skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Google News" doesn't exist as a universal source.

It is so heavily censored, sorry, "personalized" and "localized" that you will get entirely different results depending on who and where you are.
I worked from worksprogress for a few months when I first moved to Seattle, good space and location and Jessie and Marnee are great.

In talking with them about the childcare side of things, they ran into a lot of regulation that just proved too much at the time.

Childcare is highly regulated and childcare and workplaces even more so apparently. They said that many of the laws they were running into were meant to keep larger industrial organizations in check back in the day. Companies used to offer very sub-par "childcare" for line-workers and if a child was having a problem (sick, injury, etc) it wasn't in the best interest of the company to inform the parent (who would have to leave the production line).

I didn't think those laws would apply to a co-op type office where everyone is working for themselves.

When I left in December, there was no childcare running, just the co-op workspace (which I would highly recommend).
I highly recommend watching this interview, in which Snowden clearly explains his motives for doing what he did and describes the scope of the data collection carried out by the NSA and its allied foreign intelligence agencies. While I've followed this story quite extensively, this is first time I've actually watched an interview with Snowden, and I was very impressed with his intelligence, thoughtfulness, depth of knowledge and eloquence. (The interview is 30 minutes long.)
Nope - doesn't work for me in the U.S.

Can you download it and torrent it?
"Blocked in your country" (UK)
For all living in the US, proof the story-teller wrong by linking to this video on liveleak on their social media and suggesting their friends and family look at the full 30 minutes interview.

Getting to the truth is about hearing both sides of a story, so anyone not willing to listen or let others listen to Snowdens story is part of the problem.
I'd love to share the optimism that the genie can be put back in the bottle, but I don't.

When we talk about surveillance on western forums, we mostly refer to the work by the five eyes community, but they're not the only community interested in or doing this sort of thing. Russia's SORM-2, expanded for the Sochi Olympics is a prime example, the Chinese have something similar too.

The fact is that even if western governments turn round to their intelligence agencies and tell them to stop all of this, other countries will still fill the gap.

If Germany tells America to stop spying on German citizens in Germany, do you think America will stop spying on them? No, of course not. Do you think the German intelligence community will give up benefiting from such information if it helps them bypass any new privacy laws put in place? No, of course not.

It's here. The difference between the Stasi and the NSA when it comes to surveillance is not intent, simply capability. Any intelligence agency that would've had this level of capability would've pushed it as far as they can, it's what they do and they're not going to change.
Could you elaborate on why you think this is the case?
it's available in full on archive.org:

https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en
https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en
“That's a stupid idea”
Omg are you marcel weiher?

How can I do you something good? Beer? Candy? :) Back in the days I read your paper and obviously I forgot what "collect" means...

If you are Marcel then you are one of my heros.
Really?! I guess after that slightly more recent bit of trouble on the other side of the Atlantic[1] it's pretty ironic that one of the possible orders for the last-resort British weapon is to place itself under US command(!?).

(As far as I can tell it is speculation that they would place themselves under French command)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War
DrChrono, Medical Startup On The Rise, are health startups the future?
We have more or less resorted to using Dropbox, but both me and my better half got 50Gb upgrades through Samsung... So we have lots of space to work with.
Buster - Brute force static site generator for Ghost
This article is the 2014 equivalent to a movie about people writing a movie...
Also, it's meta as heck. "SEO shenanigans", indeed. Well done, had me grinning anyway!
For anyone that can host it, here's how to get the mp4.

From: http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=e2ce8368acfc

Length: 85151797 (81M) [video/mp4]

Right-Click & Save As... http://edge.liveleak.com/80281E/ll_a_s/2014/Jan/27/LiveLeak-...
I can't see how the fact that other players can modify my story with their decision could be somehow more fun that a pre-scripted story. I mean, yes, it sounds somehow fascinating, but it doesn't really impact the fun on the game. And what about the tradeoff with the quality of the story? You can "easily" make 1 epic\awesome story, you can't do that with hundreds of forks.
Looks like I've got some competition and I need to step my game up.

https://www.mashape.com/montanaflynn/l33t-sp34k
Complete made up speculation. I'm in the UK, read & watch the news everyday, and didn't know this interview was happening. It's also the first time I've seen it mentioned online. It wasn't promoted properly. Re: YouTube takedowns - wouldn't it be the producer of the programme taking those videos down? You make it sound like the USG is removing videos from YouTube.
I don't like conspiracists. I think their motive is good, but the result is always poor and often irrelevant because it's politicized.

That story is just over-reaching.

Conspiracy is a dog biting its own tail, I'm sure many people try to use conspiracy for political goals, just like Nazi propaganda did.

If I were a politician, there are many ways I could use conspiracy theories to change the public opinion. I don't think it entirely make any conspiracy theory wrong, but as always, be careful of movements of groups of people.

