skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know there are a million things I would do if I didn't have to work.
One of the biggest values I got from the Dish was as a news aggregation service that I trust, and that is the thing that might put me in the wind looking for a replacement for some time.

Andrew identifies as a conservative of some flavor, which I certainly am not. As a result, on the days that I only have 20 minutes to spend on current events, getting the news from his site made me feel like I am doing something right.

What other comparable resources exist?
It's like Kinja, but somehow worse.
No, there is something inherently untrustworthy about a person who needs someone else to tell them to be a good person.
Manual english translation (draft):

https://lite5.framapad.org/p/nothing-to-hide

please improve it, and why not make an igotnothingtohide website ;-)
Laser inventor and Nobel laureate Charles Townes dies at 99
Thought the same thing for the fun.
This may not be exactly what you want, but may be good start http://www.sitepoint.com/full-stack-developer/
He lost me a while back with his take on the Bell Curve.
"Changing the instances of 13 to 16 in the above code fixed the problem"

Not in my book. It made the symptom disappear, but the problem stayed. You don't compute magical constants and put them in your source code if your language has AlignOf, Sizeof and Offsetof.
After I turned off µBlock, it loaded alright(Chrome/OSX 10.8). I know a lot of people here love them an adblocker, so that might be the problem. It seems to be blocking a JSONP call somewhere, and thus the loader spins forever...
> Younger people are less habit forming and more likely to try new services.

Younger people are not less prone to forming habits. There are, of course, always new young people who may not have the same habits as the last round of young people, though.
Assuming that transparency will end lies and manipulations is just fanciful.

That said, I don't expect our privacy will last, either. Like you said, efficiency - the current economic fetish - will be used as an excuse to kill it soon enough. For some, that is. Like free markets, transparency will be forced on the poor and avoided by the rich, eliminating most of the potential benefits it could have brought.
I tried out nixos (the complete distro based on nix) on the weekend -- it's not saying too much that it's a revelation. I can see myself completely switching for my development machines and possibly for servers as well.

The amazing thing is that the whole set up of your linux machine is encaptulated in one declarative text file (that you can put in version control). Give it a try by installing it using VirtualBox: https://nixos.org/wiki/Installing_NixOS_in_a_VirtualBox_gues.... You can log in (demo/demo in the 14.10 vm) and play around, essentially be editing `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix`.

I recommend trying the configuration of an experienced user. Here's the result of a simple search on github:

https://github.com/sitano/configuration.nix

https://github.com/Hinidu/configuration.nix

https://github.com/garbas/nixos-configuration

You can also get started very easily using a ec2 tiny instance (free tier): https://nixos.org/wiki/NixOS_on_Amazon_EC2
Anything you say today, however innocent, is potential "evidence" against you by a later government. "Your Honor, the accursed is on record, and admits, that he regularly voted for the Repugnicratic party. Why, he even admits to giving them money!"

Any personal fact collected and stored, however politically or criminally innocuous, is potentially retrievable by criminals breaching the storage system.

It doesn't matter how pure of heart today's collectors may be; if it's not observed or collected today then it can't be abused tomorrow.
If what you need is Photoshop and Affter Effects then buy them. Why are you asking for an equivalent if those programs are what you need?
Well, I would say it is a bit more complicated than a dictionary with rates. You have to deal with all of the VAT rate exceptions, for instance the Azores, Jungholz, Heligoland, Livigno, etc. And then you have to collect two non-contradictory pieces of location proof. And allow businesses to provide a VAT ID, etc.
It's 100% native - objective-c. No Swift yet since it's too new and I like to see examples of what's out there and existing codebase. It's mostly a UI for someone else's API so the backend is very lightweight. We use Parse and a caching server, but that's about it.
How is it the fault of the "patriarchy" that shy nerds asking out cheerleaders tends not to go well? This makes it sound like a conspiracy.
Is the difference between GIMP and Photoshop really that much bigger than the difference between Inkscape and Illustrator?
Just to be clear, are you arguing the fine should be a percentage of net income or some other method that varies based on the revenue of the parent entity?
Where is the Watson chef app? It's been writing a book: http://www.amazon.com/Cognitive-Cooking-Chef-Watson-Innovati...

