skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recognizing the reality that a powerful entity will seize whatever power or advantage it can find, is not a value judgment that that conduct is OK. I'm not clear on how you inferred such an endorsement from statements that people are going to resist by technical means.

"[W]hy don't we also make the NSA's activities illegal and/or enforce existing laws which already state as much?"

Who is "we" in your proposal? The people of the society? Some percentage don't mind the snooping - they think it is protecting us from terrorism. Another percentage object, and a third subset have little idea of what's going on.

Maybe you imagine there is some approximation of democracy in the US. Why do you think so? How well do you think the legislators represent the interests of citizens? How many viable parties compete for votes? Can you even verify that the announced election results have any definite relation to the votes cast at electronic machines?

Some elements in Congress have tried regulating the surveillance apparatus, at least since the Church committee in the 1970s. Obviously the effort has not succeeded, and I'm not perceiving much prospect of improvement on that front.

The only realistic avenue to improving privacy and digital security is some combination of (a) securing endpoint systems (b) an open-standard, no-back-door solution for pervasive encryption of data in transit and (c) services that somehow offer secure communications hubs without the operators having to shut down, sell out or be imprisoned.

These guys are working on (b), and I applaud their efforts.
I think you missed my point that you can only see comments that are made. Unless your friends and families have a grossly atypical comment rate, you're still not going to see very many things very often. It is well known that forums designed for interaction still have a terrible poster/lurker ratio, the internet at large is far worse.
Guess that means no more homeless people trying to sell me copies of The Onion on the street. Back to stolen post cards it is!
This is one thing I will probably just never understand about people. If I'm wrong, I want to know about it. Why wouldn't you?

I get that there are a multitude of reasons, yadda yadda, but it's just so difficult for me to empathize with someone who has that mentality. You really want to live with a bunch of (potentially dangerous) misconceptions? Doesn't that go against basic survival instincts (lizard brain) at the very least?
"Old fashioned hardware" is anything but foolproof. Linkages bind and flex and change their behavior over time, hydraulics leak and piping must run in areas that can accumulate rust (I had the not so pleasant experience of losing my main brakes due to a rusted out brake line. Driving with only an E-brake is not fun!), steel is heavy, etc.

Computers do add benefit: ABS, traction control and stability control would be a nightmare to implement mechanically. There is no question that the software solution is a better idea, but the design and implementation must be done correctly.
Take a look at BitPremier: http://www.bitpremier.com/. They advertise your high-value good on their site, and then once they pair you up with a buyer they also serve as an escrow agency.
Pusher open sourced their diagnostic iOS app
It's in the best interest of Google, Facebook, and Amazon to play ball here. These restrictions will make it harder for DuckDuckGo, Medium, or Craigslist to compete with them.
why yes, let's encourage people to copy and paste random code snippets from the internet into their terminal.
Regardless of whether they explode, catch fire, burn slowly, burn quickly, the point still stands. Their placement on the underside of the car could probably be the best choice considering everything.
It is a NoSQL database with a novel architecture. It uses schemas, supports transactions, historical queries, and it doesn't use a client server model.
I thought everyone knows that it isn't true, it's like a BS marketing talking point. The things most of us in startups work on isn't technically difficult or pushing the envelope, and that alone should point to not having the best people or teams. Because these places will never gain the interest of or the pay the price for the for the very best, which can easily reach $400k/yr starting. The only technically challenging item is scaling a large software service doing relatively simple things, and that happens once you've gotten traction. Once you have traction you can pay for those people.

Is text chat hard? No. Facebook? Nope. Video Chat? Yes that is a bit harder, but still relatively solved. Social _____? Probably not. Any casual video game? No. Salesforce.com? Nope. Zoho? No. Airbnb? Nope. Dropbox? Nope.

The more interesting things are the google self driving car, machine learning and the occulus rift to a point. But those things are few and far between.
Was it the fuel tank that caught on fire?
http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/the-project-to-preserve-hum...

This was meant for a different scale of time but could be useful in an NBC's Revolution type of scenario.
That was a terrible book! You might as well read Rich Dad, Poor Dad.
> or to get caught up in the dreaded Reddit -> Hacker News -> Reddit cycle.

Dang!
US Trademark law is kind of sticky. If you don't actively defend your trademark, you can lose it.
FYI, there are a few problems with getting Cocoapods to work with Xcode's CI. I think there are a few who have managed to find out workarounds, but it requires some tinkering around at the moment.

https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/1492
I think it depends on the framework/language you are learning. Books sometimes have several advantages over tutorials online. Off the top of my head:

- You have everything organized in one place.

- You are sure they are accurate (they often have an errata posted online).

- You don't bother searching for content online.

When I wanted to learn about Servlets/JSP/JSTL/Filters/DAO it was much easier for me to buy a book (Pro JSP 2) than to search for online tutorials, even though there are plenty. This book explained everything I needed to know about the subject.

