skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the bit about the single vote was about her? Does it mean they had just one vote in the committee or a single person quashed the bill?

Feinstein lives in an ivory tower, completely isolated from the needs of ordinary citizens in California. She gets six years in office with every election, and was just recently re-elected. She's totally safe, like those tea-party republicans in gerrymandered districts. California is too big of a state for a grassroots organization to challenge her in a primary and she placates enough of various groups with the funds to start an astroturf war and so they leave her alone. She's pretty much untouchable. She often starts on the wrong side of many issues, a notable exception being LGBT rights (good for her and us), and only with intense pressure from public opinion does she bow for appearances only. For example she was for SOPA, against meaningful health reform, and she's been a staunch defender of the NSA.

Senator Feinstein is a defender of the status quo. She's a conservative. Not a social conservative or neo-conservative, but someone who fights progress. Her office is in an actual giant tower right outside of the Montgomery Street Bart station and she wouldn't even come down to visit protestors and talk to them when we were there on behalf of OFA and there quite a few of us. It might as well have been built in ivory. That was the only protest I have ever taken part in. It wasn't even really a protest, just a show of support for Obama's health care plan.

Politicians like Feinstein make me cynical about politics. I feel helpless to be able to contribute change, so I just don't want to care anymore. Whatever, she's the boss. Great. Could be worse I guess.
Since we can't seem to stop these horrible patent trolls, perhaps they could be reined in with a law that limits how much damage they can do. If a new law limited these sorts of claims to a grand total of 10% of a company's gross sales for the year, a small business could survive these kinds of attacks without having to pay millions of dollars for lawyers. If a business was attacked by multiple patent trolls, then those trolls would have to fight each other in court as they each argued that they deserve the lion's share of the capped 10% of the company's gross sales for the year. Since our current patent system is being thoroughly abused, the question we should be asking is: What can be done to limit patent trolls so that small businesses can survive? Because right now it is very lucrative to be a patent troll, so in the future, we could wind up with a ton of them. It's not a bright future.
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Less shit link to the actual speech in question:

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=2013-10-23a.299.8#...

But am flagging for the outrageous misquote in the title.
> I'd be willing to believe that one woman lied to discredit him...I'm less willing to believe that two women did so.

One needs to consider the circumstances.

Would you believe a woman wearing dildo shoes who's accusing a world famous journalist for rape? Yes, dildo shoes. I'd say it affects my view on what has been said.
http://lolpics.se/pics/76665.jpg

Assange should take note of this advice and protect the truth.
http://raincoaster.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/julian-assang...

Whatever transpired, calling it rape is offensive to all the women out there who was violently forced to submission.

The most disturbing thing about this "case" is that the Swedish police published Assanges name in the world press on suspicion of rape, even before a court had seen any evidence. What about the right to a fair trial? Assange certainly was judged without one.
The Swedish police stubborn refusal to interview Assange in the UK is also suspicious. Authorities have no such inhibitions in other less high-profile cases.

My advice to all of you is to keep your d*ck in your pants when visiting Sweden and meeting a girl wearing dildo shoes.
"Processing a transaction in the VISA network" != "securing the monetary system".

First you have to have the VISA network in the first place, that's no mean feat. Then there are the banks themselves, hardly trivial. Only then do we get into central banks and financial regulators. All part of the package.
Hadrian's Firewall?
Textures don't show up on the globe, warnings in the developer console: https://gist.github.com/wereHamster/58eb96d184dffd096e3f.
I hope your are wrong. I'm going to be father soon. Bringing a child into a doomed world is an incredible depressing thought.

Maybe we should stop using our collective IQ developing web/mobile apps and start thinking about saving this world or how to delay doomsday.
Good point. Edited to change "life quality" to "quality of life", which can be quantified. For example, see http://www.oecd.org/newsroom/BLI2013-Country-Notes.pdf
The entire point of FOSS is being able to have the source code of the software you use. Period. That's it.

The people who write the software can do whatever the hell they want, as can the people using the software, as long as they abide by the licence. These are the only stipulations. Even RMS supports the right of creators to sell software.

People who write FOSS software aren't required to be a charity...
How do you setup wifi networking for a multi-floor startup
I am posting on behalf of a friend of mine, who runs a biggish startup.

