skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, we seem to have yet again redefined "terrorist". It now means: causes embarrassment to government. Heh, well.. related to some one who causes embarrassment to government.

Mind you, just read another article(1) about an undercover policeman gathering dossier evidence on "troublemakers" for an employment agency black list. Put that together with mass data collection, and hopefully Mr Nothing To Hide will realize that, yes, he might well have something to hide.

The troublemakers, you ask? Oh yeah, the evil terrorist organisation known as: Youth Against Racism... (Yeah, that was sarcasm.)

I see another really scary phrase there too: "politically dangerous". If that doesn't say it all, I don't know what does any more.

(1) http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/aug/18/police-activi...
Cheers, best laugh I've had all day!!!!!!

Edit:
Sorry, should explain. The Lib Dems are the minority junior partner in a coalition government. The idea they would move to kill of their only ever hope at power is a dream at best.
I think its more that go is a useful language alternative to say using C, or dynamic languages. Recently more and more people are catching on to this. Its like rails in 2007ish in feel to me.

Also we can't constantly deal with the NSA, we do have work to get done and things to learn.
It was the previous Labour government (now in opposition) that introduced all the anti-terror acts that have made this possible - this particular one in 2000 - and continually pushed for them to be made more illiberal.

Lib Dems can't and shouldn't move for no confidence in a government which has generally been able to defend liberal policies (admittedly not unanimously), and will continue to do so until 2015.

That action would just serve to endanger the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights - exactly the opposite of the stated goal.
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You can just use multiple browsers
I have instruments: some midi controllers and 2 audio monitors to go with it. I found a perfect sized bag that can fit it all, along with my computer stuff. I just have that bag, a big suitcase of clothes, and my carry-ons.

I do have books but not too many, and I don't take them with me. I keep most of my stuff like in long term storage (my parents basement).
That's an exception rather than the rule. I concede in that your friend is developing something very worthwhile, it's just that the rest of the community generally isn't.
...interesting, as a German I'd find it more difficult to support Amnesty if they did defend the 'historian' (you don't just get to call yourself that). Amnesty does not support hate speech or calls for violence, and I'm totally okay with that.
How Google flushes knowledge down the toilet
This is very much needed on my iPad.
Incitement to racism is not protected speech.

Wikipedia claims Mr Toben, who is not an accredited historian, was arrested once for defamation and another time for inciting racism.
Interesting thanks. Of course then I was wondering what this recover() stuff was and I found an explanation here - http://blog.golang.org/defer-panic-and-recover cool stuff.
BBC's Tiger Island:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHOxXOeCI0Y

I found a lot of this film incredibly interesting. But just seeing the behavior of wild tigers in the presence of humans (especially compared to what many of us have likely seen in a zoo) was incredible. The look they give to humans just screams pure murder and unexplainable hatred.

Anyway, watching that documentary also made me watch other tiger related ones, of which this one ranked pretty well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LljDuIUtvbQ (Operation Snow Tiger) also by BBC (and I recall correctly it is in 2 parts).
Searches generally include extensive photography and video recording anyway, I don't think much would change in that regard.
On Teaching AP Computer Science
And that's all it may ever be, and that's fine as long as the reason isn't b/c Linux is self-sabotaging by not having a highly polished, competitive desktop experience.

It's getting close, Ubuntu is arguably there, but obviously alternatives are needed since not everyone likes Unity. Kudos to eOS for shaping up to be another viable contender.
Exo: Protein Bars made from Cricket Flour
Why would this not just cause inflation to a point most people need to work again?
It's an interesting thought and I wonder how many of us who make money on the Internet and spend our days working for smaller companies will actually end up working for corporations. But, we should also note that you can keep working on side projects while working for a big corporation. This also is not the end of the world, depending on who you are. Some, that will kill their soul. For others, it's a great way to have stability and also get to work on what you love.

That said, it's not the end of the world. A big company can afford many things - incredible monetary backing to ship new things, a large support ring, and also stability. I've often railed on the choices of our parents to live in suburbia, but the older I get I realize that I could see myself living in a decent sized house with some land.

