skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that you cannot modify people's behaviour by pointing them to something existing:

harry: "hey, utc would be great, let's drop CEST."
joana: "UTC was designed for something else ... <more offtopic arguments"

whereas with SUT, you have the chance to change behaviour:

harry: "There's a new time format, SUT. If we adapt to it, the world will become much simpler."
joana: "Wow, so cool. Let's do that!"
It doesn't solve the stated aim of having to work out a good time to call someone in a different part of the world. They have the same time (no timezones), but what time of day is OK to call them? They don't work 9-5 they work 3-11.

But if you think this idea is good, let's agree on a worldwide standard for electrical outlets while we are at it? You've got about as much chance of that proposal succeeding.
Social networks aren't commodities, especially once your set of friends are on them.
We're never fair in our judgements...

just ask any black guy in a court room.

Weighing information is the nature of judgement. Sometimes we don't know what we don't know. Sometimes we don't care what we don't know. Sometimes we don't care even though we know. It's the nature of the human machine.

This is the principal reason for the old adage "Life's Unfair".

It's just that we usually won't notice that until it's unfair to us.

We should fix these negative things as they come up instead of doing the gymnastics it takes to justify them. You never want to get caught fighting a rear guard action against the truth.
I think that's a little harsh. We don't know the reasons why he's not living in NZ or why he's in Spain. Calling that into question and using that as an excuse to dismiss his claims is just wrong.

I'm not agreeing with him and I'm not disagreeing with you. I just don't think the way you're attacking him is entirely appropriate.
I agree, but it's especially important for Persona.
>I'm sure there are cameras and one is easily recognized when getting out of the room.

All those cameras and employees become a protection. Remember when Israel assassinated that arms trafficker in a luxury hotel and all the video footage was released to the internet. It blew ~10+ operatives cover and caused a major diplomatic row about the fake passports used.

If the US took action at the hotel the cost in terms of US covert operatives in China blown would be in 10-100s of millions of dollars in training and recruitment. If the US used a third party they would expose that third party to Chinese intelligence. Not including the media firestorm such an action would cause.

All security is about raising the cost to the attacker, he has raised it significantly but the US still act if Obama so choose. From the US perspective the damage is done, why bring more negative PR at such a high cost?
This post has some bizarre conclusions. Like this:

My theory is, if the language designers can’t write hello world safely, what hope do the rest of us have?

It's not at all obvious to me that dumping your program's stdout to /dev/null should result in an error.

Getenv returns the empty string and continues. Then Go somehow manages to parse the empty string as an empty JSON list and still continues.

I don't understand this. Go's JSON methods return errors for invalid JSON. If you want to know if something wasn't set you can test for the empty string. There's no magic. Later he has the code:

json.Unmarshal(json_data, &argv)

And you can see that he just chooses to ignore the error.

He also knocks go for its lack of shared library support. I suppose this is controversial but this wasn't an accident.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/

He says for Go:

These languages cannot distinguish between values and null at compile time.

This is also not true.

Also I'm not sure what his performance test is testing. Just starting an empty hello world? That doesn't seem all that useful to me.
>Maybe you need to compare it to a country like the Republic of Congo to get an idea of what's safe and what's not.

Modern US patriotism at its finest: find the shittiest place you can think of and compare the US to that to show how great it is.
"Simple" is just the reference to the name - in my opinion the name of the new hours/minutes/seconds does not really matter - it just needs to have hours/minutes/seconds in their name and needs to be distinguishable from the current scheme.
I would be interested to see if Mr. Klein achieved something in his fight against NSA's surveillance program. It was back in 2007 and now we have 2013. Five years gone.
Is there a way to watch this from a Linux or windows OS?

I bet I'm like a lot of other people here where I have a macbook air at home but work on Linux and windows machines.
Tim Berners-Lee calls NSA surveillance an 'intrusion on basic human rights'
Uncovering the Native DOM API
How to Install XAMPP Server in Windows
> To store a yottabyte on terabyte sized hard drives would require a million city block size data-centers, as big as the states of Delaware and Rhode Island. If 64 GB microSDXC cards (the most compact data storage medium available to public as of early 2013) were used instead, the total volume would be approximately 2500000 cubic meters, or the volume of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

So... how do they do it?
Any idea of what sort of medium could the NSA be using to store such an absurd amount of data? Maybe robotized tapes? I doubt they are doing it either in hard drives nor solid state.

Maybe the NSA has access to one of those high-density holographic optical storage systems we've been hearing about this years?
Everything everywhere is America's fault and everyone else just sits and watches helplessly. Right...
Again, I don't understand why you think that it's harder for the NSA to hack / bribe / trick their way into data than it is to have to obtain court orders and convince everyone to work with them.
What? It's easier to find inbred retards who want to shoot at "the Man" than actually maintaining an educated populace, so therefore we "cherish" the 2a?

