skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How many apps in the World require a specialised framework that GMail might require? 10? 100? 1000? Sure, everyone can invent their own framework to be very "specialised" and "tailored" to a given app needs but is it going to give a competitive advantage for a given app? Probably sometimes. Probably not most of the time.

Constructing your own framework has cost. Sure, you will acquire a lot of knowledge doing it, but is it going to help the bottom line? Maybe.

Once again, are you seriously advocating that _everyone_ should do "vanilla JS" without any frameworks?
I'm sure the fact that the Middle East sits on the world's largest deposits of cheap-to-extract high-EROEI and therefore maximally profitable oil has absolutely nothing to do with it. :)

The amount of oil in the ground in places like Canada might indeed rival the Middle East, but it's lower-EROEI more expensive oil. The amount of money in the ground is higher in the Middle East than anywhere else. Sub-Saharan Africa does have quite a bit of resource wealth but it doesn't have anywhere near as fat and juicy a prize as the ME does.
They list these numbers on yeast packets for brewing too. Much better that your yeast spends as much time as possible fermenting instead of growing and budding. With an initial count and an idea of the age of the batch you can decide if you're going to start the yeast in a small start batch(to prop up their numbers) or just plop the contents in.

What I'm trying to get at is a low dosage might mean the little critters take a while to reach a good population, while a high dosage might be what's needed to discourage growth and encourage their reactions.
It is only about 248 thousand square miles... which is smaller than Texas.
I'm confused as to why my google+ has almost 200,000 views, but it has zero posts and basically nobody in my circles. Is this counter broken for anyone else?
The last paragraph pretty much sums up the entire article:

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Still not sure who this is for and why they would want to use it. Google is at its best when they are fixing problems in a novel way, not trying to ape everyone else
Looks like G+ is still using the old Google logo.
It is unclear to me who pays this agency, and "how much" is more unclear. I think that if I am your customer, it needs to be transparent to me... e.g. I know how much the end company is paying, I know how much my negotiator is taking, etc, etc.

Actually, that might be the closest we'll get to my idea; just start an agency that gets on the "preferred vendor lists" the usual way, then be transparent with the worker you are placing on what the fees are.
Where do you live? Minnesota here.
One factor I'd agree with is the pay issue. I see local startups and post-startups with lovely websites showing their cool workspaces and how much people love working there. But then you find out during the interview process that they pay like $75-80k for people with 5 years of experience and 100k for 10 years. Sorry, but at that salary level I'll stay at an engineering company, even though the culture/work isn't as 'awesome'. And the bad part is that since the number of high-tech employers isn't that large, they don't have any problems filling their ranks with people apparently happy with these salaries.
I made no straw-man; I would actually like to know what the parent was proposing the French should do. The parent proposed that Westerners should be kind to everyone, but that does not address what should be done about the current problems.
If you get a chance, stop off in Mitchell, SD, and see the Corn Palace. We stopped for a few hours when driving across the country, it's right on I-90. It really is a sightseeing opportunity; to those living in cities by a coast, the corn palace is a perfect symbol of a very different life. Worth getting a feel for, even if just for lunch.
Revealing what they stopped would also possibly reveal the methods used to stop it. And they're not exactly hurting in the budget department.
Cannot argue with that. It should be noted that 256 characters is our default across all inputs if no other maximum has been selected.

We could trivially increase it on passwords, but as you said, 256 is already higher than 99% of people use for a password and not at all unreasonable.

Allowing legitimately unlimited inputs could cause problems regardless of hashing, since our timeout (which is fairly long for other reasons) would ultimately be our only protection.

But if there was a request/need/complaint we would just double it and day to day likely wouldn't notice a thing.
Yeah ok but how many end-users are conscious enough of the situation to OPT-OUT of such an intrusive policy?

On the same vein as accepting every terms and conditions that comes your way, I think most people are severely uninformed about this. It's like how many people believe software engineering is "magic", they believe Facebook or the government will protect them with "magic". Hint: there is no magic.
Anonymous declares war to ISIS: “We will Hunt you Down”
It's not just a Google thing. Recently there was a HN thread on devmag.io -- they have the same problem. I measured it: in the same space HN gives me 18 stories, Devmag.io gives me barely 2.

