skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, only it does several other things do. Like optionally removing indend whitespace.

Did you even read TFA?
I actually don't have a problem with those things mentioned in the MSDN article. If you want to do business in different countries I think you should expect to make some effort to abide by the laws and customs of those countries. If India, for example, want to block your software because it shows a particular border then why should "but we made it in USA" make any difference at all - India is a democratic sovereign nation, no?

A mere informational website? Well it's a problem, if you simply off-shore a news server to by-pass reporting restrictions and such that clearly makes a mockery of the legal system and those it's seeking to protect. To me it's fine to serve up that news if you don't undergo business in the country in which the legal blocks have been put in place.

If you expect anyone to abide by any laws online then how are you going to square this except by user origin, where the actions become realised.
Essentially any profit made by Amazon in Europe is faux booked to a Luxembourg office where it is then off-shored to another tax-haven. It then just sits there till Amazon can buy Congress to let them bring it back to US shareholders.
That money is effectively removed from the economy.

Any profit made in a local bookstore meanwhile will support the jobs of more people and will be taxed and will recirculate when those employees spend that money. Its because they are part of society and pay their way that Amazon can undercut them.
With rovers shooting lasers on Mars I'm disappointed that ligament and joint repair isn't as routine as dental work. Actually, I'm also disappointed that I still have to brush my teeth. The technology trickle down doesn't really jump out at you, does it? Imagine a country redirecting a year of military spending to advance the smaller everyday things.
The thing is we are conditioned to believe that anything the government does, especially anonymously, is necessarily bad.

From what I've seem on the list, this has been some kind of an effort to actually improve the arcticles, and update government related information, like embassy addresses and websites.

It looks like there is a bunch of responsible, well intentioned and helpful people in the government - at lealst in Norway.
Not in the US, but seeing as you are undertaking a thesis, I assume you are a college or university student?

If you are a student, Microsoft offer undergraduate and postgraduate Azure grants: http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/community/education/

If you are applying with a lecturer, they can request grants or passes for entire class: http://www.microsoftazurepass.com/azureu

Not sure how long it will take in each case, but I don't think they require a credit card (though there are restrictions on what you can do, so check it is suitable for your thesis first).

Good luck with your thesis!
This has to be the most beautiful website i've seen.
This is one of those cases where the changed Title on HN misleads [1]. These aren't changes from the 'government' they are changes from 'parliament and government offices'. Occams Razor would suggest they are more likely to be staffers and the occasional Patsy Cline-loving MP, rather than cabinet policies being enacted.

[1] Title as I write is "10 years of anonymous Wikipedia edits from the Norwegian government"
The Dropbox example doesn't seem to work for me: http://jpillora.com/xdomain/example/dropbox/

I'm on latest Chrome, OS X and get this error:

[blocked] The page at 'https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14376395/html/proxy.html'
was loaded over HTTPS, but ran insecure content from
'http://jpillora.com/xdomain/dist/0.6/xdomain.js': this content should
also be loaded over HTTPS.
Busy NYC Restaurant Solves Major Mystery by Reviewing Old Surveillance
I'm with you. I'd prefer to maintain my current lifestyle if "success" meant having to act as douchey as these ass-clowns.

This is the end-result of privilege meeting a lack of consequences.
So, a transpiler, with new syntax, and its own set of BS issues, including an added step in your JS workflow (for the transpiling), is better than a small library doing exactly what you want?
How did you find that? When I looked up the title I got a link to journals.cambridge.org that redirects to a login page. Your link is much better.

http://scitr.com/a2d
Seems like the protection laws were enacted with the goal of ensuring access to books in small towns.

I've lived much of my life in small towns in the US, and honestly, the single best thing about Amazon is that it massively increased my access to books. Small-town bookstores never carried more than a handful of programming books, a couple of short shelves of science fiction, and none of the strange specialist material I buy today (books on purely functional data structures, bilingual French/hieroglyphic texts, and so on—everybody wants something out on the long tail, but the details obviously vary).