As for programming languages, I don't really buy books because I find they're fairly easy to pick up once you know 2-3 (with the exception of books such as Effective Java). Don't forget there are also video tutorials which are an important resource.
read the comment to which I replied. it will put it in context.
There's definitely a lot more to ACID than the part you mention, which fulfills the D or Durability aspect.

Though to any competent database engineer, they already know what ACID is.

The videos on datomic's website help clarify the understanding, but that isn't as accessible as well written text.
My life sucks – Even Tim Ferriss Has Off Days | JaysonFeltner.com
I live in Madison where reading the Onion in print was just sort of something one did! It was a sublime experience, and a lot of its satirical focus came from the newspaper form. The articles would be cut out and put on refrigerators or bulliten boards. The website is just not the same!
First comment of YouTube's founder since 8yrs
No Javascript Day? Why not make it an eternity? I don't find it to be useful for anything which couldn't also be done another way.

His first example about webpages deliberately hiding content until some piece of javascript tells it to run is the most common problem when you run with javascript disabled.

In my experience the content is there fully formatted and laid-out but that some designer puts a "display: none" on a section so suddenly I can't see it. This can be fixed with ease using Firebug, I just disable or delete the offending style attribute. The javascript that the designer expect to be run does just the same thing. What is the point of hiding it by default? If you want it hidden, hide it using javascript when the page loads.

The more extreme example of entire pages being blank also happens. Google's own blogs and to a lesser extent the blog platform it bought (was that Blogger?) do this. If I get linked to a page that does it, I just leave. The content can't have been that good anyway. If it was you would want me to see it. Although you may have just wanted the hit to your page and because I just gave you that, why bother showing me anything?
> I just gave up and use SourceTree. I don't like git's syntax at all, but have to work with it

There's also the hg-git option, may work well enough for you.
Are we analyzing the owner of the car (maintenance) or the car (effects of minor road incidents)?
Just do the foam thing, but do lots of it all round the battery so in the event of a battery fire the battery pops out and is enclosed and the car ends up sitting on a couple of feet or so of foam.
I'll add to the claim, but note that I dislike Facebook and LinkedIn more. I don't use G+ or Facebook. Way too many services try to force you to login via Facebook and make username/password login hard to find and use. This isn't Facebook's fault, however I'm sure that they like this and encourage it. LinkedIn is a mega spammer and earns runner up spot in the dislike charts from me for this. The pressure to use G+ comes from Google alone in my experience, so it's predictable when the messages will come, so they only make 3rd spot.
Hacker News After Party at AWS Re:Invent. Hosted by YC Companies
you had me at leaving buzzfeed
Your mental model isn't necessarily wrong.

The phrase "salted hash" generally refers to something more plain than PBKDF2. PBKDF2 is technically a "Key Derivation Function", but it can also be used as a "Password Hash Function". Password Hashes generally use a hash function and a salt, yes, but they also incorporate other important factors as well, commonly a work factor and some "hard" computational problem, so it's unfair to call them merely a salted hash. PBKDF2, along with password hashes in general, do indeed do everything a "salted hash" would do, but importantly, they also do more.
I found my mistake. When looking at Europe for some reason I mentally subtracted first the Scandinavia and then Russia, that's why it seemed so tiny. Looking at wiki I can see Africa is only 3 times larger than Europe, which is what I would have expected.
>The recent ford recall had nothing to do with gasoline.

I disagree with this point. A fire in a gasoline powered vehicle always has to do with gasoline. Even if the fire did not start due to an issue in the fuel delivery system. This system is commonly laid out in a way that most of the vehicle is near a fuel line at all times.

I am not defending Tesla, but pointing out that gasoline powered vehicles also carry fire risks. Do realize that gasoline powered vehicles also carry batteries that may explode/catch fire under given circumstances. I've had a battery or two blow up near me before, and it is not fun.
CMU Password Study: Computer scientists pick stronger passwords
That reference table would have to contain Canonical or Ubuntu, though.
>To me the reality of this technology is more Idiocracy than anything.

You're aware we're discussing a game system designed for children, right? Its not some critique on society. Its mindless entertainment by design.

>but it appears you want to encourage them not to do that.

No, as I said this is a government regulatory issue. Attack your government for allowing these policies. I find it hugely hypocritical as well. You have a mobile OS duopoly by companies that are both horrible, horrible corporate citizens, yet the Kinect automatic person detector, which is stored locally for a game, is the thing people go apeshit over. This level of emotional reasoning isn't pretty, its counter-productive, and I suspect falls into politically correct and geek friendly MS bashing while Sony, Apple, and Google get largely free passes. I also feel there's this libertarian bent here in which we don't discuss proper regulations as solutions but wring our hands over the status quo of corporations being under-regulated and do this schoolmarm-ish "They shouldnt be doing that!" Guess what, they will because it makes money. This is what low regulation looks like.

