skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...the point is to gets 10s of millions. Simply because they are already making a lot does not mean they should avoid optimizations. If they had that attitude, they would have "stopped" at whatever number was deemed to be enough. "Why make X change, they are already makings 100s of millions with the appstore?" A business's goal is to maximize profit. This is a clear option that has minimal costs in comparison to the returns that even you recognized. You are trying too hard not to be wrong.
Do you have any plans to support Seamonkey?
> but when they went on the road selling snake-oil about their trivial HSV "paint mixer" I really started to see the negativity in the hype.

Why blame the entrepreneur for media hyperbole?

Tech media lately is full of hired journalists from traditional(sic) media. Many claim to be tech journos but only a handful understand technology. Guess it's a pattern similar to how mainstream reports on Snowden rather than real issues.
Thunderbolt Dock would be the dream...

I settle for an external USB hub, wireless keyboard and mouse, and outboard audio. It does enough to reduce the number of things I have to plug.
Solar charging in New York a reality
No, please DON'T get a room. I am learning something by seeing the (polite) debate played out in a public forum.
He just mentioned under 702 they DO get content, but it "can only be used against non-US citizens and on non-US soil"... So.. how do you confirm that if all you have is metadata?
Maybe you are trying to hide your physical location.
Bilderberg?
My overwhelming reaction:

So what?
A few notes on the Culture [1994]
The other interesting bit of this strategy is how OS X serves as the wedge that forces people to take the bitter pill and recalibrate their idea of pro computing. Any other hardware company wouldn't have the clout to avoid losing massive marketshare in a move like this.
Outlook.com is phasing out support for multiple email addresses
At present, ethically-raised animal meat is not practical on a mass scale.

Also, this is a ridiculous justification for meat eating, since lions cannot reason about morality.
Yet the system can only figure with 51% probability whether or not an entity being targeted is, in fact, foreign or US-born.
Isn't one idea behind Bitcoin anonymity? Then I would blow my identity when I pay in a pub right?
It's an SEO article. The purpose is not to be readable but to be stuffed with keywords. "Julian Assange" is a hot one right now.

If I could downvote this article, I would.
That was related to a phone company, not for the internet. The internet providers give me a reasonable expectation of privacy. The point is, this hasn't been tested via the justice system because it was hidden. Therefore the simple explanation that it was a court decision previously (to something similar, but not explicit) is not very comforting.
Care to point out where the law makes that clear? It's my understanding that communications to/from "foreign entities" are subject to monitoring; as are any communications which have been routed outside the continental US, without regard to the endpoints.
According to their latest tax returns Facebook and Apple have a net loss in the US so if anything they should pay the government a commission for sending customers to their more profitable offices in Ireland and the Caribbean.
It's not like you are a teenager, both of you have enough experience in adulthood.
Yes, however will Facebook fight spam without blocking Tor...

http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
Why Silicon Valley likes Obama’s patent troll offensive
As a person "outside the united states and not a US person" this doesn't fill be with confidence about using US based internet services. It also doesn't give me much confidence about communicating with "US persons".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland
Huawei reveals Ascend P6 - world's 'slimmest' smartphone
In terms of storage costs, a phone call can be compressed and stored quite efficiently
> The fact that there is massive amount of evidence is not reason enough for you?

Well, it certainly wasn't for the people that created and passed this law in multiple european countries... Why should it be for him, then?
Is it me or are most (all?) of these hearings against companies or agencies in this case - a joke? I've watched some of them lately, and the Congressmen always seem to be butt-kissing the company or agency they are supposed to investigate.

