skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> It's not realistic to think they will do that.

I know, that's why I am moving away from Google. At least I'll make a little harder for NSA /FBI to figure out every damn thing I do online and offline (Android) 24/7.

>> But then, it might not be realistic to say that they can just send paper...

Like paying a $1 million fine in pennies? Sure, the first time. Then they have to explain it to a judge who might not think it was cute
Not all providers there are bad; BuyVM is one that has treated me excellently
Yeah. I'm betting that once this is figured out, carbs will be listed with the 'addictive' stuff like sugar. Not necessarily bad for you, but something that tends to alter your behavior.

I feel like most of us seriously underestimate how delicious and engaging carbs are. Even adults will sometimes go overboard and fill up on bread before a real meal.
Cheap, tasty food.
The Simon and Speck Families of Lightweight Block Ciphers
If we felt that the accuracy of the justice system trumped all privacy concerns, then we could have voluntarily adopted such systems years ago after honest plain public discussion.

We didn't.
Is the screen IGZO?
Bitcoin In IRS Crosshairs
If it's dated 1953, it's been around for six decades. Unless you mean it's been publicly available for 2-3 decades.
Wormhole entanglement solves black hole paradox
Too specific for what? Was it used in an actual political assassination?
The issue is less that git treats every paragraph as a single line, and more that git treats every line as a single line and they've put the paragraphs onto one line. It turns out that LaTeX actually looks for a double line break between paragraphs, and you can insert single line breaks into paragraphs without having them appear in the output.

So what you actually want to do is put a line break after every sentence and possibly after every clause, so that in the LaTeX source diffs work sanely, while the output looks as normal.
Zoe Lofgren and Ron Wyden announce Aaron's Law in Wired Op-Ed
Unlikely a news junkie would've called b.s. on that. There have been numerous stories in support of domestic phone call recording over the years, like: http://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2005/12/5791-2/
> That data is classified and protected by law.

The defense team doesn't need the data, they only need to show that the government has data that it's withholding.

> What you are quoting is completely something else, and just references the data the prosecutors have on hand that is gathered and developed as part of the investigation.

IANAL, but Solove is arguably the nation's top privacy law expert (along with Jeffrey Rosen, who is a professor at the same university) so I'm assuming he knows his stuff.
One qeustion I would like to ask,

Are asm.js and parallel javascript a competing replacements for C/C++ ?

C++ compilers get faster too, and leverage even more opportunity for the programmer to optimise hard, very hard. On top of that, programmers can leverage SIMD instructions for even more CPU bound optimisations, and use technology like C++AMP or openCL for computing effitiently on multicore GPU's.

Could any asm.js program ever be faster than a hand tuned C++ program ?
Things like books and games are fluid enough markets that the difference in the price I'm going to get between Amazon and other outlets is going to be fairly small. I just want a faster way to scan in ISBN codes so I don't have to enter them manually.

Sold seems like it might be good for hard-to-price items like antiques, but for media it just seems like a way to end up paying two companies' fees instead of just one.
There's a big drop off, which would indicate an algorithm change by someone (statcounter, google?), but also a slow decline since then. Maybe Jeff has been busy with StackExchange and Discourse and hasn't been posting as much?
What are you expecting in terms of compensation? Remember, most of the time these organizations are operating on sparse budgets. It would need a lot of actionable discoveries for an organization to see the benefit of having one on staff. I do know that the New York Times started a new department for this. You should try building something with their very cool API and send something over.
F.T.C. Head Seeks End to Misuse of Patents by Trolls
They had to!

Not too long ago, there would be a 8-10 month wait just to get an interview with someone to just kick of the individual investigation. The investigations themselves can can many, many more months after that. By allowing contracting firms and outsourcing, they've significantly lessened the wait. Unfortunately, it's coming with the cost of rampant fraud, waste and abuse (at least form what the article is asserting).
It doesn't make sense to stockpile books on the chance that your children might one day want to read them when a used copy is generally a click away. (Not to mention that you may prefer to re-buy them in digital form.) Every square inch of space in your home has a carrying cost (I used to calculate $4 per net square foot per month in New York).

