skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all starting to make a bit more sense.

Democracy tends to weed out bad ideas but moves at a snails pace. Tyranny is the opposite. It moves at blazing speed but the mistakes are massive. This explains so much about Valve. It's products are high quality but it's a slow company. They're release games very slowly for a company with their money, their source engine is inferior to modern ones, and (not that it matters to me but for some it does) their graphics aren't exact top notch. I think that's why Half Life Episode 3 is delayed for so long, they're working on a new engine to compete with EA's Frostbite 3.

Before EA came out with Origin and Valve starting hauling ass to add features to Steam, Valve didn't look like it was really pushing any new steam features. There was the redesign and that was all. Then as Steam had more competition they starting added Screenshots manager, greenlight, software, source filmmaker, community hub, walkthroughs, big picture mode, linux support, etc...

It feels like the company is trying to stay small and stay the same despite desperately needing to be restructured in order to keep up with competition.

Maybe "staying a startup forever" doesn't work as good as we thought.
And how would you achieve that in practice?
You cannot nudge a rock uphill
Cryptocurrencies Could Crunch Meaningful Code Instead Of Burning Electricity
>>> In this day and age, to aspire to the Presidency, you're either a psychotic power luster capable of any lies and misdeeds necessary to win the office...

Just a little clarification - I am pretty sure you make the same mistake that apparently many people do and confuse 'psychotic' and 'psychopathic'. Those are very different things and what you describe seems to be psychopathic (characterized by psychopathy or antisocial personality disorder - lies, manipulation, lack of remorse etc.) behaviour - this behaviour is not typical for psychotic people.

Psychotic person is someone who suffers from psychosis - for example schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.

Psychotic people have really difficult life and it is partially because of the social stigma attached to psychoses - we should not make it worse by associating psychoses with morally despicable behaviour typical for psychopaths.
Like them:

https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/23vfN2qdZTu

But where does it say it's closed source?
Good point - thank you. I suspect you are right in orders of magnitude - we will not really know the exact figures, but I suspect that Intel suddenly building a new plant to cope with demand that no-one can explain would get noticed by the financial analysts (well, the good ones anyway)
There was always a shred of truth to tube transport in Futurama and the Jetsons. While it may not work exactly like that and may require attendants to ensure safety similar to airplanes, it's amazing how fast you can go without air resistance in a vacuum.

It doesn't have to be a large hadron collider, just good enough to get you to LA in 30 minutes. It can also be done economically; as the article points out, the high speed rail system may be obsoleted by this as well as flying. Imagine eliminating the great uncertainties of safety in flying at Concorde speeds.

Perhaps those cartoons scared people away from this technology :)
And indeed most of the best web features were added before standardization.

And some others that were standards first, like xhtml, well, didn't go so well.
And while Snowden and Manning had security clearances and Official Secrets Laws holding them accountable for mis-using the data they had access too, I wonder if anyone's even asking who at the local council level has access to this sort of data, and what policies/procedures/systems/agreements/accountability is in place here? Who wants to bet there's nothing stopping the local dog catcher or garbage collection manager from requesting whatever they can plausably justify - then downloading it onto a usb drive and walking out of the office with it?
The cypherpunks have yet to do their greatest work. Join us.

Nice ending, a call to action and all that. Quick quiz then - what do fellow HN'ers see as some of the greatest work still to come from a cypherpunk-like movement?
Article is 1/3 advertisement for naked women with nipples artfully tucked away behind arms. Stay classy wired.
Looking backwards the motivation to capture the process makes sense. I wonder what was the motivation in the early days?
Yep, Tom Forsyth (https://twitter.com/tom_forsyth), who was working on VR support in TF2, got laid off in the same period of time.

(Turns out he's now working for Oculus VR.)
What about metadata? Can I also hide that it is me who does crypto-chatting?
Not in defence of laptop hobos, but the following is bs:

> "For centuries cafes have been places where people go to meet, trade gossip, network and otherwise come together informally, and some coffee shops are trying to encourage that social interaction again by taking action against the laptop hobos."

Anyone who has done a bit of history (or can find WP) knows that coffee-houses and pubs used to be places where people used to read, work, play games, and hang out for hours on end, whole days or evenings; every evening. Why? Because it saved money on not having to heat ones own living-room in winter...

Using a bit of electricity on top seems relatively minor in comparison...

(though a shift in the relative price of space and drinks/food likely explains the current issues...)
This guy was brilliant. And something of a twat. I blame him for all of the jerks in advertising nowadays. Check out 'The Century of the Self' for a thought provoking documentary.
Interesting twist.
Beyond all the other factors, this is the problem:

"My first job was to design and construct a prototype design for an instrumentation amplifier but we'd never even been taught how to lay shit out on a PCB."

