skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I heard the government was also cutting their subsidies? Is that true?

I don't think most subsidies are good, but sometimes they could be needed if you want the future to look a certain way, and I don't think it's right to cut the subsidies of the solar industry after just a few short years, when the oil industry has been getting subsidies for almost a century, and keeps getting them (this goes for most countries).
NationalSecurityAgency wants to merge 5 commits into yiisoft:master
Illawarra kids get to play in the dirt while learning
Could you possibly check now? Also, there are two more interactive pages that are "hidden": http://personnel.usainteanne.ca/aroberge/mirror.html and
http://personnel.usainteanne.ca/aroberge/single_lens.html
Folks, this is trollaxor; a funny, colorful troll from Slashdot. It's exquisite satire, but not for polite company. YHBT.
Siemens to Shutter Solar Unit Following $1B Loss

Bloomberg News' Alex Webb reports that Siemens AG is getting out of the solar power industry, announcing plans to close its solar power unit after struggling to find a buyer following losses of at least $1 billion since 2011.

Source:

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/siemens-to-shutter-solar-unit...
US agency destroys keyboards, mice to get rid of viruses
The trouble is they're not actually doing it cheaper. They're doing it expensively, but using Chinese government subsidies to over-expand production.

The problem is that Chinese companies like Suntech (1) get massive government grants to expand production, but when their massive overproduction swamps the market and prices crash, they still ended up losing money and had to default on their bonds. It's a debacle at both ends, Germany and China.

(1) http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-03/business/38997...
Yep. This is a mistake that a lot of Bitcoin-clones seem to make. Sure Litecoin "needs" less time to gain six confirmations, but you end up with a much lower ultimate difficulty. There's extensions on this with alt-coins, where people modify the client to have 10 second block targets and <10 confirmations, which ultimately makes the entire "currency" insecure and worthless.
Thanks. I don't know if this is the right place to get into this, but I still find that explanation aggravating. Perhaps (probably) if I went and read Cantor's original work, I would be satisfied. But perhaps you can save me the trouble.

Here is my problem. You actually can't pair up the reals with the integers, simply because the reals cannot be enumerated. If you take two sets whose members actually can be enumerated, you can pair them up up long as you want.

To reiterate: I'm claiming that the "pairing" operation is not defined validly here, because it would rely on enumerating the elements of both sets, which you cannot do for the reals. Since the proposed definition of "bigger" rests on the "pairing" operation, that definition doesn't appear to be valid to me.
> If you're going to continue using Google Mail, it's a dumb idea to deliberately switch away from Chrome.

Only if that single feature outweighs your other reasons for switching away from Chrome.
https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9909.html#NSAKeyinMicro...

Let's be honest, Why would NSA force MS to add a key like that, in such a way?
The wastefulness of automation
Youth Defence are, in case anyone doesn't know and given that the defacement is now gone, a fairly unpleasant, far-right, anti-abortion group in Ireland:

http://www.conorfarrell.com/wordpress/social-issues/the-prob...
http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?14529-Youth-Def...
Are there any airlines that allow electronic cigarettes?
Personal, with Hyperoptic. It's £60/month, but that includes a phone service.
Announcing Resource-Level Permissions for Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS
random and uniform are different things. a PRNG isn't "too random", that doesn't make sense.

If it's too uniform, sample from other distributions, but to do so usually requires taking output from a PRNG.

Indeed using the inverse CDF of any distribution is a map from (0,1) to the desired sample space, following the distribution.

As for which PRNG for RPG games, MT is very good because while it isn't cryptographically secure, it otherwise has a very long period and delivers very nicely distributed numbers as well as being very fast.

For non-crypto applications such as monte-carlo, there's little reason to use much else.
IIRC most of Asia / developing countries without inactive lifestyles, overzealous meat consumption and fatty/sugary modern pretend-foods don't have issues with heart disease.
"Chinese Solar Panel Giant Is Tainted by Bankruptcy"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/business/energy-environmen...
Well, no, primes aren't very useful, though this might have lead to a bit of an arms race in probabilistic prime-finding algorithms - which would be good, I suppose.

