skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It somehow reminds me of the fictional Aquinas Protocol:

http://deusex.wikia.com/wiki/Aquinas

It gave people free bandwidth in exchange for being a part of a global survelliance system. I hope Project Loon doesn't have such a dubious second nature.
they should be taken to court
It must be a slow news day on Hacker News.

Poorly researched. 60% garbage. Don't waste your time reading it.

Their bewilderment over the Apple's cult-like success shows they don't really understand what's going on. The one concrete piece of advice is:

> If you're business is failing, try to build a community of loyal fans who buy into your "David & Goliath" story.

Which is just another way of saying:

> If life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
I hope the author appreciates the irony of hosting this blog with svbtle…
My personal view is that cities of the present are essentially serving the same purposes they have served since the 19th century: meeting places for like-minded participants in labour markets, social and cultural gatherings, and sex.

As the cost of living in cities rises due to the shortage of land and the requirement for importing food and water, those seeking life partners can increase not only their number of prospective mates, but the feasibility of finding one who makes a lot of money. Not to mention the availability and acceptability of almost any persuasion, hobby, or kink. Those souls most interested in health will have no problem finding a vegan delicacy at any mealtime, no worry of being stuck with some "salad" at McDonald's as the only option being any points A and B, and they can always hop a train to commune with nature.

Broadly speaking, the desire of people to live near thousands of their peers after graduation will cause young professionals to keep moving to cities, eschewing a life more connected with nature for one with a greater diversity of local work opportunities, events, and beautiful bodies. Just like London.
You're completely right, but it's not like people have transitioned off of SHA-1 (Wikipedia: "As of 2012, the most efficient attack against SHA-1 is considered to be the one by Marc Stevens with an estimated cost of $2.77M to break a single hash value by renting CPU power from cloud servers"; note that renting cloud server time is not a sensible way to approach this problem). Or even MD5.
There's a Studio Ghibli short that they show at the museum in Japan which features a spider like this, see here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizugumo_Monmon
I can see bunches of ballons floating above the planet. If you ask me, google should support http://brck.com/
via Tim Wu's Master Switch -
open vs closed = freedom vs convenience

It's a trade-off. One is not better than the other.
The 80% principle
Man's static jacket sparks alert
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I still have improvements to make, but what I have works well so far. Please let me know what you think, and suggest ways to make this setup even better.

A crunchbanger for 2+ years, recent convert to elementary: http://elementaryos.org , especially if you are looking for 'polish'. Do check it out once its out.
Rather tangential to the point of individual artistic freedom, but still rather related to artistic deviation in general (didn't think this worthy of a top-level comment - so it's got little to do with you, sorry): I don't trust prescriptionism without any awareness of context. I'm sure there a quite a few nitpickers who take pride in recognizing historical veins in modernist poetry when it's being spouted at them and hot-swapping in the right tropes as required.
They bought Kinect. And if Office is the cash cow, why are its limitations then defined by other Microsofts interest?

Apple and iOS isnt really comparable because the integration between the two is possible only because they are both from the same vendor. In that particular example, its adds value to both products, which is the opposite of the dynamic between Office and Windows, where the value is decreased.
Does anyone have a pointer to Linux laptop tuning-related advice? I've got a Dell Vostro V131. I never run Windows on the battery and I didn't know that four hours was short!
> This kind of functionality is much better implemented in a third-party tool like sqlalchemy-migrate or alembic that OP mentions in the article.

Yes because now every SQL migration library of every language has its own partial bug-ridden of a full alter table for sqlite. That does sound so much better than having a single implementation in sqlite itself (wait no, it does not even remotely).
Yep. Awesome guy. Inspiring.
GPG for chat (at least XEP-0027) is much, much less secure than OTR. You have no authentication of received messages, no defense against replay attacks or dropped messages, no perfect forward secrecy. In my opinion, support for it should be removed because it endangers people who think it is secure.

I would like to see an automatic way to use GPG to sign OTR keys, though. You can create a message "My OTR fingerprint is abcdef..." and sign that, but it would be nice if clients did that automatically. Or maybe even use the GPG key itself instead of the OTR key...
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So, my position isn't realistic because it doesn't take into account the possibility that large parts of the population may choose to go back to a pre-industrial life?
It makes sense really. If you dump everything all at once you risk overwhelming people, and for it to be ignored or forgotten. By dragging it out it remains fresh in minds of the voting public; something that will be remembered for a long time. This makes it more likely that change will result. Doing otherwise would be like running one ad and expecting to create a strong brand. The way a strong brand is created is through repeated exposure.
I have been wondering why elevators aren't just vertical trains. No limit to distance, and several cars could use same tracks. Currently elevator shafts can reserve huge part of floor space. Down going cars could run motors in regenerative mode. So there's no need for heavy counterweights or heavy ropes. Another effeciency trick is trying to get people going to same destination into same car, reducing number of required stops. Might add some latency, but makes overall throughput better.
Immediately upon seeing this I found myself jumping to click through - the idea is somewhat flawed (subjectivity (which people call 'beauty in the eye of the beholder' :P)) but an enjoyable one nonetheless.

