skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Following your logic then, you should have more good hockey players because you have longer winters.
A New Place For Better Bankrupt $800M+ Backed Electric Car Startup Sold For $12M
It's more like having RSS feeds in your reader for blogs that are rarely updated and you may have forgotten about (although not quite as you have to actively mark feeds as read).

An email (whether direct or via a mailing list) is an interruption (at least to me), whereas a Facebook post just drops off the bottom of the page if I ignore it.

EDIT: Sorry, that was poorly worded.

The discovery side of it is more like an RSS reader (or maybe a group email). But the key distinction (for me at least) is that I can be totally passive - I don't even need to mark things as read - or I can engage.
Who the hell were the geniuses that actually indicted him? And to sit there for 5 months? Where's his speedy trial?
> When is discrimination against an individual based on his or her employer detrimental to the good of humanity?

Ever since we decided "just following orders" isn't a valid excuse.
What does this have to do with hacking/technology?
as long as the battery pack can support the unit for 45 minutes

Aye, there's the rub. The article's photo shows a thick cable dragging behind the robot. The power source won't be included in the unit for a long time. No indication of where the computing power is either.
The entire article is undermined by this sentence:

" If you think that a Korean person in a professional setting would show any disrespect to a person who is 14 years older just because he slightly outranks the other, you know absolutely nothing about Korean culture."

Therefore confirming that cultural issues DO have an impact on people's behaviour.
"Our future is small computers + high speed internet available everywhere + online storage and services. Not the other way around."

Assuming our current technology, maybe. If I have limitless storage, and you do, too, I can be your backup, and you mine. Trickling in the background, always backing up. Or we could all have a mesh network backup doing similar to Dropbox crossed with Napster, without the centralization of either. Depending on bandwidth and storage growth, of course. Maybe the future is small computers, high-speed Internet available everywhere, and mass mesh storage/backup. Hopefully with encryption, however it goes, please God.
It's not in Microsoft's interest to function as defacto agents of the US government. They are compelled by law to do what the Feds want -- just like would would be if you we're providing a service.

Think about the impact of the NSA leaks on Microsoft's business. Globally, every customer or potential customer of Microsoft needs to ask whether they can trust Micrsoft as a business partner. Not a good place to be on for a software company transitioning to a cloud services company.
Why Would a Business Avoid any Internet Presence?
What a lot of people forget is that doubling sensor size gets you only one stop in high ISO performance. For raw quality in decent light, 1" seems to be a sweet spot.
It is a little disappointing that this doesn't directly address the issues with the original article's claims. Instead it continues focusing on CPU execution timings. Like many responses to the original article, the elephant in the room is javascript performance on DOM manipulation/UI. To take an example on the desktop, if I gave you two options a) language a which is about 2 times slower than C in doing some math operations b) language b which is about 15 times slower than C in doing some math operations. Both are GC languages with large memory footprint (3-8x) that of C. Which language would you choose to write your UI? If you chose a. you chose WRONG!. a) is java with its horrible AWT/Swing libraries and b) is Visual Basic.

Nothing specific to Java though, the .NET guys have spent about 15 years optimizing their GC. Yet every UI framework on that platform seems like a turd compared to Visual Basic (WinForms, WPF, Silverlight). Looks like they are throwing the towel and asking everyone to move to HTML and javascript. I wish javascript guys spent more time benchmarking UI performance than making it look like C++ (asm.js and other things). Take a paper draw circle on it. Push it on a smooth desk. That's your use case and how things should perform. No jitter, no flashes. Don't care about some fancy assembler optimization for matrix multiplications.

