skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The project i am involved in is going forward. late, but going forward =)
Hey @drivebyacct2 you're account is dead just FYI.
Juju Now Available in Homebrew
So now David Miranda is a suspected hacker?
How do you know that the post to her wall wasn't his initial discovery of the bug? Any occurrence of the bug was a breach of the ToS.
Would you attitude be different if it were some other "Bachelor of Arts in business from Wharton" proposing a rather sketchy idea and asking if you'd like to sign on to fill in the details?
It's only a matter of time until someone rewrites the whole browser in JavaScript and is lauded for it as the genius of Web 3.0.
english is my 2nd language and i am very fluent in it. But have YOU ever stopped to think that why should everyone strive to learn english, or be labeled "lazy" otherwise? Isn't it lazy of the english speaking community to expect everyone to speak in THEIR language rather than the other way around?
There was actually a "60 minutes" episode entitled "Sticker shock: Why are glasses so expensive?" [1] where they talked about Luxottica / Oakley / Ray Ban. Worth a watch if you are interested in the eye wear industry.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7424700n
Thanks. I was wondering why it being powered by Go would be relevant when there appeared to be no way to self-host or contribute...
Is India the Rape Capital of the World?
If the comment you want to collapse is a top level comment, sure. But not all tangent comments are top level. There are times when I want to collapse a mid-thread comment because it goes on a tangent. In those cases, the visual cue is lost.
The second post (The case against Google - Court Documents) has links, to the court documents on Scribd or direct PDF downloads http://www.googlelawsuit.co.uk/google-lawsuit-legal-papers.

With respect to Google's filing perhaps the documents have not yet been made public by the court.
Pico-projector runs Android, doubles as mini-PC
It didn't look anything serious when it was posted and I hope no one did.
The Indian Capital registers 393 rape cases in Q1 2013.
The difference is ease, physical currency is much harder to break apart and move around in large sums without eventually going through something the government regulates. If you kept your transactions entirely in bitcoin, I do not see how anyone could control what you do.
No. It specifically states that the pipe is not constrained to the pylons longitudinally (along the pipe direction). It slides. It's only fixed laterally and vertically, and has dampers in those movement directions.

Think of it this way -- if the pipe bent easily, you could rotate the entire hyperloop on top of the pylons, sliding it along the top.
Leaving Social Media: A Smaller, Happier Life
"Induced demand, or latent demand, is the phenomenon that after supply increases, more of a good is consumed." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_demand
HN has murdered the server, cache here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A...
Something I noticed while in India myself, which may help explain (not excuse) some of the behavior (please note I am not discounting the author's perspective at all):

I'm a little over 6 feet, blond hair and green eyes, and when I and my family were visiting India (Mumbai and a few other areas around Maharashtra), we got stared at really, really hard. Like everyone around us literally stopping on the street and doing nothing but stare.

It was unnerving, naturally, and I asked my brother and his (now) wife about it, since they had been living there for about a year. They told me, and I later observed for myself, that this type of looking and curiosity is part of how Indians generally are. It's very honest, very unapologetic, and once you get over the taboo of the stare, very disarming. It's not just visiting Westerners either - they stare at each other, watch each other honestly, will walk across the street to get a better look, and crowd around something interesting. I saw it constantly and eventually understood it as a lack of interpersonal barriers that arise in a highly individualistic society. Everything is shared because in a city of 15-20 million people, there's hardly any space apart. People in major metro areas understand some aspect of this but it's hard to really grasp unless you're there.

The problem, of course, arises when this lack of barriers combines with misogyny of the boldest type. Getting used to the constant stares is one thing for me, a man (and taller than most of my observers by a head), but for a woman it must be extra difficult to accept - and that's just the stares. The lack of respect for her space may be part of the collectivism that arises with incredible density, but the lack of respect for her body and humanity is not. It is rank and deep-seated sexism, and insitutionalized assault. There's a culture supporting this (which is not to say that Indians as a people do) and it needs to be dragged into the light of day and shot.
See also http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Fingerprinting
The link is 404 so In layman terms, unless some other extension comes up with exact same function names, my json_encode/json_decode will stop working in 5.5? fuck.
Well I spent around 5 minutes downloading and trying to build, immediately hitting this wall on Windows:
http://i.imgur.com/J9Gs6wb.png

Seems that nobody has tried that in a long time, or who knows why it references something in C:\tools
Maybe because I don't know the full story, but I'm having hard time understanding why a guy who has built such great companies like Oakley and RED so hurt by some guy who makes movies like Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
I fit in sroerick's demographic. My evidence is anecdotal, but pretty much exactly in line with your critique, for both me and my ex-military friends.

