skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure our German services know much more than they say. There is also a lot of cooperation between German services and the US. Keep in mind that Germany hosts major military and intelligence installations for the US. The central US military commands for Europe and Africa are both hosted in Germany. The US organizes a lot of the world-wide military activities (aka wars) from Germany. We host US nuclear weapons. We have surveillance installations here. The CIA and NSA have bases here...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Africa_Command in Stuttgart/Germany. Imagine that, the US military activities for Africa are coordinated in Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_European_Command in Stuttgart/Germany.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_Complex in Griesheim/Germany hosts 1000+ people working for the NSA.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_Intelligence_Cent... under construction in Wiesbaden/Germany, for the US Army and the NSA.
Really? I get that as part of the diplomatic games they have to take on an outward posture of being shocked by such revelations, but aren't their intelligence agencies fully aware that these things are just par for the course?
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I for one, completely agree with you. Now this is purely anecdotal, but then again everything in this debate seems to be.

I've only been driving for 7 years, but already had several benign accidents (no casualties or whatever, only some damaged metal). On each and every one of these situations, the cause was not speeding, nor my phone, nor any outside distraction, but just my mind wandering off the driving and thinking of something else.

Sometimes I get home and I do not remember the ride, not even which road I took or anything, and I think to myself, what could have happened while my mind was wandering. I just can't keep my full attention on something for that long, period.
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Any scientific study that wasn't run by idiots would take those other variables into account.
This is the most pretentious comment I've seen in a while on HN, congratulations. I suggest you come back when you've learned a bit of history.
Along with toe clips, bar ends have mostly gone the way side.
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does anyone in the US remember this (Auto-Race)?

http://www.geek.com/games/portable-gaming-a-brief-history-13...

i got this game when it first came out and spent untold hours trying to get the optimum score ( i vaguely remember 25 or 26? ) ... it also was a slight money-maker for as I rented it out on occasion.

amazing...512 bytes.
To be honest, it did work out pretty well for them. They failed because of strategic reasons.
Where is Thunderbolt Headed?
By your logic no one could make money selling Vitamin C.

Also, the article talked about the benefits of consuming lithium at a tiny fraction of the therapeutic level. There are plenty of legal, common supplements that are similarly toxic if consumed in those amounts.
As analogies between analogies go, this is like comparing the comparison of Charlie Chaplin's mustache to Hitler's mustache to the comparison of Charlie Chaplin and Hitler.
I just use git submodules for all bundles that I install.
Having access to an ISP at the level the NSA does, geolocation, complete communications surveillance and MitM attacks become very easy. I'm based in Cologne and a customer of one of the breached ISPs - very annoyed.
And they are building new bases.

I am also convinced that the German authorities know much more than we like to think (they don't say that they know nothing), and I'm also pretty sure the NSA and CIA know as much as the German authorities.
> US policy people have told me that the United States will "never end".

Cut them some slack. If they say anything different it's likely some lunatic will label them "unamerican". While the country, as it presently stands, will not endure for long in a planetary timescale, we'll be fortunate if some of the core ideals behind its foundation last for a longer time and help guide our descendants into the deep future.
>Unless you are incredibly atypical the spike in traffic will not last.

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.

> It tells me your either naively optimistic (sorry to inject an unpleasant reality) or trying to sell it quick to someone else who is naively optimistic.

That's pretty judgmental. This obviously has the potential to grow. If he doesn't want to deal with it or maybe needs the money now, he isn't doing anything wrong by trying to sell it to someone that sees the same potential that inspired him to spend 2 years creating it.

Maybe he won't get $60K, and maybe he'll get more. Maybe somebody will offer to invest in it and allow him to draw a salary while he grows it. Maybe he'll be hired by someone that has a use for the talent and dedication he displayed by building this. Regardless of the outcome, it's clearly worth something, and if he wants or needs to sell, I hope he gets a fair offer.
He's back promoting a new game.
Product Hunt has an audience of tech enthusiasts and is at least marginally useful to every VC and Angel investor out there. This by itself is sufficient to easily justify the valuation.

In addition Product Hunt is also focused on email, which is a relatively easy to monetize medium. The job board, podcast, and the data they're collecting has additional potential.

Once you take into account that investment money is plentiful and valuations are a back-of-the-envelope practice anyway then backing this YC startup is a financial no-brainer.
Mmh. The auto completion can be a nice feature, but how do populate the dictionary for auto complete of jira/github issues ?
Newswire API has great potential! It would be a good resource for creating alerts for specific type of news.
It's still there, just not the featured one on top. And as bad as all this is, there are still worse things happening in the world.
You can still make a decent job with much less than that, by using semi-pro actors, directors and editors.

