skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the same with android. They made adblock stop working several times, slowly tightening restrictions on it. And OS updates remove root, which will break a slew of apps.

It doesn't feel like your device unless you install something like CM.
What do you expect from Google? I have rapidly lost respect for this company in last couple of years.
Well, let's see

Won't support non AT-Disks

Not portable, and needs an MMU

Lame :)
"Speech Jammer" gadgets do something similar to your speech, and IIRC have been used in speech therapy as well (for stuttering).
Exactly - this was his plan whole time. That is why he sent letter about Thompson's resume; that is why he wanted seat; that is why he wanted to "unlock value" of Asian assets;
that is why Yahoo bought his shares at July 19’s closing price, guaranteeing liquidity without forcing Third Point to pay a discount, as usually happens when an investor offloads a large chunk of stock.
Parabon Leaks
Project Floodlight: 2nd generation open source switch
All the 386-specific stuff seems like an argument in favor of "do things that don't scale."
Yes you can if you care enough. I don't read ebooks often and only open calibre a few times a year. My time and effort is better spent on projects I use frequently. Plus you're assuming I have enough knowledge about their underlying technologies to contribute. I don't know python and while I'm pretty good with UX and UI layouts I'm not a designer.
I think that Microsoft has first grown to become a "monopoly". this has been done by killing (or buying or copying) concurrency and by providing software that were cheap or trivial to copy. In a second phase, they have been able to make a lot of profit by forcing people to buy their products. They are still in this phase and a lot of concurrency has appeared. If Microsoft does not want to die, I think they should stop these huge profits and kill again the concurrency by selling cheap software, easy to copy. The version of Office and windows that is sold to particular is a striped down version. The full experience of what could be Microsoft product is only available in enterprise versions. I think people are fed up of being considered as second class citizen or like sheep. If Microsoft gives the whole software (with all languages), for a small price, there would be less motivation to go to concurrency.
At lest in Germany the police still uses them to justify random searches. I haven’t been affected by that since I’m quite white (even though I live in one of those zones where the police can more easily search me). In the train and train stations police seems always laser-focused on inconveniencing brown and other strange looking people. They are masters at racial profiling.

For white people those open borders are quite nice and quite open in every sense of the word. The outside borders of the EU are for aggressively and inhumanly keeping people out.

Ok, if you are young, alone and in a train from the Netherlands to Germany (or in similar suspicious places) you might get searched for drugs but that’s about it. And even then those searches are quite random and don’t happen very often.

But the rampant racial profiling sucks. (One example of why that is the case and obviously unfair: I can be lazy and late and show up at the train station three minutes before my train leaves. I do that regularly. No problem practically every time. The police never once in my life stopped me. And whenever I did see them stop someone in the train station those people had one thing in common: they were not white. If I were brown I would have to think twice about arriving so late and hope that the police doesn’t see me.)
TSA is going there.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/us/tsa-expands-duties-beyo...
What MSFT did in 2K4 instead of buying all then existing internet companies
I'm not saying that entertainment doesn't have value. I said it's perfectly fine if you're earning an income from creating it and it's OK as a hobby to create. But otherwise, the market (the people that constitute the world) have told you it's not valuable.

Art for art's sake is great, but it doesn't mean artists should get a free pass to do whatever they want and the rest of us digging coal mines and waiting tables give them money for art we don't like.
Yup. $100/sqft is what you pay in the weaker school districts and for older homes. In the newer homes with better schools, it's closer to $120-130/sqft.

Houses sell really quick too. If the current trend continues for another few years in Austin, it will be at Boulder, CO levels for housing (which isn't that far off from Bay Area housing prices).
I remember cycling across the border from France to Italy once. Just a deserted alpine road, it was beautiful...

Also, come to think of it, the sleeper train from Paris to Munich last summer didn't ask me for any ID at all...

