skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, as someone who has worked at a couple of U.S. journalism outlets, I would say there's a big difference between between the Risen-type of prosecutions and "inspections" by the local officials.

One outright difference is the potential for prior review. James Risen, AFAIK, entered his current legal situation quite a time after the publishing of his story...and this seems to pretty much always be the case with journalism that ends up on in a courtroom. If the NSA had been using its full wiretapping powers to "inspect" Risen, a well known national affairs reporter, then it would've not gotten to the probe stage, or to the publication stage.

Risen of course is facing an intrusive probe, but that is ostensibly part of a post-publication investigation to root out the leakers who are ostensibly breaking laws.

What is happening to Bloomberg, and what purportedly happens to typical Chinese news outlets, is a preventive, chilling action...and while you may argue that the thought of being targeted in a prosecutor's probe can be just as chilling...I'd argue that it's the frequency and the seeming arbitrariness of drop-in inspections is what makes the difference.

And so why doesn't the NSA or even just the local police station doing occasional inspections? Because even if that were legal (which it probably isn't), the public penalty for such actions is so high that most U.S. agencies seem content to duke it out post-publication. I don't know how things are exactly in China, but I think you have to accept that not all intrusions on journalists' work are equal out of principle.

Note: there's obviously selection bias at work here...presumably, we don't hear about the journalism projects that are killed pre-publication, and we only know about the ones like Risen who sneaked their stories through. But I have to seriously doubt there's a significant number of secretly squelched stories, because again, the risk of an agency doing so is that it blows up in their faces, a la Barbara Streisand.
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Welcome back Adrien! Which is to say, if this comment appears beneath yours, this is evidence you are no longer unfairly hellbanned. Unless of course the administrators (in a pique of particular deviance) have taken to posting fake reassuring responses to banned comments to further your sense of complacency.
That is not good advice. Ruby on Rails is widely used. Java would be a good option, but it would probably not be something that could be picked up as easily or as quickly as something with RoR, Python, PHP or JavaScript. C# would narrow your options much more because it would lock you into the proprietary MS world. Something with iOS or Android would be preferable. Note: I'm not saying C# is bad, I have used it and will again. I'm just pointing in the direction of what could be picked up and then turned into a career move skillset in self study timeframe.
A majority really means more than 50%. 49.99% isn't a majority. These are easy questions.

The real issue is poor metrics on which to apply that threshold...
I think this site works as a marketing tool. It has strong branding, and it automatically makes me feel more interested in the product even though I don't have any personal use for it.

I don't think it works as a news brief. I had to read the whole page to figure out what the thing does. Of course, it looks like they're selling it as a black box that makes the Internet happen, so maybe the technical details aren't such a big deal.
I work in the software industry and have never once worried or even thought about patents in the things I work on. It really depends on what field you work in.
No, but what they represent is. I could have been clearer in saying that the epoch is as good an underlying representation as we're likely to get, and it isn't that bad. That makes the unix timestamp as based on the epoch a pretty good thing, in my book.
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I don't want a "smartphone". I want a handheld computer, the size of a "smartphone", with a cool form factor like a "smartphone". But, it needs to have Ethernet ports, USB ports, SD card slots, CF card slot, etc. An RS232 serial port would be nice too. I want versatility: inputs and outputs. I do not need to connect to any cellular networks. I do not want a closed source baseband operating system, SIM cards, etc. I want an open source bootloader, like U-boot. And I don't want to be forced to run Linux. It has to run BSD, too. So, I don't need to build a "smartphone". I only need to build a handheld computer.
I'm not advocating a specific policy. That's up to economists to decide. Here's the conversion as I see it:

embro: I wish gas was more expensive

pearkes: People in rural areas are very dependent on cars and would be disproportionately affected by increased gas prices

me: Cars have a lot of associated externalities such as CO2 emissions and air pollution, taxation is one way to internalize these externalities. If this process disproportionately affects rural people, it's because society has been subsidizing them by accepting the effects of their externalities. If this results in higher corn prices, for example, then corn prices should be higher to reflect it's true cost to society. By giving the market the true prices of goods it can more efficiently allocate resources.

The work externality is a technical term from economics. No need for the scare quotes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
indeed, will probably fallback to either one of those depending upon device parameters, a small price to pay for those not willing to risk
Ha this whole thing seems to be just great advertising for Amazon on the heels of cyber monday.
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Dave Kennedy is a reputable source of security info. If he claims something, I would be inclined to listen.
Something like http://www.telstra.com.au/mobile-phones/mobile-phones/telstr...?

