot of immediate attention and devotion!
Ask HN: Things I should include in my letter to my representative?
I would like to write a letter to my representative concerning the recent revelations brought forth by the exposure of programs such as XKeyscore and PRISM. I want to make it as concise as possible, however I don't have much experience writing formal letters, let alone a letter to a congressman. My first and most recent letter to my representative was concerning SOPA and I don't believe my letter was worded well at all. Does anyone have any suggestions about what to ask for / how to express my concerns regarding these programs?

Some Things I would like to include are:

1. How limits on free speech limit innovation
2. How trust is integral in a nation [1]

If anyone could give me some guidelines on how to write a formal letter I would appreciate it. Or any other points to include.

Thank you

[1]: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/restoring_trust.html
Super Dev Mode doesn't work with GWT RPC. Plus as neat a technology as source maps is, and as slick as the browser dev environments are getting, for non-js languages they still aren't equivalent to a full fledged IDE like eclipse.
It sounds like you've decided your rejection is fait accompli. I don't think that's the case, but I'm not here to convince you otherwise. Good luck!
Also, it is more powerful. You can return/resume from arbitrary function depths.
all the companies are listed here: http://ycuniverse.com/ycombinator-companies

most of them have already been on techcrunch by the time demo day rolls around.
According to Musk, the range o an electric car will decrease by 10% if the temperature drops to -10 degrees Celsius
Anddddd there goes my day. Winterbells.
Yes, Fulfilled by Amazon is all about storing 3rd party inventory in the Amazon warehouses. At my current company, all of our e-commerce enabled goods are in Amazon warehouses (about 20,000 units all told at the moment).

Amazon still uses USPS/UPS/Fedex to ship goods, and they pass their discounts to merchants who use FBA.
> But I guess that's the benefit for Apple... they don't have to care about their developer customers.

I'm not sure I understand your argument.

You seem to be implying that they kept their dev center down for longer than they could have? I don't think we have any idea how hard they worked to get it back online — maybe they put in as much effort as they could to resolve the issue as quickly as possible, and "as quickly as possible" turned out to be weeks.

They did restore the most useful dev tools after one week (adding devices, updating provisioning profiles). So it's not like they kept the entire system down for weeks.

And surely rebuilding their system now is better for their developer customers in the long term? If they had simply attempted to patch it up, it may have led to other exploits down the road. Rebuilding it from scratch seemed like a painful but necessary long-term procedure.
That's completely cynical and defeatist, IMO.

Politics does achieve positive change. We are witnessing the gradual collapse in support for legal discrimination against gay people. The civil rights revolution did happen. Women did get suffrage. Prohibition was repealed.

Many of these things take a lot longer than we seem to be patient for.
I think the problem is that it is no way equivalent, and sexual assault is psychologically far more damaging. I don't think you can compare the complex damage to body and self-worth triggered by that meaningfully to the limited intrusion most of us feel at having machines storing and cataloguing our every move. With respect, I don't think pg's story shows the two are similar at all - she's taken a decision to withdraw from being a conduit for leaks (probably because she doesn't want her life destroyed by a NSL), but has not had sexual contact forced on her. It's just a completely different thing.

The biggest dangers I see with the surveillance state are more in the future, when complex filters are run on our data in decades to come, and segregate us into cohorts of users which can then be targeted and related at will. When that capability catches up with the data storage capability and starts to churn through decades of data, we truly will be in a dystopia far beyond our imagining today.
i still use powerpoint for that
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Only the public key should be stored on the virtual mail server, since all it's doing is encrypting incoming mail. It's your local email client (e.g. Thunderbird) that then downloads the encrypted emails to your local machine and decrypts them with your private key. Signing and outgoing encryption are also done locally. At that point, all that someone raiding your VPS gets is a bunch of encrypted messages, which good encryption is supposed to make worthless, and your public key, which they should already have (along with everyone else).

Sure, your local machine could also be raided and the keys grabbed from that, but that's not a problem with using a VPS so much as a problem with your local setup.
I've walked out of interviews before. I told them, politely, that I was not a fit for the organization and I didn't want to waste anyone elses time.