skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Starting from false premises makes the rest of your article likely worthless (I can only say likely worthless because I stupidly kept skimming but fortunately stopped carefully reading).

This programming thing is a lot of fun, right? We have been entrusted with the unique responsibility of making pretty much the entire world go round. (There aren’t a lot of industries that don’t need software these days.) And not only that, but we have a lot of fun doing it.

Fun? It can be, sometimes, or at least was for some of us when we started. Making pretty much the entire world go round? No, most of us aren't anywhere close to that. We make happy little sites and apps for rich people to buy jewelry and make fun of their friends and mark posts 'liked' on social networks. I know people who work on the software that runs airplanes, and that's soul-crushing C tweaks and opimization at best. We have a lot of fun doing this? No, I think most people in any reasonable place to comment do this for work, and "fun" is almost always a secondary consideration if it is one at all, at least for the non-independently-wealthy and personal-future-minded.

Yeah, I guess we do need to talk. Because you don't seem to understand what the vast majority of us don't do or what our priorities aren't, let alone that we are pretty much normal people that don't need hyperbole about which comments on which sites matter.
In some ways that might be an advantage. More people are going through the growing pains associated with tens of millions of people using their site and request-per-second and data size problems, and making trade-offs for that providing service at that scale.

Jumping to Facebook's current architecture and taking on the trade-offs taken there (assuming you even have a problem where those trade-offs make sense at massive scale) is probably not the right thing to do when you are much smaller (in terms of requests/traffic/load, servers, and employees).
I should have looked below, I wrote a similar thing above, but you forgot to split multiple words in a line to lines. That's okay, a lot of people above forgot to about case and punctuation even!
FTA: "Secret files show scale of Silicon Valley co-operation ..."

Since when is Redmond considered Silicon Valley?
I sincerely doubt how ease and stable a local (actually home-based) service can be compared to cloud-based service.
Linux-based charity Reglue is looking for funding on IndieGoGo.
HERE is a suite of applications.HERE Maps is ... maps, HERE Drive is the GPS/NAV app, and HERE Transit is public transportation.
I have that problem a lot in active discussions. I tend to comment in the good ones so I generally just look at the time of my last comment and skim the post times to see which ones came since then. This sounds like a good opportunity for an HN browser extension or greasemonkey script.
The article may not have mentioned it, but the fact that there is a recognition of unions in there is not necessarily a bad thing... Those "rock-bottom prices" are just system-gaming - the real extra cost of the goods is hidden and distributed across the communities in which they operate (in the form of reduced living conditions, health care, quality of life, etc.) - all things that unions exist to protect... What is so fundamentally wrong about a community saying "no - it's not OK to try and distribute tat burden to the backs of our citizens"?
I don't think it's possible on GitHub but I think Bitbucket has the ability to 'sync' a fork.
I mentioned on another crypto thread the frustrating fact that more than one professional crypto friend of mine is working on designs that could replace PGP, not to mention a lot of terrible ad hoc app crypto --- but because they're pro's, they're uncomfortable sharing designs until they're confident that they've fully validated them. That's what humility looks like: knowing you're an industry leading expert at cryptographic design and still waiting months or even years to publish so you can make sure you got things right.

Compare and contrast.
With regard to the pain of creating yet another account, I really do believe Mozilla Persona is perfect for websites like this one. All they need is your email address, and Persona protects your privacy by only providing this information.

I honestly can't wait to see a future where almost all non-social websites use Persona as their login system. We'll be able to create accounts with only a single click.
> There’s no real reason for this comment to exist.

Sure, there is. Someone wanted to state his opinion. And as the internet most likely won't get full anytime soon I don't see why that would be bad.
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And in Spain (where the research is from), it's 13 (but that will change apparently : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/10089...)
I think Apple would offshore more and more businesses as every other large companies who can afford to has been doing for decades now. And that I think is always the problem with simply raising more corporate taxes in US.

As you raise more corporate tax in US, doing business in US becomes less and less attractive. As business move away from US, there will be less and less jobs in US. This already and undeniably happened with manufacturing sector. Unfortunately, people are now again arguing for increasing more taxes in US which will further lead to more business moving their business to other countries.
> And not just that we're not paying enough attention - these laws are being formed and executed in secret! How can you take action against something you don't know exists?

You start by demanding that this process, this subversion of democracy, be made illegal.

This is the root of the problem: secrecy. Secrecy corrupts as much as power, and absolute secrecy corrupts absolutely.
I would just point out that from what I understand, automation isn't exactly what people outside of manufacturing/engineering believe it to be. There are still a lot of jobs that are not and will never be automated in the manufacturing industry. The cost of labor still ends up being cheaper than the design and maintenance of a machine smart enough to do fabrication and assembly.

