skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I meant that the recipient burns the letter after transcription. That protects the sender in case someone comes snooping after the sender and tries to hit up the recipient for more details.

Regarding self-reliance: theoretically, there is no self-reliant way to "get data out". Every method requires at least the involvement of the recipient. This sounds pedantic but it's a serious point. If you really don't want to rely on anyone, why are you bothering sending people messages anyway?

If the message is persistent, then some lasting mark on the world has to be made - and there will always be a non-zero chance that that mark can be associated with you.

Methods requiring computers require an unusually large amount of reliance on others, actually. You rely on the hardware and software one is using, up to and including all of the infrastructure between you and your recipients. Computers are fundamentally microscopic phenomena, and yet controlled by other humans: how do you know that your hardware and software is doing what you think it's doing? Without an electron microscope and a great deal of time, you cant. (And even then, the microscope is subject to manipulation, so you can't be fully certain).

There's another problem with persistent distribution of anonymous data, which is the denial of service attack. An entity wishing to stop another from speaking can either stop the speech, or they have the option to parrot the speech, but altered enough to constitute noise, and weaken the opponents position, generally confuse the issue. No system is going to prevent a noise counter-measure, since presumably the system is available for anyone for anything.
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Those are fantastic. This would be a great way to do a budget "about" video for a startup. Get a decent voiceover with a script, then have your designer do one of these videos.
It's probably not competition that causes stack ranking to be a bad idea -- it's the measures that determine the ranking. Valve's flat hierarchy probably means that you only need to earn the respect of your peers, not of a group of managers that determine the rankings. I could see a situation in which a truly engineering-driven culture combined with stack ranking would become a meritocracy that rewarded the best engineers.
https://www.redigi.com/ Maybe.
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She -or someone claiming to be her- has directly linked Inman to real Nazis in Europe.

(The account joined in 2008, but web forum software is notoriously insecure and there are many ways to fake or hijack a profile. So it might not be her.)

(http://www.naderlibrary.com/bulletin_board/viewtopic.php?p=1...)

> His mother is a psychic, who does palm reading, angel communication, tarot, channeling, psychometry, aura readings, and mediumship. She says she comes from "a line of readers, mystics in Europe." I wonder if her family associated with the Blavatsky Nazi crowd. Most of the medium/psychic whackos did. She studied with a Tibetan Shaman in Nepal. Wow. A totally crazy woman. Matt Inman has crazy parents on both sides. No wonder he's crazy, too.

I'm not sure what I expect from a thread titled "Charles Carreon vs. The Illuminati and Matt Inman".
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Would be interested to know how much power those servos are pulling from the Arduino. The regulator on the Uno is fairly limited in power output and there's also the WiFi board to power as well.

Did you experience any problems with crashes on the Uno because of a lower power condition?
I installed juno RC1, RC3... and was counting the seconds to installing the release version on the 28th!
But now, after installing and using it in full power for a few days, I am a bit disappointed with the slow response: I have a few java sources open and a few hibernate mappins as well, and eclipse seems to freeze and take an enormous amount of time to switch between tabs...
I have a lenovo thinkCentre with 4GB so I don't think the problem is the hardware... plus, this never used to be so slow with eclipse Indigo...
Anyone else having the same problem?
Sadly Solaris, aka the 'Lulu' project, aka the merging of SunOS and System V, was in fact the brain child of Eric Schmidt and Bill Joy. They stood on the podium and announced it together in October 1989. Folks would have noticed if the stock market hadn't gone into free fall :-)
Most PR is not news. Writers for daily papers and blogs may run something they know isn't news to meet a quota (I've been in that situation), but the best way to pitch us is to give us something that's actually news.

My advice:

1) We're not all the same, no one can speak for all journalists.

2) Edward Bernays, a spin doctor so good he convinced the world that he invented PR, told Stewart Ewen that the job of PR is to instruct clients on how to "just interrupt... the continuity of life in some way to bring about the [media] response" (Ewen's book PR: A Social History of Spin) In other words, your job is making news. Easier said than done, but worth keeping in mind.

3) Read William Zinsser's book On Writing Well and apply it to all your communications. Specifically, write what you mean as simply as you can. Look at this for an example of what not to do: http://boingboing.net/2012/02/06/edward-norton-and-daria-wer...

What does that Norton quote actually say? "I liked working with these companies." That's not revealing or funny or interesting. The vast majority of executive quotes I see in press releases are like this. All they really say is "We think we have a good product." Yawn

4) Speaking of which, we hate quoting from press releases. Get someone important, like the CEO or CTO, to write a blog post that we can quote from.