We made a video with €3.5k, by contacting a local theater / cinema center, and got overwhelming positive feedbacks with the result. In retrospect, we are very happy with the quality/cost ratio.

I'm linking it here so that people can judge the difference in quality (which is visibile, but worth 10x the cost?):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODFHTN45vmo
Hello everyone! I'm part of the core team, I'll take a look here now and then to answer any questions folks may have.
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Which brings us to those rare individuals who hold an Erdős-Bacon-Sabbath number.

http://erdosbaconsabbath.com/the-list/
The main problem is that the ruling political parties in Germany are - please excuse the language, i don't know how else to put this - sucking US d*ck big time. The way the whole NSA/Snowden thing has been handled in Germany is a fucking joke.
There are already 60 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8314188
Or incredibly bad decision-making on the part of a possibly barbituate-crazed leader; "let's break our pact with previously-friendly Russia and invade them, learning nothing from Napoleon's extreme failure in Russia. Fighting a war on two fronts is a great idea!" Who knows; if Germany hadn't gone to war with Russia it's possible that they'd still have today much of the land they took in 1939-1941.
Bike-specific baggies are generally slimmer in the thigh and cut higher in the rear/crotch to reduce getting caught in the saddle. I ride mostly with baggies and it's not a problem I've ever experienced.
I'm not sure if they see this for the first time, or whether it's a little staged for the camera, but those guys have to be feeling really uncomfortable. Imagine some journalist coming to your office, and showing you slides with passwords, that can access you infrastructure. http://vimeo.com/106026217
Any plans to add this to npm?
The BBC broadcast a good documentary on the broad issue of internet survelliance a few weeks ago (Horizon: Inside the Dark Web). It's been uploaded to YouTube and is well worth a watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTjNkbLBEqg

There is a segment in the programme that starts at 4 mins 50 sec that explains how key fibre optic cables that connect the UK and US handle as much as 25% of all internet traffic. It also explains how relatively simple it is for GCHQ to insert an "optical tap" that allows them to capture the data that flows through the cables.
From their FAQ:

11. What do you mean by "commercial purposes"?
Here are a few examples of what we consider commercial purposes:

1. Selling New York Times content or data in any application.
2. Charging a subscription fee for any New York Times content or data.
3. Selling any application built with one of our APIs.

If you are making more than 5,000 calls per day (via an application or any other method) to an individual API, we will notice that and assume you're using our API for a commercial purpose. Please contact us if you have hit that limit but do not think you are using the API for a commercial purpose.

---------

It looks enticing but I'm not entirely sure if these limitations negate the purpose of the API existing (aside from internal use and hobbyists using it for personal purposes).
You know why? I think it's because we have the same situation in Germany as in the US. We are still waiting for "our Snowden".
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Anthropocentric climate change can be our big filter. Don't underestimate it.
I am bipolar. What you describe is why it's a "hard sell" to patients with mood disorders.

Yes, others will point to the higher dose for psychiatric patients.

I would point to the soulless robot, the empty husk of a once vibrant, creative brain.

We are devs, and our brain is our livelihood. In me it killed my creativity and my passion. Not only did I not want to code anything new, I could not conceive of new things. I stopped improv jams on guitar, I could not write songs. I became wonderfully adept at doing scales. Scales over and over.

I'll take my mood disorder- because it comes WITH emotions.

This is just to give you a 'crazy person's' impression of Lithium. Your results may vary.
Except most people love their families more than health or life. Missing out on the childhoods of your grandchildren or great-grandchildren is a nonstarter for them.
What's your point? Most of us who like math know about project euler and the various online judges. As I see it, the more such sites, the more the variety of problems to solve and that's a good thing.
The main problem in this whole story is the inability to punish the misbehavior without getting hit by the backlash. It's the same with Russia's recent activities. We lack efficient means of punishment on a global scale when dealing with powerful nations. Therefore the best option is usually to improve defense measures and that takes time.
If size is a concern, wouldn't a binary message format make more sense?
If it grows slowly and consistently you have time to automate some of the repetitive task, find a revenue source, hire an (helpful) assistant, ...

Some solutions are not abaiable during a spike. For example, if you hire a moron to help during the spike, you still have to pay him after the spike has gone or fire him. (And you have even more problems during the spike, because you have to find him and coach him.) So it's better to wait until you know if the traffic increase is permanent or it's only a spike.
like Alan Turing lolol
Give it rest, go out and take a walk. You don't need to worry about this too much. You've put a lot of effort into this, but nothing like this is worth ruining your health about it.

Being tired doesn't allow you to think straight.