The time we drove from Croatia to Italy was a different story though (come to think of it, that was before it joined the EU a month ago, so probably not relevant.)
None of what you say refutes my assertion that spying on the UN is a common activity. If anything, it sounds like you're saying it's only wrong when the US does it.
http://www.nextgov.com/big-data/2013/01/fbi-and-dhs-team-nab...
> 1)It's $35. I spend more than that on a week's worth of lunch.

That's not a real argument though is it? The issue is that Google are intentionally trying to further a closed ecosystem and the people who don't want to be part of it/their system.

It doesn't matter if the price is $0 or $500, if Google has an anti-freedom/choice ideology then there will be pushback on that. That pushback might be technological (e.g. CM mod) or political (EFF et al) but it will occur.

The price point is just a distraction that I'd suggest people don't get drawn into. Google doesn't owe you anything, but you also don't owe Google anything, and are entitled to bitch if you're unhappy with the amount of choice you have.
Seems like 35$ for this device was too good to be true. Hopefully there will be some custom ROM sometime, anyway i wanted to get one soon, but now i will hold out as streaming anything to my TV would have been the killer feature for me.
Except for google. Got this from a tweet by @cdixon.
"be the change you want to see in the world"
OP, you lost a battle, not the war.
Do you want a "cool" border between EU countries?

Fly to Ireland with a stop in the UK (from a Schengen country or somewhere else)

You'll go through passport control twice
The Haskell Cast
> just a recompilation of the kernel

"just"

Inconceivable now, with out-of-the-box systems e.g. Ubuntu, but this was fairly common relatively recently.
Exactly,

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(with sarcasm quotes intact) is exactly the word many would use to describe moderation on HN.
is mainly a phenomenon found in a sub-culture of black America.

You only have to watch prime-time television to know that phenomenon is common amongst many demographics.

Anyone who has been immersed in an African-American community for any length of time can tell you this.

I'm black. I went to an upper-class mostly-white private school, and there was some pressure to "fail" but it came from both whites and blacks. One the other hand, my peers who went to the local inner city high schools found extremely supportive environments, so much so that I really regret that my parents sent me to the private school.

The typical insult among school-children is "acting white" or "Oreo"

It might be "typical" yet I never heard anyone say it out loud IRL. However terms like "nerd," "geek," "dweeb" etc were common occurrences IME. And it wasn't coming from black kids.

it is widespread enough to warrant heavy discussion within the mainstream black community.

Heavy discussion is not academic rigor. It's been studied by a lot of people (not just Ogbu) and as might be expected, the results are complicated. Quoting from an older post of mine:

Tyson et al found that reduced academic achievement was generally for a variety of reasons ("fear of not doing well academically" being the biggest) and not "acting white": http://www.tc.columbia.edu/students/see/events/Darity_et_al_...

Cook and Ludwig as well found that "acting white" was not much of a factor in academic perforamnce: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/%28SICI%291520-66...

I had quoted from two other papers by Erika White and Roland Fryer (who is a proponent of the "acting white" hypothesis but had to adjust his definition to show any trends) but those links are dead now.
discovery: pitchfork.com and recursively following artists on soundcloud
> heavily biased towards data from travellers & expats

That's funny because I was about to say exactly the opposite -- that the data is biased towards data from and for residents.

Using Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro as examples, Numbeo's figures make them seem quite inexpensive.

The problem is that as a tourist or as a business visitor, you are paying hotel prices, not rent. Hotels in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are surprisingly expensive (approaching New York City prices).

For reasons I can't understand, the ratio of hotel room price to annual rental price of an unfurnished apartment in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro is much worse than in other cities around the world I'm familiar with. Renting a furnished flat on a monthly basis is also very expensive.

This distorts the picture hugely. As a tourist or business visitor, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro end up being very expensive cities to visit, whereas as a resident, it wouldn't be so bad.
You're repeating my argument from the GP post, so I'll summarise it again: Security and Liberty are to a significant extend tradeoffs. [1] However, currently we're so far out on the side of security that the security gains of the measures are nil. The current measures just have costs in liberty while providing no security benefit.

