skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, i'm against patents, but i think if we have them they should be applied fairly and according to a clear set of rules instead. It's like saying, I'm opposed to government being involved in marriage, but if we are going to have it then homosexuals should be allowed to be married.

The only reason why the perspective seems confusing is because you're conflating process with molecules. In general any given claim of a patent can protect the molecule or the process. Myriad did not choose to claim the process, because the process is obvious. But having a process that is obvious does not necessarily make the molecule obvious.

Doing PCR is not innovative. But the process DOES transform one molecule into another, unless your primers are exactly flush with the end of the dsDNA - in which case it is merely a straight copying operation. OK? The molecule that comes out at the end has a different covalent structure than the molecule that you start with. Is that not true? if you don't believe that, then you would make the claim that octane 'is the same as' dodecane, because it's just a truncated version.

Also, it is not an exact copy of something in nature, unless that 'thing' is a data fragment. It is an original molecule, that copies the data, but the molecule is distinct. That is an important point. Molecule patents don't care about the abstract qualities of something (beyond proving that it's useful). Molecule patents only care about the structure of the molecule.
A tutorial that walks through building a Rails app that contains tests that run in parallel across 6 different browsers written by @verdi_michael
How do I find out if my name is on it?
As someone who enjoys food a lot, I still think that half of the joy in your life is way too much.

Maybe one third, at best. Reading, traveling, playing sports, driving and videogames are other fun things really fundamental in my life.

I don't want to think about 100 years ago. I want to think about 100 years in the future!
"Nowadays is GPG/PGP-ing your emails really that hard?"

Try convincing people to not use webmail and accept the fact that they cannot just check mail on whatever random computer they come across. I speak from experience: this is the biggest hurdle.
Could this not be them acting in his best interests? Giving a warning that they will be unable to help him while still looking strong to the Americans?
But it is indeed a good example for a catchy title :)
Are there any heavily supported projects that seek to replace email as we know it with a 'secure by default' implementation?

I.e. One that keeps the decentralized simplicity of email as it is today, whilst both securing it and removing the negatives, such as spam?

If Microsoft, Yahoo and Google got together they could flesh this out, and as long as the specifications were open and license free, then other third parties would start to develop SecMail servers.
The salt is different for EVERY secret. When you hash/store a new password, you randomly generate a salt for THAT password, and you store each salt & password together.

Because each salt is ~unique, the attacker must rebuild a separate dictionary for every single stored secret. That's functionally the same as having no dictionary, at all.
But communism was a made-up threat, just like terrorism is. They can ramp up the fear factor any time they want and now they have all that infra in place to support it.
They don't work for us. But we can vote them out of office.

Voting isn't meant to grant them power; it's meant to be a check on their power.
I've had great experiences with the Philadelphia CS community, as well. The one NYC event I attended was filled to the brim with "pickup artist" types.
double/triple/quadruple?

or

double/treble/quadruble?

I'm more familiar with treble being used in music but I'm aware of various uses of representing three in some way.

The idea being the English language is a fun thing.
>and have remained on the fringe for a reason.

Yea, for the same reason people who claimed the US was spying on everyone remained on the fringe.... until we had a bunch of evidence of it dropped on us.
>>Problem solved.

I wouldn't be so sure. Snowden was hinting at the NSA having the mechanism to break encryption. I lost the exact quote, but it was a direct response to the suggestion that we encrypt everything, and was something along the lines of, "you wouldn't even believe what the NSA is really capable of - it's scary."

Even if they don't have the means to get around encryption, you still aren't fully secure. What if you have a keylogger installed on your machine? What if the hardware itself has been designed to aid the NSA? Intel, after all, is one of their regular collaborators.
There's a surprising lack of information about this plane. From what I can tell, it's similar to the 787 (in that it's made from composites) but with marginally better fuel efficiency.

