skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
godamn credit card forms! those get me the most because we're at the moment where i'm trying to give you money, and they pull some passive-aggressive bullshit like limiting the field length to 16 characters.

i can almost type in my whole card number, but then i can go no further and i have to manually go back and remove all the spaces and then go to the end of the number and enter the last digit. class act.
Or this may be a black op/psyop, with the leaked documents being fake, obsolete or irrelevant. Snowden himself may be a willing operative, or an unknowing patsy.

This is intelligence, where misdirection and outright deception are ways of life. Why should we take anything he--or what anyone involved in this--says at face value?
I assume the examples (image processing, data analysis) are otherwise done manually. So it's a workflow issue.
And it needs a GUI to be useful to the majority of users.

A double is a float that has twice the memory size to store a number, thus it can represent a real number with greater (doubled) precision.
Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-precision_floating-point...
> Which "democracy" isn't a republic?

Many countries that are, like the US, representative democracies are, unlike the US, not republics (an obvious example is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which is a constitutional monarchy rather than a republic, but nevertheless also a representative democracy.)
I believe he was famously intolerant of idiots. Knew him personally did you?
Yeah, I've nothing particularly insightful to say here beyond things that become apparent if you follow UK politics. To those who don't I'm sure it gets fairly confusing; there are a lot of byzantine things about the process of UK politics. I was mostly trying to provide a bit of context for the non-uk readers.

Having said that, if people are interested in the day to day then the Guardian do a live politics blog most days which will have coverage of speeches, important votes and links to articles and comment pieces in the other papers.

Also if you are a UK citizen and care about politics I think it really is worth your time to actually sit and watch parliament at some point. Preferably try and work out when they will be talking about an issue you care about or have an interest in (I'd advise against Prime Ministers Questions, it's mostly a lot of pre-prepared soundbites and weak jokes with very little answering of questions). It will probably reveal quite a bit about the real positions of backbenchers, the main parties etc beyond what you see in the papers or the soundbites on the TV news. You may find it surprising who you are agreeing with or not. Also there is a lot of theatre and protocol to it which is kind of entertaining at times.
Is there a district in Silicon Valley small enough to support a Pirate/Silicon Party representative in the house?
Savvis was a pretty fun place to work back in the day. The CEO had some issues though, probably why it was fun. http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2008/09/businessma...
Although not a great source of time zone info unless you have a big database to back it all up.
It's not build-able. Parts are not released. You might be able to build parts of it and compare that to parts of the binary. But it isn't useful for auditing.
Plus you can prototype in Ruby and optimize by replacing it with something else and running the same Ruby-based tests against your optimized version.
FWIW, having read through this book, I highly recommend it for anyone interested in learning Go. It provides a good, clear introduction to the language and is very easy to digest.
I don't know. That is basically the concept around synthehol from Star Trek, but I have never been convinced that such a substance would actually be as good as alcohol. Being able to easily "turn it off" does not seem particularly desirable to me, part of the allure of alcohol is a submission of sorts. Making the decision to not be able to make rational decisions, with no tap-out.

Edit: Figure out how to do it with other sorts of drugs, like non-recreational stimulants, and I would be all over it. Caffeine that I can turn off when I get home? Yes please.
I recently attended an SF meetup and it was great. Probably 40-60 (women-men) but it was friendly for mingling and bit of awkward dancing.
It gets upvoted because anti-Apple and Anti-Jobs stories feed the drooling hordes who seem to have become the majority here.
Bruno Virlet at WWDC: Apple is Taking a Big Risk with iOS 7
More miscellaneous anecdata:

In 2002, our Layer 7 streaming traffic redirector written in C, running on an old generic P3 800 CPU with 512 MB RAM, easily handled 15,000 requests per second of real world (unpredictable latency and error rates) HTTP and RTSP traffic.

The service wasn't simple. It maintained a content map of all CDN files across layers of storage, servers, and cache, health of all server pools, and a geo IP database, and balanced users according to load optimization algorithms taking all these into account.

The redirector and session mapping cache took <80MB RAM, with the rest devoted to async content promotion and demotion service, async geo IP service, async server health service, etc.

Two points: (1) interpreted and heavy scaffolding framework Rails vs. hand coded Go doesn't tell us much we don't already know: that layers of abstraction and scaffolding can simplify development but slow execution, and (2) many of the requests per second benchmarks these days mostly illustrate that frameworks in general are wastefully slow, requiring far too much investment in hardware to scale.

With one or two servers, this doesn't matter. Frameworks are invaluable for rapid iteration towards MVP proof, and fantastic for churning out web apps for mid tier companies with moderate (less than millions) traffic. But if you're going bigger, have a plan to get your bottlenecks closer to the metal, because with hundreds or thousands of servers, the savings becomes significant and possibly even crucial to your survival if your type of offering gets commoditized.
Agreed. It's just as feasible that the beneficial effect is derived from his sense of taking control over his condition rather than being controlled by it (effectively feeling like an active rather than passive participant in his depression). I make no claim that this is actually the reason, only to provide one feasible, untested alternative theory.

