skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody wants that, but you better get used to it. The world we live in is post-privacy.

I mean, my phone and watch can silently record you, too. As can Google Glass, the dozens of CCTV cameras you encounter daily, and Steve Mann's face. It will hardly be any more time before consumers are able to see through walls.
Maybe not the same source, but V.S. Ramachandran's book, Phantoms in the Brain, covers his use of a set-up like that to help patients recover from phantom limb syndrome. Shockingly effective for what is, essentially, just an illusionist's trick.
I was going to try it out -- "one of these days".
I think that Firefox's move to include Pocket was a sensible idea, I just wish they baked their own solution like Safari did. Safari's read-it-later / readability features make sense for the subset of users who browse for prose content and want the text nicely formatted for reading.

I think the primary nuisance of Pocket was in making users have another relationship to a 3rd party. Credentials and another service to think about.
I don't see how that is helpful at all, that seams like useless information?

To me, i would look at it as a two dimensional plot somewhere there would be a statistical point which is the point of equilibrium.

Where these processes would statisticly end up.
Ok so her dad is Paul Jessup:

who owns the Great British Teddy Bear Company and Big Red Bus English, offering language tuition to children in China.

so not quite a rags to riches story, but she's still got a website that fills a need and is able to monetise. A lot more successful than many silicon valley start-ups :)
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Actually if we're talking specifically the HoloLens, I'm going to be attending a meetup for a local developer group in a couple weeks that goes over developing for it and I'm hoping I'll be able to try it as well.

I was thinking more specifically the Oculus or the Vive, though. If those are demoed at the Microsoft stores too, then I'll happily check them out, but I don't know why they'd have them.
Ah well - HN needs a link submission tool similar to Reddit if there is a duplicate link
Precisely why I develop for the web.
They don't need to get legality involved. Their terms of service also give them the right to kick you off the service - as they please. If you don't follow them - you don't get to use the nice things. It's pretty simple - whether we agree or not :)
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And as a Windows user I thank you.
Matlab/Simulink.
Brilliant tool, and lots of brainpower and money being invested in continuously developing it.
Because firefox's daddy, Netscape, had tons of crap in it and got bogged down to the point of being inferior to IE.

This, in turn, started the dark age of the web.
Building, editing, testing, all of that is better done remotely with ssh and gnu screen or similar.
I went with Fastmail. Great service with an excellent customer service. I feel confident that if something were to happen to my account, I wouldn't lose it forever.
Do you have some context about when a Chinese person uses their English name ? e.g. do their friends call it them, is it only for when they interact with Western websites, etc.
That's interesting, because I've spoken to two Google support reps on the phone in the last two years (related to chrome os and their music service.) They must be so bad at customer support they can't even employ zero people properly.
Bit of both. I saved a bit from working elsewhere in SE Asia, however, most of it went to support my family that lives back in the US. We live off of a fifth of that here.

And remember, I said minimalism. Where I live you get by on $3 per day per person. That's for food you don't grow yourself and other luxuries like internet, razors, soap or toothpaste. I use my phone's 3G service tethered via WiFi to my computer when I need it or want it. It's my biggest luxury item. I could even cut it in half. I currently spend about $25 dollars a month for it, or 1/3 my daily expenses!

As I wrote above, most people have dirt floors here, and refrigeration and electricity came not too long ago to this village. Each home has just under 900 Watts of power available, usually on a single 4 Amp/220 Volt (880 Watts) breaker. That's the deluxe plan. You can opt for 450 Watt service! You pre-pay for your electricity.

I am just starting on the ground work for a house similar to this: http://www.domegaia.com/ All in all, it should cost me less than $15K for the land and the house. Less than two years of property taxes for my house back in the US.

I am vegetarian, and it is great to be able to eat local produce. I have bananas, mangoes, papayas, jackfruit, peanuts, rice, and chilis right outside my home, and potatoes, carrots, corn, and other leafy greens from the vendor who comes down the road each morning at 6:00am.

There are plenty of chickens and goats around if that's your thing. Roosters start up around 4:30am!

There are also mongoose and king cobras, and I am buying an antivenom kit (finally after a year!), since there's no way to save someone from a positive bite other than antivenom. King cobra bites are very rare, but the nearest facility with antivenom is over 3 hours drive from here mainly due to the road conditions and the distance. You only have 30 minutes tops after a good envenomation by one. I am no doctor, but I have done some reading on extreme medicine over the years, but luckily I have not had to test most of that knowledge!

