skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's the difference between this service and the Hacker Newsletter I already get for free?
http://www.hackernewsletter.com/

edit: "free" in the sense that I do not pay anything. However, there usually is a sponsored ad (obviously geared towards the HN community) with the weekly email.
> Can anyone speak as to why, with the NSA's systems, they were not able to thwart an attack by the ass clowns in Boston?

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were granted legal permanent residence in 2007. Dzhokhar became a nautralized citizen in 2012. Tamerlan's application was on hold due to the DHS being a little suspicious of him.

If the system is working as it should, the NSA could have been prohibited from monitoring the brothers.
Don Norman teaching online class, "The Design of Everyday Things"
Likewise in the UK:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/developer/formats/

XML, HTML, RDF/XML for everything, as well as browsable online (often with original source PDFs of the printed laws), with both online and RDF/XML representations showing all alterations to the law (with date, cross-reference to the Act that made the amendment, etc.).

The website is one of the big success stories of RDF, IMO, as it is all based around a model of the laws in RDF, with everything else just being varying serializations thereof. It also allows the website to show what has been amended — no need for dumping stuff to GitHub and then diffing it! (e.g., see the annotation on 28(1)c in http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/29/part/IV)

That all said, there tends to be a delay between the PDF being uploaded and everything being marked up and entered into the RDF database (see the "new legislation" on the home page).
I think that the 'nothing to hide' crowd don't understand that the concept of things to hide could grow and grow unless the surveillance power are kept in check.
Today, only terrorists have 'something to hide' tomorrow it could be activists, then journalists and so on, until they 'nothing to hide' people become the victims.
http://rt.com/usa/justice-department-admits-spying-228/

People need to look at this long term and realise that abuses of power will continue to intrude larger and larger sets of the population unless they are stopped now.
Redis can be run without persistence, at which point it can be treated as Memcached with extra features (optimistic locking, data structures, etc). Without persistence, performance is often comparable (even with persistence, performance can be comparable, but you're more at the mercy of the IO subsystem).
Joint venture? They both have what the other needs. And $125Million in revenue says Uber is taking off in more than SF.
You got my hopes up that we'd finally be able to audit Bittorent Sync.
It's on Udacity, which means it's probably going to be very interactive.
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Gibson: a high efficiency, tree based memory cache server.
PG has stated in the past HN runs on a single, well tuned server at IBM/Softlayer/ThePlanet. Citation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229364
That is an unofficial manpage for perl 4, a release that has been obsolete since 1994…
Memcached has been running on Windows for a fair bit longer than Redis, and it's in mainline Memcached, though not mainline Redis, now. Of course, neither are necessarily that production-tested, but most people wouldn't be looking to use Windows servers anyway.
Any person that looks at the two situations and compares them objectively would come to the same conclusion -- one was reckless and negligent while the other was intentional and targeted.

At the risk of diminishing Manning's plight, I'm sure whistleblowers like Snowden are exactly the kind that Wikileaks wants supporting them.

Also, it stands to reason that Manning's plight itself may have inspired Snowden.
Are the roads inside an airport still public? I imagine they aren't, even the airport is publicly owned, the roads inside the airport complex fall under the airports jurisdiction in the same way a business compounds front gate marks the end of public road presence.
When this story brokeout, i had the idea that the best way to publicize this is to find an example of a private sexual conversation on record, which they obviously have. Would have been interesting for Snowden to get one of those just in case.

That, or an inside trading potential example.

Money or sex is something everyone understands.
Most jobs in high tech that push on the fronteirs of scientific knowledge that have a group leadership role need a PhD in charge of the team. Back when I worked in biotech, around 3/4 to 5/6ths of the team leaders had PhDs. I wouldn't expect this to have changed. For a commercially viable biotech company, salaries are pretty decent at that level.
Call me naive, but I would be surprised to learn that these systems are being used to overtly control the electoral process. So the way out of this mess is to talk to your friends and family and make sure they understand the issues and what is at stake, and make sure they do the same. Elect politicians who will do better - Obama promised and didn't deliver, but the issue only seemed to matter to a sliver of what were basically his base anyway. In the wake of an election with this issue more front-and-center, because the people have demanded the issue remain more front-and-center, I'm not convinced you'll see the same behavior.
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Yeah, I think this is a great idea, but they should pay the damned airport fees. They derive exactly the same benefits from the airports being there that traditional car rental companies do, so they should shut up and pay the piper.
First Brain-to-Brain Neural Interface Proof of Concept
Take away their bread and circuses[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses
Android tablet gives rare glimpse at North Korean tech
I concur. I did this when building my craigslist alerts app.