> also, even your hypothetical example falls pretty flat on its face. your world of everyone in a cell might actually have more theft, rape, crime etc. who is guarding the cells? who is doing the feeding? would they exchange favours for additional food?

Robots ;)

[1] The relationship is somewhat more complicated, for example at least a certain extend of security is required for liberty and there's more factors in play, but that's a different case to make.
RIP Red Burns, "mother of the hacker artist community in NYC"
Spying happens among friends at least as often as among enemies and prospective enemies. Maybe even more so, because it is commonly used for back-channel diplomacy.
And playing a lot of Payday and Counter-Strike has made me a really good...um...er...huh.
Google just killed the best thing about the Chromecast
Exactly. I think we're a long way from malice here, or even incompetence. That the ChromeCast has an SDK at all at this stage seems like a pleasant surprise; I feel certain the API will become more stable over time. If this were truly intended to be a closed device, unavailable for use except by specific media partners, why would there be a public SDK at all?

In the absence of a statement from Google that the ChromeCast by design doesn't support the functionality used by this or other video streaming apps, I'd consider it premature to assume intentional breakage.
people being able to see your travel history. Go to places on one side of the argument with one passport, then the other with the other, they never need to know you went to both.
>straight pipe Harleys

I live in Milwaukee. Harley's 110th is here this week(end). I made a point to stock up on sleep over the weekend :)

Seriously, that "Loud pipes save lives" thing is such bullshit. Hearing a bike coming from a mile away is not the same thing as seeing where they are. And then at 2am the bars close and everyone goes outside to see whose bike is the loudest...

I like bikes, probably going to buy one someday, but modding your bike specifically to see how loud you can make it is unbelievably obnoxious.
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Having fun with it so far... Simple demo - http://cdpn.io/Gyzlh
Yeah, forming teams is pretty normal - I think ssafejava is talking about something well in excess of simply forming a team and talking about ideas.

I was at Angelhack NYC last time it was held, and was disappointed in that way also. The winner, and indeed a lot of contestants, had code or designs that were impossible to generate in a 48 period.

There was a "code review" clause in the rules, but I did not see it ever enforced. Some of the high-ranking (the ones that made it into the final round of judging anyways) projects had clearly pre-cooked designs and mockups (this wasn't against Angelhack's rules), and obviously little to no working code. Many presentations were slide decks. Disappointingly few showed the core idea working.

I've always thought that the spirit of a hackathon was to get together with some crazy smart people and see what useful and worthwhile things you can bang out in a limited time. Precooking 95% of your project beforehand seems rather against the spirit of this.

Personally I've resolved to stop going to corporate-sponsored hackathons, or hackathons where investors are waiting at the sidelines. There's a tremendous misalignment of incentives and it encourages a rather ruthless atmosphere. It's no longer about good clean fun and all about attracting investor attention.

Question: anyone in NYC know about low-key hackathons where it actually fits the spirit of a hackathon?
There's no such thing as perfect scouting: at all levels of the game there are points where you have no idea what's coming except by reading your opponent and the metagame. For example, expecting a 6 pool or early all-in after your opponent has just taken a game in a 5 game series. Or, figuring out it's a banshee rush based on nothing but a blocked ramp.

So no, Starcraft is not perfect knowledge; much like poker you do a lot of reasoning and what amount to Expected Value (EV) calculations to figure out what your opponent is most likely to do. To gain information about what your opponent is doing in the game requires expending in-game resources, which is pretty much the exact opposite of perfect knowledge.
I feel bad that I had to look up "lawrence page" as it just didn't click.
This is true in the short run, but in the long run you can wear people down and get through to them. Nobody said politics was easy.
Snowden was stranded in Russia after Cuba blocked entry
Ask HN: Best places to migrate to, for software people?
There is some discussion going on, on this topic here -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6275826

