skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. I was reading the semicolon as a list separator (like a comma), not a sentence separator (like a full stop / period). The use of a lower-case "and" after the semi-colon pushed me in that direction. It looks pretty conclusively like I was wrong. I have updated my comment.

+1 from me for a senator to disclose the government's lies, then, so there can be an informed debate about the costs and benefits of mass surveillance.
Ha, this coming from the same company that is helping the CIA build a 600 million dollar data center for spying...
That's probably a good point. I guess if someone wants to screenscape a dynamic JS heavy page they'd probably want to interact with the page.
The "buttery" nature of it could have been the kind of milk that was used -- one consequence of freezing high-fat milk quickly is that the fat will tend to "crash out" of emulsion (this is a side-effect of the same phenomenon that makes the ice crystals smaller). So you'd want to use a leaner mix.

If your teacher used half-and-half or cream, the resulting ice cream was probably pretty fat-forward on the tongue.

(Aside: I've seen this demo done by a bunch of different people, and I'm always a little disappointed by the level of science involved. Usually, it's little more than "See? Liquid nitrogen is REALLY COLD". That's fine, I guess, but there's much more interesting stuff going on!)
Indeed that is the problem, we are now at the point where you are marked a target for trying to keep some privacy between you and your friends, when you try to keep a third-party, the government, at bay your citizenship rights are temporarily suspended.

"Deine papiere bitte" on the streets is not that far away. Actually what we have today is worse, self-censorship and suspension of rights.
That it's 29% higher than the US price, even after accounting for sales tax.

Not that it's necessarily unusual, I suppose. Sad though.
Also it is in fact testing the shift() function indirectly (and array access).
EBS is a very unreliable service compared to the rest of the AWS stack; probably the single most unreliable service. (vs. EC2 which overall is fairly reliable, even if individual nodes aren't, and Route53, which has been quite reliable.)

Load balancers are often used as part of an HA system, so building your HA component using the least reliable subsystem is a bad idea. Particularly because there's no need to -- the S3 backed instances work fine for this.
may be they haven't experienced enough java (especially the j2EE stack...its a bit of a big and complicated stack, and unless you really worked with it, you won't know it).

Guava also has tonnes of good stuff - http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/g... , and its ostensibly lighter weight and more modular too.
Maybe Patio11 will chime in with some ideas for your pricing plans? Everything I know I got from reading his comments/blogs.

(I think he searches for mentions of his username, so the bat signal is officially turned on :-)
For a first job, that's fine, and if it's a job you think you'd enjoy I'd suggest you go for it.

As anothermouse says, after you've been there 1-2 years and have both experience and the CV to prove it, you'll likely be able to earn quite a bit more, but I wouldn't advise spending lots of time now trying to find a higher salary straight out of Uni.
Yes, like any other modern android smartphone/tablet/whatever
Controlling the exit node does not help with Tor <-> Tor traffic.
Git is too complicated for most use cases, but seems to be becoming a de facto standard for even the simplest collaborative tasks.
It's already free information online; if you're online you can already look at it. What would you like the webapp to do? Bear in mind in the interest of accessibility it must not rely on javascript, and there should be an offline as well as a print version to accomodate those with less internet access or no computer.
For Content Creators, Flexibility Is Key
Just a thing to remember don't ever depend on your bonus.

I also work in London as a Engineer and it isn't always about the salary it is the exposure to what you will be working on and the company. You could be working on and writing the best code of your life but if your next employer hasn't heard of your current company or cannot research them it might as well be pointless. So remember github and blog to make you look good.

Oh and attend meetup groups.

Get in the fast flow (network).
Should post the original article that did the research:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-23/u-s-surveillance-is...
I guess Python was what showed him that there is a better way to design languages.
I wonder if you could tie up the NSA with honeypot spam? Just send tons of encrypted data from a bunch of different sources, 24/7. You could even hide your legitimate messages within it.