I wonder if you could make a proof-of-work algorithm based on, say, protein folding?
I see it more as a failure of subsidies. Those companies were built for the sole purpose of grabbing government money. Not only is the installation of solar panels highly subsidized in Germany, these companies were often also founded in economically poor regions in eastern Germany which would grant further support. A few years ago there was a real alternative energy goldrush, companies expanded quickly, IPOs happened etc. . The money was plenty and the companies lived well of it. Then the Chinese catched up, and afaik there was/is no real reason to not buy the Chinese product since the German companies had no real advance in quality or technology (maybe they did not innovate, since they thought they were in a comfortable position?). Now the subsidies for installations would go to China. So basically the tax money supposed to prop up German industries supports a Chinese price-dumping scheme. And if that was not worse enough our energy prices are rising and rising (I think I pay about 0,25€ / kWh) (about a third of it is going to alternative energy subsidies). And don't get me started on the problems with keeping the grid at 50Hz....
A pretty despicable organisation that currently is straight out lying about proposed abortion legislation and is attempting to pressure the government by publicising that if they push legislation through they are baby killers.

Although I enjoyed seeing their site hacked they'll milk in terms of being "persecuted".
On the other hand, serving it WILL get you bit. It takes out a chunk of your personality right away, and then there is the agenda itself, which is an omnivore.

You know, given the choice.. even being a face that is trampled on by a boot, forever, is better than becoming a boot, forever.
my god, it's like a republican freemarketer madlibs
I see you changed the pricing! :)

Any luck with conversions?
Swarm-Based Legal Action
This is one theoretical explanation. Another one, quite plausible, is that Chinese companies spent less on salaries, especially of management and company image, given very different "standards of life" between China and Germany, and just producing the damn things.)
Interesting. Kind of an eclectic small list: Google, Twitter, Tor, CryptoCat.
Pretty sure the "spiral" part is not lauded as a feature. Or accepted as an inevitable outcome, for that matter.
Mistakes Are a Marketing Opportunity
> I made this to point out some real tactics that are actually used and why the vast majority of PRISM related posts like these are a bit silly...aka..you're probably not a terrorist. The NSA tracked bin Laden's courier Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti's cell phone which eventually led them to Bin Laden. Does that sound like anything you're doing?

I find this mindset really weird and alien. Surely people who are not terrorists using security measures is exactly what's needed, so that security measures become normalized and the web's vulnerability to malicious actors is lowered. I agree that the site's focus on the NSA and PRISM is a bit misleading, but that doesn't make the site silly (although other things might).
> large volume of lower cost panels produced in China which are flooding (allegedly being dumped in) the market

Would it be illegal for these German companies to just buy up all the panels as they enter the market, to resell later? If the suggestion is that the panels are being sold at below-cost in order to crush competition, then it can't be sustainable.
Prestashop 101 Day 16 - Employees and Languages
How I discovered gender discrimination
Online CTFs are computer security challenges (reversing binaries, exploits, cryptography/steganography challgenges, forensics). I'm trying my hand at those, although I'm still stammering :)

I also tried teaching myself some Django via online tutorials, but I must say web development isn't my cup of tea : One of those tutorials showed how to make a basic blog. I typed all the code by hand step by step. The admin interface shows up, the development server runs without errors, but errors arise in urls.py and the templates. I copypaste the relevant code to check. "Unmatched parenthesis" template error still showing. Googling the error: no relevant matches. I flip the table and ragequit.)

