skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice. I am curious if/how you will try to monetize?
Can't wait for it to support signing of mail.
You don't have to be right wing to be anti-EU. I'm extremely anti-EU and I'm not "right wing".

The EU is a totalitarian, anti-democratic bureaucracy machine that will trample over the nations of Europe. I don't see what's there to like.
There is sure to be some griping from the education sector that upholds the high virtue of 'academic integrity', whatever that is.
Twitter should run this ad: "Osama Bin Laden died because he wasn't on Twitter! Sign up today!"
True, but a statesman realizes that you gather more power the less you use it.
Like you, I can be a cynic, I can read between the lines, I can speculate. When the news stream is limited, and there is a lot of noise, I don't do any of the above.

The real "risk" here is, press and citizens, jumping to false conclusions.
Perseverance Won’t Make You Successful (But without It You Won’t Get Anywhere)
My local (Washington DC) protest has 312 people "going" according to Facebook. With any given Facebook event, I've found there's usually a huge dropoff between those who have RSVP'd and who shows up.

I think the spirit of this is great but "mass protest" might be a bit of a misnomer.
I'm sorry but this is one of the most ridiculously vacuous, self-aggrandising pieces of nonsense I have ever seen submitted to HN. Even more so when it's just another framework, and not really even a particularly popular or revolutionary one. Pushing boundaries like travelling across the sea to an almost entirely unknown continent with little to no chance of return regardless of what you find there? Please. I think we need to stand back and take a deep breath.
If the US passed legislation to raise the minimum wage to a rate you feel is "fair" (whatever that means), how do you propose the Fed deals with the rampant inflation that'll surely erase any perceived benefits of said legislation?
Unhappily I believe you suffered racial profiling. I think that today lots of law enforcement officers act in the limit of the law... they act inside the law, but they clearly enforce it in very specifics ways and for very specifics people.
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Wonderful, however the UI for upload sucks.

It requires Adobe Flash to upload and since I have blocked plugins by default, even if I enable the plugin after loading the page (through Firefox's click to play), it doesn't work.

GitHub, please:
1. don't make Adobe Flash necessary.
2. allow me to select a file through browser's File dialog. I don't like drag and drop.
I suspect you may be thinking of the "Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal (IMT)" which was not a US only effort - it had judges from the UK, US, France and the Soviet Union, indeed the President of the Tribunal was Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, a UK judge.

After the International Military Tribunal there were US-led trials at Nuremberg but there were lots of different sets of trials held by the Allies in their parts of Germany and also by countries like Poland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsequent_Nuremberg_Trials

NB The IMT was in the US zone and did benefit a lot from the material support of the US.
>If you have good control over the fusing process, splitting off much less than 1% would probably be preferable.

Nah, get the best split/splice you can without affecting the target fiber (without causing detection). You could use a power meter to determine the resultant signal strength, but if you've planned/done this more than a couple of times, you know what it is going to say. You could use an attenuator if needed to protect the detector, but since the detector current is dependent upon the gain of its amplifier, it would be simpler to simply adjust the gain. In fact using an auto-gain-circuit (AGC) here would be preferred, since it will automatically compensate for any differences in splice quality (within range). Also, it would be clumsy to design an amp that could easily burn out your detector, but sometimes you do crazy things when pushing performance to the limits.

IMO you couldn't use a silicon detector like the one from Perkin Elmer. It is fairly large (170um x 170um), and therefore has a large Capacitance, and therefore is as you say, slow. However, such detectors exist. They would probably use InGaAs if they used off the shelf stuff. Here is an example http://www.thorlabs.com/Thorcat/10700/APD310-Manual.pdf There are almost certainly better choices than InGaAs if they forget about cost and don't need to produce enough to supply the whole world. Given that NSA has its own chip-fab capabilities (it does), this seems like a possibility. Being on the ocean floor here is great because it is cool and dark, and therefore low-thermal-noise (also not a lot of RF, I bet).

>>This is not possible to do on a live system without it being service affecting.

>Why not? The only impact on the fiber being tapped would be a brief period of heating and a temporary change in refractive index over, perhaps, a couple cm of fiber.

I also see no reason that this or some other method could not be employed on a live cable, and go unnoticed.

My question is how the NSA gets the data back to where they want it. They have to lay cables of their own, probably have remote stations to reject some of the data; or maybe NSA has a secret undersea fiber network that rivals the normal one. They certainly have the money, I just never considered it.
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wat...where were the 'audit and financial regulators' when Microsoft was spending $700m a quarter on Bing?

http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-throwing-money-down...

Larry and Sergey are the shareholders. They want to spend millions on self-driving cars, no one questions it. No one was questioning whatever tiny amount they were spending on Reader.
It is sad that even though FB, Twitter and numerous other services have popped up to facilitate new ways of communicating with people, none of them are part of any (widely accepted?) standards. Could emails have survived so long if it were just a service offered by a corporation?