Bottom line is that I always wanted to travel and experience life throughout my life, not only when I was over 60 like most people plan to do. Funny, but when most people have saved and not traveled or lived differently, they tend to stay put and never do it. At least from those I grew up with or knew. I think there are a lot more 30-something millionaires now than ever before, but I ain't one of them; I wish I were 30-something again, and a millionaire ;)
Except "for X" way is suggested by Google in their "copyright infrigement" email.
Five years ago the world was different, compare this classic Rap News video (#6)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hl4NlA97GeQ
I'm not normally a paranoid person but EM radiation seems like it's something that it would be easy for someone outside your house in a van to manipulate.
Only siths deal in absolutes.

Good and bad are silly and childish terms, a modern military needs the capability to intercept enemy signals, a nation state needs signal intelligence capabilities to facilitate it's own national interests and security.

This doesn't mean that the NSA should capture every email, facebook post and tweet and store it for future use.

But that doesn't mean that a signal intelligence agency running a SIGINT/ELINT missions in direct support of a military activity is inherently bad it isn't anything, it just is, as this is a capability that any modern military complex has to posses.
There are things that you will understand only when you have become a very good programmer. What this article says is "I have no idea how that must be" together with "There are so-so programmers that imitate very good programmers without knowing why.".

I agree with the last one, not with the first one. For example the more time you spend programming, the better you get but also the more important it becomes to have a good chair, desk, tools. Especially the chair, it is a health problem!

Then there are the perks he complains about, like food. They say 20% of your energy is consumed by the brain. What you eat directly affects how good you think and how much you can produce with your brain. Almost all the perks I have seen at top companies are nothing more than a recognition that employees are more productive if you give them these perks. It's all about money.
I up-voted this because I think both parties should be working on making government more effective. Not arguing over the size of government. As for Trump I find him too disrespectful to vote for.
It's more productive to think that she used her advantages in a positive way instead of wasting them.
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Hmm... The thing is, it doesn't matter that much how widely a piece of software is used, but by whom.
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Night timelapse where the Earth rotates rather than the sky
Shitty webcam. Take the least important bit of a random pixel of every 8x8 block of pixels.
> I would hope that with most people having cell phones nowadays, which gives them the ability to more easily regroup after separation, it should be a priority in cases like this to urge people to not form chains and to devalue staying with their group if it affects the flow of traffic.

While true, the reception at such events is usually non-existent due to the sheer volume of people with devices. Even with a healthy quantity of cellular base stations or wifi access points, there will still be serious issues and connections will be spotty at best.
> produces results

Conversely, companies that don't offer good equipment are making a terrible decision. I once worked at a company with a single 14-inch monitor on every desk. In 2010. I was astonished.
> Turns out the standard install goes to sleep if you don't interact with it for 20 mins

Can you cite a source for this? I've used several differnt Pi's for various different purposes, and have never ran into this. In fact up until a couple weeks ago I had one plugged in sitting on my desk that I was using to test something periodically, and it would sometimes sit idle for a couple weeks between connections - but never had a problem with it.

I can find a stackoverflow question filled with people pointing out there is no sleep mode[0], but nothing else about it.
Absolutely - but it should be portrayed in that context.
Well, my SO calls me that as a nickname. I have ginger hair and I am kind of impulsive. That and a squirrel came eating out of my hand one of the first times we met.
That most definitely helped her get early clients and commercial success, but I think it's still very cool that a young girl was able to plan, build and execute a business idea.

Most 16 year olds are just using their phones to send silly snaps to their friends and watch porn.
Quite disappointing that the article 'explains' the Nash equilibrium (NE) without going into details of how a NE is reached.

During my econometrics study this explanation helped me to explain it to others without going in to the mathematical details:

- Person A needs to decide what the best strategy is for all strategies of B (circle, on paper, the outcomes for A)

- Person B has to do the same (circle as well)

NE => look for 'box' (ie. outcome) that has two circles (there could be more!)

This leads to (confess, confess).
At least Skype is getting less evil, on the client end, since you can now use it through its website version, so at least its isolated on Chromium.

They still record and feed all your conversations in all forms to the highest bidder, but I was always worried about Skype's proprietary desktop program snooping my packets or reading my files or logging my keys.
Wow, blatant PR!

India's billions have had access to Internet for several years now. While traveling last year in rural areas, I was able to get voice and Internet (3G), with data plans costing $4 per Gb. And I had the option to choose from 4 different providers.

Jio has definitely taken the lead in country-wide LTE, compared to HSPA+ from other providers.

