skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a kind of worthless comment, but not for the obvious reasons. :)

People are operating on the equation of "hosted in America = possibly accessible via PRISM = compromised by the NSA," which is understandable given all the recent news. Perhaps you don't trust the assurances that the NSA's computers are only scanning metadata by default, only flagging suspicious keywords that then have to be processed by a human agent before they go ahead and actually start scanning your real email which of course they will usually only do with a warrant obtained in secret from a secret court that pretty much never turns down any warrant request!

Okay, but those very reassuring reassurances actually only apply to American servers. Communication going between servers in America and international servers is just as likely to be targeted and quite possibly more likely to be subject to deep scanning. We have to throw in "likely" and "possibly" because, as with all things NSA, we really don't know. But if you're concerned about data interception, it's very likely not relevant whether FastMail's servers are located in New York, Norway, Australia, or the Fortress of Solitude.
WhereCloud releases new iOS open source project for dynamic resource loading
The writer of the article mentions "The Matrix" as one of the films that follows this structure, yet those films were made before 2005 when the book came out!
Do you know of any good alternatives with servers outside the US?
Racket has some other differences: Immutable data structures, more emphasis on Functional Programming and less on imperative programming, symbols are not that important, slightly more static and less interactive. It's basically developed from R6RS on. The Scheme community is divided about that. The R7RS under development goes a bit more back to the older spirit and style - which is also controversial.
I thought the same thing exactly. I usually convert everything on molecular scales in terms of proportions to the nearest tangible entity. (I find nm too abstract and harder to remember)

A single hydrogen atom has diameter of about 10e-10 meters.

A single nanometer is 10e-9 (i.e. about 10 hydrogens stacked)

Viruses are on order of 50-100 nanometers => ~500-1000 hydrogens across.

These viruses are 10e-6 meters, or 10,000 hydrogens across.

That's too many to imagine and hard to remember, so other useful dimensions I sometimes use are

diameter of DNA helix is about 2nm (20 hydrogens across)

the size of X chromosome, which is roughly 7um.

the size of a cells in our bodies vary around 10-100um.

so, the best way to get a sense of scale for this particular virus (imo) is to imagine it as 1/7th of size of an X chromosome. Or as 10x bigger than an average virus.
"Of course, such total transparency is a viable philosophical viewpoint, but unfortunately it's not really on the table in any of the current discussions."

That speaks more to the current political environment than to the validity of transparency or secrecy. We should be very concerned that we have gotten to the point where surveillance and intelligence collection are considered to be more important than the ability of the people to hold the government accountable for its actions via the court system.
While I think its really cool from a programming perspective, from a web design perspective, that logo was annoying the shit out of me.
If you want me to read your blog, let me read it and stop distracting me.
Microsoft spends a lot of money on R&D....I think Windows will become primarily a enterprise OS and Microsoft as result will shrink but will still be important.
Out of curiosity, is there direct fiber from India to the US?
051160:KOSDAQ. Wake up dude.
Oh, I've seen it, I was referring to this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071315/faq#.2.1.3
You're overthinking the entire process.

You're telling me that you've never shouldered an old handset? Inconceivable!

You are overthinking sync. The whole point is that when you save the file on your PC, it gets synced before you access it on your smartphone, then it gets synced again before you get back to your PC. And the whole point of these various services is that you pick one, set it up, then you can forget about it. With sync, the point is that you only have 1 file regardless of which client (text editor) or terminal (computing device) you use. You only have 1 file and folder tree which is constantly synchronized between all of your devices. There is no merge, as the file you edit on your PC has already synced the changes you made on your smartphone. I do understand the desire for encryption, and some of these services have that built in to varying degrees.

Notepad++ is one of the best text editors for Windows -- it is way better than Notepad or even Wordpad. Living down the 5 from Redmond means I've used MS products my entire life too. It's also somewhat of an IDE in that you can select a language for it to interpret a file, and it will provide keyword highlighting, bracket highlighting, and other language-specific features.
1. You aren't billing for time - you are billing for a deliverable that will be done during the day / week (or part thereof) billed.

2. This is not the same as contracting for BigCorp on a 6 month java position at 600 usd pday. That's close but basically an employee without benefits

3. If you move from 100 dollars an hour to 4000 dollars a week (8000 seems to be more norm - you won't work every week) then the high price is to get then to focus on deliverables and not think o you as a person on a seat for six months but as someone who proved the last project did well
>Win8 is hated/feared more than Vista was.

True and obvious among techies but not sure about the average joe.

>The new xbox is probably the most panned product announcement I've ever seen.

They really f#ed up on that one (not the concept but the way it was presented) and it got worse when Sony decided to throw in a few blows while they were still down.

>Office 365 and Hosted Exchange are not competitors to Google Apps, they're poor competitors to Office and Exchange.

