skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Julian Assange's new book "Cypherpunks" is now out
Sure, not everyone will want to install our agent and people using services like Heroku or AppHarbour wont be able to so we're working on a solution for that right now. Having an agent was the best way for us to launch and show off the features we are trying to push like real-time updates and historical zooming.
I guess that was VML http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-VML-19980513
I think we need to rethink our society because if the average person can expect to have their lives nearly ruined by a legal battle in which they did nothing wrong, we have a very defective legal system. Not saying we shouldn't do this, but that we shouldn't have to.
so my phone has the same resolution than this laptop
Where I live you can get punished for stuff people do with your open Wifi network.

I think the authorities know exactly what they doing: they don't want people to anonymously surf the internet, so the prevent it by making it impossible to run Tor nodes or Wifi networks. I don't like it...
No outage reported by Google so far: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/traffic/?r=SY&l...
IaaS will drive cloud uptake
According to a report, global spending on IaaS is to top €70 billion ($90 billion) by 2016, with the US and UK leading uptake
In Retribution for Huawei Investigation, Chinese State Media Attacks Cisco
You know you can install it right on the hardware and run windows out of the VM. You might even see a performance increase in your virtualization.
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Dell releases i5, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd, 3 lb., 1366x768, $1500 laptop. (price includes cost of $0 OS).

Wow what a deal. /s
Books must become APIs
Why Google's Ingress game is a data gold mine
This is awesome. Coincidentally, I was looking at various monitoring options and strayed onto HN and found this. I'll be signing up to give this a try.

BTW, your SSL seems to be off. I tried to reach https://graphdat.com and Chrome showed me an error saying your certificate was configured for *.graphdat.com and not for graphdat.com.

EDIT: Played with it for sometime and here's another thought.
In the How it works page, each step should link to a page showing how to perform it. Same for the various server and OS logos. I clicked the nginx logo expecting to get directions to install the nginx plugin and instead it sent me to nginx homepage.
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Assange v. CNN last night: "Democracies die behind closed doors."
So many companies just do cargo culting when they imitate Apple without understanding :-(
I was with them right up until this. Even the very similarly speced Lenovo Yoga 13 has a higher resolution screen (1600x900). I've nearly given up on using my 2011 Mac Book Pro simply because the screen resolution is awful.
Everyone is waiting for the pro version to come out...why buy this one?
>Yesterday i got raided for someone sharing child pornography over one of my Tor exits.

Reason #1 why I will never run a tor exit node. I don't want to make it easier for child predators to get off nor do I want the legal issues they bring.
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No, it says those were part of 'a sequence of recent events'. This latest outage 'continues' that.
That explains it. I was confused when I read "Destruction of the Ring" a third of the way through, and "Fellowship begins Quest" at the very end.

I wonder whether the developers _could_ have put them in chronological order, ex. 12/13/3019 appearing before 03/18/3021; or if the format requires the ordering it has now.
I agree. We've been thinking about email as an interface for a while now. It's the most accessible interface. And every once in a while there's a discussion on HN about this. So I guess this acts as proof of concept.
Lost interest the third time they said there were only updates for backers.

Yes, they should be providing more updates for the people who might buy it. I think the backer-only updates were listed as features since that was presumably one of the big draws of the doublefine kickstarter success.

But RPS: do some journalism and ask someone who did back it? Or email the project? For a story titled "where are they now", having half the entries be "they protected updates so dunno, lol" is annoying.
I think when people say trackpad support they want full support not just basic support, like there are many laptops that on windows have scroll and hot corners and stuff but on linux you may only get basic functionality.
The machine learning behind Google's translations uses a corpus that consists of texts that have already been translated into many different languages. But if some of those documents start off with, say, "this is the <language> version of this press release" that's exactly the sort of thing that would confuse an algorithm that can't distinguish between translation and localization. Pure conjecture of course. I'm just not sure if anything is being special-cased.
All tor node addresses are public. (Except for secret entry nodes.) I imagine this information could be used to verify claims.
I find that modules are good to add behaviour to an object like Enumerable but I don't find them practical as a namespace holder.

