skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EFF isn't getting it: powerful and rich people want this bill to pass for increased government surveillance, control, financial contracts, and bribes. It's probably that simple. They didn't make a mistake any more than they accidentally give the Pentagon or defence contractors ridiculous sums of money for useless stuff that just keeps people employed in their districts, their stock portfolios in the black, and their campaign funds full. This is part of systematic corruption. They just don't give a shit, they have incentives not to, and agencies promise them an exemption which they believe. (Wait, there's the mistake.)

Aside from huge voter push, the only thing that could change it would be similar money and power pushing in the opposite direction. Not talk, not lawyers, not faxes: one or more groups paying for and demanding curtailing of mass surveillance with ability to disrupt contracts, bills, or the politician's careers. Right now, only the pro-surveillance people are in that position. So, they're winning and will keep winning until people get how the system really works and make it work for them.
Turn off your "do other people like this?" filter. Also turn off your "is this like other stuff I've used before in the past?" filter. Go try out the technologies yourself. The stuff you like now is the stuff other people will like in a couple years.
David Mamet breaks storing telling down into.

Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
It seems they've been busy: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-w... .
Was curious about this so I googled, but the results are less interesting than I'd hoped.

"CIA’s fine arts program—administered by its Fine Arts Commission since the 1960s—has benefited over the years from donations of sculptures and paintings that celebrate historical accomplishments in intelligence. The commission reviews donation proposals and, when it finds them appropriate, officially recommends works for acceptance."

via: https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intellig...
For every additional dollar I earn, I am taxed at a rate (Federal and State combined) of 52.9%. "Rich" people do pay taxes. In fact, they pay most of the taxes.
Way off topic now, but I'm pretty sure that a Tesla's components (basically an electric motor and some batteries) are way simpler than all the shenanigans you need to turn explosions into spinning wheels.

Though I guess you're more referencing ICEs with more computerized control systems..
I would say that you are in the minority of Simpsons fans if you dislike "22 Short Films About Springfield" and especially "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer" which is frequently on top 10 episodes lists.

If you often find yourself in conversations about "best simpsons vs downfall" you owe it to yourself to check out The Dead Homer's Society manifesto[0]. One of the author's greatest articles is on what he calls "zombie simpsons"[1].

Ultimately the discussion comes down to taste but Dead Homer's produces a very convincing argument behind his opinion.

[0] http://deadhomersociety.com/manifesto/

[1] http://deadhomersociety.com/zombiesimpsons/
Map of all nuclear bombs ever exploded
A food doesn't need sugar to produce insulin. A steak produces as much insulin as pure sugar.
I think if I brought an Ethereum Alarm Clock to school, they'd call the police!
Convoy, a Seattle-based company that presents itself as "Uber for trucking"
Phonotactic Reconstruction of Encrypted VoIP Conversations: Hookt on fon-iks [pdf]
Yeah, privacy is dead and gone.

The other day I was in UK at a Tesco open doors event. They talked mainly about tribes and agile, but also demoed a couple of new technologies.

Turns out they have face tracking operational on all their petrol stations. And they have, in lab, cameras and software that does face recognition and eye tracking. They plan to send targeted ads and coupons, based on what shelve products caught customer's attention.
Rackspace Launches Carina, a Hosted Environment for Running Docker Containers
Was half-expecting the story to say that the NSA just went to their tape database and re-listened to all phone calls made between Sanborn (sculptor) and Scheidt (CIA crypto resource).
To paraphrase Stroustrup:

There are two kinds of systems: the ones that have security holes and the ones that people don't use.
It's early in the week. Probably took the weekend for the lobbyists & facebook checks to clear.
Atlanta's a major air travel hub, so extra-cheap flights are partially a result of that. If the poster above you has parents that are off the beaten path, it's very likely those $49 deals don't exist for the flight she or he needs.
One friend of mine essentially refused to take breaks after school. He'd get home and immediately start working on the day's homework. It would frequently take him until after 9 o'clock to finish up work that shouldn't have taken anywhere near that long. I know he's an intelligent fellow, and not prone to distraction. He'd just get stuck.

