skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Writing my representative and senators now.

That will accomplish absolutely nothing, except to legitimize those who have overseen this reprehensible development, and all the other political and social catastrophes of the past 30-40 years.

Our...political...system...is...fundamentally...broken.

Voting, writing your congressman, and helping elect another corrupt politician are all activities that do nothing to improve the status quo. Voting in particular helps maintain the facade that America is a functioning democracy, when in fact our only choices are two sides of the same coin.

The sooner the citizenry understand that, the better we'll all be.

Instead, work toward educating your fellow citizens about these problems, and why they're happening.

Refrain from spending your money on companies that back up the status quo. It's a hard task, but there are some major offenders (defense industry and banking industry are two big ones).

If you're entrepreneurial or technical, consider developing technical solutions to these political problems, that work around the problems or help solve them. This recent ycombinator company offering "justice-as-a-service" is a good example of this approach:

http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/20/tech/mobile/fixed-app-parking-...

They're starting small (parking tickets), but you have to start somewhere.

And there's lots of room for growth in the injustice sector.
Apple outrages users by automatically installing U2 album
Why the downvotes?
French article, one among many that mention Drug smuggling by some agencies (CIA?)
http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/la-vie-abracadabrante-d-un-pilot...
Apple's strong presence in content creation didn't help Firewire. It's tough to see if their newer, stronger position might help, but I think we'll see history repeat itself and find that USB3.x will eventually support high-performance graphics. Alternatively you'll just see PC makers shipping 4k+-capable HDMI ports.
Thanks for sharing your experience. I am curious about the hospitalization for mania. If you don't mind saying, what happened exactly? Were you so "up" that you were taking dangerous risks? What types of behavior does mania induce that make it a threat?
It wasn't a comparison to Hitler, though. He just was mentioned.
This is totally logical, but psychologically hard.

When I was a student I had totally-free online stuff I built lead to a stream of requests for upgrades, additions, bugfixes, etc. -- and the unreasonable ones are easy to discard, but some requests would be polite, friendly, and include offers to help. I'd agree to make the seemingly-small tweak, or accept the help, and then realize after a week that I didn't really have the time, or that my TO-DO list was being pulled completely out of whack....

Better to not publish your email address at all, perhaps, or make very clear that emails may be eventually read but very likely not responded to.
Get a JRuby + Rails + PostgreSQL Project Running in Minutes with Docker and Fig
This is precisely why it seems nuts to me. Haven't they learned anything over the past 10 years, that products that are limited to a tech audience largely based in SF Bay Area, and ESPECIALLY a product that appeals to VCs and angels, is extremely, extremely niche-y?

So, duh, they're obviously gonna try to expand it to consumer verticals. Where it winds up being Pinterest with a Reddit/YC upvote/downvote UI. Not worth $7M total in funding imho.

And guess what. Consumers don't do deal flow. VCs and angels NEED a river of announcements all day long, and a way to gauge interest from others (that's the lemming DNA talking).
Yeah, but the E.U. contracts are out in the open (not secret) and the people had to vote for Germany to become a member of the E.U. At least in Austria we had to vote, I think it was the same in Germany.
Also instead of the added pressure of finding a business model, you may want to put up a "Donate" button.

Ideally, if you put up a graph of your costs per month (including what you feel you should get paid to work on the project) and a graph of donations per month, or something, then people who enjoy your game will be smart enough to help support it financially for you.
Approaching the Quantum Mechanical Defeat of Classical Computers
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." [0]

Exposing the secret police agencies for dereliction of duty, corruption, violation of the law and their own enabling legislation, and counterproductive stupidity isn't treason. There's no war involved and no aid and comfort to the enemy.

"Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason." [1] We don't yet know if the USA will return to constitutional government from the path it has been taking. Whether Snowden will be honored or despised in this nation will be one barometer of our future.

Also, Deutsche Telekom is a major ISP and radio telecom provider in the USA as well as abroad.

[0] United States Constitution, Article 3

[1] John Harrington
I am sometimes surprised that this type of argument gets downvoted. How can it be said that the political system is NOT broken? You`d think after all the information uncovered by Snowden this would be obvious to most of us.
Got it. Don't vote, don't attempt to hold elected officials accountable or even let them know in tangible communications about what I feel. Give up and disengage completely, educate other citizens on why they should give up and disengage completely, put my money into my mattress (or a credit union, I guess), and start a garden so I can feed myself. But where do I buy the seeds!?

I say get more engaged, but be pragmatic and protect yourself emotionally. I do believe that many, but not all, representatives would respond to increased personal communication. All of my conversation with former DC staffers has done nothing by reinforce this view for me.