Of course that is only one part of the problem with javascript. The other big problem is lack of tools for putting UI's and writing large programs. On top of that you have to add in all the libraries (jQuery, Angular etc.) now you are totally hosed. You don't know where your performance issues are. In any case, mobile apps today have really two platforms - iOS and Android. They have quite different use cases (paid vs advertising). Most UIs are thin wrappers on services. Porting to the next platform is not some huge rewrite.
Disruption Brings Progress
Agreed. There are interesting intermediate forms of representative democracy though. Most forms of voting are actually delegation and it would be nice to be able to do that in a more nuanced way than "kick the bums out, and empower other bums with basically the exact same views"
> So ethical things can be illegal, unethical things can be legal.

Ding ding ding. Please keep this in mind at all times.

They not only can be, but unfortunately both often are.
Thanks for doing this! A very useful set of results!

I'd be curious to see how these each behave when needing to manage concurrent HTTP connections, fetching files from an ultra-fast server such as Netty, nginx, or Undertow.

Say 64, 128, 256, maybe even more simultaneously.
I've had great success with Middleman when paired with EmberJS, and hosted entirely on S3. My "ember-static-boilerplate" project template is an easy way to get started:

https://github.com/adammeghji/ember-static-boilerplate
David S. Rose on pitching to VCs
Ah, welcome to the world of "Gladwell Deconstruction" - It's a pretty well known meme on HN - Calling out just how badly Gladwell distorts everything he writes just to make an interesting story/theme.

He does it so well, though, that he's still one of my favorite writers.

And, much like Wikipedia has taught us to realize that anything written down could be something totally bogus thrown up by a vandal, and therefore we should challenge (and look for citations) for everything, everywhere - Gladwell has taught us that just because something sounds good - doesn't really mean it actually is accurate/truthy.
Quasicrystals were the first thing I thought of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicrystal
The comments (and moderation) on here overwhelmingly lean towards the "it was all a joke...freedom!" angle, so I'm not sure which HN you're reading. The very few counterpoints are in light gray.

The police dispute whether the "jk lol" part happened. The only person who vouches for that is his father.

Is his initial threat credible? Perhaps not, but it absolutely does deserve a visit from police (many school shooters have made the same sort of at-the-time humorous comments beforehand), and I doubt many who claim otherwise would stick to their positions had he actually then moved to violence. What the police actually discovered we don't know, but apparently it was enough to make the police, the prosecutor, and a judge escalate the situation.
I've actually given it a shot. It's a fine OS, no debate there, but the app market is key for me.
Really intriguing. My father was in the data storage industry (magnetic tape), so I've always watched innovations in this sector with great interest. Nine times out of ten, the storage-density breakthroughs you read about end up being commercially meaningless because they aren't thermally or chemically stable. Doesn't matter how many TB/cm^2 you're writing, if the material degrades after a couple of weeks or months. This announcement is dramatically different, which strikes me as really interesting.

Manufacturability is the other obstacle which data storage inventions traditionally founder upon, on the road to commercialisation. I don't have a sense of whether or not that'll be an issue here. If it isn't a problem... then yes, this could be a genuine game-changer.
Since when do people have to understand a name for it to take off? Look at the soup of technologies grouped under the label "4G." All consumers know is that 4G sounds better than 3G.

I'm sure if the technology is commercialized, someone will come up with a cute nonsensical name for it, but I can absolutely see a subhead somewhere saying "Advanced Five-dimensional storage technology!", just because it sounds cool.
> This is very true. If you have the possibility to do entrepreneurial experiments or similar, do it! I don't wish to begrudge anyone that, I am of the opinion that you should just any competitive advantage you have in your favour. Be it rich parents or a very creative mind. It is unfair, for those who can't 'compete' in that advantage but that is life I guess?

Oddly enough this is a form of using existing connections and social networks to find work. You are simply using resources that aren't directly related to the company you are working for.

That said, you are displacing workers who do not have existing wealth and family connections to back their life. They cannot reasonably work for free and compete with your existing resources/wealth/support. Doing this isn't ethical and promote systemic unemployment of those who cannot work for low wage or free.
In general you are correct, redefinition in Ruby can be abused, but it isn't so easy to abuse 'nil' in Ruby as it is to abuse 'undefined' in Javascript.

