skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I'm never convinced by such theories without conducting my own share of research, it's depressing how difficult it is to find any real credible refutations of the data presented without diving into the experiment papers and reproduction attempts themselves. I don't care what his followers think, I don't care what his detractors think, I don't even care what he thinks, I just care to find out the proper context for the data presented or at least cited examples of credible reproduction attempts that failed. Yet science blogs and comments are filled with so much noise and logical fallacies, that I can't blame tinfoil-hat people for trying to go against the 'status quo' they represent. The best way to discredit these people would be to list off simple objective contradictions and leave it at that, not to try and turn them into some kind of gossipy train-wreck like Lidsay Lohan -- that just makes everyone involved look bad.
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KDE already has a mobile platform: http://plasma-active.org/

It is still in development, but the entirety of the plasma development framework is around fixed size apps that on the desktop occupy popups from a widget bar and on mobile run as full applications.

Additionally, qt makes it very easy to develop for mobile since it uses a plugin based native toolkit system that skins your app according to the ui conventions of the target. A qtquick 2.1 app on Android looks Holo, on Windows looks Aero, on OSX looks Cocoa, etc.

That is probably the reason Canonical picked qt for its sdk.

It is very easy in modern qt paradigms to have a qml app that self-manages its scale based on screen size - physical dimensions, that is - so you can have your interface shift to "mobile mode" when the display it is rendered on is smaller than, say, 11" in size, and runs in a window with mouse / keyboard UX above that.
These places are owned by many private companies, who might not understand the threats they face, or there is a culture where it is not a priority, plus there is no standard between these many companies, each has rolled their own solutions. Some might not be connected to the internet, but others are, there is a total mismatch between them. So, government has started to step in, by creating cybersecurity standards for infrastructure [1]. This will hopefully create a standard for everyone to start locking down their infrastructure in a consistent and reproducible way. This also plays into the moves to reduce data centers across the government [2], so they can create a standard, and hopefully reduce their security exposure.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-13/obama-orders-cybers...

[2] http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-28/business/40859...
They should buy bitcoins on some money they raised: it will surely spark a new spike in price, but, hopefully, because they initiated it, they can later profit from people who follow the trend by buying and raising the price even more. That way, they can maybe reach $32m target and possibly even more.
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Pretty sure they are coordinating with corporates behind the scenes and have few million lined up in commitments that will turn into actual $ as we get closer. That in itself makes this campaign unpredidented - I don't recall another campaign with a $80,000 contribution level.

IMO they should be able to get 100 of the Fortune 500 companies to fork over $80,0000 for an exclusive access to the new shiney thing in mobile.

Heck Marissa Mayer alone may just reimburse every Yahoo employee who decides to get one going by her thirst for mobile ... and pr.
I read super-cannes from him. It was quirky and definitely interesting.
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I heard the same story on NPR a few weeks ago (interview with the reporter): http://www.npr.org/2013/07/16/202360167/investigation-reveal...
People like you are why I have a very hard time taking bitcoin seriously.
Sure, as long as you can deliver a quality product within the timeframe expected of the client. That's the way you learn.

It would also help to build up a network of devs with a variety of expertise, so that you can ask for help/tips/review as you take on new stuff.

I think it also depends on how big a step the new project is for you. Wordpress sites, fine. Build me a new operating system? Probably not :)
Why? Are you saying that speculating on Bitcoin somehow alters the core properties of the technology?
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Try FTL. It's the most modern reincarnation of the rogue-like genre and it's close to perfect in everything it does in that area.
I'd be pissed if I backed an Ubuntu phone and the money was used for a Bitcoin pump-and-dump (that might not even work).
Incarcerated in monolithic interstitial dreck, that forlorn inquisitive youngster in a long empty corridor may grow into a seasoned coder to escape Caracas' concrete war-zone of dread, and this is why here in the states, the preterites get free roam bugged `Obama Phones', with 250 minutes/month, as one of Kieth Alexander's many new worries is that lone savvy `Tuttle' in Brazil, that drones can't even target, and who later retired as 'Jack Burns', ex-florist, in a pleasant home and family circle of trust, recently augmented by a suspicious new pothead son in law, who, unbeknownst to Kieth, Tuttle/Burns has a back story as a NSA-hated CIA field agent to foment global terror to justify US surveillance agencies ever escalating budgets and security cleared retirees' revolving-door golden-parachutes. So the NSA, CIA, and FBI uber-state independent silos all become a patch-quilt of allied targets.
Yeah, I mean, that's the ethical side of the question. I agree.
It's always great to see ClojureScript pushing forward on things like this. I've recently started focusing on Clojure and Clojure script for personal projects and I'm really enjoying functional programming.
Well I hope the community pulls it off and makes it the most awesome place to live in Caracas, then go on to become a model solution and case study for future housing, I hope.
> These guys just don't get it. DF can be SOOOOO much better,

Maybe. Or maybe it would lose its soul and become yet another pretty game with boring back stories.

