skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, because he's a pretty well known and pretty well connected blogger/dev in the Apple community. He would have gotten 'editorially selected' in his scenario on the first day.
Also noscript user. In my case I just disabled JS in Chrome and blocked a few sites in /etc/hosts.
Commenting also lets people know that a post - like this one - is inappropriate for the site.
I think it is reasonable for a sales person to only sell products by his employer.

If you walk into an Apple Store, wouldn't you expect to get the best Apple solution for your problem? Same in a Microsoft store, just with a Microsoft solution.
well, thanks for that.

Super Hexagon is pretty much the 2nd worst thing one could discover in the middle of the night - number one being meth.
Its weird that nobody mentioned Disconnect[1], which is an open source alternative to Ghostery. I've used it in the past, but shifted back to ghostery because it was buggy.

[1]: https://disconnect.me/
The proprietary software is always going to be there (unfortunately).

The precise hardware layout of an FPFA is important for performance and a trade secret. Proprietary software algorithms can squeeze more out of the fixed hardware.
Patreon Founder (Jack Conte) - A great approach to running a site
I went to a job interview at the Brazilian National Laboratory of Synchrotron Light. Its the only particle accelerator in Latin America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laborat%C3%B3rio_Nacional_de_Lu...). When I got there the Taxi driver dropped me off about a 10 minute walk away and I had to walk down a dusty mud track in order to get to at the centre. It seemed such a weird contrast to the gleaming and modern facility itself that I asked the guy interviewing me at the end why they didn't build a proper road to it.

He said - 'Officially, there is a road there. We raised the money and the local authorities built it. It just never appeared.' I assume this kind of corruption is everywhere in Brazil.
Isn't there a big difference between asking users to opt in to "share" their data with Ghostery (which is what Ghostery says) and asking users to opt in to have their data (what data, btw?) "sold" to advertisers (which is what Ghostery does)?
The debate might be how Joe Public interprets that phrase. I'd bet that more people would think that 'cannot' means 'not possible', rather than 'not supposed to'. I think that choice of words was quite deliberate for exactly this reason.
I don't think it is unreasonable for an Apple salesperson to try to sell the Apple product, but I think its even better if they choose and are allowed to recommend competitors when they have the more appropriate product. I was just curious to know which way Apple staff did it.
Point number 3 are words I'd love to hear from more founders. Admittedly many need to take a salary too (since their site is what they do, but to be a user of your own product and have that passion for it is a great way to ensure you produce an awesome product.
>What I can say unequivocally is that if you are a U.S. person, the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls, and the NSA cannot target your emails … and have not.

So I'm screwed as a non-US citizen, and so are the 2.5billion people using the internet outside of US purview. Now I'm seriously considering a switch to safer alternatives.
The great thing about pulse-based neural networks (like a human brain) is that latency, as long as it's constant, is not an issue. In fact you'd want connections with a wide variety of different latencies. They should be random, but remain constant over the life of the simulation.

Plus you have to keep in mind that this is a simulation. Computer can't keep up ? Run it at half "real-time".
The end-less scroll of feeds in GR is not just a UI feature. It's an incredible/killer data feature that let you go back to the entire history of a feed (since GR start to capture the feed for anybody), even if you just subscribed to a new feed. It's content sharing at its finest.

GR is not just feed aggregator but the most complete feed archive ever existed -- am I the only one who realize this?

I don't think there'll be an adequate GR replacement, ever! unless G donates the feed archive to the public, which I think would be one of the best things G can do now.
I just mentioned Disconnect, but I make Disconnect. :-)

You should try the new Disconnect (Disconnect 2) which has a lot more features than Ghostery and is even rated higher by users than Ghostery is. We just launched Safari and Opera versions today (and are also available on Chrome and Firefox).
Nope. I only ever do the search trick after hitting the paywall, and it always works for me.
> "I actually got stuck early in the game by not remembering there is a run button."

I know exactly the bit!

