skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Terror is NOT their main risk.

If the same money was put in to health, road safety, gun control, and so on, they would be much more secure and safe. Real lives would be saved, not hypothetical ones. But since they are high on terrorist stories fed to them by the terror dealers in government, via their media runners, they will never know that, so their sense of security is utterly false.

PRISM will not save them from the real statistical dangers in any way. It will not ever give them a quiet life.
Written laws are like urls: the content might be bullshit, but they make it easier to refer to it.
Seems to depend on proper skin detection, which can work out of the box if the light is right. Au contraire js-aruco needs preparation, but has some nice 3D capabilities.
This is the radio station: http://www.3fm.nl/ and their website is also fully in Comic Sans
.. to guarantee m < N, m in real world actually is not a message itself, but a key for symmetric encryption of the message
I'm really curious how this will affect their conversion. I'm betting that the traffic from people who want to take a look (because of this comic sans day) isn't that good and people who didn't hear about it will maybe convert worse.
The Green Revolution [1] advanced modern agriculture far beyond any historical antecedents (rumored or documented) that I've ever heard about - but I would be delighted to hear otherwise.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution
Well computer programs are protectable by copyright. I work in this field (at a startup) and I think it may be better if we were allowed to protect engineered DNA sequences with copyright as you suggest. Would be less expensive and faster than patents.

There is actually a company looking to take this idea to court:
http://www.nature.com/news/bioengineers-look-beyond-patents-...

"Last year, the company petitioned for US copyright protection of the DNA sequence for a fluorescent green protein, without success, but has launched an appeal. Its plan, says Christopher Holman, a law professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City who is working with DNA2.0, is to pursue the appeal until the issue is heard in court."

It took a similar case to make software copyrightable:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright#History_in_t...
Google's translation of the abstract is a bit off. It is missing an important sentence.

Translation from Google:

For years, the CDU and CSU have fought for the
retention - now they want nothing more to know.
Under the impact of the NSA spying scandal they
replace the bad word in the election program.

My translation:

Election year in Germany: Horst Seehofer, leader
of the CSU party has devoted himself to data
privacy protection. He is even thinking about moving
away from data detention to fight crimes. Leading
interior politicians from the (much bigger) sister
party (CDU) are irritated.

The fact that many politicians from the bigger sister party is important IMHO. Without the CDU the CSU is just marginally above 5%. Of course it is somewhat surprising to see the CSU announcing this. The CSU is considered more pro surveillance and data retention than the CDU. The CSU can only be voted for in Bavaria. People in Bavaria tend to be more conservative. The CSU get usually more than 50% of the votes in Bavaria. The CDU can be voted for in every other state - except in Bavaria. The CDU and CSU form a "bigger party" and call themselves "Union". It is not seen as a much more volatile coalition between let's say the FDP and CDU/CSU. CDU/CSU win together and loose together.
You got me on the TCP/UDP part. Obviously you don't want to run voice over a (real) TCP stream, so I got that wrong.

I would argue however, that the "feature" of SIP to send the audio over an out-of-band channel has caused me so much misery over time that I wish it didn't exist. I have managed a VOIP provider and at the edge we terminated SIP, terminated the audio on the incoming system, where it was sent to a central "cluster" for routing, and then terminated again on the outbound. Yes this "wastes" bandwidth, both on the (internal) network and memory/cpu bandwidth too. How much ? Well, about 3*48 kbit per call, on a 10Gbe network. And the machines were needed anyway : inbound customer lines termination needed 2 machines for redundancy. The routing "cluster" needed to be 2 machines so as to be separate from the inbounds (due to much more complicated configs), and again 2 for redundancy in different datacenters (and then 4, and 8 when customer base grew). And the upstream (towards providers) machines weren't even machines, but routers. Again doubled for redundancy.

We didn't actually run IAX (mostly because the routers didn't support it), so I do not know much about it. We explicitly avoided using the out-of-band audio feature, and we knew why. It's savings are negligeable, and there's no end to the trouble it causes in operations.
For SlideShare lovers, you have http://shirsenduk.github.io/SlideShareHandsFree/
I've bought tons of books via Alibris, they're great. (Especially if you're looking for an out-of-print title -- I've found books that were completely unbuyable via Amazon and B&N on Alibris, and they were even reasonably priced.)
There's a bit of confusion on the slides. Mixing up getUserMedia with WebRTC.
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Fine, then we can close all EU bases, save a ton of money and you can defend your own shipping routes, I'm sure you will be fine.
How Amusing: Now Boston University's Suing Apple, Google, Amazon and Samsung
> "you really need to get your fast heartrate down, if it's not a medical issue then you need serious psychological help",

... then ...