I documented the process here http://blendah.com/post/37331434653/lean-startup-hack
Cool. Thanks for the advice. My game plan was pretty much just that. Get a solid programming job doing (preferably) some stats work after graduation (maybe the company will pay for grad school?) and then move on from there. I just wanted to make sure there wasn't one weird trick to landing a research job in data science.
Most of us here fit that description, which brings us back to the information overload argument: they are lowering their chances of success by increasing the ratio of false positives. Even disregarding moral and legal aspects, what they are doing is wrong because it's inefficient.
That's still more instances of IIS than I was expecting. Who uses it? Is it still as awful as it was the last time I fought with it 5 years ago?
You can find someones house without needing their cars GPS. If Flightcar lists a persons name anywhere, you know then if they are on a flight and probably not at home.

Though it could make sense to recommend wiping your gps before loaning your car if it does keep a memory of recent trips.
Yes, we know how to google here. We also know how to read more than a few sentences in a row, and understand context of statements.
You should have just released it all. j/k... not really.
that is brilliant. also, it looks like someone spent a surprising amount of time and trouble on it.
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It's hard to spend millions of dollars from prison.
Nothing inherently stops Flightcar from just raising prices the 10 - 15% necessary to pay the airport. It might hurt their disruptive price advantage, but if the rental companies are funding the airports operating and Flightcar isn't, that is an artificial advantage.
Seems like it is the NSA who has been lying
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I have so much to say about this, but I'm not sure what would be covered under NDA, so I'll just say that learning Perl is not a bad idea for your IT career, especially if you're starting out. Perl is great in that it keeps concepts of low level data structures and linux constructs in the syntax so you can go either up or down the stack with it easily. It's very similar to a compiled language in performance and there is a rainbow of forks and derivative technologies that are so tuned and mature, they make SQL look like a social experiment. A lot of these technologies are just another unremarkable file in CPAN.
Perhaps surprisingly, while it's technically true that Haskell is a newer language than Perl, the difference is only three years - Perl dates from 1987 and Haskell dates from 1990. I wouldn't put it in the same bucket as Go, which dates from 2009.
How do you charge people to stop at the terminal without severely crippling an already saturated people drop off / pick up pipeline?

What would probably work better is a toll ticket just to enter the airport complex via the main gate. Airports (almost always) have front gates to lock the entire compound if necessary, add a toll booth.
"...Unlike the story of ride sharing apps and the taxi industry, this story doesn't seem to have an easy villain..."

I'm getting lost in the premise here. Does every story of disruption have to have a hero and a villain? This seems to be a rule of how these things work in the author's eyes? Why the heck is that?

I own a car. I park the car. If I allow other people to use the car, the location the car is parked has nothing to do with anything. If it did, would we start allowing different fees depending on where my car was when I loaned it to somebody? That's crazy.

There's not a villain. There's a broken revenue model for airports that doesn't work anymore. That's good -- things keep changing and we wouldn't expect everything to remain stable forever. Airports need to change like everything else. Creative change that gives us all more of what we want more efficiently is a good thing. We need lots more of it. It doesn't have to fit into a good-guy/bad-guy narrative.

Like I said, I have no idea what the point the author is trying to make here.
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WebRTC and the Early API
Thanks for looking at this! This is wonderful and succinct (presuming it works, I'm still staring at it), but the 20+ latency of DIV makes it impractical. I think I can do it with multiply, and, multiply, shift, but even 3 cycle latency for the multiplies is too much:

key *= 0x04040400UL;
key &= 0x30C30C00UL;
key *= 0x00041041UL;
key >>= 28;

Let me stare at your shuffling solution for a bit...
The electoral process has already been subverted through gerrymandering and a two-party system. All the good, honest, hard-working folks get stuck together with the parasites and psychopaths. In either party there is a very wide range of people from salt-of-the-earth types to scum-of-the-earth.

If you don't utilize gerrymandering then you lose, and if you're campaigning in a third-party then you lose.
Over 300 terrorists!
I don't see why data rendundacy and backup would require device rendundancy - especially for the common person.

After all, I don't have two lights in every room in my house just in case a light bulb blows, I just buy a pack of lightbulbs.

In the case of a drive failure, there should be a way to recover data loss, but this shouldn't be ever present and visible.

As far as simulataneous device usage - I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Most brains can be thought of as single threaded working with multi-threaded multi-core parallel executing devices. The limit in doing multiple things at once has always been biological in my case. For things running in the background - this can be done with current technology.
Evidence of harm?
This is what you are looking for :) https://www.trycelery.com/
Agreed.

The obvious move for FlightCar is to partner with nearby garages, and offer a valet service to drive passengers to their terminals. To sweeten the deal, FlightCar might offer to wash or do basic maintenance (oil change) on the car for an added fee.