Does a system like that exist? A constant stream of random bytes, some of it real information, most of it not. Only those intended to be the recipient know where to look.
"The US state department has revoked Snowden's passport", shouldn't a judge decide this? I was under the impression that governments can't revoke its citizen's passports just because, and isn't this even in the UN Human Rights?
:%s/privacy/life/g
Bit harsh. True to his work Jobs gave away tens of millions of dollars without publicity.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330727/How-Steve-Jo...
OK, if the accusation is false, then there's not much to talk about...it's just a smear. I was only speaking of the condition in which this accusation is true. If so, it does not mean that Snowden was wrong or that he is being nefarious. However, it's not just an ancillary demonization...at least for those of us who interpreted his story to be of someone who turned because of what he saw to be unjust practices.

In otherwords, he's less of a whistleblower, more of a muckraker. Both are capable of bringing about needed reform
0.1c would make this a 220 year journey each way. So what you're really saying is: no, it's not possible reach these planets in our lifetime.
Awesome post. Thanks!
The traditional media are pissed off that Greenwald, a blogger, broke this story from under their noses.
You are not the intended audience for the Ouya Kickstarter, because you don't want to create content. You only want to consume.

And that's a great shame, that you took a potential developers place in that order queue (the Oculus Rift suffers this same issue), a developer that is having to wait until retail release to get their hands on a platform they want to publish for.

Kickstarter != Amazon.

An audience of consumers, and bedroom-youtube-reviewers with a short attention span are passing (generally) negative judgement on device that was not meant for them.
You would not be you and I would not be I if there wasn't someone constantly telling me what to do or not to do.
>> Computer systems in the wild are stochastic

> Try telling a client who wants 100% uptime that!

A client who asks for 100% uptime will end up disappointed.

> We attempt to remove an entire class of issues related to deployment environment by changing our platform engagement paradigm to one that is less procedural/'stochastic' to something that is more atomic/reliable.

I'm afraid I don't get the difference. You've argued that configuration drift is a major problem with configuration management tools, but I don't see how any solution based around deploying full system images couldn't also apply to stepped upgrades applied by CM. Allowing config changes to be made directly to production servers instead of going via the deployment tool is the problem there, not anything fundamental to which deployment style has been used.

With puppet configuration (for instance) in version control, it's not a problem to test against a known, versioned, identifiable and auditable environment. As long as you're not applying config changes to live servers, the switchover to a new environment is equally atomic either way.

Given that the trade-off is building, storing and deploying full system images, I don't think there's a fundamental advantage to full-system deployment that can't be matched by a thought-out application of conventional configuration management.
Focus On Tomorrow, Or A Year From Tomorrow
You must assume that the NSA already has master keys for all domestic CA root certificates, and given how many were hacked recently, foreign ones too. In which case SSL traffic is effectively the same as plaintext to them.

The solution could be a distributed CA system like http://convergence.io/
Thank you for that link. It's very interesting. I'm working on a protocol for brass reader that is similar to what he describes. It uses a shared filesystem like dropbox as the communication medium but it is a change set based protocol. I'm still not sure if it's going to work, but I'm going to give it a shot.
Yup. Web development company with a few floors of employees. Everyone has it installed, and it works fantastic for quick questions or sending someone a big database dump (beacuse it currently goes over LAN).
Yes, it isn't something about actually ideas, it's that somehow I don't think there is a market for them, they seem to be just dumb ideas.
I agree, they're tricky. I'm currently working on a blog post about them. :)
Daala: Mozilla and Xiph to develop free video codec
Technically you are not the same person as the 5 year old you. Every cell has been replaced.

It would only be a facsimile of you at a specific moment in time... which would make each facsimile on parallel paths... scary
Learn Clojure in 15 Minutes
I made a replacement: https://github.com/fredley/dilbert-rss
How well do journals publicize retractions?
While it's not a popular view on HN (to say the least), I am hugely looking forward to Snowden spending the rest of his life rotting in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison.
The Ghost Town of Silicon Valley
I was imagining we would also be researching biology at the same time, and would be able to live that long or sleep during the trip. If we're able to move at .1c I can't imagine we'll still die as quickly as people born in 1900.
Or procreating on the space ship.
This is stupid. The for loop doesn't mutate the list while the other do. What is the point of this?
Dilbert.com nerfed their feeds, use this script to generate your own
Interesting, is Manta open source?
> Any Senator disclosing classified details would be violating Senate rules which would then place him or her subject to action by the Senate itself.

