skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no doubt its true for the US too. They're competing for influence in many parts of the globe.

Its not a rigorous example, but I think the front page of RT (the Russian - state backed media outlet) is a good example. Most of the US based stories are highly critical of the US government. It's also no coincidence that Julian Assange has his own show on RT.

I also believe Russia's backing of Assad is mostly an attempt to block Western influence in the middle east. But there's probably a number of reason and thats just one.
I fail to see how not using twitter won't solve any of your hypothetical problems. See, this is how we actually impact change - We stop using those businesses. If it was more outrageous I might feel the need to protest further, but this is my protest.
He's talking about 15 years, but has been a MSFT employee for 6 years or so - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BlueBadge.aspx
The version of the Nexus 7 I was speaking of is $199 or less (Amazon even has the 32GB for $199 right now). The new version is a little more expensive at $229, but blows the specs of the iPad Mini out of the water.
FireFox 11.0 on Ubuntu 10.10. Screen size 1024x768.
Both.

There are very few professional or top-notch amateur musicians who know exactly one instrument. All (I believe) have one best instrument, but for most it's violin and guitar or cello and piano.

You will presently find useful tasks that don't fit into the App world comfortably. Take them as the opportunity to branch out.
North Pole Now a Lake
>Fun to see, non the less, but not explaining anything.

Actually, the problem is not a lack of explanatory power, but a lack of predictive power. If Pixar comes out with a new movie, is it possible for it to refute this theory? Not really. It's already been demonstrated that if a date is explicitly mentioned, it can be dismissed as using a different calendar system, and the theory doesn't change.

It seems that this dragon is incorporeal, so spray paint won't stick to it.
Does this mean that if you move an object away from Earth's gravitational influence it will increase in mass because it has more potential energy?

What about if you heated something up, does it gain mass then?

How about sound? Does the sound of my voice cause imperceptible ripples of increased mass as it vibrates everything that it touches?

Is a charged battery heavier than an empty one?

Is glass heavier with light travelling through it?
I like your theory, but Motorola regularly abandons even it's flagship devices.
Is the performance reduction of the entire web with https really "minimal"?

You've got extra overhead to setup the connection, extra processing to handle the encryption, no intermediate caching AFAICT. Clearly that has some impact - I'd expect it to be significant.
To clarify on that:

As far as I read it they refused to reply to the question about them having handed out masterkeys. They did not reply that they refused to hand out masterkeys.

This sort of denial is hard to read as anything else than that they have already handed over the keys and aren't allowed to talk about it.

It has caused me serious concerns about if I should bother doing a full trial with fastmail, which otherwise seemed like an excellent (although somewhat pricey) replacement for gmail.

You can say it has definitely validated my concerns about fastmail using a US-based hosting provider. If I was fastmail I would be extremely busy looking for a reliable hosting partner elsewhere.

People looking to jump ship from Google are doing it for one of two reasons: 1. Enough with the Google or 2. Enough with the US spying on everything you do.

Stuck with a US datacenter they wont be able to grab near the amount of customers the market is more or less throwing at them right now.
I used to give this book away to all my employees who were involved in GUI design. It is great about respecting and understanding your users, even if on the surface it's about door handles.

I wonder how this will play into Udacity, as I view it more as a platform for short quizes and testing via code. This is more a book on conceptual understanding.
Since the effect only works at an angle of 35 degrees, you couldn't just use two mirrors. Maybe you could arrange them in a ring... all you have to do is find a regular polygon with internal angles of 35 degrees :)
66% of the Judiciary Committee who voted, voted for the Amash amendment. I find that very encouraging.

And Sensenbrenner, a principal author of the Patriot Act, is outraged by the secret interpretation being used to justify these programs:

http://sensenbrenner.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Docu...
Of course, it can, and should be used whenever possible.
Maybe they refused to answer because it's the only option they have if they don't want to lie to their users. Note that US law enforcement actively forbids the company to disclose spying.
Can you still? It looks like the Gen2 version has implemented SlimPort instead of the OTG port used on Gen1. This is a confusing decision in light of the Chomecast announcement.
I think the article struck the right balance... Stories like these first appear in the more serious media circles first, and then filter out into the mainstream. A long time ago I remember reading scientific americans that tended to be more technical then whats out in the mainstream nowadays. There's room for news sources that fit between the raw whitepapers and the mainstream.
We did not refuse to reply. We have contacted the author to find out who he contacted within the company, because it was the first time we have heard about it!