It may not be related, but we know first hand what its like to have the government entirely too "in the know" about your life. Not many of us are fans of it, even when it was arguably necessary to keep people alive.
Interesting, I would think that there would be a lot of interest in joining a more established company (vs risk of startup) and use some of the new, shiny tools. I'm a C#/.NET by trade as well, and this would apply for me. I'd recommend sticking to your gut on the Python track rather than converting. Of course it depends on the type of apps and the team, but I'd agree with your take. Good luck with your search!
Space exploration is not handicapped by technology, but by societal willpower in the absence of an existential crisis like the Cold War. The Alcubierre Drive is fine as a theoretically impossible physics plaything, but the expansion of the species beyond the Earth only requires funding to achieve using much more modest means. For every one space science mission that goes forward, our academic system produces 500 concepts that are judged too impractical or too expensive, and 50 that arrive at group consensus that it would be productive to move forward and submit proposals. 5 of them get funded into fully developed systems, and 4 are cancelled just shy of completion through because the JWST has cost overruns or the new Majority Leader / President wants to make his mark with an arbitrary decision like cancelling the 6 year old 20-year-plan for a Mars base in exchange for a 20-year-plan for a Moon base (that will be cancelled in six years).

The path is there, the end discoveries (relative to many other fields) relatively certain, we just don't like to make the effort in any concerted way, and our government is broken; Congress would prefer it if they could just run NASA on a soundstage.
Does anyone know of a service provider which also allows you to SEND money (via wire transfer) to customers? I've been looking for that since a long time and contacted airbnbs provider, but no reply at all. This function is used if you are acting as the middle man between 2 parties.
That's actually the whole point, in the past he complied with warrants because there wasn't much he could supply in the first place. Yes there is a lot of reading between the lines here, but there was a clear line they crossed. In other words, he would no longer be able to just turn over a bunch of encrypted emails, this was a full compromise of the security he had in place.

If you look at the quotes he made, he strongly hints that this affects all his users, that they want to collect data for later review, and that they would have the ability to decrypt any emails they wanted. Yes, there is a lot of speculation going on here, but it is based on facts--what they technically would be able to do based on how Lavabit worked.

Edit: this wasn't just some casual speculation, I did quite a bit of research on this and carefully reviewed every statement he has given to the press. I carefully analyzed their infrastructure and encryption techniques. I'm fairly confident with my conclusions.
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison talks Google, Apple and the NSA - CBS News Video
At USENIX this year, Chris Evans gave a talk about how Google does their VRP. Specifically, he mentioned that there weren't many false positive reports at all, way fewer than he expected there would be. In general, most bugs have something to them. Google has a long history of following up on bug reports with little or nothing to go on, because they take their jobs seriously, and aren't antagonistic to community bug hunters. FB would do well to take a leaf out of their book.
Is Groupon still a thing? I could have swore people all agreed years ago that it was a business model that ate it's own tail.

As for the rep, getting caught being a jerk has consequences regardless whether Groupon is just trying to save face.
The Cryonics Institute Offers a Chance at Immortality
It would be far more interesting if they tapped the actual John McAfee [1] for the post.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee
Perhaps we had family, friends and his entire life in America, and didn't want to uproot it all to move his service overseas?
I don't understand your logic, or what democracy has to do with the matter.

I am no expert on India, but I spent enough time there to observe a clear and disturbing trend in male behavior and I have spent enough time in other - developed and developing - countries to have appropriate context for comparison.

An easy place to start would be China, which exhibits some similar demographic issues, but you really never come across this type of behavior there.
Amazon.com website goes offline
The "patriarchal and sexist" adjectives are presumably necessary but not in and of themselves sufficient. For instance, there have been plenty of sexist, patriarchal regimes in European history where behaviors such as the ones described would be considered gross affronts to basic morality by the Christian church (which was an empowered entity whose opinions carried some import).

(One could theoretically hope that gender-studies departments at various universities should find it productive to scrutinize the differences in these patriarchal, sexist regimes in order to understand the nature of the cultural differences which engendered these disparate results. Theoretically.)
>Someone sitting on prime farmland and not actually farming it is a net negative to society unless they're getting more value out of that land than a farmer would.

To play the devil's advocate: Why stop at land? What about people who have gold under their mattress? Or perhaps (stick with me here) someone who owns the patents for a machine that he refuses to sell anything himself and forbids anyone else from selling anything remotely similar?

Also, I hear we pay farmers not to produce crops because we are afraid seasonal over-production could destabilize prices?
Ask PG: Why does everything start with 1 point that doesn't actually count?
Everything (submissions and comments) starts with 1 point but that 1 point is not really counted in your karma. Only after you get an upvote do you get an increase in karma. But the point value associated with any given item is always 1 higher than the net karma change. I'm just curious about the thinking behind it.
Link to letter: http://stanford.edu/~jmayer/content/Pompeo_Mozilla_Letter.pd...

