skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Revealed during hearings in a Munich court, the hidden life of Beate Zschäpe, a mousy, bespectacled 38-year-old with the looks of a librarian, has given Germany a chilling insight into the clandestine workings of its neo-Nazi movement.

In the biggest home-grown terrorist scandal since the days of the Baader Meinhof gang in the 1970s, her group is accused of carrying out ten murders, two bombings and 15 bank robberies during a 13-year campaign.

Worse still, Germany's police and spy agencies thought that the killings, dubbed the "kebab murders" because they targeted mainly Turkish immigrants, were part of a feud within the Turkish mafia.

On Thursday, a parliamentary report into how Miss Zschäpe's gang went undetected branded the affair a "a humiliating defeat" for the German security services, saying that they had "dramatically underestimated" the neo-Nazi threat. Her trial has also cast a shadow over next month's elections, with the chancellor, Angela Merkel, pondering the darker side of the German psyche during a visit last week to the Dachau concentration camp, just outside Munich.

"How could Germans go so far as to deny people human dignity and the right to live based on their race, religion, political persuasion or sexual orientation?" she asked, standing on a plaza where Dachau inmates once assembled daily for roll call.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/102...
Reuters has mucked this story up.

Germany does not want a German Internet, that's just plain silly. Deutsche Telekom just wants to rearrange its peering with other German ISPs so that requests that originate and end in Germany never leave Germany.

Seeing as DT's current peering costs are the reason that some packets take a round-about way in the first place, it's just a marketing move.
Valid point - you eventually want your revenue to be larger than your expenses (unless you plan to get acqui-hired...)

Invalid point - you need Excel to figure that out. I think a good hacker is more likely to use some combination of R, Python + Pandas, databases and CSV files to do most of their financial modelling. Then those all-important month-end reports can just be automated away...
I dont code in Phyton, but i think that you should add xcode commands line tools in this tutorial. http://www.computersnyou.com/2025/2013/06/install-command-li...
I was not aware of that and have no problem with admitting that I'm wrong if I was, but the only source that I can find for that is from 1999. So are they really still supporting GPG?
True , but these days, democracy : "Buy"/by the people , "Far"/for the people , "off"/of the people
I still have the "Little Black book of computer viruses". I just got my first AT computer then (a 486DX). Very entertaining stuff that was...

http://home.swipnet.se/smaffy/asm/info/vir.pdf
I thought the main problem users had with Facebook Home was "where did my widgets to?"
You are marked as dead in some posts above, so only people with the right options set in their settings can see your posts. If it happened recently, it was probably for that ethnic slur starting with k I see above.
Hummingbird unleashed
The more I look into HubSpot libraries, the more I am amazed by their approach. To the point, small and flexible. And if the only annoyance people can bring up is a snake game, then you should be proud :)

Regarding this particular module: is there any chance of combining this with a websocket connection (particularly socket.io)? I don't really care much for off-site requests, but notifiying the user of a disconnected socket would play well into this.
His assistants, adjutant most certainly have.
Depends on which country you're talking about.
This comes at the perfect moment for me: I'm building an inventory web app used in warehouses on tablets and I'm faced with connectivity issues (incomplete or fluctuating WiFi coverage for instance).

Making the app less prone to these issues is certainly going to help build something more robust, so thanks a lot!
Managed Wordpress with WP-Engine. It's more expensive than self-hosted but it saves me days in not-having-to-fuck-with-my-server time.

( I wrote about this in some depth a while ago: http://www.mmomeltingpot.com/2012/03/wpengine-review-after-1... )

Why Wordpress? Mostly for the It Just Works factor. I've done my time in the CMS trenches - I've written my own several times back before there were any decent hosted solutions. Nowadays, if it's reasonably easy to use and not too slow I'm good with it.

