skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You want somebody you love to die so you can fulfill your dream of building farm machines from scratch? OK... To each their own I guess :-)

What if somebody you loves dies and suddenly you find that spending time with that person would have meant much more to you than iPhone apps or farm machines?
Looks like an excellent beer selection as well.
I don't like that the web version of Feedly takes over Google Chrome and seems to make it crash occasionally.

In the end I have moved to Yoleo, as it is a standalone web app and has a nicer interface.
Other. mutt. Feed by rss2email. Running on a server I can connect to via ssh.
I'm still on Google Reader. To the bitter end.
Yup. So many work arounds. Simply the IP+UA alone contains enough entropy to uniquely detect the majority of users already, you don't need to store anything at all.

ETag cookies work quite well too and don't require any additional software or "hacking"-esque approaches.
Borderline personality disorder strikes again.
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Thanks, this is useful. It's weird you are getting a 403 on the typekit request. It looks like the font-loader probably just times out. Do you happen to have any extensions that might strip referrer
Is there 17bII+ financial calculator app?
Is there 17bII+ financial calculator app, reference or book?
I wouldn't be shocked to learn that their interpretation of "not listening in" does not include reading speech-to-text transcripts of conversations.
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And THIS is the ultimate answer to the question: If I have nothing to hide, why should this bother me?

It's not whether each of us individually have something to hide: it's whether our politicians, our activists, our reporters, our lawyers, our doctors, our military, our police, our courts, our spies, our business leaders, our celebrities, our friends & family have something to hide.

Because if any of them can be manipulated by the data that is being gathered, then all of us lose.
Do they recommend a sauce for conscious awareness?
You're right -- the base app is free, thought it turns off all drawing tools but one, so I immediately bought all of those (and later bought the supposed year-of-work paint mixer). Perhaps I didn't get as great of an experience as I was using it on my 3rd gen iPad that pushed the pixel boundary before the rest of the hardware could follow.
Yoleo works well for me. I had to try importing my subscriptions twice because the first time, even after a day, didn't take. The second time worked instantly, though, and the service has been fine since. I do wish there were a full-width listing of articles in summary mode, like Reader had.
I'd bet that less than 1% of users are annoyed by this. Possibly as few as 10% even notice.
I don't have actual sources (and I don't think they exist) about how widespread antisemitism is in Hungary, but anecdotally it's like one in three. I know way too many who openly hate Jews.

I've heard people talk openly about how there should be another holocaust.

I find it depressing, or even scary that I live in a county with people like this. While I'm not aware of any recent attacks against Jews, so technically you should be safe, but I still can't wholeheartedly recommend you to come here.
As a Swede, I really don't see the connection between free WiFi and socialism here. First, I haven't really perceived that Sweden has THAT much free wifi. And in Asia, free WiFi is everywhere, and no socialists as far as I can see (North Korea don't have much WiFi at all, unfortunately).
My personal reader : Leselys
https://github.com/socketubs/leselys

Demo at : http://leselys.herokuapp.com (demo/demo)

So, its "Other" for me.
I would personally like to know if there's a blacklist for any such program which prevents electronic systems from surveilling anyone on it. I can imagine that a senator knowing their details have been/can be accessed without due cause would be a real PITA for the NSA.
Agreed, the extension was very invasive and broke Chrome in many frustrating ways. Memory usage was also off the charts, and that's not something I usually pay much attention to in a browser. I'll try Yoleo, I had not heard of that.
Yep! We've actually known this for years. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/03/wiring-big-brother-mac...
It's an apt description of what we are.

Only we think we are more.

Perhaps we're not and the thought is just part of that feedback loop.

Art, wine, music, maths. It's all just more inputs...
The government isn't allowed to force you to lie; they can force you to be silent. By updating this regularly it then becomes apparent when you have been forced into silence.
The web interface also requires you to install their browser plugin, which is less than ideal if you're using multiple computers.
Not everyone loves or wants any involvement with bitcoin
? You're confusing security with anonymity. The bitcoin mining strategy ensures that transactions are secure, untampered (ID theft? counterfeit bills? credit hijacking?), thus securing anonymity if it is developed (throw away accounts, as said above) when and where needed.

The problem with classical currency is that anyone can spoof anyone else and the system inherently cannot prevent this. Fraud correction is a painstaking manual/organic process involving customer service, account IDs, and headache.
To treat even 1% of humans the way we treat animals would be to perpetuate the greatest war crime in history.

