skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IPv6 Security - An Overview
Sure, but the point doesn't change. All the calls made in the US can be stored on a budget that isn't out of reach for an organization like the NSA. Napkin math is all about getting you within the right order of magnitude and this manages that just fine.
I did not see that particular movie yet but the movies are generally not a good source of information.
I think I'd rather be extinct than be a battery hen.
Yeah, the Bolsa Família was a relatively inexpensive political move to bolster Lula's populist image, while behind closed doors his corruption was business as (if not great than) usual.
> Facebook can no longer stake any preposterous claim to "help people connect better".

Why not? Facebook does help billions of people connect better. Yes, it is a business entity and what's wrong with that? Does this make it inherently evil? Do non business entity do a better job at "making the world a better place"? Look at the latest NSA scandal to get an idea. At least we're not forced to pay Facebook with our tax money like we do with the NSA. But sure, business are the devil. Oh, and to stay on topic, if you want to be mad at something, be mad at those dictators forcing people to use TOR, not Facebook. TOR is also a great tools for spammers and Facebook has to fight spam too if it wants to survive as a business.
On what do you base this speculation? To me, the trend seems to be just the opposite. Internet use for the average person is increasingly non-anonymous. Only techies use Tor, PGP, etc.
When my dad was at university he made just out of curiosity a AI to play Tic Tac Toe that started knowing nothing about the game, and tried to learn from playing against the player, until it became impossible to beat it.

Later someone complained with university administrators that my dad was "playing games" in the computer lab, and he got banned from it :/

But I guess this version might be even more interesting to make a AI test or something!
CNN already broke this story in early May. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt9kRLrmrjc&feature=share
> Brazilians are fed up with all the crap the government has been doing for decades

So it's a structural problem, not only a fault of the actual government. I would say Brazil's situation have improved a lot in the last years.
Live: Head of NSA meets with House Intelligence Committee
Fortunately the tech required to restore minds will most likely solve the overpopulation problems as well.

One mistake people make when discussing cryopreservation is considering it in isolation. Reviving frozen minds will likely require some form of basic molecular nanotech, and this same technology can in principle convert dirt to habitats on Earth and in space.

As for my opinion about dying: fuck that. I don't want to die. I don't see any reason for any of us to pass away. If we can fix this, then let's do it.
Every taxpayer is partly responsible for funding the actions of their country's military.
Tell me more about how the majority is being persecuted and the neo-nazis are helping it to defend itself. In exchange, I'll tell you about Machtergreifung[1].

An Individual

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machtergreifung
Bub, you sound very close to a Holocaust denier.

Just thought I let you know.
What makes it 'start to crawl'? I'm inexperienced in dealing with iPhoto and large datasets.

I'd agree more with you if you said the sales person did a disservice by not recommending the RAM upgrade as thats not possible to do after the purchase. The author can still upgrade the SSD from OWC in the future.
Google Docs + HTML/JS = auto updating TV kiosk presentation
Title would probably be better if it were a bit more descriptive:

"FiftyThree, creators of Paper app, raise $15M, plan mobile office suite"
What I see is things improving from the bottom up instead of from the top down, for the first time in a very long time. For people who are nearer to the top (and this includes a large sector of the middle classes that looks up to the top percenters), this looks like a step back, as they can't see the benefits of the things that are improving. But I really believe in the long run, this is the only plan that won't destroy the country.

To me, things just seems better. I hope you are wrong.
The technical protection he refers to is 'filter at [the] ingestion points' - in other words, its a technical protection that prevents some data from reaching the NSAs data centre in the first place. Once its in the NSA's data centre, your only protection is a (weak, changeable, unaccountable) policy one. So by technical protection he's talking about preventing the data from reaching the NSA in the first place - if you can achieve that, you're much better off.

edit: here we're talking about indiscriminately hoovered data, rather than 'asked for nicely and specifically via court order' data.
that was not decided by the people...
The goal of this and repository [1] is to educate web developers on how to use Grunt to craft their own workflows, and examine some higher level tools that provide additional features that are helpful when creating rich-client web applications.