Thanks to Ryan for writing the post and getting this discussion started.
You can do this with chrome using the --user-data-dir option, which works fantastically well. For my work gmail I have the following shortcut:

chromium-browser --user-data-dir=~/.profiles/work-mail-profile -app=https://mail.google.com
That's not the writer's intention though - that's what you want the intention to be. And that's not really fair. The point is probably an entertaining biopic aimed at mass-market success, not a how-to on building a successful company.
I believe Musk is perfectly capable - just as Dean Kamen is a capable, successful inventor.
You may find that you're surrounded by people who are left after others have distanced themselves from you.
minor sp:

You'd like to organize a conference for professional cheescake eaters

cheescake -> cheesecake
He matured as he got older, as Woz said. Getting forced out of Apple was a pretty humbling experience. His time at NeXT and Pixar helped as well. And just plain getting older...
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I didn't mean the government should try and actually do something stupid like forbid people to speak language X (in order extinguish it).

Just something as simple as encouraging the adoption of language Y at home, and encouraging (not necessarily forcing) its use in schools, the media, etc. should do the job.

In China, the government is already tying to stifle the use of Cantonese (the second-most widely spoken language after Mandarin), by restricting Cantonese-language TV channels. I think actions like that go too far, and especially wouldn't recommend it in India, where ethnic tensions would flare up quickly were the government to even think of doing something like this.

They should rather just make it so that switching will be the sensible thing for the vast majority of people. If Hindi gains predominance in the STEM fields, humanities, and in other places, it will be natural for people to learn it and eventually start using it at home.

For instance, the vast majority of Americans are not of English ancestry by any means[1]. In fact, the largest ancestries are German and Irish. I imagine, most of these immigrants eventually picked up English and transitioned to using it at home at some point. I've also read German was even spoken in small pockets (e.g. in Pennsylvania) until the early 1900s. Can you imagine what the US would've been like, if every immigrant group decided to retain their language and identity?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_ancestry#Ancestry
Amnesty International doesn't have enough funding to defend everyone; they need to allocate their scarce resources where they think they'll do the most good. Making Germany safe for holocaust revisionists probably isn't very high on that list.
We actually hope you'll forget about Mint after using Cloudbill ... we'd love for you to never have to login to any bank or bill provider again either. Sign up and shoot me an email at zach [at] cloudbill dot com and I'd love to chat with you about what you like about Mint and make sure we're hitting all your pain points with Cloudbill. I have a feeling we are :)
QuadTrees in Objective-C
Just playing devils advocate here: Greenwald did previously state that he was going to send leaked information to his partner. So his partner isn't just his "loved one" in this. He would be one of the leakers.
I feel his pain... unfortunately, I've got a family to feed. 15-20 years earlier, knowing what I know now, I wouldn't give it a 2nd thought.
Thumbs up on the Ulrich textbook. I took a class with him at Penn, and it was fantastic. Highly recommended if you ever get the chance.
the API is just the delivery mechanism. you can call it whatever you want. platform is a popular choice. just make sure that both you and the consumers benefit from every API call: http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/03/12/apis-are-dead-long-live-...
github code: https://github.com/sameeragarwal/blinkdb
As a U.S. citizen, I am more and more surprised that we aren't subject to a world wide trade embargo... We're as reliant on food grown in south/central america as in our own country, or others are reliant on us. As for tech, if China/Taiwan/Japan closed off all sales, the public would show significant outrage.

I don't think most people in this country will care until they can't buy a new iPhone 6, or Galaxy S 5... What I am really surprised by is how many other countries have tolerated this so far.
I've been working on porting an existing python based AE project to AS and so far so good. My companies' reasoning for putting time and resources into AppScale is for redundancy. AE is a great platform to develop for however it's not a 5 9s platform that's for sure.
Woz definitely need to be guided, there were some times it was appropriate. He's clearly the kind of person who could talk about any question for 15 minutes. I've seen interviewers do a good job without sounding rushed and forced, that was what grabbed me. I hear interviews on The Daily Show, NPR, local talk shows, even entertainment shows where the host was part of the interview. Where they worked with the subject. I have heard some very hostile interviews with people in politics where the host is clearly pissed at the question dodging and double talk. But they have some sort of respect for the person they're talking to, they at least sound like they are trying to talk to the person. This sounded hollow, like she was just trying to get through it so she could get on to the next segment... just routine 'interview X for 5 minutes'. She knew who he was, and it's not like she was hostile.

> How do you come to the conclusion that she doesn't get his point?