Plus, Wordpress has the advantage of an absolutely massive ecosystem around it, meaning that any features I want to add rarely require custom code, and usually just require a Google search. :)
Human Rights Startup Looking for the right person
Looking to do something different, meaningful and help build a product from the ground up which will save lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world every day? Perhaps your looking for an interesting side-project or just a break from the commercial treadmill?

An early stage human rights start-up (the founder has just spent five years at another human rights startup which he helped setup and is now a market leader) in East London (still in the fun garage shed stage!), is looking for a mobile app developer or CTO. (Also people with associated skills such as LAMP, UI/UX, etx would be great)

The start-up focuses on addressing a significant gap in the security of human rights organisations, journalists and activists - through the use of a mobile application. It builds on years of cutting-edge security operations in this field.

With the product features and business plan nearly complete we are looking for the right person to bring us to the next technical stage. Ideally you will be in London but remote working is also a possibility.

Interested? Drop a mail to secfirstmd@gmail.com
Fact: Most Startups Need to Constantly Pivot
Science revolves around the data
Indeed. I started using uTorrent back in 2006. It was VERY lightweight, and had a good and detailed documentation. And then things started to change: custom UI, styles, Ads, Video Player, Market (or something like an App Store)...
3D printed gun seized in UK - Not actually a gun
There's another part of Apple's announcement that may help explain. Apple touts this release as "completely rewritten". Rewriting a complex app often results in a loss of functionality for no better reason than that things are institutionally forgotten. Invisible UX features like page dragging, keyboard shortcuts, etc. seem especially prone to omission by oversight.
UK police mistakenly believed they found 3D printed gun in raid
I'm not so sure. I think these guys are all in it together ("Hey, could you spy on our citizens and let us know if there are any terrorists? We're not allowed to do it").

In a democracy, I'd rather that the actual snooping was done by my own government, as (theoretically) I could do something about it. I can file a lawsuit, or elect new representatives.

Not that this always works, but at least it's something.
DO NOT use Excel to do your accounts on use a real accounting package!

I say that as one of the factors in a VC company I worked for going bust was that they used some dodgy spreadsheet as part of it accounting system.
Cross-browser testing using machine learning
Hot biz opp ground floor it's exploding healthiest best tasting coffee on Earth
I wish that sbt had the ability to work with exploded scala source dependencies, instead of insisting everything work in the JAR world. I am used to working with rubygems/pip and love the ability to go and screw around in the libraries. When I'm ready to package, I can run "sbt assembly" instead and it can take a little longer to build a packaged JAR.

Clojure/leiningen has the same issue (although there are ways to get the source itself as well [1], but nowhere as clean as rubygems).

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14395413/how-do-i-make-le...
There is a fast exponentiation that is effectively Russian Peasant Multiplication, and it works in time proportional to number of bits in the exponent. Look up "fast exponentiation" or similar.
Seriously though producing a router is not a "challenge" for the biggest exporter in the world for the last 20 or so years (surpassed by China recently).
gpg4win was an initiative of a government department
How is it that this democratic ideal has failed to deliver on many of these things, of late? To be sure, some are content with what government has brought to their lives in some areas, yet the complaints remain. Are our democratic systems failing to actually represent us, or are they delivering as-expected...or both?
Ah, the irony.

It is funny to see these proposals coming out of Germany, the biggest proponent, together with France, for a EU-wide data exchange and wiretapping program codified in Schengen as article 40 [1] and SIS (Schengen Information System, police access to all national DBs). The latest update to the Schengen treaty (2005) allows the exchange of sensitive and biometric data such as DNA and fingerprints. [1]

Germany and France are also the biggest pushers for data retention laws that force ISPs and other business to retain and make available all the communication metadata and some of the data of all the information exchanged through them.

The governments of Germany, France and UK have also been the main shields against the pressures from the EU parliament to avoid data-sharing initiatives with the USA.

It must also be noted that there seems to be a schism in Germany between the acts of the governments (pushing EU-wide anti-privacy measures) and the acts of the parliament (pushing strict pro-privacy regulations inside the German territory).

