skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FAQ is supposed to be so people aren't wasting time on the forum asking the same question a million times. The project I'm on has a very useful FAQ with questions that got asked all the time when it wasn't there. It made them asked less, but people still don't read it sometimes.
I don't know if I agree with you about Obama, although it's certainly a possibility. Even if we grant that, though, the government isn't one person, and the political losses you mention would come from Congress. The Bush administration had Congress eating out of their hand, but Obama very much does not. And no, sadly, I have no idea how to stop Congress from being a bunch of jerks.
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Extract GnuPG private keys by L3 cache monitoring
Stephen Wolfram has been doing this for a while - the data is really interesting over the larger timescale: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...
>Does the Federal government not understand that this (idiotic) mass scale surveillance is bad for business?

Emmm, it's the business interests that ask for those kind of things. You think the politicians operate on a vacuum?

The idea is to get a stable climate where the business interests (multinationals and such) can do as they please, and citizens are afraid.
I was going to write up an attempt at some sort of cogent reply until I got to that "towelheads" bit.
I've thought of doing this before. Make one attempt every day, and see it through. Not just for websites but for other skills like songwriting, drawing, short-story writing, and also other types of programming. Needless to say I never went through with it, but it's good to see someone who has.

Taking songwriting as an example, what's interesting to me is that basically anyone can try it. Sit down with a note pad, think of a tune, and make a verse-chorus-verse-chorus song (chords and riffs are optional extras). No doubt people like Paul McCartney do try this every day, but then there's the vast majority of people who never make the attempt once in their life, despite their being no real barriers.
I'm not attacking his words, he's an eloquent guy.

But I'm personally not into motivational speeches, I'm a hard-core believer in follow-through and results (and little else). And while that has problems of its own, they're not the same ones as all talk and no action.
You're awesome. I've been playing around with a dependency network in JS recently, and I'd just been puzzling over exactly that question: how best to handle the case where a computation has side-effects. So I'm now busy googling concurrent revisions and self-adjusting computations. Got any further references to throw my way? Is there a standard literature on this stuff?
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So, as a web developer, I'm not seeing anything that would inspire confidence regarding someone simply inspecting & changing this data attribute to:

data-item-price="0.01"

I skimmed through the documentation, but didn't see any real mention of this concern. I think it should be highlighted.

Seems that by allowing it to be in markup it might encourage people to be negligent and perhaps miss verifying that the submitted price is correct... maybe I'm missing something here.
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This looks awesome. I think civic hacking is a powerful concept.
You completely misunderstood his point, did you even read the article?

His point is that the popular consensus that Washington is gridlocked by partisan warfare is a myth. In reality, the Democrats and Republicans aren't at war with each other, they agree on quite a lot. The real fight is between establishment politicians and insurgent, more principled members of each party.

He uses Bachmann and King as examples of supposedly "extreme" partisans who, according to popular legend, hate Obama on some deep, emotional level and would never support him no matter what he did. Yet yesterday we saw the two of them speak out in favor of the administration and its unchecked power.

At the same time, we saw Pelsoi and company, who are painted in the popular press as hardcore liberals (and perhaps even attempts to cultivate such a perception) siding with not only Bachmann and King, but also with the general outlook on the world held by Cheney and his gang.

All of this goes to support Greenwald's thesis (given at the beginning and the end, so I'm not sure how you missed it) that the real warfare in Washington is between establishment authoritarians, and those who have become weary (and wary) of the unchecked national security state, not between Republicans and Democrats as is frequently portrayed in the media.

This is actually a thesis that Greenwald has been hammering on for many years, in case you haven't read much of his stuff until recently.
Forgive my well, actually.... but:

Well, actually, iOS and OSX devices are supported too.
> while simultaneously enjoying the benefits from various services that are provided by the government.

Using these services because there's no practical way not to is just the reality of our system. Taking a few scraps from your masters to survive does not mean you agree with your chains.
If you're talking about the media, what did you expect? The mainstream media is just a mouthpiece for the government at this point.
>Is this a new writing style I'm unaware of or just plain laziness?

No, seems just regular plain laziness. On your part, that is, wanting the gist of the article to be spoon-fed to you.
This is only true for local hidden variables. It is possible to explain this with hidden variables in broader sense. Which you could also call hidden connections.
When you turn off the lights before you go to bed... what happens?

