skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay so you're not in a dictatorship, and the NSA isn't "out to get" you.

If you're a US citizen, then the NSA is trying, at least, to prevent you from being harmed by foreign threats by gathering data on those threats and alerting other US government agencies. That's what they do. As long as the US exists, someone will have to do this.

If you're not a US citizen, then the NSA will take a look at you. Period. That's what they do, and your government will be taking a look at me in exactly the same way, for exactly the same reasons. Neither of our respective intel groups are assuming either of us are enemies, but that doesn't mean these intelligence groups aren't going to look at us. Being investigated does not mean you're an enemy. You're not a "them" just because someone looks at you, I don't know why people think this is how it is.

So no, if you're not a US citizen, the NSA is no more on your side than the British NHS will pay for my appendix removal.
He certainly can't be accused of not engaging in customer development.
Travelled on Eurostar a few weeks ago (London-Paris) and there were security queues at St Pancras plus an immigration gate. Almost missed the train.

Security queues with full luggage are a bit unwieldy when you also have a 1yo in a pram!
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The samples work fine is Firefox 22 too (30 to 60 FPS 1.8 GHz Core i5), without the pause you're describing.
> Since then, JS has gotten about a billion times faster across pretty much all browsers.

JS has gotten slightly faster, but not much. JS isn't really a bottleneck anyway.

Six years has also increased the pixel count by 10x (150k pixels in the iPhone 1 vs. 2 million in the SGS4). The hardware has barely gotten faster relative to pixel count, and in some respects (such as memory bandwidth) has gotten slower.

The web is no more viable on mobile today than it was 6 years ago. Web doesn't do efficient - never has, probably never will.
As an Australian living in the US I've come to rely on facebook far more than I ever did when I was living back home. It really is the main way I keep in touch with my friends and family back home. I have a small circle of friends who I chat with on IRC every couple of days, but the time difference generally results in this being a "ships passing in the night" type catch up. My nuclear family I have probably monthly google video chats with. I swap emails with my Dad once a week or so.

I check facebook daily and really feel like it has made it possible to still be part of my friends' lives.

I have run into a bit of a niche use case issue recently though. My hobby is skydiving and facebook has become the way that I get access to photos and videos taken by my new "skydiving friends". So it is quite a regular scene that after jumping with a group of people for a day we'll all trade facebook details, add each other as friends and tag everyone in photos and videos.

This is excellent.... except that these new found friends have access to all my facebook history unless I work out some way to manage the privacy features.

I looked into this today and the "acquaintances" idea kind of fits... except this lowers the weight of these people's updates making it into my news feed, which isn't what I want. I'm really keen to see skydiving related posts from this group of people. I want to know the next time they're planning on a trip to the dropzone. I want to see their other skydiving photos.

So I make a skydivers group and I can limit my old posts to not show up for these people. When I make new posts I can include them if it is skydiving related. But I'm relying on them doing the same. I can't see anyway that facebook makes it easy for me to filter their content. It seems all or nothing. Either I get all their updates or none.
Would seem that at least particles, sprites, 2D layers, collisions, and dynamic textures are not in three.js. There's also mesh hierarchies, animations, and mirrors in Babylon.js, which I'm not sure if three.js supports those as first-class concepts or not.

Syntax seems pretty similar, which is not terribly surprising.
Do they support an Android app store? Do they need to be sideloaded?
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The thing with this type of scenarios is that they assume a fundamental instability - the existence of a hidden self-reinforcing feedback loop, or "positive" feedback (as opposed to "negative", or self-reducing) in the environment. Once you release an agent capable of exploiting that pathway, there's no stopping it.

But in the billions of years past, if such a feedback loop existed, it would have been exploited already. Perhaps the Great Oxygenation Event was one such loop being exploited.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

Would the release of the first hydrogen bomb trigger a mass fusion through the entire atmosphere and hydrosphere? You could calculate the physics, as you should, but you could also notice that this requires a positive feedback loop, so it's extremely unlikely.

The examples could continue.
And how do you discover a simple basic shortcut like that?
Great points! A lot of this advice matches with Scott Berkun's "Confessions of a Public Speaker". Excellent actionable advice on public speaking.
http://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Public-Speaker-English/dp/...
Great choice of Hacker News app in the second picture :)
Do I really need to show you the NSA's charter?

http://w2.eff.org/Privacy/Key_escrow/Clipper/nsa.charter

I'm not interested in getting into an emotional mud-slinging contest with you.
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There is always the mini-assembler assuming you have the enhanced ROM //e.

