skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's okay if I agree to it. I'd rather see ads than pay for all the services Google provides to me free of charge (money). I don't and I'd never agree that a government tracks me. For me, that's a big difference.

If a company uses their profit (e.g. from ads) to provide and finance something as extremely useful and important as free internet access to developing countries - then yes, that's totally fine for me.

Yes this is a forum, people have their own personal opinion.
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Ice isn't actually that bad at supporting compressive loads. And, under pressure, it melts[0].

So if you put something heavy on top of an iceblock, it will be on a lubricated base.

[0] A fun way to show this is "welding" ice cubes together by pushing them against each other.
I'm curious as to the commercial viability of this. Will Google offer access for free or will you require a subscription? As a throwaway account mentioned, Space Data Corp. already offers this kind of service, but to large industrial companies, that can afford to pay a lot more than people in currently disconnected regions.
No. It's because the majority of the population (62%) fully support it.

They want the US to be actively preventing the next Boston Marathon bombing or 9/11. And are more than happy to give up a small amount of their own privacy in order to do so.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/nsa-spying-p...
http://www.google.com/tisp/ :)
There are PS1's being sold until today for people who can't afford the other version. My point is: I doubt XBOX360 will disappear. Got fast internet, crazy TV and can afford it? Get XBOX1. Your internet is really bad, XBOX360 just like always.
Yes, it is. Until they use this data for something nefarious, it's cool with me. There are ways of opting out, if you don't like it.
I just did a non-scientific test and it took me a similar time to write on an android smartphone(with a good keyboard) and on paper.

This might work.

But there are some tools for handwritten OCR:

http://www.cvisiontech.com/ocr/file-ocr/ocr-tool-for-hand-wr...

And if we aim for people to write clearly ,unlike doctors, handwritten OCR doesn't seem like a hard problem relative to machine vision in general.
I don't understand why some NSA leaks suddenly make people think the state of crypto is any different than it was two weeks ago. The Snowden leaks thusfar have ZERO relevance to what the collective crypto community considers good ways of securing data.

Nothing changed, technically speaking. The NSA merely broke rules. They didn't do anything technologically special.
Have they got any patents on this?
There are security issues with letting 3rd party apps change their icons. What if one changed itself to look like Facebook, then pretended to be Facebook and asked you to login?
Missiles can.
It looks like they're using the short burst data (SBD) service to 'control' the balloons.

(Email) : SENT : B1 > power on rocket
RESPONSE : B0 > SUCCESS(0)
RESPONSE : B1 > SUCCESS(0)
> But I feel like that would make the media -- followed by average people -- go crazy

Yes, that will be a two uncomfortable days of online nerd rage.
No, and it's going to be open hardware (and software).
Desert temperatures at night can get surprisingly low.
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If you're going to do this, please act as a tor relay (not a public relay) by adding something like this to your torrc:

ORPort 9001
BridgeRelay 1
Exitpolicy reject *:*
After the communications platform goes up, then the other payloads can hitch a ride.

Imaging getting real time video from the stratosphere to everywhere all the time. The weather data alone would be awesome. The traffic data would be great. The IR imagery catching forest fires or amazon jungle burning would be great. An almost real time collection for finding illegal logging or toxic waste dumping.

When there are clouds of these ballons going overhead, who will notice an extra one or two that happen to have militarized payloads.
I wonder, how project team member call themselves .... :)
Google already publishes this: http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/userdatarequests/US...
Should you ever need said macros, I've written a set: https://github.com/wrl/wwrl/blob/master/vector.h
Eric is an altruistic guy and a great scientist.
I'm sure he's building great stuff at his Google sabbatical!
Yeah, I think a person could easily spend enough time on the Internet to get an improper sense of what the American people would like, especially in a case like this.

I for one am not all that upset about what these leaks have shown, and while I'd like for the companies who get ordered to hand over data to announce that they're doing so, I don't mind the actual transfer.

People just don't generally think in terms of, "Have Gmail/Facebook/HackerNews/Reddit, or have privacy."
It's different, since people will actually have to buy and use those cameras, the pushback will probably focus less on Google and more on the wearers.
Reminds me of this film: http://www.chasingice.com/
It's no more unanswerable than interest rates or tax levels. You tweak the knob until you get the result you want.
If you just have a radio repeater you could ditch the packet routing.
Self-employment is notoriously difficult when you neither have in-demand skills nor the luxury of spending time to learn them because the work you can get is back-breaking.
WTF..!!!
No dazzling insights, but Woz's obviously genuine character always gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. Such a lovely guy.
Nice..!!
> You might also want to look at queue.h from BSD

CPP macros, entirely. No, thanks.
> Whole premise of making inroads in service providers servers is that information stored there is human readable. Store it encrypted.

