skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Sorry, I only have german sources:

http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2014-01/gefahr... (recent developments)

http://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/zeitgeschehen/2013-12/Rote-F... (about the original demonstration)

The underlying situation is pretty complicated and dates back to developments in the 80s (Hafenstrasse Hamburg etc.), I doubt there's good english references.
Well that's what the share chain is for. Again, if you don't trust the nodes you can run your own.
Voice-over-Vodka (VoDKA) to bring new streams of revenue for mobile operators
Data: A Makeover for Maps
No worries I read German as well, living in Austria so I had to learn, thanks for the sources!
YouTrack is more than issue tracker (free webinar)
Ask HN: Where did you hang out while HN was down?
I'm (and probably others, hopefully) will be interested in knowing where you spent your online surfing time in place of HN. As a person learning programming for the first time, I spent most of the time on r/learnprogramming, r/learnpython, r/ python and Google Groups for the Python mailing list.

What of you?
A push to abolish 'ridiculous' S.F. laws
Show HN: I'm building one html5 game per week
Metrics Are Unit Tests for Your Business
> So Digital Ocean could freely decide if a content is harassing without any legal court order or something?

Their TOS presumably allow this, as do the TOSes of most hosts, but this seems like a pretty bizarre use of discretionary terms, and would definitely put a lot of people off using it for anything much.
Enjoy the cloud. Nothing more to be said. With the current "Waiver all rights in the TOS and no legal protections for the customers" it is only going to get worse.

I think that cloud services and telecoms and ISPs should be designated as common carrier with the protections and obligations that come from that.
To be fair, the key difference is that these guys got away with it. If they hadn't, I hope they'd have the level of notoriety and support Snowden and Manning have had. But I agree that it would be better to focus on the facts and issues rather than the individuals involved.
> It's a phone, therefore it can be subsidized by the carriers

Subsidies are non-existent in many european countries, and seem to be (at least somewhat) on the way out in the US. I don't think this is a requirement.

> It almost does everything a smartphone can, including having a lot of screen real-estate

... or, it does things a smartphone might but is not convenient at - e.g., an LED light is potentially much more useful on a wrist than on a phone. an NFC device is way more useful on your hand. The second factor (think two factor auth) on your wrist is also way better than reaching out for your mobile.
Thanks! We just got started, and I totally get your point. Right now we are trying to figure if there is a commercial aspect to this. Our plan is to open source the code eventually.

Note: We use AES for encoding our keys into redis, where we use redis timeouts to clear out the data. Minimal postfix logging to ensure that we don't keep track of emails.
The Brain, in Exquisite Detail
Oh no, my flash card is gone (2012)
RAID is a method for surviving hardware failure. If you have a software failure in, say, the VFS layer, RAID will happily accept the order to write garbage all over your inode trees and will carefully store and make sure that all the appropriate disks can return the same garbage every time. And yes, it should warn you when you need to replace a disk which is no longer returning the right garbage.

Similarly, if you rm -rf a vital directory tree, RAID can ensure that it goes away reliably.
> If I were them, I'd either have yearly revisions, or hardware levels.

They'll probably end up using something like the Windows Experience Index. People shouldn't have to worry about the specifics of their CPU, etc. unless they want to.
The real issue here is whether Digital Ocean should be enforcing a term in their ToS to prevent users from using their network in various socially negative ways. As a liberal-ish European, I think they should, but I appreciate this stance doesn't necessarily play well in the US.

Nonetheless, taking quotes from an informal chat room and turning them into a biased, borderline libelous blog post isn't cool. It's immaterial whether Collins told the author they didn't care about the post or not. If Collins made an official complaint as per the ToS, the post in question - http://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/googler-speaks... - strikes me as defamatory and embarrassing enough to legitimately fall under term 2.8.. so the real question has nothing to do with the complaint but more is term 2.8 a good idea or not?
This is a spoof right?

"One member of the community half-seriously (I assumed) threatened to harm me, proposing to “Godwins law this fucker.""

"Another member of the community [...] had taken note of my browser “fingerprint” and was now offering to share it with everyone."

So they were going to compare him to Hitler as punishment, and share with the community information used mainly for ad targeting?
There may be people who are afraid to walk about after dusk, but in the vast majority of cases their fears are unfounded. Violent crime has been plummeting in the UK for years. Even at its height, "dark alleys" were pretty safe.

Making ever more draconian laws, curtailing more and more people's freedoms will not help to alleviate these irrational fears.
>It's like a kid in class that would stare at you constantly

This may be annoying, but it is not a crime.

