skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would invite readers to consider just how non-trivial the following task is:

Here is a list of 650 people that are almost as geographically diversely located as it is possible to be while remaining in the UK. Demonstrate that none of them are "batshit crazy".
MakeGamesWithUs hacker house cracks education code
All of the people I see invested in his ideas are computer people, all the people I see very skeptical of his ideas are biological sciences people.

As his work is in the biological realm, this makes me less than confident he's got the tune here.

I'd like to live forever as much as the next guy. I just fear AdG is a huckster or mistaken soul.
Right; my point is that XML is fully capable of representing s-expressions, but JSON is not, and much of what we write as HTML is effectively just sexps.
This can't be stressed enough. It's not all about bandwidth, packet loss is very real.
I know this may be controversial opinion, but I think India needs to adopt an archive and extinguish policy with its many regional languages. Frankly, there's too many languages.

First, archive -- record the language, its linguistic structure & features for science's and posterity's sake.

Then, coalesce all these regional (particularly North Indian) dialects and languages into Standard Hindi. Standard Hindi itself could perhaps be allowed to evolve by absorbing features from the languages it extirpates and form a "New Hindi".

This would be easier done in the North. With the South Indian languages there's practically not much of an option besides teaching them Hindi, and encouraging Hindi adoption in the home. The South Indian (Dravidian) languages are so different from the North Indian (Indo-Aryan) languages, that they share barely anything in common with Hindi (besides some common vocabulary). Alternatively, the South could be encouraged to switch to English, but this would probably prove too politically controversial.

Finally but not the least, Hindi needs to be turned into a language of the arts and sciences -- particularly in the the sciences, or rather, in all STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine). Most countries (China, Germany, Korea, France, Japan, the Arab countries, etc.) -- all use their own languages for the majority of things they do. In India, English continues to dominate, perhaps in a desirable fashion -- but at least for the sake of 95% Indians who don't really speak English, it would be good to give them access to the STEM fields without forcing them to learn a totally different/new language.
Do you mean the article submitted here? I don't think I mentioned the CHSR or Hyperloop capacity.
That is probably a tad unfair to Canada, Ireland, Jamaica, etc.
Hacker posts Facebook bug report on Zuckerburg's Wall
I'm shocked that police actually have the power to hold you for nine hours, refuse you a lawyer and that you are not allowed to refuse to answer questioning.

You haven't read up much history of Northern Ireland? There is a lots of examples of the UK and anti-terrorism laws. Imprisonment without trial, etc.
uuuh, any sources apart from some forums? sounds very speculative
Ignoring the substance of the article for a moment, the delivery is masterful.

This is a very entertaining read.
Trains don't need security checkpoints because trains follow a fixed route - you can't hijack them to cuba, you can't crash them into a building. All you can conceivably damage is the train line itself and the few people in it...and that sort of attack could be done almost as easily from OUTSIDE the train as from inside it.. Our impulse to PUT security checkpoints all over the place is idiotic. The TSA goons haven't won yet when it comes to subways and ski lifts and Amtrak and individual cars (as they enter tunnels or approach bridges) and we shouldn't assume they'll win on this one either.
"Oceania"
Their traction numbers seem pretty impressive with over 3 million active applications, which they announced at Google IO of this year. Last year, iirc, it was around 1 million apps.
As I understand it, UK and USA spying are part of a well-connected system also including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. I'm not sure there are relevant distinctions to be made here in terms of spying.
The UK was part of the EU during (most of the) 1970s and 80s, when there was numerous anti-terrorism laws and abuses in Northern Ireland.
So that's where the constant chatter in my head comes from, eh?
Hypocrisy and doing terrible things in the name of something purportedly important aren't exactly novel themes in Western history.
Show HN: Using word2vec to figure out which word isn't like the others
They were able to do two things:

1) Spend 9 hours pressing the guy in order to learn any details they are interested in. He was probably not prepared enough for that, most of people aren't. Apparently, in such an occasion you don't even have the "right to remain silent!" That is, Mr. David Miranda had no Miranda rights there. I guess they had a good laugh.

2) Get anything from the electronic devices. It's reasonable to expect that both GG and his partner aren't crypto security specialists (GG had problem even starting using crypto).

That they make the pressure to the journalists they saw as the added bonus. Obviously they don't expect that the "public" reacts much.

Note also that UK has laws where you have to give your passwords to the police.
I prefer many elements of the ET3 design. The problem is that it's not really moving. The 6% royalty is kind of ludicrous given the amount of work that's gone into it - if someone made a single line then ET3 would get billions of dollars. I have talked to Daryl Oster several times and think he is a great guy and really honest advocate of the ET3 system, but I think the ET3 membership model probably isn't encouraging 'big business' participation, and the patent (while probably not that hard to work around) could be reducing interest from other areas. That said, I don't know what stage things are at in China. There was certainly some active research there.

