skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are animals certainly but there is strong evidence that complex vertebrates (humans, big cats, etc) can adapt behavior from prior experience. It's a pretty big stretch to claim that we are unthinking and hard-wired.
Marco's hit the nail on the head with this one.

During our seed round, we had an angel promise us what we thought was a small fortune (!00k) on the condition that 80% of it be used to pay for chart-boosting apps.

We thought hard about it and even got on a few calls with US companies (recommended to us by others in the community) who said they invoked a variety of "white-hat" techniques (whose vague descriptions sounded quite grey to me...) to guarantee a quick rise in rankings and app store success. These are companies that are operating despite Apple making efforts to stop this gaming of the app store.

Ultimately, we were not comfortable with accepting the term sheet with this clause and we never closed on the deal. I'm thrilled that this happened and I didn't have to give a dime to these sleaze balls.

Creating a system that's based on download count rather than curation at this scale isn't good for Apple and it isn't good for iOS Users. There is awesome stuff coming out of both indie dev shops and bigger development houses alike. Apple would do well to drive users towards software that makes its devices sing than to reward whoever has engineered an insidious viral loop or brought a briefcase of cash down to Boston black hats.
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If I remember correctly, instead of only allowing three edges to emanate from a vertex, you can have four. All other rules are the same. Apparently, in that set up, the the first player either always wins or loses depending upon whether the number of initial vertices is odd.
The first of these doesn't follow the same rules as OP. It seems that you can retake a board if you get a new row in a box that has already been won.
Facebook is supposed to be a site where you use your real identity and therefore seems like a bad choice for activists trying to keep their identity hidden. Twitter seems like a better solution which is still mainstream and the public nature of it makes it easier to communicate with the outside world.
I agree and have seen this in action. My last MBP I had to buy in store to get a certain discount. At first I was annoyed that the salesperson kept probing while waiting for the other salesperson to get my MBP. After a bit of back and forth he explained exactly what you did here. He wanted to make sure I was getting what I needed and if it saved me money in the process so be it. So props to Apple and it's another reason why I've stuck with Apple laptops since the G4 Powerbook days.
I think intent matters here.

If I exchange currencies because I intend to buy goods & services with it, then it's no different than stopping by a Thomas Cook/Travelex.

However, if I'm trading in & out of Bitcoin because I'm arbitraging it, then I'm a trader, not a traveler. And should pay tax on the profits.
I imagine the very reason some people are using TBB is to browse sites like facebook which are blocked otherwise.
The NSA state of secrecy must end
a solution in search of a problem, but its fun (+1)
Couldn't agree with you more. Upwards of 60 billion animals are slaughtered for human consumption each year[1]. The scale of it is mind-boggling. We just recently agreed on vegetarian team lunches at my startup to do our small part.

[1] according to http://www.amazon.com/Animal-Rights-Current-Debates-Directio...
I don't think Facebook is really obligated to explain especially if its for some security reason or automatic. What's bad about the article is that it leads you down a certain way of thinking without really saying so.
I'd disagree that he ignored it. A later question covers the same (or very similar) ground.

""" Q. Can analysts listen to content of domestic calls without a warrant?

A. NSA likes to use "domestic" as a weasel word here for a number of reasons. The reality is that due to the FISA Amendments Act and its section 702 authorities, Americans’ communications are collected and viewed on a daily basis on the certification of an analyst rather than a warrant. They excuse this as "incidental" collection, but at the end of the day, someone at NSA still has the content of your communications. Even in the event of "warranted" intercept, it's important to understand the intelligence community doesn't always deal with what you would consider a "real" warrant like a Police department would have to, the "warrant" is more of a templated form they fill out and send to a reliable judge with a rubber stamp. """

What I took from this is that the process is so 'optimised' that even a court order doesn't mean what most people would think it does (i.e proper oversight and consideration).
It's not that they literally would not be capable in a logistical sense. It's that they would probably do a worse job of it than the independent dealers would. At least with independent dealers there's a lot of oversight; the people that own dealerships generally own a few, the biggest players maybe a few dozen.

Right now dealers aren't that great, they're the Mom & Pop bookstores. Having Ford sell directly would give us a Barnes & Noble experience. I personally think that might be worse.

I dislike dealers for sure and prefer to work on my car myself. I have the feeling I would dislike them even more if they were all run by Ford.
Anyone else getting this..?

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www.schneier.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate expired on 18/06/13 11:55. The current time is 18/06/13 14:02.

