skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That entire issue with the lobster is a good example of why some people excel at taking tests (and school in general) and some people don't. But sometimes the people that don't and can navigate life actually end up in a better place.

Anyone who attempts to understand minutia and not factor in common sense to everyday life will never get to live to age 100 but will quickly perish consumed with anxiety about all the things that can potentially go wrong. So maybe there are weird laws and maybe a set of circumstances came together to cause a small amount of people to get prosecuted and maybe some of them actually did jail time. Who cares?

Having been in business for quite some time there are risks that you take every day that far exceed any chance of an even valid arcane federal law causing you any trouble at all.

It's not allowed to drive w/o a front license plate in my state. But I've been doing it for 2 years now over two different cars because I don't want to mess up the front bumper with holes. I've never been stopped and if I am stopped at some point I might get a $80 ticket. And maybe there is a small chance of me having something worse happen as well (arrest or geez someone could plant something). Who cares? It's a risk worth taking to me.
PRISM: A Final Blow To Functioning Democracy?
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>no child that wants to be a graphic designer could ever pirate Photoshop

More Gimp users? ;)

But on a serious note, I completely agree with you. Perfect, law-following society will not have any social progress.

Laws are not perfect, and they will never be. But some people often treat them like they are. They prefer following laws instead of using their brain to decide what's wrong and what's right, and it's really dangerous to society.

Laws are based on morals, and what people think is right thing to do, not the other way around.

This sounds extremely common sense, but I've met too many people who do not seem to understand this.
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> "People also tend to think that introverts have a fear of public speaking, but that’s also a fallacy."

I just what no. "Fallacy" is not a fancy word for "wrong".
I believe I am neither and that I do not see the same thing in this story that you do. But either way, you're on a thread commenting on my comment on Juan Cole's article, which quotes a substantial portion of that article; I do not think you can reasonably accuse me of distracting from the "real" issue here.

It seems like your complaint is better addressed to Juan Cole.
I don't think you even have to leave the coasts. Just go sit in the bleachers at a Red Sox game.
Your idea simply doesn't work, because people are terrible at evaluating risk and consequences. For example, say we abolished all the traffic laws and said that drivers would be responsible for any damage they cause. You'd end up with less experienced drivers doing 80mph through a residential area, since there's no speed limit. The penalty for their poor judgement is a dead kid who happened to chase a ball. But since this "seems" like a less likely event, the driver doesn't worry, until its too late.

We experimented with lax traffic laws, and accidents were far more common per mile driven than they are today.
There's a very interesting video about 9/11 that every American really, really, really should watch put out by a group called Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth.

"9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddz2mw2vaEg
Then the author is conflating the term "file manager" with "file system".
I do not trust NSA at all.
I'll just leave this here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5862676
Those are certainly valid points, but I can't help but feel like the OP is going down a slippery slope, and will soon start contracting out coding work to 3rd party, which would then comes back full of bugs and doesn't mesh nicely with existing architecture, thus requiring full-time maintenance from internal staffs anyway.
It's as if all the important decisions have already been made and they are just going through the motions.
I hate to use another cliche argument-ender, but this is one of those "get over it" situations. Life is too short to be bothered by columnists writing link-baiting titles and poorly-formulated tweets.
Well, if the lobster crime really was a crime, there'd be a prosecutor who could on a whim ruin your life. If you liked lobsters and had undersized lobsters. So, that's a bit more of a risk than an $80 ticket.

(I've driven for years on suspended licenses, so I know what you mean [I'm legal now]).
Did you read the rest of that sentence? He didn't say it was too damaged. He says we've only been able to find DNA 6-7 million yrs old. A far cry from the 65 million yrs for dinosaurs. Even if the technology catches up, there will be no dinosaurs until we can find dinosaur DNA.
We seem to be speaking a different language. To me, 'bricking' means you've hosed the system and it can't be recovered without low-level tools. A reboot crash is not 'bricking'.

My pedantometer also suggests that 'pretty stable' and 'very stable' are not the same thing. :)
NFC Stands For “Nobody Fucking Cares” And Apple Gets That
to speculate a bit, the 49% of democrats who approve must be viewing this whole kerfuffle through the partisan lens that it's an attack on the administration, rather than as an attack on the Patriot Act and other post-9/11 apparatus that, at least in part, predate the current administration.
One thing with the 100% enforcement principle is that the majority of the laws being overturned today are those that never should have existed in the first place, because they were legislating morals where behavior never hurt anyone else besides their "beliefs". Any behavior that doesn't cause harm to another human being (which can ethically be argued to include oneself or not, but the former makes things much more complicated) should not be illegal. Behaviors proven to cause harm to other human beings (like the drunk driving you suggest), even if unintentional, have the effect of high likelihood of harm to others, and are also valid. Criminalize and legislate away things that harm others. And you need the ability to scientifically verify direct harm or exceedingly high correlations between behavior and harm to outlaw or regulate some behavior.

