skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No need to attack my character. I deleted the comment immediately after writing it because I decided it contributes to the thing I'm complaining about, which is many front page stories full of repetitive comment threads that are only tangentially related to the linked story and contain little new information or insight.
You could send mail to the wrong address intentionally. Like you want to send mail to 3 Main Street, but you write "5 Main Street" instead. The person who receives it will say "Ah, this is for Joe. He lives next door!" and hand deliver it.

That's mostly sarcasm. There's no getting around the tracking if you want to use regular USPS mail or Google Gmail. Just go meet in person, and leave your cell phones at home.
In RPG-style games, which this is... sort of..., "end game" generally refers to the point where you've built up your character to the maximum, or very close to it, and are now concerned with other things. It used to be known as the "elder game" in MMORPGs.
you've already made up your mind so I'm not sure there is much point in continuing but feel free to read this.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/01/police-arrestin...
Point 4 we could just easily type cntrl+f and type the message being displayed or alert etc... It would hardly take a few minutes to find out the problem.
Hehe. Yeah, I know. :)
VC-funded founders? Not rich?

I have no problem with you four.
In 2006, during my senior year of college, I worked nights at the Postal Encoding Center in Beaumont, Texas. The starting pay was $15/hr and encoding is a 24/7 operation, making it a highly pursued job by college students.

It's true that every piece of mail goes through OCR. If that fails, it's sent off to one of the encoding centers as you described. There wasn't a 10 second limit to encode an address, but all encoder's performance was continually monitored and those that didn't perform quickly would not get as many hours per week. There were random audits done of a sample of 10 responses; over time your accuracy was expected to be 99%.

In addition to encoding scans of envelopes, there were more sophisticated systems for encoding packages and magazines. Since there is no standard place to put an address on a box or a magazine, encoders were provided with images from all sides of an item, making the encoding process have two steps: finding the address, encoding the address.

As OCR improved, the number of Postal Encoding Centers was reduced. The last I heard was that the Beaumont center shut down and there are only 5 left nationwide.
Not really.

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Also:

Buy the envelope, stamp, and any mailed material (eg paper) far from your home.

Exclusively handle all the materials to be sent in a clean environment far from your normal haunts. You may want to wear a hair net, breathing mask, and gloves. Do not lick the stamp or envelope.

Be careful about handwriting anything, if authorities may have any samples of your handwriting — as for example on prior letters addressed, or archived forms filed. Also, do not use a computer laser/inkjet printer, which may add unique invisible tracking codes.

After leaving behind your own phone, be sure not to use a vehicle with its own phone (OnStar etc) or any RFID transponders (eg tolltags, which can be read for traffic jam analysis even on non-toll motorways). Similarly, put aside any personal ID or payment cards (passports, some driver's licenses, mass-transit stored-value cards, etc) which may have remotely-readable RFID transponders.

Try to arrange for your phone, computer, or residence to continue giving off its usual signals of your presence – so that the period of the letter mailing doesn't show up as a suspiciously idle time for you.

Avoid all private and public surveillance cameras, or disguise yourself (and your car's license plate from automated readers).

Still:

Even with all these steps, it's likely the individual's capability to opt out, with effort, from being tracked will soon be obsolete. It will be too cheap and appealing to video-record all public spaces, or even regularly dust all public spaces with unique molecular tags so that when examining an artifact later (a letter, vehicle, article of clothing, etc), all other places it has recently been are evident to careful analysis.
Was getting undefined errors with that..

This works:

function pushGather(){if(!$("#gatherButton").hasClass('disabled')){$("#gatherButton").trigger('click');}}setInterval(pushGather, 1000);

function pushCheck(){if(!$("#trapsButton").hasClass('disabled')){$("#trapsButton").trigger('click');}}setInterval(pushCheck, 1000);

function pushStoke(){if(!$("#stokeButton").hasClass('disabled')){$("#stokeButton").trigger('click');}}setInterval(pushStoke, 60000);
I'd think it's also an issue of the 4th. Consider sharing a machine with different user accounts. Asking me to decrypt a drive just might be an unreasonable search, because outside of logical partitioning, there's no concept of "a user's files" when the police just use a disk copy tool to pull all files off the disk.
Can anyone speak to the quality of the stream?
> I'm open to suggestions for specific action items. I'm extremely unsure of what I can do to help cause change.

I'd argue that everything we're seeing is largely a symptom of the poor government structure in general, which has let two large parties entrench themselves and rig the electoral process, to make themselves virtually immune to any consequence to their actions.

