skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, I see a falling dollar in the world market which is reinvigorating the US Manufacturing industry. As China's middle class grows, they become impatient with China's loose policy of eradicating their own currency to promote local jobs. The Chinese middle class has begun to rise, and with it, the cost of production in China.

In the US, the weaker economy has hurt the US Dollar, making manufacturing cheaper again in the US. So for the first time in over a decade, Apple Computers is building a US Factory.
Technically they didn't lie, they said they complied to the court orders. I'd say our real worry should be the secret orders and what they demand, not the companies that obey to them? But what's really true is that companies' "denials" were carefully crafted to give the impression that there isn't any API-level access, even if they didn't claim that, and now we have more confirmations that they give it that way and I'm sure Google isn't different in that aspect.

Also note that the "official client" is FBI, so MS can claim they don't know that NSA accesses the data of US citizens. But that "there will be more interagency sharing and cooperation" was publicly announced by G W Bush soon after 9/11.
I agree with your comment about 2 and 3 being different languages, but to be fair, Ruby and Perl don't share one set of libraries/extensions that may work on both, yet may work on only one. I don't find the jQuery/Mootools comparison relevant because neither of them are (or even claim to be) languages of their own.
If you'd like to share your code, I'm a functional programmer at heart and am always looking for optimization opportunities for functional-style programming in C#. If you send me some of the code you were having trouble with I can see if your use case maps well into some compiler optimization strategies.
As amazing as the 777 is, the 787 seems to be even better (and there's talk of updating the 777 with 787 technology).

I really hope next time they go shopping for Air Force One they take budget into consideration, and the end of the cold war, and ETOPS, and seriously consider a twin engine (ideally a 787 with a reduction in passengers, but probably they'd go with a 777 and continue taking way too many people.) Outside of cargo and the military, four engine passenger jets seem to be a dying species. (and obviously the A380 and other airbus products aren't in the running for AF1. I still haven't gotten a chance to fly on an A380.)
The interesting conflict to me is that Google et al don't appear to be fighting this battle. When it comes to other things, they are in the streets, funding lobbyists, building protest websites, and so on. But this, which threatens their entire business model (essentially trust-based), they haven't made a peep about.

It may just be a gag order thing, sure. But with the level of access required for stuff like this, I don't think they could shut the whole team up. How many people worked on this Microsoft back door? It can't have been less than a couple dozen at least. And none of them raised the issue or let someone know, a journalist for instance, or publicly raised the question?

It makes me wonder about the true extent of the programs we're freaking out about. I mean, of course they exist and they're big and threatening, but I don't buy that they could combine complete access with complete secrecy. They need the cooperation of the companies, and the companies, by NSA standards, just aren't trustworthy enough. In fact, they're full of wild cards like Snowden, denizens of newsgroups, IRC, 4chan, etc, who would LOVE to be the one to blow up an NSA attempt to write a back door into Skype.

Maybe they did, and it all faded away. But it just seems strange to me that so little has been said about the elephant that must surely have been in everyone's room for the last few years.
The "postmodern" conceit is a bit of a stretch; link bait to lure in readers with liberal arts degrees.
I don't think Ruby and Perl are a good comparison to Python 2 and 3. Perl 5 and Perl 6 would be a better comparison.
Install "HERE Drive+": http://www.windowsphone.com/en-us/store/app/here-drive/31bbc...

Download the offline maps you need and you are good to go!

There's a manual here if you need one:

http://www.nokia.com/us-en/support/product/nokia-drive-plus/
Non-financial non-real estate assets account for 5.8% of the total according to the Fed's flow of funds report (Z.1) table B.100: http://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/Current/z1r-5.pdf. Note this also includes non-profits but that's a relatively small distortion.

Wealth is the value of everything you have less what you owe. Every item can be valued by seeing what people would pay for it, which is usually just its current market price. How do you determine income objectively? You could merely take wealth at two points in time but our society has declined to define it that way because much of the money coming in might go to some sort of expense which ought to be excluded, which is neither objective or simple, and because some changes (such as fluctuations in asset prices) are assumed to be transitory and therefore impractical to tax. The latter is actually the source of most of the perfectly legal tax evasion in this country: Hold stocks, generate value, pay nothing until you sell which needn't be ever.
why did you choose python?!
Shouldn't we also kind of tax machine work and not only human work?
I don't have that option. I can see that Teams have it, but as an individual with a private repo, I only have the input for entering the username.

https://help.github.com/articles/what-are-the-different-acce...