That means public nudity is legal, nothing about same sex should exist, you can smoke whatever you want (unless it kills you, or permanently maims you, which is why I think self-harm being legal is acceptable, and you should only criminalize the acts of harming others) but not be mentally compromised in public, you can grow whatever you want, you can bear firearms but not take them in public (unless unloaded), you would set speed limits to the first standard deviation of the average speed of a road (ie, the bounds of safety) rather than some arbitrary unrealistic number that causes everyone to speed, etc.

I mean, hell, you could make this very simple in what is criminal:

* Do not directly endanger others excessively through reckless behavior or use of dangerous tools.

* Do not actively hurt another through physical or excessive emotional violence (the latter would have to be extended mental trauma, not just calling someone a name).

And there you go. The first needs a jury to decide if it is a true endangerment in certain conduct, the latter is pretty straightforward, and it only gets murky if you consider ones ability to self-harm being outlawed, which makes a lot of behavior illegal.

Trying to extend them to animals gets complicated, but I figure the distinction is the act of causing pain and suffering vs killing for function. IE, don't endanger or harm other animals unless for the purposes of harvesting resources from them, and only do so causing as little suffering as possible, and that you can't "harvest" an animal owned by someone else (ie, don't murder your neighbors dog saying you wanted to eat dog steaks).
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Unable to reproduce this on my first-gen rMBP 15" with an LG TV connected via HDMI. Will try my external displays (Dell/HDMI; LG/VGA) tomorrow.
Is that a serious question? NSA is never going to tell you exactly what access they have.

Look at what Google and Microsoft are doing; that's how we'll make progress, by having the NSA finally piss off the wrong kinds of companies (read: not telcos with enormous government-granted monopolies) who will move to force the government to allow them to say what's actually happening.
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...or maybe the OP was missing the point. Perhaps the directory/folder as a primary user-visible organizing principle is going to become obsolete. As a filesystem developer I would welcome a change to that paradigm, if it means that we can shed some of the baggage that has grown around it and get back to a simpler interface. However, that's not what the OP said. He claimed that the filesystem is going to become obsolete, and that's just silly. Even if documents are grouped by app and users apply tags and so on then the apps and the OS itself still need the kind of structure that a filesystem provides - hierarchical directories for different users/apps, mounting filesystems on top of one another, permissions, etc. Whatever it looks like on the outside, it's still going to be filesystems on the inside. If the author meant the Finder/Explorer was becoming obsolete, then he should have chosen different terms.
Some teams at Microsoft do have internal documentation. We decided about 10 years ago, before our product got away from us, to start documenting the architecture. This is something that our management completely supported (they may have even suggested it), and we added this effort to our schedule, not as a "slack time" thing. Turns out that forcing yourself to document the architecture also helps keep the architecture sane because it really hurts to document something ugly.

We also have a ton of specs, archived off over the last 15 years. Those can sometimes be quite useful.
I think the converse is true, and the partisan effect is increasing disapproval because of conservatives who want to believe that the Obama government is inept and overreaching.

Either way, not a great discussion to have on HN.
I've seen nothing but acclaim for the advances made by WP to the design language used on Mobile Devices. Gruber, TheVerge, MG Siegler - some pro-apple pundits, all seemed to really like WP7/8.

Can you point me to any prominent individual (pro apple or otherwise) who cast any dispersion on Windows Phone?
On that note, if the US had a 9/11 event every month, that would still be less dead people than we lose to suicides, which was at 1.6% the number 10 cause of all deaths in 2010. Of course, every death is one too many, but imagine we put the same amount of money into mental health research and treatment that we are currently pumping into the by-definition-unwinnable "war on terror".

Less people die by terror than by any remotely significant event category. I imagine the last few years will go down in the history books as a good example why the primary product of terror is fear and hysteria, and direct damage caused is purely incidental. Of course the indirect damage terrorized societies do to themselves is stupendously expansive.
Before I had an iPhone 5 I used a Samsung Galaxy S which crashed much more frequently on stable versions of Android. I had to remove the battery at some points too to get it to start. I've never owned a Windows Phone so I can't comment on them.

I'm not apart of the Apple culture—I've had an iPhone for about 6 months and before that I used Android for ~ 2 years and had never owned any Apple products aside from a MbP—and I am not disregarding bad things. You've read a single comment of mine which was made in the context of using iOS 7 Beta 1 as a daily user. I've only made comments on iOS in 2 locations on the internet, once on this HN story and once in an invite-only forum. In the forum I listed many things that I don't like at the moment and feel needs polishing.

