skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've done most of my development on a Mac, but I keep finding many bugs in Apple's OpenCL implementation. Intel's seems to follow the standard most closely, which is useful for keeping me honest.
It has nothing to do with torture. Snowden is, quite reasonably, afraid of going to prison for breaking the law.
> If everyone called it in, there would be a lot of unhappy people holding paper instead of metal.

This actually isn't true. All the physical ETFs claiming to be holding physical gold do actually hold gold for each individual share (in fact thats the only way shares can be created!). It can get confusing because people short it which can make it seem like there are more shares outstanding than there really are. But there is actual physical gold for every true outstanding share of the ETF.

Otherwise, great summary.
>How do you apply that seemingly unassailable stance to something like iPhone/iCloud

A: if you want to keep it secret. How often do people find themselves in once in a lifetime moments that they want to keep secret, and want to take photos of, but only have an iphone with them?

B: iphones are not the only phones with built in cameras. If you care about privacy to that extent, you wouldn't own one.

That said, I agree with you. One example is when Service providers unilaterally change their tos by asserting that continued usage implies consent. This puts too much power in the hands of companies like Facebook, where many users are too embedded not to continue.
Airfare to his next destination and lodging costs as well. One of the articles said that they even paid for his trip out of Hong Kong so I'm not sure how much cash he has on him.
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ahem... the idea that precious metal ETF shares represent more than total known world supply is crackpot. those numbers are pretty well known and not in the same ballpark, and no one would buy ETFs if they weren't pretty confident they had the assets to back them up.
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Only if you want 9000 apps, because then it becomes a question of which of those super narrowly focused apps will work to do what you want to do. An email client that only emails your mother is a good emailing your mother client, but a bad email client. If they take away configuration for people with stepmothers or two mothers, because it's only a 5% use case, it's even a bad emailing your mother client.

If you know your car runs on gasoline, and you don't know the difference between gasoline and diesel, then you see a sign that says "diesel is not gasoline," you know that diesel is not what you're looking for - even though you still don't know the difference.
You seem to think your porn history is the most interesting thing anyone will ever know about you.

I think that's kind of sad.
Why Does Talking About Creepers And Harassment Make People So Angry?
Funny to see an anti-Medium post on a Svbtle blog...
If there were ever a case for a second passport, this is one.

You can get buy one for $135,000. This is what Derek Sivers did. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3944339

https://sivers.org/comfort

http://www.sovereignman.com/lifestyle-design/how-to-obtain-a...
The UDHR is not a law per se, but has likely forms part of the customary international law, and so carries some legal force.
Yep.
Al Franken had a great piece he wrote about this when he was defending the claims of the liberal media and the like being biased against Bush. He went on to explain that most of the media is just an echo chamber, and repackaging a press release is much easier than actually doing work.

A !ton! of "news" is just reposting reposts.
lol it's funny how upset you are about all these.

Maps != search

Google doesn't have a monopoly on quality data when it comes to search.
So, I say it's fake because they silently edited things that might alert people to its legitimacy, and because they didn't offer any proof that it is really from him.

Others think it's real because it is on Wikileaks.

I see both sides of the argument, but I'm staying on my side for now.
I wonder when (if at all) the pendulum swings back and users actively avoid clicking on the ads so much that makes Google scales back the number of ads shown. It's essentially a race to bottom and no matter how big a margins the current winners can make, it's gotta get thinner and thinner everyday.
Try the "sketchy" keyword... is that the infamous Tenderloin that I hear about? (I haven't been to SF before)
So instead of trusting bitcoins ou trust people who take bets on bitcoin price? I don't see this as improvement.
Overseas I used to go to school from 8am to 1pm with 40min classes(and I received much better education). In US I had to sit for over an hour per classs and until 4-5pm. Is this any wonder that kids can't sit from 8 to 4 with very small brakes in between? I didnt learn much in American HS, it was torture most of the day. All I wanted to do was to get my work done and gtfo /go home, but that system made it very difficult to do. In fact, I didnt care much for school as a result.
I'm not really understanding what you're attempting to imply.
Any data scientists on HN? I just ask because I wonder if it would be a good career move for me. Spent 10 years as a programmer and systems analyst. Got real tired of that.
"The Miltz brothers learned the hard way that cheating Reddit doesn’t pay."

