skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They certainly are bright, but the light is a terrible colour for us humans. An Optician friend explained to me that the shorter wavelength of blue light causes it to focus in front of the retina, which is why blue LEDs appear out of focus when you look at them.
I just pushed an example to the book's github repo for calling a Java neural network example from JRuby. I'll add a Clojure example tomorrow.
Yes, it will be also interesting to see which technologies will be chosen
Worth mentioning that a single barrel of oil has a relatively fixed amount of each fuel type (i.e., gasoline, diesel, kerosene, etc). So when tax policy in one place favors one portion of the barrel, the "extra" other fuels have to go /somewhere/. That tax policy in Europe favors diesel it makes it relatively cheaper to buy gasoline in the States (and vice versa). Economies of scale within distribution and manufacturing networks seem to favor one dominant fuel at a time for passenger vehicles.
Those people also react aggressively without any humour to women who show confidence? Bullshit.

I'm not understanding this correctly.

The term "rape" in gaming isn't a sexist term. It is often used when a team of 5 guys beats 5 other guys. (Common in LoL) Nothing to do with gender, all about dominance, power, strength and humility. Other variations: "We owned you", "We killed you", "We murdered you on the field", etc)

And yes, you answered my question. (You're not offended by the other words) but then you went on to talk about "people who can't make women laugh nor orgasm" which really has no place in the conversation.
It reviews research on specifically what makes cities innovative.
Top 5 - Open Source Utility Software
From a free antivirus to a sweet FTP - there are many ways to improve the performance of your computer for free!
So it's anonymous like bitcoin is anonymous - which is to say that keeping your identity a secret over the long term takes great effort. Do I understand correctly?
You need more practice coding, because it doesn't look like you got a strong intuitive grasp for it from school. Those aren't great interview questions, but they're not serious CS problems either.

Also, you should definitely know what a semaphore is. Write some threaded Python code to get a feel for concurrency.
"Nicole Wong, dubbed by many as the US’s first chief privacy officer"
> I find it interesting that the set of five countries: UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. I'd like to know how the US came up with this list. Is it because we speak the same language?

These are the "Five Eyes" countries and have been closely linked for national intelligence since World War II. The U.S. will monitor literally everyone else that it can, and has done so since WWII proved how useful national security intelligence is for toward national security.

For years you've been able to Google "In God We Trust; All Others We Monitor" and find various intelligence community posters, unit patches, etc.

The leak to SPON helps confirm that with numbers. But Germany's leaders have undoubtedly known it was going on, just as France's, Russia's, etc.
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Oh, I don't think it would change anything, I guess people deep into it are briefed on more arguments than I could ever dream of. They're probably perfectly aware of and okay with what they're doing, too. I still find this is one of the rare cases where narcissism actually is helpful, because I am not intimidated in the least by the idea of being spied on. I'm like fuck yeah:

http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=2660

Being caught spying on others = super embarrassing, being spied on = hilarious. But then again, I never had anything used against me, I would sing a different tune real quick in that case. So I don't mean to belittle it in general. But if anyone can get a kick out of it while being against it and vocal about that, more power to them, right?
"The EU" is probably not spying, it simply doesn't have institutions to do so. The EU lacks "federal" agencies in the security service sector, that's still a matter of the EU member nations with cooperation only on a bureaucracy level.
Even then, my intention was to point out that whatever it is that we call trash talking, and whether it's a problem or not is of no importance at all when it comes to sexism in video games. These are two very separate issues IMHO.
Germany for obvious reasons has significant power in the EU, killing the free trade agreement and blocking further cooperation on any levels would certainly be possible.
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Wait, what?
Thanks for the translation, it was so good that I didn't realize I was reading a translation of an article until right at the end.
That sounds like a terrible statement. Similar to a bridge engineer who wouldn't drive over a bridge he helped design.

Shows a serious lack of trust in their capabilities, and that of their team.
Diesel does not burn clean. Diesel particulate matter is, due to its size, extremely difficult to filter and of course also highly carcinogenic.
Isn't every javascript game easily hacked?
I don't want to justify lack of innovation or responsiveness to developers, but there are a few reasons why not, among them: Android has a large middleware layer written in Java and the Dalvik VM uses copy-on-write and fork to treat bytecode as if it were pure code - using only one copy.

In practice this means that apps that do not make use of the Dalvik runtime are limited to special purpose apps such as games written mostly on top of OpenGL. Even those might end up being wrapped in a Dalvik VM runtime app to access things like accounts, sharing, etc.

A realistic step would be to add one or more JVM languages as first class citizens of the toolchain. Clojure would be very welcome.