I'm torn about that, but I can't help notice that the reason why the stories of your dwarves are so engrossing and so unbelievably epic and real is because 100% of Today's time is spent working on these stories instead of a pretty GUI.
I am thinking the ultimate technical solution would be a tiny computer that acts like a usb and hdmi/dvi hub. Plug it in between the monitor/keyboard and the employer provided computer.

It waits passively for a magic keycombo which causes it to switch the monitor and keyboard to the computer inside the hub which has a bluetooth link to your cell phone's internet connection. Voila! Easy internet access through your own connection on your own personal computer.
Ah, but this is a commercial building, just unfinished, in the downtown core. They had to have valid permits, and utility hookups, if they were planning at all to finish the building and rent it to people.
"A shameless ripoff"? Seriously?!

http://i.imgur.com/r8mDlVU.png
This could mean a multitude of things. I wish the article had reference to some source. I seriously doubt that FBI can choose to record from any brand new Android phone - the entire OS being open source and routinely disassembled by the folks at xda.

More likely the source of this is some malware/virus/app that when installed, grants FBI the ability to activate the mic at will. In which case, the article would be somewhat misguided.
"Acqui" as in "acquiesce", then "hire" in place of the "esce".
I have absolutely no special knowledge of the situation, and I share your puzzlement and frustration.

But my simple (though completely speculative) theory (and I fully expect it to be the correct one) is that security is simply not something which integrates well into our economy right now.

Our economy is based on maximizing profit and efficiency, like safety, security is extremely difficult to quantify and even harder to accurately value. Therefore companies and individuals looking to minimize their bottom line are finding it naturally difficult to justify sane implementations such as your suggestions.

The simple reality, in other words, is that our current economic system does not adequately value security until disaster happens. It would not be hard to do as you suggest, but consider this thought experiment: would you spend $150 more for plane tickets if they would reduce your chance of crashing by 0.05%?

This is a similar scenario to that which faces these infrastructure companies. Until the 0.05% contingency actually materializes, the economy (unless the risk is demonstrated as serious and imminent) rewards the -$150 option as being "the better option".
Apache, while not hipster-compatible, is still very much alive.

> I think it may be time Apache itself branches out to a leaner version (with the kitchen sink build available separately) that's as bare-bones as possible with basic functionality that can still be easily extended by modules later.

Right. Here's a binary size comparison between Apache 2.4.6 and Nginx 1.4.1:

~ $ ls -l /usr/sbin/apache2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 580528 Jul 26 13:23 /usr/sbin/apache2

~ $ ls -l /usr/sbin/nginx
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 661264 May 24 07:42 /usr/sbin/nginx

Apache is totally modular. Going from Apache to Nginx would be a downgrade for me.
Everything worth doing isn't already done yet. I'd rather encourage others to try novel ideas and approaches. Most won't work, but a working model in this space could become a great company. (Because the potential market for smarter disk interaction is huge.)
And that's why the Netherlands is still considered "first world"

Let me explain how they do it in Brazil. Someone with a long pole shuts down a switch in the utilities pole. Then climb it and wire their house to it, no meters.
he's making a list,
checking it twice;
gonna find out who's
naughty and nice...
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/07/24/blueprint...
The author already opened a PR in rails: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/11729

IMO looks great so far
That's good-- maybe there is hope after all...
So they point out a limitation of face to face communication, but instead of creating something that would remove this limitation, they artificially introduce it into another form of communication that didn't previously suffer from the same limitation? What a joke.
"Don’t use your social media accounts while at work. If you do, you could be unknowingly sharing your social media account passwords with your employer."

In the U.S. your employer can legally log your usage of their machines, but wouldn't it be a criminal act if they then used your password to sign in to your account and access other data (presumably without your permission)?
Yeah, that sounds like a low-risk way to meet their financing goals.
Drop the "Al". Just "Qaeda". It's cleaner.

(To be more serious: I actually haven't seen anyone refer to them just as "Qaeda". Is this a new thing or was I just not paying attention?)
Not at all for that kind of project - the 600 and 625$ sold like cupcakes - the problem is they overshot the price of the device. 600$ seems about right.
Even $10 is way too low (at least an order of magnitude!) for a good dev.
I guess it doesn't really matter. It's win-win either ways.

If it gets funded, they get to make a showcase device.

If it doesn't, they still get better publicity than they could have bought, and Canonical gets to be the company that tries new and interesting things.
I have a few questions. I am hoping to implement/try out making some passive income here, as I have enough free time to invest.