We, the developer community should probably focus more time on standards based tools, than Twitter/FB/Google Apis - all we are doing is just help them gain more traction.
Probably not... but not because they're being blackmailed by the NSA.
Huh? This one requires flash too AFAICT!
When it’s faster to use SQL in MySQL NDB Cluster over memcache API
I don't know if that's true. But at least we are aware that we are scared like sh*t about this.
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Previous thread from April: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5594351
Would the plausible deniability that comes with using a technique like TrueCrypt's hidden volumes help in a situation like?
Not really. There is a principled distinction between the two: people in other countries are not part of the same social pact and thus don't have rights. Its tribalism, sure, but tribalism has historically been pretty effective at maintaining different standards internally versus externally.
I'm in no way affiliated to their project.

But I believe there would be a few possibilites for them :

- Pay extra to get feedback with people known as "experts" (UX/UI specialists), the "expert" would get and cut and so would them (this would provide a good incentive for people to leave in detail and high quality feedback). This is a win win for everyone

- If you get negative feedback, along the lines of "X needs fixed/changed/reworked", they could maybe teem up with oDesk or the likes (or do it themselves) to provide freelancers/experts to solve your issues

It's an interesting concept, it's not the most obvious thing to monetize, but it can be
I appreciate the feedback! Pricing is tricky, and we're open to suggestions--our challenge is basically to earn most of our profit from business users while keeping it inexpensive for consumers. Maybe the number of messages is the wrong way to separate the two camps, though. Any ideas?

(Is 150 messages/month really limiting for average users? I don't think I've sent anywhere near that much personal mail this month, but I may be an anomaly.)

EDIT: I forgot to mention that whichever way we end up doing it, the personal plan will be free for anyone who signs up for the mailing list before August 1.
I guess you might not be as good with words in Schwizerdütsch as he is in English.
I didn't see the article before fixes, but I seem to often type "driver" instead of "drive". If one typed "mAh" enough, don't you think a similar thing could happen?
I am currently starting out as a freelance developer and consultant. So this is a concept/prototype for my portfolio.

I am really in love with the duality of the system (analogue media with digital distribution).

Let me hear what you think! :)

PS: Obviously missing: RSS feed.
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Colin Powell going to the UN with certain knowledge that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and it was imperative to attack them before they were used. Donald Rumsfeld saying, "We know where the weapons of mass destruction are." Condaleeza Rice warning that the smoking gun could come in the form of a mushroom cloud (that is, it was important to attack Iraq before there was conclusive evidence of wrongdoing - convenient, that.)
I've always thought that perseverance alone wasn't enough. Perseverance is simply something that's often missing from the equation. That is, someone figured out a winning formula, but didn't stick to implementing it long enough for it to pay off. If you don't have the winning formula, and do nothing other than persevere, then you are hoping to get lucky, not guaranteeing yourself success.
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No, I'm not suggesting that "the US managed to infiltrate European air traffic control and hoaxed the bolivian plane to land?"
And to the http://www.restorethefourth.net crowd:

You don't want to coordinate over Skype or Facebook or Twitter.
Developers expect Java EE 7 to become predominant within 2-3 Years
Don't forget the Rainbow Warrior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
If I didn't know better, I'd accuse you of secretly being the OP and writing this comment that just begs jaded HN users to click through.
Yes, non-UK residents should note that if you, in the UK, only ever want to watch Japanese wrestling on a paid TV channel, you still need to shell out on a BBC annual licence (145 pounds/$220) or face a nasty penalty. This generates income for the BBC of > 3bn sterling.
the fact is that all the elements are there to make it into one.　A huge government, a large military force, constant spying, a major disrespect for basic constitutional rights, and now it's just about how fast it slides.
That's a cool way of doing it! Of course, the usual caveats about in-browser crypto still apply, but still neat.

I agree that choice is great, and we might expose manual key management in Parley at some point, but realistically people who know how to do that (and have the desire to) already have many options.
I made blocks http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgfwAVAckBIAIYAd//AAABxgEfAU...
Table B.7 Cocaine Use in Past Year, by Age Group and State: Percentages, Annual Averages Based on 2006 and 2007 NSDUHs
District of Columbia	5.10 [1]

DC out in front by more than a nose, historically too. Probably not just politicians at the trough though.

[1] http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k7state/AppB.htm#TabB-1
Well, the article has a quote from an Austrian minister that they searched the plane, not sure how that could be taken any other way.
True, it is not the legal definition of extortion but the term extortion is "often used loosely to refer to everyday situations where one person feels indebted against their will, to another, in order to receive an essential service"[1]. Clearly no crime has been committed here since they have a right to strike. I always think of coercion as slightly different but I guess it is the more technically correct word.