Android really is an OS with a very intimate relationship with a VM that implements Java semantics, though not Java bytecodes.
I've got a theory that this is one of the reasons that system configuration/deployment aids are so popular right now. My experience has been that there's trouble with this every time I spin up a new Ruby project (particularly Rails) and/or move to a new system. It does tend to get better as you get into individual projects, though.
Image extraction would be cool, but to me getting a readable block of text is more important.
It was a sarcastic figure of speech. Sorry it was misunderstood. I actually agree with you.
I have to agree, since I find it mind boggling that one-man construction firms are making millions.

That's not that uncommon for a general contractor: you do project management and client relations, sub-contractors hire the people who string wires and swing hammers.
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Show HN: echoplexus v0.2.0, now with experimental WebRTC voice/video calls
Hey HN, it's been a while since we last showed you echoplexus. Since then, we've made a ton of improvements to the basic functionality.

Echoplexus is an anonymous, web-based, IRC-like chatting platform that makes its best effort to respect your privacy. It allows you to create public or private channels. You can secure a pseudonym for linkable anonymity. Chat, Code, Draw, and Call.

Yesterday, we pushed out 0.2.0 which brings experimental video and audio calls. To use it, you'll need a bleeding edge Chrome or Firefox (though I haven't had much luck getting it to work in Aurora).

Some links:

Github: https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus contains the current documentation and vision of where echoplexus is headed

Demo: https://chat.echoplex.us

We'd love to have any contributors. The current WebRTC support wouldn't be what it is today without jamiees2 -- congratulations on your hard work :)
There's a dev branch for maildir sync, but I haven't tried it out: https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/tree/maildir-sync

I agree that this limitation makes it really hard to fit sup into a workflow that includes multiple workstations and phones/tablets. Hopefully they get that sorted.
Going from PDF to nicely formatted word doc would be huge for lawyers and people who do a lot of contract negotiations. It's hard to do well though.
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iMessage decoy?
Very well said. These things are certainly relevant. But now that we have WebRTC and Adobe Cirrus, etc. can we start building decentralized, P2P apps?

After all I don't care how the connection is opened as long as it's encrypted I have choice in how it's opened.
Thank you for your support :) Please don't take my direct tone personally, I've been following Greenwald's twitter a lot recently and emulating the way he responds to critics. Generally it's been very effective at rallying support but can tend to alienate folks who disagree.
Even if we assume that PRISM still needs to know what exactly to do with that inbound traffic, which it will need metadata for.

Of course maybe it's possible to setup a session and then just forward all traffic from a given company subnet IP:port to a PRSIM case file, but that's getting back into impl details for me.
Android apps are compiled to Java bytecode and then translated to Dalvik bytecode. Clojure should work. There are toolchain issues like interfacing Clojure and AIDL that I'm not aware of the state of development, but it should be very feasible to make Clojure a first class citizen in the Android software development world.
"That's right. You." ?!

This is such a saddening comment.
I would not call the FDP a free market party. Crony/lobby capitalsim yes, free markets...no
I wish it didn't have the MongoDB requirement. IMO something with a few thousand messages can easily be done w/o a full blown database.
A dumb analyst could inside trade large amounts by eavesdropping on privileged conversations with a corporation and its public auditor (and eventually be caught for the size of transactions).

A sophisticated NSA analyst could make many trades with inside information and avoid raising alarm by making off-the-radar trades.
Alternative, could you use this to capture waste heat from the phone internals?
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How would you acclimate a player for a "slow" pace without starting slow?
You've thrown a heavy statement without backing it up.
Thanks for your very detailed response!

I do have one additional question: would you all consider releasing the work that you have done on your YUI3-based rich-text editor, even if it isn't production-ready?

My team has been working with CKEditor for the last couple of years, and we find it pretty frustrating. So much so that we are debating switching to the YUI3 editor, even if it means much more work. We haven't experimented with CKEditor 4 yet, though. Regardless of what specific path to take, we plan to replace our rich text editor in the comming months.

It would be very interesting to see a viable alternative to CKEditor and TinyMCE emerge, and we would definitely consider contributing.
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Just paid for two silent circle accounts today. My wife and I live overseas and have had contacts through our work with people that would put us on the actively monitored list. We have our own mail server and occasionally use PGP when needed, but the biggest hole in our security was Skype (which we knew was insecure) and iMessage (which surprised me to see on the slides because I thought it was point to point encryption - maybe they encrypt with a second apple private key)
> Many institutions in our society are still structured in such a way that W2 employees are considered the norm, and it is hard for even well-off people who are self employed to, for instance, get a mortgage without intense paperwork hassles.