I like to think I have low-frustration tolerance, although I pick high-frustration video games (I'd probably love Dark Souls), but I still want it to develop that skill in case of (to show my portfolio yup, but in my case, said portfolio is pretty much inexistent, and that worries me to have nothing to show to potential employers, especially in the field I aim to work.)
Show HN: Easy-to-configure Static Web/Reverse Proxy Server in Go
Time to bust out the scramble suits...
What Is The Relevance of Probability?
tl;dr DN is really HN with a better interface, but the same type of comments you'd read here and a similar format.
Ask HN: Mobile map server
Anyone tried setting up a maps server for use in a vehicle? It would be good to be able to connect to it by wifi to allow mobile clients to request map tiles.
I'll miss the duder.
Yes, the crypto identity aspect goes some way to address Sybil like problems.

Regarding anonymity: you're only as anonymous as your association with your public key[s]. Given that items (k/v pairs) stored in the DHT are self-contained in terms of proving provenance it doesn't matter from what node they originate. Put plainly, there is no need for a node id (a SHA512) to be linked to a specific user (identified by their public key). I explain how signing items works here: http://ntoll.org/article/drogulus-questions-and-clarificatio...

For me, the most curious fact about the drogulus is that it is a ubiquitous ecosystem for asynchronously processing Logos code and data. If you see the implication of this then you'll get where I'm trying to go with the drogulus.

:-)
Challengio - challenges between friends?
Thanks, all feedback most welcome.
Very impressive and inspiring to think about new possibilities: games, interfaces, data visualizations ... And works fine on my netbook.
Now there's hope that we won't be dominated by flat design ;)
Ugh. Only 2 in the UK, neither of them close to me; how disappointing.
Scary to see how my work and private connections and social groups can be reproduced just by my email headers..
> That has also been my experience, but there's always an army of people that claims "Java can be just as fast or faster than C++". Anyone care to prove Mr.Lemire wrong?

They are not necessarily in contradiction. Java can be as fast or faster than C++ - if you choose a workload whose active set (including Java overheads) fits into the CPU cache. Of course there are very few realistic and useful workloads where that is the case.

Still, most things don't have code execution as a bottleneck and/or aren't so performance critical that a factor of 3 is a big problem.
True, and I'm fine with paying for that (I'm German). It's better than just having world summits that end in disagreement.

Let's build amazing green technology, invest and then profit some from adaption and then see the real goal come true when everyone starts to make it. It might kill some companies in the end, but there's so much more at stake here.
I tried it a few weeks ago and after working for about 2 hours on something I realized that Sketch doesn't have any support for color management (switching color profiles etc.). This is a showstopper for me.
I doubt there was ever an actual, official point where they formally acknowledged its existence - that'd draw far too much attention.
Company vs nation, who wins?
Later? He was working on this stuff since the 1970s. You'd think there's be something generally useable out in the wild by now.
Maybe so, but I never mentioned anything about copypasting code myself. I type those snippets by myself, though sometimes I get some help from Stack Overflow, but I try to understand what I take from the answers, otherwise it's just some black-box code.
Is this an attempt to have them all shut down? The police don't care if you're an exit node or a child pornographer, if you start transmitting that stuff you're going to have a bad time.
The European banknotes have the word "EURO" on them three different ways: Romance (EURO), Greek (ΕΥΡΩ), and (since 2013) Cyrillic (ЕВРО).

I swear I once saw a picture which was like a Huffman coding table for the spelling of Europe in every European language, but I can't find it now - anyone seen it? It started with a big E, and then had U and Y above on another, and so on.
Usable smart guides as a feature have been in the shitty freeware vector tools I used 7 years ago. I don't quite understand why the author is wetting his pants because of them, but maybe the Apple ecosystem has been so far behind that this is somehow new and cool.
Three Strikes and You’re Still In – France Kills Piracy Disconnections
FTA:
Stations that use vulnerable gear should upgrade to version 2.0-2, which is available by sending an e-mail to suport@digitalalertsystems.com.

As a "broadcast-emitting-messages-company" admin: would I really upgrade a system, which functionalities include complete take-over of my broadcast equipment, that is vulnerable to someone mistaking the private and public ssh keys of his "taking-over-any-equipment" equipment ?

