skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Although I highly doubt Apple would risk the backlash by putting a malicious feature like that in without an option to turn it off.

Really? Wasn't Apple the one tracking iphone users wherever they went? [1]

I get the concern about Ubuntu sending data to amazon by default (i.e. can be disabled), I really do, but going out of the way to recommend something as proprietary as either Apple or Microsoft out of spite? This is what really bothers me about the OSS community. How about helping Mint/Fedora out and recommending them instead? I know some do, but even the OP here flaunted that an OSX recommendation seemed more viable than Ubuntu. As much as I would want not to be tracked, at least with Open Source SOFTWARE we can be more aware of it, or even have a say in it; not always so with proprietary stuff! So no, I do not believe either Windows or OSX are better than Ubuntu in this regard.

Not to mention that Canonical isn't a big company, so if they need help bootstrapping by doing some stuff with amazon for now, then so be it. I would hold off judgement on their actions until they're actually in a position of real financial power, cause right now it just seems they had to resort to such ad placement deals because the generous donations weren't cutting it. It's really not clear whether it's actually that big of a deal right now.

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/apr/20/iphone-trac...
You can make use of the type() and isinstance() functions when needed.
Aleph 1 is not the cardinality of the Reals (this is also noted in the top comment)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_hypothesis
Funny, I must have missed the part of the Fourth Amendment that carves out an exception for "special needs" or "overriding public danger." Hm, let's see:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Nope, I still don't see it.
There can be no "consent of the governed" when "We the People" are unaware of the actions which our elected, as well as non-elected, representatives perpetrate in Our name.

___Edit__

Yes, "unaware," as in "We the People" are perpetually "unaware" of what goes on in secret court proceedings.
Here's a zinger:

The officials said one central concept connects a number of the court’s opinions. The judges have concluded that the mere collection of enormous volumes of “metadata” — facts like the time of phone calls and the numbers dialed, but not the content of conversations — does not violate the Fourth Amendment, as long as the government establishes a valid reason under national security regulations before taking the next step of actually examining the contents of an American’s communications.

This concept is rooted partly in the “special needs” provision the court has embraced. “The basic idea is that it’s O.K. to create this huge pond of data,” a third official said, “but you have to establish a reason to stick your pole in the water and start fishing.”
couldn't find a mainstream media outlet covering his passing, but with Univ of Tokyo colleagues confirming his death on Twitter, it is all but certain.

His early death was undoubtedly brought upon by the massive stress he was put under during his years of court battles which were brought upon him for his role in "assisting copyright infringement". He finally won a not guitly verdict in 2011.

Things were finally starting to look up for him. He was back at his old nest (Tokyo U) as a special instructor since 2012/12. He was a man who could still make considerable contributions the field of computing. Then this.

RIP.

https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%87%91%E5%AD%90%E5%8B%87_%2...
FlightAware: http://flightaware.com/live/flight/AAR214/history/20130706/0...
After a beer last night, feeling unimpressed by the rest of the respones here, I wound up the courage to email the ninja himself - http://www.schneierfacts.com/

His answer, of course, is both simple and perceptive... somehow we all missed it. Cheers, Bruce!

Of course it's feasible.

The question is never about how to add a whole bunch of rounds, or multiple ciphers, to make something secure. The question is always security for a given unit of performance.

With no performance constraints, just use any old thing for a thousand rounds.
No data is random, information is data put into context.

Stasi didn't capture random noise. They captured activity from suspicious people. They weren't actually data mining but eavesdropping. They knew who their targets where, who they found suspicious.

Contrast that with the NSA who are looking to see if there are people who are suspicious that they then "pull a stasi" on.
You have IDEs installed on your production servers...?
it's worse than that. It's like comparing the number of bullets the army have today with how many and who actually fired them.
Your "6039" should be "6389". It was only clearly audible the last time on the tape, the previous couple times it did sound like 6039 due to interference.
I am more to believe that those two quotes should have been reversed. I am all for the idea of publisher's being pushed out in favor of authors getting direct to customers, the same idea that would be so nice in music.