(disclosure: I work for IBM, not in the Watson group)
> I wonder how he got into it.

I'm a programmer by profession, but at one stage there were no such jobs available, so I went back to teaching. Teaching office computer skills (typing, Microsoft Office, drawing apps, ...) to kids who were "*-challenged", i.e. blind, deaf, mentally impaired and disturbed, and others.

The most exhausting, and rewarding, job I've ever had.

Vincent (one of the blind guys) ran into trouble with Word. Can't remember what the problem was, but I solved it with a simple Word macro. His flabber was gasted - not only did he then grok the fact that all the programs had code behind them, but the code was all plain text, hence was often easier to comprehend in a screen reader than what he heard from most programs. Even text in Word can be a pain to hear when every font change is also announced.

Of course the text might be easier to hear, but the logic behind can also tougher to grasp. But Vincent loved it and wanted to learn, and I much preferred teaching VB than teaching Word, so we soon had a programming class going within the office skills class. Some found it interesting, but Vincent found it easy and got a City & Guilds 425 Application Programming cert from the course. Went on to get a job programming before I did.

So I'd say he got into it the same way as me - one day I sat down in front of a terminal and wrote some code, which eventually worked, and I was hooked!

It was just easier for me because the terminal was more accessible and no-one thought it was "obvious" that I wouldn't be able to use it.
MongoDB made an explicit exception to AGPL. Normally a driver wrapping an AGPL database would have to be AGPL too. In turn every app using the driver would be AGPL. But Mongo, as owners of the driver and DB, made an exception for users.

The only situation where AGPL wouldn't affect other components is where you're using industry wide standard APIs. E.g., I can use Firefox to connect to an AGPL website, but that doesn't make Firefox AGPL. This is what Stallman is getting at when he talks about intimacy of API communication. He points to a simple call to main as an example that's not intimate communication and thus has no licensing consequences.

Also you can't say "we license this as AGPL for non-commercial use". That violates the rights of the user to not have additional restrictions placed on the AGPL. And if you think through the practicalities of how that would work, it's not feasible anyhow.

Edit to add: AGPL does not prevent private modification of code. Your are required to license the code as AGPL and distribute the AGPL licensed project to users, but if the user is just you, there's no practical effect. However, once you start sharing it internally in a company, it's a giant grey area especially if you have contractors or any non-employee ever access your infrastructure. Employees might also be able to claim they are entitled to an AGPL copy of it. The only thing that's allowed internally is having someone "make modifications exclusively for you, or provide you with facilities for running those works", which would be effective for a trial or POC. Essentially you should either plan to abide by the AGPL or plan on buying the dual license at some point (the license allows violations to be fixed within 30 days).

(This post is for entertainment purposes. I am not a lawayer, and this is not advice.)
Worldwide Security Report Finds 50X Increase in DDoS Attack Size in Past Decade
Obviously this seems to come out very favorable for Google. Can you talk about / think of a scenario in which Amazon's pricing structure is significantly more favorable?
How an Amish missionary caused 2014's massive measles outbreak
The GoDaddy Ad That Has Been Pulled from SuperBowl
You say that as if there is some volition involved in the "settling" on JS. But there is no cohesive group with the agency to do any such thing. It's like blaming human evolution on individual human choices throughout history.
Show HN: We just built an app to finally get you motivated to do push-ups
Could someone tell me what this whole thing is about? From what i gather it is the following:

1. Users currently can monetize using contentID - any videos uploaded anywhere using their shit and they get a cut of the ads (if there are any).

2. Google is making paid streaming version, artists now have two options:

2a) Agree to have everything on paid and free side and get money. Also, everything you release everything must also release to Youtube (I assume this is the main sticking point??).

