skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, you will inevitably tell yourself "I'll stick to it next time; this idea just isn't good enough." The worst part is that the thinking behind this is (partially) correct; if you spend years working on a stupid idea, you won't always be able to build something successful through sheer effort.
NSA docs boast: Now we can wiretap Skype video calls
The good news is I suspect the people able and motivated to make real contributions to our field aren't too worried about Internet points.

At least, I hope that's the case, because the Internet seems to reward easy to understand and seemingly witty over real contribution. It happens even when we're talking about actual code—I can't count the number of "X, but in JavaScript! (Because I ran X through Emscripten, which anyone could've done, but hey! I published the output first!)" projects I've seen on the front page here.

At least the person who actually wrote Emscripten got a few Internet points for the effort too.

It's worth remembering though that to some people some things matter more than money. Internet points are a cheapened version of peer recognition, and as such they might matter to some more than they logically should.
I think the real implications of Plug or a similar system are actually in the VRM vendor rights management and API's, not in the media play features.

We really need to wake up and realize that having all of our connected devices reliant on 3rd party servers will not scale.

I want to see this device have babies with another crowdfunded project BRCK http://brck.com/ for backup connectivity, power, and mesh networking.
Just to help me better understand what you're saying, can you give an example of a program that's very popular, and which has bad effects?
Looks like you can just download the client software for free and do the home PC/Router approach without having to use a plug: http://www.tonido.com/tonidodesktop_pricing/
The big issue with not previously including WebGL support was glaring security issues right? Doesn't WebGL essentially use root access to your gpu?
I think the main problem with this argument that software is eating everything and automation is replacing jobs is that it imagines the world as it is today, with the current set of jobs as fixed. Lest we forget a time when all goods were physical and there were no digital goods. The extent of what can be consumed by technology does have limits. But more than that, we as a society become wealthier, not poorer, when things become faster, cheaper, and easier to produce.

There was a time when people spent nearly half their income on food because food production was an incredibly inefficient process. Eventually much of food processing became automated and advances made it much more plentiful. What had a larger impact on the economy? The millions of people no longer needing to spend valuable time producing food, or the fact that people now had much more disposable income to spend on other things?
I look forward to the day when code reviewing a pull request with a significant number of commits across a significant number of files is possible for a human. The top/bottom diff format may be useful for machines, but it's terrible for understanding what actually changed. It'd also be nice if there was some facility for stepping through versions of a given file.
I'm not understanding how these two things are different for the purposes of this discussion:

- The government asks for data on an ad hoc basis, and 3rd party providers trip over themselves in an effort to comply.

- The government gets a firehose of data for all customers of 3rd party providers.

It doesn't matter of the NSA is data-mining your SkyDrive, or the the local sheriff's office gets your SkyDrive data by just asking (i.e. without a warrant). Either way, your data is less secure when it's stored with a 3rd party provider than it is if you keep it in your own home.

When it's in your own home, law enforcement needs a warrant, and spy agencies need to physically send someone to bug your home. Either way, the bar has been raised to getting access to your data, so at the very least they will only access your data if there is a real reason to, and there will be some amount of oversight[1].

[1] Maybe not external on the spy agency side, but presumably orders to send people in to bug a home get more scrutiny, if for no other reason than the fact that it costs more.
The book: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bell_Curve

Reading the summary at the top of the Wiki entry, it's already not surprising the book has been labeled racist. Any book that discusses race, inheritance, and socioeconomic class always gets called racist.
Actually considering the source of any article can add a great deal to the conversation.

Opposing viewpoints, media bias (intentional or not), nationalist issues etc.
Well, you shouldn't be happy.

What will most likely happen is that SOME of those people will be able to get a job at a "responsible employer" but large numbers will become more destitute because of this decision.

Guess what: CostCo et al employ FEWER people per dollar people spend in the store, which is why they can afford the higher salaries. They do not somehow magically generate money out of thin air and hand it to their employees out of the goodness of their heart.
Pretty dishonest. They claim you have to manually copy files to and from DropBox, but I've always just used the auto-sync feature. The only files I generate not in my DropBox are the ones in source control.
Yeah, I've dealt with those ones too (a good friend came back from his mission very different -- took him a while to chill out about it).

Generally, I have found them about as pushy as vegetarians.

EDIT: I know some real a$$hole vegetarians.
Would you think it a wise idea to offer any form of training to an active member of the Nazi regime?
For a long time I was adding aliases to .ssh/config manually and managing things that way but a coworker introduced me to a couple of tools which made things much easier!

One is a tool similar to Shuttle to access all our EC2 instances called Elastics[1] (Mac). It provides a menu listing every EC2 instance, showing it's status, IPs, config details, cpu usage, etc and allows you to click to open SSH. It's not perfect but very handy!