These past 2 hearings don't seem to intend to shed any light on this. They seem to be held to help protect whatever NSA is doing.
Exactly. Personally, I'd be playing the currency markets if I had access to all this data. I'm curious how many people who are monitored are politicians and financiers (bankers/investors). The potential to abuse other economic markets relative to your own is enormous.
What Gödel’s incompleteness result does and does not show
They are already tracking what the user owns, what the user has installed on the device, and needs to be updated on each device the user owns, hell if you have genius turned on they track how much you use each app, or listen to each song. But whoa buddy filtering a top ten list is way to hard?

to gain what To not annoy users and gain a little bit more of that perfection they are known for. Increase purchases by a few percent. Not striving hard when you are at the top is how you end up in MS, IBM, and every other fallen giant's shoes.
Yup. I just upgraded to an iPhone 5 and I was asked why I wanted the 64gb model. My 32gb 4S was full. :)

The employees also had decent knowledge of how AT&T's service plans worked and were as to answer all of my questions. The service at the AT&T store at the same mall was a slap in the face.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
I would imagine it's still very good, at least on the theoretical side.

Hungary has perhaps the strongest mathematical tradition of any country, particularly in graph theory and other combinatorial math.
If you run a small business and a gruff-looking man comes in muttering something about "The Perf Room", be nervous.
Absolutely true, however they were complicit in the snake oil pitch, offering up quotes that were technically questionable, claiming some innovation that simply didn't exist. The alternate scenario is that some developers churned for a year and then led a manager on about how magical what they created was.

http://goo.gl/jItcf
Wrong. If the majority of potential supporters are on Facebook, an activist needs to be on Facebook.
None. I've stopped using RSS completely. It was an awful time sink.
See what your brain lacks if you don't read fiction
Solaris/illumos have been running containers for almost ten years now. They're just a layer of abstraction on the other side of the OS layer - a different tool, not necessarily a better one.
It seems to me the bandwidth of retrieving all these Petabytes of data from the various networks into your storage space is more of a bottleneck than the cost of storing it.
Please, add "Tiny Tiny RSS".
The largest artificial neural network is at Stanford, not Google
I've switched to Feedly. I was using NewsBlur before, but NewsBlur has a cluttered interface and makes it difficult to concentrate on the content.
I moved to Newblur and have no regrets. I use the web site and the Android app.
I haven't switched yet. What I would like to have is the reader that is basically the same as the old good Google Reader:

- be web based
- be cross platform (so I can use it on phone and desktop)
- be light on network and fast to load
- have simple design
- should have folders
- sort by oldest
- mark all as read (in the folder)
- be optimized for text, not pictures

and that's pretty much all.
What it shouldn't have is:

- fancy design
- too much pictures
- ads
- unused empty space
- feed discovery and any "social" features

Of course, it should also be free.

In the end, I might just as well backup my feed list for the reference, but try to live without RSS reader for a month or two, just to check do I really want to switch to another one.

In the end, I might even consider some lightweight self hosted variant.

EDIT: Thanks for the suggestions.
Speaking as a US Person... Honestly, thank God for this. Hopefully lots of non-US-persons vote with their dollars and feet on this issue. I think the financial impact has better odds at moving the needle on US public opinion than flogging our representatives with regard to civil liberties or privacy.
AMD's first ARM processor
Still waiting and watching here. My setup is a desktop reader (Feed Demon) synced with Google reader. I have found no viable alternatives yet. Most seem to be concentrating only on web-based alternatives and desktop aggregators are left in the dust. I am not online all the time. Personally I'm waiting to see which provider RSSOwl will end up using for sync, although the prospect of using a Java GUI app is never appealing.
The rights recognized by the Constitution are human rights. We are not granted those rights by any law. Our Constitution simply recognizes rights we inherently possess due to the fact we are human beings.

To say that other people do not possess those rights implies that the Constitution is granting US citizens those rights, not simply recognizing those rights. Its a subtle but very important difference.
I'm coming up with the same as you. You have to make your 9th move sub board match the greater board location, so in this case NW board and NW corner. Now wherever they move will send you to a different board, where you can make the move there to the NW corner, and they are forced back to the NW board. Repeat until you have two in a row on most of the boards and you should be able to make the win.
I have a feeling that Feedly will run away with this...
Lost me at the 10pm meeting time.
The loss of the hard drive bays really doesn't worry me (is anyone doing serious work really not working off a big RAID or a SAN?), and my audio interfaces have been external for years...