There really is no difference in the end, both can easily be delivered electronically and both have adherents to the old means of enjoying them; physical copies.
oh..actually, I just want to submit a link that I just develop by AngularJS that as a Fancy HN site...
but HN seems do not like my new stuff.....

sorry about the spam.. but I really suggest we can try some thing new.
this is Hacker's idea right? Try new stuff get better stuff?
Exactly!

They are two very different types of surveillance and especially in this context they are un-comparable.
The Minuteman III (the backbone of the US ICBM fleet) has a listed CEP of 200 m. The Trident D5 has a CEP of as low as 90 m, but it's an SLBM not strictly an ICBM, and it varies depending on range.

The CEP figure represents the radius of a circle where there is a 50% chance of the bomb landing within that circle. The CEP figure is basically 2/3 of a standard deviation.
The FISA courts need to be dissolved, and replaced with something that is visible to the public.
This is one of those inventions where if Daoist thought comes in to play it allows you to laugh heartily at the folly of the entire proposition.

Observe: (1) The further you go from nature, the more problems you cause yourself. (2) Concrete industry is one of the greatest polluters in the world. (3) The impermeable nature of concrete is at once its weakness; by attempting to block nature's course, it ensures both its own destruction and engenders other problems such as flash floods. (4) Given the above, why make a new concrete to 'improve' upon nature? Nature cannot be improved upon. Because there is only one Way. (5) The Way that can be written is not the Way.
A large chunk of the job of developing software is getting the stakeholders to understand the problem they want the software to solve. The rest of it is just typing which is the trivial part.
The RFC822 email address regex : http://www.debuggex.com/r/-Izy_lmZmdCAITvQ/0

Very pretty indeed
This looks really interesting, though I question their pricing model.

How many sites have more than 10+million page views a month?

I suspect dcodes is attempting to compete with Bootstrap and Foundation.

This looks great, but I wonder if their might be a better business model for them?
sysadmin...sense...tingling...

Get in the habit of putting $file (and, in this case, ${file%.jpg}_s.jpg) in double quotes. Your one-liner (and theirs) will blow up spectacularly if there's whitespace in a filename:

bash-3.2$ for i in 'lots of spaces'.jpg '1 2'.jpg; do printf 'arg = %s\n' ${i%.jpg}_s.jpg; done
arg = lots
arg = of
arg = spaces_s.jpg
arg = 1
arg = 2_s.jpg

bash-3.2$ for i in 'lots of spaces'.jpg '1 2'.jpg; do printf 'arg = %s\n' "${i%.jpg}_s.jpg"; done
arg = lots of spaces_s.jpg
arg = 1 2_s.jpg

EDIT: It's also worth noting that, by default, zsh doesn't split on whitespace in parameter expansion like sh, bash, etc. do. ("man zshexpn" and search for "SH_WORD_SPLIT")
A pond of circular reasoning, built on sandy foundations of quid pro quo and legal memos hidden from the sunlight of day it seems.
The US regulations already contain provisions for this. You needn't worry that the people who lost their passport in a plane crash will be treated inhumanely. They may be inconvenienced in terms of lost time, but at least they didn't die in a fire.
Draw a positive line which abruptly goes to 0 and invent conspiracy theories about what they're trying to hide from us.

Is brooks pharmacy being censored by the government?! (1)
Doctors hate them, lobbyists~ etc...

Source: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:5J79rEBVG...
In light of recent mass surveillance uproars, the possibility of remote eye tracking technology is what really scares me. While the technological usage could be limited or masked, such attention detector and analyzer could give enourmous powers to those who have the behavioral models.