I wish I could find a percentage of manufacturing down with automation, but I would guess that a fair number of things are still built by hand. I've taken a fair number of factory tours outside of the automotive industry and am always amazed to see skilled laborers at work.
> Employment law is liberalised, as workers no longer need to fear dismissal.

I read that as "workers no longer need to fear dismissal because they can fall back on their basic income", and assumed that "liberalised" meant "doesn't protect workers from being fired". But you read that completely differently. Which does he mean? I agree with it as I read it, which is the same as what you're saying.
On a related note, I don't know how many more documents there are that Snowden provided to Greenwald or that will be released to the public but I certainly hope that they keep coming for a looooong time.
When you are on the browser, you can do a lot more with that context. Try http://pugmarks.me - done by ex-Google News engineers.

It gives you related news when you visit a LinkedIn profile, related articles for anything - works especially well for long shelf life content. Next, your New Tab is converted into a mirror of your recent interests, where experts on the topic you are reading are shown.
Ask HN: Anyone want to help me build a third-party script manager app?
Is there an app to manage all the third-party JavaScripts on a website? What I want is something that I can add scripts or snippets to, arrange them in order, and decide whether to load them synchronously or asynchronously. The the app will minify and concatenate, creating a loader script and uploading it to CloudFront.

I could use this app, this is a simple example, to setup a script to load jQuery synchronously THEN load Visual Website Optimizer synchronously, wait for the document to be ready, THEN load Google Analytics asynchronously. I can do this manually, but if this could all be managed from a web UI, it would be great.

A lot of my clients have so many scripts that they don't even know what is on their website. I want to give them a single script and then manage the loading of third-party scripts from an app.

I've thought a lot about this and I have the process diagrammed out pretty well. But I'm a front-end guy who's dabbling in Rails and I'm not at the level yet to build out what I'm planning. Is there anyone who'd be interested in creating a MVP based on this idea? I can provide wireframes, diagrams, UI, and directions. It's kind of a niche idea, but I think there are some extra features that can turn it into a SaaS people will pay for.
Windows Azure? 7? Those were under Ballmer's reign.
+1 for Utopia in Lehi :)

Off topic: I see you went to Neumont University. Cool to run into a fellow Neumie.
I find it silly everyone arguing below but when:

s1 = 'a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a A A A A A A A A A A A A A a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a. a.'

those two lines give:

[('a', 16), ('A', 13), ('a.', 9), ('', 1)

(HN might collapse the double space in s1)
Ideally, increases would get tied to the CPI, or some other index. I also wouldn't mind a provision that would automatically adjust payments to ensure solvency.

Regarding the amount, it should be small enough to make it difficult to live off of. I don't think it would be a good idea if we created a class of BI dependents. There should still be fairly strong incentives to work. I think the main purpose of the BI would be to alleviate the need to rely on corporate america as a de facto social welfare provider. If you look at what happened to Detroit, for example, after the car industry tanked, the local economy went down with it. At the very least, BI would have provided a stabilizing force, slowing down the decline, and possibly giving residents a chance to re-build the local economy.
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I'm trying to understand how your mind works, I'm not making a specific point or leading you in a certain direction. It doesn't help when you don't answer questions directly, it looks like you're trying to avoid answering them - this could have been less painful. For my part I could have been less obtuse and aggressive.

I believe that discriminating against someone on the basis of their legal employment is unethical and you don't, so I'm trying to determine when it's okay and when it's not okay.

What I've learned is that some people (including you) believe that sometimes it's okay to discriminate against people on the basis of their legal employment and sometimes it's not, and that it's up to whether the employment in question goes against your own personal ethical standards.

I'm not condemning this discrimination, only noting that it goes against my own personal ethics. People need jobs to survive, and even Snowden spent more of his life as a bad guy than as a hero. I'm fine with discriminating against work, but not against workers.

If you want to explore the issue in more depth, fine - maybe there are more nuances - but I understand if you're tired of it.
Most people don't actually want to do their own surgery. Even if you put a scalpel in someone's hands, and gave them all the anesthesia, they still wouldn't be tempted to remove someone's appendix after reading an eHow article about it.

The same isn't true of crypto. People know both intellectually and viscerally that they shouldn't be doing their own surgeries. But they only have an intellectual understanding that crypto is unsafe.