5) I'm pretty technical for a journalist, but don't assume even the most technical of us are going to be able to decipher your string of buzzwords and jargon. Knowing what each word means individually doesn't mean we'll know what they mean when you use three or four of them together as a noun. Keep it simple.

6) Think about your subject line as a headline. Why would a reader read want to read your story? If a reader would want to read it, I as a journalist will want to read your e-mail. I get too many e-mails that just say "News from [some company I've never heard of]" or "big data announcement, time to talk?" I'd also throw a specific date into the subject line. Examples: "New open source operating system launches Tuesday" or "Data Released Today Shows MindFuck is the Fastest Growing Programming Language on the Web."

6) Even tech blogs want people stories. If you're stumped on how to pitch something in an interesting way, think about people. Things like ERP and tape backup are inherently boring. Find a fresh human angle. "How a big customer avoiding disaster with our solution" is a boring story. "How Dr. Steve Made a Medical Breakthrough by Studying Archival Data" or "How an Average Jane Worker Catapulted Her Career with a Simple Manufacturing Process Tweak" could be interesting stories.
There is also this test of 1600 queries: http://gizmodo.com/5922332/google-search-beats-the-crap-out-... Final results is 86% to 68% for Google.
Wouldn't most devs rather tackle their own defect backlog than spend their time repairing Android?

I'd probably spend my time trying to work around the bug rather than submit a fix and wait for it to make it into production.
Interesting that the article skirts the two biggest difference between the platforms -- user experience and the app/entertainment ecosystem. I mean, without starting a flame war, I think everyone can agree that there are big differences in both.
I didn't experience any crashes, but I also haven't tried running the bot for any extended period of time (longest I had it on was maybe 10 minutes)

If I were to make this a consumer device, or even make it a bit more resilient I'd definitely use a separate power supply but for the purposes of just making it work, 1 9V did the trick.
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Agreed. The only thing that makes me envious of an Android phone at the moment is the larger screens.
I don't think spamming and email addresses are in anyway correlated at all. If spamming made me a lot of money, I'd just register a domain like 12345immaspamyou12345.com and make as many email addresses as I want anyway.

Rejecting legitimated email addresses in the name of security is the sort of dick move you'd expect from a bank.
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There is no known outcome.

"what are our governments buying for us?":
- knowledge
- possible future applications

It's that simple. That's always how fundamental research works. How politicians were convinced, I don't know - that's an excellent question.
Just playing devil's debugger here: Are you SURE the bug is with Safari, and not related to something else in your code? In BioLab Disaster, for example, while it's true I can't RUN and press the JUMP button multiple times, I can definitely RUN and press the FIRE button multiple times.

Why would the FIRE button be immune to a bug in the browser? Any chance this is a timing issue in your own code, rather than a bug in the browser?
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There's a start-up called [Murfie][1] that is doing this with physical CDs - you mail in your discs and they do a digital rip of them, and allow you to sell the digital copy on their website. They retain the physical discs in their warehouse, which is kind of their "proof of ownership" for being able to transmit and manage the digital copies.

[1]: https://www.murfie.com/about_us
There are an infinite number of possible waveforms; pretty much any waveform in the electron field is a valid one. What we see as a single electron is simply a "spike" waveform localised in a particular position. There's no reason you couldn't have a more smeared-out waveform that was "an electron somewhere in the universe", though entanglement comes into play at some point.

When we have particular constraints (e.g. known energy) that constrains the space of possible waveforms. E.g. when we talk about there being an electron in an orbital around an atomic nucleus, what we actually mean is there's a waveform. of a particular shape around the nucleus.

Are you asking why we only ever see waveforms corresponding to whole numbers of electrons? That's the "quantum" part of quantum mechanics; certain values are quantized (e.g. electric charged). I don't have a good intuition for why that's so though, except to observe that the time evolution of a system preserves this quantization, so there's no way to ever go from having one electron to having half an electron (for example).
Somewhat out of date: in 9.2 there is a built-in JSON data type that is complete and committed. It doesn't have very many operators, though, intended to be used with some integrated procedural language like plv8 or plperl or whathaveyou.
China is building major buildings in many other countries -- They're sometimes offered as "gifts". Makes you wonder what they expect in return..
I read the actual ruling, or at least the official English translation of it[1].

While I'm not a lawyer, it seems abundantly clear that the court considered taking money for a permanent licence to be a sale. That brings first sale rules into the picture, for example, "[t]he first sale in the Community of the original of a work or copies thereof by the rightholder or with his consent exhausts the right to control resale of that object in the Community."

Oracle's licence agreement did clearly say that the licence was non-transferrable, and they lost.

