skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me this is important because we're getting closer and closer to a tipping point where complete surveillance (i.e. a full take on everyone) is possible.

That's not possible yet, but it's clear that they are working towards it, and in the case of the UK, they already have almost complete surveillance of all communications for a period of days, and then of metadata for longer. Coupled with the fact that almost every mundane action or movement is now tied to communications (often involuntary) via our phones or other devices, that makes it very hard to escape surveillance. That ambition of a full take has always been there, but only now is it becoming possible, and instead of restraining the security services, it appears our politicians are encouraging them. I'm not sure that they, or we, even understand the implications yet, or what will happen when this data leaks or is misused on a large scale.

Even just the analysis of public internet data (like twitter feeds) will at some point in the future have profound effects, let alone the private data our security services are collecting. Retrospective and yet complete surveillance will I believe be the most dangerous part of these programmes, not real-time surveillance. That wasn't possible in the past, and is only just possible now.

So because of the future implications of a full-take on everyone's life spanning decades and our developing abilities to make sense of all that data in instants, relating and cataloguing thousands of people, this is a qualitative change in surveillance capability, and these leaks have shed light on that in a way that previous ones have not.
But I agree with gregpilling. Why did they have to add all of those untested features to the spec. Is sapphire glass really better or is it just a fancy sounding gimmick? And what's up with "Silicon-anode Li-ion?" More RAM sounded good to me and the whole ubuntu in your pocket thing also sounds great, but premium pricing and new hardware technologies that are unproven worry me.
That sounds really dubious since Mark Shuttleworth explicitly said that there is'nt going to be an Edge if it fails to reach its funding goal. To me it sounds more like Canonical got over-realistic with their target. May be they got in the line of thinking that 40K devices are pinch of a much larger Ubuntu community that exists.
The saddest part is that if you resize a desktop browser to be narrow, it's a better experience than you actually get on a phone.
I don't just want Ubuntu on my phone. I want my main Ubuntu desktop running on my phone, so that I can take it with me, with just an external monitor and keyboard needed at my desk. To make that experience really great, we need better phone hardware.
Journalists concerned with being detained already wipe their data or ship SD cards separately for fear of being compelled to forfeit them. They can simply discard the list before they head to the airport.

The most practical way to use this for non-2fa sites would be to have an overly long, random password and save it in the browser's password manager. Delete the Firefox profile before you travel, and you can't be compelled to reveal the password you could never remember.

An easier alternative might be using Deniable Encryption (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deniable_encryption)
I second this. Have a mate of mine that has five years in C and has been able to walk into any shop that he wants, regardless of language they use, and get a gig, and well paying to boot.

On the other end of the scale, I have almost six years in PHP and it's worth as much as a broken kinder egg for anything outside the LAMP stack world (and in some cases, within that world as well)
My my, not keeping up with politics, are you?

"The war on drugs is now 30, 40 years old. There have been a lot of unintended consequences. There's been a decimation of certain communities, in particular communities of color."
-- Eric Holder, 2013

The Attorney General is responsible for the Department of Justice, which is in turn in charge of the FBI and DEA. Also, the FBI does not handle most drug related federal offences. That is the DEA. Get your agencies right!

Anyway, this would be the Attorney General bending the law. Legally, they are supposed to arrest you for smoking Marijuana. However... if the Attorney General bends the rules, and "fails" to arrest you on the charge, then the law is as good as broken. An official order from the Attorney General can stop the DEA from prosecuting Drug users, even without any changes to law.

And thus, the power of the executive branch. They can't change the laws, but Eric Holder is in a position to change the enforcement of laws. That is about as good as he can do, a future Attorney General / President may roll things back.

To Eric Holder, the Drug War is an anti-African American symbol. So it seems like he's doing what he can to stop it. He probably will crackdown on the obvious illegally operated Pot centers in California, but he's probably going to ease up the Drug War as much as he can.
This would have the same effect as refusing to give them the password: you end up in jail.
Well, there is the metric system for one. Maybe the mini USB connectors used for charging mobile phones counts, too.
You do not get it, do you?

A couple of months ago, the default was "I trust this company, unless I have evidence of the contrary". Now the default has radically changed: "I do not trust this company, unless I have very strong evidence of the contrary; and even then, I might not trust them, because they could be forced to lie"

So the internet is now a medium without trust. The less I do there, the better.
Ask HN: How to propose a partnership with a startup?
I have a startup and would like to propose a partnership with other startup. How can I approach them?

Is cold email alright? What if I don't know their email? Can I just use Twitter to contact them?

Do I need to present the necessary documents already? Or just a short message about my proposal is enough?