A big part of that is because the harm caused by crypto mistakes are often an externality to the developer.
I didn't think it meant they would give the NSA an un-encrypted firehose of private user data violating unlawful search and seizure implications that are a constitutionally protected right of American citizens, but maybe that's just me.
Secret laws are the death of democracy; not just that, they are the death of the Rule of Law itself. The whole point of having written laws was that everybody could know and challenge them in a fair way, without being reliant on the whim of rulers.

"Secret laws" are not laws, they are tyrannical pseudo-rules that belong in the Middle Ages.
I like this conceptually, but where you set that wage is the tricky part. If most folks don't have to work, most won't. Less people to tax too. That will in turn cause inflation, as there's less supply of goods. Then you'd have to increase the wage to follow suit.

To get any kind of equilibrium that preserves an incentive to work, you'd need that universal payment to be fairly low. This isn't to say, "Don't do it" - it's just to be careful with it.
Did people expecting to have warrants taken out against them use cloud services before this?
SJCL would have been helpful but still isn't a complete solution to the (exceptionally difficult, even for cryptography) problems they chose to tackle.
Offline maps has been available since at least 2 years. I think you had to long tap a point, choose Save offline from the menu, choose the dimensions of the square that pops up and the square becomes available offline.
Pretty cool, though I'd say the ability to receive alerts is much more useful than sending them.

I'm still waiting for my Pebble but it's great to see people working with the SDK!
From the author of the overtly racist Bell Curve.
If I remember rightly, they actually say in Practical Cryptography that some of the worst crypto they've seen comes from people who've read Applied Cryptography and then decided to roll their own. Which is presumably one of the dangers in writing an "accessible" cryptography textbook is that then people who read it think they understand it... (I say this as a fan of Applied Cryptography, but more as an academic text -- I'd never dream of writing crypto code myself)
morphogenesis \holds up hands

Or, perhaps their bodies and muscles were adapted to the type of terrain.
Do you think the government would jail someone of Steve Ballmer's stature if he talked openly about what the government has asked of Microsoft.

Absolutely, but even if they didn't, if you were Steve Ballmer, would you take that risk? They certainly could prosecute you for leaking secret information.

That's even assuming that Ballmer knew about it. It could have been that they approached people who were in some position of power on the particular products they were interested in and served them with the order. Some random middle manager at Microsoft certainly has considerably less political pull than Ballmer and would likely go to jail if he/she came out about this, but could still be in the position to direct their team to build whatever features the government demanded.

I see the law as allowing them to cooperate. It gives them cover for not protecting the privacy of individual citizens.

If it came via a court order, it's definitely a demand. This isn't a marketing gimmick -- if you're served a lawful court order, you either obey it or risk the consequences, up to and including time in jail.
I dug up Apple's reorg announcement from 1997, where Steve Jobs was officially brought on as an "advisory" role to then-CEO Gil Amelio.

http://web.archive.org/web/19990128084705/http://product.inf...

Obviously, Apple and Microsoft are different companies and looking back 16 years with the benefit of hindsight is a bit unfair.

And yet, even in the announcements, you can see a difference. Apple's is shorter, more direct, bereft of details but not trying to be everything to everyone. Most important is an emphasis on getting back to basics, whereas Microsoft is promising "one strategy, one Microsoft" and then immediately rattling off a laundry list of "core products". When every one of those products is core, it's clear nothing is.
Yes he did.

Your comment and jellicle's comment are not quite the same thing.

Even then, you are painting some of the party's platform in a negative light without showing why exactly that is their platform to begin with nor why you consider them terrible ideas. Some of their reasons may be bad, but that doesn't mean all of their reasons are.
110nm is old news. Butterfly labs do 65 nm and KnC does 28 nm. I guess 110 was a test run really, or they lacked access to plants that could do smaller chips.
I'm blown away by how fast you all were able to do this. Let us know if we can be helpful@
Fear what? Fear if that was your product or fear adopting their technology?

Apple and others (I'm not too familiar with what Samsung is doing) are approaching this in a different way. They're going for the hosted server approach and we've seen scaling issues. Another huge issue is the walled garden.

I'm glad to see new guys like Dropbox gain a lot of traction and welcome others.

My main concerns after seeing this are the integration (can they keep it all these clients up to date and bug free or will my data be trapped behind a poor client?) and drive failure.
Traditional AQM is not enough
Not quite.
The difficulty is set to average that a new block is found approximately every 10minutes. However, if lots of capacity is added all at once, the difficulty might not change for several days, and blocks will be generated at a faster rate during that time, as it is only updated every 2016 blocks.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
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No or insignificant economic incentives.
I think that giving only "basic" income is a bad stopping point. If the only thing most people can afford to buy is basics of food and shelter, then there won't even be any jobs for them if they want a better life than that.

