skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Declaration of Independence explicitly states that men are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights". Rights are divine in origin. They are not contingent on being British or American, or belonging to any particular social compact.

Beyond the founding documents of the American Republic, this is self-evident in many other early republican writings. If you've read Thomas Paine ("Rights of Man") you'd know he even picks a fight with Edmund Burke over this very issue when it comes to the French Revolution, with Paine supporting the cause of the French people on the grounds that they held "natural rights" to liberty. It was Burke (who believed in the social compact) who opposed the revolution because of its violence and social unrest.

It was Paine's position which dominated among American republicans. Among many others, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin supported the French Revolution and linked the struggle to the struggle for "the liberty of the whole earth". Their conceptualization was here and elsewhere repeatedly and consistently one of rights belonging universally and naturally to man, regardless of his language, or country, or existing social compact.
what better place than here

what better time than now
My office as well was a heavy user of VirtualBox until Vagrant 1.1 hit, and then we dropped a pretty penny on VMWare licenses.

One of the biggest things we noticed was a big bump in IO, especially with shared folders. We also experienced random mysterious crashes and hangs with VirtualBox, seemingly related to sleep/wake.
This is related to Typekit font loading, as outlined here:

http://help.typekit.com/customer/portal/articles/6852-contro...

We digged into it when it came up before, but I'll have another look and try to get in touch with the Typekit folks.
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Google does this as well. My dad's small business was shelling out thousands on AdWords per month. Their rep reached out to us, without solicitation, and offered to optimize our ad campaigns. They did so, and saved us at least $1,000 a month. This was a few years ago but I hope they're still the same.
Running OSX it Windows - maybe you can have the best of both worlds?
General-purpose compressors for comparison:

gzip : 66513
gzip -c9 : 66099
bzip2 -c9 : 53619
xz -c9 : 59572

Interestingly, bzip2 is the best. Often xz is better, but apparently not for this data.
Obama:

> You have my telephone number connecting with your telephone number. There are no names. There is no content in that database...At no point is any content revealed because there’s no content that...the FBI — if, in fact, it now wants to get content; if, in fact, it wants to start tapping that phone

Snowden (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/17/edward-snowden-n...):

> If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything.

Notice how Obama only talks about the phone metadata DB, and a process for getting data from companies about "non-US persons" (Google, etc) based on "essentially a warrant" (not the same thing as a warrant, though). Snowden's allegations are starting to become much wider than the original Verizon DB and PRISM systems. And I don't think that we are going to see Obama address them and deny them directly any time soon.
Any chance you can dump a net tab trace using Firebug or similar.
As I understand it, if you turn off "ghostrank" it's not reporting anything?

If that is not true, I definitely would like to know.

The only behavior I've seen that I don't like is after you update the blocklists, sometimes they are not all activated by default.

The current author is around here too, they have replied to my previous posts about it.
Best article I have read in a while. It's tragic comedy how they get a way with it.

I mean i tried asking a group of friends what they thought, to learn they don't know what the fuck PRISM is!

It usually goes. "No one cares about, what the government does, your just weird."

I'm anti social so the only time I hangout with them is when I'm stoned. So I can see why I'm weird to the average teenager, but to not know about the government being caught spying on us, makes it seem like they were never really caught unless your on 4chan or reddit...

Fuck it...
From the article

> “Anything that gives people more transparency and control is good for the industry,” says Meyer, who says it’s fine with him that most Ghostery users opt not to share data with Evidon. Meyer points out that those who want to block online advertising are unlikely to respond to it, making Ghostery use good for both sides.
People don't use cars to travel thousands of miles - especially as this topic was about speed of travel. So this per-mile statistic doesn't make flying any better as a form of travel. It's like comparing safety of moon rockets vs bicycling per mile of traveled.

Secondly, the co2 injected directly into the upper atmosphere has ~3x the warming effect as co2 emissions
released by cars.

If we look at an hour of flying vs an hour of driving,
the air traveler contributes 20-30x as much to global warming.

Of course 1-2 passanger car travel is horrendously bad as well, especially if you do it daily...
Fusion-IO thus far has competed in an entirely different space: datacenter-grade PCIe SSDs. They not only boast the use of fast PCIe interface, but also software and hardware design that supposedly are tailored to datacenter-type workloads (e.g. databases).

These Samsung drives are not quite suited to datacenter use, at least in their current form; from the use of the mini-pcie interface to their controllers and firmware. Perhaps this will change, but that will be in an entirely separate product.
Brazilian Living in Australia here. I hope they do too and kick Renan Calheiros out of it... he so deserves it.