Unfortunately, I think Google people know and they just don't care. They don't want people who know what RSS is, people who care about information density; they are going after the Pinterest crowd, the sort of people who read Cosmopolitan, watch reality shows, and post drunken pics on Facebook.
Some facts about HIV in the states
The key is the same size as the message. Each letter translates the corresponding letter and no others. You could make a key to translate the message to anything with the same number of letters.
Don't worry, your Groups will be assimilated into a Community, and you'll have access to all that old content once you sign in with your YouTube account.
No I don't. There I grant the opposition their belief as a stipulation for the purpose of making a more salient point: terrorism is not so destructive as people tend to think, and regulating the flow of information is more destructive than people tend to think. Thus we avoid the challenge of quantifying mass surveillance's efficacy in reducing terrorism.
> I don't consider it "winning" that people aren't hauled to the guillotine. I consider it their basic human right.

Well, duh. Did you miss the comment I was replying to, which suggested that the poor are better served by our system of laws than the rich are because the rich don't press them into servitude and they have clean water?
> I'm calling for people who call themselves moderates or progressives to formally recognize their progressiveness by explicitly altering their holy text.

Yeah... um... don't hold your breath. Those who believe that it is literally the words of God are not going to alter it, to "formally recognize their progressiveness" or for any other reason.

Note well: There are those who are progressive and still believe that the Quran is literally the words of God.
Yes, and that link goes on to say "The operating budget does not include $7.1 million in scholarships for student athletes, which also are funded by the general fund."

Which agrees with the numbers I quoted.

> and that is not clearly stated directly on the table

Is this the table which ends with "Source: 2010-2014 NCAA Financial Reports" and the link to the methodology which says "detailing athletics spending between 2010 and 2014", and where each university is hyperlinked to a scorecard (like http://projects.huffingtonpost.com/projects/ncaa/subsidy-sco... ) which says "Total subsidy income, 2010 - 2014"?

And where the subsidy is given in percentages, so the time period doesn't really make much of a difference? And further linked to the primary documents for each year?

And you are suspicious because .. why? What would have made you not suspicious? Because as far as I can tell, the only reason for your doubt is that you chose a methodology (look at a headline from a Google search), assumed they did the same one, and compared the two without checking to see if it was a meaningful comparison.
Wikileaks shows that the US and allies have been financing and working towards instability in Syria since 2007. Maybe working with Russia to temper Assad would have been a better solution, or perhaps some other avenue. But overthrowing Assad has been an epic disaster and more surveillance isn't the answer.
Good they are still working on Google plus but what's the difference between a community and a collection? And what happened to circles?
Flag on HN is only if you think a submission is not appropriate. I know other sites give it more meaning but here it is more similar to downvoting a post.
Kafes
(I'm going to repeat a comment that got buried in another discussion:)

The government and businesses have built a state of surveillance far beyond anything dreamt of a couple of decades ago, with massive continuing investment.

Yet the tool of surveillance was unable to stop this attack. Now they want more surveillance, but maybe it's the wrong tool for this job.

Surveillance seems to have reached that place on the technology adoption curve where people get a little over-enthusiastic and blindly think it solves every problem, and they haven't yet realized it's a tool which, like all tools, is good for for things but not for others.

(That ignores the massive cost to individuals and to our societies of surveillance.)
You need to the Shapefiles to tell where the districts in NYC actually are, though. (the GitHub repository in the OP's post contains the Shapefiles)
The expectation to privacy and the admissibility of the evidence is closely tied together. The problem here is that I would argue that a reasonable person would not expect that his or her conversation in "hushed voices" (from the article) would be recorded by the normal security cameras located in the public space.

Without knowing the details, it's really hard to say, but it sounds like this was a very targeted operation more similar in nature to bugging the home than to a general purpose security camera catching a glimpse of someone on the street.
I don't like the gif in the middle of the page. With a video I can easily pause or skip to the part I want to see. Even an image carousel for four static images would have the same effect.

As it is, I instead have to wait until it cycles around to look at any given image, which is rather frustrating.
They can't. They seem to be claiming to have proved a negative.
Terrorists are by and large muppets, they operate on inadequate budgets, they plan badly, they execute inconsistently.

The only reason they succeed is becomes on infrequent occasions law enforcement is even more incompetent.

The 9/11 attacks had many, many red flag warnings before they went down that were largely ignored. What's so unusual about people training to fly planes, but not take off or land, right?

The same patterns will be found here in hindsight.

Deep, pervasive surveillance will only flood already saturated information channels. What they need is less information of a higher quality, not more noise in the system.
never really used reader when it was still alive. been using feedly for 6 months or so now and like it a lot, though.
> they were always Google+'s strongest selling point

Uh? IMHO pictures were their strongest point. They emphasise and manage pics better than FB.
The message has an equally probably of decoding to ANY message. You essentially have no information to work with.
There is nothing American about it. Global sum of all GDP's has grown for all recorded history. Even if inflation adjusted.

