skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have very mixed feelings about this.

It's easy to say 'too bad, you're a gentrifier complaining about further gentrification', and I agree with that to some extent.

On the other hand, I think what the sentiment of this article is getting at is the frustration that comes with watching culture and community being washed away at a large scale. Sure, enclaves of artists/musicians/hackers may set up shop in various neighborhoods throughout a city, but early on it's never enough to really remove the feeling of culture and community of where one is on a whole. But then at a certain point you hit some sort of inflection point where the flood gates open and the entire city feels foreign. This happened to Manhattan a while ago. Sure it's still uniquely New York, and it's still an amazing place that I love, but it's a borough for the wealthy now.

I encountered this feeling of resentment towards post-flood-gate gentrifiers recently on a subway ride on the Q train back into Brooklyn. If you've ever spent any significant time on the Q train you've probably experienced the emergency doors on one side of the train open, followed by a group of young guys entering the car exclaiming "It's show time!", followed by all sorts of acrobatic break dancing. It might not be all that amazing the 20th time, but it is what it is. A couple weeks ago this familiar act began happening and, at the risk of sounding prejudiced, a new-wave gentrifying girl yelled "Oh, no! Stop! I hate this!" while giving a stank face to everyone. My initial reaction: this is NYC, specifically Brooklyn, and it's for moments like this that we live here, so what are you doing here?

I had realized that Brooklyn had changed significantly, but for some reason this made me realize it's nearing the point of no return. You see people charging $2700 for 1 bedrooms in Bushwick and Bentleys cruising on Flatbush and realize the charm of the entire place is in danger of being lost.
"A Note on Education vs. Training" or, the recent MongoDB saga explained...
The other side of this coin, people downloading the app to use in their home countries when those countries are un-supported, is much more common. Probably two orders of magnitude more common. Sorry it sucks for you, but I'd make the exact same decision as Google here 100% of the time.
"Now you can do something more meaningful" (than a hey, happy birthday call or message). It disappoints me when I hear wording like this, there is nothing more meaningful about paying money for a present that took you two clicks and is probably already part of a pre-selected group of items from their profile/history, than thinking of something to write on their wall in two clicks.

All power to Facebook to make it work though: maybe if they can monetize themselves through means like this they'll pay more attention to privacy issues as they will have less incentive to make everything public for advertising/selling data.
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Yes. In some circumstances.
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Our government has been at the beck and call of the White House ever since they came to power. Key is financier, a snake.
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"It's Mary's birthday in 3 days - send her a birthday cupcake?"

I would probably click "yes" if it's < $5.

Not for every FB 'friend', but there's a 'sufficiently close' threshold where, yes, I'd click that button. Even better if it's day-of fulfillment. And I bet I'm not alone.
That's true, it's hard to use something different at work and F# seems plausible as a tool enough to use it without risk :)
I've been taling with friends about organizing a voting bloc to get fellow tech workers in SF to vote on critical issues that affect our lives (rent control, zoning, homelessness, transit). Such an important part of the city's revenue base is virtually unrepresented in policy decisions.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED: shoot me an email at dan@dangrover.com and if there's enough interest, I'll try to coordinate a meeting/discussion!
Yes, most authenticated web services offer a "forgot password" option, and their security is thus tied to your email account. However, each one of these decentralized services on its own is not as valuable as the entire ecosystem of Persona-enabled sites will be.

That is, the Persona "forgot password" is a single point of failure which, if compromised, can provide access to a whole ecosystem of sites. And it will be tied to your email account.
Yeah that was a good take-away from the article. I was not aware of that either.

I would guess it's to allow long connections for ssh or similar without timeouts, but there are other ways to prevent timeouts without it eating all those resources.

I set it to 1800 myself, we'll see how that goes.

I noticed memory use went down after that.
To be clear, I agree that that was a crime on the part of the agent, but I fail to see why that incriminates Wikileaks in any way.
Not to mention those among us who may have been less than truthful about their birthdates.

