skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel sorry for the owners of the Pizza parlor. Sounds like they were trying to do a good thing by working with a state agency and hiring a special needs individual, even if it didn't work out.

I really don't like seeing the police try to get involved, though.

As another user said, this whole thing doesn't rise to the level of serious police abuse of power, put on front page of HN, though.
Arguably, LASERS and modern semiconductors both rely on our understanding of QM. Hard drives using GMR have been around for at least 16 years. Erasing of flash drives uses quantum tunneling. MRIs probably would not be possible without an understanding of QM. Computational chemistry relies heavily on QM.

So no, I don't think your statement is accurate. QM has been giving us cool applications for decades. The amazing thing is that it's still giving us amazing new advances even after all this time.
I've recently begun designing such security systems(a few weeks ago). They are quite ugly at the moment and would require entirely new approaches to systems design. I can only hope that more people begin to think like this as it is the best possible evolution in security past things like RSA encryption IMO.
> Insiders (like Snowden and Manning, ironically) are one of the biggest threats.

They're a threat to those who like running a Surveillance State, not to the average citizen.
Monsters vs Aliens is not a pixar movie but fit well between Bug's Life and Monster Uni...maybe something bigger...I hope anyone try to put this as the "new bible" :p
Harsh. dvmmh made a joke a few days ago and got downvoted to oblivion. But I think this comment is a good one: we do not live in a libertarian paradise. The government is comfortable using its powers, including physical violence under the law, to keep people from doing things it does not want them to do.
S3 isn't free, but is slightly easier to start with IMO. Besides that, no difference.
The ultimate solution for information storage?
Xbox One will allow independent developers to self-publish titles
I hate their pricing too and I hope they make their products a little more accessible to the developer who is just starting out in mobile.
Utilizing "The Duck"
After reading about the duck (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jargon.html), I have started implementing the concept as well as sharing the concept with my colleagues. We have seen dramatic increase in our idea share with our customer. Does anybody else have any evidence (pro or against) the duck?
Framing Your Startup’s Sales Pitch: Focus on Value, Not on Cost
No reason it can't be. Android has several big issues:

1. Lots of it is ugly. I don't mean the core OS, but lots of the apps don't fit the main theme.

2. It runs on diverse hardware so performance varies.

3. OS version segmentation. This is made worse by manufactures putting their own lipstick on the vanilla OS.

4. It's not proper FOSS. Yes, you can read the source at some point later, but chances of someone that's not Google, Motorola, Samsung, or HTC having their commit actually show up in the upstream are slim to none.

5. Phones and tablets are of varying quality and come with various levels of support. The manufacturer may back it, or they may drop support as soon as they can. Flagship phones become crap phones all the time.

Ubuntu may play their cards right and provide an integrated platform a la Apple's iOS devices, where software and hardware play nicely together. If they then insist on high quality apps, they may be able to get a foothold in the market. The question is, how long can the "crowd" support the right way of doing things before some exec somewhere says "We need it to have our own distinct UI"?
We had a problem, we hid it under a layer of abstraction, now we have a hidden problem.
Burn Line: She can't tell the difference between a hyperlink and a screenshot.
This may be a dumb question...

but how are they able to validate that the light was stopped for one minute?

They switched the crystal to opaque... and time passed... until the light exited the crystal??? How much time? How did they validate the light left the crystal? Did they have to do anything to induce the light to leave? If they did, why couldn't this storage crystal hold the light indefinitely... until we trigger the release state?

Sorry if these are dumb questions, just can't really figure that part of it out. I understand the crystal going from opaque, to color filter, to opaque... that is essentially the "writer". How does the "Reader" work?
This is awesome. Especially for finding use cases and implementation examples of front-end libraries.
There's the Science & Technology Select Committee, with at least some of the membership who have an industrial background. And Julian Huppert is on the Home Affairs Select Committee, which is perhaps more pertinent for this - he's a research scientist, but has been very active in campaigning on web issues.
As Feds hire contractors to do this work, the work will leak out of the contractors hands into the hands of those with money, such as foreign organized identity thieves. It's not just about hiding furry porn from the "Murican Gubmint," but about protecting our financial info from foreign thieves.
The NZ governments info page on visas is genuinely useful - http://www.immigration.govt.nz/migrant/stream/work/

Also, given it's just past 3AM in NZ, the likelihood of a Kiwi answering your question is quite slim!
I've been using two-factor auth for Gmail for probably about a year now, it's quite painless and definitely worth it.
I'd say the (promised) ability to be used both as a phone _and_ a desktop computer, depending on what you plug into it. Sounds pretty good to me: take your Android-ish phone (of reasonable size and weight) anywhere, connect it to a full-size keyboard and screen - voila, a full-featured, not-underpowered-like-a-netbook computer running Ubuntu!