Sorry for too many questions. But yeah, how to propose a partnership with a startup?
I swallowed the bitter red pill, to realise we all exist in a simulation, written in javascript by some spotty 14 year old.
What I want, (and this may not be your bag), is a management system that I can use in a classroom. I try to organize my courses around projects (vocational 2yr college). I'd like to use real project management tools, but most that I have tried just end up making my like harder.

I need to schedule meetings, events (class time, exams). I'd love to be able to do it in batches, and have Google cal, ical, etc as output.

I need to be able to issue and track identical tasks, progress for each student/worker/programmer, and also issue tasks as a batch.

I'd love to be able to generate a Gantt chart-ish looking syllabus that could be updated as the semester progressed (and also other views).
> you find yourself completely lost when using another installation.

That can also be true for the workstation.

Example: I remapped my caps-lock key to ctrl. Swapped the top row around so the numbers and and symbols are reversed. Stuff like that.

Not even getting into customizing desktops: I use Enlightenment, the other devops guy uses what looks like a bastardized Window Maker and we'll never be at home with each other's computer.
Denmark has something called “Døgnpost” (literally “around-the-clock-mail”), which is sort of an all-purpose postbox. When you order stuff online you can have them delivered to your local Døgnpost. As soon as your parcel arrives at the Døgnpost you receive 2 PIN codes via email or SMS, and when you ring in those codes at the Døgnpost automat, a small door will open and you can take your parcel. It's almost frustration free.

Here's an example of a Døgnpost automat:
https://foursquare.com/v/d%C3%B8gnpost-2861/4d8b5d4bbc848cfa...
> They have the ability to create a standard and make it stick.

This was created by the USPS. Government agencies can't even agree on a standard to use amongst themselves. Through the public in this mess, and now the wikileaks mess and this thing ain't going anywhere.
>By using a “thin client” computer he remotely accessed the NSA data from his base in Hawaii.

Oh no, not a "thin clinet"!!!
If the funding succeeded, I'm not sure how many company will actually let employee use this phone/desktop at work.

Losing the phone is a lot scarier now.
It's such a shame to see this go away. I really found the idea of carrying around a desktop OS in your pocket really fascinating.
That's not what the Guardian says happened. "But once it was obvious that they would be going to law I preferred to destroy our copy rather than hand it back to them or allow the courts to freeze our reporting." http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/20/nsa-snowden-fil... Discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6245419
Intercity preview: What does it do and how does it do it
The definition of eGFR is generally done from a random serum measurement (if you measure it in the classical but rarely done fashion, then you don't have to call it an estimate).

Also, creatinine is measured in serum to estimate gfr. Urine creatinine is more used as part of a test to look for nephrotic syndrome.

Creatinine is produced constantly, filtered and not resorbed, without active secretion, which is why it is an excellent proxy for glomerular filtration rate.
No it doesn't I used to cycle over 16 miles day and I did not eat any more food - I just lost weight which made me healthier.
Another thing:
"I don't think judging other people based on the decisions they make is a healthy attitude."
What would be a healthy attitude to judge others by?
You can run Kate in vim mode. So what happens when other text editors become vim?
U.S to Regulate Autonomous Cars
Show HN: ngProgress - slim, site-wide progressbar for AngularJS, without jQuery
Supply and demand and perception is pretty much what it boils down too. There's a lot of PHP apps, and a lot of terribly written PHP apps. Add that companies that hire for such positions have a plethora of options for cost-effective (read dirt cheap) and a lot of developers that will work for such wages and you have a language that while popular, is not well respected, and has those looking for more money and a more versatile skill set seeking greener pastures.
I have been a middle school/ high school teacher for 15 years, and I have watched countless hours spent on inefficient approaches to scheduling. I have also recognized that it is not a trivial problem to solve. I started writing a program to help with the problem years ago, but didn't make the time to see it through, as I wasn't the one doing scheduling.

I think an overall approach would be to present a number of schedules that could work, and expect the user to do some manual adjustments. Perhaps present a schedule that could work, user checks off which classes to keep, and program shuffles other classes. Repeat until done. I think that's basically the approach people use when they do it manually.
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11 Disqus and IntenseDebate Commenting Alternatives
Don't get me wrong, Disqus and IntenseDebate are by far the best social commenting platforms available, but I'm a curious person and decided to test out some other alternatives. It turns out there are many other developers who are doing a great job raising serious online communities based on comments.
All mature democracies, regardless of the voting system, exhibit similar characteristics. The proportional representation systems prevalent in most of continental Europe don't return significantly different results from the FPTP systems in the US and UK.
FusionCharts vs HighCharts vs jQPlot vs extJS Charts vs Chart.js vs amCharts
Bradley Manning to be sentenced for WikiLeaks disclosures- live update
Google, feeling lucky, may bid for NFL Sunday Ticket
I suppose we could just wait until it gets worse.
The script can be extremely useful and the concerns raised regarding readability can be overcome using the min and max width. If you adjust line height in conjunction with font-size and font selection, text can be readable from 12pt and up, even at 10pt.
According to this calculator http://bicycleuniverse.info/transpo/energy.html

A 155 lb. cyclist gets about 75mpg equivalent, factoring in a typical diet. The vegan gets 145mpg. The site also claims that even with an all-beef diet, cycling is more efficient than driving.