Very interesting reserach though.
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Americuh! Fuck Yeah!
It's obscene. Skinner (the railway case) and its brethren are concerned with either employees in certain sensitive jobs, and school children participating voluntary activities. Some of them go too far, in my opinion, but none can be read as justification for this kind of blanket operation covering the entire populace.
This is interesting, but you basically have to keep guessing until you get the right answer.

Would be nice to have a 'done' button to suggest that you think you've found the answer and the site can tell you you're wrong. Otherwise you wonder if you're wrong, or if the site is just broken.
On the USA side.
As long as we're bashing, it could easily be written loopless like so:

basename -s .jpg -a *jpg |
xargs -I{} convert "{}.jpg" \
-resize "900x" -unsharp 2x0.5+0.5+0 -quality 98 "{}_s.jpg"

EDIT: weird line breaking is to prevent sidescroll box
Canonical doesn't want me to use Ubuntu, because they won't allow me to put the launcher where I want, which has been a feature of umpteen different window managers for at least the last 10 years. I don't care that it can autohide. That feature has been around for well over a decade. I care that it isn't where I want it to be, and that they won't give me the option to put it where I want it.
Why Apple may need a cheaper iPhone now more than ever
"Fishing" being the operative word. I'd love to understand the internal reasoning these judges have embraced to allow this to happen (as the court is the last defender of the constitution), but I fear it's little more than unchecked power/stupidity.
I suppose I should have said "some". Anyway, when looking for the state of the art, we should look at the best value available, rather than the average or typical. The Peacekeeper missile lists a CEP of 120m, although it's now retired. As for Trident, with a 11,000km range, I think we can put it in the same category when looking at reentry accuracy.

In any case, accuracy is gated by navigational accuracy, not so much guidance, as long as your initial aim isn't too bad. ICBMs have a 100m CEP because they're using inertial navigation all the way. Switch to GPS and you'll have no trouble doing better. In the context of SpaceX, getting the rocket to within a few hundred meters of the landing pad is perfectly fine initially, because it can then maneuver to the pad more precisely.
*"The supreme court's decision is final."*

No it is not final, that's why we have appellate courts.
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Oh come on .-.

I posted this from TC yesterday :P
People producing is also a part of creating a market.
Would've been nice to have seen this 2 days ago.
Unaware? Mass surveillance has been going on for a long time, and everybody who cared to learn knew the immense scope. This is not a news revelation, it is a media campaign by parties who need something to talk about.

Consent of the governed is the problem. The U.S. Senate is directly elected, and the public paranoia wanted these broad pseudo-security measures.

Speaking of consent of the governed, why is the media saturated by Snowden-as-Bieber celebrity stories, and not election rigging by the IRS? Would you like to learn more?
Obama Calls for A Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights for the Digital Age (2012)
"complex with subtle bugs" describes the experience so well!
This has been thoroughly discussed:

http://androidandme.com/2013/07/hacks/new-android-malware-fo...
I wouldn't say tricky ;) Only one's that had me thinking were :root and :last-of-type
The Nintendo Wii U brower has a specialized javascript API for the GamePad
I realize this is a bit late, but ABE is not unmaintained. It is based on an older version of ABP, yes, but it is under active development.

Last commit was in May, and besides, the nature of the product (single purpose app) is that it won't have a lot in the way of code changes aside from the odd bug fix. It doesn't need any other feature.

Most of the busywork is being handled in the block lists, and ABP and ABE use the same source (EasyList and others)
I don't just think his sentencing was improper, I don't believe that there was any criminal wrongdoing by anyone at any point. He did nothing criminal, and neither did ATT.
Congrats to the team that made this. It's a very interesting space to be in, I think they've got a huge challenge ahead of them, but I commend them on the way they have gone about doing this.

Years ago I started working on a similar app which I called "Quest-a-day" which tried to get people to do something interesting and memorable every day.

I wonder if their initial challenges are enough to really engage users at the early stages. I suspect somebody isn't going to feel really good about liking a charity page, or taking photos of the ingredients of their favorite dish. It's easy enough, but is it really a big enough trigger to get you to want to come back?