I also use an in-house tool which queries the EC2 API to sync my .ssh/config with aliases for every server based on EC2 tags. If you're interested it's built with node.js using awssum [2] to query AWS and sshconf-upsert [3] to update the config.

[1] http://tundrabot.com/

[2] https://github.com/awssum/awssum

[2] https://github.com/hughsk/sshconf-upsert
If you haven't seen the Binney video made in 2012 by the same author that made the Snowden video, first note the date the video was published, then watch it.

Then try to identify the claims already public to those that watched the video then which most of us first became aware of just now by following the story about Snowden.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/opinion/the-national-secur...

For me it starts around 3:20. A lot of it was presented before Snowden but almost nobody noticed.
home mortgage interest deduction?
> When I realize, after reading these stories, that I read them on "RussiaToday" I always feel a bit sad.

Why?

> "the best Russian propaganda machine targeted at the outside world"

I trust RT with issues outside Russia's geopolitical influence. See they have it easy then, they don't have to lie. Just have to tell the truth that CNN and NBC are not telling. So they are pretty good with that. Al-Jazeera is good for news outside Qatar and its close neighbors and so on.
I think you're right on the money: http://www.tonidoplug.com/
Somewhat splitting hairs... it's adjusted to 10 minute blocks, and there's also a huge variability in how frequently they are discovered. Even if the average was 10 min, there are blocks found within the same minute, or with 30+ minute gaps.
Anonymous Person Posts $500,000 Bail For Justin Carter
i can confirm this.
I just talked to XMission's chat representative. They support Ubuntu! I'm switching over soon.
The marketing language MS used in http://www.scroogled.com/ - "YOUR PRIVACY IS OUR PRIORITY" - seems pretty amusing now.
It definitely works with recent Chrome versions. I use this daily to check my professional webmail on an Android 4.2.2. Once you have provisioned a PKCS#12 into your keystore, open Chrome onto an HTTPS web site that requires certificates from your issuer and the certificate choice dialog pops up.
You've just pretty much described the motivation for core.matrix: it's an API that wraps various other back end vector/matrix libraries (including JBlas etc.) with a nice, standard Clojure API.
Silk Worm Based 3D Printer
He didn't say these policies were bad, just that they were consistent. They're only bad if you disagree with them.
I had Xmission in Utah. They were a great ISP to boot. I miss them.
The avalon chips the author is describing in the article are 110nm I believe.
"Another neat trick: the Lumia 1020 actually creates two images every time you press the camera button in Nokia Pro Camera—a super high-res version for editing and archiving, and an oversampled 5-megapixel copy for easy sharing via email or social networks such as Twitter and Facebook."
GOP Platform: "I've got mine, f* you."
Awesome. I was thinking the other day that an automated kitchen should be entirely possible.

You buy groceries, place them in their designated slots in the fridge. Robot arms know which slots hold each ingredient, and can measure and cut appropriately (using scale, food processor, and maybe some other specialized cutting appliance for trickier items). Stove top is easy to control and pans are all lined up for the robot arms to repeatedly grab. Most recipes could fit within this somewhat limited set of "building blocks" that the kitchen robot could easily perform: measure 8 oz of tomatoe, dice onion, boil pasta, slice chicken breast into strips, pour 2 oz of oil on pan, etc. The hardest part might be washing the dishes.. Heh
They wouldn't be spearheading an anti-Google campaign against their strategy if they also wanted to do the same thing.
This seems like it could appeal to a lot of people right now. As seen by DuckDuckGo's recent spike in use, a lot of "regular" internet users are more concerned with privacy. People could use this as a "private" Dropbox that is still easy to use.
These news are important here, but we have to be careful not to associate concepts like "freedom of speech" and "example of democracy" with countries like Unites States of America, given the actual situation the people there live under I am not sure we can say United States of America holds human rights in the highest regard in my opinion.

Is it frightening to you that this also makes sense? So I guess we'll have to get all our news from Wikileaks from now on.
Clojure uses a unified compare test, sometimes called equiv. I think its passed on this paper, http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.23.9...
If the feds can get air traffic controllers in other countries around the world to down the Bolivian President's jet... I don't think they'd have any trouble getting into DefCon if they really wanted to.
"Sorry, we're stuck with Python 2.3.7 and collections isn't part of the standard library."
The original claim was electronic copies more expensive than HARD covers. I would cheerfully pay a little for an ebook over a paperback.
Oh wow, I feel so sorry for anybody who has backed this. The promises they make are simply technically impossible on devices such as iPads and iPhones. They also don't say they have actually done anything in that area either, only that they have a prototype for Win/Linux/Mac desktop - probably an unpolished clone of Dropbox.
> What is a soul?