University is mostly a pissing context between "PhD" that couldn't survive in the real world. And the tests are to assert their dominance (mostly)

I have an EE degree. The hobbyist magazine has taught me more about how to build a simple radio than said degree.

Not to mention mathematical models for some things are, let's say, weird.
Well, that was my point. Symbian went downhill fast immediately after the iPhone and Android happened.
I presume the NSA are listed as contributors in the changelog somewhere?

I personally wouldn't touch any software produced by Google, especially as parts of Chrome are closed source.
Elon Musk. Every time I hear about him, the more fanboy-ish I get. Gotta be one of the most inspiring people alive today. He has a vision to make the world a better place (or a vision to fucking dominate, whatever you want to call it) and he's executing on it. He's ripping industries apart and creating new ones. He's unstoppable.
Gpg for journalists
asm.js works on all standards compliant browsers.

Dart is a new language / VM and it's not standardized.

So the logic is definitely not the same.
I started dancing Boogie Woogie two years ago. A month ago us 5 dance-couples danced a choreographed routine in front of ~600 people having paid to watch us and other dancers. It was the scariest thing I've ever done walking in, and walking off the stage was maybe my proudest moment ever. Weirdly enough.

So I second your recommendation of starting to dance. And I recommend Boogie Woogie. It's a fun dance with a lot of moving and playing. Look up Torbjørn and Susanne on YouTube, the World Champions.
> Additionally, as a matter of culture, Haskell programmers rarely throw exceptions.

"Rarely" is relative. Certainly far, far less than other languages, but many otherwise useful libraries are still unfortunately littered with them.
Or you could just, y'know, dance. However you want. Like children do, before we tell them they should be ashamed. "Dance like no-one's watching" is really easy to do when you're on your own.

But this seems good too.

EDIT: upon reading this again I realise it's a pretty worthless and stupid thing to say, but I can't really delete it now because someone's replied. Sorry people.
For example, being able to communicate in an encrypted way with anyone.

This is not yet a solved problem, because now I can do that only with someone who is able and is willing to install PGP or other tools - a very limited number of people. That would be quite an achievement.
There is none. If you sit arround for 3 hours with 1 cup of coffee your an <insert rude stuff here> no matter what you are doing.
> Finding out at what part of a monadic computation the return of a function put a None when there should have been a Some is much more tricky.

The point is you don't have to, because you don't use Maybe where you know statically that there can't be Nothing!
"the act of developing the intellectual and moral faculties especially by education"

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/culture
Absolutely. The only way any authority should ever be able to wiretap or get phone / internet records is with a warrant signed by a judge because there is a reasonable suspicion that the individual has committed a crime.

Even then this should only be available for law enforcement, not local fucking councils!

How did we get into this mess?
If a spaceship is eviscerated in virtual space, but nobody cares, was anything really eviscerated?
Almost all of the jobs I've had have been with small "non-hierarchical" groups. In all of them, the founders have insisted that there was no hierarchy where clearly there was. When I've tried to explain this to them, they've been incapable of perceiving it.

Even at my current corporate job, it's the same situation, but by now I've learned that you just need to take power. The one source of legitimate power you do have as an employee, especially in our industry, is the power to leave.

These days I cultivate a kind "I don't give a shit" attitude that works pretty well.
Also keep in mind, that it's not just traffic routed via the US that is being intercepted.

It's public knowledge that the NSA is building multi-billion surveillance/interception centers in (at least...) Germany.
> In theory, this elevated tube system could be built for a tenth of the cost of high-speed rail and a quarter the cost of a freeway.

How are they planning to build evacuated tube with magnetic rails for 1/10th of a price of railway?
There is an upcoming referendum in Australia which seeks to take this level of government into the budget allocation process of the federal system. If this happens, all functions of local government have the characteristic of affecting federal taxing powers.

Therefore all actions and provisions by local government will have a characteristic that provides the authority to access metadata for all citizens on the single signature of the enquirers supervisor. The enquirer can be any paid employee of the council who has a working title.

Any license, fee, ambiguity on any bylaw compliance, planning decision and so on can, because it has a fiduciary component, lead to a legally performed metadata query on any citizen.

And the citizenry I have met are, I am afraid, oblivious to these matters.
> You didn't teach them how to do Z

That's called problem soloving. You see the problem, see that it is a combination of smaller problems, you solve them.
Lots of problem solving at school was teaching exactly that: how to transform a problem into the ones you can solve with step-by-step approach. This was true not only for math, but for physics and chemistry too.
actually it boils down to very few steps:

# rpm --import https://fedoraproject.org/static/FB4B18E6.txt
# yum update yum
# yum --releasever=19 distro-sync

also see this: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum#Fe...
To analyze and review her dancing session on the way to work the next day, I'd guess.
It's not an evacuated tube, Musk has said so explicitly on more than one occasion.

