skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There are actual violent-minded individuals that the state has an obligation to track and protect us from."

...And some of them are IN the government. Where do you think Hitler came from? He won a democratic election. Also Mussolini. Where Stalin came from? From the government itself.

Government (centralized power) attracts power freaks as dung does to the flies. The mechanism democracy has for protecting itself is people's supervision.

They are destroying the feedback look of people controlling power. Out of sight, out of mind in democracy means there is no democracy at all, as people can't see what they supposedly control.

Most people don't object the government tracking individuals, what people object is the removal of the knowledge about it. If they inspect my house, I know it, why I can't with my digital info?
Apple hikes iPad, iPod prices in Japan as yen weakens from money printing
Is it just me or was it not clear that this would cost money?
What matters to me as a developer is this:

will there be more compilers targeting PNaCl, or asm.js?

Otherwise said, as a compiler writer, would you rather write a compiler that works in all browsers, and which needs no tools because of how simple the output is, or a compiler which targets just one browser, with a complex output to target?
> It's a common and vital tactic for prosecutors to seize funds of defendants so they can't mount an adequate defense.

I've heard about this tactic on more than one occasion already. It sounds horrible, and I think it should be made illegal.

As a side note, why can't the feds get all the mob bosses this way, for example? Do they only use this tactic against people like Dotcom?
asm.js is optimized for ahead-of-time verification and compilation. In this respect it's on an equal footing with PNaCl. Why would asm.js necessarily have worse performance?
If it's true that FB execs and employees use the platform for sensitive business communications then maybe $50K isn't so much?
I'd like giving this to my kid, what programming language does this teach?
> I don't think the "appear in all copies" applies to binary distribution.

That's a strange interpretation. Why do you think that?

> IANAL, but if it did, there would likely be a LOT of violations

There are a lot of violations. Many copyright holders don't pursue them, but without an enforceable license, you're relying on upstream copyright holders' ignorance or their goodwill.
The only valid use case I can think of is for preloaded data for automatized tests.
I'm a self-taught software engineer and I can say with confidence a product like this is 1000x more valuable for the student. Enforce the mentor's schedule and this could really take off, I will certainly be using / paying for it
Better link

http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#keys

sounds like

cmd_beginLine
cmd_endLine

are what you need to modify in the example given

<binding id="editorUser">
<handlers>
<handler event="keypress" key="w" modifiers="control"
command="cmd_deleteWordBackward"/>
</handlers>
</binding>
I really think there'd be less opposition to GMOs were it not for the fact that this one company -- a firm with a history of somewhat scummy and antagonistic behavior -- didn't control the entire industry.
Well, if "ridiculing others" is your criterion to tell if someone is an asshole, I'd say it's quite shallow.

And slightly hypocritical -- seeing as your snarky comment was meant to ridicule mine.
My god those comparisons are stupid. Was the U.S. getting involved in WW2 a severe overreaction since Americans were massively more likely to die of polio or black lung than Japanese or German bombs?
And by many people, you include yourself, right?

Long before you disclosed the vulnerability in Onity hotel locks to the public, the startup you had co-founded "licensed" the same flaw to Lockmasters Security Institute, a company that trains law enforcement agencies, special ops, and intelligence agencies in covert entry techniques.

You gave LSI's government customers a pretty big head start before you bothered to disclose that flaw to the general public.
Not really a "if you say so" case. There's been many celebrity photo sales exceeding $100K. Selling the fruits of the hack could easily net someone a lot of money, especially if they rarely used it and thus went undetected.

But that assumes the hacker is going to be his own fence. An arms dealer doesn't sell a gun on the basis of "yeah but if you jack 10 nice cars you'll make over $25K, so the gun is at least worth $4K".

Nonetheless, it just _feels_ that $4500 is a small amount, coming from such a large company. What is the downside of FB offering a higher reward, like, say, $20K? Or would the same argument apply, $20K is nothing compared to the millions tabloids would pay for a photo?
At the cost of power which will increase your necessary total capacitance.
Not really, that just does an explain automatically if the query exceeds a certain time. It may happen that the schema is optimal, in spite of the long execution time.

What I am talking about would be "auto_improve", ie. where the planner has actually detected a subpar schema resulting in a slow query that can be improved by adding indexes.
Both are really good articles. Thanks.
Wow. You're still arguing with me about this? You were wrong. Admit you were wrong and move on. Jesus Christ.
"Do you deny the theoretical possibility that somewhere on this planet there are people actively attempting to hurt people in the US?"