Edit: I work for Opera Software/FastMail.FM
I just made the switch, and I have to add some things missing here

Cons:
- No priority inbox
- FastMail service is pretty poor
IOS Version-Specific Bug How to Track It Down
3 Things devops can learn from aviation
On a recent prop flight with a front & center seat, I flew down the hudson river. But all I could think about was devops & disaster recovery!
10:50 status: left home 3 hours ago, almost at the train station to go to work. number of times maced: 1. number of children hurriedly pulled away from me: 7.
I'd pay twice the fastmail pricing package if they cut all ties with the the USA, including moving their servers.

I already switched from dropbox to Jottacloud - a Norwegian company with their servers in Norway.

Edit: looks like there are several good alternatives at this site:

http://www.internationalman.com/78-global-perspectives/945-n...

http://www.SwissMail.org/
Based in Switzerland.

http://www.neomailbox.net/
Based in Switzerland.

https://secure.runbox.com/
Based in Norway, which has strong privacy laws. Runbox is generally considered a cheap and quality option.

https://www.jumpshipservices.co/
Parent company is incorporated in Hong Kong with servers located in Switzerland.
Please see my response to the GP.
(Irrelevant aside) Unfortunately HN doesn't have MathML, but you can use unicode: ℎν.
APS typically features important results with articles that are not only understandably by the quantitative laymen, but also do a good job of communicated content. (They're supposed to be the least common denominator for interdisciplinary physicists.)

Here's the article for this paper: http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/80
Please see my response to the GP and stop the speculation.
That interview was a great summary of what's going on in the industry. Kid Rock realizes that keeping his die-hard fans happy works out better for him on the tour circuit, since they'll spend more on t-shirts and other things while they're at the show. If they have to pay $400 for a ticket, there's no budget left for a high-margin souvenir.

It's the internet age as well and he realizes that. The moment he tries to charge a market price for every ticket, he starts eroding his fan base.
Here is a video of the moment of the crash: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=bca_1374749009

The train does seem to be traveling in high speed.
Broad solution to all this is building your lives in business in a way government can have a minimal control of. Just do what it requires and keep everything else encrypted and anonymized. And don't rely on government for anything, for we are heading for a world of global government failure: people and institutions are going to ignore and circumvent them all, and make them dysfunctional. In a way, that will be like communism: there is little government can be of help nowadays, and it is more and more becoming a nuisance.
PFS and other Deniable encryption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption) are great for deniability. However, they and everything else can be susceptible to unrelenting rubber-hose "cryptanalysis". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber-hose_cryptanalysis)

It is said that the goal of cryptography is to make the attacker resort to rubber-hose cryptanalysis, revealing their intentions. In those cases, the best you can hope for is plausible deniability, i.e. decrypt some part of the cipher showing something embarrassing but not illegal, and hope that they think that was all that was there. Actually that's what TrueCrypt provides with its "secret encrypted volume". However, there are some tests for randomness (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_tests) like the chi-squared test which can detect/identify many such encryption schemes if the size is large enough.

In short ... it's an arms race. Your best bet is Steganography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography) which has been around for centuries. Just write messages where no one suspects. You can encrypt them with PFS and plausible deniability for best effect.
As a side note, the foreword of the SVN-Book gives a very good explanation why so many FAQs are bad, and why some of those aren't really FAQs at all:

(http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html#svn.forewor...)

| A bad [FAQ] sheet is one that is composed not of the questions people actually ask, but of the questions the FAQ's author wishes people would ask. Perhaps you've seen the type before:

Q: How can I use Glorbosoft XYZ to maximize team productivity?

A: Many of our customers want to know how they can maximize productivity through
our patented office groupware innovations. The answer is simple. First, click
on the File menu, scroll down to Increase Productivity, then…

| The problem with such FAQs is that they are not, in a literal sense, FAQs at all. No one ever called the tech support line and asked, “How can we maximize productivity?” [...] [It's] a lot easier to make up imaginary [FAQs] than it is to discover the real ones. Compiling a true FAQ sheet requires a sustained, organized effort [...] It calls for the patient, observant attitude of a field naturalist. No grand hypothesizing, no visionary pronouncements here — open eyes and accurate note-taking are what's needed most.
Debian's thinking on this is that a user won't install a daemon unless he wants it to run, and that a package should get everything into an immediately useable state by default. Therefore, a daemon should be started automatically when a package is installed.

I agree with the objection: I think that times have moved on, and in reality today people use configuration management tools and almost always want to change the default configuration on a server daemon. Therefore, it doesn't make much sense to start it automatically.

As bashtoni says: this isn't a problem with package maintainers. It's a problem with Debian Policy.