I'd rather un-subscribe from that "service" in the limit of legality until that point of failure is fixed.
But even so, a large percentage of developed countries did prohibit alcohol for a few years, both despite and because of its popularity, and it took years of people being turned into criminals before those laws were rolled back.

Popularity provides some protection, but it also creates a more desirable target for legislation amongst those who oppose it.
Not necessarily. See http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/02/ask-ars-why-spend-tim...
As they note, the traffic from HN has meant that their main page isn't a full list. There's dozens when you look at the UK category http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/United_Kingdom
Five Patterns to Help You Tame Asynchronous JavaScript
"The SuperGenPass UI is rendered within the DOM of the current page when you click the bookmarklet. The UI is where you enter your master password. And because the UI is part of the current page, any script running in the page can read your master password. Remember that script can be external too, as in advertisements or widgets of some kind." -
http://akibjorklund.com/2009/supergenpass-is-not-that-secure

There are even a couple of demos:

http://akibjorklund.com/files/2009/10/supergenpass-vulnerabi...

http://akibjorklund.com/files/2009/10/supergenpass-vulnerabi...

I tested both demos with the latest version of SuperGenPass (2.01) from http://supergenpass.com/
Is there any reason why this new physical level infrastructure would not be wiretapped by NSA right away?
LegoDuino: Lego + Arduino for a 9 year old
I wonder why ZTE chose to sell this device thru operators. Just push them to retailers or sell online with worldwide delivery!
Reversal of German subsidies and subsidies on Chinese side (that's what you mean by price dumping, right?) causing the German side to implode => failure of subsidies. Right.

Also, I would replace "the sole purpose of grabbing government money" with "wouldn't happen if not for the subsidies". But then the spin would be different, eh?
Same US Chamber of commerce, a private creation whose name is made to mirror government entities, involved in plot to undermine/smear Wikileaks supporters, dissidents, political activists via corporations like Palantir/HBGary?

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/02/11/143669/chamberle...

I recall the "U.S.-EGYPT BUSINESS COUNCIL," part of the US Chamber of commerce. From their website: "The USEBC, located within the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.."

http://www.usegyptcouncil.org/about/

Also a part of this group inviting businessmen around to meddle in nations: Booz Allen Hamilton.

http://www.usegyptcouncil.org/member-companies/

Yea these gents are not involved in global market manipulation on the backs of the unwashed masses. Not at all.

edit: duped link
Then again, computing power and data-requirements both expand at a high rate together, when there are a gazillion cores and terabytes of RAM available for sneaky intelligence business, there will be 4k (or even higher, sky's the limit (and the size of the photon, obviously.)
Today various intelligence agencies like the NSA as we now know collect insane amounts of data on the population, but they're unable to effectively sift through it all.
When Google Glass gets refined, minimalized and meets fashion, we'll see an impossible amount of increase in data.

This is my bright point in the future as far as surveillance goes, for instance dashcams in Russia became a neccessity for the individual citizen to remain safe in face of the law, the results we all know where meteor strikes are documented better than ever, where law officials have to take care what they do, where car accidents are right down to the facts on the mem chip, etc.

GGlass can become the same thing on an even more personal level, the truth becomes more easily available when any one person with the ability to press a button can document an event for the world to see.
I probably don't like going through the hurdles associated with problem solving, but I'm not going to give up for all that.

I don't get excitement and joy from programming: so what?
There are moments when I can't get pleasure or joy out of anything I do, like sleeping or eating, but it doesn't mean I should stop doing either of those things.

I'm not interested by entrepreneurship and startups for the moment, for now I'm more into acquiring technical skill.
What code ? It's more likely they just were given a new public key for an updated private key or something along this line.
Designer Check : Checklist
Prove that human-induced global warming is a bad thing and win £10,000
There's no competent vector-art software for the Mac, and sadly Sketch doesn't change that.

Test one: Is there a proper selection mode? No. There's no way to set this application to select only objects that are entirely contained inside the selection rectangle, and that makes it essentially unusable. This pretty much kills it for even relatively simple drawings. It's as if nobody tests this stuff.

