skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's because even if you did follow the NSA, you assumed they spied on foreign government officials, "bad guys," not _everyone_. That's the source of the surprise.

I've been as confused as Andreessen about the fact that there's been such a huge outcry (which is great per se) after decades of complacency. For those of us who found the NSA to be despicable before Snowden's leaks, I feel like there was just a feeling of resignation that people just didn't care (even in tech circles like HN). It was a similar feeling to
thinking about climate change in the late 90s/00s. I considered what you're describing as a potential cause, but I ruled it out because of the HUGE disparity between the reaction to this and the reaction to the warrantless wiretapping scandal of the 2000s. Wasn't that spying on American citizens as well? Why do you suppose that was essentially ignored by most people while this has become such a significant issue for so many?
I'd stress talking with a professional. You'll probably need to pay state+federal unemployment tax and disability insurance, plus you'll need to do FICA withholding on the salaries you're paying yourselves. If you forget that and write yourselves a check for your whole paycheck, you'll wind up with a larger tax bill later.
This is what my point is: as much as the customer has to slow down and say, "Wait a second, is this legit?" - so do we.

That doesn't mean the customer won't conclude it is legit, or that we don't conclude the same thing.

Recall that I had responded to,

>Looks gorgeous. I can't help but wonder if people unfamiliar with technology and ecommerce would be deterred by such a form?

Certainly I personally would be deterred (to an extent) from using this form without at least a cursory audit and verifying the identity of the person who wrote it.

This will naturally be less and less important the more eyeballs this sees. But as a simple tool, perhaps it is not that many.

Do remember that if I were wanting to get my hands on people's credit cards, getting developers to use this kind of script while having a well-hidden side channel (perhaps quite well-hidden - it could somehow encode cc details in the timing delays to a different server, potentially, so that it is not at all obvious that the delays even correspond with the data, it could just look like visualizations getting loaded as the person types) -- then this would be one of the more clever ways I could go about doing so.

I don't see how we're 'arguing' about this? We need to check what we are using, just like customers need to check that this is legit.
Is there any info on whether Swift can be used on Linux / be embedded?
One of the circuit court's stated reasons for ruling that the SSO holds for the Java API was because of the names:

The evidence showed that Oracle had "unlimited options as to the selection
and arrangement of the 7000 lines Google copied." Appellant Br. 50. Using
the district court's "java.lang.Math.max" example, Oracle explains that the
developers could have called it any number of things, including
"Math.maximum" or "Arith.larger." This was not a situation where Oracle was
selecting among preordained names and phrases to create its packages. As
the district court recognized, moreover, "the Android method and class names
could have been different from the names of their counterparts in Java and
still have worked." Copyrightability Decision, 872 F. Supp. 2d at 976.
Because "alternative experessions [we]re available," there is no merger.
See Atari, 975 F.2d at 840.

http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/...

pp. 30-31.
It wouldn't have to be an all cash deal, though.
Is there any reasonable way to make them secure against ARP spoofing? As I understand it, it would require individual login from all clients (some form of 802.1x)?

And even if you do protect against ARP spoofing via 802.1x -- you would still need some kind of shared secret/certificate scheme to avoid a fake access point? As anyone sitting next to you is likely to be able to provide a stronger signal than the hotspot...

Reminds me that I had an idea to wrap up some kind of hot-spot with an easy to use internet cafe style time-limited access software distribution and offer up to local businesses... I suppose these days providing a screen for qr-code sharing of details would be a viable option...
In fairness though, it's very unlikely that Rust will be distributing an official HTTP library by 1.0 - it's a big, difficult, library, the type which deserves to prove itself in for awhile before settling on. For these types of libs my planned trajectory is to integrate with Servo, make them installable via the package manager, let them stew in the wild until we're confident, then 'flip a switch' and declare them official.
It suffers greatly from the OS X modifier key disease. And there's what...like 4 different kinds of screenshots?

edit apparently there are 7 from reading the comments below.
There are some franchises at entrepeneur.com/franchises/

you can do a search for marketing agencies.

hope that helps
Google reveals tablet that can sense the world in 3D
Memory Locality: Why Java is sometimes much slower than C++
c'''' is valid in The Music Suite as well.

