skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Facebook Hardware
Shamelessly quoting myself: "The thing looks genuinely ugly with the outer casing off: like computer junk from the late '90s, with a touch of Jawa Quality Spares." http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Msp...

By the way, I just realised what it is that the base of the new Mac Pro was reminding me of: it's the old G4 iMac, of course http://macspeedzone.com/images/reviews/machines/desktop/imac... .
Look, congrats to Spreedly for this raise, but we honestly need to stop writing articles this way and posting them to HN.

Titling something "How X did Y using tool Z" has a very clear implication: Y can be achieved (and so X is substitutable by anyone reading) as long as you use tool Z and follow the steps in the article.

But then you read the article and the key parts of WHY Spreedly succeeded in raising money is glossed over as an afterthought. So we're left with a puff piece about both Spreedly and Angelist but nothing really actionable for the average HN user.

Humblebragging about the accomplishment is fine, but don't coat it in a "How" type article, especially one with a sub-title of "A MUST READ FOR STARTUPS OUTSIDE THE VALLEY". It's not. "Angelist-featured firm raises 300K in 10 days" or "Spreedly closes 300K round through Angelist" would be much more accurate, and doesn't give the average user a false impression of how building a business or raising capital is done.
Ubuntu phone OS has eight carriers signed on to boost development
Groupon sues Singapore merchant for USD 1.6M, court dismisses claim
The difference is that if you were talking about an US president, you wouldn't refer to him as "a Christian person".
This isn't correct. All federal courts except for the US Supreme Court are created by statute. The FISC judges are Article III judges on the district courts or courts of appeal, appointed for life. It is true they are assigned to the FISC for limited terms, but they are still article III judges serving in an article III court.
Seemingly every Apple designer in one photograph
> There's plenty of reasons why someone might want a virtualized OS; customization.

Also, avoiding having to deal with Linux.
I would argue that even if these programs were effective in foiling some terrorist plots, that it's still not worth it. I mean, we could probably could prevent some mass shootings if we put everyone with a history of serious mental illness in an institution for the rest of their lives but that wouldn't make it right.

And perhaps the bigger risk to using the 'it prevented terorrist plots' argument is that it creates a convenient excuse for more surveillance and curtailing of rights. All that needs to happen is for a few more terorrist plots to slip through, then the argument will be, 'We need MORE power to stop these people' or, 'If you just allowed us to do this, this, and this, we could've prevented that'.

Then long after a significant threat of Jihadist terrorist attack is gone, we'll still be dealing with a uber-powerful police state.
APPLE:

Approach and welcome the customer.

Probe to understand their problem.

Present your solution to their problem. (And make sure something happens now.)

Listen for lingering issues.

End with a polite good-bye and ask them to come back.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_Protect

At least the Canadian one allows you to protest. As a result only about a thousand people on the list.
Every indication seems to be the cards inside the Mac Pro are not upgradeable.
I guess the best thing to do is make a copy of your data on a new HD and send that one. If something is wrong with it and they can't read the data: try again.
Listening to this is absurd. Any intelligent human being can see that this open meeting is nothing more than a PR piece. So far I have heard three congressmen testify that this is legal and nothing illegal is happening. They are preloading the conversation and giving people the opportunity to tune out before General Alexander can even speak.
For me, the biggest downside is lack of solid embedded device support -- arduino (Atmel AVR), android(ARM), iOS (ARM).

After using Haskell pretty much full-time for 10 years, writing C and Java code makes me sad. The support for the above mentioned platforms is in-progress, but is not yet mature.

There are some neat things like Atom which use a Haskell DSL to target arduino.

My other issue is that the garbage collector in GHC is not really sufficient for real-time audio applications because it can pause for too long. GHC HQ has tried to tackle this in the past -- but there is a reason why it is a research topic :)

If your application requires interfacing to a C++ world -- your are not going to have fun. Though there might be a GSoC project for that this summer?

Also, GUI stuff is somewhat lackluster. There are bindings to gtk, etc. And they can get the job done. But they don't really capture the essence of what makes Haskell awesome. We are still searching for the GUI abstraction that really clicks.
Yes, but note that this is updated not just on our website, but on the storage arrays themselves - some of which are in Zurich and Hong Kong.

So the above scenario is a possibility, but then imagine the followup:

Feds to Zurich Canton: Tell swiss national X to update the warrant canary or ...

We have it spread out geographically for a reason.
SpotSquad- iOS Crowd-sourced parking enforcement
As a resident of one of this continent's many bombed-out post-industrial hellholes, if you don't want Hsieh, we'll take him.