Further scientific study in this field should be very interesting indeed.
The EU directives are legally binding acts that force every member state to implement them in 2 years and in the proper way. Big fines have have been levied in the past against member states that tried shortcuts. The EU directives are also more powerful than local laws: if a state law conflicts with a directive, the directive takes precedence.

The state of the political part of the EU is not the mess many politicians say.

However, my main point is that in EU a program like PRISM would be totally legal under current laws. And it is probably already in place if you think about the SIREN program and you make it access the wealth of data harvested through the data retention directives.
Is anyone really surprised by this.
While it's interesting to have confirmation that we are also engaging in cyberwarfare internationally, I think this most recent disclosure is evidence that he is in way over his head. This seems to be a desperate attempt to use this information to win safe haven over there. The problem is that the fact that we hack them and they hack us is not news, and no one is going to risk trade relations with the US in order to provide safe haven to him because he told them something they already knew. Also, he no longer has access to top secret information. Therefore he has zero value to them as an intelligence asset, and his mere presence is an enormous liability.

While I am grateful for what he has done, and he's welcome to hide at my place anytime, the moment a warrant is issued, he is toast. He has overplayed his hand, and unfortunately he is about to feel the wrath of a very vindictive US Government. He will be locked up, likely for the rest of his life.
Yes, if you're a VC backed startup, 10x the site costs (say 10 M instead of 1M) is not a problem. Otherwise the productivity gains of the developers need to make up the 9M difference.
Reddit AMA on NSA Spying happening now with EFF, Mozilla, Reddit founder
Think of this pitch as being less like a normal retail product and more like a self-organized kickstarter campaign. You are not paying for the device, you are paying for their living expenses and prototyping costs while they spend the months it will take to get the device ready for production. Hardware engineering is an unbelievably slow and tedious process if you are used to software development. On top of that, the material costs can be substantial. It is not uncommon for the cost of a pre-production prototype to be 50-100x that of the final manufactured version.

I happen to be working on a design for a small electronic device in my free time. It is a much simpler device than the Trezor, and the ultimate manufacturing cost per unit will be around $5, despite its simplicity, because I'll only be making a few dozen of them. Cost for the first prototype will be close to $90, accounting for my time at $0/hr. If I get it wrong, I will have to redesign it and build another one. Hardware is expensive.
Hi, this is Lucas, founder and CEO of AppFog.

I would not have picked CenturyLink if they didn't intend to add resources and accelerate us. I am thrilled about this combination, there is so much cool stuff CenturyLink can do with us, it is not even funny. Expect a lot of fun announcements in the near future.
That's actually not why they avoid the problem.

It's a matter of time and volume - it takes time for nitrogen to dissolve and they are not down there long. And they only have a single lungful of air, so there is not a lot of volume to dissolve.

But, if they do repeated dives, each one will dissolve more and more nitrogen until they do have problems.
Ssvvis. Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time...

Seeing it, brought back memories that I rather repress for rest of my life :p

Okay, it wasn't that bad but it sure brings back the first bubble era. It's amazing how amazon was able to figure out this business and they're were just a book seller.
It's the Tesla Roadster of Bitcoin wallets. Somebody's gotta buy it for the price to come down. (Heck, I've got nothing better to do with my BTC.)
Great work, I remember the TSA scanner story! Just a thought: Maybe you could change the buttons to look less 2000'ish. That might give off a bit of an odd vibe ;)
> And where is the private key stored?

Securely in the Browser, and not directly accessible by js, just like a TMP chip or a smartcard. Could that be a solution?
What?

This is a social bookmarking site - do you mean you have a problem with the links you have posted? Stand up and be counted my friend!
Thanks for both of your answers. Sounds reasonable what you propose.
I meant: one I can write 3X faster. And yes, "I". Not sure how this generalizes - but it's generally a bad idea to pick a new language so the code will run fast if the time to delivery is important.

I've done my fair share of both Java and Ruby web development, and without a doubt, I was much faster writing Ruby.

For non-trivial Java apps, startup time was > 20 seconds. That kind of REPL while developing kills productivity and developer satisfaction.

The last Java app I wrote had more lines of configuration than my first Rails app had lines of code, at equivalent complexity.

The first Java job I had required a full-time script writer, a DBA, and someone to keep the web server up. In Rails, that entire team would have been shrunk by 75% (mind you it didn't exist back then).

