skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What "massive public outrage?" A pitiful 400 people showed up to the San Francisco "Restore the 4th" protests.

As far as I could tell, a total of `1' in Seattle. You know in Poker there's a `sucker' in every hand? Out on Westlake Center, Seattle, at noon on the 4th of July, that would be me. At least I left the pitchfork at home.

The only other time I came over to participate in one of these group-hugs, was the Turkish/Egypt-O'clock WTO protest in 1999. That one was different.

`Save the 4th' showed their cards, and NSA took the pot. The people have spoken: "meh".
Promises are coming of age too late, and still have unsolved fundamental issues.

Meanwhile, ES6 generators are coming to node v0.12, already in FF and soon to be in Chrome; that is a whole different game.
Yes, anybody who distributes has the obligation to give the receiver of GPL'd code exactly the same rights as the maker and/or distributer.

You need aliances to make bigger parties comply, the bigger the fish the bigger your aliances need to be, I do not know Australian law specific but there is a german guy that has had some victories over this.

Try to contact the EFF or similar foundation in your country.

Good luck, oh yes, I am a programmer that made some GPL'd work, mostly for private clients, but this is a public distribution: http://sitebar.org/ I mean the client, the server is programmed by Ondrej Brablc.
When do you know?
Hello entrepreneurs and hackers! I am working on a side project and I wanted to ask you guys when do you know when your done? Do you feel a satisfaction feeling inside when you get closer or do you just feel nothing and call it when you want? I would like to read everyones opinion and thought on this.
The fact that the Taliban was a despicable force for evil doesn't moot the idea that politicians and demagogues in the US and Europe have exploited Islamaphobia, nor does it imply that the Taliban or Al Qaeda is a threat worthy of the degree of state machinery we've allocated to it.

None of these things are black and white.
That was a great summary of Kademlia!

Just to clarify:

> The distance between two given hashes is simply the result of [hash1] xor [hash2].

This is the main innovation of Kademlia compared to other DHTs like Chord which uses a simple difference-modulo-N distance metric. Kademlia was the first DHT with a symmetric distance metric, which has the advantage that peer-to-peer connections can actually be used bidirectionally. That means that Kademlia networks need only half of the active connections to reach the same level of connectivity compared to earlier DHTs.

As far as I know, this is pretty much the only advantage Kademlia has over other DHTs, but of course it is quite a significant difference in practice.
The messages are not repeated in fanout, just the ids. I guess you would know that if you actually the links.
> This story seems to heavily imply that the government authorised somebody to break into the firm and steal the data relating to the whistleblower's case. That strikes me as highly unlikely

Chances are, it was.

Just look for the agency with the most interest in their documents.

Do you have a better hypothesis?
Frink - a language for physical calculation
I work in a start up that has to do with taxi and limo in germany. The limo market is not very political, the taxi market is. Its one of the most distortet markets I have seen. In Berlin you have a state set taxi price.
> Using && and || for logical operators in this day and age is just ridiculous

No it's not, it takes 10 minutes to learn that && means and and || means or (maybe a little longer to get the hang of it properly), and this knowledge transfers to many programming languages.

(This is a little like arguing "we shouldn't use + when English has a perfectly good word 'add'"; symbol reasoning is valuable.)
I don't think there's any reason to be sad. Zelda and Mario aren't going anywhere -- they just might be showing up on Xbtwo and PS5 instead of the Wiii.
I made a site that did something like it a while ago: http://www.scrubmyaddress.com
A little irrationality thrown in is to your advantage ;)
My thoughts.

