skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all about context. We live in an entirely different world than that. What a weird issue to bring up on a forum where largely everyone works in a nice office. Obviously this stuff still goes down.

Are you one of those people where if I say, "Hey where do you want go for lunch?", would respond with "Nowhere, I just want to DIE, why do I get to eat if everyone else DIES!"
have you thought about making this a yo generator?
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http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jun2009/...

> Medical problems caused 62% of all personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. in 2007, according to a study by Harvard researchers. And in a finding that surprised even the researchers, 78% of those filers had medical insurance at the start of their illness, including 60.3% who had private coverage, not Medicare or Medicaid.

EDIT: Insurance is a scam and insurers are evil.
12 year old hacks government websites in exchange for computer games
Google will never deprecate 3rd party cookies, and without cross-vendor support Mozilla will be attacked when sites start breaking.

It's a real shame, I've been blocking all 3rd party cookies and referrers for years and really want to see the web to a more privacy concious model. With all the web features tracking tricks out there now though, I feel it's nigh impossible.

Take for instance, common Javascript libraries hosted on CDNs. Every time you visit a jQuery based page where the js file is on a CDN you reveal to the host of that CDN (e.g. Google) what website you're on. You also put complete faith in that 3rd party CDN provider for your security.

3rd party cookies are just the tip of the iceberg in terms of how broken the web is for the privacy concious.
A better use of the word 'instead' would be, for example, something like this:

Instead of fixing torture and global surveillance, US building laws to help it become legal.
That depends on the meaning of "how."

Congress can very well pass laws that dictate foreign policy: You shall/shall not bug the Germans.

Though it's dubious, Congress can also say "You shall not spend money on fiber taps. You shall have money for satellites."

The bottom line is that the Congress can get into NSA's pants as much as they want to.
The new Goo Create for building WebGL games is released
I care what the law has to say regarding heroin. Legalize it, regulate it just like alcohol.

Being illegal didn't keep my brother from becoming addicted and dying from it. If it was legal and pure he might have had a chance.

But on the other hand, nobody is trying to outlaw tobacco and alcohol, which are the biggest killers of all. Thats what did my mom in.

So yes, legalize it and keep it pure. Educate people on proper drug use and spend money on health resources for those who need it rather than jail.
I want to help, but all I have is time and skills. So if anyone here needs some English language proof reading done (I do have some tech skills but they are very rusty) contact me, I will do the work, and you can donate something to this cause.

Email is in my profile, and I'm the head teacher for a language school so my skills are good. My problem is I have two small babies and I live in a low income country so even $10 is tough for me to give right now, but I'm a worker, and I will pull an all nighter to do this.

Honor code, I trust you to donate, send proof if you can, but either way I hope I can do something to help. I don't care how much (I know people who need English proof reading are probably coming from low income countries too) but anything would be good.

Lee
Just checked for and I joined 8 days prior to you. 1092 so far.

I remember stumbling upon HN a few months prior and initially was wondering the 'hacker' part but for whatever reason my google search for a few weeks was always redirecting me to some HN threads one way or another.

So finally decided to stick around :-)
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Drug usage is a medical problem. Without medical care, it becomes or has the potential to become a criminal problem. In the USA drug usage and mental illness are generally lumped into the criminal category, sending sick and/or mentally ill people into a the criminal justice system without any chance of treatment or remission.
My understanding is that she wouldn't be able to jump to individual insurance given her health status until pre-existing condition coverage kicks in this January.
And in doing so Congress would run up against separation of powers issues, because in our system, it's not really Congress's place to dictate to the President how he carries out foreign security activities.

I agree with you completely, but when the political will is there, Congress can dive head first into separation of powers fights. Look at the War Powers Resolution. It's almost certainly unconstitutional in a strict sense, or at least extra-constitutional. But the Supreme Court will likely never touch it, and Presidents take its requirements seriously.

One potential avenue for limiting foreign intelligence gathering short of an amendment would be ratifying a treaty to that effect. But that seems as unlikely as any other route, since, as has been pointed out a few times, most Americans care not a lick about foreign SIGINT, and to the extent they do would like it to be as effective as possible.
great! I tried to do the same via emails.
you did it very nicely.
Also, why limit it to 4 people total?
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There are other credible sources online. Chose this for display.
Congress can very well pass laws that dictate foreign policy: You shall/shall not bug the Germans.

They can pass them, but they'd almost certainly be as unconstitutional as a law from 1944 that mandated the invasion of Calais rather than Normandy.
I found this post highly insincere and filed with veiled bitterness.

