skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The law you cite clearly says the information must be "relating to national defense."

In the example I have created, while wildly fantastic and unbelievable, the information does not relate to national defense at all. It is simply a record of a conspiracy committed by powerful people, which was "classified" by those same powerful people.
If you're going to do AI research I agree with you that you'll probably need quite a bit of maths, eventually. But people can certainly learn a lot of interesting things without it, and for some that might just be the motivation to pick up some more of the maths useful for the more advanced aspects as well.

My maths sucks, and I've had no problems reading quite a few AI papers through the years and pick up a lot of interesting ideas, and implemented quite a few things for fun.
Click on show larger plans, which go up to 20 million monthly page views at $299/mo. I'd need roughly 60 million page views, so $900/mo, although they'd probably cut a wonderful deal at $700/mo.

The pricing is absurd. They think I'm going to shell out $10k/yr for using their web fonts? Where's the value here? Where's the return on my investment? If I'm spending $10k/yr on fonts, they better generate some additional revenue on my end. Also, my users better be jumping out of their seats at how impressive the difference is with and without their fonts. That's simply not the case though. I'm not in the business of throwing money out the window, and it could be better invested in countless other places.
Ehm, at least one of the tests they used is wrong. They used this one as WebGL performance test:

http://luic.github.io/WebGL-Performance-Benchmark/

Despite the name this program in fact doesn't use WebGL, it runs using three.js 2D canvas renderer (just check the source).

Additionally even the results they got there are suspicious, I got completely opposite results on my system (Windows 7), with Chrome being faster than Firefox by a large margin:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/chrome-27-firefox-21-ope...

They got 777 on Firefox vs 437 on Chrome, I got 290 on Firefox vs 441 on Chrome (this is fully in line with my everyday experience, doing browser graphics).
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correction: Thoughtworks makes the majority of their money by delivering software for their clients. Not a small difference.

I'm certainly biased since I work there but the above is a fact :-)
I like to treat all aspects of launching a product with equal perfectionism. I don't believe one aspect of launch should be shunned. Yes they may go down in a year, but working on a pristine design doesn't take that much time and makes it that much better.

Of course it isn't high up on priority, but it is a task that should be taken seriously and completed eventually. Right now, it's usually an after thought which to me looks like neglect.
If you only use the shell, can't you use something like an SSH daemon on Windows and ssh to it?
New cyber security body to rope in ISPs - India
Just Vi or Vim for me. Used VS, VB, Eclips years back, but now back to Vi/Vim for embedded and server environment. Have not missed any of IDE features at all.
Only if you can persuade people to install a browser plugin that does what you mention. Neither facebook.com nor the Facebook API allows you to access this information.
Why Weird Twitter
> Remember, states don't have friends, they have interests. Why would the Europeans intervene in a civil war of yours?

Which was my point--why would Americans intervene in a war of yours?
http://xkcd.com/221/

- Can't be seeded.

- Fails to use all possible outputs in range.

- Causes philosophical thoughts.
Thought experiments such as the author's are the insight.

One of the distinguishing features of a thought experiment is a lack of implementation details in the domain to which the analogy is applied.

Better not to become bogged down trying to build a faster than light locomotive.
Innovative idea, why was this not designed before...
Sorry but if there is one thing I have learned it is to not let the purpose of something dictate what I use to solve a customers problem.

PhotoShop is just fine for a lot of things including web-design and app-design.

To somehow think that you are doing something wrong if you successfully use a tool to solve something it was not intended to do... well I don't even know what to say to such a claim.

Try and run a design business that way and see how long you last.
See shawabawa's post below yours.
That's cool.
Are you already building the Instagram, Twitter, etc... versions?
>The socialist initiative we need is to shut down unskilled immigration entirely

So, giant Berlin Wall/border fence with drones and armed guards? Or viable trade/economic policy with Mexico? Nevermind, we've made that choice.
This idea of immutable infrastructure reminds me of NixOS [1]. A linux distribution where nearly the whole filesystem is immutable.

Definitely worth a look. I'm not sure if it's fit for production usage, but i think it's the future of operating systems :).

[1] http://nixos.org/nixos/
I don't think the issue is inherently about gender, and as such the invocation of rape analogies seems a bit of a stretch. On the other hand, dismissing these actions on account of the children's age seems overly naive.

I remember when I was little, I liked to build things (hey, I still do!). Sand castles, cardboard contraptions, anything out of anything really. I would say I was a builder. Most of the other kids seemed apathetic to anything that didn't involve chasing each other around while screaming at the top of their lungs, but I remember a small minority of the other kids were of a different category still: they were the opposite of me. They were destroyers, and they'd come over to annihilate pretty much anything my friends or I had built. This was a pattern that lasted with variations from Kindergarten to Junior High.

