skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's extremely annoying. Fun thing that I noticed is that it actually shows the first paragraph, but everything below that remains un-rendered.
Great. So we've established that not every terrorist attack is blowback for purely political/nationalist reasons. Often religion and ideology comes into play.
That's the same thing I say about poker. Not nearly as complex as Apples to Apples.
Does Electronic Brainstorming Work? 
Many critics argue that brainstorming is counter-productive, but they've failed to consider possibilities of crowd-sourcing the creative process.
The Default American Workplace is Fundamentally Flawed
Same type of data all over English wikipedia, e.g.:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeve,_Wisconsin

The existence of those pages has no disadvantage and does not detract from the quality of the encyclopedia (if correct) - wikipedia itself points out that it is not a paper encyclopedia and there is no limit to the amount of content.

I do not understand the disadvantage of listing Abitanti and providing its location within Slovenia.
BRB building cover for drone attacks.
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Koding.com is public - social development in the cloud 
This looks pretty well designed. Haven't jumped into the guts yet, but seems well laid out.
Basically, the problem with your argument is that the quality and tone of the comments on even purely technical stories is equally sad these days on HN.
I'm not saying things are good in America right now, but I think our problems are due to my fellow citizens, not some evil cabal of overlords. If we're all gonna steer the plane into the ground, well, I wish we wouldn't, but from everything I see we are doing this to ourselves. We went crazy over terrorism, and we didn't come back.
I disagree, if you make clear how ineffective these surveillance measures are, the natural response for the powers that be is that they need MORE power. "See, if we were able to arrest anyone who spoke about terrorism online or by phone, we could've prevented this attack." "If only we were allowed to jail anyone indefinitely we could've disrupted this sleeper cell."

If anything, this is how this whole power grab got started in the first place. "If we could spy on everyone we could've stopped 9/11."
Think they could probably use a better landing page then showing the activity stream. Here's a two minute video that shows it off a little better.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCHKLvpIXUA
2 things:

1) I think most people suspected this, and it's not amazing.

2) Is this not an abuse of their monopoly position in search? In that, to obtain a better placement or even just retain existing placement, you would have to participate in Google+
The article does also point out that 'specific' games aren't apt to increase your brain function, which I took to imply that the idea that any one type of game is not the key.

In that regard, it would also be similar to the exercise comparison in that any single exercise is likely to have very limited impact, but a rounded exercise routine provides much stronger benefits.
Yep, most people would say Al-Jazeera is not biased on the topics we are speaking about, but everyone has a corporate master somewhere.
This makes sense in areas where Google+ is popular, but in North America Google+ is a empty outside online marketers and tech communities, so how can they possible rely on it as a metric.
That's an Accord coupe, the B pillar is more thick than a 4-door version, wouldn't that mean the sedan would score even worse?
Well, that's what I meant--technically, BSD sockets are themselves supposed to be "a platform for delivering packaged and reusable distributed algorithms".

In a friendly, ideal environment (like the Internet of the 1980s), req/rep is "just" TCP/SCTP unicast, pub/sub is "just" UDP multicast, and so on. Issues like "message routing [and] scaling up" are supposed to be handled on the link layer (i.e. using ARP, BGP, etc.); issues like handling partial failure, on the transport layer (if IP stacks weren't stuck in the 70s, we'd have such a thing as multicast TCP, and "send TCP packet to host set, wait for ACK from all hosts, and retransmit to failed hosts" would simply be its obvious send() system-call semantic.)

We've just screwed the "friendly, ideal environment' pooch by putting not-very-intelligent NATs and firewalls everywhere. So we have to, sadly, reimplement all these nice things on top of the few things we've kept working: TCP and UDP unicast from clients to "business-leased" IPs with open+addressable ports. The necessity of things like this, UPnP, and TURN/STUN/ICE sadden me sometimes, they really do; they're 100% examples of an inner-platform[1] created because software developers have gone on for so long only touching OSI layer 7, and thinking about the rest of the infrastructure as a black box, that now the application layer is the only place you can solve problems, because the infrastructure will no longer transport your packets if they do anything special below it.

So I say, please, look past your abstractions, programmers, and learn what makes the Internet tick! It's worth it to understand what your packets are doing--you might want a property that you can already get by asking something different of a lower layer. Or, even if not, you might just become--as Bret Victor says--very unsatisfied with the state of things. :)

Oh, and start here, if anywhere: http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/singlepage/bgnet.html

---

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect
They probably mean async/evented techniques. For example, provide a function to get a FD that select()s as readable when stuff needs background processing, and a do_background_step() method to call, so it can be hooked into a single threaded event loop.
Maybe they did. But the man who was contacted by UK officials about destroying the data, Alan Rusbridger, didn't say they went to court. He said (in reply to a comment) he doesn't see the need for it:

AlanC said:
If you meekly give into their demands without insisting that they
take you to court then you've as good as admitted that they can do
whatever they like as far as the UK press is concerned. ...