In Ruby, nil, is a keyword so you can't assign to it nor can you use it as a method parameter.
Obama's War on Whistleblowers
jQuery does it right:

(function( window, undefined ) {
// ...
})( window );
Russian Human Rights Commissioner Vladimir Lukin: "He doesn't look very well fed, a skinny guy. But he has a great haircut"
Do people use curl from the command line directly? Maybe, maybe not. But this article is really about libcurl's performance.

And libcurl is used quite extensively to download all sorts of things, including binaries. Git, for example, makes heavy use of curl for http remotes.
The "Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License" is an "open source" license. The source code itself is "open" and can be redistributed for free (beer not speech). But it is disappointing that they have opted to prohibit derivatives, and it makes their posting of the code to GitHub an interesting choice.
How to Market an App into the Top 10
Why does the NSA have full access to your servers?
Even if they manually wiretap your server it would require manual intervention, and is thus a good protection against blanket surveillance.
The same logic can be applied to a large number of articles that appear in The HN frontpage. The previous post doesn't have comments and context and time are important in HN.

You are taking it very personal with "do you know how to use the search feature?" Probably more than you, see the script at the bottom of this article: http://blog.databigbang.com/tag/hnsearch/ it was a hack to surpass HNSearch search restrictions.
This is amazing, and a bit scary...
Interesting, I have been in this line of thinking. Google has been as cavalier about user data as the rest except that it has the holier-than-thou attitude.

Made the painful move back to firefox on all my computer after being used to Chrome. I have started using DDG in desktops but still depend on google on my mobile devices. Email, I am still stuck with gmail as the primary mail box (Which I am actively working on to move out to paid account).
> Perl 5, perhaps surprisingly, is not simpler:

Here's one.

perl -0777 -nE '$w{$_}++ for split; say for (sort {$w{$b} <=> $w{$a}} keys %w)[0..9]'

It is slightly different compared to your version in that each word is printed on a separate line. To print all words on the same line, is just a bit longer:

perl -0777 -nE '$w{$_}++ for split; $, = $"; say((sort {$w{$b} <=> $w{$a}} keys %w)[0..9])'
It's almost as if the device was designed with surveillance in mind.
The surface is kind of fuzzy, like Earth it starts with a thin atmosphere at the outer boundary of the planet. (Actually HD 189733 b's atmosphere is evaporating, so you'll encounter a lot of it in a thin fog around the planet as you approach with your 1kg-weight planet bombing vessel.)

After dropping the weight, the same thing happens with the weight as if you dropped it from Earth orbit: it speeds up in free fall and will start to heat up quickly as it compresses the gases in front of it, like any space rock falling on a planet. In HD 189733 b's case the atmosphere is crazy hot from the outset, so the steel weight will flicker like a bright light and evaporate very fast. After that the matter of the weight becomes part of the planet's atmosphere. Since iron gas is heavier than the other gases in the atmosphere, it will slowly sink towards the center - but due to wind motion that may take a long time.

On its way down, the matter of the steel weight will encounter increasing pressures and temperatures until it reaches a fuzzy transition layer where gases are liquid, and even further down may exist in pseudo-liquid states that are like nothing found on Earth, called metallic hydrogen. At the center of the gas giant, there may be a molten or solid core of rocky elements, where the iron from the steel weight will eventually settle.

If you'd try gently dropping a larger object (preferrably into a cooler gas giant), it will survive the heat of atmospheric entry mostly intact, however. After that, it will reach terminal velocity and fall down based purely on its buoyancy. Traversing the atmosphere might take a long time during which the object may encounter many layers of clouds and other cool weather phenomena. As it falls, it too will encounter ever-increasing density and temperature which will eventually result in the dissolution of the object.
Excellent! Seeing as how Superman released in 1978, I expect scientists to have figured out the Arc Reactor and Repulsor technology sometime in late 2048.
A lot of your article goes on to talk about development time speed up. The original article discussed performance where it is critical, like a game. You can't have compensate on performance even if it comes at the price of higher development time.
You have got a bad habit
I'm not really sure, maybe we should ask duckduckgo if anything Snowden has released affected them?
I highly recommend living abroad to anybody who does not find the above amusing[0]. People from different cultures really are different.