Also, the Hyperloop system is still extraordinarily expensive, characterizing it as "1/10th as expensive as a railway" is misleading. It's, potentially, 1/10th as expensive as the ludicrously expensive California high-speed rail system which comes in at an astounding $68 billion just to connect San Francisco and LA. Which might be more than the entire TGV system cost to construct, for that matter. It's certainly several times the cost of the channel tunnel, for example.
As a moderately advanced computer user, I would like to see:

Convenient and standard way to cryptographically identify myself across different mediums.

Convenient variants of communication mediums such as chat rooms and forums that do not rely on or can be controlled by any one third-party server.
So, it doesn't deserve to be on the front page of Hacker News because it's Indian?
What explains the abysmal power efficiency of Linux?
Tractor trailers do not behave very differently than normal automobiles on freeways, and they're generally not allowed on smaller roads.
Interested to hear about how you wield this power. Do you use it as a threat, or are you saying that you just simply leave?
As SteveJalim below said, don't bother asking, just do it :) I personally love bootstrap as I am not a great designer and can save lot of time, which is my main priority since I am building a one man company. If this means, having a site similar to thousands other with same buttons and login pages, I can live with it.
Tor Project: Jobs (Lead Automation Engineer)
Historical note: the Mittani has been Goonfleet's spymaster and head of black ops since 2006 or so.
What's wrong with the library?
Oh that's just utter nonsense.

Automation (especially in diagnosis) is welcomed and supported by the medical profession.

Some vague idea of walking up to a kiosk and the computer telling you your condition and dispensing pills is opposed by everyone apart from the CEOs of kiosk makers
Virtual hosts in Apache? mod_rewrite? Your understanding of modern PHP development really is circa 2000. Try replacing those with nginx and PHP-FPM for a start.
How often do people piss that far up a urinal? Doesn't seem common from my experience.
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Personally I find Python, Ruby, Lua, C to be "puzzle" languages. The puzzle is how to manipulate the primatives like arrays, pointers, dictionaries, etc. to express the natural, higher-level concepts that you really want, like map, fold, etc.

Programmers in my previous job would feel pleased with themselves if they'd solved the "puzzle" of an array processing loop which was a simple recursive function in disguise.
CRS: NSA Surveillance Leaks: Background and Issues for Congress[pdf]
That would be nice, but such a goal faces at least five major challenges: not everyone has or wants computers, those with computers these days often don't control them anymore (OTA updates to or vendor-locked devices), most people aren't educated enough to use any solutions that do exist, global discoverability requires central or at least hierarchical registration prior to key exchange, and secure key management is still so painful that average individuals are not going to opt in to it without some kind of serious requirement on their part... or deal well with a potential scenario of key loss.
It seems plainly obvious to me that Snowden's only option will be to reside at the leisure of a state that is a natural enemy of the US.

Any country that is a friend to the US is not safe to Snowden. However, I cannot think of a single stable democracy that would risk the wrath of the United States.

Snowden has a secondary problem with countries such as Venezuela, is that they are inherently unstable. Should the current Venezuelan government fall and switch to a pro-US government, then I assume he has a rather big problem on his hands.
Simple, clean design. This is how I like to see it done.
And since XUL is not standardized, Mozilla has removed support for that in webpages.

Try going to http://www.hevanet.com/acorbin/xul/top.xul in Firefox: "This page uses an unsupported technology that is no longer available by default in Firefox"
> PHP's per-request execution model is a strength that is often overlooked by people who are mostly using persistent application servers.

You nailed it. AKA "Shared Nothing Architecture".
But that's the point. Not in Haskell! (Or almost not :)

Haskell goes out of its way to make it hard to do "dangerous" things by accident.
You completely skipped the answer about Native Messaging API, is worrysome. And RyanZAG nailed it, the chromium blog is full of references to Google-only apis
>> "ET3 has already built mock-ups and prototypes and is planning a 3-mile test run by the end of 2013."

Every time I've heard Musk talk about this I thought it was something that we wouldn't see for another 10-20 years. A test this year would be fantastic. Of course with regulation/law no matter how quickly they build it we might not see it in use by the general public for a long time.

As we don't know many details I can't be sure but could this be Musk's answer to long-distance green travel? He already has the solar panel company (providing green energy to buildings etc.), Tesla (green cars), ET3 (green airplane replacements). I'm not sure if this was his aim but owning each of those markets would be pretty amazing.

Edit:

It might take some convincing to get people to use this though. My first thought when it said it could travel at 4000MPH was "if anything goes wrong with this I'm dead". A lot of effort/cost will need to be put into maintaining the system as at that speed even a minor flaw will most likely cause fatalities.
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"The NOAA" looks super silly. You can tell who does not cover the federal IT sector very often.
The shuttle had a similar problem with a large piece of round metal that had more than one way to install of which only one was right. The mechanics knew this and asked for some markers on the piece to ease the process. The markers were never added not because of the cost of four paint points but because of the documentation that had to be updated.