Agree it wasn't the best Idea to go cloud. They just made it easy for their existing consumers to compare the pros and cons between them and Google's offering.

>Windows Phone has been a dismal failure in terms of actual customer traction - especially outside USA.

What? If anything Windows Phone and Nokia is growing exceptionally in the emerging markets specifically India and Africa.

>Surface Pro is not even in the same market segment as an iPad.

Yes it is. Surface Pro is a great mix of device. I already have a laptop/utrabook but wanted a tablet when travelling. The options were Ipad, Nexus 10 or Surface pro. I ended up choosing Surface pro because it offers everything I need in a tablet while letting me use my work apps on the go. Git, Visual Studio, Photoshop, you name it, if it installs on your laptop, it installs on the Surface. Can't emphasize how productive it has been ever since I got it.
History, read it. Note: this is probably the dumbest comment I've ever posted to HN.
Cocoa (like everything) has some rough patches, but overall is clean, elegant, and has a pretty consistent feel and vision.

Proof is that ARC exists. This is the only reason compiler tools like ARC are possible. If Cocoa were too inconsistent, ARC could not be exist.

Given that Cocoa's origins are from the 80's (NeXT) and Foundation is still with us today on iOS (and UIKit is very similar/familiar to AppKit), this is an extraordinary accomplishment and it has succeeded better and longer than any of its contemporaries.
You are misreading the punchline of that Article. It says $1B in Sales, not $1B in revenue. There's nothing in that article that says that's revenue, only sales. There's also nothing in that article that says it doesn't include comped hours.

Believe me, if Azure had $1B in revenue, Microsoft would not be quiet about it. The keyword "Sales" is there for a reason.

*Edit: "Microsoft’s $1 billion sales figure includes Azure, as well as software provided to partners to create related Windows cloud services, Anderson said in an interview." from the article. This is definitely not just instance time they're talking about.
Sorry, but what's that got to do with iOS7? Parent wasn't saying that the dev centre being down isn't a bad thing, just that iOS7 incompatibility errors aren't high on the priority list yet.
We're not nearly at that point. Don't forget, we've had what were essentially emergency fiat governments, often with pervasive surveillance, indefinite detention, suspension of freedom of speech, etc. at least twice in our history: the Civil War, and the Great Depression/World War II. Hell, for most of our history half the population of the South lived in a de facto police state.

This isn't as bad as it looks on first blush. The courts still function. Civil rights are largely intact. There aren't breadlines, riots, or gas rationing. Traffic lights still run, electricity still flows, and water still comes out of the tap. We're not in bug out territory yet.

It's starting to happen. This is it. Right here. Right now.
Care to point at some resources?
That is scary for a different reason - you can see then that MSFT has actually barely grown at all in 10 years.
On the other hand, what is the ideal technical solution for a social problem? Should all applications support some sort of option panel just to define who-can-see-if-I-read-the-message-or-not? Should we throw more technology at the problem?

Well, if you want less technology thrown, maybe we shouldn't have read receipts at all. But if we are to have them, allowing the user to control the experience doesn't seem too much to ask for. Why not just ask the user if he wants to send a receipt?

Instead of asking for more and more technology to hide our flaws, shouldn't we strive for this to be fixed at the social level?

I think that's an odd way to put the question. I'd rather ask if it's technology's job to enforce changes in the social dynamics, and if it's there to serve or mold the public.

Maybe this is a social problem and maybe we should fix it, but I'd rather not have Facebook making that decision for us.
We already have intact F1 rocket engines (in fact, some scientists recently test-fired a gas generator from one), but getting some of the F1's used during the Apollo 11 mission is absolutely fantastic.

One of the F1s is expected to ultimately go to the Seattle Museum of Flight. I look forward to getting to see it.
comp.lang.lisp has long lost any importance. Most Common Lisp users have moved on. The communication infrastructure shifted to the mailing lists ( http://dir.gmane.org/index.php?prefix=gmane.lisp ) and the #lisp IRC channel. That's where the real work was done. Even much random talk now has been moved since quite some time to reddit / lisp, stackoverflow, planet lisp and even Twitter #lisp.

comp.lang.lisp is long dead.
I really wish I could get into the server and fix all these HTML errors.

The OCD in me is acting up.
How is that phrase ludicrous if we acknowledge that the courts are a part of the government? Our government is deliberately partitioned into branches that may or may not work together. The Supreme Court can and does rule against the government that it is a part of; the Justices are not servants of the Attorney General nor of the President.
Source Article (for those the readability link breaks for): http://www.buzzfeed.com/justinesharrock/what-is-that-box-whe...
Neutrino shape-shift points to new physics
Why use their binaries? I rather have Debian compile mine.
Well that is unfortunate. Thanks for the clarification.
This is a pretty cool utility, I never really did like just creating a blank file, I'd rather use an explicit tool

I'll update the article.
Looks like the developer is going to be giving it more loving full time for the next year -- https://campaign.joeyh.name/ almost funded.
This comparaison is worthless. Here is an example of an extremly innovative company vs Microsoft.