Right now, my least favorite thing about the French book market is the near-impossibility of buying French-language ebooks from overseas, assuming I want more than Le Petit Prince or a bunch of public domain classics. The only French publishing niche that has this figured out is long-form comics (aka bandes dessinées). There, the publishers banded together to create the massively awesome online distributor Izneo, which sucks up more of my book budget than I'd care to admit, and which allows me to buy from anywhere in the world: http://www.izneo.com/

On the other hand, the French tradition of aggressive law-making means that they can actually decide to create a 4-year startup visa, then go ahead and actually do it.
I don't now what you mean. Do you deny that WMD programs exist?
> Tobacco users are simply addicted, and use the drug to return to a state of normality.

So do coffee users, ice cream users and chocolate "users".
Their top claim seems to be that organic food is higher in anti-oxidants.

Unfortunately, the idea that anti-oxidants are good for you has always been scientifically shaky, and as more studies have been done, it's increasingly looking like anti-oxidants may be unhealthy.

So, the message of this study is, avoid organic food?
"Jeez louise"? Was that comment made by a 13 year old?
There's valid uses for the $1/mo. server, I can have five boxes for the price of one. Spread out amongst different providers, that's called redundancy. I don't get that hosting everything w/AWS. Customer service? What's that? I have ssh I don't need customer service, only if the box goes down. My $1 servers been up for months, and if one drops, I have four others. I've had great experience paying $1/mo and never contacting the provider for anything.

"Don't use $1 servers" is FUD and probably will be showing up "news stories" from Amazon soon about how terrible and evil these low cost provider are..

Let me address the security issue quickly too. Look, anything - you put on a server not owned by you, is not your data anymore. That's what people need to understand about the cloud. I don't care if its Bob's hosting, or AWS or Dropbox or Onedrive. Anything you don't want others to read should be encrypted before it leaves your PC, period.
Israel's Iron Dome Is Amazing, and That's a Problem
Link to the original blog post, with more information: http://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured... (You can buy the poster there and the blog has many interesting articles.)

Previous HN discussion with many comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5140135 (358 points, 527 days ago, 46 comments)
> OCaml uses non-deterministic garbage collection, whereas python mostly uses reference counting (in CPython). This is another case where the first system was safer in one aspect.

How is reference counting safer?
Read the Pew poll I linked. The attitude among the population as a whole only crossed over last year, and already its being legalized in several places. Moreover, remember, voters aren't the same demographic as the whole population. They skew older and more conservative. So its quite likely that even though 51% or something of people support legalization, the majority of voters in most places don't. My mom, my wife, and I all are registered in VA. My wife and I support legalization. My mom thinks pot will destroy your life. We don't vote. She always votes.
In all his clumsiness, chatmasta is exposing the core topic of the website: What happens when one publishes his private data to the world? Criticism, mockery, or respect if you're lucky to have the right crowd. I'm looking forward to seeing someone stalked using data he published voluntarily, just for the social experiment. Will it be good? bad?
It's phrased like this is some big evil scheme going on but looking at the edits it's exactly the kind of stuff I believe the government should keep up to date on Wikipedia.
Thanks but I doubt those would work, I cleared all of my courses years ago and I'm only recently going back to Uni to finally finish my thesis and get my degree.
The link I gave above is the 2nd Google search result when I search for the name of the paper.
Five Habits of Bad Sex
I had a teacher make seating charts in Bingo Card Creator by exploiting the fact that, for the free trial, the random perturbation of the words is deterministic. She put 1 through 25 in the word list, observed where they showed up on the bingo card, then replaced them with students' names to get the desired seating chart. (How do I know this? Because she bought BCC and that replaced the deterministic random seed with an actual random seed, causing the seating chart to break and her to send me a support email the next time she tried printing it.)