https://help.github.com/articles/how-do-i-add-a-collaborator

https://help.github.com/articles/how-do-i-set-up-a-team

Guess I have to set up a Team/Org, before I can manage permissions.
They already do. Working in an inner-city can substantially reduce your college loans as a teacher, especially if you were getting something higher, like an ED.D. (doctorate in education)
Rumeneration would improve because of the reduction in the number of people in the "reserved labor" pool, which means lower competition for each position (currently, there are 3 people for each available job opening, as an example), which raises wages. Additionally, the existence of an alternative income stream means that you cannot use the threat of "no income" to hold wages down. Finally, these same forces will mean that "dirty" jobs will no longer be able to bank on the marginal status of potential employees to keep their wages lower - the example of the toilet scrubber (before we get toilet cleaning Roombas, of course) is a useful one. If a potential toilet scrubber can think "do I do this dirty job for only slightly more than the BI, or do I find another one?", then the wage is forced to rise if you want someone scrubbing your toilet.

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

Artificial competition going away is important, because it reduces the "fake" demand for positions; those that would rather not be there won't, which takes the pressure off that position (reducing its perceived scarcity/value.) This has both the above-described wage effects, and a cultural effect: you no longer have people pretending that they want a job, lying to get jobs, inflating their resumes, gladhanding, etc. You're only there if you want to be.
Wasn't Yahoo supposed to let you "stake a claim" on a Yahoo ID on July 15th?
I can't figure out a way to do that. And it's the 16th now.
This evening I made a fresh release of my new console mail client, which is entirely scriptable through lua:

http://lumail.org/

Recently it has become my full-time mail-client, which is pretty good.
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This latest release does not contradict that. They provide user data for accounts under surveillance in real time. To place an account under surveillance, the government needs a valid court order for that account.

This document just says that surveillance was broken for chats when they did the outlook.com upgrade, but that has since been fixed.
PDL (Perl Data Language) offers a great alternative - http://pdl.perl.org
Original story: http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/52805929240/yourname-yahoo-com-...
Automation reduces costs and prices, creates new job fields, and permits for specialization. It's been happening since the cotton gin, and is a basic staple of an advancing society. We're able to sit on our butts in our chairs and make our livings punching keys on a little rectangle while staring at another little glowing rectangle because our societies are highly specialized and highly automated, making it economically viable for us to purchase and consume goods produced two thousand miles away, rather than having to spend our time tending our gardens so we can make sure that we have food to eat this week. Bemoaning automation as the death of the common man's ability to feed himself is just as silly as it was in Eli Whitney's time.

People will only need to stop working when automation reaches the point that their needs are met without it imposing a burden of work on anyone else. Of course, this will be the point at which the robot revolution will begin, and humanity is doomed.
And they're talking about some form of replication on multiple drives plugged in to a hub, and they're also talking about replication if you have two Plugs in different locations.
The First Amendment Protects Satire And Rhetoric lol j/k
Ha, nice! Funny you should mention that. I did exactly that when tooling around in the repl and forgot the reverse kw, saw something fishy, and fixed it. Promptly forgot it again when I typed it in this comment. :)
As a long time iOS guy who's been using Windows Phone (Nokia) for over a year, I can honestly say it has the best UI in terms of usability for the form-factor. You're right - the map smokes all others. The only issue I have is the non-webkit IE browser and lack of a few key apps.
I have disagreements with parts of the article, including the following:

The result is that young people are not being allowed to grow up. In the 1960s the average first-time house buyer was 24 years old, and as late as 2002 it was 28. The average is now 37.

I have disagreement with the above because, generally, "young people" are delaying getting married and having children [1] as well as purchasing housing. And, for some, this is due to greater economic opportunities, especially for women.

Also, there is a type of "basic income" that is surprisingly increasing: disability.[2]

[1] http://nationalmarriageproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/0...
[2] http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/
You've probably got a pretty good job right now, and some decent savings, right?

Why? Surely you could quit your job, find a much simpler one with less responsibilities, and move into a trailer and subside on tubers and rice. Much cheaper, you don't have to work nearly as hard, and less responsibility!

Of course you wouldn't do this because you like the lifestyle that your job allows you to have (and likely like your job as well).

The ability to be poor and not die does not automatically make people satisfied with being poor.
In Switzerland there are over 100'000 people that support the idea, which means the public gets to vote on it in the next 2-3 years.

http://bedingungslos.ch/
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To play devil's advocate here, what else would people have Microsoft do? Is there a scenario in which they can successfully resist enabling surveillance features in their products while operating in the US?

CALEA applies to telecommunications providers, which is a label that would seem to clearly apply to Skype. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calea

Are major companies based or operating in the US allowed to provide secure email and/or data storage without options for lawful surveillance from law enforcement?