The solution is changing voting policy in two ways: changing it to something besides the winner-takes-all system we have now; forcing voting districts to be concave polygons (with some algorithmic properties about minimizing area/edge length relative to certain other properties).

These two changes would a) break up the two parties by making it possible for others to compete and then essential to form coalitions and b) break up gerrymandering allowing the vote to actually reflect how the public felt.
While I agree with you at the general level, it sounds like these trained individuals are ridiculously good at what they do. Even seven years ago, to be able to take a crack at an envelope in just 10 seconds and type out the result is impressive.
Discuss HN: Favorite quotes in "our" business
Mine is:

"There are two things in this world that take no skill: 1. Spending other people’s money and 2. Dismissing an idea."[1]

[1] http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes
.com is better.
People tends to auto-assume .com when remembering "CoolName".
If CoolName.me is "cooler" that CoolName.com - then register both and redirect .com -> .me
Otherwise if someone else owns CoolName.com and you grabbed CoolName.me - you're always at disadvantage.
There are plenty of great .com domains to be found with a bit of creativity.
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This is great news. Now we will be able to implement our own ideas and make the game even more awesome.

Why not implement another planet after the UFO? Heck, lets build a whole star system with many possiblities to choose from.
SSL is a sweet bonus feature. Is this on Heroku?
I take it back http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai...
Technology Alone Will Not Save Health Care
Isn't this akin to the idea that many dynamic programs actually have fairly static types?
IANAL, but I doubt that threatening someone with actions that are legal is against the law. I can threaten to eat a Twinkie unless you give me one million dollars if I feel like it. Or a more relevant example is a patent troll blackmailing for licensing fees.
Calling the reactions of the rest of the world 'quivering and faltering' seems to absolve them of any responsibility for themselves, as if it's impossible for anyone to be an ally of the US government, or at least not an enemy, unless there's blackmail or coercion involved. Other countries are not being terrified into submission, so much as they're complicit and culpable in their own way, using this situation to further their own political ends.
Um, yes they can. You are free to post the same content elsewhere -- you still have copyright in the material. What you don't have is rights to redistribute content from Craigslist. The publisher's rights (which you granted) are different from the author's rights, but they still exist. That doesn't make them liable for your content.
How do you prevent people from just copying someone else's magic string?
You know, you're not obliged to put a return address on regular mail as long as it has sufficient postage. It's required for various kinds of commercial mail, or mail requiring special handling eg delivery confirmation).
Doug Engelbart has died
> Indexes on col­lec­tions in Mon­goDB are very much “schema”

I think that's all you need to read in this post. It's... rather thin IMHO.
Ah, there's nothing quite like trying to hijack an issue for your preconceived partisan hobby horse.

Tell us more about how those of us who believe in investing in public education and transit infrastructure while cutting the military/security budget are really the ones in favor of this military/security program.

Don't forget to include how the Tea Party are the heroes here. You can cite all the redstate.com contributors calling Snowden a traitor as evidence. (http://www.redstate.com/2013/07/01/tech-at-night-snowdens-on...) Or you could go to David Brooks or basically every conservative except for Rand Paul.

Or maybe, just maybe, you should drop the tribal BS and recognize that this issue cuts across party lines.
And in 30 years they can make a Hollywood movie about the operation...
Doug Engelbart Has Passed Away
That sounds like a good analogy to me.
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Thanks for your comment as well, this is all very true.

On threatening: yes, sure. True professionals will invoke lawyers once you speak about them. Tread carefully, most of the times you don't want that.
> This means that domain names bearing close resemblance to trademarked names are not per se impermissible. Rather, the domain name must have been registered with the bad faith intent to later sell it to the trademark holder. This "bad faith" concept is reiterated in 15 U.S.C. § 1125 and U.S.C. § 1129.

Bringing up a domain to criticize a company is not cybersquatting.
Our games usually devolve once we hit the unit limit, since we're too lazy to find that 5000-unit patch from the old days. From that point, we go for nukes, berthas and targeting facilities, or just massive air waves.

We really should try out SupCom with more than a couple of people. My guess is that it would be a great fit for the types of players we have. (-:
Despite your rather obnoxious tone, it's quietly becoming the norm in America.

Jared Marcum was arrested in school for wearing an NRA T-Shirt.

The Bank of America graffitist was arrested for using sidewalk chalk.

Occupy protestors in Nashville were arrested, and a judge later proclaimed that their arrests were a violation of their freedom of speech rights.

I watched a video yesterday in which a dog was shot because the dog's owner was recording the police on his cell phone.