We are a 50-member startup based out of India and by some combination of bad luck+ bootstrapped funding + Indian real estate demand, have 3 floors of a building separated by 2 floors in between. Now we do have ethernet wiring, but we are having trouble with ethernet due to various issues (next door construction cut our cables, rats, etc.). So we want to move to a pure wifi solution (with some amount of cabling of course).

I'm trying to figure out how to set up wireless so that we can have a single, seamless wireless network between all the floors. I mainly want to safeguard against everyone accidental overloading a single router and have a single ssid+password.

Be warned that it is very likely going to be DIY because of availability of vendors/hardware, so it would be great if there are solutions which can get away with off-the-shelf hardware.

I am hoping that silicon valley has almost entirely moved to wifi because nobody wants to be caught dead working on desktops! Hopefully, other startups had similar growth pangs and could share some pointers.

thanks!
It's more likely to do with the extremely rude and aggressive approach you have taken, while not giving any examples of actual problems with what he has written.

That you're doing so from an entirely new account, and so either have no track record here or have chosen not to post under your usual account also doesn't exactly point in your favour, as "calling people out" for lack of authority and credibility while doing nothing to establish your own certainly does tend to rile people up.

I'm sure I am not the only one who is left questioning your motives more so than the authority of the poster.
IBuyPower's Steam Machine offers PC specs for the price of a new Xbox
seems to be broken in chrome on osx, works in safari 7 with webgl enabled.
This is beautiful. Earth is just black though. Not seeing any countries. Is this intentional?
The original post was about being charged in US. The rape acquisitions are between the Swedish government and him.

The whole story is extremely messy on many levels. I think that I buy more the accuser's story. Assange is obviously an asshole. But the Swedish government IIRC has repeated refuse to promise not to extradite him to the US. And I definitely see why he cannot afford to go to Sweden to defend himself against the charges.

The point that consent can be withdrawn at any point during the interaction - I am not sure it is biologically feasible to have such high standard - a person can rarely be accused of clear mind near and during the climax.
Or Denmark being a whole lot cheaper than India.

It's a huge topic in our company right now, that future devs shouldn't be Danes, but outsourced to India.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/06/nsa-sc...
I think the issue is that it's mostly just links, and not much meaningful feedback. People are mostly talking past one another and there was [when I looked] very little dialog.

It was more like the monthly job thread and HN might have legitimate reasons for discouraging analogous threads for everyone's side projects.

It is also possible that the thread's pattern of growth triggered some heuristic.
That's not accurate at all. I left Spain and arrived to France for a dramatic salary increase, close to 50% more. Even more impressive taking into account I've done it from a big city to a small city (in Paris this would be closer to a 100% increase).

Yet in the graph they are pretty much around the same, with Spain listed higher.
I was thinking automatic filters that would block specific pages based on the output of some text analysis algorithm. This sounds more like a manually maintained blacklist, which would be very easy to work around using different users on social media and letting followers find you on Google.
Well that didn't take long. First it was about porn, now the naked power grab begins. Who gets to define 'extremism'? Will information that Snowden leaked now be deemed extremist material? It seems only natural that the next step will be blocking dissent and content deemed dangerous to the sanctity of the state.

People of Great Britain, I hope you're not sleeping on this. Forget the slippery slope, this is the cliff.
A curious thing just happened. I enabled WebGL in Safari and visited the site, after which I saw this -> (screenshot): http://imgur.com/yY1vEC8

What you're seeing there (behind the globe) is pieces of my desktop, code in a text editor, even snippets of another tab open in safari! How is this even remotely secure? Would this be possible in other implementations of WebGL or just Safari's implementation? I understand that it allows for greater access to your computer's resources, but either way, after this user-experience I'm far less inclined to include it in future projects.

Original comment:
Cool idea, although I kept waiting for additional/contextual info to load on the globe [a geographic or node-based map; weighted lines between points (or, wait, that doesn't make sense); a click-to-learn-more on the transactions themselves, etc.], just something to delve-into that would make it one-iota more interesting. Either way it's a soothing visualization.

Are the sounds' frequencies tied to the size of the transactions? If so, that's a great idea -- random-but-informative background noise! Kudos - keep refining it! (A bunch of 'texture unit not renderable' messages in console. Tried in Chrome Canary 33.0.1720.0 for Mac version 10.9.)