Innovation vs worlds worst CEO part 2:

https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
I'd take a job in a factory churning out iPhones in China over dying a slow and painful death from gangrene that started as an ingrown toenail.

People in the first world romanticize ancient ways of life, but the reality is that life without basic technology is nasty, brutish, and short.

Another blind spot is that there are degrees of bad. Living in a village in northern Afghanistan is better in a lot of ways than living in Darfur, which is better than Somalia. Honestly, people didn't choose to live in cities and work long hours in factories because we tricked them. They do it because it's better than their previous existence.
Apple's policy is completely consistent here. If you are a browser then you don't control the data that the user is accessing. But with all other apps especially Tumblr you do control the data.
Yahoo, this is porn we're talking about. Porn on the internet. Yahoo, porn finds a way.

This is like buying Starbucks and then getting the "brilliant idea" to stop selling coffee and to instead focus on selling coffee cakes.
There must be 50 books out there about screenwriting that talk in similar terms about the pattern -- the 3 act structure with character development tent poles and rising stakes. Their weakness is that there is no admired movie that fits any proposed pattern very closely, although many excellent follow the pattern loosely.

Perhaps the genius of this book is it has achieved the correct enough formula for comfortable mediocrity? Dunno. Do not care.
Leaked Moto X specifications reveal a mid-range smartphone
Megapixels aren't everything not matter what the camera companies tell us.
California state law requires companies to disclose security breaches. So, if such a thing did occur, you should expect to see one sometime within the next few days.

source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_breach_notification_la...

If you don't see such a notice, than it is (was) likely some other issue.
Excuse the ignorance, but what am I missing here? Don't all sales qualify as revenue?

Edit: quote from the article:
> “I expect them to double annually from here,” Staten said of Microsoft’s Azure revenue.

Seems to at least imply sales and revenue are interchangeable in this context.
I don't think this is a very good example of what they are claiming is happening. The book sold roughly 1,000 copies in a month or two and received amazing, near universal great reviews. There is every chance that should she have continued writing the series (like she intended to) it could have been very popular. I'm pretty sure Harry Potter didn't sell 1 million copies within 2 months of being published.
What didn't you like with fixed price billing?
i don't understand. the faq says the secret is a generated 20 byte sequence. if we assume it's random then that's 160 bits, which is too expensive to brute force if it's used for a symmetric key (and it sounds like it is). and i don't see how dictionary attacks are relevant since it's a machine generated random chunk, not a small set of dictionary words.

so can you clarify what you're worried about?
That is fine, even if confusing. The point is the book allegedely has distilled the "good enough" formula -- whether the formula is new or mined from previous films is unimportant. That so many movies are echoes of The Matrix and similar is kind of the point.
Nothing. The free tier of gmail is now 15GB.
Apple says, "Think different".

Hollywood space movies have funny physics.

"Least common denominator" felt right, but not if the crowd I nerds.

I chuckle at people who think Hollywood is dumb.
Alan Turing to be given posthumous pardon
O.O Is this from a book or something?
Please look up "Sarcasm".
"For instance, if the FBI gets a warrant to bug the office of the head of the Gambino crime family, should he be able to sue to find that out?"

Consider the alternative: vast, unconstitutional surveillance that can never be challenged in a court because you have no legal way to prove that your rights are being violated. Oh, wait, that would be the world we live in right now.

The problem here is that we have wandered so far down the "law and order" road that we have forgotten that we have civil rights. Yes, if we defend our civil rights and if we allow people to challenge violations of their rights, there will be criminals who escape justice. Our entire criminal justice system is meant to protect the innocent despite the risk of allowing the guilty to go free.
It's motivating from a hacker/programmer perspective, not so much from a business one. 8 months full-time effort for new car money? Unless he means a new Tesla Model S, it's not very encouraging, especially considering so few reach this level of success.
Me and most people I talk to agree with you, although not just for physics but more generally "follow your own rules." I'm put off when I'm watching a movie and something that has been established IN THE FILM is then intentionally disregarded later in the plot. Suddenly Scotty can transport to a moving starship lightyears away, or the Hulk can suddenly control his anger. You can create any universe of rules you like, but once you do, you must stick with them.

And you're right it also lessens the tension of falling off a building when you break physics and established that an otherwise normal character can safely land a 20 story fall.