Having one less book shelf is effectively saving enough per year that you could probably pay for buying back all the books you'd ever re-read on that shelf. And if you ever move, the cost and annoyance of keeping books just skyrockets.

I have a lot of books I love, but 90% of books are essentially disposable vehicles for information of transient value.
I think you parsed his call to action incorrectly. You appear to be in strong agreement.
Did that discussion actually happen yet? Maybe I missed it.
The product itself looks very interesting, but Samsung is horrible at product launches. I've just bought the new Haswell Macbook Air and am interested in possibly returning it and getting the Ativ Book 9 Plus. I thought that samsung.com would have availability information and more detailed specs, but it's not even mentioned anywhere. In fact, such information isn't available anywhere.
Changing ecosystems and optimizing my life
That's what I'd call responsive design.

No snarks: it displays perfectly on phone screens and large monitors and loads fast. How could it be made more responsive.

I think the key to responsiveness is to remove all javascript, all unnecessary styling, and most importantly to remove all dynamic social features. Then you have an html static page with long cache life.
It's the tape inside a cassette. Like the old answering machines.
Samsung has put out some very appealing hardware in recent times. I won't be surprised if they pressurize other PC makers just like they did in case of android
Ask HN: What is the impact of opening FB and Twitter offices in Vancouver?
How will the opening of new Facebook and Twitter offices in Vancouver, Canada affect the city and will it affect the Bay Area (i.e. recruitment of Canadians)?
Oftentimes the reason someone loses their shirt is cuz someone now got two two shirts.
Litvinenko had supposedly gone to work for the UK. The fact that he "got got" in London was intended to be a big middle finger from the FSB to the UK, from what I've read.
I'm somewhat disappointed with how this presentation portrays rather negative things as being positive in some way.

It's not encouraging or enticing in any way for me to learn that I can compile my C and C++ to JavaScript, and it'll be "just 2X slower than native code" (but not until "later this year").

I don't consider that an accomplishment. Having to use at least twice the processing power to get the same result isn't something to laud, for example. It's wasteful, not beneficial. It surely shouldn't be something to be proud about.

As an industry, we need to be moving forward. This means doing better than the best we already have. It does not mean only doing things half as well as we can already do, and pretending that we've somehow done something impressive.
Post-process: why the smartphone camera changed photography forever
But the evil in fairy tales is only the way it is because the characters who perpetrate it are purposefully one-dimensional, their motivations and justifications left unrevealed so as to not give the reader too much empathy for them. Even their evil, on level-headed scrutiny (ignoring the story narrator's attempt to sway you to one side of an us-vs-them debate with rhetoric), is "righteous and shortsighted." Which is to say--even their evil isn't "evil."

And if you've reduced a word to signifying nothing at all, perhaps you're just trying to run away from allowing the things it does signify to be labelled? If the "evil" in fairy tales is, deep down, the same kind of justified, empathizable action that real people in our real world do every day, then why can't the thing the real people do also be called evil?

I'm guessing that, after a few rounds of clarification, your real problem with the term might be its true definition: evil is basically a useful bit of meta-ethics jargon meaning "something that is subjectively offensive to the part of my utility function I assume my culture shares with me, as evidenced through mythos and communicated social norms." It's that "subjective" part that people get tripped up by--"evil" (and its opposite "good") are only defined given a utility function and a culture of empathizable peer-beings who share some part of that utility function. Without the utility function, you might have something unclipperific[1], but not something evil. Without the empathizable peers, it might be something you find personally offensive, but this feeling won't be shared to others via sympathetic anger (offense at losing in a fair competition, for example, feels like "rage", not like "observing an evil being perpetrated.")

