skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big thing I think Ubuntu Touch (their mobile stuff) has going for it is the quality of Ubuntu, Unity and the SDK. I've been following the development since the beginning (you can flash a Nexus 4 or 7 to see it for yourself). I remember first using Android and be astonished at how incredibly bad it was. The UI was awful, the apps were terrible and the widget toolkit was just amateur.

Android 4.0+ is pretty good. The holo theme is nice and you can see where they can go with it, but it took Android years to get here. Ubuntu is starting out in a much better place with much higher quality design and a much more sophisticated look and interactions. If people lived with Android for the first 3-4 years and could put up with it, I firmly believe people would LOVE Ubuntu.

I do have to wonder if people will give Ubuntu the slack they gave Android, though. I doubt it. I think Ubuntu, in 2014 will be held to a higher standard. A standard, judging by the very much beta versions, I think Ubuntu will hit.
IMHO The interesting part of this story is NOT the 'level of wrongness' in police abuse. It's the policing of internet reviews!

On the surface this is a trivial story, but in reality, this is totally bananas! A local cop policing the internet through means of coercion? Sounds sufficiently interesting to me!
Show HN: Hosted CMS, created instantly from your HTML markup
There were only 3 reviews on Yelp, of which 2 were removed.. Doesn't really seem like harassment to me, nor does it really seem like the parlor owner did anything particularly awful (although looking at the photos it was disgusting in the restaurant).

Basically I feel like the police needn't be involved and that officer probably should have read the Yelp posts prior to calling, I highly doubt this would ever go to trial.

From Yelp http://www.yelp.com/filtered_reviews/ELUSdeDHbZLMVcl4K5qLkw?...:

A month or so ago, I was finally given a job at a local pizzeria named "The Wild Tomato" in Harrisburg.
I was given duties mainly related to cleaning and sanitation.
The first concern I had was the fact that they were storing trash cans in their walk-in fridge, where uncovered food and sauces were often stored despite health regulations. I learned to ignore this for the sake of employment. I have photos/video of this.

Shortly within the month, I discovered a bag near the outside trash dumpster that contained multiple empty bags that had contained synthetic marijuana, a multitude of hypodermic needles, and receipts for deliveries and time-clock slips, all with the same employee's name listed (one of the drivers). Again, I have photos.

Upon notifying Paul, the owner, he threw away the receipts with the employee's information and told me that it was "no longer my problem". At the time, I assumed that this meant he would take corrective action on his own.
However, the employee in question was never reprimanded and continues working at the shop.

Recently, I found another empty vial of synthetic marijuana, this time inside the building in the employee area, among the cleaning supplies.

When I brought it to the attention of Paul, he stated that he did not care about what his employee's did, or if they brought it into the workplace or not, as long as they did not physically use them during work. He told me he could not control what his workers put into their bodies, and asked me if I wanted him to drug test everyone. I mentioned the previous incident with the needles and how I could have gotten stuck by one, causing a liability. He responded "Well then you better stay home, you go outside you could get shot, you could get hit by a car, the real world's dangerous." He also stated that an empty container with a commercial label on it, advertised with drug images but "not for human consumption" could have had anything in it. He said "If I get a vial and put a label that says cocaine on it does that mean it had cocaine in it?".
He dismissed any safety concerns I might have had, implying that I was at fault for "having a problem" with narcotics on the premises.
Ah I remember the joys sharing the basement with our printing section though a dyline printers fumes did wonders for cutting through a heavy head cold.

Only down side is they kept flooding the basement having tide marks on you computer rooms walls is not ideal :-)
I think it has been useful to me. For one, I'm more motivated to work because if I slack off, I'll be staring at an empty indicator all week long which really upsets me. I suppose it's just a psychological trick that may or may not work for everyone, but it does for me.

The second thing this helps with is project-based tracking. That is super useful, because I had no idea before how much time I'm really dedicating to my different projects. Of course, my initial assumptions have to make sense. I.e. if I decide to spend 25% of my time on a high-risk project and 35% of my time on a more attainable project, those targets have to make sense. But assuming they do, this system helps me match my targets.

I suppose the next step would be to regress those indicators on some external output, like number of papers published, but I think coming up with a sensible metric would be very difficult.
What would you blame them for? Beating the crap out of the alternatives?
Is that the on-screen display from a talk? Because I really don't like it as an actual web page.

--edit-- thanks to both replies below. Wasn't meant as a criticism, I was just expecting an article rather than slides.
PuppetDB: Sneaking Clojure into Sysadmins' Toolkits
IIRC it's run by Microsoft Ireland in the EU.

Even then, if the US would be to access EU-hosted data, with no real justification, the EU will not take that kindly. Especially private data.
I think this site is similar to what your describing: https://trackif.com/
Why do you feel sorry for someone who is in a position of power & is using that to abuse a former employee?