Another big benefit of an ET3 type system that you don't mention is the tube fill factor. In ET3 you can take up basically the whole tube, because there's so little air that you don't need to worry about the Kantrowitz limit (I think). In Hyperloop, you can only take up 30%. This means that ET3 can either have much smaller tubes (big cost saving) or much larger capsules (same cost... but TOILETS!!! ;-)).
Zmap - Complete Scan of the IPv4 address space in under 45 minutes
I was born in Northern Ireland and have lived here all but 6 months of my life so I'm very familiar with it :)
This is Poe's law in action.
The Sicilian Mafia are pretty vile human beings, by and large.

Compare and contrast "detained 9 hours", which is a big violation of civil liberties on behalf of a government, with "dissolved an innocent child in acid", which is just sickening and inhuman.

http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omicidio_di_Giuseppe_Di_Matteo

Not to say at all that what the government did in this case was "not so bad", just that there is worse out there.
All I am arguing is that using probablities as counter argument to war on terrorism is not really smart.

There are far better arguments out there. So lets not use the ones that the supporters may be able to use against us.
I was thinking about this today--whether or not this was a smart move for the government.

On one hand, it's obvious that bullying the partner of a famous journalist is going to get negative media attention.

On the other hand, maybe that's exactly what they want. Maybe they know these laws aren't going anywhere anytime soon, and that sort of media attention ensures that generations will know what happens when they start asking the wrong questions. "Hey kids, just look at what will happen to your family if you start questioning the laws we make to protect you."

Would Greenwald have done a better service if he hadn't told the world what happened to his partner? I don't know--but maybe.
Is there going to be a news story every time a valley company has an employee who acts like a jerk?
Because it was killed or because it is being resubmitted very frequently from a source that is dead.

That's not the first time I see an article with that many upvotes dead. Was it 'not dead' first? If so then it was a moderation action.
Connectionism is not a predictive theory. Rather it is the manifestation of a depressingly common fallacy in science: assigning a sacred mystery[1] to as-yet unexplained phenomenon.

How does your connectionist interconnected networks of simple units actually give rise to general AI? Answer that and you'll have the "shared language of representation" that the OP was talking about.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/iv/the_futility_of_emergence/
Show HN: I got tired of staring at the same reddit posts so I made this
>>1,000 times faster with 10,000 times less power

Do you even need to read their research to call bullshit?

How many projects have achieved this ever?
If you were one of those people who still -- after all this time -- says things like, "it's OK, [insert law] is only for acts of terrorism", now would be a good time to reconsider that.

Or issues of national security or state emergencies or...
Diversion of a plane carrying a head of state, to be precise.

But yeah, it's not easy to imagine how such decisions are made. Of course, it's one of the features of authoritarianism that the display of authority trumps "tactical mistakes". But it's people who give such orders, not "authoritarianism". The simplistic explanation would be to state they're "pissed off". But maybe reality is quite close to that. By arresting Greenwald's partner, the UK authorities primarily demonstrate, to themselves, that they still hold certain powers -- and I wouldn't underestimate the self-motivational dimension of such a demonstration.
InMoov: The Robot You Can 3D Print
Well, a table is conceptually equivalent to a list of rows
The idea is once you click the next arrow you won't see that post again. I noticed I was spending a lot of time staring the the front page of reddit at posts I had already seen so I hacked this together quickly. I'm not very experienced in this area and it was done quickly so excuse my sloppiness!
After 9/11, many people were detained for a lot longer than 9 hours [1]

If only the same outrage that exists now, existed back then...

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/25/national/25DETA.html
You've confused hope with naivety, where there is none.

Election time is the best time for reform, i.e. where the democratic process has the most influence.
Is It Compromised - Instant Password Check
>> "Threat" is a bit of an exaggeration.

Not at all.
1) That's a huge assumption. Especially given that he went to see Laura Poitras

2) Sure, but for that they didn't need to seize them, they could have copied them. I take it that Greenwald et al are smart enough to use an encrypted dead drop on the net rather than to hand-carry unencrypted bits with the keys in the head or the possession of the carrier.

From the government perspective I can see only bad stuff coming from this, it is a very clear abuse of the law, it will take a lot of tapdancing to explain this one away as a rogue employee.
For every bill I have from phone to internet to all utilities to every credit card, insurance, etc etc etc... That I can name, there is an auto payment option.

The only thing I can think of that still requires a check is paying rent. But for that, and anything else that would require payment by checks, billpay (which is free with every bank I know of or have used) takes care of this.

All of these pretty much can already be automated. All that said, legitimate question, but is there a scenario here that I am overlooking where this would be covered by your service that I can't automate bill payments without writing a check already. Or more accurately, what's different between this and billpay most banks offer (aside from the interface).