This is more like evolution than revolution. Yet Fareed Zakaria goes on and on about richest man, most expensive home, cash generating business, etc.
So this seems like it entirely defeats Facebook's efforts in India with Internet.org... which brings up the question of why Facebook didn't just do this?
But most probably it isn't, because language is too complex for imagination of a single, alone person.
No, the real meaning of a relation is the intended interpretation it was given when it was designed (and which is also the criterion by which the database user decides whether a tuple should be present or not, thus by which the database user decides which updates to carry through).
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I'm really surprised this got so much traction..., I didn't submit this to HN. Baffled that so many users went trough roughly the same experience.

(I'm the original author)
> After all reading a book doesn't give us an experience, its all "just" chemistry too..

I'd disagree there. It's less experience than actually doing something, but more than just getting a chemical flow across the brain. Reading is a weak sort of experience, no?
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Simulated universe might have more live-density per state space bit then host universe. I.e. most power of host universe might be dedicated to running "stupid" processes (using, for example, 10^200 bits per sentient being), while simulated universe might be better optimized (using only e.g. 10^40 bits per sentient being). So even if simulated universe is much smaller, it still will be more likely to "be born" in it.

(This argument is similar to other arguments against your claim, but rephrased)
> (good luck calling it fair use)

Fair use is a defense against copyright infringement, it has nothing to do with trademark infringement. The relevant test here would probably be substantial likelihood of confusion.

I don't personally find it confusing, but I'm probably not an average person. I think "Facebook('s) X" is the much more common formulation for branded apps, and it's very common to call something "Cleaner/Dark/Accessible <Brand>" to indicate that your extension is a skin of that site. I'd say it's a borderline case, to be charitable, and changing it to "Cleaner - for Facebook", while more confusing about what it does, it's almost certainly safe.

But the point of the article seems to be that there is no feedback on how to resolve this from Google's side, so it's not like the author can go to court over this to adjudicate the dispute, you just get a chilling effect where Facebook et al can (ab)use to stymie people doing things they don't like.
The poster above you is correct the US public at large supports the mission of the NSA and other intelligence agencies as far as gathering information on foreign targets including allies goes.

The US public opposes the collection of information on Americans quite strongly, but things get iffy once you include Americans who have committed or have stated the intent to commit acts of violence against the US or multi-nationals who hold an american citizenship.
4 years later... it's a cleaner that works only of Facebook. It's not a lure or anything. Google reviewed it and approved it 4 years ago. The extension is free. There is no advertising. I don't make any profit.

(I'm the author of the post).
>>"[...] Indians will be able to use Jio for free until the end of 2016, and pay as little as 149 rupees ($2.25) a month for data after that."

For additional context, Jio data rates on a $/GB basis are around one-fifth the price of competing data rates in India, and voice will evidently remain free nationwide, without roaming charges, even after the promotion period ends.[1]

This seems like a game changer, provided Jio can take enough market share and start to turn a profit on their 4G network with the subsidized smartphones and free voice calling.

Free voice calling scares Reliance's competitors because voice still constitutes over 60% of average revenue per user (example: in early 2016 voice was over 70%+ of Bharti Airtel's ARPU[2]). If Jio is successful, voice ARPU should drop like a rock for everybody else. The same will happen with Reliance too, but at least they're dictating the pace and degree of change on their own terms.

[1] http://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-techno...

[2] http://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/bharti-ai...
In principle I agree for the 1940s, a pan European brotherhood was probably not so important at the time. [Edit: And when they saw what they had done, it was a MAD world...]

But Yugoslavia was a special case, there the new government didn't come in, riding with an occupying tank army that broke the back of the population with hunger, Siberia and torture.

Hungary 51, Czechoslovakia 68, the forest brothers of the Balkans... They did try. Hard. (Edit: Note -- when it was clear that Soviet tanks wouldn't roll in over the borders any more, the dictators went out quickly.)

Democracies should try to spread the liberty. It is the modern missionary statement. If nothing else, it is good for everyone.

Edit: Where I would put the disagreement: History shows that a brutal enough junta can keep a population down for generations. 1984, with history as a foot stomping in a face. (The junta probably needs control over the information for that to work.) So a population have an impossible time freeing itself from a pack of criminals without external help. And it is the moral duty for free societies to aid in this. (I hate idealism. But this is one I can stand for.)
FWIW, this very same company that was planning to introduce Facebook's Free Basics as part of this very launch before the TRAI shot it down. The posted article links to the news report of that fiasco without making this fact clear.

So no, this isn't some sort of altruistic move by Reliance. They would've exploited the resulting situation if they had the freedom to do so with Free Basic (and if reports are correct -- they will be doing it anyways, by monitoring traffic on their Jio platform).

It is such an irony that Zuckerberg's ^mission^ of digitizing India by offering a trojan is being realized without Free Basics/internet.org by the very same company that they were planning to peddle it through.