(There was one with larger buttons, but I can't find it)
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One would be more likely to make the statement the GP made (placebo effect helping with migraines) if one trusts data over anecdotes:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20187863
pdf of above review: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/41620466_Migraine_tr...)
No, based on my definition, the best manual spinal manipulator you know is a semi-qualified physiotherapist who trades under the chiropractic brand.

Based on your own definition, they are "good PTs." So you agree, it's physiotherapy. Don't understand why you're arguing the point.
ThingCharger: A new charger for all your things
Don't be silly, all you had to do was just install and configure Apache, and then harden it against 37 types of DOS and malware intrusions and SQL injection.
the lack of webdesign called for a hoax. If such thing was true, they'd be showering with dollars and would have a got a decent design.
"Look out honey, 'cause I'm using technology!
Ain't got time to make no apology"
-Iggy Pop

There are people who work on the ethics of science and technology full time and they are awesome. If every technologist worked on ethics full time nothing would ever get done. I recommend checking out the work of the STS department of MIT though Open Courseware if you are interested in ethics.

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/science-technology-and-society/

Also, if there is actually something unethical going on, it's best to enunciate it using straight/clear prose following the satire if you actually want to affect the external world.
I want a handheld terminal for a belt-mounted computer. A belt can easily support quite a bit more battery, for hard core computation, longer-range transmitting, and GPS.
Please allow us to comment on (Cheer for!) YC companies posting job ads.
I'm sure by putting that message out there, we are about to see HealthCare.gov be put to the test...
Do you seriously think that something like the NSA leak could happen in China? :D
This indicates a serious level of corruption in the police, in the prosecutors, and possibly even in the politicians who are in charge of these things. If this had happened in Putin's Russia, the people in charge would all be fired in disgrace, and the prisoners would be freed with compensation payments.

But in America? What will happen?

Americans like to talk loudly about corruption in other countries but when they learn about corrupt police in many states, corrup sherriffs, corrupt prosecutors (2nd recent case in Mass.) then what do they do? Not much!

This is why the American Empire is on the way out. My family is learning Mandarin Chinese and Russian because it is clear that the two big powers of Asia will dominate the world of the 21st century.
But the python source isn't available? The project seems rather light on example code for now...
>Either that's totally wrong (implies equal weighting)

Equal weighting would be "Truth is always in the middle".

>it's a near-tautology

Another way to say near-tautology is "something that is true".
Looks like they were using Hacker Typer[0]. Just make sure you have all Vim related plugins disable :-)

[0] http://hackertyper.com/
While this might not be the exact answer you were looking for, but people can buy a cheap android phone and put this launcher.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=name.kunes.and...
It was pretty easy to figure out exactly what this was. It just wasn't handed to you like the majority of HN wants. All of the information was there, though. It just required you to gasp click something.

The problem with all of those "design critiques" (if they could even be called that) is they derail any discussion about the product itself. As of this comment, three of the top four comments are complaining about the design or structure of the website, with the fourth being mine. You have to scroll halfway down the page to get to anyone talking about the actual product. That's shameful.
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How do you get out of bed in the morning with that attitude? :)
The most beautiful JSON highlighter chrome extension
Why not flip it at the 45 degree axis to make it go vertically instead of horizontally? That way we can scroll normally to see more.
Somebody Put a Camera on a Toy Car and Drove it Into a Pride of Lions
This should help me learn JavaScript!
I didn't actually know that GNU Herd was stable yet so that
is actually cool I will install that later on (VM)

We do have a lot of great Unix inspired operating systems
and they are doing an amazing job. I count OS/X in that
category too, though its debatable.

Then we have Windows, the big giant. I would really like to
see them do a Windows NT Squired, NT NT, a new generation
that can break compatibility.

Haiku I am a little excited about. I remember how cool
the BoBoxes were many years ago when I saw a demo. How
far ahead of Windows it was back in those days.

Dont forget about LoseTheOS/Temple. I dont care what people
say about the genius who made it. Its a crowning achievement.
It is exciting because it isnt, and was never intended to be a be all do all OS for everyone. It has a purpose.

I would like to see more in Plan9.
Here is the python source

https://github.com/pythonium/pythonium.github.io/blob/master...
I found it:

https://github.com/pythonium/pythonium.github.io/blob/master...
@zaguis, can you point me to anyone else besides @colabi that is claiming that their video has not been viewed? I genuinely want to investigate this, but after searching for a week I can't find anything concrete.

Since you are confidentially asserting that you believe that salesforce employees are lying, it would help everyone if you could identify just a couple of the dozens of developers that you reference.

If you do so, I will investigate their specific situation directly.
How can you say the woman was not evil?