A stepping stone to a full solution is to arrange a standard to configure the system not to start a daemon by default, and arrange for packages to follow that standard. policy-rc.d is just such a standard.
Your understanding is actually pretty good (lines up with mine, at least), and I liked your explanation except for the needlessly conversational tone. Basically by only cutting things out:

> We used a crystal that is normally opaque (not see-through) and fired laser beams at it [which] made it see-through but only for a narrow range of light frequencies (e.g. a filter that only allows one colour of light through). [Then] we made [the crystal] see-through with the laser, shone some of that colour light in and turned off the laser so that it's no longer see-through. We trapped light!
Intent to Deprecate and Remove: XSLT
So let me make sure I get this correct - you brought your wife to a conference that it costs nearly $2k to get tickets too and you expected your wife to be able to get in, sans purchasing this ticket. I think your expectations of what you bought are off. Would you expect to get your wife into a movie theater free? A music concert? Unless you worked out special arrangements well in advance how did this even evaluate to a workable situation in your head? Now you rant on HN to get some publicity from the easy to please anti-MS crowd.. can you please post up a "How Go changed my life" article next while we're trolling?
I'd like if the fastmail website provided some screenshots and other info about the product. Right now the only thing I'm told is the size of my inbox and some other numbers.
Or in the British case at least, appoint people from the Lords who have got their through contributions to their fields.
Which is why they should break all ties to the US completely. Shouldn't be too hard for an Australian/Norwegian company.
due to lack of knowledge or lack of time? What are you having trouble with the most?
Con: No labels. Saved searches go some of the way, but not as convenient. Folder-based storage feels old. Whatever the UI terminology (labels, playlists, tags), its clear that the trend is to embrace the non-physicality of information and allow it to "live" in many "places" simultaneously.
Another con that I didn't really expect:

Their address book is okay via the web (pretty much like Gmail's), but can only be accessed read-only via LDAP (and can't sync with iOS, you can search it but you can't populate the iOS address book with it). So, the only way to edit contacts is via web, and you can't keep your mobile address book up to date with it.

For now, I'm stuck with Google Contacts until I find a better provider.
Interesting 20 minute podcast on this topic:

Kid Rock Takes On The Scalpers

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/06/25/195641030/episode-...

Summary

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/06/27/196277836/kid-rock...

1) More shows.
2) Beat the scalpers at their own game.
3) Go paperless.
4) Don't sell the first two rows.
In Nokia's case, the browser trusted Nokia's server certificate and that's how they were doing MITM. The same could be done if your employer installs a client certificate on your laptop.
Above the header in your folder you'll see the following buttons:

"All mail", "Unread", "Personal", "Notifications", "Mailing lists" and pinned sorting.
What do you mean by "service is poor"? For me, no prio inbox is not a big loss, exactly.
We don't need to make wild hypotheses about what an object that doesn't reflect light looks like. It's so mundane we have a word for it: "black".
He probably leaves this job to the Business Insider, Medium and Quartz "journalists".
Microsoft Release the new Microsoft Build Tools Package
Define pretty poor.

As someone interested in their service, seeing reviews saying "pretty poor" is worse than nothing.
Apple issues charger advisory in China
You should add clarification to your answer that you work with / own Fastmail.
There's a company called Bluecoat that makes appliances that are installed in many companies that do just this.
How A Police Officer Threatened A Yelp Reviewer
Voxel, the pixel's long-lost cousin
Cool concept. Wonder if he could write a script to land a reservation at Dorsia. I think that might be asking a bit much, even for a bot.
How many people are learning how to build ASIC's right now? Designing them, improving them. Scaling their production up. What kind of contributions are those teams making to the wider field of application specific circuitry?

What future benefits will these now-trained minds create with what they learned here?

What future technology will be built in some small way on the advances made in this field?

Future success isn't random, and it isn't driven by random new geniuses. It's built, person by person, experience by experience.

The men at NASA who got us to the moon learned skills that very few humans have been able to learn since. Their skills last a lifetime and have been brought to countless businesses and ventures.

I think the same thing here: the people, the skills and the technology are all beneficial to develop because we simply cannot know how they will be used in the future.

We can only provide a menu of options for the future, our future selves must build something new from that menu.

But if we do not provide a full menu, our future selves will not have what we need to succeed, and we may not even realize it.
Handles help when you want to close the door. I get your point though.
I read the article, and I get what they're saying, but I still don't get the rationale for simply not having FAQs. The fact is, some people prefer them. Is the author simply arguing that those people are wrong and shouldn't prefer them?