Nobody is inroading, government has access to the data by law or by policy. Service providers, that operate under the jurisdiction of a state, cannot perform actions that do not adhere to the laws and policies of that state. It's as simple as that.

> Come up with stronger algorithms and security schemes and this problem is affectively solved.

Algorithms and schemes are already there, but there's no legal and/or policy framework to force their use. In fact, the current framework is designed to force the opposite.
Meh...!!!
> the FDA (yes, it's an entitlement -- see how hard it is for a little guy to compete when the hurdles are so high)

Would you like to try Ed's Patent Elixir? I promise it won't kill you. It's from a little guy, just tryin' to compete.
What he says about the picture of the USA during the cold war, that's what we all thought around the world, especially in Germany.

A few people criticized the imperialism, but most people just saw the USA as an example of how the free world should function.

This was shattered during the time of George W. Bush. He ruined it. We all mourned 9/11. We were at shock and couldn't realize what happened. There were minutes of silence around the world. And George W. Bush ruined it. Destroyed the trust and solidarity.

Then came Obama. We thought he will bring peace and undo any wrongdoing of the former government. He even got a Nobel Peace Prize because we thought it was inevitable that things get better.

And now?
Interesting. You only list scare-scenarios for right-wingers. Are the rest of us just that irrelevant?
They don't claim that they can crack PGP and SSH. They claim that they can crack some encryption, if it is weak. Which is quite obvious and not news or interesting.
This perspective made me laugh and earned my honest upvote; especially because it sheds a different light on Google Glass (about which I have pretty negative feelings).
So will satellite things will get blocked due to these balloon s ??
Yes, but it runs counter to his own implication that more freedom -> higher quality, which is what he was pointing out.
Payday loans no faxing- Get money only applying the same day
It may appear unrealistic to numerous of you that you can get the loan money interior a couple of hours. But it is possible with fast borrowings same day. Unforeseen charges can surround you at any time.
"For some reason, I don't find myself using resizable array utility code much in C."

Most of the time, the amount of memory you'll need to do something is predictable. When dynamic arrays are always at hand, you lose the habit and end up always reaching for one.
As far as extradition goes, he's technically in Ecuador right now, not the UK. If he were, he'd be gone already ;)
True, but that's a tenuous argument. You can't prove that a particular gene has been reverse transcribed and that its cDNA is therefore a naturally-occurring product, unless that cDNA is essential to the virus' life cycle. To invalidate the patent, you would probably have to actually observe the natural reverse transcription of the complete sequence.

In any case, the original point I was trying to make was that the natural occurrence of the mRNA does not make the cDNA a naturally occurring product.
I don't like it either, but: "Somewhat strange information related to a story that's big right now" is quite a desirable commodity in the news business. It's a perfect opener ("Have you heard this candid fact about a person that you didn't even know about before yesterday!?") and fakes in-depth knowledge ("Oh boy, they're really looking into everything!") even if there's isn't much of a story right now.

Yes, it's devoid of information. Yes, it's not in the public interest to know. Yes, it comes at a cost to the person talked about that is disproportional to the gain the audience has from the information. Yes, she wasn't in the public eye.

But is this definite proof of propaganda? No.

More likely it's just yet another outgrowth of what happens when news organizations are competing for attention. It's histrionic. But, well, there's human nature for you.

[edit] As noted by a comment - I'm only pointing out a flaw in the OPs logic. This really might be propaganda, but OPs "proof" simply isn't one.
Not exactly. DNA and RNA are structurally only slightly different, but functionally, in the context of a biological system, they are very different. A technical analogy might be RAM vs disk.
Unless of course it is a trade secret, how wonderful would be if the engineers at Google would release more detailed diagrams of the balloons, circuits, and how it is supposed to work (the pump, antenna and everything, not the simplistic version). Maybe they are having some challenges which can be crowd sourced for ideas too. They have obviously done a lot of research and this idea can certainly spawn other awesome ideas or help other indie projects.

Project like these can be a really nice experiment on teaching and getting ideas from bored internet hackers.
One Dell 3008WFP (2560x1600) is doing the job for me (connected to my 11" MBA) - but i have to admit a second one of it would be nice.
I don't think he was attacking reddit at all, he just pointed out a consequence. And yes, youtube etc. all suffer from similar consequences.
considering the news, makes sense they'd do this
> Masters Of Doom

Yes! I listened to the audiobook version of this which was read by Wil Wheaton, great stuff.

Thanks for the other suggestions - I'm going to start with Drive as I liked Daniel Pink's latest book but haven't read Drive yet.

I like conversational style, and 5 hours is a good length for a book - I hate it when a 5 hour book gets dragged out to 10.
Evil, is what Woz says is evil.
:)

But think about it...right now they have a random bunch of 10 or so tabs (flights, recipes, patents etc) above the search box. Is that it?

To expand search to its full potential that list has to expand.