I'm /certain/ taking a break would have gotten him into a fresh mindset, and let him finish it all up faster. And, if I had /not/ put some hours between getting home and doing my homework, that it really could have taken me many hours to finish.

Just one speculative data point, but there it is.
I'd love to see the bank accounts for these senators BEFORE and AFTER their votes. Facebook paid to play.
PDA's (Newtons) took 10 years to become pioneer devices (Palm OS/Smartphones) and 20 years to become mainstream.

Just like Tv, then to Color TV.

Everything has potential, if something is ahead of it's time maybe it's the use cases that are still forming
The Capitol of NJ. That's the city's motto.
Alright, let's just go with olives alone, then.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/eggs/

"Recent research has shown that moderate egg consumption—up to one a day—does not increase heart disease risk in healthy individuals (1, 2) and can be part of a healthy diet."
"Uncompressed" voice "needs" 64kbps (hence ISDN was 2 voice channels etc). If you use a modern codec, you could probably get away with less, for high-quality mono voice. Note that you might not want to use VBR, for other reasons (I thought this was already submitted to hn - couldn't find it - so here's a fresh submission):

"Attacks on packet length may be surprisingly good:	Hookt on fon-iks":
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462363

That said, I suspect that eg: Ogg Vorbis at 64kbs CBR would be fine for voice, assuming you could keep the latency down.

Latency and drops would probably be the biggest issue. And you can of course prove, that latency sets a limit to the number of hops -- say if you'd want to hop through a European jurisdiction from the West Coast.

I'm actually planning to (try to) move to a pure data-oriented (not sure if there will remain a cellular part, or if I'll just use wlan) (probably) SIP for all my phone needs. That'll probably involve a SIP server on dedicated (rented) hw in Germany, and VPN from the phone/laptop. Not quite sure yet if it'll work out, or if it'll be good enough.
Here, a recent case, where Google tries to completely ignore half of my query: https://www.google.de/search?q=TLD+.gov.sa
Relevant Health – Startup Accelerator Launches with First Cohort of 7 Companies
Nice. This is exactly one of the service-as-a-software's I have on my small business idea list. The main reason I haven't pursued it is that it doesn't sound like any fun, really. At the end of the day you're essentially running a design/development agency and everyone else's headaches become yours.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/0h927a8yfzfq88e/Screenshot%202015-... < from my list

Obviously you know about wpcurve. They appear to bill 75k-125k monthly (somewhere in that range. I'm estiguessing).

They claim to have ~38 people involved. I can't really get the numbers to work if that's accurate and they are all full-time, but assuming otherwise, I have to imagine that the owner (if Dan is the only one) takes home 25-50k per month or that a similar amount is split if there are two owners. Obviously I'm leaving asset appreciation/salability out of projections.

Reach out to Dan if you haven't and learn as much as you can from him. He basically knows all the problems you will encounter.

It will be a tough road but this business seems like a very safe bet. Good luck.

I think magento would be a great market for this as well.

edit: I just looked at your pricing. With your pricing you don't need to worry at all about profitability. Note that wpcurve has a 3-month minimum. They didn't when they launched. I think this was probably a hard lesson that they had to learn and you should probably adopt the same rule once you are a little established if not immediately. Otherwise people will take advantage.
Pharmacies have zero to do with drug costs.

Try pharmaceuticals, insurance companies, the FDA, and trade policies if you want to find the culprits or actual structure behind the prices of drugs.
Gamergaters are not Kotaku's target audience if that is what you are referring to, not that it matters since Gamergaters only listen to themselves anyway.
the legal system is really complicated to an outsider[0]. lets look at these two qoutes:

> The legacy payroll company ADP on Tuesday dropped its defamation lawsuit against ... competitor, Zenefits.

and this

> in a major victory for the startup, a U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed the lawsuit with prejudice

While I understand how appeals work, this does seem contradictory. ADP decided to drop the lawsuit. ADP was told their case sucked and had it thrown out. I understand how this works, but reading the title it looked like a voluntary act, reading the article it looked like the only option. this was pretty much gradeschool bullying and name calling sorted out by a very stern principal and a few teachers who likely cost/charged millions in aggregate.

