skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "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",

You're selectively sampling data there. Those comments of mine are from later on in this debate - where you've been equally condescending. At the start I was polite.

> 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?

Indeed you did. Albeit just the once. More tests would be required if you truly cared about disproving the bubble effect as your results could easily have fallen into the (b) point I raised.

> 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"?

[sigh] Because they might not have been popular when he searched for them. His blog might have caused others to Google those terms and thus skew the results (in fact it definitely has caused others to Google his search terms as we're here arguing about it now). This is why I posted examples of other search terms, which you clearly haven't looked at yet. If you're not going to look at my examples, then why don't you try a few more irregular searches of your own.

In this whole argument you've basically taken one example as proof that your argument works every time. You've not even attempted other irregular search patterns of your own (or perhaps you have but they proved my point so you opted to ignore them as well?) so I really don't know how you can be so confident when you assert your point so absolutely. You do realise that multiple experiments need to be performed if you want to prove a statistical average? Just as myself and all the other Go developers have done with our time spent troubleshooting code.

> c) "not everyone uses Google." -- almost everybody does, and Tim for his examples used (and even works at) Google. Irrelevant again.

Of course it's relevant. You're arguing that "Go" is good enough on it's own - Google searches are just an example. If your point was valid then your results would be similar in other search engines. Later confining your point to one search engine seems a little like moving the goal posts mid-match.
Presumably, the algorithms and constructions in cryptography that have been proven by mathematicians also won't "get outdated".
Someone is aggressively crawling HN with TOR ips so they've banned TOR ips.
Plus it's not common for an external monitor to move around with you. It's just two cables to unplug when you go mobile.
HipChat integration use cases for DevOps
From Harvest: "...We have a room in Hipchat which collects the pulse of our activities. This includes code pushes to Github, production and staging deployment activity, customer support tickets, twitter mentions and all our monitoring probes from our internal monitoring services post into this room too. It’s very useful for us that Copperegg is able to post into this room as well and join our company pulse..."
In my experience, men do this just as much. People just don't question men's subjective assessment of things as much as they do women's.
This is why the makeup of the committee is so important. The Chair controls the witness list and the order of questioning - and gets to ask a lot of questions. So, since Mike Rogers supports the NSA, there aren't any civil liberties witnesses; and 75 minutes into a 2 hour hearing we still haven't heard any skeptical questions at all, or anything that deals with the excellent points being brought up by those watching on Twitter.
Another good source of fixed-in-the-past yet unpredictable data is the closing price of a collection of stocks from the previous day. This would make verification easier to automate.
My friends used to play something similar with connect 4. You don't expect to meet people who are good at connect 4, but these two guys beat me 100% of the time...
De Waag in Delft, The Netherlands also accepts Bitcoin: http://www.de-waag.nl/Stadscafe/Bitcoin (Dutch)

It's great to see people experimenting with Bitcoin. I'd love to see it develop further as a currency.
I can see an interesting collective action problem here.

In principle, members of congress do not have an interest to be monitored and spied on. However raising protest as an individual member can cause you problems, because the NSA can pressure you.

But if they act collectively, they might have a chance.
SendGrid launches email marketing service that undercuts MailChimp
Implement VP9 video decoder in Firefox
Does Apple make a laptop dock for a Macbook?
It's a big jump from "your phone company sees your call logs" to "you don't mind if anyone sees your call logs."
Tiny RSS should be on there.

Works very well, and the best part it's self hosted. You can control the polling schedule.
How about using TOR to connect to a VPN and then to Facebook, so Facebook only sees the VPN but you still "protected" by TOR.

Is this possible/practical?
went to dave winer's river of news
While bitcoin can be anonymous (buy with cash, use a mixing service, change your bitcoin address every time, only pay over tor/i2p), they aren't made for that. Also keep in mind that every transaction is public, even if it can't be traced back to you.

See https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Anonymity for more informations
Authors at Google: Salman Khan [2012]
Only the slaughter needs to be ethically managed; no excessive, prolonged nor unnecessary pain. Animal cruelty is usually an indicator of sociopathy, and its presentation in other humans is likely a danger signal to the rest of us; as the person probably lacks, or has low, empathy.

If both lions and gazelles have conscious awareness, and we do not condemn the lion for eating a fellow conscious awareness holder, then why should we hold ourselves to higher standards? If we believe that the taking of any conscious life is wrong, then we should see that the lion is wrong, and punish him. Lion prison anyone?
Is your movie and music preference related?
> The government isn't allowed to

Argument lost right there.