Including is an all or nothing operation. In your first example #is_spam? is now also a public method of MyOtherClass. The other issue with module includes is that method name collisions are also much harder to debug.

I also like your second example but I think it would be clearer if :spam_checker had a dedicated semantic. Something like:

class Module
def import(name, obj); define_method(name) { obj }; protected(name); end
end
> The product designers special-cased language names, doing extra work to produce what will almost always be the wrong result.

Are you sure about that? It would sound quite likely to me that simply, the word for "English" tends to appear in the same context (N-gram etc.) as the word for "Estonian". For example the sentence "I speak English" would be common in English, while "I speak Estonian" would be common in Estonian, so it might associate the words together.
Thank you for posting this. I am currently at half that but step by step progressing further.
With Linux on Steam coming out, whoever is the first to start building gaming Linux boxes is going to cash in big time.

(PS, It's not quite Dell with this under-powered laptop, but they're close! )
Wow the site's really progressed a lot since the last time I saw it. I'm not surprised you're one of the most passionate people I have ever had a chance to talk to.

This is probably my favorite feature: http://www.cucumbertown.com/tribe/ (Jane Jojo's really flying ahead)
Agree, this was the Achilles heel. It was total blunder not testing full text.

In our defense this page was supposed to be HTTP cached and that didn’t happen which led to this domino effect.
I'm glad to hear this is still coming along because I was interested in it and forgot to fund for a very stupid reason (I clicked "Fund" and then forgot to hit "confirm"). I've been sporadically checking the website, which has no news for non-funders, so it's good to know that I may soon be able to give them my money.

Kingdom of Loathing + word games = pretty much my dream combination.
Nope. It's been what, only 2 years in to NASCAR actually having EFI engines? Even then, the teams were restricted from being able to use all of the data from the ECU, so everyone had to run at gimped tuning.

V8 Supercars, for example, debuts more tech in one race than NASCAR does in a season. Even WRC Rally cars are questionably more complicated.

edit: EFI was introduced 1 year ago.
Not Rails
That is typically exactly what is claimed by the victims, that paypal first completes, and then is later rescinded/charged back for whatever reason; steam then removes access to the account. I've heard a wide enough variety of paypal horror stories in general that I presume it's not all a case of user error.
"many companies struggle to find workers who can perform specific, often tedious tasks, like data entry or software testing; some autistic people would be exceptionally good at those tasks"

This line made me a little uncomfortable. Just because they are autistic does not mean they are idiots. They are just as aware of the boredom of these tasks as anyone else, possibly even more angry at the tasks since they can't communicate just why they don’t like the work. This seems to have a hint of the old tactic of putting two Autistic kids together to play assuming they will relate with each other, not realizing they don't like talking to autistic kids as much as regular people find it hard to talk to kids with autism. Just because they can't communicate doesn't mean they are second tier citizens.

That being said, finding work for kids with Autism is great, and chances are it’s the simpler work they will have the coordination to do, but the rational being “Let’s get autistic kids to do menial labour nobody else wants to do” rather than “Let’s find work autistic kids are capable of doing and will enjoy” rustled my jimmies a bit.
Intellectual Property resources for start-ups
Intellectual Property resources for start-ups

http://www.pinskylaw.ca/Resources/intellecrual_property_law_resources.htm
So you think it's fine to allow someone to use your computer to transfer child porn and other illegal stuff with no consequences?

While tor might have some legitimate uses, I think 99% of the time it's used for trolling or illegal stuff. It's a pain in the ass for me because I have to keep reblocking it when the ips change.
Interview with Linus Torvalds from Linux Format 163
I fully support TOR and I think that overall it's a good thing for the internet but legally I don't know if he has a leg to stand on. Being an exit node operator carries these risks which he knew about so the court system has him there. The danger if he is tried and convicted is that all it sets a dangerous precedent for the rest of the TOR network.