Loud music, blocking driveways: now there are often existing rules about these. Rules that are objective (eg: no noise heard in a residence that exceeds 40 db between 9 PM and 8 AM) are the right way to stop the nuisance behavior not: "I don't like your looks, so you can't make any noise here."
I was really hoping for some interesting case designs to use for an HTPC/steam machine.
Put posters into stident halls of residence giving accurate information about how much people drink.

Early research suggests that some people drink lots because they think that's the norm and it's what everyone else is drinking.

When someone ends up in a&e for alcohol related stuff a note is taken of who sold them alcohol. This allows us to aee if any particular clubs need to work on harm reduction.

Change minimum pricing for alcohol, and prevent special offers for alcohol. This would have minimal impact on most people, but would help reduce binge drinking.

Have better training for gps and gp nurses. Most people drinking too much are not serious enough for specialst drug and alcohol rehab, and primary care is a more appropriate setting for them.

Urban design and planning can set expectations - early experiments show that clubbers leaving a premises are quieter with good planning of te environment.

Sensible enforcement of existing laws.
One of those, the Origin PC Chronos, looks to be using a Silverstone GD05 chassis, which is the exact one that's been housing my HTPC/"Steam Machine" this past year. It's nice to see some vindication for the choice (although I've been thinking about moving to something more compact and console-like, as it's basically a full mATX case on its side, and has non-optimal airflow). Cooling is definitely an issue; there is no way it can dump the heat of 2× NVidia Titans and a 4770k, as it can just about handle my single GTX 460.
This is great! I've started using this.

Since this is being hosted on appspot and you'd be proxying significant traffic - I think you would cross your limits soon.
That strategy would return results for any phrase not containing "of course". Which would be rather a lot of results in any document. I am envisioning a regex that plucks hashes from emails, for example. Some parts English, some parts cryptographic "noise". Pick the noise from the English

(note the inspiration was a nefarious regex scanner for finding bitcoin hashes. I have no intention of building such a thing, but the idea of a random detector regex intrigued me. Is it possible?)

My idea was more like calculate the statistics of character n-grams in english (all of which exist in random noise too), but count the most unlikely occurrences until you hit some probabilistic threshold that indicates some well thought out decision boundary.
"The problem with socialism is that eventually
you run out of other people's money"

-- Margaret Thatcher
Punk was political, specifically anarchist - argument void.

I didn't say you can't correlate it, I said you can't treat them all like criminals by default - only a small fraction of football fans are violent, similarly teenagers.

A law that effectively bans people queuing up to watch football is the same level of crazy as banning teenagers from queuing up for goth metal.
"zfs snapshot"
How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet
> Sadly Britain does have a problem in some communities with ingrained, persistent and extremely damaging anti-social behaviour.

yes, for instance the banker community behaved in a very financially antisocial manner. Though that's probably not what you meant. Your task next is to work out the comparative magnitude of these different problems and to compare that to the magnitude of effort expended on prosecuting them.
I agree that Nazi Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union were certainly major inspirations for his writing 1984 and Animal Farm. But those are just his best-known works.

They don't really explain, for example, why he voluntarily lived as a homeless person before writing Down and Out in Paris and London, or his feelings about the plight of working people that motivated the writing of The Road to Wigan Pier. Its also worth noting that in Spain he was fighting against Franco's fascists in the mid-30s because he could already see where that belief system leads.

Orwell's experience of private education resulted in his strong views about the role of class and privilege in British society at the time - concerns which are arguably still relevant today. His time in the colonial Burmese Police led him to say, in The Road to Wigan Pier, that "I hated the imperialism I was serving with a bitterness which I probably cannot make clear". It would be interesting to speculate on what he would think of UK foreign policy after 9/11.

Orwell was a social critic. In the context of the issues raised Monbiot's article and the question about a "new Orwell", anyone who was successfully taking on that role would be doing more than just writing cautionary tales about possible future totalitarian dystopias.
Thats interesting. As a liberalish European, I think DigitalOcean shouldn't be allowed to police their content, just as ISPs shouldn't be allowed to block websites at their whim. Thats clearly in the realm of courts and lawyers. DigitalOcean can cancel the contract once others found the blog post to be defamatory.
I used to have a to-read pile.

Then I had a to-read shelf.

and then... and then...

Ended up with about two and a half 6 foot bookshelves full of stuff I hadn't read. Which is currently sitting in storage.

For the last few years I've had the rule that I don't buy a book until the point that I'm going to start reading it. Which the world of digital books has obviously made a lot easier.

