skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pro-CISPA forces spend 140 times more lobbying than opponents
PC users had similar games like Solar Wolf.
It's funny.

If you want to look better than average, the first thing to pay attention to is how your clothes fit.
Alternately a "cosmopolitan" city like Berlin and Copenhagen could work. Most of the locals speak English, and there are so many foreigners that English is heard pretty regularly in bars and on the street. (Some of the foreigners are swaps between the two: lots of Danes in Berlin and Germans in Copenhagen.)

In Copenhagen a number of the cultural events are also in English, e.g. http://www.scienceandcocktails.org/about.html and http://english.dadiu.dk/invitation-spilbar-14-0-surprise to pick two random science/tech ones.
"you did this in the past, so I get to do it now"

No, it boils down to "I did it this way and nothing has come along to replace this way". There is no energy revolution at scale, reliability, and continuous 24x7 (through the night / in the calm) production.

"China is industrializing in an era when we have technologies that can increase survival rates and extend lifetimes dramatically, when we have greater awareness of the negative externalities of dirty fossil fuel technology, and we have far greater options for generating energy. This leads to a different set of obligations and opportunities."

Yet, they still use coal to an excess. It is simple economics. Nuclear has been demonized, and coal is cheap, easy, and well understood. The 1800's way is the 1900's way is the 2000's way. Coal and oil are still the way.

Until someone beats coal and oil on all features, it won't change. It is that way in a lot of human activities.
AND THE MENTEE WILL BECOME A MENTOR:SAY AMEN~Welcome to H connect.
This has me wondering if Google+ will eventually consume all of Blogger.
People bear that cost whether or not they even have electric service

Just like a child cured by Western medicine gets the benefit without having to necessarily be a consumer of electricity. When I mentioned women in the work force as a benefit, I didn't mean to the individual. I was talking about the societal advantage to having a more productive work force. That is not factored into the purchase of a KWh of electricity.

No, "cheap electricity" aren't wiggle words that describe an internal relationship. Cheap electricity was a necessary condition for the cascade of advancements we've made over the last 60 years. In this thread, I've seen the argument, "If only we had charged for externalities from the beginning of electrical generation" - as though we would be where we are today in all other areas of Western life if we had stalled the production of CHEAP electricity for 80 years while we waited to develop alternatives that were themselves predicated upon the cheap electricity we got from coal in the first place.
How fast is a Rabbit? Basic RabbitMQ Performance Benchmarks
Well, sadly, I basically have no idea on how to explore my thought here. Really, all I have are some platitudes. "Go where the money is," combined with "Don't go where everyone else is going."

So, yeah, I would be curious on how to support either hypothesis, as well. Best I could think would be to track job listings. While I think you will get a few folks doing things for the novelty and to make it work. I think the majority entering an industry are chasing the buck the last success made.
Just downloaded from the French app store.

Looks cool, but the French translation is so bad in some places, it makes the app incomprehensible. Usually when the translation is bad I'm able to infer meaning by re-translating into English, but I have a hard time doing it here.

For example, "SpeedTest" is rendered as "chiffrier". I had never before seen that term. I thought it wasn't even a word, but it turns out it's an old accounting word that means "ledger".

I appreciate that the app is available in many languages, but it would be nice to be able to switch back to English from within the app.

(Some parts of the app are not even translated anyway; the "about" page is still in English, and so is the "History" button on the SpeedTest page.)

- - -

The American Translators Association has put together a short document called “Translations: getting it right” (http://www.atanet.org/docs/Getting_it_right.pdf -- PDF) where one can read:

"Professional translators work into their native language; if you want your catalog translated into German and Russian, the work will be done by a native German speaker and an native Russian speaker. As a translation buyer, you may not be aware of this, but a translator who flouts this basic rule is likely to be ignorant of other important quality issues as well."
The common implementation of tor does use 3, but as you can see on page 5 the basic concept functions with 2:

https://svn.torproject.org/svn/projects/design-paper/tor-des...