Given the fact that she made up impressive job titles for herself, and testified as an expert witness in areas where she did not have expertise, she seems to fit the profile of people who are considered to be "evil".

There is more to this case than the act of tainting samples. There is the collusion of others, and there are the other acts of this chemist. The whole picture is of a person who has gone over to the dark side.
I don't have the reference handy, but I recall an article from this past Summer that said the designers of the site had put security on the back-burner. Their plan was to get the system working and worry about security afterwards.

That really alarmed me. Being more than a little involved with security implementations over the last decade, the #1 rule is that you can't tack-on security afterwards. If you try, it will be fragile and ultimately ineffective. You absolutely must design with security as a major requirement from the start.

So, I am not surprised to see this report, it lines up exactly with what I've been expecting since Summer.
I don't think that is good idea. Javascript has it's own idioms and also gotchas. You are not going to learn them by looking at translated python code. Read JavaScript The Good Parts instead.
Tangentially related, for anyone looking for this functionality on the Mac, do yourself a favour and get Cinch.

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/
Agreed, I'm moving my small website to a bash static generator right now. But I'm not so sure about hosting comments with somebody like Disqus. Better to host and moderate them yourself, or skip them altogether.

You could do a lot worse than Redis for a blog's data store though. It's simple, fast, persistent, and easy to set up.

It's weird that the author lost his blog data from a reboot. Maybe he lost his Linode? It a bummer that he didn't have a recent backup of the redis database. Recovering a blog from Google's web cache doesn't sound like fun.
The initial request from browser to server, I presume.
It has been and will be put to the test by all hat colors regardless of press.
Only problem is that people stop using Ryanair. I've been burned a few times and finally sued them in the small claims court(and won). I've never flown with them since and have quite happily paid more money to avoid. I see this happening for a lot of my friends, and I think the "fuck you" customer service attitude they have is giving way to a much better one as seen by O'Leary's recent comments about wanting to reform their nasty image and "stop unnecessarily pissing people off".

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/nov/05/ryanair-mich...
So if I get the names perfect, I can use the js API's provided by the browser and only need to compile to test my code? Next. No...not next. Please no more next. Make it stop. Just stop. Please. There are so many projects that can use your assistance. I can give you ten open issues off the top of my head that I would like fixed. So many useful, interesting, thought-provoking programs are just dying to be written.
Could A Tech Giant Build A Better Health Exchange? Maybe Not
This page looks the same as it did a few months ago, is there something new this time?

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6241544)
What will you get your Girlfriend/wife for Christmas?
I am looking for Christmas gift ideas for my girlfriend. She is not tech/hacker, I'd like something original. Do you have any idea?
I tried to scroll but I didn't see anything that told what the fucking thing is within 1.5 seconds.
Execution isn't always everything, especially with B2B. Sometimes it's all about finding a market niche and knowing the right people.
A question that is simpler to answer is whether or not her behavior matches that of a sociopath.

Of course, if the answer is yes, and I think that it is, then you have to ask what boundaries does a sociopath have to cross to become truly "evil". I'm willing to admit that some sociopaths are not evil, but when a person has 40,000 victims and not only taints evidence but makes up fantastic job titles and passes herself off as an expert witness in court, I think she may have crossed the threshold.
A baby ???
They are far more effective at private intimidation or blackmail, which the target has every incentive to keep quiet. For instance, NSA monitoring of porn habits.
The bit about the federal government not being required to alert users to any security breaches is alarming as well.

I guess that's not surprising. But, "monitor your own credit" isn't a risk I'm willing to take just to use a barely functioning website.
Why do you consider a 5 year development period to be so long that we should consider it only a fantasy today? I might say that of a product that was promised in something like 25 years, but come on, video games take 5 years to develop. Five years is nothing.
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Also

Pyjamas: http://pyjs.org/

Skulpt: http://www.skulpt.org/

and another one I forgot.

They are all are cool projects. They diligently solve 73.56% of the problem of Python to Javascript translation, and the other 26.44% remains a very hard task. This is not unlike many other problems in programming (well, even in real life). So it is not for the lack of knowledge, experience or hard work, it is just a very hard problem.
I wonder how multiple inheritance is handled by this webdev holy grail. I know CoffeeScript had some issues handling its certain attributes* within its constructors, so it'll be interesting to see how pythonium does the same and beyond.

* forgot what
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How close are you to your monitor(s) at the exact moment you read this?

I'm not at 2 feet with a smaller dual display, and I'd imagine I'd sit further away with gigantic 30+ monitor(s). I know I do when I use a 27. Others at $work mostly sit at least as far away.