Do you think one negative Yelp review is going to ruin the owners' lives or livelihood, and that is a more serious concern than following the health code? If the place had been up to code, or the employee's concerns had been allayed, this whole situation could have been avoided, and that's the better way to deal with the situation, compared to police intimidation and hang up calls.
Why wouldn't they? It'd be an easy way to make ~$2 million
They can give them the same model with only a 32 GB partition on the flash. And then charge $200 for an upgrade to 128 GB. It's a proven business model. :-)
Of course, as soon as you have kids and you see them exploring all of the various "door like" things in their environment, you give up on odd pet peeves of door fixations and just get on with the expected. :) (Not sure why, but the amount of discussion "proper" door design gets is a major peeve of mine.)
If certificates are broken then public key crypto is broken, because a trusted third-party certificate is necessary to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, no?
Linus is probably a brilliant engineer, but he could learn some lessons in leadership from Mr. Hoare.
NSA Spying Row Ushers in Debate Over Big Data
1 way you can reduce your TTL from heavy web requests now
"Do you write JS?"

Yes, along with a ton of other languages. It is well known that if you use a slow language to set up problems for code written in fast implementations, the result can still be quite fast, but it's the fast bit, not the slow bit that's responsible. See also NumPy. It's not Javascript being fast, it's the regex engine. If what you're doing is regexes, it's almost certainly more efficient to just do the regexes than to try to ship the relevant strings down over commodity internet connections... which is, indeed, exactly why you don't take this approach in your code.
It's kinda cliched for someone with a username containing "ops" to come out and say "i love checklists", but i do!

I've never found a better tool for communicating what to do and in what order. Everyone just understands them, with zero training. You can even play with the format slightly and people still get it, e.g. break out a formal time column? Sure! People just start using it.

I especially like them for high pressure situations. E.g. for handling prod outages i've consistently found checklists work better in practice than flow charts, knowledge bases, call trees... etc.

I use them for many things, from the fairly benign (releases?) to the relatively rare (new joiners).

I recommend, just based on my experiences so may not apply in all environments, using a simple web based app to handle all your check lists. It'll be accessible from any device, without installing anything up front.

A couple of small extra features will make it infinitely more useful:

1) Allow for both a "ticked" / done status and a "working on" / "i've grabbed this one" status. Display the user who's grabbed it and the time they grabbed it.

2) Allow for checklists to have all their boxes reset on a schedule, e.g. daily reset of the "start of day" check list.

3) Archive completed checklists - they capture useful information about who and when, so I don't bin them when they're completed
Light does have mass (it has zero rest mass, but it's always moving at c, and as we know m = E/c^2...)
The Nature article on the subject is considerably more informative. The research shows a curve that's not inconsistent with 'perfect'. The measured Q is about 10^6, and roughly consistent with their wavefunction model of reflection. It's an excellent Q for the substrate.

The model allows for infinite reflectance, so this work opens an interesting window into future improvements. When the reported Q passes 10^12, you'll know that they're on to something truly special. Bulletproof measurements of Qs greater than 10^5 are a challenge, so it may be a while.

This paper was the coolest thing (to me) in last week's Nature.

Paywalled links (the authors have not chosen to put it on the arXiv):

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7457/full/499159a...
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v499/n7457/full/nature1...
Apple hack exploited with new phishing campaign
Unfortunately it sounds like the $600 price point only covers their BOM right now. If they put in extra engineering to disable some hardware, that's a net loss for them per unit (but they'll make it up in volume!). All the people who would upgrade have already splashed out for the 128GB model.
This is great! A followup contact, either praise or criticism, is like Pavlovian conditioning for our representatives. I'm happy to say I was able to give positive reinforcement to my congressman. Forgive me if I'm mixing up my theories, I haven't taken a psychology class in several years.

Also, great job to Sina and the taskforce!
I'm a trifle pessimistic over the chances of this ever succeeding.
Sibilant: JavaScript with a Lisp
Debug oEmbed, Twitter Cards, Open Graph through this one Google Chrome Extension
Basically I feel like the police needn't be involved and that officer probably should have read the Yelp posts prior to calling, I highly doubt this would ever go to trial.

The cops shouldn't have read the reviews and shouldn't have called nor had any interest in this case.

This is incompetence (failing to understand the law) at best, or a cop making an unofficial call to intimidate a citizen as a favor to the pizza place owner at worst.

Either way, there's no good reason for the cops to get involved at all here.
SAC Capital of Deep Capture fame? Why am I not surprised?

http://www.deepcapture.com/tag/sac-capital/
Step 1: install Bootstrap. Step 2: get stock image and write trite copy. Step 3: post on HN.

