skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems you've failed to understand why Chris McCandless went to Alaska in the first place. I'll give you a clue, it wasn't because of it's bustling social scene.

What about Dick Proenneke [0], another notable 'Alaska Loner'. He spent 30 years living 'Alone in the Wilderness'. Albeit in the relative safety of a cabin he'd built and he did have semi-frequency supply drops.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Proenneke
Looks great, good design, fairly clear what you're doing. I don't have a use for time tracking myself, but I'd like to see a demo video walk through of your product and have you tell us what makes it so special.
Does anyone know how the voltage negotiation works for those?
Google is the best search engine, that I am aware of, but it's not the only one.

I suspect if google disappeared I could make do with others (Bing, yahoo, DuckDuckGo, ...).

The biggest deal for me would be my @gmail.com account. So much of my online identity and profiles are connected to it.
Thanks for the tip! the correct word in italian is "prosecco"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosecco
If you are a technology/business reporter reporting on technology from within the silicon valley, you are obligated to be knowledgeable about those things which you report on and the same is expected of a medical correspondent or political correspondent on an editorial staff, for their areas of coverage.
Or implement other identification mechanisms that exist or might evolve. Yes. But in the same run, that might take too much from the port you plug it in mistakingly. If you don't trust the port, you will often not even know what it is. It's probably safe to assume it will indeed give you 500mA (when it's in the device or a powered hub). What about the 1500mA ones?

That said, if one desperately needs to charge a battery, one is likely to take even 100mA. Cutting two lines of a cable doesn't seem that hard and ugly compared to a un-encased PCB, though.
I'm not a big fan of analogies when they're not necessary. I'd go with something simpler like:

* Repository: An online folder containing computer code

* Forked: When a repository is copied, so you can edit it

* Pull request: A request for the edits you've made to your copy, be "pulled" into the original
Yay for context switches. Because we all know how much developers love being interrupted for something that is probably documented - if it isn't probably should be.
It's shared with Google as long as Google stores your Google account password as the actual sequence of characters and not as the result of bcrypt processing and as long as the data copied to Google aren't encrypted locally. Local encryption has the effect that as soon as you forget your password, the data stored as the backup are unusable, even you can make Google reset your Google account password.

Security is always a trade-off.
Despite the ghost of Godwin's law, it's worth pointing out that your reasoning works almost as well, with only minor changes, if you replace "Apple and Google" with the Nazi party.

Someone can do good stuff and still be evil to the bone.

(No, I'm not implying Apple or Google are anywhere in the same ballpark as the nazis; for that matter, I don't Apple or Google are evil, even if there are practices I disagree with)
Enote me the source codes for the github.
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Sure. The advantage of this is you don't have to cut open one of your cables, you can easily (and visibly) decide whether you want the data pins connected or not and this works for any USB device, ie. USB micro as well as Apple and other proprietary connectors.
when doing this, does she also refer to you as "my wife"?
I couldn't get past the second paragraph of that article. The author is a dismissive prick.
The issue here isn't with tech vs. non-tech people, I think the issue is that Fox News (and they're not alone as others have mentioned) clearly didn't take the time to ask someone who DID know what they were talking about to review their content.

When you have clueless reporters telling clueless viewers the news, that hurts everyone and spreads ignorance and bias, no matter the topic.
Meanwhile, in China: http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-white-collar-criminal...
I don't think you can really get away with saying that.

I think a better phrasing would be, "the summation of all adaptations in addition to environmental state (including benefits or constraints to itself and all others) has led to the survival in its present environment".

It's really about optimization gradients in a particular time/environmental/social niche. Everything can change with the purturbation of any factor--but that's evolution for you. Adative curve fitting.
One of these, the identity hash data could be used for tracking faces on live CCTV surveillance, the other, not.

So which one is causing these threads?
People secure their Wi-Fi for more than just their connection. There is likely to be file servers, media centres, printers, scanners, radios, TVs, tablets, phones, computers with shared folders, security cameras etc all connected to the local network.
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To attribute that mindset to every IT department rather than some group of individuals is beyond cynical. Would you say the same thing about all developers? All engineers? A statement like that speaks volumes about the writer and nothing about the subject.
The last person who touches the copy is someone non-technical. Their job is to make the content accessible to "slow joe in the back row", the least common denominator, etc.