> 1. I went on antidepressants (lexapro), this is not the first time I've been on them and despite HNsers who think they're bunk, it's pretty obvious they have a positive effect

Unwarranted anxiety is a common symptom of depression. The doctor was right, you needed psych treatment.
http://www.hosteurope.de/Server/Virtual-Server/

Unfortunately their website seems to be only available in German. I run several services on their VPS and root servers and have not experienced a major problem yet.
"Every time I write something that involves some crypto I get absolutely terrified of what I'm likely to mess up."

Good!

" For that reason I almost always use an existing system or protocol."

Excellent! If only every was like you we wouldn't have these problems.

The key to understanding this is to understand that cryptography is not 'writing some crypto code'. No part of cryptography has anything to do with the code. Cryptography is about math - feel free to do some cryptography math and work on a mathematical algorithm. Once you have a perfect algorithm that has been peer reviewed, then you can transcribe that mathematical algorithm into code.

Failing to understand the math first means you have already failed and simply should not have even begun.

Cryptography: math first, code later. Failure to follow this sequence means you will be ridiculed and any excuse is simply not good enough.
This is a really good idea. We already buy in site licences for the Uncle Bob series (kinda comparable idea for programmers), i imagine many other places are the same. This model works quite well.
Also, the collection has to be implemented by each communication company itself (as opposed to by the police or secret service), so no central storage of data and no easy data-mining and network-building across the data sets of indviduals.

And you have all the usual data protection rights like requesting a full copy of all stored data from each company. In theory you should also always be informed afterwards when your data was retrieved due to a warrant.

That said, I'm still very much against this kind of data collection. Data protection starts at data parsimony. And you never know who'll have access and who watches the watchers etc.
They're not mutually exclusive. I was ADHD diagnosed, but I'm also lazy. Even medication didn't make me less lazy. But then I became a Haskell programmer, and now "laziness is a virtue."

edit: Not making light of ADHD or my own struggles. Medication and self-awareness helped me improve from a B/C student into an A student. But I do find that as an adult I'm able to function without medication because instead of constant studying for tests I'm constantly learning and applying my knowledge.
I don't agree with the death penalty as I see it as an easy way out. What sounds like a better option to you:

* Spending the rest of your life in solidarity with terrible food and no entertainment
* Death
Yes. Privacy policies are absolutely a top consideration for most voters.

Definitely not jobs, minimum wage or the perilous state of the EU countries.
Thank you for playing!

We made it for a Ludum Dare contest http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-23/?action=preview... which has a 72 hour deadline and we simply didn't have time to finish it, basically. So theres lots of started plot twists which don't get used or go anywhere, e.g. we added the NPCs but didn't get a working conversation system in there.

There are plenty of surprising problems in making this game; here's a write-up: http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/21865366869/how-t...

Thx again for playing! You might like some of our other LD entries: http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/author/william_edwards/
Bitsy: Technical co-founders seek entrepreneur competition
But companies such as IBM have a longer time span.
In America we call this social phobia.
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How to create a business to consumer marketplace?
Hello guys,

I from a small country(Austria), where a lot of potential is for new startups. A lot of marketplaces which are created in the US and become successfull there are not even thought about here or are created years later.

I plan to focus my startup expertise on the creation of business to consumer marketplaces because I see a huge potential here.

However, I am completely unsure where to start? Should I just bring another US startup to europe? Should I exploit my own niche?(How to find the profitable niche?)

I really appreciate your answer!
Mandatory link to the epic "I’m Comic Sans, Asshole." published on McSweeney's: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-comic-sans-asshole

A fine day for Comic Sans to say "Enough of this bullshit. I’m gonna go get hammered with Papyrus." Happy Comic Sans Day everybody!
A pity that Digital Ocean is a US corp. It means that they can be subpoenaed. Their pricing is awesome. Corporate location is bad.
Why we don't hold your hand
Outing himself so publicly was one of the worst things Snowden could have done. Doing so before he was already in a country which had guaranteed him political asylum was just idiotic.

A leak like that one really didn't need the figure-head that the identity of the leaker would provide, and given who he was angering it was only going to make his life painful.

A good leak through the right channels doesn't need to be backed by anything. All it needs to do is get the right questions asked to the right people, publicly. If the outlet the leak comes through is trusted enough, it doesn't need the figure head, and it certainly doesn't need a figurehead holed up in an airport in Russia.
Also this scrollmation pages load very slowly.
Thank you for being the voice of reason. It's so easy to get confused, too, because "crypto code" is indistinguishable from "other code", but the implications are much greater. You don't need to peer review a IRC library, but you _need_ to peer review cryptography.