Looks like it paid handsomely for a year or more.
Thanks for the detailed reply.

1 & 2. Online advertising simply cannot make up the difference. Even if they OCR the mail to build targeted profiles of each user, a) I doubt it would come close to the kind of targeting that Google, Facebook, etc. are potentially capable of, and b) we're talking about a very large discrepancy in price versus cost.

3. Last mile services are the most expensive part of mail delivery because they cannot take advantage of economies of scale. This is why many times UPS and FedEx pay the USPS to handle last mile delivery. They are already legally obligated to, they have the infrastructure, and it's the most expensive part. UPS and FedEx charge high prices for the cheapest part of delivery (in aggregate) and give the leftovers to the USPS.

4. How?

5. This seems to be their strategy. I've demonstrated why it's unlikely it can work.

6. I get mail most every day, and I suspect I am not an outlier. Given that, giving away an expensive gadget does not seem to make much sense for most users.
And I guess this is the main knock of the OP of Medium. All the features support their brand and not you the take-my-content-for-free blogger.
he's a sheeple like most of america. most of america cares about xbox more than they care about the constitution.
The whole of Reddit is PC. SRS is violently PC.
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Yeah, the whole public BTC order book on MtGox can be had right now for under $2mm USD. The other exchanges are smaller yet.

The market is very loud, but still very tiny. This will change, and it's good to start early, but I agree wholeheartedly that an ETF is premature.

This will not be the case in 12 months, though.

I think the biggest risk to a fund like this is data security. If you have more than 50k bitcoin sitting around, APT doesn't even begin to describe the measures people will take to steal your keys.

Their S1 specifically states that the fund is not holding the Sponsor company (holding the keys) liable should their proprietary Security System fail and the keys get hacked and the coins are stolen unless it was gross negligence.

This is going to be a bumpy ride for those who don't have a deep understanding of security surrounding crypto. Based on some of the technical mis-descriptions in this doc, I am tempted to speculate that they may not have the requisite understanding to fully model the threats they face. Then again, government paperwork takes months, and perhaps this is just an early step and they'll source all of that in the interim. (Hey, tall dudes: I've got 15 years of experience keeping private data away from super-determined hackers and other bad guys, and my email address is jp@eeqj.com! Get in touch!)

The filing says nothing about the details of their proprietary Security System.

Following that, the future of liquidity is a huge unknown void right now. I wouldn't be surprised if at some point in the next 12 months, there are no exchanges on which you could liquidate more than $50-$100k in bitcoin.

It's even difficult right now when everything is nominal - anyone who thinks buying a few million dollars in bitcoin is easy or simple has never even begun to try to do so.
Even tho I'm experienced developer I still had a hard time editing wikipedia articles, because it seems that complexity of markup grows non-linear comparing to growth of article. Good thing they rolling out visual editor.
$20 768Kbps Internet? AT&T “deal” shows sad state of US broadband
Well it seems accurate for Seattle. Tourist is dark red all around the pike place market.
Sure. I'm interested pretty exclusively in the legalisms of this situation, not in the moral dimension (which I don't believe I can learn anything about from a message board).
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Yes, I did read the article in its entirety. Did you?
The author mentions ActiveSync more than once.

*" What I am going to do as a result of this discovery

As of 23 June 2013, I've removed my ActiveSync configuration from the phone, because I can't guarantee that proprietary corporate information isn't being funneled through Motorola's servers. I know that some information (like the name of our ActiveSync server, our domain name, and a few examples of our account-naming conventions) is, but I don't have time to exhaustively test to see what else is being sent their way, or to do that every time the phone updates its configuration.
I've also deleted the IMAP configuration that connected to my personal email, and have installed K-9 Mail as a temporary workaround.
I'm going to figure out how to root this phone and install a "clean" version of Android. That will mean I can't use ActiveSync (my employer doesn't allow rooted phones to connect), which means a major reason I use my phone will disappear, but better that than risk sending their data to Motorola.
I'll assume that other manufacturers and carriers have their own equivalent of this - recall the Carrier IQ revelation from 2011."*

ActiveSync is not only used for "Exchange Server" connections.