Inaccuracies occur all the time when the last person to touch the text is a general-purpose reporter, not someone with domain expertise. It happens in reporting of economics, medicine, sports, etc.. I don't think they did all that bad considering the circumstances.
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So am I right in thinking that HPHPc is around 6x faster than Zend and HHVM so far adds another 40%?

i.e. HHVM is currently 8x faster than Zend and still getting faster?
You obviously don't have kids. Also, the article said 92% of those that got measles were unvaccinated, meaning 8% had been vaccinated. And it's not just newborns... 40% of kids under 5 who get measles need to be hospitalized.

Finally, it's not the kids that are choosing to be unvaccinated, it's their idiot parents. It's not fair to punish the kids for their parents' behavior. If it was the parents getting the measles, I'd be all for it.
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> As soon as it lets a major secret out, even just once, it's game over, and no-one will ever trust a secret to Google again.

Just out of curiosity, how would we know even if a secret was let out to, say, the NSA or US Govt? Because (a) Google isn't allowed to legally acknowledge it and (b) US LEOs will use "parallel construction" to obscure the fact that they obtained such secret information.

Moreover, if you're not a US citizen, even lesser chances of ever coming to know what information is being handed over/intercepted by the US Govt. If Presidents of countries can be targeted for surveillance, no reason a common person cannot.

Please note, I am not saying Google was specifically guilty of passing on info to the NSA in these cases, but just that, even if they were forced to, there's no way the affected users would come to know.

Link: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/02/20291489-snowd...
If iOS7 jailbroken, can apps peek at fingerprint data?
Apple said they are talking to fingerprint scanner and the a7 directly.
If ios7 jailbroken or grant root access, will it be possible for apps to access or peek at fingerprint data.
It's deeper than that. You're plugging a device into your system's bus, the attack surface is huge for that device to steal or modify your data. USB device is a very different beast than CD.
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The encryption/decryption is done client side.

This is a simple version of how it works, your master password isn't sent to lastpass, just an encryption key which is created with your email address and master password. On the website this is done client side with javascript. When you click on the pencil icon, you are reading the decrypted file, which you have decrypted on your own computer, with javascript.
All goals met, with the exception of the final goal of 200,000, which would get us the new bridge designed by John Eaves. 21 hours to go at the time of this writing.
People tend to reuse passwords across multiple services and devices. Stealing their WiFi password is not something they will be comfortable with.
Agreed, Google already have all our info anyway so not sure why they would send someone round to connect up to our Wireless networks..
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I think it's the bit where they created that graphic and broadcast it on air. I'm pretty sure that's the link with Fox News.
It could be way more popular if these wouldn't be called 'condoms'. Some people can get offended and wont buy it even if it would be useful.

Just my 2 cents.
There are probably more people who boycott Google than those who boycott Nestle.
If you have a Linux host, I highly recommend vagrant-lxc. This adds the speed/memory benefits of lxc/docker to the awesomeness that is docker.

You don't have docker style provisioning/overlays, but that may be an advantage, especially if you already have provisioning scripts compatible with vagrant.

To oversimplify: vagrant is for development, docker for deployment. But that's oversimplified, there's lots of overlap.
So where's the obligatory google doodle? :)
Do you allow exporting of raw data?
Yes if you jailbreak you can do many things. That it requires a jailbreak is the insult.
I don't think it's possible to be as successful and big as Google and Apple and not do practices that some people will disagree with, I mean when their actions affect billions of people, it's obvious that it is simply impossible not to anger anyone. In fact, the only way not to offend anyone in business is probably by not doing any business at all.
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"If you're going to run around plugging your phone into strange USB ports, at least be safe about it. ;-)"

Exactly. Better safe than sorry.
> with any degree of success there is also an automatic reduction in freedom because your responsibilities go up.

It's not automatic. It's up to you to choose to what extent you want to exploit that success. If you want more freedom and less responsibility, hire less people than you can afford to, and take less contracts than are open to you. Stay small and be free, or grow big and be rich.
;-) But why not 'just steal' the markdown name? Afaik Gruber used the name for a software and not for a standard... A committee (codehorror, Github, marked, discount, Pandoc people etc.) could e.g. buy the markdown.org domain and start publishing new standards. I'd love to have a core which is the ~same what we have now and then extensions. The core could (very slightly) develop if necessary.

