skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blackberry just can't seem to catch a break in the media these days. I love that articles are coming out in Britain now about how the BB is yesterdays technology about a year and a half after all these articles came out in the US. The press reaction to the Blackberry reminds me of the Doonesbury cartoon that savaged the Apple Newton and its hand writing recognition software. Even though Apple worked out the bugs in the Newton and it turned out to be a pretty amazing technology, it just couldn't recover as a consumer product. I sort of feel the same way about Blackberry. QNX is an amazing operating system and I worry that it will never reach it's potential if BB gets out of the handset market. Plus, some people argue that BB unlike Apple and Android, lacks integration into a closed app, music, OS system like it's a bad thing. The day when I have to give up my Blackberry and join a smartphone duopoly will be a sad one.
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I disagree about the weight. If you took the proposed capsule, added wheels, replaced the 1,500kg batteries with a motor and powered the thing from a third rail, you'd get something rather light with enough power to move at i'd guess 200 or 300 mph(think what you could get out of a Tesla if it had extra motors instead of batteries). This and the route would get you most of the cost savings.

The speed is the huge benefit, but involves a technical challenge of rather unknown cost: how do you build a tube for hundreds of miles with a down smooth surface at the 5mm level.
Michelle Richardson, a legislative counsel for the
American Civil Liberties Union, said she believes the
review group can produce meaningful results if it includes
privacy advocates, academics and other people who are
independent from the surveillance agencies.

Unfortunately not going to happen...

"The members will have access to classified information so
they need to be administratively attached to a government
element but the review process and findings will be their
own," Turner said.

Something as serious as this needs an adversarial process. Drawing from only people "administratively attached to a government element" guarantees that won't happen. Is there any area of the government whose sole role is protecting the rights of the people against the government? I know that the courts are supposed to provide this oversight when they declare something unconstitutional, but the courts hear from advocates who are not "administratively attached"

Personally, I would like to see a process whereby several groups independently come up with their own conclusions and publish those independent opinions separately before synthesizing one report. With only one report published, we can be certain that it will be whitewashed, diluted and redacted. At the very least if there is a report, they should include the notion of publishing a "dissenting opinion" like the courts do.
I'm not sure this is true (anymore?). There are many open source projects who are thriving under non copyleft licenses.

If someone wanted to be a dick about it they could release modified GPL code as one big diff and publish it on some obscure webpage only their customers have access to. Instead we see more and more companies and individuals becoming friendly open source citizens. Perhaps some because the GPL mandates it but I would like to think mainly because they feel it's right thing to do—copyleft or not.
Yes, you define exactly what kind of referrals you want to pay for and for how much.
Take breaks.
Just throwing out a guess, but the fact that Qualcomm is putting money in makes me think of the Tricorder chip they were funding not too long ago.

Fitbit would be in the perfect position to create a product and market a device that uses it.

Edit: Apparently the competition ends 8/30 - http://www.qualcommtricorderxprize.org/
But do you know for sure that those people have public profiles? You are making quite an assumption by implying that this data is public.

I believe that exposing people's personal information without their knowledge or consent, however trivial or helpful as a means to an end, isn't the right thing to do.
8b) cebhfg

I guess that's it. And fun times were had by all.
The hyperloop's cost comparisons don't factor that in at all

The budget summary at the end suggested $2.5 billion for land acquisition etc, which made me think it's not a serious proposal.
They're aware of the issue and are working on a fix.

Status: https://developers.facebook.com/live_status
I really don't appreciate the title of this piece. The author knew full well people would expect a piece about being spied upon by the NSA when submitting this.

Not cool.
Especially given that the two political parties include 2/3rds of the population, there's no way your preferred conflict would be limited. That's not even counting what hostile countries and non-state actors would do to us while we're tearing apart the nation. What do you see as the end state after the two parties "get the knives out on each other"?

Given that this is how people always organize themselves in the post-monarchical period (significant counter examples welcome, but of course one party states don't count), it's fatuous to imagine that we'd see anything in the vague direction of the Founder's idealism (well, I'm sure some realized they'd develop, as they did rather quickly, especially after Washington left the national stage (heh, which I drafted before seeing your addition)). After those knives spill enough blood, it's doubtful there'd even be a reconciliation.
I didn't get your point. Of course the tweet isn't worth a damn, but the information is. Just like newspaper as you said.

But, since he chose Tweeter to disclose those news, his tweet, in fact, is worth $12.5B
I have a feeling the linked blog post was written in response to those articles. Not terribly original then..
That's strange, I can see it just fine.

