skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem was not so much with spelling as it was with the aggressiveness of this intro.

Beyond the aggressiveness, the idea that TL;DR is bad or impossible is disputable. Everything can be TL;DRed, as long as it has a point. And in any case it's bad practice to "bury the lead".
For reference, the BEST solution to the two-party system is RANGE VOTING: http://rangevoting.org/ Don't waste your time trying to do anything against the two parties until we get that in place.
Ah, yes. CNN. I noticed that when embassies in Yemen and elsewhere were recently shut down, CNN was careful to repeatedly note in its on-air and online coverage that it was thanks to the "intercepted" messages that we were aware of the threat. Ex: [1]

In fact, in at least one story, they went so far as to even specifically mention that the "controversial NSA program" was the source--apparently for those too slow to get the hint.

Such ridiculously transparent PR. And those brilliant and determined terrorists seem so easily thwarted, don't they? "Aww, rats. Foiled again! I knew I shouldn't have sent that email from my Hotmail account, with the subject 'Evil Terrorist Master Plan'. They closed the embassy. Now what do we do with these suicide belts?"

Really, who believes this stuff?

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/04/politics/us-embassies-close
SE Asian investors eyeing off Aussie Startups
Stellar work. Your openness about everything is incredibly refreshing, and integration with RES was an awesome move. It's an easy choice to make the switch!

I am seriously impressed. I loaded up your README on github and had your app running within 10 minutes locally---including `gif` uploads. That's just really nice craftsmanship that is usually missing in fresh projects. Giant kudos to you guys.

(There were a couple trivial steps I had to do that weren't documented. I submitted a pull request. [1])

[1] - https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush/pull/108
My attitude is this: You're right. And this isn't really about what people look like now. This is about the first few steps in what I (and others, I assume) predict is going to be a fairly major change in the way people interact with computers.

Don't think about Google Glass / Meta as they are now, think about what happens when they fit on a contact lens...
I've found myself thinking a lot about this recently: the asymmetry of self-defense.

In a civilized society, we outsource our violence to police and other agencies, with mostly net-positive results. If the police are wrong, our self-defense moves instead into the realm of courts and law (setting aside the flaws with those systems).

However, extreme abuses of police power change the equation. While there are obviously reasonable circumstances for a cop to execute you without trial (when you are posing an immediate danger), there are effectively zero circumstances where you are allowed to physically defend yourself against the police.

I'm not necessarily advocating that there should be a circumstance when it's okay to shoot a cop; rather, that there are behavioral and social side effects from that intrinsic asymmetry, which affects the relationship between the necesseties of state violence, the legal system that supports them, and the civilians caught in the middle, innocent or otherwise.

I've also been thinking about it in the context of drones and anti-insurgent warfare. In conventional war, the enemy is dehumanized generally, but no one is demonized for shooting back: it's expected behavior. But in the context of quasi-occupation, civilians have neither legal nor physical recourses for defense. Picking up a weapon automatically marks you as the enemy; your only defense is to do nothing and hope that your drone pilot is accurate and merciful. The typical rhetoric is that terrorists are the worst of the worst because they are willing to kill civilians, which I would agree with; yet wielding a gun against a uniformed soldier or even a drone effectively marks you as a terrorist all the same.

I don't own guns, and never plan to; while I'm not a knee-jerk pacifist, it's very important to me never to take a life, a pledge I would only break in the most extreme of circumstances. But I certainly hold a great deal of empathy for those who feel the need to take personal defense into their own hands, and I believe there is a solid case for seeing self-defense as an inalienable human right.

(At this point, I wonder if the best self-defense at home or abroad might be to capture or stream video 24 hours a day...)
I really wish this thread would've gotten more attention...

But anyway, I wonder if this bias could be managed not making karma scores or vote counts public. The cumulative effect of votes could still be used to sort the list and everything, but I think seeing the actual number there is what leads to users, consciously or not, turning it into a points game.

Really what should matter is judging a post on its own merit and whether its been marked down or not.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/08/09/2013_08_09_th...

CNN's link for those who dislike Scribd because it hates us all. :)
Love this essay. I read it years ago when my brother was working with Paul Lockhart, who deeply influenced him as a math teacher.

My brother and his wife have since started an organization called Math For Love (http://www.mathforlove.com) focused on changing the way math is taught. They run workshops for teachers and provide great material for students.

If you're in Seattle and interesting in pedagogy and math, you should check them out.
This has nothing to do with bikeshedding.
Is New York Only for the Successful?
If the only purpose is for IP blacklists (bans, dos, etc), then doing 12 rounds of bcrypt would be counter productive. It'd be a lot of CPU usage on your end. Especially if its done for every request.