[1] http://www.hri.org/docs/Schengen90/body3.html
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%BCm_Convention
There are several different things going on and people seem to mix them together.

1. Governments spying other governments and foreign companies.

2. Government mass surveillance of their citizens, and citizens of other countries if possible.

3. Government using the Internet to target some small subset of their citizens.
FreeBSD 2013 fund raising
That makes sense and most countries should do it. Some routers support this feature, custom ones can be made though.
That's going from the frying pan to the fire.
The funny thing is that those "smeared cash engines" in all of the mentioned examples are at their all time peaks and growing. I wish someone would smear my business cash engine like that.
Note that while the lack of TCP/IP overhead may be helpful, it also means you don't get any routeing - often one of the pains of using FCoE.
>> "It's going to be pretty impossible to take away the peoples right to drive cars"

No, they will simply phase out manual cars. No big deal, it just means it will be almost impossible to crash, and that's a good thing.

It doesn't mean you won't be able to drive, but you'll be driving with a computer keeping watch over the road ahead and obstacles around you.

Put the car in auto mode and sit back... Most people will choose that. Those who prefer to drive themselves can do, but within limits. You couldn't for example deliberately crash into the back of someone. There won't be a setting to turn off to achieve an outcome whereby the car touches any other object. It just won't happen while you're driving on public roads. For example the computer will not let you cross over double lines at certain speeds, or accelerate too fast at busy intersections, and so on. But it may let you accelerate fast if it determines that doing so won't put anyone else at risk, and conditions are suitable etc. The algorithms controlling when the computer takes over will be clever enough to almost be invisible, and that's what will win people over.

Regulations will prevent car manufactures from making fully manual operated vehicles. Every car will be required to have automatic safety overrides for any action deemed to put the car at risk of impact with another object.

Everyone thought it would be people who override the computer, but it will be the computer who has the final say in the direction and speed of travel in a hazardous situation. I think car manufacturers and the public will LOVE the fact that driving is safer.

Any driverless car accidents will be statistically unlikely, and everyone will see this. Even when just one car crashes, it will be headline news each time, like commercial airline crashes are now. People continue to fly because accidents are rare.

So, the "right to drive" won't actually be taken away. Your right to put yourself and others in danger on public roads WILL be taken away. Have a cry, but then you'll need to get over it because 450 billion is significant.
The EU doesn't import US beef because of banned chemicals used to raise US cows. Imagine if the EU implemented more stringent requirements on, say, GM foods. Or other livestock. Banned the pesticides used in California Oranges, etc.

Trade agreements, tariffs, standards and sanctions - there are many ways for European countries to damage the US economically.
My point is that the article is overly sensationalized and lacks content, that's all. The information is presented in such a way to support the idea that this person is bad and that the police have done something.

The issue with these kind of articles is that they don't provide enough food to have a meaningful conversation on HN. Reality is rarely that simple and it's good to explore the various possible facets to provide a full picture of the situation.
Yes but we reformed those in 1832! I sometimes think the US politics is still stuck in the 18th century.
Cool! This looks really nice and definitely useful!
What democracy? In letter or spirit or both or neither?

Politicians are borne of the people who let them come to power, stay in power and get away with mostly acting in their (politician's) best interest. Over time, power concentrates in the hands of those who have have it and can muster the resources to keep growing it. Eventually becoming the face of the people and the country. That's my cynic's view of democracy. Not that I know of a better system. Yet.
Free Software Can Come At a Price
I'm not denying that the US democracy is broken; I'm countering ithkuil's argument that since countries aren't human they shouldn't exhibit moral behavior.
From the post:
"Homebrew helps you compile different kinds of software on your mac, making it feel almost as easy as apt-get'ing a package on e.g. ubuntu."
(emphasis added)

This is something I've noticed from using both OSX and Linux for the past few years — unless software is available as a drop-and-install package, it's universally _easier_ to install in Linux* than it is in OSX. Given the market for OSX and the amount of development that happens on it, I'm surprised the situation isn't better (for OSX), but perhaps that just speaks to the work people have done on package managers for the various linux distributions.

