skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with the gist of the story, consider the source: RT is a news agency funded and controlled by the Russian government. They've been rather vocal about the NSA scandal as of late, but not for altruist reasons.

It's important to keep those facts in perspective.
This is old - and unverified - news.

This has been posted verbatim in several places already.

http://www.lucaspeperaio.com.br/blog/hacker-de-19-anos-conta...
http://www.pragmatismopolitico.com.br/2012/12/hacker-fraude-...
http://www.tecmundo.com.br/brasil/34010-em-evento-no-rj-hack...
http://jornalistaflavioazevedo.blogspot.com.br/2013/01/hacke...

All from blogs. Not a single major news source.

This is, most likely, complete bullshit.
NoScript to the rescue, again.
Get signed by an agent, or self-publish? I chose the latter. Here's why.
Judge demands tech companies hand activist data over to Chevron
Very nice, but unfornately, it seems we lost a lot of information from just watching slides...
If you have any evidence that Elon Musk of all people is deserving of such cynicism, I genuinely would like to see it.
I've been using gitblit for a few months, and have been very pleased with how easy it is to set up and manage. It's great to set up http sharing of git repositories inside an organization.

It has nice features like ACL's and federation for backup.
s/by his hypothesis/by this hypothesis/
Show HN: FileTurn - Convert files with online API
Thanks, that's a definite win for pulseaudio and I hadn't really considered the developer side of it at all (I'm primarily backend/network/db). I certainly don't think pulseaudio is an inherently bad architecture, but I do feel it's matured too slowly in terms of stability. On the flip side as you it's more user-friendly than Network Audio Server (which has fewer features) and and as you point out supports more of the "I've got an hdmi output playing music through my tv, but a bluetooth headset for voip" use cases that a decent-sized class of users run into.

It also occurs to me for the first time that the rise of pulseaudio was not that many years after laptops largely switched to integrated codec chips instead of discrete sound and I had all sorts of problems with those above and beyond the "Damn it, give me hardware volume controls" frustrations. It could have inherited some of the problems around quirky/flaky hardware that I remember ALSA facing in that period. At this point I just want something that can reliably play music or take audio input and for whatever reason pulseaudio isn't it for me. Hopefully that'll change before most distros switch to whatever the new hotness in sound setups is...
> Isn't it wonderful how easy it is to ignore that college education is biased towards women and women's needs , and that men are put at a giant disadvantage when it comes to education.

[citation needed]
The Sphinx in a Startup
I only dabble with LoL, but in StarCraft, there is a physical element: it's really tiring to sustain a high APM while also maintaining accuracy.

Micro is certainly a different kind of physical prowess than sprinting 100m, but I think it's close enough to qualify.
Citizens united may have been a good ruling, but absent further reform in political campaigning, we'll continue to see bad results.

>People don't lose rights just by forming groups.

In principle maybe, but, if only it were true. Try telling that to the many people arrested for political protesting, especially those arrested merely for being in proximity of a protest.

Then there is always the group of people who "choose" to travel by air.
Is there really a causal link here? They don't say anything about the size of the firms other than that they excluded very small firms. For medium to large size companies, how involved is the CEO in setting the salary for each employee?
that's like going to a scientific conference and "debating" climate change. there are lots of things that sound questionable and/or debatable simply because you don't know enough about them.
From Calacanis recently on Twitter:

"Need designer to work gratis on wearable computer mockups for editorial. grt exposure/u own content. ping jason AT inside.com"

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/352489885682241536
$99 ARM-based PC runs either Ubuntu or Android
I've never seen the patriarchy described as a "conspiracy"

Anti-feminists would tend to view it as a conspiracy, or no longer existing ("women can vote, so it's all OK now, right?"). Sadly this sort of attitude/meme does exist....
That makes sense.

RescueTime gives me information about how much time I spent in each file and is showing me the project as part of that info, but it doesn't rollup time spent in a project.

Still seems of limited use since it wouldn't show me time spent debugging in a browser, working in the database, etc. From a productivity standpoint RescueTime lets me dictate that http://myproject.dev is "debugging" time, Sublime Text is "IDE" time and that Terminal is also "development" time. If I could change how Sublime Text displays info in the title bar then I could probably set it to know that "Sublime Text -> My Project -> file" was time spent in "development/my project".
On-the ﬂy evaluation of FPGA-based True Random Number Generator (2009)
Nope. this is not NSA proof.

This is PRISM proof. i.e. it is not trivial for the NSA to request records from your $emailhost.

However it does not prevent your emails from being read by the NSA.

Firstly, your emails still have destination outside your linode bubble. so you email your friends who are on Gmail? well that in the NSA database now.

Secondly your linode machine is entirely virtual, so there is no way to see if your data has been tapped at the datastore level. How do you know that linode is not in bed with the NSA. Are there any backdoors in the provisioning system? What about the random number generator?

