skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a confusing bit in the "P.S." section in this letter which read like some kind of veiled threat to expose the city for tax fraud, or for some kind of tax-related misdeeds.

What was that all about?

Is it generally a good idea to put veiled threats in responses to cease-and-desist letters?
> Having a separate compilation pipeline can be viewed as a disadvantage since any optimizations for speeding up asm.js doesn't improve JS performance: http://mrale.ph/blog/2013/03/28/why-asmjs-bothers-me.html

It is not a separate pipeline. asm.js uses the standard IonMonkey pipeline, with some additional IR-level instructions.

Furthermore, the argument that doing work on asm.js won't help normal JavaScript applies equally well to the Dart VM.

> There's nothing special the "author" would have to do, it already exists as part of the project template

I'm glad to hear that, but the fact that it is possible to just not serve the JS (or, just as badly, not test it: from what I've read elsewhere in this thread, the semantics of Dart2JS is not the same as the semantics in the Dart VM!) doesn't give me confidence that people won't write Web apps that depend on the Dart VM.

The worry is that Web apps will come to depend on the Dart VM being present. I have seen nothing to indicate that this is not a very real possibility.

> The demo doesn't let you run it in IE10 and whilst it lets you try run it in the latest Chrome, but it crashes.

That has nothing to do with optimizations and is a bug in Chrome's JS implementation. The ECMA standard says that asm.js is valid JavaScript.
Nice try Microsoft, but you're still not getting my money. Not until you do something about your Xbox live ripoff(s).
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I can tell when a helicopter is above me, and there is a much greater cost of operation making it impractical to use helicopters for constant surveillance in giant drag nets of innocents.
Oh, wow, that's fantastic.
pay an annual fee for Netflix on top of what I pay Netflix? Never.

Same here! Also, I'm a casual gamer and I go months...YEARS without playing video games. I do not want another subscription that I'm going to forget about. I had an Xbox 360, but I never paid for the Gold service - so the only online gaming in my house is done on my PC workstation.

I will probably get a PS4 this time around.
How is a news aggregation site considered journalism?

I would have a hard time calling the largely news aggregating Huffington Post journalism even though it has original content. Or at least serious journalism with some kind of journalistic integrity.
I think that's what marban was suggesting.
>Spark may be a great system, but this article doesn't do much to settle the issue.

Wired is a mainstream technology magazine.
The best line of that letter:

Not only am I unintimidated by litigation; I sometimes rather miss it.
How is the Kinect different from every smartphone, tablet with microphones and cameras that we all always carry around even to bathrooms, bedrooms and confidential meetings?

> $100 more expensive than PS4.

You get the easy to use Kinect voice control and things like fitness games that can help you be in your target heart rate zone.
Hmm, dense structures, no zoning codes, where have I heard that before?

Oh yeah: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenement
But he assured us everything was above board and legal.
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Well I don't see why my advocacy would be the dealbreaker either way :) Unless you mean if it's not to be used in production, then what's the point? It's a new language; that's how they work. I wouldn't recommend people use Rust in production yet either, but that says nothing about its future.

I agree with you on Typescript, though I don't see it as any more interesting than Closure Compiler annotations plus one of the various ES6 transpilers. It's nice to have those in one package, but I don't really use or want the transpilers normally, so I feel no draw to them now.

As for Dart, I've never totally understood its intended place and how it was expected to succeed there (though we'll see, I guess), but as for its use in practice, philosophically I now just think of it as another Coffeescript, and so I'm at peace with the idea that people want to use it.
Do you own an iPad or a laptop with a web cam and microphone?
This seems to be missing the fundamental vulnerability: there are hundreds of CAs each allowed to make certs for any site.

At the very least, there should be a system where a site can safely declare which CAs are allowed to sign certs for it, once one of them signs for it. Otherwise, every marginal CA added decreases security. Some of the pinning options work for this (cert/ca pinning, vs. key pinning like in Chrome), but then you're exposed to "registrar blackmail risk", or issues when a CA just goes out of business or something.

This is all sort of a problem for https server certs, but really destroys the utility of the system for s/mime or any client certs other than internally issued.
Sounds interesting, is there more information on that that I can read?
> I'm not convinced there is anything useful here.

Well there is indeed something here. The charts are clearly correlated with rich and poor areas (at least for cities I'm familiar with).

Now whether or not it's tied solely to iphone vs android remains to be seen. The results deserve some sort of explanation.
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3D printing company MakerBot acquired by Stratasys for $403M
Great move?