That said, I won't be switching from ABC for my day-to-day music writing. I see The Music Suite as being useful for, e.g., writing a fugue, where the music can be elegantly expressed programmatically.
A letter to (Mark) Zuckerberg
10 Lessons I Learned from a Year of Productivity Experiments
You're generalizing and blaming the entire Thiel Fellow community because of one person? If you can somehow justify that, it still doesn't make sense to spam the entire thread with the same link over and over again. Thanks.
This is super smart – Soundcloud needs to integrate more deeply with the hype / discovery abilities of Twitter.

Soundcloud songs overlaid on Vine vids, etc. could prove amazing as well.
Anyone else notice the ribs in the battery cover that were ground down by hand to make the cell fit snugly?

https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/learn_tutorials/2/5/1/SFE_00...
Solving the OAuth testing flow with CasperJs
Twitter Buys Mobile Native Ad Startup Namo Media For Around $50M
Not to mention, every last one of them seems to be some kind of computer programmer. No offense to HN, and I love programming, but I'd have hoped to see more breadth.

Where are the biologists?
> Criminals are the ones that failed.

In that case it's even quite a bit worse than that. At least with bombers you can reasonably assume the Nazis will be doing everything they can to keep you from dropping bombs on them and the bomber pilots will be doing everything they can to not be shot down over Nazi Germany. That may not be such a safe assumption for criminals and law enforcement.

Plenty of "criminals" don't even know what they're doing is a crime. If the most common ways of getting caught are easy to avoid (e.g. don't confess to the police or keep records of the crime) then the people you're catching are not just bad criminals, they're totally oblivious criminals. Which completely invalidates the theory that ratcheting up penalties will reduce crime -- no penalty can deter people oblivious to the possibility of them being punished. And publicizing the penalties may result in an increase in actual crime by encouraging previously oblivious criminals to take measures that prevent them from being caught. The result can be an apparent reduction in crime (i.e. a reduction in criminals getting caught) even though the actual result is that there are more criminals out on the street.

And then on the other side, the police and prosecutors have incentives to score political points to win promotions or launch a bid for political office. So whether you get prosecuted may have more to do with whether prosecuting someone like you is perceived to have political advantages (e.g. Lori Drew) than whether you've done anything that scores of people who haven't been prosecuted have also done. Or as in the case of Wall St, whether prosecuting you is perceived to have political disadvantages (i.e. bankers withdrawing financial support), preventing prosecution of those who have demonstrably caused great harm for reasons having nothing to do with knowing who they are or being able to prove it.
Out of that list, C++ has standard crypto and date/time, but it's production ready.

There's nothing stopping Rust from having a healthy ecosystem of third-party libraries that provide that functionality. Yes, including C libraries.
The Wandering Life of the Electric Horseman
Enter the Cyborg Era:: Can't wait for the Fifa World Cup Kickoff
Baba Nam Kevalam – O amor é tudo que existe . Mantra. 
Mantra de música (também chamado kiirtan) é a antiga prática de cantar uma frase altamente vibrado para elevação espiritual, cura e criar vibrações positivas. Essas faixas usar o mantra em sânscrito Baba Nam Kevalam. Isso pode ser traduzido livremente como "O amor é tudo que existe".

Ananda Marga é um ser espiritual global e organização de serviço social fundada em 1955 por Shrii Shrii Anandamurti (Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar). A missão da Ananda Marga é auto-realização (emancipação individual) eo serviço à humanidade (bem-estar coletivo): a satisfação das necessidades físicas, mentais e espirituais de todas as pessoas.

