skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm Brazilian and Carioca... I was at Rio's protest yesterday and it was BEAUTIFUL.

I'm against all kind of violence and vandalism, unfortunatelly we had a few people that caused a LOT of damage to the city in the very end, but almost every story you hear about manifestations and protests ends the same way everywhere in the world... so I leave for each one what you feel about this.

We are just sick of swallowing all the sh*t and public abuses that Government throw at us and we just complain in silence, this time people went to the streets and showed that if we manage to organize ourselves and keep pushing (peacefully, of course), we might achieve something meaningful... like, for instance, RESPECT.

Send love and support to us, we are needing. :)
Sports is catching up with the digital wave
GE wants to use artificial intelligence to predict the future of hospitals
I am curious about if the new Mac Pro will promote the build of high end Hackintoshes to fill the gap left by Apple in their product line.
You have a point, I do think that a majority of the internet populace would not raise a flag about this, but....also please notice that the URL linked on this page is simply HTTP.

So, either you (and the others in this comment thread) manually changed the URL, or you have some browser extension that automatically switches to HTTPS, etc. I'm sure more of us would've caught the issue if indeed more of us were exposed to the issue in the first place.
I'd add Newsbeuter as an option.
> It's a bold move.

No. It's "letting people use their device in a non-retarded way".
Awesome. So now your monitor is a morass of cables and plugs.
> It's that they would probably do a worse job of it than the independent dealers would.

Why?

Do you understand why dealers exist historically? It's completely different than what you're letting on.
Correction that I'd use the on-chip CPU and make the on-FPGA ethernet controller smarter and smarter over time until the on chip CPU isn't doing much other than telling a terrifically smart TCP accelerating ethernet interface to look at a certain array every time someone connects to port 80.

Doing that in one jump would be pretty dumb. I'd start with FPGA "hardware" acceleration of ethernet header checksum. Then start accelerating the IP headers. Then start accelerating the TCP headers.
> Consequently, say the signatories, the scientific evidence is increasingly indicating that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness.

That's because neurological substrates don't generate consciousness. There is no evidence to the effect that they do. However, when we understand the structure of the system of consciousness it's very easy to see how consciousness is generated and maintained.

The role of all neural systems is

1. to transmit to the consciousness what the body sees, hears, learns, etc., and

2. to express what is in consciousness through the body.
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Arguing that these programs are effective by revealing a few foiled terrorist plots is entirely beside the point. Obviously monitoring every communication on the planet would help the government track down a few terrorist plots here and there. If they really want the debate to focus on the effectiveness of these programs then they should explain why they failed so spectacularly to prevent the Boston Marathon bombings, a plot carried out by two of the most careless and naive terrorists to date. Heck, even a direct warning from Russian officials fell on deaf ears. Perhaps the NSA was too busy listening to innocent people's phone calls to respond?

The effectiveness isn't what's at issue here, though. The problem is the loss of privacy for innocent civilians, to which Obama and other government officials respond to with wishy-washy arguments about "tradeoffs" between security and privacy.
Get FISA Right has a Twitter list with live tweets from several accounts following the hearing -- EFFLive, Julian Sanchez, Marcy Wheeler, Michelle Richardson of the ACLU, etc.

https://twitter.com/GetFISARight/nsa
Apparently not. All tracking of all kinds even when completely anonymized is evil and bad and you should feel ashamed of yourself for even thinking otherwise /s
I question your assertion it is not an Article III [1] court. In fact, I think you are either wildly misinformed or being intentionally misleading.

The FISA court of 11 judges is appointed by the Chief Justice of the United States. [2] It absolutely is an Article III court. The ACLU has even acquired its rules [3].

The fact this is the top comment without citation is troubling. Please don't encourage these sort of claims without at least a cursory glance at the documents governing these institutions.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/articleiii
[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/50/1803
[3] http://www.aclu.org/patriot_foia/2003/court_rules.pdf
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The difference is that when you get broken down you are much more likely to affect real and lasting change in your life.

I _want_ to do what this guy is doing ( http://www.ted.com/talks/marcin_jakubowski.html ), yet I am still living in the city, writing iPhone apps, rather than living on a farm building machinery. Why? Because I'm still just "thinking about it": I haven't reached a broken-down moment.

It really takes quite a powerful kick to get people to make real changes.
I'd rather have the world's "most comfortable to hold" smartphone.
I'm still using Google Reader, have tried Feedly and would move to it once they finally kill Google Reader.
See also:

* http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2010/02/02/why-does...

* http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8493000/8493203....

* http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/03/good-guys-draw...
>Search advertising is sold on a CPC basis because it is intent based. Display advertising is by and large sold on a CPM basis. You don't get the impression and the publisher doesn't get paid. Some will label this "theft".

