skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fail to see how that would prevent the problem. If I piss on the tap, how eager will you be to wash your hands using water that flows through the tap?
Make Yourself Irresistible To A Startup
> Basically yes, I believe there are some novel ideas here worth patenting.

Analogous to what Stallman once coined, you are now literally talking about patenting ideas[0].

> To date, I don't believe this idea has been suggested anywhere else, and while it might seem obvious in hindsight, it took many late nights of experimenting developing it.

> There was no promise that the research would pay off or the end result would even work.

Aka every single software that is a little more daring than standard CRUD. Are you seriously suggesting that a patent is the only way to be properly compensated for your work?

Might I suggest a different route? How about you release what you have there the same way all those libraries you base your work on were released. Trust me, they are full of research that nobody knew would pay off, with things that seem obvious in hindsight, but took many, MANY late nights of experimenting.

If what you're saying is true and your "novel ideas" and the solutions you've found really are that valuable, then there is an incredible trove of respect and admiration waiting for you. (And if you're smart, you will find ways to convert that into "making a living".) You'd be robbing yourself of a huge community (again, the same community that you are currently using - bootstrap, jquery, threejs, modernizer etc.) cheering you on, respecting you in the same way that you might have felt using those other public libraries.

The only thing you see at the moment is that you have something and you imagine that the thing you have should be the thing that pays your bills, directly. So you have decided to close it down as much as you possibly can (and, judging from the use of public, floss libraries, it's debatable how much you actually can). I'm telling you there is another way. You could be "the library" for people mixing 2D and 3D.

The path you're on right now only leads to one of two things: First, you're going to go closed-source. Then somebody else will write a floss "the library". Then you get angry and lawyer up. Then you realize that only the US and a handful of other countries is idiotic enough to allow for patents on software. Then you realize that trying to "go legal" is probably pointless. Here, you are at a crossroads: On one side is the path I'm telling you to go now, you're then just five years behind on where you could be now and somebody else has earned all the admiration and respect. On the other side is an old and bitter man, clutching his wallet.

[0] http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html
Fresh urine is sterile. It's a good breeding ground though, so it rapidly becomes less sterile.
1 million particles
There is a reason why php is climbing the list, because how anyone can learn this language and for a beginner because they will learn server-side scripting from the get go with MySQL and this is great for transitioning to other languages that do magical wonders like Ruby ( on Rails ) but it would be cumbersome to understand how this works without really understanding under the hood which PHP will show you and when you move on to an elegant language you will appreciate pythons beauty if you have done PHP.
The New New Naturalism in the Era of 'Processed' Relationships
With systems like Tempora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora in place and the main goal of intelligence organizations (probably around the whole world) being to "know all information", the only way to be safe from losing your secrets is not to disclose them in any electronic form on the net. Simple as that.

And with your "secrets", I mean any piece of information you don't want them to know: email, websites you visit, mobile phone calls (and locations)...

Since Echelon/PRISM/Tempora/etc is practically public knowledge at this point, I would imagine that most "real terrorists" have also deduced the above facts and are living by them, making the whole exercise a fishing expedition paid with regular Joe's privacy and tax money...
No, only changed blocks are resent. The scattering effect of Truecrypt encryption plus the relatively large blocksize does amplify the number of changed blocks somewhat.

Previous investigation and results:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546626
Never use raw numbers to represent slices of time, there's just too many corner cases that can throw your calculations off.

Use the INTERVAL data type, it handles the logic properly.
Interesting. I really had just assumed the iPhone was under-powered (having no idea what the device is really doing in the background). If it can go faster, that would certainly be icing. But over all, I think I'll largely be using it to sketch an idea here or there, and it is plenty fast for that. The slowdown is only noticeable for the included big reference documents. (Which are great - being able to twiddle with the features inside the definitions is now my favorite way to learn.)
How a Deadly Explosive, When 3D Printed, Could Be Life-Saving
> If the information obtained from the FISA process is useful exclusively in extrajudicial activity

FISC warrants are a subset of the FISA process; lets not drift.

> (or, perhaps more accurately, activities in the bailiwick of Article II)

I'll stand by my initial wording. It may or may not be that some or all of the extrajudicial action that is taken based on surveillance authorized under FISC warrants is also properly within the bounds of the executive's Article II powers (to the extent that action is, it may be Constitutional, but that still doesn't, in and of itself, make it a net social good.)

Its also not exclusive use, but the primary use. That it has other secondary uses, because those uses are incidental rather than the motivation for the surveillance, does not substantially constrain government action in pursuit of FISC warrants.

> and can't effectively be deployed against citizens in criminal proceedings (not least because to do so would open up a can of worms regarding new standing to challenge FISA)

It can be effectively deployed against people (including, but not limited to, citizens) in criminal proceedings, especially when the specific person isn't the subject or target of the surveillance.