A better approach would be something quicker to compute but that you can destroy equally easily. Generate a random token that cycles every X minutes/hours. The HMAC the remote IP and this secret. Use the result for bans/rolling rate limiting. If you keep the token only in memory then you don't have to worry about the IP lists being leaked as they won't be recoverable.
Can't wait to learn how, like "collect" now means inspect, "monitor" now means permanently store.

Assuming storage, it's simple: metadata, deduplication, compression, selective monitoring, keeping only the logs but not the content (e.g. for YouTube videos), exclusion of certain bandwidth-intensive protocols, as 'thezilch mentioned...
Sticking to the article -- not that I'm strictly suggesting DELETE is useless -- the extra verbs confuse the process. POST already covers DELETE, including the response codes. PUT is often more confused. And then PATCH. And then the rabbit hole. That is, DELETE can be semantically correct, but POST would be more so.

Notice that, the quoted RFC does not state the resource is not inaccessible after the operation, only that it is intended to be.

And perhaps I'm talking out of my ass, but the number of DELETE operations is likely vanishingly small for HTTP resources.
Also of note: NSA claims that analysts review 0.00004% of global Internet traffic (0.0025% of the data they monitor, by my math).
96 Million. Not that that changes your point at all. You're not wrong.
Really impressed by the progress bar built into the site - I don't know any sites besides YouTube that are doing that!

For anyone else wondering, it looks like the app is powered by Backbone, D3, and Handlebars on the front-end.
Okay, here's Google Drive's

https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/

it uses GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, and DELETE

Here's (part of) the Amazon S3 API:

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTBucketOps...
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/RESTObjectOps...

HEAD, GET, DELETE, PUT, POST
I thought it was irrelevant to the story, and needlessly personal, especially since the story contained enough information to identify the company and CEO. In particular, you say "had an abortion at John's request" as if he forced her, when that's just your interpretation. I can imagine that a lot of women have abortions after the parteners talk about it (sometimes they agree and sometimes they don't, but who's to say who's at fault).

Also, with easy libel laws in the UK, you could be opening yourself up to a lawsuit.

As for whether it explains the firing, not really. You already said the gf was an ex when hiring Ian, so it's hard to really know the sequence of events without adding more sordid details. Plus it's just your speculation about why he wanted Ian gone, and it wouldn't totally explain it anyway (what difference did it make at that point, after the abortion apparently, whether Ian worked for the company or not?).
The article outlines Cloudflare being questioned about terrorist activity. So, unless I'm mistaken, that would exclude 4chan.
Getting rid of the unused verbs would probably save a great deal of confusion.

The other alternative is to make it a lot clearer as to what they do and how to use them. But that's not something for the HTTP 2.0 spec.
Thank you so much! It feels awesome to know you've managed to run it smoothly. Really makes all the effort we've put into it worth it!

PS: Merged your pull request, thanks!
Google Changes Course, Posts 2013 Nexus 7 (Razor) Factory Image And Binaries
Google finally posts 2013 Nexus 7 binaries and factory images
Yeah, it matters what they do to Americans, but what matters more is what is done to the rest of the world's stuff and people. We don't get to vote in the thing which gets a president in (and what an interesting process that is). We get no say, but its apparently ok to bomb us, drone us, spy on us, grope at us, render us, irradiate us to see us naked etc. I supposed it helps keep me from terrorising Americans though.
You do realize it's better to have lots of browsers like yours in this test? The more unique your browser is, the more trackable you are.
There are possible good reasons for this - I wouldn't give elementary students calculators, because they won't learn their math; similarly, in an educational environment (that's not teaching computing), computers are often more distracting than useful - the CS department at the university where I did my undergrad banned computers in first year lectures (not labs), because the students were playing games and browsing the web instead of paying attention in class; I think they made the right decision.
The Web Linking RFC [1] uses it to do discovery. The HEAD is mainly used to get ahold of the "Link" response header.

> HEAD / HTTP/1.1
< 204 no content
< Link: <foobar.com/>; rel="self service"; title="Foobar!",
<foobar.com/users>; rel="collection"; id="users"

> HEAD /users HTTP/1.1
< 204 no content
< Link: <foobar.com/>; rel="up service"; title="Foobar!",
<foobar.com/users>; rel="self collection"; id="users"
<foobar.com/users/bob>; rel="item"; id="bob"

> GET /bob HTTP/1.1
...

GET can't support that process, so that's just one reason why I'm against ditching the extra verbs.

1 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988
I disabled all of my plugins, and I'm still unique.
> (...) while reading Noam Chomsky's book Syntactic Structures on his honeymoon in 1961

Which makes you wonder, what kind of person reads this stuff on the honeymoon.
The article has a very interesting statement:

> A website is speech. It is not a bomb. There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain.

