skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learn that first impression doesn't last. I have a housemate that seemed clicked ("you're an IT student? great, i graduated from IT!") but end up annoying:

- never flushes after urinating

- spends 24x7 inside the house (he skips classes almost 100%) with aircond+PC+lights on, but demanding we share the bills equally

- frequently forgets to turn off bathroom lights, tap water (when filling up his drinking bottle) and exhaust fan (after cooking)

- leaves dirty dishes for, literally, a week or two

- sometimes borrows pennies (smaller than $50) from me and return it after weeks even though he always says, "tomorrow bro" (i don't demand it, he simply says it), but it doesn't stop him from buying stuff like perfume

- controlled our internet so he "owned" the majority of bandwidth

- at his 30s

now, what do you call a guy like that?
While I think he made the right call, this trope that the US will try to assassinate him/throw him in a secret CIA prison is so baseless. People have said over and over that the information he had was handed over to various org's, so killing him would only be bad. Justice dep't still has a legal obligation to try and get him home, but don't think they're going to be risking more diplomatic flack to get this guy home.

Also, I don't know why people don't think he wouldn't get a fair trial. Manning is military and they do their things how they do them, but it's not like the US civilian courts have a reputation for absolute tyranny. Plus, standing in the spotlight like that.... no way he wouldn't have gotten a fair trial. I agree with the article that he wouldn't get bail now that he try to run (which is consistent with how bail works), but I think he could've gotten bail otherwise, if he had surrendered instead of run. And while he admitted to having released the documents, if he could argue the illegality of the programs shown, then he could actually go through whistleblower protections.

Not saying he should have surrendered, just that this "The US has turned to tyranny" trope is tired and baseless.
I've been pondering this recently and have come to the following conclusions:

* State is expressed as a fold on a stream of events. The Event Sourcing pattern.

* Clients send commands and receive updates to the state on separate channels. (CQRS)

* Sharejs seems to be about the only thing that makes sense to manage client states.

I'd quite like to build the server in Haskell as it's such a good fit for expressing folds over streams.

One thing that I've not really got a handle on though is the correspondence between OT and Event sourcing... Is OT simply the operation that you use to fold the stream of events into a state or is there more to it than that? Enlightenment gratefully received!
Managing the Mighty Mississippi (2011)
http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1bap6u/embedded_docu...
Interesting idea. But what do you do if the person without a job is gay, lesbian, trans, etc, and the job is in the bible belt.
Well if your local job centre front desk can access your metadata with the nod of your supervisor upstairs, or if the upcoming referendum on local councils coming under federal auspices succeeds, and would allow as a consequence all levels of government to probe citizens metadata, I'm sure the NSA can.

The furore over the NSA data hoovering and the fourth amendment has no parallel in Australia. The general citizenry is completely uninformed, complacent and lazily uninterested in these matters.

http://m.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/victorians-private-...

http://powerhouse.theglobalmail.org/the-australian-governmen...
Because committing crimes is work.

Given the choice, it's generally more lucrative for the average person to simply find work.
Speeches and reports are pretty worthless, no one would move into worthless little niches like that. Popular media like they are in now is a goldmine, though. Pretty trivial to monetize as well. Many of my friends who do music tied apps are at the point of swapping out the affiliates and common payment providers for direct credit card exchange deals just to optimize percents even.
The US used to be a leader, forming the United Nations, ratifying the Geneva Conventions, promoting human rights, etc. Nowadays we have squandered our moral leadership by refusing to sign things like the ban against land mines or the international criminal court; as well as by leading immoral wars and torturing prisoners. As a superpower we have the power to make the world better for everyone but the empire has turned selfish, short-sighted and evil instead.
Wow, I somehow missed this project. Awesome work.

Have been urgently needing an alternate to Flickr/Picasaweb/500px lately and really haven't liked most the other options out there.