It would be useful/interesting to know, which places are friendly, and which places have opportunities - specifically for digital workers (software, design, SEO, writing, media etc). If you've moved to a new place, please share your experience - visa problems, language barriers, xenophobic/racist issues, work permits, taxes etc
More information about preclearance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_border_preclearan...
If you think about it, it is like an infinite loop. Someone asking about creating Google in a Google forum.
Whenever I see something like this, I'm always reminded of this great post:

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/old-age-and-treachery.h...
Bizarrely enough at the Chinese border they only cared that the paperwork is in order. The last few times I went, everyone passed by the giant customs X-ray without even filling out a nothing-to-declare form. China's border crossing inspection for foreigners is far less invasive than the US's for citizens.
Many of my ancestors immigrated to the Americas in the 17th or 18th century.

Best case I have something like 4th or 5th cousins in Europe. Not someone I can just drop into their lives.
OP:

"perfect demonstration of the dangers of a completely free market"

You:

"perfect demonstration of a completely free market"

Do you see where the difference is?
Yes, in fact as parent has stated this is the standard procedure. I've have been yelled at and demeaned many times by these self entitled federal mall cops for this and many other non-issues.

They treat you like criminals.

Only two weeks ago as I flew from SFO to JFK, I was held up for twenty minutes before I even got a screening. Then the guys tells me he has found chemical traces on his gloves prompting a screening they refused to do in public.

With his supervisor present and giving me dirty looks, they turned my bags upside-down and grabbed my junk with their palms.

Luckily the plane I was flying on was delayed two hours from its previous destination or I would have missed my flight.

The kicker is, some other passenger is walking around the airport scot-free with the "chemical traces" they are supposedly looking for.

I get harassed about 50% of the time when I fly. I fly back and forth through the same airports every other month. I recognize these guys harassing me, I see them a dozen times a year.

It's because I have an Arabic last name and a hefty beard. These guys are racially profiling American citizens.

Oh yeah, after all of it, they always recite the canned "Sorry for any inconvenience, have a nice day" with a fake smile.

Well, this turned out to be a little longer than I had expected. At least the first sentence was relevant to your post =)
Wow, I was a grad student ITP under Red. She was a pure genius and visionary. Sad day.
Not just copied, "pirated". :-)
i feel like an obvious problem is being overlooked. if every firefox bundles tor, mozilla might end up on government blocklists all by itself.
I feel slightly depressed...
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/06/why-i-have-nothing-to-h...
I think he was saying that this is a case of Hanlon's razor[1]. i.e. this situation could be easily explained by simple api churn (and the fact that the OP was using an undocumented api), so it may not be appropriate to ascribe malice without evidence.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
The website mentions extracting "308,745,538 observations" (21 GB in size) and transforming it to some custom CSV files, for processing via Java. I don't see any of the Java code on GitHub.

...he mentions use of a summary file, "SF1", and there's some kind of PDF here:

--> http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html#y2010tecdoc

--> http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/doc/sf1.pdf

It's more or less, a user manual for roughly 300 other tables, but where are they? Is the actual census data itself available freely, in detail?

I think this is it:

--> http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/04-Summary_File_1/

New York, as an example:

--> http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/04-Summary_File_1/New_Yor...

--> http://www2.census.gov/census_2010/04-Summary_File_1/New_Yor...

Is this the original, actual source data?
Linus made a post for the occasion on his G+ page: https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/Hy9pzJok...
This is one of those insane comments that I only ever see on hacker news.

Who gives a shit how they pick up leaves in Europe? Picking up leaves isn't some artful process..it's drudgery which consumes some amount of my (finite) life, and which technology has provided a quicker solution.
If you really believe that, I'd suggest you check out the WCS Season 2 Grand Finals from last night. Really, all of the WCS event. Proxies do quite well against standard build orders--that's one of the things that makes pro play so much fun to watch.
I fall into a similar category as you. The only difference is that I prefer that my music come on CD unless it is an online only album.

