skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm, interesting. Though the skeptic in me wonders how much of the course is focused on these aspects? A lecture or two? vs a week or two?
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There's a link (on the "cool stuff" page here: http://www.nand2tetris.org/coolstuff.php) to an implementation of their machine in FPGA.

Here's a (video) presentation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHty1KKjaZw.
Given the histrionics on HN lately, I'm not sure he's being sarcastic.
BlackBerry 10.2 SDK brings Android 4.2 app support
So for which company did the author of the extension apply? I guess it was a full day hack?
>I think the situation is basically that it’s allowed, but employers have to jump through probably more hoops than they should be required to to prove it’s fair.

Actually, no, you're misunderstanding the key to Griggs. It doesn't matter if the test is fair if the outcome is discriminatory.
Not to try to canonize the man, but MLK is a very high standard, even for heroism.

"Not as brave as MLK" does not make much sense as a put-down.
Nadler's statement this weekend is consistent with his statement last week. He's happy that the Obama administration is now saying (where? to whom? who said it? is this legally binding?) that they will obtain a specific warrant.
The motherboard is an "Asus F1A55-M LX AMD A55 FM1 DDR3 mATX" which has integrated "AMD Radeon HD 6000 Series Graphics". The monitor is an "Asus VS229HR 21.5" LED IPS Monitor"

But the point is exactly that individuals will have varying experiences - I have a printer that just works in one OS but is terrible in another; a gadget that works as expected in one OS, but has better independently developed drivers in a different OS and doesn't work at all on a third OS; etc.

I don't offer my experience as an example of Windows 7 having worse hardware support than OS X or Linux.
It's funny because most of the best technical speakers I receive in my conferences have always a specific food option. May be this is that which make them so good in what they do :)
I don't see why you think anyone's "bubble" has been burst. In the long run theaters won't survive if they show ads.
(OP here). I am amused myself.

I have cut out Google Analytics include from my blog code after I wrote the post. Now I see that I will have to switch off IntenseDebate comments as well.

Thanks for pointing out!
He probably talks about this rejected 2011 patch: http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/5677/
The first comment reads:
"I am not sure that this is the direction I want to see CM go.
This will piss off developers, carriers, and probably Google."
And yet, not a single amendment has been enacted through an Article V Convention.
This isn't true.
At the airport there is a passport check after security. At Hung Hom train station the same. At all the China land borders things are pretty strict.

Most smugglers go through Sha Tau Kok in the north east, but you need a permit to even enter that area.
> NYU charges above-market prices per sq.ft. compared to Craig's List room rates

Of course, every university I've ever seen the prices for does the same thing. Dorms (and other university housing) are not cheap.

It's a fairly captive market (in many cases students are required to live in dorms when they're freshmen, and when not, they often aren't in a good position to search for housing) and they have a premium product by many measures (typically because dorms are much closer to the rest of the university, and most people you know also live there...).

Most people I knew who moved off-campus when I was in university did so to save money; despite sometimes roomier accommodation, it's almost always much farther away, and often quite a bit nastier (slumlords catering to poor students are legion)...
.this +1
The title is misleading and pompous and of course that's not true but I guess that's how "The Christian Science Monitor" rolls.
In 1999, the King family conducted a civil case to consider the existence of an assassination conspiracy. The suit (for wrongful death) mentioned only Loyd Jowers by name, but also alleged government involvement.

The jury–six blacks and six whites—found that King had been the victim of assassination by a conspiracy involving the Memphis police as well as federal agencies. [1]

The judge continued: “Do you also find that others, including governmental agencies, were parties to this conspiracy as alleged by the defendant?’ Your answer to that one is also ‘Yes.’” [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_...

[2] http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/MLKconExp.ht...

I submitted reference 2 as a HN story. For further discussion of the MLK conspiracy go here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5891883
iPod.
iPod smaller.
iPod much smaller.
iPod with a touch screen.
iPod with a touch screen and phone.
iPod with a touch screen, internet and much bigger.
iPod with a touch screen, internet and slightly smaller.
Some thinner, some fatter, some with cameras, some without.

;]
Just one data point: I taught in an aerospace museum in the US from about 2005-2009. In our rocket history programs, we covered the ancient Chinese, Goddard, the V-2 program and Von Braun, and the competition between the Soviet and American space programs -- Sputnik, Laika, Ham, Gagarin, Tereshkova (and the 20 year lead she had on Sally Ride), and Armstrong (with Aldrin and Collins). I'd usually give the audience a chance to contribute the names. Almost everyone got Neil and Buzz, quite a few knew Gagarin, and the rest of the names were pretty hit-and-miss.