Given that one of my Internet buddies runs a table planning software company I probably should have bought her a license on general principles.
What about money spent by Amazon employees?
> I still believe you are wrong and I did not claim Docker was a general container solution

>I'm sure Docker is appropriate for some specific situations, but it is not currently an appropriate general container solution if you care about security.

>Docker doesn't provide the full security isolation that Solaris Zones does; I'm sure it's the right style of solution for specific cases, but it is not an appropriate general solution for isolation or containerisation.

Tell yourself whatever you need to.

>You don't know how Solaris Zones work, because if you did, you'd understand that cgroups are insufficient to provide the same level of security.

Which is why I also mentioned (and even linked you to the documentation for) docker_selinux, which is actually security instead of mere process isolation through namespaces and resource control (which are what cgroups do). Incidentally, this is the same way non-labeled zones work, but I guess I don't know anything about those.

Think whatever you want.
In the context of "oppressive government" I'm thinking of the classic 1984 type situation, with a small faction suppressing the will of the majority. I.e. subversion of majoritarian will through military power.

Civil war was a civil war, with the country split into two sides. Regional bonds took precedence over national ones but the military of each faction sided with the people of their region. Japanese internment and native Americans involved minorities. The soldiers didn't come from those communities, and native americans were barely considered people much less Americans. It doesn't take much to get the majority to take action against a minority, but that's not an existential threat to democracy.
Interesting; fish scales are used to clear white wine of course (or were before industrial scale production).

Thanks for that link
So you would suggest using external text files to store every SQL/Cypher query that is used in a model-based node app?
I have few pleasures in life greater than finding a way to answer that question no matter what situation. Sadly, as a result, no-one ever asks me anymore. Thanks for the memories.
We are very relaxed. An employee could take 4 weeks off, get the normal 2 weeks and just have 2 weeks unpaid.
Must change my reading glasses.

That seems a much smaller 300g ration per week. I get through a 200g bag of fine ground coffee in a couple or three weeks at one strong mug a day or there abouts.
Are you Norwegian? Because my understanding is that Scandinavians tend to be the most trusting of their governments and have the least corrupt and most transparent governments (perhaps excluding Iceland). It would strike me as odd to hear someone from Norway say they are conditioned to believe anything government does is necessarily bad.
I think Chrome is mentioned as "Latest Chrome" because:

1) There have been so many versions and not easy to know what came when.

2) Most people get updated to Chrome latest automatically without any fuss.
seemed to me like it was explicitly phrased so you WOULDN'T think that.

imagine the title (and source) if they were making controversial edits?
How Great Entrepreneurs Really Listen To Customers
And an armed insurrection in the US would do different? Further, as pointed out above, anything popular enough to become a huge deal would have an awful lot of military members supporting it. The fancy gear would find it's way into the hands of both sides.
I do a week off tea, coffee and juices, just water, every now and again. Some headaches and discomfort day 1, usually fine and chipper by day 3 onwards.

I'm on one strong large mug (two ordinary cups) of coffee and one or two teas a day normally. I don't have caffeinated soft drinks at all.
And http://www.reporter-app.com, an iOS app, also by Felton.

BTW, anyone knows why it is Nicholas Felton and feltron.com? (with and without "r")?
State of the Art of Performance Visualization
Your language is classic ad hominem and guilt by association. You're not making a reasonable argument at all, you're saying that because you dislike group X, and person A "sounds like" group X, they're untrustworthy. For all of the problems the SJW community has, each post like yours makes them seem more justified.
GitHub IoT projects sorted by stars
But really, who uses C# on anything but Windows.
I agree that what mistermann said is wrong. But I find your claim that Cards Against Humanity are any kind of evidence appalling. Does that extend to the whole team? Are all of them potential rapists because they enjoy making those cards? What about the buyers?

Humor is humor, nothing more.
You'd conclude everything is unhealthy if you lived your life the way studies told you to. Problem is most studies you see these days are backed/funded by an agenda to be basically their marketing.

