skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had many bad experiences with sites like Elance. And I don't have designers around me. This is why I'm working on qwikast.com which aims to solve that problem ;-)
Yep, but why would you want to live in the US now? Just look at it.

Stay with us, mate.
I think the memory is mounted on top of the SoC as a package on package.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_on_package
Yeah, I'm sure the NSA are trembling, if they gave two shits about laws or civil liberties we would be here, so I'm sure this isn't going to do a thing.
I don't get what you mean by "app store." You can't have a closed publishing model, as consoles always have had, and allow full access to console development by indy game developers and channel access through an app store.
And now comes the part where you explain to me how i combine Firefox and Thunderbird into one app such that i can have various emails open in first-class-citizen tabs alongside web pages. Since apparently Firefox does such an amazing job of it.
You mean 'scientist' used to be a hobby for the otherwise well heeled and financially free gentry. Or if you could find a patron, but even then that was poor aristocrat being sponsored by richer aristocrat. Now that the plebes actually want to perform science for money...it has become so corrupted?
Seems like this article plays a bit loose with the facts. Apache Hadoop and MapReduce are based on Google white papers, but Google didn't actually develop either. And is it that Google couldn't afford Oracle software, or they knew they could build something better?

However, the main thrust is valid: the same data that is valuable to Facebook and Google (and their advertisers) is valuable to the NSA.
I am sure King George tried the same argument against the colonies.
Depends how much you travel. And if you have proof of employment in Canada.

Returning to Canada after an extended stay and then returning to the US, you will almost always be questioned.

Stamps are old school, they log your passport or NEXUS on each entry/exit in their system.
You don't need elliptic curve to get forward secrecy from TLS; the ECC ciphersuites are very new, but the ephemeral Diffie-Hellman construction in TLS has been around for a long time.
He sounds like a brilliant student. However does anyone find it the least bit noteworthy that the US government is paying for foreign citizens' tuition and stipends while many of its own citizens are forced to go deeply in debt?
The main one at issue is the Fourth, though some arguments have been made that appear to implicate the First.
What's a workform? Look at the claims, people.
The Product Management Library in Google's Building 42
Well, yes, you are right. Still, a patent war in the US can have worldwide consequences.
If by "once you take into account," you mean "if you pretend/arbitrarily decide he received," then sure.

I'd like to see your source that states that a 30% annual bonus is typical.
I still find Bitbucket less usable than Github. The price is right, I suppose.
Three cheers for american exceptionism.
Q: What will a more powerful CPU core do in a comparatively slow environment that is the rest of the computer?

A: Wait faster!
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 Giveaway
Where do you live, where the government either isn't cooperating with the US or its allies or else doing its own spying and censorship, and isn't a corrupt, money-hungry beast? I might just pack my own bags and go myself. Assuming there are jobs for foreigners.
Light flips transistor switch
Which one does what?
Just FYI, note 3 in your PS refers to processor latency not GHz.
Unless I'm mistaken[1], right now the popup that has multiple emails in it is the part that will eventually become native to the browser itself, so no service should have access to that list of multiple emails.

Each of those emails is instead tied to an identity provider: for example, you might have a GMail address that uses Google as the IdP, while a Yahoo one would use Yahoo as the IdP. But Google and Yahoo don't actually know that you're using multiple emails to login to stuff, they only deal with the emails you register with them.

What happens right now is that Mozilla Persona hosts the JS-powered popup that lets you choose between emails, so we end up with that info. This is for use in the short-term and for older browsers, but long term I think it will shift to client-side only.

[1] I work for Mozilla, but not on the Persona project, so there is a chance that I'm completely wrong. Doh!
The Art of One Line Pitching - A Study of Angellist
PhD students, especially in the sciences, don't pay tuition.
In this instance, it would be migration not immigration.
Right, but if this was a routine, it would be like, "Thursdays are here, yes! I get my latest payload at 2:30pm"
I really wish CPU vendors would simply name their products after relevant benchmarks. E.g. 'Intel PassMark 14490/135W'. Or 'AMD PassMark 9140/125W'.

Sounds nearly as fancy, makes the same amount of sense to the layman, and saves the rest of us a bit of time.
This is precisely the kind of thing that terrifies me.
CNN would have probably helped him get captured by the US government.
Nobody is forced to go deeply in debt. College education is voluntary.
They're compelled to lie, or they're compelled not to answer?
This article is about how difficult it would be for NSA to 'break' a cypher.

But couldn't they just go to the certificate authority and get the keys? What could they then do with these keys?
The one thing I'm taking home from that letter is this:

the embassy called him back to say that they had found
the problem. They said that if he came in, they would fix
it. Instead of fixing it, they stamped CANCELED across
his student visa without explaining what was wrong, and
refused to answer any questions as to why.