If you want to start treating animals with the same sanctity as humans, you need to watch out. Countries that use the death penalty should be executing all the carnivores for mass murder.

And what does "the way we treat animals" mean anyway? Plenty of pets are doted on and loved to bits. Plenty of wild animals are left alone, ignored, or even unknown. Plenty of animals are treated inhumanely. Overgeneralisations are an enemy to progress.
There is almost nothing that could happen which would make me feel poorly for eating cows, chickens, pigs, and fish.

The assumption here is that simply because a being is conscious, it is therefore special. Let's take away that assumption, and then work forwards. Of what significance is consciousness?
There are docking stations for MacBooks, it's just that Apple doesn't make them. One of several: http://www.hengedocks.com/
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This?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJVHTQSvUIo
I use Lightroom instead of iPhoto, but I get the same thing when processing gigabytes of RAW files. Lesson learnt: split my library up (in Lightroom's case, a catalog) to minimise disk IO.
Sometimes I have issues with ycombinator from tor. Am I only one?
It drives me fucking bananas when people compare "breaking" to "criticizing" and "building" to "creating". Tell that to Don Coppersmith or Daniel Bleichenbacher.

Anybody can create a block cipher. Anybody can create a new encrypted transport. It's far easier to cough up a crappy new design than it is to break even a mediocre one.

But, more importantly, "breaking" a cryptosystem isn't "destructive". It's the most productive thing you can do to crypto. You can't prove a negative. All you can do is spot the designs we can know we shouldn't be using.

"Any idiot can break a window". Sheesh. Have you ever coded a crypto attack? Would you like me to send you a model problem, Jacques?
On this note, I really enjoyed Jobs' comparison of development PCs to "trucks." I see myself as a "truck" driver in the future :) With lots of people driving sedans. It makes sense to me. I, too, see the computer hardware world as diverging into "developer" and "commuter/consumer" equipment.

I'll spend a few weeks developing, then use the app on my consumer system, just like a trucker drives 40 hours a week for work, then takes car to visit family or a restaurant or amusement park, etc.
I'm not sure that we necessarily need to become vegetarians in order to condemn the poor treatment of animals. It's perfectly possible (albeit more expensive) to raise and kill animals in a humane manner.

Personally I have no problem with humans eating meat, in my view it's part of our nature, but I do have a problem with raising them in battery farms and people kicking their pets etc.
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*its government
The clowns questioning him keep saying "UNDER THIS PROGRAM".

Yeah well the ones we know. Now we need to know the others.
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There is plenty of perfectly nutritious vegetable matter that humans won't eat - it's a false equivalence you're making.
Have you tried running a hardware test? You shouldn't get beach balls at all while waiting for something. They're not called spinning balls of death for nothing.
The incidents I read weren't related to Israel, so I'm not sure why are you bringing it up.
> There's plenty of reasons why someone might want a virtualized OS; customization.

True, using today's off-the-self software it is easier to customize your environment using full virtualization compared to containers. But it isn't an inherent limitation of the container approach. Containers do however, provide inherent cost savings compared to full virtualization.

I expect that in a short amount of time, usability for containers will continue to improve. See for example docker: http://www.docker.io/

> What if my application is built to run on Debian but yours is built to run on CentOS? With container based virtualization we have to be put on different nodes. With VMs, we can share a node.

With the cost savings afforded by containers, I expect developers will generally choose to write applications that are portable enough to work inside containers.

> This is why VMs exist. This is why they will continue to exist.

Virtualization is popular because it is a feature-rich, economical way to host. Containers are more economical and I expect will win in the end.
Just got a client off a container based provider and it wasn't too great an experience ( dramatically slow networking, unreliable file I/O ). Granted I could, and can continue to, say the same thing about virtualization but virtualization is here and reliable enough that it seems like a hard sell to want to try something that is even less performant.
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I'm pretty sure I've already seen a few X-Files episodes one could do a word-replace with.
Why is there a 2006 date in the title?
"Does the NSA listen to the content of phone calls?"

General Alexander: "No we do not have that authority."

I think it's pretty clear by now that they're collecting phone call content.

Here's another and I'm paraphrasing:

"Is there something else being collected?"

