skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FBI as every state organization is a position of power give by the state and it's citizen to protect them from illicit activities. All of them, not some of them.

When the FBI engages in unethical and illicit practice, it's like stating that rules do not apply for them. Given for granted that they are in a position of power a priori, it's hard for me to see how this is good thing and how accountability can be held.

Also you seem to be convinced that the judge and court will apply the rule of law to the FBI as they would have done with you and me.
I don't know why you assume the future will be better than the past.

50 years there were full blown dictatorships in Europe and South America, dozens of millions were dieing in China, and Soviet officials in submarines were blocking the launch of nuclear missils. Oh, and Vietnam war, Kent State, etc.

70 years ago we were in a world war, smashing half of Europeu to pieces and blowing up full cities in Japan, plus, you know, the holocaust.

80 years ago there was the Great Depression, and all of its effects. My grandmother, in an western European country, lived without electricty, running water, education and barely enough food.

And this is just a self- serving European perspective written in five minutes; there were plenty of horrors I probably don't even know about.

The NSA? it doesn't come even close.
The way I put it to my coworkers is that we are rapidly approaching the point at which we must choose between a society which redistributes the benefits of automation and one where the majority subsist on garbage dumps. But as long as many people don't vote, and a large number of those who do vote are distracted by idiotic "moral" issues we'll drift towards enclaves and garbage dumps.
>Why is it that technology could bring us closer to heaven, but we choose over and over again to live in hell?

Working people don't choose. People in power and corporations choose. And the constant is that they want to expand the number of hours and reduce the pay.

The extra productivity that automation brings doesn't matter. It's not like they target X levels of productivity. They target "as much productivity as we can get, up to infinity".

Plus, what would they do with a population that had time in its hands to think and be involved instead of being a wage-slave bound by debt?

(That's not some dystopian tinfoil concept. It's a standard concern of those at the top of any given society from the age of the Romans ("panem et circenses"), to Machiavelli to modern era think tanks).
It's not "undebatable", it'd just be a waste of time to debate it with you, if you have your conclusion prior to examination.

Things happen in 1984 because it makes for a good story

I see you're not familiar with Orwell and his motives for writing at all.
Every social network strives to be this for people.

http://xkcd.com/927/
Could have sensors warning you.
Yeah, I seriously given up when I saw the "appeal to authority" of $50 million. I mean, how is this:

> We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface.

Relevant to anything? I'm supposed to feel intimidated by a heap of dollars, right?

Where are the exact experiments described and results presented? Where is the paper with all of these details? I searched the web, but I couldn't find it. Perhaps I need to pay some $.

There's a commentary on this piece by Jeff Atwood, which points out the fact that the article is seriously old and that understanding of the issue has changed in the meantime. I can't say for sure, but from what little info there is in the article it seems that way - I'm not going to argue that there are efficient mouse-centric interfaces being designed and used or that the mouse should never be used as an input device. What I'm saying is that there is a least one keyboard based interface for text editing which is more efficient than equivalent mouse based interfaces - for the most part. I admit that there may be some tasks easier to accomplish with mouse (although we didn't see them yet), but that doesn't invalidate my argument, especially because if they exist, then Vim allows for mouse usage to do them.

The AskTog article is linked to from a page on Plan9 editor, Acme - it's another piece which uses ancient version of vi for comparison. It's so frustrating to see people completely ignore all the development in the Vim interface because it's early versions were much worse. And they are prominent people in our industry, too. It's just sad.

I now have some idea about what makes editing efficient. I may even create the next AppleWriter, although I think Chris Granger already does a good enough job. Almost nothing lutusp said turned out to be true, but the thinking I put into this discussion let me realize some important things about editing. So, on the whole, I don't think I wasted this time.

However, any more than this I feel would be a waste.
You've done a great job capturing the exquisite design of the paper edition. When I saw the title I was expecting jpg scans of the equations, or something worse, and I was surprised of finding something Tufte would be proud of. Thank you very much.
UR says it best:

> All subterfuges and evasions to the contrary, the basic economic problem faced by 20th-century governments (somewhat less in the 19C; far more in the 21C) is unemployment. The cause of unemployment is simple: in an industrial economy, most human beings are economically useless. They are not productive assets at all. They are liabilities. For a brief transitional period, they could still be used as industrial robots. This period is close to its end.

[..]

