skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read some research about provably secure steganography , which claim that if you know the statistics of the communication channel, you can build secure steno, at least to the level one way functions.

So it is interesting if in reality there is a stego detection tool.

www​.cs.umn.edu/~hopper/tc-stego.pdf

Btw one of the authors is Luis von ahn, the founder of duelingo, the language teaching/translation app.
"According to an AP report, the contract, which was awarded in 2006 and is set to expire in 2013, is currently 42 months late and over $60 million above its original contract amount of $106.9 million."
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The Mythical Man-Month
What a naive, ignorant comment.

> I don't know why anyone would want to use an Ubuntu smartphone, excluding the obvious free software implications.

So... you do know why.

> It's guaranteed to be worse than virtually everything else on the market.

This is a personal guess you made.

> And why would Canonical even want to get into this business. You're competing against Apple, Google, Microsoft and Blackberry. They cannot win.

This is what I don't get from the HN community: you want to have your cake and eat it too. How many comments and posts over the last few weeks have been all about the NSA snooping on your data with these big corps handing everything over? Yet for some reason, you ONLY want Apple/Google/MS/BB to run the phone market!

They cannot win if the world was full of people who thought and acted like you, but I'd put my money that it isn't and that organizations like Canonical can (and should) compete against big tech companies.
Just imagine Walmarts chief accountant would request 17 billion to modernize the payroll system. The org is of comparable size.
Wow, do you have pictures or videos?
how do you think, can WE improve their situation, politically, technically and technologically?

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Such sad irony, that a tower build for Banks, that theoretically exist to serve people, now actually and really serves people, directly. Sad, because those banks and the politicians running that government were the cause for their pain.

Unfortunately I hear about a lot of corruption and that it's normality in Brazil from a friend who moved from Norway to Brazil. And I with my idealogical green glasses would not live for long, if I were to protest against the Government for hot-pots like the Rainforest, according to him and other Brazillians.
Texas also does as of a few years ago. In general services aren't taxed in Texas, but 17 classes of services are defined as taxable [1], ranging from movie-theater tickets to mobile-phone service to pest-control. One of those is data-processing services:

Examples of data processing include check preparation; accounts payable or receivable preparation; web hosting, web site creation and maintenance; data storage, including offsite backup of electronic files; conversion of data from one type of medium to another (i.e. converting paper documents or videotapes to digital files); and the performance of a totalisator service with the use of computational equipment required by the Texas Racing Act. Data processing services providers include sellers of software as a service and application service providers.

[1] http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/taxpubs/tx96_259.pdf
A literate-programming version of Rich Hickey's ants simulation, in Clojure
Not really new. See also: https://github.com/google
That would have suggested dominance of bureaucracy in Google. Guidelines suggesting projects to be put on Google Code, etc. This seems more decentralized.
Wouldn't want to impinge on your free speeches. Dissident dialogue might be unfairly silenced, such as this comment: https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/363160225873805312
I will proudly serve part of Bradley Manning's Sentence
My vote goes to SomaFM's Space Station, though the vibe of that station is a bit variable
Resting their case without witnesses is a fairly standard strategy in court - it's a way of emphasizing that the case has so little merit that there is nothing to argue against.
Ask HN: Who do people use for e-commerce delivery? Recommendations/Experiences?
I think the truth lies in between. The conspiracy theories are not completely off regarding that about half of the authors of the ADD/ADHD sections of the DSM-IV were paid by pharma companies [1].

That does not change the fact that ADHD is a dysfunction of the brain where the regulation of Dopamin and/or Serotonin does not meet the requirements of the environment.

I think it rather tells us something about the diagnosis which isn't handled very carefully in many cases, especially for children. A proper long term validation of symptoms and evaluation of treatment methods should be a starting point, not a standardized set of questions and a recipe at the end of the session. Behavioral therapy can sometimes be as effective as drug use but it is not even considered most of the time.

Without extended knowledge of the topic the public almost has to think that ADHD is a fraud. It's nothing one can see as a broken leg and the media only reports about Fraud and instant subscriptions to children that might not even have ADHD. Sometimes even MD's claim it's not a real disease because of these reasons. It's not their field and what they hear about it only makes them suspicious. There is so much misinformation about the topic it's just sad.

[1] http://www.naturalnews.com/019404_psychiatry_psychiatric_dru... ( sorry couldn't find a better english source )
Years ago I built a site with iipimage, http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/demo/. I'm wondering if there are other tools around somebody here uses?
(also how do you put a question in Ask HN?)
This seems to be the blog post about it: http://www.marshut.com/sspkm/nightcode-an-ide-for-clojure-an...