I swear, I really was born on 1/1/1970. I'm a epoch baby! Ok, maybe not.
The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series is a standout. All the rough edges just make you love it more... when you're not bleeding to death in an irradiated sci-fantasy anomaly minefield.
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Anyone can die at any moment and everything is gone doesn't that suck. You can't control death and you can't control change! Life always moves on no matter what you do. Thats why you have to enjoy the moments as they pass and stop trying to keep them from passing, forcing them to stand still! Life would be boring without new things happening. I know some people get stuck in their ways and can't stand change, but I can't imagine that life is very fun or enjoyable at all!
Care to share which app?
That's a good point. That is a problem with the App Store that needs to be changed asap. Accurate search is a mandatory must-have.
So the skills one learns pretending to be a female elf in World Of Warcraft will soon let you get real swag.
That's correct. However, the security of any Persona-enabled site is tied to your email account's security through Persona "forgot password".

This is my concern; a compromised email account means a compromise of your account on every Persona-enabled site.
But doesn't the same logic make every person without classified access an enemy of the state?

That is, if an Army agent emails classified info to you or your neighbor, that should be wrong without labeling you and your neighbor enemies of the USA.
Now, instead of just a flood of empty messages on your birthday, you'll get a flood of empty calories, too.
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So you are saying that they should start something like Amazon Payments?

I am sure that they are looking into it and the 'Facebook Gifts' might play very easily into all this.
As someone who spends a lot of time working on internet marketing, not getting the search terms due to this and all the other changes really stinks!
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Except that if you're already working for a tech company you have likely signed an NDA/Intellectual Property Assignment agreement when you started your job -- thus muddying the waters from a legal/IP point-of-view for any work you've done (even outside of your work hours).

* Except in CA as the state outlaws these kinds of shenanigans, and rightly so!
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We have more data than we know what to do with and we are about to get a whole lot more. We are using Rails on Heroku for our daily stats process to grab large 3rd-party data sets and process them, store them in Mongo, reduce them and make them available for our dashboards. It is not fast enough and we know this is not an optimal setup. We need help.

We are looking for an opinionated, experienced developer who is not intimidated by hundreds of millions of rows of analytics data to come help us build a reliable, performant analytics engine.

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No.Utilization is fine but application utilizing platform should not invalidate platform's one of the main reason it was supported by many!

What you are saying is acceptable if users are allowed use those developed apps freely(without app.net membership)but here first we need membership to access these apps!
Actually a nice digest of what's been happening with regards to Tesla in the most recent times, for those who weren't following.
While this sounds awesome and potentially disastrous, it also distroys itself as valuable info IMO.

Plans can change, the past cannot. Now, if there's breaking news however and it affect a large amount of people in a negative way, you'll notice it'll be reversed before it'll become finalized. This is something similar to that vein of thought, and IMO is why social media is important.
I was impressed by the detail and level of disclosure in this post. Very little PR speak, very little vagueness and handwaving - Adobe acknowledged the severity and demonstrated how important they viewed their response.

I have to give a nod of admiration for the professionalism of their handling of such a situation.
I think we agree, I've been arguing the 'Equal protection' angle, which is to say that if Wikileaks is an enemy of the US then so is every journalistic outlet in the world. This is a general argument and says nothing about specific acts.

Now if you or I or a reporter or a Mossad agent or a IRG member seeks out someone with classified information and bribes, extorts, or otherwise induces that person to reveal it, that is espionage pure and simple. If the person doing the inducing has diplomatic immunity they are expelled, if the person who gave up the information is identified they are dealt with in either civil court or military court.

Over our history, we have chosen to separate that activity from people who are in possession of classified information that they feel proves or exposes some great injustice or cover up. And that person independently seeks out a reporting agency to bring the information to light and correct the injustice. We still prosecute the people who release that information but we haven't (traditionally) been able to prosecute the receiver of that information (and I'll reiterate that the Pentagon Papers case is a great exemplar here).

So the treatment here would seem to hinge on the motivation of the organization and how they came about to have possession of the classified information.
> I think the ship has mostly sailed on email

You're right. Gmail does an excellent job with ensuring account integrity. I've lost and subsequently recovered access to Gmail accounts, and I must say they do it right. And like you said, I especially appreciate their two-factor auth.

I hope lay people are coming to realize the security importance of their email accounts.
As a selected vendor, I must say they do seem focused on quality. I'm clearly biased but the impression I got from the buyer is they're being very picky.