I'd like to see a study that dismisses labels like "organic"/not and look for the nutritional content AND poisonous content.

That way, we'd find the best current/future farming methods available instead of this inane religious branding war between marketing giants.
Their argument about the technology is perfectly fine in their personal context. The point at which it gets batty is when they presume every single person is like them and will suffer the same consequences.

Personally, I feel terrified any time someone raises an argument resting upon the idea of homogeneous people. I'm me and you're you. You don't like VR and find it isn't for you. That's fine. There's this plant I can't eat - I'm not allergic, it just tastes awful to me. They say it's good for you, but I just can't stand it. I also can't socialize around sports - the kind where you sit down in front of a large screen and watch a game, whether at home or in an establishment serving food and drinks. I've never been able to understand this model. Of course that's the problem - you can't understand it, you just get it or you don't. And I don't. So I don't do that.

I do like MMORPGs though. I've made a lot of friends who I know just by their self-picked handle. For some of them I don't even know what they look like at all. I've met with a few of them though, they're nice.

Spending 5 or 6 hours per day in a virtual world might be bad for you. Or it might be all right for you. Depends on the precise you. It's definitely not "wrong", in a moral or legal sense (IANAL, IMBW). It's wrong when you give up on someone, or let them down, or tell a lie, or desert them ... when you hurt them.

The one thing you can say about all people is that they're different. When you look at them, they look all the same, but the more you look, the more different they are. Kind of like grains of sand.

further reading/tl;dr:

http://xkcd.com/1314/

http://xkcd.com/1311/

http://xkcd.com/1289/

http://xkcd.com/603/

http://bit.ly/U7tyNe
I didn't even know it existed different Chinese fonts. Shows how narrow-minded I am.
Why we crave human-curated playlists
Some guy already tried this. He looked up instagram users in his vicinity, looked up their most recent photos, then found them and freaked them out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P_0s1TYpJU
Quoc Le’s Lectures on Deep Learning
>The story in the Guardian by Antony Loewenstein certainly reports that William Binney's personal opinion as a former employee of NSA is that NSA is gathering up and recording whatever it can and that NSA has a "totalitarian mentality." That is a very important issue, if true, but it is at least debatable that NSA is really that thorough in its actual practices and really that generally blatant in disregarding the civil rights of Americans or even of people in other countries.

As a European, with a much more turbulent and close-up sense of history (including actual dictatorships in our recent past, in several countries, or the "democratic" governments involved even in actual bomb attacks against their own citizens, usually with the support of the US too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio ), I'm always amused by this kind of non-cynical naivety.

I guess it's the same way a non-criminal black person in the US, given their historical experiences, comes to understand that "justice" largely caters to some privileges and biases, whereas some protected suburban white child might have a much more naive approach.

What I'm getting at is: when it comes to those kind of operations, always assume the worse. And the so called "abuses" are seldom done by some "bad apples", they are built into the system.

>The other reason I don't believe this HN hivemind theory of politics is that I by no means assume that everyone in politics lacks personal integrity.

Another case in point. My take is that tons of people "lack personal integrity", and a certain loss of it is a pre-requisite for a succesful career in politics.

But in an a higher level, it's also that whether people in politics have "personal integrity" or not is besides the point.

The system can operate without integrity, even if most of it's players have "personal integrity".

For one, personal integrity is totally compatible with doing bad -- it only requires that you believe that the "bad" has to be done for an ultimately good cause (e.g surveillance and safety).