I'd rather the local gals be selling $12 lattes than $12 handjobs, thanks very much. And as for the bums and druggies being displaced, maybe with money flooding into the community the government and local community groups will actually be in a position to help them rather than preserving their habitat like some kind of exotic wildlife. "We must protect the population of the mid-town doorway-pissers!"
Facebook Is Not Blocking Tor Deliberately
I would say his post was misunderstood. There is a great deal of frustration in Eastern Europe (not only Hungary) coming from difficulties with integration of minorities (especially Roma minority) into society. Democracy didn't solve this problem nor money from EU did. Of course this topic is being misused by populists. The bad thing is that people who doesn't really care about the future of our countries take advantage of this problem for their personal power and wealth ambitions. Slovakia citizen (Hungary neighbor).
To be fair, their smart tv's motion controls were pretty tetchy when I tried to use it (at a Best Buy, so clearly not the intended scenario, but at least a foreseeable one).
Exactly,these hearings are a PR session for each of the programs. A total sham.
Think there are two problems here:

1. For people visiting their own repositories, the viewing the code itself has little to no value. They more than likely already have it open in their editor / IDE in another window. These folks probably want the issues, PRs and other accompanying features. Collaboration is now the key - not the code itself.

2. For other people (non-committers) looking at a repo, this is different. When I visit other codebases I do actually look at the code to check certain things - what style it is, what frameworks have been used, how complicated the code is, if tests are present etc. Then I check to see what kind of (any how many) issues have been raised.

It might actually make sense to show a different view depending on whether you have commit permissions to the repo or not.
Try to develop a rapport with them where you can joke around and talk shit to them. But overall - there might be some who won't want to ever work with you, and that's not your fault. All you can do is work with the one's who do want to work with you, treat them like gold, and most likely, the other ones will come on board over time. That goes for everyone who reports to you.

Work with the ones who do want to work with you, do good work and let upper management know about it, and wait for the other ones to get on board.
Look up Thomas Drake, he was an NSA leaker who exposed a very high level of waste with the Trailblazer program as well as an incestuous relationship between contractors and those who awarded the contracts.
The opponent can't choose the center square because you've already filled them all in the initial phase of the gambit.
Just tried loggin in to Facebook with TOR and it works (from the UK). Is this a region only thing?
The committee usually sends their questions in advance to the people appearing in front of them. Seldom will you see the people testifying caught unaware. It's theater.
Er, what? How can you say "more storage is unnecessary" as a blanket statement of fact?
This seems a problem Amazon has as well. Because I bought an extra power adapter for my tablet, the My Amazon list is now full of various power adapters...
Fighting spam based on the content is a great idea. I don't think it's sufficient for the web. Specifically, email spam and spam on the web have different characteristics: with email, you try to send more, so there's a tendency for keeping it short. On the web, you can go on; you want to skip spam filters, because more people can run across it, and you can get more google juice. You can pull in a big corpus of well-formed sentences, and randomly draw dozens from that. There may be specific topics that get more spam on Facebook, but I have no idea how much overlap there is with Facebook at large.
The alternative is a federated model where you can one of many platform providers (or set up your own) and they can all "talk" to each other to create a "space" which is owned by no single entity. An open standard, defined by many participants, creates the "space." This is the way email works. It's the way XMPP works for messaging (and which has been stabbed in the back by Google by dropping their support of it in crucial ways). The Diaspora Project has the same concept for social networking in a Facebook-ish way.

I didn't RTFA but use of Tor can impair Facebook's tracking of people, thus making the data about people less valuable commodities to sell to their advertisers. Using Tor may also increase Facebook's network usage a bit by making less use of cached data, locally and remotely.
won't blocking cookies from third party domains stop tracking? Or at least most of it.
""He betrayed the trust of the government he worked for. That means he is a traitor."

Actually, no. Treason - as a formal charge - can only exists in a time of formally declared war. Even in the depth of the Cold War, we didn't charge turncoats spying for the Soviets with treason since technically, we were never at war with the USSR. Espionage, yes, treason no.
Hmm, I also use it on a 3rd gen iPad and found it fairly responsive. I didn't buy all the tools immediately, though. I tested them and bought a few as-needed.

I don't have the writing one (can't see a use for it).

Perhaps it just doesn't suit your workflow. I still find the app remarkable in how much it makes me grab my iPad to sketch my thoughts. There's a distinct lack of friction to using Paper that allows it to take over for real paper.
I dunno, but this guy has some opinions. http://plover.net/~bonds/bdksucks.html

Is the new trope to say "you are just citing fallacies instead of having an argument?"