A convicted criminal being the president of a Chamber that represents the people is one of the biggest shames of our country right now, at least for me.
I worked at a high end law firm for a couple of years and there was a paralegal that was routinely abused by her boss. She got fed up after seeing an email thread and took it to the managing partner. The managing partner was a really great guy, and his solution was to let her print all of the offending attorney relevant email threads and distribute them to the entire office. It was righteous. It surprised the attorney, as she had her emails published and she was fired on the same day.
Yeah. You really need this caveat to avoid the loophole where you can compress anything to zero bytes by making the desired output a literal in your decompressor (which just ignores its input and prints the hard-coded literal).

This could be considered a real-world application of "hello world" programs: Winning compression prize contests by blatantly abusing the rules.
Computer Science for your Child.
BTW, user ghostwords participates here and is a coder for Ghostery

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ghostwords
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Brazilian here.

Yes the government has several programs to give free money to "poor" people.

With "Poor" I mean that a lot of this money get stolen, or is given to not so "poor" but criminals, before arriving to the ones that really need it.

One of it is called "Bolsa Familia" and it's also a huge vote buying machine.
Working at home sucks...
When you're writing on an architecture with only poor C compilers, it makes a lot of sense to prototype in C and hand compile it. For example, as a hobby, I write on a platform where program memory is limited to 16k and the only available C compiler is sdcc, which outputs relatively large binaries.

So writing in C is fine for smaller projects, but those are easy enough in assembly anyway, especially on the old architecture designed for human-produced asm.
I think the argument goes one level further: can we allow private companies to store such data? There's no use in regulating what the government can store if they can simply seize 30 years of history from a private company's database.

This whole storyline is making me believe that data aggregation imposes a negative externality upon society. Regardless of the original intention, the threat of misuse will loom so long as the data set persists.
It's funny how few people there are (around me) that know about LLVM. When Java, PHP or C# gets new features things go crazy. But LLVM is like this secret weapon that Apple (and others) have. Chugging along, getting more powerful, not asking for attention.
What about Color impeachement ? I think that one was bigger...
Fair enough, though, at least they have tooltips and are screen reader accessible. (I work in accessibility and a lot of things make me cry. :( )
So they found a way to monetize not having ads. What's wrong with that? It's also opt-in as the article notes.
Is it anti-social to not want to hang out with people who don't care much for fair and just systems of governance?
May be because wsj is playing smart here. When go to the article for the first time they are putting a cookie on your browser, so even when you visit through a search engine it is still able to detect you as a previous visitor and showing you a paywall. Use a different browser to do the search or clear the cookies before doing the search or block all cookies form wsj. That's what I did with experts-exchange.com long back and it worked.
So does Amazon, someone reached out to us and told us that we could save around $10,000 on our hosting costs if we went with reserved instances
This so very much. Remote libraries on iPhoto are so awful it hurts. And every so often it opens into some new library it just made up, I don't notice and load in a load of photos. Several weeks later I realise when the drive fills up. Ditto for iTunes - but iTunes is worse as it shows the thumb nails of the missing content and fools you into transferring files even though they are going local, not remote like they are supposed to. If remote storage with default apps was solved by Apple (or even just made better) I'd be considerably happier with the Air choice.
Snowden denies allegations of spying for China
I saddly agree with you...
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It's possible that the underlying model is just not particularly good at learning from data. 11B parameters is a lot of free parameters to learn -- for instance, the main competitor to that paradigm is the work by Krizhevsky et al., which are convolutional networks with lots of parameter sharing, and I think they get better performance (on a comparable task) with ~60M free parameters.
In NSA We Trust.
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> But people do blackmail journalists, ...

It's been like ten days since Guardian/Greenberg made public the four powerpoints as authentic evidence. We had the Q&A this morning, but offers nothing new from the supposed existence of all the data leaked we've been teased with.

I get the strategic timed-release explanation, but on the other hand, could it be, with the US-UK tightly coupled intelligence agencies, that the Guardian has now a gag order?

If so, and after the Wasington Post waffling, does ES have a plan C?
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Stop complaining and game the damn thing i you think it's that easy!
Excellent point worthy of further consideration and discussion for sure.
You won't necessarily have legal counsel if you're a witness.
UK government issues notice to BBC to limit publication of surveillance tactics
The Unicode issue should be fixed now
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> Ford is essentially a monopoly on all Ford cars

So? They are not a monopoly in cars in general - if Ford was not competitive people would switch.