Super Metroid is a fantastic game. Perhaps requiring a bit more dedication than is common today, but it is still a fantastic experience.
YES! This guy is an inspiration. As a musician I'm so happy that this is becoming a valid model of art distribution - rather than having to sign with a label and end up taking about 2% (ok, maybe it's not quite that bad) of sales.

Also, point 3. It's like WHAAAaAAAaAT?!

Moreover, the videos are extraordinary. Robots? Light shows? YESSSS! :D

All the good things to say about Jack Conte
This looks very good, will definitely try it out..
Well, we might have to disagree. Implying that it is just a matter of math is almost like saying that any programmer could just walk in the shoes of an EE by just doing some math. Which, of course, isn't even remotely true.

I have a high-school age kid. I taught him Java, C and chunks of PHP. He's already written a half dozen simple games. All of that in about a year of sporadic time. Now I am gettimg him started in electronics. The road ahead is far more difficult than learning to program in any language. Buying Arduinos isn't knowing electronics. There's a vast difference between using an Arduino and designing one. And, BTW, that's relatively simple embedded stuff.

I am not saying that a talented software guy can't learn to design with FPGA's. Not at all. Talented driven people can do anything with enough motivation. All I am saying is that EE doesn't magically turn into software development just because one is using an FPGA. Examples of the complexity and range of disciplines required abound, things like thermal design, signal and power integrity are disciplines in and of themselves that are often the domain of specialized EE's in design teams. The first time I laid out a design with clocks ranging from tens of MHz to GHz, as an EE with excellent command of the science behind the task at hand, it took me months to get it right. That had to work perfectly before my FPGA design and embedded code had even the slightest chance of making the board go.
Done :-):

https://disconnect.me/
https://github.com/disconnectme
Wouldn't simply owning the DNS be more efficient?
مشاهدة مباراة الاردن وعمان
The reason that FISA warrant requests have such a high acceptance rate is because a federal prosecutor wouldn't ask for one unless they were certain it would be approved. They don't have to file a request every time a federal agent wants a warrant. They have the option to say "You need to gather more evidence".

They say a good trial lawyer won't ask a witness a question without knowing what the answer will be. FBI lawyers know the law and they know the judges, they won't just take shots in the dark when it comes to obtaining warrants. It's like asking why you have a 100% approval rate for your bank card purchases. If you know that you don't have enough money, you won't try to buy something.

Keep in mind that it's difficult to become a federal prosecutor and the job attracts intelligent people. The kind of lawyer that you see advertising on the side of a bus or a local DA trying to make a name for herself will try to push the envelope to get as much as they can. But high level corporate or government lawyers rarely sign their names to anything that isn't legally rock solid.

I just saw the Obama interview and he only hinted at this answer. As a Harvard trained lawyer he understands the system, but as POTUS he can't always be candid.
And I say it's shamanism, not science. It's very hard to prove something can't be done. Rather, "as of now, we know no way to do X". Time after time flaws are found in RSA, SSL, PGP. New number properties are constantly discovered. That's why it is - at least partially - security through obscurity.

The Pythagorean theorem doesn't get outdated ! Cryptography does.
A variation is to try run as normally as you can. Be honest; no goofing about. Try to run as normally as anyone can. Then have someone watching you run (again, honestly) exactly as you just ran.

It's both hysterical and horrifying, because what you think of as normal is anything but. And it's true for everyone.
You skipped something - besides the foreign entities that represent a perpetual threat, you also have the internal elements classified as "fierce civil libertarians", for now ;-)
Opt in for what? They say to "share" your data with Ghostery, but what they do is sell your data to advertisers. Shouldn't an anti-tracking solution be more transparent than the problem?
I'm old enough that I saw the original screenings of "The Jungle Book" and "The Shakiest Gun in the West" at the Huntridge. I was born in Vegas, my father was born in Vegas, his father moved here to work on the dam during the depression.

After helping Danny Greenspun start several local tech things in the early 80s, I made a break for Texas.