Does anybody know if it has a similar turbulence-dampening system? Or increased cabin pressure? As an airline customer, I don't really care about how many seats it has or its operating costs...
What freaked me out about this site is that I have the OSX Mavericks wave as my background and the gradient transition on the site is the exact same color scheme[1].

[1] - http://i.imgur.com/QCyUUVd.jpg
molecular biology can deal with probabilities that are lower than 1/the number of particles in the universe.
Why it's very simple, my friend:

(1) Just file a request with FEMA, DHS, or the FBI.

(2) Presto! Doing so will mark you as suspicious, and subject to surveillance, questioning, and/or internment during times of national crisis.
Meta Comment: Considering that Ars is mining their forum database and pissing off members/subscribers to post tabloid-style shaming articles about the NSA whistleblower, I believe the first step in privacy is to avoid visiting their web site ever again.
Hmm. Need to add my public key to my About page. Thanks for the reminder.

I wonder if I can add it to my LinkedIn profile?
Oh, it's worse than that.

I took three years of it in community college and could probably pick it up again in a hurry. If I did pick it up again, I could probably easily double my current (very reasonable) salary.

But I'll be damned if I go back to writing COBOL, and I know a great many programmers like myself who feel the same way. And (modesty aside for a second here) they tend to be the better programmers.

So you're left with the "for-the-paycheque" programmers writing COBOL, and the programmers who couldn't find a job they cared about more.

That's who's going to be rewriting all those mission-critical COBOL apps once people want to start expanding into more modern languages.
The BBC publish this rubbish and allow comments (heavily moderated) because it is in the interest of the establishment.

When Lee Rigby was murdered, every article on the BBC and across most British newspapers had comments turned off. Public discussion was curtailed.

Internet surveillance has nothing to do with the Woolwich killers. They were already known to MI5 and had been tracked for years. Instead of putting these people in prison, MI5 actually offered one of them a job as an informer.

Of course we don't want pre-crime... but it's curious how pre-crime is allowed when it comes to arresting protestors before they actually protest the Royal Wedding or just a few days ago in London where a house was raided because people were planning anti-G8 protests.
I wouldn't say CS has a "seedy underbelly". There's a few things that make sex an issue.

First off (like someone said) it's an online social network - there will be lots of creeps by default. But CS helps weed them out by encouraging references and friends. It's not perfect, but it's a good indicator of behavior.

Second, the whole point of CS is for (mainly) adults to socialize in foreign places. If my theory that the users are at least 50% single is correct, hookups are going to happen. CS even makes it easier by encouraging like-minded people to meet each other, and spend several days together.

Third, local communities that meet regularly form a kind of peer social network that will lead to people hooking up. That's any local community, be it an indie music scene, a foodie group, whatever. CSers who tend to get together locally are (imho) lonely and want to have fun with other people, so hooking up is more of an eventuality than a possibility.

I agree with you that very few (if any) of my CS meetings led to real friendship, but I didn't get into it to make new friends. I just like travel and meeting people.
Or Martha Stewart. She was jailed for insider trading right? (Or technically for lying during an investigation into it.) Wonder what she wouldn't tell the NSA.
802.11ac Promises Better Coverage, but Won’t Hit Advertised Speeds
Sure sure, same order of magnitude though.
It's not quite fair to say Java lacks polymorphism, it just doesn't extend to primitive types.
But they will know you are using Tor.
Thank you, Alexis. Well done.
What does the HN community use for bookmarking sites?
I am trying to find the most seamless bookmarking tool for my daily digestion of all things internet. What does the HN community recommend to save/search bookmarks. I use to use del.ic.ious. Right now im using evernote and it is a bit cumbersome.

Any suggestions?
A very cool response.
I can only regretfully say I have joined the Openrightsgroup
as they and I are based in the UK.

Same sh*t, different politicians.
Rockstart’s class of 2013: ready for action
I can't find the concrete idea behind this project..
It's Candy Crush's fault.
Facebook Hashtags Are Fundamentally Broken
This is ridiculous and valueless.