Maybe she did. But it didn't seem to influence the questions she asked. I felt like they could have taped both sides of the interview separately and then just spliced it together. There were almost no follow-up questions, it sounded like she could have ended every part with "Thank you, next question." She asked him some base question and he explained the difference between Sorkin's and Kutcher's approaches. Ten minutes later she asked that very question, without even acknowledging that she already had the answer. Instead of "You touched on the difference in Sorkin's style, could you tell us more..." it was "I hear your working with Sorkin. How did that compare." It gave the impression she wasn't really paying attention to her own interview.

My impression was the whole thing was set out before it started. She had her angle, and she just kept trying to get there. To get him to trash someone, to say the movie was a travesty, to bait him with "is Apple doomed?" again, or to just finish it up and get onto the next segment. No engagement, no feeling, no heart... just hollowness and a missed opportunity.
They have refused to support David Irving, who certainly deserves to be called a historian.
It is because woman are considered to be the adjunct, not the norm, not the average, not the expected or assumed. Its even obvious in the word itself - a prefix on the word "man", which can and is often used in place of "person" or "human", and will describe a person who is more than likely assumed to be of the masculine persuasion.

A+ on not putting "Woman" in the headline for the article, though!
Is there a citation for this? It's the first I've heard of it.
"I'll create a GUI interface using Visual Basic. To see if I can track an IP address."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
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gently unto me, and
eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in
fatness.

55:3 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall
live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure
mercies of David.

55:4 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader
and commander to the people.

55:5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and
nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy
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They haven't cited budget as their reason for refusing to defend politically incorrect historians. Making a Western country safe for all scientific opinions should be high on a list of their goals.
VFW / Veterans -- their brothers died for our freedoms, now our own government is taking those freedoms away.

This is the demographic we need.
I think you're right about interviewing Woz. I've seen interviews with him before and I'm sure he's a challenge.

> She did better than I would have. I'd probably be interviewing for 30 minutes, end up with almost no good TV points, and have something that would need to be edited down to 3 minutes.

Maybe that's the problem. Maybe Woz just isn't someone who can really be interviewed well in a short segment on live TV. If they had taped it they could have edited down his answers or organized it better. Maybe she just had a really difficult job to do on this one.
I always thought to some extent, that working at a large company (under very particular circumstances) could provide you with the resources and connections necessary to work on a side project/future startup at your leisure, without having to deal with the pressure of rapidly-draining funding or extraordinary levels of stress before you're ready.

Some big tech companies even provide support for people who want to do this (of course, under certain constraints, and to a certain extent).

Then again, if you're comfortable at a big company and working on something as a hobby or side project, the impetus to get it done and move quickly isn't there as well. Plus, a steady, large income produces a sort of complacency and tendency towards a more expensive lifestyle that would be hard to sustain once you leave again. So I guess it's a double-edged sword.

Also, if you do this, it has to be at a company where the environment and the work you do isn't toxic, but rather something you enjoy. While I was at another company doing work I really didn't like, I thought to myself that I'd compensate by working on a side project. I was only fooling myself, because when I got home I was so bored, tired, and frustrated that I had no energy to do anything technical. Different personality types might cope differently, though.
>Incitement to racism is not protected speech.

Holocaust denial is not racism.

>Wikipedia claims Mr Toben, who is not an accredited historian, was arrested once for defamation

Getting arrested for defamation might be a freedom of speech violation.

>and another time for inciting racism.

A state can define 'incitement for racism' as expressing one's opinion.
That post gave me chills. Chills.
Feature request - one of the few things I'd hate to give up by leaving Ubuntu is the PPA system, however the one thing I don't like about it is that it puts potentially untrusted (or at least not systematically vetted) PPA packages into the system folders.

An interesting improvement of that would be a PPA system that uses Debian's awesome Update Alternatives tool to install PPA's to, say, /opt, soft link them into the system folders, and then manage side-by-versions, rollbacks, etc. with update-alternatives.

By way of example, the Rbenv in Ubuntu repositories was rewritten to use Update Alternatives to manage Ruby version shims. It would be really interesting to have an entire PPA system similarly based on that.
It should be. People speaking doesn't remove other people's free wills or personal responsibility. If someone commits a ciolent act, they're responsible, not some other guy who publicly advocated the act. Note: organizing or funding violence is another matter altogether, but has nothing to do with free speech.
Well, of course - to say otherwise would be to legitimise Snowden. But nonetheless, is that really credible?
Douglas Engelbart? He made a great many of the underlying ideas we use for using computers. Ironically he only seems to get remembered for the mouse.

