skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of these are either politically impossible or not within the President's power to implement to begin with:

2) Protect "privacy rights" of foreigners: Foreigners don't have privacy rights under our Constitution, and by and large Americans don't have a problem with the NSA spying on foreigners. Indeed, that's the purpose of the NSA.

5) Stop undermining internet security: what does this even mean? Should the NSA stop figuring out how to break encryption? Stop inserting backdoors into equipment sold to China? Again, that's the purpose of the NSA.

7) Reject the third party doctrine: the third party doctrine is a legal doctrine; the President cannot reject it, only the Supreme Court.

It's a mistake to believe that just because many Americans are upset with the NSA over recent revelations, that they embrace the leftist/globalist sentiments that are common in the tech community with regards to the NSA. To the extent the public opposes the NSA programs, they oppose mass-collection of call data from Americans. That's it.
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Personally, I make a digital ocean VM in the US, and then use:

ssh myvmaddress.com -D 10000

Then I set Firefox proxy to SOCKS on port 10000.

You can also do this on windows with putty. Great for when you need to use an untrusted wifi, because ssh checks that the proxy VM is who it says it is.

I just don't trust some shady proxy company with my data. 'So what is your business plan?', 'I am going to sell a service for hiding the dodgiest people on the internet, and also stealing BBC iplayer', 'oh, can I also send my banking data through it?'. I don't like this conversation.
you assume that every squatter does graffiti and tears holes in walls, this obviously is NOT the truth by any means.
Docker instructions would be good.

But how can a build need more than 2GB of memory??
I learned it roughly 20 years ago because of Expect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect), and later used it with Oratcl and AOLServer. And I even did a little C fiddling.
> You want real actual measurable change? Get your fucking congressman out of office.

My congressman is voting the exact way I like, its the rest of your congresspeople that are screwing it up.

// truth and the actual situation for many in one statement
Didn't see the website but give me a shout if you want and i'll try to help you depending on your requirements :).

Btw. why would you trust more someone on a website or HN over someone on Odesk or Freelance?
I have the 3 unlimited plan but also Spotify premium because it's just easier having offline synced playlists, especially for train journeys when signal is always spotty.
Congrats to the Tcl team. Tk may still be the sanest GUI toolkit out there, despite its relative stagnation.
30 euro ex shipping with 6 in stock.
The thinnest Americans are Asian Americans, CDC data show
You realize cloud services are vulnerable to data loss as well?[1] The cloud isn't some magic machine off in a datacenter somewhere. Its a bunch of servers and SANs just like what you or I would roll out if we needed bare metal infrastructure. The only difference is the extraordinary markup that you're paying amazon to use their servers.

[1]http://blogs.computerworld.com/18198/oops_amazon_web_service...
careers.stackoverflow.com has some remote jobs posts (they have an 'allow remote' flag, but a lot of times they actually don't, but some do).

There is also weworkremotly.com and some github.com ones, but you can check jobmote.com as it acts sorta like an aggregator for these sites.
Dribbble is full of talented designers in every which-way you're looking for!
You can use the utility without registration or login by blocking the login prompt with, for example, AdBlock.
The Feds Lost Net Neutrality, But Won Control of the Web
Scrapers exist to take data out of HTML, malformed or not, when an API or feed is not available. Yes, ideally HTML is written in a semantic, annotated machine-parseable way; that also enables smarter search engines, better accessibility, interoperability and so on. That's one of the main reasons behind the changes to the standard made in HTML5.

A better example would be "hey I have this cool device that will improve your mileage by 100%, but it only works on cars built according to current emission standards...".
There's a widely held belief that the way NSA stockpiles exploits harms Internet security. One plausible way that could be true is if NSA sources exploits from researchers who would otherwise sell them to places that would disclose them to vendors, which NSA won't do.

And, obviously, there's the widely held (and very plausible) belief that NSA backdoored random number generator standards. Those backdoors probably aren't currently doing much harm to the Internet, because they aren't in use on systems whose random numbers we (a) care much about and (b) are exposed 32 bytes at a time. But still, it's reasonable to expect NSA to stop doing that kind of thing.
Yeah I looked at a house occupied by a temporary renter. She had a passel of squalling kids, probably primed for the event of our arrival. Also she kept a pot of cabbage on the stove, which she had boiling when we arrived and took the top off of, smelling up the place like no other.

