skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome, signed up as well. Is your QC&QI book still accurate after 10 years of being in the wild? Have there been any advances that verify / invalidate the ideas you present?
a live video stream, global, for a demo against being watched.

i am posting my entire life on the internet for anyone to see, how dare you look at me.
If the round is still good, then getting it refurbished is only $250.
and the people who grew the coffee beans that help keep focused the people who developed the technology to enable...
Is the world ready for a wargame on Google maps?
Sounds like an opportunity for someone with a different perspective to hire all the late blossomers...
Thanks! A few people have suggested that idea -- creating a new YouTube video with the tabs overlaid -- but it's a low priority for us, given everything else we want to do.

Nice work with BandHub!
Either create the ssh host key outside and set it inside the image or integrate the new host into your configuration management and report the sshd host key back and export it to the zone database. Of course your AMI could also just automatically populate the DNS entry via some shared secret or API ...
> However, he doesn't want to continue these programs unless they are constitutional

Citation needed. So far I haven't need Obama even imply that he doesn't actually want these programs. All that he has said or implied so far was that we need to accept the mass surveillance, because that would be a "balance" between privacy and security. He believes this is a the "balance" - regardless of its constitutionality (and so far the administration has done everything in its power to fight against cases that question the legality of it all).

Also, Dianne Feinstein explicitly said the Obama Administration wanted FISA Amendments Act to be renewed, too, when she asked Senate to renew it last year.
Shyahi (http://shyahi.com) - Your Social Homepage. Its like about.me with extended information about social profiles beautifully summarized on your profile.

Its free, easy to set up and pulls in your stats directly from Dribbble, Github, Stackoverflow, Twitter and your blog feed which means that your Shyahi profile is always up to date. This is something that's really cool about Shyahi, you set it up once and then its automatically updated based on your social activity. It provides the most precise and relevant information to your audience at one central online location. And its bootstrapped and made by two people.
Exactly. They'd COMPARE it to the existing physical object used as the reference for the kg. Assuming water allover the world hasnt changed its properties over the last few centuries they'd know whether it became heavier or lighter.
Feynman's comments on this are related:

"People say to me, “Are you looking for the ultimate laws of physics?” No I am not. I am just looking to find out more about the world. And if it turns out there is a simple ultimate law that explains everything so be it. That would be very nice discovery. If it turns out it’s like an onion with millions of layers and we just sick and tired of looking at the layers then that’s the way it is! But whatever way it comes out it’s nature, it’s there, and she’s going to come out the way she is. And therefore when we go to investigate we shouldn’t pre-decide what it is we are trying to do except to find out more about it."

http://amiquote.tumblr.com/post/2744225669/richard-feynman-o...
All you need is any electronic devices - FAA Spokesperson
1. I have seen pictures of cars on the same road.

2. I do not believe so.

3. This is true. You have to clear the roads for people to use smaller cars.
Indeed, in terms of environment, Barcelona is like San Francisco, except without the fog or Asian food. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite have the same employment opportunities either.
Thanks for the response! Yeah, after doing more research, I realized that the Synergy plane would guzzle way more gas than your plane. However, I think it's a dual seater vs. the Sky Craft plane. I would need a dual seater to haul me and my wife across the country.
Express it in a game of charades, obviously.
My non-trolling question is: why should I care about suspicionless surveillance? I really want to have a solid list of reasons (preferably in single sentences to force clarity). So far, in this debate, I haven't been bothered at all by the surveillance discoveries.
I think it should be, no sources, no argument required to cut it. What can be asserted without evidence can be removed with discussion.
Sorry but I still don't quite understand. How are people going to engage with me? Does your system tweet / follow people for me?
As far as irony goes, I think the headline says it all:

> Rally Against Mass Surveillance Livestream [video] (stopwatching.us)
It's about the weight of a softball and travels at ~32mph. It hurts but probably won't cause serious injury. You're much more likely to get injured by the vehicles that would presumably be driving at roadway speeds if you were close enough to be hit by the round.
So he can live in Barcelona and get home at 10 PM and leave for the airport at 5 AM.