No, but (a) that is irrelevant to the issue of NSLs, which are a purely domestic matter, (b) we are spending real money on fighting these hypothetical enemies, and (c) we have yet to be shown evidence that this money is being used effectively.

"Do you further, or alternatively deny that alerting those people to the fact that the FBI knows about them would harm the FBI's ability to stop them from harming people in the US?"

The FBI is not supposed to be conducting foreign operations. They jurisdiction ends with the borders of this nation and its embassies.

"This should be an argument of degrees and to what extent, not an argument about the existence of a threat in the first place,"

You are basically admitting that when it comes to the war on terror, nothing is temporary. We will always be fighting the war on terror. What rights we give up in the name of fighting terrorists will be permanently lost.

This is a matter of civil liberties. The secret list of suspected terrorists has come to include journalists, political dissidents, anti-war protesters, and so forth. Being on the list means losing your privacy rights, being harassed while you travel even within US borders, and potentially being assassinated by the government.

We need to able to judge this program and decide if it is something we want in our society. Secrecy is incompatible with that.
OP might have seen some press about the "CALEA II" proposals that the FBI is widely reported to be shopping around Washington, which would, reportedly, impose large penalties for failure to wiretap on demand. (This would probably be civil as opposed to criminal liability, but the fines are described as being large enough that they're obviously intended to force noncompliant services out of business[1].)

That certainly isn't law yet, but it appears to be a serious proposal, and for someone thinking about privacy-preserving technology, it might be worth worrying about.

[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/04/29/calea_ref...
If you look at the iPhone for example, there is a menu where Apple lists EVERY single last license that applies for any software they ship.

Settings > General > About > Legal > Legal Notices

Where necessary reproducing the licenses isn't that difficult, either in documentation or within some part of the program. If your customers are purchasing something from you as an OEM you should notify them that they need to put certain statements in their documentation.
Understanding the MongoDB code that people are laughing at
> I wouldn't say that with such disdain if not for the fact that you clearly think the world of your coffee, yet can't bother to think for the extra two seconds it takes to realize that there is definitively something in your life you buy regularly, that is of no use to you, that you get more because it's simply there.

I honestly can't think of anything. I shop for food once a month, (mostly online) pay my water bill, buy myself new clothes from time to time, car repairs and fuel, pay my martial arts teacher, obviously I've got to buy hair-care products and stuff like that so I don't look atrocious, I spend a reasonable amount on books. But I can't think of anything I just impulse buy and get nothing out of. I don't tend to impulse buy at all - I'm not the sort of person who walks into a shop unless I know there's something I want to buy in there. I find my money goes much further if I make a few high-value purchases that are really nice.

Heck, truth be told I rarely buy coffee. When I used to work in an office I bought an atomic coffee maker and a hot-plate - which I still have - and we made coffee in the office which was vastly nicer than the stuff at the coffee shop.

I suppose from time to time I go out to eat or drink, but there you're buying a social experience as well as the food and it's not clear to me that your $ to pleasure ratio isn't going to be vastly superior to coffee there.

Some people do waste a large amount of money, but I find it hard to believe it's a universal. What is it you think I'm likely to be wasting a lot of money on?
You're not alone... where does it say that? If I had known I wouldn't have signed up. But it makes sense from the perspective of attracting mentors, though to some degree I think you'd get more engagement if it was only volunteer (studies show professionals are way more likely to do work for pro bono than middling amounts of money)
New Samsung Chromebook may use 8-core chip
That's exactly right. The good-citizen effect works against you, because even the most talented developers with the best intentions to help others won't be as committed or available as the middling developer who actually needs the money. Quality control became an issue almost immediately for us, and managing that component can become a FT job rather quickly. I think this can work, but probably has a better chance as a Kumon-type model where you have much tighter QA over your mentors and can provide a consistent experience to learners.
Moreover, as far as Lisp dialects go, homoiconicity is a big part of their identity and a major source of their power. It's an orthogonal concept to functional programming in general, just look at e.g. Haskell, but that's one of the first things I think of when I hear the "JS is just an ugly Scheme!" argument.
In case you haven't seen it, there's a new approach to Wayland/Weston on the Raspberry Pi.

http://ppaalanen.blogspot.com/2013/05/weston-on-raspberry-pi...
Searching for things like "Change network" in Windows 7 seems to work just fine - you get a list of common tasks. They might have added more aliases in Windows 8 based on feedback or research. I don't think it's anything fundamentally new.
>because it will have Thunderbolt

Uh, the whole Mac line has Thunderbolt, doesnt it?
Very nice! I wouldn't have thought to use flex to recognize optimizable patterns. :) It crashes for me on OS X but I'll have to try it on Linux.