(Error code: sec_error_expired_certificate)
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Get the ram though. 4gb might be enough right now, but what about in a couple years, or when you install a memory intensive app. Plus you can't just upgrade later.
Thought of that, but then there's the aesthetics. Perhaps, the answer is drop user-guided drawing and have an algorithm determine whether it is planar and do the routing. But, I still like the idea of user-guided drawing.
To the two sibling comments:

In those links, please tell me, what proves that the Jobbik is a fascist party? Also, I am not a person sympathizing with Jobbik, I am first and foremost a Hungarian, who lives here.

If people are murdering my family, no amount of your links will prove that they are alive and well. It's that simple.
The author hits the nail right on the head here. The new Mac Pro is making a bold bet on the future: that given sufficient bandwidth, the benefits of external expansion ultimately outweigh the benefits of packing them into a tower. This is going to cause tremendous short-term pain and the fiercest hand-wringing the tech world has seen since the release of FCP X, but in the long term I think Apple made the right bet and will come out ahead.
Stop trying to twist my words. I'm not against science, medicine or improving the human condition. Please read my comments and try again.
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If you're still trying to get WC3 working, I'd suggest PlayOnMac (http://www.playonmac.com). It's basically a frontend for Wine, but I've found it works very well and is easy to setup.

Blizzard not bothering to create a new (non PowerPC) installer for Mac is poor service from them.
not memory though
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The military gets orders from politicians who get elected by US citizens.
The lesson of suicide terrorists seems to be that dying certainly doesn't win a fight, but it provokes behavioural changes in your foe. Changes lead to mistakes.

In that sense, dying works - if the target is so fragile it will self-destruct. The USA in total isn't fragile - but the aspects of the USA people loved (liberty, freedom from unfair search & seizure, freedom from torture, large but power-limited government) seems to have been very fragile.
Watch the private launch of Google's Internet balloons over New Zealand.
Yup, its expired.
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I really doubt they care about tracking you that much. Tor is so infrequently used that it's not worth the trouble to force you to log in without it just to track you. Maybe if teenage girls were using Tor I might be inclined to agree but right now it's just not worth the effort for a few nerds.
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Please consider accepting payments in Bitcoin!

Also, does "Wi-fi security" conflict with HTTPS Everywhere? The features seem to be analogous.
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I believe Snowden has gone on record saying that members of Congress are exempt from NSA spying.
I didn't use the word hate.
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I think we are fairly close to achieving consciousness in silicon.

It would be nice if you presented at least one reason for believing this.
Associates. Thoughts. Articles you liked. Articles you didn't like. Private messages. Contact information. Photos. Location check-ins. Causes you support.

The whole point of Facebook is to share some private information with a selected group of friends.
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Not necessarily - if their goal is to get Facebook to reverse the change (which I imagine it is based on the fact that the website is based in an area with a lot of civil unrest), then providing reasonable rationalization in the article isn't what you want to do.
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use 9 napkins - problem solved ;)
This is so much better than iOS7 that Apple should be embarrassed.
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Pain is a feedback sensor which indicates that something's gone wrong. You could build a machine with pressure sensitive grippers. You could even place a threshold on that, above which the machine reacted by moving in the opposite direction. Biological pain is just a complicated version of that. Pain is just our minds interpretation of damage signals.

At what point do you draw the line. "This machine doesn't feel pain, it just responds to damage signals." could apply to a simple robot or a cockroach. At some point, biological computers become complicated enough that we deem pain to have arrived, but that point is fairly arbitrary. Why aren't we just biological machines?
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Because a lot of spammers/SEO Scrapers (such as Scrapebox or xrumer, or even sites with private databases such as SEOmoz or SEMrush-like databases could) use TOR to bulk-scrape Google.

So you are told that the IP you are using is rate limited.
When given the ability to qualify the instances you import you lose confluence of instance resolution. This is BAD.

We rely on confluence to enable us to move class constraints to where they are used rather than have to carry them around in every object.

Scala tries to get away with having the ability to explicitly pass dictionaries around and the result is frankly a muddled mess. Monad transformers wind up nigh unusable, sets can't use efficient hedge merges, etc.

Explicitly enumerating instance imports is one of those things that seems like a good idea until you actually explore its consequences.

I can't defend the ByteString API on the other hand. ;)

That said, I do not find it particularly "Haskelly".
There's another part to this story. We have brought animals back from the brink of extinction purely because someone realised they were really tasty. A lot of our domestic animals, in particular, wouldn't even be able to survive without us ... but they're tasty, so we make them live, breed them in large numbers, feed them, etc.