I'm not sure what makes a lot of kids so destructive, but they sure seem to derive joy from tormenting others. This behavior can probably fixed with parental intervention, but I agree with the author here that's generally not happening. I know this defense as "kids will be kids", and it does ring as hollow today as it did when I was little. If some kids have no morality of their own, they sure should be conditioned to at least act as if they did.

Following this line of thought I would like to de-emphasize the rape aspect, though I cede that being aggressive, destructive, and domineering is certainly something that is actually expected of boys. I know, because I had a hard time being accepted as a real male by my peers throughout puberty. However, the core consequence I think is not necessarily an increased incidence of sexual assaults, but more fundamentally a toxic acceptance of destructive behavior throughout society in general.
I'd love to have it in my office.
I agree they should offer STL models for people who want to do the slicing themselves, but I do like the idea of providing presliced models that are tuned/tested for popular printers.

EDIT: "We guarantee that if your print fails, you will be given as many opportunities as needed to re-print and get it perfect. L2L allows us to track the completion of every print."

So I guess the purpose of a proprietary format is to restrict the number of times you can print a file? That's not going to work very well when you're interfacing with open source printers. I imagine it's trivial to slurp the gcode off the serial connection to the printer.
Er, no.

Contractors are generally more skilled at the resident staff.
Consciousness: An Outside View
Newsroom NSA storyline was based on earlier leaks that basically said the same things, just without evidence and government admissions to back them up and the stories died out quickly in the news without most people paying attention.
COME AT US, TROLL. [And Government of Ecuador]
Yes, you are missing everything.

It says women performs better at maths when they don't use their own name.

Men do not perform any different.
Because apparently lots of websites still (mistakenly) check for "Mozilla" and "Gecko".
Ah I must have misread that last sentence. Thanks for the correction
What, no Lynx?
And you forget that your "first world" was built on slaves, colonies, cleansing of ethnic races who were living there originally? Mostly that is where the "higher median standard of living" that you refer to has its foundations, that was the launchpad. So, yes, to you your world looks equitable.
If you want more interactive (and colorfully trippy) browsing of some projects, check out http://code.woboq.org

Example http://code.woboq.org/userspace/glibc/stdlib/stdlib.h.html#s... or http://code.woboq.org/linux/linux/init/initramfs.c.html#find... (hover over the symbols with your mouse..)
Thanks for the feedback. We strongly believe in the accessibility of SMS. We're actually working on the collapsing threads feature. We'll make the free trial more evident. Our initial customers haven't objected to our pricing, maybe we're getting lucky. Why should we revise it?
To Avoid Root Canals, Teeth That Replace Themselves
Yeah their stuff is pretty awesome, I actuall haven't tried PHPStorm how is it? I'm
learning PHP at the moment so might use it.
I'm conflicted on this.

On the one hand, the phrase "snowflake server" encapsulates my observations about long-lived servers that are upgraded and extended in place.

On the other hand: "Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system." -- http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Suarez (read the other quotes from the same chapter for context)
You know, I'm more worried about Harry crossing the moral even horizon right now. The antagonist already crossed it in my mind, when he crushed that blue beettle.

Love interest not cannon? While in the end, Harry did end up with Ginny, I thought I recalled some hints something was possible with Hermione (from book 4, I think). I may be mistaken, though.
My issue with pricing isn't the lower plan really, 60 doesn't seem so much, but the 10,000 text max plan seems to be too low for a lot of useful applications of this software. If I want to reach a 10,000 person incoming freshman class at a university then I would need to buy multiple plans just to serve them a multi-question conversation. The other thing is that you could provide higher priced (i.e. well over 1k plans) with TONS of texts available, and maybe subsidize the lower plans to increase first time adoption and increase the odds of being used for a bigger project/campaign/effort.
Agreed. A few years ago there were a lot of complaints about Firefox starting very slowly, especially on Windows machines [1]. For those of us that obsessively close apps that aren't being used, the startup time was a big turn off.

[1]. Just google Firefox loads slow to see lots of results like http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/762446
Performance is nice to be sure, but I think other things are much more important in 2013, like consistent HTML Canvas implementations.

For one small example the in-canvas kerning on both Firefox and Chrome are awful compared to IE10.

From a while ago: http://i.imgur.com/62WBzVZ.png

You can see for yourself here: http://jsfiddle.net/vVC4s/

Notice also the difference between doubling the font and doubling the scale, esp where each line gets cut off: http://jsfiddle.net/jGcrL/

This makes animations rickety and un-smooth (text animation): http://jsfiddle.net/simonsarris/HZFcR/

Surprisingly IE10 handles all of these perfectly. Of course, IE10 has totally broken canvas clipping (non-rectangular clipping regions are impossible. They worked fine in IE9.)