This issue reminds me of Misery: "...my favourite was Rocketman, and once it was a no breaks chapter. The bad guy stuck him in a car on a mountain road and knocked him out and welded the door shut and tore out the brakes and started him to his death, and he woke up and tried to steer and tried to get out but the car went off a cliff before he could escape! And it crashed and burned and I was so upset and excited, and the next week, you better believe I was first in line. And they always start with the end of the last week. And there was Rocketman, trying to get out, and here comes the cliff, and just before the car went off the cliff, he jumped free! And all the kids cheered! But I didn’t cheer. I stood right up and started shouting. This isn’t what happened last week! Have you all got amnesia? They just cheated us! This isn’t fair! HE DID’NT GET OUT OF THE COCK – A – DOODIE CAR!"
I am reading 'failure is not an option' if you haven't already read it (something tells me you have) highly recommended.

Its sad how the steam of space exploration and development got dispersed after Apollo. If it had continued at that rate who knows where we would be now. Perhaps even a small station at L1 with small crew... Thankfully I feel we might be in the beginning of a new renaissance thanks to lower costs and open source tech. Somehow the $/lb needs to drastically get reduced. There was a space cannon called project harp that could launch 180kg up to 110 mi. Its a shame they stopped it because the costs per kg are insanely cheap. Perhaps with todays robotics components could be accumulated in orbit.

Long story short, we need zero G refueling and zero G assembly. Next gen space vehicles need to be assembled in orbit.
They admit to having a Adult flag which removes the blog from all site listings and from google searches. This effectively kills the blog.

So what? nobody owes you a free search engine listing.
> the trailers for these types of films make them seam very exciting.

The sad truth is that it's what people like (at least, if my friends are a representative sample). I personally wish there were more "12 angry men" type of movies. I'd even be willing to pay a premium to compensate for the fact that there is a smaller market for such movies. Which makes me wonder why price discrimination hasn't been tried on movies (not sure this is the right term). What if every movie was priced differently?
Ofc stop using innocent children for your arguments.
Yesod in Production
Also: note the originating username.
Why? Because the Earth is only 6000 years old?
Voice quality isn't a manufacturer problem but a carrier technology problem. It's easy to get $200 good microphones (see podcasting). (My electrical engineering friend works in the cellular tech industry and tells me such.)

That said, I think we're getting there. LTE dumbphones that transmit using VOIP instead of standard voice tech could work, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were rules about 911 connectivity or something similar that prevent them from coming out.
I'm interested in quantitative evidence of "faster". I have 1.5GB of mail in gmail that I sync to fastmail and gmail is significantly, noticeably faster for me. Especially search.

I am skeptical of performance claims especially by people (not referring to you, but to the author of the post) who think mail.app is fast. Mail.app needs several seconds to do things that gmail does in 50 milliseconds, like load a thread with 100 posts, or free text search.
If I click: "If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.", I still don't get anywhere close to the initial count.
One would have thought that the use of soldiers to enforce domestic laws would have given that away. Unfortunately most Americans believe Hollywood's version of reality, which is that those soldiers are needed to fight armies of criminals and that those soldiers never threaten, injure, or kill innocent people.
“What Is That Box?” – When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company
No, mallards have colored heads. Brown for the female, glossy green for the males.

(Apologies for even more off-topic, but xkcd #386.)
Customs will seize your domain name without warning or following any particular legal process. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/08/members-congress-deman...
I just realized my first comment only applies to the "main" Hawaiian Islands.

In the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, there are lots of different access regulations, and none of them open to the public. On some islands, the scientists with research permits must carry and dress in sterile clothes separate for each island--so as not to spread seeds, insects, and possible pathogens between islands.
Not really. In the meantime I've been wondering about their past stance for twitter for example, and it seems twitter got away with just marking the app 17+ [ http://allthingsd.com/20130206/nudged-by-apple-twitters-porn... ]

With such a clear prior case, it feels like tumblr tried to play it safer than necessary for some reason (the app is 17+ anyway)
IANAL but if the government is right by definition (on a legal basis), does that mean that the various suits now being filed don't have any teeth ?
Adding the option would be nice, but that is not a sure way to get rid of the social "issues" that might arise.

Today you have someone mad at you because you don't respond to messages, tomorrow you'll have the same person saying things like "why don't I get read confirmations from you? I get from all of my other friends. Are you hiding something from me?"

> I'd rather ask if it's technology's job to enforce changes in the social dynamics

I'm not saying it is. At the same time, it's not technology's job to enforce that things stay static. However, we can't deny that technological progress causes changes in the environment, which requires adaptation from people. Call it "Sociological Darwinism", if you will.
I believe that a monk seal was killed on the island recently, which would be a fairly serious crime.

The whole setup is weird and slightly discomfiting in a pure colonial paternalistic sense, but hey, it's obviously working in some ways.

For anyone looking for a good overview history of Hawai'i, I would recommend Gavan Daws' Shoal Of Time [1]

[1] http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-195-9780824803247.aspx
What did you make ?
Apple Confirms HopStop Acquisition
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