Relevant quote:

Internet industry publications estimate that Mozilla's overall share of the browser
market is now approaching 20 percent — a figure large enough that its
plans to block cookies would have a devastating impact on small businesses and wipe out
millions of life-saving AMBER Alerts and tornado warnings funded and delivered
to Firefox users by advertising networks. Concerns have also been raised
that the value of advertising in terms of lower prices and more choices
for consumers could be threatened if regimes are stood up that allow
conglomerates to have too much control over data.
Ask HN: What do you use to data mung?
Hi! HN lover, tech enthusiast, and economist here.

I'm at a point in my skillset that I'd like to learn how to better data mung.

I can do basics in python, mysql, and with spreadsheets. I'd like to learn how to take things to the "next level", as it were. I seem to read about fantastic projects in data vis and collection at least daily here, and the projects are generally fantastic.

I find that collation of data seems to take forever at times; processes that should be simple require some convolutions for me. How can I data mung like a boss?

Thanks in advance for the heads ups!
OK, Mr Chomsky. Why don't you go talk about democracy to your friend, Fidel "Butcher" Castro?
>The fed can't just print more bitcoins.

Mmm, they kinda can: they can deploy a large cluster, let's say 90% of capacity, hoard mined coins, then release them at once - booms, effect is not that different from printing.
There is an India you don't want to know about. This is it.
We, Indians, have seen it. But we choose to ignore it, because, Mera Bharat Mahan (My India is Great)
Sure, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/06/25/greenwald-s...

"When I was in Hong Kong, I spoke to my partner in Rio via Skype and told him I would send an electronic encrypted copy of the documents,” Greenwald said. “I did not end up doing it. Two days later his laptop was stolen from our house and nothing else was taken. Nothing like that has happened before. I am not saying it’s connected to this, but obviously the possibility exists.”
I think James Cameron is talking about 60 FPS.
Holistic WebGL
See section 4.2.3.

The tube will be supported by pillars which constrain the tube in the vertical direction but allow longitudinal slip for thermal expansion as well as dampened lateral slip to reduce the risk posed by earthquake.
Yes, I completely agree with you. Many (most?) times it's not obvious why the depression is happening. You really need to make significant lifestyle changes in the early stages of depression.
Wow, what an ignorant comment. There are currently more Mandarin Chinese speaking engineers graduating than English speaking ones and more people worldwide that speak the language as well (both native speakers and overall), yet I don't see everyone in America clamoring to learn Chinese. Of course the world would be more efficient if translation was not necessary, but demanding everyone stop being so "lazy" and learn English is a presumptuous jingoistic fantasy.
It looks nice and it's FAST! Plus it has a clean mobile UI. I think I'll have a Go and leave Feedly on the shelf, at least for a few days.
RED got into the cinema industry the way you or I might cannonball into a pool. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it does tend to make waves. From then on, they were constantly very vocal in criticising other camera and production companies, and it has ended up being a very polarising company.
Are you suggesting that Groupon is a scam, or suggesting that people will demonize Groupon because of this one sales rep?
If you do think it's a scam, then why?
Google wants UK privacy case tried abroad, lawyer claims
> That is almost always in clear text, as most of this infrastructure was designed 30 years ago and hasn't evolved much since then

Email has definitely evolved since it's inception. STARTTLS (RFC3207) is the relevant standard here.
It's the dominant language (yeah most people speak Chinese because there's so many of them but English is spoken by people of all ethnicities) so it's obvious that non English speakers should put in the effort and not the other way around. The most influential textbooks, novels, papers are written in English: ignoring them because learning a language is hard it's pure laziness.
"Have you actually seen how people use web browsers? Honestly it's kind of horrifying. It's not unusual for people to have 100+ tabs open across several different browser windows in a session that's been running continuously since sometime in the late 90s." - so true
There’s no excuse for not knowing at least three out of English, Spanish, French, Mandarin, Urdu, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian and German. If you’ve finished university peeking at a fourth and fifth language can’t hurt either.

How many do you know?

Edit: Oh, and how about a bit of Latin and Greek, maybe?
Long time lurker, first time poster.

This is my first app. I've been working on it for about a month. It's all GPL.

Some features that I'm working on: posting code snippets and LaTex and links, subscribing to a conversation, labelled markers to add context to conversations (For example "@update:1Q" means the reply is an update to whatever was posted in 1Q), hashtags!
Read my response to xerophyte12932.
i'm a current Flatiron Student. this was a effin great presentation. the content is tight, but his delivery was also highly engaging, so sucks for you if you weren't there.
By "planning decision" I mean to use this knowledge to make a decision which is more likely to lead to a successful project.

Consider the converse to your statement: It can sometimes be advantageous to spend all your time learning as much as possible about the way things are normally done while approaching the job from your own strengths and knowledge.