Cameron D'Ambrosia was arrested for posting lyrics to a rap song on Facebook.
Looks like there was a problem in cpoll-cppsp: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/pull/364

This will be merged in for Round 7.
This is an unusual occurrence. Congrats, pud!

Here's a link to the product's website: http://www.distrokid.com/
I think this is a really good example of where languages should have built in support for units. I was just having a look around and found the units module for python (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/units/). I really like the example at the end where they have modified pypy for a native unit syntax.
This is an awesome idea. I just with that they allow account creation outside of facebook.
You'd still be hard pressed to find a CEO that was earning hundreds of millions a year, even adjusted for inflation.

Billionaires like Howard Huges made their fortunes through owning stock, but these shares were not part of their pay package.
Not trolling, but the truth is that americans largely agree with their government.

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/nsa-spying-p...

I don't know how much of that is attributed to years of fearmongering, but america is a democratic country.
> A constant state of fear, always at war, our enemies are about to attack us. Isn't this what North Korea fuels the fire with?

If you think a country this size could ever reach the point of having no enemies, you are delusional. We will never be close to this condition. Spreading peace sounds great. In fact, I fully believe that the highest calling of mankind is to respect and care for others. I don't want hate and fear. But I'm also not delusional. We are a highly targeted country. We have enemies and will continue to have them inside and outside of our borders. Recognizing that does not make me or any other rational person a fear monger. Not recognizing it makes you appear naive.
To quote (or paraphrase) a military commander: technology is a force multiplier.

What we're actually seeing is the cusp of a very important transition, where currently governments can afford to do all these kinds of things (and large corporations are quickly getting in on the game), but in 10-15 years, we'll be able to do it /at home/.

I think society will change - will have to change - with the massive distribution of computing power that's likely to occur. We're not even outside the realm of where a motivated citizen could build a cluster at home, scan through all the publicly available documents, and profile government (and related contractors) in the same way they're doing to the public.

It simply hasn't entered the public awareness yet that we're living in that age.

If you really freeze out everyone of conscience (and motivation), do you really think they'll just go "ho hum" and do nothing with their time? That they'd just accept being thrown to the side of major political affairs and take no follow up?

I think it's far more likely they'd reach out to technology, and take matters in to their own hands.

It's this access to technology that really scares the government, people in power, etc. They just have no idea how to constructively deal with the change.
This new trope of yours is extremely irritating. I come from a solidly middle class background. My parents didn't even pay for college --- I didn't go. Two of my siblings are in the arts, and one is a lawyer at a domestic violence clinic. I'm on startup #5 (year 8), with no VC funding at all. 2 of the previous startups I was at (one of which I cofounded) were VC funded. Not only am I not a trust-fund type, but nobody I ever worked with was.

The founders of startup #2 for me just sold their third company. Both were middle-class Canadians with no "connections", just a solid professional track record. My 2 cofounders at startup #3 were well-off; both were working professionals, like me. Startup #4 was a spinoff of the University of Michigan started by a professor and his postdoc.

At each of the 5 startups I've worked for, I worked with 2-3 founder/cofounders. That's ~12 (I just counted them out) people I've worked with that had founding roles at startups; none of them recurring from previous companies. Not a single one of them fits this inane description you keep using.

Am I just extremely lucky, or are you a little bit full of it?
I wonder if private carriers, e.g. FedEx, are also under surveillance.
Simplistically on target. Well written & good visuals. Agreeing with @wasd that it feels like half the discussion.
> No, we've had about 10-15 years to prove, repeatedly, that "write once, run everywhere" UI never works.

That's not what Qt is pitching, at least when it comes to mobile. The idea is that you write your C++ backend in an abstract manner and put platform-specific QML files (which can be developed rapidly, and even WYSIWYG by designer types) on top of it. The idea is not "write once, run everywhere" but "make it easy to cater to different platforms by sharing as much as you can" as well as "make it easy to do that last-mile of platform-specific customization".

You're just having a negative gut reaction against the wrong thing here.
While both CouchDB and RethinkDB store JSON, the differences between them are more radical. I cannot post an as-extensive comparison as the one with MongoDB, but here are some aspects.

Please keep in mind that this is not an authoritative comparison and it may contain mistakes. Plus as for many such systems, the aspects covered are in reality not that easy to be described in just a few words.