What's hilarious about your comment is that by a couple of ultra-geeks at uni I was called an Android fanboy because I used my SGS a lot, modded it, etc., haha. It would be hard for you to have been more wrong in your assumption, in regards to me. You will forever find in every group/culture people that ignore bad things and laud the good things, I've seen the same when I used Android regularly and elsewhere.
Great read, thanks! It seems like a great App is waiting to be made here
Haha love the user name
I think it is important in this instance because that is the real heart of the problem. The US government is increasingly making decisions that go against public opinion. Something like PRISM would have a much higher chance of getting through Congress than being approved by national referendum. It seems like at some point the US government has gone from ruling on behalf of the people to simply ruling the people.
The risk regarding email isn't that someone gets it, it's that someone dastardly gets it. I think that same exact risk applies in real life.
Please sit down, and choose a color
My point was that even 1 unauthorized nuke is completely unacceptable and we have mechanisms to prevent it.
Can some kind graphic designer or art historian pinpoint what the art style (including the colour scheme) of the new app icons is based on? (Most obviously Photos, Camera, Clock, Game Center and Newsstand.) I know that it's a (probably) mid-late '60s colour-printing, cartoon-art or children's-book style (based on cut-outs or stencils?) but I can't identify it any more precisely than that.

In a way it's strange that iOS would adopt these icons at the same time that it's ripping out the skeuomorphisms. After all, beyond the complaints about wasted space, distracting textures and so on, the fundamental thing people have against skeuomorphism itself is that it's a put-on, a kind of play-acting. But so is the self-consciously retro and "themed" style which has now been applied to the home screen. I really like the icons, on the whole, though the new default background is too much. But they're too much of a novelty for me to want them at the centre of my life and work - which is where they will be for iPhone users - for (say) ten years. Not that anyone is even contemplating leaving them on the home screen for even four years, of course. But that's just the thing: they may (or may not, flame away) be good design, but they're unequivocally not timeless design. Or really minimal, self-effacing design.
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It's actually a common time to resign, when someone with college-tuition-age kids wants to increase salary by $100K or more, which is easy when jumping from a high post in government to a well-connected (or wannabe well-connected) contractor or lobbyisy firm.
When people use the "Nothing to hide", or "The government does not care about your cat videos, this is the equivalent of: I'm not using my liberty, so I don't care about it.

The government may not be interested in you specifically, but they are interested in the more influential figures who share those same opinions. The HBGary leak revealed the targeting of Glenn Greenwald, and surely you're aware of MLK. What if he had had some minor personal failing, and the FBI had used it against him to derail his movement?
Mostly the words she's using and how she seems to stumble over them. Every single noun has been affixed with "cyber" and I keep hearing the word "technoboondoggle". I have no clue what that is.
Edward Snowden's Online Past Revealed
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That's a good point. A rare email domain (or worse a 'typo domain') may be more trouble than its worth.
I recommend that you read better sources:

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/06-09-11/
It took a poll to figure this out?
I see them on chrome/archlinux.
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More Americans see man who leaked NSA secrets as 'patriot' than traitor
Exactly. Who the hell writes this? I'm 15 years old, possibly part of the "generation" this author is referring to, and I do not want my information stored on remote servers that I have to access with high-latency and low-throughput connections. I do not want to launch an app to find one file I can get to easily with search. I do not want a curated application experience.

All these things should be reserved for auxiliary machines like tablets. On a general-purpose computing device such as a laptop or desktop PC, I do think that file hierarchies will be deprecated, but they won't die completely. Search will be king on the desktop, and eventually will integrate both locally and remotely on the Web.

Cloud computing's uptake upshoot is ephemeral. Once it's gained as much ground as it has to, the growth rate will stagnate and the cloud will plateau.

I don't see SaaS being successful much either.
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The removal of the file system is anti-feature. Users with no knowledge, no interest, and no need of a file system metaphor may do fine, but as it turns many users do need this metaphor. They need to operate on files, and share them between apps, and know things about their metadata. This is no just programers. It's users create and consume diverse content.

I wrote about this more here: https://plus.google.com/100198164384432656847/posts/JUPAUCe8...
Obviously, to reproduce when there is no better alternative.

Thankfully, we are very, very, very long ways from that right now...

I doubt that rape was ever needed for the population to reproduce. Why do you think it was needed?

But nature developed that behavior for a reason...

