skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I hadn't read that article. One thing that really stood out was the "Information Awareness" office and it's ultra creepy logo that looks like something straight off an underground conspiracy website.

Edit: Found a Guardian article from 2002 - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/feb/18/september11.usa

"The agency which Poindexter will run is called the Information Awareness Office. You want to know what that is? Think, Big Brother is Watching You. IAO will supply federal officials with "instant" analysis on what is being written on email and said on phones all over the US. Domestic espionage."
Snag the image for the full version and use your key on it - it'll work fine. I've done exactly what you have.

Instructions:

http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials/18309-windows-8-upgrade...
Apple Magic Mouse Licensed?
While it makes sense for US carriers to want immunity from civil lawsuit, I'm not sure that would make sense for Google, Microsoft, et al - as obviously any US guarantee wouldn't protect them from civil lawsuits in other countries such as EU ones which have much stronger laws around data protection.
A person can survive in an air bubble but after 13 hours he will start having a trench foot condition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trench_foot
This happened in Switzerland back in the 1980s and was discovered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_files_scandal
On the contrary, even with this idiosyncrasy PHP is very widely used in Turkey. I struggled with these on a daily basis. It's not in my daily customs to code nowadays so I'm very happy :)
He doesn't use Foundation or similar.

Foundation makes building responsive websites pretty easy (with work :)).

We still use Foundation 3 because we have a couple of custom css libraries written as well, we will be upgrading to 4 soon.
What if, like the second best selling book ever, it takes almost a decade for the book to begin selling well? If books can cease to produce money just as their popularity begins to crest, then I imagine publishers will be less eager to publish things that aren't likely to be immediate hits. I have the impression that many of the books which our culture treasures weren't immediate hits.
Closely modelled on the pop industry I see.
I think this is a bad example. The problem you get with this is the problem of transition.

At the moment, enforcement of speeding works a certain way and the whole culture of enforcement, punishment and compliance has grown around it. Changing one part breaks it, but given enough time under the black box regime, we'll develop new culture and it will all be ok again. Maybe you get a warning buzz when you start to speed, a $1 fine after 3 seconds and a $10 fine after 10.

Some better questions are 'what is your salary?' 'what kind of porn do you watch?'
No, change unofficial debian-multimedia repo to deb-multimedia.

You probably had a reason to use debian-multimedia, its packages have a lot better codec support (amongst other things) than the mainline, so you probably still have a reason to use deb-multimedia. It's the first thing I install on new debian systems and has been for years.

I'm not sure why the debian guys decided to get pissy about it, as far as I can tell the guy is doing them and their users a huge favour.
I think there is a parallel between copyright industries going crazy trying to make digital copies obey the rules of physical copies and our current horror at our loss of privacy. pg had an essay that starts by comparing copyright theft in the digital age to a restaurant owner trying to charge for smells.

Maybe surveillance is the wrong way to think about privacy.
I'd prefer a scaling back of rights. For the first (say) 5→10 years you get what you get now. Then for the next 5 years, it's basically under CC-NonCommerical-NoDerivatives, i.e. non-commercial non-derivate use is now legal. Then a few years later you lose the non-commerical protection (or maybe non-derivatives), gradullay until the work is essentially public domain.
When I do as above. I got:
"bash: ./IE8.WinXP.For.LinuxVirtualBox.sfx: No such file or directory"
What can I do?
The real problem is that it works.
Flying electric bicycle invented in Czech Republic
Does anyone know how survivable rapidly surfacing from 30 meters would be? Wolfram Alpha has the pressure down there at almost 400 kPa (compared to 100 kPa) so my suspicion is "not at all", but I'm not really familiar with the tolerances and life expectancies with the bends.

30 meters is just agonizingly close to the surface though, well within what most adults could do horizontally (particularly if their life depended on it.) Being that close to the surface, but still so far away, must be absolutely awful.
What if they create this fraud so that they can promote their movie...

...and then they use the movie as a launchpad to promote another fraud and pass it off as legit!
As a UK citizen I feel that he certainly hasn't done me any harm and probably has done quite a lot of good so I find it bizarre that the government would make such a statement, especially as he would be mad to consider coming here!

I presume the real reasons for this are:

- To show solidarity with the US (presumably the NSA and GCHQ are as thick as thieves)

- So he doesn't give anyone at GCHQ ideas

I'm going to write to my MP about this:

http://www.theyworkforyou.com/
Yes, I trust that Google has not shipped a binary modification to their open source software to track search terms, which would be (a) illegal, (b) easily detectable enough that someone would notice it eventually, and (c) pointless, since they're already getting the vast majority of users' search terms legitimately. Then again, I work for them, but I would have said the same thing a month ago...
Probably not very survivable, given that they stuck the guy in a decompression chamber for 60 hours.
Politicians call for UK security services to be given greater monitoring powers
Warning: Audio will start playing on this site. Scared the shit out of me!
In American English quotations are often used to mark something as not-quite-the-truth. There's even a blog where we point out mis-used quotations: http://www.unnecessaryquotes.com/

example: Today I "talked" to my brother. (But I actually just instant-messaged him.)

edit: crap, I may have just misread your comment, did you mean </flame> to be like a </sarcasm> tag? Regardless, you were downvoted by others, so I thought I should help explain since you're foreign.