A physics professor (http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/11/mpg-of-a-human/) gets similar results: factoring in the carbon footprint of extra food consumed, biking comes in at roughly 70–130 MPG.

Even these analyses don't seem to include the embodied energy it takes to manufacture a car, which is huge and should be considered a tax on every mile driven. Bicycle manufacturing is obviously much less energy-intensive.
Asking for 30+ million to test the waters is kind of a stretch in my opinion.
695 plus taxes(and in Europe it is at least 21-23%) is lots of money for a phone.

Why they don't finance it? It is the only way normal people could buy it.
Nice, those numbeo comparisons are really good to know, and relevant to this article :) .

As many mentioned, 100K is a lot, but you have to take into account cost of living.

Can't believe Uruguay is 50% more expensive to live in than Poland, used to be the other way round a decade ago.
The fact that you can bite the inside of your own mouth while eating is a pretty major bug in my opinion. Also "déjà vu" is French for "The simulation is lagging"
Honestly I don't think the "write to your MP" action would have any result, for me this is just another tool to make people think that Democracy is being exercised, anyway, I am not saying that you shouldn't do it, please do it, but don't stop your actions there because it is just not enough.
Apropos of nothing: I had no idea "roustabout" was an actual job title. I'd always assumed it was just some sort of archaic insult that you'd occasionally hear from the likes of Monty Burns.

The dictionary has any number of definitions for the term, but the most common seems to be "An unskilled laborer who lives by odd jobs."

If that's indeed the intended description, then we need to take a deeper dive into this issue. I suspect that we have quite a few "roustabouts" getting stuck at the bottom rungs of our labor force, and I'm not talking about illegal immigrants. There are large swaths of the country (particularly in the South and rural Midwest) where people are simply not keeping up with the education or "skills" necessary to remain relevant to the modern workforce.

In large part, this is where I hope services like Khan Academy, Udemy, etc., can start to make a serious impact. It's all well and good for highly educated, well compensated, relatively comfortable folks in the Bay Area to teach themselves a course or two in their spare time. That's awesome. But I'd love to see someone really tackle the training and education of those in our country being left behind.
You're right to be skeptical. It made the rounds last month, but it turned out to be a hoax:

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/01/quake-3-arena-wor...
The doc Waiting For Superman is a troll and dick. So is Michelle Ree. So are supply and demand curves. Sure.
http://archive.is/cT7WX
different but cleaner readability trick for blocks containing text, with css: max-width:62em
ya, hoax
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/07/01/quake-3-arena-wor...

good story tho
So a government can apply terrorism law to a person having information that's damaging to its interests?

That certainly looks like police state to me. And I'm not even mentioning the 9 hours detention, not needed at all to recover the damaging information.
Makes you wonder if they really give a damn about positive PR, or understand PR period.
-would any of you have believed that one day in the early 21st century

no I always thought it would be at one day in the late 20th century. Probably because my parents had found and bought me in comics "1984" and the "Animal farm" when I was a kid
You think Animal Rights Activists and Anti-Fracking Protesters don't care about their privacy? You think they aren't your natural allies on this? They may not understand the mechanisms by which it is all happening, but they are certainly down with the sentiment.

The way I see it, geeks have been complicit with the system for a long time, always under the guise of being "moderates". It's only now that massive corruption is starting to cramp on our style, and the reaction should be much more humble than "we're alone in understanding how bad things are".
I think if anyone reasonable researches this they'll see that there is still some controversy on the issue (Studies show both sides). I don't have an axe to grind in this argument, so I'm not even going to bother digging that deep, but I'm not entirely convinced. I'm not a meat eater for the sole purpose of getting B12 and dont' try to convince vegans to eat meat with such sad arguments, so I hardly care what the true concensious is (though I'd be convinced with some real sites by actual qualified dieticians or other health professionals -sorry, It's a fallacy, but I don't like getting my "facts" from programmers and Wikipedia).

Anyway, my guess is you are in your early to mid twenties, and probably have only been a vegan for a handful of years, am I right? Give it 20, 30 years and lets see if your B12 levels are still good.
It is interesting how counterintuitive quantum mechanics seems and yet many aspects make perfect sense in the eyes of a programmer.

* The foundation of Quantum Mechanics is the idea of quanta. The data or physical quantities of a computer and our Universe can change only by discrete amounts like the bits of a computer. Time, space, and energy are quantized in our universe.

* The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle also implies Interactions don't 'count' unless they affect some other piece of the system. Is the Universe doing called 'lazy evaluation' here?