1. While I know its hard to replicate the $5000 day, how hard is it to profit $5/day consistently? How much effort would that require?

2. As a student working my way through college, any income that doesn't require an all day desk presence sounds very lucrative! Can anyone point me to where I can get started?

3. Searching the web for affiliate marketing seems to take me to the scary underbelly of the Internet which I'm afraid to scratch. Any definitive resources? Where does one find websites that offer money for clicks? Is there a standard platform or does it work company by company?
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How exactly they can meet desktop needs? Android apps are not good at talking to each other and using each other api-s, they are sandboxed. From what I know iOS is the same.
…which is reachable from the more memorable http://www.math-atlas.org/
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If you are spying on people with their phones, that sounds creepy. It may not be really different from online tracking, but there's a public backlash against offline tracking that doesn't exist for online tracking.

So I think you gotta address that issue somehow.
No surveillance on HN before 2013-Q2…
quality is not completely subjective...sorry.
Out of curiosity could someone still do that in today's landscape?
I get the impression (I am just speculating) that Canonical is running an enormous focus group. Whether they hit 32m or just 16m, they have evidence for the device manufacturers that there is a demand for a convergent and powerful phone running an open OS.
WP didn't made php popular as it was already #1 choice for entry level web developers and had active helpful community (all webmaster forums had a php or similar section), something which other languages lacked.

Wordpress became huge because it is modular, plug and play and the go to choice for beginners. Not to mention, it is also a huge marketplace and tens of thousands of people make money creating themes, PSD, custom design, plugins etc.
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I am dangerously close to writing an MA thesis on just that question...
It gave me motion sickness, was not expecting transparent, 3D rotation.
Is MongoDB the right DB for every size of startup? What about the people who just want to try different projects on 1 (one!) single server?

What I've read about MongoDB, it wants to use all the memory it gets. So it's only usable if it is running on its own server. (And in the beginning of MongoDB it had to be 2 servers if you didn't want to lose data.)

Is this a false information again? Am I falling for anti MongoDB FUD again?
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Back in distant, halcyon 2010, I was asked to write something about Wikileaks and its Cablegate scandal. So, I wrote a rather melancholy essay about how things seemed to me to be going — dreadfully, painfully, like some leaden and ancient Greek tragedy. ...I no longer feel that leaden discontent and those grave misgivings that I felt in 2010. The situation now is frankly exhilarating. It no longer has that look-and-feel of the Edgar Allen Poe House of Usher. This scene is straight outta Nikolai Gogol.
Incorrect. Android Apps talk to each other nbrilliantly usi ng Content provider, Intents and Broadcasts
MongoDB is used in almost every community. Especially for new languages.

You can easily find relatively mature MongoDB drivers from the start for new languages, but don't hold your breath for PostgreSQL. See Rust.
Are you suggesting that NSA should wire-trap the aliens too? :)
xkcd is incredible by why oh why is the title above the buttons?
I'm talking more about the indiegogo platform and others like it - there aren't enough people on it to be raising $32m in a short period of time.
I personally find music to be distracting while coding but yesterday found this thread on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/1jke2r/whats_the_most..., this has some gems! I am sure you will find few good once
Some people start with 0, some with 1. I got bored and just resorted to random numbers. As long as they are unique there shouldn't be a problem looking them up.
How driverless cars will be wide open to hacking
Who knows how big the program is? Perhaps it can reach a size where refactoring is just way more expensive than patching as needed.
Live Free or Die Hard is the movie.
viddio.com is not even worth $600 imo, if you are really looking for spelling hacks, do some searching on domain finding tools, you can better hacks for free but like as others said, in your case, I don't think the domain name doesn't matter that much.
Not likely. Most probably, it will end up being something like the White Elephant, a squattered building at the edge of Buenos Aires [1][2]. It was going to be the largest hospital in Latin America, but then after the 1955 coup, the construction stopped, the building was abandoned and it was squattered. It has become a very dangerous place, and even the police and gendarmery (an intermediate between police and military) are afraid to enter there. I have worked for a security company that had to place security cameras there, and the workers had to be protected by gendarmery officials. While they were installing the cameras, some bullets where shot from windows. Luckily, nobody was injured.

[1] http://www.oddee.com/contrib_17194.aspx

[2] http://www.argentinaindependent.com/socialissues/urbanlife/r...

PS: Relevant to the second link, the project "Sueños Compartidos" or "shared dreams" was closed soon after the article was written, because of a high profile corruption scandal involving the project.
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Yes, many people do. There are 68 million active WordPress sites out there. That's a huge market, and there are so many things people pay for on other platforms that you can bring to WordPress and sell there as well.
I get your emotional position, but this is just some bad logic. "If the government denies it, it must be true" is not a useful tool. How about "recent history says that this kind of thing could potentially be true, and that the government wouldn't admit if it was."
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Wireless-tap would be more appropriate.
Obviously we need to know where the eggs are getting laid.