There's only so much they can do, aside from blocking further access to classified information through official channels and stripping committee assignments.

Expelling requires a 2/3rds majority, which I doubt they'd get, and Powell v. McCormack established that Congress can't prevent the initial seating of a duly elected, constitutionally qualified member.
Ouya could have a chance if the hardware and software was flawless, but reviews suggest it isnt. I can run anything (and more) the Ouya can run from my Smartphone, granted its alot cheaper but its also an extra device while i own a smartphone anyway.

I cant really see this being so successful that developers target the ouya as an independent device as opposed to the android platform as a whole, but i hope i am wrong.
The for loop uses array access "items[j]", and the while loop uses "items.shift". At the end of the for loop 'items' is still the same, at the end of the while loop 'items' is empty.
Thanks! I have been trying to make this point to my friends in light of recent events
and what would that can of worms be? :) ...really, if there is a "can of worms" to open here, we'll open it quite soon, well before any such voyage, by starting to do cosmetic-human-genetic-engineering, economic-oriented-human-genetic-engineering and warfare-oriented-human-genetic-engineering, and I'm pessimistic enough to bet on the third one as the first to crop up (nothing better than: "supper smart military engineers", "super smart, fit, sociopathic and fanatic - ie. unbreakable - spies" or any other such combos that I'm sure make up some twisted folks' wet dreams...).
Yeah, you're right. I had some more time to think, here's an updated, clearer version. I really really hate how you HAVE to define the last loop as 0 -> INT_MIN + 1 -> INT_MIN -> INT_MAX -> 0. And there's no way to do it other than to use ifs. And there's no getting around that f(f(0)) != 0 (if you want the function to be correct in the most possible cases, that is). If you remove the ifs, it fails for INT_MAX, -INT_MAX and 0. Ifs in numeric code always make me uneasy.

/*
* f(f(n)) = -n
*/

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

int32_t f(int32_t n) {
if (n == 0) {
return -0x7fffffffL;
}
if (n == -0x7fffffffL) {
return n-1;
}
if (n == -0x80000000L) {
return 0x7fffffffL;
}
if (n == 0x7fffffffL) {
return 0;
}

int32_t s = 1 - 2 * ((uint32_t)n >> 31);
int32_t m = 2 * (n & 1) - 1;
return m * n + s;
}

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
int32_t n[] = { 1, 2, 3, -1, -2, -3, 0, 5, 6, 10, 20, 50, 0x7fffffff, 0x80000000, -0x7fffffff };
int count = sizeof(n) / sizeof(int32_t);
for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
printf(" f(%d) = %d\n f(f(%d)) = %d\n", n[i], f(n[i]), n[i], f(f(n[i])));
}
}
Why Study Humanities? What I Tell Engineering Freshme
My situation is like this:

1- I have 3 good ideas.
2. I've researched a lot and worked hard on specs, UX, UI, pitch, branding
3. Started to bootstrap as much as I can do (i'm not 100% engineer)
4. Looking for angel investment and vc.

My problemas are not the ideas, I ditch every single idea I can't validate it, my single problems are: finding a good co-founder, heavy coder so we can venture both in the ways of nerdism with the proyect and capital. I can't do code + capital search + company administration, etc. etc.

Every time I pitch my 2 biggest ideas people get shock but they're too ambitious and requiere, maybe 10 people working full time on it. After we validate the model with real people, the lean way, ofc.
A moment of reflection
A letter from a technical founder to non-technical founders
This is almost exactly what I logged in to say. If we all use strong encryption to secure our private communications then we'll quickly exhaust all available decryption resources possessed by any government or entity looking to do massive-scale dragnet surveillance.