[1] http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&...
Key points from interview with Google engineering director Peter Magnusson during Google I/O. He explained their cloud direction. He insists that the future is toward completely managed services. Do you think so?
Somehow they forgot;
Ayn Rand; Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.
I guess it's been about 9 months since I really put pandas through its paces, so I'll take another look. IIRC, last time I really tried to do a project with pandas, I found some typing/data transformation issues to be the things that held me back most. If I find some time in the next couple of weeks I'll try to put together some concrete examples.
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Generally people understand that contracting rates aren't applicable to full-time employment. Primarily because their time isn't 100% booked as a freelancer.
Without quantum mechanics exploration you wouldn’t have a transistor, which means no computer or television. Furthermore you can say goodbye to lasers and all the changes they brought to medical operations-for example all eye surgery today is done using lasers. So while the discovery of the Boson particle per se might not have a direct impact in our lives, the more we understand particle physics as a whole the better machines we will be able to build in the future which will definitely change the way we live.
This works, but as I journalist I'd like to add that we hate being scooped and we hate hearing about news for the first time on a competitors site.

An alternative approach would be to give one publication an exclusive, and then as soon as the story runs send out the copy of a blog post from someone within the company (preferably a founder or the CTO, assuming it's a tech company) to journalists and say "we're going to run this on the company blog in an hour, but feel free to run a story with quotes from it now." That way we have something other than the competitors' story to quote from and we don't feel totally shutout.
Nokia should sell a phone (NOT smart) with no browser nor any power hungry features except one feature:

TETHERING.

This cheap phone combined with a cheap wifi tablet would sell like cakes. Nokia is the best phone company for feature less phones. There is a real need to split the functionality of a smartphone into a simple phone and a tablet. For example, do you really want to carry your expensive smart phone when you train sport ?

Nokia, stop copying others trends and do you what you do best !
I think you meant CERN, not LHC there. LHC was built rather recently, the web has been around far longer.
That and the frowny face say conflicting things. Are you happy to be working in the states?
Basically, we just keep discovering things like this until they flesh out our understanding of a whole bunch of interrelated domains enough to build a warp drive.

I'm serious.
> Art is massively funded.

No it's not. Not compared to the military or sports.

> The NEA is about funding things nobody wants.

Really?! There are so many incredible projects funded in my state alone [1]. I find this argument similar to the narrow minded view "What's the point of going into space?".

[1] http://www.nea.gov/grants/recent/12grants/states1/12_states1...
Voice search seemed to quit indexing contacts with the 2.1 upgrade. Which is too bad, since putting addresses in my contacts made it remarkably efficient for driving to a friend's house on a lark.
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I think Metro is wonderful, I've been running the consumer preview since release and now the release preview on my desktop, and I use metro apps quite frequently(I'm currently in love with the game Flow).

I'm also looking forward to replacing my Android tablet(Touhpad on ICS) with a Windows 8 tablet. In my mind Windows 8 presents the best concept for a tablet, a touch friendly UI for content consumption and casual gaming but also a fully featured OS when needed.

I think Microsoft is on to something especially with things like Smart Glass.
To what extent are facts necessary? Public funding of the arts is in a large part a philosophical issue. Either you believe that it should be done or you don't. That's primarily a question of what you think the role of government should be.

It's only if you agree that public funding of art is a good thing that then facts can come into play. What is the best, most effective way of doing it?
As a counter-point, New Hampshire has a Right to Revolution granted in its constitution. It has been used to successfully defend a protestor who cut down a power line at a nuclear plant, and was recently brought up in an OWS case. https://inzanetimes.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/lawyer-for-occu...
> They're surfing a wave of ... cash

That doesn't help. It is lagging indicator reflecting what you did in the past, not what you do today or will do tomorrow.

For example read the Innovator's Dilemma where the pattern is repeated. Companies would listen closely to their customers, getting improving cash, rinse and repeat. Everything looks great right up until it falls off a cliff because attention moves to something else that looked irrelevant, but was actually disruptive.

A good example is RIM. They kept sailing on their prior work and even a year ago operating margins were 20%. Now they are minus 25%. Historically no mobile company has ever got out the place RIM is now in. But their wave of cash looked good and was enough to fool them into being complacent.

http://www.asymco.com/2012/07/02/rims-tailspin/
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>Has there been a particular event raising the awareness of this?

Not that I know of. You probably just started hanging out with people who tend to complain about this kind of thing. I, for one, complain about this stuff because it's a defect I have to fix if I happen to see it in someone's copy.

It also might be a frequency illusion [1].