- Meditação Tantra - "Como você pensa, você se torna." Este poderoso princípio psicológico é a base da meditação. Se você pensar negativamente, sua vida vai ser negativo, se você pensar positivamente, sua vida vai ser positivo. Estamos constantemente em processo de se tornar o objeto de nossa ideação. Assim, o significado do mantra é vital. Deve ser a ideação mais edificante; o mais positivo dos pensamentos. felicidade infinita, perfeita paz e alegria - felicidade: Mais uma vez.
Swift on the client-side and Scala on the server-side would make for a great combination.
Looking up one of the fellows who is using "crowd-sourced mobile computing", I came across:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/21/meet-hyv-a-startup-that-can...

Apparently the idea is to build a pay-to-use BOINC or Folding@Home, except for iPhones, where the startup steps in by actually *paying 3rd party app developers to bundle their distribution code in their app, thereby allowing them to run independent code on a user's phone using the unaware user's computing resources, data plan, and battery life without the user's direct permission?

Not only would this seriously inconvenience consumers, have ample security risks, have a dubious market for legitimate customers (Such a system could never outperform the price of AWS or a custom GPU cluster, let alone volunteer networks like BOINC and Folding@Home), only works at a ludicrously large scale (Are there even enough iPhones out there to reach Folding@Home's 45 petaflops?), would require those running complicated algorithms to port optimized code to Objective-C, but the icing on the cake is it only works on unlocked phones.

So, did Thiel just fund a ridiculous idea which is essentially malware or am I missing something?
What is Soundcloud's relation to podcasting? I'm not familiar.
Sorry it took a few days, but I couldn't get the numbers to work (couldn't tell that they were using 2005), and now I know why.

http://common-resources.org/2014/2005-vs-2012-in-epas-propos...

And here's a good general breakdown of the proposed rule.

http://www.vox.com/2014/6/4/5779052/how-to-figure-out-which-...
Fortunately, this challenge is about relays, not exit nodes. I'm sure that the EFF is well aware of the liability issues running exit nodes. :)
Most gaming PCs don't have inbuilt bluetooth.

Everyone has USB.
I think you're kind of insulting to everyone that finds the work of those two individuals valuable, those individuals themselves, feminists in tech, people that support more people working for social justice and inclusion in tech, and you hide behind a green name to make your snarky comment. /You/ are part of the problem in tech.
I would not under almost any circumstances, including the revelation that he was working directly with the FSB† when he decided what to leak, use the word "traitor" to describe a national security leaker. In addition to being inaccurate, the word sucks all the oxygen out of the room and makes it impossible to have a dispassionate discussion about what happened.

But if you can get past Andreesen's unfortunate choice of framing, this story is useful as an indicator of how captive we are to our filter bubbles. The valence of Andreesen's feelings about Snowden isn't at all weird. Lots of people share the perspective that Snowden is doing more harm than good, but people on HN seem to have a hard time believing that.

† Which I doubt; it's too interesting, and the most boring narrative always wins.
Which were already open source before Apple got involved.
I want to work for Goldman Sachs
Can I Run Excel VBA Macros From Python Script?
I don't think you can really compare the best network in the US (Verizon) to Sprint in any meaningful way. I would put (based on ancedote of course) Sprint's network on par with T-mobile in terms of coverage. I'd rank it far below T-Mobile in terms of speed.

If you need good coverage "everywhere" VZW is unfortunately your only real option. AT&T I guess is a close second.

Or to put it another way. I have lent my VZW phone out to dozens of people to make phone calls when they lacked coverage. I have never once had to borrow a Sprint or AT&T phone to make mine.
WordPress in the Cloud: Part 1, The Basics
Does he honestly mean he doesn't want perception to reflect reality?
Project Tango is going to be revolutionary, but I'm also interested in how psycho-geographic (situationist) style landmark mapping might complement 1:1 3D representations of the real world…humans tend to navigate based on abstract geometrics
JQuery Practice with Homer Simpson
A "Perfect Storm" Moment for Multibillion-Dollar Open Source Companies
There's also Mailvelope[1], if you use gmail or other webmail.

[1]: https://www.mailvelope.com/
Hoe gourmetten zonder vervelende geurtjes achter te laten?
Can any company survive on their own anymore? Need every one of them be absorbed by already oversized entities?