Thirdly and most importantly, most network connections are tapped by either the British, Germans, French, Austrailans or the US. so any network traffic is considered to be entering hostile territory as soon as it leaves your LAN.

So your options are:

Encrypt[1] or not use the internet.

Tor is largely pointless, as who do you think puts all that money and time into operating large exit points? also having the ability to interrogate packets at carrier level make it much easier to do timing attacks.

[1] assuming your machine isn't compromised, or the encryption is "NSA proof"
Out of curiosity, which competitor did you move to?
I agree - but moreover, I'd like to see a single, cohesive replacement for the whole web stack. One standardized language to handle styling, scripting, server-side, and the document (in fact, let's just get rid of the notion of a document - we are building dynamic applications now, not documents). I understand that one reason we have separate languages is in light of security, but I think this could be made even better with special permissions (like unix file permissions but for code functionality/access).
Solar Impulse completes the first solar transatlantic flight
HBO Asks Google to Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player
I'm certainly not suggesting that a person go in completely uninformed, nor that he use misguided or misogynist arguments. But it's completely suitable to refute statistics or conclusions if one has done the appropriate reading - both feminist texts and texts criticizing feminism - and come to different conclusions.
How do you know Wireshark isn't compromised? Further, MS does phone home all the time to check for updates and so on. If something extra was hidden in there would we know?
Is it ironic that this slideshow complains about Javascript but requires it to be viewed?
Though I think pg's advice is exactly right for things that don't need to be started with a big bang, I don't think it applies universally. I can't imagine, for example, the Apollo Program being successful without rallying a huge number of people behind the idea beforehand.
It's an ironic fact of history that the easier it has become to be an artist the more entitled these artists feel like.

Everyone else is forced to change their business models to just make a reasonable amount of money but somehow musicians feel like they should be exempt from this phenomena.

The reality is that it has never been easier to make money, just not as many as you used to. The people they should complain to is the record labels not Spotify. They are the ones taking the big cuts without providing any value.

Spotify is fundamentally a radio station with a few fundamental diferences.

So welcome to the digital economy. It's not easy but at least you can make money performing. A luxury most other in this economy don't have.
Britain to use secret evidence in civil trials
This seem like a lot more complicated and expensive.

Why not just give the voter a unique hashed password that he can enter the internet and verify the vote that was computed for that password. Then the voters are the ones that will verify the election.
Thanks, that looks useful. Quick questions: would non-tech friends and family be able to use this? Problems being behind a NAT?
> If he can stop California from lighting that $100bn on fire chasing HSR from Bakersfield to Fresno,

$100 billion is an approximation of an old estimate of the total system cost (which includes HSR with terminii in the San Diego, LA, Sacramento, and San Francisco, and a upgrades to a number of existing intercity and commuter rail systems that would connect to HSR) -- the most recent estimate is much lower at $68.4 billion. The Bakersfield to Fresno line is a ~$3 billion first construction segment which will initially be used to improve exisiting Central Valley heavy rail passenger service and which will eventually be part of the HSR initial operating segment from Merced to Palmdale.

No one is lighting $100 billion on fire chasing HSR from Bakersfield to Fresno.

For more, see http://www.hsr.ca.gov/About/Business_Plans/2012_Business_Pla...
HBO Asks Google to Take Down “Infringing” VLC Media Player
I understand. Well, at least they did it early. It shouldn't happen once again.
Mr. Steward, Andrew,

As I understand and have observed Asperger's is a spectrum condition. Not knowing how close you are with father and/or son, it might be premature to assume he'd be ideal for a programming job (or any other technical vocation). Though, regardless of where the son might be on the spectrum, his family has experienced how different he can be. It is safe to assume that father is concerned for his son's well-being, and likely based on ample experiences.

I am mentioning this for two reasons. I would, first of all, identify and confirm the father's underlying concern. Why will he sleep better at night if his son has a job? I would not be surprised if any financial worries are dwarfed by, for example, the fear of seeing his son alone and isolated. The father might see the job as a possible solution mitigation to his real concern. Since not having a job is a problem, but a fixable problem -as opposed to Asperger's(*)- it might be the only solution he sees to help his son.

Not all those diagnosed with Asperger's find a niche in technical work. One of my close friends became a photographer. He was diagnosed at an early age and has had a therapist helping him make sense of the world. Regardless, the main message is that photography is his thing, it is something he enjoys, can keep him busy and pays the bills. The fact that the photographer is exempt from several social rules and expectations surely benefits.

Though not immediately useful, perhaps it gives you some ideas.

All the best,
Frank.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but the historical bias fat=healthy seems to be visible there. It's doubtful that by eating only vegetables they could be 'fatter' than those who drank and ate rich foods. It's obvious the writers were trying to make a point, but I'm not persuaded by the accuracy of the findings.
I want a specific format to our proprietary systems. In C# I can just say "date.Format("dd.MM.YYYY")" or what ever I want.
> * The number from the "report" is actually 8%, not 10-20%.