Alan Rusbridger replied:
Play out the scenario for me in which fighting this case in court would
have enabled us to do a better job of reporting the Snowden documents.
I'm not sure I quite see it...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/19/david-m...
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In the past the definition of public interest was much clearer because nationality was such a defining factor in how you would be treated. A friendly German in Britain during the war was still locked up even if they were no threat. Civilians were killed because they lived in a particular country rather than the ideology they supported. Identity is much more globalized and more diverse than in the past, and it is unreasonable to tie people down to a single national interest. The press need to consider what is in the public interest for the whole world.
Getting GTD Done
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A vocal portion of the HN community seem to be SV developers whose biggest problem is "How do I get these recruiters to stop calling me?"

Needless to say, these people are in a much more powerful negotiating position than, say, the 9.5% of Nevada residents who are unemployed [1]. And even the Nevada residents are better off than the 20% of people worldwide living on less than the PPP equivalent of $1.25 per day [2].

I think the posters in this thread should state which of those audiences they're writing for.

[1] http://www.cnbc.com/id/100974182
[2] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17312819
Any centralized service can be ordered to hand over encrypted material or to implement a backdoor, similar to Lavabit case. Bitmessage could be one possible type of solution. That way the only way to compromise the message (assuming it is as safe as bitcoin, not claiming bitmessage is) would be to compromise the sender or the receiver, both is much more secure than any email service. And they could not make any backdoors, because the code is opensource and changes would be visible. If they would make some of the clients with some kind of backdoor, others, without backdoor, could possibly not accept their messages, so the 51% attack would be vulnerability.
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I would extend the author's arguments to include loyalty to an entity whose interests aren't exactly aligned with one's own -- for example, a nation-state.

Not saying that loyalty in itself is bad, but blind loyalty is -- a symptom of which is accepting a leader's words at face value.

Even nice doggies get put to sleep eventually.
Sadly, I think this is part of our problem. "Obama".

Attaching his name to this just makes it so that we all vote for a Republican next year, congratulate ourselves for getting rid of the guy who loved spying on us all, and everything stays exactly the same.

I'm not trying to defend him or say he is blameless here. I'm saying that it's bigger than who is in the President's chair at the moment, and I wish we could think about these things in a more systemic way.
Another inconsistency: check out Greenwald's original write-up [1]

> At the time the "security official" called me, David had

> been detained for 3 hours. The security official told me

> that they had the right to detain him for up to 9 hours

> in order to question him, at which point they could

> either arrest and charge him or ask a court to extend the

> question time. The official [...] said David was not

> allowed to have a lawyer present, nor would they allow

> me to talk to him.

But then, in the report on Greenwald's detention [2]:

> He was offered a lawyer and a cup of water, but he

> refused both because he did not trust the authorities.

Let's be honest: if the official was lying, Greenwald would have pointed it out. So why didn't he? Greenwald just presumes that I'll believe him since he's so much more trustworthy than a sinister figure on the end of a phone. That presumption must end.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/18/david-m...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/19/david-miranda-i...
> It's the stuff like this that lends credence to the 9/11 truther nuts

Really? That's where you're going with this?
Once the article is created, it can appear in Google. Once it's in Google, it's more likely to have visitors and some of them might improve the article.

I have no idea whether this was the rationale or even whether it's a good idea, but there might be more to their strategy than article count.
The chilling effects of the surveillance state.
This makes intuitive sense. One of the best bug-fighting techniques is walking away for a little bit.
Design like you’ll post it to Dribbble
So the Queen's Royal Lancers[1] and the USMC Recon Battalions[2] are baddies as well? How about the dozens of other units that used it?

I'm not saying this action by the British government isn't troubling, but there is no single symbol of being "the baddies".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Royal_Lancers
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Reco...
I still wish they would have standardized on 2.5mm jacks for usb. You can plug it in any direction, and you can pull a cable out of a tangle of wires without snagging due to the round shape. It is a superior connector.
All you have to do to make time is turn off the TV. :-)
I think it's not the value of data should be reduced, it's the cost of access to the data should be increased. If it would be too expensive to watch everyone, they would naturally stop doing that.
Here are videos of model s crash tests:

Frontal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dz2FMfv-CSc

Pole - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Al3IUHt9Wc

Side - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNyjiFmjfxw
It's based on parts of YUI and reworked from there. The plan is to have YUI depend on Pure for styling.
They run their own version of AWS that's sold to the NSA.
The public by and large has forgotten it, hell the public hardly became outraged before they forgot it.