Either way, best of luck to them, hopefully they'll let the community add the tasks and the app will become more self-directed.
"C++11 is years ahead of Java"

OK but so what? It is also years ahead of BF.

C++11 has a few nice features, but it is really dragged down by low level issues. You talk about garbage collection like it is a problem, but C++ still does not even offer good garbage collection (not even optional garbage collection) for those situations where it makes sense. At least with Java you do not need to manually break cyclic references to prevent memory leaks.

As for closures, why would I want to specify which variables are captured? If I reference a variable from the enclosing environment, I capture it. If I mask the variable, I do not capture it. What point is there in explicitly declaring this? Frankly, the entire C++11 approach to closures is insane. Why add the extra syntax to explicitly declare how variables are captured, when capture by value covers all cases?

I stand by what I said. C++ is an awful language.
> (4) Given the above, why make a new concrete to 'improve' upon nature?

Smog-eating concrete isn't improving upon nature, it's improving upon not-nature (which concrete clearly is according to points 2 and 3), thus bringing it back closer to nature, and reducing the number of problems you cause yourself, per 1. So, if you must build a Way, at least build it out of smog-eating concrete.
/facepalm

What do you think 'Supreme' means? The Supreme Court is where you take a case after you've been through the appellate courts. If this is your actual opinion rather than a typing error then you're unqualified to take part in this conversation.
Here's a good article on Lunar Module stability, which is a similar problem with the exception that the Grasshopper has a much longer longitudinal axis, and relies solely on gimbaling (thrust vectoring) with no separate attitude control thrusters.

http://www.clavius.org/techlmstab.html
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Secret courts, secret laws, secret prisons - what's your conclusion? Mine is: this is a secret dictatorship.
I would have liked to have seen a photo of the actual laptop (I'm not sure the photo in the article is it).

Is the Ghana market a rich enough one for this device? Should they be taking a play out of Tesla's gamebook and developing high-end high-priced systems for a small number of users who want solar first, and then go down-market to supply those without access to reliable power?
And of course it is only fitting that access to the information collected is all for sale to the Carlyle Groups of the world and their portfolio companies like BAH.
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Hi Rachel, Thanks for noticing. We just fixed it. no more autoplay
I see responsive websites reflowing quickly when I change the browser window size using Ubuntu. I don't see the problem.
Sorry if this sounds stupid. But my thinking was, if you print some limited amount of money and give all of it to the poor, the poor become richer, but the rich become poorer in a way because their money is devalued. And the same is true if you tax the rich more and give that money to the poor?
Electronic locks that lock all overhead compartments whenever the seatbelt sign is on, with clear LED indication and preflight explanation so people know their bags are inaccessible and simply don't try.
It sounds like you want to be listening to a podcast called "This Developer's Life" (thisdeveloperslife.com). I really enjoy them and hope you do too.

Here's the some others I've enjoyed over the past year or so in case you're interested in others:

Technology Entrepreneurship: Startups For The Rest of Us

General Entrepreneurship: The Lifestyle Business Podcast, Mixergy, Entrepreneur On Fire, The Advanced Selling Podcast