What better way to do it than create a marketplace? It would be a good experiment to run a pilot in some small country or city and see what happens. Unlimited API access to google search...any app built on top of that platform that gets X number of hits becomes another tab above your search bar...for a price...or advertisers could make it free cause domain based search can get them better targeting.
This is, without any doubt, the most incredible thing I've seen for the past 15 years I'm the citizen of the internet. The scope of this plan and its possibilities are just amazing.

Sadly, my enthusiasm is quite clouded in the light of recent events involing the whole NSA/PRISM thing but then... it's governments that are the problem, not Google.

I sincerely hope that this will change the world for the better and not the worse.
I would absolutely refuse to pay for a book where the words have been changed.
I think it's a wrong strategy to defend that the data did not prevent the subway attack or for that matter whether it's useful or not.

You are standing up for liberties and constitutional rights. And you can't have it both ways.

It's a good test for anyone against NSA collection:

If NSA proves that the data did stop terrorist attacks, will it be ok to intrude privacy then or put it another way are you ok with a terrorist attack on your country in exchange for your privacy ?
Steubenville's tangled web of injustice
I'd go for iOS 6 books to get you started.
Later you can join the (free) developer account [1] and watch some of the WWDC-videos about why and what Apple has changed in iOS 7.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/register/index.action
The USA has always had fascist policies since far before Bush, and when the EU and Obama are getting peace prizes it kind of detracts from the idea to be honest.
Ice blown by wind can be dangerous:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjWq-bwhgZA&noredirect=1
I wouldn't vouch for it until the complete tech stack is open-source, and the devices are manufactured and deployed by someone else than Google. I expect them to be shot down eventually if that doesn't happen.
it's like they always need to find someething against ruby.
It's clearly not a flat style as we know it as the actual trend. It has some parts that show flatness, but overall is pretty not uniform. I watch the whole documentation, even installed on my iPhone and it's clearly buggy in terms of design's unity. It has a lot of work ahead to make it well executed.
> "There are good reasons as to why thinkers ranging from the founding fathers of the US to Aristotle were skeptical about the long term viability of democracy as a system of government."

I see what you're referring to and utterly misrepresenting, maybe this can help: http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/19970303.htm

QUESTION: Isn't that erection of barriers to democracy woven through the entire history of the United States?

CHOMSKY: It goes back to the writing of the Constitution. They were pretty explicit. Madison saw a "danger" in democracy that was quite real and he responded to it. In fact, the "problem" was noticed a long time earlier. It's clear in Aristotle's Politics, the sort of founding book of political theory -- which is a very careful and thoughtful analysis of the notion of democracy. Aristotle recognizes that, for him, that democracy had to be a welfare state; it had to use public revenues to insure lasting prosperity for all and to insure equality. That goes right through the Enlightenment. Madison recognized that, if the overwhelming majority is poor, and if the democracy is a functioning one, then they'll use their electoral power to serve their own interest rather than the common good of all. Aristotle's solution was, "OK, eliminate poverty." Madison faced the same problem but his solution was the opposite: "Eliminate democracy."

> "All these brutal, freedom-sacrificing policies are absolutely necessary to maintain democratic government."

What exactly are you referring to? You seem to be arguing that the word fascism is overused, and then go on to explain that democracy would lead to tyranny, and at least the NSA understands that.

This is so broken I really, really wish you could elaborate. Call it morbid curiosity.
Also you don't need to poll a power button - it's perfectly possible to build a momentary switch which would connect a circuit long enough to turn on a FET to the battery, which could then be monitored by digital logic to use the same connection to power off.
That's true, but you're talking "just" about time value (interest), sig's comment was about the volatility of BTC in terms of USD, different things. You'd also lose the interest if the product was denominated in USD or another major currency.
I strongly recommend that everyone be highly critical of FISA. The US government at large is a more complicated subject, but criticism there is also a great idea.

I think it's obvious in my comment that I admire resistance against FISA and NSLs. I believe that Google has conducted such resistence (though I may have been deceived), and insofar as that is true, I admire Google for doing so (and I admire Calyx for doing so). This should be plainly obvious from my comment.

Given that, the fact that you claim I'm trying to trick people into not critiquing FISA and the US govt, I can only conclude that you didn't actually read my comment. With allies like you, who needs a malicious government.

Regarding name-calling, perhaps that's a fair point. But I think not. I asked if Mr Schwabe actually read the article he keeps citing (since it's inconsistent with his claim about it), and I think that's legitimate. And I called his reasoning laughable, but his reasoning IS laughable; he thinks the best case is the null case, which is crazy, because there are lots of better possibilities imaginable, like the possibility that Google is championing user rights and winning (maybe that's wishful thinking, but it IS a possibility).
Southpark will do an episode trashing him.
There is an issue on your pricing page.