Expecting the public to be instantly outraged by an injustice is like expecting customers to instantly understand your startup. Sure, your product is awesome, your ideas are great, and you know how to execute. But you still have a long uphill slog ahead of you before people will start giving you money. The vast majority of your market will only buy once they see lots of other people buying.

Similarly, the average person will only get upset about the NSA when they see lots of other people getting upset. A successful political movement involves winning over one influencer at a time, as the evidence slowly builds up. The Watergate scandals took a good two years to play out. Successful anti-war movements have sometimes taken half a decade.

Politics has a surprising amount of momentum. If you want to change something, you may need to spend years exerting a relatively tiny force on a huge object. And like a startup, you need to lay lots of groundwork so that you can take advantage of lucky opportunities.
My hope would be that at least corporations are not lemmings.

For a non-US company that does anything remotely sensitive or competitive on an international level, it's simply insane to use, say, Google's cloud services.

I don't know to what extent Google depends on foreign corporate clients -- but I'd be surprised if this wasn't something they were very seriously concerned about.

(And the recent revelations about the NSA are really just the icing on the cake. If there is high demand for some confidential data, it's likely that there will be supply.)
You are joking right?
They closed the service because of the NSA
A company pays for work done in BTC. They want to put that into their books as an expense to reduce their tax burden. The other party that did the work is now on record and can be taxed also.
Why I do have to get in contact with them to start a project? Centralized monitoring often leads to self-promotion. It happens in India a lot. Pass. Until they are really open.
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There is a US equivalent for this, right? I've read stories of a small subset of American teachers earning more selling their teaching materials than they do from the classrooms themselves. Seems like a good way to leverage "rock stars".
Evolution of HTML5: Past, Present & Future
Your final statement here is not true. The way in which you keep anonymity with an onion system is as follows:
1. Use a central originating server for onion packet sourcing
2. Make it public who all users are
3. Have onion packet creation contain "token of receipt" for all messages along the chain.
4. Rate limit message origination from users
5. Ban users who refuse to forward encrypted packets at a steady rate
6. Only allow small message sizes ( 10k )
7. Have all online users constantly originate "bogus" packets to random users
8...

I am currently writing such a system. Some details up at circleofdistrust.com in about a month or so.
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Technically, that puts it well into the 'low-voltage' classification; generally, 1000 V is the threshold for 'high-voltage'.
I've seen this kind of thing before. Someone falls in love with their optimization ("we can parse GET with a single int switch!") and when it is pointed out that it doesn't handle the spec correctly, and that handling the spec correctly would make this as slow as the naive way, it still ends up in the code because "it's good enough."
If 75% of the polled public believes that linking minimum wage to the cost of living is a good and correct thing, and legislation continues to be passed attempting to lower or inhibit raising minimum wage, who would you suggest controls the legislation? It's certainly not the 75%.
We had the same thing happen to us yesterday (our launch day) by Facebook.

We launched our application, announced it to the world, got a flood of users that was apparently "abnormal" and were flagged by their ban bot.

Our app was summarily deleted (without warning or notification). All links to the application were flagged as "abusive". And all data published by users of our application was deleted.

The only reason we discovered this was because we were alerted by our users that the application had disappeared from their bookmarks and that they were unable to access it.

Of course, when we brought this to Facebook's attention they restored the application within a couple of hours. Unfortunately, significant damage had already been done: everything published by our users was (apparently) permanently deleted, our open graph stories and actions were completely deleted, and our subscriptions to the payments apis were deleted.

The particularly insidious one is the deletion of the payments subscription. For the last 12 hours, anyone who has tried to make an in-app purchase has been charged by Facebook but not had their purchase relayed to us for fulfillment.
Have you tried it on an iphone? Doesn't work very well unfortunately
I went to a conference on Multiple Sclerosis with a friend who has the disease, and one of the much-hyped research topics (this was a few years ago) was how more and more papers are finding a link between low levels of Vitamin D and severity of the disease. Essentially, vitamin D may lesson symptoms or even make you less susceptible to the disease.

This is a pretty good article about natural vs supplemental Vitamin D intake: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/vitamin-d-sun-exposure-supple...
It's in the ball-park though. Your assessment seems pretty fair. I've seen some call the Tesla's weight "insane" though.

My old (still current gen) Volvo S80 T6 weighed 4,400lbs IIRC. I assume that's "dry" weight. Since a Model S is always "dry" aside from a gallon of wiper fluid or the like they probably weigh just about the same on the road. And the Model S is a bigger, faster car.