Another thing that will be tricky is separating signal and noise. If I'm buying a birthday gift for my punk rock friend, they shouldn't bother showing me cupcakes and chocolate boxes. Seems like a no-brainer to show me gift options based on his likes.
This will be a huge boon to virtualization and machines with high multitasking workloads (refilling the caches quickly).

Cache locality and streaming reads and writes are still as important as ever.
Somehow I get the feeling that "High Fidelity Visualization" is a marketroid's euphemism for "pre-rendered movie that we pretend is our game in progress on the tradeshow floor".
> in particular being able to drag overlapping windows on top of each other

That's not true. The Xerox Alto had overlapping windows, and it was released in 1973!

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/software/alto/index.html

Also, MIT Lisp Machines had overlapping windows by the late '70s, and MIT had borrowed this idea from the Alto.
I'd rather get a message from someone than a cupcake with no personal message any day of the week. When I was a child and I cared more about material objects that the people around me and whether or not they care for me, I would have picked the cupcake. But I don't use Facebook either, so I guess this whole Gift's thing doesn't really apply to me.
You certainly haven't upset or offended me. I'm sorry my point got lost in some of my factual inaccuracies.

It appears I was wrong regarding them not redacting any info.

My main intention was to clarify (and I think you'll agree) that an organization like wl and the NYT operate substantially differently.

Due to this operational difference, it makes some sense that a government would treat them differently and have different policies regarding them.

Thanks for the sources. I haven't had a chance to check them out, but I will.
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I guess the difference between them and Facebook is that you consent to Facebook spying on you...
> There is no message in my email that I care more about than the one that might give you access to my bank accounts.

This is very well phrased. Email sort of serves two purposes these days, each with very different security models: text-based communication, and external service authentication. Do you have any ideas for separating these two functions, or at least improving their security?
I wonder if the maker of that statement, former Register of Copyrights, Ralph Oman, realizes how patronizing and, well, royalist, that seems.

"These peasants and commoners don't know what's good for them. Before they get uppity, we need to have Lords and Ladies oversee anything new to ensure that God's Own Order Here on Earth does not get upset." Sheesh. How un-American can you get?
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I think about this in my own city (Seattle), where the quirky artists have been progressively priced out of several neighborhoods. And sure, something is lost when this happens, but I don't think anyone should be assured that their place in the world is theirs forever. So, you have to move from Fremont to Georgetown, and maybe then from Georgetown to South Park.

Sure, something is lost, but is it a real tragedy?
Better idea: as soon as I get a call from an unknown number, do a search for the number in facebook to see if you can find more information, and pop up that information on the phone before it even starts ringing.

There might be a problem of spam whereby one person creates a fake persona with their phone number and pretends to be someone else, but I think facebook could solve that problem.
Yes, but Facebook has a billion users and the ability to make the right relationships with literally every card processor. And, group buying is inherently social. I don't see why these aren't at the top of Facebook's list for things to try.
Then don't use the applications which use ads. App.net itself is still free of ads - you cannot say the same of Twitter.

This is akin to saying that Windows 8 is filled with advertisements because the Music and Video apps link to the appropriate store frontends.
Hopefully.

Memristors are weird. Depending on the material you use to make it, the mechanisms behind the memristance change. For instance, in some materials you create and destroy nano-wires at the interface of metal-insulator that allow electrons to tunnel through the thin insulator.

With other materials (such as TiO2 memristors), the materials undergo phase transitions that change from conducting to non-conducting depending on the applied voltage.

There's probably others that we haven't found yet. The TaO2 memristors are FAST.

They can last a really long time as well - people have recorded 10^10 open loop write cycles for memristors.

Most things sound too good to be true, but memristors scale incredibly well (they are created in a cross bar pattern, like core memory back in the day) so you can make them extremely dense. They also hold their state when the power goes out, they are quick, and they last for a long time. I can see a convergence of the memory we use in computers, as once they catch on, they will bring inexpensive, plentiful, fast memory.
It would be a credit card people apply for and can opt-in to using on these offers on Facebook (and throughout Facebook's off-site ad network, if they choose to do that.)
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Yeah, you think?

That was the talk at Defcon, I didn't do enough follow up to find out but it's pretty open that the new Utah data center can store every American's phone calls, emails, .. everything for a century.