I've signed up for a proper play.
Your approach is simplistic. In France there is a kind of Basic Income. Yet crimes are still committed. The reasons why you go into a life of crime is not just a matter of getting food because you're hungry. Otherwise all poor people would commit crimes.

Being part of a gang is a way for young people to exist. It's not just a question of money. It's also an occupation, because there's nothing else to do. And there is the remote possibility that you might become very rich. Which will never happen with living wages.

These young people don't need money. They need a job.
Did you read the article? It isn't just rap.
Tsunami situation verified. Relax, nobody on our side wants a violent revolution. The only hills you will find are the global enlightened community.

You will initially get depressed as you see the injustice around you.

You can deny what you see and go back to browsing Facebook.

Or, you can embrace the movement. I've been traveling the rabbit hole and I assure you that the thing is manageable if you put your time into it.

Here are some guidelines:

- You already have local communities (hacker/creative spaces) that have members who are on top of the news and working to escape the system. Find them.

- Find the commonality between libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism and anarcho-socialism. None of these ideologies are sufficient, but the conversations and debates are converging.

- Learn history and social/economic sciences. The history of debt money, the collapse of rome, today's corporate power structures, etc.

- Understand how the dollar works and how it's controlled and enforced. Support alternative currencies.

- Support open hardware. The EFF is your friend. Learn more about encryption and understand the vulnerabilities online and offline.

I could go on, share links, etc.
Actually, at least one mainstream browser (Safari for iPhone) doesn't support Flash, and that's a part of why Flash has been declining (HTML5 capabilities being another important part).
This is perfect, thank you so much. Two-fold: I opened my site up, too, though for different reasons. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one. Mine isn't anywhere near this awesome, though, and it's just starting! And, I think I'll be able to learn a lot about the proper way to do things by seeing how you did things, like different code patterns and development decisions, etc.

Thanks!
Blacks are something like 12% of the US population, so around 35 million people.

Pro football has around 80 men on the roster (more than any other sport), and 32 teams (again, on the high side), so you're looking at less than 3000 athletes employed by that one sport. Even if all the athletes were black, which they're not, that number is less than one in a thousand of the total population.

'There are jobs for blacks in pro sports' is a complete canard that needs to be abandoned.
The article I was talking about was linking to the top 1% and not the top 20%. So that will make a huge difference.

Otherwise, the US has got an almost 100% budget deficit. you should take that into account when you are doing the math too.
I've never met a single investor who wanted monetization before reach. If you can't get the users, you are wasting time trying to learn how to get money out of them. Hell, you may pivot a dozen times just trying to get users and have to throw out any work you did anyway. E.g. monetize a running app just find out far more people watch what they eat than run.
Ask HN: Good introductory books in Neuroscience?
I have just read "On Intelligence" and enjoyed it a lot but it's a bit old and don't know if the ideas proposed in the book have been confirmed or dismissed. Any recommendation of a more recent book? I'm not afraid of more technical or rigorous approaches but keep in mind that I have had very little exposure to Biology(my background is in Computer Science).
The arrogance is so intentionally outlandish it's hard to even find it comical.

Bigger than Google, yeah ok. $300 billion market cap, $50 billion in cash, $50 billion in sales, within 15 years.

The outcome for Rap Genius is far more likely to be that of a Hunch, than a Google. I've yet to see anything about Rap Genius that suggests their technology or approach will yield such a breathtaking commercial windfall as Google. Even their reach is pretty mediocre for a nearly three year old service (speaking in terms of the huge future outcome they pander to for headlines). See Pinterest for a comparison on size (they're 15 times larger than Rap Genius), and those guys don't go around claiming to be the next zillion dollar company. Zero chance Rap Genius can springboard that to Google like results. Google was at the center of the most important Web utility of its time: the ability to accurately and quickly find anything online; and their technology was mind boggling good. Rap Genius is more like Wikipedia - it's a content solution provided by the user base, and there isn't anything earth shattering about that (see: Answers.com or Quora).