Judging by your past comments, you are merely another Microsoft shill who believes that they can do no wrong...
I'll have to see how many posts were submitted between the time dump was collected and now. Otherwise, that dump will be helpful. :)
I'm not arguing right or wrong. Just that yes, in fact, the US has been hurt by this. I want to know why you're jumping to the conclusion that I think this is okay. I never once implied anything of the sort.

If I tattle on the school bully and he gets detention, he has been hurt by me (even though once he catches me I'll be hurt worse).
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From what I've read, one of the Reddit admins is an SRSer, which is why they are untouchable despite their duplicitous behavior.
I have a 6 year old daughter in a Montessori school. After a class observation I noticed the teacher spent a significant portion of her time just dealing with a few rambunctious boys, while all the girls in the class worked quietly.

Afterwards, I asked the teacher why they just didn't separate the boys from the girls, since they were obviously two different species at that age (at all ages?) It seemed to me that a class with only girls in it could learn faster w/o all the silly distractions.

The teacher got quite serious and told me that girls and boys are a form of yin and yang. The classroom dynamic was an absolute necessity to the healthy social upbringing of each.
> I'm of the apparent internet minority (read: most Americans still don't know or care about PRISM/who this guy is) who doesn't care if the government looks at my porn history.

1. PRISM is an apparatus just waiting for another government to use it against the US. Who's to say that Russia, China, etc. haven't been using it to spy on Americans, too? I mean, it's clearly not that hard to get access. Yes - they might not look at your porn history, but perhaps they will use some useful political information against one of your leaders and fuck you up.

2. What would happen if the government was to have a good reason to misuse the information they were gathering. What would happen if a fascist party was to come into power?

3. Calling Assange a horrible person is small-minded. Don't make this about personalities; this is about individual freedom, the right to a transparent government, the constitution your country was founded upon, and human rights.

4. Rather a traitor to the government than a traitor to the principles that made the US what it once was. Unless you want mediocrity...
That whole article that you link to is about the Share with 10 Family Members feature, leading me to conclude that "lending" in that sentence is explicitly physical lending and... you know... from the context directly around it, reselling used games.

>Xbox One will enable new forms of access for families. Up to ten members of your family can log in and play from your shared games library on any Xbox One.

That's a concrete statement from MS and one they made numerous times. And they more or less say "yes, we don't care who the 10 people actually are".

I mean, come on, did we both read the same block of text? It is extremely explicit at the end about being physical lending.
Yes, Manning is being tried under the UCMJ, but would have had a jury available to him there as well. However: Snowden is a civilian. He can't be tried in a military court (absent his joining the armed forces of some organization we're war with).
Poor arguments. While I would agree that Medium's UI/UX is geared towards what you pointed out [i.e. the the "collaborative and almost stumbleupon nature of finding articles], the platform can be controlled at an individual level by the author quite well. It's value lies in it's excellent experience when you're reading an article you've been linked to. The typography, layout and experience at the individual article level are fantastic.

You're first point, lack of analytics, reeks of narcissism.

"Medium demolishes and destroys Blogger and Wordpress.com in design, but the functionality can be improved."

Fucking hell. A testament to what people think design is nowadays. Pretty pictures for all.
"That is why I may delete my Facebook account. And that is why you should too."

We should also do something that you're not even certain you're going to do yourself?
I think courts should be legally obliged to make jurors aware of that fact. Overall, I'm not a huge fan of trial by jury, but the idea that an unjust law (as felt by the general public) can be defeated like that certainly appeals to me.

(I'm not trying to make a point about Snowden's particular case, just speaking in general.)
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Some thoughts about Packer
What was the "extend" part?
What about Dwolla comes across as semi-shady? I ask because I have an account with them, and so far they've treated me well - especially compared to the credit card alternatives.
Why is web/app devlopment responsible for fixing all of society's problems? Most of the problems the author mentioned have more to do with civic education and a politically weak middle class. How many of the smartest engineers are toiling away for Oil companies? Arent't they supposed to be fixing the world with their super powers? 20 something developers are just a lucky bunch, right time and right place, and god bless them for it. If the world could, it would outsource and marginalize their livelihoods, like it has for so many others (and it most likely will at some point, booms and busts). Most are wondering if they'll even be in same career past 40. Seriously, let it go, they really don't have it THAT good.
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I just read about Vagrant, and Ansible last week -- I would love to read the ansible playbooks of folks to see what they are doing with them, and to learn more about how its done.