It's nice to see people getting passionate about this sort of thing, but it's incredibly alpha, and atm it doesn't seem to have any features worth writing home about. At least, not from what I could tell after playing around with it for a little bit.
http://gauth.apps.gbraad.nl/

The layout is definitely mobile, but it works fine in a desktop browser.
Backups! That's the upside of this whole NSA domestic spying brouhaha. How many times have you wanted to replay a phone conversation, or recover an email from a past account, or throw your boss's memo back in his face when he tries to "scope creep" your project?

That's right. Probably every one of us wishes for this capability. And then there's the federal budget deficit, no? I propose to kill two birds with one stone here. NSA can offer to "remember it for you wholesale" as Philip K. Dick put it! Maybe $0.10 per byte (or $0.25/minute for audio) to search and provide on CD virtually anything you have said or done since 1992.

It's actually rather comforting to think that, although they're not very good at their primary mission of stopping terrorism, they have this great ancillary benefit that we can all take advantage of!
Now this would make for a very long find waldo game.
If your WiFi get's hacked because it had too low security standards, like WEP, then you're still responsible for what's being done with your line. But you're irresponsible if you have taken care of security by following the router's wizard. There is no such case, that the manufacturer was blamed to offer too low security until now though (afaik).
> I think that from nothing to being one of (if not the most) popular Linux distros on desktops can probably be considered headway.

The last Ubuntu release I really liked was Hoary Hedgehog, but I can agree to disagree.

With a $300 android phone, I'd probably still have enough left over to buy a 4GB/128GB netbook. A $300 phone, a $300 netbook, and a $100 ssd only comes to $700.

Ubuntu Edge is just at a weird price point these days.
Web Tracing Framework a.k.a. WTF.
Looks cool btw.
The question is, bridge to what?
Ask HN: Websites similar to HN but regarding EE
Hi,

I'm an EE student and although I love reading HN I would like to know if anyone knows any websites similar to HN but focussed on EE. I only know about hackaday(focus hobbyist's) and I receive the IEEE magazine, but have failed to find others like HN.

Thanks in advance.
This would not work too well with a device with better than typical screen size/pocket space ratio (thin bezel), like the Defy, but i really like how they did not stop at their solution to the main task (holding a phone) and also thought of less glamorous problems like being able to elegantly keep the strap on the bike when the device is not attached.

PS: if they are making "Made in Austria" such a prominent part of their branding, it might not be optimal to have a product video that's so markedly Berlin. OTOH, that underpass is such an amazing cross between generic and iconic, i can hardly blame them for using that location (like so many others)
I don;t know if there's a cultural difference, but people in the UK are generally okay with preventing people making threats to rape, kill, or bomb women.

All of those are currently illegal.

I'm not sure what Twitter should do - include an abuse button that sends reports to a Twitter team who then report people to the relevant police? Or who then collect evidence in case the police contact Twitter (with suitable legal documentation)?

People do go to jail in the UK for making stupid comments on the Internet.

Here's an English 'troll' who made threats against US schools: (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-22813326)

Being able to report illegal content seems like a reasonable request. Being able to report content that breaks the ToS / AUP seems like a reasonable request. Protecting the free speech rights of people who are saying unpopular (but not illegal nor ToS violating) things shouldn't be a barrier to protecting people from harm.

I guess they might want to have some kind of transparency report to show how much stuff gets taken down, how often, and what kind of thing it is.
I honestly think, and I think you should think so, too, that the point made in this article is a terrible point because...well...it just it. iOS 7 added a frosted effect, and Windows Vista had a frosted effect...so because Windows Vista was somehow a signal of a product in decline, iOS 7 must be, too? That's the case in point? Eh, it's really far-fetched and kind of a silly association to make.
Author here :-) I'm not mad about anything in iOS 7 (yes, betas have bugs, and that's totally fine). I can live with gimmicky visual effects and useless features (Android has plenty of those). Obviously I don't literally care about frosted glass, it was just a metaphor.

The problem is not what turns me off in a platform but what turns me on. I just think that on balance iOS until recently had a stronger combination of user experience and innovative features. But that has changed, and iOS 7 doesn't show that Apple has the fundamental capabilities (particularly in online services) to keep the platform interesting going forward.

Overall, Android is right now simply the more _useful_ platform. There's almost nothing that iOS does better than Android, but plenty of areas where Android is stronger.

I'm also not trying to convince anybody. I was just stating why I switched. And I will keep my iOS devices, not least because my extended family is locked into iOS and expects me to call them on Facetime...
There are various methods and various languages. Scheme uses continuations, javascript can use futures/promises, sometimes you just see a 'yield' operator. Many of these ideas are close to Tony Hoare's 'Communicating Sequential Processes' paper/book [1], so if you want the low down, read the paper.