Regardless, I see the potential in the market for online expertise and would recommend aligning yourself with some verticals to provide some needed focus.
> "legalize pot, but ew, meth is bad!"

Which, I would say, is true. Our argument should be where the facts are: It's bad, but it should be handled like a public health problem, not like a criminal problem, because criminalizing it does not protect you from dangerous drugs as the last century shows, but it primarily finances mafia groups which cost even more lives than even the most evil drugs.
Is this a candidate for an Ig Nobel Prize?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize
Thanks for the reply. I've felt the same, just curious what others would say, especially if anyone here was in my shoes in the past. Appreciate the feedback though.
Why I'm giving my time away for $1
If you were starting a new project today, would you use development version 1.7 in order to get Django Migrations instead of using South?
God, that website looks awful in a small browser window.
If you'd like to find out more about Molly, she has a blog. I enjoyed her Desktop Browser song: http://www.molly.com/
Molly's books were what really got me started with web development. She was kind enough to send me a signed copy of one of her books when I was probably ~13 years old after emailing her. About ten years later, I was able to meet up with her here in the UK for a coffee, which was lovely.

If you can, please support Molly's treatment with a donation. Thank you.
I believe this is actually promoting an anti-pattern, and will result in code that is hard to test and which isn't expressly modular.

From the source[1]:

* core.js creates the "myLib" object

* module1.js & module2.js augment "myLib" with additional properties

* myLib.js takes the final, augmented object, and assigns it to a global variable

There are many problems with this setup, but the main one is going to be that the module1.js/module2.js both alter the module defined by core.js. The augmentation is permanent (until page reload).

So, what you end up with is a situation where you cannot include module1/module2 without first including core; this is not modular code and will make testing those modules more challenging and brittle -- you effectively can't test them independently. Rather, you'd have to test the relevant properties on the myLib object or stub-out myLib with a mock.

When working with modules, you typically don't want to build up some giant, monolithic object -- rather, you should be pulling in modules as you need and using them independently. Each module should return it's own object, which you can freely use within the context of another module but which has no adverse side-effects on any other modules.

1. https://github.com/sahat/requirejs-library/tree/master/src
Perhaps a good sign that they are getting clobbered with traffic?
How much would you pay for my side project?
ngPluralize - Handles pluralization scenarios cleanly in your view. No more "var itemCountDesc = items.length + ' Item' + items.length === 1 ? '' : 's';"
That would make sense if you had a signed contract from Google that they were encrypting their internal traffic. I don't have that and I doubt anyone else does either.

If the courts get involved it should 100% be at the hacking perpetrator, not to the victim.
I agree. I saw the original Show HN, checked out the app in the store and thought it looked great. But at the end of the day, it's a Windows 8 app. I don't even know anybody who has Windows 8.
We should be examining a "medical court" system. It's basically each individual's right to do whatever they want but there's a line that gets crossed when they are truly sick and need help.
for a personal server, maybe try http://www.citadel.org/. One app that runs email, xmpp, calendar, contacts and notes, written in C++. I've installed just on one machine. The interface is awful, but the rest seems to work pretty well.
Slate -- why go to all the way tho Nazi Germany, when an ambitious promoter and the Chinese government will bring them right to New York City:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/30/nyregion/30bodies.html?_r=...

"Under the settlement, the exhibit must display, on its Web site and with a sign at the entrance, a statement explaining that it is not able to confirm that the bodies being displayed were not Chinese prisoners who may have been victims of torture and execution, the attorney general’s office said."
I had the opposite experience. Working long hours never got me a raise or promotion. Successful projects got me raises and promotions, but I generally don't need to work even 40 hours to make that happen. Once I lifted my head up out of the code and started taking a more business approach to my work rather than engineering approach, that's when my value and income skyrocketed. The guys I know that rack up those 50+ hour weeks every single week get the same 3% raise they've always gotten and most of them are pretty bitter about it.
Its not like any of these creationist measures ever survive the judicial system.
Angular adds $valid/$invalid for forms that you can check against.
Half of the startups in India have an ex-trilogy founder.
I came here to say the same thing.

> Sorry, your browser ins't [sic] supported yet.

On a bleeding-edge Firefox.
That "somebody" would be me then. Sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused. I saw "Latest Release: 1.6" on the djangoproject.com home page, checked if it was on PyPI already (it was), did a "pip install Django" and got 1.6. These together to me seemed to be a pretty good sign that 1.6 was released.

Will wait for the official release announcement next time. Sorry again.
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I'vw been thinking about this pretty hard this summer - I've been involved in some local tech activist stuff.