So, no, I'm not "local", even though as I type this I am in Vegas, helping my father deal with a bunch of crooked Mormons in Southern Utah.

Vegas could do worse than Hsieh, and people here should be happy that anyone is interested in rebuilding the unnatural act that is Las Vegas.
Last time I checked, most web services (or even telephone providers) are not keeping track of or verifying nationalities. Thus, any blanket surveillance means they are inadvertently spying on US citizens/persons.

Let's say you have an American, living abroad. He signs up for a Skype account. Skype does not verify nationality or identity. He starts using Skype to call phones in some country the NSA finds suspicious (say, Afghanistan). A dragnet which would intercept these communications automatically would be illegal, as one of the parties was a US Citizen... and they would need a warrant.

The whole thing is ridiculous. The whole question of "do I need a warrant or not" requires you to prove that you do not. But to whom? You are in the pre-warrant phase... Crazy.
So what's the solution then? I don't see a better alternative...
I hope not - because then it means that roaming isn't made free, but rather that giving you a good deal that only works on your home network - even if you want it and never travel - becomes illegal.

This means that any business development that you can't agree with all of Europe on isn't going to happen. One country with poor 3G/4G infrastructure can block large, cheap data packages all over the EU.

No, I hope the regulation is that providers have to sell access wholesale to foreign competitor at the same rate they sell it to themselves (or national MNVOs or something) - meaning roaming won't be free, it just won't be more expensive than getting a local SIM.
> You can make more money from lifetime customers than you can one-time customers.

Exactly. And not only that, as TFAA did you may well get free advertisement to friends, family and the internet at large about how nice and human the experience was likely bringing in multiple lifetime customers.
"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person." -- Mark Twain
Chosen by vote, not by the number of visitors who clicked the outgoing link.
Charlie Rose gets lots of inside access and high-powered guests because his MO is to kiss up to powerful people, ask softball questions, and follow whatever plan he made for the interview, regardless of the answers he gets. He almost never asks useful follow-up questions, often doesn’t seem to pay any attention to what his guests have to say, and asks lots of moronic paragraphs-long yes-or-no questions (my favorite answer to one of these was from IIRC Bill Joy from maybe 15 years ago “[3 second pause] Well, Duh.”). As an interviewer qua interviewer, he’s the worst in public broadcasting. But of course, his show is still sometimes worth watching, because he ends up getting lots of great guests.
Back To The Future: Why Retro-Innovation Is The Next Big Thing
Are the 'traditional' algorithms really chosen because they are the best? I thought they varied by country/culture and they can't all be the best.

I also recently read that mnemonics fell out of fashion because lurid imagery worked best and that didn't sit well with conservative types. Seems strange to me that the fact based recall side of learning hasn't been seperated out properly.
I don't disbelieve you and that's fantastic, but here's some anecdata:

I recommend to my sis-in-law that she get a Air for her 13 year old son because I knew that the SSD makes a BIG difference.

The Apple shop sold her a MBP because quote "it's faster".

Yes, the cpu has a higher MHz but please.
right, the process is stacked against anything not "noted" by the MSM. Major open source initiatives have no page. It's just dumb.
Any plans to accept Bitcoin donations?
Ada-2012 separates engineers from poets
I like Disconnect (I only found it a few days ago), but I'm trying to find out more technical information about what it does without having to look through the code on GitHub. Basically, does it provide additional privacy features on top of ABP+Easylist+EasyPrivacy?

Also, why is it not listed on the Mozilla add-ons site? I barely found out about it. I think I was researching privacy extensions for Chrome and happened to click through to your website.
Old. July 2012...

EDIT: to clarify, the title is very confusing because it makes you think they just signed it. It should be completed by a "2012" in the end. That's why I was disappointed when following the link. Nothing new.
i think the NSA should only be allowed to spy on US citizens. i find it disgusting that they can be allowed to spy on anyone else in the world but when it comes to there own people everyones like, woah that not okay
I fully agree about pie charts, and generally love Tufte's work, but that tweet of his at the end just made me sympathise with pie chart users. A better analogy would be all caps, and/or unreadable fonts as they needlessly impede understanding without being easy mistakes to make.
gdb's C++ support leaves much to be desired, in my opinion.