The passenger gets

- convenience of getting dropped off at terminals (vs. walking from airport parking)
- convenience of taking advantage of car "dead time" to get cleaned / serviced
- some money (from the rental), to boot
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Trusting iPhones plugged into bogus chargers get a dose of malware
That makes sense though. One would definitely want someone in a leadership position with a lot of experience and knowledge, especially at a biotech firm.
NSA surveillance foiled this potential terrorist and he is now incarcerated:

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

He was going to bomb NYC subways.

Please, if you're going to participate in this so called "surveillance debate", stick to facts and refrain from hyperbole.
If one guy could accidentally stumble upon this, what are the chances others have too? Would it be possible or even likely that the source code or binaries or web servers or private keys have already been compromised or trojanized?
Postdocs in biological/physical sciences are easily 3-6 years for < $60k (generally closer to $40-50k in the past 5 years), and the chances of getting an academic position with meaningful salary are very low. Postdocs are plentiful, positions are scarce.

Meanwhile the postdoc could have been making $100-120k for a profession where the job market is almost the polar opposite, which makes a difference for job security/stress. The 2x-4x salary difference, especially during the late 20s and early 30s, is a pretty big deal, especially if you're able to save that extra 2x-4x.

The even crappier pay in humanities makes it basically undoable except for the upper class or outsizedly talented. The low pay in science makes it doable for normal people, but there is a strong financial incentive not to.
I think it would be impossible, from a computer science standpoint, to create a backdoor in an FPGA that could compromise your own OS, in a general case. Perhaps, the computer that you use to program the chip could be compromised, to change the code that is put on the FPGA.
I don't think that's a controversial statement [1]. Now this doesn't per se mean Manning was unethical, but the two cases should be treated very differently.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1...
> In particular the comment about the inability to find senior developers in PERL.

One thing to know is that Manwin (youporn, pornhub, etc parent company) is located in Montreal.
For a reason I can't really explain, you mostly find PHP and C# developers here, so most Montreal startups are PHP based.

I also interviewed a couple Manwin alumnis, and they told me that they were a couple hundred developers and that there is a huge turnover (you often see a 6 month / 1 year experience at Manwin when you read a PHP dev resume).

So it's easy to understand that they prefer to use the local dominant language, it do not mean that Perl is globally dying, just that they have specific constraints. And to be fair Perl is not the only small community in MTL, Ruby and Python also have a strangely small community here.
I like your idea of a compromise with the Rat: Mickey Mouse copyright literally forever but only with registration so that we can have all the regular works of the era back in the public domain.

But it raises a question about preservation. Why don't the libraries and collections just lend their books and movies to a Canadian version of Project Gutenberg to be digitized and preserved? Canada has life plus fifty copyright.

As a matter of fact, I can't tell for sure but it looks like Mickey Mouse might be fair game in Canada well before 2019.
I encounter this argument daily and I believe it usually comes from programming dogma of people who read very assertive quotes from Dijkstra.

Most of the time when error checking, returns (or in C, gotos) are fine and lead to more readable code that's easy to make sense of and easy to step through with a debugger.

Please don't fall into the trap of believing that I am
terribly dogmatic about [the go to statement]. I have the
uncomfortable feeling that others are making a religion
out of it, as if the conceptual problems of programming
could be solved by a simple trick, by a simple form of
coding discipline!

- Dijkstra (1973) in personal communication to Donald Knuth , quoted in Knuth's "Structured Programming with go to Statements"

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
> This training not only covers the mechanics of the tool but also each analyst's ethical and legal obligations.

Which means, of course, that analysts can operate outside of their ethical and legal obligations. And to me, that is the foundation of the issue. Who pays what analyst in DC to dig up dirt?

And to the statement that access is audited... how many analysts were fired for overstepping their ethical obligations? Is that information collected or released?
Hi Sam, Hacker Newsletter provides a list of the most popular links, whereas HN Digest summarises those posts. The idea being, you might want to get the gist of an article without reading the whole thing.
I'm pretty sure Hacker Newsletter has been around for quite a while, so it's interesting that they have been able to make the free model work.
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Yes. This is my point. =) Only by actually working out all these details can we have just laws, and IMHO, we would discover that most of our laws are not just.

We want law that prevents criminals from breaking into banks and stealing your cash, but what we got was a law able to be used to persecute young people to the point of suicide for accessing an "open" system belonging to an educational establishment.