[1] http://usingcsp.com/cspbook.pdf
You start the title Ask HN:
there are quite a few editors to code in clojure and I don't see how you can differentiate from the others, but good luck, it looks promising. I personally use macvim/vim.
http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2013/07/12/top-ten-app-pa...
I had a similar thing going 8 months ago.

http://gokcehan.github.io/glog/

The upside is that you are able to push your generated site to appengine with a single command afterwards. Too bad even I have switched to jekyll nowadays.
Usually the justifications these companies give for such mandates is how it would look to outsiders if they are not using their own tools.

On the other hand I remember reading about how Google has a corporate mandate that their employees cannot use Microsoft Windows without providing a business justification.
I'm really interested as to why you two consider a fictional space ship a good "underbelly feeling" measure of size. I like Star Trek, but I have absolutely no feeling for the size of the Enterprise. I'd believe it if you said it was 3km long, but also if you said that it was 400m long.

Not meant as a harsh criticism though, I like the math and the geekiness :)
And it still smells pretty awful for my immediate environment in the short term.
Another vote for "No."

I'd expect Viddio.com to be a $100-250 domain, not thousands.

PromoStudio also looks/sounds more professional to me, is easier to say to people via word-of-mouth without having to spell it and hope they remember the spelling, etc.
I am unlikely to witch my Java IDE away from Netbeans and unfortunately Netbeans does not have any support for Clojure. (Enclojure is dead).I wish someone would would develop a Clojure plugin for NB. That would solve a real problem for those gently switching to Clojure.
This is a collection of media buzz words strung together to create an article, it's about as insightful as claiming that network analysers can spy on network data.

I wonder why he only used one pi per channel though, I think they have the horsepower to sniff perhaps three.
Unless the NSA also has speech to text that is decades ahead of everyone else, AND works perfectly well in ~50 languages of interest - because of transcription quality.
Crashes firefox err'time.
In Amsterdam this would say "I'm a tourist, please steal my phone". The latter probably applies to must urban surroundings, which is what they are explicitly promoting.

It doesn't add anything to safety either, because you still have to look down at your phone to use it.

I'm sure it might be useful for rides in the country, especially on terrain where you need both hands on the steering, but then you have to contest with bright sunlight or rain and snow.

Seems like this device has a relatively small margin of usefulness.
This is amazing..
The greatest thing you have done ( I havent checked out the whole IDE yet ) is to reduce the whole step of setting things up down to 1 click.. The biggest gripe I had with Clojure / Cljs was the setup process.. I am not familiar with the java world and I hate setting things up before getting my hands dirty. This sir, does everything for me.

Just wow! and thank you.
Would you by chance have a link or something about how it is more moniterable? I've been using stock mysql for a while and keep reading about percona vs maria. As I'm also looking for "monitor everything" type stuff this interests me!
> This is the death of twitter

Quite possibly the opposite:

If this leads to a requirement for microblogging tools to manage their content, Twitter has the most resources to throw at the problem. This allows them to protect their position as the largest incumbent.
Free speech in the UK is under massive threat. But no one really cares. Much like the US reaction to the NSA thing. People think it wont have and effect on them, so they just ignore it. People who do care about free speech, and privacy, are subtly marginalized as radicals, which is presented as being a step or two away from being a terrorist or pervert.
Death Of Michael Hastings Connected To Atlanta Security Firm Called Endgame?
Yeah. In the UK we call it a "pub".
Here's a question I've been pondering: Did the NSA want PRISM to leak?

Having everyone in the world know that someone is watching will have significant sociological effects. It is akin to the idea that "God is watching".

Thousands of years ago the fear of God and promise of reward was the carrot and stick that resulted in people working together for the greater good rather than pursuing self interest. It was the invisible hand. Those that united and cooperated survived and evolved, and those that refused to unite died off.

Jonathan Haidt has been talking (http://www.ted.com/speakers/jonathan_haidt.html) and writing (http://www.amazon.com/Jonathan-Haidt/e/B001H6GAXW) about how this was key to and accelerated civilization's evolution -- "it put everyone in the same boat."

This same phenomenon happens at the cellular level -- bacteria group to form mitochondria, and mitochondria to form cells, and so on, each time forming a superorganism (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organization).

E pluribus unum (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_pluribus_unum) -- "out of many, one."

Ants, wasps, and bees are the canonical example of this, and the beehive is often used to symbolize this concept (https://www.google.com/search?q=beehive+symbolism&newwindow=...). The PRISM name even reflects the symbology -- a honeycomb is made up of prisms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeycomb, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagonal_prismatic_honeycomb).

For the last few hundred years, market forces have been the invible hand (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_hand), and the corporation emerged as the superorganism. But overtime entropy increases and order erodes. Maybe PRISM is an attempt to reestablish order.

The NSA may see other benefits from PRISM leaking. For example, mining the world's communication data may or may not be practical today, but observing a system changes a system.