That is quite a novel interpretation of the 2a.
I think there's also a slightly different reaction to it, because most Americans like to feel like, at some level, the government works for citizens, and is ultimately responsible directly to them.

If the government is willing to spy directly on the people it should be serving, then it starts to feel like it's out of control.
Thanks for the pointer! It's always great to read about other ideas. Maybe you can explain how your proposal would make the world more simple?
I wonder if this will lead to tax-heaven countries, the same way we currently have tax-heaven countries or even something which would be equivalent to Switzerland's renown in finance.
Reason 12, I suppose, is the 22 American nuclear bombs stored there? :P
Why the super rich love bubbles
Mobile API?
That's likely because the US views themselves as unofficially being at war with Mexico. The only thing missing from the conflict is the cruise missiles.
Actually telling the time to somebody else can be even more consuming. Some languages say half past 4, some half to 5, some even say "quarter to 5" when it's 16:15 and "three quarters to 5" when it's 16:45. In some languages you can say stuff like "3 minutes before 3 quarters to 5" for 16:42. People just like to make things interesting, I guess.

</OT>
I'd be interested to know how many of their sales are from existing customers, I'd hypothesise more than the average tech company. I suppose to them it's not worth it but it's a shame.
Why isn’t the NSA embarrassed?
Really? Lighten up
Yes :)
And it seems that, not so surprisingly, there is a disproportionate number of Israelis here (to the population size)
You solve the wave equation, a differential equation for the small-amplitude motion of the surface. The solutions depend strongly on the shape of the boundary, as is usually the case. For some shapes the patterns can be found analytically. For more complicated boundaries it's not too hard to solve this equation numerically - it's linear. Orders of magnitude easier than, say, calculating the flow of water down a pipe.
Thanks for the response! I think one of the best lines of advice I've seen online was on Quora: "The language and technologies you learn are not the most important bit when it comes to becoming a programmer. When friends ask me whether they should learn Ruby or Python I respond by asking "Which language do more of your friends know?"" I think that's what keeps bringing me back to Rails, the support around it. I have the same problem as you, trying to find more than 5 hours a week to stick to reading Hartl's book. I think now that I have more time I'll try and go back through the book. Did you have any help with mentors along the way?
So you are saying that the low level bits should eventually be spec'd (but not necessarily first)? That is what this manifesto is about? If so, I can agree with that, but wish it was more explicitly stated in the manifesto.
نتيجة الشهادة الاعدادية 2013 بمحافظة الدقهلية الترم الثانى جميع الادارات
electrical outlets, language, voltages, train systems, side on which you drive are actually things on my todo list.

Point taken, I'll continue my work on making the world a bit better.
Yes, the shapes can be predicted by numerical solution of the governing PDE. I don't think that's what you had in mind, however. For an arbitrary plate shape, the solutions do not generally have what you might think of as a nice closed-form expression.

For certain specific cases (like a square plate), these modes do have reasonably tidy descriptions.
Yep, I was talking about this whole situation with my wife and she of course was like "I've got nothing to hide, yadda, yadda." I tried to explain why it matters even so, and she kinda just dismissed it as not mattering to her as much as the government "protecting" us.

I'm convinced most of us Americans just don't care, and that bothers me more than what the government is doing.
Hoe gezond eten? | Leef Nu Gezonder | Leef Nu Gezonder
Whenever one uses universal time or local time they still have to calculate (or look up some table) before they can consider whenever it's day or night in some unfamiliar remote place.

Universal time system solves the problem of discussing time. It works when you're talking to a person, negotiating time of some event - you can both be sure that you use same notion of time.

It's especially good if notation radically differs from usual HH:MM:SS (like swatch @BBBB), as one can accidentally misassociate time systems in their head.
http://wheniskeynote.com/
"Physics".
You can keep the same workflow but just have .git somewhere else. Just define GIT_DIR.
You're right, what I meant with my comment was that for may countries Facebook is not the only social network. Many people are active in multiple networks and some of these social networks have no ties to the US, hence if users outside of the US decide to move away from Facebook it won't be that hard to do.
No, this isn't Canada
I don't own or use anything that is allowed to view this, but I would still like to. I really wish Apple would change their attitude toward non-Apple users.
It's somewhat fortunate that the actual military is, if anything, the least likely threat. Almost all of the veterans I've known would take the people's side. So if it came down to it, I could see large amounts of the military refusing orders or defecting.

The main risk is probably paramilitaries like the ATF or your local SWAT team. One of the neat ways the Second Amendment is self-enforcing is that, if you sent those guys house to house to confiscate people's firearms, they'd get shot at.

It also ends up being really handy to stand up to the local authorities from time to time: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946) http://m.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secret...
"I can't stand this bashing of business people 360 degrees."