Tried your other link http://www.craftfortress.com/earthbit/index2.html and the textures loaded no problem (I see the map of countries projected on the globe) -- but transactions aren't loading in now.
introversion/extraversion is a spectrum, meaning you're not either introvert or extrovert, you're both, only you're more extrovert or more introvert.

Even introverts can have a hard time not seeing anybody.
Google Dart - The Prophesied Successor?
Here's a much more detailed analysis with a lot more data and nuance:

Mark Lemley, "Where to file your patent case"

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1597919

EDT is not actually at the top for claimant win rates.
That totally depends on which drug we're talking about and amphetamines only provide habitual addiction at best.

Don't preach to others if you lack the experience yourself.
for some reason, the third page has most of the content.
Local police fight crime with 18-ton armored military vehicles
Python: How to get the Content-Type of an URL? - Stack Overflow
How to Monetize an App with In-app Video Advertising
How does Erdogan deserve to be the times person of the year.
With everything that is happening in Turkey and all the countries that it defies and steps over.
He shouldn't event be on the list !
In Chinese, repeated syllables are very common in everyday speech, so they might think that tata and toto were abbreviations of something significant.

example: 胖胖 (pàng pàng) "fat fat," nickname for a fat child in the class (generally considered a compliment.)

Chinese speakers are also (according to my teacher) very fond of the English "Bye Bye" for goodbye, since it follows the same pattern, and will use it in place of 再见 (zài jiàn) "again see" if they know you will understand it.
> "Our first priority is to keep Americans safe from the threat of terrorism."

bzzt!, oh, sorry, that's not the correct answer. The correct answer is set out in the oath that all US Senators take upon being sworn into office[1] which reads:

>"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter: So help me God."

So no, sorry, the first priority is to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, which includes the NSA. Their oath says nothing about terrorism.

>"If government agencies identify a suspected terrorist, they should absolutely go to the relevant phone companies to get that person’s phone records."

Are you done supplicating yourself fully before the police state? My copy of the Constitution (which does not contain the root password "thinkofthekids" or "terrorism") says you need not just suspicion, but probable cause for a warrant.

>"When the Bill of Rights was adopted, it established that Americans’ papers and effects should be seized only when there was specific evidence of suspicious activity."

bzzt!, again, so close! Let's look at what it really says[2], shall we (emphasis mine):

>The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Not only do you need suspicion, but you need probable cause for a warrant or the search needs to be reasonable some other way (border crossing, subject gave consent, search subject to arrest, etc).

>Our bill would prohibit the government from conducting warrantless “backdoor searches” of Americans’ communications — including emails, text messages and Internet use — under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

Again, so close! Read the fourth amendment again. Nowhere does it say "The right of US Citizens". It says "The right of the people". That means all people - citizens and non-citizens, and that distinction is important. The protections afforded under this amendment apply to everyone in the country and extend to those parties being contacted by someone from this country, otherwise the wording would be different.

[1] http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/briefing/...

[2] http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_tra...
You mean, the author of the article who disclosed that from the beginning?
This is similar to slut shaming. How someone acts before, after, or any other time doesn't affects whether they wanted to have sex in that instance. You could walk around in bondage gear all day, it doesn't mean you're asking to be raped, or change the legitimacy of accusations of rape. If someone has sex with you against your will (or in this case, they don't use protection and claim they did), it is a crime. Full stop.
3D Printable Turkey
They're giving away high quality software for free, with the source code, and a liberal open source licence. They don't owe anyone shit...
You can not use them and build everything yourself, so I think we're ok.
willing to bet it's his corporate firewall that blocks it at work...
Can you enlighten me what shoes are appropriate for a girl to wear to have her rape story taken seriously?

Rape is treated pretty fucked up by the society - it is generally blame and ignore the victim. But if she somehow gets authorities cooperation and get the story to the media - than the guy's life is destroyed no matter the outcome of the trial. So the justice is rarely served.
Patient zero: cancer treatment meets big data
This is an OpEd piece, not "The NYTimes opinion". Besides, the authors are US senators, and have been historically fighting against the NSA broad data collection.