Agree with others that this is both an interesting concept and looks hastily glued together. Also, the anonymity is worrying.
I'm going to have check out that first chapter to understand your meaning. I am intrigued!
> Photons are responding to the curvature in space-time, not directly to the gravitational field

In general relativity, space-time curvature is the gravitational field, so I'm not quite sure what distinction you're trying to draw?
I already commented but I'm going to again, to make a different point.

This article is going to get a lot of traffic and it's talking about things that happened months ago. The take-away is: news stories don't need to be first to get attention and pageviews. They need to be informative, accurate, high-quality, well-written, and present new information.

Maybe too many professional journalists are caught up in the "game", where a big influx of traffic or Twitter followers is a dopamine hit similar to getting a bunch of upvotes on Reddit (or karma on HN).

But I have not seen proof that "being first", by itself, correlates to long-term professional success as a journalist. Often the things that journalists are trying to be first on, are things that everyone will know soon anyway--like who the FBI has named as a suspect. Is saying something 5 minutes before everyone else really worth the risk of getting it wrong? It's gambling with your professional reputation.

The value of being first is usually really the value of being "only". Look at Glenn Greenwald's articles about the NSA, or David Corn's article about Romney's "47 percent" comments. Sure, they were the first on those topics, but their real value was that they were the only people who could have reported those stories--because they were the only people who had the sources for previously hidden information.

So: if you're the first with a story because you have exclusive access to new, trustworthy information (in both Greenwald's and Corn's cases, they were primary sources with verifiable documentation), then it's good to be first.

But if you're just trying to shout the latest rumors into Twitter faster than the other 1,000 people, then you're really just rolling the dice.
Donald Trump Demands Bigger iPhone Screen
There is a one-time fee of USD $7,500 to be made to 26|52 Inc. within 2 weeks of the acceptance letter.

run
The Rust Development Policy Code of Conduct
I actually missed that news! Awesome!
Yeah, that's why the spec started to introduce semantic tags (http://www.pageresource.com/html5/semantic-tags/). I'm not arguing that we are anywhere close to what you want, I'm just saying that the web is evolving in that direction.
Did you not see the vote spread yesterday? Twelve vote difference. That's incredible, and this is only the beginning.

Also remember, there are still leaks to come, we've only seen a glimpse of the full scope of the revelations.
I have two aliases that I use all the time.

`gd`

and

`gdc`

I'm sure you can figure out what each of those means.
Good god, my attention span just reached terminal velocity. I like. Very cool and original.
Link to AMA:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shut...
Is Your Fashion Brand Looking To Move Into Eyewear? Time To Meet Eponym.
>A novel concept that people may want to attempt to grasp is that there could be no rulers

It seems to me that the fastest way to evaluate this idea is to look at how an organization is propelled to statehood in the first place. If incentive structures support states, they will exist.
Yes, but it would protect against passive surveillance.
Interesting approach adding the editable flags in the markup. Seems like a great way to lock down portions of the page for editing.

Looking forward to trying it out!
This is really cool. As a wanna be web dev I would love to hear about your guys' design process and the technologies you're using.

I'm curious about how credits will work. It seems that with traditional search engines like google, people often make many queries and subsequently refine their searches based on the results, so I could search for "best new car" look at the results then decide I might get better results with "highest rated new car" etc. If I'm paying by credits that doesn't seem like the best option since I'll waste credits, so it seems very important to know exactly what I'm looking for ahead of time. It looks like you guys understand this because there are some tools to refine searches.

I'm also wondering if you guys plan on adding more tools to analyze the search results, or increase details of queries. I could imagine searching by css selector syntax or regexp, or you could even design your own basic language to query by, especially if your userbase is pretty technical.

Looks great so far I look forward to following you alls progress.
Point 4 is orthogonal to the others.

Points 1-3: If you have an proper, FOSS system, you can't keep people from doing all those things, which they will do if it gets get any kind of meaningful traction.

Point 5: You can't force manufacturers to provide support at a certain level. You can probably avoid "TIVO-ization" with licensing, but as soon as you're venturing out of "supported" territory, there's only so much you can do for regular users.
"the overwhelming majority of cases go away on their own" go away for most africans because they are more likely to carry the sickle cell trait which provides defence against malaria.
That can be a bad idea. Consider the case of you having revealed the contents of a truecrypt partition to the feds. You can't actually prove you showed them everything. There may be circumstantial evidence against you or the fed may be misled by some other factor beyond your control... or you may forget passwords or even lose security tokens. With deniable encryption, you may be guaranteeing yourself a treatment of the "rubber hose" with no way to say "stop".
> This will be a device people can actually use.

Assuming they use Chrome or Android, that is...
Shake : Run any action with a shake
If they're not careful they're going to endanger what access they have now. If secure communication as we know it ceases to be actually secure people will start (are now) figuring out how to go around points of failure. Meaning, if they push on this too hard they'll lose their ability to listen in on targeted communication because people will have more faith in unsigned than signed keys.