My take on it is as runs:

Fundamentally, what's needed here is the ability to have confidence that the intelligence system is not overstepping its bounds. The US founders' framework for building that confidence is to have multiple parts of power, whose interest is roughly aligned with countering each other. So in the case of the TLAs:

* The judicial system for warrants needs to be open. No secret courts. Cases' contents might be sealed; the existence of cases should not be. Secret courts are not new, and they have been a bad idea for a long time.

* The policies for data collection need to managed by Congress; no policy about this should set by the executive branch. The policies need to be open and debated. Should we take foreign intelligence on our own citizens?

* Comprehensive reports to Congress. I believe Zoe Lofgren cited a report that was under a page about the NSA activity. That's entirely disingenuous and disrespectful of the representatives of the people.

The other thing that needs to be done is in the polls: Legislators that seek to legalize snooping need to be replaced with ones that don't.

And finally, the thought process needs to be that there's a 4th Amendment rights protection movement and organization, which will work over a long timeframe (generations). There's no band-aid act that will fix this once and for all, this entire thing is an upswelling from overprotective and anti-risk mindsets. It comes out of deep into the roots of what's considered acceptable risk. The privacy/4th amendment movement is going to have to plan for advocating higher risks, more freedom, more liberty, combined with more laws about privacy, along with determining how to build change in mindset over time (it's called propaganda or, more politely, marketing). Privacy implications need to be worked out, discussed, brought to light in fiction, philosophy, law, debates, etc. The mindset of fear and "never again" and "risk is unacceptable" has to be broken in order to make mass surveillance a non-starter.

Worse - The reality is that privacy is going to be dead with the Internet of Things coming online. The question is, what is acceptable and legal to monitor and record? For myself, I believe that we need to have stringent personal data laws forcing deletion of consumer data unless required for a service, as well as requiring warrants for any data collection not already given to the government (i.e., irs filing).

The 2nd Amendment groups are in this for the long run. I don't see how the privacy groups can afford to do otherwise.

edit: I would enjoy discussing this with interested parties, particularly activists and activist-leaning people. My email is in my profile.
check out standaloneV2 as well https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/standalonev2/id656556702?mt=..., works similar but based on sound waves and is free for the month as a part of the wrong biennial http://thewrong.org/
On the legislative side, it seems that we need more transparency and the ability to curb abuses once detected. I don't really know what a working system that acts in this capacity would look like but I think it would include citizens as well as senators and congressmen. We don't really know what our government is doing and, although that might not have been an issue in the past, I feel that it's becoming an issue today as a result of everyone being spied on. If the government has nothing to fear, it has nothing to hide.
Apple's Warrant Canary
I think I see what you are getting at, but surely a trade with a foreign nation like Saudi Arabia - because the Saudi's are foreign, the NSA would have always had the remit to spy on the transaction?
I love how whenever a major world leader comes out against the war on drugs, it is always after they are out of office and generally retired from political life.
Nothing really. Let them to what they want with their resources.

I'd just say that with the current state of Unity and Gnome 3, it doesn't really make sense to have them both, since they're quite similar in look & feel. So I might suspect that right now Ubuntu's vision is to have something own they control. Which doesn't make sense to me but is their right.
Not really, whilst you'd lose some in enforcement you'd still need to police for blackmarket knock off product. You'd also create jobs in administrating the sales, production and supply chain etc.
Show HN: Hermit - An app to write the stuff you don't want to put on Facebook.
I use the class-based generic views in a couple of projects. My personal opinion is that the official documentation still needs work, because people end up in the API reference tree looking for the examples and explanations.

And that is not a happy place to end up when you're just starting out with them, since in there you're seeing the whole inheritance/mixin layout structure, which is what leads to the belief that it's too complicated to use.

Which... no, class-based generics are pretty darned easy. Here are the views for my blog app, for example:

https://github.com/ubernostrum/blog/blob/master/blog/views.p...

It'd be nice to cut down the use of super(), but that's about the only issue I have with it. All of the simpler-CBV implementations I've seen make a few too many assumptions for my personal taste, or otherwise cut down on flexibility in favor of simplifying the inheritance diagram, which I don't agree with as a goal in itself.
http://www.webrtc.org/interop
A lot of small but very nice improvements, yay! https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.6/releases/1.6/#minor-fe...
I don't think the cheap 3D printers took away market share from leading companies, just expanded the market because now 3D printing is affordable.