If you mean that GPD can't grow "infinitely" as infinitely high value, then I agree. If you claim it can't grow for infinitely long time, well at some point sun is going to swallow earth or heath death happens, I agree again. If you claim that GDP doesn't necessarily grow exponentially, I agree again. I'd say the last one is even likely.

But my point was that there is no known inherent phenomena, that would force economic growth to end in the timescale of human life. End of oil could be it, or it could be offset with different energy sources, different types of consumption and more energy efficiency.
> I feel like the whole argument is based on "your true IQ is the highest score you'll ever receive on a test", which is a statement that by definition would make improvements in IQ impossible.

I am no statistician, but I think there is more to the argument than that. My take is that Haier is saying that IQ is not a ratio scale, and you cannot gauge the significance of a result by treating it as if it is.

Nevertheless, I get the impression he is trying to stretch the importance of this observation. He writes 'Nonetheless, the main point is that to make the most compelling argument that intelligence increases after an intervention, a ratio scale of intelligence is required' (my emphasis), which raises the question of whether there is not a not-quite-so-compelling argument to be made without such a metric.

FWIW, I don't have a horse in this race as I am on the fence over whether IQ is as fundamental a measure as its proponents insist.
Polari
I don't mean "new" in the sense of the studies are new. I mean "new" in the sense that nothing like this has even been observed in nature.

I misread the article about the terrestrial part.

I responded to your parent comment about localized high concentrations being required for chemotrophs. In deep sea vents, oxidizable chemicals are fresh. Organisms have time to harness their energy before it is naturally depleted through chemical reactions. This would not happen in the proposed scenario as the iron would have plenty of time to react before being washed into the ocean.
Did it help the Germans?
I believe the conclusion of the article is the most important takeaway: (so, points for good writing, I guess :) )

> Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morell said he suspects the Paris attacks will weigh heavily on the encryption fight ongoing.

> “I think what we’re going to learn is that these guys are communicating via these encrypted apps, the commercial encryption, which is very difficult, if not impossible, for governments to break, and the producers of which don’t produce the keys necessary for law enforcement to read the encrypted messages,” Morell said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday.

> “We need to have a public debate about this,” he continued. “We have in a sense had a public debate — that debate was defined by Edward Snowden, and the concern about privacy. I think we’re now going to have another debate about that — it’s going to be defined by what happened in Paris.”

So, "They" want to misuse the attacks on Paris as an excuse to attract mind and screen-time for an alternative counter-debate about privacy and encryption. But Snowden got to "define the debate" because of the new information (as well as evidence for old information) he brought to the public, it's an entirely different thing if you're a politician grabbing screen-time and "define the debate" to a shocked audience over a terror-attack--which is exactly what the terrorists' want. Any freedoms or security taken away from us as a response to a terror-attack, is a win for the terrorists.
You have to opt-in to the new interface.
It is interesting that you mention Portland there. Portland somehow doesn't seem to have the same serious intellectual culture that you see in the upper midwest (Chicago, Twin Cities, Wisconsin, Michigan). Silicon forest and fledgling start up scene notwithstanding, Portland doesn't have the educational institutions (UIUC, Chicago, Northwestern, U Mich, U Wisc, U Minn are all among the top STEM schools in the country) that the midwest offers. The lack of top universities in Portland is a bigger handicap than the locals would like to admit. It will be interesting to see if there are any long term trends that are likely to change this.
I don't like surveillance, but at the same time, I wonder: How much of this lack of record can be attributed to parallel construction, where law enforcement uses the surveillance results to "luckily" know where to look, and "by chance" figure out how to foil the terrorists?

I can imagine that the intelligence agencies may not be thrilled about broadcasting their capabilities.

My nightmare scenario is that surveillance actually is helping, but the extent is a closely guarded secret, which means that we'll never get rid of it, and we'll never know why, or have a chance to, as a society, have a conversation about the tradeoff between surveillance and counterterrorism.
Packing the maximum of text on a screen is not what design is about. Having less content on a screen is a perfectly reasonnable choice if it means better interaction. I'm not saying they achieve this here, but interaction should be the criterion, not sheer density. Otherwise, get a Bloomberg Terminal.
"We the NSA have prevented N terrorist attacks last month thanks to our surveillance program."

Pretty compelling argument for them to be not making, IMHO.
German unions are rather different beasts than their UK and US counterparts.
Well no. What you are describing is basically searchig through all permissible permutations in a given search space, i.e. a thousand monkeys with typewriters. Fron time to time the system will produce something that is not gibberish, but there is no way of knowing if it is related to the true message at all.
"true goal of all the governments and agencies is...a power-play for the control of information."

