skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Everyone in US', but not limited to the US, right? Services provided by servers in the States are used by people all around the world. Many communications started in other countries have their recipients in the US.

So isn't it more like 'A large part of the worlds population under virtual surveillance'?
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(side note: there's a lot of lorem ipsum text on your website) (I was trying to find your location to get in on a mentoring beer session :-)
Is it just me or the stackable for the page still have rounded corner? (see image)

http://i.imgur.com/pDa9S.png
They don't need to store the traffic. All they need is to store the endpoints and timestamps and you could compress that quite well to have usable information, such as who talked to who and when.

Your actual data is just a subpoena away anyway in most cases.
Nasa to send new rover to Mars in 2020
Thank you! The reason it runs nice on your netbook is that it was developed on a netbook :)

I should handle the resolution better - I set 1366x768 as a base minimum for screen size, but a width of 1280 is perfectly acceptable, and I will update it in a moment.
Why?

Verisign merely signs your certificate. It does not even know your private key and hence also can't pass it to governments.
And everybody searching for Aleksandra Kozuszek
NASA plans new Mars rover for 2020 - latimes.com
I was going to do this tonight, now I don't have to. Thanks.
Getting the digital begging bowl out
Yes, kids will play with anything. However, the way they use toys to play will be individual.

My daughter preferred cars and trucks while young (under 4 years). She would cover the garage with blanket for the night, put her small truck to swing etc. The style of play was very different from the way that I saw boys playing with similar toys.
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I'd like to see it have an instrument to "culture" soil samples with various temperature, and moisture settings.

It would also try increasing atmospheric pressure, and sunlight to possibly speed up any biological reactions.
We use Greek characters simply because it's convenient to have additional symbols at hand. The choice of Greek is historic, but one also sees a little bit of Cyrillic and Hebrew.

Notation has evolved since ancient Greece. Euclid, for example, is quite readable in translation, but he did not use modern shorthand. See for yourself:

http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.html
yes :P
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They don't have to break any encryption at all:

http://epic.org/foia/epic_v_nsa_google.html
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That assumes single characters are the only appropriate variable names. There's no reason maths couldn't use a * symbol as multiplication instead of assuming multiplication for any string of characters.

People who enjoy the current state of mathematics will probably think the OP is trolling, but it's a reasonable question.

Perhaps it could be better put as 'Why doesn't maths concern itself with readability like programming does?'
Oops, didn't occur to me that somebody would have their screen in portrait. Will fix it in a moment.

I do think that there should be a minimum resolution set as the application is unusable on small screens. Any suggestions on how to handle it gracefully would be greatly appreciated.
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How will you treat using your surveys and the builder as part of another app, as a service? API, restyling, white label and pricepoint.
It is always wrong to steal. Even if you think you deserve the money.
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It looks the same to me.

The key point is that because Maybe is a monad, you can chain things together and handle failure at the end much like a try/catch:

let result = do
x <- f(t)
y <- g(x)
z <- h(y)
z
in
case result of ...

You are correct that this isn't particularly novel.
Yes. I do like Windows 8 UI elements, though I'll like them more after some more iterations from Microsoft. Metro is not very suitable for PC usage, but the direction is nice.
Nice!

Although I like rounded corners and gradients, it's good to provide options for those who don't think the same.
My comment isn't about DPI specifically, but a whole range of intrusive monitoring policies at ISPs. In order to determine the originator of an email, you have to read (at least) the email headers. The IP address of the last hop is not that useful in routing email.
It only assumes that single characters are desirable variable names. Especially if (as in Lisp) one does not draw a conceptual distinction between variables and functions, it is common to see multi-letter variable names.

Here is a typical example of a modern research paper:

http://math.stanford.edu/~conrad/papers/locchar.pdf

Most variables are one letter, but notice, e.g., GL in the fifth line (the General Linear group, not G times L), ker in the seventh, etc.

One reason for brevity is that we like to write on paper and/or the chalkboard.

And to answer your last question, I think math does concern itself with readability. Many mathematicians are obsessive about making sure that their work is as readable as possible, although unfortunately this is not universal.
"Visimojo works best on screens that are at least 1280x720. Maximize the window to enjoy it fully." my resolution is higher
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> Did the ITU have any involvement in constructing the Internet? No.