Replace website with song and provider with record label, and you'll have a very familiar conversation from nearly 30 years ago:

Frank Zappa on Crossfire, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc

The comparison is loose, but it's eerily reminiscent.
Chrome in Incognito Mode is still highly trackable using this method.
All Unity 3D. Thanks for the feedback that you want more detail. We're posting some app video and a developer section soon.

We make the real world (surfaces/objects/hands) appear as 3D objects inside Unity. We do the heavy lifting with computer vision and math so you can code the game as you would any other--the cool bit is the 3D objects correspond to stuff in the real world. Our number one goal is to be the easiest environment to dev on.
That's the best word I've ever heard.
Ah, Vic Gundotra. Someone posted this on Slashdot, BTW: http://search.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2770327&cid=39598...
POST is not idempotent, DELETE is idempotent. That's a pretty significant difference. Yes, obviously, you can use POST in place of DELETE (heck, plenty of APIs have used GET in place of everything), but its not a good idea, and losing DELETE in favor of POST loses clarity.

> That is, DELETE can be semantically correct, but POST would be more so.

DELETE is both more specific about intent and more specific about the idempotence of the operation, so, no, POST would be less semantically correct for any operation where DELETE is semantically correct.

> Notice that, the quoted RFC does not state the resource is not inaccessible after the operation, only that it is intended to be.

Actually, it says that success (2xx) series codes should not be returned unless the server intends to complete the operation, and further specifies that that 200/204 codes indicate that it has enacted the operation (differing in whether a response body is included) and 202 indicates that it has accepted the request but not enacted the operation yet.
Loud silence of largest(?) factor why Obama/Putin summit canceled, is a critical topic inversely proportional at 189 decibels, sycophants awkwardly ignoring the big elephant crowding everyone into the corner, cordially with deference exchanging pleasantries.
And they didn't until apple made them sleek and sexy. It will be the same with these glasses.
Show HN: vim-easyclip
I think it has to do with oversight. There's a strong precedent for the international community to hold a country's leaders as responsible for their military's actions. The chain of command reflects that.

Compare that to internal affairs in law enforcement. It's a terrible joke.

There are also fiscal pressures, in the way budgets are set, and with civil asset forfeiture. The US military budget is not set by how many kills they get, and units are not permitted to pillage and plunder the countries they invade.
My Firefox, too.
The issue has more to do with google trying to match each address with a business. They are failing because 34th and 6th is one of the most popular tourist corners in NYC which you'd think would be tested during QA. Moreover most Maps users will attest that when they enter an address they do not want it auto translated to the venue name...again something that should have never made it beyond an idea stage or been reverted soon after release.
Hierarchies of mediocrity in JavaScript
fyi, Google glass is $1,200 and is going for twice that on eBay.
There was a time people were taught logic and geometry and math and history all at the same time. Also, philosophy.

The reductionist approach of our education is it's major failure.
I'm not sure what it is, but something feels very wrong to me about sublime package control. It might be the instructions for submitting new packages. It might be the difficulty of installing a bunch of packages at once.
What's wrong with METH? Ain't nobody going to touch that IP.
Which doesn't account for ignoring email spam (72% of email traffic in 2012, according to Kaspersky [0]), John in accounting having 3 images included in every footer, attachments being copied in every reply, and the fact a big player like Google keeps its gmail-to-gmail traffic under a secure connection -- not plug-n-play monitering.

And if we hold the USG to their promise towards the Constitution, "world" traffic should largely comprise itself of "non-US" traffic. We can safely say then assume that non-US users are most definitely monitored. All of them. Everything.

[0] http://www.kaspersky.com/about/news/spam/2013/Spam_in_2012_C...
On the science museum, part of my view, I think, is that HMNS is trying to do what two different Chicago museums are covering: the Field Museum (classic archaeology / natural science) and the Museum of Science and Industry (modern science, and technology of the industrial revolution to present).

The Chicago Field Museum is a classic "natural science" museum: a very large, multistory lobby greets you, with a monumental dinosaur reconstruction. The building is also impressive, from some century-ago world's fair. The rest of the exhibits, on the other hand, range from good to being quite obviously 100 years old with no love given in the preceding century (sometimes this is nice and quaint, sometimes annoying). It feels more impressive to me than HMNS, but HMNS might have better exhibits. The latter certainly has a nice gem collection.

But if you want something more sciencey, the Museum of Science and Industry is really nice. There's an entire simulation of a coal mine you can go down into, exhibits on the history of trains, on urban history, and on the history of agriculture, and even a captured German U-505 submarine. It was definitely my favorite museum as a kid, and I didn't find much like it in Houston.
I don't understand why we even use terminology like "loophole" or "allows". I don't think the NSA really gives a shit about the legality of any of the this.
Should the entire movie theater experience be more social?
Which makes me wonder why Apple is betting on the smart watch and that trashcan they started selling, ehhm, I mean the new Mac Pro.
The lazer tag could be incredibly awesome, since you can actually see all the lazers coming at you, and with none of the range and safety issues that come with paintball. You could conceivably play it as a team event in your own office using just the glasses, or scale up to full real-time war simulation with the right cameras and software.
And Weather Underground
You make no sense. He couldn't be seeking asylum over the risk to his liberty if he hadn't done something at risk to his liberty.
OTOH, if I've been summoned to fix something for you, and I introduce myself to you, you damn well better respond in a polite manner, not just hand me the offending object and glare at me silently. Manners go a long way.