Soul, noun: social construct developed over millenia for purposes of group identification, specifically religious; sometimes used for political (crusades, justification of kings), even economical (selling of indulgences' scandal, the Protestant Ethic) purposes. This project didn't at the end obtain as much credibility as other (better built, with more interesting purposes) social constructs such as physics or mathematics; though not for lack of trying, from Plato to Kant and similar scholastics.

Now seriously, some terms are very ridiculously loaded, and IMO should be avoided in science. If you want to talk about a "feedback loop" that generates consciousness, go on, be my guest. Now, calling it "soul"... that's just openly inviting every faith in the world to, at best, hijack your theory with pious, well-meaning BS.
@fixxer - either the pushy LDS members you know are much more chill than the ones I know, or the vegetarians are much more militaristic! :-)
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Google isn't above doing things that harm people to make them more money. Like the steadily decreasing background contrast and lack of borders separating ads from search results. Older people are far less cognizant of borders and thus would click on ads thinking they're search results.

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/01/31/is-google-intentional...

They recently got rapped by the FTC for it.

http://wallstcheatsheet.com/stocks/ftc-googles-ad-practice-i...

The difference is that the negative Microsoft news tends to float on top of sites like HN more than positive news, and the reverse is true for Google so this alters perceptions of people.
I get what you are saying, but my comment here got up voted, and it isn't really useful. Whereas some more thoughtful but critical comments in my comment history got down voted.

It makes no sense... oh, and criticize Apple and prepare to whatch your karma disappear.
ClassiFly: crowd-sourced fly neuron clustering
Google Databoard: A new way to explore industry research
My parents still use a microwave they bought before I was born (I'm 28), and it does exactly this, except without the power dial. It's one analog dial for time -- turn it to start, turn it back to zero to stop. I miss having it around.
"Life" - An innovative tactile comic for the blind
“Life” is a touch comic made for both blind and sighted people, I think that this is a beautiful innovation. Indeed, “Life” is an experience that crosses the boundaries between the genres of media making them accessible to all. A beautiful experiment to discover in the future.
I think you might be reading into my words a bit too far. The Mafia is not a legal employer. Requiring someone to have a legal employer in order to buy a legal weapon makes sense. (Perhaps. Maybe it makes sense for them not to have an illegal employer.) At any rate the Mafia do not generally buy legal weapons. As for not letting somebody buy me a drink, that's not exactly organizational discrimination - it's more like personal discrimination - but not letting a certain class of individuals enter a bar based on their legal employment is. Personal discrimination is a lot murkier, and everyone does it to some degree.

I know that I didn't make the distinction between legal and illegal until later on, so maybe you didn't see it.
Hey there, I am Suhail -- one of the founders of Mixpanel.

It's true that they are. We tried to find (though we've not gone public about it yet) people to be at DDC that helped inspire us to build Mixpanel in the first place and people who are doing really interesting things with analytics today. We tried hard to focus on the content rather than just the pure celebrity of people at the event. Stay tuned.
I believe the problem lies in where exactly do you get the money for BI? Who pays to provide it for millions of people - obviously you can't tax the BI itself, so what's left is the rich and corporations, which incidentally are the ruling class at the moment and will most likely oppose BI.

Also, health care will still need to be covered separately.

BI is a great concept, and I hope some country will make it work, but it's not going to be the US, that's for sure.
Many people, including me, expect to see unemployment rise from the current 10% to an eventual 100% over the next 50 years.
If you allow me a humble suggestion as a customer, you should use this as inspiration to rethink your product pages:

the new, Ultimate low-power, low-cost home, small
business server and NAS powered by Tonido platform

versus

Plug makes your computer bigger.
Make all your devices one.

These guys do have a slightly above healthy amount of fantasy in their copy, but it's a much easier sale.
Do you think he wants to be scrubbing toilets for a subsistence wage?

Thanks for proving my point. No, I highly doubt he wants to scrub a toilet for a subsistence wage. I think a janitorial job would go empty for a long, long time. So now, instead of me focusing on my job, I have to take time out of my day to do something I'd pay someone for.

It would be better if you get your basic livable wage but still have to work (exceptions made for childcare, students, disability, etc.) and depending on the job you get what the market deems as extra. So, if you get $20k per year as a livable wage (figure just chosen for easier math) and a job would've paid $25k, you get the $5k difference in your paycheck. This would help keep the low-interest, but easy, jobs staffed.
> This is part of the reason why a 16MP SLR and a 16MP point-and-shoot have vastly different image qualities.

I'm sure the fact that the SLR's sensor is physically sixteen times larger has nothing to do with it...

As I said above, MP is just one way to measure a sensor's performance characteristics, and they have kind of ignored some others (dynamic range in particular).

I'm not sure I follow your argument about "light behaving differently as pixels get smaller." I'm not even sure if that argument has scientific merit.
Give it some time, clarify what exactly you're contributing. Then, if you want a clear conscious, work towards it in a practical way. Be as innocent as a dove, as sly as a fox!