Misc Interesting: Freakonomics Radio, NPR: Planet Money, This American Life

Please message me if you find anything interesting or if just having a bad day for that matter.
I think the main question is what other systems there are out there besides D-Wave which (afaik) is mainly Python-based. http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dev-tutorial-tsp.html ie: would the larger picture be a D-Wave based "AWS-like" system that accepts to run these different languages?
U.S. spied on millions of e-mails and calls of Brazilians
What? You don't like monospaced text?
I liked Ubuntu and Unity until I found this release to be so unstable on a Thinkpad T410 that I was forced to look for something else. First I tried Xubuntu but I quickly began to miss many of the niceties of a more featureful desktop environment. Feeling a general dissatisfaction with Ubuntu I decided to try Arch Linux. It was quite a task to configure a base system with video drivers, networking and other hardware working at a similar level that you would get out of the box with Ubuntu. But in the end I'm extremely pleased. I went with the Gnome 3 desktop because it handled a lot of things for me such as drive mounting and managing the network. I actually prefer Gnome 3 to Unity. It's more visually pleasing and minimal. The only thing I miss is the HUD for accessing deeply-nested menu items. The best thing about Arch Linux is that most packages are the absolute latest stable versions. You don't have to wait 6 months for an update to the official package. And if there's no official package, the AUR system for building packages from source is better than Ubuntu's PPA which requires you to trust binaries compiled by 3rd parties.
Much of OSX is closed source. The only way you know it's not sending out your information is if you continuously monitor and analyse every packet leaving the machine.
you may also want to see john cowan's presentation on R7RS-small last year to LispNYC: https://vimeo.com/29391029
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"I would even advocate for users to use other operating systems"

Wouldn't it make more sense to advocate for other Linux distributions?
The phrase you're looking is diminishing marginal returns. You hit the behavioral nail on the head with this analysis!
I guess the take away is that you should keep your essentials on your person while flying. Those items list are all small enough to fit in pockets or unobtrusive bag. Having them ready sure make things go a lot smoother in an emergency situation.

I suppose the emergency info should mention that anything you absolutely can't leave needs to be kept on your person.

Of course most people will thing "aw it will never happen", but if they hear the same message every time they take off people will probably get in the habit of not leaving their wallets in their luggage.
You mean like this:

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone

or like this?

http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/ubuntu-for-android
why is the media saturated by Snowden-as-Bieber celebrity stories, and not election rigging by the IRS?

Let me guess, did your group's 501(c)(4) paperwork get held up by a few weeks?
I've never needed a launcher or menu since I installed gnome-do, years ago. It's instant and amazing.
They sure do--that's why we shouldn't have them. Instead:

class Foo:
def __init__(self):
self.n = 0

def __call__(self):
self.n += 1
return self.n

foo = Foo()
That sounds suspiciously like an insert sort.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertion_sort
While I was playing I was thinking "It would be nice if they tracked the sequence in which answers were selected." On several questions, I immediately clicked a few that were obvious and then the rest I was like "...and maybe this one?"
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"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings." -- John F. Kennedy
That greatly depends on the type of crash. The added risk your talking about has a lot to do with nose down collisions.
You can middle-click to open additional instances of applications.

I think it takes longer to find something when one has completely forgotten its name and description, but this isn't a problem 99% of the time, at least for me.

Ubuntu makes much more sense when I'm using my laptop without a mouse available, primarily due to the super+# application switching, whereas I am usually more efficient with Xfce when there's a mouse around; I have both installed.
I'm curious to see how this fits with the coming leak that the NSA is collecting and storing all cell phone call contents (not just metadata) [1].

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/29/glenn-greenwald-nsa... - read: "it means they're storing every call and have the capability to listen to them at any time"
The motivation here is security through obscurity, right?
How is Unity an improvement over Gnome 3?
Apparently it was two dead, others injured.
There are a number of common ways of doing it - my favourite being a project called ng-boilerplate [1], which encourages you to create directories based on features, and then place all the files related to a specific feature (tests, javascript/coffeescript, html, css) in the same directory. It uses grunt to compile the various files into a single file as you are coding.

Another good resource is a well made example app called angular-app [2], which includes security, a small backend, some crud pages, etc.

1. https://github.com/joshdmiller/ng-boilerplate

2. https://github.com/angular-app/angular-app
David Simon, creator of The Wire, has written extensively about this starting with this post: http://davidsimon.com/we-are-shocked-shocked/

It is well worth a read for an extremely well argued, and informed, opinion from the other side.
That's happening a lot in the northern plain states. Also, I am seeing a lot more "must buy $10 or more to use credit card" signs.