The only thing I might want is a PCI-Express slot for a RED ROCKET card (it's a hardware decoder for 4K+ video from RED cameras) but I've never really felt the urge to splurge for one of those - both Final Cut Pro X and Premiere Pro are good enough at decoding it with the CPU and GPU even on my MacBook Pro so the Mac Pro should have no problems with it... The only time I feel it is rendering (you can work in 1/4 res [a bit more than 1080p] but for finishing you want full quality even if you're downscaling). And if I did want one, there are a number of adaptors that work with them...
Switched to Feedbin, totally happy, no issues, simple clean interface. Works great with Reeder.
Like many, I've found myself using RSS less and less over the years, but it's still a handy way to keep up with sites that don't update frequently (whereas TechCrunch, say, is more easily followed on Twitter or e-mail due to the heavy flow).

But after trying a ton, I've switched to NewsBlur. Why? It's basically Google Reader done right. So many of the others try to be rather different to Reader or go overboard with 'social' features and that's not what I want, so as a near facsimile of the Reader model, NewsBlur gets my vote.
Yes, and we block tor as well for this reason. It's mainly used by spammers and trolls on our site. Unfortunately tor doesn't/can't do anything about its spam problem (unlike hidemyass who will kick off trolls). This means it's pretty much useless for anyone wanting to use it legitimately because eventually some asshole will get you blocked.
I switched to Feedly, though I had actually been using it long before I had to switch (it was basically just a frontend to google reader). It isn't missing any features I need so I can't complain. The android app works and syncs as expected. No complaints.
"I guess I'm unsure why I would use an FPGA over say an Arduino microcontroller."

Its unfortunate no one replied. First you upload an arduino reference design into the FPGA and continue working normally. This takes up about 1% of the FPGA gates, and leaves about 200 unused I/O pins (depending on FPGA device of course) and it probably runs faster than the real thing. (It also probably draws about 10 times the current...).

Next, instead of you writing a bit-banged I2C interface, you download, include, configure, and synthesize a smart semi-intelligent I2C peripheral into your synthetic arduino on a I/O pin that doesn't exist in the real thing. Now your arduino source code to debug shrunk by perhaps 200 lines and the I2C is faster. Now your FPGA is 2% full and 98% empty.

Hmm, what if instead of polling that pin in my arduino and/or going interrupt based, I simply included a whole picoblaze CPU core to do nothing but baby sit that input pin while outputting the correct servo signal... And the arduino sets it up and controls it as a very smart peripheral. Well, download, include, configure, synth, upload... Now your FPGA is like 7% used and 93% empty.

Eventually your virtual arduino does pretty much nothing but UI. You can replace that with a CPU core of your choosing and OS and language of your choosing, simply upload it instead of the virtual arduino.

Repeat a zillion iterations and thats how you started with an arduino and ended up with a MIPS UI written in C++ (why? Why not?) controlling a 8051 based thermostat coprocessor using a smart I2C controller to talk to the temp sensor and a smart servo pulsetrain generator to automatically make the servo signal.

Or perhaps it gradually iteratively moves from an arduino to what amounts to a specific model of the MIPS based Microchip PIC32. Why? Who knows maybe you want a single chip $3 solution instead of an $30 arduino solution, or a $300 FPGA solution. Because your FPGA model of a PIC32 is pretty close to the real thing, the porting of your software from the virtual PIC32 to a real PIC32 only takes 15 minutes or so... So you end up not actually using a FPGA in the final product even though it started with an Arduino and ended up on a PIC32.
Concepts of Oracle Database
I switched to following Twitter accounts from the websites I subscribed to. It isn't as nice since I'm not incentivized into clicking the whole story (as I would oftentimes read the body anyway in Google Reader), but it fits into my "procrastination flow" and allows me to get related comments from Twitter at the same time as the story.
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Can you elaborate on a few of your claims here?