You should also consider advertising the conference as: "php-ist Istanbul: Now with extra watercannon!"
What blows my mind is the conservatives worried about the government taking their guns - but not at all worried about the government knowing they called the gun store yesterday or paid $300 there last Friday.
Stop caring about what other people think is meaningful and think about what you find meaningful.

If you don't think you're adding value then it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks, go and do something better with your life.
No idea why this is on Hacker News, but the question is wrong, he has to ask when the carbon dioxide poisoning happens. Contrary to the presentation of this situation in all movies from Hollywood, it is more likely to die from carbon dioxide poisoning than from "oxygen running out".
I think everybody should be able to write some small scripts to his/her environment. For example, someone who uses excel often should know enough VBA to automate some tasks.
On the other hand, someone who has no exposure to computer at all (which is closer to my definition of a normal person, as tablets and smartphones are overtaking PCs) doesn't need to know anything at all.
That leaves the option of neutral (or enemy) states creating their own data-haven legal environments. How far you go in trusting those is an open question, but then again, 'ly' was a popular CCTLD there even before the Arab Spring.
"Figuring things out for yourself is the only freedom anyone really has. Use that freedom. Make up your own mind." -- Captain Ratchak, Starship Troopers.
> There is another remaining issue: the original article claims access to "live communications", which has yet to be supported by a slide, but it would pretty much rule out the SFTP-only possibility that some people seem to be accepting as fact at this point. Maybe there is direct access to live information from Skype and Apple, but Google insisted on SFTP? We still have a lot to find out.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
I agree, ignore the Modern UI stuff and it is a better, faster Windows 7.

If you don't mind parting with $10, I recommend purchasing the Start8 and ModernMix from Stardock. Boots straight to desktop, gets the old start menu back, and runs ModernUI apps in a window.
It depends on how long you've been down there. If you have just been dragged under water with your boat, it's probably safe to make a rapid ascent (don't hold your breath though) - in fact, diving school teaches emergency ascents for situations where no other options apply, even if the diver is in need of decompression. However, after about half an hour it becomes a serious problem that gets worse over time as gases start to infuse into the tissue.

If rescue (and access to a pressure chamber) is available right away, I'd make that ascent immediately even after being down there for a longer time. It beats drowning or CO2 poisoning.

Dive tables illustrate pretty well how the relationship between depth and time works: http://www.naui.org/tables.aspx
Well yeah, but even a slight chance would be worth attempting if you were in such a position, even if it were just a 5% chance of survival, compared with the 100% chance they were probably shooting for with the 60 hour decompression.

Of course if attempting it meant certain but excruciating death, then taking a shot at it would not be the way to go.
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The Royal Navy has a 30m deep "pool" (more of a water filled tower) that they use for submarine escape training:

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

So it must be fairly survivable.... Maybe it's staying for a long time at that pressure that causes the problem?
Apple is just messing with our minds
> Wikipedia has a horrifyingly bad iOS site

Is what iOS gets different than what Android gets, "http://en.m.wikipedia.org/..."?

On Android phone with Firefox, at least, that site seems almost perfect: all extraneous cruft removed, important sidebars intelligently incorporated, the main article text provided in nice readable reflowed form, and all other sections expandable but closed by default. It's easy to read and quick to navigate. I can't think offhand of anything I'd change about it.
http://www.rotten.com/library/conspiracy/information-awarene...

"In the Defense Department budget submitted in September 2003, the Information Awareness office had mysteriously disappeared. As if belatedly realizing that it's better not to tell people when you're preparing an oppressive evil computer system designed to crush their individual privacy, the office's functions were shuffled into an unknown number of "black bag" budget items — intelligence appropriations which do not have to be explained to the public or justified to legislators.

So be grateful that the Bush Administration was stupid enough to let you have a glimpse of Big Brother before he slinks off to the shadows. The next time you see him, he'll be kicking in your door."
Erm. How exactly is he detrimental to the public good?
Building America's secret surveillance state
He's CEO, bitch.
1) If they're so big on moving away from disc sales, why sell discs at all? Afaik some stores already sell download cards for games, why not use those?

2) It may well be that it has to check if it's connected every 24 hours, but what happens if you need to move house? Do you just sign in again, or does something worse happen?