MakerBot, a Brooklyn, NY-based startup which makes desktop 3D printers for consumers and professionals alike, is being acquired by Stratasys, an Israeli-based 3D printer and additive manufacturer. The initial value of the proposed merger is $403 million based on Stratasys’ stock price today. It’s said that the combination of the two will aid in accelerating adoption of 3D printers by the mass market.
Learning Photoshop mechanics and UX concepts isn't sufficient, IMO. One can be proficient in $DRAWING_TOOL and still unable to compose something that looks good. As much as I appreciate sites like Tutsplus, they teach mechanics but rarely answer the "why." Why do we add this 28% opaque drop shadow in step 37? Knowing why something looks good is essential to being able to create new works.

Two books I personally found very useful for "why," both discovered via HN:

"The Non-Designer's Design Book"
"Design for Hackers"
I think in my head I had container ON A VM. Which just inherits the problem of running it on a VM. Is there a good linux tool for limiting the IO of a process or user?
Where'd you get that bit of FUD from? They wouldn't ever do that, the console would be inaccessible to deaf/mutes.
He isn't disagreeing with what seems like a generally accept notion, he's disagreeing with the presentation of the data and the conclusion reached in the article.

It only consists of many geo-tagged tweets on mobile devices from many users. There are a lot of variables here without any form of control. It is a neat experiment, but you are not able to verifiably determine any kind of numbers from these maps.

Perhaps maybe there are the same number of Android phones and iPhone (and Blackberry, etc), but the iPhone users tweet 50x more - does this map take it into account? We don't know either way. What phone are they using? Maybe a lot of people in Washington are using Samsung S3s, which aren't cheap Android phones.

Bottom line, you provided nothing to the discussion other than a quick Google search without considering the many variables obfuscated within the map.
The skills required to run a legal drugs business are almost entirely different to those required to run an illegal drugs business.

If you run "the happy weed co", violent uneducated thugs are the last people you want doing your customer service.

If this were the case , former drug dealers would be being offered jobs as pharma reps.
I agree. Sony's actions have just been more insidious from my admittedly anecdotal perspective.
Hacker News has now become Reddit.
I have found copies of ridiculously priced textbooks there, but the pain to search through them almost outweighs their free-ness.
Guys, this is Hacker News, not Reddit.
There's still a decent correlation between a restaurant's location and the wealth of its customers. People who live in Manhattan aren't typically going to go to a club in Newark or vice versa.

Anyway you can see on the map that tweets come from a huge number of locations; there's not that many restaurants and clubs.
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Corporate executives often enter politics, write laws affecting their former (and/or future) employers (or hand them contracts), then retire from politics to take very well-paid jobs in the very industries they were regulating -- often at the very same companies they gave sweet deals to while in office.

There are other direct and indirect ways useful politicians, their friends and families can benefit from corporations that they help. Some of these ways have been made illegal, but corporations and their beneficiaries in politics are very good at finding loopholes in the laws they write.

Another way corporations wind up being exempt from regulation is through defunding of regulatory agencies, or by pro-corporate-welfare ideologues being placed in charge of these agencies -- after which they fire the career officials at these agencies and replace them with loyal lackeys who will unquestioningly pursue the agenda of deregulation, defunding the government, and looking the other way at corporate malfeasance. Then, after breaking the government, they can blame the government for not working.

But the underlying problem is that government and corporations are not really two separate, independent entities. They are quite tightly integrated and interwoven, with one hand washing the other, scratching each other's backs, and giving each other kickbacks and bribes.

It's a real wonder any major antitrust actions have ever happend, that there are any worker protection laws or unions left, that the Envirionmental Protection Agency has any teeth, and that the National Parks haven't yet been sold to logging, mining, oil, and natural gas companies.
Strategically a very sound business decision for them. Before this I think they had lost the game, now - they may win it.
Is that really what you tell yourself? "The people aren't really that stupid, they're being influenced to watch this filth?".

And what makes you think that the same hidden influence by others isn't why I like grilled cheese?
Are they going to add downward facing camera(s) to capture close to real time Aerial imagery?
very impressive and equally painful, how long did that take you?
Stop spreading privacy FUD.