All it takes is one leak of this data to throw the entire idea "gimme your private key" requests into the domain of F###ing horrible ideas.
Looks like there's a bounty in place, so the best answer will get some bonus points :)
What you say as protecting congressmen from reality, I see as the view of the nation. I would say the majority of the US have the general attitude that only naive hippies have a problem with this and the real grownups see this as the need that it is.

The reality is that the people seem to want this. That is the reality Congress works from.
> In the interim, it seems like the best way to capture value is to build companies to flip in talent acquisitions

Interesting point, and really indicates that companies are not willing to pay enough for talent when hiring them individually. Even a startup that is nothing more than a bundle of talented individuals has enormous leverage just because of that bundling.
You can download an audio version of the same talk (albeit from a different event):

http://faif.us/cast/2011/sep/13/0x18/
Actually, how crazy would it be if the documents that Greenwald is sitting on now bring to light that this is already happening... it would overnight throw software best practices into chaos. I hope he's careful.
And this will last for approximately five minutes until a new ruler establishes themselves either through resource monopolisation or through pure threat of force. And they will never be short of toadies.

Why is the default assumption by libertarians that if the government is brought down, human nature will suddenly, completely change?
Something that people have apparently not quite connected is that these developments are incremental steps towards and can already be considered within the spectrum of mind reading. The only reason that that a majority of today's people do not recognize the situation as squarely in mind reading territory based on examples from literature and popular culture is that the the technical limitations still retrain government, with great frustration.

Although the same heeds of danger did not suffice in the early 20th century, we are facing the same mechanics that led to the world war. We are at a nexus of an ugly transition into the consequences of the information age the same way that humanity would ultimately face demise at the nexus of the consequences of industrialization leading up to the World War, first and second part.

The problem is a generational one; the baby boomer generation, with it's industrial age mindset is incapable from internalizing the consequences of their unprincipled actions.
Poll: Americans Turn On Snowden, Majority Supports Criminal Charges
LibreOffice 4.1 Released
Percona Monitoring Plugins 1.0.4 release: Now with Galera graphs
Perhaps you were seeing more bug reports from Debian users, because more people were using your software via Debian than elsewhere?
Note that the jet stream is split this summer and that is causing a lot of below the Arctic weirdness. Earlier I read this happens about once every 10 years and seldom in the summer.

Search on jet stream split, narrow to this year or the last few months.
Isn't Chromecast accomplishing similar functions as Apple TV?

I don't think this is revolutionary.
Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing.

I've been working on tracking my time lately via this app [0] to good success. I was just thinking over something like your unobtrusive tracker there and found myself wondering whether the obtrusive ritual of tracking actually helps "stay on task" and remain aware.

I started using in reference to certain goals, but the most immediate return was realizing just how much time I spend in some form of commute.

I completely agree about standards.

0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rk.timemet...
If it's such a simple problem why don't you solve it for them?
I've thought about Snowden that he did more of a service for people in other countries. I mean people should assume that big US internet companies are sharing data, but to have it that obvious is useful information and not healthy for those companies.
Does the Federal government not understand that this (idiotic) mass scale surveillance is bad for business? All the big American companies generate most of their revenue outside of the US. Majority of the user-bases of the big Silicon Valley tech companies are foreign. This only works if there is a level of trust in the American system and American government. What are they thinking?!?!
Very cool, though incredibly surprising (a browser is an intensive, complex thing, so will people have to constantly be patching their Chromestick?), especially given that once you add the cost of synchronizing all interactions, it seems so much easier to simply video grab the tab.

If anyone has this device, what is CPU usage on the source like when tab-casting?
I'm a biochemist, not a physicist, but I have had some quantum chemistry. Here's my (probably incorrect) thinking:

Light passing through the "open state" crystal may travel significantly slower due to interaction/absorbance with the crystal atoms along the beam path. Energy injection from the lasers is probably necessary for maintenance of the "open state", and as soon as the laser is shut off there may remain photons that are being absorbed/emitted by the atoms in the crystal lattice. When the crystal is in the "closed state", the photons will be "trapped" (continuous absorption or non-emission or something?).

It's all about quantized energy levels. At certain energies, the atoms will interact differently.

Someone please correct my thinking here.
The issue here isn't bots, the issue is that there are a lot of people who want to go, and they can't decide which ones will stay home (as there isn't enough space for all of them). You need to decide on some kind of system to decide who will get to come.

You can draw randomly, you can determine who you want to come and invite them, or you can determine who want it the most by asking them to pony up a lot of resources - money or waitingtime (live queues) or effort. It's your choice, unless you refuse to decide, and let scalpers/botwriters decide for you and take everyones money for that.