skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully this will see integrity return to real, good quality investigative journalism in the media in general instead of "news" being used as fodder for political and commercial interests. It becomes tiring having to scroll through Fox, CNN, CBC, BBC, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The Times and other news agencies trying to piece some form of the truth based on reading between the lines of half truths and unchecked "facts" put in place to suit the story rather than the other way around.

Perhaps I've romanticized journalism in my mind and see the past through rose coloured glasses as we all tend to from time to time, but I feel like journalists used to have integrity and that we could once trust that when they put pen to paper, we could believe in what they wrote... or perhaps we never could and its only as age removes our naivety that we see the world's media for what it is, a sham designed to further political and commercial interests.

I for one should like to see a news agency that spends their time chasing down the facts like CSIs to present the cold hard truth rather than some dumbed down version of events designed to have some political sway. Lets hope the vision for whatever venture this may be is that. Perhaps I can dream.
> And setting up transcoding to mp4 just made me realize that there are better uses of my time than dealing with such piddly issues. I'd rather be learning rust for example than dealing with streaming/transcoding issues to my phone.

AFAIK that's not an issue? I have VLC on two iOS devices and you open the app, turn on the internal server, go to your web browser and drag/drop files in to it. VLC on iOS plays every format the desktop application plays.
In theory, it shouldn't matter. A public audit is public, so the work can be scrutinized by anyone.
It's not a wonderful world scraping that stuff either. I worked on a startup doing just that - we wrote our own after evaluating the various options including yodlee.

The banks make it hard. The only good thing is they evolve like molasses, meaning the crawlers don't break often. But the fragility of it all is crazy. There's a reason yodlee charges so much.

Would almost love to see them open source it all. It's such a pain that open source seems like the ideal solution to scaling development of each crawler.
Show HN: My friend built Hosted Graphite + StatsD spun up with one click
Statement of the Guardian's Jennifer Lindauer: "Glenn Greenwald is a remarkable journalist [...]"

Better late than never, I guess.
No wonder Path and Klout are both laughingstocks in the Valley...
The simplicity of this is amazing.

That being said, I have a question: Here in Canada, I can send an email transfer of funds from my bank account to my contacts by simply logging into my bank online and specifying the email address of the recipient. Does this type of system exist in the US?
I was going to look for the 3-5% fee and be snarky. Free. OMG. done done done. For as long as it's free to .5% holy sheet.
Anecdotes are one of the only real ways to get information on whether or not a hosting provider is any good. At least it cuts through the marketing BS. I generally track hosting company's Twitter accounts too - it's pretty telling what people will say to them. I've been using a few sites to keep on top of it as I bring up some new services:

[1] http://reviewsignal.com (reviews scraped from social media / public support requests)
[2] http://serverbear.com/ (VPS/Cloud host benchmarks & stats)
I wonder if they ever plan on open sourcing parts of their web server.
I've used both for years, I consistently find VirtualBox to provide a much better experience.
The guy was just trying to be funny. The NSA stuff will clear up on its own.
You could use a parachute to arrest the rate of fall. The force of the parachute acting against air resistance would resist the spring's compressive force and thus the spring would recompress more slowly, lengthening the time for the top to fall to the bottom.
As lbarrow said, I use a credit card. It used to be that debit cards offered almost no protection. I think they're competitive with credit cards now, but that may only be when you're using it like a credit card. I don't know if this would count towards my fraud protection (which, honestly, I know nothing about).

Really, it's because I use my credit card as a firewall account. If my credit card gets compromised (which has happened twice before), I have to change maybe a dozen things that link to it. It's an inconvenience, but my bank can get me a new card the next day. Worst case scenario I lose my credit card for a week or so.

If my checking account is compromised, things are worse. If my checking account gets locked, not only can I not use it, I also can't pay my credit card. I'd have to setup my paycheck (pain), rent (pain), and some other things. Then I'd have to re-link a couple of other bank accounts. While I like my current bank, I don't want to take the risk of that account being locked for a week.

The idea of giving a random website (in that I don't have an account/relationship with them) a number that provides direct access to my paycheck gives me the shivers.

You could do basically the same thing with ACH. If a payment service asked you to enter your routing and account numbers, would you be OK with that? I see it as the same thing.
I've middle class friends living in small cities in Russia and they all tell me that, despite Russia not being the "2nd greatest country" anymore, life is much better. Some of the older people still think the Soviet era was awesome and miss it. But most of the newer people (<30yo) think everything is much much better.