"Besides the 215(?) and 702(?)? I'm not sure as I don't know whether that info has been declassified."
I think that there is a difference between entities with consciousness and those without, in that you can't cause pain and suffering to an entity without consciousness. In that sense, they are "special". But that doesn't mean we shouldn't eat them, just that we shouldn't be cruel to them.
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Dating with news can be somewhat fuzzy, which is why we always take our news from the financial press, and attempt to datestamp with "material" information ... that is to say, news with a very high monetary value that the market is racing to receive.

You could (conceivably) make up plausible future stories, but not things like quarterly results, lawsuit outcomes, etc.
A laptop in clamshell mode is a good substitute for a headless mid-range machine. Combine it with a BookArc stand to avoid wasting desk space and it's hard to beat.
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Did you watch the interview? They have an FBI agent talking about it. Do you think he's not really an FBI agent?
It's a horrible result from horrible, quota etc. driven policing, especially as "real" crime continues to drop (you don't notice any layoffs in the police-judicial complex strictly from this statistical decline, do you?). If they really wanted to do what we perceive as their jobs, they wouldn't be faced with this problem. (And that's not even getting into the thesis that outside of e.g. very small rural departments there are by definition no good police, since even the "good" police look the other way in observing the Blue Wall of Silence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Code_of_Silence.)

Perhaps the most important thesis in Arrest Proof Yourself (http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Ex-Cop-Reveals-A...) is that the decline in real crime, which the police and courts by and large still do as good a job of dealing with, has required them to generate more arrests, convictions, and parole based entrapments, primarily from those the authors describe as "the clueless", the harmless to mostly harmless who do dumb things that are illegal but not a great threat to society.

To the extent they view "their job" as doing whatever their superiors demand to e.g. achieve quotas of arrests, my heart bleeds.
This is typical human hypocrisy at work.

The worst thing I find is the "I'll eat a sausage but I couldn't possibly eat a cute bunny wabbit". The sausage in its natural form is capable of being a valuable and loyal human companion.

"Those who like sausage and respect the law should inquire into the making of neither."

Little kids are cute and cuddly, so killing (and eating) anything cute and cuddly ought to be at least somewhat distasteful. If you recognize that logically this association doesn't make sense, you can either desensitize yourself or take advantage of your natural tendency to "out of sight, out of mind" and deliberately not think about what that venison steak looked like before it was a steak.
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He said that the fourth amendment does not apply to the collection of metadata of phone calls, etc, because we already freely expose that information to phone providers, etc.
"The government isn't allowed to force you to lie"

Is that actually the case?
Yeah, unfortunately, it's just tribalism, a natural human inclination. Much of the discussion space of the internet seems to be devoted to this same sort of investment = identity problem; "fanboyism" is a common label for it, but it stems from the human need for group identification, and is alas a very easy, though shallow, way to achieve it.
This document was first published in 2006. We've been operating the warrant canary for just over 7 years now.
What a political circle-jerk. The questioning plays out like a rehearsed commercial.
I don't find this argument compelling. Why is 'consciousness', or the ability to suffer or feel pain in a way comparable to us, important?

I don't eat or kill other humans, not just because I know they would dislike it, but because if we didn't all generally keep to that rule of not doing so, I run a higher risk of being eaten or killed myself. It's a behavioural contract, not some innate universal rule that suffering is bad.

For me, the question of what to eat is solely one of sustainability. Under that line of reasoning, veganism is better than vegetarianism which is approximately equivalent to eating no red meat, which are both better than eating red meat. How sentient the animal is doesn't factor into the decision.
The answer to your problems are not something you can resolve so tritely. The answers here are the responses to unanswerable questions - the spaces that religions have retreated to, in order to survive against science. These questions have no such answer that can be suitably determined.
It's hard to tell from the pictures, but since the video cards share the same thermal core, I'm not sure they are going to be easy to upgrade anymore.
I'm using Thunderbird as I don't really need to read feeds from more than one device.
I'm slowly realizing that being judgemental and expressing those judgements to sympathetic interlocutors often feels good in the moment, but it's toxic in the long run.

This is because those judgements you pass on others are almost always externalizations of judgements you pass on yourself, and usually unfair ones to boot. Realizing you're a hypocrite is painful in the immediate term, but leads to pretty sustained gratification when you notice the gap between the person you could've passively become and the person you actively chose to evolve into.
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External GPUs are not cheap too!
Congrats to FiftyThree, however, I think that while new kinds of content-creation apps can be created on touch-devices, I don't (/hope) that they replace their precursors.

obligatory link to Bret Victor's rant on the limitation of touch interfaces: http://worrydream.com/ABriefRantOnTheFutureOfInteractionDesi...