2b) Don't agree and only have shit be on free side and not get money. You can upload whatever you want when you want.
Using µBlock and loading
Do you think it is right to have pulled it?

Do you agree/disagree?
And how do those developers deal with issues such as XSS, injection, untrusted JSON, etc if they don't know JavaScript? I agree with the OP. At some point it will come back to bite you.

I've watched many ASP and ASP.NET developers struggle with more modern web methodologies such as restful web apis, client side MVC, etc and it's because they never took the time to understand the web, the browser, or javascript and let ASP take care of it for them since everything is server side and postbacks.

I fear it will be the same mistake again but made with frameworks such as angular where we have a generation of developers who have no idea how the underlying technology works.
The humans.txt generator tool
That's what your parent is saying (s)he does.
What's the fundamental difference between a hotel blocking people's hotspots and a movie theatre banning outside food and drink? They are both done to make their product offering exclusive while a consumer is on their premises.

If the principle for this regulation is "consumer protection", then I don't see why the FDA shouldn't ban movie theatres prohibitions as well.

If the principle for this regulation is "don't screw with the public airwaves", then I don't see why we need an additional regulation to specifically target hotels and convention centers, the existing regulation should be sufficient.
> The law has always been complicated. I'm pretty sure the only people who would be able to "simplify the law" would be lawyers, and I can't really imagine they would think it would be in their best interests to do that.

Lawyers are often behind movements to simplify the law. The problem is that efforts to simplify the law often lead to (what some substantial group feels are) substantially negative impacts given the complexity of the reality the law is meant to deal with.

Simplifying often sounds better in the abstract than in concrete terms.
If anybody is having issues loading the page, here's a really long screenshot of the text... http://milankragujevic.com/uploads/2015-01-29_151409.jpg
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I really don't understand the scandal here. This just confirms that Google is offering musicians the choice that's been suspected ever since YouTube Music Key just a rumor:

(a) Go all in on monetization (ads, Content Id, Music Key, etc.)

(b) Go all out on monetization (upload videos for free, no other commercial relationship).

They aren't offering this choice because it helps them kill puppies or whatever, but for what should be a blindlingly obvious reason: People who pay money for a service that gets rid of ads on music videos are going to be pretty ticked off if they still see ads on music videos.

You can call this evil, but you should be crystal-clear on what you're saying: Google trying to offer a service that lets people pay to get rid of YouTube ads (something lots of people say they want) is evil.

Personally, I think this isn't good or evil, but an example of the inevitable problems and complications that arise when you try to add subscriptions to a hugely popular ad-supported service with many different stakeholders. I suspect that this sort of thing is an underappreciated reason why Google is hesitant to offer paid subscriptions as an alternative to ads in other contexts.
Help us test our DNSSEC implementation
I'm not entirely averse to the world you describe, and you may be right that it's in our future no matter what we choose today. But...

Citizens of oppressive governments are in very real danger if they have no privacy. When the secret police are listening in to everything you say and ready to whisk you away at whim, there can be no dissent nor hope of reform.

Gay children of highly conservative parents are in very real danger if they have no privacy. Suicide rates in that and similar demographics are disturbingly high, and today many get through simply by hiding their identity until they're out on their own. That's not an option in your world.

Anyone with minority views on contentious issues relative to their neighbors or co-workers is at risk if they have no privacy. Sometimes the most effective solution when you've got to get along with other people is just to stay silent. (I live in a small, rural town, but my values are closer to those of my friends in places like San Francisco. A whole lot of people here would be suspicious or hostile if they knew how much our worldviews differ.)

I could go on. But in general, the people who most need privacy are the ones who are most different from the people around them. It's much easier to set privacy aside when you're surrounded by people who are already happy to accept you for who you are. Maybe there's another stable society to be found with no privacy at all, as you envision, but the road from here to there is steep, and rough, and has dizzying cliffs on either side.
You'd have to split the mp3 on your end. then it's simple just:

<Say>message</Say>

<Play>part1.mp3</Play>

<Say>message</Say>

<Play>part2.mp3</Play>

...

etc...