EDIT: yes, I was mistaken, Free Basics was being peddled by Reliance Communications and this is Reliance Industries. Seems like the brothers either did bury the hatchet and decided on this as Plan B after free basics failed or Mukesh just disciplined Anil in the art of PR.
This is awesome. I've been looking for a Guitar Pro alternative for years, and this is preeeetty dang close. Copy-pasting measures could be simpler, and manipulating note length via keyboard would make it precisely what I need - maybe i just need to figure out how to do that.

Great work, Flat!
Firefox's DevTools can render a whole web page as an image to disk (not just the visible viewport, like screenshot tools do). Quite a few non-developers have found that useful when I've showed this feature to them. No extensions or 3rd-party software required.
From a technical perspective, yes the UK had early 3G, however uptake was slow compared to 4g.
I know. I'm so evil...:)
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And you should purge it occasionally.

With Trello, I use the "card aging" feature to see which things haven't been updated or moved recently. Each week, I spend five minutes skimming through the cards, making sure there are due dates if applicable.

At the end of each month, I spend closer to 20 minutes and look at each card and ask "is this still relevant?" and give it a simple yes/no. If it's "no" I delete it immediately.

Those never-ending tasks and wish lists simply go away. It's not like I was going to do them anyway and it's less junk on the list.

I do the same for meetings. None of my recurring meetings/tasks extend past December 31st. After the January 1st, I double check to see which ones I really need and are still relevant and recreate those. The others are already done.
I remember the intro to earth geology class I took 15 years ago at my university, taught by a climate scientist; the professor would take off a week every time there was a shuttle launch because he'd fly down to Florida and be part of the panel of scientists who would give the astronauts lists of things they were interested having photographed from space. I remember him talking about runaway feedback loops. He would explain them and would explain some historical examples of them we can see in geological data. He seemed really concerned about them, not so much because he thought it probable that the ones we know about are going to run away and make the climate uninhabitable for humans, but rather because he thought that there were lots of feedback loops out there hiding in plain sight that we wouldn't learn about until we started observing them actively happening. He basically seemed to think there was no real way to know with any certainty the upper bounds of how bad we can screw up the climate but that we were effectively running a giant experiment with the entire atmosphere and would within a few generations find out, and he thought that was a pretty big deal.
Personally I don't mind working on an average machine. I don't do anything with huge computing needs, and it shows where the bottlenecks are before they get into production. (Then the disk starts paging and I change my mind about having a better machine).
Ivar Kreuger was a businessman, not a "wealthy country". The collector of the debt was the company ABB, with help from the Swedish government. Romania essentially got ~$3,28 billion of their (interest free) debt written off if they in the end only paid $120 million. It was a "good deal" in the sense that they didnt have to pay more, or even the full amount.

It wouldn't have been so two-faced if OP in the next breath didn't complain about being swindled by another even poorer country.
National Post has an even more interesting article on his stay in HK [0].

And I hope this finally lays to rest all those BS accusations that Snowden's a 'russian spy' and how he 'partied at the Russian consulate in HK'... like Washington Post disinfo kept on repeating for years. [1] There are people still on Twitter who are smearing Snowden and they claim he's a spy and everything he did was to somehow 'help Putin' and they bring up this nonsense.

[0] http://news.nationalpost.com/features/how-edward-snowden-esc...

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/report-snowden-stayed-a...
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Thx for posting :-)

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> simply searching and reading articles

Encryption protects against an eavesdropper logging what you read.

> It should be down to the owner of the site if they want to add SSL

The owner of the site shouldn't also be able to force others to drop their protections against eavesdropping. There are two parties to each conversation.

> There's hardly any overhead involved if you add to the browsers page parsing routines

That only covers a small subset of threat models. Passwords and other credentials are not the only data that needs protection. Thanks to Lets Encrypt, enabling encryption has hardly any overhead. Most of the problems are outdated software and hosting services.

Encryption is important not only for personal safety, it's also needed to protect against threats like China's Great Cannon[1]. Choosing to say with plaintext is socially irresponsible because the decision about using encryption is also about providing ammunition for the Great Cannon.

[1] https://citizenlab.org/2015/04/chinas-great-cannon/
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Because the CPU "thinks" in 32-bits, therefore anything not 32-bits needs to be processed first. You would need to first convert your memory address to 32-bits before the CPU could read it, which brings something that would normally be a single CPU clock tick into more than that (it's slightly more complicated than that, but only in ways that make it worse). On top of that, since compilers don't normally do this stuff for you, you would need to end up writing a wrapper to handle every possible memory call, and write it in assembly.

On top of that, you can't use those wasted bits for anything else anyway, so what's the point?