jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Dropbox didn't lie. This is simply a misinterpretation (or misunderstanding) of what's meant by the phrase "Dropbox employees aren't able to access user files". It's not the same as saying "It's impossible." The fact is, if you send a company your unencrypted data, it's obviously possible for them to view it at some point. Otherwise they could never encrypt it in the first place. So when they say that employees aren't able to access it, they mean that they, as a company, choose not to access it.

A good analogy is the post office. Anyone who works there and handles your mail could, if they so desired, tear open your package and steal the cookies your mother sent you. We trust them anyway, because we know they take precautions to ensure it doesn't happen. Dropbox is the same, but even tougher (I doubt the average Dropbox employee has access to their decryption mechanisms, but plenty of people at the post office can unseal your envelopes).

That said, to not acknowledge it as even possible for the company you send your data to you be able to access that data seems, to me, a bit naive. That's not the promise they made, and so the claim that they lied is false.
More so than things like this, which is 6 months old?
http://www.billshrink.com/blog/6847/nexus-one-vs-iphone-droi...

This isn't strictly a comparison of the same phone with a contract and without, since it's compared to the nexus one without a contract, but a more detailed search will turn up some (some have been posted here on hacker news).

Other than what's outlined in that comparison, what other benefits are you thinking of? It mainly comes down to price, and often the total cost to the consumer over the length of the contract is more when the phone is subsidized vs when there is no contract. There's a perception that the the subsidized price is cheaper (just like how government subsidized student loans are cheaper because the government initially "pays" the interest), but I think often the phone is just being paid for in installments in each monthly bill during the contract.
I imagine more information is going to be made available at http://seantevis.com/, but its an interesting idea.
BlogEngine.NET is a wonderful blog platform (I consider that a CMS) that's easy to extend and the codebase isn't so massive that you can learn it quickly. Some of these, like DNN, are nightmares.
From the end user perspective (at least this end user)
The competition to widen access to ads and and further to create rich ads is something i hope both companies will not see much success in.

At present, Browsing via mobile is relatively slow, if you dont have unlimited data plans, then it follows that you will pay for Ad traffic, rich media ad traffic will make this problem worse.

The killer feature for me is no advertising, and I am willing to pay for apps to avoid them, An adblocker on the native phone browser is a killer feature for me. One that at least in theory is easier to get on the android platform then on the iphone.
if you're concerned with CPU performance at all, then stick with dedicated. VPS is performant, but i think you can yield a decrease of 10-30ms in pageload times from dedicated.
I truly admire his dedication to creating something people can identify with and working towards a higher cause of true nationhood, but a major contributing cause to the disarray of American politics is the polarization of the citizenry. We're too quick to take sides, regardless of issues and will gladly "drink the kool-aid" of whatever side parallels the most with what we believe is good, versus what's intrinsically right.

This is manifested even in the examples he presented; being an online entity, who's to say that foul play wont occur? What is the system for checks and balances when poisoning the wells to gain followers? Look at Digg and Reddit:

Ostensibly, both sites serve the same purpose, and on a given day you'll very likely find links to the exact same controversial article. It's also likely you'll hear two completely different sides of the issue-one pro, one against, one conservative, one progressive, one rational, one emotional.

The American Nations isn't going to address anything, further segmenting people into groups only reinforces the idea that you need to be with people who agree with you, and rally against those who don't. It's giving the middle finger to compromise and collaboration among people with opposing viewpoints, we don't need further segmentation of ideologies, we really don't.

And I get that he's wanting a microcosm of progressive individuals who want to address major issues as they are, but creating a group within a group, that's already divided and indecisive about how policies shape their day to day lives isn't the answer. It's the pot calling the kettle black.

If you want to FIX America, start by teaching people to think for themselves and dislodge themselves from the meme that everything in the political arena has to be constructed under an "us versus them" mentality, and to not base their moral compasses on sound-bites and blogger pundits. Then you need to teach them how beneficial and enjoyable it can be to actually learn what the guy on the other side of the table has to say.

Stop playing sides. It's destroying us as a people.
So the likely hood of a start-up in investments, is pretty much out of reach.

Was just thinking about how easy/hard it would be to take money from customers, invest it, and payout any profit.

My friend has a guy who takes his money, and invests it for him (he's a private broker) - would this broker also need a team of lawyers? Or is he more of an accountant?

In terms of everything else, I could give anyone $10k, and tell them to go across the street and buy mutual funds... with a written agreement to pay me the profits... couldn't I?