But I could be missing the point of your question?
> ergo, one of their arguments is going to be that SR created a drug market, and made addicts of innocent children who were looking for my little pony pictures and got tricked into taking smack.

Doesn't that seem reasonable? Not in the extreme form you've taken at least, but in a milder form. It seems reasonable to me that a number of people who otherwise would not try heroin due to lack of access might try it if getting it becomes convenient enough.

It's naive to assume that just because getting drugs is relatively easy that making it easier won't increase the number of people who decide to use drugs. Just as it is wrong for prosecutors to bend reality to fit their interpretation of the facts, it is wrong of those in favor of drug reform to bend reality to fit their interpretation. I would love to see more reasonable drug laws, and I'm probably far more libertarian than most in what changes I'd like to see, however, I recognize that by improving access to drugs you probably will also increase the number of people who do drugs, all else remaining constant.
That sounds like a valid solution for small businesses.
Even for hosted email, it would violate most corporate infosec policies.
Yes, and not just numbers, you can enter mathematical expressions too.
I think you're right. Highly educated, intellectual "nerds" who generally really want to do the "right thing" (however that is defined) are likely to be a lot easier to convert to feminism than, for example, (1) the NFL (2) Kentucky (3) Wall Street (4) Saudi Arabia.

Feminism, as a movement, is aimed at battles it thinks it can win. Nerds who aren't particularly attached to conventional forms of masculinity are already partly won over.
Sorry but I got an "Error 1011, access denied"
Wow ...so many questions ...I'm not sure where to begin answering all of these :) HN is throttling me, so please come find me on #zersiax on freenode to discuss this if you have more questions :) I hope this goes through ...
You sure? How do you know? Is this based on research or gut-feeling? (if it's the former I'd be real curious to read about it)
Don't forget marketing. Alcohol is marketed extensively by the industry despite the associated problems. A legal heroin industry would have a huge incentive to market heroin.
http://i.imgur.com/VibuzuV.png

Cool page, bro. I guess you don't really want people to read it.
Well, we could decide as an industry that we really need to fix the code-in-web-browsers problem, and then fix it with a language which encourages safety and reliability. The fact that we haven't done that supports the OP's point.
That's what I feared. Didn't know if there was a way to do like a delayed <Say> into a <Play>
If that were true there would be no such things as CoffeeScript and TypeScript. The market settled on JavaScript, not the software industry. The software industry is doing what it can with the hand the market dealt them. It's not like x86 is an awesome architecture, but here we are.
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as I already own the domain, I have put together:

http://nothing.to/hide/

which redirects to the pad. Once we got a nice and readable translation, I'll put a nicer page over there. Don't hesitate to ping me on twitter @guyzmo, or IRC (freenode, zmo).
Yeah, but I assume Amazon lets you either keep the price the same and Amazon then sends you a bill or you let Amazon increase the price and take the VAT directly from the sale.
Technically I can already sort of do that in any language. Do keep in mind that all I need to interact with a computer is a keyboard and some way to hear audio ...so I can in fact lay back on the couch with a keyboard on my lap and code away. In fact ... I do that all the time ;) I can't check my work using braille that way though, which is kind of essential with very complex code
I haven't checked on Julia for like a year, but back then Julia didn't offer anything above and beyond R when it comes to "big" (really just not fitting into memory) data. As it is Spark with Scala is both faster and more convenient than R or Julia.
> Google spends billions on marketing, paying lobbyists and buying influence. It funds over 150 organisations and overtook Goldman Sachs last year as the biggest corporate political donor in the USA.