Actually Google is the thief here. Advertising and JS/Client Side analytics/scripts suck up my CPU time and use up my bandwidth that I pay for. All the ad-block user does is block bits from showing up on his/her own personal machine. Blocking external data from unknown/untrusted sources is theft now? Also, since we already know that compromised ad servers contribute to the proliferation of malware, its also a good security practice. (Okay maybe not static image ads, but definitely flash ads)

>Frankly I'm more inclined to trust the Googles of the world than I am some guy who writes an extension.

That is true in the general case, but there are several opensource extensions. And people can find out what exactly happens with their data unlike Google.
The physics has obvious relevance to the experience and leaves no experiential questions unanswered. There's no problem with gravity.

I'm not looking for a why—the common complaint about gravity—I just want all the whats to match up. The meaninglessness is in reference to the question of consciousness. If you supply this to the asker, they could rightly ask, "sure, but what about my question?" Perhaps there is no reconciliation and you might want to complain that the question is nonsense—that complaint would make a better answer than a collection of irrelevant facts.
Congratulations to Albert and the rest of the team.
I started with Feedly, but realized there is no OPML export, which locks me in. This Reader situation taught me to not be locked in ever again. Plus, I'm not entirely convinced the transition from the Google backend is going to be smooth, and I don't care for the interface. The Chrome extension also runs in the background and keeps my LastPass authentications open, a huge, huge security risk. I have since switched to The Old Reader, which has thus far been perfect for my needs. I like that it's once again a centralized website I can access anywhere.
Wrote my own RSS to email gateway.
This is why I added an Adblock exception rule to allow ads from Project Wonderful. From what I can tell, PW's network only "targets" by matching sites to ads by category, which is decided by both the site and the advertiser.
External peripherals bring in the delights of ground loops wall warts and dodgey inputs. Not to mention cables galore.

What is clear from this latest design is that Apple doesn't see audio production as a market worth considering when designing stuff.
With only an 8% surcharge!

What was that about low/no processing fees?
NSA surveillance:  What Germany Could Teach the US.
> Yes, I think you should avoid Haskell (and any language with managed memory) on embedded systems or in very performance critical applications.

You're forgetting about atom, http://hackage.haskell.org/package/atom.
You're describing The Old Reader. It's literally based on "the old good Google Reader".
fever is missing from this list http://feedafever.com/
Bet he won't say whether those plots could have been stopped another way.
Check out InoReader. I'm quite satisfied and I think it meets the majority of your preferences.
Yes, the security is there. Though, resource fairness is not (since you have basically bare metal access). SmartOS is trying to fix this:

http://wiki.smartos.org/display/DOC/Tuning+the+IO+Throttle

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2012/12/19/the-use-method-sm...
Then according to the rules, X gets to move anywhere. Pick another corner board, make a move in the NW corner, which forces them back to the NW board. Then their best option is to move in the same square of the board you just came from, since you won't be able to send them back to the NW board again. In that case, you move in the same corner as the board you are in, forcing their reply to the same board you're playing on.

This would be the general strategy, although I am now no longer sure you can force a win through. The options for moves for O starts to grow past what I can work through in Paint right now.
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Twitch blazing a path to livestreaming ubiquity with its updated SDK
Ouch, yes. My EDIT passages are totally wrong. Sorry, I oversimplified the rules there.

The initial idea (extending Orwin Gambit) should still be leverageable into a much better position. This might fall short of a certain win though, if the opponent plays a proper response strategy -- which we should probably assume if the contestants are peer mathematicians. :)
I swear by Stringer. Now that it integrates with Reeder it's even sweeter!
There is no set of "universal morals" that all humans have.

What about « If "everybody" (who I identify with to at least such-and-such a degree) did X, would it harm me or my family/descendants? »?
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Flipboard and Prismatic are more visually appealing and intelligent options correspondingly. For mobile news readers category.
Given that we are biological machines, I'd say I do. Saying "machines don't feel pain" suggests that pain is something more than a complex process happening in a biological machine. It's not.
Not sure if you saw the video from last week but this "hearing" seems staged. They're all reading from a script. Sounds like robots.
Ah, I didn't realize y'all had a blog - but that suggests other people might not either. I'd recommend putting a link to those posts somewhere on the sign-up page, or a dedicated "What's in a co-ed box?" page.
I am not sure, that's why I am asking.

On TopCoder Hungary is ranked #39. On the ACM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM_International_Collegiate_P... they are not in the top.

On IMO http://www.imo-official.org/results.aspx the numbers are also not good.
Very happy to see a Miami start-up tackling such an important space.
> just like Verizon and AT&T.

As an European I never understood what is the "strategic" interest of Washington to protect the telecom companies. This might have made sense 20 years ago, but now that these companies tend to become like any other utility companies I don't see why the Government would care if they break up or if new (possibly foreign) competitors appear.
"Millions" of people use Tor? You can make an argument for anonymity without resorting to hyperbole.
Dealers are still integral to the makers (faux) success.