3) They're forcing the kinect onto the user - you can't make a product successful by forcing people to use it, they have to want to use it.
D'oh! Just realized I was a chemical engineer an hour after I posted this :)

The steps to solve this problem are pretty simple:

1) Find the diffusion coefficient of oxygen in seawater. This can be found from data on ocean waters near the region the guy was trapped (Nigeria), modified to account for the cooler water under the surface. This link (http://www.unisense.com/files/PDF/Diverse/Seawater%20&%20Gas...) has these coefficients for various combinations of salinity and temperature. All of that data is for 1 bar so you'd have to modify those values for the pressure at ~30 m.

2) Set up an oxygen mass balance about a bubble of radius R. We'll assume the bubble is entirely spherical. If you consider the fact that the bubble is centered at a room corner, its radius will need to be sqrt(8) times bigger than the calculated value (since diffusion can only occur at the surface of the bubble that has contact with sea water).

3) The rate of change of O2 concentration (d_C_O2/dt) will be zero (in order for one to persist indefinitely in the bubble), and we know its value must be 15-19 vol % according to this site (http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/zoo00/zoo00755.htm).

4) Set up a O2 -> CO2 "reaction" (the lungs) just to get the molar ratios of each. This is the tricky part of the problem because this depends quite a bit on human physiology, and probably varies somewhat by the individual.

5) Plug these values into the radial form of Fick's law of diffusion, and solve the resulting equation for R.

[If I get more time, I'll do this rigorously.]
I got burned out at my second tech job at a start up when I was 20. I've been clinically depressed since 16 and it gets worse as I age, however I've been physically active which seems to help by measure of 5%. I do see myself committing suicide down the road. I just wanted to comment that I understand how you feel. I live in east bay area if you want a friend but it can be quite a distance from SF.
Completely survivable. It's really not that deep (breath hold free divers do it routinely), and any sickness he would have could be easily treated in a pressure chamber (most large hospitals have them).

It's not necessary to get into the chamber instantly - symptoms don't start for 1 to 48 hours.
I think the Adioso case is closer to an enhanced, responsive website, where my article focuses more on web applications. Just for fun, also see https://github.com/webpro/Websites-vs-Web-Applications for the difference ;-)
"You are not even aware of what is possible. The extent of their capabilities is horrifying. We can plant bugs in machines. Once you go on the network, I can identify your machine. You will never be safe whatever protections you put in place."
–Edward Snowden

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/nsa-whistleblowe...
> The atmosphere is about 20 percent oxygen. People breathe this in, and breathe 15 percent oxygen out

That's standard air pressure though. As you dive and pressure increases, the metabolized oxygen stays roughly constant (metabolic rate is independent of pressure) but the "amount" of oxygen breathed in shoots up because the inspired volume does not change either (and there's more oxygen in the same volume under pressure). Thus the "extraction efficiency" goes down (you proportionally breathe out more and more oxygen which wasn't metabolized).

This is why closed-circuits rebreathers are so much more efficient than open-circuit cylinders, and the o2 cylinder is so much smaller (excluding safety cylinders): at atmospheric pressure an open circuit may "waste" 75% of the oxygen, at depth it may be >90%. A rebreather or a closed environment (under pressure) will allow much more efficient oxygen use.
I'm not sure it's actually a bad thing.

Realistically if he was in the UK he'd face extradition to the US. The home office putting out this alert means they won't have to do that.

The US would be happy for Snowden to enter the UK where he could easily be arrested.
At 30 meters the pressure is 4bars (10m of water a 1b plus the atm). Your lungs contains ~7l of air, so with Mariotte lawsm you've got: 7l4b = cte = 28l1b. This means that if you don't expire when you swim up to top ... your lungs will contain 28l of air ... and explode! That's a common diving danger, and the cook certainly didn't know it.
I was just playing a steam games from 2004... in fact i have games from the 90s on steam. And they still work almost perfectly, on any windows computer.

So personally, I imagine there are plenty of people who care about it.
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What else did Snowden leak, apart from the 41-page slide deck?
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"This is clearly as a result of political pressure from the US"

If that was the case I would expect them to accept him with open arms, and then extradite him. It seems rather like a preliminary move that avoids placing them in that position.
'Could have prevented 9/11' is the new 'Hitler'
I started using DDG few days ago and I am not disappointed so far.
I guess "dealing with" Assange is expensive enough for them.

Just think about all those police officers constantly monitoring the ecuadorian embassy.

Now think about having two of them in the country! Crikey!
"The Road to Serfdom" you say?
Here is the illustrated version:
http://mises.org/books/trts/
They left him in there for so long because he was in the water for so long. (i.e. plenty of time for nitrogen to dissolve).

If he had swum up right away he would not need decompression.

I imagine in the dark he would have been too scared of not being able to find the way out in the cluttered sunken vessel.
nice site, I really like the example dashboard.