Edit: Tried it on private mode and I couldn't see it either. No clue as to why.
When authenticating:

"error": {
"message": "Error validating application. Application has been deleted.",
"type": "OAuthException",
"code": 101
}

Holy moly!
Just adding another thing: what's to be contested in this article is if the tweet was the only thing that leveraged Apple's stocks to those values. Of course it may have been replicated everywhere, but was really just those few characters that generated that boom?
oh, no! Please don't.
I don't understand the article. Surely a project like this would be public, not private?
That's the point. Of course the tweet may have been replicated everywhere as important news does. Every newspaper should, in fact, repost it, but was really just the tweet what peaked the stock's values?
From their status page: "For updates, please subscribe to https://developers.facebook.com/x/bugs/702273849788774 "

That URL gives me a 404. I'm not surprised...

Edit: they've fixed it now. Correct link is in replies below.
Hmm, I think we're making different assumptions about what happened to Lavabit, so it might be useful to discuss this more.

I was assuming that:

a) Lavabit can't access its users' email, so any subpoenas are ineffective at getting at emails stored in their servers.

b) However, the feds would force them to snoop on decrypted data for specific accounts as it is served back to the user. This would only give access to what the user happens to read after the order goes into effect.

c) They received a new order that was a lot more invasive, perhaps to snoop on all plaintext data as it left their servers.

d) They suspended operations before any such snooping could occur.

If all this is true, any other operation can follow the same steps. If the feds ask for too much, we suspend operations immediately, no 7 days. But they wouldn't need to preemptively suspend before the feds come knocking. Is there something wrong with my reasoning? Were you making different assumptions?
A ban on future public office would be news to this ex-Federal judge: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings
That's a great article, thanks. I actually had the coin example in mind when I wrote the comment, but was too busy to write out the full argument!
Why is that? Nearly all the land is already government-owned. And much of the rest would be rented, not acquired.
Thanks for the reply, Patrick!

It is not very difficult to move to Japan, provided that you have lined up a job with a Japanese employer.

Sounds like I could work in Japan as long as I have a job lined up -- which is much better than the situation in the US. I have no problems finding work in the US, it's just that the lack of H-1Bs mean that employers have no way of bringing me over. I wish US immigration law was a bit more open.

I've heard of the EB-1/EB-2 in the past, but I thought you had to be in the country (on an H-1 or L-1 or something) to apply for it. Either way, aren't those supposed to have really long wait times (in the order of years), in addition to having strenuous requirements (like labor certification, etc.) As a recent graduate, I don't know if I could satisfy all of those.

On the pro side, I wasn't born in India so it should be a bit easier to get for me. (I've practically never even lived in the country for most of life until recently.) From what I've heard, they restrict these EB visas on a country-of-birth basis, and people from India and China have to wait for several years to get an EB approved.

We were able to insulate the 5 Indian employees of my previous Japanese employer from most casual racism.

I never experienced any racism (as strange as it may sound), during my undergraduate years in the US. Maybe I was just oblivious to it, but to be honest, everyone in the US just seemed nice and friendly to me. FYI I was in NYC area -- perhaps that's got something to do with it.

In Japan, status of residence (what you'd think of as a visa) follow people rather than following jobs.

This sounds wonderful. Does this mean that even if you loose your job, you can stick around a bit longer (and not get immediately kicked out of the country as you would have in the US) ?

Being able to do a startup would be awesome as well. A friend of mine (who's a US citizen) and I have been thinking of starting an indie game startup. Would a low initial revenue rule out startups? Based on your blog, I assume Kalzumeus had a pretty strong cash in-flow record. Would an indie game startup with zero or very-low income satisfy the Japanese immigration authorities?
I'm sure it will be some other puppet on a string.
"They'll consider how we can maintain the trust of the people, how we can make sure that there absolutely is no abuse in terms of how these surveillance technologies are used, ask how surveillance impacts our foreign policy — particularly in an age when more and more information is becoming public," Obama said.

This quote illustrates the problem. Overturning the 4th amendment requires a congressional super-majority, not the assurance of a politician who has already violated the public's trust.
Well, I had an issue with Express going up a major version also to 3.0 but it was actually my fault because I didn't specify the major version in my package.json, i.e. 2.x. If I had done that the breaking changes would not have got me.
Someone wanted to one up the 4 million dollar complain call...
http://www.inc.com/ron-burley/4-million-complaint-call.html
Stephen Wolfram is definitely an amazing guy, but I find his writing so obnoxious. He's like Steve Jobs, but promoting himself, basically. It's really cool what he's done, but there's no discussion of the state of the art, or similar projects. Everything is being done for the first time ever, and it can only be done using Mathematica.
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You do realise that CoffeeScript is just a layer of sugar/arsenic on top of JavaScript?
Interesting. On a haswell i5 with an intel 5000 series GPU it works reasonably on Chrome without any noticeable CPU or memory impact, Firefox stable works pretty well with only slightly more load, Firefox 26.0a1 dies instantly and completely.