I have yet to see this in any other device on the market; this alone would be sufficient for me.
The website is unreadable on a mobile device. I can't zoom out.
If you think that operating in any particular jurisdiction provides you with protection then you are sadly deluded. Your protection lasts just up until the point where protecting you becomes inconvenient. Oddly enough, using the resources of smaller companies provides less protection because they are easier to influence, and basing services outside of the US means that you are completely fair game for the NSA as you lack even the nominal protection that the (waxing and waning, but currently too damn weak for my mind) domestic/foreign distinction offers in terms of US SIGINT.
I guess this is an MVP by itself. My two cents, your premise is that you are experts at building great things, with a lot of experience, yet there is 0 information about who "you" actually are and no way to get to know you/check you out beforehand. I understand if it's a "fake it till you make it" approach, but in my opinion a lack of credibility will be the key problem until you have some proof of your ability.

If you really are as awesome as you say you are, and there is evidence to back that up, there's value here. The cynic in me had the following reaction: you want to harvest great ideas from people for free without telling them who you are, get them to give you equity, and get them to give you 7,500$. A lot of getting and not a lot of giving.

Looking forward to version 2.0 :).
I don't understand why you would want to take a course with that book. What on earth do people expect to get out of that they can't get from reading the book?

Don't get me wrong, it's a great book, but it's popular because it's easy to understand, not because it necessarily contains actionably insights or complex issues that require a course to unveil.
I feel the same way. I looked at the review that was posted and I didn't see anything that was really that bad about the pizza place. He kind of blew up a few things, so I can see why the owner would be upset. Of course the owner probably took it too far as well.

As for the review:

He had a big problem with putting the trash cans in the walk-in, but I don't really understand why. I leave my trashcan open and in the kitchen all day everyday. Am I putting myself in danger without realizing?

He found some synthetic pot (but isn't that legal?) along with some insulin needles and came to the conclusion that it was narcotics. I had a chuckle when I imagined some guy shooting up heroin on the job but then getting synthetic pot in lieu of the real deal. I just can't imagine. Did he ever consider that the guy was diabetic?
From User to CEO
Being what Android is now is a bit of a stretch, for 3 reasons:

1) There's no way they could've turned Ubuntu into a phone OS that quickly back then. Google owned Android, a mobile OS that already existed, since 2005. They were already planning to launch it around the iPhone time, or a bit later after that. But then the iPhone appeared, and they only needed to add the more touch-friendly interface to it, and then launched it in 2008. But the OS was already mostly done.

2) Google has much bigger funds, and it was much easier to get partners. If it would've been this easy for Canonical to get partners for their OS, I think we would've seen it by now.

3) Google had a much bigger fan base - which translates into many people willing to buy phones with their OS.

That being said, I agree the 2014 is way too late than it should've been. Canonical should've started working on this since at least the time Android launched. Let's say 2009. And they might've been able to launch in 2011, or even 2012. But they basically started working on this last year.

I'm not saying it won't succeed, because I hope it will, mainly because I want Ubuntu as a serious mainstream alternative to Windows, but they could've tried this a lot earlier.
The Most Powerful Feature of Go Is The Least Sexy
Site renders horribly on an ipad
Nice link, but it's incomplete.

You also need to cater for acronyms that are usually pronounced as words (a RADIUS setup, not an RADIUS setup), and acronyms that have an accepted pronunciation that isn't simply reading out the letters (a SQL statement, not an SQL statement; although that last depends on style guides and local convention, both Oracle and Microsoft prefer the "sequel" pronunciation to "ess-que-ell").
Well, yeah. I've used it, and if you're using Unity, it's the only serious option. It's still terrible, because it tweaks out ReSharper (for very good reasons on ReSharper's part--Unity thinks dumping everything in one namespace is a good idea and all sorts of stuff breaks otherwise) and because there's no real support for the dog-stupid not-actually-JavaScript that you're forced to contend with because so much existing code uses it.
This might give a hint

http://web.archive.org/web/*/nerdydata.com
Sorry man, you'd better start preparing.

Its saliva causes infection in a large number of individuals, the marks last for 7-14 days[1], and itches as if your leg is on fire. The only remedy is to apply heat[2] and wait for your body to get used to it.

The worst part is that you have to change habits, never lean outdoors if there are mosquitoes, you can't stop have a nice conversation with people on the street without getting your legs bitten, because those fuckers are fast. Even cafe terraces have to install mosquito repellents, because people stop staying outdoors.

In Spain, most houses have an outdoor patio, but people don't use it anymore. It is nice being outside, but the tradeoff is a week of really, really itchy legs (and a possible infection)

It's not fatal, but the pain is way higher than a regular mosquito bite, and it makes you paranoid whenever you are outdoors. God I hate them.