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Is Blackberry synonymous with RIM (Research In Motion)?
I'll reiterate a question appearing in the comments to the article. Is anyone familiar with how Casetext will handle shepardizing case law ?
Don't view it as you might be missing out. Lots of very successful companies started as college projects.

College might be good also in the respect that you might have at your disposal lots of test equipment, a test audience.

You can still add to your GitHUB from college too. :-)
Android's event notifications are far worse - there are times when an alarm goes off, I touch the screen, my "unlock" screen shows, and then I'm taken to my home screen. I'm left wondering, "Wait - what just caused the alarm to go off?" There's no notice outside of the alarm. When I look at the notifications page (swipe down from top), there is nothing. The only way I can find what my appointment/event was is to navigate to my calendar. That's way worse!
The demo you're seeing is running a version of Firefox OS based on Firefox 18, which is quite old now. Soon, version 1.1 will be released which will include some optimizations to the front end and help improve performance. By the end of the year, though, you can expect an OTA update to be released ("B2G 1.2") which is based on Firefox 26 (the current equivalent of Firefox Nightly). The performance improvements you'll see will be very noticeable.
By playing enough games with the job title and the "daily tasks" list, any conclusion could be engineered. I think it interesting this was the desired conclusion, leading to ... what? I'm curious if there's an interesting new startup, or app, or whatever, oriented around this particular report.
Yes, I was joking. And it was mildly amusing to see a rant in response. And speaking of towing the party line, I wonder how many things made it to the front page of hn only to be killed… I've already shared my opinions on this subject in regards to questioning[0], so feel free to look if you want more.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6135337
> it is only performant in a specific version of Internet Explorer

Where does it say this? Demos work fine in Chrome for me, at least.
It might very well be, I'm not an expert, I know for sure that they became a thing around the time that Google introduced G+ and its circles.
I think the fears about black market Bitcoin/etc. use are unfounded. Criminals need to pay rent and buy food like anyone else; they even pay taxes. The black market adoption of Bitcoin should more or less track the legal adoption of Bitcoin.

People get hung up on The Silk Road. That is not even a blip on the radar of recreational drug trafficking or any other black market activity.
I agree with your assessment that each person has a different threshold for calling someone a "friend". But, FB lets you reject a request without providing a reason. I can see in your hypothetical situation that one classmate rejecting the other's request could be awkward if they meetup, in a physical sense, periodically. Otherwise, I think one should just reject and move on.

Personally, I try not to use FB as I do LinkedIn. It's strictly for my personal, not professional, network. With only enough exceptions to count on one hand, I don't accept anyone with whom I haven't spent a significant amount of time.
Did you just ask "What is control, other than the ability to control others"? Do you honestly not recognize the shell-game you're playing with that question?

You're responding to all of the things I said with tricks and games. You don't want to talk facts, so I don't want to talk with you. I'm done, unless you want to stop drawing conclusions and start painting a real picture.
Exactly, from the previous comment people might have thought that I heard about the whole NSA scandal and was OK with it, I'm not. I'm just saying that in my opinion the whole paranoia is downright unwarranted. I'd settle for quite worrisome.
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> 2. Android in particular is really nasty at the low end. The quality of experience you would get from a tightly optimised and simplified Firefox OS would be immeasurably better.

Firefox OS is worse here, not better. Gingerbread runs far better on low end hardware than Firefox OS does. The later Android stuff is more demanding (particularly in RAM), but the performance target (60fps everywhere, low latency) is also much, much higher than what Firefox OS is capable of achieving.

Firefox OS is less efficient than iOS, Android, or WP. By a lot.
Hi!

We are also trying the same concept for products. It is called Kritk. We had a soft launch to family and friends at http://alpha.kritk.com

So far getting comments/reviews from people have been a challenge.
It's probably going to be more than a year before Rust is ready for productive software at the current rate and given the breadth of what's missing. There is a lot of passionate activity so it will probably make it, hopefully maybe more in 3-5 years time.
Think of all the fun you can have too. You could potentially fake a person's electronic signature and then visit strange places.
Yea, I get that there's a whole "Microsoft vs. Linux" thing about iOS vs. Android (I'm dating myself at this point). The difference, for me, is that I don't want to 'learn' my phone. I want to play, surf, chat, and talk - that's it. I'm perhaps different than most here on this site specifically in that regard. I enjoy learning the OS of a computer, but I could care less about spending brain cells learning 500 shortcuts for things that "you need to know" because the OS was so clunky.
I wish people would stop suggesting that everyone blog. It just creates so much bulk. Only really creative and thoughtful people (like me) should blog. All of YOU blogging clutters things and makes it harder for people to find MY work.
yes, the facebook android app requires about 20 other permissions
True, it's not the language's default, just the default your environment should have (and the default of any sane IDE).

