skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I love the ducky. From the idea of privacy to the name and the cutest logo. Yes, the quality of the search is not as finely bubbled as Google's, but it's actually a feature.

I'm very glad that Gabriel was brave enough to start a new search engine and stuck to the project, which really paid off. We have a viable, non-tracking alternative to Google now.
Looks the same guy was the producer for this game the more recent War Z [1]. Its also interesting that War Z also faced accusations around misleading customers [2] and [3].

[1] http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/01/08/the-war-z-review

[2] http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/12/19/the-war-z-apologi...

[3] http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/the-war-z/1226980p1.html
How would you remake this video? 
Hi,
Recently we found ourselves second-guessing the messages in our Product Into video: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWxUaGCL3hk)
Our main concern are:
- Is it clear enough or should we provide additional explanation?
- Is it too "light" for the technical crowd?
- Is it too crowded with features and should be more focused?

I would love to get your feedbacks on these points (or any other you wish to raise). We might be just "sitting too close" to notice our mistakes or our strong points. HN community is held in high regard in our offices and this could really influence the discussion.

Thanks
> And I think you should expect the same from every reasonable adult

You think all the reasonable adults understand strong passwords?
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That video is brilliant and rings so true in all its cynical beauty.
Do you think it matter if veterans were disallowed from joining law enforcement? Without getting into constitutionality arguments, would it really make the country safer for all its citizens (and not just those lucky enough to never be confronted by cops)?
Given that Medium currently has no advertisements, one really wonders what step 2 could possible be except to display ads once momentum has peaked.
I think it's a dramatic exaggeration of "content farm" if your use of the term is so broad that it encompasses every type of web publishing that you don't personally own.
When was the last time you logged in, from an logged out state?

I get pestered every time I log in.
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Any system of significant complexity be it hardware or software cannot be trusted unless it is 100% open source both from the hardware level to the software level and all systems that are used to manufacture it are open source as well and the whole process has open oversight.

Even if you tape out a CPU and ship it to the fab, they could still add stuff before it is packaged.

In conclusion, no you can't trust anything we use today. Even Stallman's open-everything laptop is open to compromise.

Pen, paper, box of dice, OTP or accept these facts.
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Just because it's not behind a login doesn't mean that you've got more control over it.
It is absolutely not true that local police forces are largely ex-military, or even close. They are by and large civil servants who have been handed a federally subsidized budget of military grade armaments from the dept of homeland security and been "militarized" by the federal govt.

Tanks, automatic weapons, helicopters, bulletproof vests, helmets, armor piercing ammunition, bomb squads, all provided by the federal arms dealers.

Any idea that the militarization of local and state police is driven by ex-veterans is not only factually wrong but a crazy excuse for the fact that the US federal government has been training them to militarize themselves.

And once they have these toys, you might expect them to feel pretty powerful just for having them.

In fact, I think you could make the opposite case, that actual veterans if they made up the police force would respect the constitution and would never treat US citizens on US soil in this manner.
or are they anti-government separatists because one time they reshared a link on Facebook to an article mentioning Ron Paul?
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Captain Dave Ryter earned so little when he was a co-pilot for a major airline that he lived in a gang area of Los Angeles, commuted for hours to work and made less money than a bus driver.

Many are forced to fly half way around the country before they even begin work. Others sleep in trailers at the back of Los Angeles airport, in airline lounges across the country or even on the floors of their own planes. Some co-pilots, who typically take home about $20,000 (£12,500) a year, hold down second jobs to make ends meet.

A commodity is any good or service ("products" of "activities") produced by human labour and offered as a product for general sale on the market. Some other priced goods are also treated as commodities, e.g. human labor-power, works of art and natural resources, even although they may not be produced specifically for the market, or be non-reproducible goods.

The obvious lesson: A profitable company, whether UPS, FedEx or Southwest, can pay its workers more.
I think the forum poster also tried to indicate some of these problems are not unique to Koreans. The part at the end about inflated logbooks due to autopilot was interesting to me. Quote from cached page on google:

Finally, I'll get off my box and talk about the total flight hours they claim. I do accept that there are a few talented and free-thinking pilots that I met and trained in Korea. Some are still in contact and I consider them friends. They were a joy! But, they were few and far between and certainly not the norm.

Actually, this is a worldwide problem involving automation and the auto-flight concept. Take one of these new first officers that got his ratings in the US or Australia and came to KAL or Asiana with 225 flight hours. After takeoff, in accordance with their SOP, he calls for the autopilot to be engaged after takeoff. How much actual flight time is that? Hardly one minute. Then he might fly for hours on the autopilot and finally disengage it (MAYBE?) below 800 ft after the gear was down, flaps extended and on airspeed (autothrottle). Then he might bring it in to land. Again, how much real flight time or real experience did he get. Minutes! Of course, on the 777 or 747, its the same only they get more inflated logbooks.