EDIT: I suppose the auto address update is a nice feature that most people might have a use for
Maybe he was hellbanned.

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This is probably the worst idea I've read on HN this week.

It's not just legally and politically impossible, it wouldn't solve the problem, it would have dire economic consequences, it would be grossly disproportionate and unfair and these kind of petty attempts at disciplining sovereign nations would only serve to politically destabilise Europe.
the worst tactical mistake made by any government to date

Why would this be a tactical mistake? The general public DOES NOT GIVE A FUCK. The government(s) know(s) this quite well.

If you think for a second that detention of associates of political enemies matters to an electorate far more interested in the minutiae of Kanye West's baby, you're living in a fairy land of your own making.
Do you mean the submitted article? I don't think I mentioned the g forces.

I totally agree though. The g limit acceptable, especially in a reclined couch, is much higher than is applied. Would be a trade off with speed and curve radius. Regarding stopping I agree even more (yes, even more than totally). Trying to limit the design 'emergency' G to 1g lateral (so 1.4g net) is about as reasonable as trying to limit the design g in a plane crash to 1g lateral. As a passenger my main concern in an infrequent emergency is that I a) don't die and b) am not significantly injured. If it happens once in a hundred thousand journeys and I walk away with light bruising from the harness, I couldn't care less.
It was a self-commenting C++ friend function named "ifyouusethisfunctioniwillstrangleyoumyself", written by our extremely talented team leader.
There were a couple of times it was necessary to call this function; the name was there merely to make people think about whether they REALLY needed to call it. Discovering the function itself meant people had already identified some need in their code for it.
So - no actual comment, but a very wonderful piece of code that make people think, and prompted many discussions about the correctness of what they were attempting.
> Archive and Extinguish!

That is the most cruel thing I have read this month.

Really horrible idea. It would be controversial if you would clarify your reasons but until then it is just stupid. My reasoning? You first.
I think the nature of innovation is to have heavy criticism. You guys are doing an amazing job. You have reached the level of design apple has, and now the only way is forward.

I expect great things from you as a team. You guys have brought back the passion to linux and you have pulled me back to linux from Mac and Windows.

You guys have an amazing product. Keep moving forward. Keep being hungry and bring that passion back to the open source community.
Trust can only be established with transparency. The second we start hiding things from each other, we have a real reason to distrust each other.
It is a tactical mistake because stuff like this will tip the scales into the direction of the general public caring about it without giving much of anything in return. It's mostly downside unless Greenwald & co did something dumb, and so far they don't strike me as dumb.
The Evils of Unity Builds (2011)
"HSR goes from city center to city center because that's where people actually want to go." citation? Last I checked, people aren't squeamish about going all the way down to san mateo to get to SFO. OK. So let's say it takes about the same time as HSR (keeping in mind that in the real world "existing lines" are not rated for High speed, and are subject to congestion problems with existing commercial and freight routes)... The pricepoint for hyperloop is about the same as an airplane, which is half as expensive as rail travel. So, you could either take hyperloop or take HSR. The times are the same (assuming no express routes crop up to get to hyperloop), but you do still have to take some public transport or cab or whatever, is it worth it to pay half as much? I think so.
I found some napkin math on stackexchange:

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/4664/stealing...

One of the answers has the following math:
For a large radio tower (100kW), you'd get roughly 80 W per square meter of receiving antenna area at 100m distance.

Since the typical distance to a nearby radio tower is probably more like 5 miles, we can reduce that to ~12mW for a 1m^2 antenna. For the size of a phone, we're talking more like 0.10mW, which is about 10,000 times less than a typical phone needs (assuming it was charging 24/7 with 100% efficiency).

Although, the answer gives the formula as 100kW/(4 * pi * r^2), which seems to give 0.80 W/m^2 instead of 80 W/m^2, so perhaps divide my other answers by 100 (and make that 1 million times lower than the power necessary to power a phone)

EDIT: I previously stated the formula gave the wrong units which was a mistake.
Well... It'd be hard to get much whiter than me! I guess that's my point though, that maybe this guy wasn't targeted but merely a victim of what happens every day. Being associated with the Guardian he'd have known his rights and might've had the confidence to demand them. Not sure which is worse, though.
Random question - but what happens when you divide by zero in go?
I still really want to see it. I've just watched all the Steve Jobs documentaries on Netflix and I love Pirates of Silicon Valley.

Can't find details of when or if it's coming to the UK...
The intent was quite likely to intimidate other journalists, whistle blowers, or just people in a position to help them. It could also have been to make more public that Greenwald has a younger gay Brazilian partner, something we gloss over in this crowd, but for which he'll be judged harashly for in other social circles.