If you dont enjoy doing it in your free time. Don't try to force yourself. You will never succeed. If you are an aspiring entrepreneur then there are still plenty of ways to get involved in the startup scene without being a code monkey. One lesson I learned is that if you enjoy something, you will both do well and want to persevere when the going gets tough.
Right, because no matter how much RAM you put in a machine, access is always the same speed.
Silicon Valley’s ugly rich-poor gap: What’s the tech world gonna do about it?
Heart transplants caused a lot of upset at first, because folk beliefs about the heart as the seat of the soul still lingered.
That's even worse. Those retailers are going to extract heavy concessions from Nintendo when it comes to future orders.
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Maybe the new people can make an iPhone app that doesn't crash every time I try to use it, and lets me message people who bid on tasks?

The web version works fine, but the mobile version has serious issues.

I'm almost certain that whatever they're doing, this is an example of where a v2.0 rewrite makes sense.
Venezuela confirms receipt of Snowden asylum request
Don't have a link for you but I believe that in most cities max 12% of cars are on the road at peak rush hour.

My calculation was based on people using their cars at most 10% of the time, and a utilization rate of robo-taxis at about 60%.
Definitely sarcasm...
Maybe he's part of the conspiracy?
Just because people didn't give up their hotdogs to risk getting their heads smashed in doesn't mean there's not outrage.
I wasn't aware the Final Term developers were speaking for all of the non-GNOME desktops on Linux
1. I immediately read most of this document

2. Appendix 1 (the section referenced) might be objectionable to the eco-conscious. Tread with caution.
you geeks. just refresh the page and press ESC when it's just starting to load.
$320,000 lab-grown burger due for a high-profile tasting in August
But if they don't die nearly as frequently, there will still be less supply of young, quality organs.
I'm going to commit a piece of code that doesn't conform to PEP8 and make it look like you did it.
Psychological Barriers To MOOCs
There weren't many foreclosures. San Francisco represented less than 1% of foreclosures in California despite being 20% of the population, and outcomes for foreclosures didn't end up in the homes being sold as much as it did in the rest of the country.

For example (not in 2010-2011 range) in 4th quarter 2011 Sacramento lost 2200 homes to foreclosure vs. 160 for SF.

Foreclosures don't indicate overbuilding, they indicate that people can't afford to pay for their homes.
Love your writing, but how is this a counterpoint? The article claims no more AGR reactors will be built. It's bullish on nuclear reactors in general.
taxi driver != medallion owner
Wasn't that where Kim Dotcom wanted to drop a cable? (Or are you obliquely referencing it?)
Yeah go for it!
It does feel that maintenance expenses are sometimes overestimated. $300 per month someone else suggested to me sounds more reasonable (I have no own experience on this). It should be noted however also that maintenance expenses at $X per month are not spent every month -- rather there may be some steep expenses a few times during a 30-year loan term, which may average to that $X per month.
They're talking about someone in the executive branch sharing information with someone in congress. Protections the legislators have on their speech don't apply to the people speaking TO them.

IANAL, just speculating.
Why should he give an example of a "monster server" with specs like that?

He gave the argument that spreading the CPU's and memory out does not make them better.

So part of the point is that if the starting point is 8TB of RAM and 4096 cores distributed over a bunch of machines, then a "large machine" approach will require substantially less.

I've not done the maths for whether or not a "Twitter scale" app would fit on a single current generation mainframe or similar large scale "machine" (what constitutes a "machine" becomes nebulous since many of the high end setups are cabinets of drawers of cards and on persons "machine" is another persons highly integrated cluster), but it would need to include a discussion of how much a tighter integrated hardware system would reduce their actual resource requirements.
If you rent, the cost of staying may be completely out of your control. Indeed, it may not even be possible.

For those of us who want to stay in one place, this is a really good thing. If I want to invest in a workshop in the house, that's a good thing.