To put it another way: for those of you who program/create via the command line and keyboard shortcuts, could you imagine a touch-setup that would give you more power than what you have with the keyboard? The mouse and GUI hasn't so far...they've added different ways to create content, but arguably these interfaces end up limiting the true power users.
>Google and its partners in the WebM project want to establish the codec as a royalty-free standard for HTML5 video and for web video calling using WebRTC.

They could also remove, as they promised, h.264 support from Chrome. You know, that would help to push VP8/9 a lot.
If feel only fits your narrow, human centric definition of it, then of course machines can't feel pain. There isn't much point in having a discussion if the discussion is about your understanding of a word though.

If you go by the broader definition of feel, which includes "to have a sensation of something", then I'd argue that the line is far more blurred.

If you accept that a rat is capable of feeling pain, then surely you must accept that a functionally identical machine with a neural network functionally the same as a rat's brain can also feel pain? There's no real fundamental physical reason stopping us constructing a computer which functions in the same way as a rat's brain does. Does the computer we constructed suddenly stop being a machine?
"But if we do acquire any information that relates to a US person, under limited criteria only, can we keep it. If it has to do with foreign intelligence in that conversation or understanding foreign intelligence, or evidence of a crime or a threat of serious bodily injury, we can respond to that. Other than that, we have to get rid of it, we have to purge it, and we can't use it." (emphasis mine)

This seems very close to an admission that they both have and analyze the data before purging it. Combined with the idea that most people commit three felonies a day and pretty quickly all of these assertions about not spying on US citizens or people in the US goes out the window.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a jumbo jet full of magnetic tape.
Literally nobody has ever done that. Try understanding his comment a different way. Like, say, that the human protections against violence preclude humans who chose to act violently, ergo if we extend that protection to animals, many of them would lose that protection as soon as it was extended to them.
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Why not work through a trusted intermediary using a more secure channel? I would think that Facebook isn't the most secure way to communicate, regardless of direct TOR access.
Obama says [1] that if you're a "US person" (whatever that means), "The NSA is not listening to your phone calls."

Does storing them for later use count as listening?

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57589732/obama-on-nsa-pr...
i think you may be missing the rather casual, light-heartedness of what they're doing and instead you're taking it far too serious.

good thoughts for a discussion about seriousness, but maybe not applicable for this specifically.
Completely agreed. If the average global life expectancy were to drop from 70 years today to 35 years, that would be a tragedy even larger than the holocaust. But that's what life was like for the average human 100 years ago. The vast majority of humans have had fewer than 30 years to live. That really sucks.

Now imagine we're talking about a time when the average life span is one thousand years (or one million, or one billion), and the vast majority of humans got to experience less than 10% of that. Well, that's what is happening now.

That's not to say life is sad. I would much rather have 30 years of life than 0 years. But life can be so much more than it is today.
Combining voices with the person in this thread asking about external GPUs, I long for the day when we can have powerful Thunderbolt GPUs. High-end video cards are becoming ever larger with each generation, to the point where I had to upgrade my case and motherboard when I upgraded my video card last time. I just couldn't fit the card in the case, and the card suddenly overlapped parts on the motherboard that weren't a problem previously.

The problem of hard drives taking up too much room in a case is solved. The problem of expansion cards taking up too much room in a case is solved. If we could get that to video cards as well, we can throw the whole concept of massive cases in traditional form factors being required for high end workstations right out the window.
Don't worry, you're safe in Budapest. What's going on with Jobbik is pretty clearly the rich fanning the flames of division in order to cement control of the economy.

Although I suppose that's what most antisemitism always is, when you boil it down. But (for example) Hit Gyülekezet is a large, powerful, pro-Israel church here.
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Um... https://www.google.com/search?q=NSA+Snowden
You question the ethics of "shifting the cost burden of the Internet"? Oh brother.

If website operators don't like it, they can charge me for their content, like every other business has done since the beginning of time.
It's the hearing equivalent of a kangaroo court.
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Suggesting that there are several plots that have been thwarted - and that somehow justifies the program seems too "ends justify the means".

(probably because that's exactly what they're arguing)
If it's the selling that's bad, isn't the same true of plant matter? Most of us also outsource obtaining vegetable matter in the same way.