Kinect can be controlled and disabled.

http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/privacy
I'll experiment with this a bit to see for myself but I would really appreciate a list of downsides of using this over mongo; if anything else than there may be less people supporting it.
I made the map tiles, but Tom did the UI and compositing, so I'm not sure how the layers are combined. There are more iPhone tweets than any other source, so they will tend to be the most visible if they are given equal priority.
I concede. You have a point.
The difference is that Steam has to compete with other online retailers as well as hard media. Consoles are more of a captive audience... obviously some folks have multiple consoles, but most of the core audience will only be buying one console at launch. So even if MS grossly undercuts the competition in their e-shop like Steam does, game prices don't appear to be a big point of competition in the console-vs-console war. And either way, developers doing cross-platform releases don't let Steam do those kind of deep cuts on new titles. If they're only reaping the benefits on older games? That could be a hard battle to win.
Well, you also have to learn Illustrator, which is probably more important than photoshop these days.

Knowing what looks good requires lots of experience. Just learn the tools and get started, you'll suck at the beginning anyways.
They sold for about a 10x multiple of annual revenue. That's not atypical for a startup that's growing quickly.
Chicago resident here - I think the map of Chicago is fairly accurate. It's also interesting to see a number of red dots along the blue line (part of Chicago's public transit system that runs from O'Hare to downtown)
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To me, this speaks of the difference between artists and craftsmen. Artists attempt to create the ideal, something that is perfect and that people can stare at for hours just appreciating every nuance. Craftsmen create things to be used, and it is in their use that they derive joy, even if the same said use eventually destroys the creation.
Doesn't work in Denver. The richest area, Cherry Hills Village, has such massive houses on relatively massive lots that there are hardly any data points, and those that are there look like an even mix of iPhone and Android.

Looks more like people tweet while out and about during the day from the patterns I see in Denver.

Looking at Albuquerque, the biggest iPhone cluster is around the UNM campus, mostly students.
The fact that countries can choose what to do to others also means the other countries can choose what to do to us.

By all means come up with better solutions and better leaders, but don't act like other countries don't get to make their own choice in what they do.
"Thank you again for your candid feedback. Our team remains committed to listening, taking feedback and delivering a great product for you later this year."

Translated: "Please stop telling us to burn in the 9 circles of Hell. Our team would also like it if you stopped threatening their families."
Large payments make sense. They can certainly afford them and they are probably still a good value even though it's a lot of money from an individual's perspective. It also makes it more likely that an amoral researcher will "sell" his exploit to Microsoft and not to cybercriminals.
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The Fed took 60 because those are the ones belong to Dotcom. They probably need to jump through more hoops to take the 630 leased ones. So they didn't bother.
When I turn it off I'll probably disconnect the power and turn it back on when I want to play it.
In fact I bet it would be easy to create a pi hack that let's me turn the power on and off with a button.
I also doubt they won't have a button, what happens if my mic breaks?
It's already here! Just get yourself hired at Google.
New Relic monitors your application code execution and your end user's experiences. New Relic Plugins monitor anything - other parts of your application stack that our "stock" agents don't monitor, parts of your business process, whatever.

Azure's Management Portal monitors your infrastructure. New Relic also does a little infrastructure monitoring.

Overall, they do different things - and, New Relic is both free to use and super-easy to install, so perhaps you can try it out and see what you think?
> but the iPhone users tweet 50x more

That still doesn't provide an explanation for why the data is so segregated by location.

Anyway I agree that the article's conclusion is a little overreaching, but it's still very interesting that they were able to find such a strong correlation with the data they had. Makes you wonder what other unexpected correlations can be divined from the firehose.
True, some are nerdy high school drop outs or illegal immigrants.
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> If it's a person's job to use technology such that it results in innocents being killed, injured or sucked up into a byzantine legal system and that person keeps doing that job, that's an example of the banality of evil.

I guess McDonald's fits that bill as well, as diabetes and obesity are among the biggest killers in the US.
The literature is dauntingly massive, and there is clearly a demand from scientists for an instant method of identifying excellent and important work. Currently, journal name fills this role (however imperfectly).

Anonymous review exists for a reason and doesn't seem to have much to do with the first issue you raise: the owners of top journals collect large economic and intellectual rents from their monopoly ownership of the top journal name. I actually don't think the anonymity of the review has much to do with the issue raised by the OP, and I'd suggest putting it aside.

So you want some sort of rating system for papers. In the long term, this is usually citation count, but in the short term it probably has to be judged by a trusted human being. Right now, the journal editors fill this role not so much because they are particularly smart, but because their monopoly on the name ensures that all the best work will be sent to them.