Which is less work than adding coffeescript to your toolchain.
Many SIM cards come with the adapter, and many cell phone companies will give an adapter for free if you visit their booth in a mall or a retail location. It's really just like a Micro SD to SD adapter; Nano SIM is smaller but with the same connectors.
I actually got a peek at Facebook's behavior maybe 5 years ago when I signed up to beta-test a video game. They had used the Facebook login API for their beta forums without marking it on their site, so signing up for the game signed me up for Facebook.

Suddenly all the Facebook ads everywhere knew my name. Three weeks and about 40 emails to "update my Facebook profile" that I reported to Gmail as phishing later, I received the dubious honor of being banned from Facebook without ever using it.

I threw all their domains into loopback in my hostfile at home and haven't seen their site or ads on that machine since, but if I log into LinkedIn in my work browser it starts all over again, so I've figured for a while there's probably also an account for everyone who has LinkedIn.
I don't have the Apple //e in front of me, but I remember this not being present on our version of ProDOS.
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Tor isn't secure, nor is it really anonymous for these purposes.
If the dust is that invasive into nominally sealed lenses, I really wouldn't want to be breathing the stuff.
I meant a source on Netscape patenting an html tag, not on the fact that it's optional.
Thanks for asking! At the moment, we automatically link all citing cases and then allow users to categorize them (by negative, distinguishing, and positive treatment) and to write a bit of context explaining how the case is relevant. In the future, we'd also like to automate some of the categorization.
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By "alarm" do you mean calendar notification or alarm clock alarm? Because alarm clocks don't require unlocking to see what they are, it sounds like you may be dismissing them before looking at them.

Calendar notifications are in the notification tray until you dismiss them

I don't know what other "event" notifications you are talking about. Also note that a lot of this is up to whatever app you are using and not Android itself.
"At that time there were no useful"

A good post, and some other analogies I can think of are/were the concept of specialized "word processor" computers, specialized CAD stations, specialized gaming hardware... Pretty much if there was marketing material with words like "accelerator" "turbo" "extreme" it probably fits right in.
Cool :-) BTW, I started working a while back on a Lisp to run on a Teensy 3:

http://www.pjrc.com/store/teensy3.html

Never finished it, but if you like these kinds of challenges maybe you'd like to collaborate on it.
Better execution model.

The main loss is a much drearier ecosystem.
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Google and Facebook both have dual-class stock structures that make them essentially indifferent to public stock ownership, since their founders have majority voting control. Push the stock price down and the companies take it as an opportunity for stock buybacks.
"Since then, JS has gotten about a billion times faster across pretty much all browsers."

1 billion = 10^9. If what you say is true, then the average length of JS code must have increased about 10^10, because despite increased bandwidth, most sites seem to run slower than they did 6 years ago. That is some pretty prodigious coding(8-))

Or maybe it's write delay caused by the NSA.
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1. Microsoft
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tldr; it works just fine.

It is a tiny bit fiddly getting the card in the right place in the adapter (basically just a little piece of plastic), but then it slots in and just works. As long as you are not dexterity challenged, it shouldn't be a problem at all. The adapter is also just a very simple bit of plastic, so buy one from amazon or ebay for a buck.

The SIM I got from a Heathrow vending machines supported all the phones by giving you a nano and then adapters up to bigger sizes.
The problem is that only the body is encrypted. Who you are communicating with (and in term, who they are communicating with) is at least as sensitive as what you are writing.
I agree 100% - it's sometimes hard to imagine that we actually have something to offer a successful or powerful person.

The only thing I would be wary about is that you may write "let me tell you something fascinating about XYZ which I have discovered." A busy person may read that as "let me take up even more of your time boring you to tears with some bullshit about XYZ that I made up so you'd take my meeting."

If you don't truly have something interesting to share then you shouldn't write that just to get a meeting. The OP posted that specific text, but I think what he was really getting at was just being considerate and original.
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If you are intelligent, have opinions and can justify your opinions, most people will take you seriously. Whether its a mistake or not depends on you. Are you completely set on working in tech? College for most is a time for exploration and you will miss out on this. Also, not having a degree precludes you from many careers outside of tech (investment banking, consulting, professional careers in law, medicine, etc). That being said, if required, you can always go back to school later.
The convergence of the PC and the tablet is inevitable. The awkward solutions that have been presented thus far are simply prototypes. We will eventually get it right, and when we do, the resulting experience will seem like it should have been the obvious choice from the start.