As for handling support, an autoreply to a faq can save time. Zoho also has a free plan for their support system https://www.zoho.com/support/
Binary format will help as well in homogenius format. Please note that I'm defining a new datatype, not only a compressor.
While everybody is mostly focused on Deutsche Telecom and Stellar, I'm more concerned about the long list of big-profile red-filled dots ('SIGINT collection points from AS') in the dox and slides:

* AS1299 (TeliaSonera)

* AS3549 (Level3/GBLX)

* AS6762 (TelecomItalia/Sparkle)

* AS3320 (DeutscheTelekom)

* AS1273 (CW Cable and Wireless)

* AS702 (Verizon/UUNET)

This list covers most of the uplink/transit/tier-1 providers, serving most of EU operators (TATA and TINET being the biggest absents here).
What's with the South Park references? That part seemed out of place to me.
Probably, but this misses the point. On a differential basis, it may save more lives on the whole.
What's new about it? Just saw I have an app there that dates back to 2008.
I once had a friend, over some beers, describe his synaesthesia. He thought it was just him being crazy, until I handed him my phone with the Wikipedia page on it.

He said that people who were being dishonest sounded purple- the man was a walking lie detector, and never knew how he was doing it.
I'm skeptical of the ability of regulators and traditional car designers to really think about the user experience and its implications on safety. For example, many cars have confusing controls and distracting displays already. Have you seen reasons to be optimistic?
It has now been a year+ since Snowden is out of the loop (I guess). I wonder how fast NSA moves and how much things have changed since this intel.
Here you go https://www.npmjs.org/package/homogenius
And then the projected light goes into your eyes and strikes your retina, sending signals to your brain. Amazing!
IoT platforms and the product iteration argument
That's good for you! I don't personally find the tool in question exactly the most appealing to me personally, but what I am excited about is that the industry is moving on, as C is far too dated as a language and even C14 doesn't give much hope. So, as you suggested that you don't appreciate the abstarction this tool adds, would you consider Rust, as it compiles right down to machine code? Essentially Rust is much C-like in terms of basic syntax, but has expressivenes of a functional language, safety-aware compiler and a ton of other features, including the fact that it's aimed at system-level applications and one should be able to write a kernel in Rust.
The Guardian also has an API: http://explorer.content.guardianapis.com/
Deadmau5 works as an Uber driver
It is much easier to differentiate a service if you don't need to take other clients that are out of your control into account.

One of the most time consuming things you can do is to diagnose, fix or work around issues in other applications that you don't control or even have source code access.
Clickable: http://rantbase.com
What's Your Proof?
yes, if you scroll down to the Top ten list of most shared articles in the small widget to the right. It's #4.

By worse things you mean camerons face? In an article that asks "why isn't GB [the NATO] bombing the shit out of iraq yet [again]?"
Nothing has demonstrated that it's referrals by friends -- it saw a small amount of attention on HN, and from that the inevitable reposts on Reddit. Further if the definition were so limited, then we could say that everything has "gone viral", making the phrase meaningless -- instead there is some level of scale necessary, which I don't think this level of success meets.

HN is a finicky, short-attention span beast, by design. A front page of HN, and tens of thousands of uniques, often yields zero residual "value" (seriously, zero. The most lauded piece on here with endless upvotes and you're lucky if a single reader reposts it anywhere else or mentions it, beyond the karma seekers who stick it on /r/programming).
I don't get this post. 6000 unique visitors in no universe yields thousands of emails (again, due to the short attention span probably 5000 clicked back ten seconds in), unless the game itself generates enormous amounts of operator notifications and mechanical turk type behavior, in which case the game is unsustainable for anyone.

The model of getting a project to some level of success and then offloading it is an entirely reasonable one (though really the tough luck story I think undermines the pitch), though at the current level of success this project is, sadly, currently close to worthless. Having a very temporary spike of a niche user base is not at all sustainable.
Apple a decade behind Japan on mobile payment curve
Thanks for giving it a spin! Our native platform packaging and integration is very new, so I'm afraid this isn't a huge surprise. If you can find any details about what is going on there, posting to our Github issue tracker would be helpful: https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/issues
Physicists find a new way to push electrons around
Congrats PH team.. The PH Philly Meetup was a great time, and I love the direction you guys are moving in. Looking forward to seeing the next evolution!
Twitter’s Huge Mistake
Or maybe they would be a Soviet state today. It's not that Russia didn't have plans to backstab Hitler.
I'm not so sure - a decent argument could be made that the German government really wants to get into the FVEY club. Both Snowden and Drake have said things that suggest this.

(note: government != the people, who are justifiably mad)
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> Going viral isn't a certain number or speed of adoption.

Going viral is certainly speed of adoption. By definition. It's not an absolute number, it's a growth pattern over time.

Two days is not enough to decide that something went viral.