By watching the screencast you will learn about:

* how to create your own frontend workflow using Grunt [2]

* how to create custom tasks with Grunt

* how to use Lineman [3], which utilizes Grunt, to create web applications that are portable between any backend.

* how to manually bootstrap the application we built in End-to-End with AngularJS [4] using angular.bootstrap

* how to effectively separate your code into many small pieces with singular responsibilities

[1] - https://github.com/davemo/frontend-workflows-with-grunt-and-...

[2] - http://www.gruntjs.com

[3] - http://www.linemanjs.com

[4] - https://github.com/davemo/end-to-end-with-angularjs
Here is a video that shows the future of the NSA spying program:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9gtV-rSyEc
A foreign company might also qualify as an entity. Even a company that merely has offices abroad might qualify. US Citizens who work for foreign entities might very well be included.
They want you to buy their Thunderbolt display as a dock. You connect two cables - power and Thunderbolt to computer, and everything else to the display. It has few usb, firewire, ehternet, audio (built-in speakers), camera...
It's more of a 'wash' because you can do it after the purchase. Processor and RAM upgrades can't be done.
How much will the final product cost? Or will you give it away for free?
I also concur that "consciousness is an emergent physical property of massively interconnected systems". But "all matter has some degree of internal conscious experience" is really a philosophical question. Internet can be considered as a living being with different people acting as different components and communicating with each other the way neurons do. But is the internet as a whole, not its participants, conscious as a whole? That is a tough question.

I will try and read up the book you suggested. And I will point towards a very interesting theory I happened to have worked on (as a software developer) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Information_Theory which tries to quantify consciousnesses based on this interconnectedness.
Now you've gone from "find the top 10, cache it once" to "find the top 10 200M times, cache it 200M times" (and 200M is lower than you need.)

Say you find the top 500 apps instead and cache that. You still have to iterate over that 200M times, looking up each users list of apps (~50-100 on the average, I have 400+ in my list), intersecting them, making sure there's still a top 10, and caching the results.

Either way, you've done a load of work - that needs development, maintenance, testing - to gain what?

The app store is already making billions for Apple with "flawed" top 10s. You might gain a few 10s of millions by implementing this scheme. What's the point?
> FiftyThree didn’t need to raise money

People tend to believe actions more than words.
There are aspects of the whole technology that were avoided in the article, or edited out for length, or whatever. Regardless of reason, here's some filled in blind spots:

One important ignored aspect is you can treat the FPGA as a magic universal microcontroller. Oh, you need 3 UARTs now, I'll INCLUDE another at a different I/O addrs. And you'd like a CANbus now? No problemo in 10 minutes you'll be programming on the same hardware now with a CANbus. Oh you don't want to use a Z80 anymore, fine I'll compile the FPGA to be some pic variant in 5 minutes, or a microblaze, or whatever you want as a CPU core. As long as you slowly successively approximate real available microcontroller hardware, you can ease the eventual port off the FPGA to some microcontroller hardware that costs $1.50 in qty instead of $15.00 in qty. Its a lot easier, faster, and cheaper to upload a bitstream to a FPGA than to solder in a different microcontroller hardware. This makes device selection during development much less critical/scary. You don't have to sit in paralysis wondering if you need 3 or 4 I2C busses.

Another thing is not mentioning the open development community. Most HN readers probably hang out at github. The place where most FPGA folks hang out is opencores.org. People who exclusively hang out on github are going to wonder why "no one" is using FPGAs and theres "nothing out there" and "not much activity". Well come on over to opencores and you'll get more than a lifetime of entertainment ahead of you, for free... Its like going to CPAN and hanging out with CPAN people and wondering why "no one" uses Python. Looking in wrong spot. Need a more target rich environment.