You may have tried this already, but where you have:

mov al, byte [PTR]

Usually you want to write this instead to avoid a partial register stall (also in case there's junk sitting in the register).

movzx eax, byte [PTR]
If your laptop has a displayport output you should be fine, alternatively try to use dual link DVI if your laptop supports that.
I remember when it caught my eye as Postgres95 and I've always preferred it, even in the face of the huge surge for MySQL which left PostgreSQL looking like an also-ran for quite while.

The reality is it is one of the most amazing open source projects I know - enough to rival Linux itself for me.

These little snippets of PostgreSQL features and facilities which keep being posted give just a tiny hint of the truly enterprise grade features and facilities it has - I just wish I still had as much time to keep on top of it as I once did but I still keep it as my go-to database for project development. I've even dropped it in to replace full blown Oracle systems for serious cost savings.

The developers should be receiving far more kudos than they do.
I also am a huge fan of Zurb and Foundation but I'm not sure why this implementation is any better than picturefill. I still have to write a whole bunch of stuff I shouldn't have to write.

Markup for an image should not be several lines long.
As the dust settles … nothing has changed at Elsevier
Amazingly cute baby
I want to show you a really cute baby that is reading a newspaper. I am sure you will like it and have fun!
The problem isn't GMO plants in Europe, it's the IP system surrounding them that's the problem. The massive upwelling of opposition to GMO's on the part of national governments isn't opposition to GMO, but instead it's opposition to Monsanto and the legal risks surrounding Monsanto's plants.

Monsanto is predatory to the point of absurdity, and that is where opposition to GMO comes from. They throw lawyers at you until you comply with their demands, and then you pay a tithe to them. It's a modern form of feudalism that centers around abusing the legislative and justice systems.
Correlation Is Not Causation
That would require thinking through your business plan, which is, like, haaaaaard and stuff. Much easier to just point at something and say "US LIKE THAT."
I have one, I love it. Running Linux Mint 15 with Cinnamon. One thing to watch for is that some kernel versions don't work well with the function keys or bumblebee (for optimus support). I'm running 3.9.4 now and it works quite well.

edit Also, I should add that I did spend the extra money to put a Samsung 840 SSD and an extra 8gb stick of ram in here
One of the huge benefits people who dismiss mobile first is the ability to control the entire experience. If you launch an iPhone app, you have pixel perfect accuracy, fast speed and can make sure your app works perfectly on all 5 of the devices out there.
Keep in mind that this blog post was written by a company builds a product that sits on top of PostgreSQL. So for the intended audience, it's completely relevant.

A good use case is exploring external APIs, many of which come back as JSON. This might be a faster awy to figure out what you're dealing with: how large, how many, unique values, mins, maxes, etc. It could be especially useful if you need to match it to existing keys or metadata that you already have in the same database. To solve this same problem before, I've written lots of one-off scripts that convert the JSON into a CSV so that I can view it in Excel. This may or may not help me there, but good to see another tool.
>>Do you deny the theoretical possibility that somewhere on this planet there are people actively attempting to hurt people in the US?

Personally, I'm more worried about the Yellowstone Caldera. Its eruption is long overdue, and when it does it will damage the entire continent and kill millions.

Why isn't the government doing anything about that?
Pure Javascript Java Class Decompiler
> What does and will matter is, which can run Excel, which can run Word

That's an open question. I would ask instead which ecosystem - Google, Bing/Hotmail/SkyDrive/Azure, Apple, Yahoo, etc. the customer uses as their "home" ecosystem.
Yeah, I have HTML for Babies and have tried it on my kid a couple times. Very fun idea, not a fun read.
I just heard about this today... the pricing seems a little off kilter unless I'm understanding it incorrectly. How prohibitively expensive would this be for a SMB to implement?

The tech behind the service sounds fantastic, I'd love to be able to use them.
I don't make a habit of spamming discussion threads but... my product QueryTree (http://querytreeapp.com) will load JSON files even if they have lists at the root, you can use the Append tool to bring multiple files together, and you can then use Filter, Sort, Join and Group without ever having to define a schema.

Admittedly, it's aimed at novice users so if you're comfortable with SQL it may feel limiting.
"1) created for people less smart than the designers..."

This one doesn't hold up to inspection. The indications are that Google intended to use it in house. If nothing else can be said about Google, they do believe they are smart.
Istanbul protesters resisting police regarding OccupyGezi movement
What is to stop Google from simply giving the FBI the runaround for as long as it takes to get the legality sorted out. They could agree to give them the data and then cite technical difficulties, bureaucratic red tape, and other mistakes to stall for a year or two.
Gut feeling precedes logic. I know when things are right, I don’t know how or why I know, but the explanation of why things are right often comes weeks or years later. Malcolm Gladwell in his book Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking talks about this. Experts in a particular field can often instantly know that something is right, but they can’t explain why.