To anyone who hasn't read it, I would heartily recommend 'Proofs from the Book' but moreso than that, to those who regularly come in contact with (semi-)formal methods (be they mathematical or logical) I would heartily recommend looking out for proofs that catch your eye like that and debating their worthiness for 'The Book'- it's a fun exercise! :)
This is almost as if the question was placed in by Derek so he could plug that Ted talk! Saw that video a long time ago and ever since then I've kept my mouth shut. I've learnt a lot from you (another.. ideas are just a multiplier of execution :) )
I understand that dumping everything at once would probably be a bad idea but the tweeting of teasers? If it's really going to be such a big deal it should be treated with respect.

edit: Hopefully this will come out on Monday, start of the week is always a good time to release stuff that you want eyeballs on.
Thanks for that. Best response I've seen on these issues - I hope others read it.

I'm not sure on the requirement for a FAA702 directive to be issued to Google however. Surely the upstream operations (which come under the same heading of FAA702 in the slide) don't require a FAA702 directive? I'm no expert but the directives seem to serve as a means to access the information, not as a necessity for disclosure of information should it be available by other means....
You may want to take a look at http://www.opencongress.org/ - It's an open source project by the Participatory Politics Foundation (http://www.participatorypolitics.org/) and I'm sure they'd take pull requests: https://github.com/opencongress/opencongress or would be responsive to any contributions you'd want to make.

Here for example is the view of Dianne Feinstein (CA D): http://www.opencongress.org/people/show/300043_Dianne_Feinst...

Her full voting record:
http://www.opencongress.org/people/voting_history/300043_Dia...

You can also access their data directly or via API: http://www.opencongress.org/about/code
See also "Proofs from the Book" by Martin Aigner & Günter M. Ziegler, illustrated by Karl H. Hofmann.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Proofs-THE-BOOK-Martin-Aigner/dp/3642008550

Stuffed with beautiful short proofs. Each section starts at a fairly basic level, but finishes with some fairly deep maths.

(Edit: oh wait, the book is linked at the beginning of the SO thread. Never mind :) )
The cash is still doing that. Its not like its profitable. But it could have been, Ballmer just does the same dumb thing over and over again. He attacks a competitor and tries to poison the profitability in a market, with no plan or intent to make a profit. He was going to kill Sony and spend a lot money trying to do that. He was going to kill Google, yet fails to realize that Bing heavy resource consumption is simple too expensive to be price competitive.

They dont innovate, they attack and poison the well. I really dont understand why stockholders put up with jungle boy acting out like that. I whish Nicrosoft would just focus on its wn products and profitability, but i doubt Ballmer will ever be a big enough man to take that road.
Which hardware is that? I get roughly same battery life from the original Windows Vista and from CentOS on this Thinkpad x200s.

As you say it is question of drivers/hardware control so building up knowledge of the machines to avoid would help as the original article suggested. Older hardware usually means more support in GNU/Linux because there is time for the drivers to catch up.
The ad-hominem speech that you exhibit has always been characteristic of communists: Lenin was a master of it for one. And that's where US is slowly going...

Don't you see the irony of accusing him of an ad hominem argument to try to win your argument? That's an ad hominem argument!
Hm, really? I think I agree that "that" is better here, but I'm not yet convinced that "which" doesn't also work.

If we truncate the sentence to "Nitpicker is a language style checker," it is still a true statement, which to me indicates that perhaps "which compares your text" is a descriptive rather than restrictive phrase.
If you drip drip then it also incentivises public officials to be truthful when answering questions because they don't know whether their claims will be directly contradicted in a weeks time.
That's not what he was saying at all...
Greenwald is getting a lot of hate mail via Twitter. I don't blame him for the teasers who are usually aimed at people who are doubting him. If he dumped all the data at once, the story would blow over way faster. It's also been helpful that other people have came semi forward, such as the Democratic congresswoman from California who basically pleaded for someone to leak for information because it's that bad. This strategy also makes it easier to catch the U.S. government and company telling lies and contradictions. Also, it's way harder to run damage control when you don't know what information the other side has.
Disappointed that it doesn't correct "The NSA" to "NSA".
I have been using archlinux exclusively since 2006. I would be lost and furious without a central repository for all the updates, compiz goodies, and the free-of-malware/viruses peace of mind that only linux gives me.