Who's to say where the blame stops? Can the relay operators passing the packets along be convicted too? I hope for the sake of the TOR network that he gets off on the charges because if he does not, less and less people will be willing to be exit nodes which essentially means the end of the TOR network.
Ah, the credit card number is part of the encryption/decryption key [1]. Since it seems unlikely that the Nook decrypts the book once and stores a decrypted copy, the Nook also must store the credit card number--or hopefully a hashed version of it. Apparently so [2].

[1] "I cannot unlock my books" at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nook-books-frequently-asked-...

[2] http://i-u2665-cabbages.blogspot.fr/2009/12/circumventing-ba...
Credibility and Bullies with Blogs
sounds like an argument for a simpler article. I agree, the article is rubbish.
> strip the drm off of the ones you purchase so you can you the book you BUY on all your devices

This attitude right here is part of the misunderstanding, and part of the problem. You haven't BOUGHT the ebook. You've paid for a license, and in all likelihood, that license prevents stripping the DRM.
Thanks for the feedback. That was very useful insight.

5 invoices is not 5 attempts (parser errors not counted). It's 5 successfully created invoices, unless you make typos in the name, address, etc, then that's counted too. I'll have to make that clear on the pricing page.
Why Not To Use My Library clj-record
Actually, in investing and finance, "ask" is both a verb and a noun.
These guys have been around for a long time: http://freedns.afraid.org/
The US isn't a third world country in regards to racing. Rather, it's motorsports heritage is somewhat antithetical to that of F1.

Motorsports in the US reflect this "run what you brung" democratic ethos. The high profile manufacturers in US motorsports are not Ferrari and Lotus. They are Ford and and Chevy and Dodge (and more recently Honda and Toyota). The manufacturer's badges in the parking lot correlate with those on the track.

NASCAR's racing culture is an organic extension of the cars and tracks that make up local races on Friday nights in rural areas. Compared to Formula 1, NASCAR's rules are designed to keep cost per race down and more participation (about three times as many teams in 2013). They are designed to allow frequent racing (about twice as many races, more than two every three weeks).

Instead, high tech motorsports in the U.S. has historically focused on straight line speed, but it always keeps the "run what you brung" ethos.

Got a nitro-methane mixture in the tank ? There's probably someone willing to go mano-a-mano down the track. Four G's and four seconds later, it's decided. And turbine heads with a surplus jet engine will always have Bonneville where the Art Alfonses of the world can take on the corporate Breedloves.

One of the NASCAR ovals mentioned in the article was Bristol. It's in the middle of nowhere, 290 miles from Atlanta, 340 miles from Nashville, and separated from both by the mountains. It holds 160,000 spectators. They don't generally stay in four star hotels, they camp. Good luck finding such rooms in the nearest metropolis. Johnson City Tennessee ain't Monaco.
In this case I meant myth in the "tradition or legendary story" sense, not the "this is completely false" sense.
Sure they are, and I actually like these devices. As a matter a fact I hope they do well in the market. However, my comment was not targeted at thoses devices. But was at their mindset, specially the MSFT's business people.
Bitfungus - code resources for hackers
nope. seems like a bunch of nice ideas but the results are not even close in style and "artistic quality" to Kent's photo or the original example from mathematica.stockechange... seems like the only way to have it done by an artist... or maybe combine by hand contours and "fills" generated by the different techniques in that thread... anyway, thanks a lot for the link, whenever I'll be in the mood of wanting to sharpen my artistic sword I'll take a shot at this...
Unfortunately, in Germany, someone has already been arrested over using something that works in a similar way to Tor (routing traffic through multiple computers):

http://torrentfreak.com/anonymous-file-sharing-ruled-illegal...