It seems that that converse statement is equally true. If a statement and its converse seem equally true, then how useful of a statement is it?

"you may delay contributing if you wait until you reach that status before trying"

Certainly. However, contributing is also an important part of learning, and you are unlikely to get to expert status if you delay in contributing.
Is now when we put on the tinfoil hats and start saying things like:

They were adding prisms to their fiber line so they can spy on us

Amazon joins Prism

This week in the news: NSA backdoors NYTimes, Google and Amazon
That is not how the power saving works. It does not vary the BCLK rather it alters the multiplier. If it varied the BCLK by such large amounts to achieve typical low power frequency levels then you'd likely run into some catastrophic stability problems as the BCLK is also used by the integrated memory controller and QPI.
sorry to nitpick,

the unicode didn't render properly on chrome stable, windows 7

"From ∅ to Distributed Service"

otherwise quite interesting
B-1 Lancer crashes in Montana
> Riding Hyperloop: once you enter the capsule, you can't even stand up from your seat. Stay put there, don't try anything for the next 30 minutes.

I kinda wish we'd get off this bullshit argument for once. To even get to the HSR or Hyperloop, you're going to be sitting in at least 30 minutes of LA or SF traffic. In a small capsule.

And I know your next comment. "You can pull over in a car!" Yeah, you don't live in LA then. Get stuck on any of the freeways and you're not pulling over and not getting out. Or did you really plan on taking a shit on the side of the freeway?

Does everyone on HN get explosive projectile diarrhea every time they step outside? Maybe Musk is missing a market for you dysfunctional people.
Craigslist asked 3taps not to use their IPs to connect. 3taps complied and stopped using those IPs. What's the beef?
What I don't see is these three statements:

1. Force Lavabit to provide their private SSL keys and route all their traffic through a government machine that performed a man-in-the-middle style data collection;
2. Change their software to subvert Lavabit’s own security measures and log emails after SSL decryption but before encrypting with the users’ public keys; or
3. Require Lavabit to install malicious code to infect their own customers with government-supplied malware.

It sounds like he already has the ability to comply with demands for information. I don't see where this new stipulation by them requires any meaningful change to his existing infrastructure.
I read a blame-Indian-poor comment like this on every HN article about India. I recall one guy upbraiding the poor for public defecation. Because of low morals. As if lack of sewage infrastructure had nothing to do with the fact that people s&*# in the street in India. It's poor morals.

What makes your comment most remarkable, however, is that the linked article says almost nothing about class, or economic development, or anything like that. It's about street harassment of women. And yet, since it's an article about India, someone chimes in with a comment about how low-morals the poor are.
I think it's showterm. If you scrub the timeline the back-button-history will fill up with the page you're on (at least in Chrome).
"In fact, the more hate I get, the happier I am, I feed off it, it's my fucking life line. It meant I was doing something right."

This is pretty quote worthy. It reminds me of Admiral Nimitz saying "If you're not making waves, you're not underway."
Yeah, I should've said "all". I know that you can describe regular grammars using languages designed for CFGs, like BNF.
Can we get a few more details? You seem to have created a throwaway account just for this post.
Benchmarking mistakes, part four
Bootstrap 3 released
Not between two test accounts or two accounts that belong to you (work and personal, which you are allowed to have.)
I have been paid so i guess you can say there was some seriousness to it.
Its simple, Facebook can't set the precedent that people who exploit bugs in this way get paid. If they did, every Joe who felt that their particular bug wasn't being addressed quite right would think that public exploitation is the faster route to their reward.
Railroads have thermal expansion problems with new-style all-welded rail, even with a variety of ameliorative techniques and lots of history and experience. And rail doesn't need to maintain sub-mm tolerances. Is the Hyperloop construction going to somehow pre-stress the tubes like they do with welded rail? That's a big big tool.

It's a legitimate problem. I don't think slip joints at the end is going to be the only solution. Over a single day you might experience 40 degrees in temperature change, and thus 250 ft movement over the course of a day. I bet you could see it move. That's scary, and I can't believe it wouldn't create kinks or local bends that would be bad at even 300mph.

I think it'd have to have some sort of local expansion joint. More complicated than proposed--but isn't it always?
Nice contribution.
i would highly recommend a documentary called 'side by side' about the history of digital video cameras and analog film cameras in cinema/film. goes into the back story behind red, arri, panavision, sony, etc.

it's on netflix.
Do you really not trust binary curves that much? I'm certainly not going to defend them, but curves over prime exponent binary fields seem OK for now. For us this might not matter much, but hardware people like binary fields a lot.
It would probably take at most a few hours to rewrite a JSON encoder and decoder. It's hardly a complex piece of code is it.
The bug bounty won't cause others to report bugs if they pay in secret.