And people don't go to dealers all that much for service, except when the car is new and you have no choice. They don't call them stealerships for nothing.
You can make more money from lifetime customers than you can one-time customers.

One thing Apple has excelled at over its history is building a base of lifetime customers.
It's worse than that. Sometime last week I noticed that people giving testimony were using the word 'collect' in a very non-traditional way. They were using it to describe the process of accessing already collected (normal English usage) data.

Doubtless, lawyers were behind this gross mutation of language. Far worse than Bill Clinton's "it depends upon what the meaning of 'is' is."
> having submitted the talk for the last 3 years without getting in

That's a shame.

If it helps any, all my talks were rejected this year too. :/
Ad blocking is already beneficial for the ad industry. The sort of people who install ad blocking are also the type who never interact with ads. The net result is an improved CTR/CPA because ad impressions are not being wasted on someone who would not convert in the first place.
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It's questionable that they are "getting away with it".

The implications of what they've done are incredibly vast and damning. Not to mention, persistent - people now know everything they type on their computer is handed over to the government. That doesn't go away, no matter how much the media might want to ignore the subject.

I'd actually be surprised if they completely get away with it. At least a few people will be in trouble over this whole thing. Lots of civil rights organizations are organizing lawsuits over this as we speak.
It is. Safari is all white (instead if blue), and the keyboard is also much lighter. The same is true for Mail, Settings, Music and Phone. Folders are all white too, and the "dock" is much lighter. And don't get me started on calendar and notes! Even the stupid clock is bright as sun :)
Not to you, at this point in time.
In any case, the point stands regardless of your level of interest. Even boring people deserve the same measure of privacy as interesting people, maybe even more.

Furthermore, I claim that when the costs (dollars or time) of finding out about anyone are low enough it won't take much interest to warrant a look at a person's history.

How long did it take for people to start googling new acquaintances and potential dates?
I tried to use CS first and found that I needed to really understand JS in order to debug stuff that didn't work, and you get a lot of that with DOM.

So I've learnt a fair bit of JS and now I just can't be bothered to write in CS, JS is really not that bad if you understand that JS is NOT class-oriented and CS ends up only obscuring reality, not altering it. Which brings me back to why I had to learn JS in the first place.
The question I want to see asked is:

"Obama, in the course of your day, you and your staff probably interact with many foreign diplomats and other persons which this system is likely to classify as 51% likely to be foreign. On top of that, the content of those conversation, depending on the topic at hand, is likely to include words that would trigger an alert. With this in mind, do you think it is acceptable that those in the NSA, many of whom may have a differing political affiliation than you, can read any correspondence flagged for review? Furthermore, how can any member of congress operate from a position of equality if they cannot have confidence that their communications could fall into the hands of their compatriots across the aisle that may have a different agenda?"

If the answer to those questions included a filter that excluded all members of the executive, legislative and judicial, the obvious follow up question would be, "Why are members of congress allowed this right, but not the citizens of this country?"

I would also take comments he made on the Wikileaks Manning trove and present them as counterpoints to any rebuttal he has. I don't remember anything verbatim, but I remember him specifically addressing the importance of American diplomats being able to be secure in their communications to be able to carry out the roles for which they were appointed. This exact same argument can be applied to every single elected representative of the people and every official appointed by a duly elected representative.
When is the new Macbook Pro coming out? I've been researching everywhere but there's not date for the non-Retina. This is relevant because based on this article, I'd be more apt to buy the Air now. For web development, medium resolution photo manipulation on photoshop, and light video editing, is the Air good enough?
If you are a layman, it does. But this quote is very restrictive in the interpretation by Post og Teletilsynet: "Tilbyder av elektronisk kommunikasjonsnett som anvendes til offentlig elektronisk kommunikasjonstjeneste og tilbyder av offentlig elektronisk kommunikasjonstjeneste er lagringspliktig."

What we dont do is offer "Tilbyder av elektronisk kommunikasjonsnett". That means we are outside. Then the rest is not relevant.

We have been in the courts about this and both Kripos (they wanted information) and the judge found that we are outside the scope of this.
And that has always been a pain in the ass.