Weird, because you just explained why they can't successfully do anything.

As I said, your defense was too powerful; in defending your position, you blew it up.
This is a kind of cool method of creativity, used by Hemingway: http://www.secondactive.com/2009/08/boost-your-productivity-...
Is that true also if you count Israeli occupied territories? It seems to me that Palestinan controlled territories have shrunk quite a bit [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli-occupied_territories#Ov...
I'd say it's more likely his life is destroyed, I would love to know how he's making a living today.

Either way, he's not the one who was supposed to have "achieved something" in that battle, we were, the people should have reacted. They didn't, and they won't this time either. Sorry but we're just too complacent with all our luxuries and comforts.
The problem is that most people don't care. The vast majority of the public would prefer to give up their privacy in return for free services.

The people will have their freedom slowly eroded, but at a rate that they cannot perceive. By the time they realize it, it will be too late.

- Edward Snowdon realised this.

- Bradley Manning realized this.

- Julian Assange realised this.

As technologists we are complicit in this current erosion of (our own) rights. It is up to us to make the required changes.

The public deserve the truth, even if they cannot stomach it.
Ask HN: How do you encrypt your email?
In the wake of the PRISM stuff, I've decided to start encrypting all my email traffic. How do you do this? I'd really like to approach doing this in a secure and convenient manner that's easy enough for non technical people to get it (e.g. my parents). Obviously not every email I send needs to be encrypted, but I'd like to get in the practice of doing it right to ensure my privacy now and in the future.

Thanks!
I guess these cultural differences will continue to exist - you even have 3 different versions for 1645 in German language.

I don't think this is a problem, as cultural differences are important to exist, as they resemble local differences.
Facebook have long used captcha barriers on suspicious links. The nastier of them won't even be able to be posted at all, a blacklist which included the Pirate Bay for a short period.
Replying to the article's illustration here...

1984 was not the instruction manual. It mostly deals with the ongoing operations and consequences of the police state and its surveillance. _That Hideous Strength_, its spiritual prequel (written by C. S. Lewis and published shortly before the atomic bomb, later reviewed and then ripped off by Orwell) is the instruction manual. :)

(In Orwell's defense, he did make improvements. The problem with a Lewis book, as Orwell observed, is that God exists and you know that the good guys win at the end, so the dystopian police state isn't scary enough... which is the major difference between the two in the plots.)
Very simple formula for fractal patterns
That's a lot of assumptions on your part that you are expecting us to buy into/believe along with you. Russia is the 8th-10th largest GDP in the world (depending on which list you read at what time) - they're hardly the "tiny nation that could not intimidate anyone else" that your post makes them out to be.
Having a year of experience may help you to define your research interests with a more pragmatic goals in mind. A complaint that I frequently hear from friends who have got into academic research is that there are very few people in the world who can understand the area where they do research. Presumably, if one can focus one's research one the area that is of interest to the real world, one can find many more people to talk to, get motivated, etc.
The image created by the vibrations and sand reminds me of the Probability densities corresponding to the wavefunctions of an electron in a hydrogen atom.

Link to Image:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HAtomOrbitals.png
Playing hard to get with users
Hey I've got an idea! Why don't we all register with the government at birth and provide tissue samples each year to verify our identity. Better yet, let's all wear ankle tracking devices or even better still just embed them in the back of babies necks Matrix-style.

These kinds of dragnets suck, for more reasons than I care to admit. The fallacy of your argument is the idea that catching a few bad apples justifies the good ones that get caught in the same net. The people on CSI have due process, few of the NSAs targets will ever see their day in court.

Technology is neutral. Its application is decidedly not.
Of all the shit that has gone in in the world in recent history, the NSA potentially reading your email is what makes you care less about WWDC?
It's needlessly polarizing, though. Like they never learned anything from the Lemmings commercial.
This is an "Ask HN" worthy post? Damn...
I would suggest that tracking former employees or contractors that had security clearance and did not misbehave while working for the NSA would be a pretty low priority to keep track of - and fairly numerous. Particularly since any information they did have that was sensitive would generally lose value over time. I would expect that most of the NSA's resources directed at specific individuals are directed at individuals that they have reason to believe are up to no good, not just tracking low-risk folks for the sake of tracking them.
I believe this gets to the heart of why Americans are (and should be) disturbed about programs like PRISM. When the US spies on a foreign citizen, the full weight of that citizen's government is there to protect their interests.

When the US spies on US citizens, who do we have to turn to?
But the world still spins regardless of how you end up talking about time - you will still need to figure out the human behaviour at the specific location on earth at that specific time. It is useless to schedule a conference call when the participants are all in bed. SUT does not solve this problem - people will still need to take into account the fact that night and day still exist and most people work during daylight hours.
Promise ate my Homework (Exception)
i recall that even as of ~2000 php3 had @beat support via its date() function. I just checked to see if it had been removed, but it's still (surprisingly) there.