I'd say that within 24 to 36 months they'll pivot or be sold. Reality usually hits like a hammer when you proclaim yourself the next Google (or Facebook).
And sometimes the page changes but the url stays the same
They matter because they represent a big win for a select few and people feeling they do not have many choices will discount the "few" and invest all their eggs into those two baskets and most often than not fail.
Another copy here: http://www.dodgycoder.net/2012/09/q-with-nine-great-programm...
Patch for Android bug security bug 8219321?
BBC Radio Four also has a programme called "The Media Show" which is pretty good. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00dv9hq)
Some people take point scoring all to seriously, like any +1 in some way validates their decision to get up this morning.

We all crave a little validation in life. Some just look for it in what others would consider the most mundane, not-important-in-life's-grand-scheme, of sources.
This is a great list of all the things I never want to have in any of the games I work in. Otherwise I would feel as a slimy cheat.
Here is a link to skydrive copy:
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=EC25CEEFA14ACEE1!654&a...
Personally I'd like to have enough to be allowed to downvote. Not exactly my top priority, but it'd be nice.
Sourceforge now wrapping Open Source downloads with crapware installer?
Just tried to download Filezilla from SourceForge using the standard download link (https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client) and was sent to here (http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/files/FileZilla_Client/3.7.1.1/FileZilla_3.7.1.1_win32-setup.exe/download?accel_key=57%3A1373272918%3Ahttps%253A//filezilla-project.org/download.php%253Ftype%253Dclient%3Abff2508b%2469cc5f6fe725f94303942a1069ab89e14d7c410d&click_id=401e3f28-e7aa-11e2-b604-0200ac1d1d91&source=accel). The file i downloaded was called SFInstaller_SFFZ_filezilla_8706467_.exe, which is signed by ask.com, and when it runs, it tells me i am using the "Secure downloader" and "would i like to install WinZip". there is a direct link to download FileZilla from their site, if you click show additional (https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?show_all=1). Anyone else seeing this?
1kb/s is an absolute surplus in a lot of machine-to-machine applications. With a lot of embedded sensors and such that run over cellular networks, carriage is billed by the kilobyte, to illustrate that point.
We will win.

We already have the bill of rights. Creating new laws won't help us. It's too late for that. Maybe repealing some laws and executive orders might help... but what we're seeing is the symptom of something bigger than governments.

We need to see the cage and step out of it. Educating ourselves and honing our common sense will help us. Becoming self sufficient will help us.
check out thefnf.org, they are currently trying to organize the different mesh networks.

In Spain we have the guifi project www.guifi.net/en which works in infrastructure mode, but we are migrating to a new system called qmp and which is mesh based. This firmware is 100% auto config, and works natively over IPv6. The project came from the www.battlemesh.org hacking sessions, where they created the batman protocol.

If anyone is looking at building a mesh network, check tout these systems. They make it so much easier (and cheaper) then it used to be.
So the first thing about Google Apps is that you still need to back it up. Because it's (mostly) pretty easy to use it's easy to fall into the trap that it does everything right first time and that your data is safe when you make a change, unlike say running your own infrastructure. It isn't.
For the "home of the brave" Americans sure don't sound a lot like it. People have fought a lot worse in the past, and Americans seem to be like "meh, I'm too bored to fight this". Good job, America.

But you're forgetting one thing. This is not "how things will be", if you let it happen. Oh no. This is just but the very beginning. If you let it happen to you, things will become 10x, 100x worse in the future. And then even you, individually, will feel the oppression of the government. But let's see how you'll fight it then, without violence. At least right now there may be a chance to do it without any violence - you know, if you weren't too "bored" with it.
Commas are relevant. Even in the English language.
A lot of that is one post starting a train of thought in others. "Oh, I saw something like that recently" or "I think I know a better whatever" and so forth - that train of thought either is or leads them to something on the subject that they feel worth posting. Sometimes this happens repeatedly.