8% is the average for the 147 cities studied. The number was 17% for New York ("But the new study suggests that the gap is bigger than previously thought, with young women in New York City, Los Angeles and San Diego making 17%, 12% and 15% more than their male peers, respectively.")

> So when people say "young women in urban areas" we're talking about maybe 5-10% of women.

Right. I noted the qualifiers up front ("single, childless, under 30, in urban areas.") The intent was to look at a sub-set of the population where women do earn more and analyze the implications of the characteristics of the subset to the whole population. Specifically, young single women in cities out-earn men, but their earning power erodes as they get older. That's a very relevant and telling observation.
Why you should stay away from Appcelerator’s Titanium
This article is from 2011 but even in 2013 is still applicable. Think twice before choose it.
So, because some ideas are widely accepted in feminists theories (the patriarchy) must mean that there is nothing that feminists disagree about?!

That's like saying that because there is a significant amount of shared ideas in US politics (e.g.: "US Independence was a good thing"), that US politics is now some sort of group think where dissent is not allowed and everyone thinks the same!
> One thing I'm wondering: if all clinical studies are quantified via efficacy vs. a fixed placebo, shouldn't that make the results comparable? If Drug A is 200% more effective than a placebo, and Drug B is 300% more effective, does that not suggest that Drug B > Drug A?

I'm not sure that works. How do you account for different test conditions?
In Firefox, have you tried "Reset Firefox", in about:support? Most users report that this speeds up Firefox considerably.
Vertical Navigation Implementation of Side Menu in Mobile Apps
You're confusing "status quo" with "consensus".
That's one awesome project you have right there. I was just thinking of making something like that for F# with data from Codeplex and Github. But I guess your already-existent product blows my non-existent idea out of the water.
User-agent, ip, country of origin etc can be obtained server-side by reading web server logs. What you can do is change your user-agent manually, use different proxies to get another IP etc. tl;dr: do a lot work that will make you waste time and bandwidth (proxies are slow and/or costly).
What's interesting is that Rands today wrote an essay describing why he sees project managers as invaluable. It's a good compare and contrast. I look forward to hearing what happens when Stripe gets > 150 people.
You and I are talking about two different brands of bigotry found on that website: There's the Muslim bashing which I do believe is organic, and sadly, reflective of mainstream western views of the religion. I don't observe those voting trends on topics about Islam. The rapid sink/float phenomenon is specific to rants about people of African descent, mainly American blacks. It gives the impression of some cooperation amongst users.
also Haxe.
On our svn repo (team of 20 js devs) i've added jshint checking in a precommit hook. Devs who don't follow the rules literally cannot commit code. It was much less of a big deal than you would think.
Choosing an OSS license
Is he actually, or is that the persona of the character he plays on TV?
Really nice idea. I like it :)
There's no tour or screenshots so I'm judging by the cover. How is this different from http://doodle.com/ ?
Yes, that is a baseless assertion. I saw that when it was posted. I even commented on it. About how my wife had the exact same experience in reverse. A single personal anecdote is entirely meaningless.
I think do both. But yes, in the long term, a political solution is the only good solution. I hate how all this spying forces us into regressing on usability and also stops us from using some features, simply because we know NSA is on to doing nefarious things with all that data.

But we shouldn't have to worry about that sort of stuff, because we should have strong laws in place protecting against such mass spying.
"I don't think the government cares much about my correspondence"

That sounds a lot like the "I don't have anything to hide" argument.
> Whatever, you do, never use black text. It will make your site look outdated and trashy.

So on my screen, those light grey hyperlinks are just completely washed out.

Also, why should people avoid using photos of people looking directly at the camera? I'm sure you're right, but I just don't know why.

(Your remaining suggestions seem reasonable and helpful.)
He could try contacting Specialisterne. I don't know if they are operating in the USA yet but if not, they could probably offer advice on where else to look.

http://usa.specialisterne.com/contact-midwest/
Fortunately this is Hacker News, not Web Standards News so it's getting the traction here that it deserves.
It would be a great concept for a "unhosted" application.
Unless it's a friggin' gigantic loop, instruction cache miss will usually not be the issue there; branch misprediction will.

Instruction cache misses are particularly problematic in codebases with many virtual function calls (or plain function pointers in C), which can't be easily prefetched ahead of time.
Utilite – a miniature ARM-based desktop computer starting at $99
>the students who say things like "I pay tuition, I'm a paying customer, professors have to do X/Y/Z for me" are rarely the ones at the top of the class (and rarely aspire to do so).

I would suggest this is biased, since the top-rated students who understand their needs and are proactive about it won't be around to complain.