You sir, are very close to the truth. The reality is that it isn't about control of the information per se, but what can be accomplished with said information. In this case, the "information" we are referring to is the massive amount of metadata we generate, not to mention the content thereof, and I would posit that the true goal is the control of the people, through ownership of the information. The distinction is a small but important one. It is about control, not security, and anybody saying otherwise is generally ill-informed or ignorant.

From an intelligence side of things, it used to take so much effort to do dirty tricks on people. You had to black bag their place of residence, you had to tail them for days, weeks, sometimes months.

These days, you just PRISM/ECHELON your way into their data, pull all the dirt you need out, and approach them with your demands as you will.

This is only one of the most palpable dangers of the surveillance age, in that the intel agencies and potential moles/infiltrators can potentially have vast amounts of power over institutions they shouldn't, for example, congress. It's essentially setting us up for a coup d'etat of the oligarchy. (people need to remember that the OSS/CIA came straight out of London/WallStreet! I think people should also be made aware of the often at odds nature of the different intel agencies. I think military intelligence is rightly suspicious of the Company.)

I spent a long time trying to understand this machine because I was an action arm of it at one time (and perhaps if called upon, may one day again be), and my conclusions are not hopeful, pretty, and often are considered conspiracy theory. What I have said above only scratches the surface.
I meant to capture your sentiment in my reply. I was using "efficacy" in its absolute sense, the synonym of "effectiveness" or "worth," which I take to be its primary definition.
Not to the same extent as today, if we believe Snowden, tech advances quite a bit in 15 years.

Plus they had not ramped up Arabic translators since before then it wasn't a priority.
No. What you described will work for a simple substitution cypher, but not for a one time pad. A one time pad is the same length as the message, and permutates every letter independently. Trying all keys will yield every possible plaintext. For example the phrase:

"The swallow flies at midnight"

May (with a one time pad) be encrypted into

"WD4oXOl8yO0QtD4sOf7ip0P7ScIia"

(which, incidentally, is indistinguishable from random noise)

If you just bruteforced that by xor'ing every character with every other possible character you could derive every possible message of that length, such as:

"garfield hate lasagna someday"

"men are cats why even bother?"

"pocket knives go to space yay"

etc ad infinitum

No measure of semantic analysis will help you here!
I like him making fun of us Italians, although we're not actually having any afternoon naps, unless you're over 70 or are a farmer :(
Of course they are not accepting refugees: IS is their baby, they fund it and do business with it, they have no interest in fixing anything. How are you going to pressure them into accepting refugees, if you can't even pressure them into not starting fires all over the place?

Meanwhile, people die.
Doesn't work for USB-C yet though: https://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/661575229362167808
Most irritating detail is the interaction where there is what looks like a select box (little down arrow and everything) but it expands when you hover over it after a small delay. The delay ends up being the most irritating thing because it is just enough time for me to accidentally click where the drop down used to be and is now a home button!

It is small but this gets me every time and it is just such a gross usability fail. Maybe this is unfair but I have a hard time getting past it to give g+ a chance when my first explorations smacks me with an experience that is so poorly constructed and violates so many obvious usability best practices.
I'm eternally bemused that the US considers itself entrepreneurial and pro-business when it doesn't get this.

Then again, if your cost of entry is much lower and more people can bootstrap from personal savings, they're all that much less likely to need investors just to stay alive, or to put up with demands for unicorn growth.
This is like making sure you visit the Statue of Liberty to get an idea of what life is like in NYC.
The new reddit mobile page has the same problem. On the old http://i.reddit.com I usually get 1-3 more links per page than on the new http://m.reddit.com

Who actually thinks that all that padding and those stupid navbars are a good idea? On mobile my screen estate is very valuable and I don't want to waste it on unnecessary things.
I think we have far too many good open source charting libraries, it makes picking very difficult.
I used to be of the mind that the service provider should let me choose whatever password since it was after all, my password and my account.

The place I'm working for right now used to have no password policy for the end users. We also had a feature that allowed them to link their Twitter accounts so that they could automatically share content out to their networks.

Eventually what had happened was that people blamed us for their Twitter accounts getting "hacked". What actually happened was that they set a dumb password (like "password") on their account with our service, authorized us to post to Twitter on their behalf, and now when someone hacked their account with us they could now post to the victim's Twitter account.

We started taking plenty of heat for this, so eventually we decided to impose a password policy (a sane one, at that) and this problem eventually went away. The users of our service aren't particularly tech savvy, so blaming them for their shoddy practices wouldn't have done us any good. It might have made sense to try to fight this if we were a company like Okta, that sells security as a service, but we don't so we had to make the decision to enforce password requirements to just stop the all the bad reviews in the app store and social media hate we were getting.