> as the Singularity nears, the future of work becomes clear - there is an IQ threshold below which any human, no matter how cheap to feed, is a liability. Classic unskilled manual labor remains productive in some domains - gardening, housecleaning, and so on. Perhaps this will be true for another decade or two. It will not be true indefinitely.

It's a big problem all right, and we'll start to face it for realz by the end of this decade, IMO.
360 degree treadmill: http://www.virtuix.com/about/
Even an unprivileged compromised PHP script can open sockets and send email. Is it your intent that your server be able to send spam?
Asphalt 8 is FREE for this weekend
Unfortunately, this is not how it works. Two reasons:

- Firstly, our culture changes so rapidly that evolutionary timescales become entirely irrelevant to it. The various cultural changes since suffragetism, and the various civil rights marches, the legislation that comes after the leading wave of equality but comes before the general public social changes, all of these things have happened since then, at a rate of more than one significant change per generation. This, in evolutionary terms, is an eyeblink. Gender equality is, as a concept in the western world, less than a hundred years old. Four generations is nothing, even in labs that study mutations and evolution in an accelerated way.

- Humans have something like 90-95% infant survival now. Evolutionary pressures are substantially less than they are in any other species, and less than at any time in our past. Not only are cultural changes irrelevant to genetic changes at our timescales, but they have even less effect than they would have had if we mutated (and died) more often.

So, it's a nice argument, but it has absolutely no merit.
Abrupt rise of new machine ecology beyond human response time
Nice article. It's the first time I've heard of it, and I enjoyed reading it.
Having separate iptables for IPv6 is painful. Are there any means to address this?
Your private key should be encrypted with a strong password.

If you follow that best practice, you can stop worrying about your laptop being stolen, and start worrying about five dollar wrenches. (http://xkcd.com/538/)
Not knowing much about this stuff, are there any clients that will 'automate' the knock for you? If so, can you make any suggestions? Or is this a matter of CLI SSH will do it, but I'm just not finding it?
My dedicated server provider ships grsec enabled kernels by default. Admittedly, they tend to be a bit stale.
instead of saying "Why it will never happen", I think we should focus on how will it happen. Thats what hackers do. When DC current was invented by Edison,Everyone believed that current will never be able to cover the whole world because DC current cannot travel long distances. But tesla proved everyone wrong by inventing the AC current. And thats how most of the countries delivers electricity in its remotest areas.

So I can understand this idea is somewhat naive, but an idea can drive the future of the smartphone industry. Its our job to make it happen.

If you need another such story, we have henry ford's V8 engine. If he would have given up, probably we wouldn't have a v8 engine today. here is a link http://iwantanonlinebusiness.com/the-impossible-ford-v8-engi...
Multiplayer fights are going to be bloody...
Hello.

I am surprised that none of you mentioned that some of those functions, at least the haversine function saves precision.
-Which is important if you do your calculations with something that doesn't have the long doubles and such.

I code some in AppleScript, and I love the haversine function since I have a precision of only 12 digits or so. Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haversine.
That is a fairly interesting opinion on that issue:

http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/2962...
I disagree with the principle that we should make more things to reduce waste. I'd much rather take the 800$ I'm supposed to spend on buying this phone, and give it to someone trying to repurpose old electronics.
This illustrates precisely why wikipedia is actually fairly robust.

Because anyone can edit an article, generally, there's a catch-22 for things like spam entries. If nobody sees it then it can stay around for a while, but then again nobody is looking at it. But if a lot of people see it then the problems tend to be addressed either because mods take notice or because individuals edit out the spamminess.
That's really useful - I've often wondered how to do it, and I've never seen it put so succinctly.
> I don't buy the speed argument. In a modern PC, many things are pluggable. PCI express can transmit up to 30 GB/s, IIRC. Even CPUs and RAM are modular. If there was such a benefit from soldering them together, I'm sure we would be seeing more integrated systems.

The issue between the CPU and memory isn't throughput (the vast majority of operations are <=64 bits at a time), it's latency. Latency is directly affected by the amount of wire between the two things. In a desktop, you can offset the latency to a large, replaceable memory module by adding smaller amounts of more expensive memory (cache) directly in the CPU chip.

> Furthermore, the modem part of many smartphones is already a black box that is heavily isolated from every other component. It's basically just hooked into a bus, and connected to microphone, speakers, and antennas, and doesn't necessarily interface that much with the CPU.