[0] while this is true of all systems, it seems to be a greater extent with the law. which is fucked up, as everyone needs the law to be more clear.
That post didn't catch attention. I wonder why?
I think x86 chips with Intel Active Management has the 'Management Engine' which runs an ARC processor with a ThreadX RTOS on it. It even has it's own network interface separate from the rest of the CPU. As far as I can tell this is for Enterprise users who need to manage the PC's and Rack computers remotely, even when the OS dies.

Most motherboard vendors also thrown stuff onto enterprise motherboards for doing things remotely. They can have issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZeUntdObCA
Austin: not enough capital or not enough good companies worth investing? [pdf]
Note that document forgery is a "real crime" most everywhere - so if you were caught (perhaps due to some unrelated investigation) - it might not be the best idea.

I'm not saying you shouldn't break the law to preserver your anonymity (at your own discretion) -- I'm just saying it's something to take into consideration. If you for example fear that you might get dropped in a black site, fed polonium or pushed down some stairs over your on-line activities -- a little document forgery might be just the ticket.
Ethereum is how the Internet was supposed to work
For those of us who are new to Ethereum:

Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third party interference.

https://www.ethereum.org/
In 1990, a cartoon character who says "eat my shorts" was provocative. In 2010, after Ren & Stimpy and South Park and the rest, a cartoon character who says "eat my shorts" was humdrum.
Your comments about rich families ignore completely the effect of status in life. Knowledge alone does not generate wealth. That needs work directed in the right direction which is also a lot easier if you have the society connections and the capital to pull off your ideas. The rich get richer because they can invest and buy successful businesses. Sending your kids to Eton to rub shoulders with royalty has far more to do with status than education.
Somewhat perversely, Chinese hacking largely _is_ a privacy issue, just not individual privacy. The reason why Chinese hackers in particular are of concern is (1) they seem to engage in substantially higher levels of corporate espionage and (2) are outside of jurisdictions where such things can be appropriately disincentivised / punished [Although there are some signs China might start playing ball as they develop more domestic proprietary information].

There's a data science hurdle -- can e.g. the Russian mob filter though mass hacked email and facebook accounts to find blackmail material that has reasonably good returns with minimal personal time investment -- before the two become one and the same. If we end the decade before we have public conversations about (modulo details) an email from yourself saying 'send money here or we will forward this email to your employer/spouse', I would be surprised. Until then, people only have privacy because there's no economic incentive to shatter it. There are no rules. Yet.
There seems to be a lot of CS papers on arxiv: http://arxiv.org/corr/home
From 0 to 5,000 Planets in 20 Years
Not to just talk about low fares, but I was amazed recently with a $38 fare from Los Angeles to Chicago. Was with Frontier so there are other fees involved, but still pretty awesome.

Norwegian has incredible fares also, many I've seen for less than $400 round trip Los Angeles to various destinations in Scandinavia.
It's too bad they didn't choose to pursue the full on B Corp Certification. In many jurisdictions, benefit corp is just a box you tick.
Yeah, data anonymization doesn't really work, except perhaps for highly aggregated data (eg: percentage of people out of work in a nation). It does provide a small barrier in the form that "if you don't look, you won't see" -- so it might prevent some inadvertent leaks of private information.

But it should rarely be considered a "security boundary" so to speak.
I don't see any information on the site about limitations for enterprise use, is this free as in beer?
Yeah, short term is the right thing. But I'm talking about why stay in the same loop DECADES? Because the pile of mud is bigger with each iteration. Eventually, I think, the cost of a clean start will be far less that push ahead.