[0] No, your semester abroad during college does not count.
Ignoring whatever laws have been passed since then, not to mention the control of the purse the Congress has, your excerpts don't make your case. E.g. by saying "the Fourth Amendment does not apply to NSA's interception of Americans' international communications for foreign intelligence purposes" the NSA was implicitly also stating that Americans' communications that didn't meet those criteria were protected by the Fourth.
How Does Name Analysis Work?
How awesome would it be if this was then used by NSA to provide agents with backups of all snooped data, available in their pockets, in a piece of glass!
One problem with moving away from Google is Google Maps. While OSM does have some fine maps, they don't have navigation or business search. I use Google Maps on my phone all the time to find "where's there a restaurant around here, and how can I get to it?"

Is there any privacy-preserving service that does anything similar?
Automated testing with VMWare, Windows and VNC
Dropbox was listed as "coming soon"
Some good advice there, but I believe that plugging a middleware like https://errormator.com/ would give even better insight into what is happening in your applications.

(disclaimer: I've created errormator)
Well, my mom manages pretty well with e-mail and such, but she's ahead of the curve on such things. My grandmother on the other hand is pretty fascinatingly bad with any electronics. She teaches English, so she doesn't have much trouble reading the stuff on the screen, it just seemingly doesn't make sense to her - any hierarchical menu or any sort of context input confuses her. Things we would describe as simple, such as programming a channel on a TV or adding a contact in her contact list on her phone are nigh-impossible tasks for her. Anything as complex as moving a mouse pointer with a mouse or typing on a keyboard is completely beyond her abilities.

All of these are basically "spooky action at a distance". You move something here and something completely unrelated changes there by way of magic. It's no wonder people who've never even seen such things for 50 years or more don't have the mental model to understand them.
Huh? Selling your vote is extremely difficult with a closed ballot and extremely easy with an open ballot.

Do you mean that the vote selling is offset by ending other forms of voting fraud? Other forms of voting fraud are incredibly rare.
> 3) If attacker has physical access to machine, and machine is powered on (direct memory access via Thunderbolt or Firewire)

I'm curious if this could be addressed with software protections somehow? Something that triggers memory wipes and automatic shutdowns?
I recall the absolute dread and horror after my contract - at a global logisitcs firm - moved from Basel to Paris and finally Prague.

The legal department in Prague sent me a new contract and it wasn't the two page paper that I got accustomed to from the previous contracts.

It was 50 pages of undiluted legal gibberish all inconveniently packed into a Word document.

After feeling miserable for 3 days I actually went through this thing and while I didn't like it wasn't quite the expected horror.

Of essence where 3 pages, really. Setting the terms and the pay. The rest was mostly CYA legalese and copyright questions.

But the most interesting thing was that lil' ol' me, a one man show, was actually able to negociate a few points, which where unacceptable to me and actually get them ammended.

This episode always comes to mind, when I'm reminded of the less fun freelancing aspects.
I totally agree with you here. Culture != race, and to ignore culture means that you are not seeing the whole picture. Anybody who works internationally and ignores cultural issues is going to have a bad time. Acknowledging cultural differences does not have to be negative, and it certainly does not make someone racist.
He is a very well trained CIA man - the picture released is him with two woman at his side. Well played. Nice to see.
Yes, and along the road we have accumulated some entropy.

Anyhow, that was a rather crappy answer, the "How much entropy does the "data about a volume in space" have?" answer basically captures it.
Ah, you are correct, I can see that tteam posted comments and made it clear that they are not associated with the plug team.
The NSA outrage: are we really that unaware?
We mostly use middleman for static sites and it works really well. Recently we built a "microsite" based off of an existing full rails app we had so we went the wget route. My experiences are:

- Middleman dir structure is simpler for frontend devs to learn.