The fact that it kills browsers for so many people so completely is a very good indication that this is in no way ready for use by anyone for anything other then "look at this shiny demo!"

Edit: Opera and Safari show nothing at all...
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You have showdead on, it seems...
It was a while ago. I want to say the main one was Egypt, but one of our community reps would probably remember better than I.
It's true! I hope you (and all of us) always love what we do and keep the self-motivation safe with us. Wish you good luck with your business whatever you do and wherever you are :)
Put Snowden's dad and Swartz's dad on the review board.
Not a real consumer research site either - operator obviously bought up a defunct brand and relaunched it: http://consumersresearch.org/?p=6
Just put a Faraday cage around it by wrapping it in tin foil. </sarcasm>
Some of my apps are back, but some are still missing. Anyone in a similar boat?
I agree, no need to call anyone an idiot or incompetent.

But, I would not want Ryan writing code that people completely trust to live on (hospital equipment, NASA, etc).

That does not make him an incompetent person. Just someone with opinions of wanting to keep things as minimalistic as possible which is just one of the many paths available for us to choose in life. In some cases, this is great, in others it is not.
Are you completely unaware of the irony in stating your distrust of "any internal investigation conducted by an institution that exonerates it from all wrongdoing" and then pointing to an article about the defendant's father thinking the same thing? Any chance his dad might be less than neutral here as well?
Should HN readers be Blackberry users?
I know that Blackberry is getting a lot of grief in the press as first hipsters and now their parents are embracing iPhones and Android phones, but I am surprized that HN users are not more fond of the Blackberry operating system. After all, with the concern over privacy and all the Snowden/NSA articles on the board, isn't a phone with a reputation for security a plus? Also, of all the smartphone OS' QNX is pretty impressive in it's potential as a secure micro-kernal OS of the future. Finally, do we really want to support a smartphone duopoly. Full disclosure, I own a small amount of shares in BB, but that's really just to put my money where heart is.
Wanted: interesting sudoers files
I know this is the wrong place to vent, but it would be nice if ngRepeat properly supported recursive data structures without having to write new directives.

Edit: and yes, I did actually crack open the source to see if I could make that change. In places it's ... pretty densely written. It seems to me that at least checking to see if an array has any elements and aborting if it's empty would go some of the way to stopping the locking-up problem, but I couldn't work out if that was so.

So like everyone else I have a frankenstein pair of directives to achieve the same thing.
Ya, those areas are strongly connected. There was a typo in my above reply, I meant to say that SF/LA are not as strongly connected economically as NYC/Boston/Philly/DC.
> Technical differences are ephemeral.

Hardly the case when you want to extend/embed your compiler frontend/backend. In this case, LLVM/Clang shine. They are written in fairly clean and comprehensible C++ libraries. Most CLI tools are well under 1k lines! GCC is a real pain to even comprehend, let alone extend/embed!
Even if $2.5 billion for land acquisition is realistic (if you build most of it next to I5 and need a 10ft wide swath of land, it might be), the route would never be approved by the california legislature. A large part of the problem with infrastructure costs is politics, not engineering.
Take a look at ToffeeScript https://github.com/jiangmiao/toffee-script
Yeah, I got about 6 back out of 30ish.
You need a developer account to view. This bug disabled all the dev accounts.
Instead of just crapping all over something that is in very, very early stages of merely ideation, maybe we could switch to positive intent and try to come up with some comparables? Having just returned from Disneyland, I nominate the Finding Nemo submarines which offer a nearly identical experience for 15-20 minutes (and are pitched as "fun" no less).
That you got there is important. If you didn't get there, no value was delivered to end-users.
Is Oracle in line for some big government contracts? Or did Larry just lose his mind?
You're suggesting that Icahn is trying to pump and dump one of the largest companies on the planet? Investment isn't one of your better skills is it?
Same. I have only have 1 app back. I think i had 6 total.
In other societies, what you're referring to might be called an Ombudsman, or in our judicial system, a district attorney.

There is no such counterpoint in government, save our elected officials. Specifically, the reason the Commander in Chief is a civilian seems to be for this exact reason.

Anyways, I think the concept of a dissenting opinion would be welcome from the public's perspective and shunned from the bureaucratic one.
In practice, the US government is hardly a representative one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_United_States_S...
> I do all my dev work in the VM, and everything else in Windows.