It was refreshing to read that. Even for an apartment it's almost foreign to most building managers when you say you are self-employed (they might even have an unwritten rule that this means unemployed lol). Even after showing a good transaction history your chances are still pretty slim, it's almost as if they have never heard about anything other than W2 and pay stubs.
America is actually on the way to electric cars, bypassing the unnecessary stage of diesels, hybrids and whatnot. The diesel might not even happen, provided that Tesla does well.
> Diesel burns clean

Diesel particulate matter from diesel vehicles is a significant source of harm from air pollution. DPM kills many people each year. Possibly 29,000 people each year in the UK die early because of air pollution.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/19/uk-air-pol...)
Well, you get people to not ever rape or murder one another and I'll get political schemes to all settle on anarchist societies where major industrial projects still manage to get funded and no one ever tried to take more by force.
No one wants to sell cars that consumers won't buy.

There are a few diesel car models available in US (e.g. the VW Passat TDI and Jetta TDI). But Americans don't buy enough of them to cause more manufacturers to sell diesel models.
It crashes on any Atom feed. It seems the code in scrapper.js only handles RSS, and even there makes some assumptions that might not hold for all feeds.
I've been using FastMail for a while and I like it a lot. Actually I love the fact that it uses folders instead of tags.

The only problem I have with FastMail is that I've been receiving an increased amount of spam in my inbox.
Nothing. CBP asks questions. The drivers refuse to answer. CBP gets their supervisor. One guy asks the supervisor for proof of his citizenship. All the drivers get waved through within a couple minutes.

They key appears to be not to pull to the side of the road for extended questioning, because as long as you're in the main lane, you're holding up traffic.
The question we would ask after that is who gave those morons a flashlight instead of a nothing.
If his main reason really was the update delays of some manufacturers he could've just gotten a Nexus phone and have updates in time.
This type of research is interesting and valuable. However, I can't help but wonder how much has changed over the last 15 years. The fact that you and I are discussing this article on websites like HN seems to be a great example of technology overcoming some of the barriers of location. A motivated person can easily find ways to interact and form ties. Maybe the impact of geographic location is higher among those less motivated.
I don't agree that it takes "great effort", because I don't think there is only one standard of anonymity. If you expect to be sought after by a well-financed adversary, of course you should be diligent about what you share, and maybe even change your identity regularly (which Nightweb now supports). Others may just want a reasonable level of anonymity, and will have no problem mentioning the city they live in. Others may use Nightweb with their real names. I think you will get whatever you put into it.
Yep, definitely a perplexing oxymoron for us Brits.
UK readers see this:
"We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwide, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the BBC, the profits made from it go back to BBC programme-makers to help fund great new BBC programmes. You can find out more about BBC Worldwide and its digital activities at www.bbcworldwide.com."

It's not a paywall, or an interstitial-ad-wall or a great firewall of China. It's just designed to save UK viewers from the horror of seeing an article with a BBC logo on the top and ads down the side. Stupidwall seems like a good term for it.
MongoDB runs everywhere and in a very short time and there is a lot of service providing free databases for it. For example, the demo App is using MogoLab free offer and it's working just fine !
Kissinger was in Germany to watch his favourite soccer club play (Fürth). I'd say that counts as "leave the safe confines of the United States".

He also celebrated his birthday in Fürth in 2012.
I'd be interested in learning more about the methane conversion.... any resource(s) you could refer me to?
Very cool! The one-click setup blew my mind. The only other thing I would expect with this is some kind of vcs integration, like git integration.
Excellent field work Ludwig, again HN's Munchen's desk amply demonstrates operatives in the field return the best and most decisive intel.

By the way, I encountered last night Walter Ruttmann's 1927
fascinating hour long classic silent film celebrating Weimar Berlin:
The few autos, centric of trains, many horses, trams, new to me architecture long ago gone, men in hats, intense machinists in factories, and foundries' men at work:

http://archive.org/details/BerlinSymphonyofaGreatCity

You familiar with this?

My favorite Paul Graham essay you forensically dissected with your profiling tools, wc: 362, is `The Roots of Lisp'. I do the most rudimentary lisp, but this Conway introduction shared with me PG's enthusiasm and excitement focusing on lisp's eval, which I've wondered about forever and still do.
Of course, that's what they'd say if they had broken it. If they hadn't, then saying this would be counterproductive.

Alternate 1: Since they're keeping encrypted stuff forever, they're somehow OK with not getting access to stuff until moore's law has had a while longer to run / more exploits have been found?

Alternate 2: They want the metadata, and if people didn't trust encryption they wouldn't even get that?
I am so pissed about this. Born in 1969 I've been growing up in a Germany where we viewed the U.S. of America as a friend. An example in freedom and democracy where we have had failings of our own.

