skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> I just think that the issue of having this data supplied to Google isn't really that important to warrant spending a tremendous amount of the budget to do an in house system.

Well I think they probably have a tremendous budget, and a variety of FOSS or third party (but running in-house) solutions have been mentioned in comments here, that could likely do the job.

>> The fact is that the web is not anonymous in its nature.

It's not really about anonymity though, it's about who the government is (deliberately) sharing data with or leaking data too. I'm not asking for anonymity in who I intend to interact with (UK government services), I'm asking them to think about who they share that data with.

>> If I browse to a random site I've never heard of, how do I know they aren't using a third party image? If they are, then my IP/Location will be broadcast to that third party.

When it is a page run by one's own government, one can have different expectations and even ask for things to be changed not to leak such data. Or at least ask if they've thought about it.

However this is also why I tend to block things like social media buttons, I have no desire for FB or Google to be informed every time I read ... well just about anything online these days.
And that, boys and girls, is why animated gifs are still being used today.
You have to also factor in how many swapping stations they have in each "Tesla center". Typical gas station has at least 8 pumps larger about 16. Although, there is only a handful of Teslas, so possibility of a lineup is low.
A New Theory on Habit Development
Karateka is different, as it's about writing a game in your spare time (really simplifying things). You realize how much time he spent writing it, how often he would be close to finishing, only to have a lot more work to do.

If you enjoyed PoP, you'll like Kareteka.
Most US drivers are not getting 700 miles from a 12 US gallon tank (58 US MPG). The average fuel economy of US cars is 24.6 MPG.

An Audi A6, in the US at least, gets 33 highway MPG and has a 19.8 gallon fuel tank.

And yes, of course you charge the Tesla more often. You charge it every night when you come home, and it's ready with a full charge the next morning. That's just a totally different usage pattern from only filling up when it gets low like you do with a gasoline powered car.

I'd bet that most Tesla drivers will never have to stop to recharge, mostly because they will use their Tesla around town, and will take long trips in another car or fly, because Tesla owners are wealthy.

EDIT: converted imperial gallons to US
But those aren't as funny.
Things People Hate about Your Open Source Docs
> How to reliably lose weight and keep it off is still basically an unsolved problem.

No, it really isn't.

"Eat less calories than you burn". It's that simple. Even if we include various viruses and bacteria that help us lose weight or help us gain weight, and we include various disorders that help us lose weight or gain weight, the answer is still "Eat less calories".

Unless of course you're saying that getting people to change behaviour, for ever, is tricky. In which case I agree with you.
They could at least give you the choice, especially now that ~60% of web users use a web browser with a built in PDF viewer and I'd bet that a large part of the remaining 40% already have a PDF viewer with a browser plugin installed.
You know, I've always thought that the Barack "Hussein" Obama political attacks that allege that he's not a citizen, he's a muslim, and he's part of some conspiracy to bring down the USA are particularly crazy insomuch as we have the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. whose job is to investigate people to keep our country safe.

I've always thought that if the allegations were somehow true, that someone at one of those groups would have leaked something that would keep Obama from being president or from continuing as president. Yet, that never happened despite the fact that he obviously would have been investigated by plenty of people in those spy organizations.

So, the fact that Obama was spied on should not come as a surprise. It would surprise me if people in power weren't spied on.
ohhh really!?!? Come on!!!

What about removing all the crap ADS?!