If you don't understand what I mean, watch Promised Land (Gus Van Sant movie with matt damon about fracking in a small US town). It describes very well how to use FUD in politics to efficiently change the public opinion.
The writer is ignorant and the article is nothing but a silly rant. No reasonable arguing. Makes me sad that this kind of articles can make it to #1 on HN.
So - like any arcade game? All that I remember were absurdly hard the further you went, and you had to pay a lot more than $1 or $10 to beat them.
> Almost every idea that engineers have about hiring is broken.

Almost every idea anyone has about interviewing is wrong.

Interviews are a terrible way to recruit. It's amazing to me that STEM companies with money and scientists still use interviewing in recruitment processes and haven't found something else.

There is the "on the job interview" where a candidate is invited to do the actual job for a day or half day. For obvious reasons this method tends to be used for minimum wage positions, or for places where you're recruiting people who you know might interview poorly. But it seems to be a great way to recruit people.
Out of curiosity, if some nuclear adversary decided to first-strike and wipe out England, how messed up would the UK be? It's a small, dense country, and (call me stupid), one armed nuclear sub could be wiped out fairly easily if we're talking about a power like this, right? Would all four, if armed, be able to do much damage back? I find the idea of letters of last resort fascinating...
Of course there will always be bad guys out there trying to subvert freedom. I think it's reasonable for those of us in the "free world" to expect our governments to help defend us from these bad actors, not use our taxes to fund them!
I'm not sure whether this qualifies, but I'm a huge fan:

* free demo with IAP: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.jecklandin....

* full version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zalivka.an...

You can create cartoons with that. I could imagine more polish on that, but it is still better then anything else I found.
I always thought the use of "should of" is because people like to shorten "should have" to "should've", especially in conversation. This seems to have lead to people mistakenly thinking "should've" when spoken is actually "should of". Not sure how people can read "should of" and not think it makes no sense though.

* my grammar is most likely not great either, so I can't really criticise to be honest!
Show HN: Geofencing, iBeacons using Geofancy with Zapier integration
The talk was first given at 44CON in September in 2013 (but only available on the DVD, not posted on the youtube channel).

Funnily enough, this isn't the first time Oona's RDS adventures have been on HN[1]. Indeed, there's a comment from a while back on here[2] from the time I was trying to convince her to submit to 44CON. The thing that really surprises a lot of people is that Oona does this sort of thing in her spare time.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5656677

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657930
Do you have a link for further reference.
The examples seem fine now. But I swear it was different last week - I can't have hallucinated adding indentation to an example file for a demo website last week! I really don't understand what happened as no-one else seems to be complaining...
You would need to be a VERY good actor, and you would also need to have studied a REALLY good script that covers all the details I'm going to ask you about your project. Possible, but not very likely.
I built an open-sourced Chrome extension to improve tweetdeck.Twitter.com
Hello HN !

I'm a huge user of TweetDeck in its web-only version, and I was bored of some flaws it got so I built this little Chrome extension to improve it.

Here is what the extension does :
- Thumbnails for Imgur and Droplr images links
- Allow to change the time formatting (Relative or Absolute) + possibility to have only HH:MM when the tweet is not older than 24h and DD/MM/YY HH:MM when the tweet is older than 24h
- Allow to change the username/fullname formatting (Username only, Fullname only, both or inverted (Username Fullname))
- Display circled avatars
- Remove the t.co redirection on links

I hope you enjoy it, and you can download it on the Chrome Web Store and look at the code on GitHub.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/better-tweetdeck/micblkellenpbfapmcpcfhcoeohhnpob

https://github.com/eramdam/BetterTweetDeck
It's really good. Posting the podcast link here for the overseas folks who aren't familiar with the program: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/399/c...
BBC Radio 4Extra has run a couple of experiments that feel like early iterations of some of those ideas.

One was a drama where listers could vote on a couple of out comes at the end of each episode.

The other was a crowd-sourced drama. They'd start with an episode, then invite listener-written followups. List ers would write each episode. (The episodes were short and the plots got twisty fast).

But the idea in the article sounds like how some games should be. It'd be great if games could use more, better, writers.

I'm not sure how easy it would be to allow a person to follow a path and not have clashing incongruities when different paths merge.
That's a fair observation, however consider: are you spending less time or money on game or game-like entertainment now then you were in 2008?

My hypothesis would be: "No". Instead, I would theorize you shifted your attention and money to either other games. Therefore your money isn't lost, it just has to be warned elsewhere by developers.
the full interview is here: https://archive.org/details/snowden_interview_en
Look into the usage breakdown.
Fun comparison. It seems that Bitbucket was ahead of GitHub, seeing that Github's current look resembles that of Bitbucket 3 years ago.

For comparison's sake it would have been fun to see screenshots of today's products next to the old ones as well.
http://www.amazon.com/NooElec-RTL-SDR-RTL2832U-Software-Pack...