So, when I hear that a 10,000 hour Korean captain was vectored in for a 17-mile final and cleared for a visual approach in CAVOK weather, it raises the hair on the back of my neck.
That might be a valid concern in general, but this is the question asked:

"What concerns you more about the government's anti-terrorism policies, that they have gone too far in restricting the average person's civil liberties, or that they have not gone far enough to adequately protect the country?"

So that the statement has reversed in this case does mean that people have moved from one category to another, not that the wording of the question has been manipulated to change the outcome.

Source: http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-and-centers/polling-ins...
I'm pretty much always logged in. Just to be sure, I went to YouTube, logged out and then in again, but nothing different happened.

I have a standard Google Account username (i.e. my username and not my real name appears when I comment) and it's not linked in any way to G+ (although I _do_ use G+ often, might that be the difference?).
This is a copy-paste of my comment from an older thread [0]:

http://www.xakep.ru/post/58104/ (use Google Translate)

TL;DR

The author has found an undeclared software module (backdoor?) working as a hyper-visor in the System Management Block chip on the South Bridge working with Intel CPU with VT virtualization technology.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4462782
do americans get a bill if they call for a fire engine?
Well by my (and Wikipedia[1]) definition Medium is not a "content farm".

Try reading this article replacing Medium with posterous/tumblr/subvtle/Google +/Wordpress... The content publishing is a commodity, nothing revolutionary or wrong with it.

[1] (from Wikipedia) "In the context of the World Wide Web, a content farm (or content mill) is a company that employs large numbers of often freelance writers to generate large amounts of textual content which is specifically designed to satisfy algorithms for maximal retrieval by automated search engines. Their main goal is to generate advertising revenue through attracting reader page views[1] as first exposed in the context of social spam.[2]"
On the run, Snowden turns to lawyers for help
Nice? Nice would be if "government" or "politician" was something every citizen did on the side and all the time, like breathing, instead of it being a profession. What you are suggesting is "slightly better than the worst", but nowhere near "nice" in my books.

Also, for what? So the rest can hide behind them? Because that's what effectively happens. Very little change, very great excuse. We couldn't even discuss police brutality here without some people moaning about how some cop or other is a decent person, as if generalizing to make a point is somehow worse than shooting unarmed people.

Not that I don't hear the point you're trying to make, I used to think that too, I don't anymore. When something is past the point of return, just throwing people at it won't turn it around, it just wastes perfectly good people. I'd rather lean on the assholes who currently work for assholes, to stop being assholes, than send non-assholes into that grinder.
Okay I'm making it a point to no longer click on titles that are simply commands. It's kind of getting ridiculous now.
I don't agree that not owning all (or many) champions hinders your gameplay or skill cap. People have reached the top 10 with a single champion.

Runes on the other hand, do allow for slight advantages during a game. They're also free (as in, you can't even buy them with real money), but once you've gathered an amount of in game currency (Influence Points), you have to choose between using those IP to buy runes or champions. So while everything that's able to give you an advantage in the game is free, those investing real money will have a wider range of champions and/or runes sooner.
Google To Spend $500 Million To Market Moto X Phone
Most of those platforms don't demand to own the content you post on them, that's an important distinction.
Ouch, just noticed that HN strips the question mark from the end of the url as well.
USSR/Russian troops entered Poland in 1939 and left in 1992. After WW2 it was decided at Yalta that Poland will be communist country no matter what Poles want, there were falsified elections, till early fifties there were partisans fighting against new government in less populated areas. People that had the misfortune of fighting Germans in right-wing instead of left-wing partisan groups during WW2 were mass-murdered in tousands (some left-wing groups members too just in case). Political parties other than communist PZPR and pre-war socialist PPS were outlawed (PPS was outlawed a few years later too). There was censorship.

Between 1945 and 1989 if you asked Poles whether they want to be occupied by USA instead of being "independent Warsaw Pact member" 90% or more would instantly agree.

Say what you want, but for most Poles Kukliński did good.
The most astonishing thing is to see that there is a solid majority that see Snowden as a whistleblower in every category surveyed, whether old or young, religious or not, republican or democrat, or even military households..