> AND the FISA process is targeted exclusively at foreigners and collects substantial information about citizens but only inadvertently

The absence of effective constraints in the FISC warrant process is precisely why we cannot trust this to be the case.

> what injury is being inflicted on Americans?

Well, that question assumes a whole lot of stuff that you just interjected into the discussion and that I don't (as noted above) agree is reasonable to assume.

> You say FISC warrants have no enforcement mechanisms and are exclusively permission for NSA to engage in surveillance. But the FAA 702 process has FISA engaging directly with American corporations.

The FAA 702 (50 USC § 1881a) process is not a warrant process. Its actually one of the least problematic FISC related processes, since it actually provides for adversarial process, unlike the FISC warrant process for physical or electronic surveillance.

> How does FISC enforce that action?

Through its contempt powers.

> Why can't Google simply challenge the Constitutionality of the FAA 702 directive nondisclosure requirement?

Who said they couldn't?
>Yes, because when you're living in an apartment that costs $3,200/month and can't fall asleep because your neighbor is blasting nerdcore music...

This never happened. What you imagine Google interns to be like and what they actually are seem to be disjoint sets. Music isn't even mentioned in either article or the Yelp review.

And I am somewhat suspect of the claim that Google interns are darting into traffic. The problem is if it happens even once by accident, you'll have residents complaining that it's an epidemic.
Fail Cheaper, Fail Better
True, but missing the point. DFM can be misapplied, as it was here. So now you need to propose a process (design review, I guess) that prevents DFM from being misapplied. And that process can break down...

The fact that you can look at the wreckage or a rocket and "see" what the problem was in hindsight is not proof that you know how to prevent any such accident. I really with more design people understood that.

(It doesn't mean that whatever process you favor is a bad idea either, but that it has limits. Getting to my original point: you can't fix bugs by executive fiat.)
Pretty sure this article is totally wrong on all it's assumptions on security being broken.

All arrest to my knowledge were from people posting hashes in a public way.

Statements like this are definitely wrong, this is NSA style stuff, if possible at all. I though there are only a handful (One?) md5 collisions found.

"The relative weakness of md5 has led to hash spoofing attacks on the WinNY network."
Beta launch datamind.org - interactive learning for data analysis
You'll have to explain me why it's OK to live in Colorado then where the natural levels of radioactivity are about 6 times higher than in other places in the country.

There's very clearly a threshold effect, just like in many natural phenomenons. Political nonsense is what is causing confusion, not the scientific basis. And most of the "science" trying to prove otherwise is based on too few numbers to be statistically significant. (the cases of reported leukemias, for example, is very often misleading when you look at the ACTUAL numbers and not just the percentages.)

If you use "no-threshold" for planning purpose then you can't technically live on Earth anywhere, since there's natural radioactivity all around us and cosmic rays as well through the atmosphere.

The regulatory limits for radiations are based on No Science whatsoever. Currently, at least. We know radiations kill with certainty at very high levels, there is no debate about that, but at low levels it's just a political issue more than anything else.
in re: the last kid

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

"he spoke several languages but could make himself understood in none"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James_Sidis
Starbucks existed before wi-fi. They also had seats.
Soon to be wed wants cash instead of gifts for their wedding to come to SV...
Russian Lawmaker Deletes Snowden Asylum Tweet
So no secret targets at all, then.
You have probably been in contact with lots of unhygienic stuff during the day, so why not wash your hands anyway?
Walks And Walking - Walking GPS Garmin Oregon 600 GB Discoverer
I have to say, any minor quibbles aside, this is the best modern-day, non-academic article I've read on HN since forever.
> Do all the justices in SCOTUS have access to each and every ruling made by FISC?

No.

> If so, can a SCOTUS justice unilaterally promote a FISC ruling to be heard by SCOTUS?

No, even if they have knowledge of a lower court decision (and there is an intermediate court between the FISC and SCOTUS), neither a single Justice nor the Supreme Court itself can "pull" a case that hasn't been brought before them by a party.
He did warn us with the "Here it goes".
> But it's still a politically sensitive topic

Yeah, and God Forbid we talk about the positive aspects of radiations - some level of radiation is actually beneficial to kill some bacteria in your bodies and reduce some types of ailments and cancers. This has been observed (but certainly NOT widely reported in the media for which Nuclear Energy is the Devil Incarnate) in several studies.
Something like http://scratch.mit.edu/ ?
Not only do they tend to take up a table, it's usually a table marked as handicapped. Not that there's an obligation to honor that designation, but if you automatically go there when your Macbook Air could easily fit on a tiny little round table, you're a prick.
> Fresh urine is sterile. It's a good breeding ground though, so it rapidly becomes less sterile.

Could you explain this a little for the biological layman?
I used "define" imprecisely.