If people do not like these policies and the cooperation from the companies operating them, I think the proper place to direct your anger is at the laws that require them to cooperate.
Yep. This study provides zero evidence justifying the claim in the title that the memories regrew, in any meaningful sense.
I think there might be some confusion here. All I suggested was the git flow model[1] AKA forking, making your own branch, changing things, and making a pull request on that branch and if it gets merged, you delete the branch and fast-forward master.

I don't see why they can't pull in updates from the original repo. Are they not adding it as a remote?

[1] http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
> The market rate for investment bankers is more attractive than my job. Doesn't mean I can just be an investment banker tomorrow. Or a nurse.

If the supply-demand imbalance is sufficient and durable, people looking for nurses / investment bankers / etc. will pay currently-unqualified people with the relevant basic aptitudes to train for those jobs (with a post-training commitment to accept employment if offered, or in the form of loans with guaranteed forgiveness and job placement with satisfactory completion of training, or in some other form.)

> If I live comfortably on my basic income doing whatever, how do I become qualified to work?

Living comfortably on basic income isn't going to be possible as long as the economy has substantial labor needs. BI is essentially the public holding equal, dividend bearing shares in the commons, for which taxes are use rents. The limit on the value of BI is basically that of the existing capital (including land) contribution to productivity; the potential comfort and value from BI grows with capital (e.g., via automaticn) displacing labor in production.

What BI can be is a means of managing the transitions in the economy as automation progresses.
Yes. Store hundreds of movies and hundreds of thousands of pictures on plug and access them anywhere![1]

[1]: So long as you have an absurdly fast internet connection at your house, and also have an absurdly fast internet connection wherever you are that you're trying to use this thing...and aren't on an airplane, or in the car, or on a train...which is when you would generally want to watch movies on your tablet.
The Zen of Python states that "practicality beats purity."

And the authors of numpy, scipy, pandas, etc seem to agree that it would be impractical to rewrite these libraries in the way you are suggesting.
Awesome project! Good luck!
Internet cafes tend to be boring white boxes without food or drink, the walls lined with five year old crumbling windows PCs.

It seems like there is a middle ground which has not been explored, which is simply a more expensive coffee shop with more space, where you are allowed/expected to stay for long periods of time. I would pay for that.

You can call that an internet cafe if you want, but it wouldn't really be like any I've been to.
They can update their branch in their own repo manually ("git pull upstream; git push origin" or equivalent on their development machines).

Still it'd be awesome if GitHub supported this via a Web interface.
Corporate profits are taxed, and then they are taxed again when they redistribute the dividends. Arguably, you get double-taxed if you own stocks.
You point has been argued a lot recently, but if it were true then surely nearly everybody would be unemployed by now? After all how many of you are scribes, weavers, carpenters and farmers (or farmers helpers)? Less than 20%?

Then why don't we have 80% unemployment? Because we found other jobs for those people, the economy is much, much bigger, life is much, much better and everybody is better of.

And it isn't like that hasn't happened again and again and again through history.

So I ask you, what proof do you have that this time it is really different? As opposed to every other time we thought it was different through history?
The off contract 521 is awesome. I got a new one for $100 on ebay and it's specs are plenty for what I need. It rivals $500+ phones.
It's not the same, with inflation people still own the same percentage of wealth (people with 0 still have 0). With UBI the distribution of income changes, it's minimum is no longer 0 but some hardcoded amount. So even if prices would adapt, you'd end up not only with different prices, but with a different distribution of wealth. In the extreme case, if the basic income was huge, everyone would pretty much be able to buy the same things, with the basic income set to 0, the distribution of wealth would be more exponential as wealthy people naturally get more and more wealthy and people with 0 stay at 0. You probably want something in between, with good incentives to work hard, but also good conditions for poor people and a higher velocity of money (if you give money to people with no money they'll spend a higher percentage of it, fueling the economy in the right areas).
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As I have just posted elsewhere in this thread, disability seems to be a type of "basic income". [1]

[1] http://apps.npr.org/unfit-for-work/

Edited for clarity.
Except modify the scenario such that jQuery announced a few years ago that will not be adding any more features and only doing sporadic bug fix releases, and they suggest moving all development to mootools. However, almost all code is written for jQuery and its not trivial to port libraries and applications from jQuery to mootools.

tl;dr: I don't think the Python2/3 : jQuery/mootools analogy is that fitting.

On the other hand, I still happily use Python(2) for some things, but that is primarily because of familiarity and awesome tools like what was mentioned in the article (namely Theano and pandas). Once the Rust language becomes more stable, I hope to move most of my development to that.
I had written more here, but even after cutting down this post is still to long. Basically the evolution of DC is in large part a response to its own success. 13k attendees (IIRC) is going to change things, and any difference makes it easy to get disenchanted and/or nay-say. I don't think the attitude and execution have gotten worse overall, just different.

the reason for that impression is that there is no declaration of a policy in his message

Defcon knows they can't dictate everything that happens, only influence it. Feds are going to be there one way or another, thats why DT had an "invite the feds" attitude from the beginning. To hear some goons tell it, the "spot the fed" game was created as a social device to reduce animosity between attendees and law enforcement while also reminding everyone that strangers at the convention aren't your friends.