The mother of all demos:
http://youtu.be/JfIgzSoTMOs

Is well worth watching for a historical perspective if you haven't seen it already.
The price is higher than it was before, correct? In that case, it was increased.
"conformal" means "angle-preserving", not "area-preserving"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal_map
They explicitly decided their goal did not include protecting hate speech before this 'historians' case came to light. I don't see anything wrong with that.
That's a perfectly valid opinion to have, but it's not very appropriate to call it compatible with freedom of speech.
Personally, I think 'reverence' makes interviews worse, not better.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-s...

“When I was in Hong Kong, I spoke to my partner in Rio via Skype and told him I would send an electronic encrypted copy of the documents,” Greenwald said. “I did not end up doing it. Two days later his laptop was stolen from our house and nothing else was taken. Nothing like that has happened before. I am not saying it’s connected to this, but obviously the possibility exists.”

He said he didn't send it but implied he wanted to so it's very reasonable to suspect he did later at some point.
Too cynical, and perhaps dangerously so, yet plausible.

Everyone is subject to temptation and self-justification. Anyone given too large a pass for "integrity" will start to veer to self-aggrandizement of some sort. That doesn't make people inherently bad, it does mean we all benefit from perspective and inspection.

To me the take-away is that an assertion of incorruptibility is a leading indicator of trouble. Anything you aren't allowed to question or discuss is a breeding ground for trouble.
US / UK / NZ / Canada and Australia have historically cooperated on Intel. See e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
Neither of these articles prove anything like the kind of claims you're making. I'm concerned about PRISM too but I've yet to see any evidence that Google is any more willingly complicit in it than any other US tech giant.
For further reading on this topic, I can highly recommend Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman.

http://www.amazon.com/Amusing-Ourselves-Death-Discourse-Busi...
I hate the governments expanded terrorism powers too, but the "we should treat it as a crime" policy is either a naive statement or one where it's non-obvious how to go about it. The criminal justice system is used to punish criminals and through that deter crime. This has little effect on a suicide bomber (nor does the ability to detain people for 9 hours for that matter).

At the same time, treating terrorism prevention as a police mater appears to militarize the police.
That's right -- a GC-holder moving out of the US would normally relinquish the GC and stop paying US taxes at that point.

I don't recommend trying to hold onto a GC while living outside of the US... this is one of those areas where there's no strict rule on what's "okay", just vague guidelines, so if you are trying to hang on to a GC while living outside the country for a few years by visiting twice a year, a DHS official in a cranky mood is perfectly able to decide you're "cheating" and eject you from the country... which will not be a good thing to have on your record if you ever want to come back.

I'm American but moved to France w/ my non-American wife, and we tried to hang on to her GC for a while like this... but it was far too nerve-wracking.
Antennas aren't mechanical devices; they don't need to transfer mechanical energy to air molecules. Also, their size is constrained by the power they need to emit as well as the wavelength of the signal, so we aren't going to see a cell phone antenna that's on the same scale as a transistor in an integrated circuit (tens of nanometers). An antenna that can only put out a microwatt of power won't be able to hit a cell tower that's a couple of miles away.
> Why would this be a tactical mistake? The general public DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK. The government(s) know(s) this quite well.

It might be a well-planned tactical move: perhaps they wanted to enrage and provoke Greenwald, hoping he might make mistakes, accidentally disclose sources or additional material.

But yes, the most likely explanation is that they simply don't care, they abuse their power all the time and act like criminals, why should they respect people like Greenwald?
will give it a go, though there are other ways to do the live reload (grunt for instance).

Being able to save code changes in element inspector is nice, any way to do that in chrome?

What were the other killer features?
> The English language is structurally much more free, and easy to pick up than a language such as hindi ...

What do you mean by structure here? (If you could give me pointers to Wikipedia article / other articles on what entails the structure of a languages as you describe it, that would be good.)

> they would speak it well.

That could be achieved with education. In the US, there's quite a heavy emphasis on English. College entrance exams (the SAT, the GRE, etc.) test you on English more than anything else. And communication underpins to a significant extend, one's success in almost any field.
I like that better.
I know this is going to sound petty, but I just think Ashton Kutcher was a bad choice. He is too dumb to play Jobs. I would go for someone with more intellect, perhaps Daniel Day-Lewis, somebody edgey, Peter Fonda, Duston Hoffman, I dunno, it is not that I do not like Kutcher, it just seems like he is too dumb to play Jobs. Is it just me?