It's not nice to take over names but why not? It's a pity to see Markdown rotting along since years :-(
The article states that Google has refused to comment on whether the data is encrypted on their servers. So it seems fair to assume it isn't.
For the full video[1], one minute they say it has 400 million users, then the sub caption says 3.4 million users.

1. http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/2667694577001/writing-new-dic...
All these secrets have been sent in plaintext between Google data-centres over 'dark fibre' we now suspect the NSA has been wholescale recording.

There are belated efforts by google to encrypt the traffic between its data centres, but its basically too late.
Given that Google has a VC arm, I am stunned every time I run into a VC who uses gmail and other google-hosted services as part of their business. They are handing their competition an enormous chunk of their business proprietary information and trusting them not to peek at it without even a contract.

To me, that level of naivety with respect to operational security is just baffling. All it takes is one unscrupulous person in the right place at Google and those convenient, "free" services could end up costing millions. It isn't like the people in the finance industry have a reputation for being upstandingly moral either.
What's wrong in it.It's not a bank account rite.
> on the other hand, the idea that someone w/in Google might abuse their position is completely plausible.

> if we know that people at the NSA were passing around phone sex calls by US troops, do you really want to keep trusting that no-one at Google will ever do anything problematic w/ yr data?

Already happened: http://gawker.com/5638874/david-barksdale-wasnt-googles-firs...
Why would someone be offended by the word "condom" ?
This very same point could be made against Apple, for instance, but there hasn't been a single comment to that effect in any discussion of this article.

I wonder if all of this recent Google-bashing is really just a symptom of something larger. People are suddenly waking up to the obvious-in-hindsight realization that simply giving their data to a third party involves a certain amount of trust.

The reason people don't seem to be ganging up on Facebook, Apple, etc. in a similar way is because they never really earned that faith. Take Facebook: from the very start their founder was known to consider their users "dumb fucks" for entrusting him with their privacy.

In my opinion, the fact that Google went out of their to, and generally succeeded at earning that trust is a good sign. It shows they take the matter seriously.

All American companies operate under the same rules. If you've taken the position that all American companies are not to be trusted, fine. But if you haven't, wouldn't Google's history make them one of the more trustworthy ones?
That's not quite what the article says:

>The agency says it recently charged H211 on a cost-plus basis, and before that charged a standard budgetary price that was infrequently reset but over time reflected the government's costs.

So at least for some time the government was charging a standard accounting price that wasn't updated with rising fuel costs. This won't necessarily compensate over time. If you're smart when the government is below market you buy and when above do what they're doing now:

>Since the fuel cutoff, the Google executives' planes have been coping by flying back to Moffett with extra fuel purchased elsewhere, Mr. Ambrose said.

The reference to cost-plus does seem to imply they fixed this hole at some point.
Google is going to have thousands of different passwords mapped to the SSID "linksys."
Doesn't display it here (in NL on Portuguese site)
Not sure he was a CEO, but Bernard Madoff was prosecuted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff
At home, and everywhere I've had a say on how the network is laid out during working hours, I treat wifi as external. They get internet access, and there's a password to prevent the neighbours kids downloading GBs of pr0n, access to internal resources require connection over the vpn.

This has the side benefit that all my devices can connect securely to home resources wherever I am in the world.
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I had this cool idea for a sci-fi book (I may one day write), set long after modern civilisation collapses. Humans survive but with all the readily available iron ore used up, we are perpetually stuck in a pre-industrial revolution world. Hundreds of thousands of years pass and we evolve. At this level of technology we can farm, so we're still very successful, and the biggest threats to us are diseases rather than predators. So we evolve towards having much greater conscious control over our bodies and health. Incremental changes happen, starting from an expansion of the existing placebo effect, towards a conscious ability to manage immune responses, and then further into being able to affect cell chemistry in different areas of the body. The book would follow what happens when humans evolve the ability to do genetic engineering on themselves, and the following completely organic technological revolution. (Probably ending with some gene hackers growing diamond hulled space craft and leaving to explore the galaxy.)
Please tell me my leg is being pulled here or I just watched a Portlandia sketch?
It depends what you are running, but you are at the right order of magnitude. Our main measurements are from running facebook.com back when it could run on both HPHPc and PHP 5.2 and then extrapolating from there with any improvements.
If you ship a copy of a browser engine you need to make sure deployments are diligently kept up to date via patches, that didn't hapapen with the earlier Qt setup. Hope they have a plan for it now.
If yours doesn't crash all the time because WebKit runs out of memory, then you're luckier than me (and a few people on the Apple forums). For me, the usable lifespan ended with the introduction of iOS 5 (my friend's iPad on 4.3 is much more stable).
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The stochastic aspects were also completely neglected in my chemistry courses. We were just taught about macroscopic, aggregate probabilities, and high level descriptions of the reactions, but not the nitty gritty details.