That's just how it is, and if I had to highlight one sentence from your comment it would be "Failing to understand the math first means you have already failed and simply should not have even begun."

I wish people would understand this instead of thinking trial and error works for cryptography. I mean, heck, most of us learned to code through trial and error, and I can understand why people think they can learn cryptography the same way, but that is not true, and a very toxic mindset.
I think there's an undercurrent that might be too difficult for Doug to have expressed openly. The thing that must be understood is the idea that "The Demo" was the culmination, the pinnacle, of years of hard work. Visionary work. Work that was not just hard on its own (imagine writing that software without the modern languages and tooling we have today, let alone trying to get it to run on such primitive devices) but which was also likely a very aggravating trial in terms of interactions with others and with the bureaucracies he had to face.

Unfortunately for Doug instead of "The Demo" being the end of such struggles and the opening of a door to the payoff for his work it was the beginning of an even larger struggle. Indeed, if anything it was even the preparation prior to that beginning. And the industry was not in the mood to listen at the time, generally speaking.

Sure he could have found other work, but most folks only have so much fruitless struggle in them, and he might have been at the end of his capacity, and sought instead a more comfortable and easy life, letting his legacy bear fruit on its own as it would or not.

It did bear fruit, of course, though it's telling that even when a major Fortune 500 company, Xerox, attempted to build something revolutionary with a lot of inspiration from his work, the Alto, it still missed the mark, partly because the company was clueless and not very committed to the idea. And that was a mere 5 years later. It took several additional false starts and a decade of additional work for many of those ideas to actually become practical and commercially viable (in, for example, the Apple Macintosh).

It also required the inception and maturation of an entire new industry, not just the microcomputer industry but "startup culture" and the silicon valley way of doing business, to create the sort of environment where revolutionary ideas such as Doug's could find willing listeners and folks willing to take such ideas to heart in the making of new types of computing systems.

In a not insignificant way Doug was responsible for the blooming of silicon valley and of startup culture itself even though his contributions came too early for him to receive an easy payoff. The irony, of course, is that today a "demo" similar to Doug's in today's world is often a quick route to substantial funding or even acquisition. There are lots of tech startups out there today who have far less substance, both in terms of functionality and man-hours, behind their business than went into "The Demo" and are swimming in tens of millions of dollars of VC funding.
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I've closed websites with nothing but a video on the landing page because I didn't want to wait for a video to load. This landing page, on the other hand, is the best product presentation I've ever seen. It's simple and clear and doesn't have boring narration to waste my time.
Most trade of European countries is internal to Europe, and the few relevant external trading partners are the US (no pirates in the Atlantic…apart from Iceland, maybe ;)), Russia, China and Japan.

Of course the problem of pirates around Somalia is an actual problem, but not one requiring the ‘defence of the EU’ by the US. Similarly, while Russia might not be too fond of an expanding EU, a lot has to happen for Russian tanks to roll west and threaten the largest customers of their oil and gas.

And if all else fails, the ‘Grande Nation’ is still a nuclear power quite capable of defending itself and its close economical allies, even if the guys across the channel would rather become the 51st state of the US.
No need to be snarky. I wasn't actually suggesting they change the name.

I was just trying to explain where the right to privacy comes from. It surprises most Americans that it isn't explicitly enumerated and is built up from several different amendments. That also means that it is far from universally agreed upon by legal scholars. It is also the reason that people push for a privacy amendment.
Exactly. For someone who's just starting with A/B testing, this serves as a good/interesting introduction. But for someone who really wants to understand the detailed behind-the-scenes, this will obviously fall short.

Coming to your suggestion, do you have a good book/website in mind?
This might be a feature rather than a drawback of the iPad but the Comic Sans font isn't rendering in Chrome.
With the proliferation of patents and the marketing blitz by these companies, we'll have only a handful of varieties that are sterile. There will be no new varieties coming out of natural cross pollination because we are left with sterile patented varieties.

That makes sense. But it only seems to apply to species that have already been thoroughly reshaped by humanity (pets, food and similar). Not what you normally think of when someone goes crying about biodiversity. To me it just seems like a more efficient/adapted successor generation to our current designed species.

Exactly. The viruses, bacteria and pests are evolving naturally; they are increasing their resistance to the existing pesticides. With the sterile varieties, there is no evolution, no adaptation to the changing environmental conditions and the changing pests.

Yes, and with biotech we're able to adapt these design-species much faster than 'natural' evolution ever could.
I agree with you but an honest and insightful comment (in my opinion) didn't deserve to get downvoted to gray. I thought that was reserved for crazies and trolls, not people expressing a self-evident position.