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/fv3/by_which_it_may_be_judged/
Why would you only be ashamed now? The Silicon Valley's always been more greed than idealism; if anything, the idealism just makes the greed ever more rotten.

"Do no evil" ended up giving Google the power to do _more_ evil than it otherwise might've managed.
He's been mendacious as all of them, sure. That's not the important difference.

The important difference is that there are now millions of black American kids no longer growing up in a world where they just "know" as a first principle that "black people can't be president". That sort of example simply changes people's outlook. Inspiration and aspiration matter.
How did you or do you get to know a group of users and their problems?
Everyone's always saying get to know a group of users and solve their problems with software...but what if I need help with doing that? yes, I know it's kind of odd thing to ask but when I tried going to a few emetups for a technology that I think is neat I don't think they're so receptive to what I asked about (probably means that I don't have a good solution).

So please tell me the story of how you did it. I want to hear your war story or how you got into a group and the glorious victory! :)
In the very beginning, Gabriel was more focused on the instant answers and hadn't thought much of privacy -- users brought it up after he launched it on HN.
My friends, I have discovered a miracle cure for weight gain. It's simple, painless, and you don't have to cut out whole food groups. Best of all, I'll tell you what it is - here and now - at no charge! Here it is...

A SMALL PLATE.

That simple. Go out and buy a really individual side-plate, and make that what you always eat off. If you need seconds, OK - but after a few days you'll find that you can actually get by quite happily with one helping.

I'm sure we do eat too much sugar (way too much), but we eat too much everything. I started putting on weight when I was 40, and this is the thing that stopped it. It would be fascinating to measure our grandparent's plates, and what size meals they consumed. Despite a more active lifestyle, I bet they ate far less.
You might look at https://torrentfreak.com/which-vpn-providers-really-take-ano...

I've been using one of these, bought with Bitcoin, via Coinbase, set up with a Hushmail account, for a while now. It works great. Bandwidth is diminished somewhat, but not enough to be a problem for normal browsing or other totally legal activities.

edit: I'm tired, just noticed you linked to essentially the same TF article I did. Anyway, the service I've been using works with Tomato and DD-WRT (on some routers), is affordable, and is on of the recommended services for taking privacy seriously. They don't guarantee bandwidth, but in practice, there hasn't been a problem so far.
That is my point...
May be more bluster than kindness, whether they realize it or not:

http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4806:155yzh...

You can probably point an IP lawyer at the registered trademark and get a quick opinion on your options.
And the floating "CLICK ME" button which "CLICK ME" kept following "CLICK ME" down the page.

The more you add to a web page, the more it obscures the fundamental interaction you want people to use. It's harder to make an interactive page than a static one, so I'm not really blaming the OP. The real lesson is, "focus on the interactions which count". Google has a lot of cruft on their front page, but the only thing really distracting you from the search form is their logo.
I’m sorry, I thought a capitalist enterprise like the games industry only really wanted one thing out of gamers: MONEY.

Turns out it wants respect, too! Well too goddamn bad. Take that money we just gave you and buy another Maserati. Or pile all that money together into a huge pile and languish, tears in your eyes about how nobody loves you and everybody hates you. Good gravy, you sound like Taylor Swift strumming her guitar and asking the audience, “Why you gotta be so mean?” Jesus fucking Christ, woman, you have multiple industry awards and you’re swimming in cash, why do you need our love as well?