Just trying to better understand...
Same here in most Dutch cities, I myself don't live near the city centre but still have a self contained neighbourhood with a ton of schools shops and other facilities. And the public transport is good enough to be able to reach the entire metropolitan area for a job.

Would be a nice research if someone could test different cities and neighbourhoods indeed.
Apple weren't replacing feature phones. They were replacing PDAs with the iPhone. Which already had Win CE phone/PDA hybrids in the market, and Blackberry which persisted a good while longer due to market penetration in business.

But more importantly, they were integrating something obvious: people wanted an iPod that was also a phone, that was also a PDA. Which meant they got to carry one device, and they wanted that to work well. Apple as a computer manufacturer and software company did have core competencies across these fields.

Where is that for the automotive industry though? Apple have nothing to bring to the core issue of transportation which is transportation and their manufacturing expertise is in solid-state electronics, not the automotive supply chain (which is massive). They don't work with traction-scale systems, and they don't work with human enclosures or really any of the types of processes and problems which cars have. The only competency they bring is software, but as a company they don't have a safety-oriented engineering function (AFAIK) so the synergy is essentially "iOS but in the entertainment system".

Apples contribution is "the head unit", and maybe that's enough, but that's not an "Apple" car, and that's a problem - they'd be trying to build up a manufacturing capability from scratch and that takes time. It puts them behind Tesla in a race to execute, and as Tesla has been discovering you can't just automate your way out of a lot of the problems there.

Which leaves you at, what is an Apple car? It's rebadged Hyundai with an Apple headunit in it.
This IS weird, because of the jQuery part.
How do we improve on the situation?

Given economic realities and racist history (consider what happened in Tuskegee as one example), in the US you would need to provide free screenings to poor people under circumstances that convinced people of color they can trust you while signing the documents to let you have their data.

This is a fairly high bar to meet and one most studies are probably making zero effort to really meet.

I'm part Cherokee and I follow a lot of Natives on Twitter due to sincere and legitimate interest in my Native heritage, but the world deems me to be a White woman so I am sometimes met with hostility simply for trying to talk with Native people while looking too White to be trustworthy. Prior positive engagement with specific individuals seems to carry little weight and be rapidly forgotten. The slightest misstep and, welp, "she's an evil White bitch, here to fuck over the Natives -- like they always are!"

I'm not blaming people of color for feeling that way. I'm just saying that's the reality you are up against.

As someone who spent some years homeless and got a fair amount of "help" offered of the "God, you clearly are an idiot causing your own problems and need a swift kick in the teeth as part of my so-called help" variety, I really sympathize with such reactions.

White people often have little to no understanding of the lives of people of color and little to no desire to try to really understand because really understanding it involves understanding systemic racism in a way that tends to make Whites very uncomfortable. It veers uncomfortably close to self-accusation to honestly try to see how the world is experienced by such people.
SMS can use Unicode, but it uses UCS2[1] so you get less than half the characters you get with the bitpacked 7 bit SMS character set. The 7 bit is mostly Latin, and uppercase Greek (using latin characters when identical). There are also some 7 bit shift-tables for some languages, including some Arabic for Urdu (would this cover other Arabic using languages?), but I'm not sure if anything use these tables instead of just going for Unicode as soon as it leaves the basic set.

I guess there might be input issues as well, do cheap feature phones have an Arabic input mode?

[1] Yes, UCS2 accord to the specs. I suspect modern systems ignore this bit of the standard and use UTF16.
It's probably best not to look if you're Austrailian...
See also: http://craigslist.org/sss
No, the triangle is what can be achieved by mixing the primaries. The blob is what the eye can distinguish between. I think the blob is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIELUV_color_space but I'm not certain.

Can I suggest we look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space#Definition... instead? There you can see that three primaries cover a large range of human colour perception. In particular yellow is well covered, but there is a big gap around cyan, hence my earlier comment that a cyan primary would seem more useful. This corresponds to the requirement for a negative red colour to reach between 440nm and 540nm. Note red is the only primary that goes significantly negative.

Also since we expect television to be displayed using three RGBish primaries, the triangle is also the only colours that are actually transmitted in any TV signal or recording.