Do the things move in the dark, while you can't see them, because there's no light?

What if you didn't have eyes? What then?

If tree falls in the forest, and no one is there to see it... does it make a sound?
There are infinitely many real world applications of the quantum theory, from the spectrum of neon lamps to the nuclear magnetic resonance images. Another is all the solid state physics, and in particular superconductors and in particular modern computers, are based in quantum theory applications.

If you want a direct quantum phenomena that you use at your home everyday, you can choose giant magnetoresistance used in hard disk heads: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_magnetoresistance . This is my favorite case to explain that strange quantum effects have real world direct applications. Just start talking about the spin in currents in magnetic conductors and then add the sandwich with non-magnetic conductors, and then suddenly explain how it is used in hard disks.

It's difficult to choose a cool application because there are too many, but let's try:

A cool application: LEDs!

A cooler application: Laser diodes!!

A coolest application: Green Laser pointers!!! (They are actually an infrared laser diode that pumps another infrared laser that passes through a frequency doubling crystal to make it green.) ( See the last image of http://searchwarp.com/swa141478.htm )
Well, if there is little government can do to control (like people using p2p currencies on a massive scale and encrypting their communications), and with production structure not suffering from possibility of monopolism (which we are close to having now), how will the government exercise their control? Of course we will always have some sort of government, but over years, it will become more and more irrelevant, not able to control/regulate things it claims to.
Actually, decentralised power sources would make high voltage lines obsolet because you can build them where you need the electricity. Centralised systems need high voltage lines around the country.

Energy density is not a good measurement I think. In theory the sun sends more energy per day than we might ever need but we can only make use of parts of that. This is improving but still, just a tiny part of it. The same with Thorium or Uranium or even fossil fuels. Usually the efficiency of those power plants is well below 50%, nuclear power below 40%, coal even less, especially those "clean coal" CSS plants.

The problem with molten salt reactor will be the same with fast breeders, where the liquid sodium was/is causing corrosion and problem when mixing with water. IIRC most accidents in FBRs were sodium related. And even if MSRs are cheaper in one way than current designs, it doesn't say they are not more expensive in other ways.

But currently none of those reactor designs is ready for commercial use. None! With the time you need to get such a design up and running, you can also deploy renewable energy. Much more reliable and stable.

In 2012 about 7.5 GW of renewable energy were deployed in Germany. Even if you calculate that not all of that is available around the clock, you would have build more than 2 EPRs with 1.6 GW electrical power to get the same amount of energy, which you just can't do within one year.

Maybe MSR solve a lot of problems with nuclear energy but it won't come free, it won't come w/o other problems. All forms of energy have drawbacks. Photovoltaik uses rare earth, wind has huge towers which are not really popular with locals, water has a huge impact on rivers and the environment. Biomass has the problem with using food for energy, and usage of land. I could continue the entire night.

The important question is a different one, do you want to solve the energy problem or just ask the next generation to solve it for you?
Might as well add this one to the criticism sent to your representative:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/congress/senate-bill-...
Hey, don't give them any ideas now.
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What you say is true, but misses an important consideration: yesterday, only tinfoil hats believed they couldn't trust third-party companies with their privacy. Today, everyone knows that the only way to have privacy is to handle it personally, from their local computer.

The whole PRISM scheme worked because people supposed the government respected their privacy. Now that it's been proven false, I expect people to use local encryption schemes, were third parties can't give a key they don't have. I expect people to become careful about which certification authority signed their SSL key, and to use self-signed certificates whenever practical. Targeted spying will remain possible, but indiscriminate surveillance PRISM-style would become impractical.

Unless they know how to crack TLS, but we have no reason to believe this as of today.
Morton's Fork:

A man living modestly must be saving money and could
therefore afford taxes, whereas if he was living
extravagantly then he was obviously rich and could
still afford them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton%27s_fork
I don't, but then anything is possible. They could have invented Snowden in response to a credible threat from someone else that was planning to leak this or other even more sensitive materials. Anybody making similar disclosures today would have a tough time getting any attention because the Snowden story drew so little public outrage.
I'm not sure this is a useful thing to say.
Then the incentive structures have changed to no longer support statehood. See my earlier comment on how to easily figure out the viability of the various forms of anarchism.

"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."