But don't leave it there. Support causes you believe in, and if you can use technology or commerce to enact change positive change then that's even better.
Also see http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/rej/gc.html and http://gchandbook.org/
The NYT seems to describe the slide deck, down to the case studies at the end.
I knew skript kids who were networking mapping cities and national networks like TymNet back in 87. Around 2k I made a map of the Netherlands, because it was a small but interesting country. The bigger boys play with bigger toys.
They don't tell you what the limit is:

"12. Is there an API call limit?
When you register for an API key, you'll receive information about limits and other Terms of Use. If you approach a limit, a warning e-mail will automatically be sent to you."

http://developer.nytimes.com/docs/faq#6
Can anyone help me with this most emphasized sentence, "Hemisphere is law enforcement sensitive!"... what is it supposed to mean?
Except that if you don't care about human readability, you might as well use a binary format and decrease size even more
On the contrary, he advocates a proactive approach to 'engage and inform other citizens' and start having people stop relying on a broken system, instead of taking responsibility for their actions and effectuating real change.
Sure, there's definitely some Gaia-worshipers here and there, but you're miscasting the environmentalism movement if you think they're a majority or even a driving force. I'd place the driving forces as first some sort of rational self-interest -- if your house is on fire, you don't need to worship the house to want to put out the fire -- and second as some sort of combination of a sense of stewardship and guilt, stewardship, a need to protect and care for things, and guilt at taking what we feel isn't ours. The guilt might blend into Gaia-ism, but I don't think it must.
Show HN: Exploring the US Budget, 1962-2019
A Soviet/Russian classic! I grew up in Canada, but was exposed to it by my parents.
Compartmentalize. Don't tell anyone outside law enforcement. It's our little secret.
Toyota, Grenoble set stage for test in ride-sharing
Yeah, 100k to 150k USD for the experience you describe sounds typical. The Java/Python combo in particular would be helpful for getting into companies like Google where total compensation can exceed 150k.

Cost of living in the Bay Area is high but misunderstood. When I decided to move to San Francisco, I estimated that I would pay 25% more rent, earn a 50% higher salary, and not need a car. I told people I was moving and they said, "But it's so expensive! How can you afford that?" Because math. [1]

[1]: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/08/28/cost_of_livin...
"...the maker of Minecraft and one of the last independent gaming companies..." - LOL, what?

"...right now I have three devices — my phone, my Kindle, my iPod..." - worlds most consumer-friendly devices. So nerdy.

Reminds me of a South Park classic: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flippity-flop...
Can/will single Mailpile instance handle multiple users like classical webmail? Can I give Mailpile access to maildirs of several real (unix) users, on a server with a functioning MTA, and let it handle authentication and other stuff?
Not free, not free, wooh. I think you spend a reasonable amount of work there and therefore it is just normal that its not free. Nothing great is free these days, and, to be honest, if something awesome like that is free I would be more than suspicious.

Well, that said, it would've been nice if you provided a free developer version. Not every project works the same. Sometimes someone want to test if your product really fits, before spending...

And after scanning through your website 3 times, I am still not sure what is the difference between "unlimited websites" and "resale in products".

Just my thoughts...
Yes, this is all about maintainability.
When you are on all fronts the last thing you want is to fight with your distro.
Wikipedia has: "Limited Distribution, Proprietary, Originator Controlled, Law Enforcement Sensitive were designations the Pentagon attempted in 2011 to exempt from President Obama's Executive Order 13556"

Executive Order 13556 "Controlled Unclassified Information" required a public registry of such information and that the
registry and implementing directives would be available to the public.
Surely the Israeli and Saudi ruling elites would never be working together. [0]

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Peace_Initiative
Hi Renato

I am very sorry to hear about your health problems. I don't have the same challenges as you but I do have experience of when a side project explodes. I have a piece of freemium software that has been downloaded about 700,000 times and here is what i did to manage the emails:

- set up a great FAQ and put all questions that are asked more than once in there.
- if you use a mac get a copy of TextExpander ( or a similar product) and automate all your email replies. Then you can answer support emails with one command.
- use a Gmail label to sort out support, and batch send emails once or twice a week. Don't be afraid to ignore whiners, complainers and the people who cannot Google answers for themselves.

Take care of your health first and best of luck!
Good feedback. Some are already ideas we like. Some are more easily doable than others.

> Will there be a mode where no icons are lacking a textual description?

Not currently planned. If enough people demand this it could happen!

> Can I see single messages instead of having the whole thread loaded?

This is neat. I'd love to implement it.

> Is there a design that uses less whitespace?

There is a "Display" dropdown for the Search view that does have different versions with less whitespace. We might expand this elsewhere

> Is there a classic "tree on the left, list on the top, message at the bottom" layout?