Ron Wyden of Oregon, Mark Udall of Colorado and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, all Democrats, are United States senators.
When all you have is a ha(u)mmer, you are in search for anything that might have some semblance of a nail.
Please do not drag this discussion to stateful vs. stateless programming. It's about OO, which is typically, in practice and in theory, associated with mutable state.
Strange, All I see is more ads for 23andme.com and a lame attempt to scare me into using it.
> Traditionally, these sorts of courses at MIT have used Matlab

This is an incredibly good sign for hobbyists in a number of fields where Matlab completely dominates the research end of the spectrum.
In the DSP realm the amount of experimental software that relies on Matlab and the number of research publications that pack in Matlab implementations is enough to be a pain in the side for anyone outside of an institution where Matlab licenses are taken for granted. Hopefully it will become a trend.
Why I am not a Team Player
Not very worried about Google arresting me at some point in the future with their jackboot thugs for something I did or said in the past (when X wasn't illegal).

This applies to Facebook, Twitter, AT&T, Verizon, Samsung, Snapchat, and so on. When these guys start trying to acquire their own domestic armies, then I'll get really concerned.

There seems to be a common gloss-over regarding the fact that it's the United States Military that is doing the domestic spying. They were tapping Obama's phones when he was a Senator; most likely they own everybody at this point. This isn't some fluffcake brigade; it's the US freakin' military. Slip, and you're knee deep in a military dictatorship very quickly.
Satoshi Nakamoto

let's drive BTC up to $10,000 before the crash!
A reasonable way of addressing this, would have been for you to write a short comment describing what you believe to be better resources, with links, and leave the nastiness out of it. Or a short blog post, and submit it.

As for your question:

> Is this 1800 rated 19 year old really the proper authority to learn how to play chess? Wouldn't a professional chess teacher with decades of experience and a higher rating than 1800 be the correct authority to instruct us on the best methods to learn chess?

My answer to that would be "I don't know". It depends on the material. I have more than enough times seen situations from my own fields of expertise where "professionals" with decades of experience have been shown up by relative beginners to be prepared to blindly accept an appeal to authority. Especially when you are not backing it up with any examples of why you believe his article is not good enough to be suitable to his stated audience.

> HN should just link one of the dozens of much more reputable books on this topic.

So give us a name, or a link, rather than spout vitriol.
To me filter implies an automated system. This sounds more like they are blocking specific sites after investigating them.
Garbage data. Canada isn't even on the list.
Chrome won't let me vote..throwing shitloads of errors in the console.

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i guess, just his fans votes for him. They do this every time
Can't vote as I have to login with Twitter or Facebook to vote.

Why?
Outsourcing Impossible
>the company already has made $45 million off it

I know that saying "made" is the generic form for acquiring money through any means. However, it also carries the connotations of production, of creation. I would rather say that they have already extorted $45 million using it.
Why Google Made An Ad to Promote Search In India Where It Has 97% Market Share?
I think common fucking sense is pretty well on his side.
The actual quote:

The Prime Minister: We have put in place some of the toughest controls that one can possibly have within a democratic Government, and the TPIMs are obviously one part of that. We have had repeated meetings of the extremism task force—it met again yesterday—setting out a whole series of steps that we will take to counter the extremist narrative, including by blocking online sites. Now that I have the opportunity, let me praise Facebook for yesterday reversing the decision it took about the showing of beheading videos online. We will take all these steps and many more to keep our country safe.
There are ways to try and capture that, often using various surveys.

Here's one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercer_Quality_of_Living_Survey, but for cities rather than countries.
Remote Access Granted; Internet wide device discovery
This is just a trick to lure him out.
If the Department of Justice issue a official statement to this fact, then Assange can leave the embassy and return to Sweden for that short interview with the investigator.

Afterward if the Swedish prosecutors want to continue and go to court with only one out of the two women as witness (the other one refuses to cooperate with the prosecutor), and have a nice and likely quite short, then hey, that would make for an interesting day or two in the news. No one really expect it to be much more than that.
You really have to read the claims to understand what the patent covers instead of trying to understand it from what is infringing. This patent has pretty easy-to-read claims. It essentially covers an encryption method where the encryption/decryption keys are updated (edit to correct my misreading) if a certain number of bytes are detected to have been exchanged. It's kind of a key-synchronization method.
What is the best pricing strategy for small SaaS service?
The FBI Might Do More Domestic Surveillance than the NSA