You could actually make some parallels, if you tried, based on an evaluation of quality. Because there are insights to be found in the field of film design, direction, art, immersion, fantasy, predictability, surprise, delight, emotional response; you name it. You could do that, and it would be valid. Contrived and hyped, maybe, but valid and probably even useful, because analogies are useful—in fact there are entire studies done that say that analogy is basically the way we take in new information best.

Instead, you did nothing, which is worth exactly nothing, and the worst part, you'll be rewarded for it because of some anti-pop-culture meme-train that enjoys people who hate things, making your post not only nothing, but nothing that's amplified. So it is, in fact, worse than nothing.

Thanks for nothing.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2013/06/google-wan...

"The FISA requests don't already show up in Google's regular transparency reports because they are top secret, according to the law. So now Google wants to tell the world exactly how much they cooperate with the U.S. government."

So now that a whistle blower has tell us all about it, they want to come clean. Of course we know that there is now a "FOSA" program, which is the new top-secret program, which nobody will tell you about, until a whistle blower tells us about it - in 13 years.

That I call lying.
Doesn't cabin noise become white noise after a while? That has been my experience with trans-Atlantic flights.
You've just been added to the "List".
What incident should she have reported? The guy was strange? It was something in this anecdote but he could just been awkward. Your response is especially bizarre given that this attitude is exactly what led to the NSA scandal we're seeing now.
Can the cloud can offer "infinite" power to the Xbox One?
"One does not simply produce a console that everyone fears will be spying on them for the NSA"

- Ned Stark
The whole point of CDBaby was to make selling music super accessible to anyone. He couldn't cheapen the product by doing so, as that was the product.

Whether Apple felt otherwise is perhaps the point of his post. He thought their goals coincided with his, but it looks like they had other ideas.
I'd first wonder about cost (hence my anecdote about $300 nutritionally complete goo-in-a-bag meals), then about completeness (side effects may be preferable to alternatives). Other products may exist which are what Soylent aspires to.

Seems a big part is that the Soylent guy just decided to DIY for fun, it went viral, and he went entrepreneur. If you've got would-be customers banging down your door, you don't respond with "somebody else makes something like it", you monetize the opportunity.
that sounds like a formula for a true intellectually elitist society. The people's opinions should be heard equally if at all.
Occupy São Paulo
LET'S GO, COME ON!
It's tough to report "something didn't feel right" as an incident, though...
Just noticed, Chrome Incognito warned us about secret agent spying
Title is total link bait. Article says 3.5% of Android phones clocks are off by 15s and that in some cases there are time zone edge cases causing it to be off by an hour. This is not what the title conveys.
No, you're normal. Couple things though: The knowing how to fix it when it breaks isn't a real problem in my experience with Java... the stuff that tools tend to generate for you is so boilerplate there's not much mystery there, so I never felt abstracted from the meat of the programs, really.

The Java language, while I was using it, was very slow to change or evolve. Tools, on the other hand, didn't suffer from the bike-shedding and lack of leadership, so they evolved quickly to solve the pragmatic problems they could solve. When I decided to look around and choose a language to re-invest myself in I looked very closely at leadership.. Who the BDFL was (and whether one existed), how the language was evolving, and what the values of the community were. That meant more to me than syntax, though of course they're related.

Sort of like "watch the player, not the ball" advice you get in soccer.
the best medium.com post so far.
From a fact based analysis, it's not bullshit. Read your history, look at current situation as data to be sifted through and it's obvious that the reality is different from the popular image portrayed.
They appear to take a SHA1 Checksum from an unencrypted (non-HTTPS) website to verify the integrity of the download.

Surely if you're worried about the integrity of the file you should also be worried about the integrity of the source website also?
> Copyright should be 5 years by default, for free, but you can extend it every 5 years up to 20 years, but you'd have to pay say $1,000 every time.

I'd much prefer a regime with a short free period (I've always used 7 years, but 5 is close enough), after which you have to extend it by declaring a value and paying an an annual ad valorem tax on the declared value (say, 1-2%).