In short: The american embassy has no compunctions whatsoever to lie to citizens of other countries.

For me as citizen of another country, this means that i will need to treat anything any representative of the US-american government says, no matter how high, or more importantly, low they are on the totem pole, is highly subject and likely a lie.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeyes
Installing Homebrew on Mac OSX 10.9 Mavericks
You sir, should be in marketing. If you put a glistening racing stripe on the packaging, I'd make a guess you'd get 10% more in sales.
The Meteor Framework Demystified
https://panopticlick.eff.org

This tool uses the information sent from your browser in attempt to identify you among other people who have used the tool. It doesn't use IP.

I used chrome on a virtual machine (with not too much ordinary stuff installed) to run the test and it said my result was unique among ~3 million. Then I switched to incognito and the results said that there was one other match, which I assume was the test I had run previously. Point being, there was very little difference, which surprised me. Normal chrome had 21 pieces of identifying info, while incognito had 20, so not too much different.

The NSA has some fancy patents that also use response time and probably tons of other data if they wanted to try to identify your computer, or just you. I'm sure mouse-clicks and other seemingly random habits could be used to ID an individual also.

Best would probably be a VPN combined with a virtual machine with a very clean version of chrome. Maybe with some privacy extensions installed, but be careful which ones you choose, not too many and don't choose ones that aren't used by a lot of people.
Looks like the character smearing is working. It always does since there are always people who want to believe it.
I disagree, these are 'big' problems, and exposure of these pain points to other smart entrepreneurs can only lead to a net benefit.
To extend this line of thinking - you are (possibly) not an immigrant only if you were born in Africa - our place of origin.
I guess their marketing was out of other ideas and just went back to the well one more time. It has probably been 10 years now since I really considered CPU clock speed as a factor when buying a computer.
I think the value is questionable. Much of the money could be recovered by selling off the hardware or reusing it for something else. It's probably just lots of commodity equipment.
that just looks like the hosting company's business records to me
I leave the subject, since I assume you'd argue the same thing about the iPad, even though others had tried to build xPads for many years without anyone wanting the results... :-)
Easy app transfer is potentially a huge secondary market for app developers and the market for "app flipping" could become a very lucrative opportunity for devs.
Arrrgh! Sorry - I impulsively down-voted you out of sheer bewilderment that anyone could possibly think that selling an app is more important than a systematic and widespread government invasion of civilian privacy. But your comment is not (necessarily) a troll, just different to my opinion - so I should have just replied saying so instead of disagreeing via rage-downvote.
> Which is quite humorous -- you might have much better real life performance simply disabling a core.

Does this have any implications when designing software? (e.g., do things on a single processor in certain situations because it might be faster?)
Nothing they were doing is illegal, so I'm not sure how you can make a claim that they don't give a shit about laws.
Icelandic lawmaker: Asylum for NSA leaker far from a sure thing
I think Dribbble is a popular place to find designers.
I agree, blaming it on "bureaucracy" or "big government" is the least insightful thing someone can add to the conversation.

Of course it's executed by a bureaucracy -- what else would we expect, Batman's going to manage the program? The assumption that it's going to be executed by a bureaucracy should be part of the reasoning when setting policy.

Either this was an expected outcome (in the collateral damage sense or in the "good keep him out" sense), or it should have been and people should have known better.
No, one is a prediction, one is what they think they would do today and one is about how they think they behaved in the past. I was simply making the point that people aren't necessarily reliable observers of their own behaviour. It's a common mistake in evaluating these kinds of surveys. (Also, even when they observe correctly, they might lie, but lets not get into that.)

An interesting statistic lacking this particular source of error would be a survey of e.g. suicide hotlines about the number of calls they get (I'm sure they keep such statistics).
Yep indeed the likes of Google/Facebook/Yahoo open source technologies have made it much easier for the government to create the tools needed to sift through terabytes of data, yet even if Hadoop/Map Reduce etc... were closed source I'm sure the big G would have come up with their own solution.
The biggest bike infrastructure achievement in N-A that nobody's talking about
Some comments from Anandtech:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7066/amd-announces-fx9590-and-...

Based on an old review:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx...

and single thread performance:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6396/the-vishera-review-amd-fx...

If single threaded scales linearly with turbo frequency (and it looks like it might):

The FX8320 (turbo boost 4.0Ghz) scores 240.7, while
the FX8350 (turbo boost 4.2Ghz) scores 252.1:

The difference aligns quite nicely: (240.7/4)4.2~252.74

And for 5Ghz should give about: (240.7/4)5~300.88

This is still lower than intel's i5 3570k (302.2 - Turbo 3.8Ghz) and i7 3770k (312.4 - Turbo 3.9Ghz)

And Haswell has even higher performance:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-...
It's pretty common to lie to border agents. Both US and Canadian agents themselves have advised me to do so in the past. Ticking the "Have you been on a farm?" check box triggers a compulsory search for seeds (both smuggled and inadvertently stuck to your shoes). It is time consuming, and they know it to be a fruitless waste of time.
Based on how bulldozer performed, it'll end up that sure it's 5ghz, but did we mention all our instructions take two times the number of clocks now?