They go on infinite round trips to find all the AD servers!!

it is RI-DI-CU-LO-US !
I ended up running a script on launch that pings 127.0.0.1 every 5 seconds - my Wifi was disconnecting every few minutes and this has fixed the problem for the last 6 months for me.

edit: actually pinging the router, 192.168.1.1 etc. Script is:

#! /bin/sh

ping 192.168.1.1 > /dev/null 2>&1
Would appreciate some feedback guys.
The BigBrain dataset is a subject of the NSA's research into graph analysis [1]. Some sample numbers:

- 100 billion vertices, 100 trillion edges
- 2.08 mNA · bytes^2 (molar bytes) adjacency matrix
- 2.84 PB adjacency list
- 2.84 PB edge list

[1]: http://www.pdl.cmu.edu/SDI/2013/slides/big_graph_nsa_rd_2013...
Kickstarter launched for book detailing implementation of Sharia law in the US
It also depends greatly on how many other people are using the other pumps at the station. A station where every pump is in use pumps considerably more slowly than one where you are the only one pumping.
Here is part of the software that was used to create this:

https://github.com/BIC-MNI

as confirmed here:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/suppl/2013/06/19/340.6139....

Hell yeah, free science requires free software!
Apparently "it took 23 years for the Quran to be downloaded".
Less pedantry, please.

I told z3phyr enough to understand the role of asm.js. I'm sure z3phyr is smart enough to appreciate that my one-sentence summary is not the last word on compiler toolchains.
Interesting, as from my perspective the difference in rituals is one of the most fascinating things about travel, particularly when it's cultures that are far removed from your own.

Two summers ago I participated in the Mongol Rally (http://www.theadventurists.com/the-adventures/mongol-rally). Getting to connect and hang out with locals along the way (particularly in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Mongolia, etc) was one of the highlights of the trip.

In addition, the fact people are "fundamentally the same" is actually something I derive a lot of pleasure from, given it continues to reinforce the base "good" that we all have in us (despite what the MSM might otherwise tell us).
Please remember FoxConn has 1m+ employees.

Everything I know about data centres and SOA and uptime is laughable at google or twitter scale. Likewise, everything I know about HR and culture and hiring practises is laughable at "workforce bigger than some countries" scale.
A few related thoughts:

Travel guides: buy Lonely Planet or similar books as dead trees, not Kindle which is almost useless for this. Buy them in the US if it's convenient, because they definitely aren't cheaper in many other places.

Visas: US passport is usually good, but may increase the odds of being asked to pay someone off. In Cambodia specifically, better to get a visa in advance via the official website; some of the border stations are well-known for various schemes to get extra cash from those seeking visas on arrival. Make sure your passport starts out fairly empty--some visas take a whole page each. For US passports, extra pages are free initially, expensive to add later.

Room and board: if breakfast is free, great. But don't buy it in advance if it's not included, unless you're in the middle of nowhere.

Transportation: hitchhiking can be easier in poorer areas where many people do it, harder in places where everyone owns a car. For regional flights not every country does things online, and some smaller airlines do not charge a lot for last-minute tickets.

Packing: a 50 liter pack is enough if you don't have many gadgets. Take thin clothes that dry quickly, avoid jeans, wash a few items in the sink each night and enjoy perpetual clean clothes for free. An ultralight daypack like Marmot's Kompressor ($35) is useful, or get a cheapie abroad, e.g. $7 in Bangkok.
> OTOH, Apple is renowned for keeping hardware problems on the down-low

Renowned on forums. I've received recalls for widespread problems (batteries, a video problem in the PowerBook G4 era, etc.) but many of the forum / mac blog fodder seem more like selection bias – people who don't have a particular hardware problem don't tend to search for threads so they can say “Nope, works fine here”.
> But losing weight without reducing metabolism and thereby making yourself more likely to gain weight in the future, is not.

No, it is. Getting people to do it and stick to it is unsolved.

