skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
David was detained using a law explicitly written for use against terrorists, to detain them in airports for up to nine hours without counsel. Also to not answer questions would land him in prison.

So... it's not hyperbolic at all to say that journalism is equated with terrorism, because the state us using laws designed for use against terrorists against journalists.

Wake up.
The use of skull and death motif goes back the Napoleonic wars with Brunswick Hussars. Hitler and the Nazis where very good at nicking their imagery - I suspect Hindus are still at bit pissed off over the swastika
Just what precisely is this "No 10" business?

So, like, "No 10" says it's justified. I don't understand what "No 10" is.
It is almost a cliche at this point, but it is worth remembering Martin Niemöller's words. He made the same mistake that many people are making today: thinking they don't have to worry because they are not the people whom the government is persecuting today. And the unfolding of events taught Martin Niemöller a very painful lesson. In an ideal world, the public would hear his words and learn the lesson without having to repeat all the mistakes of the past.

He wrote:

First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
Never thought about the hfr with a movie like End of Watch, not sure I agree though. I like the staccato motion of films like that and hfr may be too real, honestly I'd have to see it before I could answer. Although an action flick like the Bourne series, The Matrix, or other fast paced action heavy movie could benefit from the smooth motion. My money is still on sci-fi and futurism, especially something that needs to feel a bit sterile.

And it definitely raises the bar, more so than SD to HD did. Everything from make-up, props, set design, lighting, acting, everything will have to adjust.

Post might take the biggest hit. Post-production times will quadruple. It takes a lot longer to retouch/wire removal/matte painting at 60fps than 24fps. And you can hide a lot with the motion blur at 24fps. I trained a group of photoshop retouchers in motion vfx. The biggest adjustment for them was learning that it didn't have to be perfect because it was hidden behind motion blur at 24fps. It just had to fool the eye for a few seconds as opposed to a still that someone is staring at. Moving to 48 and 60fps will reverse that, it will need to be nearly as perfect in motion as a still image.
I know a paramedic in rural Australia. They get taken to local car dealers to get safety training with electric cars.

As I understand it it's done on a per-model basis, but that wont really work as an increasing number of electric car models end up on the roads. I'm not sure if this is done all over the state/country, or if it's the one local dealer being friendly with the local emergency services.
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In internet marketing, the business starts from very simple thing - drive to product's website as match unique visitors as possible hoping that few percent of them finally will convert to real customers. But from another side in order to have big amount of unique visitors website must be pretty popular: highly visible in search engine result pages (generic search) and having high rank. The straight forward and expensive solution is internet advertising.
So will this bypass prism-like surveillance methods?
Isn't that limited at 0.5 amperes @5V? I believe it's not enough for all devices (or to charge them quickly enough).

I believe there's a hack in the apple products that can be used to send more current through USB but it's not standard. I might be wrong though, it's been a while since I looked into that.

Also, it's the reason why certain devices (notably external hard drives alimented through USB) come with two USB connectors in a Y configuration to be able to leech enough current from the host. At least that's how I think it works.
Simple wrap-up: society won't move to a 20-hour work week because those who do will become jealous of those who don't, desiring unto "necessity" those things the 40- (and 60-, and 80-) hour worker can afford.

You can live on a very very small income right now. I figure an intelligent frugal life can suffice at $10/day. But you don't, because you won't give up what you don't need.
I'm in Europe, but it may well be that a similar law is in effect here. However, a lot of consumers (me included) wouldn't know about that, and companies try to get out of repairs that they are legally required to perform.

Take a look at Apple's warranty: they claim to provide only 1 year of warranty, while European law requires them to provide two years. They will repair your device in the second year (it's the law!). However, I bet their confusing labeling etc. will cause a lot of people to believe their warranty has expired. Those people will either not ask for a free repair or pay their shop to repair the device.
Getting started with Lita
Why aren't IT salaries higher?
iirc the lavabit guy was making 100k a year.
OS X drivers are "a restricted subset of C++"[1] that restricts you from using Exceptions, Multiple inheritance, Templates, and Runtime type information (RTTI). Also, not all drivers use IOKit.

1) https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Device...
You also have to factor in a lot cars in those days didn't have, and weren't required to have seat belts. This safety feature alone has saved thousands of lives regardless of how safe the car is.
Pale skin also means that you need less sun exposure to get enough D vitamins.
NodeJS Starter – Simple project setup using best practices and modules
This article conflates the ideas of pure price discrimination (where goods are identical) and premium pricing (where they are not).

No one is better at this than the travel industry. Remember that story about a travel website showing higher prices to people with Apple User-Agents? Yup.

If a restaurant wants to charge $1,000 for a premium cheeseburger on the off chance some rich person wants to distinguish himself, well, that's weird, but that's capitalism.