Who cares if you live in Barcelona if you're asleep all the time?
What is the difference between them and the pilots of the bombers over Serbia? Or the battleships missile operators? Or the submarine crews?
Ask HN: Why does DNA have only 4 nucleotides?
I was eating with my dad, who is a biophysicist, and he brought up an interesting question for which I haven't found an answer. I thought maybe someone on HN would have heard something more.

Why, after billions of years of evolution, do we still have ALL known organisms still have 4 nucleotides? Yes, Uracil is used in RNA but it encodes the same information, ie why is it always base 4? How come a 5th nucleotide has never appeared, or any nucleotide become less prevalent?

It seems interesting that the genetic code is base 4. And are there really only 20 amino acids?
I like your idea very much, but don't forget the Droid legion. I would definitely pay for it.
thumbs up for you
The FreedMan Chair - A better way to sit.
Jekyll, GitHub pages, and a custom domain.

Using Markdown means no constraint on what software you use to edit your posts, which is really nice.

Another advantage to using a static site generator is your blog will be (generally) fast to load, secure, and it will be really easy to find somewhere to host it for a low cost (or even for free).
> The labor surplus is caused by decreased scarcity.

Not exactly. The number one factor is hourly productivity, which more than doubled since the 70s. At the same time, demand also doubled, just not as fast (there are a few missing %). That difference is where labour surplus mainly came from.

> This is not a problem!

If your an employer, sure: this is an employer's market. But ultimately, this drives salaries down, and consumption, then employment. There's a reason why Ford advocated the 5 days work-week when everyone else went for 6, and why he paid $5 a day when the norm was $2.5. He wanted his employees to buy his cars.

> artificial shortage of labor

We're already under such "artificial shortage". Minus the shortage, of course, but we have vacations, 5 day work weeks… If you let the market choose, you would soon have many people working 50-60 hours per week for less than the minimum wage. (I mean, we would have more of them.)

I just want to push the cursor further on the "artificial" side.
Your link points to a login screen I think it should have been this http://www.starchase.com/howitworks.html
The world’s first Bitcoin ATM is coming to Canada next week
I'm working on https://github.com/Granary/granary. It is a Linux kernel dynamic binary translation framework. It's cool because it lets you rewrite the Linux kernel (at different granularities) while it's running. This is useful for analysis, debugging, etc. Right now I'm putting together benchmarks for an upcoming paper deadline.
Ask HN: Buffer got hacked - does anyone know details?
It seems like @buffer got hacked.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40buffer&src=typd&f=realtime

The guys seem to be on it.

Last information: They confirmed they got hacked turned of publishing and they are investigating the issue.
> Believing that time is the equivalent of wisdom is unwise.

I absolutely agree with this statement, but that is not what I wanted to express.
I would more say that time plays an important role.
Learning anything takes time. Not everyone uses the time for learning the right things.
Some people are fast, while some people are slow.
I would say it is not fair to judge people who had little time to learn (children) by the same measures as people who had more time to learn (adults).
Gravitational acceleration is approx 10% less? Based on the radius of the earth and the radial distance of the ISS.

Some nice discussion:
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/29929/gravity-on-...
I agree with you except for the last bit. From the accounts that I have read, I think Bin Laden's chances of surviving the Abbotabad raid was hypothetical at best. He had less than a fraction of a second to make an undeniable gesture of complete surrender in a surprise early morning raid. He could not put down a weapon because he did not have one on him. According to the SEAL who shot him, he was shot twice in the head and then again on his torso as a startled unarmed man waking up to the din. I am not arguing for or against whether he was entitled to a realistic chance, just stating that he didnt and it was by design.
I'm glad there is public awareness and debate on the issue, but I find it troubling that there is severe lack of contribution to the debate (can we even call it that at this point?) from the NSA's part. I think it's in error to assume that there is nothing positive the NSA gets from this in terms of protecting the country, or maybe more specifically that the NSA has a vested interest in knowing the mundane details of the average citizen's life.