So there is your problem - bureaucracy. I'm sure that an engineer knew about the sensor mounting problem but nobody cared enough to make the change because of the paperwork.
If you lose $9000 in poker, I would not care, but you and the people at the table certainly would.
Has anyone in mobile OS and mobile apps ever questioned the assumptions that Java must be used and/or a scripting language must be used, e.g., Javascript?
What if we had a mobile OS and a mobile app that was 100% Java free and only ran compiled code (i.e., that compiles to ARM assembly)?

First, it's a bit pedantic but JIT VMs still compile down to ARM assembly on an ARM device. They basically optimize away the overhead of interpreting their target language.

That said, what you're getting at is how Palm and Windows Mobile did it (for the most part, there is/was .Net for Windows CE) and how iOS does it now. Ubuntu Mobile and Win Phone 8 offer native toolsets in addition to GC/managed runtimes.

I don't think its an assumption at all that mobile devices have to use Java. J2ME didn't exactly take over the world, and that had the advantage of hardware acceleration in the form of ARM Jazelle[1].

What has happened is as hardware gets faster/cheaper, Java, .Net, JS, etc become a better fit for development on mobile devices. On the Desktop we have stupidly powerful machines that can generally brute force their way through the inherent overhead of interpreted/JITed/VMed languages. On mobile however, we're not there yet.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazelle
So increase the in school value of taking those classes - more free periods, special lunches, non uniform days

Basically incentivise
Yeah, I've been following the project and have noted this as well. Curious that they calling the project Evacuated Tube Transport, though...
I'd rather piss outside in the bushes, thank you very much.
It's interesting to notice the attitudes of the individual shop owners and how they appear to have changed over time. It used to be the case that coffee shops wanted to attract the quiet techie types, clacking away at their laptops and sipping on lattes while checking email, watching videos, working, building the next facebook... whatever. It didn't matter, as long as the ambiance reflected that progressive hopefulness that a quiet 20/30-something on a laptop used to project.

"Used to project," being the key phrase there. It seems that based on the attitudes of coffee shop owners, we're entering a post-internet era. Are people finally starting to again realize (as they once did in the early 90s) that being antisocial in public is simply not cool? I tend to think we've evolved with understanding as a basic part of our subconscious. We see a person engaged in antisocial behavior in a public places, and we tend to think less of that person. It would seem that our innate beliefs are once again rising to prominence.
Record your terminal and share the recordings
I actually feel more awkward dancing by myself at home when attempting to learn a move, than I feel in a lesson or in a club.
"As people worldwide chat, browse and post images through online services, much of the information flows within the technological reach of US surveillance. [...]"

Relevant poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6017918
South Korea to Train 5,000 Cybersecurity Experts
I saw the possible mock-ups of such a tube system (where everybody has to be seated) and had only one question: Where is the restroom and how do you stand up to walk there?

I hope Elon has considered this.
to be honest, I'd have linked the features list page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/FeatureList which bundles a lot of nice informations in a single page!
New school curriculum emphasises coding, climate change, 3D design
The problem with non-hierarchical groups is the behind-the-scenes leaders, whom the powers-that-are trust. And therefore automatically unofficially become leaders.

It looks like officially he isn't the boss, but for almost all practical purpose he is.

The worst thing that happens in such places is, those people using their power to help their buddies, gangs and yes men for their own benefit and political power. If you are not one of them you are screwed.
On my first contact with Symbian I could hardly believe that their C++ tooling was worse than to develop for MS-DOS in C++.
I like the idea of trying to combine good looks and usability with secure communications. But with no source code, and no mention of OTR, nor of free-choice-of-server, I'm not very hopeful.

Perhaps they should just create pretty skins over Gibberbot and Chatsecure instead :-/
Yes, absolutely. In the interest of our shared planet and our fellow man, we should always strive to raise the bar.

Chinese industry must be gently pushed away from make-it-cheap-make-it-quick practices that are unsustainable in the long period, both from an industrial perspective (sooner or later there will be someone cheaper than you) and from an environmental one.
Echoing Ehsan's comments, please, if you have specific feedback on the spec we'd really appreciate to hear your views in the W3C Audio Working Group[1].

We're approaching the stage where we'd like to go to "last call", so there's never been a better time to give us some feedback. Your experience of trying to implement the spec would be very valuable to us.

If you have any questions about getting involved in the group please contact me directly (I co-chair the WG) and I'll help you.

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/
Will the desktop version have the ability to use functions from third party libraries?

We have a bunch of complicated maths in a java library. At the moment I've got a jruby wrapper around it and using the jruby repl, but it would be awesome if I could use this with it.