Can you ask LLDB to never stop at certain functions or files? (like gdb's skip command except that unfortunately you cannot put that in your .gdbinit file). Very useful for skipping copy constructors, etc.

Can I use C++ syntax for overloaded operators? I.e., can I use A(1,1) for matrix object access instead of A.operator()(1,1) like gdb requires?

Can you wrap a class with some user defined script to simplify its interface for debugging? E.g., let the user browse and edit the elements of an STL vector without understanding the vector class implementation? (pretty-printing is implemented for gdb but Visual Studio does a much better job here!)
Click it! This was in the old design, just not as prominent
Yes, this is a failure of the Journalist. You job is to find the truth, if they are evasive you do not just shrug and move on.

As much as I dislike him the US needs a Jeremy Paxman who is willing to ask the same question 14 times in a row. (Yes, I know the reason he asked so many times was because they were running fast, he still had to have the balls to do it.)
Apple has guides for some of the easier-to-upgrade MacBook parts. [1][2] Wonder if they've ceased the practice because upgrading isn't as easy as it used to, or because iFixit's guides are generally of a higher quality.

[1] http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/MacBook_13inch_HardDrive...

[2] http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/MacBook_13inch_RAMdoor_D...
Lion was absolutely broken in terms of memory management from 10.7.0 through at least 10.7.3sh. (Beach Balls during pageouts, constant memory pressure, weird page-out while using Safari + Aperture - really made me miss 10.6.8) Things got much better in 10.7.4, and 10.7.5 has been so reliable and well balanced that I'm afraid to ever leave it.
G+ Team Finds Link Tag Fetches CSS 4x Faster (Median) than XHR
Yeah, I think later this week. (We actually had a Coinbase implementation before we launched, which we decided to pull last minute because we thought there was a little too much Bitcoin and Coinbase uncertainty at the time.)
Does this mean they know right from wrong? The article isn't very clear on what conscious awareness means.
I hadn't looked into LLVM at all until Emscripten came out, and before that I thought it was just a new C++ compiler.

I had a go at converting a C++ prog to Javascript with it ( http://www.fabfabbers.com/openscad/ ) , and was totally astonished it worked. Since then I've read up a lot on compilers and language design - fascinating stuff I didn't really appreciate at university.

If I were writing a new language today, I'd definitely just write an LLVM front end.
Ah, that's quite reasonable actually. Forgive my bitterness.
The US has this as well

Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and the Onion.

Sadly, they're some of the best journalism happening in the country at present, though I'll give a hat tip to Glenn Greenwald (though he's not in the country), Democracy Now, and a very few others.

And, sadly, jester as truth teller is an ancient tradition.

Much of the political (national) and business press have long since sold out their morals and credibility for the golden ticket of "access". I include PBS and NPR on this bill of indictment.
I have always wanted to make an extension which would use a random cookie (from any of the users) instead of just blocking ads. This would totally mess up their targeting and reports. It would not help the ad industry at all.

Given that I have spent years working in the ad industry and writing ad servers, this is somewhat ironic.
I use Ghostery to see what is being tracked rather than block it outright. Call me foolish but I never realised that blocking ads was the primary intended purpose of the tool, I've always just used it to check for missing analytics tags and so forth.
>What we need is certificate based email exchange between two email servers on a port other than 25. Similar to an HTTPS connection, the certificate process would allow for end-to-end encrypted email.

Anyone who cares about encrypted email is using pgp. We don't need anymore chains of certificate authorities we can't trust.
BBC’s draft Mobile Accessibility Guidelines
I understand the perf hit on the JVM can be terrible for some languages (less so for CLR), but it certainly is nice to immediately gain a massive set of libraries, as well as benefiting from the whole ecosystem of tooling.