And before you tell me that game designers don’t make enough money to replicate the excesses that we used to see in the mid-nineties, please remember that the reason why that is so is because 1) well, for nothing were those things called excesses, and 2) the reason game designers get fucked over is less because because of their troglodytic subhuman mouth-breathing customers, but more because of… oh, I don’t know, crappy publisher deals and the long-standing American tradition of fucking over the talent.
Because it varies widely :).
It is entirely based on your query -- whichever source is detected as best for that type of query (i.e. Yandex is better at handling symbols, Bing's advanced syntax is better [mostly]), and of course it changes over time as rules are tweaked and added.
Don't forget space travel! Both from within the gravity well and intra-solar.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propu...
I'm holding out for a scramble suit, personally.
Yes, and no js and css means it works beautifully on lynx, and search engines love it.
I have a 15" Samsung Series 9 i7 for work. This machine looks amazing but the i5 is saddening, i7 + SSD makes compile times etc amazing and I can't give than up for a nicer screen :(
What users say they want and what they will actually use are often completely different.
I'd argue that most people - other than knowing they're overweight - know little about their lifestyle as well (or at least they don't know it as well as they'd like to think).

The prevalence of quantified self & self-tracking is starting to change this & when you're able to measure & track inputs better, you're better able to correlate the results with them as well.
The quadrocopters you're seeing on youtube generally have very specific navigation requirements that require lot of infrastructure and preparation in the area they're flying.
Ask HN: Feedback on chocolate video
A while back I posted on ideas on how to help my friend's chocolate start-up, and some suggested she post a video.

I recently edited a video of her chocolate making process and wondered if I could get any feedback from the hn group. Her chocolate is special because it is bean to bar with any cocoa butter.

http://youtu.be/8DmW6NrlQ_I

The chocolate start-up is
http://www.chocovivo.com

Apologies on the video quality as the original camera wasn't that good.
I intend absolutely no offense here. I love seeing HN projects posted here. But...

One of the major issues that has been raised recently is, essentially, trust. Especially in the market that you'd be targeting -- individuals that no longer trust various online services.

You can say that you will fight requests as much as possible under law, but how is that different from what Google, Facebook, and others claim to do?

The NYTimes just published an article claiming that Skype was backdoored by the NSA in cooperation with a small team of Skype developers, in secret, back in 2011. For the sort of people that are concerned by that sort of news, how are you going to convince them that you're different?
Be in that user group (i.e. solve your own problems), then see if that applies to others in said group. You could also research the hell out of that group, join the group and learn the business from the ground up, or befriend a person in said group and shoulder surf (watch for dumb issues or ways to streamline the process). My father is in property management, and their entire industry is starting to go online, this is a good example of where I'm able to offer advice.

See http://www.paulgraham.com/organic.html
IRS is entitled to have opinion about receiving taxes from bitcoin transaction.
Ah, you are correct! Gore's book is merely where I learned it from.
You just need your own set of insect-sized drones to find and destroy other insect-sized drones.
I know you specified "without government involvement", but to be honest I think this is exactly the sort of thing that governments should be doing. Effectively what you're saying is that we have a problem with externalities (costs not borne by the agent who caused the cost). The best way to fight this is to create laws such as the carbon tax, which force businesses and individuals to pay the equivalent cost of the externalities.
...but that's what they would say, isn't it?
performance isn't the only dimension along which things can move forward
Disqus violating Twitter TOS and users trust
In the dark of night, without notifying their users/customers, Disqus made a change that negatively affected their users and their users' commenters.

Whereas before, you could login directly to Twitter or Facebook to make a comment, now you are required to create a Disqus account before being allowed to login via Twitter or Facebook ( http://help.disqus.com/customer/portal/articles/1165015-merging-your-social-login-to-a-disqus-account-has-important-benefits ).

That being said, Disqus still utilizes the Twitter and Facebook marks. When a user clicks on the Twitter/Facebook icons, after a series of redirects, they are prompted to create a Disqus account. This pretty clearly violates the Twitter "Developer Rules of the Road" (i.e. Principle #1 Don't Surprise Users). A user clicks on a Twitter icon and is prompted to register for Disqus...how is that not "Surprising users"?

Over a number of years Disqus has done a great job of building the trust of businesses to use their product. Now, if a business uses Disqus comments, when a user goes to login with their social profile on a businesses website, they are prompted to create an account with a third party.