I don't think it was a coincidence that Greenwald was contacted when Miranda was detained. Whoever made the decision is playing a PR game, and wanted this to be in the news.
You may want to read the entire paragraph - he concludes with this phrase - "doesn’t give you the right to be a bitch all the time". He's basically saying that he thinks attractive girls (9s) behave like bitches all the time.

This isn't about value judgements of attractiveness, nasty enough as that can be.
There have been several proposals I think. Last I heard it was dead. The problem is that it kind of sucks as a commercial proposition. A Hyperloop solution, on the other hand, wouldn't. I've done a basic profitability analysis on the route, will publish as soon as I can bloggify it. Basically, even with the existing air traffic only, it's a really attractive route, especially if you link it in to an SF-LA Hyperloop as well and hence capture the SF-LasVegas air traffic too.

The main problem with the xpresswest train is that it basically went from nowhere to nowhere. Still needed a car at both ends. That and its being grossly expensive.
If it actually works it'll inevitably be miniaturized over time I'd imagine, pretty much like everything else in technology.
Because if they increase their prices, as they have done in the past already, you may still want the freedom of hosting your app somewhere else.
Did they say that the partner was carrying information to Greenwald?
I find awesome when this kind of thing happen, It makes pretty clear how the law is manipulated to protect those in power, the fear politics is obviously a strategy to intimidate and control the masses but fortunately, with this kind of abuses, it is becoming more and more apparently.
> There is no reason to think that a general AI would have any of these things, thus concerns about it deciding that its better off without us are completely unfounded.

That's addressing a strawman; I suspect you don't understand the argument. It would be narcissistic to worry about advanced AI meddling in human affairs, unless it were specifically programmed to do so.

But that's not what people are worried about. The concern is that we would be no more to a super-intelligence AI than ants are to us. The concern is that these slow, stupid fleshy bags of meat would be a nuisance in the way of an amoral AI.
Not to get argumentative, but I often come across people trashing app engine and I just don't get it. I think it's absolutely great and how software development should be done,

They should be teaching it to everyone and it should be the default - you start with app engine on any project and only choose something else if it can't be used.

And it's about as cheap as you could make something like that, If google itself finds it valuable, that's a argument in favor, not against, google having some of the best software developers around.

The only limitation currently is it doesn't have postgresql.

(I don't have anything to do with google. I just wish more people used it so more features could be added, and more open source software written for it, and I'd benefit from that).
There's no way Obama didn't know. Remember that Obama just appointed James Clapper, who was caught lying to Congress about there being dragnet surveillance on the American people, to a committee to investigate the NSA and make sure these programs are in check. If he didn't know, it seems like he would be rather pissed at Clapper and reluctant to let him investigate his own agency.
How will stop them from running over more people?
Everyone involved in that needs to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash-only_software and get comfortable with the idea of pulling that plug. It'll help in the long run.
http://play.golang.org/p/TjzkjvDfYa
So what does this have over Ratchet?
Google Claims It Can't Be Sued In UK Courts
ESRI makes complementing, not competing products. Most big ESRI users use Oracle in my experience.
As I've said before, you won't see any review of this until after troops are fully withdrawn from Afghanistan, at which point a review of the AUMF and Patriot act become far more likely.
I've just recently started playing with go and I think the most impressive part is how close you can get to a dynamic language development feel without sacrificing the benefits of static compilation, speed, binary distribution, etc.

There is a lot to love about go and it is very quickly starting to look a lot more interesting than other languages like ruby for future projects.
The only good thing about 'Jobs' is to highlight what a wonderful movie Pirates of Silicon Valley was.
Exactly, see the "Five Eyes": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
I guess they estimated that there won't be many occasions where they'd have to explain that at all. When the Bolivian president's plane was already taken down, who's gonna react about the "ordinary Brazilian guy" kept on the customs?

Moreover, TSA already prepared the people to be numb about the inconveniences at the airports. It became hard to make news about that.
Making an example of a family member is crass to put it mildly, we have a basic principle in law that collective punishment is right out. So we don't punish you for your brothers crimes and so on. To punish a partner for some perceived slight when the principal agent is not charged with anything is something that I have a hard time imagining even today, in a former Soviet Union or affiliated country I could see something like that happen but this being the partner of a member of the press it seems like a spectacularly bad move.

Greenwald has basically been provoked into doing as much damage as he can do, likely he'll reveal more rather than less now. They have taken the gloves off against the one party that was still showing some restraint here.

Interesting how places like CNN don't cover this.
Your "pretty piece of paper" is essentially like getting your drivers license. It allows you get behind the wheel, but it makes no guarantees you'll be any good at driving. In the end it really doesn't matter much which DMV you go to.
What do you do then if you set up a Limited Company and you are your own employer?
...casting nasty looks my way....

That's one of the worst parts of abuses of power; the people not being abused very quickly start to blame the victims of abuse. "You must be a bad person if they're talking to you," onlookers might be thinking to themselves.