It helps to simplify when explaining to others.
Final Vote Results for Roll Call 117 (CISPA)
It looks a bit silly to accuse me of not understanding what EMH is while simultaneously changing your working definition of its applications from "market-traded securities" to "liquid markets." I accepted your scope for EMH and showed that the author's argument was still incoherent--currencies are not securities[1]. But if you'd rather go back to a scope for EMH that applies to BTC, that's fine. The author claimed that:

1. EMH applies to BTC.

2. This means that the price of a BTC should be the value of its underlying asset.

3. The value of BTC's underlying asset (nothing) is 0.

4. Therefore, EMH is wrong.

And as my original post argued, 2 is wrong. In cases where an asset has value external to its backing, EMH says nothing of the sort. A corrected version of the author's logic:

1. EMH applies to BTC.

2. This means that the price of a BTC should capture the present value of a BTC from several sources--the value of its underlying asset, its utility as a medium of exchange, and the any expected appreciation in the future.

3. The value of BTC's underlying asset (nothing) is 0.

4. Therefore, either BTC has positive utility as a medium exchange, BTC is expected to appreciate in the future, or both. Or EMH is wrong.

Either we apply EMH to market-traded securities, in which case it doesn't apply to BTC, or we apply EMH to anything with a liquid market, in which case it doesn't say that BTC's true value is the value of its underlying asset. Either way, the argument falls flat as a refutation of EMH.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_(finance)#cite_note-1
Facebook Did UX Testing for Home with Fewer Than 60 People
Verizon Wireless Announces Record Profits, Sales of 4 Million iPhones
"But if you try to overthrow the government, suddenly all of that power will be united against you, and you will not stand a chance."

What makes you think many parts of this very un-unified government (you didn't even get into federalism including state and local divisions of labor) won't also be on the side of those wishing to overthrow it?
I'm somewhat surprised Apple doesn't do something similar to what Google does in their SERPs: blacklist anyone caught paying for placement from the App Store rankings.
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TLS isn't simply better than DNSSEC: DNSSEC still requires TLS. If you use just DNSSEC, and you stipulate that DNSSEC does what it's supposed to do (spoiler: it doesn't) then all you've done is protect your DNS lookup. So TLS is a non-optional component in the web stack even in the very unlikely event DNSSEC is deployed.

So the problems with DNSSEC then boil down to:

* TLS isn't designed to depend on the security of the DNS. How you know that is, TLS works today, and nobody uses DNSSEC. So if everything needs TLS anyways, why forklift in a new DNS when we could instead work on making TLS better?

* DNSSEC actually degrades the DNS. In a couple ways. First, DNSSEC changes the security model of DNS records; they're now signed, but also they're public. For a long time, DNSSEC advocates claims that DNS records were always public, but that's clearly not true; try to dump Bank of America's zone files. When the advocates lost the argument, they introduced a grotesque hack that turned DNS zones into crackable password files (this is "NSEC3"). That's just one example; there are better examples.

There is a proposed alternative to DNSSEC that I like: DNSCurve. DNSCurve gives up on the idea of signing DNS records and instead just allows any DNS client to create a secure connection to any DNS server. That's a totally sane improvement to the DNS which inexplicably isn't included in DNSSEC (your DNS lookups in a DNSSEC world are still unprotected!). We should do that instead of DNSSEC.
Hmmm. That's pretty cool it guessed correctly then.
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Ask HN: Old grades are preventing me from transferring to a university. Options?
I live in California, and I went to a UC for 3 years straight out of high school. That school never had my major (in engineering), and all along I was planning on transferring to one that had it. Long story short, I got pretty weak grades and had to repeat courses, and overall my GPA is somewhere between 2.0 and 2.5, so I never got in anywhere. After my third year I learned I had A.D.D (type 2 Inattentive) and some depression, so that was likely a factor.