You must be my twin. I use Windows for Photoshop and everything else is in my Ubuntu VM.
A well known investor saying, "I bought a lot of AAPL because I think it's undervalued," caused the boom.
Wow, hostile! See my response to this same question when it was more gently expressed by 'hamburglar.
> Especially given that the two political parties include 2/3rds of the population, there's no way your preferred conflict would be limited.

I think you wildly overestimate how passionately partisan the citizenry of this country really is. The majority of the population isn't even invested enough in their chosen party to make their way into a voting booth every couple of years to fill out a few checkboxes. Do you actually believe that these resigned, apathetic people are going to take up arms against each other simply because their leaders were revealed to be criminals?
Of course its not part of core but certainly there are a number of modules for that although that's not especially popular these days.

https://github.com/visionmedia/ejs
Who is to say all free software developers want to prevent Tivoization? If all developers wanted to prevent that, they would use GPLv3! Clearly many developers like the MIT/BSD licenses. Are you advocating that these developers switch to GPLv3 or... what is your alternative?
Common Crawl is awesome. I wonder how complex it would be to run a Google-like frontend on top of it, and how good the results would be after a couple days of hacking...
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Perhaps I never had a choice to make any other argument because I was underprivileged and I couldn't figure out how to ride the bus to get to the library to read about just how underprivileged other people can be. Calling my argument stupid in such a situation would be a lack of your ability to check your own 'sociology' privilege.
Don't be naive. You start erecting structures all along the I-5, everyone whose lands borders is it is going to come up with a reason why it's negatively impacting them during the environmental impact review.
I think it has more to do with Ubiquitous computing. Turning everything into a potential computer or sensor and then connecting them all together into a giant invisible network.

Shaping the physical world to be more intelligent or interactive seems a lot more interesting that just tracking things that move around for logistics purposes.
Or the Hacker News Enhancement Suite which does both!

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
Baby monitor hacked, spies on Texas child
I think one aspect is just that the decision is made definitively at some point, in advance. People have different opinions: impact on historic buildings, noise, environment, other things. This is all debated up front, and then the legislature either approves it, or it doesn't. But when it was approved, it was approved. You can't sue in court to stop the plan on environmental grounds or noise grounds or something else, once the legislature has decided to go ahead with it, because the authorizing legislation supersedes any contrary legislation.

But the U.S. delegates decision-making to agencies and courts in a way that this doesn't happen. California might take input for a long time before deciding on its plan, but its final plan is still not final. Anyone can sue it for many different reasons. Maybe it violates the federal Clean Air Act, maybe it violates property rights, maybe something else. The decision is never final until every challenge to an agency or court is decided, which massively adds to uncertainty and costs.
Or the machines behind the markets.
Take a look at CoffeeScript (cleaner callbacks) and ToffeeScript (callbacks hidden, just look like sync code). Those are much better solutions that promises.
It'd be more likely to be approved with only 2 endpoints, since the logical thing then would be to make the route as short as possible. OTOH HSR's route through the Central Valley is partly dictated by the availability of funding from the federal government for development in that part of the state; if it was purely up to CA I think it would just run along the coastline.
I agree to your point about taking your actual car. Loading cars inside would indeed complicate the system a lot.

What I tried to say was more about the psychological impact of imagining a car fit in the capsule, even if the same space is just taken by larger seats.
to me this appears to have been written by Theodore Gray, did I read the same thing you did?
Does anyone on here know whether this was in fact posted as 'chatter' via Bloomberg terminals before the tweet or not.

Surely there's a Wall Street guy with access to a terminal on HN.
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It's theater. They don't intend to let anything interfere with their surveillance of everyone.
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This bug did not disable all dev accounts. My personal one stayed active, the one tied to work did not. I'd love to hear a technical post mortem from Facebook, but that's pretty unlikely.

And just for clarification, this has been marked as resolved.
In that case another task using clock_alarm(), task_suspend(), task_resume(), and thread_get_state().
They traded it in for two 2nd Amendments.
Then again, copyleft licensing is idiomatic of free software, and permissive licensing is idiomatic of open source software.

This essay covers the essential differences:

http://www.linfo.org/open_source.html
Anyone interested in the backstory of this sort of thing might find this brief article on Icahn's "$2,000 Tweet" interesting.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mariahsummers/if-you-want-to-be-a-tw...
Now if only they would disable user accounts, the world would be a better place.
Nitpicky, but it's Swartz, not Schwartz.
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You can implement a module pattern with closures quite easily.
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> A ban on future public office would be news to this ex-Federal judge

The Constitution limits the possible penalties on conviction for impeachment to removal from office and "disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or profit under the United States" [1]. It does not mandate that both of the available remedies be applied upon conviction.

[1] Art. I, Sec. 3