My house is mine, and some of the things I have here just aren't available to rent.
This really is a great project. Thanks for providing the links. It looks like you're thinking about the right things in building something like this. I'm excited to look at the code!
New study on how copyright makes books and music disappear
A thread from earlier today that went into some diagnostic depth on this point:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6008976
Agreed. National holidays might not be the best day to hold protests.
You're having a different discussion than Rayiner is having, which makes this comment a little unhelpful. Your comment would make more sense as its own top-level root comment, rather than as a nonresponsive reply to Rayiner.
To be honest, I found it completely reasonable, and as quick as a compilation step could be. I didn't install it yet due to the new Vim version dependency, but I will as soon as I get the new Vim version.
"There can be too much negativity in the tech community. It seems the average response to someone out on a limb, showcasing their latest idea or startup, is one of snark and derision. That is no way to foster an entrepreneurial spirit. Monocle is an attempt to remedy that."

So, back-patting and hi-fives, but no actual criticism? Because there are plenty of ideas in the tech community that deserve snark and derision.

Disagreement is absolutely the way to foster entrepreneurial spirit. What is an entrepreneur besides someone who disagrees with the way things are currently done. Besides, if good ideas are to filter to the top and learn to survive in the wild, then they need to be able to withstand people disagreeing with them and using colorful language to express that disagreement. Not every idea is good.

Friends can fight and make fun of one another. People who care about the same thing can loudly disagree. And I think communities where 100% of the people like one another are probably boring communities. And either trivially small or non-existent.

So, yeah. Monocle sounds like it could be neat, but if the idea is to shelter people from negative reactions to their ideas, it sounds like it's going to be kind of neutered and boring.
"National security" does not at all relate to "continued existence of the U.S. government". The government will exist as long as the survivors allow it to.

On the contrary, it has to do with, literally, the security of the nation itself. Nothing more or less.

We wouldn't wait to establish martial law if necessary during invasion until the government were about to fall, after all. The Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania that was stopped at Gettysburg is about as "national security" as it got for the U.S., but that never directly threatened the U.S. government itself.
I make good money on TaskRabbit. I hope it doesn;t move too far away for a "Regular guy" like me to make use of it...
The CIO is a big idiot and should pay this out own pocket.
The safety issue is not about the government but the level of violence in general society, schools, etc. IMHO, Australia as a whole is a safer place to live than the US right now. You don't hear about people shooting up schools, etc in Australia because it doesn't happen. It feels to me that the rate of this type of incident in the US is increasing.

As I said, Australia isn't perfect by far. But at least the government isn't ignoring its core, founding principles like the US government has been doing the last couple decades.

I did mention nanny state in my original comment. To each their own. :)
Pendrives
There was massive public outrage over the civil rights cases of the 50's and 60's, too.
This is not a passive vs. active voice thing. The subject and object are the same in both sentences. It's just slightly different word order.
I almost puked on this one... Welcome the real telecom world I suppose....
Yeah, "protests" seem to largely be an excuse for (... well ...for lack of less insulting terminology with any descriptive power..) "hippie minded" people to get together, bang some drums, and do some homeless camping. Expecting every issue of concern to the public to manifest itself in that way is patently absurd.
So, the thing is, I can't reply to the comment you wish you had written. You said "the rich", I think it's pretty clear that the top quintile (collectively earning more than the rest of the country put together) are rich. I'd say they're "the rich", even. I know, I know, people in the 99th percentile think they're middle-class because they can't maintain three houses and a jet, but they're stupid and crazy to think that.

BUT ACTUALLY, even your completely ludicrously irrelevant claim is still false!

The top 1%, earning nearly 20% of income, got taxed at 29.5% in 2007, which made up 28.1% of federal individual income taxes. Obviously if you crank that to 100%, and cut all other forms of government revenue, you can run the country for, uh...

1/0.295 * 0.281 = 95.25% of 2007 total individual income taxes

0.9525 * 40% or so of total federal 2007 revenue = 38%

Looks to me like the budget deficit is under 24%, that is 901B / 3803B (figures according to requested budget for FY2013, which is obviously complicating things since my previous numbers are from 2007, but I'm attempting to take the worst-of-both-worlds to make my claim as hard-to-prove as possible).

0.38 * 2.902/3.803 = 29%

0.29 365 = about 105 days. 3.5 months.