[1] The illusion in which a word, a name or other thing that has recently come to one's attention suddenly appears "everywhere" with improbable frequency. Sometimes called "The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon".
I can't say anything about arguments other people have offered, but yours is the textbook example of the prisoner's dilemma: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

You're stuck in a Nash equilibrium and something tells me that it'll last until some new factor disrupts it.
I disagree with the general tone here. The fact is that relatively unsophisticated frameworks often perform better from a UX point of view because of this very reason.

I know I'm over-generalizing here, but most PHP apps can print a the website's headers and navigation and send those to the browser before it starts doing the heavy lifting. The reason? Basically because they are just a smart template, and the logic is in the view.

Java JSP's are actually the same. Very often you can see a jsp powered site print the website headers and CSS so that the browser can be rendering while the server is still working.

The problem with most MVC frameworks is that their interface looks like HTTPResponse process(HTTPRequest), which doesn't imply but pretty strongly suggests that the server isn't going to send any data back until the request is finished processing. Generators provide an API that theoretically gets around this limitation, but in reality would require massive amounts of coding in order to make all the iterators involved lazy.

So using some dumb, non mvc frameworks, it's easy to get a shorter time-to-first-byte. With a fancy MVC framework, it's pretty difficult and involves lots of lazy loading (to delay the processing associated with database requests).

So yes, MVC as implemented by most of the web, might be slowing down your site, and despite the relative sophistication of the HN crowd, it's not a problem that most front-end devs have on their radar.
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> the IP addresses don't change regularly

This is only true if you have a stable level of traffic, IIRC. If they have to scale the ELB up or down the IPs will change.
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Ted redesigned his website.

Also, he says upgrading isn't worth it "yet," but as time goes on Python 2 becomes more and more entrenched and people seem less and less inclined to port to Python 3.
And yet there are plenty of people willing to say in the same sentence that Windows 8 goes too far and Microsoft is boring.
of course it was. guy is trying to be cool or something... not someone worth paying attention to.
I was employed in a company that used something like stack ranking. It was brutal having to evaluate the dev team I was leading. There were a couple veteran developers that consistently did excellent work, but there was a rookie that was learning incredibly fast and producing very high quality work.

On a scale of 1-5, I felt all three of them were 4.5, but I couldn't submit scores like that because of stack ranking. The question then became whether to piss off one of the veterans or to discourage the rookie by giving a < 4 score.
>> George Washington literally turned down the offer to be King

>as did Mao Zedong

Okay, that's downright disingenuous trolling. Mao ruled for over 30 years and then handed over power to his hand-picked successor. Mao killed over 50 MILLION of his own people in order to hold on to his power.

Equating George Washington's action in turning down power to Mao's while ignoring the historical record of both of their actions has got to be intentional.
It seems like one factor in that scheme that would imply you're going to fire "underperformer"s is that 95% of people can't be classified that way. The names are symmetric; why not something more like 20% - 60% - 20%?

The other factor would be that there's an idea (which I can't speak to personally) that the only purpose of performance evaluations is to protect the company in case a fired employee sues to reinstate their job, which would mean that an "underperforming" grade was a necessary prereq to firing.
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While this is true for bigger design issues, I fear it is not true for smaller problems like off-by-one accesses and all the common parsing issues.

Smaller problems require a lot of time, attention and testing to be found. To have a single code base can do wonder for this kind of smaller, but often fatal, problems.
So, we can't judge art by whether it's popular, we can't judge it by whether it's aesthetic, we can't judge it by X... at what point does the NEA simply become indistinguishable from handing money to whomever it wants for whatever reason it wants as long as the recipient does something or other?

This is the government. Men with guns come and take bits of my life that I have traded for money away to fund this. If you're willing to go to that length, I'd appreciate some sort of metric whereby the NEA can tell whether or not they're even getting anything for their money, let alone whether it's worth it. I know it's really tempting to just deny any metric of worth can be applied to art, but if you nail art down to the point where only .01% of the population can appreciate it and we have to fund it because the plebians won't.... where's the public interest in this?

(Also, I'm not claiming the NEA has no such standards. Actually I quite believe it does, and in the end those standards are what people actually object to. I'm saying that it isn't viable to continuously keep falling back, saying "No, that's not what art is, no, that's not what art is, no, that's not what art is". This is something taxpayers are funding with their sweat and blood... if they aren't getting anything that can even be vaguely defined without someone challenging that vague definition, then it should just be shut down.)
It certainly doesn't happen "all the time". You have other examples of the import of mainstream tech gadgets being enjoined outside the current patent mess? Has it ever happened to a PC?
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