My Jeep Grand Cherokee (with the panoramic sunroof option I didn't actually have) weighed 5,500lbs. Again, I assume like motorcycle manufacturers that car manufacturers are listing the "dry" weight. So that baby is probably over 3 tons wet when optioned up.

The Cadillac seems on the light side for it's class. Even so, "wet" the difference in weight is probably one passenger. Despite it being a smaller car (5" actually seems pretty significant IMO, that's 5" less wiggle room to stay in your lane!).

That's (I assume) the worst-case-scenario highest capacity Tesla. Performance is far in excess of most cars on the road already. Capacity with smaller battery packs will surely improve. It seems like weight can only go down from here, and it's not out of line with it's competition as is.
I saw a while ago that zmq could handle disconnections better: http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/6/26/disconnects-are-good-for-y...

Does Nanomsg has the same problem?
Firefighter here...

The major thing that concerns me about the Model S is the placement of the DC-DC converter in the front right wheel well. There's a common maneuver called a 'dash lift' where you make a couple relief cuts and then lift the dash using a hydraulic ram. Properly place, those cuts are dangerously close to that high voltage system.

Explanation of relief cut placement: http://advancedextrication.com/2011/12/closer-dash-lift-part...

EDIT: The video abalone posted has a great walk-through on rolling the dash of a Model S. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ntK...

Another issue is the seat belt pretensioner, which would complicated a 'side blitz' door removal (where both doors are removed as a unit), but that's a pretty standard place for the pretensioner, so it's something we're used to working around.
It works. Freenet has Freemail[0].
I'd like to bring attention to I2PBote[1] too.

Both of these solutions are distributed, encrypted entirely (even metadata) and solve email's privacy problems.

[0] http://freenetproject.org/freemail.html

[1] http://i2pbote.i2p.us/
raw tactical coding abilities is one axis of many that a business might value. More important than that, to our business, is that several of our engineers have extensive pharma domain knowledge, two of them we recruited away from our customers. It seems to me that most businesses are like this; a monad stack outside the context of a business is just generating heat.
It makes me wonder - is the NSA "winning"? It seems so.
To me, the biggest failing of micro-USB isn't the up/down thing, but its inability to back-power the same port that is being used as a host. That is, if I have a device with one port, I can't plug that device into a hub where it hosts devices and gets recharged at the same time. This is becoming an obvious flaw in the day of tablets-as-laptops - you can't make a "docking station" using a single USB port. Meanwhile, the iPod has been sporting docking stations that provide both audio/video out and charging since before the smartphone war.
> However, companies wanting to use it for commercial transactions would need permission from the Federal Financial Supervision Authority.

That's not a good thing for bitcoin, though, or for the free market in general. One of the main ideas behind bitcoin is its ease of use compared to exisiting methods. The more regulations and limitations imposed on it, the more it becomes like everything else, in terms of ease of use.
"Corporations" are not a single entity. Some are more aligned with the development of society, some hinder it. It is harmful to lump all corporations in one group.
Walking away is easy provided you already have a job. This is why it is a bad idea to wait until you don't have a job before looking for the next one. If you ever do have that problem, take what you can get and then start looking for something better straight away.
This is kind of silly. Just move the site offshore, and if you really have to get rid of email, have an SSL message form. Although I think there are good solutions for PGP and whatnot with email that encrypts it client side anyway.

I think this person is just technically illiterate and doesn't understand. Pretty strange. I have a wife from China who hates tech, but she knows very well how to use an encrypted VPN to protect her communications and says it is common knowledge there.

This person seems to be lacking even US level common knowledge about protecting your information.
> (it's no secret they're generally written by professionals called "speechwriters")

In the same vein as "This message was paid for/approved by _______", I would love it if every political speech had to end with a credit to the speechwriter.
IMHO, no. Its easier for Google to use +1s as an indicator to measure social reach since it is their own data. Contrast this to:
[1] Facebook and LinkedIn: most shares/likes are private by default
[2] Twitter: Google would have crawl Twitter's entire corpus and tweet stream. It could do it, but Twitter's increasingly restricting access to this data.

So it makes sense from a technical perspective that Google can use only the limited information available to it in terms of social strength of an article.
"While the exact number is uncertain due to Model S breaking the testing machine, what this means is that at least four additional fully loaded Model S vehicles could be placed on top of an owner's car without the roof caving in."

jeez.

couple that with this and it's safe to say these have been a good couple of months for tesla http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2013/05/video-the-te...
It would never work. No whistleblower was ever thanked or benefitted from their actions.

The only way to survive as a whistleblower is to be anonymous, cover your tracks, leave the organisation, leak credible information with evidence to the right people who will do the right thing with it. Protect your identity at all times.