What is this "Chez" that OP is writing about?
So he gets a free, lightweight, immensely practical tool. His answer: complaint.
Greenwald has said on Twitter he has thousands of documents. I really don't think it's about Guardian page views, but more of doing proper research and, well, journalism. You just don't dump a bunch of documents out there willy nilly.
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Android or iOS apps is a good idea as kids will enjoy seeing the apps they've built running on their phones.
Exactly. Look at what happened to Obama. He had his press conference last Friday and told everyone that "No one is listening to your phone calls.". Then we found out yesterday that he was pretty much lying right to us.
On the flip side, the Washington Post did the whole Top Secret America story and nobody cared. And that was almost 2 years ago - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Secret_America

So while I don't like this form of journalism either, it looks like it has a bigger impact and is here to stay.

Thank Reality TV and celeb culture, architected by the advertising industry and marketing departments for the last 30 years.

Today to have mass influence you need spectacle and celebrity. From Presidents to Astronauts to journalists...

As long as the impact is positive, who knows, maybe it can even be a good thing.
Snowden could release information showing that the intelligence agencies have used their information to blackmail/coerce specific people like judges, congressmen, senators, members of the press, civic leaders, etc. They regularly do this against criminal defendants. This is just applying the known techniques to new targets.
It is free, unless you have some politically overloaded definition of free.
>Complacency is how tyranny works everywhere and in all ages.

I think your point specifically about Iraq is largely likely to be correct, but I have never been able to swallow this argument, which comes up just about every discussion of tyranny I see/hear.

A fundamental component of true tyranny is violence or an immediate threat of violence (as opposed to the somewhat more abstract monopoly on force that democratic governments have). At the risk of sounding trite: it's easy to call people complacent in the face of a tyrannical government when it isn't your family that will be the target of that violence. Resisting a strong and deeply rooted tyrannical government is not for the feint of heart or those with precious things to lose. To say those that don't give up the tenuous stability they have to attempt to foil the will of the government are complacent is dangerously close to shifting the blame on the victims of abuse.

I suppose it would be fair to say that in any tyrannical state that many are, in a way, resigned to their fate. For most people in that situation anything besides begrudging acceptance of the way things are is not far from suicide. In the case of the US I would wholeheartedly agree that apathy is a huge driving force behind our government taking power it should not. Implying that's how it works everywhere and every time seems very unfair.
It's great for maintaining a personal wiki; notes can have links to other notes.

In plain text files mode, syncing via Dropbox works great.
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In American English, "which" is supposed to be non-restrictive if not followed by a preposition. At least if I remember it correctly. (I'm a Slavic person speaking an L2 English interlanguage, not native English, so I may be wrong.)

Also, it seems to be a nice example of something that would require a substantial level of natural language understanding from the style checker in order to be detectable (or, as is the current fashion, at least a really substantial body of statistical data).
I read a lot of news and I didn't even know about Top Secret America before reading this comment. Thank you.
I think Terence Begley is right.
... or so they're led to believe. Good PR is 90% of any battle.
Not to nitpick but you should not use informal contractions. (I'm)

Omit the 'of' after 'all' unless you change the meaning of the sentence. (all of)

You should avoid using 'thing' - instead, name the entities under discussion.
Understanding Garbage Collection in .NET
No, I was pointing out the methodological problem with your suggested use of statistics, and that of course we have a spectrum of options when moving away from cities. My own feeling is that most of them are going to lead to less impact on nature, but perhaps you are right and in the short term many people will demand the same level of convenient consumption. Time will tell. Eventually, however, it seems clear to me that practicality will triumph convenience, since it's widely acknowledged that the first world presently consumes on a level that is ridiculously unsustainable and we will simply run out of the capacity to continue.
So just hold Command-R and boot into Internet Recovery. No disk required.
For anyone that's interested in the US history with dissidents, I recommend watching the documentary "The Black Power Mixtape (1967-1975)":

http://blackpowermixtape.com/
(alt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5_qnnqyxQk )
If you have a C# back-end and a web front-end being able to write validations in this, that can run in both places, is one obvious use-case that I can think of.
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You know spys... bunch of bitchy little girls...
The FairTax also shifts more of the tax burden on to the middle-class. No thanks.