I don't underestimate the problem (I work in the LESS progressive area of programming: Internal Business apps / apps for non-startups, non-sexy-games-chat-scalable-apps!) so I'm full aware...

But what drive me crazy is that is developers that defend their tools as "them are good! why bother!", not because them use the business/cost defense...

So, yeah... let's not rewrite everything that is working right now. But also, a lot of time we can choose what to use, special for new projects... at least pick well next time...
How to Securely Allow Users to Upload Files (PHP)
Hey! This is the library author :) I wrote a bunch of blog posts about blend modes, filters, and gradients on http://una.im if you wanted to learn more about them. I also did a conference talk on the subject (its linked in the page for CSSgram)

Thanks for checking it out :)
a Mortal; an Immortal

That looks like it. The world around him is "immortal", and he was a "mortal" trapped in the "immortal" world. In the movie that is metaphorically represented by the day repeating, seemingly forever. The more the "mortal" tries to fight things, the further he is away from freedom. It was only by cooperating with the world he was finally free.
The only thing that comes to my mind is that now it may make commercial sense for GOG to ask publishers for rights to sell games that require activation systems / servers that are no longer maintained.
Sentient City Survival Kit
Wallgreens and Rite-Aid feel too corporate, too removed. Bartell's is much better.
Isn't there a lot of overhead to spawning a new process every time? I wonder what that cost is relative to the cost of generating the image.
Competition is important here, but I think low oil prices are driving customer savings.
Atlanta is a hub for many airlines. However, this was Southwest which uses point to point and not hub and spoke.
And this is the exact reason I left T-Mobile. AT&T have 4G coverage on pretty much the entire interstate system. When I had T-Mobile I'd drive from NYC to Columbus, OH and have no signal for the 8+ hours between the two cities.
Same with how the Hutchinson networks around the world (UK, Hong Kong, Sweden, etc) are branded "Three" even now that they have 4G networks running.
While the overwhelming majority of my professional respect goes to those who are builders at their core, I think you're using 'toast' in a way that demonstrably includes six figure salaries. The only X-factor is how many (N < 5) years it takes to get there, without any real initiative or personal projects.
It says it's Apache 2 licensed, so it should be free-as-in-freedom, even for enterprise use.
There's proably, over the last year of your movements, a point which you've made a purchase that can be linked to you. Maybe more than one, and those can be matched against your behavioural data. Or maybe they have parking information.

Perhaps you deal only in cash, and never give your name to a commercial entity (Hotel, gun retailer, car rental or seller...) -- but for most people that isn't true.

I also don't see why anyone would need your exact address. The only use-case that comes to mind is to send you postal mail. If they have your SIM/IMEI/phone number/full name (see above) and behaviour patterns, if and when they want to approach you "in person" that would be easy?

[ed: come to think of it, pair this data with an archive of public web cams, and you could probably a) automatically pick out faces, and b) match recurring faces with location data, to c) pair faces with recorded data streams. Makes all those cameras in the UK seem even more creepy.]
How accurate are Amazon's and Yelp's fake review detection algorithms?

* How many false positives are there? How many businesses do they unfairly penalize (and how many reviewers do they humiliate)? For example, perhaps some behavior trait common to a location or social class is misinterpreted as a fake review.

* How many false negatives are there? How many fake reviews are given extra legitimacy in the eyes of users because the algorithm gave them a pass? Maybe the algorithm weeds out only the bad fake reviewers, or a certain kind of fake reviewers. Perhaps a cottage industry of techniques to game the algorithms will arise, like SEO. I do know that decent shills know how to fool amatuer slueths; heck, I could do it: Write something long, with specifics, add a little balance to look reasonable, mirror what some others say, etc.