I think this article went to some extreme places and made it look like Russia outside Moscow/StPtbg is just dying. Disingenuous at least.
Cf. Servo and Crow¹ from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Science_Theater_3000

1. https://github.com/mozilla/servo/issues/111
Agreed. Once this comes to Canada, it'll kill Interac Email Money transfers (of which my plan only allows two free per month, and is not nearly this simple).
hmm? isn't Email address fakable?
Confessions of a Twenty-Something Yrs Old Career Hopper
Looks good, is there any kind of javascript compilation/minification available? Doesn't appear to be with a quick test, but just checking.
I wish Python 2 died already but this seems extremelly unlikely. Nobody seems to know the difference between two and three and on several occasions I've met developers who were not even aware that there was a three. "I just use the Python on my Macbook."
Firstly, I'm not the target market as I have nothing to do with churches. But I think the page probably needs to show more information before the signup. Description, diagram, screenshots, etc. I'm not even confident that I know what it does - accept donations I guess? Some sort of church CRM? Does it do something that other charity/donation sites don't do?
Do Interac email transfers not work in the US? They're pretty much the same thing: send money to an email recipient who then clicks a link to deposit it in their account. I'm surprised that this is big news, and that it seemingly doesn't exist down south.
That's what I use. A simple CSV download of transactions (what bank doesn't offer that?), an awk script or two, and my bank transactions are ledger entries.
Presumably you would travel in an arc, because the spring's compressive force would be pulling you towards the top of the spring... the spring would then not be perpendicular to the ground any more

So, that arc would curve upwards away from the ground. You'd probably get hurt falling down!
Based on the comment above that tried it, your theory of transferring between accounts in the same bank (and then reconciling later) would make sense.

The Planet Money podcast noted that some banks (Capital One, BoA) offer a similar service if both ends have accounts.
[Show HN]Daily archive of home page screenshots for top 1000 websites
This is the new Slashdot "First Post", isn't it?
I also haven't smoked it in over a decade, and even if it was legal for recreational use in my state, I wouldn't go out and get it.

However, I think there is one very legitimate use of medical marijuana that you are glossing over: Cancer patients getting chemotherapy. These folks deal with appetite loss, nausea, and vomiting from the chemo and marijuana has been shown to help. Denying them that just seems inhumane.
This is my side project, which is aimed to archive home page screenshots and html source for Alexa top 1000 websites.

ps, any one know any cheap (< $50/month) vps with more than 1 TB storage space? This service eats ~ 1GB everyday ...
What's the difficulty level of getting a mortgage in NZ?
No, he's stated that Omidyar made him an offer too good to refuse. He's very pleased with the Guardian, he's just looking out for #1 here.
Clarification Regarding Graphical Programming’s Potential
Some day, just for fun, I have broken some gov site using expresso. I got full remote code execution (for test, I just uploaded a php file with a phpinfo()). And I'm not a security expert. I think my govern has a lot of work to do to make their email more secure...
What about PayPal?
Excellent point. You don't see an awful lot of introspection, do you? I would wonder, though, if this was something that might have happened during Islam's golden age, before the 13th century. "Muslim" society was much more moderate and secular then, but it went through a change that is eerily similar to what it seems a good portion of American Christians would like to see Christianity go through - a shift towards greater subjugation of women, absolute control over adherents' sexuality, and emphasis on tradition over innovation. Makes me wonder who, exactly, is behind this curve?
That page you linked to is a barebones guide to RTL-SDR. Any specific tips on finding and listening to interesting frequencies (or using it as a police scanner)?
I just found a major limitation with this thing. It blocks payment from any prepaid Visa/Mastercard - even reloadable cards attached to virtual checking accounts that support ACH (payroll cards, Netspend, etc). That eliminates payments from a huge section of the population.

http://prntscr.com/1xm5le

Another issue: if you make a mistake on the initial email, and want to send a different amount, you're out of luck. When you send a corrected email from the same address and go to the payment page, it adds any previously unfinished transactions from your email to the amount being sent, with no way to cancel the mistaken one. So just never make a mistake, and never do a test transaction you don't intend to finish, or you'll be required to finish and pay for all of it when you finally do have the correct amount and want to send a transaction (which you can only send with a small subset of the debit cards in existence).

These payment companies are always introducing interesting new things and then they hobble them with basic oversights and fundamentally flawed policies. In the last hour I've gone from excitement to disappointment with this service. It had promise based on the description, but this particular service (probably not Square itself) will fail very quickly.
There is actually the capability to do an instant transfer over visa and mastercard networks as well, but it is somewhat expensive (>0.20) -- the pin debit networks are smaller and more willing to negotiate this sort of thing, and since most debit cards are able to process on more than one pin debit network you can get 100% coverage with just a couple of the pin debit networks playing ball.

That they are not allowing this for credit cards indicates that they are using the pin debit networks.
> and you would best get together with some of your friends and divest the lunatic of his crowbar.