OK. Then instead I will say:

"The fact that there will be some dividing line between a web browser and something that sends out packets doesn't mean that we cannot establish any regulations at all on web browsers. Like there is some speed that you will get you written up while some speed marginally less than it will not -- this does not mean that there is no such thing as a legal limit on speed. Nerds often think they are Kirk talking the super-computer into destroying itself for having some logical inconsistency, when in reality the world is full of inconsistencies, and the law has already had a long line of jokers line up in court thinking that they are going to use their superior minds to outsmart the system. You are nothing new, you are nothing special, look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair."

I think it's easier on everyone to just link to a Wiki page, but, hey, I can cut-and-paste from my private text files just as easily.
I tried feedly, but I'm not very used to it.
I also tried newsblur, the website is very slow, the iphone app seems to be buggy.
I'm waiting for digg now. Otherwise, I will build something myself.
So people are willing to tolerate the infinitesimal personal risk of an invasion of privacy by the government in order to diminish the infinitesimal personal risk of a terrorist attack. Not sure what all the fuss is about.
I hope you're right. Time will tell, I guess.
What Apple Data the U.S. Government Can and Cannot Access
Living the Dream with JRuby
> Confirmed: NSA Analyst doesn't need a separate court order to query database. Analysts can decide what is "reasonably suspicious."

https://twitter.com/efflive/status/347019679073710082
i always thought something like this should be on there:

"Product contains rBST - an artificial growth hormone banned from human consumption in the EU and other countries"
1. I don't think they define too many specialized operators personally; Haskell's heritage is more "mathematical" than many other languages so it makes sense that many variables are single letters and operators are defined with symbols instead of reallyLongAndDescriptiveName. It's part of learning the idioms of the language.

2. They should never use the same symbol. As the parent said, if you want the generalized notion of a monoid then use that (<> or mappend), otherwise each library should not be conflating its instance of a TypeClass with other libraries' instances of a TypeClass - it is confusing and you end up with stuff like:

import Some.Lib as L
import Some.Other.Lib as OL

(L.+) 2 3
(OL.+) "2" "3"

vs.

import Data.Monoid

(Sum 2) <> (Sum 3)
"2" <> "3"

Which is inevitable for some libraries (Fay for example re-defines a lot of Prelude functions) and sometimes accidental; but it is confusing and bad design unless you define a way to generalize it (Monoids!).

5. Data.Aeson uses ByteStrings for the JSON serialization, when encoding/decoding you provide your own instance defining the Types (can be Text/String/ByteString) so I don't understand your gripe here; Text.Regex shouldn't be used for Data.Text, that's what this package is for: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/text-icu/0.6.3.5...
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As an American I'm proud that we don't have such non-issues dividing us and that our electorate is well informed and are primarily issue voters, not mindless sheep voting party lines.
I'll quote it here.

"A number of users have noticed that Facebook is blocking connections from the Tor network. Facebook is not blocking Tor deliberately. However, a high volume of malicious activity across Tor exit nodes triggered Facebook's site integrity systems which are designed to protect people who use the service. Tor and Facebook are working together to find a resolution."
Yes, We Scan (Obama arrives in Germany)
hardware test at the genius bar is 'fine'.
I hadn't thought of that. Email + accessing the mailbox folder over RSS is a pretty clever solution.

A flow like that could also allow you to include updates from sites that don't have RSS feeds, by using a service like http://www.changedetection.com/ that watches websites and sends an email when the site changes.
It clearly has so much power over your life. You bring it up at the drop of a hat.

You're like the guy at a party who starts EVERY sentence with "One time, my ex-girlfriend..."

EDIT: And honestly, it's a better comparison than I first thought: all of your rants about "Open Allocation" sound exactly like the crap I'd hear from someone who wanted an "Open Relationship" with his ex-girlfriend.
2. Enough languages don't conflate ring addition and string concatenation (in TIOBE order: C, Obj-C, PHP, Visual Basic (somewhat), Lisp, Ada, MATLAB, Lua). Furthermore, there are at least two "sensible" monoids on numbers (sum and product), but just one for strings (concatenation). `+` implies something more specific than a generic monoidal concatenation operator. Though I think `++` was a poor choice, one of many in the standard Prelude.
This right here, this is the argument I simply cannot understand.

A business is offering a service in exchange for advertising to visitors.

You do not like the terms of that deal.

The _only correct_ action after this is: Do Not Use The Service. Don't reward a business practice you view as illegitimate. Just walk away. Boycott advertising-supported business models.