I guess my question to the author would be, why not both? Add an FAQ page for the people who prefer that format, while continuing to do what you do now.

You could argue that maybe they don't have time to write them, but then again, they did take the time to write this article. As someone else in this thread pointed out [1], they've already written the FAQ of why they don't have an FAQ, so start there.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6102292
I'm guessing that was a typo, but NOP as an instruction is kind of fitting in this situation, too.
"Most of FastMail.fm's pages have an outdated look to them - only the Minimal theme looks modern. Apple's success should be enough to convince everyone that design matters."

Ironically, Apple could take this advice too; it's not like their webmail design is anything special (in my opinion). Looks too much like a desktop app when it should look more like a web app and feels slow to boot.

Re. Fastmail: I'm trying them for 6 months. I'm happy enough so far and think I'll stick with them. Still holding out for push support for iPhone and more secure on-server email storage though... Both of which are offered by Rackspace, which seems to have a good reputation as well, so I'm tempted to switch.
Anybody else feel that the author of this theory likes weed a little too much?
Maybe the critical question is: If no light at all comes from the object, is that the same as it being dark, or is it a complete lack of stimulus?

If the brain receives noise, it fills in the blanks (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/06/000601164617.ht...). In sensory deprivation, the brain also fills in the blanks (would cite but ended up finding a ton of supporting material in a web search, including an interesting study about the effects of anxiety on amount of hallucinations).
Good point - could become a new promotional or paid tool for authors. I could see this working fairly well for the Gladwells and Krugmans.
What is it you like about Baltimore? I haven't heard of it having many technology jobs but it is an interesting place. I live near Baltimore now. Drop me an email if you have any questions.
Still no priority inbox based on bayesian filtering. (hint: feature request).

In fact, I'm amazed that most other mail clients / providers haven't taken this further than Google. I mean, it would be great with bayesian filtering for everything (labels, folders, categories, stars, whatnot). I would love to be able to train it to filter email into different folders based on me just clicking "Belongs here" / "Does not belong here".
Here's what the Minimal Theme looks like: http://i.imgur.com/N8pqIG6.png. Also, there's a free 60-day trial: https://www.fastmail.fm/signup/personal.html
I was about to say, how else does a solar sail work?
> "... except for the needlessly conversational tone."

Yes, I agree it's not necessary to get the basic information across but it was definitely a lot more fun to write that way!

If I were really writing piece for an article or blog post I'd take a lot more care and probably consider using better analogies.
Is ActiveRecord's “order” method vulnerable to SQL injection?
I also am in keto, and use stevia, although sparingly. Anyone have any info regarding its safety?

in exchange a recipy:

cut a lemon into wedges, sprinkle a pack of stevia, eat said lemon. It's a great dessert!
Thanks. I've editing my original comment.
Survivorship, Best Practices and The Power of Wish Thinking
I've seen that work before, something about it seems unfinished (not that I wouldn't run it), but HN has had time to mature and it's simplicity is what attracts me.
I work in a photonics lab and for all of the new fancy techniques you see show up in popular science publications for slowing and stopping light... they're all impractical. In the real world when we need to slow down light we still just use delay coils. Wrap tens to hundreds of kilometers of fiber into a coil (using a pump laser amplifier at some point if it gets too long) and just letting the light spin around in circles for the desired amount of time.
There's no way the story is true because I'm sure that at least a few of the "quantity" people would have my thought and just take 50 pounds of clay and call it done.
The Google Chromecast and Proprietarism.
[video] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKmQW_Nkfk8 (13:50 is the Study Hall)
And we get some idea of the power requirements for Windows 10???

:-)
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[UPD]: Apparently Ilya is in coma on life support with no brain activity signs.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/25/yandex-founder-idU...
It's more that the groundswell of support for the 2nd amendment, even going to far to stockpile in lieu of any possible changes, should apply equally to other amendments. Particularly ones that are as important as the fourth.

Sure, there were some protests on Independence Day and I applaud the efforts of those involved, but it seems like regular Americans are largely either unaware or just don't care about it at all.
Venture Capitalists in Silicon Valley – First impressions
Working with Text Effects, Borders and Background Properties in CSS3
Currently I am busy overthrowing my government in my spare time. And no - they do not get the whole net thing. Few outside of IT and over 40 do.

The internet is not just tech - it is almost a worldview. Governments don't deal well with satire, irony and cynicism.
And as Feds demand skeleton keys to buildings, prepare for the death of cylinder locks?

Prepare for a change in how we use it, not for its death.