And thus government was born.
I love the Olark, trick. We actually have it fire a notification to us whenever a rails exception is thrown. (which might make you able to reach out even quicker)
It would be helpful to know more about what this is. I am involved with churches, so I'm curious about what exactly this is.
Firecoresoft | Video Converter, SWF Converter, Data Recovery
Firecoresoft provides professional multimedia software including Video Converter, SWF Converter, DVD Maker, Data Recovery, etc. for both Mac and Windows users.
Snapchat admits to handing unopened 'snaps' to US law enforcement
As a non-USAsian, I'm always puzzled by the American's paranoia about their bank account details.

In most countries, bank account numbers are effectively public knowledge, and appear at the bottom of invoices and such. The trick is that with this knowledge you can pay money in to an account, but you can't get it out - for that you need authorisation. This makes paying via echeck or direct credit very easy.

Am I right that in the US you can get money out of an account if you know the account number? If not, why the secrecy about your bank account numbers?
Unless you really need a GUI, it's insanely easy to do exactly this with PowerShell workflows (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj134242.aspx).
Excellent! I'll have to spend a while exploring the archives. I just happened to have "proved" to myself the linearity of a very similar animation a few weeks ago. :)

http://i.imgur.com/fxHj3kZ.gif
0.05% + 22¢ for debit cards.
DELL GREEN?: How Dell Dropped Their Biggest Green Initiative [updated 3-15-13]
Presumably, but not an EV one. It might as well have been generated by the NSA at this point, for all we know.
I want to learn more! The Help page is a 404 though: https://squareup.com/help/en-ca/topic/139

What banks does this work with?
The article says all of this, but plus details and illustrations.
Works for me in Chrome 30 on Linux.
Sounds like this is probably more of a security feature. Prepaid cards are harder to track, and would be more suspect to fraud.
I really liked the idea. Its really good for all the parents who are not so tech savvy and can send money this easily. And its all free ? I don't understand why ? i mean I am not saying that it should be paid of something but being an entrepreneur myself I would love to know how you guys are making money on this.
Your first post (and this one) were eye-opening for me, and I wanted to thank you for offering a dose of reality from the other side of the pond.

For years, I've heard musings among Americans that suggest motivational speeches do more harm than good to those present. I've often wondered how true that is, because the other side of the coin seems just as detrimental--if not more so--to young, impressionable minds. More importantly, though, I think you're absolutely right: It's experience that's the real teacher, not some bloviating figurehead whose speech will be forgotten before the end of the day. If someone's not cut out for it, no amount of (de)motivation will help. Sink or swim.

Cheers, my friend.
JFYI: it seems like the images on your homepage aren't loading properly. (OSX, Firefox 24.0)
Show HN: Mass Data Loading Gem for Rails: DeepImport
Oh c'mon. The Gmail of 2013 is not that different from the Gmail of 2004 (unless you count Priority Inbox as an advancement).

There's really nothing complex or fancy in developing a bare bones secure email system. And keep in mind these poor souls are using Lotus Notes (!), so it can't get much worse than that.

Also, it's not that it has to be built entirely from scratch. They will likely re-use existing ideas from other systems, and even (licenses permitting) other open source solutions as a starting point.

All in all, I wish we had more governments stepping up against this whole US spying mess. The real long term solution is not to have each government developing their own proprietary email systems, but for the US to be more transparent and stop the illegal spying.

Sadly, this will have to get worse before it gets better. We'll probably watch a few years of increasing distrust and strained relationships, before governments start to come to terms with the US again.
Agreed. It doesn't help that it seems like the US government wants to repeatedly shoot itself in the foot.
Email verification would be done with SPF and DKIM. I would sure hope that this is required!
How do we know you're not working for the NSA to undermine the credibility of the audit?
>As a counterpoint example, a system that allows for user data access only after a request has been made to access that data, the request is recorded in a request log system of some sort, and approval for the request goes through the appropriate checks (legal and procedurally) at which point it's signed off on and data access can occur.

The problem with this sort of system is that while you then don't have to trust any single individual, you still have to trust the organization. Shady Email Servers, Inc. can promise you all the checks and balances they want, but if the two people who have to be in agreement to betray you are both in the Mafia then it's all smoke and mirrors.

With peer reviewed cryptographic systems you only have to trust the math.
No, because VCs don't team up with each other to try to restrict competition. That's the definition of a cartel. In fact, they regularly compete with each other by offering better deal terms (valuation, liquidation preference), or by bringing more to the table (counsel, networks, services).
You are pricing in terms of cost. The provider is pricing in terms of value to the customer.
I wouldn't trust the Guardian if I were him either. They go to some effort to make it clear that he is not actually an employee.
This looks really good. I'm kind of concerned (wondering?) about the long-term viability of this product:

1. It's free (how does the company backing it plan to stay in business?).

2. It's free (as in beer), so I/the community cannot take over in case the product/company ever goes under.

Thanks for your work.
I think OP meant the opposite. This is cool, but the incumbents in Canada have already done it, and it's more trustworthy (it happens on your bank's website) and 'good enough'. Even if the tech-savvy switch to Square, the average bank-user will prefer to use INTERAC. At best this could pressure banks into giving away more free INTERAC transfers with their paid accounts.
I think I that would also tend to lift the rider up to compress the spring, and since the parachute is lifting the system.
Well, there is one thing I am sure. There is no one between my friends or acquaintances that could be a co-founder. Trust me, I've been looking for a long time.