Ideally, I'd love to find some vagrant scripts and ansible playbooks to bring Amazon ec2 instances up and down and configure them with a standard set of packages.
Interesting to see the Bitcoin value dropping after this announcement. I wonder what is going on there..
It's relatively easy to update the expiry date, since the month doesn't usually change. You just add two years, try the charge, and if it doesn't go through, wait a day and try it again with the next year. This is pretty standard for services with a recurring subscription model, and they don't really need to pay an outside provider for that info (although it would be trivial for any credit agency to provide.)

That said, I'm not sure he can complain that a recurring subscription continued to, well, recur.
So funny that this exists, they're almost self aware, but it's hard to tell http://reddit.com/r/4chan
Assange is an accused rapist. I'd like to see all rapists in prison.
It's funny, when I first saw the slide I assumed that $20mm was the anual fee for other intelligence organisations to gain access to PRISM.
Yes. (You could also verify this by zooming in. :))
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OK. Why did you quit?
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What are the Adobe fonts you're thinking of that are licensed for embedding on websites?
Well, those "segments" include most of the (disgraceful) Italian élite, so uhm. Just watch a political debate: you'll never find one without the making-a-point "vertical-OK" or the please-dont-talk-idiocy "join-hands-in-prayer", be it from Northern or Southern politicians, journalists, pundits, scholars or whatnot.

TBH, one of the effects of living abroad for more than a decade has been, for me, the loss of that smug Northern superiority complex. With all due respect to Giorgio Gaber, any pretence of Northern non-Italian-ness died with the first Berlusconi government.
I suppose the overbearing influence of the San Francisco startup scene doesn't really have that much of an effect on the general HN readership...
Bradley Manning was submitted to sleep deprivation & extreme isolation, both of which are widely regarded as torture by civilized people. Given that it seems reasonable for Snowden to believe he will be tortured on his return to the US and unreasonable for someone to say that he certainly won't be tortured.
Google local listings come from a wide range of sources. It's basically the phone book.
It would be interesting to turn this into an API for use with looking at apartments/hotels, Google Now (and related), etc. as a warning system for people new to an area. (Thinking more in terms of the 'sketchy' warning than the 'hipster' warning here.)
Steve Ballmer email to employees on Don Mattrick transition
The phone from the OP article was released in June of 2011.
Part of Zynga's core problem is that their games are frequently more psycological tweakery than legitimately rewarding or fun.

Gamasutra has an interesting article up about that very subject: http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RaminShokrizade/20130626/1949...
"How can you read that and write that alcohol is the "preferred substance for [promoting] oxidation"? The study says precisely the opposite, hence the title "Ethanol causes acute inhibition of carbohydrate, fat, and protein oxidation and insulin resistance.""

How can you tread what I wrote and add "promoting" in there. That completely changes the meaning of what I said! I meant that alcohol is burned in preference to other carbohydrates first. I'm not clear on the details, but lets face it, the known details of how alcohol is processed isn't enough to indicate that it makes you fat. Which is the very center of my argument, shown to be true by the study I have cited, and which you seem to dance around with anecdotal evidence, and comparisons of joe six pack vs a well trained athlete. Well there are other differences between Joe six pack and an athlete, too. In other words, correlation does not imply causation. Fat people drinking alcohol does not necessarily mean alcohol makes you fat.

The point I was trying to make if there is a correlation between drinking alcohol and living longer, then being suspicious that consumption of alcohol is less healthy then anything else is unwarranted. I was simply refuting your conclusion, that's all, not going for the hook shot of defeating your arguments and asserting another argument at the same time.

How are you sure that the reason that alcohol lengthens life is because of the antioxidants that come along in the beverage that contains it? How do you know which components are promoting health, when it certainly isn't settled scientifically?

Finally, I am not "pretending" when I say that there is no solid evidence one way or another whether eating fish is healthier than drinking alcohol, or vice versa, and there isn't any rational reason to be worried about eating either, or both, in moderation.