As I understand, LLVM just provides the codegen part, right? (Mono has an LLVM option for codegen.)
> I don’t think anybody says we’re no longer free because we have checkpoints at airports.

Lies right there. It's difficult to call someone a liar because the scope is far reaching, beyond just one untruth or another. Would it be correct to say "Obama is a liar"?
Cabal and friends are awful compared to Bundler/Maven/etc.,even with the various wrappers available. Also, the tooling isn't that great compared to Scala or F#.
You'll enjoy this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KHMO14KuJk

(not american, sadly)
Indeed. Placing that super bomb on a whim in the water tunnel and having the effect it had after endless fruitless searching for the next place to go on the map is a very fond memory for me :)
Yeah... ummm.... I fed it an image of some of the most prominent women in computer science and half of them came up as dumb asses including Hedy Lamarr, inventor of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS.
How does consciousness imply morality?
lurker14, you're shadow banned. He/she said:

That's a special case, because RWS already exists (Reader, Writer, and State all commute), and wraps IO easily.

Light overview of the issue: http://ro-che.info/articles/2012-01-02-composing-monads.html

It's the other cases that get head-desk-banging. This paper is great, but shows what a high mental tax you pay to get highly-principled programs:

http://www.grabmueller.de/martin/www/pub/Transformers.en.htm....

At the end of the day, most people on most projects seem to prefer sacrificing some formal specification (and some actual correctness) for getting code running for the common case.

Related reddit conversation:

http://reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/rd2t5/i_love_rwst_r_w_s....
God forbid advertisers, who fund much of the content we consume online, get better at serving ads that are more relevant to the consumer.
Video: Dominic Verity on Category Theory (pt.2)
It's a trap...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSnp6iC_QUc
App Store Top Charts: A lesson on Apple's Priorities
Thanks for this insight from your experience. I was going to comment question this takeaway from the OP:

"Apple recognizes what few other retailers do: customer satisfaction starts even before a product is purchased, and it is customer satisfaction that makes companies great."

I had expected this was just an idiosyncrasy of that particular salesperson, but you make a good case that Apple intends for this behavior to be common. Thanks!
Candy Crush handles this well, I think, via facebook integration. Amongst other things, it shows you the top three scorers on a level out of your facebook friends.
Just used on my nas!
Thanks. Disconnect currently has the biggest list of tracking sites of any app (well over 2,000 sites). And our filtering engine is written differently than other apps (no slow regexes). In practice, we benchmarked the 1,000 most popular sites and found they loaded an average of 27% faster with Disconnect than without. I've also done some informal benchmarks of other apps (I should do a more formal study at some point) and can say Disconnect accelerates pages quite a bit more than them.

Mozilla's review process is too sluggish for us right now since we're still making changes to Disconnect 2 quickly. When things are more stable, we'll probably submit to AMO.
How to Make Your Business Presentation Memorable
Well, that was my motivation. It's been on the front page for 6 hours now. Obviously the flagging system is broken for popular off-topic submissions. (We are all in agreement that this submission is flagrantly off-topic, right?)
"but buyers have to order the cars online from California"

Sorry if a dumb question, but if you're in Texas how do they stop you buying online? I mean, how do they check? Do you have people using proxies in specific states to get around this?
Ways to scale your mobile app like a pro from Evernote’s CTO
> I and everyone else who isn't a US citizen really need to get our data out of there

Futile.

While your body may sit idle in a land subject to the queen, your thoughts travel into the independent American colonies with a click of a button. This comment, and yours above it, just did.
Or an iPod touch with a cloud storage option.
Websites are targets, not frameworks - if your site is targeted, it's the same thing as having your home-brewed 1 user framework targeted, and as long as you're making money and/or storing valuable client info this can happen anytime...
That paging drives me nuts, but nobody seemed to have the same issue. Thanks for posting the helping pointer!

(I'm afraid of disabling the dynamic pager, though, as I hit max physical RAM rather often.)