* Quantum entanglement is like dereferencing a pointer to our universe's data (quanta). Einstein called this spooky action at a distance. Physics today are using this principle to instantly teleport data on photons located hundreds of miles away.

* In computer simulations, the von Neumann stabilitiy criterion states that no effect can propagate at a speed faster than the size step divided by the time step. Interactions in our universe are also limited by the speed of light.

* E=mc2 : mass and energy are two forms of the same thing. Data and the instructions that operate on it are both stored in memory.

* Holographic Principle does away with spatial locality, drastically reducing the number of possible states our Universe can have. None of this makes sense unless the Universe is trying to minimize resource usage.
Lolwut? Are these for two person households where each person is in the same language or only for people working at quant funds? About 40% of my social circle is made up of programmers and no one makes close to these amounts. 100% anecdotal, but, I think we are all being shafted ;0
> A couple of months ago, the default was "I trust this company, unless I have evidence of the contrary". Now the default has radically changed:

You should probably talk to a professional about this. Distrusting everyone is paranoia and a dangerous attitude.
Not only will they not make the website better they are incentivised to not make it better. With the current look/feel/behavior be it good or bad they have grown because of it. Any change they make is likely to make the number of users go down. And as much as the users care about quality the owners metric is always number of users so why change it if it is "working". I am on the watch for a new social tech news site that is optimized first for mobile to replace HN which I am 100% sure will be made and I will switch to at some point in the future.
In a novel he would enter the country get kidnapped, drugged, tortured and would disappear permanently.
Disagreement is not rage. Questioning your position is not rage. Questioning how a comment is topical is not rage.

The model you are proposing has great post-hoc explanatory powers within the united states - however it does not appear to have predictive powers over what we will find in other places and times. Therefore I question it's validity, until you can show how the same model applies to other situations, and can show exigent factors that are relevant when it doesn't apply. Again, this is not rage - this is merely not accepting an insufficiently explained model at face value.

FWIW (not that it matters): I am a software engineer/programmer, my parents are in sales and HR, my other family members are not in education either. I just think overly simple explanations should always be questioned.

As for the salary of a government worker - that depends on the job they do, the value they create etc. I don't know the details to make blanket statements. I think there is a tradeoff - good people doing the job requires competitive salary, paying bad salaries is generally more expensive as it requires more workers to do the same job.
Somehow they've educated the populace into not accepting low pay for dangerous work. Personally I'd prefer good privatised education, but good government education is OK alternative.
Actually, in the scenario I outlined you don't need to take a laptop anywhere.

Just ship the data and use a commodity device at the other end.
Well this sucks, in India even after speaking Java, Ruby, CoffeeScript and Scala I get a measly $35,000 which after taxes goes down to $25,000. Yeah, I know low cost of living etc. etc.
Leading alone? Could you use someone asking what you're trying to accomplish?
It's very hard to do things by yourself without having to answer for anything you're doing on a daily basis. I mean, sure, lots of your friends care about your big updates. But in my experience the best results come from someone asking you about whta you're doing, or pushing you gently about things you've been meaning to do, on a daily basis.

What I'm proposing is that for a small fee (and free trial period of a few days) I simply call you up and ask you 1) what you're doing right now 2) what your goals are for today.

You can find my email in my profile. Look forward to hearing from you - just give me your number, I'll call you, and you can tell me what you want to accomplish TODAY. Tomorrow you can tell me if you succeeded.
'Google was founded on the principle of "Don't be evil"'

I wish people would stop quoting this. It means nothing, and is not binding in any way. It sounded good, and it was a great marketing slogan - but it means absolutely nothing in reality.
The headline is quite misleading to folks with software backgrounds: "Clocked at 427 GHz" implies that the paper's authors measured something with a signal at 427 GHz. In truth, the authors measured up to 30 GHz and extrapolated a figure-of-merit f_T to be 427 GHz.

For comparison: InP-based HBTs were measured north of 400 GHz back in the 90s, which tells you that Graphene in this paper is behind where InP was 20 years ago. Of course, that doesn't make for sexy headlines.

If you're interest in what the figure-of-merit means: f_T is the theoretical maximum frequency that you can build an amplifier and still have the transistor provide gain. Practicalities limit amplifier design (or digital circuits) to frequencies much lower than f_T.
There are many loopholes in the law. For example, the law permits the GCSB to retain any communication that is "incidentally obtained", and to pass that communication to the police, all without a warrant.
>I am just surprised it's at outfits like The Telegraph

I'm not sure why. David Cameron could literally murder a baby on live TV and Dan Hodges would describe it as a 'political headache for Miliband'. Nobody takes him seriously; his columns are just fodder for Telegraph readers looking to confirm what they already believe.

Not to mention all the wacko conspiracy theories about climate change that they print.