The ITU had a lot of involvement in the CCITT modem standards. (CCITT morphed to be / is part of ITU.) V.21 through V.92 are all relevant for dial up modems.
Sure, but this was the case before CDNs as well. Unless you are a Tier 1 network you usually pay a fee to your upstream carrier.

However, the ITU would like to charge across many networks and discriminate based on the type of service provided.

So if data from your network A reaches the customer through networks B, C and finally D, then D would like to charge you to deliver it and not slow down things artificially.
in short, yes.
Wipeout was one of the launch titles in the UK and featured techno/dance music on the soundtrack
I'm conflicted about just moving to MEC's house brand; I always hear awesome stories about how they source them to be indestructible, and treat their customers very well, but the designs are pretty basic, and they're a dime a dozen in Ottawa. I feel like I'd be at risk of accidentally swapping bags every time I set it down.
LOL. Good one.
Funny thing is when you click on examples the navigation menu indeed has rounded corners which immediately stands out :P
>that what the third world really needs is a cheap laptop with a hand-crank on the side

What One Laptop per Child was trying to do was bring education and the internet to third world countries that don't have it. It wasn't a plan to get rich, it was people realizing that a lot of third world problems stem from poor education, and a technical person's solution.

I'm not sure why it failed exactly, but I know that Intel saw the laptop and made a "netbook" based on that concept that was naturally more expensive because it included all the things that OLpC was trying to avoid.
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Thank you for the suggestion! The connections need a lot of improvement. I will experiment with different colors to make them easier to distinguish.
Great writeup, thanks for sharing.

I've some questions to further understand the optimization process.

- In general, how did you measure improvements in conversion? What metric were you using? Something like LTV or the % of conversions each variation got?

- How exactly did you verify that the new version had a 14% larger conversion rate? Did you run an A/B test with both?
He was mocking your commage.

Unrelated noted: I agree, Metro is the best thing to happen to UX in a long time.
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You can also do this on the server side. Here is a Python implementation: https://github.com/kra3/py-ga-mob
I'm on a 13inch screen. Even if I zoom-out I can't access the application. That's a shame.
I am posting this article, which is from one of the leading Indian dailies, in order to better understand some of the issues raised in this article - especially from HNers in the US with farming experience. BTW, the Indian parliament is currently holding discussions on allowing direct foreign investment in multi-brand retail stores (such as WalMart)
Go column-crazy with CSS multi-column layout
A month at the bench can save you an hour in the library.
Clothes.

When I see something I like being worn by someone else (either in pictures or in real life), but I have no idea what is that type of clothing called.

Plus the number of online stores that I know of is limited, doing searches on Google typically don't yield good results.

Social shopping sites? Too much noise in there.
You are exactly correct that the favicon links to all subpages. Example the FB favicon will take you to fb.com or fb.com/obama, scrolling over the favicon will show you a preview of the result page and the url before clicking.

But even linking to different subpages I think Google would prefer users not see multiple FB, Wikipedia, ect... results and that is just one rationale I offer for Google having an interest in limiting results/page (the question of the original submission).
This depends on the meaning of "sniff them." If you mean by this, that the attacker needs some way to get active equipment into your data stream, then yes. But a sufficiently advanced attacker can of course always get his equipment into your data stream. For example by using directional antennas to spoof a wifi hotspot, or digging a hole and splicing it directly into the optical fiber.
The striped progress bar... isn't.

I don't know... I guess 'flat' is the hip thing and everyone should run out and change to it, but I'm not sure it's an improvement. I kind of like buttons to stick out a bit.
ITU is lobbied by governments wanting some level of snooping.

ITU votes to allow some kind of snooping in the standards.

Government asks ISPS etc to follow the internationally agreed standard. "We'll only use the snooping stuff for terrorists and images of child sexual abuse, really."

Government uses this new compliance to the standards to get your ISP to snoop on stuff.

The governments take this circuitous route so that they as individual governments don't get attacked by local libertarians. Defeating a measure like this in one country is hard; defeating it across international treaties is very hard.
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I'm kind of rusty on algorithmic information theory (I'm an artist, heh)! Is there such a thing as (formalized) upper limit of what we could do as far as computing combinations go? I know of Kolmogorov complexity (vaguely), but what are the hard limits and challenges of just prodding through (faster and faster as tech goes forward) combinations until success? I plan on developing a story around that and make a movie out of it - so any help would be appreciated (you guys can contact me via email if you want).
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facebook is too creepy for me. i don't post statuses or any photos anymore, nor i message with others due to privacy concerns. I never use auth with facebook
[Mathematician here]

Greek leters: It's a feature not a bug! The advantage of Greek letters is that they don't collide with normal variables, you can use short (1 letter) names for symbols. That is also the advantage of using special characters for number (and not using something like a->1, b->2, ...).