First, you seem to imply that a privately-owned public space is a bad thing. What alternatives do you envision? Wouldn't a space regulated and controlled by governmental entities or NGOs be just as liable to abuse?

Second, when you speak about "Facebook," what do you mean? Do you mean that the people who work there don't care about helping people connecting there? That Mark Zuckerberg personally doesn't care? Or that the corporate entity of Facebook has some sort of conscious will of its own separate from the will of its employees?

Third, you seem to imply there's an obvious reason why Facebook blocked TOR that furthers their business interests. Can you elaborate on what that is?
It is interesting to consider the purpose of the NSA Utah Data Center given the space and cost requirements for storing phone calls are beneath trivial (3e17 bytes, < one floor of an office building and < $0.1B).

At 1.5M square feet, it could hold 344 copies of the national phone call audio database, based on the OP areal estimate.

An unconfirmed report [0] asserts the center will store 5e21 bytes. World internet traffic is 3e21 bytes in 2012

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettabyte
In praise of telegrams, the original social network.
You should a "self made" option.
I've tried quite a few and am now on NewsBlur. It's not perfect but it's the closest I've seen to your list (which was also my list of priorities too).
cryopreservation

That's not what I was talking about.

Reviving frozen minds

Frozen. Minds. Say What?

will likely require some form of basic molecular nanotech,

Wild assertion.

and this same technology can in principle convert dirt to habitats on Earth and in space.

Wild speculation.

To sum it up - you have nothing.
Asserting "OH the tech we will have by then will magically fix it and we will live in space" is not a solution. It's not relevant to you and me anyway because we will likely not be able to backup and restore minds during our lifetime.

Additionally, bodies frozen today will NEVER be revived because the body and brain are utterly damaged in the process (http://www.skepdic.com/cryonics.html).
Bitcoin is the opposite of anonymous, every transaction is available in the public ledger.

You can build anonymity on top of it by using throw away accounts, but it's not an inherent part of the system.
HackNY announces its largest class ever
(If it exists, and they have the correct model ...) This particle is composed by 2 quarks and 2 antiquarks. One possible combination of the colors is painting the 2 quarks red and the 2 antiquarks antired, so the total color is "0". Another possibility is 1 red and 1 blue quarks and 1 antired and 1 antiblue aniquarks. There are many combinations but it's possible to combine them in a way that the total color is "0". (Inside the particles, they interchange the color "constantly", so the exact colors don't mater.) (There are some technical details, that involve the symmetry properties, but this is the main idea.)

The problem is that this system can split in two subsystems with total color "0" (for example, a pion and a J/psi mesons, or two D mesons. Each one of them is composed by a quark and an antiquark with opposite colors. The exact decomposition depends on the details of the theory. The discussion is if this is a real particle or are only two D mesons traveling together.

An easy conclusion from the color theory is that we will never [1] see particles with for quarks, because it's impossible to sum 4 colors and get "0". This proposed particle has 2 quarks and 2 antiquarks, so it's possible but no particle of this kind has been confirmed.

[1] (unless we use an incredible^10 amount of energy, and perhaps neither in that case)
You would get the publisher black-listed by e.g. google.
This would target the wrong people.
Whoa. That is frightening. Limited terms only? Let me guess, the current administration gets to choose whatever judges they want to preside over the FISC rulings made during their tenure.
CareCloud Raises $20 Million in Series B
There was a rough precursor to the Atlantic - the Iapetus Ocean:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iapetus_Ocean

Scotland and England were on different sides of this ancient ocean...
Yes, unless the Facebook account has only ever been accessed via Tor, and the personal information (name, age etc) faked.