Sometimes it is blatant "karma whoring" (check parts of reddit for many examples of this getting out of hand), but usually (here at least) it is genuine people thinking that if you were interested in X, you might find Y informative/useful/amusing too.
Yes, this is being very over hyped, RF backscatter is the same basic mechanism that RFID uses, there are a ton of good tutorials online. There are a number of ways to increase the range of backscatter systems like RFID such as spread spectrum. One of the other problems is multiple access, how can you tell if back scatter is coming from source 1 or 2 or 3, that has also been worked out in RFID using a coding scheme (eg. PN codes). Basically these guys rediscovered RFID technology and got kind of excited. This is not to say that there are not interesting applications, two passive devices can communicate between each other given a strong enough source signal. But the applications are limited, usually, if you have 2 devices that need to communicate between each other, you want to do something with the information being exchanged, maybe light an LED or something, that would take way more energy than you can harvest from ambient RF. Once you realize you need a battery, then it is just easier to put a simple 802.11 or 802.15 transceiver in.
We had another issue, where the catch-all address started bouncing. Apparently they have changed the way they handle email routing. So if you upgrade to the 'new google apps', you better be very careful about your email routing rules. Went through a very similar experience with google customer care. Again turned out to be a bug in their system. But what sucks is for 3 days our emails were bouncing! And we're a paid google apps customer...Would be happy to pay 5X, just want some sort of customer service + acceptable SLAs on issues. And yes, please have a test team go over important features like enterprise email! I know it's Google policy to not have features go through a testing team, but maybe they should consider it for Google Apps.

/end{rant}
Actually it is likely worse than the US, the US government spying would generally stay US government only. Whereas ours in Australia is likely accessible by US agencies.
I was wondering about this, sites like LyricsFreak and all the others have been on the internet since I was in primary school. I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. Plus for annotation there's better projects like hypothes.is
Or even more paranoid:

import mock

def print_now(now=mock.sentinel.now):
now = now if now != mock.sentinel.now else time.time()
On the incoming email encryption - yeah, that's in the MTA not the webmail software - having said that, I'm basing what I'm doing off this: https://grepular.com/Automatically_Encrypting_all_Incoming_E... at least partly because Perl is my goto hack-shit-together langiage, I could _easily_ imagine a lot of my cow-orkers choosing to do that in php.

And yeah, I hadn't followed your links, and made poor assumptions about your project. I just briefly skimmed through some of them and I've got a question - have you got a way to protect the passphrase from ending up somewhere the browser can see it? (or, if the decryption is "passphraseless" from the browsers point of view, how do you ensure rogue javascript could pass encrypted data in and retrieve cleartext?)
> Once the people start creating new laws, and getting them passed, we'll win.

There's an important step you forgot to include: Getting the new laws enforced. When most of the people in charge of the enforcement are used to (and may well have liked) the old laws, that will not be simple.
I have the next big Internet idea…again — Medium
http://bitsquest.bitbucket.org
Web interface design in the browser
Singapore Inquiry Rules Suicide in U.S. Engineer's Death
As someone in the upper-middle class (I guess), I would love to pay more taxes to allow the state to help out the less fortunate. But until they stop bombing the shit out of foreign countries and chasing whistleblowers around the globe, I'm never supporting said initiatives to increase my liabilities to the state.

I will just donate the money that would be paid in tax to charities like Habitat for Humanity (my preferred one, as I volunteer there on a yearly basis in the summers).
Construído o Maior Parque Eólico Marítimo do Mundo
Christ those are all terrible
Anki has some decks like that: http://ankisrs.net/
Computational QM is a thing these days :)
I hadn't been promoting it too much until now as I was waiting to get the terms of service sorted out (as lots of photographers are rightly protective of their images).