PS: always apply a repellent on your skin before going out

[1] http://www.azbowserfamily.com/images/72907mosquito.jpg

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257884/ (however, I just dip a spoon on hot water and apply it against the bite for some seconds)
How to Find the Right Co-Founder
Emblem.js : a concise, indented alternative Handlebars syntax
It never fails, a guy mentioning Godwin's Law. It has almost become like a law...
Sorry. Restaurants serving food fit for human consumption don't scale.

You essentially need a completely new staff--including a completely new creative staff. This is important, and a large part of why most chefs who own multiple restaurants generally have fairly diverse properties that present different menus. But diversification still requires wheelbarrows of money; "the fastest way to make half a million dollars is to start a restaurant with a million" probably applies even more acutely to opening more than one.
So, which platform independent kit do you use where every framework is kept perfectly up to date for every platform?
You'd think this sort of article might mention that overall bee populations and honey production in the US are stable. 2006 and 2009 were low points but the numbers have since recovered - beekeepers have been making more hives faster than the decay rate, whatever its causes might be.

"Properly understood, the story of CCD is not one of doom and gloom, but one of the triumph and perseverance of beekeepers."

http://perc.org/articles/everyone-calm-down-there-no-bee-poc...
Battle of the Asian Messaging Apps
This isn't even the same as devices that always require AC power but don't show a cord. It's basically a method of providing backwards-compatibility with HDMI ports that don't provide power, but if you're using the state-of-the-art TVs they show the product with, there's no power cord necessary.
This photo is used a lot to deny climate change. I found it here at this denial blog. But a careful reading will tell you they didn't surface at the North Pole, but at the first open space in the ice nearest the North Pole.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/04/26/ice-at-the-north-pole-...
No so sure I buy that.... for one thing most components of the Office suite were available (Yes, from Microsoft!) on the Mac years before they shipped for Windows.
Flying Bike Prototype
Yes.

Did you notice "Why we don't have FAQs" starts with: "we're often asked ..."?
It was featured here previously on HN. I'll dig for it, and update this comment with an edit when I find it.

EDIT: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_SHAMROCK

It does appear as though it was shut down the moment it came under scrutiny before a proper debate could be had about the legality of it.
It's answers like these that make SO an invaluable resource. They should award bonus points for stuff like that.
Microsoft Launches IE11 Developer Preview For Windows
Except that PAX is a community event and you don't trash your community by pricing its members out. Not if you're human, anyway.
So sorry, I edited the title. I think it was the German spell checker and Depp is an insulting word actually.
A Founder's Guide To Conferences
Whistleblowers are a help to the average citizen, yes, but perhaps the parent poster meant "insiders with their own motives", which might not be benevolent.
Misjudgements will happen no matter what, and it's not like it's an either-or proposition. It's perfectly possible to have a set of guidelines that can be used together with common sense, but no matter what people should have the authority to _fix the problem_. The root problem in this instance wasn't using common sense to allow someone into the conference, it was a complete failure to find a satisfactory solution to the problem. Had the wife been told to wait in the meeting room, that would suck but would probably not have ended up causing a shitstorm.
You don't even need to look to Europe. Just look to American politics in the 1970's. I'll give a very concrete example of an issue I happen to care about: environmentalism. In the 1960's and 1970's, the environmental movement was about protecting nature for the value of nature itself. The Wilderness Act of 1964 uses the language:

"A wilderness, in contrast with those areas where man and his own works dominate the landscape, is hereby recognized as an area where the earth and community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain."

Today, the intellectual mainstream of the movement has shifted to neoclassical economic justifications: the value of environmental services provided by e.g. wetlands and mountain ranges, the potential economic costs of climate change, market failures resulting from the externalities of pollution. The progressivism and idealism is gone, replaced with detailed analysis of how pro-environment policies fit into our existing economic and value structure.
Google Chromecast-the HDMI cable just went out of style
Do you want to be ruled by Google? By Walmart?

Why is the default assumption by Statists that if the government won't rule us, corporations will?

A novel concept that people may want to attempt to grasp is that there could be no rulers, and as such, there's no need to make up a fictitious "new ruler".
Before everyone freaks out from the title, he's saying you should do THINGS that don't scale, not EVERYTHING.

I could see this as a good means to evaluate how you currently automate things in other products/services.
I'm the author of the original post. I use Dynamic in two ways. The more obvious way is just to create interactive visualizations that I can easily manipulate, for example changing the time granularity or the set of projects displayed. The second use is the link with my calendaring program. I use Dynamic to set up a timer that calls a DLL (through .NET/Link) every few minutes to programmatically fetch the day from Outlook. That way my dashboard is constantly up to date without me having to do anything, and so I can just glance at it whenever I want.
when you have just enough money to allow for it, but not enough money to pay for someone with any higher skill level or experience.
not exactly Rodney King is it
Drunk Science: Speciation
"They" specifically are... generally, the point is that 'insiders' are probably not motivated the same way but have the same access to data which they could leverage against a target.
I don't see why he would regret it. Ubuntu and Android aren't really competitors (at least not yet). The phone version of Ubuntu is built on top of Android. They're both open source. Maybe eventually they'll be "open source" competitors like KDE vs. Gnome or something like that, but Ubuntu is a long way off from that (I'm not knocking them - I pre-ordered an Ubuntu phone even though I like and have no problems with Android).