You can do a lot of "stuff" with FPGAs as the underlying technology without doing much of anything with HDLs. Much as I once programmed on a Silicon on Sapphire CPU a long time ago, but the underlying technology simply didn't matter at the assembly language level. I'm sure it was very exciting on the factory floor and in the R+D labs, but I wasn't there, so I didn't much care. In a similar way you can synth up a perfectly good 6502 and give it twenty semi-intelligent ethernet interfaces without too much HDL effort and then just do your "software thing" on the synthesized device without touching the HDL.

Tying it all together, you'll get people outside the community reinventing the wheel, trying to slowly and methodically invent the concept, purpose, and implementation of the WISHBONE interconnect bus standard or something like that. Well, all that stuff got figured out and implemented inside the community like a decade ago, so... Much like the old saying about people refusing to use unix inevitably end up poorly reimplementing it.
ASK HN: The Delphi (IDE) vendor rejected me to buy their product, any help?
Fast-acting virus targets melanoma in mice
The methodology seems obvious - interpret every three bytes in the text as a pixel in an image, compress the image, then reinterpret each (post-compression) pixel as three ASCII characters.

This is not about OCR.
Surely a compressed call recording is also 'metadata'?
Records are annoying, but can be worked around. The compiler is incredibly slow and uses tons of RAM (I need 2GB to compile my simple little web app for example). The slow compile times can start to really kill productivity on large projects. The web frameworks are all pretty focused on trying to reproduce industry worst practices rather than doing things right, so if you are doing web development and you don't want your app to be a mess, you are kinda on your own. That's pretty much it.

edit: to clarify on the web thing, when I say "on your own" I mean you won't be able to get much from existing tutorials and examples since you will want to do everything differently. Not that you will have to write your own framework.
This is a good idea. Perhaps an individual in a state that values freedom of expression more highly.
The scaling across the range would be much smoother if they released a headless mid-range machine, rather than relying entirely on iMacs (and laptops) to fill the gap between the Mini and the Pro. They seem quite actively disinterested in building such a machine, though.
Introducing PhpStorm Video Tutorials - more than 2 hours worth
One funny detail about the article I couldn't help noticing: the article talks about "scaling the roof" of the National Congress building conjuring up an image of the people swarming over and laying siege to some kind of national fortress. But of course the National Congress rooftop[1] is one of the most accessible rooftops in the world being at road-level and visited by thousands of tourists on a regular basis.

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brasilia_National_Co...
I would never do that, that's a felony. I am a law abiding citizen.

They can send me to prison for 3 years for that. Does anyone know anyway what historical event I can't deny beside the holocaust?

Just so I know, I don't want to break the law!
Scientists may have discovered how cancer spreads around the body
Show HN: Meet fluent-fsm
In the UK we're called "domestic extremists."
This update is driving me crazy.
Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
July 1 is fast approaching and I'd like to see which alternatives are most popular.
Commafeed
FeedRebel
Feedwrangler
InoReader
MultiPLX
Nuesbyte
Yoleo Reader
The pub is in Hackney - http://www.individualpubs.co.uk/pembury/