Made my life simpler - I'd recommend it ;-)
I ended up spending most of my time productively, writing code. However, I did spend a significant amount of time in IRC channels, Lobste.rs, /r/netsec, /r/python, /r/crypto, and /r/malware.
Due to few (any?) countries truly considering ISPs as common carriers most ISPs have to be the police at some stage. So it's a matter of how they handle it. It doesn't sound like DO have handled this well.
A lot of TP-Link routers work with the OpenWRT firmware.
'Maverick', by Ricardo Semler, was written in 1988 and is well known among business types:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0446670553/
Perhaps the two of you are only disagreeing on what "liberal" means; it tends to mean something quite different in Europe than in the US :)
KDE announce a Tech Preview of KDE Frameworks 5
This is the definition of online harassment. This guy Josh at vpsexperience.wordpress.com sounds like a real piece of work.
Don't use Digital Ocean. Every time I hear their name, it's a complete index of WTFs.
Thats precisely the point ;).
There is Map With Me [1] that was recommended previously. I bought the Pro version and it's very fast (maps are downloaded and cached in the device), but no directions.

[1] Lite version to try: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id431183278
>As bad as we think the NSA is today the FBI in its "glory days" under Hoover were far, far worse. McCarthy was far worse.

I disagree, 100%. The NSA is far more powerful, and far - FAR - more dangerous now than the FBI ever was under Hoover.

If you don't think this is the case, I don't think you're really looking honestly at the situation. In the Hoover/FBI days, we had a chance - the Operation Snow Whites' and so on. Now, however, there is no such chance: the NSA has far, far too many safe-guards in place to protect itself, and has infiltrated - and controls, directly - too many so-called 'peace movements' and other groups that might have a chance at awakening the sheeple. We must be more diligent, and with greater resolve to fight back now, than ever before in history - because we are at the cusp of allowing a seriously evil influence over the world to have its will - whereas in the 60's and 70's, people were willing to stand up and fight, now hardly anyone will. At all.
So? DO is a private company offering a service. They're not obliged to accept your money. Don't like them, go elsewhere.
The good news is that SICP is an illuminating experience, the bad news are it took me 1 year to go through it, doing all the exercises along the way.
I believe it would, if the other company obeys to this constrains:

* has a very large number of top-notch/rock star engineers and this fact is widely publicised
* has a history of producing products with a very good quality (at least in the area under discussion, in this case reliability, performance and scalability)
* has been on the market and successful for a long period of time
* engineer opinion within the company carries weight and rules are not blindly dictated from above.

There are many other good companies, hiring extremely bright people.
However, it's interesting to learn about what arises from the requirements of a company with the above listed characteristics.

I'm sure some people will just cargo cult everything googly, but there are also those who have a genuine interest and know when to apply those things if they make sense for them.
Intel vows to stop using 'conflict minerals' in new chips
T-Mobile CEO crashes AT&T’s CES party, gets escorted out
I have lots of remarks, but this is not a psychology essay. The most important part: the style is brilliant and adequate.
"Society, after all, does not exists. It's you or them?"

I think it's difficult to paint retube as believing that society doesn't exist when they used the term "anti-social". It kind of implies society, don't you think?
1. Has none of the "alpha geeks" involved ever hear of or Google the "Streisand Effect"?

2. Though the issue raised is one that's worth debating, what Collins said wasn't particularly newsworthy or inflammatory and may not even disqualify him from some day winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Yet the way the OP referred to his remarks, by the time I clicked through to see the juicy details, I was expecting something on the order of "Let them eat cake", but with racial slurs thrown in. The purportedly shocking statements were, IMO, not terrible, give the concise format. And yet they may have very well been given the sinister connotations DO's alleged actions give them
Poor IDN Support From Major Webmail Providers
Political, specifically Fascist I think you mean. There is a big overlap with punks, football hooligans and BNP/Combat 18. Ever heard of Skrewdriver? Where does the law ban people from standing in queues?
I'm not sure what the actual consequences of basic income would be, but at least this article references attempts at figuring out how such systems affect people. You're not bringing up any objections that aren't mentioned in the article.

And pointing to existing forms of welfare/social security misses the point entirely. Many who speak for basic income (including this article's author) argue that it's the heavy bureaucracy and stigma associated with such sollutions that cause people to be caught up in it.
Goodyear Bosses Held Captive by Workers at French Site
Of course. foobarian sends an email with the URL to a service and it returns the webpage, which he reads in emacs.
In the datacentre, troubleshooting.

I hardly noticed.
Do you trust your smartphone to park your car for you? Bosch thinks you will
Even accepting your thesis for a minute, because one group gets away with bad behaviour does that mean we should excuse everyone's bad behaviour and let everyone behave as badly as they wish? I fear anarchy lies that way.