For tagging I use EasyTag[1]. It looks to be very similar to mp3tag except that it runs on pretty much every operating system. (Does mp3tag run under Wine?)

[1] https://projects.gnome.org/easytag/screenshots.html
I play probably 4 or 5 ladder games a week - I slowly have improved (although moving last month made my ability drop noticeably), and I'm investing about as much time per week as watching a movie each week.

Then again, I'm in Gold and happy to stay there. The ladder system seems to do a good job of putting me up against reasonable opponents.
Orwell is awesome, but his linguistics were long-ago debunked. For a good, easy-going (popular) assessment of modern linguistics pick up one of Steven Pinker's books. He tries to ram through his own conception (mentalese), but despite this he still offers a nice survey (and strong argument against Orwell).
Finally! I have been waiting in anticipation, not unlike a pre-pubescent girl at a Justin Bieber concert, for Matt Damon to make a statement. Oh thank you, great actor whose day job is to read what other people tell you to say, for telling me what to think. I would be lost without his voice, guiding me like a compass towards the truth.
The date header of that message says it was sent 25th of August:

Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT

Which happens to be my birthday, except I'm 8 years older. :)
StarCraft AI Competition 2013
@letsmoot :)
Well this device has gone from a "must have" to a "no thanks".
Everyone on HN is an expert on working at Google and its policies it seems. Speculation and pet theories at it's finest.
Nilved, I didn't say I support NSA surveillance and wholesale data collection.
On the contrary, if a half-dozen different people don't misinterpret your point on a widely-read Internet forum, you probably didn't say anything worthwhile.
irrespective of wether or not this was accidental or on purpose, I do find the content of the "edges into the light" article quite offensive.

The official stance appears to be "It's OK for us to break the law as long as we do it by accident", which is not just an incredibly weak argument, it's a dangerous precedent. Who defines 'accidental'? It seems to me that if used exactly as intended, PRISM breaks the law.

We now have the whole LOVEINT angle, where the incursions were absolutely not accidental, but we're somehow meant to be ok with it because the very fact the the NSA knew about it happening somehow proves that they're on the case. They also feel it is something that the US public does not need to know about.

My brain hurts trying do the mental gymnastics required in order to see this whole debacle from the intelligence communities point of view. No matter how I look at it, they're bad people doing bad things and telling us to like it without offering a shred of evidence to justify their actions.
US, land of the free…
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comp.lang.java isn't a "Google forum"... It's a USENET newsgroup that is now carried/mirrored by Google Groups.
You surely know this, but for clarity: it's a Usenet group. Google inherited a huge Usenet archive when they acquired Deja News and used it as the core of what eventually became Google Groups. But it was never a corporate-maintained forum. Usenet was always distributed.
Imagine if Linux was built today the same way many contemporary startups are (particularly from a marketing perspective).
The TSA guy has done it a thousand times and thinks nothing of it.
I wonder how many decent devs spend anywhere near 4 hours a day typing.
I spend most of my day working out what to build and how to build it, not typing.
I do want them converge. However, I dislike MS approach with separate incompatible software stores.

Ubuntu tablet seems to be the right way to do it.
Is it not the same elswhere? It is at least in the UK, what about the rest of Europe?
I imagine it's hard for you to see how arrogant and insensitive it is to rub your success and privilege in the face of the middle class. Think about that twice next time.

You have a great life. Appreciate it but also appreciate others. Being successful doesn't have to mean being a jerk.
Do you need to have a savings that you can live off of for 6 months (if you can't work)?
I agree with the others in this thread the idea of moving is very easy. Just getting a visa can be expensive.
You know you're young when you download a tarball and can find files with a timestamp older than you.
Do you remember how right after 9/11 GW Bush said, to paraphrase, "they hate our freedoms". "They" being terrorists I suppose, though I think the popular interpretation was "Muslims".

We're giving "them" less to hate with every passing year.