I haven't tried it yet but keen to head up there, there is a meetup of the London Bitcoin Group on there this Sunday - http://www.meetup.com/London-bitcoin-meetup/events/122553592...
I think the most important thing, if you want a tablet to be productive, is a keyboard that actually suits it. I'm not talking about what we have now, which is basically laptops with detachable keyboards. I envision something you could pick up and type with, like a split keyboard on each side of the tablet. The tricky part to this is creating something you can grip and type with at the same time, but I don't doubt a creative engineer could come up with something (there are one handed keyboards that you can grip and type with effectively, IIRC).
Open Source Taxi App to Disrupt the Market
T Dispatch, a London-Berlin software startup, are due to open-source their high-end taxi booking app. Any fleet will be able to create their own branded version or Uber or Hailo, with free open source code.<p>June 2013, London - The last two years have seen the rise of taxi booking apps. Searching for ‘taxi’ in the app store brings you over a thousand options. From p2p solutions like Hailo and myTaxi to the private hire luxury of Uber and Black Lane, everyone wants a piece of the market.<p>Now, it seems that all passenger transport providers are longing for their own branded apps to keep up with the ongoing trend. A few taxi dispatch software companies have made white-label
versions available, but they come at a cost. One charges £20,000 for the premium app, plus monthly charges. While they rub their hands together at the prospect of this new revenue stream, Berlin-based startup T Dispatch have an alternative solution which might ruffle their feathers.<p>T Dispatch are due to release the code for their open-source taxi app this month. As an additional product to their web-based dispatch system and driver apps for iOS / Android, they answered demand from a rapidly evolving industry. There are thousands of minicab, taxi and limo companies who feel threatened by big brand apps, but can’t afford to compete. By subscribing to T Dispatch, these fleets have free access to the booking app source code, which they can then customise and develop for themselves to increase customer loyalty and brand awareness.<p>Resolved to keep their focus on software solutions, T Dispatch have publicly promised never to own any passenger-facing brand. Rather than competing, they offer an open API to integrate
their dispatch system with any customer-facing app, with a vision of aggregating all channels
into one platform for the fleets. The enterprising startup has grown from 3 to 20 employees in just 1 year, with substantial seed investment behind them.
>Obama Can’t Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests

That means either: Courts have not rejected any requests. or: The gov't has ignored [one or more of] the rejections.
The dock is a Thunderbolt Display
Yes this is true and I said that we will definitely see hosting products based on containers. I'm not disputing that point.

You know what the most popular hosting product is right now? It's not VPSes. It's shared hosting. Good old simple shared hosting outsells VPSes by a huge margin.

There's plenty of room for a variety of products, all the way from shared, to VPS, to container based to dedicated servers.

What I took issue with was the original article saying that containers would make VMs a thing of the past, which is silly.
It'll probably be around $15.
It's a lot more than just a business entity, unfortunately.

The government tends to look out for and protect its biggest corporate partners, particularly those that play a strategic role (think: Boeing). The major Internet services companies are now protected government sponsored entities, just like Verizon and AT&T.

The Feds can never risk the potential that the massive orgy of data that Facebook makes possible - both domestically and globally - might unravel or be challenged by competitors that might threaten the 'total information awareness' system they've built. I would argue Facebook's well being is now considered a national security interest for the US Government, as there are few other sources that provide easy access to the lives of a billion people around the world.

I wish Facebook were merely a business.
Yep, your parent presupposes people get better at computers.
Moore's law does not apply to people.
OTOH, the estimated bytes per call truly is conservative. The 8KB/s estimate is based on G.711, and using G.726 or G.729 would yield a 2-8x reduction in storage. So this is definitely within an order of magnitude: even if the minutes of talk time are off by a factor of 10, you could offset most of that with better codecs.

(Credit: commenter petrilli on Schneier's recent post about this.)
See: http://www.youtube.com/html5

Unfortunately the amount of videos encoded only with h.264 is still important and you can't avoid Flash if your browser/OS doesn't provide h.264.

So yes, having open video formats and codecs available is great, but please Google... we need you to use them.
The top echelon is exempt from being spied on. This is just a tool to exclude those who don't toe the party line. Family members will not have any problems.
Who needs comments, all posts should just have a graffiti wall. What could go wrong?
This is great! I love MongoDB!
This is written by a Princeton colleague of Krumgman, not by himself. And Krugman is in no sense in power - he is an economist that works in private sector (for a newspaper and a private university) and hasn't had a job in government in 30 years (and it wasn't a decision-making job.)
Structural and Sampling (JavaScript) Profiling in Google Chrome
I don't believe you will ever send them to an open board. O makes all its 8 initial moves in the center, and the 9th move for X will be in the last empty board. I think that it depends on what their last move in the center board is. If they send you to a corner, I believe you can force the win. If they send you to the SW corner, you make the first move in that square to the SW corner. This forces them to reply in the same SW corner. Wherever they go, you make your move in the next square in the SW corner, bringing them back to that corner again.
For comparison, one modern fighter jet (F-22) runs about $357M.
No questions. Please 'make it so'.
Stop writing code. Start drawing it.
If "the media" were going to help, they could have done that at any time since 9/12/2001.
> In the end, you spend hours upon hours researching the best way to handle registration, authentication, email confirmation, and a million other little things.