As a UK resident my government is not legally permitted to take part in, or knowingly allow to occur on its territory, anything like "extraordinary rendition". "isn't allowed" made no difference in that case (and many other examples can be referenced for other governments including those of America) so we can't really expect it to in this or any other future case either.
Wow, that's impressive. I'm surprised that date is not mentioned on the notice page (or on wikipedia).
You care because "just stop talking altogether" and staring dumbly at the cop doesn't end the confrontation, unless he then leaves (and if you've tried for a while to get a definitive answer, you might as well quit asking for a while). If you get his OK, then he's not detaining you and you can leave.
What makes people click?
It's not just customary; it is very much against standard practice not to do it. You want to see what people actually say? The Nixon tape transcripts famously didn't clean the speech.
Hi HN, thanks for taking time to look at my project!
It's a damn shame that it's not available for Chrome. There are various rip offs, with confusingly similar names, but the real deal is not available. Last I checked Chrome doesn't have sufficient hooks to block scripts early enough
I have a visceral negative reaction to what they're doing to my country, and it makes me want to say: please embargo us, foreign nations and citizens. It won't happen unfortunately.
All elected politicians (and maybe their cabinet) with the "spying" being done by the populace who elected them seems fair. By "spying" I just mean full transparency.

For anyone who is appointed or hired, this spying is most certainly a bad thing that leads to cronyism and nepotism.
Sure, the US too. But they don't put hundreds of thousands of citizens in jail just for voicing decent, and then work/starve them to death. NK is my go-to example of an evil government, doesn't mean there aren't other ones.

I'd add to the people replying to this comment, about US citizens' responsibility, they have more responsibility than the average North Korean citizen, but not much. From what I understand, challenging the status quo in the USA is pretty difficult!
It's the same argument they use to say email has no constitutional protections. Because you send it across servers outside of your control, clearly you have no desire to keep it private.
What are the biggest misconceptions about angel investing?
I would also add to the argument that the following things are also happening and will happen:

1) More money being wasted to support certain corporations (Booz etc) in return for future plum jobs by these representatives/senators or heads of these agencies. Thus the cycle continues in favor of supporting these programs rather than analyzing whether we really need it or not.

2) Abuses by contractors or employees when they have this much access and power in seeing all the private data

3) Corruption of these committees due to the feeling of being "in" where others are not.

In other words, it's going to get worse.
I had a yahoo account that got jacked Sunday Night. I checked my computers for any sort of malware and didn't find any. It was a completely automated attack that sent one large email to all my contacts.
From the reports, it seems like they have some kind of bayesian system based on metadata which has to output non-us-citizen at more than 0.51 probability.

Which doesn't really make me feel better.
Simple, gateway agnostic, PCI compliant payments API that works in tons of countries? Sign me up! Great job!
"The documents that have been released so far ironically show the oversight"
...

I like what John Oliver said on the Daily Show - “We’re not saying anyone broke any laws, we’re just saying it’s a little bit weird that you didn’t have to.”
They get appointed by the Chief Justice, not the administration.
Fast external GPUs are my dream. I can buy a convenient sized laptop with excellent specs in every category except for GPU. As soon as I want a good GPU, the laptop has to become a 10lb monster.

I want to just dock it at my home desk with the GPU and convert my laptop into essentially a desktop workstation. Then I can undock it and take it out to the coffeeshop when I want to work outside. Maybe the external GPU is tiny too, and I can throw that in my backpack with it when I want to do gamedev work outside the house.
How long do you have to wait for confirmation/
This may be extremely naive of me, but I really hope that within my lifetime those notions ("our county", "country's enemies") well have ended. The imperialistic nationalism of Europe culminated in WW1&2, and now they mostly get along. Maybe the rest of the world can, too, in the next 50 years (without another cataclysmic war).
AMD Unveils Server Strategy and Roadmap
Pseudorandom number generators, of course. Which are deterministic algorithms for generating pseudorandom numbers from a seed.

But I mean, specifically, using CSPRNG (such as an algorithm behind /dev/urandom) vs pseudorandom number generators such as rand() from C library.

You can read more about them on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom_number_generator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSPRNG
Meet Git Extension: complete but dead simple Git GUI for Windows
Just a note, for anybody jumping on the Oh My God Hungary bandwagon: the people who passed this law and the people who are vocal antisemites and anti-Roma are not the same people.

Fidesz is likely to lose the next election; they've really been overstepping their power. But it's a small country. As long as nobody outside supports them, they'll move on.

What you read in Western European media is Eurocorporates being sure that if Hungary should ever endanger the profit they extract from the Hungarian poor (which is essentially everybody), they'll be sure to be knocking on the door with military force in the name of democracy. I think we know whose playbook that came from.

Source: I'm an American living in Budapest.