* - Holds true, in my experience, for Ubuntu and Arch. Likely the same for other distros..
I'm not a fan of the Transmission UI, and much prefer Deluge because its UI is much like uTorrent's but without all the bloat of more recent versions. It's become my standard client since I found out about it.
I've made the same argument before: Fear the power closest to you.

I have little to fear from the US or China spying on me because they have (realistically, discounting e.g. Seal Team Six) much less control over me than the Irish government. But that only holds true because I'm not travelling to the US and I'm not doing anything they'd care^ about. If I was doing something that the US government cared about, then it doesn't really matter where I am.

^ i.e., illegal, dangerous, hostile etc. FYI: I'm a boring regular guy
It's doomed to fail in that case.
The scary thing is that they would not have any leverage on people who have no skeletons in the cupboard. A morally "clean" president may shut them down. In a twisted way it would be in their interest to see bad people in power.
Germany has no secret police. Germany has intelligence agencies and there is one "Landesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz" (State Authority for the Protection of the Constitution) in each german state (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_Germany) and one coordinating "Bundesamt fuer Verfassungsschutz" (Federal State Authority for the Protection of the Constitution). None of these has any police authority, e.g. if they want to arrest you they have to go to the police, a judge has to allow your arrest and then you can get arrested - by the police.

The last secret police in Germany was the Ministry for State Security (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi) in East Germany. The last secret police for Germany in whole was the Gestapo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo) - we've wised up after that and decided to stop mixing intelligence agencies and police.
Apple could have avoided some of the problems by continuing the strategy they've adopted with their other apps: Aperture <-> iPhoto, Final Cut <-> iMovie, Logic <-> Garageband - so Pages Pro <-> iPages?
Don't be a marketeer unless you love PowerPoint.
Reporters and Congress Are Terrible at Healthcare.gov Tech Support
The design approaches for Scala and F# are different though: F# is mostly FP with some OO tackled on - mainly influenced by OCaml. Scala unifies both OO and FP.

> If you know f#, you practically know Scala - well, enough to be instantly productive.

Sure, but actually you can say the same about knowing Java/C# and then moving to Scala. But in that case you're missing a whole lot of features that Scala offers that F# does not: typeclasses, traits, implicits, etc.
Give Python some type safety
I don't really understand how we've ended up at this line of argument. There is no significant risk to talking shit at a bar. Other than the fact that being in the bar in the first place is generally a good way to avoid opportunities.
Spy on people they believe are enemies, rather than allies or innocent bystanders?
mv File _file; mv _file file
Today the site is down...
This is actually a very cool idea, but I'm gonna raise a minor nitpick which has been growing inside me over the last few months:

> It has a number of beautiful themes and requires no configuration

"Beautiful" is a word that's really getting overused nowadays, and I cringe whenever I see it.

Edit: I anticipated the downvoting
When I was running the developer version of Mavericks, the site_packages weren't preserved, which meant pip & setuptools were broken, so I had to reinstall them like so:

http://www.pip-installer.org/en/latest/installing.html

then upgrading pip and virtualenvwrapper:

$ sudo easy_install pip

$ sudo pip install --upgrade virtualenvwrapper

If that doesn't do the trick, you might need to install the Xcode command line tools.

[update: oh well, it looks like the parent deleted the question, but for posterity, it dealt with problems with virtualenvwrapper and pip after upgrading to Mavericks]
I love qBittorrent.
And surely it would be better to have many implementations than a couple?
I work in finance, I toyed with Python and Pandas and CSV files for a while, it won't do. When you get at it, you soon realize that any kind of decision will have to come from high level numbers, no the billions of rows you hear on HN and, in that area, it makes simply no sense using anything other than Excel.
exactly. As soon as there are many users, people who intend to "monetize" starts creeping in, and they are always mighty powerful.
It is not abandoned. Just look at the github repo. I get updates for my TextMate 2.0 at least weekly.
I'm wondering if 10G really will become economical any time soon (for consumer products).