Now, it is possible that the small gain in yellow is noticeable, and leads to a nice visual "pop" when viewing the screen, but it really isn't gaining you a lot. I'd be more interested in a cyan primary (think of the skies!) or an HDR screen with a real range of brightnesses.
The definition in that Wikipedia article says that 20/20 vision means being able to resolve two points separated by one arc-minute. Again, on the output side that would mean being able to display two points at that separation with something contrasting in between.

On the other hand, elsewhere Wikipedia says that it means being able to distinguish Snellen optotypes whose total size is one arc-minute. On the face of it, that implies more resolution than two pixels per arc-minute. (Hand-wavily, maybe it's about the same: if you can resolve 2x2 pixels in a square of side 1 arcminute, then for high-contrast Snellen-type images that maybe suggests that you ought to be able to distinguish about 2^(2x2) = 16 different such images, and a Snellen chart actually uses 10 or 12 different optotypes, depending on whether it's one of Snellen's original ones or a modern variant. That's pretty close to 16.)

Phil Plait's blog entry that someone else linked to talks about the difference between "normal" and "ideal", and concludes that an average person looking at a new iPhone at 1' distance will indeed not be able to resolve the pixels (though not by much).
Hmm, so Gambit/Chicken Scheme are now fine again if you use them as interpreters, but beware of compiling the Scheme code down to C. This is bizzarro land - the interpreter will use more CPU time and therefore more battery power, one of the reasons Flash isn't included.
Check out Gemini from CounterSoft

http://countersoft.com

Two videos that may help you get a feel for it:

http://countersoft.com/webcasts/gemini/planner/planner.html
http://countersoft.com/webcasts/visualstudio/VisualStudio201...
from the website:

What does LiNK do?

We raise awareness about the human rights and humanitarian crisis in North Korea through the use of media and grassroots support. We help those who have fled their country because of this crisis – refugees – by sheltering them, advocating for them to governments all over the world, helping them resettle in countries that will accept them, and ultimately empowering them to live new lives.
There's no second place winner for IRV, FPTP, etc. That's where my proposal comes in as a stop gap measure to cover lack of representation while increasing journalism potential.

For better proportional representation, here's this topic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation
I learnt far too much chess theory trying to take the king with a pawn, which was the last animation I had not seen.

IIRC they grab the crown with their pike and it somehow ends up on their head.
That moniker should probably go to E4X:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Archive/Web/E4X_tut...
The psychiatrist opens the scientist up to the idea that the schizophrenic person, in his psychosis, may have insight into certain ideas which sane people do not, which nevertheless still may apply to them.
Italian here and vouching for the correctness of this. They picked an interesting way to "get out of jail", helped by flexibility in the scenario.

Another solution would have been to use the antiquated and formal "lei", which is gender-neutral, replaces the second person with a third, and technically defaults to feminine even when talking to a male (because it's short for "your person", "la sua persona", which is feminine in Italian) - although in practice this is not always the case and the verb can get gendered arbitrarily. "Voi" can also be used in the same way, but then the following verb is always gendered.
Has anyone used Rust to write an interpreter for INTERCAL yet?
It isn't just the US, I had to manually transfer my checked bag in Mexico City while connecting on a flight from JFK to Lima.
I'm inclined to agree with you...but the point I'm trying to entertain here is that when a lot of the people that work remotely - freelancers, work from home folks, etc- communicate with anyone online it's mostly on a transactional basis. It's either their boss or someone who demands some form of a deliverable. And that is mentally straining. I personally know of many people that have decided to quit working online altogether because they couldn't cope with the depression.

So, most of the interactions they have aren't really that friendly, and it's hard to build deep relationships when doing that like you would if you are working in a geostationary workspace.

What I'm trying to do here is emulate the normal co-worker relationship that occurs in "normal jobs" and try to bring it to people who are working online, people that are mostly by themselves and want to connect with people (that are like them) they can relate to...to have communion with.
I'll take 2000-on to the 1993 web/net any day.

I get:

* an up-to-date encyclopedia

* all the music referred to by said encyclopedia (Napster)

* an impressive number of books referred to by said encyclopedia (Demonoid)

* 2010s bonus-- a lot of the scientific articles cited by said encyclopedia (Scihub)

* 2010s bonus-- a searchable cache of stupid questions to do an end-run around the pain of interacting with the asocial gate-keepers who wish the internet wasn't so full of people (StackOverflow)

* an archive of all the stuff you're nostalgic for (archive.org and Google's copy/paste of usenet junk)

My internet is like O'Brien to your Winston from 1984-- its mind includes yours.