Now it turns out our friend betrayed us. It views us as the enemy. Everything imagined as a paranoid bad joke is true.

But the worst of all: In the USA there is no outcry. The people don't even care about this. Thus: We are not seen as friends.

Greatly done, USA. From now on you are alone. Fuck yourself.
Or he could be referring to planned obsolescence.
I don't know if such an action ever took place, but Bush signed a law that will combat extradition of any US service member to a foreign criminal court.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members'_Prote...

Also called the "Invasion of the Hague act" since such freeing of US citizens by force might only be possible through an invasion of The Hague, Netherlands, the seat of several international criminal courts and the seat of the Dutch government.

It has happened the other way around.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri

Khalid El-Masri is a German citizen who was mistakenly abducted by the Macedonian Police, and handed-over to the U.S. CIA, whose officers interrogated, sodomized and tortured him. While in CIA hands, he was flown to Afghanistan, where he was held in a black site, interrogated, beaten, strip-searched and subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, tantamount to torture. After El-Masri held hunger strikes, and was detained for four months in the "Salt Pit", the CIA finally admitted his arrest and torture were a mistake and released him. He is believed to be among an estimated 3,000 detainees whom the CIA has abducted from 2001-2005.
I'm an ex car nut, and I've always been fascinated by the diesel engine. I have yet to own one but I keep threatening to get one for myself. Primarily looking at that old MB 240D which is a tank. :-D In my unofficial surveys of people diesel is always thought of as dirty and harder to find at the pump.

The reason I don't actually own a diesel is the lack of options here in the US. Ive got to choose a truck, VW (depending on the year) and a MB. I haven't gone as far as looking into importing one purely for the repair aspect. If I actually ever move from my tiny city apartments I've considered the truck option and then converting it to run on SVO but it will probably never happen.

I have yet to figure out why we don't have diesel electric vehicles.
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very true... it would take a bit of effort - but this is similar perhaps in spirit to services like http://www.spamhaus.org/
It may also be the case that some or all of their content is licensed for a non-UK audience, meaning that they would have higher costs if they wanted to allow UK viewers, a cost which they might not recoup from UK advertisement viewers.

That said, based on the limited information we have, I'm totally with you that it's a ridiculous situation. Maybe they have a somewhat valid reason, such as the one I suggested above, but I do doubt it.
No, I don't think it would be corroded that way. I (briefly) enjoyed answering his question. Whereas your response (briefly) made my blood pressure shoot up.

People frequently ask questions on HN that Google could "answer". When those questions spark interesting conversations, they get voted up. Otherwise, they fall off the front page.

A better thing to do than acknowledging that you were rude and then explaining why you decided to do that would simply be to apologize.
Does BBC carry advertising in the UK?
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If the source is available to the public it is open source. I may not have a copyleft license, but for that we have other terms like "Free Software".
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I found similar problems trying to get Rails running on OSX Lion. In the end I just went to using virtual machines running Ubuntu for development. I didn't bother with RVM, I just installed Ruby with apt-get and it was all really straight forward.
Show HN: Starve. Consume feeds. Nothing less. Nothing more.
As in many pricing situations, e.g. flat rate internet, what gets ignored is the "insurance effect." In the case of flat rate internet, the insurance is against your bandwidth use going way up due to a new application you start to use, and because people are poor judges of future bandwidth needs. In the case of high mpg cars, it is insurance against price shocks. If the petrodollar goes bust, you can still get to your office at a price you can afford, while everyone else scrambles to carpool or buy a high-mpg car.

So even if you only break even over the life of the vehicle, you get the potential value of driving to the very end of the Oil Age.
I wouldn't say that. Elevation could be done in a myriad of ways, and injection is one of them. The question is whether you are causing a query to go wrong by feeding it specially crafted text. The only scenario without useful injection is one where you have complete and convenient root access from all input methods.
I think it's because BBC hasn't licensed the content from BBC Worldwide.
Yeah, the only reason I even clicked on the link is because I just assumed the majority would be tech businesses, eg mobile app developers. Guess im guilty of living in a bit of a bubble.
I can't say I know very much about the German Pirate Party, but how did "aggressive genderism" end up becoming associated with them? Are they trying to focus on questions outside Internet-related ones and made a blunder?
No, but it's paid for with essentially a tax. It's called the TV license.
I just scrapped a car with a 1.9 tdi. 260,000 miles on it. The engine was still running perfectly, never gave an ounce of trouble and was still really economical. In general diesels have a reputation for lasting longer. Would be interesting to know what kind of an outfit your friend works for. They would be worth avoiding.