An additional problem is that some letter has an expected behavior, for example \epsilon usually is small, and M (capital M) usually is a big number, p is a prime number and z is usually a complex number. The problem is not that they are Greek letters, the problem is that you have to learn the expected behavior. (It's like using i for a counter in a for loop. Obviously i is integer.)

The problem with the syntax is that mathematicians (and humans in general) are too good parsing DSL (domain specific languages). So each mathematical branch has its own DSL (we call it "notation"), and the DSL can barely be combined, but usually a calculation doesn't combine many areas of mathematics. (For example there is a special notation for "function integrals" and "modulo congruence" and "fields towers", but I hope I should never combine the three in the same calculation.) (A similar problem is why regular expressions are so popular, they can be implemented with normal constructions, but sometimes it's easier to use regular expressions. Or the special syntax for here strings.)

The problem is that you have to learn all the DSL, but usually the specific details of the DSL have some insight of the main ideas of the area. There is an (perhaps apocryphal) quote from Gauss: "A good notation is half of the solution.".

The problem is not that you must use Assembler to write Java classes. The problem is that you must use 50 almost incompatible Lisp packages, that define its own macros and syntax reader (that hides almost all the parenthesis) and define each one a very useful but limited DSL that compiles to the JVM.
Business Development is API driven now. The Virality is created and Included in the product/platform and use it to distribute across the web.
Doing some digging, I find it rather hard to find data on the amount of traffic being sent in and out, and internally of the US. The best numbers I could find was from almost 10 years ago, which said around 970Gbit/s. Say it has gone up 100x, and we get a nice round number of 10 TB disk space needed per second.

We know, thanks to XCD, that 7523 hard drives per second is created by the storage industry (globally, a total of 650 million drives per year). Say that the average storage space is over the last 5 years, around 500GB.

That mean, so long NSA buy's 0.265% of all hard drives produced each year, they will have enough hard drives to record all data transmitted inside the US borders.

They would still need to write the data. One obvious way would be to store it on site, and transport the drives to a central place. Drives are not big, but it is a noticeable work, so if people were doing this, there should be more verifiable proof of it. If we include post-storage compression, finding duplicates and any other tricks, the numbers should be able to be lowered by 50-75% or so, and might be enough to send some through the wire and only the overflow through drives loaded onto trucks.

One could also ask what 0.265% of the storage industry output is in raw cash. To answer that, my answer is, I dont know :).
They don't need to break encryption for telecom interception to be worthwhile. Most email is not encrypted.

Knowing what web sites you go to, if you are otherwise interesting, is worth knowing even if they can't read the bits. Pen registers do that with phones, and that's valuable enough that there are legal protocols about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pen_register

Just because you can't eat the whole enchilada doesn't mean the beans aren't worthwhile.
You can opt out of google's monitoring. Can you opt out of the NSA's monitoring? Do they even pretend?
Changed your design and people hate you? You shouldn't care.
Three weeks after writing this, Manfred von Thun, creator of the Joy programming language, passed away.
If only it were as simple as pill = dollar = life expectancy.

All I have to say is I'm happy to live in Canada and don't worry about these things.
Doesn't Elon Musk want to have people walking around on Mars by 2020?
Sad for my 11-inch MacBook Air.
I like the flat style, but it's annoying having buttons and alerts/labels look exactly the same. You can't immediately tell what's clickable and what isn't.
Is programming really so much better off for having so many more languages and means of describing algorithms? At least the language of math that one writes today can be expected to be understandable and readable a hundred or more years from now. A program source code, on the hand, is unlikely to have that kind of long life unless you get lucky and write it in the right language.

Also, math is declarative and rigorously manipulable whereas programming is usually imperative and you're lucky if you get any kind of refactoring/manipulable tools.

I was introduced to programming before I really got a handle on math, and I definitely preferred programming initially. When I did learn math I thought about it imperatively. I saw summations as for loops that were just written strangely, but I now see math as being much more interesting than programming. And I can get a lot more work done by working with math's symbolic language, more quickly, and more rigorously than I can with a programming language.
You mean, there's a performance difference between writing to RAM, and writing to RAM and flushing writes to disk every few seconds? Doh!
Original article:

http://blog.cleartrip.com/2012/12/05/why-we-fired-our-pr-age...