Virtualiztion host performance on our 8 core bulldozer (esx 5.1, private kbs from vmware to try to help, 32gb ram, rad10 zfs san) was so bad (think p4 era) that we finally tracked down how to force the cpu into only using 4 cores, one per real fp core.

The reality is that there is no mainstream scheduler out that that can efficienty use cores set up like that, especially with the long pipelines. I'm not sure it can't be done, but what improvements have been made have been minimal, or just in an academic/not a real os situation.

That's why Intel ships a compiler, duh.

It is true that the # one thing holding that part back was the raw clock speed (as long as you view it more like a 4 core, 8 thread part ala Intel), but i've gone back to speccing intel - it's just not worth being that much of a ginae pig for a firm thats basically trying to scrape by until the arm64 parts start getting stamped.
If, by X, you mean "go thru airport security". Luckily our borders are an impermeable wall stronger than the cold war era berlin wall, so there's no alternative method for bad guy to enter the country.

This is the comedy of the whole security theater system. In the old days generals always prepared to refight the last war, in the fatherland security era its about the same concept. The next attack will not come from a properly documented airline passenger, it'll come from "rio grande swimmer number 50 million and one".

May as well just let them fly even if we know they're bad guys, if they're going to get here anyway, one way or another, at least we'll make a profit off the ticket and its easier to track their actions at an airport than some desert out west.

Even worse, they're better off letting all the bad guys thru to boost budgets, and stop only good guys because its safer/less confrontational and makes good theater. If I know that, they probably figured it out a long time earlier, and almost surely implemented it.

Its also a bad tactical move. Lets say he was in fact a bad guy. The obvious standing order for a bad guy would be if you get caught, yet are not drone attacked or sent to the concentration camp in cuba, then being busted should be the immediate signal to enter our completely porous and open borders via non-traditional routes, and "do your thing" since you're obviously of no further use undercover. The mere fact this dude did nothing for over a year using this logic proves his innocence. If he was a bad guy then he would have "sneaked" in, gotten on campus as quickly as possible while his intel is still current, and (done something tragic)
Right. Incremental improvements to the APIs available. That is in no way a "complete re-think of how applications work".
Perhaps the OP is implying that without previous population, the first peoples of the Americas were settlers, not colonizers or immigrants.
Why would people switch to CloudFlare because Amazon added a feature Amazon never offered?
What kind(s) of people use Elance? Is the Bay Area that devoid of real jobs that someone would have to go on Elance to cobble together some projects for income? Or do most people use it to supplement their income? Or is it mainly for students with little experience who just want to build portfolios and make a little on the side? (Nothing wrong with any of these, I was just wondering.) Or is it people with bad reputations that can't get jobs otherwise. (That's probably the bad ones.)
I don't know if they've changed it, but when I had Lovefilm (late 2011) I found that they sent a huge amount of personal information to advertisers.

This included what movies you were looking at (even if you just looked at a movie page without watching it), your postal code, which lovefilm package you were subbed to, if you had games consoles, how long you were a member for, etc.

This data wasn't even sent over SSL.

Completely killed lovefilm as an option for me.
How does it contradict revision control? You can make a change and add a commit message all in 1 fell swoop. Then the next time you `git pull` that commit will be pulled down, just like any other.

As others have said, it's amazingly useful for quick and small changes. I don't see how that means someone's IDE sucks. I work on many projects and don't have all of them open in my IDE with the latest code always on my machine. This totally beats opening that project, running a `git pull` (which may take a while on an active project which I haven't visited in a bit), making the change, then committing and pushing.

On top of this, it's useful for non-technical people using these tools. Not everyone can move around through multiple repositories and pull down updates as easily as you or I. However, now they can easily help keep documentation up to date without leaving their browser.
That's fine. I've expected polarized oppinions on this.

I just think about it in terms of actionable changes and money flux in startup world, so it is very important to me. It's a maker-or-breaker-of-app-stores kind of change.
Why would this be unrelated to PRISM? As this guy doesn't know what he's accused of, and we have no idea what PRISM is looking for, assuming they're unrelated is as fallacious as assuming they are related.
The top companies referenced by more than 1,700 startup one-line pitches
Ask HN: What is best laptop I can get for minimal money (under $300)?
I am looking to get a laptop and am looking to spend as little as possible for something that can handle multiple internet tabs and code editor (once in a while I might use vector software Inkscape). What do you guys suggest? I prefer Intel (i3 probably fine) over AMD processor. I would also like a 13 - 14 inch screen with a nice (backlit perhaps) keyboard. I'm fine with refurbished / used but just don't wanna get screwed over that way. Any suggestions appreciated. If you live near NYC and wanna sell a laptop, then let me know!
Yes, most of the confusion is the author's misunderstanding of how arrays work in JS, combined with his tool not showing everything he put into the array.