Reason, yes, but not purpose. It may simply be a side-effect that didn't suffer enough evolutionary pressure to be extinguished. See male nipples, for example.
I understand the comment. We need only find Snowden credible enough to ask the NSA about the truthfulness of his claims (and then assess their credibility). To me the bar would be little higher than someone leaving a cushy job to seek asylum elsewhere. I'd believe almost anything they say enough to want to investigate further. And I'd find suspicious almost any attempt to discredit them.
Right so it's more difficult to do, but you can separate out the testing team or do other things to be rigorous about detection. At the very least you can make it more difficult than sitting down at a terminal and hitting go. One sort of simple solution I can think of is having passwords just like nuke authcodes that have similar restrictions that are passwords for access and decryption...etc.
Just like how it only takes a few GPS coordinates to figure out who you are with a high degree of accuracy. Anonymizing data doesn't mean much in the big data world.
>File systems are already an abstraction, and they will continue to be useful until someone comes up with a better one

That's the entire point of the article, The author argues the File System metaphor is going away. It doesn't mean the File System itself will cease to exist, or that it won't be ever-present in every major operating system. What the author means is that it just won't be exposed to the end-user.

And good riddance. The File System is by far the most confusing aspect of computing to newcomers and even those that have been working with computers for a while. Understanding directory structure and the way it is organized in any given operating system seems to be a big problem for people.
If I were Bill Gates, I'd fire you without blinking an eye.
Well, no, they didn't.

Search engines are useful when you've got a haystack of stuff and you're looking for a needle. They're particularly useful when you're looking for something novel, usually an answer to a question. Often you don't know where the content is and you probably didn't create it either. They have two benefits: removing the tedium of hunting intelligently through an unknown haystack for some content, and doing it faster than could be done manually. They also come with the benefit of returning alternate results.

The file/directory model is useful when you know roughly (or exactly) where something is. It's easier and often quicker to clicky clicky all the way to your content than it is to describe what you're looking for, waiting, wading through possibly irrelevant results, and then refining your query if you didn't succeed first time around. This model also has the benefit of returning related content (other files in the same directory), as opposed to alternate results. It's for this reason the file system is going to live on, simply because there are many daily situations in which clicking or tapping on directories to get to a file is easier and perceptually quicker.

Both filesystems and search engines are useful in different scenarios, which is why we use both depending on which is easier in a given scenario.
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In that example, CPU B's adder can also be clocked twice as fast. If so, it's getting twice the work done and using twice the power (ignoring cache misses and the like for the moment). If it's clocked the same as A, it's performance and power usage will be almost the same as A.

Roughly speaking, power used = transistors switching per unit time. Performance should also follow that pretty closely, depending on the efficiency of the design. At some level, you should be able to look at any instruction and find a corresponding number of transistors that need to switch for it to execute.

Deep pipelining keeps more silicon active at any given time, increasing both performance and power consumption. Because of cache misses and the like, efficiency will drop somewhat. Double the stages also doesn't quite equal double the switches per time, for various reasons. Therefore, deeper pipelines = worse performance per watt but better performance per dollar (not sure how well that'll hold in ridiculous cases like Prescott).

From what I heard, Bulldozer only has one more stage than Haswell (15 vs. 14, don't quote me on that) - not nearly enough to account for the differences we see between them.

What I'm noting is that there are many, many more factors at play than just pipelining. In the case of Bulldozer, I've been hearing quite a bit about minor parts that they found needed more work, most notably branch prediction. It sounds like they've got lots of things that will improve performance with no power or die size downsides. The number I saw bandied about for Steamroller was a 30% performance increase. I have some trouble believing it's quite that big, but if they pull it off, that will be an amazing chip for being 32nm. It hints to me that the macroscale architecture is A-OK, and they just screwed up some small but important things.
If he did indeed reveal this, how is it "buying favor from the Chinese government"? It's hard to imagine the government of China doesn't already know about these attacks.

The beneficiary of this information is the U.S. public, so they can actually have a real discussion about cyber warfare, rather than simply believing the government line of "China hacks us, and we only defend...". How can we have a real discussion about our role in the world if we're told only about foreign aggression and not our own?
Think about what you said for just a minute.

> A surface on which multiple overlapping windows are arranged? I don't think overlapping windows is anything other than a Xeroc PARC-induced collective mistake. I'd much rather have a tiling window interface of some kind

Now, rearrange that a bit:

> A surface on which multiple overlapping papers are arranged? I don't think overlapping windows is anything other than a paperwork-induced collective mistake. I'd much rather have a tiling desk paper interface of some kind.

Sounds a bit absurd, right? Desktops on PCs are virtual analogues of desktops in real life, and desktops in real life are designed to be modular, flexible, so they can stack and scale to any given task.
Have you watched the video?