The one personal note I liked to add: I got to meet half a dozen astronauts and cosmonauts (picking them up from the airport and bringing them to our museum for a conference). Every single one of them emphasized that, even as the two sides were competing and treating each other as mortal enemies, those who were actually going to space viewed one another as friends or even brothers.
I personally agree that it's fine for people to pursue their selfish means. Life is short and they have every right to maximize their ends, even if it means that the whole will come crumbling down in the not so distant future.

Governments often ask their citizens to "chip in" and help them right the ship. IMHO such governments are usually inept and each person is honestly better off pursuing an every man for himself strategy.
Lost city discovered in the jungles of Cambodia
I'm really not sure what you thought I was saying.
I think they mean "India's last telegram"
Hi Balaji. I plan to build a website as a part of your class. Since I am not very tech savvy (basic knowledge of html, css, and python), will you still recommend taking your course?
I was really hoping not to see the phrase "direct access" this time.
The Martin Luther King Conspiracy Exposed in Memphis [2000]
There are many villages in India which don't have decent courier services. I think phone should have reached most of them by now though, hopefully. I won't be surprised if there are villages without phone.
Nobody has given a credible description of the surveillance capabilities/policy of NSA, FBI, CIA, etc. It's not possible for either citizens or lawmakers to reach an understanding from a handful of negative statements. We shouldn't be playing 20 Questions, we should demand the executive branch provide a positive description of its surveillance programs.
What's become a little more clear from this article to me, is that many big US schools are actively pursuing expansion because of all the students from China willing to pay full tuition and still value having a degree. Who knows what kinds of deals they are going to need to make with China to keep these relationships up. I also wonder, are Americans making these deals directly, or do they hire people in China who are used to dealing with the Chinese gov't?
Obviously giving specifics might cause panic, but, I'm not sure I see the problem in having e.g. Obama state "Unequivocally, there has been major threats thwarted, and considerable lives saved due to this program." Or some assertion recognizing that yeah, this is a 180 from my prior, but there's a good reason, seriously.

The thing is, I don't think anyone is claiming major successes. They're just saying that it's OK. Watching Obama's talk just gives you the feeling it's political nonsense, with a bit of CYA lines too.
Ghostery is proprietary though. I recommend http://disconnect.me instead.

Also, HTTPS Everywhere http://eff.org/https-everywhere
They're, if I recall correctly, a $X0 million [edit to add: crikey, checked stats: $500 million a year at the telephone company alone] a year business in Japan. The overwhelmingly most common use is sending a message similar to "We regret that we were unable to attend your wedding. Best wishes to the bride and groom on their unending journey together." That will run you about $20. For an extra $30, you can send the telegram with (e.g.) two dolls of Micky and Minnie Mouse dressed in bridal attire holding a scroll case for the telegram, so that it can be held on the gift table until the bride and groom have the opportunity to read it.

Of course it's inefficient. That's precisely the point.
But we get another statement that iMessages is end-to-end encrypted. Apple continues to state that, but there's also some evidence to the contrary. Like newly authorized devices being able to somehow retrieve the chat history.

Someone more capable than I should really investigate iMessages.
Is the power adapter board sitting on top of the Pi? They should be separated by some panel to avoid shortcircuits and/or feeding mains power into it. It looks like there's enough space too.
It's certainly true for Belgium.
"Laws may put more requirements than pressing a button." Are you sure?

There are many kinds of contracts, not all of them have the same form requirements.

I am sure you haven't read most of the contracts you are bound to, yet, you are bound to them.
just a typesetting convention, the way they capitalize the first clause in a section, wouldn't read anything into it at all, even though it can look silly. I'd be unamused if I wrote something and it was called sensational or the meaning was misconstrued due to the way it was typeset.
I'll be facetious when I say this but the next big thing might be common sense and the realisation that once you release data ino the open (i.e onto the internet), you lose control of who access it and whats done with it.
Because he doesn't have a time machine?
I do not agree. Most hackers can learn the details of any domain-specific knowledge they want and many of them do so, especially those that are working in consulting. To be a good consultant and earn a reasonable monthly revenue, you have to able able to absorb domain-specific knowledge in a matter of days, or even hours and many people do so.

The reason for why we aren't going outside computing is precisely because we'd have to deal with stupid regulations and barriers that have been placed to not upset the status quo, whereas computing and the Internet is the most unregulated industry by far.

This is why those in power try their best to regulate the Internet and computing and why we get so upset whenever they try.
It comes down to physical access (in the sense as they can log into the box as root) - if you value security someone (single or "multiple person user") must be able to log in as root. Someone must be able to access the data hardware that contains the data, otherwise you'll might as well not store it and save the headache. Once you have admins with the ability to be root on the box, they can get the data. There is no way around it. What you can (and should do) is have access logs saved at least at one location where noone can delete anything. I suppose you could encrypt the data and save the key on a dedicated tamperproof box (are IBM still the main provider of these?), but someone must manage this box. Trust is inevitable, at best you can divide it in such a way that the combined entity is unlikely to go rogue.
Agreed - server side rendering for the first time you hit a website, pushstate and client side rendering for subsequent navigation makes for some very smooth UX.