I'm unsure if Facebook blocked signups from Tor however.
Newsblur, I'm not overly happy or anything, but it works.

What I'd really like is some kind of RSStalking with heavily filtered social networking built in.

I've unfollowed a multitude of feeds since switching to newsblur though. I think it might be because of the face that it's harder to categorize the feeds in newsblur and I've started reading feed by feed. The ones with a couple of posts that I don't want to read quickly get unfollowed.
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>a federal prosecutor wouldn't ask for one unless they were certain it would be approved.

Yes they would, over the course of a dozen years and many investigations, federal prosecutors would most certainly push the envelope of what is allowed to expand their power/capability, or if nothing else, to discover what the actual boundaries are.
If your problem is with hypocrisy, then there are two solutions. One is the path you took, to be a vegetarian, and the other is to simply not have a problem with eating a cute bunny wabbit.

> Regarding tastiness, Indian vegetarian food (particular aloo, gobi is far tastier than anything with meat in and you can grow ALL the ingredients yourself if you want without having to shovel a single turd.

In your opinion.
What if o took the centre of the board?
other — shrook. But not switched. Never trusted google in the first place.
France and Germany launch open source collaboration
We've forgotten that, internal passport checkpoints, arrest without articulated cause, search without warrant, warrantless surveillance, national IDs, and a whole lotta other things which used to be mentioned as code for the worst oppressive governments and which are now widely accepted as normal, even demanded, by the masses.

There's a whole lotta people who figure this isn't going to get fixed without things breaking.
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I just looked back through parts of Koch's book. He was indeed talking about IIT. The wiki article on IIT is interesting, I didn't realise IIT had such a rigorous mathematical definition! I'll read further.
It is very hard to get downstream incentives to match the incentives on making the thing. Here are some made up numbers. Suppose that a car costs $25k new. Then manufacture might cost $15k, amortized R&D might be $5k, and profit $5k. After 3 years the car might be worth $15k and the projected lifetime value of being able to try to resell that used, fix, etc might be $5k. Using these made up numbers, profits and lifetime value are about balanced. Unfortunately for the car owner, resource allocation decisions are entirely based on marginal costs. R&D is not a marginal cost - it is a sunk one. Thus selling a new car adds 2x as much to the bottom line as the lifetime value of maintaining it longer. Guess what gets discarded?

Remember, this is the industry which inspired the term "built-in obsolescence". It is also the industry which found it profitable to buy regional transit companies, and run them to the ground to encourage people to buy new cars instead. There is a certain level of distrust backed by history here.
Adapting To A Responsive Design (Case Study)
Sounds a lot like Three Men's Morris. Nifty.
I'm actually using more RSS now that there are better than Google Reader alternatives and I forced to migrate. Thanks newsblur!
People say this? Apple's products are clearly well designed and engineered.

I think Samsung is doing phenomenally well because of marketing and getting the telecoms to push their phones hard (financial incentive?)
Just think of the kind of blackmail material the NSA would have on our representatives under this program. All it would take is "probable cause", which seems very easy to get, to unearth that data and start blackmail or expose the person. These programs give the NSA an incredible amount of power, and it's easily misused.
Bloglovin rocks.
I started to switch everything (cloud stuff, Android) to open source that I can host myself in case I need to in the future.

I've switched to Owncloud, hosted at Hetzner. It was really easy to install and does pretty much everything I want (RSS reader, Dropbox clone, contacts, calender, Google Music clone).

I tried Newsblur, but the interface was too complicated for my taste and the Android app was not very stable.
I switched to newsbeuter
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For the same reason the original Macintosh had no arrow keys or why the iMac didn't have a floppy drive or internal slots.
I think Apple should keep their software out of the top 10, but I think there is a bit of social reinforcement by having stuff you own in the top 10. You can feel like a taste maker if you got an app before it made it to the top 10, feel like part of the in crowd because you own 1, 2, and 3 etc. Editorial list? Sure filter the heck out of it.