Since government is the current default, the onus is on you to prove that the incentive structures that select for statehood have changed in a significant way. (Or that they are going to change or could be changed.)
I wonder when all the builds will appear on the download page, if ever: http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html

The newest stuff is still 2.10, expect for mac
Did you find a use for it at your job? One of the challenges is to make something that is new and useful to other people.
Gibraltar might be the beginning of the end for the Atlantic Ocean
Be careful. You're assuming here that the pizza parlor actually was breaking the health code, and the pictures haven't been doctored or altered in some way.

In the US criminal system one is innocent until proven guilty in a court of peers, not accused in a kangaroo court of internet denizens.
Ember includes a full test suite which is run on each pull request, so TDD is not unique to Angular.

Personally, I found Angular's concepts a bit foreign and hard to grasp while Ember was much more straight-forward, but that's just a personal opinion.
This is true - yet I'm pleased to see that the 37signals blog posts which are starting make it to the top of HN are those with more depth. For a while, it seemed like all of the ones making the front page were simple platitudes with no concrete examples or solutions e.g. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3513-when-empathy-becomes-ins... .
Senate bill authorizes sanctions on any country offering Snowden asylum
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Apparently people downvote me. I don't hate bitcoin, but if the relative power is true then this is so much bigger than bitcoin.
And this makes it reasonable for them to want to introduce Stasi/KGB-style tactics to the US?
A door handle is a universally recognised dual purpose control, and always works whichever way the door opens. A push plate does not do this. What are they supposed to do, remove them when doors become temporarily uni-directional?

The fact that this even needs to be said is a sad comment on people's lack of imagination.
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Ah... a "can of light" as a practical energy storage mechanism. I think it's safe to say that this will remain a complete fantasy for the foreseeable future.

Example: my laptop battery has an energy storage of about 100 Watt-hours = 360 kJ. Suppose we want to store the same amount of power in an optical cavity (two mirrors pointed at each other) with a length of 0.5 meter. The time required by light to make a roundtrip in this cavity is 2L/c = 3 nanoseconds. Thus the power incident on the mirror at any given instant is (360 kJ)/(3 nanoseconds) = 10^14 watts!

This power is high enough that I suspect that even the vacuum itself couldn't conduct it without strange effects (production of particles, for instance).
Hey but now when someone does get the bugLaser working, he can be there with prior art AND a patent to collect upon.
Surveys are heavily influenced by the way you are asking questions.

"Should the NSA be able to snoop all of our email/phone/etc records, and store them for later?" --> NO

"Should the government be able to expand its limited search capabilities so that it can better prevent terrorist attacks?" --> WELL SURE

That was a terrible example of a second way of phrasing it, but I am certain there is a way to frame what they are doing in a way which leaves out the "collect all your things" nuance (;)) and therefore will sound reasonable to many people.

In the general case you will find that answers tend to trend in this way:

NO: "Should the gov't ${trample_our_freedoms}?"
YES: "Should the gov't ${catch_more_terrorists}|${protect_more_children}?"
I belive I kind of understand what you are saying.

I am confused as to whether or not the photons actually stop moving. Since they halt them by shutting off the transparency it seems that the photons would get trapped and end up bouncing around being absorbed slowly.

Is that why the effect is temporary? The light eventually gets absorbed and disperced though the crystal?
This article seems to be mostly FUD. Per-session, ephemeral SSL keys are available and are used by at least Google [1], CloudFlare[2], and others.

No keys are stored, no keys can be given to the NSA.

1 - https://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/11/22/forwardsecret.html

2 - http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-prism-secure-ciphers
I used that service in my job search in the Spring. I don't think that it really made any difference in my response rate. I did find my current job via LinkedIn, and my resume was pushed to the top on that ad. However, the job was a great fit for my skill set so I think I would have got the interview regardless.
Yes, in the documentation they are selling that as a feature.

One of the Snipcart's strength is that you do not have to enter your product inventory anywhere. Most of the time you will always have an inventory somewhere or an existing database, so we did not want to have you duplicate information.

So how does it work? All your product information is stored in the HTML markup.

Kind of a major oversight.