It's been around a long time now, much longer than 1Gb was around until it started becoming consumer products. 10Gb still uses quite a lot of power, and consumer demand is virtually absent since the 10x speed we got from 100Mb to 1Gb has been "fast enough" for home users, and will be for many years.
"I don't know why a company buys ads for navigational queries where it's already the top result, but they do, and I'd argue it's bad for users."

I preach to my local clients that they want to be in the "map pack", in the organic results AND on AdWords to get the full benefit from Google searches .. even "navigational" searches or searches where they are already #1.

One reason is easy to understand (consumers see your brand in not 1 but 3 places).

But the secondary reason is s direct result of Google favoring or placing paid ads above organic results. If you sell "blue widgets" and rank #1 organically for that term your competitors can still buy ads and rank above you because Google places those ads before the organic results.

Don't want people buying ads for searches where they are already #1? Reduce the prominence of your top ranking ads so that brands don't feel "forced" to do so just to stay competitive.

Giving people a shortcut around organic rankings and being surprised when brands then want to be in both places is kind of ridiculous.
I'm currently with rMBP 13 and I'm using it mainly for web development, as UI/UX stuff also.

The screen size is not an issue for designing; you can switch to more space, e.g. when designing I'm switching to 1680x900 and don't feel claustrophobic as on my previous MPB's 13".

I had high-resolution & anti-glare MBP 15", just before buying the retina, so I'm comparing it with the 13" rMBP and actually the retina feels more comfortable for designing stuff. Weird, heh?

I would max out the ram and SSD and go for the 13" model.
We love data visualizations, and there is a reason to it...
That's progress, son...

I prefer Apples minimalism to Microsofts bloaterism (ie. Word), and their strong commitment to releasing working software.

And your beloved features will probably be back in the next update or two...
> Within the UK, the general public has not favored the Guardian's reporting on the Snowden-NSA files. Many see it as anti-British

Apologies if I've missed it somewhere in your post, but where are you getting this from?

Much of the rest of the press is, rather strangely given their seemingly life-or-death battle to defend their right to print celebrity tittle-tattle, mostly siding with the government on this. But I'm not seeing a groundswell of public opinion supporting that view.
> And I honestly don't know how one can take down such a power structure that's in such an advanced stage.

Revolution would work. Except, most Americans are living rather comfortable lives, despite all the surveillance uproar. As you keenly noted - it's always about the money (including the American Revolution). So as long as common folk gets their bone from the elite - they will happily wag their tails.
Find him an old Amstrad or similar 8-bit computer. Seriously. There is no better way to learn programming than having an old 8-bit machine in front of you, a stack of magazines with listings, and a free afternoon ..
For high performance gaming, I wonder if console gaming has something to do with it. With publishers now focusing on consoles instead of PCs, graphics may be held back to a degree due to that.

But another thing to consider is that the console release cycle has also slowed down, because there's less of a need to upgrade there as well. So you see the lack of desire to upgrade trend emerging for consoles as well as PCs.

I do think that nearly everyone who wants a PC has one at this point. That plus no desire to upgrade means slower sales. If people were actually ditching their PCs entirely, that would be a different story.
"Not more" doesn't mean "less", it means "less or equal".
The use of a package manager/app store might help prevent that though. They won't be able to bundle crapware in their installers.
Alternatives to Google adwords?
My business makes a good deal of its sales using google adwords, however it appears I've maxed out profitability with that ad provider and I'm curious as to whether there's any thing similar I could use to generate visits to my site with a pay per click basis.

I'ld want to target largely the UK market..