There is nothing in the post that shows that author doesn't know how arrays are represented internally. Moreover, whether or not he does is largely irrelevant. He shows clear examples of bad language design, and they remain such whether you're aware of the inner workings of the language or not.

JavaScript's arrays have issues that span far beyond mere "string representation". For example, you can't safely use for...in construct to iterate over items in an array.
Unencrypting Clapper's Lying - How the NSA Deceived Congress.
Ask HN: Unemployed and mid-career and open to ideas
I have a degree in electrical engineering w/ 15+ years in integrated chip design. I'm looking to segue into a web based services business. The idea I have is based on analytics I've developed for building stock portfolios. Anyway, I qualify for the Dept of Labor trade adjustment assistance which will provide up to $30K in educational expenses. Is anyone aware of programs/courses in the Boston area that I should consider. A MBA is a possibility but I'm looking for something more targeted to developing a web based business.
Netflix has subtitles for most things.
This part is breathtakingly bad, but also largely subjective - we may never know what they really said...
Six months today, no response on Whitehouse.gov petition to fire Carmen Ortiz?
It's been six months today since the petition was started on Whitehouse.gov to remove Carmen Ortiz for overreach in prosecuting Aaron Swartz. There's still no response from the White House: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/remove-united-states-district-attorney-carmen-ortiz-office-overreach-case-aaron-swartz/RQNrG1Ck

The FAQ doesn't promise a specific timetable for responses, but isn't six months long enough? https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/how-why/frequently-asked-questions
Before long, you won't have many people trying to get in.

Wanna bet?
How are you connecting to that French server? If you're using a domain name, maybe the nameservers are located in the US.

If you're using an IP address then that sounds a little strange.
This is a good point. People asking for specifics on how PRISM works are just doing useless CNN-style modern "journalism": i.e. a bunch of time wasting speculation. The fact is, there are a million ways they could provide "direct" access to the data. Every company that has data has to have a way to replicate that data (e.g. to offsite locations in case the main site goes down, etc.). Replicating to the government would just take one person who knows how to turn on that replication and point it somewhere.
This sort of event is shameful and near-indefensible but not new. If you're a foreign grad student in the US, be aware that this sort of thing happens all the time, and even trivial visa issues take a long time to resolve.
Of course they are nutjobs and you could probably call them other names as well, but my point is that they went to Syria to do 'jihad', so they are jihadists.
I don't think these are practical limitations, more like limitations to be able to sell laptops and desktops.

If we told intel that they could burn up to 350watts on the CPU and a 25lbs heatsink was acceptable, we'd probably have 10ghz processors. Problem is, there isn't a large market for that. Home users don't want a big ugly and noisy box and server buyers would prefer power and heat savings. Supercomputers just tie all this stuff together instead of creating some monster single-core.

Actually, this was the strategy with the pentium 4. It was a fast and power hungry single-core. Turns out, efficiency per cycle and multicore are just superior solutions.
You should never have clicked on this comment thread. They heard your click!
That's a good find, but note that the name is a bit misleading: "Tokyo Metro" is only one of many train/subway corporations in Tokyo, so the pass is far more restrictive than the London one. There are a few company-specific passes like this but they're rarely economical since you have to change company to get pretty much anywhere except on your own line.
The comment did not say that the spying is as morally bad as the Holocaust. It compared to specific propaganda tactic advocated by Goebbels to propaganda tactics in use today.
Richard Feynman on computers and Big Brother (1985)
Ignoring that whooshing noise, so we're breeding a race of super-terrorists? Nice.
I don't know what your particular site is, but unless it's something that I'm going to use extremely frequently, I can assure you I'm not going to be downloading an app to use it.

If it's an ecommerce site, where I'm browsing to see what you've got to offer, and at what price, then you've just lost the chance of a sale by not supporting me on a mobile browser.
"And don't bother trying to work out how the law allows this, we're not even allowed to know what some of the laws even are.
"
This is false. You may not be allowed to know some internal agency regulations, but that's always been the case.

What laws do you think you can't know of, exactly?
The Big Brother Reading List
Books about a world where everyone is watched:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_new_world

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_(novel)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulag_Archipelago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darkness_at_noon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farenheit_451

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Farm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_Men
Game Physics