All this to make sure we would flee the place and never come back, thus keeping her cushy low-rent 'temporary' housing. Any wonder this is not a popular option with landlords?
I just noticed that there is a huge variation on the premium price depending on where you live:

US: USD 9.99
UK: GBP 9.99, that's about USD 16.30
FR: EUR 9.99, that's about USD 13.60
HK: HKD 48, that's about USD 6.20

I'm in Hong Kong and I recently subscribed to premium. I can see that some songs are not available (about 5% seem greyed out but most of what I want to listen to is accessible), but I can't believe that I'm paying nearly 3x less than the UK!
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Historically, if you disregard the pathological cases like airline pilots having ridiculous amount of power because of side effects of government regulation, it was always more risky to be in union rather than to have an union in your company. When not outright fired, union members were or are discriminated against, and many of them were actually murdered by their employers (read about e.g. miner strikes in the US in late XIX and early XX century and ill-famed Baldwin Felts detective agency, the examples are really sickeningly numerous). By protesting, union members risked well being of their family, and even their lifes, and they still do in places where labour protection is not strong enough (for instance in many places where stuff bought by Americans and Europeans is manufactured).

On the other hand, what the owner of the means of production/service risks is some profit lost -- how often do you really hear about healthy businesses getting killed by the workers' over the top demands? What happens most of the time is business owners and workers agree on some sort of compromise, after which owners go to their mansion to mourn the bigger mansion they could have had.
You removed my qualification, attributed the result to me, and called it an absolute position. I would not make, with confidence, the statement "There is never a need to release under a more permissive license." To get there from what I said, you would need "There is never a need to distribute under a less permissive license." I do think this need is exaggerated, but labeling that "absolutist" strikes me as odd.

I have no objection to "paid software" as a business model, because the term is too broad. Paying someone to add a feature I want to a GPL project and release the result is, I think, not something anyone would object to. I have objection to "proprietary software" as a business model, because it collapses the value that the software can provide; I am not convinced that this objection is sufficient to say that proprietary software is always the wrong choice. I have more objection to proprietary software where, having paid, I cannot see the source and make changes (or pay others to make changes).

There are a number of alternatives for funding development of mass-market software that are more compatible with copyleft licenses (donations, threshold pledge models, consulting) and I'm currently working on an innovative project in this space.
MetaPost is not by Knuth, it is based on his own (presumably correct) code from Metafont.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaPost
Maybe you could provide details on the current configuration and architecture and some suggestions could be made on how to improve. Just a thought.
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Reddit is also a couple orders more active than HN. Also I thought Reddit's AWS issues were resolved years ago.
The President with one executive order can tell the NSA / FBI that no American can have data or metadata gathered without a specific, individual warrant. That is well within his power under the US Constitution. Some would say it is his duty to do just that under the Constitution.

Installing backdoors in private equipment might be the first modern case for a 3rd Amendment challenge.
And you've got to be careful with those votes.

E.g. the common Senate trick of voting for cloture, that is, the end of modern version of the filibuster which needs 60 votes (not that that is likely to survive very long now that the "nuclear option" has been launched) and then voting against the bill. That gives 9-10 Senators room for posturing, and underlines how you need to learn some of each house's procedures to know what's really going on.

Not all that much, that plus paying attention to a few bills you consider telling, and a little search fu on thomas.gov the day after a vote goes a long way.

ADDED: For the House, you need to learn, generally from other sources, the rules under which a bill was brought to the floor and the associated votes. Whatever you knew about the Senate is now subject to abrupt change: among other things, the nuclear option was launched with a majority vote of the Senators, and the sources I've been reading say a rules change by majority vote was either unprecedented or not done for more than a century.

Senate Majority Leader Reid has also de facto changed rules like the ability to offer amendments (the words of art are "filling the amendment tree"), and has recently? formally stated that right is over.

Lord knows what's going to happen when the Republicans regain control of the Senate someday; even the "why can't we all be friends?" Republican Senate old bulls are very unhappy about these changes.
> Ouya doesn't lock you into a contract, so the prices aren't really comparable.

Average Joe/Jane don't care about it as they already have the phone anyway.

> Do the cheap USB pens have comparable graphics, USB expandability, and look as good as the Ouya? :)

Quite a few to choose from, both cheaper and more expensive than the Ouya:

http://www.conrad.de/ce/de/overview/0413084/Android-Mini-PCs

Maybe their GPUs aren't at Ouya's level, but they are good enough for most Play Store titles.
I don't think those sorts of reforms are unreasonable, and go to the general issue of cabining the scope of the NSA to foreign instead of domestic surveillance. However, I think they're probably too esoteric for a political solution. I'd imagine this is just something the standards bodies will have to deal with.
Just how he behaved in the 1999 IE anti trust case makes a certain 7 letter word starting with an 'a' seem appropriate.