As far as I know only the Ultimaker has the print speed/quality that comes close to Stratasys and 3D Systems.
Your kids' chances of becoming programmers? ZERO
Thanks for posting the link!
The real deal is to find a way that user and business can both gain something. And this is hard.
The Tea Party isn't anti-government, it just as a very particular role of what government should do. E.g., Tea Party groups are very much for big, active government when it comes to excluding foreigners.
Do you use something in place of Fabric?
just corrected that, was just a mistake on the blog.
The one that appointed Aneurin Bevan as Minister of Health.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan
I still get seizures from MS websites.
Big Cable may have felled SEA’s mayor, but it couldn’t stop this Colo. project
Ask HN: How do you revive a company from a death spiral?
What does history teach us about this?

I was part of a company that went down this path. It’s surreal in some ways. A company that was one positioned for “world domination” is suddenly in a “chaotic confused” state.

Some situations I had to go through as an employee:

Press is never good.

Human capital starts hemorrhaging

Leading to buggy product sand releases. Quality drops dramatically. Customer service to bugs to lunches.

Cafeteria conversations are never positive.

You start to see hopes fade despite the salaries.

Everything management communicates will seem like a lie.

There is a lot of “strategically realigning” corporate talk

From recent times:

Marissa Mayer taking over Yahoo

Don Mattrick taking over Zynga

X going to take over Microsoft

Y to take over BlackBerry

Sony….

If I remember, pg talked about acquisitions as a way to jump out of the spiral.

What are the other strategies that you have seen?
It is beyond even that. Even if you get legislation making illegal for the NSA to spy outside the US you also have to pass a law saying they can't receive data from the GHCQ who were the ones who tapped Google and Yahoo in Europe and then shared the data with the US.
Agree. Desktop Linux do have it problems, it is getting better every year, but it's linux weakest point.
I can lose some time eventually with mundane things. But the ease I have on deploying things, testing things, etc. the things that matter for my work, it's incomparable.

On a side note:
I have some sound problems every once in a while, but I am a hard user of audio libraries, since I perform in music concerts using live coding... In the normal everyday department, it just works.
Next time around we'll probably do more to hide things up until the announcement (though of course we can't hide the commits on github, and the download URLs are predictable, so someone who sees the commits will be able to figure out where the release is going to live).
"I wish HN were less biased towards ... fast-moving startups ... I do wish there was more on embedded, enterprise, real time and game development."

I agree with you in general but specifically its not an either or relationship. I wish there were more coverage of fast moving start-uppy entrepreneur topics in the embedded and game fields.

So there's a small company called micro-nova in Detroit (Detroit?) that ships a nifty little xylinx dev board in a DIP-40 form factor and I love the idea. I have no connection with these guys personal or economic just bringing up as an example of fast moving entrepreneur small business startup-py type embedded story not covered on HN.

Pretty much everything adafruit, evil mad scientist, and dangerous prototypes does should get a story on HN by the above criteria.

Spiderweb software recently (like last week) released their most recent game Avadon 2 an awesome deep little RPG. Admittedly it is not a "new tech" story because their focus is on story and gameplay, which is excellent. As far as entrepreneurship goes, spiderweb is basically one dude. Again no personal or economic connection to me, just an example of something that should be on HN but isn't.

X-Plane, another one man entrepreneur did get some minimal coverage on HN when he got sued by some patent trolls for basically porting his simulator to Android. So HN is not entirely devoid of all entrepreneurial gaming news, just mostly.

Maybe the TLDR of both our posts is we should be submitting more of what we see? Would anyone else upvote an interesting hardware startup / entrepreneur type story as opposed to the prevailing common software ones?
Best wishes to Molly for a speedy recovery and to feel better soon.

Thank goodness she is famous, even if lesser known by the mainstream and friends can appeal to help her.

For those that think the ACA (obamacare) will solve this after January, nope.

A full half of the states [1] have denied medicaid expansion (because the supreme court ruled they could turn it down) which means if you fall into the gap where you "make too much money" ($12k - $16k) you cannot get health insurance.

So if you got ill but were trying to work part time to stay in your home/pay rent, you will probably make too much to get health insurance!

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/10/02/us/uninsured-a...

This is probably going to cause "healthcare migration" where people who get ill have to move to get assistance if they have some income but not enough.
For those who works with designers or html people who don't use the command line, how do you collaborate with them with Django?

For me it's a perpetual issue to get them up and running, commit/push with git, etc etc. Is there an easier solution? Basically, I'd like them to get started and be able to tweak the templates and css as effortless as possible.

It's kind of very hard to have people working directly in templates/css and others updating html/css and them diff the changes, integrate them, etc..