Racism is a convenient way to marginalize those who see inequity. They so very much want to understand why they don't have the money they see on TV. The answer is simple, as it always has been to the Eurogentile: the Jews took it! The Gypsies took it! It's never "The Swiss banks took it by giving you loans in a foreign currency knowing that the forint would slump", and God forbid it should ever be "Two years' worth of the Hungarian GDP was stolen and deposited in Swiss (and Cayman, etc.) banks by the old regime when it became obvious the handwriting was on the wall."

This is the first I'd heard of this ridiculous law. There's a reason it's a problem when one well-disciplined party gets a supermajority so they can pass whatever the hell law they like. I hope the door strikes them soundly on the ass as they leave next year.
This recent HN comment about Julian Jaynes's The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind is worth following up on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866404

As I understand it the theory posits that consciousness is only a very recent development in humans.

How can we ascribe consciousness to any other form of life when we do not even understand what it means for ourselves ?
Component upgrade costs are always cheaper than replacing the entire system, but what is the cost delta between replacing two GPUs and a CPU versus replacing the system. We don't know the cost for the Mac Pro yet, but given it's size and the limited number of components that are internal, it would appear to be optimized for system-level replacement.

What Apple has designed could be described as a laptop for your desk. Sales of systems where the CPU/GPU are upgradable are plummeting. The market is driving computers in this direction.
Hopefully this will shift the conversation from "listening to phone calls" and "collecting internet records (eg: emails, browsing history)" to "storing phone calls" and "storing internet records (eg: emails, browsing history)".

At this point it's become abundantly clear that everything is stored and indexed in a database, and the only defense against abuse of this database is only policies.

One of the worst cases to come out of this entire ordeal is the legal dance around the definition of "listen" and whether it refers to automatically capturing phone calls or an individual listening to a recording of a phone call after it's been captured.
Physicists May Have Found A New Form Of Matter
All cryptographers make a deliberate distinction between RNGs and CSPRNGs.

There are high-quality RNGs that aren't good CSPRNGs. CSPRNGs need to be fast, ready to deliver results after a cold boot, and unbiased. What you're probably thinking of as a "high-quality" source of random numbers is just part of a CSPRNG (the entropy source).

Conversely, CSPRNGs aren't actually suitable for all random number needs in programming; for instance, in software testing, you want an RNG you can seed and retrieve deterministic results from. If you can do that with your RNG, it's very unlikely that it's not suitable for cryptography.
Hacker School Soylent
Simple needs here, so newsbeuter.
What is a whistleblower, exactly? It should be defined before we make these sweeping statements. You could imagine whistleblower protections being abused ...
AMD Prepares Move to 'Seattle,' Its First ARM Chip
I have to disagree, the body language as described in the Nth hand reports I've read sounds like a useful "tell", especially in the context of the questioning.

But as you imply, let the jury decide by watching the video.
For me to upload 3TB on my shoddy connection would take about 290 days or so. If I ever needed to put that much data in the cloud, you can bet I'd use something like this.
+1 I just switched due to your tip! I was a bit frustrated at Feedly's interface, because it was not seemless for my reading style (read by feed).

I was just about to set up my own RSS server, but that seems unnecessary now.
The Constitution Applies When the Government Bans Americans From the Skies
Just as sort of an aside because I'm thinking about one--why doesn't WC3 work? I still play it occasionally on a slightly older Air, so this is a troubling development.

And on that note, here's a shoutout to Blizzard for doing things like releasing Intel binaries for ancient games like WC3.
This is not a throwaway account, I just lack creativity at inventing usernames.
It's amazing how you can tell that I am "threatened", "unsettled" and "struggling" with "navigating the adult world" from a single line of text. I also fail to see how screaming "Sexist!" at something as irrelevant as the gender/sex of characters in video games demonstrates intelligence or strength of character.
Let me point you to someone explaining her obvious dishonesty: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_O1R7Zq9EI

Back to navigating the adult world (sounds like a porn store),
Silly Boy
Completely messed up here in IE9
http://imgur.com/qa0lbbJ
This isn't just an ethical way to do business--it's also profitable. The OP seems to be a very satisfied customer. Apple may have lost $750 (gross) on this one purchase, but over the next 10 years will likely make much, much more than $750 on the OP's future purchases, which the OP might not make if he/she were a dissatisfied customer.

This seems obvious, but many businesses don't seem to understand this.
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This is an alternative that duprisimgly never came up. But my.yahoo.com is a very simple and functional RSS aggregator. I moved to that.
> I look forward to a day when I'll be able to pay a consistent 0.05/0.1 BTC for a pint.

The value of a bitcoin will have to become less volatile before that day comes. Compare:

http://blockchain.info/charts/market-price

With:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Dollar_Index.png

Yes, the value of the dollar also fluctuates, but over 30 years it has ranged only around 30%. Whereas bitcoin has ranged 4000% in a single year. Not sure any pub would want to accept that volatility, nor would any patron.
Containers can run any Linux distribution, and any version thereof. The only thing you can't do is customize the kernel, but 99.99% of applications do not need this.