Your font-awesome icons are not loading correctly for me on Mint/FF21

http://i.imgur.com/NmO1yX4.png

However it works fine on Chromium.

Love the idea but I'm in the UK so that rules it out for me (shipping kills it).
The second item is about abortion. Maintaining lists of what women had or might have an abortion is a way to scare people into not having an abortion, and hence reduce access to abortion. This is a scare scenario for lefty liberal feminists.
Attempted background: Cambodia was the historic center of multiple kingdoms that dominated the region from the edge of modern Burma through Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia to south Vietnam. These kingdoms were often ruled via local kings and vacillated between state religions under the successive influence of Indian Hindu brahmins and Buddhist monks. In essence, these were cultural outposts of India. The north-easternmost, Champa, was half-way up modern Vietnam, quite close to the border of modern China.

Archaeology around the region was kicked off largely by the French in the colonial period, and has been moving forward in leaps and bounds of late, due to improved archaeological techniques, access to satellite data, and improved understanding of ancient sources. The primary textual sources on the region are Chinese, but the city described here may pre-date most of those sources - the earliest of which mostly described Funan, a city-state by the Mekong river in far southeastern Cambodia near the modern Vietnamese border. Angkor came later, but evidence is scant regarding the nature of its relationship to other kingdoms such as Champa and Zhenla. This find may help in that area.
then you type !g after the query (or before) and it sends you right on your way to (https) Google.

Making DDG my default search is the best thing I've done for improving my browser search capabilities. Coming from Opera, I'm already in the habit of using a great many custom search engines, which is nice if you're in Opera, but then Chrome feels very empty. Making DDG the default search gives me just about all of my custom search engines (and more), with pretty intuitive keywords, without having to configure and sync every browser on my system.

ever since ~2-3 years ago, Google is only very rarely my first stop in searching, I so much prefer to go directly where I want.

biggest part of the reason was their second-guessing my query and their results deviating more and more from a simple AND-query over my keywords. it felt like someone replaced my filet knife with a butter knife. (the other part was their instant search result updating and other "enhancements" were super distracting to me).

the only times when I go straight to Google (by which I mean prefix !g to my query), is for a few typical "local/Dutch" or "commercial/consumer" searches, you get a feel for what Google would answer better. Those types of queries are exactly what Google has been optimizing for the past few years, at the great cost of their general and precise web searching quality.

(PS, tip for the Dutch HNers: '!wnl' searches the Dutch Wikipedia. No you don't need it often but when you do, it's nice to have it quickly. I couldn't find it first because I always had it keyed to 'wn' myself, which sends DDG to a weather search site or something)
Actually it seems cheap to scale. You need a lot of very very smart software but google have a couple of hundred idling geniuses to spare. And if you change helium with hydrogen (not a big deal if a balloon blows up) - everything else is standard components - i think that if they aim for third world coverage the price of transmission must be cheaper than current wireless. And you got much less regulatory hurdles.
That's how a reasonable american feels about this. Imagine what is now being felt by people who aren't U.S. citizens, who aren't protected by the U.S. constitution, but who use the same services and who now have their personal data under the noses of the NSA! Imagine how we feel every time Obama or other U.S. government officials try to reassure americans that it's okay and everything is all right because U.S. citizens are protected!

As Woz predicts, most people outside the U.S. are going to ignore this just as most people inside the U.S. will. Some might even laugh! "Haha. Look at the silly americans. They're acting like a banana republic again!". However, at least some of us feel deeply betrayed. Gmail, facebook, and other social/cloud services run by U.S. companies might be constantly trying to sell us stuff, but until now we could reasonably expect U.S. companies to behave according to laws we expect from a free and open first-world democracy. Instead, now we have found out that U.S. laws are being applied to force these companies to violate our privacy, and if we're not U.S. citizens we have absolutely no idea how far it goes.

Facebook: goodbye.

Dropbox: goodbye.

Gmail: goodbye.

Sadly, that's only the start. I'm Canadian. After the patriot act was passed, there was some concern about the privacy implications North of the border. For example Canadian banks, such as CIBC, often outsource some financial services to U.S. companies, and the patriot act greatly reduced the requirements for gaining access to our personal information through this conduit. When this happened it greatly concerned some people, but most of us laughed it off and said that we didn't need to worry if we didn't have a shady account in the Cayman's!

No longer.

CIBC: goodbye.

Am I overreacting? Am I paranoid? The sickening thing is I have no idea what the U.S. will do with all this information about me they have access to. They have no accountability to me and under their laws I have no rights. I am a non-citizen on foreign soil. I am the enemy. I can either try to ignore this or I can start avoiding companies that have anything to do with the U.S. as much as possible. This protects me and allows me to exert the only influence that I, as a foreigner, have on the U.S.: I can deny U.S. companies my money.
What? why? Most networking and routing hardware is proprietary, what's different about balloons?