The laws we have now cannot do what they claim to do without being impossibly broad or impossible to implement. As was was discussed elsewhere today, the joke of a "Do what I mean" button, is that nobody, in fact, knows what they mean, and this goes exponentially so for a congress of 500 or so people.
If you're doing .NET then there is no substitute. Literally. But seriously it has gotten MUCH better in recent years.
Hacker Newsletter is simply a weekly coalition of curated links. HN Digest would aim to provide a short summary for every article that makes the home page. So, if say fifteen of the articles on the home page look interesting to you, but you don't have time to read them all (because actually you do have work to do ;)), then you can just read the summaries for all but the two or three most interesting. Anyway, that's how I'd use it.
They're this deep:

http://www.oneweirdkerneltrick.com/polytope.pdf

>Abstract

>Pyramid schemes are a well-known way of
taking bundles of money from suckers. This
paper is not about them. Although on first
inspection, this paper sounds like it is about
pyramid schemes, we promise that it is not.

And a little further down...

>1. Introduction and Related Work

>This is not a pyramid scheme. This is an easy
way for you to make money. It is not related
to a pyramid scheme because it is a polytope
scheme. For a comparison, please see Fig.2

>If you want guaranteed fi nancial freedom and
personal fulfillment from algebraic geometry,
sign up now to invest in our gift-giving invest-
ment scheme.

All laid out in beautifully typeset LaTeX. Brings a tear to my eye.
We are winning but nothing is done and nothing will be done.
The whistle blower won't be pardoned, and in a few month nobody will care about it.
I so deeply wish that this is going to hurt at some point certain businesses so that some big player might use the little influence they may have to change things.
But that's not anything new, and there's not any reason to expect that subversion to prevent fixing these issues, and fundamentally if enough people are convinced, things will change - "enough" is higher than it probably should be, but I'm not convinced it's higher than it would need to be for a successful revolution or the like.
$125M means they have 1/4 the SF Taxi market revenue.
I run nginx on my Pi for a personal site for friends, and Lighttpd on a VPS for a very small site with a few gifs and low visitors. The Lighttpd regularly goes down to like 5-10MB memory usage which is really interesting, whereas nginx seems to cache more in RAM. Either way, both seem to work extremely well for low RAM (and the slow CPU on the Pi).
Here is the blog post announcing it with some more details:
http://blog.coinbase.com/post/57004129505/we-launched-a-new-...
Are couplers detectable via time domain reflectometry in practice?
I usually avoid being subjective, but Starbucks coffee is pretty bad, and most of their barista are hardly knowledgeable about coffee. Once, I asked for an espresso to stay, and it took them 5 long minutes to find an espresso cup. (I can't handle drinking espresso in an americano cup to go.) And talk about grinding.

Anyway, I live in NYC and as you said, there are plenty of local coffee shops with awesome coffee (Gregory's, Kaffee 1668, grounded), so I can't complain. But it'd be terrific if Google could support these better coffee shops instead of just following the masses, because they provide a much better experience.
It's a vital skill in any supervisory or managerial job. Especially so as you get higher up the pyramid, it's important to remember you need a lot of secure blocks below you so things don't collapse.

Do you really want a university educated, never used a tool to make a living in his life, deciding he gets to dictate how to frame, roof and side your new house, maybe use less nails to cut down on costs? Is that a company you want to invest in?

I work in construction, my boss climbed to the top but he still only gives suggestions on how to do things because it's been over 20 years since he's actually done it. Our tools aren't dictated to us, our set ups aren't. We do our job, he does his.

For a company producing games your executives don't need to be the creative brains or anything of the sort, they've got tons of that below them. They've got entire departments of artists, developers, writers, etc. Why the hell would anybody think its financially prudent to get the CEO in on what would be a good story when you've got a career writer, or what cinematography style you should use when you've got artists on staff.

You want the management to be coordinating all the little guys so that everyone hits the goal posts and finish lines at the right times and make those judgement calls to either delay the project or drop something to make the deadline.
An audit is meaningless when conducted by the very organization being audited.
Why is it inevitable? You sure haven't done any programming, rendering, gaming, etc, have you?
It's interesting that this is (apparently) a big draw for people to come Starbucks. I kind of wonder what the big use case is.

I assume most people showing up at a Starbucks have smart phones with data plans. So it's probably not for phones, but tablets and laptops. But then I also assume the speed is not that great as the Wifi will be super heavily congested. So you are probably not getting high bandwidth and a lot of stuff will probably be blocked or throttled anyway. Which means most people could probably just tether to their phone and get the same performance.

So then it's for a) those people who can't tether or b) those who can't be bothered tethering?

These days I've virtually stopped using any kind of free public Wifi because I don't trust the security and my data plan is enough for most of the things I want to do anyway.
Primary from the right can be effective in Texas. Cruz beat Drewhurst -- totally amazing.

Primary from the left have a chance in SF. You don't have to win to have an impact. You just need to make it credible.

The other thing that works is, if you are a big donor in the past, then don't write that check this year. Money gets their attention.