6,000 registered users is a very low number, even if it happens within a few hours: a simple exposure on the front page of HN or Reddit, or even better, being featured on Google Play or the iTunes store, will result in user sign ups in the order of the 100k's.
Flippa.com if you are serious about selling.
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As the article comments note, Thunderbolt is also not taking taking off because Intel demands all Thunderbolt peripherals have OS X drivers.

Companies like Asus/Silverstone (and more who don't spring to mind right now) have created Thunderbolt GPU enclosures to allow laptops to do 3D work. However Intel won't let them go to market because they don't have OS X drivers, and Apple has no interest in supporting Thunderbolt GPUs when they cold be selling people additional Macs instead.
By my interpretation of what you wrote, you're suggesting that freedom actually means having no expectation of privacy. I can't agree to that.

OP is correct. I have the expectation that my torment will not invade my privacy. I also have the expectation that my government protects me from other governments. That's just how it works.

For sure right now the reality isn't that effective - but that doesn't change my expectation.
There is very little distinction between your own government surveilling you and a foreign government surveilling you. Especially among western nations that share a great deal of intelligence.

This isn't just theoretical. Here is a very stark and relevant example of the power the US has over German citizens: http://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/dec/13/cia-tortured-sodo...

There are currently hundreds of millions of people living in parts of the world where 'benign' foreign surveillance is the difference between being alive tomorrow and a US drone strike on your house.
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It seems to be something similar to rantbase but with a more funny tone.
Basically, yes:

#!!!! The source type 'munin_t' can write to a 'dir' of the following types:
# tmp_t, etc_t, munin_tmp_t, munin_log_t, var_run_t, var_log_t, munin_var_lib_t, munin_var_run_t, httpd_munin_content_t, root_t
This reminds me of a book a friend of mine wrote years ago called, "Mr Bunny's Guide to ActiveX" which I believe originally came with crayons, or at least that was his intention.

http://www.amazon.com/Bunnys-Guide-ActiveX-Carlton-Egremont/...
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It's a little satire of how serious issues get dumbed down by Sally Struthers appeals to "think of the children".

As I pointed out in another post in the thread, technical controls are last ditch place to enforce policy. You could take the same lame "the children!" Argument and apply it to speeding (why not govern speed in cars?) or food service (make it impossible to undercook an egg) or a thousand other things.
Damn, a Thunderbolt 2 PCIe card with two ports costs ~55€. That would make for one hell of a replacement for 10G Ethernet. Double the speed and cheaper. Does anyone know how the linux support for this is?
In some place, running water has more lithium. For example, there was a recent study that correlates the suicide rates with the content of lithium in water in some cities of Japan: http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/194/5/464.full
Berlin is not Germany. I don't know where the OP is from, but if he's from Muenchen or Frankfurt, my rough estimation (I am not German) is that the cost of life in those cities are 20-30% higher than in Berlin.
Were you ever given an option to take a smaller dose? Something to limit the really bad swings? Is this something you'd be able to test?
You're only partly right. It's what happened with sex and quite a number of religions. It's also why many Americans (especially in the military) refer to Muslims as "hajis". In that context it's easier to kill something that doesn't appear human.

Cognitive dissonance is very, very effective.
[citation needed]

The GPU enclosures have been held up by Intel refusing to license them but not because of osx drivers, there are licensed thunderbolt peripherals that do not have osx drivers.
> At the current stage of the game, one would be able to get about $1000 per month with both ads and user membership.

The current usage is a peak because of exposure. It will drop and the ad profit will go way down in the coming few weeks.
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I recently needed to confine a java application running in Ubuntu VMs. Although apparmor documentation was more scattered than I expected, I was able to go from never having used it to a working profile in a little over a day. There weren't many new concepts involved, the profiles were easy to read and write, and although the tools has some rough edges they did help me develop and verify my profile.
"...Especially among western nations that share a great deal of intelligence..."

Hopefully I didn't present my opinion as some kind of solved problem. I agree that with the automation of collection and sharing of data, the game has changed. The original comment was about how people felt after the wall fell, and I thought it was a very strange thing for somebody to feel. Heck, if I were in their shoes, I'd be happy just not to have the secret police following me around.

There is a theory going around that somehow we can get along without any intelligence collection or data sharing at all. Frankly I do not understand how that would work. There are real threats and collecting intelligence about foreign entities and their intent has, over time, done great good for the world. In fact, there are many cases where the lack of good intelligence has caused much harm. But I'm willing to hear folks out.
If we (as in democratic countries) don't keep outselves together because there are "worse things" (there always are) there will be no demoracies anymore in few dozens of years.
It's their victory that they convinced you that they don't want just to squeeze everyone else dry.
It makes sense when a community starts with a group of people from smaller community and later on expands to other areas and communities. It has been what, 6 months since PH's launch? Its a great MVP refactored out of Show HNs!
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