I'm as curious as the next person about how what they do is constitutional under the 4th amendment. I'm as against the idea of a police state, and am concerned about the direction of this country in a post-9/11 world as those at the protest. But there's two sides to every issue (often more), and on this one all we get is a bunch of awful PR that has to be walked back. I don't think it's a 100% useless and/or nefarious operation.

Is there nothing positive the NSA/US Government can tell us about these tactics that wont compromise their mission?
Slate did an article for this question.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/20/how_to_te...
I believe the weasel-words are "intercept," and "collect."
Well, the only credible free market alternative is to re-instate the forces necessary for free markets to naturally regulate themselves by banning things like employer-sponsored health benefits. Which I'm guessing has a snowball's chance in hell of making it through Congress. (It certainly would still result in lots of people shouting "Government! Aaaa!" and flailing their arms. But I'm beginning to think you can't even walk down to the corner store to buy a bag of chips without someone doing that nowadays.)

As to how it might fix things, well, I'm not sure what we got is likely to work out better than that option would have. Nor is it likely that it would work better than the option with the most proven track record, which is a single-payer system. But that, too, is politically unlikely. And will probably continue to be so as long as we remain a people who'll readily burn an extra $10 in gas in order to get across a state line so we can save $3 in sales tax. So yeah, what we got isn't great. . . but it's what we could get. And it's at least worth a shot. Considering the system we've been operating under is inarguably the worst one in the developed world, it certainly seems better than doing nothing.
Every week he flew in, spent 2 days in London and then flew back.
Have you used your AWS free tier up yet? If not, you should consider jumping on it. Free 24/7 micro server for a year - and you host the webserver, so you can install Apache, Nginx, whatever you want. I used it for a while, and the most I got charged was a couple quarters for going over on disk usage (DB was doing unnecessary reads / writes).

Also - this is a cool idea. As I've grown up in the same area, it seems like fewer and fewer people go all out for decorations around Halloween and Christmas, it who does with minimal effort. I can't find any examples (none in my area), but does it support pictures of the decorations?
Dijkstra: Why numbering should start at zero
When you'll have finished high school, you'll understand.

If you already have, you should have a serious word with your headmaster.
Senators have repeatedly complained that provisions of FISA have been secretly interpreted in ways that differ markedly from the language of the statute. These interpretations, according to the Senators, are contained in opinions issued by the FISC.

from: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/01/new-year-new-fisa-amen...
A+ amazing project. Would love to know more, donate money if you need it, and tell people about your project.
However, he doesn't want to continue these programs unless they are constitutional.

Yo, that's some wicked spin ya' got on that sentence of yours.

Implying the slightest good intention to Obama in these circumstances seems deplorable.

If Obama didn't want to enforce the program, he could have stopped when it was secret and no one could complain. If there's an objective "guide" to Obama's supposed intentions, it's what his administration did in secret because they had very few controls on their surveillance approach.

The better to describe thing is: He'd like to continue program and he'd like to have it declared constitutional.

And don't bet this won't be declared constitutional given the Supreme Court's history and it's entanglement with the current system. Sure it would be lighting the constitution fire, tearing it, vaporizing the pieces and throwing them in a volcano. But hey, that's progress.
I bought the theme from Wrap Bootstrap and the images are supposed to be replaced. The site will be revamped soon. Thanks
'We can't defend ourselves against the NSA' | Germany | DW.DE | 26.10.2013
Currently I'm working on a few different developer tools, as part of my continuing mission to make my own life easier. I figure they're probably cool because if I'm scratching my own itch then I should be scratching itches for other devs too.

* GitHubReminder - serendipitous email reminders about your starred repos on GitHub. https://githubreminder.org/

* JSComplexity - code complexity metrics for JavaScript. http://jscomplexity.org/

* CoffeeComplexity - code complexity metrics for CoffeeScript projects (still in development).