I do work in other languages. For machine learning, Ruby's speed is a killer except for toy data sets, so I have used Octave and Python. When it comes to the web though, Rails really did do many things right, from a sane MVC, default ORM, helpers and migrations. There are times execution speed trumps development speed. For fast dev on web apps, Rails really was cutting edge and for those with an investment it can still be a better trade-off than doing something in Go.
It'd be cool if you could do NFC or some other method, so you could couple it with a mobile device. USB is great, but some less wired approach makes this even cooler. (for v2, obviously.)

Something like this makes me think the future of currency is bitcoin, or something like bitcoin.
I've tried, actually (I was a parliamentary candidate). It's not easy, but when talking to older people the name wasn't such a big issue.
If you read the opinion that this thread links, you will see that Supreme court defines 'cDNA' as 'not naturally occurring'. In Monsanto's case, they inserted genes into crops to make them resistant to one of their own herbicides. That crosses the threshold of 'not naturally occurring' and then becomes cDNA in the context of this ruling.
Explain PGP to my old mum. It has to be a seamless replacement, without barriers to entry. PGP is certainly not easy for anyone, and that's the problem. It also depends on the receiver and sender having the same technical knowledge. Again not seamless.
How about a "PDFs of the documents needed so I can file it myself" option? I know that doesn't keep you in the loop as much, but per parent post I'm not clicking otherwise.
Stop relying on their technology. Start from scratch with a DYI hardware movement. While the kids all learn to code, they don't have the resources, time, patience, or energy to become electrical engineers. We do.
Lululemon ceo left, site hacked?
Disgusting (if the story is true). I suppose we shouldn't be surprised in a world where everything is a commodity. So why not make humans also a commodity? Rate their brain, body parts, behavior - even those who are not public figures and worse, without their knowledge or consent.
We shouldn't be so quick to call someone's learnings that they are sharing with the community a joke. I think knowing the performance difference could be very useful. The Rails app I work on has an API that gets over 300K RPM which adds up to quite an EC2 bill each month. Reading someone's experiments and results allows someone like myself to some super simple estimates on what the savings might be when going with Go vs Rails. It opens a conversation.

Now if you are building a side project or haven't hit the level of traffic where performance improvements are extremely noticeable on your hosting projects, then maybe this isn't the post for you. But I would just advise that we be a little slower to call something that a fellow member of this community spent time learning and then sharing with others a joke.
A bumper sticker on your vehicle that carries you at least an order of magnitude faster than evolution can carry you?
But without the illegality and high cost, it's not so bad.
You get a bunch of people hanging out high without all the robbery, extortion, prostitution, and organized crime.

A bunch of harmless pleasure seekers doesn't seem like a major issue without all that other stuff.
I'm a big fan of the Guardian, but I'd also suggest that for anyone who has trouble keeping up-to-date, you're probably best off trying out difference sources and finding the one that suits you. Whether that's a source that's extremely left- or right-wing, or somewhere in the middle, if it works for you, chances are you'll read it more. Of course, the next improvement up from this is to read multiple sources to get the fuller, more objective picture.

Also, I've found comedic sources can be great. My two are Have I Got News For You (Friday night comedy panel show based around current afairs - doesn't run all year round though) and Private Eye (satirical current afairs weekly magazine - coincidentally edited by one of the permanent team captains on HIGNFY, Ian Hislop). They can be great fun if you know what they are going to cover already, and they can be a great way for people who are less interested, or just less up-to-date, to get a snapshot of news without having to try too hard to get into it.
"tsaou...tour pants...???... tsao u to ur pants??? ... ts a out our pan ts... TSA out our pants! Got it!"

PS. In submitting this - your Web page (!!) - I was hoping to get some feedback from wise old HNers as to whether it was legit or not. Though the page out of context seems faintly scam-like ("We will mail your request for FREE!" "We've got a lot of printing and mailing to do, and can only do it with your support!"), it seemed to check out with the other pages on the site and all the information about you so I figured it was fine, but still was interested in what other folks made of it. I wasn't expecting the author himself to be the first to assure people with his previous HN credentials! Great stuff, and keep up the awesome work.
"The light . . . must be focused to an intensity of 10 million watts per square centimeter. Sunlight isn't this intense on its own . . ."

Just a bit of an understatement.
That list also contains "Social media", so I think it's fair to say it's an irrelevant list that flags everyone in the world.
What's displayed on the left side of your desktop?
Of course it is a positive. The question becomes, is the performance difference worth it? If you were comparing RoR to a Servlet framework, I'd say no. But I have yet to see any Go code that doesn't look at least as "productive" as any of the Ruby code I have seen or created.
Two main reasons:

1. If people could develop for it on other platforms it would significantly increase the number of people able to write iOS apps globally, particularly people from lower socio-economic groups. In the short term it doesn't make a big difference, but there are millions of people in India and China that can't afford even an entry level Mac, and I think in the long run this is detrimental to the ecosystem.