In this area of improved vision, what does it gain you? Did all the old hackers not amount to what they could have been because they perceived some less pixels than there could have been?

I don't think a serious argument can be made on this this front until standards reach at least 16k.
I've never paid Google anything, but I was able to quickly get a response to a question regarding YouTube integration last week, almost effortlessly.
GIL is all evil. If your are dealing with CPU bound concurrency yes, GIL is there to take the fun away. But if your problem is most about IO concurrency (downloading from multiple sockets for ex) GIL is no problem. I get very nice speedup from Python's threads with a silly web crawler I wrote.
E is still around? Damn.
Even via FedEx, it is pretty impossible :)
I see a whole lot of blowhards running their mouths about potential security problems with the site. I've heard of one actual password-reset vulnerability. If the site were completely full of holes like people claim, there would be scores of "security research companies" clamoring to be the first to name them. Yet we're not seeing that. I'm really not buying it.
You joke, but why not? Rent a small shop and put a landing pad on the roof, which then feeds a vending machine as the storefront. That also solves the authentication problem since it's easy to require a credit card swipe or a smartphone ping to dispense the package.
You're promoting both the killing and preserving of languages in the same paragraph, seems a bit misguided. Surely if they're worth documenting, then its worth trying to preserve their use as well.

Surely the world should be moving to a place where it doesn't matter what language the source is, at least online. A fully competent Google translate would seamlessly allow everyone to communicate without destroying culture in the process.
"It also found that we weren’t clear enough with the final round judges about the use of pre-existing code"

because you were expecting the pre-determined winner to be using it?
"designed from the ground up to blend the best of an SUV with the benefits of a minivan" - yet incapable of carrying either largish cargo or more than 4.5 adults.
Worked great for Obama :)
The Changing Face of America
Recruiter messages are not spam. Crappy, generic messages from people who attempt to do recruiting but who don't read your profile at all is.
In a project this convoluted...not in terms of actual feature complexity, but the shitwork that was generated by bureaucracy and political infighting...how could Healthcare.gov not have serious issues with XSS and SQL?

Think back to Egor Homanov's amazing hack of Github using a Rails vulnerability to well-known to Rails core team that argued it was not an issue because only fools wouldn't use attr_protected. Github has brilliant programmers and (one would hope) a well-oiled engineering environment and still was vulnerable to this fatal flaw.

Now imagine a project with far lesser engineers, highly paid but no real ownership, controlled by people who care more about political deadlines than actual functionality. And top it off with what seems like a hodgepdoge of arcane technology and processes. How could there not be at least a few catastrophic holes?

On a sidenote...I've seen a few references to "MarkLogic" being the datastore for Healthcare.gov. It's not open-source and has little adoption in the developer community:

http://slashdot.org/story/13/11/24/1437203/nyt-healthcaregov...

Whose genius idea was it to use a non-notable proprietary database software for this? And what was the reasoning? Technical, or political?
Let's please stop this parade of ignorance! Trading is not investing! You can make or lose money with both. That's where the similarities end. One deals with the value of businesses, the other deals with psychology and gambling theory. The two are really nothing alike.
I am new to command line - but this is awesome! VERY helpful.
Thanks and congrats!
That's not quite right.

The site does have issues. Naming the vulnerabilities is subject to responsible disclosure. Hypothetically, were Tinfoil Security to find any issues, we would disclose them to the feds and give them ample time to fix the issues (which, for the government, would potentially be months) before we went out publicly to name what the issues were.
Why promote the use of obsolete technology (including language), when it can be satisfactorily preserved in museums?
If they haven't already, they could hide the DOM and nasty host-provided objects behind something more Pythonic. As long as it transpiles to XMLHttpRequests, it doesn't matter what the Python looks like.
Yeps.

Personally I see a puniversal app for ordering based on GPS and specificity confirmation being a solid way to handle this in the future.
>According to the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversaw the implementation of the website, the components used to build the site are compliant with standards set by Federal security authorities.

This sounds similar to saying the steel plating on the Titanic was compliant with industry standards. All because you have sound components doesn't mean they will result in a sound product. Unfortunately, I don't expect many people outside this industry will realize how hollow this statement is.
lol,, then what about a ring?? That would be pretty good choice
The best job offers come when someone knows who you are. To get there you need to have some sort of presence on the radar of the right recruiters. I have jumped in and out of recruiting and development so I'm not guessing on this. The product is the chemistry and courtship assistance, not the person. A good recruiter can help, a bad one can waste time. The same is true with a good vs. bad developer.
Don't care what people say - follow your own way!:)
Let's just build a Wine-like linux variant that can run ios apps