We do have a choice here, and our collective decisions will be what shape our future and our future government. Without a concerted effort we're doomed to slip ever closer to a dystopian future of zero privacy and ever present suspicion of everyone.
Why max to 0.1c? Is there friction in space or so?
I've struggled with git for years without ever feeling comfortable with it. This looks like it is going to be really awesome. Thank you pcottle!
I ended up choosing Feedbin after looking at the alternatives. I didn't really want something "innovative". I rather enjoy my workflow. Their web client is pretty decent, and somewhat resembles my favorite native app, Reeder. When Reeder updates, I'll happily continue to pay Feedbin to serve as the backend for sync only.
Did you not read even one sentence of mine after the one you quoted?

"...and easy to vote for stiff penalties for criminals who don't look like you."

That's a reference to the Drug War. Which Reagan cranked into high gear in the 1980s, in response to the crack epidemic, by introducing mandatory minimum sentences for drug possession. Penalties for possessing crack were, infamously, 100 times those for an equivalent amount of powder cocaine. Congress revisited the issue in 2011 and reduced the ratio. Now it's just 20:1.

Most crack users are black, and so, as a result, are disproportionately many prison inmates. Only 13% of the population is black. The other 87% continue to vote enthusiastically for politicians who are "tough on crime".
To whom that we are at war with has he helped?

That's an easy question: nobody. We're not at war with anyone.

The Congress thinks it's found an easy way around the ugliness of a formal declaration of war (e.g., the AUMF). But here's a wrinkle. If we haven't declared war, then we're clearly not at war in a legal sense. And thus, it can't trigger the treason definition.
True. In a perfect scenario I would rather the NSA not store my communications at all, and have them no reason to even look at me to assume I am either good or bad.

But, unfortunately, looking at the absolute pushback from congress and the white house over this whole thing, it's pretty clear the citizens have absolutely 0 say in the matter. After all, we're just ignorant sheep. They're the ones will all the knowledge and we should just trust them. We're not going to be able to change the NSA's policies or magically make everyone follow the constitution and the law to the T overnight. This is a compromise on our end.

The NSA may have a large amount of resources for storing and running attacks on my emails, but they don't have limitless resources. For every hour they spend bruteforcing my keys to recover a sappy "Just thinking of you <3" to my wife, the less time they're spending bruteforcing someone else's emails.
See the other comment in this thread. It's basically down to the fulfillment company failing. OUYA sent the last of the backer units shipping weeks ago.
Ask PG: How can I retrieve a password for my user?
I created my account with OpenId, and now I have no idea what my password is, any chance you can help me out?
Skyjacked
Actually, they used to. Then they wised up and started using couriers. Both worked to the disadvantage of Al Quaida. When they stopped using electronic communications their organization suffered. Then, it was the movements of a courier that gave away Bin Laden.

So, regardless of whether you think it's OK for the NSA to spy on everyone, this push did break down Al Quaida's organization.

Whether it affects cell oriented terrorism (or 'lone wolf' terrorism) is another matter. For example, for the Boston bombers one of them did mention something about terrorism and came on the radar, but the FBI misjudged the threat.
Oh yeah, totally; by having to "download all the items" I meant on the server. Assuming your were importing feed to an IMAP server that you owned, and reading feeds with a standard IMAP mail client. (Sounds kludgey, but really did work better than 90% of solutions to date.)

But if you mean a provider providing IMAP access to RSS feeds, that could work great. I don't know how to deal with updated items, but there is probably a way, especially if you had a custom client for key platforms. And 2nd tier platforms could still use an IMAP mail client.

Ok! Great idea, so... Somebody: go!!
I do not want to be someone in future, 10 years, or even 30 years.