2. Many iOS services are tied into the Apple ecosystem, such as messages, notes, facetime etc. If they weren't using iOS to try to get people onto OSX then these services would be more likely to be cross platform and therefore far more useful.
How a bug in ported garbage-collected code trashed our iOS app
Good not only should the IRS phone records and their contents be released, but the phone records of all of Congress and their contents should be released, especially vis-a-vis congress and lobbyists and/or special interest groups. Starting with the Congressman making the request, all his communications should be opened up to the public for public scrutiny.

This is called transparency and I like it, further the whereabouts via GPS tracking of all of Congress should be released cross referenced with the GPS location of all known special interest groups and lobbyists. Of course I want mine kept private, because I am a private citizen, not a public official.
He links to a filtered view of our results which also includes Sinatra [1]. I can't provide his source code, but you can review the source code of the Go [2] and Sinatra [3] implementations for our project at GitHub. Note that the Go test implements all of our current tests; the Sinatra code only implements the JSON-serialization and database query tests.

[1] http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r5&p=3q

[2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...

[3] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast...
Did you consider self-publishing via an affiliate marketing service like ClickBank? I consider a book on Golang to be niche enough to warrant pricing in the area of $50-$100, but that may just be me.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

EDIT: One afterthought.. perhaps you could borrow the model that http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ uses. The HTML online version of the book is free, but the PDF download is $26. Since you already have http://www.golang-book.com/ that enjoys reasonably steady traffic, why not give it a shot?
Watergate was about a group of powerful political elites targeting a rival group of powerful political elites. The present IRS scandal is about powerful political elites targeting nearly powerless regular citizens who were trying to organize, and in many cases prevented, or very significantly delayed, from doing so. So yeah, the IRS scandal is worse than Watergate.
That's nice. Now let's see RT demystify the death of Natalya Estemirova:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalya_Estemirova
I don't really buy this story, but I think the intended narrative is that WB was just shooting for the moon. They would have been ecstatic if New Zealand delivered a takedown, but it wasn't actually so vital to them that they'd hold up everything else until it happened.
What's Wrong with the iOS 7 Icons?
> An IronKey is designed to defend against it being lost or stolen. A Trezor is designed to defend against malware.

Malware can submit a transaction to the Trezor, but it can't push the button on it.

Okay, that's interesting, thanks.

> When I click on "About Trezor" it takes me to...a very brief overview?

Yeah, didn't they say it was open source?

And? As far as I can tell they are a for-profit venture that is simply open-sourcing their product.
"We wanted to build our dashboard in JavaScript to separate the both front-end and back-end development as well as leverage the power of Balanced’s RESTful API."

Does this mean they have a back-end layer before the REST API or is the front-end communicating with the API directly?
Ember.js based sudoku solver
The scientific method has advanced so far in the past century that any new "breakthrough" without proper empirical evidence and due process of science makes me feel like it's just quack science.

Forget about the journals, forget about peer review, just have evidence. Anecdota have proven to be very unreliable in critical testing scenarios.
As much as I hate these types of partisanship maneuvers, but this one may have a positive consequence. Bringing up the reality and dangers of widespread eavesdropping.

Now can we subpoena conversation between the VP, Cheney's office regarding the Valerie Plame or other fabrication about the Iraq war. Oh wait, I forgot. Democrats left their spine in a 70s time capsule.
The metal one is CNC machined according to this http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1gc5xh/trezor_presa... hence the price.
IRS scandal wasn't a scandal. The only evidence the WH was involved are partial transcript (cherry-picked) vague quotes from junior staffers (literally: "told by a supervisor that "Washington, D.C., wanted some cases."), while the true source of the audits has been identified as decidedly not-Obama: http://news.yahoo.com/conservative-republican-irs-staffer-ta.... All of this is completely ignoring the completely legitimate reasons for auditing these clearly political groups in the wake of Citizens United.

Just like how Fast & Furious was in no way a scandal, but a symptom of Arizona's lack of gun laws. Law enforcement was unable to arrest or even restrict people linked to cartels as they purchased weapons- the best they could do was keep track of serial numbers. There was no gun running, but that didn't stop Republicans from fabricating another 'scandal:' http://www.thenation.com/blog/168673/facts-get-way-gops-fast...

Even this article should clue you in to Issa's obvious political theater for his base.

Obama sucks at fighting misinformation, but he is certainly not a dictator.
If you are not American, our laws apply to you, but not our rights. So you are out of luck if you want to file a FOIA.
Considering that everything alleged has been announced, confirmed, discussed, and documented for years past (Patriot Act, ECHLON, hoovering all international communications, etc.) I'm wondering why all this, now, is garnering such outrage. The idea's time, I suppose...