I've found SAAS-like applications (user registrations, emails, forms) aren't where Flask is most useful. Where it really shines is small API's and services. Easy to test, designed to be "little", handle JSON really well. There are also lots of extensions for things like making Redis easier to deal with, as noted in the Kickstarter.

I'd love to see the book incorporate some of those strengths — small, compartmentalized applications — instead of building an app similar to what you'd see in a Rails tutorial.
Why do you want to ship more data to the client - which they're paying for, btw - to solve a problem that most of them seem to not care the blindest bit about? And why do more work on the server side when you don't have to?

I appreciate there's a nerdy "IT MUST BE CORRECT" aspect to this but Apple are making billions - why would they bother doing work and creating potential support problems for themselves to gain maybe a fraction of a percent more?
They're not all that much slower. Take a look at http://zedboard.org/. That's a Cortex A9 dual core proc attached to a hell of a lot of FPGA fabric. In general, I would expect that the speed of data "out" of an FPGA is going to be slower than the speed of data "in" to an FPGA, as well as being somewhat less data "out." I would expect to pull in a lot of ADC data and then filter and process and etc., only sending on what I absolutely want to keep.
But maybe they don't need to manage it all? Maybe they need to keep records from the average person for about a month, and records for special targets much much longer. Perhaps that would ease the maintenance burden.
What Paintbrush Makers Know About How to Beat China
What Companies Don't Get About Hashtags
Multiple requests that the client is paying for over a possibly flaky network connection and now you have to handle all sorts of edge cases and errors that you didn't before.

Why bother?
I had to jump around, but this link is where I'm watching live: http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN3/
Beam splitters on the trunk lines?
Perl 6 (from [1]):

> my @fib := 1, 1, *+* ... *; @fib[99]
354224848179261915075

> (1, 1, *+* ... *)[99]
354224848179261915075

[1] https://justrakudoit.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/perl-6-fibonac...
Of course it does. It might be a short-term block to prevent a spam attack, for example.
Sounds like india
I'm surprised the article doesn't mention SmartOS. It's a superb OS which let's you spin up zones and KVMs.

http://smartos.blueprint.org/home/why-smartos-in-my-lab

http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2013/01/11/virtualization-pe...

http://www.cloudcomp.ch/2013/04/openstack-on-smartos/
Not too bad, but in my neighbourhood there are several that accept BitCoin:

http://bitcoinhood.wordpress.com/

Here is the sticker to look for: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bergie/9065253249/
" Particularly relevant was a project they led at Microsoft called Courier that has been widely praised as a visionary take on tablet computing (unfortunately, Courier was never brought to market)"

I thought the Courier was cool when it was presented, and still cool now. I would completely consider getting one if it were priced the same as one of the other tablets.
The Pembury is very well known in the geek/dev/startup/board gaming community, most of the people who drink there are geeks of one variety or another.
Throwing millions of legitimate users, who require Tor for their safety, under the bus is evil, yes.

Facebook has plenty of ways to fight spam besides blacklisting Tor exit node IPs, exactly as it has done up until now.
RAM isn't going to help in the case where you have a massive iPhoto library. I'm not exactly sure what causes iPhoto to perform poorly when dealing with massive quantities of photos, but it is nearly unusable on my 3.4 GHz i7 iMac which has 16GB of RAM unless I put the library on an SSD.
This point might be more important than anyone gives it credit for. Six days ago PG said that someone was running an "abusive distributed crawler" through Tor. Quite possible that Facebook would ban for the exact same reasons.