I joined a crazy hardware startup after my third year, and it has hands-down been the most unbelievable and transformative experience, also giving me two years of phenomenal experience in the field, particularly in Silicon Valley. I have done very well in my job, and I get good feedback.

Yet, I truly cannot get into any school. I just got denied by SJSU, and I don't expect to get anything positive from the UC's. I've been at community college on and off over the years as well and I've earned some good grades, but I have so many units from my first three years (plus a semester of straight C's earned during high school) that they far outweigh the progress I've made.

I was recently recommended a position at Apple, and after nine interviews and "very good" feedback I was specifically told I was not hired due to lack of a degree. I also have a very strong "in" at Google, and I can certainly say I would almost for sure have a job there had I possession of a degree.

What are my options here? I'm seemingly doomed to never graduate, and moving to a different city or state really does not appeal to me as of right now.

Anyway, any advice would be great.
WordPress can do all that. It's just an unnecessary pain.
Indeed. Apologies for what was too trite of a response. I can't explain why, but I have been getting heavily lured by the dynamic typing of lisp, lately. I blame that I am finally watching the SICP lectures online. :)
> The company employs close to 600 people, or 0.2 percent of Iceland’s population. (An equivalent U.S. company would have about 626,000 employees.)

Last time I heard foreigners made up 30-40% of the staff in Iceland.

> Just down the road from the CCP headquarters, the Harpa, a giant glass opera house, glows in different colors at night. It symbolized Iceland’s banking boom. Now it may have to be torn down, because it’s too expensive for the country to maintain.

It's definitely bleeding money but nobody is talking about tearing it down.
Best of luck. :) I hope you find it easier than I did.
fuck that whore.
If an attacker gets access to the key table, you are boned. Revoke all your keys. Make the keys worthless; don't take half-measures to try to protect them.
What an insightful post.

Here is my own list. (May be subject to editing.)

Why I do Software Development:

* The problems are challenging and are interesting (fun)

* I have the ability to make real difference
High end consumers are often jerks, but so are some people who sell to them.

I know a woman who makes hand-knit sweaters for about $250. She makes them out of acrylic yarn, which shocks me. If I'm going to spend a lot for clothes I'm going to want a nice material, like wool. Particularly when you consider the cost of the labor, the extra cost of the wool is nothing.

She told me she did sell a wool sweater to somebody who went home and washed in hot, it shrank, and then heard no ends of complaints about it, so she resolved to never sell wool sweaters unless they are specially commissioned.

Some luxury retailers provide a great experience, like the ones around Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. Other ones make it really clear they hate you. I know of one retailer in the UK where if you buy something with a credit card you'll get fraudulent charges from the UK just a day or two after your order.

Nasty.
You could cover the surface of the earth with furby dolls, and then do it again to create two layers of furby dolls. That's about as many objects.
Microsoft partners: Windows 8 caused ‘millions of customers’ to switch to Apple
Full list of initial partners can be found at http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/18/facebook-launches-open-grap...
It's similar to using Internet Explorer to download Chrome or Firefox.
Advertising is running around in panic, throwing money at Google et all. The impact of that form of advertisement may be more measurable, but those same measurements suggest it's not worth the money.

Also, following your "steal the most valuable part" logic, aggregation is not a sustainable business model, because it kills its primary resource.

In the meantime, adblockers just keep getting downloaded...

And even if it wasn't for all of the above, the internet has destroyed part of the value of advertising as the first to source of information about products, and with that the ability to control the message from the start. Even if it isn't dead, its value has significantly diminished.
What you're Breathprint says about you.
I have noticed that in big businesses (at least the many that I have been associated with) management sees agile methodologies as a "gimmick" used to keep the masses happy. Rarely have I seen it work from the bottom up (or top down, however you'd like to look at it). Although the article didn't specifically call what they are doing "agile" it seems like the spirit of the methodology. It's really nice to see a company that embraces that sort of working methodology and uses it to be successful. I would be interested to see if they find their environment to be less stressful as well. I wonder what it would be like if every company trusted their employees to do what was best for their company and then empowered them to actually fulfil their vision.
If you do that, you are talking about technology.
Also, yet another way to try and strong arm folks into having an active google+ account. :)