If I were him, I would regret that Ubuntu is still slow to get a real, permanent toehold in the PC/laptop/tablet market - where vendors consistently and regularly include an option to have Ubuntu installed instead of Windows. I would regret that there is no Ubuntu tablet out there at all. You can't really use Ubuntu on any of the new Windows tablets (I've tried installing it on several). I've been using Ubuntu as my primary OS for over 6 years now, and what I want is a hybrid/convertible tablet that runs Ubuntu, and isn't as slow or limited or buggy as it would be if I installed Ubuntu on an android tablet. I'm not blaming Ubuntu for these problems - Microsoft and the hardware manufacturers chose to use Clovertrail and UEFI and all this other nonsense.
Nitrous.IO: Create a dev environment in the cloud in sconds
Spotify is not able to solve a simple problem
> ... in a vacuum?

Aaah, good old "in a vacuum," surely one of physics most convenient simplifications, together with frictionless surface, the point particle and it's big-boned cousin perfect sphere and of course the infinite featureless plane. Except that a vacuum is actually kinda sorta possible in the real world too.
Socialized Health Care is a big one. Single payer in particular: back when Obama was able to force through the ACA, he was unable (or unwilling) to get support for a single payer system a la Canada or much or Europe, and instead settled for a plan that was basically designed by conservatives a decade earlier. A truly liberal party would have fought for single payer, rather than the halfway-but-not-enough plan we got.
I've never trusted wot. They are abused by groups of "wot cops" that organize in the forums and target web sites to bash (deserved or not).

As far as the site goes, it looks like they used to be a more generic seo search engine, as recently as a few months ago.
Steve Yegge is 100% talk and no action. He wants to go cure cancer? Well then dive right in and join the fight! I'm sure he has Google lucky megabucks so what he does with his remaining time on Earth is entirely up to his whims.

Those whims seem to be telling him to stay in his Google glass menagerie and enjoy what his keepers feed him and taking time to play and extensively critique _Borderlands_. And that's a fine and understandable hacker hedonist strategy, but please, STFU about "curing cancer" etc. (unless he's going to get in the ring(tm), which I seriously doubt he ever will).

But to be fair, I've seen this happen to a few of my friends who hit it big, and I think it explains why there are so few Elon Musks and James Camerons among us. Once Maslov's hierarchy has been topped off, it's like the insatiable drive to achieve that made that possible just evaporates.
MVP: Model-View-Presenter? Microsoft Most valuable Professional?
I look forward to our Middle Earth future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silmarils
From experience, a checklist should be exactly that: a way of checking this off a list once complete. "Did I do this?" - "Yes". Check.

But for me a checklist should never be a step-by-step guide. "Do this, then do this." People are reluctant to be told how to do things that can easily take more than one path.
Here's the statement from MS:

Our vision is that every person can be a creator. That every Xbox One can be used for development. That every game and experience can take advantage of all of the features of Xbox One and Xbox Live. This means self-publishing. This means Kinect, the cloud, achievements. This means great discoverability on Xbox Live. We'll have more details on the program and the timeline at gamescom in August.
I am surprised more dev/freelancers aren't trying to do this where they get a large inbound list of people willing to pay a small fee (in this case $7500) and their idea to allow developers/designers to not only build a MVP but get some % of the company. It's like pro-bono work but with a initial fee to make sure their is skin in the game.

I would have liked to have seen 26|52 do 1 MVP and use it as a casestudy/showcase to prove out the model a bit, but still excited and interested to see what happens. I might even throw my hat in on an idea that I have been kicking around.
It would be interesting if the amounts of the winning bids were made public.

It could raise a non-trivial amount of money. If there are only 65,000 H1B visas (there is talk about doubling it, and with exemptions the actual number is almost double currently)and the average winning bid is $20,000, that would be $1.3 Billion total!
Royal baby and cybersquatters
Gah! What is this? Why not link to the original, which also happens to be much more readable, all one page, and doesn't require JS?

http://jonnegroni.com/2013/07/11/the-pixar-theory/
This is what identi.ca runs now
The NSA itself has exactly zero power outside the USA.
Great, so the market-clearing level should be reached and there is neither shortage nor surplus.
SIGGRAPH and USENIX are two high-profile conferences where almost everyone attending pays, whether speaking or not. Both do make exceptions for a handful of invited keynotes.
Investigating apparent IT breach, Stanford urges users to update passwords