This is partially true. The CPU still needs to control the radio, and they're constantly feeding each other data. You might want to send the audio data through a DSP for audio processing. The microphones/speakers will be shared between the two, and probably go through a codec. Also, Qualcomm radios and CPUs are pretty tightly coupled. If you want to do CDMA for the US (they seem to have patents on all of the CDMA tech) then you need to use a QC radio, which means that you need to use a QC processor, a QC codec, ... (Source: I used to work on audio firmware at RIM.)
Exactly, the industry would quite likely resist building such a device - there are very little incentive to do so - they would rather sell you a brand new model.

As with most consumer products, especially electronic devices, there's quite a lot Planned Obsolescence in mobile phones.
Here's a direct link to the pdf[1] because the socallinuxexpo site returns a 404.

[1] http://www.brendangregg.com/Slides/SCaLE_Linux_Performance20...
You could walk around the perimeter of the wall to 'calibrate' your safe environment, although thats dependent on the sensor drift (they say its very accurate).

I'm assuming with the combination of all the (multiple) inertial sensor data they could probably account for that to a pretty accurate degree.
I don't know what this particular person does, but wikipedia isn't zero sum. It's entirely possible for businesses an wikipedia to have mutually beneficial relationships, just as many do with open source software.

On the other hand the Gibraltar thing was an embarrassing abuse of the system.
This is indeed a general problem. Facebook and google+ where response attemps. But my impression is that they failed because they didn't focus on this particular service to do it right.

I would push the vision further. We need a service to also publish, revoque and update public keys/certificates. You suggest to have this information restricted and share it as needed. But some people want this information public like people in business or companies. So the shared as needed is only a particular use case. You also want access control. We can't solely rely on sharing limits.

Another thing is that people should be able to have more then one such sphere/internet identity, one for professional activity, one for private activity, etc. One should be able to have throwaway identities or network identies without links to our real identity to preserve our privacy or security.

It's been some time that I was thinking of this need and of a possible implementation (i.e. DNS like). I would love to share my thoughs and participate in such project. You should be able to contact me at chmike@dupif.com.
You just might want to read a post I did a while ago about the same idea, packaged slightly different: http://momo.brauchtman.net/2012/02/09/distributed-management... .
No, the NSA was not behind the DigiNotar hack
VR seems like its getting incrementally closer to becoming a real thing. I wonder though, would that have been true without kickstarter?
It is already happening. Automation = lower product prices = you don't need to earn as much money = start working part-time which is a perfectly viable option today.
There's another way to look at this. As automation increases, the costs of running businesses decreases, making it easier for new entrants to compete (assuming the computing hardware and software is easily accessible). So as the workforce becomes increasingly computerised, you could see an increase in company owners (a job that is unlikely to be ever computerised).

There are two main drawbacks to this alternative view. Firstly, there will still be restrictions in place of physical resources (not everyone would be able to setup a mining company, for example), which will govern who can compete. Secondly, there would be limits on how many companies in a certain sector could be sustained. At some point I hope we resolve these issues by moving beyond personal greed.
My understanding is that you can't perform lossless rotation on a jpeg unless it's dimensions are a multiple of 8. I'm not 100% sure about this so I'm happy to be corrected.
We are working on just such a website actually. It's why we are trying to learn more about what people are dealing with. We're hoping to put a tool into experts' hands that lets them curate, organize and sequence the wealth of information out there to best show the path for someone to gain proficiency.

Sound interesting?
It's interesting to see Fantom and Awk tied for second-to-last place. Strange bedfellows!

It's also interesting, to me at least, to see Nimrod and Ceylon with similar numbers of repositories. I've seen Nimrod linked to and mentioned here a number of times. I don't think i've ever seen Ceylon mentioned. I find Ceylon very interesting, because it's an attempt to build a Java successor without falling into the kitchen sink of madness that Scala has.
New iPhones come up short, even with new features
As sad as it may be that the current California-centered incarnation of technology has fallen to become Yet Another Feudal Reputation Economy, I think the only thing worth doing is to figure out what comes next. It's dead, we won't be able to save it, so let's move on. The established players aren't going to quit their shitty behaviors just because a few negative blog posts are written about the death of meritocracy in the Valley (which is old news; they're the ones who killed it).

Rather than complain about MBA culture and colluding VCs and Stanford Welfare, we should be figuring out a way to replace these assholes. What are we, as a generation, going to build that shows them up? The same inefficiency that beset large corporations in the 1990s is hitting the mainstream startup scene now.