Isn't that what biologists call symbiosis?
I just got it running and its awsome development set for the HTML5 mobile app development, Intel App framework, Phonegap, and some game library are mainly supported, along with multiple device testing including features like accelerometer, multi touch, wifi , 3g ,rotations etc.
The salesman isn't smart...OP is just stupid...
http://graffitiwall.co.uk/ultimatetictactoe

My quick implementation of this game

Edit: For anyone who arrived 10 seconds after i posted that link, The board resembled the ultimate tic tac toe, and then quickly degraded into a paint fight
If this isn't political, the timing of this is terrible for Facebook.
activists are using facebook pages to lobby behind causes they do not use their real names so they are not arrested by oppressive regimes. there are many pages with millions of fans run this way. all at risk now.
>No I don't have an agenda. I happen to agree with the author. And I also happen to think your opening argument was rude, irrelevant and wrong - in equal measures.

"Enough with this old wives tale" was rude?

And yet you used: "people like yourself", "trolls and egos", "lazy negative posts", "you've ignored everyone else that's replied to you", "you're not even interested in this subject anyway", "people who actually know what they're talking about on this matter",

against my very simple statementthat his queries also work with "go" -- and it's not due to some "filter bubble".

Well, FUCK YOU, your insults and your condescending tone.

As for your points:

(a) "not all users get the same results" -- I replied to this, testing the "personalised bubble" effect. What else exactly do you think is in play? Divine intervention?

(b) "popular results for similar search patterns will be biased in everyones results" -- irrelevant, since I used the very terms Tim Bray tried. Why weren't they "biased" in HIS results? Isn't he a member of "everyone"?

(c) "not everyone uses Google." -- almost everybody does, and Tim for his examples used (and even works at) Google. Irrelevant again.
Exactly. WP tile resizing is fantastic. I'm not sure I could go back to iOS, even with it's app ecosystem.
Another former Apple retail specialist checking in. This is pretty much dead on. I redirected people to different models than they thought they wanted plenty of times after talking with them to dig up their needs. Sometimes cheaper, sometimes more expensive, but always to better fit their needs. Having also worked at Best Buy, where bleeding people dry was common (at least at my store), I can tell you it's a much different atmosphere.

Another interesting point, which echoes what others have said about life-long customers and word of mouth advertising, Apple collects customer surveys. Only extremely high scores count positively for the specialist. Those people are considered to have had such a good experience that they would actually promote their experience to others that they know.
I think they do take responsibility, just not as much as those people higher up the power ladder.
When I looked into Amazingmail, it cost $2K for an API key. Is this still the case?
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"Public" scrutiny? Where's the public part?
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This article has a bit of an "ivory tower" reek to it, I don't wholly buy it. Some points are clearly valid: use modern crypto primitives if you can, and know their properties. But things are more complicated than that.

First, even if you say that proofs are enough, you got to know what you're proving. The problem is that, AFAIK, most security properties are actually defined as absence of a particular attack (or a class thereof). Thus knowing the properties you want to achieve is equivalent to knowing the attacks you want to avoid. In other words, even if I build my system to have a property A, I might not know that I also need to attain property B (thus securing it against the complement of B).

Second, if you do want actual proofs, well, good luck. You start off with the indistinguishability stuff, which is not easy in itself. Toss in the distributed aspects of Internet applications and you've got yourself a proper mess. Case distinctions abound, this stuff slowly crosses into the domain of intractable. If you look at the game-based security proofs, well, for anything non-trivial, who can really be confident that the proofs are correct? Machine verification would help, but our tools are both still too weak, and still only a domain of select few specialists.

Third, even if you do get your proofs, well, more likely than not, these are going to be based on a simplified model which will sweep a lot of stuff under the rug. E.g. I don't know of works which address things like timing attacks in anything of even remotely practical value. And there's a bunch of other stuff, keys distributed, management, etc.

Lastly, as lot of other commenters have pointed out, you are also more likely than not to deal with existing codebases at some point, where you might end up plugging the holes rather than constructing.
Wolves do fairly well without humans, bees as well. Which animals did we bring back from the brink of extinction? I'll admit that new subspecies have emerged thanks to humans, but we hardly need to keep e.g. 1.3 billion cows (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cattle#Population) just to save the species from extinction.
Last month Jobbik rallied against the World Jewish Congress in Budapest, protesting "against what it said was a Jewish attempt to buy up Hungary".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22413301

They frame themselves as fascist and anti-semite.
> Generally Apple products are terrible for repair and upgradeability.

This has become true, especially recently, but was not always true.

The white plastic macbooks were really great for user repair, very easy to breakdown. It was clear that they actually spent some resources on increasing user-repairability with that model.

But obviously do not anymore. I am curious what changed in Apple decision-making too, have some guesses.
Others on HN have done the math on this. It's doable, at bad but reasonable quality, with 2% of the storage capacity of NSA's new datacenter corresponding to roughly one year of all American voice traffic.
An email has been sent: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-announce/2013-June/0... (and the front page of llvm.org lists it as the latest release).
Why the hell would someone using TOR use Facebook?
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another reminder of false security of certificates, because no one pays attention to them. Here's a security blog, so I will speculate that many of its readers are security conscious users, yet most probably went to the site anyway despite the security warning of an expired certificate.
Social activism?