But if this "software" were to read everyone's mind and calculate exactly how much they are willing to pay for any good at any time, consumers will get fleeced.
Every Medium post: "I made this mistake so don't you!" and "this is the way I do it, so you should!"
Why can't Groklaw use GPG?

I understand that it's too complicated for my grandparents, but this is exactly the community that'd be willing to put up with a slight inconvenience to gain security.
It's based on SMACSS, that's why they did it like that. It is a bit verbose though. I forked it so that I could make it a little cleaner.
http://smacss.com/
Copyhackers[1] is a great set of ebooks that teach you how to write better copy. They have an entire book just about headlines, iirc. Highly recommended.

[1]: http://copyhackers.com
DARPA Plans a "cortical processor" to Mimic the Brain
We wouldn't be indifferent. The emotional connection and ties would still be fresh.
It's been said here on HN, that if the anti-surveillance crowd were really serious, and constituted a good chunk of the voting public, then they would get organized like: Pro-Lifers, the Pro-Choice, Pro Gun, Civil Rights, etc. But it sounds like you are saying that your adversaries are agencies who by definition must act in secret, and there is no amount of political advocacy that can engage them on their level. It's only through some type of hacker-war, which you analogize to the revolution, that your concerns can be addressed?
> David was detained using a law explicitly written for use against terrorists

Incorrect, it is applicable to all travellers entering the United Kingdom

> to detain them in airports for up to nine hours without counsel

Incorrect, he refused counsel.

> Also to not answer questions would land him in prison.

There's no real evidence of this, there is a 'must not interfere' clause but it has never been tested.

> So... it's not hyperbolic at all to say that journalism is equated with terrorism, because the state us using laws designed for use against terrorists against journalists.

> Wake up.

Could you use more of a cliché? It's hyperbole, you have just proven as much by your complete ignorance on the subject.
There is no common objective definition of terrorism. The definition changes all the time. It is arbitrary. And you wouldn't have to tweak, say, the League of Nations definition very much to include Snowden's actions. He is a non-state actor, committed a criminal act, which did have the effect of scaring people, and - the NSA will claim - his actions endangered lives.

eg: "Any willful (criminal) act calculated to endanger the lives of members of the public."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_terrorism
"This is a Poorly Written Article with a Lousy Premise"
those aren't long-haul flights.
> In the light of them, however, hypothesising that supporting The Guardian financially may be construed by those in power as financing terrorism is mere extrapolation.

No, it's hyperbole. It's unsupported nonsense.
How many times do people have to say this:

There is no such thing as secure email. Assume everything is being read.

You can't bolt security on (SSL, mailbox encryption, PKI). You have to design it in from the start. SMTP/IMAP etc have crudely hacked on TLS implementations which aren't even guaranteed to be operational site to site. PGP is just an encapsulation which is rarely used.

It's a mess.

This is just a repackaging of the pile of hacks.

We need to start again and do it properly and consider: encryption, modern content encapsulation (better than mime), authentication, PKI, secure storage, mandatory authentication/authorisation and SPAM control.
Egypt announces that it will cut off Internet in one hour
FYI everyone, if Egypt goes dark, know that something is going down. It was just announced on local TV that countrywide Internet will be cut off starting at 7pm local time (1pm ET). If this happens, please publicize as much as possible, thanks.

UPDATE: This is now being discredited as a rumor, thanks all! Source:

http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?act=url&depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ar&tl=en&u=http://www.elwatannews.com/news/details/271746&usg=ALkJrhiNSS6qFpUC8lXyzeVsx9F9ablN4g
It's a bit strange to me too. I use this as a reference and it helps. http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/cssgrids/cssgrids-units-examp...
Conde Nast launches new subscriber service with Amazon
Why even bother with S/MIME? How long until the government corrupts the certificate for it if Mailpipe becomes as important to them as Lavabit was, in the future? And I hope their PGP implementation is really user-friendly.

This sounds like more of the same of what we've had so far, perhaps with the ability to become a little more mainstream, but I don't see any breakthroughs in terms of encryption here, like say the way Bitmessage is. I think that if we want NSA-proof secure messaging we'll need to come up with new stuff, and not just use the same old PGP with centralized email databases.

This could definitely be a (very short-term) win against NSA if say Gmail implemented PGP in a very user-friendly way, but for something starting from scratch, I'd rather it was a breakthrough in security.
Wouldn't those two groups be the most heavy users / most interested in search results?
- Unprotected exposure to sunlight also prematurely ages ones skin and increases the risk of skin cancer. I'm curious if there is some unique property with sunlight that makes you smarter, or if it is just the fact that you get D vitamins from sun exposure. If it is the latter, I can get D vitamins from my diet instead.