Maybe Austin will take the lead, possibly somewhere else like Portland, Chicago, Baltimore, or Durham. It might not even be in the US.

What does make me sad was that I thought (being extremely naive) that the Crash of 2008 might have a positive effect on technology, by reversing the "talent graveyard" effect of finance. However, quants (the ones we'd want) mostly stayed in high demand; the ones who moved into tech from finance were the MBA-culture types who ruined New York's potential to ever be taken seriously as a startup scene. It had the exact opposite effect of what I was hoping for.
Klout and startup adolescence
Could you standardize how screens are connected?
They already stand out as a list by the fact that they contain multiple items.
My feeling is that we need a neutral and decentralized service for that like the DNS. I want this information hosted in my country and subject to the laws of my country and as a free service like the phone white pages companion of an internet access. Protocol should be open and an internet protocol if a new needs to be defined.

Facebook and Google+ are definitely not the final answer to that need.
I think you can beat wikipedia by focusing on its weaknesses, but anonymity is not one of them, per se (at best it's a weakness as well as a strength).

Notability: a dumb policy that is more harmful than good.

Mod/admin power tripping: this is where anonymous edits might be a weakness because they validate the existence of mods who think they contribute more to the site than they actually do. Maybe some sort of gamification/karma system would be workable.

Weak sourcing constraints: wikipedia's criteria for a good source are basically "some notable entity believes it". A site that invested a significant amount of resources in valuing and even hosting and validating primary sources and more rigorous sourcing of facts would be a tremendous complement to wikipedia.

Clumsy formatting: wiki markup is definitely holding back wikipedia, there are other ways to present data and there are opportunities for competitors to take advantage of better presentation systems (not just prettier or easier but more usable and practical).
The new job pays less but also raises the margin which in a healthy market lowers product prices. Purchasing power increases and everyone is happy.
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Modern rule generators use to have this in account. Well, maybe you still need to maintain certain definitions separated (as far as I can see on http://www.fwbuilder.org/4.0/docs/users_guide5/working-with-...)

But home made scripts and rulesets, may or may don't, depends on implementations.
Reuters' URLs seem to be messing up HN dupe-detection. Here are 2 other prior posts of this story:

15 points - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6377663

1 point - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6379004
Except they don't. They haven't been keeping up for the last 30 years of growing automation and stagnating wages. In that time the world has seen massive population growth, which exacerbates the basic problem just as the information revolution accelerates it.

You can tell yourself whatever you want, but that won't close the massive gap between your perspective and actual reality.
I feel like there's some irony in serving up these recommendations on a non-encrypted connection
I really hope this gets funded.

As popular as the Sixense Stem kickstarter is (exceeded its target within hours), its severely limited by the max number of sensors (5) in its working radius for full body immersion (joint positioning in particular) or multiple player usage.

We really need something like this in order to push the boundaries. The alternatives cost a small fortune.

(p.s. Not affiliated, just really want this to happen.)
Thanks to competition people in power don't choose either. Higher margin will eventually lead to lower prices.
> It's dead, we won't be able to save it, so let's move on.

I think rumours of the California start-up scene's demise are vastly exaggerated. Maybe we should wait proclaiming it 'dead' until it is no longer the top foundry for new start-ups world wide?
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I am working on this direction in my spare time:

- A Web Orchestration Language: http://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration-...

- Egont Part II: http://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/
Agreed. This is so common a problem that it makes perfect sense for there to be a completely _separate_ service out of it.

The commercial aspect is where it really starts to be complicated, though.
That's true, but how many cameras produce photos with dimensions that are non-multiples of 8?
They pack too much "extras" -- choices for us.
This course was previously offered, though I think it was an ad-hoc offering and not through EdX. Did anyone take it, and do you have a review?
This article is okay, nothing against the author but the topic of securing a host depends on many factors and it's so extensive at so many levels that this post doesn't even scratch the surface.

Why is it in frontpage?
DNS can be polluted. Again, welcome to China.

Something more decentralized, maybe.
How is this an improvement over using a kinect to sense full body motion?
Because the wealth is distributed upward, to a noble class that burns it all day for fun. As technology gets better, that class gets bigger, because we manufacture so many goods to burn that we need more nobles to burn them. Due to this process, in the year 3841 the entire population will have become nobles, and the sky will be black with smoke.
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You mean correctly?