How will people's behavior change now that they know they're being watched? It would be easier to detect deltas than to mine the entire system. Turn on the lights. Roaches scatter. Targets reveal.
1: Wearable computing. We already have laser projectors, laser keyboards, HUDs and optical gesture recognition. 2014 will bring physical gesture recognition (Myo). Unfortunately most phones don't support HDMI or USB out and don't have the battery capacity to support this kind of usage. That leaves you using clunky, low-powered hobbyist hardware.

2: Direct development. When your phone is your computer there is no hassle with remote debugging or simulators.

3: Familiar native environment. All the software I already run on my ubuntu laptop can be run on my phone. I don't have to learn new tools, make multiple versions of my software or manage communication between my phone and laptop.

All of these things are sort-of possible already but it's awkward and difficult and you have to make lots of compromises. Having an easily programmable, always-on device in your pocket with the full power of a laptop and access to new emerging interaction hardware - that's going to be something new.
Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra - Mathmatics of Geometric Folding Algorithums
@procrastron Mind & Body are equally important.
DO SPORT Regulary! 3-4 Times a Week at the same days every week. Your discipline will come over you and attack your laziness.

I say that out of personal experience, so if you use only your mind to do your work, it will shut-off pretty fast to go into standby, because you trained that mind-muscle to be efficient (3h/day@work). After doing your sports, your mind will have to adapt and that will decrease your concentration in the first week, but raise it dramatically in the coming weeks.

Hey it could be your workload too (idk you), in that case, ask for more ;) hahaha :)

Hook up with a stranger, a friend, or go alone and try to find pals you can do your sport regularly with as a motivation.

Just NOW you procrastinate AGAIN ;) Why don't you ask your family, Gf, or go to a Psychologist or Ergo-Theraphy or something, instead of asking the Internet. You know it's not very likely that we can help you, only you can help yourself.

I'm not perfect myself and focus on everything, but the thing I need to do. My habit is to solve things generally and that leads me from A-Z and back to A, then after having everything done, I start with the job I actually have to do.. sucks
Interesting that lower down the comment is referred to as a joke. However, things said that are clearly jokes, can result in arrest and prosecution, then jail.

Weird.
I love this thing I've been watching the peeps at verite develop it for the past couple of years and I'd love to combine it with some of the stuff we do at Podiium http://www.podiium.com/debate/youtube-vs-vimeo/ to have super interesting debates cnivolle shout me
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> https://twitter.com/femfreq/status/363160225873805312

That's awful and obviously shouldn't be allowed. On the other hand, given how serious rape threats are, you would presumably agree that anyone who used those rape threats to pressure for censorship of political viewpoints they disagreed with was trivialising rape and should be called out for doing so?
Not to mention Microsoft Ventures http://microsoftventures.com/
> Protecting the free speech rights of people who are saying unpopular (but not illegal nor ToS violating) things shouldn't be a barrier to protecting people from harm.

I don't agree with this. Mainly because "protecting people from harm" is not well defined. There are people who seem scared of their own shadow and see nearly everything as potential harm.

EDIT: Not to diminish/trivialize the seriousness of this particular situation, but I still cannot agree with the sentence I quoted as being generally acceptable. As in, I don't want to see a law with that exact sentence in it.
I am not convinced that crowdfunding suits high cost items.

If there were Edge phones on the market in six months time, when my phone runs out of contract, I'd be interested.

But I do not have $700 completely spare to buy a phone that I will not get my hands on until then.
What is the truth?
I don't think Xamarin is in the position to buy Microsoft :D
Nightly - 25.0a1
Firefox - 22
Chrome - 28.0.1500.95

way way way faster on chrome than on either nightly/firefox
Don't despair, something great could come out of this article. A representative could read it, freak out and propose a bill that would ban raspberry-pi and regulate the hell out of the booming open hardware industry.
The linked movie was released 1st of August 2013, so if nothing else it's a recent view into what's going on.
It looks to me like they want customer service on a free service.
Come to the Barnett Shale, and see how it isn't good, either. You can't drink it, and we're losing our aquifers to contamination from drilling, fracking, and the waste water injection wells.
DON'T you! Forget about me!

http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/?v=-.4,2...

DON'T DON'T DON'T DON'T!
Maybe. It's difficult to tell how much this holder will stretch.
Gnomoria seems to be coming along:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E75mL6R42i0
We have enough uranium to satisfy our power needs for a few hundred thousand years. It's just that nuclear plants are expensive to build (and run) and electric cars aren't common yet.
Hahaha.... I was half asleep when I wrote that. That's pretty amazing. Thank you for the laugh. :)
This seems kind of facile.

Women are being threatened with violence, rape and death. Even if these are not threats people intend to carry out, to those receiving them they are deeply distressing. The threats are meant to intimidate and silence. Why should anyone put up with that?
Hacking applied to Speedrunning, Half Life:Opposing Force
It works flawlessly on iOS 7 on iPhone 5 as does the original.