Vine is nothing without a distribution method, so that kind of acquisition makes sense.

If Facebook turns to Shitbook, I really don't want SoundCloud impacted, because they're unassociated and can thrive independently.
This is now the bog standard reply of the closet fascists who support the NSA and their rampant spying. They've had to switch to this response because their previous response "You're just being paranoid", has been utterly blown apart by the Snowden revelations and thank god for that.

Both replies avoid grappling in a substantive fashion with the question of whether or not these activities are moral and something we should accept in our society, but at least the second reply doesn't actively shut down the conversation. Whereas before they could claim that we are being paranoid and there would be no real comeback to that, and thus our points could be safely dismissed, at least now one can reply "No we shouldn't be surprised, and now let's discuss whether or not it is something that should continue."

I'll add finally, that yes apparently we should be surprised because the same closet fascists now adopting this whole grizzled "wise to how the world works" persona have previously spent the last few decades strongly claiming that the NSA would never flagrantly violate the constitution in this manner, that they were stalwart defenders of America and apple pie. You can see the same sort of evolution with torture, where the people proclaiming that it is a "necessary" action in today's ruthless dog-eat-dog world were the exact people talking about how not torturing was what separated our good hearted security agents from those savages employed by "evil empires" such as Russia or China.

At the end of day, I am heartened because now at least the cards are on the table and these activities can't just be denied as the figments of paranoid imaginations. The conversation is moving along a bit, however slowly.
Looks like we should have eliminated the loop entirely.

Also, a disclaimer in case anyone tries this themselves: there is a bunch of plaftorm/library code in the Dart output that's not used by such a trivial program and could be eliminated. The dart2js team is focusing of reducing the size of large programs, which do usually use this code, so eliminating it in small programs isn't much of a real-world win right now.
Mildly disappointed this was not about injecting arbitrary styles into sites.
Poorest Countries with the Most Beautiful and Safe Places should to Visit
New Mortal Kombat comedy vid (NSFW)
An annotated soundcloud track is part of Jeff Tweedy of Wilco's promotion for his new solo album.

http://www.stereogum.com/1684887/tweedy-ill-sing-it/mp3s/
There's speech to text. Even if inaccurate, it gives somewhat of a preview that the user can edit.
I would not under almost any circumstances, including the revelation that he was working directly with the FSB† when he decided what to leak, use the word "traitor" to describe a national security leaker. In addition to being inaccurate, the word sucks all the oxygen out of the room and makes it impossible to have a dispassionate discussion about what happened.

But if you can get past Andreesen's unfortunate choice of framing††, this story is useful as an indicator of how captive we are to our filter bubbles. The valence of Andreesen's feelings about Snowden isn't at all weird. Lots of people share the perspective that Snowden is doing more harm than good, but people on HN seem to have a hard time believing that.

Finally, regardless of how I feel about Snowden, I agree (for once) with the consensus opinion of the HN thread that if there's economic blowback to the revelations, it's hard to pin that on Snowden. The only way I could see that being valid is if Snowden made up his own facts and was then taken seriously. Some of Snowden's claims (and some of Greenwald's) strain credibility, but the most outlandish claims seem to have been widely dismissed by now.

† Which I doubt a lot; it's too interesting, and the most boring narrative always wins.

†† You're not required to get around it; you might believe in a corollary to "bad facts make bad law" and think that continuing a discussion that has already been poisoned is a waste of time.
Is there some site where one can follow rough progress as a non-developer?
kCura's National Day of Civic Hacking churned out some sweet hacks
Forgive if I'm missing something but how does http://masterpasswordapp.com deal with sites password requirements (or rather limitations)?
It seems to me this article is a fantasy. A what if scenario. I don't think this guy really knows pacemakers at all frankly. A bluetooth enabled pacemaker seems far fetched and to my knowledge such a thing does not exist. Pacemakers require the reader device to be in contact with the patient directly over the pacemaker, the range is that limited.
Personally I am also not convinced that LHV theories will every describe the effects correctly. But whether the successor of QM ultimately contains true randomness or not, there is no reason to think it will forever stay an 'inexplicable mystery'.
"The fallout from the Snowden leaks have hurt U.S. technology firms' ability to sell their products overseas"

What an idiotic, capitalistic claim. So Andreeson calls him a traitor because "business is now harder." Huh? Nevermind invasion of privacy and injustice.
It was announced 2 weeks ago. Prior to that it was in beta for many months...