Note, however, that just asking the smart scientists what they're reading is not enough. Reviewing articles, and coordinating multiple reviews, is hard work. Right now, the editors get compensated in cash (derived mostly on their name monopoly) and the scientists get compensated with the warm fuzzy idea that they helped the community, and maybe with some back scratching on their own paper from the editor in the future.

A potential solution needs to figure out which humans are going to be assessing papers for extremely important (which needn't be the same thing as the peer review), how they will be compensated, where the money will come from if they are compensated in cash, how to deal with the perverse effects of cash incentives, and how to prevent any small group of humans from controlling the process. This is not an easy problem.
> If your account is less than a year old, please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. (It's a common semi-noob illusion.)
There's also Gaffer by Benoit Chesneau [1], a distributed process manager which is being integrated into Docker.

[1] https://github.com/benoitc/gaffer
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"In worst case your game will be played on two consoles"

While you and I might think this is acceptable, I don't expect video game publishers would be happy if Microsoft used this compromise.
I smell a startup!! Quick, to Sand Hill road!
There are approximately 1.4 times as many iPhone tweets as Android tweets (about 1.6 million yesterday vs. about 1.1 million). It would be nice if the tweet metadata included more information about which Android model a tweet came from, but it doesn't, so all we have is the big trend.
And this right here invalidates the article's conclusion, the simple number of iPhone tweets overwhelms the Android tweets. The map just shows who is more chatty, versus actual income disparity.

As a side note, I do find the map very interesting - it's just the article's conclusion that I'm not convinced of.
Here are a few questions:

1. Is this a drop in replacement if I'm on Mongo 2.4?
2. If I want to migrate back to Mongodb from TokuMX, what needs to be done?
3. How quickly does TokuMX integrate improvements from MongoDB?
4. Is anyone using this in their production deployment?
They forgot to turn off the telescreen though...

i.e. it won't boot without the Kinect plugged in.
That's the first thing that came to mind for me too.
Speaking of disingenuous, where did I defend what the Iranians did? Where did I say that gunboat diplomacy was only a US thing?

And a hot war is one where bullets, missiles, shells are flying around
So the Cold War was a hot war then? You can't fix a poor definition with a poorer definition.
People who like this might want to try Simon Tatham's puzzles. (the author of Putty)

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/

Bridges and perhaps Untangle might be most similar.
> nerd outrage

More like general consumer sentiment.
> When Google starts shipping the Dart VM, then it will be a different story, of course.

I've never heard anyone from Google state an intent to ship Dart VM in browser for general use without other browser vendors being on board (Dart VM for running Dart on the server, sure, and Dartium [Chromium with Dart VM] as a rapid-cycle tool for developers, sure), the specific reason being to encourage Dart use by not making it browser specific.

Heck, there's no reason, if asm.js catches on for optimized browser support, the preferred-for-client format of Dart couldn't move from compilation to bog-standard JS to compilation to asm.js.
Everytime I don't get the results I want through DDG (which happens rarely) I just type !sp + searchterm into my search bar and it searches via startpage.com, which uses googles search results without my IP address or searches being recorded, no identifying or tracking cookies are used and SSL encryption is set by default.
Except that it's not quite as clean-cut as we'd like it to be: http://www.newrepublic.com/blog/timothy-noah/101318/broken-w...

Bit more detail: http://blogcritics.org/policing-urban-crimes-the-broken-wind...

Even more on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_windows_theory#Criticism...
How can you compare a language that introduces a bunch of syntactic sugar over JavaScript semantics (CoffeeScript) with a language that brings a cleaned and streamlined semantics (Dart)?
1. It's opt-in

2. It's opt-in

3. You guessed it, it's opt-in

Hell, they even tell you they sell it if you're curious right next to the preference

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I can imagine a company using this to implement an employee incentive system where employees can get any book from Amazon for free.
We're all going to get rich!
What has Microsoft done to compete with the Sony rootkit? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...
I'm not seeing the same thing. The big chunk of red on the south side of the city is the ATL airport. ("Checking in! #delta #hartsfield) Georgia Tech, Downtown, Midtown, VaHi, Morningside, Druid Hills, Buckhead, Brookhaven, Marietta, Lake Claire, west side of Decatur and the south end of Sandy Springs are the areas I see in red here. These are all wealthy areas. All along the northern perimeter - which is mostly just white-collar businesses, is mostly red tinted and all along the rest of the perimeter is green. Other than Hartsfield Jackson, there is a pretty solid cone of red emanating from downtown into the north. I would say this is 100% spot on with mapping wealth to iPhones, although, I am not sold on the numbers that generated the map.