--

PS: the entitlement in this viewpoint is simply astonishing. "I don't like advertising, so the entire internet should change to accomodate me!"
The Making of WhatWhen: Thoughts on Meteor and Learning Resources
This needs to be the top comment. Way too many wacko conspiracy theorists in this thread.
This is a beautiful case of win/win. Apple wins by having a lower cost of good (on the "vanilla") and the customer wins by spending just enough to get what they need (not more).

The more we can find these win/win situations, the better our economy will be. The closer we can match consumer costs to the the economic costs of their consumption, the more accurately the existing "Free" market will match the ideal market.
Yeah, there was a bit of "Lose 20 pounds and raise $300k on Angellist using this weird old trick" to the article. :( Reading through, it boils down to good product, fashionable market space, and some timing luck. Great for them, and I'm happy to see Angellist trying to prove that they can get funding for those of us who aren't in Silicon Valley or NYC, but I didn't feel this was very helpful for me - and I should be the target market here! (Early stage startup, outside Silicon Valley, somewhat fashionable space)
"And if you went to a store and they then walk you through the website...that would be very offputting to many people -- all of the disadvantages of both mediums."

You just described Gateway stores! And this is exactly why they failed. And it's all the funnier because people said Apple stores would fail because Gateway failed.
You've gotten Assange's position wrong. What he actually believes is that transparency should scale with power, so that the more powerful an organization is, the more transparent it should become, while privacy should be reserved for those who lack such strength.
Buffalos are a good example. Red Panda as well if I'm not mistaken.

The sad part is, we've also made species extinct just because they weren't tasty. Dodos for instance. Taste bad, so we just killed them for fun. Then they went extinct.
It's not even Soviet. It's worse. At least in the Soviet Union, one could travel freely without shakedowns that come at the drop of a hat.
None as of yet, though Feedly is the only contender at this point for me. But the big deal breaker is the lack of search (which was present when I initially loaded up my Google Reader subscribed feeds, but the Feedly overlords deactivated when the flood of new users made it a performance issue). It is on the !todo! list so I hope it is restored. Without search, an RSS reader is just not as useful, at least with my volume of subscribed feeds.

Also, skeptical that Feedly will be able to thrive on their own without the Google backend. Hope I am proven dead wrong on this though!

Tried some of the others but they either choked on my subscription import (>3K feeds) or there are serious performance issues. The Old Reader truncated my Google Reader import at the letter 'H'. Yoleo UX locks up on me constantly and every click seems to enact a multi-second delay in response.

Another reader alternative tried was feedwalk.com -- again, like Yoleo, it imported all my feeds, but is plagued by performance issues.

In sum, Feedly is the only viable alternative, but the lack of search limits its value for me.
I get what you're saying we're more advanced than animals.

That's why we domesticated our prey, which is what everyone seems to be complaining about now.
Walgreens sells Ensure. (http://www.walgreens.com/search/results.jsp?Ntt=ensure&x=-18...)

A six pack costs $8.50 (http://www.walgreens.com/store/c/ensure-nutrition-shakes-liq...). Each bottle is one serving, and contains 250 kCalories. (http://ensure.com/products/ensure)

Here's a list of the Walgreens locations in SF. (http://www.walgreens.com/storelocator/result.jsp?oTrk=1&_req...)
And as previously mentioned by many people here on HN, it's amazing that none of the people involved with Soylent seem to have an education or work experience related to diets or nutrition (see the "Team" section on https://campaign.soylent.me/soylent-free-your-body).

I'm not sure I'd want to be doing experiments with my body based on advice from IT engineers.
This raises an interesting wrinkle: a sub-board can be won by both X and O, if you can keep on playing after it is won.
It's PR.
They say there's court involvement but it's a rubber stamp and then they access all data they got on you.
They do say there has to be reasonable suspicion but we all know how that goes.

One guy says people don't have an expectation of privacy because they are used to giving their data to the phone companies.

I think I heard enough.
And Europe and China, yes, all communications of your citizens are being recorded, and yes it's a privacy violation.

I've heard enough.
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The national pride is still there, sure, but the circumstances that brought about two world wars are not. I just mean that (generalizing) the French don't view the Germans the same way Americans view the Middle East.
Congratulations Brett, Anand & Liyan!

Love the new design.
It doesn't have to be the NSA that breaks into your house. It could be an outside analyst selling information to a guy who knows a guy etc.

I don't think anyone, be it government or corporate, should be capturing and storing detailed data like this for extended periods of time. It's just asking for trouble. I haven't seen any proof of a worse case scenario more severe than ads being a bit less targeted if strict limits were placed on data retention and identification.
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