If a website owner doesn't ask users to register to make a comment on their website, why does Disqus?

I guess the options are a) disable social service logins, or b) switch to a different service (Intense Debate?). While, c) Disqus letting us pay to disable this "registration step", would be acceptable too...ironically, that seems the least likely to happen.
Thank you for insinuating that I'm lying. :)
I do think there have been some internal struggles in the Valley, though I agree that the idealists have never really been in charge of the companies.

A simplified factional map might involve the "techies", the "suits", and the "apolitical pragmatists", with various shifting alliances between them. The early internet, for example, seems to have been largely dominated by ideologically pro-openness techies, working in a period where their bosses didn't interfere much. It's interesting to read Jon Postel's public emails, for example, and imagine if anyone in a similar position could fulfill his role with the same integrity today.
Thank-you for making a mockery of Hacker News and not directly addressing any of the points in the article.
More so than drones I think. Internal flying vs external, the former has to deal with much more restrictions (physically) than the latter.
Valid discussion all around! Let's all go get some beers.
This is (very sadly) par for the course for pretty much everyone but Apple. The same thing happens with any sort of smartphone, any new ultrabooks, etc. I'm guessing this also comes without a price tag or launch date. "Cool story Samsung".
John McAfee helps uninstall McAfee - NSFW
"The only difference is that the N.S.A. does it for intelligence, and Silicon Valley does it to make money."

Nobody at the NSA would make any decision that would financially benefit them?

I really can't read that statement without being cynical. I will just leave it there..
The best thing you can do is embed, like a journalist in a war zone. Or maybe the better metaphor is an anthropologist, studying humanity by observation and interaction.

Of course, best may not be feasible. So contact and talk to your target group. Find people in it, and ask about pain points. Then make a minimally viable product that addresses one tiny part of it, build a user base, and interate.
I wish I had something more important to say, but I just wanted to note that Icon, albeit obscure these days, was/is a neat powerful language, especially for complex text processing. I remember using it back in the 80's for fun projects like writing a chaos generator and more useful things like scanning for patterns in DNA/protein sequences (yes, we had a few sequences even back then). It seemed so exotic with it's fancy backtracking pattern matcher, generators and co-routines -- especially for someone coming from a C background. The biggest drawback for me was lack of popularity, which meant I couldn't share the programs I wrote and couldn't get help from almost anyone I worked with since none of them used Icon or even knew about Icon. For anyone interested, it's still available for many platforms at http://www.cs.arizona.edu/icon/ . I got my first Icon distribution on magnetic tape :)
Advertisers are Silicon Valley's most talented
Just wait until Big Data is referred to similarly to Big Oil...
Who thinks trading in Bitcoin makes them magically exempt from the tax laws of their country? Of course, pretty unsure of how they'd have any sort of accountability or venerability for self-reported Bitcoin income.

"On your 1099 please list all Bitcoin address you've sent or received money from". Right.
Should've included [SHOW HN] in link title.
> I started putting on weight when I was 40,

A late bloomer, huh... did you stay active your whole youth and then stopped for some reason? Or did you have an I-can-eat-anything-I-want metabolism in your youth which then petered out a little? I do wonder...
A diet people consistently can't keep to doesn't constitute a solution to the problem.

It's also worth noting that people who have gained a bunch of weight and lost it have a slower metabolism than people who stayed at the same weight. The Hacker's Diet - being based on calories in/calories out - did not account for this factor. The claim it made was that you could lose weight by keeping a calorie deficit for a while, then once you've lost enough weight you could stop the deficit, go back to basically eating at the level you did before and still stay at the new weight. Which doesn't work.

Dieting seems to work because your body takes a long while to adapt to new conditions. Eventually you get hungrier and less active; progress tends to stop and reverse whether or not you keep "trying".

Temporarily losing weight is "a solved problem". But losing weight without reducing metabolism and thereby making yourself more likely to gain weight in the future, is not.