We already see the value in responsive web design, which is also in it's infancy. Eventually, we will have responsive operating systems, applications, and maybe even hardware.
"Traditional" nitrogen fixing bacteria make their way to specialized nodules. Basically this is because the nitrogenase enzyme is incredibly oxygen-sensitive, and it's quite difficult to shield the interior of the enzyme selectively against oxygen (oxygen and nitrogen look awfully alike from a physical perspective). Inside a nodule, the plant maintains an anaerobic condition that protects the bacteria from oxygen, which for some reason plants like to produce. Added efficiency is critical, because nitrogenase is already a VERY inefficient enzyme. 16!! ATP + N2 -> 2ammonia + hydrogen! There are often enzymes in these bacteria whose purpose is to recycle the wasted energy from the hydrogen produced from nitrogenase.

And if you think there's a way to improve the efficiency of nitrogenase, that would be really welcome, since nature seems to have evolved it only once.

Upshot, without some serious plant engineering, at the very least using aggressive husbandry techniques, it's likely this tech will hit a hard ceiling in terms of usefulness.
Thanks. My keyboard only has one apostrophe/single quote key, as I suspect most do, but I have been learning to use the compose key and I appreciate little details like that.
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Do I really have to explain why something titled "X is better" is biased? I thought the HN crowd was a bit smarter than that.

I understand why review sites are useful. I'm not advocating they disappear, but I do not think personal blog posts which are highly biased are useful. Especially in 2013 when these platforms have been around for years and years now.
http://yieldthought.com/post/31857050698/ipad-linode-1-year-... <- guy who tried it for a year.
If you don't know how to speak publicly, what entitles you about writing a post to give recommendations about that what you do badly?

This is something very common on the blogosphere right now, the kind of posts that starts with a "I suck doing this, this are my 10 ways to do it better.."

There is a lot of interesting lectures out there about how to be better speaking publicly, we don't need advices or recommendations from someone who doest know about the topic.

The worst thing is that news.ycombinator keep bubbling this things up.
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Yeah it hasn't been available since the first time it came out, and no mentions of it coming back. Makes me sad.
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One giant argument from anecdote.
While I wouldn't consider the comment down-vote worth as someone else deemed it, I find one part I have to respond to.

"if you're not from the US, I feel like you should have known that was a possibility."

Known exactly what was a possibility? In another comment I brought up Endgame Systems, here is some of their offerings:

'There are even target packs for democratic countries in Europe and other U.S. allies. Maui (product names tend toward alluring warm-weather locales) is a package of 25 zero-day exploits that runs clients $2.5 million a year. The Cayman botnet-analytics package gets you access to a database of Internet addresses, organization names, and worm types for hundreds of millions of infected computers, and costs $1.5 million.'

When you say 'foreigners' should have known the NSA "doing their thing" so to speak is a possibility, does that include them being exploited, or their stolen financial/personal information on botnets being used by the NSA?
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To follow up on this -- we believe that over the long-run this will produce better results than Lexis and Westlaw. Because users can add any related cases (not just those that cite the case), you get a more complete picture of other cases you should be looking to in your research. For example, in some circuit splits, neither circuit cites the court that it is splitting from (and so doesn't appear in West/Lexis' database), but would appear on our site.

Users can also vote up or down a case based on relevance. Voting will help you quickly find the most relevant resources based on the thoughts of dozens or hundreds of other attorneys.
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Load on the kidneys and yeast issues.

If its really sweet like honey, bees will go crazy. If its not sweet enough to attract bugs, there will be a lot of water drinking going on to the point of ridiculousness (like trying to gain weight drinking diet cola). If there's enough sugar to taste, yeasts will eat it resulting in lots of alcohol, and unfortunately yeasts are ridiculously tough.
Lol.. if it really works fine in Chrome for most people then I will have to take back what I said at least as far as Babylon. Honestly I would like something like Three.us with collisions. I just really really don't trust these fuckers at this point and I don't see why they didn't expand an existing project. Is Babylon 100% open source?
> 7) ...most people do not naturally include enough transition words when speaking informally, which tends to make speeches loose narrative cohesion. Throw in a few more than you would ordinarily think to do.

To expand on this... Spoken English should be treated as a separate dialect from Written English. They don't entirely share the same grammar, they have very different pools of idioms, and their concepts of effective use are almost entirely disjoint. Be aware that this difference exists, and practice your speeches out loud. Good essays generally do not make good presentations, and good presentations are almost universally terrible essays.

In particular, while Written English favors being concise, Spoken English favors explicitness, often to the point of redundancy. While a reader can go back and re-read a complex passage, and unpack it at leisure, during a speech there is no option but to parse it in realtime. Simple sentence structure, explicit large-scale structure markers, and outright redundancy are all markers of good Spoken English that your Written English instructors in school probably beat out of you.
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