If you can slip that through whoever it is that protects us, there are some corner cases. Say we do rub out a terrorist cell that does a successful attack (20 years after this database is running,) could you then mine that database to determine if your AI that finds terrorists works? If I was training up voice finger printing algorithms and such, you have an incredible dataset and there are likely other signals coming in to help populate it (maybe the census? say you're training something that detects Arab accents)

Never mind the fact that it's so huge and so much data that 1) is has to be online and 2) all intelligent queries will be given to AI/Google like software agents to find. Could a future president query the database to dig up dirt on an upcoming election opponent? (He's the president right?)
Yakima WA is also where Raymond Carver chose to live & write. Maybe you shouldn't disparage a place just because it's small. I'm sure there are plenty of "fat people having kids at age 22" in Houston, Texas even with the Major Universities turning out bright minds.
Dude, have you been to Europe? Because credit cards are freakin' everywhere there and have super-advanced James Bond anti-fraud smartchips in them. You don't even have to reach for a cheque book (that's how they spell it in Euroland) because the cards do everything.

UK ATMs even have two slots in them: one is labeled "CIVILISED PEOPLE" and has a smartchip reader; the other is labeled "YANKEE TOSSERS" and has a magstripe reader.
Wikileaks hasn't been incriminated (here, at least).

While doing a personnel investigation, the Air Force said that female Subject was accused of communication with the enemy.

Saying that "the enemy" was Wikileaks, and that "enemy" means various nefarious things are both things that are being read into this, with much urging from Assange and his lawyer. The Air Force didn't even want to publicize this but it got released by a FOIA request; it's hard to say I was incriminating a third-party with communications intended to be private.

(I could well see that "communication with the enemy" refers to any dissemination of classified data that could end up in the hands of the enemy. Just what should count is probably a good debate to have, and I bet it's already been had since issues like this were around long before the Internet.)
It's always been the case with the Facebook app pre-iOS6 that after syncing contacts (which uploads all your local phone numbers to Facebook) any Facebook profile associated with one of those numbers would appear in your address book on the Facebook site.
I have to say the video left me more confuse about what it does. The name gives it very little context, and the video does not provide any additional information. A bit too abstract for me.
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Can't tell if serious or trolling. Great example of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
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I think an encrypted currency base managed only by computers and the market is fairer than a system run by a few men.
Also I like privacy.
I think this is brilliant. Shouting "Happy Birthday" is really the most consistently used feature of Facebook, it makes a lot of sense to turn it into an opportunity to sell something - and lower the barrier for people to send gifts (there's a lot of steps involved in getting a greeting card and addressing it and buying a stamp...)

And they could size this up over time - like, ten of your friends from college are going in $1-each on sending you flowers after your recent breakup. I think people would actually do that.
Yeah this brings about an interesting dilemma; do I really want this crap? Can I reject it or swap it for something of equal value? Store their donation and add it with others' to actually get myself something I want?
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interesting, and motivating, read, thanks for sharing it
Here's an article with quotes from Kasparov that supports the thesis. The site is a classic 90's setup, and Kasparov's reaction is about halfway down the page(search for "Suicide?" without the quotes).

http://www.chessbase.com/columns/column.asp?pid=146
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I think at this point you will just have to hide your birthday from fb.
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The point is that even though PKI had been independently developed, and made public, 3 years after Cocks did it they still kept it secret for 22 years.

So imagine what they do with the secrets that are still secret - the secrets not independently developed and made public.
It is interesting (in a sad sort of way) to see how this article is being flagged into oblivion. Even though it has 130 points in 3 hours, it has been relegated to page 3 of HN.

I would have assumed that this topic was of widespread interest, especially to the HN community. But some folks seem to confuse what the "flag" button means...
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I can code better than anybody who understands the domain, knows statistics, is in the right location, available, works well with both business people and technical people, likes AI, and is 5'7'' tall.

(But seriously: I do sell myself as the technical guy who understands business, and it works wonders).
Happens to the best of HN, why I enjoy the HN community and usually check the comments before reading an article.
Been using it for a while on http://noteplz.com/ too
Looks like you can swap it out: https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=226108584182842#How-do-I-...?
Way to go, Dalton.
Disruptive approach to "target" innovation sharper.
Ballsy idea - I like it.
IOS app piracy soars