I don't really see much use for this, why give another 2% of your sales away? Stripe is already ridiculously easy to integrate.
...but the effective storage time of the power recycling cavity in LIGO is about 1 second. This is a rather long time by optical standards, but I'd say it's a long way from "indefinitely".
I agree. Thanks for posting information about your systems! I might give them a try. I found RescueTime to have many small UI issues that frustrated me too much. I had to uninstall it.
Given the rampant skepticism here, how were they convinced?
> You can bicker about the words "pure" and/or "tyranny" all you want

The distinction between "pure" tyranny of corporations and the less-pure tyranny (because it was tempered by potential democracy) in government was the whole of the Chomsky quote, so its not "bickering" to point out that the tyranny of corporations cannot be any more "pure" than that of the sponsoring government.

> but the point would be the same if he had said "have a strict top-down flow of authority"

Corporations do not inherently have a strict top-down flow of authority. Labor cooperatives are still (generally)corporations. Governments control the structures that are possible for corporations, which can neither be formed nor continue to exist but through acts of government; if, in any particular system, strict top-down flow of authority is essential in a corporation it is because a government has chosen to make it so. Corporations have no less "potential" for democracy than governments do.
He seems to put a lot of effort into putting exactly the number of hours into the full job and exactly the number of hours into each project he wants. I don't really consider that valuable, though, and think he is kind of wasting time. At least he made some pretty graphs, though, and got some self gratification for hitting his hourly target exactly. Doesn't really have any meaning re how much actual work he got done, though.
A starting point might be this article by Sue Jackson: http://psych.wisc.edu/henriques/papers/Jackson.pdf
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That site is awful. Only thing worse is using BBB for credibility.
Apple spent $16 billion last quarter to repurchase 36 million shares
Once you have "industry experts" involved in politics it's "corporate lobbyists buying votes" or "revolving door government", or even "regulatory capture". Without industry influence, you get a bunch of ignorant politicians trying to control things they have no clue about. You really can't win.
California investigates complaints of false advertising at for-profit colleges.
He actually has been working on a big data analysis problem for the last four years, which is presumably why he was asked to speak, so your characterization of him as all talk and no action is incorrect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJs-0EInW8
I can't wait to use IE11. I don't enjoy using chrome. So many pop-ups!
> Today, everyone knows that the only way to have privacy is to handle it personally, from their local computer.

I agree with you, but I think you have far too much faith in ordinary Americans. I invented some widely used anti-phishing technology, and I can tell you that spending a few months analyzing actual incidents where otherwise intelligent people did ridiculously unsafe things on the Internet will give you a new perspective on the tech savvy of the general population. Unless we (the tech community) make strong security both transparent to the user and enabled by default, the feds will be seeing everything they do. Sadly, most of them seem OK with that.
> Until the corporate influence over federal politics makes them the master of their creators.

No, even in that case, they still have no less potential for democracy than the government chartering them.
This is getting really frustrating - I'm waiting for several clients now in order to update profiles with new device info, and can't do so because the Apple service is offline, so no new betas for those clients. Most of their online services are not critical - things like online documentation and forums are really unimportant to me as a developer (that's what SO is for), but certification and adding device ids has the potential to sabotage a lot of their developers' schedules if this lasts much longer.

An outage of a few days is understandable to me if they're trying to do a security audit and update their systems, but an outage of a week?

For a large company like this with huge resources that just smacks of incompetence. They should be able to reproduce their systems on completely new hardware and up to date system software and frameworks within a day, surely? Does anyone know or care to speculate as to why this might take them so long?
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Presumably they crawl the website on signup and watch out for major changes in price like that?

But, yes, if that's the case then that should be highlighted in the docs.
No, I think it's more than an assumption. The number of people whose records have been seized through court order is much smaller than the the wholesale collection of every phone call record and photos of every piece of paper mail.

We literally have no idea what is done with the bulk-collected data at the NSA. As Snowden and Manning show, internal controls on supposedly sensitive data are weak. But we do know that they can't look through the data they haven't collected.

The court order, even if it's easy to get, leaves a paper trail thrice over. One with the executive branch, one with the courts, and one with whatever company has to cough up data. That won't prevent somebody sufficiently powerful and confident from getting data. But it will act as a significant deterrent to casual snooping by insiders, and also to political misuse of the system.
> the authors have not chosen to put it on the arXiv

Doesn't Nature forbid authors from uploading pre-prints to the arXiv?

http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/policy/embargo.html
I'm a Microsoft employee who has spoken at one TechEd and staffed a booth at another. Rest assured, the style cops were all over us to conform to the dress code. I can believe that there's a different standard for keynote speakers, who are usually notable or "important" in some way.
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