That is, you don't need to quit your only mildly, indirectly enabling job right this instance, throwing your family into financial difficulties. But, you do need to work towards untangling yourself as much as your conscious demands.
> Can you elaborate over what you find so wrong with that?
reply?

I would, if I could find any content in it. Still searching...
it usually just says "offline map not available for this region", or something like that.
Read it the right way. The described behavior is the right thing to do, brave and patriotic. But two things will happen here:

1. It will not be forgotten. The behavior to resist those warrants will result probably in imprisonment, and in every case it will be made sure he doesn't get more power. Source is that case: http://www.atlassociety.org/brc/blog/2013/06/10/was-telecom-...

2. The data is accessed anyway, the suggested way of doing that as far as was disclosed to infiltrate the company, either by using a mole or a backdoor (sure, both is possible). At least that would happen if it were an ISP outside of the USA, I don't believe they make that distinction anymore.
Did they stop updating this almost 4 months ago after day 4?
...by doing what, specifically?
I like the idea of the state stepping in as the union of last resort. Thanks for the detail.
vectorz-clj has sparse vector support.... it's bit of an hidden feature at the moment (you'll have to use Java interop to instantiate a SparseIndexedVector) but it works and is pretty fast for many operations.
Is that the sparrow logo in one of the screenshots? ...
But that curve will start going downwards as soon as machines can fully replace people and most countries start using said machines.

It's kind of like slavery - you could have 1000 working citizens do the work of 50,000 people (because slaves were basically "free labor", like a robotic arm is nowadays)... Except slavery went away (thankfully), and automation will not (hopefully)...
This is my biggest concern with the idea, which I don't see being addressed (checked the entire conversation on this post to date). I don't think having the vote and having the basic income is compatible with each other. Why aren't people going to vote themselves larger basic incomes every year? How can you both have the (modern conception of the) vote, and a basic income at the same time?

Attempts to answer this question also need to deal with human beings as they are, not as they could be if we were all just really good and pure and all motivated by selfless interest only in the good of humanity as a whole or something, because presumably this is being proposed as a real policy for real people and not some fantasyland.

(Also, I do not consider "well we already have some programs like that today" to be a defense... I'm not entirely convinced that's just going to turn out peachy keen in the end either. I'm personally pretty convinced we've already passed a threshold at which a significant chunk of our government is actively pursuing government dependency as a conscious policy, and that's not going to end well either, as the same mechanics take sway... there is always a reason to grow benefits, it's always evil to cut them, and there's no feasible way to bound the growth of promised benefits to real growth, other than the really, really hard one of simply running out of resources.)

While this is a criticism of mine, and I am not trying to hide my general skepticism as seen in my second paragraph, I am posting this also in a genuine spirit of inquiry about what answers to this question may have been developed. I acknowledge the problems the BI idea is trying to solve, and I acknowledge that I have no answers (including, alas, BI, unless someone can convince me here).
Most type systems in statically typed languages can't make that guarantee. For example I can use Java reflection to call a method, change the method's parameters, and my code will only fail at runtime.
He wrote a book arguing the black people, as a race, are less intelligent than white people.
Agreed if you configure your HTTPS server to accept certificates from any issuer. But if you restrict it to a smaller list of CAs, users are only prompted to choose among their certificates matching those CAs.
if you were Steve Ballmer, would you take that risk?

They don't seem to mind taking risks when it comes to questionable tax deductions.

They certainly could prosecute you for

But they wouldn't. The type of activity the government is engaged in only works when people are passive.

if you're served a lawful court order, you either obey it or risk the consequences, up to and including time in jail.

When was the last time anyone of stature went to jail for defending the public against the government?
What does the average "30Mbps" mean in the specifications? Is that the max it can write to a connected drive? Read speed from a drive? Average transfer speed over the network? If yes to any of the above, then isn't this quite slow for anything other than a few small pics and documents?
Russia Today is the equivalent of Fox News in America. Keep that bias in mind as you browse their other articles and videos.

Russia Today is exceptionally critical of American politics, and their international video newscasts are pretty much dead center criticisms of America. They barely mention Russian affairs, if at all. Whenever I catch a glimpse of them on MHz WorldView I have to change the channel.
That would be awesome. I'd print off a turbocharger, exhaust manifold, high spec pistons and conrods. I hate having to pay the ridiculous prices for custom made manifolds!
>Why?

Because it looks like an instrumental use of these events.

> "the best Russian propaganda machine targeted at the outside world" I trust RT with issues outside Russia's geopolitical influence, they don't have to lie.

The problem with propaganda is that they don't only emphasize the desired facts, they even blatantly twist some of them.
You are right. They have done a great job on the copy.
The term 'speculation' implies a mechanism unknown/unproposed. 'Known mechanism' is again shorthand for 'palatable.'