Lifestyle change, to reduce calories and restructure meals to include correct balance of proteins, carbohydrates and fats, and to raise awareness of when food is eaten and how many calories are being eaten, is tricky. But if people do it it works.
DIY Hardware Hack Day
US Cellular has a program where you can bring your phone to any retail store and swap out your battery for a charged one. No need to return to pick up your original. Granted, that's for a $10 battery, but why wouldn't this work for Tesla? Charging an extra fee is fine too - it's the price for convenience, vs waiting for a full charge of your own battery pack.
i guess it's difficult for me to know about other people. i was wondering if it's a difference between europeans and americans (since for europeans, "abroad" is much closer). but isn't america a varied place with different cultures in different states?

maybe another way of making my point is that the kind of people whose mind is most likely to be be broadened by travel are already aware of the kind of issues you might think they would learn. while those so closed they don't get it, won't - travel or not... your argument only seems (to me) to apply to the lucky few who are closed-minded at home, but open-minded enough to suddenly change when the food is different or the people don't react the way they're used to.
You are forgetting your roots, my friend.
So they are spying the very people that are supposed to watch over them and keep them in check? Well that must be very convenient.
One of the most baffling parts of this story might be the reference to the university's statutory immunity. Is that really a thing?
Right, but that's still enough to run a boot SSD + HDD setup. I don't need 2 HDDs, and I'd expect most developers to feel the same.
Why basic 3D printers are crazy cheap now
I started reading "Making of Prince of Persia" recently and it is amazingly inspiring because it captures his real thoughts as he was making it, unlike autobiographies where hindsight distorts things, no matter how real the author wants it to be. I second the recommendation.
> I think the problem with software industry is inertia.

What you say here and what you say below actually disagree with each other. Inertia would be developers never changing their tooling and never following the next shiny technology.

If anything, I think alot of programmers could do with a bit more inertia:)

> Someone well respected says everything is an object (or use dynamic typing everywhere, or functional programming, or node.js) and majority will blindly follow without ever thinking about more suitable alternatives.

I completely agree with this statement. Our industry is always quick to follow the leader:)
Work breakdown structure and tools of project management
> Don't national laws, or at least allegiance to laws at the national level, trump EU laws?

No. The EU issues directives which EU countries have to turn into laws. The implementation details vary from country to country, but save a few exceptions, laws the meet the minimum requirements of these directives must be enacted. This doesn't always happen in practice but it's a violation of EU law. Sometimes the laws just aren't enforced, like the UK's implementation of the EU cookie directive.

No idea about any of the rest of your comment. Perhaps someone better informed will chime in.
Have you tried the built-in network diagnostics? There's even a shortcut: Option-click on the wifi menu bar item.
40 Very Creative Wedding Invitation Examples to Get Inspired for Couples
Not down, but 403'd.

Cached version:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:aroundt...
From the perspective of someone who works with data, I simply have to disagree that words seem to be the most important way to convey information. Perhaps it is to some; but I'd bet the majority of information consumers prefer an alternate mode of visual communication with a well-executed design component. It is the concept is critical; words are simply one way to execute that concept. [Disclaimer: my wife is an advertising art director who has educated me a tiny bit on semiotics]
A fully furnished, spacious 1 bedroom apartment int Tapei city will cost you TWD13,000 (approx $450). A similar apartment in New York City will cost you the north of $1,500.

Same can be said for the cost of food,transport and other living expenses. Expecting employees to pay the $80,000 and over they are paying to a New Yorker , which has high cost of living to a developer in Tapei city, which as relatively cheap cost of living doesn't make sense.

And by the way because they are paying a developer $20,000 doesn't mean he's a bad developer. it is reflective of the economic condition and standard of living the developer finds himself.

I can bet you there are developers earning the amount you are deriding so much that have comfortable saving account and there are $80,000 in debt (all other things being equal)
I actually passed through the US a few months later (on the same trip - stayed with a friend in SF for a few days between Bangkok and Buenos Aires), the CBP were indeed inquisitive, but nothing beyond some simple questions about where we'd stayed and why we were there. All pretty friendly and non-confrontational. I was in the US again on the same passport a few weeks ago, the guy took a good flick over the visas (and Iranian visa is huge and very obvious), but no questions asked!
Dr. Easy: a film by Shinola, Warp Films and Film4
Not sure why you want to restrict your audience to the SF area. I can understand if you're shipping a product or delivering a physical service, but this is just people matching.
Two player pong game using accelerometers.
In the context of this project we implemented the classic pong game using a Spartan 6 FPGA, and two 3-axis accelerometers.
I love reading Sanglard's stuff I hope he's encouraged by the comments on his site to complete this - the bulk of it so far is on details of the Apple ][ architecture. It'd be great if he decides to take apart the actual game, although even with commented assembly source, it's no trivial amount of work.
Jordan Mechner did a great interview where he talks about Kareteka and coding for the Apple II vs iOS.