Plus, ethical systems (that guide "integrity") have many levels, strict conformance to the law and professional ethics is just one of them. For example, a cop that plants evidence on some guy, perhaps does not do it because he "lacks personal integrity" (e.g to pad his arrest record), but because he really believes the guy is guilty and that it's his duty as a good guy to put him in prison. That the guy could be innocent, and what he's doing is morally wrong, doesn't cross his mind, because he is convinced.
Cough... five comments and no one wonder about the possibility of shooting at drones with this rifle?
But doesn't EasyXDM require you to do all calls using their library? XDomain is drop-in.
Can you get a US number from http://voice.google.com and use it?
If corporations are the primary influencer in cannabis public policy, why aren't they taking to the airwaves to influence public opinion? That's what corporations do when they want to influence other public policy issues; they ran commercials all through the health care debate.
OVH is a bag of shit. Nothing but pain.

If you want quality try bytemark/bigv or Colo with exonetric.

Edit: I tried linode and was pretty happy but I don't trust something so far from home. Also tried digital ocean but the lagging kernels shot it for me.
A good example of bad Chinese font use is Facebook chat (in a desktop browser).

The font is tiny, and with traditional characters can be very difficult to read.
Here, try reading:

http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/19962/when-we-lost-...

Roads didn't "belong" to vehicles--in fact, it was generally considered that the driver of the larger vehicle in an accident was at fault, which is common sense.

As for cigarettes, consider the old ads:

http://content.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1848212_17...

As for piracy--look, taking my keys (even to make a copy) requires the temporary loss of access to them, whereas with files it does not. Arguments against copyright infringement cannot hang on stealing, because it is plainly not stealing: instead, you have to construct them as being about the infringement on somebody's right to control access to their works (which is a bit more subtle, and far from settled).

You need to read more and talk less, and maybe you'll learn something. I don't blame you for being brainwashed by the societal norms these days, but if you want to be taken seriously you need to google your way to success.
I think this is basically why so many nerds become Libertarians. Unfortunately, reality is messy and complicated and not a computer program.
Don't let it... Anand is a rare breed :)
Ask HN: What are your biggest pet peeves with the iOS keyboard?
Apple mentioned at their latest WWDC that they will now allow 3rd party developers to create keyboards for iOS devices.<p>What pain points do you have with the current iOS keyboard? What features and improvements could be made to make it better?
> and it was chaos and panic and unbearably freezing cold at a horrific -9C.

Hey, that is pretty grim. Winters here have been pretty mild recently, I just hope nothing unfortunate happens to the North Atlantic Drift, or it's going to be apocalyptically arctic...

> So now I'm surprised that more Germans don't have AC!

That was my point when I started this. All of our cars have it, stores and offices have it, but then for some reason we come home to our sweltering roof apartments and bake to death!
Also interesting -
CNN Opinion: How Iron Dome missile defense buys time for Israel
http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/11/opinion/israel-iron-dome-o...
I've been using ovh's kimsufi packages for over 5 years, and their support is getting to the point of worse than reported about cloudatcost's :(
So much personal details but no mention of the age? Grand example of SF's ageism.
Rdio

Dow Jones

Tesco

Microsoft

Bosch-Siemens

Direct Energy

Ara

Sennheiser

Kimberley-Clark

Xactware

National Instruments

To pick just the people on http://xamarin.com/customers
Please don't launch into personal attacks (at least not as crude as these). If you have a point to make, reason through it, post your sources, and debate properly.
Nice. They should probably modify the tool so that the links go to the https version, not the http version.
Actual link:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/rnr/4562386373.html
They are exceptionally poorly paid and insecure. Here in the UK most of them are on benefits. Effectively my taxes are subsidising their profits.
This started off seeming like it might be a promising article, but by the end it becomes clear that it's just terrible clickbait / blogspam.

The story seems to be "people use phones and social media more now than in 2004, one restaurant in NYC has failed to keep up with this."
Good catch. Just wondering, has neighbourhood use pattern changed? From a predominantly business to mainly leisure/shopping focus?

Sounds like recent customers more 'event oriented' as well as having smart phones. Perhaps 2004 customers more utilitarian/eating for need? That could be checked by tallying group sizes.
They could go one step further and offer "rewards" at the end of the calendar year that would make up for the 1 cent.