It's so cheap it's practically free (I mean come on, 3.2MHz BW for that price?). The included antenna is horrible but it suffices for small things like finding out something about the restaurant buzzers.

Oona is doing an extremely important service for Ham radio communities etc. She is bringing the knowledge of all of this to a wider audience on the internet.
I really like the ideas that Jay put forward.

My opinion is that he's fixing the tablet experience for power windows users. I want my desktop because I know it works to get my task one; but I also want a tablet experience - in a single, unified device. I believe Microsoft need this as they will only lose a battle from negative reviews if they keep ignoring a very vocal user base, and they'll lose market share if they can't improve over iOS and Android.

"Metro" apps on the desktop suck at the moment in my opinion. That doesn't mean they should be thrown out, they should be fixed.
The analogy is not that of `/etc/motd`, but about you rather accepting a crappy solution for a problem you didn't know about rather than a proposed better solution just because the crappy one came first.
> There is a conspiracy of silence among the Rails gurus that is utterly dishonest.

Please name these "Rails gurus". 100% of the experienced Rails developers whose blogs I follow have complained about old Rails code bases they've worked on or have encountered.
Just keep working on your product/project. Competition may add features to your project !!!
Addiction by itself is absolutely not a choice. Whatever it is that someone tried or was coerced to try that eventually resulted in that addiction may or may not have been a choice. A person may indeed, with appropriate support and resources be able to break their addiction, but they remain afflicted with it throughout the rest of their lives. Why do you think most people who were once addicted to alcohol must remain eternally vigilant to never touch the stuff again?

Playing the "no one's pointing a gun to your head" card and claiming it is therefore "non-coersive" in defense of targeting and manipulating addictive behavior may very well be profitable but it's delusional and downright dishonest to everyone, including yourself, to think it isn't exploitive and conducive to serious personal and social issues. You need look no further in the historical record to see how this plays out than the tobacco and alcohol industry.
Lines in the sand you fool.
It's even better - you get an MSDN subscription for up to 10 people, each with $150 Azure credits ($200 first month) and you can use all of them in production. That's $1500.
Is overuse in the digital realm, when there is no "earth" to speak of, truly so bad?

If IAP becomes unviable, companies will move to other business models. If none exist with a good fit, then we'll see a gaming drought that will reset consumer expectations.

I'm neither a fan nor a defender of IAP, but I fail to see much of a problem in this situation. Instead, I see it as a herd of wild gazelles multiplying to the point where their habitat can't support them. At this point man can interfere and provide artificial care for the animals (along with forced population control, would be my guess) or man can stand back and let mature run its course (ie: most of the herd die out until equilibrium is reached again).
Then you won't have much difficulty believing the NSA and their apologists, will you?
You have 10k hours of php under the belt and have not used composer much?
Make Good Stuff
an awesome Stop Motion animation about content marketing (a bit oversimplified) but nicely made.
I must say I'm becoming increasingly disappointed about archive.orgs lax copyright policies. Becoming a treasure trove of pirated material really eats its legitimacy in my eyes.
So people don't steal them; so people have to hold them or put them on a table and don't miss when they buzz.
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That means Google (the makers of Ingress) will get access to the list of contacts I have stored in Google Contacts.

I believe I can live with that :-)
> With freemium games, that trust is obliterated. When I can't progress, I am forced to ask a fun-sucking question -- is the developer trying to extort money from me in order to continue? Am I unable to continue because I just haven't mastered some in-game skill or is this simply the point at which I'm supposed to hand over my tithe?

Absolutely. I hate the feeling of not knowing whether I'm not good enough yet or if this level is just designed to have no feasible way of completing without buying a power up. There is also no way to benchmark and compare with your friends since someone might have completed a level using a power up. Games for me is like sports, everyone should play on equal terms, even for single player games. Imagine playing/watching football where one team can buy an extra player to have on the field.

I'd much rather have the paywall be honest like buying levels like the oldschool shareware method or subscriptions like mmorpgs.

I'm actually surprised there are so few subscription based games, this should be ideal for both parties. The user don't have to pay the up front $60 for an unknown game and the vendor gets a constant revenue stream.
What makes ruby (MRI particularly) slow are metaprogramming things that slow it down when done at runtime (dynamically definding methods and classes), its global interpreter lock (preventing proper parallelism) and the single-threaded super-slow GC.

Integer math is fast because they're using tagged pointers and thus don't need to allocate real objects for them. Method calls also are reasonably optimized, although they don't have inline caches afaik.