- Derby.JS is one such a full-stack framework.

- There's also Meteor but this has a little less community support.

- Eyebrow.JS is coming (there's a number of blog posts and talk videos) but I'm not sure if it's released yet.
Reinventing the wheel teaches people how to invent and how to create. Everyone, especially young adults, should be encouraged to reinvent the wheel.
And in some cases of bigger sites summarizing their terms, it's straightforward incorrect, 500px for example: http://tosdr.org/#500px

That's why we think it's important for an independent non-profit to review all these services. And that's also why we chose the simple green-red main scale with a bulleted list, including details on how we arrived at that rating.
Some tape would suffice too.
The evidence offered by Edward Snowden, that you have been able to see, says very little about actual capability. And without context, we don't even know if it describes current or proposed capability. We don't even know if it was created by an NSA employee, and not e.g. a BAH contractor.

So if we're going to be standing on some sort of epistemological high ground, let's make sure it's not quicksand beneath our feet.
> For example, conversations which take place over iMessage and FaceTime are protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver can see or read them. Apple cannot decrypt that data.

I don’t know, then, why when I do an iCloud restore on a brand new device, all existing messages are recovered. Is this a way to recover all past messages that’s not really addressed, if I can still recover all historical messages after replacing all devices connected to an iCloud account at once?

Cursory links:

http://security.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/qotw-34-imessage-wh...

https://github.com/meeee/pushproxy

http://imfreedom.org/wiki/IMessage
That may be true. But OS X has the better hardware.
Did it say somewhere that they last 100 days? That number sounds familiar, but I couldn't find it just now when I went back to the site. I wonder how far the balloons would travel during those 100 days. As you can tell from the video, they're going to spend most of their lives drifting over the ocean.

Edit: there are more details here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5887330 Apparently they circle the Earth every 14 days.
"The most common form of request comes from police investigating robberies and other crimes, searching for missing children, trying to locate a patient with Alzheimer’s disease, or hoping to prevent a suicide."

Such a broad range of things included in 'the most common form of request' really reduces the power of the statement.
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Author says, "Budding spies and others of a paranoid nature can buy a couple of those SIM cards to swap in and out of their (unlocked) phones for $10 in any 7-11, no registration, no questions asked (try doing that in India or Argentina!)"

I don't live in India, but I do live in Argentina, and there are guys selling SIM cards on the subway and outside the train stations for, I think, AR$5, which is about US$0.76. No registration, no questions asked. If you instead go to a cellphone store, not only do you need to register, but they want ID.

I suspect that India is porous enough that there are similar holes in whatever controls they have to require registration.

I don't get 250Mbps in my house though; maybe 1Mbps to the US. And the murder rate is a little higher than in the US.
The involvement of a conspiracy in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. came up in a HN thread about Edward Snowden. [1]

Although I posted this information to that discussion, since it's not widely known that a 1999 court case found that a conspiracy did exist I submitted this link. (See also the Wikipedia entry on the Civil case for conspiracy. [2])

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5889959
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_...
Also, most other businesses are much more capital intensive.

Starting a basic retail store or a bar or even franchising an existing restaurant requires a lot more money than starting a software startup.
Facebook's React vs AngularJS: a closer look
It's maintained by Google, but it's from Angular company (an online JSON storage service). The 'by Google' in it's name doesn't mean it's designedto be 'Google's JavaScript MVC' and I know Google employees who think expressly otherwise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngularJS#Development_history
> Snowden is not proficient in Chinese, no way. (I am, by test.)

Sorry, if it sounds personal but I have to ask: How do you know he's not proficient and what does your proficiency have to do with it?
You are good people miles

You too, dfc ;-)
Thank you for the suggestions! We already consider point 1 because we took over TOSback, a project started by EFF to track changes in ToS.

As for point 2: We always welcome contributors! Either submit a feature in the tracker or dig into the code yourself: http://github.com/tosdr
Lenovo T61 7661. Dual Core 2 2.0, 4Gb RAM, Samsung 840 pro. 9 cell battery.

It's better because even with powertop optimisations, Linux leaks energy out of the window everywhere. If you let Windows handle it with the Lenovo power manager, it's an order of magnitude better.

Windows 7 x64 with reserved power scheme. 8h42m
Debian 6.0 with powertop optimisation. 5h12m.