I'd be interested to know how Yelp and Amazon can test their algorithms. They would need a large set of proven fake reviews, and a representative set would be much more valuable. Where does one find those?
Did I miss something? How does it know which device to give the priority bump to?
Australian Dating Spam Email – MailShark
Apache license, so yes, free to use and modify for whatever purpose.
Yes but I'm arguing that doesn't make a huge difference. Certainly there is a small one, but all things being equal the accompanying fiber is a lot more important.
Library of Congress Adopts DMCA Exemption for Smart TVs
maybe i'm missing the point, but i can't see the advantage of using this over pandas
It's Apache 2.0, so free as in beer and free as in speech.

https://github.com/greenplum-db/gpdb/blob/master/LICENSE
Halo 5's constant 60fps comes at a price
"Upfront" processing means that you're doing the processing during upload, and on the "on-the-fly" processing means that you first upload the file, and then it's processed dynamically through the URL. For example, in Refile you make an URL to the uploaded file like this:

/attachments/sdkd/resize/300/300

That will make Refile trigger the specified processing at the moment the URL is requested. You should then put a CDN or a reverse proxy in front to kind of cache these processed files, so that they're not processed each time.

About the documentation, I wrote documentation for each of the plugins, and I linked them all on http://shrinerb.com. The plugin names should hopefully indicate what feature they accomplish, and since they're all individual, it's up to the user to choose what features they want (i.e. combination of plugins).
Not for this stuff. The EFF has no lobbyists in Washington DC, in fact doesn't even have an office in Washington DC. What they do, they do well: Litigating in court. But don't give them money to influence Congress.
If you want to get pissed about a lack of competition in the pharmacy market then look at the two large PBMs. They set the prices of drugs that every drug store pays. If they choose to raise prices and the insurers don't move in lockstep then you're stuck filling prescriptions at a loss.

Oh, and one of them is owned by CVS.

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/10/22/45060056...
>Housing is only an investment asset in certain disfunctional housing markets (e.g., NYC, SF).

We don't have rent-control in Boston, but we do have a housing bubble.
1) Get trusted
2) Wait until your function is used a lot
3) Lie, ideally in a plausibly deniable way.
4) Profit.

"We had a hiccup with processing USD and EUR prices, and briefly crossed them with this code push, sorry. Everything is back to normal now."

While it's easy to imagine how you'd use this as a trader, I think my fundamental disagreement with the idea is that you are expanding your threat surface for anything that consumes data from 'trusted' providers. That seems almost impossible to be a good idea.

Mitigating this risk with, e.g. multiple 'trusted' providers reduces to the problem bitcoin mining solves in the first place.

I think I would have a more informed opinion if you detailed a sample application consuming this; I'm not trying to shit on what was undoubtedly very solid work putting the service together, but I'm very dubious about the breadth of useful services that wouldn't have unacceptable risk profiles.
I see. Thanks.

It's too late for me to edit the title, but it will never make it to the front page (just like 99% of what I submit), so hopefully no harm was done.
It's released under the Apache2 license. So, IANAL but yes. They do have some kind of a commercial/support offering on top of it.
The Night Time 'McRefugees' of Hong Kong
> Anecdotally-empirically, a lot of Type 2's have found carbs, fiber or no fiber, are just bad news.

Sure, I wasn't talking about diabetic people.

> In a few years, we will hopefully start accumulating a flood of highly-granular, anonymized biometric sampling data, ideally tagged with true/false flags of known and suspected genetic markers (but not enough DNA data to individually dox someone). Has someone solved the problem of publishing biometrics with tagged DNA data, and be able to update the DNA tags as our understanding of genetic markers improves over time, without risking doxxing an individual from the genetic marker tags?

I also hope that this is the future. Unfortunately we're probably not going to do much better than HIPAA when this technology is widely available and being used. I'm not sure how to prevent the GATTACA side effects, but it feels like the health advances might be worth it.
Adult site honoured by YouTube Red association; opinion split on brand strategy
No, potatoes have some simple carbs but they are predominantly starches, which are complex carbs.
Don't tell me what to do. It was a well-written article.
Software Will Nibble on Storage