You cannot, so far as I know, implement `>>=` for the IO type defined in the above link within Haskell, which means you can't actually use it to do IO.
Sure, but if you're mr. straight forward and obvious all the time, I bet your skills will plateau faster than the puzzler.
I'm a "wiper" too and feel more clean afterwards. It's one of the reasons why I try to use a proper toilet with access to paper.

While we are ranting; why don't more urinals have dividers between them to give a minimum of privacy?
It would be interesting to know if that was just the low-spec hardware that FirefoxOS targets. E.g. would a different approach also be relatively slow on that hardware.
5 tips for creating better tutorials in mobile games
I've thought for a while that they are an enterprise company that thinks their customers are everyday consumers...
If you're ethical about it, then cool. If you're one of those that think a $3.50 coffee entitles you to 4+ hours of electricity, seat, + Internet access, then you're the problem the coffee houses need to address.
With excellent communication skills, and hard work, AND a strong network, you could get very far anyway.

Matter of fact those are 3 skills that are always in demand because anyone who possesses them can avoid truly coming to grips with the question in this thread: The necessity of good grades in determining your career.
we all supraevaluate our competencies in lots of areas, including driving. I haven't ever actually hit anyone and I adopted a more prudent driving style in biker areas since, but I'm just being realistic about it and recognize the fact that I tended to be over confident in my driving skills, and considering that most people I know have equal or worse driving skills, I can only assume that they also supraevaluate theirs (maybe other would have just rationalized an "almost hit accident" and think something along the lines of "if my reflexes were good enough to avoid it this time, they will be good enough to avoid it next time too" and ignore the statistical side of things). And I would never do a hit-and-run but I'm realistic about assuming lots of people will be tempted to do so and some will give in to this temptation (imagine hitting someone in a foreign country and contemplating the possibility of spending time in a foreign jail for this!).

...that's why I really think that driving is and area where machines can get to be much better than humans and really hope to see thing's like Google's autonomous car perfected and used.
Coffee shops are similar to book shops wrt providing a frreebie, i.e. wifi in coffee shop and reading latest instore mags in bookstore. Iusually bought one mag after spending an hour or 2 reading thru them to show my appreciation. Iresented it when bookshops started displaying their magazines wrapped in plastic only. Icouldnt even read the contents. Isuspect coffee shops will get the same reactions if they cut off wifi.
> it's not an accident that they make it so difficult.

The easy direct funds transfers in other countries shows that it is an accident.

In Australia, opening a bank account requires applicants to show sufficient ID (the 100-points check[1]). It was intended to cut down on money laundering and tax evasion, but as a happy side effect banks have very high assurance about who money is moving from and to.

That means that direct deposits don't require the heavy validation that a cheque does. So such transfers are free and usually settle in 24 hours. Often the same day.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_point_check
Optical lattice atomic clock could 'redefine the second'
Digg Makes a Comeback (sort of)
Has anyone in mobile OS and mobile apps ever questioned the assumptions that Java must be used and/or a scripting language must be used, e.g., Javascript?

What if we had a mobile OS and a mobile app that was 100% Java free and only ran compiled code (i.e., that compiles to ARM assembly)?

Under the Steve Jobs theory of computers, everything should be "fast enough" just as it is. Because Moore's law and the increasing computing power of hardware should allow us to focus entirely on making everything as user friendly (including develeoper friendly) as possible without having regard for software efficiency. Watch for example the 1980 documentary "Entrepreneur" to see Jobs state this while the cameras follow him around during a NeXT retreat in Pebble Beach.

But I've also seen Hertzfeld say Jobs for example pushed hard for him to try to reduce boot times on the Mac. This is of course is firmly in the realm of software (bootloader and kernel) so it would seem a conflict of ideas. Software efficiency does matter sometimes. Even when the focus is user friendliness and user experience.

Jobs also said things back in the day about "the line between hardware and software" becoming blurred.

I find this difficut to agree with. But then I'm not called a genius like he was.

There are no doubt competent C and ARM assembly programmers out there. I've seen them doing embedded work and making games. Alas, I do not think they are by and large involved with working on the popular mobile OS's. Instead the focus seems to be on people who prefer to work with virtual machines and scripting languages.
It can be effectively deployed against people (including, but not limited to, citizens) in criminal proceedings, especially when the specific person isn't the subject or target of the surveillance.

I agree, but at that point aren't we talking about a federal criminal case held before a normal federal court?

(Incidentally, the reform I'd like to see is bright line restrictions against using the products of foreign intelligence to make domestic criminal cases.)

I worried the first question I asked might be too fuzzily worded to properly answer and now think I was right. Moving on:

If the only way the FISC can enforce orders and warrants is through its contempt powers, can't the subjects of those orders, ie a corporation held in civil contempt by FISC, appeal that? Doesn't that eject the process from FISC?