Funny, no one talks about the other phenomenon. The one where experts think things are right and then they turn out not to have been. I guess that phenomenon just isn't as interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_(fallacy)
It is my understanding that you cannot use Blink without V8. I believe it was part of the incentive to fork. Am I wrong?
Cynical view, most people can't understand what a computer is or what it could do.

Most people can't understand how easy is for the government to access the pictures they post on facebook.

This does not mean they don't care.
This is so cool. Somebody should turn this into a platform - a mobile app that at least helps you record the stats you want, paired with an API platform that lets you grant and request permission for other "personal APIs".

Then other API calls can be built on top of individual people - College students in the US, citizens of India, etc. The possibilities are pretty endless.
loss of control? That's a pretty big one.

I think there's being a very noisy contingent of people complaining about that one for a while. I count myself among them.

Loss of control sucks >:(
Digital circuits require some minimal voltage in order for their internal transistors to switch. This is because semiconductors only conduct in the presence of an electric field with a high enough potential to excite and free up the electrons hanging out near their junctions. That means that if your voltage drops below, say 1.8V (common for most low-power digital circuits these days), you won't be able to use your device any more.

There are some very efficient buck/boost converters out there. Like 95% and above efficient. Typically the cost of the power to use a buck/boost dc-dc converter is far outweighed by the ability to convert more of the stored charge into a potential that's suitable to operate the circuit.

Put differently, picture a barrel with a tap on it's wall somewhere near the bottom, and a different barrel with a conical-shaped bottom which tapers into a drain-like tap. Which is more useful? The latter is what you get from a good buck/boost converter.
NaCl was never enabled for Web content, only for the Chrome Web Store. PNaCl is going to be enabled for Web content.
The "use" of Java ends inside the SDK. Java bytecodes are translated to Dalvik bytecodes. There is no Java(tm) runtime in Android.

Since there is no Java runtime in Android, what are Google's obligations to Oracle? What are an Android developer's obligations? I see none in the licensing.
Unfortunately the browser vendors get to make this up as they go along and they seem unwilling to take into consideration the many developers which are more in favor of the <picture> element because its so much easier to write.

Naturally, if/whenever it is implemented we'll all scuttle back to our keyboards and play with srcset .
> You have a "2 clause BSD" licence.

Come on, is saving face that important to you? "2-clause BSD" already has a well-accepted meaning. You might as well have said that GPL refers to "Gary's Perfect License"; After all, it's a GPL.
Not the "current" Mac Pro.
> If that's all that is required for a language to be considered functional, then nearly every modern programming language is a functional language, and the term becomes essentially meaningless. First-class functions are nothing special or unique anymore.

While I don't dispute the conclusion, this particular justification is worthless. You don't restrict the application of a term based on whether or not it'll become worthless due to over-application. IF functional programming is defined as "a language with first-class functions", then if "nearly every modern Plang has first-class functions" then nearly every modern Plang is functional.

That first IF isn't true, as the rest of your comment demonstrates, but term over-saturation is not why Javascript isn't functional.
I like the approach that http://airpair.com took, they let the mentors choose their desired rate. They also let the students choose from a list of qualified applicants.
Very true. Lisp's syntax is as much a component of its distinctive identity as its semantics. A language semantically identical to Scheme but without the homoiconic syntax falls far short of what Scheme is "about", despite what Doug Crockford might say.
So you mean iPhone first, which narrows your market even further.
Killer robots Terminator or Robocop?
Its a question of response. And there are two broad policy approaches, both based on the transparency; In the first there is full transparency for the state and full opacity for the people. This is the current policy of the US Government and attempts to both mitigate conspiracies by making them hard to maintain, and enhance discovery by detecting people trying to maintain cover. In the second there is full transparency for both the state and the citizens (which is to say it goes both ways). This enhances discovery (both inside and outside the state) but also makes operations harder (on both sides).

It is asserted that the first policy converges on a totalitarian state solution, it is also asserted that the second policy converges on anarchy. As neither of those end points are stable, I don't agree that they are convergent so much as inflection or transition points.
I agree it shouldn't, this is why I call it a stopgap measure. Beyond the fact we both dislike extra markup I do find this solution cleaner than picturefill however, at least there are no extra divs inside the markup itself just a data attribute.