* GrepSrc - regex-based source code search engine (still in development).
Webapp for organizing code snippets as pages: http://harpb.com/static/snipp-t/index.html
Watch video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPL-7-XTmDs&feature=youtu.be
The editor is very much work in progress and the video highlights base concept for the editor.
Google's technology depends on a series of lasers attached a large, spinning rotor on the car's hood. Cadillac and GM's technology does not: http://www.pcworld.com/article/254192/cadillac_self_driving_...
Sidenote: Might be a bad idea to pour water over a toaster.
No it is a good thing. When you have to be violent it is always better to have the edge. (quote from a special ops friend - in close quarters wins the one with more ammunition)

What you have problem is the ease with which US deploys stuff and not the fact that there are less corpses coming home.

So change Washington. Not the drones.
We all engage in moral actions every day. We're not all "honored" by being called "warriors."

Even if a killing seems justified, killing someone is not "more moral" than plenty of other daily activities. What (historically) distinguished the warrior is the personal physical risk he faced. Taking physical risk for good cause has always been honored.
Curiously, that was my primary motive for moving SSH on a couple of servers off 22. It had nothing to do with any notion of security and everything to do with the annoyance of filling up my auth logs with mindless login attempts by dozens of bots.

Maybe that's the wrong reason, but irritation can be a decent motivator. :)
> The blame for the cost of war doesn't go to to the weapons or the people who pull the triggers. We're all responsible for the things done in our names,

This is absolute and complete horseshit.

I protest against war. I vote against war. I campaign for candidates who oppose war. I refuse to work for companies that profit from war. War happens anyway.

A soldier surveys his opportunities and realizes he can put money in his pocket from war. He votes for war. He makes fun of protesters. He fights the war. He freely spends lives and money.

Only a completely insane person would claim that the soldier and I are equally culpable. We just aren't. It's repulsive that you'd make such an ignorant and asinine assertion. I'd ask for your reasoning, but it's clear that you excluded your reasoning because there IS no valid, logical, sane underpinning to your argument.

And the comparison with Vietnam is absolutely fucking disgusting. Vietnam was a draft. Modern wars aren't fought by draftees, they're fought by low-talent assholes who think that shooting brown people sounds better than flipping burgers.

p.s. the vietnam vet spitting thing is an urban legend.
Excellent. Two of my clients need exactly this service. We have the pain point you describe, i.e. needing to build out AWS, Rackspace, etc. Currently we build custom AWS images, however we'd much rather pay for a HIPAA stack. Kudos!
It revolves around the patriot act section 215. https://www.aclu.org/free-speech-national-security-technolog...

They are not forthcoming about what the interpretation might be because it's exempt from FOIA. https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/patriot_act_section_215_fo...
I think Trojitá http://trojita.flaska.net/ has recently crossed the line from being a promising project to being a useful MUA. It has quite a good IMAP implementation.
I'm building a community-based startup and project incubator with the goal of forming "classes" of founders who support and advise each other. It's called http://launchway.net - though it's been difficult to get people on board I'll keep trying.

As an aside, I think we should have threads like this one more often, I'd love to learn what everone's been up to periodically.
Oh, look. A gender-related discussion on HN has once again summoned the requisite MensRights advocate. Hitler. Hitler! The thread is dead! You win! Hitler!
The fact that the combatant is sitting very far away from the battle doesn't make the killing any less real

It doesn't make it any less real, but it does make it more cowardly.

Some of the commenters on this thread sound like the people who would throw things at veterans returning from vietnam. Have we learned nothing?

Yes we have learned something: it didn't happen.
And this is how cities return to the land. Or at least, it's one way.
When violence is easy, "having to be violent" will be more and more common, until .. eventually .. you arrive at the point of view you espouse: war is okay, as long as its easy.
>Is there nothing positive the NSA/US Government can tell us about these tactics that wont compromise their mission?