So what do i do? Don't build a company? No, i hire a good frelancer, see if it works out fine. Then i offer a fulltime job, hopefully with the revenue of the startup. If this turma out fine, then he becomes a co-founder and CTO.
In my area, the two city PDs and FDs, the sheriff's office, and the rural fire districts all use LAPD[1], not NATO. I gather LAPD is most common throughout the US.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAPD_phonetic_alphabet
Taking the Internet underwater
If only I could raise 16k to get 7-zip some actual source control, too...
> ... I would see this cipher suite as him saying-without-saying that this service is suspect and is to be avoided at all costs.

Exactly my thoughts too.
It also doesn't work with pure ATM cards that lack a Visa/Mastercard logo. Maybe I am a bit over-paranoid, but I don't like the idea of staring at a zero bank balance while some fraud department promises to fix things up real quick now if I just stay on hold.
Definitely the best shared hosting I'm aware of. I've had personal sites on HostGator for years and always been happy.
The compressive force is already canceled by gravity, unless some other device is adding a extra downward force temporarily.
I wouldn't say that. My experience is all Shanghai.

Potentially it's an SES thing, but note that the fertility statistics show very low fertility for China, so a lot of only children isn't unusual overall. The conclusion that the one-child policy isn't having any effect comes from the fact that Japan and Korea have the same ultra-low fertility rate, but no one-child policy.
$2500 a week, or $250 a week before ID verification, according to WSJ.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230337690...
It may be a historical thing. Whenever you get a receipt from an ATM or a store, your account number if blocked out (so you end up with "XXXXXXXX9585") for privacy reasons. I honestly don't know dangerous exposing my account numbers would be. Consumer protection laws can be hit-or-miss (or, in many cases, just plain missing). It's easier to just be careful.
> Just wait until they get home and have to type up a school report.

I speak from experience, they will just use whatever PC is laying around or stuffed in a corner.
The product offering is tremendous. I just find asking your customers to completely rebuild their boards to be iinappropriate. That is what turned me off to the service.
I made something for you: https://puphpet.com
Acceleration is zero on an escalator, which is intuitively simpler.
> And thus government was born.

And then government becomes the lunatic with a crowbar and here we are.
actually, Vagrant works on Mavericks but on every updated version, from beta to beta, I had to remove Vagrant completely and reinstall vagrant fresh.. the kernel extensions don't seem to carry over, but it definitely working on Mavericks
This is typical real-estate developer rhetoric "we can continue growing forever". Don't look behind the curtain, though, at the real reason redeveloped neighborhoods are sometimes more affordable i.e., you get what you pay for. IMO not every city is well served by demolishing large tracts of historic buildings for the glass-facade utilitarian apartment buildings predicated on Quonset hut structural engineering principles (cheap, fast, profitable, not to be confused with architecture). Let the developers work where they're needed, Brisbane, Millbrae, SSF, etc. but leave San Francisco's character and beautiful neighborhoods to those who appreciate _living_ in them (vs profiting off of them).

The Examiner did a great article on the damage done to the City by redevelopment of the type this article advocates, in the 50s and 60s. Seems now to be available at USA Today: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-11-09-245099... IMO, if you want to see exactly what Gabriel Metcalf is talking about go to the City's Western Addition and while there ask yourself if it was worth it.
Sure; I guess I should have said "credible allegations" meaning that a former NSA employee with specific claims is very credible, speculation based on a single exported symbol name in an older version of Windows is quite a bit less so.

I was a bit amused to read that "The Expresso platform will also be used as the base of the Hotmail-like system that the government is also planning to offer to citizens." Are Brazil's citizens that trusting of its government? I certainly can't imagine Americans trusting their email to the government even before Snowden-gate.
I love and trust Square, but would be extremely hesitant to trust my debit card anywhere online. Someone going on a charging spree with my credit card doesn't bother me as much as the thought of someone stealing this number and taking the money directly out of my account.
Hosting in Australia seems crazily expensive to me. One of the many reasons we need the NBN.
No kidding. That step 3 is a doozy:

>The recipient will be emailed a link to easily deposit their cash to their bank.

You have to wonder about the wisdom of training people to view such emails as legitimate.
To answer your question: Mainstream news has had a structural bias since at least the 60s as Chomsky and Herman describe in their book "Manufacturing Consent".