Even with enforcing hard and fast ideas (like the journalism boundary) they start off with a light touch. They gave the reporter many chances to stop snooping about and get a press badge. Before letting us into the convention center on day one red shirts were giving out warnings. That was days before she was publicly called out in one of the panels and marched out of the Riv.

As you say, we're not in third grade. But defcon does know it, and understand they can't keep people out a no-names cash-transaction event based on attendee employer. The most they can hope to do is say "Hey, maybe not so much this year?" Time will tell how it plays out, but the last thing I would call it is an attempt to save face or change the image of the event. I thought it was 100% DT playing a joke at first, and I still think its a joke now, just one with a message.
IE 11 will include WebGL support [1], and due to Microsoft's 'core systems' sharing across big Windows and Windows Phone, this is likely to propogate down to the phone.

However the lack of webkit will remain :(

[1] http://www.infoq.com/news/2013/06/ie11
Hey, thanks much! I'm going to have to spend some time with these logarithmic evaluations to really get what you're saying, but I dig the basic concept. Very helpful.
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It's most likely just on his local network lol.
They're careful with the wording:

"In mid July, anyone can have a shot at scoring the Yahoo! ID they want. In mid August, users who staked a claim on certain IDs can come to Yahoo! to discover which one they got."

"What if you haven’t logged into Yahoo! for over a year, but want to keep your Yahoo! ID? It’s easy. All you have to do is log on to any Yahoo! product before July 15th."

Note that they don't give an exact day for when you can stake a claim. It's just "mid July". That could be as late as July 20.

Not sure what you mean by "it's the 16th now".
It does not take 41 megapixel pictures, only 5 megapixel pictures. It used a 41 megapixel sensor, then down-samples it. This results in a higher quality picture.
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Julia is targeting the scientific computing community, and I'd love to see it succeed as it is a very well thought out language.

The language is in active development, although it is still early days with library support currently lacking (namely, a good plotting library).
Any comments about "Handbook of Applied Cryptography"?

http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
Exactly, resample in Lightroom after post-processing, not early in the process.
Bonus points from me for not using aggregated data from users for your own purposes apart from with regards to the use of your own services. Most of the the other mobile analytics services seem to require that they get access to general aggregated data.

I wouldn't record the video though except in a special mode where someone has temporarily opted in to show me how something doesn't work though. It is a bit intrusive if the user inputs any data (even what they are reading and for how long seems a bit intrusive to me but lots of web analytics do this).
I'm pretty certain that this isn't the case. If anything, it's the other way around - if a domain changes hands, and the new owner sets up a restrictive robots.txt, the content in the archive is made unavailable, and stays unavailable even if the robots.txt (or the whole domain) later disappears.
I'm eligible for update, so two years at least.
You really only have to figure it out once. And for users not familiar with the "standard" names, I think linq's naming is actually more intuitive.
In other words, you think that the people writing crypto software should simply do the work to become competent cryptographers. I strongly agree with you.

I find your sentiment about GnuPG a little galling. GnuPG is widely trusted and one of the most reviewed cryptosystems in the world; you advocate that it should be replaced --- by Cryptocat, no less --- because you find it "clunky". It's as if the thought hadn't occurred to you that a better exercise than designing one's own vanity cryptosystem might instead be to come up with a new UX for an existing trustworthy system.

I'm curious as to what web application you foresee supplanting Truecrypt, which is a full-disk encryption system whose entire UX is "enter the password to access this disk".
It's worth noting that MIT uses these. New students are provisioned client certs, which are accepted for login to institutional websites and even Apple's MIT student discount page. Not sure if any other universities are using this.
"transaction costs made trading based off of this strategy almost not worth it"

Be interesting to know how it stacks up against other approaches in this regard.

"main point here is that it's interesting"

That it is.
I've been working on a book on machine learning that targets people at an application developer level of skill.

Here's my first chapter, on text classification: https://gist.github.com/zacstewart/5978000
The conventional wisdom is that adults who solicit minors online typically use deceit (they have to, since minors have no interest in sex), and if you want to deceive someone into having sex in Spain, your victim has to be at least 16 years old. (Source: your link) So the chatbot would still catch criminal activity.
Funny you should ask:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6002694
How does the dichotomy between Python 2 and 3 affect your productivity or coding experience?

I'm using 2.7, and I can't recall the existence of 3 ever causing a problem.