Regarding virtual machines, Linux's virtualbox drivers are better than native ones for the hardware in the actual machine.
Startup idea: beta readers for self published authors
This is from the blog of Hugh Howey, the self published author of "Wool" (read it, it's breathtaking scifi).
Don't forget to put vegetarians options for food, and clearly mention that is is vegetarian.

And when you do please remember that people other than the vegetarians eat it! Omnivores will happily chow down on the veggy/vegan/whatever options - so you need to at least double-down on the percentages.

Lost count of the number of events where I've gone hungry coz they've got "10% veggy food" coz 10% of the attendees said they were veggy.

Personally when organising events I aim for 50/50 omni/veggy, with about 10-20% of the veggy option being vegan. The omnivores never notice. The veggy/vegan/dairy-free folk notice and love you for it.

Don't underestimate how getting fed well affects peoples opinion of an event (and the reviews and publicity you get afterwards ;)
Finally, will the next iPad have a flash?
"Apple can not decrypt it" - does it mean somebody else can? Or is it encrypted at a level that is virtually unencryptable with today's technology?
> Even if the vast majority of engineers and designers today are obsessing about...car rides

There's a lot I don't like about Uber, but that doesn't change the fact that it has changed the way I interact with transportation. I hate the word, but it is disruptive.

I would love to see every startup cause as much of a shitstorm as AirBnB and Uber have managed to do. At the very least, the public conversations they force us to have are incredibly useful.

Despite the fact that it flamed out spectacularly, think about how different the music industry would be today had Napster never existed.
Hmm, if they are encrypted with your password and Apple does only store hash of that password for login and encrupted messages then everything is ok? I assume that when you change your iCloud password, the old messages are not visible anymore. Anybody to verify that?
new zealand gave the big F U to the USA back in the 80s when they refused the USS Buchanan nuclear powered destroyer entry to the port as it violated the nuclear-free legislation.
I'll be the first to give them credit when they follow through on something.

On another site, which was also on HN (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/06/introducing-project-l...), they are more forthcoming about the scale of the challenge and the likelihood of success. I like the tone of that page much more than this one.
> I think that at least some of the potential for abuse can be blunted by being more open and honest with ourselves, and by coming to terms with our own failings rather than trying to hide them.

I thought the same for a long time. Then I moved - ironically - to the "big city" (actually, it's getting smaller by the year, but it was second largest in my country some years ago). I thought that living in a big apartment building would give me anonymity and that I could do as I pleased, without being a subject of neighbours surveillance. I was wrong. It took them literally a week to learn that I'm not frequenting the mass in a nearby church. That meant, to them, all out war; I had lived there for a few years, but then I had to move, because I realized that damage to my mental health is just too great.

I'm sure there were some normal people there and that they didn't care. OTOH there were a few old geezers who made a hobby out of bullying others. The point is that you don't care about what people know about you only until they start hurting you because of what they know. Then you wish they didn't know in the first place. You may be even correct that majority of people wouldn't care about you and your own life, but there probably will be someone who will care, and who will make your life quite miserable.
You got to wonder if 7% growth (double what the better western economies are doing) is really such a bad situation to be in.
Please check the page again, we have the rating for Google since a few weeks.Facebook will follow very soon. Also we reorganized the sorting on the frontpage so rated services come first.
I've never understood the enormous enthusiasm people seem to to have for badmouthing Comic Sans. It's not particularly elegant, but it's quite readable and not particularly ugly. It more or less looks like hand-lettered dialogue in comics, and that seems quite accepted, and even respected.

I suppose type designers or whoever might be particularly sensitive to whatever transgressions it commits (I dunno), but almost everybody I've seen indulge in a bit of C.S.-bashing seems to otherwise not care very much about typography at all.

As far as I can figure, it's just because people love a bandwagon, especially one that's really easy to hop onto and entails few risks....
Well, that one person is a polite racist and is using tactics from concern trolling to push their racist agenda; that person isn't wanting to engage in an intellectually rigorous discussion.

We ignore the trolls here.[1]

[1] I WISH. HN is vulnerable to trolling and there are many threads to prove this. :-(
I did indeed try with adium about a month ago. Don't know if adium hasn't updated libotr yet or if my buddy had an older client.

He ended up having to block me on AIM because my adium instance at home went into a resend-frenzy while I wasn't even at home...
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Yes, but these protest did happen and I'm assuming then the measures were defeated. That is something and one can be at least doubtful that this would happen in the US.

And it's not because the US government isn't doing some pretty horrible things, as we can see.
> NAT is not a security feature.

Why?
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On the contrary, I think the point is that they're all relatively mundane compared to "uncovering terrorist plots!", which has been the alleged motivating factor behind this whole situation.