The laws need to be changed so that you're not responsible for someone routing something through your PC if you're not aware of what is being routed, and it should be done at the EU level. I hope at least the Pirate Party starts working on pushing for this law.
Actually, ZoneEdit is owned by Dotster.
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I grew up in NYC during the high-crime Lindsay/Koch years. I would apply some skepticism to crime statistics derived from police reports. While I don't doubt that violent crime is way down, it's also true that people tend not to bother to report many crimes, because the police don't seem to be interested. While I'm sure that most murders would end up in the official statistics, I know that plenty of assaults, etc. are just never reported.
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2012 Invent Day 1 Keynote: Andy Jassy
Ah, I have no rights to encryption either then since ... you know ... child porn.

Or UPS for that matter.
Nothing too fancy with the overlay, just some good old fashioned javascript + css. Seems like lots of people are interested so we'll whip up a blog post for everyone.
Agree. Being able to edit is a very useful feature. I'll have to figure out how to make that easier.

I've tried to keep everything thing as simple as possible for now.

Thanks for the feedback.
Lack of interest in soccer means that the US isn't very good in international football for lack of interest, not that it has 'barely any capability to develop' same.

Race cars are not development, they are entertainment. This is like criticizing Europe for not having enough pro wrestling/luchador stuff going on.
Hunter Moore’s Revenge Porn Site Will Map Submitted Photos to People’s Addresses
I briefly looked for other information about this and I found this thread on the tor-talk mailing list. The thread mentions he contacted the torservers.net team for a recommendation about a lawyer. The thread also mentions someone is going to provide better proof soon.

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-Novembe...
I don't know if it's applicable here or wether they'd help out in austria, but such a fund exists in germany since a couple of month. Their main area of expertise is free speech for bloggers, but running a TOR exit node might just qualify. And they might have legal contacts in austria.

http://www.kanzleikompa.de/2012/07/02/verein-speakers-corner...
What's next? If someone walks across my lawn with a backpack full of child porn DVDs I'll be liable for aiding a felon? I'm sure the authorities would agree that's absurd, yet it's fundamentally identical to this case.
Same here. If you don't secure your wifi then you are legally responsible for what people do on your internet which I kind of understand but where does the line get drawn? If my computer gets hijacked and is used in a DDOS attack against some website, am I responsible for that too? At best this is all a legal gray area.
Not sure why bring FF4 here, there were many games in the series ;-).

Sorry man, stories in old games were MUCH better, the plots were much longer - i don't even have to go to SNES.
Fallout New Vegas is a prime example of how a game can play - on same engine - I believe that last good game from Bethesda was Morrowind. And please, seriously Fallout 3 is supposed to have deep story or dialogue? Compared to fallout 1 or 2 it's a very poor attempt (note. I have finished Fallout 3 and New Vegas).

Also character customization has litte to do with game depth - i could still argue that few Final Fantasy games had way more customization. Hell even bethesda's Daggerfall was way more customizable than Fallout 3 - also Fallouts 3 story is a very small main quest on rails as you have put it. It's really weak compared to New Vegas - I bring this reference multiple times to show you how bad fallout 3 is compared to New Vegas on same engine.

The attitude you present here is precisely the reason why developers want to use kickstarter to fund their games compared to publishers - they have the same worries about how games are.

Also you raised some interesting points:
- What's that, an entire kingdom capital has 6 single story buildings and a castle with 10 rooms?

- Most of the NPC's have 1-2 lines of dialogue with NO interaction with the PC?

Agreed, but i fail to see how abundance of dialogue options are supposed to make up for good gameplay? - it is in reality a lot more complicated. Bethesda style sandbox games got really dumbed down - the plenthora of options is really a meaningless facade.

Take mass effect as an example - its a shooter with fairly linear gameplay (although it manages to hide this fact well), but it tells a really really good story - It is not a sandbox game by any means but its really good - because it managed to deliver great experience overall.