I've heard more paranoid theories about Kinect, with zero proof, than real concern over google tracking me and storing my wifi passwords. Or the various hacks and leaks like Adobe and Linode, which affected and arguably victimized me legitimately.

There's this "contrails in the sky" hysteria when it comes to the kinect which is 100% irrational. Let's not contribute to it.
I think you don't even need to go that far: Hacker News users don't tend to use Windows 8, so they can't very well try out a Windows 8 app. (Obviously some do, but my impression is that this is one of the few places where Windows use is solidly in the minority.)
Late to reply to this but I downloaded your app and tried it out. It took a little getting used to (the tutorial in the app wasn't particularly clear the first time through it, but made sense the 2nd time through). Pretty neat!
Don't go to your top college, says Malcolm Gladwell
"vehemently battle"?? I am pretty sure lobblying will win any time of the day over "vehemently battling" citizens. Another lobby group from amazon or netflix can only push it the other way.
Man oh man, do I hate Euler angles...
what's really worrying is that in all this time I've never seen a convincing benchmark, to motivate diving 'head first' into Datomic. For all the hate that the MongoDB guys get, they alteast piqued interest with some arresting charts and figures.

Right now, the impression I get is, "ooh, because Rich Hickey..."

Could anyone share anecdotes to the counter ?
Anyone know of a publicly available implementation of this?
[Technology] An Open Source approach to One Time Passwords ( OTP )
Reading The Onion every Saturday morning at the diner was one of my favorite habits. Their brand of satire works so well in the context of a traditional newspaper.

Since they shut down print in New York City, I missed that a lot. I tried looking at the web site on a tablet over breakfast, but the presentation ruined it for me.

While I was an avid reader of The Onion since college in the '90s, I've moved on. The web site just isn't as funny—partially because their writing has deteriorated, partially because it's just a web site.

I guess they'll continue to show up in my Facebook feed as friends from high school forward their stories with lots of emoticons and LOLs all over them. Maybe I'll look now and then, like I'd look at something from Cracked, The Chive, The Oatmeal, or whatever. Shame to see them go out with a whimper.
Pastanga PasteBin like service
Hello guys. I made a yet another pastebin like service with qr code into "view" page, without ad and with removing all access log every 30 minutes on server. Hope you enjoy this.
A New Way to Look at Competitors
Tynan is an all-round bad-ass, and most of what he writes is worth reading.
Yep, this. So I hit a button in the app, fire up the laptop and enter a url like 146.162.0.9:2020 to browse the offline stackoverflow.

An example of similar hotspotting would be the ftp app on f-droid.
IE 11 Review - development tools look great
World’s First 3D Printed Metal Gun
It might be more an exercise in keeping current on new technologies rather than fixing a broken codebase. I have friends who keep rebuilding the same hobby site as different technologies pop up. It sounds as if they treated it as a side project previously.
Or to put it another way, its market cap is approximately 1 million dollars per Model S it has sold to date.
Lost Luggage? Airlines Have Got A Brand New (Electronic) Tag
And you feel proud to use a well polished system that Canonical prepared for you without paying? Motto: I have my OS, it's free & I owe nothing, Canonical can look for themself?

The alternative (well polished, reasonably easy/user friendly) is apple and windows. No more free.

I think much criticism is shallow.
Why would you agree to such an unequal arrangement? If that is true, the entire output of your brain is literally owned by a corporation.

(You probably have a "own time/own materials" exception if you're in California or if they are non-pathological in their employment agreements.)
“I’m not saying you should be working 80 hours a week, but 70 is not ridiculous to ask, and if you were committed you would do more”.

My response would be: So I'll of course be getting a 1.75x raise over my current salary, right?

To be clear, I'm not against really giving it your all for your work, but I lament how across much of the tech industry putting in insane hours is considered just the baseline. If I've got real equity in a company and I'm really a "stakeholder" (a term that gets thrown around to a ridiculous degree), sure, I'll work my ass off. If you're paying me approximately market rates and a piddling amount of common shares that are bound to be diluted away to nothing, sorry but you're going to have to do much better than that if you expect me to negatively impact my overall quality of life to any degree.
Can I ask how you spend per day in Lanzarote? We were just there for a weekend and "splurged" on an €88/night property, but it seemed like we could have done just fine at €30–40/night. What an interesting place.
Then how about choosing a higher threshold than writing software well? How many programmers do you know who are above John Carmack's level, for example?
Umm: ERROR WITH QUERY: SELECT * FROM deal WHERE added_date >= '2013-11-08' - INTERVAL 30 MINUTE AND from_id IN(19) AND ship_id = ORDER BY cpd ASC LIMIT 0, 100 You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near 'ORDER BY cpd ASC LIMIT 0, 100' at line 1