You're basically testing a few tiny bits of the runtime that happen to be reasonably fast. The big frameworks like rails do a lot of stuff that is horribly inefficient. Combined the aforementioned single-threadedness and slow GC leads to ruby being slow in real-world applications even if a few microbenchmarks are ok for an interpreted language.
How surprising that two sites for managing DVCSs look similar when presenting the same information.
this person claims to be a victim of oppression and surveillance, and you're comparing the recital of this story to nazi propaganda. ok.

i don't see how the story is over-reaching. people like you are the reason systems like prism exist - "oh, things got bad in some far away country, but this is america, something like that would never happen here. our politicians would never abuse the powers they are illegally giving themselves, so we don't really have anything to worry about".

this is the world we live in now. things are going to get worse before (if) they get better. unfortunately, i may never be able to tell you "i told you so", because in the future there may be no platform for us to express our discontent.
Your wife could work from home as well, or you could take part-time job.

Major reason for my start-up was to work from home. Sometimes when there is emergency meeting, outside of office hours, I have baby on my lap while video conferencing. Most people tolerate it if she is not crying.
MSNBC were interviewing a US politician (congress woman) about the Snowden leaks and about NSA reform.

They interrupted that interview for some important breaking news.

Justin Bieber had been arrested for drag racing his car.

http://youtu.be/GH68bSJXGE8
Nice idea. But if you're already using IFTTT, check out this recipe which can schedule a tweet via Google Calendar:

https://ifttt.com/recipes/18890-schedule-tweets-using-google...
Worth noting that the UK's nuclear deterrent is based in Scotland, not England.

To get some idea of the likely outcome of a nuclear war for the UK I can suggest watching Threads:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads

One interesting thing about Threads is that it is based on a rather optimistic attack scenario based on an exercise called Square Leg:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Leg
Nah, the time has passed for stuff like that. It's time to wait for a reset. The intelligent people tried to warn the rest of us long ago, no one cared then, fuck the rest of you now that it's too late. I'll only do anything to speed up the reset... and I doubt the rest of 'you' will be ready for that until things have once again gotten so bad that something else will needed for success.

#edit hellban request denied then, I guess. Thanks idiots, it's your site afterall.
This is not the same than posting a blog link with Adsense on it? The content is being presented and someone is getting a few cents...
Luckily, security agencies have already solved this particular problem.

Instead of texting "Are you okay, please respond [this way]", there's a very simple challenge-response mechanism.

Agent in the field knows the correct response and a duress response to literally any pre-shared question ("How many eggs do you need to make an omelette?" Correct answer: "I'd rather have waffles", duress answer: "three").

All of the "what if [technical fault, stupidity]" is solved by escalation. Replace a text with a phone call in two minutes. Then call an emergency contact in 5. Then call the police in 10. (Adjust numbers to your locale and situational urgency).
There are some positions in which one is entitled to call oneself a sorcerer. Yours is not one of them.
one armed nuclear sub could be wiped out fairly easily if we're talking about a power like this, right?

No. The idea of ballistic missile submarines like this (and those also operated by the US, France and Russia) is that they should be impossible to find when on patrol.
I've been the technical guy in a meeting where this kind of nonsense was decided...

Me: The customer has asked for security measures to stop unauthorised employees from subverting the system and defrauding them. Your solution uses clear-text passwords, so anyone with a copy of Wireshark could crack it in seconds.

Management: Yeah, but they're only asking for the appearance of security. They don't care about the details.

Me: What will they say if someone cracks our "security" and steals millions of dollars from them?

Management: <shrug>

Me: ???
Ubuntu scores highest in UK Gov security assessment
What makes it more despicable: MSNBC is aggressively marketed in the image of progressive reform television.

To be clear - the US politician wasn't talking about the interview -- but rather the independent review committee's assessment of the meta data collection program.
Nutrality and obstaining from censorship gives it legitimacy, in my eyes.

To each their own, I suppose.
You give somone credit if they have earned it.
Exactly. We're going down the Freelance/Consultant route whilst working on our own products in the downtime, growing those products until they outpace the consultancy.

We'll use a shared platform for the products which will allow us to amortize the development costs over all of the products. Hopefully we can grow them to the point where we can hire people to manage the products day-to-day whilst we focus on new ventures.

We've got an end-game in mind, which involves leveraging the fact that a vast swathe of industries have only scratched the surface of what is possible with automation. "In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is King".

But I'm getting ahead of myself now :)
Nothing unique here. Like the images but experience is still very much the same. Hire someone from Apple instead!
Of course postdating that is the Napoleonic Wars (and in the middle of that was the War of 1812)...
All consensual and non-coercive transactions are ethical.

Another contractor and I are bidding to build a website. The customer is a guy in his 90s who wants a website for his antique furniture shop. The customer requirements aren't water-tight as he's not really into computers. For example they don't say the website should be accessible from the public internet or that I should hand over the source code and hosting credentials. My competitor has bid $1000. Is it ethical for me to bid $900 then later to demand an extra $200 to connect it to the internet, work that only I can do?