At least you can't say it failed for lack of ubiquity :)
IIRC the netflix prize is about making predictions for individual users based on their history & interests, which is orders of magnitude harder than making a prediction for the average over all users, which is all that you need for box office predictions.
I like you said "got arrested" instead of "got thrown into jail indefinitely".

Are any Occupiers in prison without having committed crimes worthy of the sentence?

Or are you just being extremely hyperbolic?
Oh, it's 5:98:67 now - have to leave work before 6 SUT today, though usually leaving at 6:30.

When do you usually leave work in SUT?
I think you were just trolling, but the GP was asking a very pertinent, reasonable question specifically about companies like Facebook, Google, etc, and how they differentiate. Your reply -- ostensibly about what an organization like the FBI might do to identify someone -- is not relevant to their question at all, making it all the more bizarre that you decided to question whether they were "trolling" (apologies to all others, but that is a growing peeve of mine -- this noisy declaration of things people say as trolling).

Google knows a lot about someone, but they have no idea what citizenship I hold. They can guess, of course, but that isn't a lawful way to discriminate.
Wuala used to be P2P (host other people's files to get more space for your files) until LaCie bought it.
That is not really auto-update (only if you enabled it system-wide) – and after reviewing the source code, which is necessary anyhow to make sure it is actually ‘secure’, you would then remove the file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d and be happy :-)
People aren't happy about this. Most don't even know about it. The one's that do know about it can't do anything. There simply aren't enough politically active people in this country and far less young ones. Don't confuse what the media says with what people actually feel or want.
I see them when I access from some other country and an internet cafe.

It also asks me to identify 5 friends by their pictures, which is a great guessing game because some of them have tagged plants, food or whatever as themselves, and I am bad at recognizing aquaintances I've met in some place and added on facebook and yet never talked to again.
Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/927/
Not resembling traditional time notation is good thing IMHO, as one can't even accidentally confuse local time with non-local one.
What do you mean? I didn't see anything like that.
From "Motivation" [1]

> To place a call, you have to find out

> in which time zone the target person is
> how much offset to UTC this particular time zone has
> remember the delta from my time zone to UTC
> create the delta from both time zones
> find a good time for a call
> This is quite cumbersome and wastes a lot of energy world wide, every day.

So now I will not have to find the timezone, but I'll have to take a look at something like "SUT Sunrise World Map" and figure out which part of the day-night cycle is the destination.

I agree, this will help me when I travel from Europe to the States - since I will not need to adjust my mind and freak out when I see my watch, but when I go there I'll have to adapt to something else, different than timezone.

P.S. I like the idea of 1 min = 100 seconds, My programmer's background and SUT will give me something like 10 megaseconds = 1 hour, which is nice.

[1] http://www.nico.schottelius.org/docs/sut/
Just want to point out that Apple does have a Youtube Channel where they place their adverts so they aren't completely avoiding Youtube.

How does one have a live streaming event on Youtube anyway? I didn't realize Youtube allowed for live streaming.
I am still pretty confused about how this community seems to not have known these programs existed. It has been widely reported almost since inception. Not to mention the broad record of previous land line recording programs.
Your "sources" are quora discussions that requires login w/ Facebook/etc. No thanks. It's a bit of a wasted post here. No one without a quora account can join your discussion, and the link-bait title just pushes a lot of folks away. I have to think that, if you actually wanted discussion, you would've listed more of your own thoughts. You only listed two that I see: "I would say no." and "Probably not."
Actually, they "all were bussed in".

> By 1948, the population had risen to 1,900,000, of whom 68% were Arabs, and 32% were Jews (UNSCOP report, including bedouin).

> According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, as of May 2006, of Israel's 7 million people, 77% were Jews, 18.5% Arabs, and 4.3% "others".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Palestine
The title is a bit sensationalised. EU-based cloud data that is stored by Microsoft is accessible via Patriot Act because Microsoft is a US-based company and must comply with US laws regardless of where their data is physically stored.
Maybe we should call Utahbyte instead?
The tech community paints this as a government conspiracy in opposition to the desires of the public. I think it's mostly because the tech community is generally opposed to this stuff, and they incorrectly project that onto the population. I think it's also partly because this scenario is a lot more comforting than reality.

If it's government running amok, that leaves open the possibility that they can be reigned in. All you need to do is get the people sufficiently aware and sufficiently angry and the problem is solved!

But if it's simply the government obeying the will of the people, then we're screwed much harder. Convincing people who are deeply afraid of terror attacks and who find comfort in massive government programs meant to protect them that they should invert their priorities is massively difficult, perhaps impossible.
Ways to save a million lives
Another nice fact about being a scientist (well OK, engineer) in the Netherlands is the European Space Agency have an HQ here :)