I'm trying to engage with the notion that the FISC is a black hole that moves the entire question of domestic surveillance coerced from US companies to a parallel court system.
> It’s also why ruthless testing and 100% test coverage have become so important in mainstream languages. But even with 100% test coverage you can’t be sure that your code will work correctly if a function unexpectedly returns nil unless you’re also mocking things out or using fuzz testing.

You can write tests with 100% coverage that don't use a single assertion. Test coverage is a completely useless metric, but it is an easy one to measure and understand, which is why it is so popular in pseudo-QA and the management tier.
Neither does a price cut in huge black dildos; what's your point?
Why hasn't anybody figured out to put a reasonable time limit on each device Mac address? 1 hour since you first log in should be enough to satisfy 90% of customers and discourage the 10% hogging seats. Its like saying - you are limited to 5 refills and being able to enforce it discretely. Who would object to that other than those taking advantage?
There be no animals in urine from start.

But animals like urine, because urine tasty. So many animals come to urine ASAP!
Desert Bus: The Very Worst Video Game Ever Created
> unless there reasonably intelegent
I think you need to challenge the idea that remotely working means that someone out there is supposed to accomodate you.
> Nice try, but nope. Just about every Supreme Court justice has been a federal judge previously. Did that mean that there was no confirmation process? Not a chance.

If you read the Appointments Clause, you'll find that the only judges explicitly called out that must go through the advice and consent process are Justices of the Supreme Court. So, while that's true, it doesn't really support any kind of broader argument by analogy.
It's sterile when it comes out of you. However, once it's out of you, and sitting there in a puddle, it is very easy for bacteria to grow in it.
Did new Florida law make computers and phones illegal?
Nah, onion routing just bounces HTTP requests/responses around before sending them on to their final destination (which is still a just a server somewhere).

What the GP is talking about sounds something more like freenet or cryptosphere. When you query for some data in these systems you have no idea where it is stored and the people who are storing it / sending it back to you have no idea what they are storing.
This is on the front page right now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6012214
No wonder I didn't have any luck recruiting interns this summer. $3,000 apartments? Hot tubs? Jaywalking?

I thought shelter in the Ghost Town part of Oakland and an AC Transit bus pass would surely lure a true hacker or two. Guess I'll have to rethink this next year.
Is #Snowden Really Obscuring #PRISM? [with data]
I think this would qualify as one of these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6000815
>It's unfortunate that such a fundamental misunderstanding of the characteristics and nature of optimized javascript is used to drive an argument about it.

I don't see any "fundamental misunderstanding of the characteristics and nature of optimized javascript".

At worse it merely shows a misunderstanding of Sunspider's utility. And that's like 1/10 of the article -- and he even mentions some objection himself.
Real research mathematics, that which can't be reduced to mental calculation, requires a command of verbal reasoning well beyond what it takes to win at analogies on the SAT (as does theoretical physics).

It can also add to your ability to express yourself.

I very concisely was able to get my feelings about Mitt Romney across to my math major roommate when I stated that Romney's ilk believed the well ordering principle could proven to apply to people and not just integers.

Another less esoteric example is this James Fallows article about the Carter administration

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1979/05/the-pass... (ctrl-F cube root)

This was particularly chuckleworthy because I had just encountered a bug in the TI calculator system (I used to work for a TI subcontractor) where to make the cube root of -1 just be -1 (ie always taking the principal branch for the unwashed masses of eighth graders who knew nothing of complex numbers), TI decided to have negative rational numbers with an odd denominator have odd roots go to -1, and even denominators numerically evaluate. (Try graphing the cube root function on your TI and see the function go all over the place for negative values, this is why) When we complained that it was screwing up the numerics we were trying to code, we were told "it's a bug, not a feature". I referred to it as "circumcising the cube root" in a drunken email to said math major.
It's not so much that the liberal arts are easier that the sciences, it's that you can be lousy at them without realizing it. It's very hard to be bad at math and not know it.
The N.S.A., the 'Encroaching Police State,' and the System
The Connection Between Venture Capital and Diverse, Dense Communities
Found this in a hostel in SF: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13002145/toilet_sink.jpg

It's actually incredibly efficient, using the same water which is typically used to fill the reservoir tank for future flushes. Felt odd at first, but only a took a day to assimilate.
LINQ (C#) seems pretty awesome and not over-the-top, and I believe it's foundation is monad-based. Best example I can think of.
I just spilled my morning coffee from laughing so hard... :-D
setTimeout(,0) is a special case. It means "make this function be ran after the current call stack clears". That requires neither a timer nor a spin loop.
Fuck HN has gone downhill.
> Google is one well-known example that used to require a minimum GPA, even for people with years of experience:

Guess I have a reason not to work for Google after all.
The Ultimate Setup Guide: Ubuntu 13.04 in Virtualbox 4.2 on Mac OS X
That one is really working completely. Such a timesaver!