"With the prebate program in effect, those earning less than $15,000 per year would see their share of the federal tax burden drop from -0.7 percent to -6.3 percent. Of course, if the poorest Americans are paying less under the FairTax plan, then someone else pays more. As it turns out, according to the Treasury Department, “someone else” is everybody earning between $15,000 and $200,000 per year. The chart below compares the share of the federal tax burden for different income groups under the current system and under the FairTax. Those in the highest and the lowest brackets will see their share decrease, while everyone else will see their share of taxes increase."

http://www.factcheck.org/taxes/unspinning_the_fairtax.html
> One thing that I have yet to explore (but I’d like to) is to use a tool like Chef to set up my personal machine, so that I can periodically wipe everything and re-build from scratch.

I'm in the same boat. Does anyone know a good tutorial to learn how to do this with Chef or Puppet? I don't have much of an interested in learning the tools, I just want to set it up and forget it (and occasionally update it).

Do people make their Chef/Puppet configuration files public (e.g. on GitHub) just like they do with their dotfiles?
You can do that without doing "teasers" like this. Just publish it when it comes.

It's the Guardian, people will see it if it's posted. No need to publicize it beforehand.
I have no problem with the Guardian making money out of good journalism.
And Bloom is the protagonist of Ulysses.

It's also Bloomsday today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday
The Verison metadata issue was pretty big I thought, but am I the only one who didn't really think much of PRISM? I mean isn't PRISM just a name for "send out NSLs to these companies that have a bunch of data"? Something we've known about forever?

Someone please enlighten me, I'm not trying to be sarcastic/edgy/whatever.
"Great idea" - Continues procrastinating.
چگونه در سایت یوتیوب عضو شویم و ویدیو آپلود کنیم؟ [از زنگوله بپرسید]
I read this as a statement of fact, not as a teaser. People are doubting the relevance of what he has to say and he simply says: why are you already drawing conclusions about something I haven't published yet?
The SLIME addon for Emacs has been using this for symbol completion for at least six or seven years. I'm not sure where they got it from.
You should check out the link I posted above. Under the FairTax the highest and lowest brackets will see their share of taxes go down. Everyone who makes between $15,000 and $200,000 will see their share of taxes go up.
Sex is a reasonable point to bring up. I guess you argue that cities are little more than vast, non-stop, multi-generational orgies. But London? http://www.allaboutfrogs.org/stories/well.html
This has zero content. Why do we waste time looking at fluff? Once there is actual information to discuss, we can discuss, but for the moment there is just nothing there.
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I'm not sure the X1 Carbon is such a great idea. I heard that Lenovo laptops are way cheaper in US than in Europe, but here, getting MBA instead would give you cheaper computer with better screen, and way better touchpad, while going for rMBP 13 would give you computer with better performance, more memory, way better screen and way better touchpad, while still being cheaper than the X1.

Now more expensive than Apple product, while worse ... that requires actual effort!

I'm planning to do just the same with Linux, though I'm waiting for Haswell Zenbook.

EDIT: I hope I recall correctly on X1 having TN screen.
I'm sure that having an id could make tyranny easier, but after moving from a country using ids to one without them, I see lots of very simple issues. Apparently just picking up my mail would enable someone to change/cancel my utilities. Or to start a credit in my name. Or to get my credit report. All without a single picture id. In my home country that would not be possible. Here, I'm told that having a bank statement letter or a utility bill is a way to prove your identity. To me as a developer that's just crazy.

To make it worse, common documents like European driving license are sometimes rejected because they don't have labels in local language (that's why field numbers always match up!!!). So that's it, I really don't get why people don't want a common id for their own benefit. Tyranny can be there with or without ids.
Not chef or puppet, but Eivind Uggedal published the saltstack states for his personal archlinux machines: https://github.com/uggedal/states

I plan to do the same for my debian setups, but i am not there yet.
They could have algorithms transcribing the sound into text, focus on keywords, show the text anonymized to analysts to check whether there's something there, and still claim they're not directly targeting or 'listening' to someone so can do all of that without a warrant.
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GPA - absolutely. If it's not there, the assumption will be that the reason it isn't there is because it's bad (especially as a new grad). Like when you look at a 2nd hand car listing and they leave off mileage - you know it will be huge. Transcripts, no - they just add unnecessary padding at this stage, nobody wants to read those unless they absolutely have to, so they'd only be asked for at the end of the process, if at all.

But more importantly than either of these - you should write your resume differently depending on what you are applying for. Highlight what is most valuable to the organization you are applying to. If this means you have to reduce the number of applications you send out, that's fine, it's much better to have fewer well targeted applications.

And try to state facts, not claims. By which I mean - don't claim to 'work well in a team', or have 'excellent X'. Show what you've done and the impact it had. If you wrote something cool at the age of 10, I can infer that you're smart and self-directed from that.

Good luck.
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