Platforms:

- RethinkDB: Linux, OS X

- CouchDB: where Erlang VM is supported

Data model:
- both JSON

Data access:

- RethinkDB: Unified chainable dynamic query language

- CouchDB: key-value, incremental map/reduce

Javascript integration:

- RethinkDB: V8 engine; JS expressions are allowed pretty much anywhere in the RQL

- CouchDB: Spindermonkey (?); incremental map/reduce, views are JS-based

Access languages:

- RethinkDB: Protocol Buffers

- CouchDB: HTTP

Indexing:

- RethinkDB: Multiple types of indexes (primary key, compound, secondary, arbitrarily computed)

- CouchDB: incremental indexes based on view functions

Sharding:

- RethinkDB: Guided range-based sharding (supervised/guided/advised/trained)

- CouchDB: -

Replication:

- RethinkDB - sync and async replication

- CouchDB - bi-directional replication can be set between multiple CouchDB servers

Multi-datancenter:

- RethinkDB - Multiple DC support with per-datacenter replication and write acknowledgements

- CouchDB - (?)

MapReduce:

- RethinkDB: Multiple MapReduce functions executing ReQL or Javascript operations

- CouchDB: views are map/reduce but they need to be pre-defined

Consistency model:

- RethinkDB: Immediate/strong consistency with support for out of date reads

- CouchDB: http://guide.couchdb.org/draft/consistency.html

Atomicity:

- both document level

Durability:

- both durable

Storage engine:

- RethinkDB: Log-structured B-tree serialization with incremental, fully concurrent garbage compactor

- CouchDB: B-tree

Query distribution engine:

- RethinkDB: Transparent routing, distributed and parallelized

- CouchDB: none

Caching engine:

- RethinkDB: Custom per-table configurable B-tree aware caching

- CouchDB: none (?)
Probably not, it seems to only require a websocket capable browser. That said, I haven't tested that.
(1) The public can look for replacement labor, they are called scabs. Or they can outright fire the strikers.

(2) The public can look for replacement transportation.
you might get a cease and desist from zynga but don't give in!
I use nginx with php-fpm because (a) I find nginx easier to configure than Apache; (b) the configuration required for setting up nginx + php-fpm on Debian and Ubuntu is practically nil; and (c) this allows me to run PHP and Python apps on the same server on different subdomains.
This is the sort of thing having a Haskell-like typesystem would fix - multiplying something by "time.Millisecond" is difficult to discern the semantic meaning of, especially when nothing in the code/language prevents you from doing it multiple times.

The idea of storing this information as just a regular Int64 bothers me after spending so much time in type system nirvana.
Android Vulnerability Lets Legitimate Apps Become Trojans
Something makes me think that the native code is dynamically loading in the entire QtCore, QtGui, and QtDeclarative libraries to make the native side run.

When you build a Qt app statically you can strip all the unused functions out. But doing it for loading by the Android NDK? That seems a little trickier. You'd need to rebuild the libs specifically for that application.

Maybe there will be a better solution in the future to handle this, but it also seems likely that the native side wouldn't grow much past this size (i.e. 1 line of "hello world" is 26MB but 100,000 lines of real application code would only grow to 28MB.)
I don't think we're seeing the demise of personal privacy. For most of American history, "privacy" meant that what happened in the walls of your home or in the confines of some other private place remained private. You could expect privacy in your house and your coat pocket and in conversations you had with people in a private setting. And by and large, that's still the case. If you live on a farm like most people did in 1789 and go into town once a week to get supplies you pay for with cash, the government doesn't really have any data on you today that it didn't have back then.

Rather, what we're seeing is these conceptions of "private spaces" not being abstracted and extended to the new media people use to communicate (cell phones, e-mail, Facebook, etc). You might analogize between your GDrive account and the contents of your desk drawer, but that doesn't seem to be the model we're heading towards.

And I think the fundamental reason for that is the nature of the technology, not the law. A teenager might post a snarky comment on Facebook which back in the day he would have said out loud in the locker room, but that analogy doesn't change the fact that back then, the only people who heard that kid were other kids in the locker room, while today there are thousands of people with access to that data as it travels over some cell phone network to Facebook's data center to be permanently recorded forever. The internet is really not designed to keep communications over it secret or private in any way, and platforms like Google and Facebook are built on exposing as much private information about users as possible.
Fair enough. Usually I would probably agree with you. But in this case, I feel the "reaction comments" are important. The reaction is going to be the main story, after all.
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You had more luck than me when I launched http://cliffkaplanfraud.com/

I still remain unpaid.
Great question.

For our team, we say yes to whatever solves the biggest pain, for most of our users.

We discover this by reaching out to customers, and doing a lot of listening. We're trying to answer two questions:

1) What is your biggest pain in your daily work?

2) What is your biggest pain in our software?

#1 usually leads to new features.

#2 usually leads to revisions of what we have already.