More depressing to see a plurality across the board consider the metadata collection as necessary (though at the same time similar sized groups consider it as too much intrusion into Americans personal privacy)
Yep, it looks like the plots are done with ggplot2 (http://ggplot2.org/), and the code at the bottom is definitely R.
Ah, ok, I had not seen the part about the mandatory whitespaces. I still think it has the potential to confuse, so if I were to write in languages that allow dashes, I'd probably still avoid them where possible (can't see the advantage over using underscores instead). Anyway, thanks for the info.
Given that a large percentage of the intended audience is Medium or on Medium, I don't think it's particularly ironic.
Well then u have never played original DotA then, most veteran/hardcore DotA player i know never play LoL for this reason, and also other reasons such as changed game mechanics and game points benefit. It removes the originality and thrill of DotA from the game, thats why we rejoice as Dota2 came out, and we played dota for almost 8 years.
I would think that it'd be easier to mess with communications to and from the tank. Or that they'd get stuck in a valley or something where radio communications aren't very good. Also, navigating on the ground is trickier than flying in some ways, depending on the terrain.
what some people don't realise is that MOBAs - played at a high level- aren't a game anymore, they're an e-sport. They are played competitively, the only goal being to win. This applies to HON/DOTA/LOL, but also to Counter-strike, Starcraft, and, to a certain extent, Halo. Obviously also to Quake and UT, but those are to old to be relevant now.
An e-sport is taken as seriously as competitive sport in the USA. Any American will know how important winning is in sports. To understand the importance people attribute to winning in some video games, you have to see them as an e-sport.
Reading this

By furnishing your User Content to Medium, you give Medium a broad license to use and exploit your User Content as it operates and evolves its business.

Gave me the creeps. What follows, I realised, is even worse.

"Business evolution," there goes a clear-cut concept.
Does It Make Sense To Give Education For Free?
The core concept of this article is solid - build something useful. That's how I'm getting triple digit year on year growth & traction with my app, http://www.getcampusmaps.com . Students find the app easier to use than going to the visitors center and getting a paper map, and so it provides real value to them.

I disagree that the app store gold rush is completely over however - I entered a crowded space with established competitors (including each school's own app, Google Maps, Apple Maps, GuideBook, Blackboard, and many more, and am still able to carve out a solid niche for myself.

The trick is in not only providing value with the app, but having a scalable marketing strategy. Treat it like any other product you want to sell, don't ride the Appstore-luck wave.
They are individuals, yes (though they are certainly not random people), but they still operate within a structure that shapes their actions. For example, while I oppose it on philosophical grounds, I don't see an NSA operator exploiting my email credential for any personal purpose. But some random guy on HN - who knows? He might just post them on 4chan for the lulz.

It's simply a facile argument that weakens the real arguments against mass state surveillance.
"real-time interactive control"

As of now SOUNDLAB is not tuned for performance at all. It's rather think/write/compile/listen. It's focus is on simplicity and composability. It aims to make exploring sound synthesis as simple as possble, and to be as thin of a layer between the user and the signal as possible.
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Well, the DNA itself probably wouldn't be enough because it doesn't really encode an algorithm or recipe describing how a (multicellular in this context) living organism is constructed from it's genetic information. Instead, the DNA is more like a huge collection of building blocks. But how and what will be constructed from this pile (meaning what will be included in the final system and what won't) that's a completely different matter.

A few links for the interested:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental_biology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics

That said, there has been quite an exciting paper published around a year ago describing the first simulation of one life cycle of an in silico Mycoplasma genitalium (the smallest known bacteria). Here's a link to relevant HN discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4272039
Agreed, and league of legends managed to 'removed' this feature thus preventing the actual fun and competitiveness of Action RTS, i conclude that league of legends are of new players that come and go, play a few games and then left, while DotA/dota2 players are the opposite.
So if you don't want to write there, don't. Problem solved, no? It's certainly good to point out the license/copyright terms so that others know what they're getting into, but it doesn't seem like a big deal beyond that.
Lets start with a basic fact. A good portion of the NSA is dedicated to purely defensive cybersecurity. They have contributed to SELinux, created the DES encryption algorithm, as well as SHA-1 and SHA-2. NSA had a part in AES as well. They were also involved in figuring out what happened with regards to the Google and Nasdaq hacks.

Even if you believe the NSA's actions were wrong with regards to collection of metadata... a good portion of even the NSA's workforce have nothing to do with that current controversy.

Even then... if you manage to convince yourself to be a bigot towards ALL NSA employees, you'd have to be awfully bigoted to then further apply your judgement to the rest of the Federal Government workforce.
I'm probably fighting windmills but here it goes: DotA did not start the
AoS genre which is now called MOBA. In fact the first AoS map was the map
Aeon of Strife, made for StarCraft.
There were tons of AoS maps before and tons of AoS maps after DotA.
But i agree when you say DotA mad the AoS genre popular even though there
were other very well known AoS maps beside DotA (EotA, AotZ, DoE, ToB, AoS GT, etc.).
I very much like the 0-click results from DuckDuckGo. But if you want something else, Qwant (http://www.qwant.com/) has something similar. (Possibly even better; I haven't compared it yet.)
The point is that HTTP may not be the be-all end-all protocol that we will ever want to use on the open web, and encouraging any potential new protocols to take HTTP's lead and use an arbitrary binary encoding that requires protocol-specific tools to make sense of, is maybe not a decision we should take lightly.
Watch the rest of the programme. It's all like that. Yes minister is not so much a comedy as a documentary.
What about the fact that TCP/IP and everything above it and below it is inherently insecure? SSL is just a cruel joke on top of it.(unless you believe in it)

So why are you worried about your CPU? Seriously, your computer cant talk to any other computer securely.