Personally I've lived 61 degrees north for most of my life and I don't think SAD has been a problem for me.

- I've suspected and read from others that all the fuzz about classical music is mostly the result of some kind of high culture bias - I have a hard time believing that people have studied the effects of classical music to the same extent as something like rock or techno. I wouldn't be surprised if studies show that listening to your favourite music has overall more benefits compared to listening to classical music whether you like it or not.
You know that the IRA hung more IRA men than the British did after the Irish War of Independence.

A lot of the really nasty atrocities on both sides in the Civil war where hushed up until relatively recently.
Are those cameras in place for side-view mirrors?
Isn't this obvious? Google _made_ +1s (and Google+).
It's actually kind of obvious. If there weren't benefits, people wouldn't use it, and there are some pretty obvious benefits. Why use a directly compiled language instead of a scripting language put through two(?) layers of translation? Why use a language that let's you directly access all features of the platform? etc

Honestly, there are few apps that provide anywhere near the user experience that a native app does (one of those being facebook) and even they opted to switch to native. I've written a graphics intensive phonegap app and... needless to say, that was enough incentive to learn objective-c and I'll never look back. Objective-c is actually an awesome language, it's just tough to learn for most developers coming from a standard dot notation language.
The author is clearly confused about libertarianism - as a libertarian, the points he's making are very 'no duh', and the characterization of the 747 as 'socialist' is odd (libertarians advocate for this sort of redistribution - and even less materially mutual beneficial redistribution - i.e. charity - all the time) but aside from his ham-fistedness about 'voluntary redistribution', it's a very eloquent and well-done article. I don't know about thrones in school busses, though.
Elon Musk's stated goal with Tesla is to bring electric cars to the masses. To do this, the price has to come down, and the price only comes down with volume, and you can't build the volume for a mass car from scratch without a low price.

This is a classic Catch 22, and Tesla's strategy for this is to start at the higher end with performance and luxury cars, where the costs are more acceptable, refine the technology, learn the lessons, wait for battery prices to come down, build the brand and product volume and release cars closer and closer to mass market.

Look at the history: we started with an sports car (the Roadster), which could get away with high price and average range by being quick, then a luxury sedan at a lower price point (Model S), now more of a family car (Model X). Affordable cars are in the pipeline, this is just the route we have to go through to get there.

Personally, I think the strategy is masterful. Every other car manufacturer went straight to mass market, without taking into account that the economics didn't work.
And they sat on the warrant-less wiretapping story for a year.
Why not go straight to plaid? :)
Let's not forget the social effects of the class system. What better way to destroy social cohesiveness than this? Its similar to public schools without uniforms.

Within my rural, southern public school system,I was clearly marked out in the southern caste system as "white trash" in school because I wore $15 canvas sneakers rather than $60 name-brand shoes, jeans and t-shirt rather than polo shirt and khakis, etc.

In the adult world, the caste system still exists in a rather potent form: dating. If you are a man who is marked out in some way as earning less, you will get significantly less attention from women in general. The OKCupid data has confirmed this effect for men over the age of 23, and it is a very potent one.
Agreed. But since this is about catching everyone else in bed on the planet it gets far more serious than a ... say a Monica Lewinsky episode. I believe breach of privacy globally is a very serious offence and it should be measured as such.

You and I bearing licensable firearms from the pop and mom stores is absolutely no parallel to the capability that the agencies possess. Strength of gun laws seems suspect in the era of drones, robotics and the goldmine of everyone's data and emotions.
To downvoters: do the honour of explaining yourselves.
Did you read what Mailpile is doing? Basically making PGP easy to use which solves the lions share of the issues at stake here with the NSA and your complaints.
How much did he actually stand up though? The UK gov told him to destroy source material and presumably stop publishing. He said "okay", will have no more involvement in the story, thereby removing risk to himself and instead will let someone else take the heat.

All the while he gets to pretend he is a courageous reporter, standing up to power, when the only person really doing that is Greenwald.
Which is funny, because that's the idea behind bitcoin, you get 'money' because you did work.

The weird thing of course is that the work is completely 'useless'
The author Rory Sutherland is vice-chairman of Ogilvy Group UK.

I don't think we want the ad guys determining the pricing structure for airlines. Anyway, the reason for the wacky pricing on airfares is not some sort of implicit agreement to be socialistic about it. It's because the fixed costs associated with the flight are so high. It costs virtually nothing to add another person to the flight. Airline fares are a dance between filling up the flight while maximizing the average fare per seat. Price too high and you fly with empty seats. Price to low and you fill up but leave money on the table.
They absolutely hate us for what we stand for, for example there is a very large uproar in France about "forcing women to undress" when that's clearly not the intent of the "unveiling" laws.