http://www.imore.com/debug-7-jordan-mechner-and-karateka
>a very limited amount of dietary fat can be stored as body fat

In the complete absence of insulin, maybe, which is almost never the case in normal dietary conditions, since both protein and carbohydrate stimulate insulin secretion. But dietary fat is nonetheless the primary source of body fat; direct conversion of dietary carbohydrate to body fat is not a quantitatively significant process in humans except for in extreme conditions. See De novo lipogenesis in humans: metabolic and regulatory aspects. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10365981

"Only when CHO energy intake exceeds TEE does DNL in liver or adipose tissue contribute significantly to the whole-body energy economy."
Dutch Inmates to Get Computers in Their Cells
I loved this the first time I read it and I loved it now again. This is definitely a dream of mine and when I finish university, I'm gonna find me some work and collect some money to do this.

I mean, who wouldn't want to see the world?
>This is not true of other manufacturers.

This is wrong. They just have smaller runs. A MBP goes --with the same hw configuration-- to 3-4 million people. PC runs are smaller and with tons of different configurations with regards to motherboards/CPU combos for the same vendor.

Also Apple tries newer designs/chips more often. PC manufactures keep at the same older chips for the tons of the low end machines the sell.

So: lot's of different + older (and thus tested) chips in smaller runs == less apparent problems.
Spreadsheet fiction: The Delusional way a Tech Stock is Valued
Wow, that's deep, you should get a tumblr account
I always enjoy the 'From this we can easily infer that' as I on more than one occasion had to work pretty hard to get to that easily inferred result. Either, being experts in the field the result is indeed not difficult for them to get at or the authors mock my intelligence. I assume the latter as I enjoy a little humour in my math books, even if it is at my expense.
This is actually what I've been thinking. The whole "move every week or two" travel lifestyle doesn't really appeal to me, and I probably wouldn't get any work done.

Instead, I'd rather live in foreign cities for 1-3 months at a time. 1 month in Krakow here, 2 months in Chiang Mai there, etc.
Testing with literally "every" router ever made is of course infeasible, but Apple should certainly be testing with a large number. Say, enough to cover 90% of the routers presently in use.
I see this is your first comment. You're getting off to a great start, because I can't tell you how awesomely helpful that link is. Back in December I went on a quest to find the perfect laptop. I often do embedded stuff that takes me outside. That, and sometimes I just look outside and say "wait, why am I in here again? Park!"

I wanted something with good Linux support that could run a VM or two, have a long battery life, and be readable outdoors. I spent an embarrassing number of hours looking. In the end it came down to the Samsung Series 9 or the 13" rMBP. The rMBP despite its glossiness is mostly readable outdoors on full brightness, and I liked its ergonomics better.

Do you by any chance work for system76? If not, do you at least own one of their laptops? Can you speak to build quality, battery life, sunlight readability, or keyboard ergonomics?
How to troll NSA and take complete control of your privacy?
The scenario for up-sell seems quite compromised in that regard.

Perhaps, but it's also likely that consumers are not Atlassian's primary target audience. They make most of their money selling JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo etc to companies and large enterprises.

Getting individual developer's hooked on free access to Bitbucket for personal projects is a great way to get those developers to agitate for using Bitbucket within their company.
Honest question:
You know your comment and edit to it makes you really sound stupid right?
“Just the top 4 would have stopped 85% of all the targeted attacks seen”
This is a super cool idea, and I love Tesla for just this sort of thing... but it's conjuring an amusing parallel to a Pony Express rider swapping horses.
This article mentions Funding of Privacy-Conscious Software, one thing that concerns me is, I am quoting from Wikipedia here, "..As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes from the United States government..".