Why the PR agency didn't stop after the first "talk" from their clients is beyond me. They're either really dumb, incompetent or really brazen. Or an unholy combination of all three.
I understand sacrasm (or irony - never could tell the difference without overthinking), but I believe that Metro will become more usable over time.
The first thing I noticed as well!
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I'm sure we can still take away the colors and the fonts, and why do we even render the page at all?
The devs should include a global-corner-radius setting in variables.less
I was expecting something different with the "for developers" title. Perhaps replicating some of the features of MixPanel or KissMetrics, which can track all kinds of interesting things for developers -- which features users of your app use most, in which order they use those features, whether this week's signups are more engaged than last week's signups, etc.
Well, isn't it the same with desktop software? I bet the big desktop-software developers (Apple, Microsoft, Adobe etc) get about half the revenue of that market as well.

That doesn't mean there isn't room for smaller companies/products, as is clearly evident looking at my own applications folder (Flux, Transmission, Switch, Appcleaner etc).
FWIW, I used to work on an ambulance and when the person didn't have insurance the cost was $500, not $8000. Not sure what we billed insurance though. Oh, and if they couldn't pay, we didn't follow-up. They were sent one bill and that was it.
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How much non app store shrinkwrap software revenue goes to the top developers? I would imagine a far bigger proportion than 50%. Just consider Microsoft, Adobe, EA, Activision, and how much is left for everyone else? (B2B is probably the same but it's harder to figure out.)

For example, Adobe (usually considered number 2 in shrink wrap desktop software) has roughly $10B in annual revenue, Autodesk is barely a fifth of that. Microsoft is $70B, a good deal of that is just MS Office. Activision is maybe $5B, EA less than $4B. Pixelmator — one of the standout success stories of indie Mac development — probably has under $5M. If there are 100 indie devs as successful as Pixelmator I'd be surprised — MS Office alone is 7000x bigger.

If anything the iOS App Store sounds far more democratic

An article like this is worthless without context and it offers nothing new.
None of which are relevant the the internet apart from providing some tunnels. The technical standards did not affect much in the osi stack bar the transport layer, which could be run quite happily over anything out there (Cambridge ring, avian carriers, cups and string, flashing lights).
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Brilliant, I've definitely struggled before with how to get people to 1)not worry about being blamed and 2)claim they won't repeat a mistake. This is totally actionable, thanks!
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That's the next topic I want to digg in playing with Google Analytics. When I have some results I'll post them.
If Linux support is more important, LastPass works very nicely. Although using it on mobile devices is a 'premium' feature, at $1 per month.
I'd love to see an honest discussion on startups and PR firms:

a) at which stage they are most useful (e.g. are they already helpful at an early stage for those founders who are not that great self-promoters)

b) what to expect/what to look for

c) experiences with different agencies

d) rough numbers on what they are costing

e) what are good/bad uses them for (e.g. for example the article mentions that they used them for blogger outreach, which in my eyes would seems much more authentic if it came from within company)
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The problem is that there are central points that any government can control because we communicate over wire and fiber-optics. By decentralizing the net and using mesh networking, we would regain and retain control. We need to develop the technology needed to have a world-wide mesh network.
Or those in the first camp that expect those in the second camp to do their work. That's where the resentment may stem from.
The memory, hard disk and CPU speed requirement of modern day PCs has also gone up substantially. I wouldn't call them lean. That, in my opinion, is where the future lies and to get there we have to get closer to the hardware, not abstract it away further. Most CS background programmers tend to leave the details of the hardware to the OS's abstraction layers thereby isolating themselves from the hardware designs of the EEs. In the future, we need design teams that do both. That's driven by the lean requirement.
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I wanted to try it, but it's not answering at the moment.

I've used Google Consumer Surveys and Survata (highly recommended :) http://survata.com/ ) recently, and I didn't feel constrained by the survey choices. Did you detect a market need for this?
It would be interesting to understand how agreements are reached with PR Firms, and how to negotiate those contracts in the most beneficial way also.

I'm sure there are some good books on the topic right?
Well it looks like I'm going to be dead by the time they send something interesting there.

Back in the days of Apollo, they risked a hell of a lot in the name of exploration. It'd be nice to see the same spirit applied to Mars.