Firefox does render large text much better than Chrome, which is why I used it when taking screenshots for my book. But scaling the text (as opposed to setting a larger font) is a disaster.

This is just an example. I could go on for days about canvas bugs. I wish there was a bigger push to fix those instead of eking out a performance advantage.

To Firefox's huge credit, I've submitted a lot of bugs to Chromium and the FF team, and the FF team consistently gets back to me within a week and usually fixes the bug within a month. The bug reporting experience with Chrome on the other hand is rather disenchanting.

For a cross-platform bug example, the context's miterLimit is just plain broken by default in Chrome. I reported this (with examples) back in April and have yet to receive any kind of reply. Thank god it's an easy workaround.

https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=225512

If you want people to use your browser and develop with it in mind, working elements are more important than being slightly faster than the others. (Good developer tools come in close second I think, at least for this crowd).
>>Money doesn't come from nothing, there are side effects of raising the minimum wage.

These are simply a front, though. Most people object to minimum wage due to purely ideological reasons.
If it applies to almost anything, what's the purpose behind it? Is it just kind of a lighthearted way to remind oneself to feel grateful and that daily problems aren't so big in the scheme of things? #AtLeastIHaveShelterAndPlentyToEat doesn't have the same ring to it.

Or maybe now it's mostly used preemptively against ridicule? When complaining about something, if you add #firstworldproblems it makes it impossible to accuse you of whining.
* For the restart after upgrade, either it is a bug, or you have not seen the little "restore tabs from last time" button in the lower right part of the browser.

* I have not experienced that, I don't use Facebook.

* For the cookie stuff, you'll be pleased to learn about the about:permissions feature (type it in your address bar).
Another vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl12dXYcUTo&hd=1
I generally program on the Linux platform and use Ruby, Java, a bit of Perl and occasionally C++. In one previous job however, I did Windows development in C#. Whenever I tell people that C# is a seriously awesome language they look at me like I'm crazy; but its true. In many ways Java is still years and years behind C# for a general purpose OO language. It is really a shame that (outside of Mono), C# is trapped over in Windows land.

LINQ is incredibly awesome, expressive, and powerful. I generally prefer the lambda syntax to the more verbal syntax the author has used here, but both are really great and miles ahead of what's available in other, similar languages.
How do you share files between the docker instance and the host? How do you run docker on your mac? Networking is very different for docker instances as well.

On a Mac you can use Vagrant to bring up a host that runs docker, but i'm not sure how you would be able to just run docker on your mac.

That being said docker looks pretty awesome for certain sets of problems.
How is this different from SendHub[1]?

[1] https://www.sendhub.com/
It's because the only way you can consistently react to the facts is to become a radical feminist.

Rather than do that, people retreat to pop evolutionary psychology, religion, devils-advocacy in the service of not having to learn anything, or "la la I can't hear you".
How was the starting point for the Julian Date system chosen?
Ask HN: how do you manage encrypted email?
I've recently (re-)decided to make an effort to use PGP, and to convince others to use it too. (My effort to do so: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~rwl/encryption.html, linked from my .signature.)
But I've run into a couple of problems fairly quickly. If you use PGP regularly, how do you solve them?

1) Reading encrypted mail that I sent. If I need to remind myself what I said to someone, or recover an attachment, etc., I can't, because the only copy of my message is encrypted with the recipient's public key. I could work around this by Bcc'ing myself on every message, but that would have the mildly annoying effect of duplicating all my outgoing messages; every time I were to look for a message I sent to Mr. X, I'd get two results, and I'd have to figure out which one was encrypted with my key to read it.

2) Search. The more serious issue is that I can't search encrypted email, whether I sent it or received it. It is conceivably possible to search mail encrypted with my public key by decrypting it before running the search (though not encrypted mail that I sent, pending a good solution to problem 1). However, that seems like it would be extremely slow in practice, and I am not aware of any software that would make this simple or practical.

I am currently using Mutt as a client for a local Maildir, with offlineimap and notmuch to download and index my mail, but I am willing to switch to a different setup if there is one out there that solves these problems. What's frustrating is that both problems seem pretty obvious, and solutions are conceivable, but search results for practical solutions elude me.