So I guess your question is whether your computer can even talk to itself securely. Well that depends.
I think it's not just that Hollywood movies are influencing the Police, although that is part of it. Art both reflects and influences culture. It's hard to separate out causes and effects, although it's clear there is a problem here.

American culture as a whole places a ridiculous emphasis on empowerment through violence. It's everywhere; films, tv, books, music, punditry, news reporting, people's attitudes and idle conversation. A huge proportion of narratives resolve themselves through heroic violence. Often a heroic character will find inner strength through physical violence (and often inner strength means becoming murderously callous).

If you take a step back and look at it critically, it is rather absurd. In the real world true empowerment comes from intelligence and leadership skills. In the real world, having to kill lots of people would be very traumatic (at least for a well adjusted person).

I don't think it's as simple as violent movies causing violence. I think the real dangers come from the unspoken assumptions, the things that movies take for granted, which then become part of everyday thinking.
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It could easily mean massive war, if a war is politically required. One country holding out water supply to another country for whatever reason. Say such a country has a big friend, like say the US?

Not to say it will happen, I believe and hope it wouldn't happen, but it could.
To be fair Miller is not exactly neutral on that matter (he is postcommunist from SLD - which was called PZPR before 1989 and ruled communist Poland).
So both Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight [1] and Daily KOS write about this poll. Silver, as usual provides analysis and adds something to the raw poll. Daily KOS is basically just blog spam, providing little or no insight.

The link to Silver's analysis is submitted to HN, and promptly gets flagged to death. [2] The link to Daily KOS, on the other hand, gets upvotes and comments?

This surprises me.

[1] http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/public-o...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6024008
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"I won't be worried about this, and eventually when most cars are self-driving and many cars are paid for by the use and ridden by many different passengers, license plate recognition will be less informative than ever."

Just pair it with cell phone meta-data, and you'll know exactly who's inside each vehicle.
Forget the cars. How long before people accept discounts on Google glass (or similar) in exchange for continuously running face recognition software and streaming the information back to some company providing a similar service where you can look up people instead of cars?

"User #129334, we have detected a person of interest in your field of view. A client would like Enhanced Position Information (TM) on this individual. Nod if you agree to keep him in sight for the next hour and receive a month of free cable!"

For a long time we've enjoyed the goods arising from the fact that technology can rarely be stopped. I have a feeling we'll see some awful things in the coming decade... It unsettles me greatly that I have this newfound fear or technology, but I really do.
That doesn't make sense either. NSA isn't a law enforcement agency. Although I guess they can pin it all on the FBI (which would make sense in some respects...) but even then... the NSA is really the centerpoint of the controversy as far as I can tell.
I just spotted this in my twitter stream and submitted it, and did not tell anyone that I'd submitted it, so at least if there's any kind of foul play it's not a voting ring that I'm aware of.
That's not true. The reason foreign trainers were brought in around the year 2000 was because they needed to Westernize Korean cockpit culture. Modern commercial jetliners (which are made by Western companies) are meant to be flown by two pilots who correct one another, which works well in Western cultures. Korean culture makes this difficult because of its hierarchical nature. In fact, Korean Air (and probably Asiana) banned the Korean language from the cockpit because its inherently hierarchical grammatical patterns were responsible for making the first officers hesitant to correct their captains when they made mistakes.
Show HN: Clara.io, next-gen web-based 3D creation tool.
It's maybe worth pointing out that this is the first release that has a full ARM JIT support.
SQL is a beautiful language, indeed. Writing vendor-specific SQL in stored procedures and views is great. But embedding SQL in other languages such as Java is still very hard in 2013.

jOOQ is the first and only API to fully embed the SQL language as an internal domain-specific language in Java, using an internal BNF for API definition:
http://blog.jooq.org/2012/01/19/jooqs-fluent-api-in-bnf-nota...

Being a DSL with an AST, advanced SQL transformation can be implemented to standardise SQL where common SQL constructs aren't supported. These include:

- DISTINCT predicate: http://blog.jooq.org/2012/09/21/the-is-distinct-from-predica...

- Row value expression predicates: http://blog.jooq.org/2013/05/03/sql-query-transformation-fun...

- Derived column lists: http://blog.jooq.org/2013/01/07/simulating-the-sql-standard

Both vendor-specific SQL and embedded SQL have their merits.