- Don't need to switch between dev and prod environments to work on the site vs. build the final version. Switching between the two was pretty painful as our rails app used jruby and was pretty large so it took a minute or so to restart the server and re-compile all the assets if in prod. Plus need to remember to `rm -rf public/assets` after switching back to dev.

- Wget doesn't run javascript so you might not get all assets. For example, we used a responsive image swapping technique like <img src=1px.gif data-desktop-url='xxx' data-mobile-url='yyy'>, which wget wouldn't know how to get those assets. So I ended up putting all such assets into a single dir and `mv`ing it into the build dir after the wget.

- Wget doesn't pull down assets inside IE conditional comments (json2.js, ie.css). Perhaps it has an option to do that though.

I've used the s3_sync plugin for middleman which makes the upload part a breeze.
A Large-Scale Field Study of Browser Security Warning Effectiveness
Freelancing is risky. But lucky if you get good clients.
Put ten million dollars on this today, and a team of robots could beat the world champions in football by the end of 2013, 2014 at most. It's simply not that hard of a problem, and you have failed to constrain the form factor of the robots.
I think there's a fair chance we could actually roll this back, given enough pressure and attention. The question is how to know that the NSA/CIA is really not monitoring us. Answer: citizen groups watching the watchers. That's right: we monitor the NSA and the CIA, and if blocked, immediate court action.

I'm not saying this will really happen. But I don't think it's impossible, and I think many of us would agree that it's warranted.
Edward Snowden meets rights groups at Moscow airport
Snowden to apply for asylum in Russia and then travel to South America
>Does anyone realistically think this program will be rolled back?

I for one plan on making a ton of noise until that happens.
Tinsy nitpick. The universe technically didn't exist back then (at least not in the form of spacetime), I believe. Existence itself was confined to a singularity which then expanded with tar -xzf singularity.tar.gz
Once there is an easy online system in place then alternatives to an all or nothing vote could be established. For example, you may vote for a representative every X years and this representative would vote for you when you opted not to. Over the course of X years there are hundreds of votes, but you are passionate about 20 of them. You could directly cast a vote on those 20 issues, but your representative would cast votes, as a proxy, for the rest of the issues.
In jail he's been beaten to the point of black eyes and concussions, stripped naked and held in solitary. While we're all debating like armchair constitutional scholars, I'd say the $500,000 donor was motivated at least as much by this.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/03/198129...
Yeah, I thought of that as I was posting it but guessed someone on here would know ^^^^^^
DARPA and Boston Dynamics unveil a new humanoid robot
Do you really think that any product with a "try before you buy" sales strategy is worthless?
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I encourage you to look it up for yourself (because you seem to have a lot to learn on the subject of ethics). Here's some starters:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ethical

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moral#Adjective

"In general usage ethical is used to describe standards of behavior between individuals, while moral or immoral can describe any behavior. You can call lying unethical or immoral, for example, because it involves the behavior of one person and how it affects another, but violating dietary prohibitions in a holy text can only be described as immoral."
The sarcasm is strong with this one, young padawan.
One of the benefits of being a freelancer is today, I learn Swedish until I can understand this article!
A pull request would technically be violating the license, no?
"It's hard to square Microsoft's secret collaboration with the NSA with its high-profile efforts to compete on privacy with Google."

I think it squares quite nicely. Set your standards low enough...
I am not a physicist, but isn't that already possible, depending on the contents of the volume? I can store all the data about a 1km^3 vacuum containing a single atom at the centre in a volume much smaller than 1km^3.
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> Ignoring whatever laws have been passed since then

I trust the NSA to do just that.

> the control of the purse the Congress has

They increased the NSA's budget by $4 billion last year.

You're more than welcome to trust an agency with little to no oversight. I'll keep my faith in human nature. It's served me well all these years.