More on topic, this seems like the very definition of cargo culting to me. Why not just focus on what makes sense for your company? There generally is no simple catch-all solution, especially not to success.
The BBC can not show ads to the UK public. This is part of the BBC charter and is there to ensure the BBC remains impartial. The idea is that since the BBC is funded by the licence fee (the TV tax), it is free of commercial concerns. This means that the BBC doesn't have to focus on chasing viewing numbers with lowest common denominator programming and so it can produce quality programming. Also the BBC is never beholden to any large investor or customer, so can be trusted as a news source.

BBC Worldwide is a subsidiary company of the BBC. It makes money from selling broadcasting rights, ads to other countries. This is fine because the UK public never sees those ads. Unfortunately, not being allowed to show ads to the UK public means they block access to all BBC Worldwide programs from within the UK. Some of those programs are entire new series eg (http://www.bbcamerica.com/orphan-black/) which the UK public has no right to be able to view.

If you attempt to access the totally free BBC Worldwide content within the UK you are presented the following:

"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the license fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com."

Its totally stupid. Everyone knows its stupid. But since almost everyone agrees the BBC is (surprisingly) good on the whole, any change to it is resisted on impulse.
Worse yet, the NSA creates exploits of their own. Its not comforting to think you machine was invaded through a backdoor that was meant for the NSA's own use - breached is breached.

Essentially the NSA has been working against the interests of all of the rest of us in a measurable, negative way for years. Weighing that against the admittedly negligible positive results achieved, the NSA becomes little better than a massively-funded exploit-creator who, by the way, we all pay our own money to fund.
I remember what software was like before hardware. It sucked!
Yeah you can do private cloud as well. Docker lets you do that. It can cost a bit of money in the effort spent but payoff in the long run usually worth it - at scale.
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It's pretty bizarre how the author applauds payola as a misunderstood champion of the underdog. It's illegal because abuse of power for monetary gain always leads to harm for the consumer.
This is an interesting question, which is usually resolved (though sometimes it may take a while, by observation). The big guy is the party that has the resources and ability to limit the options of the other party (henceforth the little guy) or to benefit from the little guy's limited choices. Of course, you could say that a worker could "exploit" the employer's limited choice in raising the wage vs. relocating, which might be more expensive. But this choice (losing $8m vs., $10m) is not as restrictive as a choice between working for wages that just barely provide subsistence vs. trying to relocate with only the clothes on your back and possibly no prospects elsewhere.
I agree with the album playlists issue. My account has a ton of playlists for exactly this reason. That said, the browse and discovery screens have found quite a bit of interesting music for me so I'd call it a wash at this point.
If my choices are not deterministic, they must be random.

But this is not what is classically understood by free-will, and I suggest that it is your dilemma which is false. Quoting Aquinas, "Free-will is the cause of its own movement, because by his free-will man moves himself to act."

I anticipate that free-will thus understood is likely ruled out a priori by your philosophical disposition. Nonetheless, I think you can perhaps come around to see that is logically opposed neither to determinism nor randomness in the human brain as observed from an objective standpoint.
I have a pretty low opinion of this particular "reform the NSA" movement --- not of the goal of reforming NSA, but of EFF/Demand Progress.

But "stop subverting Internet security" does seem to be a bright line we should be able to get agreement on.
The NSA's foreign activity is very much a part of the problem. American interests are damaged for the forseeable future because of revelations about their corruption of the internet, of hardware shipped overseas, of cable traffic, and on and on.
You probably just need to find the right person at Apple.
The housing and subprime issues were the fodder for every economic fear monger, rightly, for literally years (and honestly if you think otherwise, you have absolutely no knowledge of the financial markets). So why then didn't everyone just pull out of the market? Well, eventually they did, and that was what caused the crash. But preceding it was effectively a game of chicken where people still want to make money trading papers, and if they think they can buy something today that they can sell for more tomorrow, even if they think the next day it might be worthless, many will do that. In the same way that the world is pretty certain we're going to run out of oil...so we use more of it than ever. We'll deal with it running out when that actually happens.

There was zero specificity in Taleb's proclamations. It was just the vague "there are a lot of debts and an inflated housing market that is bound for a correction and is immensely interest rate dependent". Yeah, that's great, but is the same thing everyone else was saying.

GM went bankrupt during the financial crunch. This may blow your mind but the bankruptcy of GM was predestined for years -- their debts kept growing larger while their profits stayed static or shrank.