So, the United States government funds programs that help secure the identity of the people and the government also spends money on surveillance programs such as PRISM.
Can't the government just stop funding projects such as Tor any time they please? In such scenario, aren't we at the mercy of the very government to protect our identity that runs surveillance programs?
The Kids Are Burned Out
The C64 reverse engineering covers that a bit. At least regarding general data structures, as opposed to in-depth Apple II hackery (you get some C64 hackery instead, of course).

http://popc64.blogspot.com
I'd rather have two simple things than one complex thing.

In the codebases I've worked on, a lot of the complexity I see arose from people changing the meaning of existing code so they could 'reuse' it.
Singapore's air is much better than Hong Kong's or Shanghai's. I grew up in the great white north, surrounded by nature, and on a day to day basis, Singapore's air is fine.

But this annual haze, largely caused by burning in Sumatra to create more farm land, is brutal. It's slightly worse than the worst I've seen in Hong Kong (Summer 2012) and it feels like it's lasting longer than the really bad spikes you get in HK.

Overall, I'll take 1-2 weeks of hazardous air, versus the more constant unhealthy air of Hong Kong or Shanghai.

Sadly, both HK and Singapore are quick to blame others. SG blames Indonesia, HK blames factories in Southern China. Even if both claims are true with respect to total pollution, both regions could be doing much more to reduce pollution.

P.S. - If anyone at Amazon or 3M is reading this...there's a need for N95 masks. The people most at risk are also the people less able to spend $3 a day on a mask - homeless, elderly, construction, cleaners.
America's culture does differ from place to place, but it's all under the same umbrella, and has only been growing for a few hundred years. It lacks the long span of history and conflict that a lot of the rest of the world has.

I think that experience is the best teacher. Whether or not you think you understand issues, or think you are experienced enough to deal with certain situations, you don't know that until you are put in those situations or confronted with those issues.

I also think it's a mistake to say that people are binary "close minded at home" and "open minded" outside. People have a range of experiences and impressions that colors every interaction they have.
Well, I did say that interesting content was the most important thing (really, interesting content that those who are interested in it would know about).
A Startup’s Guide to Hiring a Virtual Assistant by Rob Walling
3000 people on a software project scares me. That's a LOT of coordination and communication. What would Fred Brooks say?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
I think this is the more interesting aspect:

>"reasonably believed to contain evidence of a crime that has been, is being, or is about to be committed."

Is this sort of intelligence gathering of domestic signals handed over to other relevant authorities? I'm sure the DEA would love to have the NSA's assistance in tracking down drug dealers. I'm just not convinced it has much of anything to do with national security.

Also, does use of HTTPS constitute "communications that are enciphered?"
This is what it looks like when a million Brazilians take to the streets
Did you mean unimpeded?
The same policy should definitely be applied to hardware. It's fairly common knowledge in the Apple community not to buy the first version of any new hardware unless you want to experience all the highs and lows of the bleeding edge.

On the other hand, it's hard to say what constitutes a ".1" in the hardware. The latest Air is a relatively small revision to the current Air line that's been around for a few years now, so I wouldn't have treated it as something brand new like I would have with, say, the original Air from 2008, or the redesigned one from 2010.

But yes, if you're not in a big hurry and don't want to risk a fight with the hardware, just wait a month or so after any given release.
>Many of Apple's designs for Airport look pretty but are effectively junk for RF performance.

Interesting. You say "many". So which Airport models would you suggest?
Thanks for pointing out the video!

In this talk, in the second half Jeff is actually talking about Grok too, and at ~38 he shows the architecture: http://i41.tinypic.com/4jhiu.jpg
It was posted on their blog June 20, 2013 so you are saying it was on HN yesterday? I'm confused...