There are a lot of people and organizations that want to establish Sharia laws across the planet (effectively establishing a global caliphate) and they're not shy about it, look at what happened to Egypt. Once the MB got their election they tried to get their grubby hands into every nook and cranny of government and industry, and it was all orchestrated to cement another Islamic republic in the region.

They see Western decadence as an affront to their way of life, and there are a lot of absolutists that have no interest in integration or cooperation. Their interests lie in world domination, and not the American kind of economic domination -- medieval domination with slavery or death planned for non-Muslims.
Sorry for the confusion, but by "analog target computations" I meant the videos about trajectories mentioned in the post above
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6231166
Yes: here's an interesting discussion of promises (in JavaScript) in terms of monads: http://blog.jcoglan.com/2011/03/11/promises-are-the-monad-of...
Or, put another way, there were likely a confluence of factors that led to security/surveillance (ostensibly) being the "straw that broke the camel's back"—the latest development that took the risk/reward level over the owner's threshold.

How close they were to that threshold anyway, what other factors were in play, whether the perceived threat was evaluated realistically, and other questions are reasonable to ask.

I hadn't heard of Lavabit before they shuttered themselves. I had visited Grokalaw on several occasions (often via HN), but have no idea of its profitability or alignment with its authors goals.
Against a lawless executive, this would accomplish exactly what???
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Please don't do that. As I described in another comment Rusbridger didn't do anything courageous, quite the opposite.
HN should be the place, shouldn't it?
1. the correlation is 0.3. that's not a high number.

2. the correlation for facebook likes is 0.27. that's lower, but not by much.

3. its possible the causality runs the other direction: high quality results get more +1s
> David was detained using a law explicitly written for use against terrorists

It was written for use against terrorism, not against terrorists. It is notable because it doesn't require any suspicion that the target actually is a terrorist. So targeting a journalist under it isn't equating journalism with terrorism, because it is not, and never has been, a requirement of the law that the police have any basis to think you are a terrorist to target you under the law.
Just trying to decide the politest way to debunk the idea that more Google +1s lead to higher Google web rankings. Let's start with correlation != causation: http://xkcd.com/552/

But it would probably be better to point to this 2011 post (also from SEOMoz/Moz) from two years ago in which a similar claim was made about Facebook shares: http://moz.com/blog/does-google-use-facebook-shares-to-influ... . From that blog post from two years ago: "One of the most interesting findings from our 2011 Ranking Factors analysis was the high correlation between Facebook shares and Google US search position."

This all came to a head at the SMX Advanced search conference in 2011 where Rand Fishkin presented his claims. I did a polite debunk of the idea that Google used Facebook shares in our web ranking at the conference, leading to this section in the 2011 blog post: "Rand pointed out that Google does have some access to Facebook data overall and set up a small-scale test to determine if Google would index content that was solely shared on Facebook. To date, that page has not been indexed, despite having quite a few shares (64 according to the OpenGraph)."

If you make compelling content, people will link to it, like it, share it on Facebook, +1 it, etc. But that doesn't mean that Google is using those signals in our ranking.

Rather than chasing +1s of content, your time is much better spent making great content.
I strongly disagree with not using Node.js for "server-side web app with relational DB behind". I have used both the PostgreSQL and MySQL modules and they do just about everything you need. There is a module called "any-db" which makes transactions and connection pools a breeze.

It seems the author is specifically talking about ORMs. I have not used them in Node.js so maybe they are immature. Saying "don't use Node.js ORMs" is very different to "don't use Node.js with relational DBs". The former may be correct, but the latter certainly is not.
"...and that's why it's on medium.com"
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That's why voting is the final act of a series of political actions, and merely should be cast as an up/down "keep this guy" vote without looking too close at the alternatives.

We have to take over the conversation and stop listening to the challenger. The challenger doesn't exist. It is up/down on the incumbent.
I believe when articles like this one talk about "listening to Mozart," they are indeed referring to active listening, which taxes recall (with regards to things like ongoing restatements of a prominent motive) and working memory (with regards to things like key changes or thematic development). In my intuitive experience, it tends to be a task that requires a certain threshold of concentration to even happen at all, like juggling. As with juggling, you could probably learn to combine another activity with it, but the benefits seem like they would be tenuous.
I have no issue with the statement.

There's a big difference between being offered a lawyer and being offered to call your lawyer. If he was not allowed to call a lawyer of his choosing then he was not allowed to have a lawyer present. A lawyer provided by the government is just another agent of the government in the room.

Since many law enforcement agents at the federal level (in the US at least) happen to also be lawyers then, by your logic, there is already a lawyer present. No need to get another one involved.