Then there's emerging technologies like rump kernels, which might permit endless kernel customization with very tiny overhead... even emulating other OSes.
Blogtrottr.

It sends you an email for every post. Combined with Gmail filters I open my Gmail RSS folder instead of a reader website/app.

It sounds bad, but I tried everything, and every single service fails at something, which makes it useless. Sometimes the android app doesnt work or can't be installed in my ancient phone, sometimes the website is unusable, sometimes the reader doesn't have enough crawling power and they completely ignore whole posts or don't update in days.
So, until I find a reader with an app that is actually usable, emails are the way.
Thanks! The independent CC vault is also very appealing to many.
Not according to Clapper. I'm sure they're all on message with their phrasing. They are no doubt asserting that when you pick up a phone, someone is probably not listening to your phone call at that moment, as if we need assurance of that.
They can't price on BTC until Bitcoins have more utility. At the moment the only utility Bitcoins have for the pub owners is to convert into cash so they have to peg them on sterling.
Actually, OpenShift doesn't use LXC (it uses SELinux to separate gears) because containers are not secure in the way that VMs are.
Is that to say that nationalism among EU member states is a thing of the past? I'm skeptical that EU citizens are collectively so enlightened.
Very cool. I would be interested to know how they get the data off the harddrive again. Would this work with a broken harddrive (by swapping the disk) or do they just plug it in somewhere and wait a couple of days while everything copies off. I would probably guess the latter but who knows?
>the only defense against abuse of this database is only policies.

This point is extremely important and is what Snowden continuously returns to. In yesterday's Q&A he said "policy is a one-way ratchet that only loosens." This idea is critical to having an intelligent debate of the issues at hand.
Einstein's Anomaly
Thunderbolt provides 10W of power, so a lot of devices only need one cable, and won't have any higher chance of ground loops than an internal part. Also, ground loops are much less of a problem across digital connections like TB or FireWire - it's when you're connecting two pieces of equipment with an analog audio cable that ground loops get annoying.
btw, the old reader ignored many posts for me, and only showed them when I clicked refresh on the feed. I don't know if they fixed that by now.
But I am worth every penny and there is no cheaper alternative offering the same degree of satisfaction.
Here's the thing- if they get and store this data, in any way whatsoever, it's going to come out. With a 100% certainty, that fact will out in time.

And when it does, any word games they try to play now will just be devastating to them then. Absolutely devastating. It will not protect them, it will not help them, it will damn them.

So, given that it will come out and it will hurt them when it does...why play the games?

Either they aren't storing the data (which seems possible still, though less likely than I thought 2 weeks ago), or they're operating with the future planning capability of a fruit fly.

I don't know which it is,but this doesn't feel like it's going to end well for anyone.
Then VPN access paid for by bitcoins will do. Tor is not the only game in town.
I'm not failing to grasp that. Most of the software I write is meant to make relatively easy things easier. However, searching for an app? Seriously?
> Arguably, random number generators that are ill-equipped to generate high-quality random numbers shouldn't be used at all. For anything, cryptography included.

For modeling you might want very large quantities of random data. It's handy if you can reproduce those same numbers at will. This is a bad quality for a cryptographic random number generator.

"Good enough" really is good enough for many uses. Obviously, that's dangerous for crypto where we want "actually good".
There are some weird behaviour differences unfortunately. The most annoying one for me is that scrolling past an unread story marks it as read automatically... but overall, yes. It's basically closer to the original GR than anything else I've seen.
"Using free software, Tor has enabled roughly 36 million people around the world to experience freedom of access and expression on the Internet while keeping them in control of their privacy and anonymity."

http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-free-software-awards-announced
Dude, I know Jews here who openly hate Jews. Hungarians talk a lot of bullshit.
Probably aught to add an option for "None".

I bet there are plenty of folks like myself who had Reader set up for a bunch of feeds, but don't feel strongly enough about RSS to bother setting it up again someplace else.

I just quit using RSS (though I doubt I'd been into Reader in the last year anyway) when they took it away.
Feedly for me: keyboard navigation very close and display is nice and compact
Adam Langley, Google's TLS czar, agrees with you and thinks RC4 is safer than the leaky MAC-then-encrypt construction TLS uses for block ciphers.

I'm not sure I agree. The RC4 keystream bias problem is really bad, and it's baked into TLS just like MAC-then-encrypt is. In a nutshell: there are byte offsets into an RC4 stream that are simply predictable. Bernstein and Paterson have an attack that recovers plaintext from it at multiple byte positions. But for the first couple biases, anyone can see how easy it is to recover a byte or two of plaintext from RC4. Clever attackers can shift the plaintext in TLS around to make that byte position more valuable.