Google and Microsoft wanted nothing to do with this culture, until they grew too big and those threatened started drafting legislation to curtail them. Once faced with a government action, both companies started having presences in the Capitol. It needs to buy influence to protect itself from its competitors, who already have entrenched lobbying efforts. The author's attempt to paint Google as evil from lobbying efforts fails to note the reason for this, government ability to critically damage a company.

1. Microsoft lawsuit over bundling Internet Explorer

2. Google had an FTC investigation regarding its search engine share
Do we really need PR schools to teach people how to be decent human beings?

Probably not, but it's bad for business to be decent human beings. PR/x-relations/etc is about faking decency while unapologetically pushing a business agenda, that does take training.
In many countries consumers are already supposed to pay over the VAT component on foreign purchases. It turns out, that almost no consumers ever did that, and now the collection liability is being shifted to companies instead.
Fixed it. Probably.
My interpretation of this was that it was more of a reminder to hotels and convention centres that they're not exempt from the existing regulation. If they're found to be in breach of existing regulations then they will be fined.
It seems like what junior Angular devs really need is a post showing examples of both what NOT to do and also what to do INSTEAD.

I think the difficulty of Angular is largely you have so many tools available but it's hard for a junior developer (like myself) to recognise when each should be used.
For one, it is incompatible with the whole open web stack. You cannot use Bootstrap with it. And if you decide to move off Angular, you are going to be in a world of pain.

Second and worst of all - it is a monolithic framework. As long as you just do things the "Angular Way" - you are fine. If you want to change or override something, you are in a world of pain.

If you are learning Angular - you are hardly learning JavaScript. The knowledge learned from it is hardly transferable to the next framework down the line.

To me it looks a lot like SOAP. Everybody is acting like they understand what is going on. But nobody really does.
Your trust in transparency ultimately boils down to trust in people & I, for one, sure as hell do not trust people, especially people in power.
Angular brutally sucks in a variety of ways, but security isn't one of them [pentester].

Specifically, the builtin "stuff" makes it actively hard to XSS, and in SPAs that's job #1.
But what does it say exactly? That people prefer C-like syntax as opposed to anything else? That "done is better than perfect" when it comes to releasing a new language? That Netscape got it "wrong" in the 90's by including Javascript in their browser? I'm not quite sure what you're implying here.
Personally, I've tried nudist bathing, and I much prefer having a layer of protection between my crotch and rocks, sharp shells, and the sun.
ACCA F4 past paper 2010
I turned on OS X's built-in screen reader, then set the rate to 100 (the fastest it goes). It's still not as fast NVDA.

It's interesting that he's using Windows 8 and I'd have liked if he'd talked about that briefly. I'd always thought that Apple was way ahead of the other vendors on this accessibility, but perhaps with third-party software available on the desktop for screen reading that's not the case.
>And how do those developers deal with issues such as XSS, injection, untrusted JSON, etc if they don't know JavaScript? I agree with the OP. At some point it will come back to bite you.

Well thats the thing, they don't because thats what the senior devs are for, and learning that stuff is part of becoming a senior dev. I just don't see angular making any more developers who don't really know the core of their technology than any other "generation"... I bet the exact same things were said about jQuery 8 years ago.
The overengineering actually led to success, as it resulted in a batch of non-JS devs thinking that they had discovered some secret magic. They went on to write a bunch of blog posts, which made people think it was good.
I'm not sure anyone has developed a language with a great type level language and a worthless value level one. But that said, theorem provers (like Coq) essentially consider value-level computation as vestigial: nobody cares about running Coq programs, just checking them.

To encode what you're looking for requires type-level natural numbers and a reasonable notion of type-level equality. These are fairly non-trivial. You can encode this in Haskell, but type leve" equality is a bit hard to work with so you may suffer some pains (I know, I've done it several times!). Agfa and Idris would be where I would look to see this sort of thing materialize.
FWIW I would wager that a male would not have to inb4 pedantic arguments. Also that a male would not get so much criticism in regards to nit picky things.

But maybe it's just a common trait of detail oriented programmer types to be pedantic?