Not exactly sure I understand. Wanna file a Github issue with a screenshot? :) If I do understand, yes, we'd like to offer this sort of view as well!
Yes, this is going to be developed further. There is some existing code. We will be publishing a roadmap + how this factors into it, soon!
Saying "the system is broken because it doesn't represent my interests" doesn't seem likely to go anywhere. Someone will always say that. Assuming you fix the system, whoever's interests are currently being represented will make the exact same complaint.

For the majority of American history, the system was fundamentally broken for women. That wasn't fixed by women sitting out and saying boohoo.
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When the document has more than one title, it makes sense to use the most informative one.

The submitted title was "DO Not mention Hemisphere in any official reports or court documents". That broke the guidelines, certainly by being baity and arguably by editorializing as well.
How do you define "good"? What checks and balances are there to prevent abuse?

This all sounds rather worrying.
The problem is that his analysis is weak: the reason that there are two choices are because of people like him disengaging and not supporting a third choice.

Further, it's not the case that actions like those done by the NSA happened in a vacuum. The reality is that most of the country demanded, following one stinging terrorist attack that this must never happened again. The men and women of our military fulfilled that wish: at the cost of $20 billion a year, they delivered to us most of the globe on a silver platter, completely electronically dominated and ready to be watched to stop even a whiff of such a threat.

That our social demands (in aggregate) are childish, insane, bipolar, etc isn't their fault. They simply did what society demanded it needed to feel safe, what they saw as their duty.

The simple truth is that the current state of affairs is exactly what we've asked for, in large part, and that the most realistic way to reform it is to engage with other citizens and help them understand why their contrary and silly demands are contrary and silly.

All that pulling away from the political exchange will do is lead us down the path of a civil war (or other turmoil) as people who refuse to be part of the rule making also refuse to follow the rules.
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My take on that is that spying is supposed to have as it primary justification the objective of determining a foreign nations true intentions. Its a method to confirm or disprove what is said. Germany, for example, says its no threat to the US, and US spying will hopefully confirm this. And of course vice-versa. So, spying on politicians and policy makers can be argued to be legit. However whole sale spying on citizens is not.

What gone wrong here is that spying is now used for law enforcement, instead of a tool for diplomacy.
Learning that someone is finally working on a nice webmail app that can be self-hosted pleases me.
I have no issue with librarians keeping circulation records private, but I do wish my local library would install porn filters on the public computers. The library is basically a homeless shelter, unusable due to unsavory men looking at porn on the computers and masturbating in the bathrooms. For some reason they refuse to place any limits on internet access.
I think much of that depends on properties of the tech we create. After all, people are both producers and consumers. We have drives to do more than passively consume.

Take Emacs. That's a technology that empowers people to become creators. It's hackable, and not in a grim boring way like Unix:

"When large numbers of nontechnical workers are using a programmable editor, they will he tempted constantly to begin programming in the course of their day-to-day lives. This should contribute greatly to computer literacy, especially because many of the people thus exposed will be secretaries taught by society that they are incapable of doing mathematics, and unable to imagine for a moment that they can learn to program. But that won't stop them from learning it if they don't know that it is programming that they are learning! According to Bernard Greenberg, this is already happening with Multics EMACS." https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html
Nobody lives in a true democracy. And it's actually a good thing. Unfortunately the majority of the population is willingly ignorant and refuses to be educated on complex issues. Instead, they have very unbalanced opinions, based almost solely on emotion. It is very easy to harness those emotions and use them to raise to power and then do unspeakable atrocities. Hitler, Musolini to name just a couple.
In paint, where there's only one pigment, green is green, whoever looks at it.
Make each risk bigger than the last: Andrew Weinreich
This seems ridiculous, yet and maybe unintentionally smart too.

As it makes for a good story press outlets will probably pick up and write about. It's semi-similar to the Flappy Bird's creator decision to remove it from the app store and all the press that followed.

Though maybe it's creator just want to cash out on it quickly and go relax on a beach with nice looking people (who doesn't?).

Good luck!
I always thought the original meaning of "nerd" was "not cool, not popular in the high school sense".

IIRC in "revenge of the nerds"[0] (1984) a few of the nerds were just the "not frat & football guys", rather than "expert in a intellectual field".

The "knowledgeable about something" bit came much later, as did the "techie" sense, AFAICT (wikipedia appears to agree[1]).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Nerds

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerd#Etymology
Http4s – a minimal, idiomatic Scala interface for HTTP services
original link: http://humoncomics.com/mother-gaia

the image you posted has a footer atribution that has nothing to do with the comic.
Distilled water is neutral, but natural surface water with low mineral content still has CO2 disolved in it, and usually also some SO2 and NOx, which makes the water acidic, so what's wrong is the comparison with distilled water, not that it is acidic.
> The spike won't last, but it doesn't mean that it won't grow consistently from where it is into something much larger than it is today.