If you taxed the top 1% at 100% (but no wealth tax), and you cut ALL OTHER FORMS of government revenue, including corporate tax, payroll taxes, fees, businesses, everything.... AND you won't let me use the same deficit spending that the current real-life government uses.... AND you take wealth distributions from 2007 (which is less extreme than today, but better-documented) and combine it with the insane spending habits of this year (i.e. worst-of-both-worlds).... you can STILL run the federal government for more than a quarter of the year.

So any claim that taxing the top 1% at 100% will only last the government for a few days is... guess what.... totally bullshit. Let's try to have a fact-based discussion, instead of just quoting completely-preposterous hearsay that some wingnut blogger posted.

Note, again, that the reason all this math works, of course, is that the rich already pay most of the taxes (nearly half of fed indv inc paid by the top 5%). That, in turn, is due to a very-mildly-progressive tax schedule, combined with absolutely insane income distribution.

(aside to intended: no one should be discussing this, exactly as you said, but I won't let that stop me!!! bwahaha!)
> The city block you're living on probably only needs one stand mixer, one waffle iron, one clothes iron. You could all just share one of these rarely-used appliances between you. Why don't you?

Probably because they can't be bothered with the small logistics of a sharing system. But it isn't totally unheard of:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_exchange_trading_system

If not for some sense of selflessness, such systems should at the least motivate the more frugally-minded people: only borrowing or renting rarely used appliances, offering and getting services from each other with minimal bureaucracy, and optionally operating within a sort of currency system that isn't taxable.
'+' is damn near universal. '&&' && '||' !universal.
Nobody. If you disagree, organize their ouster. Just be warned that by all appearances most Americans don't see this as a voting issue.
This is what you would call "evidence feast".

Often planted evidence is made such that it raises no doubt that other party is guilty that it's also blatantly obvious that it's suspect.

What's the tripping point for me? being reported only by fox news. even in the interview quotes they say "obama administration"...
I also enjoyed this presentation:
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Timelines-Twitter

It goes into more depth about how they handle timelines.
I have not used nginx, and have never heard of it spoken about in such glowing terms. Can you maybe compare/contrast it with apache?
Think about fault tolerance with 2 servers.
This seems like an awfully whiny and egocentric opinion.

Look, the world won’t end if sometimes those symbols cannot be displayed. We do have two or three letter abbreviations for currencies. But in the long it should be our goal to create systems that can deal with new symbols easily and that have the assumptions that symbols will change and new ones will be introduced built into them. Because that’s how it is. Actually.

It seems to me here that in this case it’s very much the web that’s broken, not the new symbol.
Gabe of Penny Arcade notes that the Glass gets really hot if you leave it recording constantly. So, that's one reason. Battery life would be another.
It's like some people don't understand that an API is an "interface" and simplifying that interface is a boon to productivity, readability, DRYness, etc. All your points are spot on and its absurd that some people don't get that in this day and age.

"Abstractions are useless, lets all just program with cmp and jmp statements"--seriously folks, have we not learned anything?
Luminos - New Solar Car Unveiling on July 12th
In the short term, it's true that it causes some pain, but it does look very much better, and in the longer term it'll work fine.

If browser manufacturers had only ever implemented things that were currently supported, we'd never have got anywhere at all. Progress has a period of pain followed by later benefits.
I'd like to have an argument: A primer on Consensus
Jörg piringer - vy2ms
World's Biggest Offshore Wind Farm Switched On in Britain
Lets just ignore all the data that suggests that you will have to spend 15min looking for a parking space.
Sounds like a lot of hype. If you go look at the actual wheel, it's nothing more than a circular wheel with a sinusoidal tread.