This is what old games did really well, they delivered massive gameplay - and this has nothing to do with graphics, choice options - its the experience that counts - and for me personally Fallout 3 was a very poor experience - your story might be different obviously.
This is what I was curious about. You dont have any problems running ruTorrent through them?
That tl;dr is not a representation of the actual content. You reduced it to the last few bullet points.
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Sent it out to freelancers like myself before posting on HN. I had no other audience in mind.

Agree that there's a lot of competition for general purpose market.
his twitter account with some further information http://twitter.com/str0AT [german]
yes but this doesnt mean they were not stellar one of a kind experiences - unlike lots of modern games nowdays :(
I have a Lenovo Ideapad y570, and it does have dual graphics, but it doesn't need Optimus. It has a physical switch, so that means I can use either one whenever I want in Linux or Windows.

I actually think it has more problems in Windows, as sometimes when I switch them, my USB 2.0 driver seems to die, and doesn't recognize the mouse anymore (USB 3.0 one still works), and I have to reboot to get it working again. Not sure why that happens.
Not entirely true, wifi on the wrong chipset was a nightmare till just a few years ago, and even on the right chipset (Intel) there were problems as recently as Oneiric. (I installed it and my Intel wifi throughput went down to .5kb/s, there was an active and angry Launchpad issue about it.)
That's why I like to use Heroku/EC-2 for launching new webservice. If shits hit the fan, you can jack up the processing power/database/RAM/whatever to scale to your demand. Once you have a good idea of the traffic it generates, you can then move it to a cheaper service.

Obviously, it's easy to say that when you're on the bench. Congratulations on the launch by the way.
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92% Internet outage in Syria
> The product designers special-cased language names, doing extra work to produce what will almost always be the wrong result.

They absolutely did not do this. It's an artefact of statistical translation. In the corpus there are a lot of English documents saying "This document is in English", whose translated versions in Afrikaans (because I know Afrikaans) say "Hierdie dokument is in Afrikaans". Thus the translator learns the "hierdie" is Afrikaans for "this", "dokument" is "document, ..., and "English" is "Afrikaans".

The street name issue probably comes from an organisation whose Estonian office is in Peterburi tee and whose English office is in Hertford Road.
Link to original paper: http://adl.csie.ncu.edu.tw/~jhhe/doc/bmr.pdf

They implemented map and reduce in separate js files and used bit.ly to store the intermediate results.
That's an awesome idea. That way it can handle payments too.

Thanks for your 2 cents and more :)
Yeah, marvellous. Maybe they've released it in the US. Here in the UK I emailed them last week to enquire about whether they would sell me the exact same model with no OS (or anything but Windows), and he answer was just simply 'no way'.

I find that intensely annoying.
I agree with Tichy - I think LE authorities know exactly what they are doing.

If it weren't "think of the children", it would be "al Qaeda was organizing anonymously". They need a reason to create a hostile climate for privacy and anonymity.
An instance of a Tor exit node operator being raided for child pornography is on the front page of HN as we speak.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4847468
> ... retains the pilot version's 1366x768 display resolution.

Close tab.
It's lighter. And I suspect it's not unconfortably hot either like a lot of Intel kit.
Are all the network carriers (who arguably profited from carrying the traffic) also charged?

I'd very much like to see some protection for carriers, be they network operators, or "softer" Tor etc operators.

Yes the most heinous things on the Internet will crawl through. I'm not a supporter of child pornography -- but shouldn't we focus on finding those making porn, actively abusing kids, rather than those distributing it?

Is there even a real economic incentive to distribute that filth?
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Feds seize 132 domain names to knock out counterfeits
Great idea, but I wish they had worked with the 14 inch one instead. It's more or less the same stuff on the inside. Hopefully with more programs like this from companies like Dell, companies like AMD and Nvidia will take their Linux drivers more seriously. (As in, at least get them to work, let alone play a game or two.)
2560x1600 or bust.

https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/ByVPmsSeSEG
:(

But true. Good news is that more and more vendors get this.