They probably think that they can just stay silent and the public outrage will quietly sizzle out.

It's certainly looking like that stance will be justified.
I'm working on a gmail replacement to deploy on my own server. It's called kite. It uses a lot of cool techs like vagrant, puppet, angularjs and of course, postfix for mail handling.

For the moment, it doesn't do much besides displaying a list of emails in a maildir but in a week or two I should have thread handling written.

The source is at: http://github.com/khamidou/kite (sorry for the lack of readme, I should get around to do this tomorrow)
I'm teaching myself JavaScript so this weekend I'm working on a basic app using Express, Node and the Twilio API. Learning on each little bit and will write about to help others too.
The article says
> " was sentenced to eight months in "open custody" at a rehabilitation home for youths, with another year spent on probation."

I think this is great, and I also think that it's great that your record is cleared at 18 (although, it's not really cleared, it's just not held against you). As a Canadian, I appreciate that rule. Kids make mistakes, and they deserve the opportunity to make things right and live a normal life (there are obviously exceptions to the rule).

This kid has skills. As others have mentioned, his parents should show him some white hat programs (although many have age restrictions), and get him internships. He has a lot of time ahead of him, and if handled correctly he can do really well for himself.
I thought WGTOW was just feminism, not this separatist thing.
FWIW, RNA has 5 or 6 nucleotides [1].

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144639.ht...
That part is just a slogan that sounds nice. It's probably not actual department policy, and it's definitely not a legal obligation.
I feel bad for those guitarists...

I've been using Guitar Pro for most the time that I've been playing guitar and bass, and the fact that the playback is Midi has not been much of an issue (and I wasn't sold on Guitar Pro 5 "real sound engine" or whatever it was called). Though I've been playing bass which has less subtleties in my main genre (rock/metal). Even with guitar the heavy lifting for me is to learn what fingers goes where on the fretboard. After that, I can listen to the actual song and polish whatever nuances I feel that I need, without referring to the tab (since I know where the fingers goes on the fretboard at this point).
BufferApp Hacked
Around 2pm EST Buffer users started noticing a weightloss post to their social media accounts through the Buffer App. Buffer has announced they were hacked, and are investigating: https://twitter.com/buffer/status/394176619122008064
I posted something on Facebook too it seemed, removed it instant. But yeah, kind of makes you think twice of what services to use
Thanks!

The quantum computing book holds up okay, so far as I know. Of course, there's been many new developments since we wrote it, and a text written today would be somewhat different. But the core material in the field has changed only slowly, so a book can be surprisingly durable.
I'm working on a JSON based website layout and component system.

For example: a component that lists blog posts could be represented by:

{
options:{
elements:[image, title, author, date]
},
criteria:{
sort:date.desc,
published:true,
limit:10
},
request_vars:{page:3}
}

That would show the last 10 posts that are published, ordered by date, on page 3 of the results.

That's a simple example, this site: volumeone.org is built almost entirely this way.

Since it's in JSON format, JavaScript can be used to build UIs that build the components and layouts.
If only it were possible to instantly acquire a jammer on demand right at the beginning of a police chase.
Recommendation engine as a service (http://savant-api.com/) -- absolutely nothing public yet, except a fancy d3 powered widget that has nothing to do with the service.

It's cool because I'm hoping to make collaborative filtered recommendations easy to obtain for small outfits.
I clearly remember Obama denouncing the wholesale and indiscriminate surveillance of innocent people prior to his election to the presidency, yet now that he's in the White House he's suddenly promoting the very programs which he once found deplorable.

Remember?

http://youtu.be/aznaD8yzVjM

The FISC has found that there have been numerous violations by NSA et al, yet the juggernaut rolls on...

Secret courts. Secret police. Secret orders.

"... this is not who we are."
So how's the turnout? Couldn't really figure it out from the livestream.
All our recent posts on social media (facebook, twitter) via buffer seem to have been automatically deleted. That's a lot of engaging posts, gone in a poof!