That is absolutely true, but investors don't invest based on "doesn't mean". The equation is discounted future free cash flow minus risk premium, and usually, minus how desperate you are to sell. If you are big and threatening (can take away Facebook's customers), then that adds some plus to the equation.

If you are trying to sell Apple we can talk about projecting future growth - the equation changes dramatically. A PHP game with a one day spike? No.

This could be the next minecraft, but more likely it'll make 1K this month, $500 next month, and so on into obscurity, is the thinking. Disagree? Show us the numbers. You'll get about 1x on those numbers, as others have ably pointed out.

I think we all agree he has done extremely well to get to this point, and that we hope he gets fair value. But I can't imagine spending that much money to basically buy myself a job in the hopes of a revenue stream that the owner has not generated for himself. I think the advice he has gotten to take a breather, and take stock in a few weeks is extremely sound. If he can make a case for his revenue #s he will get a nice price for his game. But he needs to understand what investors are thinking about his pitch. That is not bashing him or being judgemental, it is merely echoing what the market is going to be thinking. How else will he get fair value? The goodness of the investor's heart?

tl;dr - the things being written may be painful to read, but they come from people with experience and a friendly desire to explain how to do business valuation. It in no way implies an assumption of a limited upside in the future of the game.
Among other reasons, because it becomes an off-topic distraction.
Functional APIs with Swift – Swift – objc.io issue #16
Yep, or put up a paywall. Want to get answer to a question, pay $50/hour. Don't want to pay? Then deal with it. it's a FREE game.
In consultation with several sources including website brokers www.feinternational.com, most apps in the mid-5 to low-7 figure revenue range go for 2-3x earnings (in this case, earnings includes any salaries the founders / owners draw).

This was consistent with the app I sold back in Feb, which went for 2.x times earnings.

Rob Walling's Startups for the Rest of Us podcast did an episode on this recently:

http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com/episodes/episode-197-h...
I think "lusers" was the word used sometime ago for the people who use technology without understanding it :)
Tesla Model S Battery Teardown
Does the code have an automated a test suite? It would be really hard for someone to take over for you without one.
Let me commend them on the clarity of their writing. When the audiences is themselves it's brisk, vigorous, candid, and refreshingly to the point.

Now contrast that with monstrosities like the Affordable Health Care Act, thousands of pages long, nearly impenetrable, and executed without any of the legislators involved actually reading or understanding it.

Or the tax code, which is incapable of returning idempotent values when the same functions are applied to identical inputs.
Snowden, in an interview that he gave when this all started, stated explicitly that (unlike Manning), he reviewed each and every single document in that mass that he dumped.

Furthermore, that review was to ensure that it was material the the public "needed to know" and wouldn't actually harm the U.S. (as he claimed he could do).

So the question of who ended up with the material after Snowden is irrelevant, inasmuch as Snowden himself says he signed off on each and every single leak you see in the media derived from that initial document dump, even if he didn't directly control the editorial process of each media (or activist) outlet doing the publishing.

The alternative (that Snowden didn't actually review every document and simply negligently put stuff out there) is bad for him too, as it makes him a liar.

In either event this is indicative of a political agenda, not some concern with American civil liberties. But we've already known that since his leak of phone tapping in a certain Central Asian country where American (and allied) forces are fighting for their lives each and every day, something which can't possibly implicate American civil liberties.
Well, people with Androids and WPs know enough to either not call themselves "nerds" or actually be nerds. But of course he forgot that they would also play Candy Crush Saga installed by one of the Apple Geniuses.
I was not trying to be mean on slackware users, nor implying that slackware isn't a capable distro. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.

I implied that, when a distro is missing dependency management, it should be the last on your picking list. I'm an Arch guy myself, but my own servers run on wheezy (because 'life').
Couple of months of is reasonable but it depends on the amount.
As the designer / UX guy of Mailpile- to me is how difficult it is to intelligently sort & render the vast array of differing types of email (conversations, lists, receipts, newsletters, notifications, etc...)!
Yes. As someone with anxiety and depression issues myself I sympathize with the sudden scariness of something like this, but it would be a shame if it just went dark because you have obviously put a lot of work into it.

If you do decide to shutter the server, set up a Github repo and mirror your code under a licence like GPL3, then maybe at least someone else can pick it up and keep sharing more cool stuff with it. It's what I did when I got out of roleplaying games.
Venture Capital is a Terrible investment
Elon Musk: Tesla Cars Could Run on “Full Autopilot” in 5 Years
Is there a "reckless negligence" equivalent to treason, as manslaughter is akin to murder?
And technically this is the case for Project Euler as well, they even discuss it explicitly.