Everyone knew it was coming, it was only a question of when and what would precipitate it. Yet, people still traded in GM. Exactly the same concept -- people don't trade on what they think will happen tomorrow or next year, they trade on what they think other people think will happen tomorrow or next year.

So there is no misleading, and honestly only "rubes" fall for the "I predicted this" bit.
If HN was on AWS, where would we go to discuss AWS outages?
Was this a direct result of the Alcatel and Lucent merger or did this start long before?
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Complex C/C++ projects can need lots of memory at final link, especially if they're using WPO/SCU or aggressive optimisation levels.
Even if people are freaking out about possible privacy problems, I believe that glass or a similar product will be useful one day
I think it's kind of like house hunting. Sometimes you'll see listings where there is only one photo, and it's of the outside of the house. You can't help but wonder about what they have to hide, right? If it had a huge kitchen and nice bathrooms, wouldn't they want to put these on display?

It's obviously not fair to treat job candidates this way, but in a world where social media exists, I can understand it being difficult for this thought to not cross the mind of an employer.

http://news.yahoo.com/job-seekers-getting-asked-facebook-pas...
How about error page show the last static HN page? Most people just need likns
Dribbble seems like the best bet.
As I said below, this seems like nothing but cargo culting to me. Every business is in a unique situation when you look close. I don't believe that imitating Steve Jobs or whomever will do anything but hurt the company. (I've seen founders that honestly believe they have to be an arse to be successful. In all seriousness. Imagine how well that went.)

It would surely help if the survivors themselves would acknowledge survivor bias more. Not seeing much of that.
I would love to go there but working for a government contractor and visiting an "Axis of Evil" state won't work out :/
Actually, NSA creating exploits of their own is much better for the security of the Internet, because it doesn't capture resources that could have been directed at improving software. I'm fine with an NSA that competes with the commercial software industry over software security.
I never cease to be amazed by how humane high modernist architecture often was. All the interior photos in the article are daylit, even the stairwell. I always have to remind myself not to misread such buildings based on all the poor quality knockoffs driven by the speculative development model.

Bell Labs is not just another glass box in the burbs because Saarinan was not just another bullshitting architect.
2 out 12 would be lucky.
And now for the dog and pony show wherein politicians will compete to "always make use of a good crisis", jockeying for position to see who wins the most political capital by creating the harshest sounding reprimand of the NSA with the least actual consequences.

I fully expect the NSA reform to make even the financial reform look harsh in comparison.
We use crashlytics as well but only an idiot would store username and password in the clear in their log. Geez, just store a randomized database ID if you have to. It's funny how people justify stupidity when they get caught.
Aha, ok. Let me rephrase then: if I want to make a site geared towards people who code, what is the best word to use in the domain name (coder, developer, etc)?
I don't get why not at least AES it.
Is delphi dying?
Nowadays in the Internet in the place like hackernews, i really can not find people talking about delphi.

Is it active or it is dead already? Is it good to start learning delphi now?
Well this is embarrassing, but the irony is not lost on us: http://imgur.com/Miokv4f
The definition of irony...
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What a beautiful example of the international style of architecture. Unfortunately, the internal layout seems rigidly adapted for office use. I'm not sure how they'll adapt a five-story office building to mall use without gutting the place. Maybe they'll do some sort of hybrid and convert the first two floors to a mall layout, knocking out walls and putting up glass storefronts, preserving the top three floors for office space.

Fun fact: The architect who designed this building also designed the Gateway Arch in St Louis and the iconic Tulip Chair.
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Its easy to label business owners as mansion-dwelling money-grubbers. But consider that for every big deal union made by a car manufacturer someplace, theres a hundred small businesses that have to pay more for machinists etc. Their bottom line may not support that; their business model may fail. Then somebody loses a (lesser-paying) job, and $0 is a lot less than poor pay.

So it all comes at a cost. My Mother-in-law lived through the depression, and despised minimum wage. She was a wage-earner whos job was erased because it wasn't worth that much per hour. That left her out in the cold. She knew many people in that situation.

Its called the law of unintended consequences. Unions do - something. And that something benefits some and hurts others. And some of the ones it benefits (union bosses) go home to their mansion to mourn the bigger mansion they could have had.
This is from Chrome but the same goes for Safari: http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/retrieving-crash-...
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I learned/used Tcl/Tk at my very first real job not too long ago circa 2003. At the time, it was for a financial trading system and I loved the simplicity of it since I had already been doing Java/C++ in my CS program at college. The best part of it is the pronunciation "tickle". Still makes me smile.
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