The declared value would be the basis for a limitation on damages in infringement suits, and would also constitute a binding offer to transfer the copyright on the work to the public domain on a tender of payment of the stated amount.
Does your product use APIs? Submit it to API For That
Dotcom alleges Megaupload raid was part of deal to film The Hobbit
I've been doing public speaking for a while now (e.g., my TED talk was back in '09 http://www.ted.com/talks/alexis_ohanian_how_to_make_a_splash...) but live TV 'debate' is a whole 'nother beast.

You're talking about my first 'debate' on MSNBC (it pains me to link to it but....)
http://upwithchrishayes.msnbc.com/_news/2012/01/15/10161056-...

Yeah, I was totally unprepared for that format (my first 'debate') and it was covered in failsauce. I just couldn't believe he'd so brazenly lie like that, interrupt, etc. The feedback on reddit and HN was pretty helpful, though, and the day of the blackout I was on literally every other network much better armed.

(shameless plug: I write about all of this in great detail in my forthcoming book, Without Their Permission)

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/01/18/exp-poi...

http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ol56z/reddit_found... (never do an interview on a cell phone)

http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/1400506693001/websites-go-dar...

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/83688294-reddit-com-oppositio...

The next time I was invited for a debate (fast company conference in NY) it was a different story, imho: http://www.fastcompany.com/1834779/reddit-cofounder-bands-ex...
ASK: is there a github for 3d objects?
is there a github(version control) for 3d objects?
That's one option. Another option is insisting they be removed so that you're no longer exposed to the costs of damage incurred by the imposition of socially dubious programs.
There's a lot of good content on Medium. For instance. I'm a big fan of shanly: https://medium.com/@shanley
Have them use Hush, or any number of the in-browser GPG/PGP extensions that will encrypt your gmail then! At least their webmail is encrypted then (and Hush integrates with most of the notable PKI servers). You have to start them somewhere, just lamenting about it isn't going to change anything. I've moved my family and friends into GPG over the lsat few years and now I receive GPG-encrypted mail more often than not.
But those aren't mutually exclusive under U.S. law. All these programs now have FISA warrants, so at least one court "ordered" them. I assume you are unhappy with FISA as it stands, but how would you change it? If you're going to require the NSA to name each and every person whose data they might want to collect, you're going to drastically limit their ability to collect information from foreign sources in an era of throwaway email addresses and burner phones.
If you haven't already, buy noise cancelling headphones. It's amazing the difference they make. The almost completely cut out the droning noise.
It is news when actually they are allowed to and their own government is lying to them about the law.
He probably just wants to read about development without 70% of the front page being about NSA stuff. I'm pretty new here, but as far as I know this isn't National Security News, it's Hacker News. Not wanting to see it on HN specifically doesn't mean you're okay with it. I know it's a big deal, but it's getting annoying to me too.
But not nearly as much gain as investing directly in things for the general public.
You have to accept that the rules of the fight are broken to acknowledge that the fight must be won by breaking the rules, and to act on that you have to surrender your comforts provided by those rules. People will never do that in any state of relative comfort.

As a vindictive mofo, my approach now is to help them step on the nail so I can say 'told you so'. This approach was very fun in respect to the Patriot Act, HLS, etc and the now resulting NSA crap. Join me on the dark side.

#edit well the second bit was addressing the previous rampant down-voting you had received.
Also "People standing behind you".
> Oh well, better in their hands than Oracle's.

One might think that but it has surprisingly not been true.

Oracle, already the owner of InnoDB, now owning the entirety of mysql has been able to stop fighting with Sun and push out awesome features at a high rate. Just to name a few since Oracle took over:

* Big performance improvements for multi-core.