The only reason you can get away with providing a worse service to 19-year olds (as you mention twice) than you would to adults is because you have a naive, captive audience who have limited freedom of choice.
But at least it's harder to hide it, and at some point you know it's going to be found out. If we found out about the proprietary solutions spying on us, I think we'll find out even sooner about the open source ones.
>must mean that there is nothing that feminists disagree about?!

Nobody made that claim, that is my point. Responding to strawmen is not productive, respond to the actual conversation.
It's all relative, imagine how much worse he would be if he only had straight male sons?
There are a lot of ways that society is biased in favor of women[1][2], including the education and justice systems. But feminism has taken over all the mainstream institutions and right-thinking minds, so it's un-PC to mention it.

[1] http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/05/13/male-s...

[2] http://blogs.the-american-interest.com/wrm/2013/03/20/men-in...
There are hair loss products, such as Propecia, that are effective. Unfortunately the side effects can be severe: low testosterone, loss of libido, infertility, erectile dysfunction.

Anyone considering hair loss medication should do some concerted research.
Yeah, I don't really care one way or the other about the context. I more care about the fact that there was a clinical trial thousands of years ago before concepts of statistics... I like that it can all be boiled down to: split people into two groups at random. Do something to one group, do nothing to the other, measure the results.
Opbeat raised $2.7M from FB & Instagram founders + Balderton
The real question is this: how fast would a hand-tuned, multithreaded implementation of Strassen's algorithm be on that system? How fast would Strassen's algorithm be if it used the hand-tuned, multithreaded textbook algorithm for smaller matrices?

I am not denying that constant factor improvements are good, all I am saying is that at the sizes the article is talking about Strassen's algorithm is likely to be advantageous. For what it's worth, having my implementation of Strassen's algorithm use the textbook algorithm with better locality of reference reduces the running time to 61 seconds. Improving the running time of the textbook algorithm will also improve the running time of Strassen's algorithm.

(Edit: It is also worth mentioning that my implementation of Strassen's algorithm could be sped up with a few basic improvements. For example, right now it requires a lot of calls to malloc/free and it needlessly copies matrices. This is not even remotely production-grade software, it was just hastily thrown together.)
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa...:
I wonder how effective this advice would even be at achieving that goal. Consider, for instance, that what meager protections are afforded electronic communications (by the Stored Communications Act, etc.) only apply to providers that "serve the public". [1] Others, such as Jake Appelbaum, have argued that hosting with Gmail or other large providers offloads the legal burden onto their well-equipped legal teams to defend against subpoenas, FISA requests, NSL's and the like. [2]

The problem here is that it is very difficult to protect yourself when you don't understand your adversary's capabilities. We need transparent legislation and accountability in both government agencies and tech industry corporations. A lot of this advice boils down to an assumption that the NSA/DOJ/FBI will "play fair", and there is really no reason to expect them to do that.

[1]: https://ssd.eff.org/3rdparties/govt/stronger-protection
[2]: http://youtu.be/HHoJ9pQ0cn8
Just because morality involves values and priorities

I didn't say involves, I said "is". As in, consists of. Having values without acting on them is pointless, so you need priorities for the whole morality package. You do know that "values" without qualifier is short for "moral values", right? Right...

Also, just because you bring up your in-laws doesn't mean it suddenly has anything to do with them, other than you trying to make it about them. I just followed you into this dead-end because I'm fucking tired of people using themselves or their loved ones as hostages for abuse of power on a massive scale. Just because you or they fall for something doesn't make it right, and if yourself and your in-laws are all you have, then you have nothing.

Since you asked: I don't think they're being that bright, but to make really sure I'd need you to ask them what they know about WTC7, Al Quaeda in the 80s, and just exactly how much Saddam Hussein and Al Quaeda were in love with each other. Just for starters, you know? Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity, after all. Anyone who is "afraid of Al Quaeda", in 2013, needs at least to turn off the TV.

Were people who genuinely believed Hitler was great and wouldn't harm a fly "morally bankrupt"? No, but the result of their simple-mindedness sure as fuck had evil consequences for others, and to just dismiss it as having different values and priorities, well, as I said that's just sophistry, anything can be talked into being really nothing if you just keep at it. Explain it to your in-laws maybe, how Al Quaeda just has different values and priorities than them.
Not sure if serious or trolling the OP, who I'm not sure if is serious or trolling either.
Avid LoL scene follower checking in, most players are in fairly good shape. With the scene getting more serious and professional most teams are getting coaches that mandate healthy diets and exercise as part of a team's training, since you know healthy body healthy mind. So while the game might not be that physically intensive (though it definitely can be really stressful) most players do at least undergo some kind of physical 'training'.

Obviously differs from team to team and there are some overweight pros as well.
How do you write UI code to make apps look and feel correct across platforms? Does Xamarin already support the API changes in iOS 7?