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/blog/90/announcing-dropbo...
I wonder if the generated code will be visualized when using Playgrounds. Anyone know? I haven't tried rendering code yet in Playgrounds.

I emailed Paintcode asking this same question. Will post if I get a response.
But you think they should. You said they should shut down rather than serve users you disagree with. That kind of thinking is toxic.
That's because even if you did follow the NSA, you assumed they spied on foreign government officials, "bad guys," not _everyone_.

You may have assumed that. I have always thought of the NSA as harvesting whatever signals they can pick up, not just analyzing known vectors like numbers stations or military radio traffic. I mean think about it, how are you going to find new hostile communications patterns if you don't do broad-spectrum data collection? It's not like you can just spider al-qaeda.com and follow the links you find there; for that matter foreign government signals traffic for espionage purposes isn't necessarily going to be hosted on government websites. I doubt that (for example) Russian spies check in with Kremlin.ru weekly, don't you? Ideally, you would not want to depend on any .ru address.

I don't think there are spies everywhere or anything like that, but the fundamental nature of espionage is that participants don't wear uniforms and instead employ informal and ad-hoc methods of communication - exactly the sort of patterns you look for in metadata analysis.
It's true, Glenn Greenwald said that he almost gave up on Snowden's information because it was too hard to set up GPG correctly!
The Quantified Smoker: This E-Cigarette Tracks Your Puffs
I remember reading years ago about a giant data center being built in Utah for the NSA with the express purpose of collecting electronic data sent in the continental US. It was in Time magazine or something similar, and it wasn't really that big of a deal. Honestly, I think the reason that people cared so much this time was because of the drama of the story: the inside man who revealed thousands of secrets and then bolted to Russia, and the subsequent continuing drama where more information gets periodically released, etc.

Why are people so shocked and upset about the NSA, when they could have expressed the same outrage at the PATRIOT act, which has been around for a decade, and which is responsible for the legality of much of the NSA's recent history? The NSA is a spy agency. That's what they do. They're using every legal avenue they have to collect as much information as possible. To assume that they're doing anything less than everything possible within legal limits is naive.
Say u have a single packet Pcap, with a multi-layer binary encoded packet. Click the button, get a complete editable stack graph pre-populated with values from the packet. Edit layers in concert (no annoying Copy/Paste between layers as in wirefloss.com). When done, click and auto-generate a Python code stub sending the new packet to a wire. Coming soon!
Thanks for posting that link. It is a much better telling of the story, and a much better explanation of survivorship bias.
Sure, maybe today the concept isn't the right fit for cell phones (all sorts of trade-offs regarding CPU usage, battery-life, data consumption, etc.) but perhaps the concept can evolve to take advantage of the future "internet of things" grid which is likely to connect devices that have plenty of spare processing cycles without the same constraints imposed by a mobile phone.

Aim for where the ball is going. Not where it is right now.
No, not even then. The government and the nation are not the same thing. The oath of allegiance is to the nation and the Constitution, not to the government, and it specifically includes the proviso of protecting the nation against "all enemies, foreign and domestic". If there are traitors here, they are the ones who violated the Constitution, the ones who helped conceal those violations, and the ones who saw all this happening and said nothing.
There have been biologists in previous classes.

Do keep in mind that the fellowship targets very very young people, and it's exceptionally hard to show excellence in most fields by that age. Software is a rare exception.
Yes, let's worry about Silicon Valley's bottom line in all of this. Brave warriors, always on the ropes.

It's always surprising when one discovers the Ellisons and the Andreessens of the world. Luckily their type is a rare exception in the Valley though.