After watching the Kickstarter video, it looks like the "cube" part comes from the inventor discovering this tread while playing with ways to fit a curved tube inside a cube.
> for the time we need to "undo" the mass-surveillance apparatus

You mean the apparatus that the vast majority of Americans are probably unaware of, and the vast majority of aware Americans are probably proponents of? What makes you think there will ever be an undoing on any reasonable time scale?
It might cause pain for the web, but it is pretty routine for other types of software. We added the new Indian Rupee sign to Bloomberg's custom font and at the moment and are integrating it with our hardware.

Having a single currency sign is pretty nice UX for citizens of a country and I'm not sure that countries should be chastised just because they want what those using the Dollar, Pound, Yen, etc have enjoyed for so long. If anything, font designers, font formats, browsers, OS vendors should innovate a bit to make adoption of new characters easier.
Declining prices are much more due to changes in the economy (in this case, a recession), not the housing supply. Aggregate incomes and wealth dropped a lot during that time.

If you were looking for something that indicated overbuilding, I would look for declines in the ratio of rents/sale prices to median metro income. If housing is getting cheaper compared to incomes, that means supply is catching up to or outstripping demand. This could happen regardless of boom, bust, or stagnation.

See http://www.usnews.com/news/best-cities/slideshows/the-10-mos... and http://money.cnn.com/gallery/real_estate/2012/11/29/least-af... for examples.
Secret legal interpretations become part of the law itself and are tantamount to secret laws. How can we have secret laws? What does that even mean?

Further -- can someone tell me if this is a new thing? Is there any legal precedent to the law itself being secret?
IT exists to facilitate other things, not to force other things into the IT structure.
Cheap easily accessible recording devices have powered most civil interest in abuses of police power, the identification and capture of domestic terrorists and a few full out popular revolutions against corrupt government regimes.

The constant refrain of "oh it's 1984" is completely at odds to the empowerment of the public that readily available and pervasive recording devices have given us - the cellphone camera has done more to prevent tyranny then that book ever will.
Somebody hook a generator to Kafka, he's probably putting out enough RPMs to power New York.
We're having the same discussion but from different perspectives.

Your comment placement suggestions aren't helpful. It added nothing to the exchange of opinions.
What's the source of your Australian data? The AusPost data is rather expensive, and most providers have somewhat awkward APIs and/or enterprise sales models that get tricky to navigate. Having somebody to abstract that out to would be fantastic.
Woah, I didn't know when one thing preceded another that it is certain that thing caused the other. Thanks for opening my eyes.
>Promises are actually a part of a of a very well understood programming mechanism that involves Futures and Deferred as well

This is my problem - when I last formally studied Computer Science we never covered this. I think most, if not all, of the Promises libraries assume you have a background that covers this, which makes it harder for those of us who have to work out all this from scratch. Not that I am complaining - just an observation.

Probably also harder for people like me that are not working with anyone who actually knows Node.js or Promises. The upside is of course that knowledge gained the hard way often sticks better, even if the process is more frustrating.
If the NSA can break encryption, they're probably only doing it for specific individuals they're interested in. And if the NSA is interested in spending resources on you, specifically, you have a world of problems besides encryption:

- Are you managing TEMPEST? Do you know what's on the other side of your walls?

- Who else has an access card/PIN/key to get near your computer? Cleaning service? Custodians? Other tenants?

- Are you running Windows?

- Do you read and fully understand every line of code of every security patch all of the time? Do you compile them yourself? Because no matter how much you may believe in Linux, package maintainers and repository owners are still people who are subject the laws of a sovereign nation.

- Do you trust your BIOS? Does your motherboard have Intel vPro or similar?

- Is your Java out of date?

- Where else have you used your password?

- If you're doing anything other than Gmail via Chrome, do you check to make sure the SSL certificate is from the correct CA? Do you check it every time?

- Do you know that everyone you ever communicate with is always perfectly on top of all of these (and other) potential vulnerabilities all of the time with no exceptions ever?

If not, then it doesn't matter whether we can still trust encryption. Because we certainly can't (by default) trust endpoints.