If instead the basic income allows for discretionary spending, then there would be a huge market of consumers to serve, and jobs would appear to serve them. Some people will be willing to work occasionally so that they can have even more spending money for other things.
"family of devices and services" also implies walled garden. Not that MS hasn't always been about that, but it's clear they're doubling down on it.
Applied is a good _book_; it's fun and interesting to read. But people should read it as pop science.
My God, I've built the Pontiac Aztec....
Well, so I mean ethical / moral (is there a distinction?) and the 1980 case involving the Unruh act is a legal embodiment of my own ethics / morals. Thanks for the details, that was enlightening.
When I realize, after reading these stories, that I read them on "RussiaToday" I always feel a bit sad.

A former advisor to Vladimir Putin, has labeled the channel as "the best Russian propaganda machine targeted at the outside world" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network))

These news are important here, but we have to be careful not to associate concepts like "freedom of speech" and "example of democracy" with countries like Russia, given the actual situation the people there live under I am not sure we can say Russia holds human rights in the highest regard in my opinion.
> Is there a scenario in which they can successfully resist enabling surveillance features in their products while operating in the US?

Replace "in the US" with "in Nazi Germany" or "in Soviet Russia" and you'll see how chilling that sentence is. They're just following orders. It's the utter banality of evil.
Together Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox are the "biggest walled garden on earth".
4chan's Christopher Poole is not rich
The point isn't eavesdropping prevention, it's authentication that's not broken (like passwords).
If you need more evidence there's books and studies that back it up.
"ACLU technology expert Chris Soghoian said the revelations would surprise many Skype users. "In the past, Skype made affirmative promises to users about their inability to perform wiretaps," he said. "It's hard to square Microsoft's secret collaboration with the NSA with its high-profile efforts to compete on privacy with Google."

I have a feeling the FTC won't go after them for violating truth-in-advertising laws.
they're can't be trusted, that's all that matters, how about us that that live outside? MSFT isn't putting a notice on it's homepage for people outside that it can't do anything about our rights, they sell the exact opposite image, and the internet is sold to everyone as a humankind treasure... if they can't do anything about it they could at least be honest, but they all just keep doubling down on the lies
The lost art of sticking to it
I wrote replace GnuPG Assistant not GnuPG. I have never had a problem using command line gpg or GPA but seems millions of ppl can't figure it out so they don't use it, thus NSA wins. I also dont think cryptocat should replace it (dont know where I inferred it should).

TC is clunky and has distro rights problems so a lot of releases like Tails are dumping it.
Andreessen Says Foreign Web Companies Could Take Advantage of Prism Fallout
Move and resize windows with ease. (Free/Open Source)
It's not "victimless" when the same sexual predator engages with a real person and starts trying to obtain sexy pics and blackmail material with a view to meeting later down the line. I'm not a fan of the specific implementation of the bot described in the paper, but I'm quite happy with the basic principle that people trying to sexually corrupt algorithms should be in jail alongside people trying to hire imaginary hitmen or traffic imaginary slaves.

Besides, if chatrooms were widely suspected of being full of anti-paedophile chatbots, it would be a pretty good deterrent from paedophile participation even if they were actually pretty ineffectual at catching people. From what I remember of chatrooms from when I actually was about 14 - not many of the human participants would have passed the Turing test - the standard of conversation in a room full of bots might actually improve...
Surveillance Monitor 2011: Assessment of surveillance across Europe
The people making these campaigns may actually be ignorant. When I was at Microsoft (long, long ago), there were portions of some source trees that were covered by security or NDAs and nobody except for the very few people signed on (and builders) could look at or know about them. For example, when Intel had a new chip, the specific developers and testers working on them would be under NDA and the tree secured so that only they could see the work on the code generators until they were released. And that's just for NDAs - I can't imagine what happens for the code or infrastructure support required for the NSA. The only reason I knew about the chip stuff is I owned the source trees in DevDiv for a while.

So, it's entirely possible that the _entire_ Skype team except for a dev, tester, "security coordinator," and one partner-level person were in the dark about this support and actually believed their marketing.

It's still a terrible situation, but it's not necessarily hypocracy/lying/nasty on the part of the people making up the campaigns.
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Would a quantum computer be able to solve these kind of problems instantly?
No, but somebody who has free power may be willing to buy your obsolete used ASICs cheap.
Another reasonable hypothesis is that the heart bypass pump causes brain damage, the "pump head" syndrome.