http://cruisesheet.com/?from=Bayonne%2C+New+Jersey&ship=Expl...
Left field. It's where all the good ideas come from.
Ahh, good ol' Canntica, my favorite OS.
Aesthetic and taste are subjective, effective and coherent visual design is not.
48 Laws of Power by Robert Greeene. It's a Machiavellian approach to managing your life in order to maximize your personal power and influence. Although I don't plan on becoming the Prince himself, it's a quick, interesting read written from a unique perspective.
Definitely true for software. Compared to other engineering disciplines software development isn't necessarily easier but there's a tendency of software developers to overestimate their achievement. I know from my own experience that the ease with which complex SW systems can be created out of nothing is very satisfying and can lead to a positive feedback loop with a runaway effect.

When I work on EE or mechanical projects the physical elements involved have the opposite effect and create a negative feedback loop and (perhaps) lead to more deliberate development and more realistic views of the relative difficulty of the development effort. Anyone who has studied controls knows that negative feedback is generally what is wanted to reach the point you're aiming for.
Voldemort Linux?
I did not know they had a print version.
Personally I think we (engineers) made this bed ourselves. I mean there are a few possibilities: one is that a CEO says their tech team is not so great. And of course behind that door lies Dilbert.

Another is that the CEO says nothing about the engineering team itself at all, and it's all product, product, product. On that path lies Apple, and I have heard many say (myself included) that we would not work somewhere where engineers are rarely seen and never heard. Although, obviously some smart people do.

And when CEOs give praise to the teams, they get flack like this.

So I mean, what do you want them to say? This is hacker culture; don't whine, submit a patch. If you think they are better ideas, go work at DilbertCorp, or for Apple. Or, if you think there is some other path, describe for us what it is. Or better yet, go start a company that behaves that way.

But the way I see it, CEOs like this are just following principles that we ourselves have asked for: we want to be taken seriously, we want to make decisions, we want to sit at the executive table, we want to be perceived as an integral role that uniquely contributes to the success of the venture. Saying "our tech team is really great" is a direct consequence of those principles.
beautiful blog. What platform/theme is your blog on or is that hand-rolled?
Great idea. Pretty sure I wouldn't get much done with limited internet access though. Maybe I'll try to simulate limited connectivity for a while a see how it goes...
Does it ask users explicitly before sending desktop search results out from the computer? If not it is privacy invading, it should be opt in. A prominent notice or being obvious it is happening isn't enough especially if there aren't equally prominent options to turn it off.

Clear positive opt in - Good

Opt out (even if fairly easy) - clear privacy violation (bad)

The snide comment in your edit earned you a downvote from me.
Well... http://hackaday.com/2013/11/07/3d-printing-with-metal-at-hom...
The really amazing thing about that show is that all the jokes apply to day as much as they did in the 80's when they first aired.

I am not sure if that scary or a good thing...
Spoken like someone who lives in a tech bubble and has no concept of tact.

Are you a developer by chance?
Not that black and white and you know it. These services are obiqutous. It's sometimes impossible to ignore them and they do in fact provide a great experience (the best really) in many ways. That doesn't mean they don't have faults and it doesn't mean people who use these services should simply ignore said faults or move away from them completely.
>Either your Xbox 360 will play the game exactly as well as all the others or it will not play the game.

That's not the case, or at least it shouldn't. PC's aren't magic. You can ship a game with low res textures and high. So if you have the Xbox1 2013 you get the low, but if you have the Xbox1 2015 you get the high and maybe a bump in resolution.

This is a solved problem in the PC world. I understand its different than the status quo, but its silly to think it can't be done.

I suspect the console makers are simply scared to make the early adopters have a worse experience than the kid with the new box and it serves them to make the generation last as long as possible from an economic pov.

Regardless, I hope someone disrupts this duopoly. I had higher hopes for android gaming devices, but who knows, its still early in the game. I could see a deviation on the steambox really shake things up.

I also imagine the economics get better as time goes on and you don't make a profit until sale # x million. Considering how much cheaper hardware is nowadays, I wonder if this formula still applies. You can make a gaming box that beats these next gen consoles for not that much.
You still haven't updated your LinkedIn.
Visa and MasterCard allow 2 months. But if you do a chargeback, the vendor can dispute it. Amex allows 4 months (atleast) and the vendor cannot dispute the charge.
Feds close to approving bitcoin political donations
The default is to leak information. There's no opt-out in the installer.
The whole article reeks of the same satire The Onion puts up every day, I thought the same thing.
Dropbox wasn't a trivial engineering problem. While making facebook for a couple thousand users isn't too hard, scaling it to hundreds of millions was no trivial feat either.