Honestly though, I question his whole premise. As he quite rightly points out, he can't fix a car (or probably wire a light fitting, fix a drainage system, or install an air conditioner), and nor should he. These roles have all been specialised, which improves their efficiency by allowing more complex and specialised techniques and hardware to be used. Computer systems are no different, and it not obvious to me that they should be an exception to this trend.
The NSA are semantic sociopaths. You can never expect them to answer a question honestly because they'll redefine each term to some unexpected yet valid meaning.
The burden of proof applies to those who's liberties are infringed. If my rights are being stripped, the burden of proof should not be that I need to prove the NSA is infringing those liberties, it should be that they need to prove that they aren't. With National Security Letters, the recipients can't even acknowledge that they've received them, and with the FISA court, we have no way to know.
With the decrease in employment, how do graduates find jobs?
I've just graduated University of Waterloo (Ontario) and myself and friends are finding it extremely difficult to find good jobs.

So, any advice would be appreciated!

http://www.cbc.ca/news/interactives/unemployment-stats/index.html
So far Safari on iPad is my least unique browser (13 bits).
Did anyone see actual demos of this thing in action? Meron came to my computer vision class this spring at CU and didn't have anything to show other than the CGI demo that has been up for over a year. The newer videos are also mostly just renderings and the only working examples that were posted are around 10 seconds long.

I wish them the best of luck but it seems to me like they're really overselling themselves.
"the difference between 2012-01-01 and 2013-01-01 is just way beyond what even the biggest Nest hyper claims"
Doesn't the temperature chart explain most of the savings? A colder winter and hotter summer for the first year (pre-Nest). The simple total of net degrees by month disguises the fact that the second year is much milder. What you want to look at is KWH from months (days if possible) with nearly identical avg temperatures, come up with composite "savings" for different month types and project that on a year.
NSA Can't Do Arithmetic
The leaderboard is already hacked.
Help end texting while driving
"First, I don't agree that they rubber-stamp warrants, but believe they evaluate them on a case-by-case basis"

The FISC is called a rubber stamp because they almost never reject requests for a warrant. The government can be almost certain that no matter how outrageous its request is, FISC will say "yes." That they may be evaluating requests on a case-by-case basis is irrelevant if they always come to the same conclusion.
Well, opsec. Spying is by definition a clandestine activity, and I think there are good arguments in favor of spying - the main one being that while it might seem nicer not to spy on anyone, you end up being less informed, and uninformed executives are more likely to end up going to war, which is a lot more destructive than spying. If you read up on the Curveball story in Iraq, that's a classic case of what happens when you make decisions with inadequate information.
What kinds of wireless comms will the device support? The specification only seems to mention USB and HDMI interfaces?
Yes, it's used a lot. If you look through web server logs, you'll see tons of cases where a search engine spider performs a HEAD, and then based on the headers, it decides whether the content has changed since last fetched. If so, it issues a GET.
Plus a VPN and/or Tor, otherwise your IP alone dooms you.
The correct assumption is the more some politician supports the NSA, the dirtier stuff they have to blackmail them with. I wonder what Pelosi's secret is?
Watch this video at around 22 minutes,
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/kill-the-messenger/

Dear Mr Obama - please explain why we are REPEATING the same thing. Shame on you if you fool us once, shame on us if you fool us again...

I was shocked when I watched this video. It's all happening again...
I wasn't attributing AdWords to Eric though, but the company growth. If I'm not mistaken, he was responsible for the company growth 2001 onwards, and focused on the cash cow.

Also, I was just pointing out the dichotomy between the core competency and core business (what you do well vs. your source of revenue).
(Replying here because your other comment is too deep)

I believe you have it right. The NSA document gets it wrong by one digit (page 6):

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2013/images/08/09/2013_08_09_th...

(0.025/100) * (1.6/100) = 0.0004%, and not 0.00004% as claimed in the PDF.
Seriously? Mark's not important?

... aside from that, interesting!
sounds good but nothing really "new" here leica has similar products http://www.leica-geosystems.com/en/Laser-Distancemeter_5061...., additionally leica has intergrated with autocad, excel etc so you can already do more. I don't know any contractors that work based off sq. footage measurements alone for pricing no matter the type of work. it also looks like it can't be used without another device