Honestly, the biggest thing I do not like about this is how we are essentially breaking away at folks ability to shard their community involvements. Not a huge deal, I realize. However, many of my friends and family could give two craps about technical discussions. Which is why they are not already on sites such as this. :)
Do’s and Don’t's for Changing the Ratio of Women in Tech: How Etsy Did It
I don't think so. Bitfloor was (citation?) the largest bitcoin exchange in the US. Mt.Gox is based out of Japan.
Getting through airport security with metallic parts in my body
>> The pitch was to get away from inaccurate generic sizing terms like “small”, “medium” and “large” and move to a system based on body measurements.

I'm a man and possibly missing something, but it seems to me that women's clothing is deliberately inaccurate.

When I buy pants (in America), the measurements are expressed in inches. I rarely even try them on.

Women's sizes vary by brand and seem engineered to flatter rather than describe. A woman buying a "size 0" has not expressed her desire for a predictable, sensible sizing system.
Introducing Triggerino, an Arduino based action trigger
I don't know about his other claims, but this one seemed a little suspicious:
"Next I gave him a face by mashing up three portraits from Google images using a free trial copy of Adobe’s “Lightroom” image manipulation software."

As a user of Lightroom since version 1 in 2007, and spending many hundreds of hours using it as my main image-editing program on 40,000+ images since then, it would be my last choice of imaging software to "mash[] up three portraits"

I'm not sure if it's even possible to combine multiple images in Lightroom; it's more for making global adjustments to single images. There might be a way to do it using a third-party plugin, but most Lightroom functions work on the whole image (adjusting exposure, white balance, etc). There are some cloning and healing tools, but as far as I know, there's no way to clone a nose out of one portrait and paste it into another.

Even if it's possible, it's not something that a first-time user would be able to do in the author's two hour window on April 14th after downloading the free trial, especially given all his other activities.

Maybe the author is just trying to CYA for using someone's picture he found online, but if that part is clearly exaggerated, maybe he's just trying to become "internet famous" by making up a made-up "internet famous" alter-ego, or something more meta- like that.
“We ran a contest (prior to the survey) that required contestants to submit their body measurements. [...] We threw quite a bit of money and traffic and the contest and we saw almost no engag[e]ment.”

You’re a new website with zero brand recognition. If you had promised a free Cadillac in exchange for someone’s home address, you probably would have seen the same level of engagement. That doesn’t mean people don’t want to receive free luxury vehicles, they just don’t trust you with their data.
House passes controversial “cybersecurity” bill CISPA in 288-127 vote
You clearly know more about it than I do. However, masonhensley's claim that "the champions of gun control really don't care" is plainly false. Perhaps the wording was wrong, but the clearly stated goal was NOT to prevent transfers within a family.
Plastic Soul: One man's quest to build an AI that can create games
Two years is not enough

I have not yet read the post as the site is down but this is a common story.

1. excitement about being in a new country

2. isolation being an outsider

3. connection, friends

4. Torn between 2 places

I've seen that repeated in many blogs from expats. Lots of them go back home at step 2. I'm at step 4. I left the country I had been in for 7 years to go back home. I know longer feel like either is really my home and miss both for various reasons. I still have way more friends in the foreign country than I do at home. But those first few years were pretty lonely.
Well this is a first step. This and more is long overdue but its a start.

I love Google+ because it seems to encourage much more in the way of long-form status updates, and public followers are much more "OK" than they ever were for Facebook. A lot of people use G+ as a de-facto blog.

For exmaple see Tom Anderson of MySpace fame (he also takes a lot of pretty photos): https://plus.google.com/+myspacetom/posts

Look at his posts. That's a blog. Isn't that a blog?