It is also hard to even hire temps. They must cross the (sometimes aggressive) picket line, get called names (like scab), etc. Then there is the chance that the would-be temps are also in a union and therefore unable/unwilling to take the temp job.

There was that one time that all the striking air traffic controllers got canned and permanently replaced[2]. But that was federal and Pres. Reagan got in on it. So that is not likely to be an option with BART.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extortion
[2] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12292.html
This article should be flagged for containing Argentinean government propaganda.
Sure, they have the right to post their content anywhere they want, but after that it's CL's. Same is true with comments, posts on discussion/Q&A sites, etc.
He definitely doesn't have a moral obligation, but it is a fairly minimal number to help prove his intentions are genuine and not simply a strategy to save $3,500.

Also, he should stress the risk he is taking in defending his position since most readers will not have any idea how big it is.
Agreed. I was laughing out loud at some of the analogies, but the author does make some good points -- it's really early in the client side framework evolution.
Hacker news isn't for politics so please keep your horrible political ignorance off of here. You don't appear to have any clue what you're talking about and probably don't understand most of the terms you used. There's no point in discussing it, just please don't do it here anymore.
A government controlled media outlet? How is this possible (sarcasm). I in general like the BBC, but this should not be a surprise.
London: hot or not?
Exactly how effective will an online protest be on a day that so many people spend outdoors; away from their computers/devices?
Customer support is a quite different from public relations.
Yes, I've acknowledged that almost none of the Google campuses have dedicated Perf Rooms. Most offices just use a regular conference room to get their Perfing on.

Really, when a Google manager threatens to "take you into the Perf Room", it's purely metaphor. Calibration applies to all employees (not just the disfavored ones) and no one is actually in that room as they are "calibrated", so the phrase has no meaning other than as a general-purpose threat.

I've heard plenty of stories about bad managers at Google: people given low calibration scores to keep them captive on undesirable projects, people threatened with PIPs for failing to fall in line on RNCH, and one case of a manager who used phony performance problems to find things out about peoples' health and personal issues, then exploit the knowledge in sadistic ways.

The transfer process is pretty damn broken at Google. A company with that much in the way of resources has absolutely no excuse not to use open allocation. It's actually an ethical problem. If you're poor and fighting for survival, you may not be able to afford open allocation. If you're a rich as Google, it's an ethical imperative.

20% time is a huge gamble. It might be one worth making, sure, but it's dishonest to say there's no risk. If your manager doesn't get a lot of calibration points and you have a 20% time project, you'll often be thrown under the bus so more "loyal" reports can get a decent score. That's just the way stack ranking works. If one person on each team is to be shot in the head, the person perceived as least loyal (flight risk/20%T) will be the first one gone.
Sometimes you just have to take a little country and smash it against the wall to show the world who's boss - is that the game you're playing?

Americans loved international law as long as it was to our advantage; now it's passé to imagine that anybody but Americans or rich people might have rights endowed by their Creator. I guess it's not so self-evident these days.
Is my up-vote being sniffed?
"Buddy" sounds really silly. "Comrade" is closer, but at least in Portuguese that would be "camarada", which carries a rather old-style socialist nuance, not "companheiro".

"Fellow", "brother" or even "mate" sound better in this context.
No I will not call this racial profiling. It's just your actions that invites attention. Police tend to check everyone who fall out of some kind of established pattern.
It seems to me that as far as international rules go it's not an "abuse" of power. National airspace is, after all, national. You can refuse entery to a foreign president if you damn well please. (High ranking official have a very limited liberty of movment since every deplacment abroad is subject to authorisation of the receiving country.)

On the other hand once you have authorising them to cross your airspace usually grants them extra-territoriality. Meaning that for an reglementary standpoint you can't force a plane to land and search it. (No suspending authorisation once the plane is in the airspace, and you can't search the plane because it is considered foreign territory.

(note this is what i understand of this matter, and may not be exact)
Depending on your definitions of "huge" and "no one", here ya go: http://www.reddit.com/r/restorethefourth/
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Edit your noise to about 1/5th the volume and it might be worth skimming. Your prattle is boring.
Its a federal district court (trial court), not a circuit court (appeals court) (some systems, e.g. Cook county, call their trial courts circuit courts; it dates back to times when judges would ride circuit on horseback to different courthouses). The judges are appointed by the president, but on recommendation of Texas senators, and the juries are sourced from the local population. The area is known for its plaintiff friendly juries.
If what you say is true, then the initial part of the story (following you as soon as you drove out of the driveway) is profiling. Why would driving around raise a red flag?
What Type Of Job Hopper Are You?
Hah, that is a good point. Of course we need encryption, and we also need to play alpha and beta testers to help find out what works and doesn't. Regardless of politics, there will always be blackhats, so don't take any of that as arguing against using Retroshare, which I like. I just like to stay hungry :)
The main thing that irks me (last I tried it) is that the pkg repo functionality uses add-apt-repo. This makes it not work on Debian (6 was stable at the time) or with any repo that doesn't have a matching src repo.