The manufacturers take revenue on shipments to the dealer, not the sell-thru to the end consumer. This allows them to stuff the channel to hit their numbers. Of course, this becomes unsustainable once the effectiveness of discounts & incentives hits the wall and they can't clear the inventory in time for the next stuff job. See 2008 Big-3 explosion, the dealer channel had YEARS worth of inventory of some makes/models.

It's very fair to assume this is a fundamental reason the manufacturers will defend the dealer network to the death. Without it, sales numbers would, by necessity, become a reflection of true demand... Short-term thinking for sure, but very hard to unwind.
I am very happy with Netvibes. It has a widget interface as well as a sidebar (google reader like) interface - I use the latter. It works very well, in fact the interface is better than google reader which had a lot of unnecessary whitespace. Also has multiple dashboards so my wife and I can use the same login (effectively what we did on google reader with multiple sign-in, but this is a better, more local way to do it). It has keyboard shortcuts too. In short it has everything good that google reader did and it does the interface better. What's not to like?
There's a balance. Complete transparency and access to all information (ie, Julian Assange's stance) is extreme. If we gave away all of our secrets, we wouldn't have an advantage over our country's enemies.
It is considerably more credible when an accepted industry expert commentates, over the mainstream media.
I wrote my own. I never really used Google for reading feeds anyway. None of the open source solutions looked very interesting and it was a nice exercise for me. I would have open sourced it but the code is too bad, maybe a 2.0.
That's a great point. On the value issue, we're definitely going to make sure that each box has a significantly greater value than what you're paying for it - not only do you get the essentials you need, but you're also introduced to cool new brands and products that you might not have discovered on your own.

In addition, we're in the process of building a whole bunch of content to provide the college community with tips and advice on those "hard" problems, and to give you guys a platform to discuss those questions with each other. Thanks for your feedback!
That's the currency exchange rate he is offering not a transaction fee. The bitcoin transaction itself is free
That's a really good point. I would recommend upvoting the suggestions at their uservoice site. They're actively listening, although I'm sure they're busy. In fact, I believe the uservoice voting is one of the primary reasons Feedly is headed to Windows Phone 8.

Vote: https://feedly.uservoice.com/forums/192636-suggestions/sugge...
Suggest: https://feedly.uservoice.com/forums/192636-suggestions
Newsblur for me
I live in Chicago. Are you saying I'm not living somewhere dense enough? Also, they're my lab results. There is no reason to withhold them from the patient.
I really like the Feedly iOS interface for reading, but the app needs some work before it's any good as a primary feed aggregator. The main issue is that it forgets the Google authentication after a few days, even after an update which claimed to fix that issue. That doesn't fill me with confidence that the transition to their backend will be as smooth as they claimed.
On Paper being overhyped: I agree that their colour mixer is pretty mediocre, but they certainly nailed the right feeling with most of their drawing tools. It's still the app I go to most when I want to sketch a quick idea or thought process. It actually does what its name suggests and replaces a piece of paper for my use.

There's a fluidity and aesthetic to it that no other iPad drawing app has matched yet.

You mentioned you bought Paper and all of the in-app purchases — as far as I'm aware, Paper has always been free since launch (you can see this at its App Shopper link http://appshopper.com/productivity/paper-by-fiftythree). I think the IAP is fairly priced considering how much use I've gotten out of the app.
I have been programming my own replacement:

https://github.com/harold/rss-box

It's fun to hack, and works well enough for me now. Come check it out.
So much borrowed money, that is.
If nothing changes, nobody goes to jail, and nobody loses their job (as in fired / disgraced, not retired with pension & consulting job @RAND), I'd say they got away with it.

>people now know everything they type on their computer is handed over to the government.

And those who are honest with themselves are less free, they moderate their behavior, even perfectly legal behavior. Those who are not honest with themselves will continue as if nothing changed ("the gov't doesn't care about what I do" "they aren't really recording and storing my calls").
Yeah, now that I read this, the scary thing is that it's so cheap, that /not only organizations with huge budgets/ can store every single phone call.

iow Many fortune 500 companies and foreign governments, all with less legal scruples, security and obligations than the NSA could also store every single phone call made in the U.S. - if they can get their hands on a copy.

Hell, I imagine any decent organized crime syndicate could scrape up $27M to store all the data and start mining it for information about when homes are unprotected.

Having all of these calls stored in one place is a HUGE liability. I said -if they can get their hands on a copy- which will be hard to get it from the NSA... unless there are inside jobs at the NSA and unless there are no external contractors with less scruples, security, etc. in place.