* Performance Schema

* Full-text engine for InnoDB

* Thread pools

* Improved support for SSD

* Online schema updates

MariaDB forked at 5.5 and is going to be missing lots of really nice features. They can back port some of it but they aren't going to be able to keep up very well. They have their own implementation of some of these features which, given their small user base, I do not trust as much as the versions implemented in MySQL proper.

Also given that MariaDB was forced to merge with SkySQL to survive I just don't see a bright future for MariaDB as long as Oracle continues to improve MySQL like it has been.
This does not ring true. "Developers?" If you substituted the word "publishers" for "developers" THEN it makes more sense. Surely any engineer working on Xbox knows the difference.
In all fairness, it does sound like a horrible place to live. I mean, on top of all the problems he listed, you guys also have awful weather. :)
Only if you're flying in F
I've been to a couple events in NYC, and while the new york skeezeball types are there, there were other nice people (mostly the foreigners) to talk to, so I enjoyed it.

The DC community is huge - transplant cities will lend themselves to social networks full of strangers, and especially in a capitol city, so in a way it's perfect. But the changes to the website absolutely destroyed the way the community interacted. Nearly everyone has fled to Facebook and phone trees.

In the end, it's all about what you're trying to get out of it. I stopped going to happy hours and dance clubs and started going out hiking, biking, skiing, road trips, etc with CSers and it's been much more rewarding.
The EU does not have it's own singular intelligence agency. It's not a country. EU states may have their own but there's a big difference between the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden in terms of approach.
> But there's nothing in this article that indicates that either Senator Feinstein or Senator Nelson was using the word in anything but the ordinary sense.

Supporting implication is in the video in the article. Listen all the way through the video.
Democracies are big, messy, and very much imperfect things. They have good sides, and bad sides, and don't always behave how we think they ought to. Like the quote says, democracy is a terrible way to run a country; it's just better than all the others.

Labeling the whole thing as "dead" is pure hyperbole, and probably a lame excuse not to get involved and do the hard work that is necessary to change broken stuff.

If it were dead and nonexistent, then people would not have been able to liberalize marijuana use in Colorado and Washington, nor approved measures allowing gay people to marry the people they love in several states.
Reddit AMA with Dave Fecak (recruiter and Job Tips For Geeks blogger/author)
This is a big deal as it continues the global investments by China, which should not be scary, but viewed as the global infrastructure investments that the US used to make, but is being pushed aside. I also think this says a lot about the progressive states being developed in Central & South America (Argentina, Nicaragua, Venezuela) and how they have prospered after having been less of a focus of US foreign policy post 9/11

This is likely to be much larger than the Panama Canal, which may be unable to hold the larger tanker ships that are becoming the norm in global shipping, so it really may be a necessity.
Actually, Game of Thrones can teach us a lot about UX design: kill your darlings.
The entire conecept of pre-crime is everyone is a suspect, and you can never be proven innocent because you haven't yet committed the crime you are alleged to eventually commit.

It's scary stuff yet surprisingly innevitable given the direction of AI.
Absolutely! This sort of jingoism at corporate level, the sort of moral imperative front-facing cleverly marketed idealism is the new religion, I swear. I can understand when a company puts itself "out there" with "Being the best" or "Customer first" or some bullshit like that. But when the rhetoric enters the realm of good ol' fashioned morality and talks about Good and Evil .. yoh! ... Our bs sensors should now be howling, thanks to companies like Google.
I'm fine with spending public money for research done by domestic students or those foreign students who have stated their intention to stay in the US and have their path to citizenship approved in advance. For other students the university should pay for it out of their endowment. In other words the public's money should be spent judiciously, not frivolously.
We have come to a weird point in the evolution of the web when people will sincerely say something like, "I was pleasantly surprised to click on that ridiculous link and find no actual content."
Are there good noise cancelling headphones < $100? I'm not interested in paying Bose $300. It doesn't seem like good ones should cost so much. By "good" I mean degree of noise cancellation, not quality of stereo speakers in the earphones.
Microsoft Office for iOS
Better that than them knowing exactly to whom and how much you are communicating.