Github needs to start fixing things rather than constantly making them worse. Whoever is in charge of their UX-design needs to be replaced.
Yes, they'll inquire about your needs. I asked for my iphone with maximum memory and was asked about it. I'm a digital packrat and willing to pay extra to not have to unclutter my music, movies, media, and apps as often. I briefly explained this and we moved on with the purchase process.
When the auto industry was conceived, the independent dealers were integral to their success. The auto companies were startups and couldn't afford the cap ex of retail operations. So after the industry matured the manufacturers became huge they were a threat to the dealers that helped them succeed. However, Tesla doesn't have any legacy relationships with dealers. Public opinion is on Tesla's side. The dealership's days are numbered. Ordering online allows custom cars, and reduces inventory and storage costs for manufacturers.

See my blog post on Tesla
http://seriouslackofdirection.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-i-hav...
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I guess I don't use mail or music or phone. Maybe I'm a weird user. iMessage is brighter, and the animations are janky at the moment. The clock redesign is annoying. It looks terrible. The new APIs available are great but I'm afraid the redesign is not growing on me. I hope Apple sorts this out in the next few months.
"data aggregation imposes a negative externality upon society"

This is obviously true. It is also obviously true that data aggregation imparts a (perhaps equally) significant positive externality to society.
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You just totally blew my mind. I had never considered that blocking ads could ever be beneficial for an ad network. Are there any numbers of this sort published by the industry?
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Obama is almost certainly the best spoken US President in 50 years. But when asked a simple, straightforward yes or no question:

"But has FISA court turned down any request?"

We get this answer:

"The — because — the — first of all, Charlie, the number of requests are surprisingly small… number one. Number two, folks don’t go with a query unless they’ve got a pretty good suspicion."

Just blather, incoherence and grasping at straws. C'mon man you went to Columbia and Harvard Law, you give speeches almost every day - you can do better.

How about "yes", "no" or "I don't know" next time.
No. I like to know which apps are most likely not to suck, thanks.
No of course not -- it's mostly specious reasoning that's not really backed by data

EDIT: probably sarcasm, but still will leave this here
I had similar findings in my office, with Parallels actually topping the list. I'm not sure if that was a fluke or not, as it was a windows VM that I needed to run, but VMWare definitely surpassed VirtualBox for that and some other tests.
I completely disagree with you. You're arguing purely off anecdotal evidence and my experience does not match up with your - for physical strength or intelligence.

Just because someone is smarter or stronger than those around him, does not mean he is confident enough to not rub it in their faces. I've known plenty of intelligent people who are quite aggressive. In fact, it's a bit of a stereotype.
I'm more concerned that any stored data about me and you can and likely will be lost or traded or simply stolen and used for any purpose a criminal organization or corporation can invent. Data that sits somewhere can be taken at any time. Imagine all of your personal/financial data and even connections winding up in the hands of someone with a nefarious intent. You don't know it, you can't sue anyone, you can't defend yourself, you are likely ruined.
IMO, Retina is mostly useful if your job is creating Retina enabled assets for iOS devices. Personally I would recommend a maxed out air over a MBP. I do iOS development, web development and music production on a 3 year old MBA. That said, I was disappointed there wasn't a retina MBA. It may be worth waiting to see if the fabled MBA-looking MBP comes out at the end of the year.
Marco is correct in pointing out that the "top" list approach has a few flaws.However, I think that the "top" list (in addition to Apple's featured list) is the best solution among a list of sub-optimal solutions.

He seems to suggest the top-lists should be replaced by a list of apps that Apple classifies as "great software". However, Apple already shows a list of featured apps and this list already has a huge impact on app rankings (and IMO Apple will never be able to create a perfect and comprehensive list)

From my experience, I'd say that removing the top-lists will hurt the ecosystem (most users as well as many developers). For example, one of our iPad apps was #1 in the Finance category for six weeks. The media first mentioned this app several days after it became #1. Apple also featured the app a few days after the app became #1 (the app was never priced at the lowest price tiers). The app got initial traction organically and the #1 ranking helped it get even more traction.

It isn't realistic to expect Apple to be able to pick a list of "great apps". Following up on my example, we launched a new version of the iPad app a couple of weeks ago, but Apple isn't featuring it on the "new and noteworthy" list even though the app has hundreds of reviews with 2/3 of them being 5-star reviews and another 1/4 being 4-star reviews

Relying solely on Apple's featured list and on media-connections or advertisements may work for one class of developers, but for many other developers, the (category-specific) top-lists are helpful. I also think that the top-lists are helpful for users. Removing the list isn't going to make it any more easy for users to search through a million apps in the app store.