Look at this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/forensicpics/1800773495/in/set-...
I'm not sure about the spiral, but the deflation aspect is definitely part of the plan.

Those most in love with BTC seem basically to just want to sit on something and get richer, because anything else is the government/other people/moochers stealing their money through inflation.
I'd be interested to hear about the state of encryption (particularly end-to-end encryption) in the listed Social Networking projects.
I've learned to always run a simple test where I print into the console 1 million iterations of the distribution. Takes about 10 seconds and this is just for games, not crypto.
Do they support WebRTC?
<quote>This ruling, and others like it hint at a fundamental flaw in constitutional law and how most people perceive their relationship with the state, particularly in regard to social contract theory. These rulings call into question the very legitimacy of state authority.</quote>

State protect property. There's nothing ambiguous about that.

Only problem with society is that you watch much super man cartoons and thing the state is there to protect the oppressed.
I apologize for any misunderstanding.

People with different backgrounds focus on different things. Some designers will be do fabulous things on an aspect of typography (turning a K into a currency sign) and yet make an error with type contrast that impedes reading.

One could infer from that is they don't think what they wrote was as important as the picture, since they rather intentionally selected a poor contrast design.

All professions have anti-patterns and all people make errors. Mine was being a little flip in my tone to show a recurring problem I experience. Yours was generalizing that criticism of a designer's error is a criticism of the entire profession.
I think its fair to say that this is a highly opinionated list.
You could also have the app phone home every few days asking for up-to-date data,
or diffs, and storing it locally (it shouldn't be that big). Then release a new version every now and then with roll-ups.
Don't use template letters -- put your thoughts in your own words. MPs/their staff tend to weight template letters lower as they indicate less effort and thought, and writetothem blocks them if it detects them.
FUNNY BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM HOLDING SHIFT WITH MY LITTLE FINGER.
> For example, Internet Explorer, Chrome and Safari provide ways to sync your bookmarks, all of which track you

Safari is getting especially terrible. You can either sync "Safari" with iCloud or you don't. This includes bookmarks, but also ALL OPEN TABS ("iCloud tabs"). My bookmarks are absolutely harmless, my open tabs are highly sensitive. Apple sucks at services. :(
>>So they're in a catch of their own: They know if they continue to produce, they'll flood the market and depress the price

They only need to depress the prices until they kill off the non-Chinese competition, then they have a money earning business. After that, repeat the procedure for the next industry...

(This is the standard business model of monopolies. I believe a classic example are big bakery chains which enter an area and kills off the local small bakeries with low prices, then they raise the prices above the prices of the now-gone bakeries, to finance taking over the next area.)
It should be a free market. Assuming there is actual "dumping", then look at it as the Chinese are deliberately making themselves poorer in order for the Germans buying the panels to keep more of their own money. The Germans are the ones better off, and the Chinese are worse off!

The usual mumbling is then about it being a move to remove other's production capacity, and somehow in the future reap oversized profits. The technology moves fast enough to make that less likely, and reaping oversized profits means new entrants can come in to get regular profits so preventing the oversized profits.

Free markets are generally self correcting to match supply and demand. The people distorting them are usually the ones who end up worse off.
Amazon AWS introduces resource levels for EC2
He also named a member of the terrorist group (Al-Jamaa Al-Islamiya) that organized the massacre to be the governor of Luxor:

* http://disquietreservations.blogspot.fr/2013/06/morsi-picks-...

* http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-morsi-is...
Incase I was not entirely clear, I am accusing those personally invested in companies that deal with world's secrets like James Clapper of using companies like Booz Allen to aid other corporations that are given legal immunity.

The trade of insider secrets, exploits, bugging diplomats and world leaders. Collecting 'metadata' from the rest at the very least. Turning intel into for-profit ventures while granting legal immunity to corporations that are given preferential market treatment.

This is global manipulation. It burdens us all eroding chances for creation and innovation while keeping a few monied and out of prison.