edit: docs indicate it's still a problem http://www.ansibleworks.com/docs/modules.html/#apt-repositor...
> Doing this with Chef would probably mean chasing down a knife plugin for adding Linode support, and would simply require a full Chef stack (say hello to RabbitMQ, Solr, CouchDB and a gazillion smaller dependencies)

It is throwaway lines line that where you really need to be careful since, no, you don't need to RabbitMQ, solr, couchdb etc. You can just use chef-solo which can also be installed with a one liner (albeit running a remote bash script)

When comparing two products (especially in an obviously biased manner) you need to make sure you are 100% correct. Otherwise you weaken your case and comments like this one turn up.
I don't think this is what's happening here - for either Krrb or Padmapper.

It's important to note that Krrb and Padmapper both make the distinction that they're scraping facts, not posts. One is copyrightable, the other is not.

You can lay claim to the sentence "I have a room in a 2-bedroom apartment for rent in Williamsburg, going for $1500"

But you do not have the right to own the fact that there's a room for rent in Williamsburg, in a 2-bedroom, for $1500. It would seem that Krrb and Padmapper both scrape the facts only, not textual content - or at least, that's what the letter seems to say.

This is a frequent misunderstanding of the Padmapper issue. Padmapper never scraped posts wholesale from Craigslist - it scraped and displayed only structured data (i.e. facts), and in fact if you wanted to contact the seller it links you directly to the Craigslist post!
Here is a simple suggestion to end the lawsuit madness: The loosing party must bear all costs of the process. This is how it works in Germany. Added benefit: The expected value for suing people over the most ridiculous things is suddenly negative.
They are still flying to the Canary Islands to refuel: http://www.flightradar24.com/ (FAB1)

Updated at 14:40 UTC: landed at Las Palmas.
I can think of several historical examples that would seem to definitively disprove this.
Hey Bolivians, in case you are reading this - this should be reason enough to oppose the next western interference in your country whether it's in the name of emancipation, oil or ending a dictatorship.

Just wanted to say this as the west is too good in propaganda. And yes, it's a shame in the name of democracies, UN and world peace. I think we are actually past all that. The subtle moves by the USA and its cronies have been replaced by blunt and obvious bullying.
Any good symmetric encryption algorithm produces data that looks random. You can't tell whether it's just noise or encrypted data.

I'd expect a sane judge to treat cases like these as circumstantial evidence — e.g. the police thinks that random data is really encrypted data, but has no proof. From what I know, it is difficult (though not impossible) to land in jail based on circumstantial evidence.

I guess if you use encryption tools that add unencrypted metadata headers (as in "this is a file encrypted using AES-256 in CBC mode"), then the evidence is stronger.
And Jesus could be interpreted as an alien visitor playing a prank on us primates. Works both ways.
It looks as if he is on the run for shelter now-a-days and there's not a single country thinks he has done a great job keeping with interest to business in the US
Keith Justice, Police Sergeant? awesome.
I agree ... Ansible is awesome.

I'm using a single set of playbooks for my infrastructure with Jenkins to check out changes and push them to production machines. The same infrastructure definitions are used with Vagrant to give each developer an exact copy of the production system.
There's a name for this.

In the long run it's in everyone's best interests to fight this but it's each individual member that risks the damage by losing so it goes on. It's not the group being sued it's just one member.

Maybe everyone should pool resources into an entity to take up defence of anyone. I don't think the legal system allows it though.
We've got a pull request to fix that one up, somewhat in progress - https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/3117.
HTTP is TCP. Or rather, HTTP occurs over HTTP. There's a lot of confusion of terms flying around in this thread. TCP is a transport layer technology. HTTP provides signaling and data transport via TCP (actually, HTTP doesn't care what the transport layer is; e.g., you can do HTTP over IPX/SPX if you'd like). What's really being said is that HTTP is stateless, and stateless HTTP isn't always the best solution.

When you say "an HTTP-based API for some hardware (Hue lights) that could save 98% of its bandwidth using a TCP interface", I really raised an eyebrow. You're already using a TCP interface. I think what you meant to say was that you it could save bandwidth by using a stateful protocol instead of HTTP, or even a custom binary protocol.
gog, I totally agree that the documentation for the Java ecosystem is awful. My theory is that the relevant information for today is lost under 18 years of noise.

What I'd like to see: Java should be renamed with every major version [1], in much the same way Ubuntu, OS X, and Android are named.

[1] http://tiamat.tsotech.com/rename-java