Did you not even finish reading the headline?
"Its up to facebook to explain their position."

Uh, yeah. That's why the parent comment suggests asking Facebook what's going on NOT guessing about it!
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I particularly liked your "WHY" section.
This submission includes a completely irrelevant, baseless, nonsensical, troll slur against Google/Android by the perpetual troll Marco Arment (who is absolutely stewing that his anti-Android screeds over the years fell on deaf ears). How this trollbait garbage made it to the top of the front page is a mystery, especially given the hilariously naive, valueless observation Arment is making, which in a nutshell is "I am planning an app and want to imagine a world where only I am advantaged".

Gruber is an Apple fan who is interesting. Arment is never interesting. He is a boring person.
Funny, I'm seeing a lot of threads about NSA violations which mention comparable "don't go to this site" warnings. I've seen more in the last few days than the prior several years.
I don't have an opinion about this yet, but let me plug in some articles with a different view:

- http://on.fb.me/11KQiA0

- http://on.fb.me/1bOGFoy

- http://on.fb.me/19KkeUK
OWC and Ramjet will both replace RAM. Ramjet has a page on their testing[1]. I have had great experiences with both companies.

1) http://www.ramjet.com/pages/mac-memory
It's not an either/or proposition; Why couldn't Apple have provided a tower that had both internal and external expansion? Because new Mac Pro 'needs' to be 1/8th the volume of the old Mac Pro?
Makes sense -- most bots don't run JS.
This doesn't explain why we need laws to fix anything. Your logic says that Ford's actions will make buying or servicing a Ford vehicle much harder. This directly affects Ford's sales, and thus their profit. There is healthy competition between vehicle manufacturers. So why would they behave this way, and why is it necessary to have a law that distorts the market?
The privatized 'public' space makes an inevitable move.

Facebook can no longer stake any preposterous claim to "help people connect better". It is a business entity - always has been - and does not give half a damn about "making the world a better place", or whatever corporate marketing catchphrase they use right now.

Related to recent events or not, the privatized internet is continuing to backlash with severe consequences for anyone dependent on Tor to ensure that their tyrant government doesn't come knocking on their door just for speaking their mind.
What process takes place in your cranium that does not take place in a petri dish containing some of your brain cells?
True, but you could compromise and instead of having a randomly selected pattern of seemingly random beep patterns for every motherboard bios ever made to indicate video bios missing, you could just have an industry standard to send morse code "v". It would require similar to less code, definitely less docs, and somewhat less training.

I don't text but my phone had a "ringtone" to announce SMS messages that simply beeped out "sms". I agree that it could have beeped out "GSM 03.41 Short Message Service Cell Broadcast" but "sms" did just as well, much faster.
pg described here [1] why HN sometimes can block Tor users.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5864439
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Facebook received over 9,000 requests from the feds last year and complied with 79% of them?? That's scary.
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That's the problem with revolutions. It was the young people that started it, but turns out what their parents wanted was even more Islam.
> No it's not. Don't you think it would be on-topic if this was happening in the USA?

No. It's about politics, and in the mainstream news.
> I would not have traded her for what I have gained.

It sounds like you and bcgraham are in agreement, just meaning different things by the word "gift".
The more I read about the subject the more I believe all this data is primary used for commercial reasons.

What else is to gain from monitoring loads of targets without obvious security reasons?
> Ford couldn't possibly service every municipality in the country

So? Who cares
Last time I checked it asked for a captcha
The gap may not be as wide anymore, but I wouldn't be surprised if it still holds true. Pretty much every traffic stat report I've seen shows iOS users still account for about 75% of all mobile traffic.
Arguably, the situation in Argentina improved a lot after a the 2001 protests. I'm not a great fan of teh current government, but I think they are adequate. And I don't think we've had an adequate government sin the 60s. If anything, it's nice to be able to say that when people protests nowadays is because they can't protect their savings as well as they used to, instead of protesting because they are in real risk of starving to death as they were a decade ago.
The new Mac Pro forces all device makers to use interfaces that are compatible with the entire range of Apple hardware.

There's no "oh, we only have a card, you have to have a machine with slots" anymore - every machine, from the lowliest Mac Minis and MacBooks to the highest end Mac Pro will be able to use the same peripherals.

I think this is the end goal. Apple's computers will scale along the CPU and GPU performance and memory size axes, with everything else being an peripheral you can theoretically move to any computer you own.

It's a bold move.