I am here, now, enjoying myself :)

Money, position, income, it is forced drug we must take so enjoyment could be numbed.
while this is certainly true, if you would limit kickstarter-orders to serious developers only, many of the projects would reach far smaller funding amounts or might even fail their funding targets.
In the end this is a device for consumers and it needs to create hype to be successfull, so letting anyone in on the action is the only way to go.
How is Edward Snowden able to travel without a passport?
Nothing says 'Ripe For Disruption' louder
Nothing says 'Ripe For Disruption' louder than an industry littered with existing software 'solutions' who's marketing pages show pictures of boxed software and a 'contact us to set up a demo' with no pricing information and no easy way to buy the product.
Am I the only one curious as to what NUMA stands for?
It's often possible to distinguish random data from encrypted data using something like a chi square test. However, if you just encrypted random bytes, then it would look just as encrypted as your real data (because it is). Alternatively, you could just encrypt spam emails (it'd be cute if a system like this encrypted and sent every spam email that you received).
The Heat can call themselves whatever they want, but since 2009, the NBA championship banners have said "NBA Champions" rather than "World Champions".

This was given some publicity at the time, though a quick search doesn't turn up any references, other than photos of the banners.

As far as the World Series, is there any real dispute that it's effectively the world championship?
Do you have any kind of source or citation for this? Where does "20 years" come from?
Care to elaborate on exactly why you are looking forward to it?
ownCloud has a news app now.
https://github.com/owncloud/news

I haven't tried it out yet.

See also https://github.com/owncloud/News-Qt-App and https://github.com/owncloud/News-Android-App
Are you ignoring the part where I said "assuming the guards do anything"?
Based on the artist's conception: we've discovered Tatooine!

It sounds like there's two problems for anyone/thing living on these planets. First, they're closer to their star than Mercury is to our sun. Unless the atmosphere is pretty dense and there's a strong magnetic field, the radiation on the surface is going to be pretty intense.

Second, one of the notes at the bottom of the article says the team believes the planets day and year are the same length, so one side always faces the star. That'll reduce the habitable area to a ring around the planet instead of the entire surface. We'd still be ok to put a colony there and we could probably generate lots of energy from the temperature differential, but it's much less likely that life would have evolved in that environment.
Spying on citizens of countries that are supposed to be allies is not ok.
Now, if there only were Android games that did not completely suck. Unfortunately, even emulators (SNES as opposed to NES) work like shit on Android, so it's not even useful for emulation.
In a world were most people would use encryption, NSA and other agencies would just backdoor consumer hardware or libraries such as OpenSSL and pretend to cry over their sudden loss of power.

Technology is not the solution to this problem, it is society and it can be solved by rule of law, accountability, revolution and such old forgotten concepts.
Ask HN: What is your email setup?
Latino is an ethnicity; people of that origin identify themselves according to racial classifications like white, black, Native American, etc. Most do identify themselves as white.
I think most people opposed to Snowden are using the argument that he has "crossed the line" by releasing information on the NSA hacking Chinese infrastructure. What they fail to realize is that this is public infrastructure (hospitals, etc...) and the attacks are basically human rights violations on the Chinese; which is a country we aren't even at war with.
I wonder if the upvote/downvote system should be based on karma, so e.g. a downvote/upvote from someone wouldn't be equal to -1/+1 but to something proportional to their karma.

This will be more similar to how peer-review works in universities. A peer-review from a professor with a long-standing reputation is worth more than the peer-review of a new professor.
Technically, it's always approaching, and 'fast' is subjective.
Why? His data is from the outside and so is a generalization... But that's what are government is about... the majority. I'm from the US. i tend to agree with you. I believe overprotectve schooling and parenting (in general) has led to this mindset.
The average customer does not, but security professionals do.

I know that in many government scenarios, (think local governments) for example, policy guidance drives purchasing and other behavior. So if compliance with some security standard requires a "green lock" that lock matters.

That will drive behavior -- banks, insurance companies, and other businesses will be disqualified for all sorts of RFPs.
I feel like I'm the only RSS reader that never used Google Reader. I used iGoogle (formerly Google Personalized), and then switched to Netvibes a few years ago because of some complaint I can't even remember now.

Personally, I prefer to read RSS items on the author's website, and Netvibes suits that. Plus they have a Twitter widget that works even though my work proxy blocks twitter.com.
GBA one works well on my Nexus 7
Is Pandora Really Exploiting Artists?