The fact that the priorities of most people are not necessarily aligned with reality isn't the fault of someone explaining the status quo. This gets missed, I think sometimes, in these discussions.
Compare and contrast HN, where anyone who doesn't own a significant chunk of the company that employs them is looked down upon.
I think that's a bit of confirmation bias. Most healthy people who start becoming shut-ins get a bunch of chaotic interventions and ultimatums from family, so most of the people that you know of that ended up doing better after being shut-ins did so after a bunch of interventions.

I feel that I've been like this at many times in my life, and it was only when people left me alone and just helped me by actually helping me that I got better. Sometimes I just need people to make sure that I eat, that I don't worry too much, and that I feel that there's a reason not to sleep all day. That people think that the only constructive help is an attacking kind of help, a kind of forceful removal of all supports to make the boat choose to float or sink, I think is a weird cultural thing.

What if the boat has a hole in it? You might want to work on repairing that hole before removing the supports. It's telling that the usual metaphor for describing the ultimatum being given by the people who practice these aggressive interventions is "Sink or Swim." Don't be either too lazy to swim or too stupid to figure out how to swim. A boat with a hole in it, you coddle and fix. You can't incentivize a boat to be fixed, you fix it. Would you torture the flu out of people? Give people enough motivation by torture that they would force their immune system to attack the flu that much harder?

Middle class people used to be sent to sanitariums when they locked themselves in rooms and stopped bathing - to rest out in a peaceful environment, in some fresh mountain/desert/forest air. Working people got sent to sanatoriums with cinder-block walls, and only after they actually fell physically sick. Has our society gotten productive and wealthy enough that we can bring back sanitariums?
Recombination occurs very time a new sex cell is produced during the crossing over event, Dawkins dispels the random mutation as the only means of genetic shift very early in his book "The Selfish Gene" as the crossing over process can split chromosomes mid-gene for longer, more complex DNA sequences.
> Never ever share your login credentials with a third-party.

It uses Google's OAuth; the site never sees your password

> Why is this a web app?

Because it's for the average user, and people who don't have time or skill to export their data, research graph formats, then write some ETL to get it into that format, then download Gephi to view it. It makes great sense as a webapp.

> You can do this yourself

You're completely missing the point
US FDA shut down 1677 illegal pharmacy web sites last month
You think so? He sure seems to be getting a lot of media and people on their toes waiting to see if the big bad U.S. government catches him or not - and then what will follow if a country does give him asylum?
Trust me, laziness is a real thing; even when everything in the world points towards doing the work being the best thing for you, you just can't be bothered.
Facebook is depressing to people like me precisely because it allows you to compare your lowlights tto an endless stream of others' highlights.
Certainly not a clever innuendo. Looks more like an oversight. There isn't much awareness about Star of David in India.

It is the easiest star to sketch -- even my teacher in elementary school used to use the same star in my grading.
If we use upvotes to signal agreement, then it is only natural that people use downvotes to signal disagreement. I don't have a link for it right now, but pg has say that as much is expected.
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I think it may be better if we were allowed to protect engineered DNA sequences with copyright as you suggest.

Aren't patents at least not applicable to non-commercial uses? Using copyright seems even worse.

I'm against any legal protection of any DNA sequence. This seems like the sort of thing that doesn't just have the potential to greatly stifle innovation but also to take on a very dystopian shape…
for my purposes, this isn't a priority. If I do get around to setting up my own mailserver, then I'll care (although I'll probably just use an old box sat in my living room, or a raspberry pi - I don't get that much mail.)
If you are from India, you might want to see this.
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There's a good reason. Two of them, actually.

This particular animation in a video format would take 10 seconds of running time. It would also take few seconds to load and initialize whatever video playing widget it'd be using. That would make it for an oddly short video and one of those "What? That's it?" situations. So it simply wouldn't work as the only content on the page. OTOH, if you present it as an interactive animation, it will take users longer to work their way through it and so it would feel more substantial.

Secondary reason is that it makes the page more memorable and helps it stick in more people's heads than some yet another embedded video. The goal of the page is to engage people. This is the reason why you'd want to have things presented rather than just thrown on a page in black and white Times New Roman / 12px. You want your page to engage and clicking on Play Video is not engagement, it's a reflex. So by forcing visitors to do something out of their routine the page, effectively, makes them to pay more attention than usual.
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That's the side-show distraction from the actual leak.

Yeah, people are talking about him. That would be fantastic if he was in it for his own personal gain, but he tried to tell the people of the US that their government was over-stepping the line. Being the story is not helping the story he tried to tell.
>Old Europe to become Bold Europe.

The country most likely to lead any such move would be Germany; Germans are today extremely well-inoculated against disingenuous reassurances by governments.
I've updated the sentence related to this part on my blog post to: "choose your license carefully", pointing to this comments thread
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