IOW, I'm not as scared of the government having access to this data (although I'm against it), but it's even scarier that 3rd parties can gain access to it.
You have an assumption that consciousness is just a brain process.
The problem is that the answers you are looking for are of philosophical nature and not of scientific one (you talk about "demystifying" consciousness, "elucidating it"). The neural correlates might not clarify what consciousness is, but they might yield answers to precise scientific questions, such as: what brain activity is necessary and sufficient for a person to be able demonstrate self- or world- awareness. We might need to first answer to such questions before we gain any new insights of more philosophical nature. I am not saying this method is the silver bullet, but certainly I cannot agree the results are meaningless or "only reaffirm our prejudices".

My only point is really that the lack of a great definition of consciousness doesn't diminish the value of research like the one cited here.
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using httpseverywhere so that explains it, thanks.
The alternative hypothesis is that the Pacific Ocean will continue to shrink, and the next supercontinent will form when the Americas join Asia.
Instead of the somewhat fuzzy method of dating via news, couldn't they combine this approach with that recommended by Errata Security to use bitcoin as a public ledger? http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2013/05/bitcoin-is-public-ledg...
"What it shouldn't have is: ... - ads ... Of course, it should also be free."

Those two things are mutually exclusive though, unless it's being run by someone with enough money not to care or it's self hosted.
I understand the need for indemnification, however the scope of elance's terms seems too broad (it covers even alleged infringement) -- which I, personally, find questionable.

Do you have other freelancing sites to recommend, with, perhaps, more reasonable terms?

Where did you purchase your professional liability insurance? How expensive is it?
That's not surprising, since the whole concept of an UltraBook is to replicate a MacBook but with Windows.
Swiss bill to ease bank secrecy rebuffed
Iceland Received Informal Approach Over Snowden Seeking Asylum
This isn't evidence the NSA is storing voice content, this is Schneier saying, "One reason I used to discount the idea that the NSA was storing all phone conversations was that it'd be too much data but now I don't think it is."

Not new evidence.
I haven't switched. I'm still using the same software that gave me my first RSS feed. Firefox.
Having sold both containers and VMs to untrusted users? I disagree. Now, my container experience is old, and containerization technology is improving all the time, so over time, what I say here becomes less true, but that's the thing; I'm willing to pay a fairly high cost in (cheap) ram for relatively small gains in compartmentalization. (which is to say, I'm willing to spend a fair bit of money to make my pager go off less.)

See, the expensive part? it's not the ram, it's sysadmin time. That's why VPSs are killing shared hosting; it's actually easier to manage a bunch of VPSs than a bunch of people with shell accounts on the same box. Same goes for all the containerization technologies I've tried; it's easier to just throw xen/kvm on there and pay for the extra ram than to manage one user stepping on resources required by another user.

For me? that was the beautiful part of switching from jails to Xen; suddenly, I could just ignore customers who tried to burn all the cpu and ram they could. Now, if I can figure out how to do the same with disk? I'll be a very happy man.

That, at least, is where I'm putting my money; in more ram.
It's a pity that they're still pricing the drink against a fiat currency (in this case, Sterling).

I look forward to a day when I'll be able to pay a consistent 0.05/0.1 BTC for a pint.
Before the downvote brigade comes out in full force, stop and think a second. The US government is building its own map of all our social connections for everyone worldwide, not just suspects but everyone. It will know the names of everyone you know, how well you know them, even down to the date that you met them and dates that you were in the same location together.

Why WOULD anyone who cares about their anonymity use Facebook? I am wondering why I use Facebook even.
I don't see the usefulness. You can sign a lie cryptographically just as well as a fact.
What happens when you crash a motorcycle.
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Happy newsblur user here.
There is a problem with your argument. Let me return the gift of pedantry:

Firstly, the problem I have with the hypocrisy is independent to a diet choice so the statement about the path is invalid.

Secondly, everything is subjective so your argument is moot (as is mine).
It's a lot easier to hide cables coming out of the back of a monitor than it is from the side of a laptop. Plus, it's basically what a typical dock does.
Ah, but they are still spending time on you, being there in your face. If they truly weren't interested in you, then they'd leave in search of easier prey.

Since your leaving could be spun as felony (in at least some jurisdictions) fleeing the police, you'd best not leave without their OK, explicit, or implicit by their leaving first.

Note: don't let yourself get startled by the police into running away. One of the things that reified all I've been reading about the modern police in the last decade or so was retiring and returning to my home town, and one day in 2007-8 a new, improved policeman played a game of chicken with my body and his car, that is, as soon as he noticed me, he veered it on a near collision course. I was an experienced enough pedestrian---which I think is unusual here---that I could tell his vehicle would miss me by a good foot or more and the mirror by at least half that, so I stared him down, and he then veered away. Based on my readings, I have have to assume he was trying to get me to run ("this crazy cop is trying to kill me!"), at which point the crime of fleeing the police could be claimed.