I don't want to recommend to others that they use PGP if it means they cannot reasonably search their mail archive and read their sent messages. What should I tell them to do?
+1. Is your product for education, or health or advertising? Those are very different markets. Maybe pick one of those and highlight it. Or provide a use case for each if you really want to be in all 3 markets.
Doing comparative tests of browsers is OK up to a point but in reality the performance problems on the web are due to the way we build and deploy sites.
I would propose a counterargument for those claiming the price is too high... for those still texting in 2013, less than 10 cents per text is a pretty good deal. Before I got my smartphone I was paying 25 cents per individual text, or I could have paid $15/month to have "unlimited" service but the real world limit was perhaps two or three per month for a cost of perhaps $5/text. These prices are why people don't use texting/sms anymore. Which is a problem for scaling...
I think you're missing the point. Check out Google's mission statement:

> Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful

How is Google Reader less fitting than, say, self-driving cars or balloon Internet? An RSS reader is quite literally a way to organize the world's information, perhaps the most relevant of the product offerings.

It's not about what is "more interesting", but "more relevant". They're closing down relevant products for interesting ones, which is not good...
is there a counter where i can actually connect to my own metrics?
So wouldn't it make more sense to promote a turnout rather than talk down the possibility of turning out achieving anything? I'll be at the Old State house in Boston at 9:30am.
Warrior Concerto: A short story on startup death all around you
don't mean to quote from the book of Jobs, but he had a fitting answer:

"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It's the truth."

The problem is not the system per se, but the participants. We have a market system where most people are driven by the market, instead of driving the market. Meaning, most people/companies look to the market to see what 'works' and just do that, instead of contributing something new to the marketplace and creating real progress.
Normal vs. Fat-tailed Distributions
fat tailed distributions
Raising the minimum wage allows for a (very) short term benefit, but in the medium and long run, it drives inflation up. The minimum wage and inflation are effectively proportional.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/07/02/usa-security-snowde...
Neurosurgeon Clears the Path for Human Head Transplantation
A newspaper wants content that is different from its competitors.

Except in this case the Snowden image is not "content". It is an icon: visual shorthand that catches the eye and identifies the topic. In a story about a corporation, they would use that corporation's standard logo rather than a unique picture of the generic corporate campus.

All of the pictures of Snowden's girlfriend in various poses and states of undress? Now that's content.
Nitpick, this seems to have some funky grammar:
Connect you to the “Smiirl” Wi-Fi network
& connect Fliike to your own Wi-Fi via your browser
For me at least, having Reader shut down made me realize that depending on products delivered for free is ultimately unsustainable - I have no control over those services and if I can't figure out how that company is making money from me, there's little justification for that provider to continue providing that service, unmodified, for perpetuity. Self-hosted services are the only ones that you can truly rely on.

I'm hoping I'm not the only one that has come to this conclusion.
You mean like google build their business on their beautiful design? Microsoft? IBM?

Talk about not wanting to understand what is being said.
Is it just kind of a lighthearted way to remind oneself to feel grateful and that daily problems aren't so big in the scheme of things?

This is the way I've always interpreted it, which is why I thought these videos ("First World Problems Read by Third World People") were so weird and off the mark:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ugM7H4EEKU*
A few points that stuck out:

* "AT&T representative testified its reputation suffered as a result of the hack"

No, their reputation suffered, because they were incompetent. Ironically, without this trial I would have never heard about this.

* "At sentencing, instead of hearing about the effects of the iPad “hack,” the government recounted in detail Weev’s “attitudes” towards others on the internet."

That is because of the adversarial legal system in the US. All that matters is to sway an uninformed jury. The specific matter of the case is almost irrelevant as long as the jury comes to a "guilty" verdict.

Lastly, this reminds of a civil version of the current Snowden debacle: Attempt to prosecute anybody who reveals wrong doing or incompetence.
Does it have Tab-Overflow?
Nope. IE Conditional Comments were removed in IE10. http://www.sitepoint.com/microsoft-drop-ie10-conditional-com...
[pdf]Heap space analysis for garbage collected languages
In 'golden age' of surveillance, US has big edge
More cases like this, and people may become brave enough to forgo extortive settlements.
We allow users to design an interactive conversation with branching logic. Sendhub focuses more on marketing through unidirectional texting. We focus on use cases where bidirectional information exchange is valuable.
I think it'd be cool to see more visualizations of that data. What percentage was around the median and mean? What percentage of people charged under $50/hr?
What's wrong with Feedbin or Fever?
The keyword sets seem to differ across the cities, can't find sketchy for my town.
Thanks, we posted it again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5978451
In my daily use, I find Chrome to be overall faster and easier on the computer in general. I have recently run into a case during my development where Chrome actually has trouble compared to Firefox ANNNNNNND IE. It involves a large unordered list with several different divs, buttons, and links in it. There is some serious jumpy scrolling compared to both of the others, which surprisingly render smoothly.

This is the only instance I've ever run into where it didn't quite measure up.