So how does the data collection part work behind the scenes?
Ask HN: Mobile developers - do you need build automation or CI as a service?
I am creating build automation (or continuous integration) as a service for mobile developers.

The goal is to have a product that allows mobile developers to collaborate on creating Android and iOS applications. They commit, build, test, and deploy build artifacts to their beta customers.

Is this something you would find useful? What other related features would you like to see?
Excellent Papers for 2012
"The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to discuss the matter publicly."

The irony is delicious.
I was going to point this out as well, and it actually seems like a better solution. Default everyone to a modern browser with updates, and then throw them out to whatever you need to use for compatibility if needed.

Chrome Frame always seemed like a nasty hack which was unlikely to get much traction in companies that haven't updated from IE6.
These are the IT managers who haven't updated from IE6 yet. Something tells me they're not really that concerned about security in the first place.
Interesting, especially cause the final graph goes somewhat against the point (I think) they are trying to make.

It seems the last 2 years have shown a drastic decrease in civilian and children casualties.
He probably also didn't know how close to the surface he was.
And I'm saying its a bad idea to rely solely on those 3rd party services to know whats what. Even Accountants. Certainly here in the UK, if your accountant messes up, you're still the one liable. You then have to chase after them for recompense, while they play the "you didn't give us enough information" or "read the T&Cs, we're not liable" game. I've seen it happen too many times.

By all means bring in the professionals to advise you and do the donkey work, but educate yourself on the rules and regs. "Trust but verify" their work.
You see, I also hate Steam.
Still sounds shit m8
"100,000 signatures .. um ... wow big number. We didn't know so many people didn't like it. Sorry guys ... you opened our eyes. Sorry, again. No more spying"

- NSA
Introduction to MCollective slides
My point was that you need to know what you legally need to put on there in advance. While this particular tool allows you to create a complete, legal invoice, it doesn't give you all the info you need to do so. You still need to do the leg work and make sure you know whats what.
Washington pushed EU to dilute data protection
Unfortunately, the original Financial Times article is pay-walled.
I would hope feedback from constituents would at least be a consideration in forming policy?
http://www.devco.net/archives/2013/06/14/introduction-to-mco... announces the slide deck.
Unfortunately, the original Financial Times article is pay-walled.
If only nature designed our lungs with a hole that can be used to fill and empty them, rather than the completely hermetically sealed ones we have!
also MaxDB was named after his son
So they kept the money and the legacy of the product. Surely Oracle considered this option? Could have they done anything to prevent such forks?
The fact it's on 4chan actually gives it much more credibility than if it were a throwaway account on Reddit or similar
It's a bit irrelevant. There's not a chance that he would have even considered coming to the UK.
A counter-proposal:

Copyright lasts one year without registration.

At the end of that year, a work must be registered and a $100 fee put up to extend the term to 5 years.

Every five years after that, the registration fee is increased by a factor of 10.

This seems to address most of the problems I have with copyright, beyond the core conceit of whether it's valuable or not. I really don't understand how the Berne Convention's extremes can benefit a people other than as a hegemonic trade concession.
Please tell me you've shared that story somewhere.
What's your opinion of file-tagging systems like Tabbles and the new file tagging feature in OS X finder?

Actually, I haven't been keeping up with new tools and techniques for information management since WinFS died.

I took a look at the Tabbles website and watched one of the videos. It seems good! You're right, it's not full WinFS, but with hierarchical tags you can go a long way towards manually solving some of the same problems. I'll have to take it for a spin.

I just did a quick Google search for OS X 10.9's tagging. It looks like it doesn't support hierarchical tags? If it doesn't, then personally it's a non-starter.

(I'd dig in to them more, but I have to be brief: I'm not sure when HN disallows new replies to comments...)

Seems like a NoSQL database would be a decent core for a poor-man's WinFS implementation.

Prior to joining WinFS I was working on my own solution to kind of the same thing as WinFS. I was going to use a traditional RDBMS - Perforce, actually. In retrospect, I was basically looking to serialize a graph to/from the relational model. At that time, I don't think I knew graph databases existed - I'm definitely going to look into them when I pick up the problem again.

NoSQL + graph database? That could be very interesting.

In re. your other comment: Thanks for the link! I'll take a look at that.

If you love thinking about this sort of stuff, maybe you should get back into it! :-)

It's dangerous! One day I'm focusing on solving specific use cases, and the next I'm a hermit in the woods asking, "What does it mean to mean?" ;)

But, you're right. For several years I've been working on self-employment, with the goal of being self-sufficient so I could devote my time to solving my "forever" problems - the #1 problem being this one. That didn't work out, so I'm on the job market. This thread has re-inspired me. Maybe I can find a position solving these problems full-time. That would be great.

It seems like you're interested in the same problem space? Definitely hit me up via email: waltergr@gmail.com