Anyway global regulators are doing all they can to clean up the banks and have them pay restitution for their actions. So it's not like they are being allowed to carry on either.
Can't tell if sarcasm, considering that Thatcher's move was to privatise, until she ran out of public assets.

This pithy quote is also wrong because it assumes the economy is a zero sum game and misses the point that this article is trying to make -- that giving away money would be cheaper and have better results than the current system of welfare.
Wikipedia article on CoCom links to a post that links to this page:

http://ukhas.org.uk/guides:gps_modules
Alternate links.
http://www.valvesoftware.com/news/

If you want to read the press sheet its here. It shows pictures of what the designs will look like.
http://media.steampowered.com/store/steammachines/SteamMachi...

Most of them seems to be simular to existing designs.
That's awesome, I will have some busy time looking through it !
Thanks
Add a readme to that dir and it will.
How to Become "Internet Famous"
I don't know about the one mentioned, but I've used very high end CNCs. The ones that I used are VERY carefully calibrated by the manufacturer on site. A slight change in the slope of the floor could throw the calibration off. They wouldn't want to spend time troubleshooting a problem caused by somebody moving the equipment. That said, we didn't have anything like a GPS on the thing that would shut it down if moved.
In the UK the editor of the Guardian was pulled up in front of parliament (like congress but with a two drink minimum) and one of the questions he was asked was "Do you love this country?". It immediately brought to mind McCarthy.
Similar problem on my phone and you can't Ctrl+F5 to force a reload on this device.
I'm not sure how valid this view is but I feel that the lower level (as in closer to infrastructure) the service provided the higher level the threshold for editorial interference should be. Against this feeling DO massively overstepped the mark here and have massively put me off using them.

I'm not saying that they should never have control; at least spamming, illegal content and DOS attacks need to be dealt with but requesting editorial changes to blog posts just feels off the chart.

Edit: Typos and clarifying that lower level referred to infrastructure.
GitHub recent sold Gauges to someone else.
French-UAE Intel Satellite Deal in Doubt Over Alleged US Backdoors
Windows: Browsable offline wikipedia
If you're after hashes you could just match a string of hexadecimal digits of a specific length (such as [0-9a-f]{16} ); much easier to define than English text.
OnTheGo is Foundry Group’s First AngelList Syndicate Investment
No, I just kept wasting time reloading HN home page or following notifications on twitter!
I don't get it. According to the article, Basic Income causes working hours to drop 9% in the American controlled experiment. They try to explain it away by acting as if 9% is small, and providing anecdotes suggesting in some cases it might be a good thing.

For comparison, the great recession resulted in a 3.4% drop in GDP. Now, a 9% drop in work will result in less than a 9% drop in GDP (wealth is increasingly produced by machines, not people, resulting in a lower labor share of income), but even so, 9% is big.

By the way, as I always ask when this topic comes up, can someone link to actual studies? I.e., hard data rather than an innumerate reporter breathlessly advocating a proposal because it sounds cool?

Incidentally, a back of the envelope calculation (http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/basic_income_vs_basic...) suggests that it would be vastly cheaper to adopt FDR's employer of last resort policy. If we are going to adopt a radical overhaul, lets consider the full search space.

[edit: some sources about the third world are cited on the right, not the bottom, and I missed them on first reading. Thanks davidx.]
Oh, no. Print advertisers are almost completely unable to gather meaningful statistics. Prices are determined by circulation x a fuzzy notion of impact.
I'm not aware of anything of this nature in Berlin.

The city has changed in the past few years for sure, with Tacheles gone and the police evicting the last few remaining squats, and rents rising all around. But the local government of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg at least seems keen to protect its character as the most interesting part of the city.

People can always go to Charlottenburg if they want boring and clean.
The original article reminds me of the usual SUN/Bild/Fox News style which makes it really hard to defend the author in any way. In addition to that he calls names, basically gives out the address of the person in question.. ugh.
The origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
OP here.

As a developer and a gamer I always wanted to make games, but I never actually did it. To change that I threw myself a public challenge: build a new game every week in html5 using Phaser (a javascript framework).

The games are quite simple for now, but that's because I'm still learning. Let me know if you have any feedback, so I can increase the quality of my games over time.
C++ status at the end of 2013
As most of it was Sunday for me, I spent some time working on my IOCCC 2014 entry after reading carefully through the 2013 entries for inspiration.

That and r/wtf which is slightly addictive if not completely wrong.
Why women aren’t welcome on the internet
I wonder how much effort would be reasonable to improve the resilience of HN to this kind of issues, given that's a relatively rare issue and HN doesn't really have a money loss in case of a downtime such as this.