I mean before we cure cancer, figure out how the brain works and solve inequality all the alien eggs must be found.
Just as a warning: Manuel Lemos is the most clueless and destructive clown in the entire PHP community. PHPclasses is a collection of worst practices and anti-patterns.

Nothing he writes is in any way plausible, it's all just a feeble attempt at arguing that any engineering practice he can't wrap his head around is wrong. The man is just desperately trying to defend his limited understanding of software development.

Excuse the ad hominem, but there's really zero plausible content to this, or any other of the delusional utterings he has published over the last decade.
I don't think that the desktop brand is a negative for the phone.

They made compromises to the desktop UI to meet mobile demands in the name of 'convergence' -- justifying the use of the same brand... but as a result, UI experience has suffered on both form factors.
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Promostudio sounds way better. Domains should try to stand up to the phone test, and viddio most certainly does not even come close.

I've bought/sold a number of domains and have a pretty good idea for pricing. I wouldn't pay $100 for viddio.com

Promostudio is excellent (assuming it's not trademarked already). Very professional and easy to spell. Worry about your product, your domain is plenty good.
Very interesting. The tl;dr seems to be: nobody knows for sure, but yes... it could totally be used for full content storage for some length of time.
Is this an accurate depiction of Russians?
Surely missing the target would demonstrate a lack of demand? It's pretty hard to spin "We couldn't even get 30,000 contributers" asz success. Especially given the strong existing brand, the news coverage, etc.
LOL. Now they removed all the comments mentioning Amanda Schull. How classy.
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"The reality is that business owners must recruit workers and not dragoon them and chain them to their workplaces. Nor are business owners interested in harming either their workers or their customers. If they do, normal civil and commercial law will suffice."

It's funny how people forget that labour laws came up to fulfil a need, after a lot of struggle. Sure, sometimes they can go too far, but they weren't implemented on a whim.

People were actually beaten and killed[1][2]. People died because of poor working conditions and no safety regulations[3].

The above-mentioned reality only exists when workers have choice, in most real market conditions, that is not always true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass
[2] http://www.forgottenshow.net/story.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...
...or a decent phone :-) .
Pretty sure that's God.
Wouldn't the information be more useful in text form? Transcripts would take far less space and would probably be necessary for any sort of useful search. They might even call the transcript "meta-data".
Quake is not open source. The engine is. To actually play "quake", you need to buy the assets.

Considering the quality of open replacement assets like OpenArena, I also don't think that open source games work particularly well.
The NSA's 5 zettabytes of data
"Like map and filter," I mean, not "Like map and reduce."
"Compromising one connection is easy compromising 2-3 connections is an order of magnitude harder."

Why? If new math leads to a O(1) attack, cracking 3 connections would just take 3 times the time. There will be some practical issues in that one would have to I tercept 3 connections simultaneously, but that a) is outside of the maths and b) probably will not be that hard, since all that traffic starts and/or ends at a single point (e.g. your home WiFi router, or the bank's gateway to its systems)
Isn't this 100x100 = 10,000 updates?
Not that their opinion is the community's, but the FSF is not against secure boot even for PCs and smartphones, only against "restricted boot" - that is, secure boot without giving the keys to the user.
Obedience or Peace?

What is USA seeking from rest of the world?
Does that mean not enough people want a Formula one of a smartphone?
HN discussion from two days about the report directly, not an interpretation via the Guardian. The Guardian does have some updated data. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6132686

There are some good comments about the rewards like "the early adopter bonus shouldn't have been a cheaper phone it should have been a more expensive but exclusive colourway"
Oh, so my employer knows that I use TOR and the silk road to buy illegal drugs online? Can they enumerate the long list of single use e-mail addresses I've touched, stretching back into the 90's that have never been associated with any of their systems? Do they know how many barely eighteen anal gangbang videos I've watched, and which porn stars I prefer? Pffft! I'd wager the NSA might know that, but certainly not my current employer. And not my previous employers either.

Come the fuck on. What kind of quackery is this stupid bullshit. Is this some kind of lame attempt at psychological operations to mitigate the simmering public opinion about state-sponsored surveillance?
I felt the same thing when I read the BBC article last night. I think the circumstances alone are suspicious regardless of the source.
You're off by three orders of magnitude.

6 MB * 300 million = 1716 TB
I have used both. I find it easier to iterate using mongodb because you do not even need a schema to begin with.

If I want to move forward I can switch to mongoose or move over to postgres and node-pg.