Edit: clarification
It is the same in the states with Square (among others), but the ease of “I have to do nothing” is nonetheless extremely alluring to the most adhoc of businesses.
Can you be specific about what the crimes are here?
Maxeler Technologies (http://www.maxeler.com)supplies turnkey FPGA-based acceleration that supports high speed trading with trading latencies on the order of a few microseconds. Software development for the accelerated platform begins with a client's "known to work" proprietary code, which Maxeler accelerates. When latency is an important performance factor, the Maxeler trading server needs to be collocated in the exchange.
I you're using rails, just start out with heroku. If you're using Django, try djangy. It's way easier to let the pros do that stuff and just worry about how your app works.
I mean due process in the seizure. They're allowed to contest the seizure afterward.
Au contraire, I am of the opinion that checked exceptions are the scourge of Java.
(Article author here.)

I'm delighted to see this get some attention here.

I absolutely love these techniques for parsing, but as my primary research areas is static analysis, I haven't had time to revise this paper and resubmit.

As it stands, I may never get the time to do so. :(

I posted it on arxiv so that David could reference it for his Ph.D. school apps.

Since some of you have asked, here are the reviews:

http://matt.might.net/papers/reviews/esop2010-derivatives.tx...

I do have an updated implementation that's much cleaner and faster, and I've been planning to do that in a blog post. (Alas, no opportunity yet.)

David's also done another implementation in Haskell that's screaming fast and efficient on many restricted classes of grammars (like LL(k)). I'll encourage him to post that as well.

If you're interested in getting your name on a scientific publication and helping this get the attention of the scientific community, you can help us by creating an implementation of either technique in your favorite language and beating on it to help find the inefficiencies.

(For instance, the original Scala version linked from this paper has memory leaks from the way it caches derivatives. We got around them by rolling top-level repetition by hand.)

Please email me if that's something you're interested in doing.

Can HN do science? I'd love to find out.
Interesting, do people frequently use bayes' theorem in web programming? Ive only seen it it other programming contexts.
Here it is, converted to java. You tell me which is more verbose.

public class Foo
int bar;

public Foo(int bar) {
this.bar = bar;
}

public int getBar() {
return bar;
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(new Foo(42).getBar());
}
}
Does anyone know how this works with our space-based telescopes? Or even our mountain top observatories? Surely if it's this crazy, they have to deal with that as well?
I've been down this path. I won't tell you not to do it, because that wouldn't be genuine.

I will just say that apathy is a symptom of some kind of underlying issue that isn't being resolved.

Work, and service to humanity is a joy. Devotion is the path to the only true joy there is in life. It gives you life satisfaction.

It can be more fun to work 4 hours on something meaningful than 1 hour on something that is a chore.

Without devotion to something bigger than ourselves, life is nothing more than chasing pleasure which is fleeting.

You can look up jordan peterson or kapil gupta's writing to go in depth on this, if you'd like.

I took many easy jobs in my career. I always got depressed and got fired.

I stopped being depressed the moment i found something meaningful to work on (self driving cars and computer graphics).

"You are entitled to the work, not the fruit of it"

"I slept and dreamt life was joy. i awoke and saw life was service. I acted and behold service was joy."

The biggest components of happiness according to a study are

0. mental and physical health and mindset
1. our relationships romantic and social
2. The work we do in service to humanity

Now, it may be that some are meant to do service in other ways, and the job is just there to pay the bills.

But personally i have found the leverage and multiplier effect of technology makes it so you can gain real satisfaction by contributing to a mission.

You will not hear these words now. For I have said them too easily.

But someday, after many years, I can almost guarantee that you will make a change on this decision.

Work for works sake is bullshit. But within devotion and service lies the true way in which humans were meant to live.

Deep inside the human heart is an emptiness. A void. Our society lies and tells us to fill this void with external things. If you fill it with objects that becomes addiction. if you fill it with a person, that becomes codependence.

But if you listen to the void closely, it is really an open expansive immeasurable sky. It is a calling to create meaning. It is a possibility to be connected and immersed to a grand mission.

Life is suffering. That is undeniable. Rather than avoiding that fact, it is far more reliable to create meaning that makes the suffering irrelevant.

You are important. You can make a difference. You have a role to play in the unfolding destiny of this world.
>> Humans can't for example handle more than 7 objects in working memory

citation needed
"Others have raised concerns that the Russian-made software could be used to spy on users." ..ehm right, because there's no spying on user activities when you use google's preinstalled apps :/