I'm always keen to hear any feedback you have, and obviously now you can also help contribute to making it the site you want too :D
"we as a country don't do actual engineering anymore"

Let's see - within a few miles of Edinburgh we have being built:

- 65000 ton aircraft carriers

- A new 2700m road bridge over the Firth of Forth

- Eurofighter work

- A new railway being open to the Borders (OK - reopening an old line)

OK, I won't mention our trams, but there certainly seems to be a hell of a lot of "engineering" going on in the immediate vicinity.

Maybe Edinburgh is unusual in having such a burst of engineering activity in our vicinity?

NB Even the crane built to build the aircraft carriers is an impressive bit of engineering:

http://www.aircraftcarrieralliance.co.uk/en/media/image-libr...

I rather like the fact that the huge crane has another crane on top of it - which looks tiny but is probably quite large!
The graffiti culture and gang culture are mostly separate and not related.
6 hours... We run a 4 person company and 6 hours during the weekend would still be a problem for us.

Given a company larger than 10 might actually upgrade (small amount of shared email accounts) I could see it causing big problems for some.
You're surprised? We're talking about a company that named an OS after the software development methodology it used.

Windows XP - Extreme Programming. Later marketing dept pretended it was supposed to mean eXPerience
To play devil's advocate:

1. There is no indication in the upgrade process that the upgrade would "take a few hours to complete". Quite the opposite, it indicated there would be no downtime.

2. The customer service reps seems to have little insight into what was happening with the account which is a bit scary. I'm always nervous of black hole "processing windows" where all you can do is wait and hope for the best. It's bad when it is customer facing, it's worse when it is customer service facing.

3. Upgrading on the weekend could potentially be more troubling given that customer service may not be staffed with the quantity/quality to fix issues if they occur. Not saying this is or is not the case for Google, but running into problems on a Saturday morning and getting a "call us back during normal business hours" is just as troublesome.

What should have happened in my opinion?

1. Google should document that there can be a temporary delay of x - x hours while the upgrade happens.

2. Florian should have scheduled the upgrade ahead of time with the team, letting them know that worse case there may be an outage of 'x' minutes/hours/days.

3. Google customer service should have better tools as to upgrade process for both the admin (customer) and customer service rep so that it is not a black hole of 'wait and hope'. Even a step 1 of x, or you are number # in queue, or estimated time, etc.
Okay, I normally view arguments that regulation is hurting the middle class very favorably, but these arguments are very sketchy for a number of reasons:

1. Decimalization. The argument that the author is making is essentially that "market makers are only interested in working at spreads higher than $0.01, the minimum spread got reduced to $0.01, so market makets are not interested and we have no market makers anymore." Let me restate that in non-financial terms: apple farmers are only willing to sell apples for at least $10, before the government and/or the farmer's market operator mandated that apples be sold for at least $15, now the minimum price was reduced to $5, so we don't have apples anymore. The fallacy is obvious: if there's no supply at $5, then the price of apples will just go back up to $10 or $12 or $15 until there's an equilibrium again. Same with market making and spreads; if no market makers participate with spreads of $0.01, spreads will go up to $0.05, or $0.10, or maybe even $0.23 and we'll end up with a better situation than we had before.

2. Investment and public/private companies: here, the argument seems to be that investing in an early seed round is basically a lottery, investing in public companies is too late, so the middle class should invest in mid-cap firms. That seems oddly specific - the one kind of investment that government won't let us make is exactly the kind of investment that will finally make the middle class prosperous again. The coincidence doesn't invalidate the argument, but it does make it somewhat suspicious.

3. The focus on IPOs as a route to wealth creation assumes that money is generally spread out among the masses. This is increasingly false; the poorest 25% of Americans have less than zero net worth - that is to say, they literally have less to invest than a starving Ethiopian. Deregulation should focus more heavily on the processes of actually creating wealth rather than investing it even if it is ultimately welcome in both.

And the fact that the article does not even mention SOX is just weird...
Aye, this is just an advert disguised as a Gizmodo-style world exclusive 'leak'.