Now that they've got this honestly great market differentiating feature (from FB), why on earth hasn't blogger been subsumed into G+ to make an actually good blogging platform?

A powerful network of profiles and blogs where people can easily share/comment/solicit collaboration? That would be amazing. Easily better than svbtle.

Come on Google+, marry Blogger already. You could be a powerhouse of storytelling in a way that Facebook wishes it could be.
_why is an artist. His work touches people:

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https://twitter.com/rgm/status/324939563770474496

And I find my heart suffused with joy, for @_why has returned to us:

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https://twitter.com/rgm/status/324939832663080960

An improvement to the world that I was not expecting this morning. Huzzah.

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https://twitter.com/olleolleolle/status/324940406661996544

Such a kind thing, to provide the warmth of culture, in this cold, cold place. I'm warmed to the bone by this.
Heh, I've most likely played with you (Dreddit member since day 1 - for non-Eve players, TEST was started by Reddit players and is now one of the largest alliances in the game). I haven't played in almost two years, but watching a single corp grow from nothing to an entity that changed an entire game universe has been incredible.

The truly fascinating part was seeing first-hand which forms of organization and motivation work, and which ones don't. Specifically, how a laissez-faire organization with relatively few rules in a very hostile game world managed not only to avoid falling apart, but rise to be a superpower against established entities with much more defined and rigid structures.

I think TEST's biggest advantages were a shared identity and relatively strong culture (for better or worse) that emphasizes fun over winning , and practically non-existant standards for accepting new players combined with very strong training and bootstrapping (as opposed to more picky corps who either didn't want to bother with newbies or were afraid of spies). And maybe a bit of manifest destiny. Throw in support from a very similar but much more experienced and established ally, a lot of propaganda, and you have something that's very tough to beat in the long term.

I can ramble forever about it, I really am fascinated by how much complexity Eve allows. That game has to be a sociologist's or organizational behaviourist's dream come true.
CISPA permits police to do warrantless database searches
You don't need to actually have "built this" to act as if you did, naturally.
It also comes in handy when I'm trying to install something finicky that has a million dependencies, each of which also might be finicky (e.g. numba) and I screw something up and just want to start over clean and not muck around uninstalling things. virtualenv makes this easy—I just make a new environment for experimenting and then delete it if I mess up and want to start over, leaving my system configuration clean and other environments intact.
Isn't there some way of using % to open a file relative to the current one perhaps? To get the best of both worlds.
I don't entirely disagree with you but..

HN is not for this kind of stuff and it should be flagged. Tech news; not personal drama.

The guidelines on HN are frequently ignored but in this case I think it might "gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" even in just the way it's been released and encoded.

In contrast, the Boston news was huge on here the other day yet ran against the "if they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic" suggestion and the "stories about crime" guideline, but much of HN's flavor, like it or not, lies in what actually makes it to the front page rather than what is strictly valid HN content.
Yeah, you're right, that's a better approach
My understanding of the situation is that the government has taken the position that warrants are only needed for e-mail that has been stored for less than 180 days. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/when-will-our-email-be...
Hate to invoke "Godwin's law: Reader edition", but it seems a bit bizarre that they didn't integrate a flavor of this G+ comment system into Reader before calling it quits as they seem symbiotic at first glance.

EDIT: Thinking about it some more that would have the potential of turning Reader into a spammer/trolls paradise, so I guess the effectiveness of such a fusion is a bit more nuanced.
They didn't kill-switch AppGratis, they just blacklisted it from sending APNS notification messages which is a different thing.

I'm not a huge fan of Apple and a big part of that is due to the power they have over the app store (and the fact that they were successful with this model encouraged so many others to emulate it), but given that they removed the app from the App Store, disabling APNS for it is a pretty reasonable thing to have done on top of that.

Why expend resources (all APNS go through Apple's server infrastructure) servicing an app that isn't even allowed in your store anymore?