I knew that chemical bounds were vibrating (with a frequency proportional to their energy, E=h(nu)), but, for some reason, I had never envisioned macromolecules wiggling and vibrating as a whole.

Updating mental model :-)
"About 4,000 people a year are executed annually in the country"

I'm not even a native English speaker and that opening phrase screams sloppy journalism to me.

I guess for some reason I expect a higher quality from established news outlets
If how I feel about this as a programmer is any indicator, I dread to imagine how worldly wise, politically experienced folks feel when reading political discussions on sites like Reddit or HN :-) (No, I'm neither of those things!)
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Last day to help get Star Trek Renegades new bridge designed by John Eaves.
I doubt the traceroute shows anything useful. FWIW, the trace from a Sky connection is virtually the same - http://pastebin.com/xm0Rpd4E
Yes, although that can be considered an odd comparison as technically at this point HHVM is not a PHP implementation (ignoring the incomplete stdlib and autoload bugs) due to things like

> CakePHP has a class named String. HHVM does not allow [...] for classes to have names of primitives.

and

> a method called setValue() that takes two parameters, [...] only one parameter is provided [...] HHVM does not allow this.

and

> HHVM requires classes that implement interfaces to be compatible with the interfaces they implement.

You can argue the HHVM language is a better language than PHP (not a high bar to set), but that makes HHVM not a PHP runtime.
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With all that exposed metal and black screens, it does look like something from Star Trek... a Klingon Ship. http://clancmsf.tripod.com/klingon-bridge-st5.jpg
I'm not good enough. It would need people who know more about specifications, parsing and have influence.

But if I would go for it, I would call it 'Markdown' and try to redefine it, hehe.
It is not about bashing non-technology people. It is about bashing the news, who are disseminating bad information. If they got this wrong, what other things have they gotten wrong?
And why do they need to explain what github is?
He buries the lead -- its in the fifteenth paragraph: "America doesn’t criminalize bad business decisions, even when they lead to business failure"
That's completely incorrect. Ford is in fact doing extraordinarily well.

1) Ford's stock is at the second highest general level it has ever been at during its publicly traded history (matched by the 2011 peak, and surpassed by the dotcom bubble days). Consistent with the QE bull market, but a good thing non-the-less.

2) As a business their financials and profit level is very healthy. They not only did not take a government bailout, but they're making a lot of money.

3) In 2003 Ford sold 6.7m vehicles. In 2012 they sold 5.7m vehicles. In 2003, Ford had net earnings of $495m (in 2002 they had a net loss of $980m). In 2012 they earned $5.66 billion. They've produced over $22b in operating income the last three years. This during a span of time in which US auto sales has been a disaster volume wise.

4) Their 2003 auto sales were $134b. Their 2012 auto sales were $126b. They trimmed off bad business segments, and boosted profitability by a factor of 11 = a very healthy, if mature business.

5) Their stockholder equity in 2003 was $12.5b, it's now $19.1b and heading north rapidly. They hold $36.6b in short term cash & securities. They completely paid off the collateralized $23b loan taken out in 2006. Their pension system is in much better shape today than it was ten years ago. They hold a mere $13 billion in debt in the automotive division, the bulk of their balance sheet debt is financing credit for customers.

Their business is drastically better off today than a decade ago. It's spitting tons of cash, enabling the pay down of past mistakes. Soon they'll also have a fully funded pension system, freeing up even more cash. It's better to be profitable and have a sustainable business than to lose a lot of money selling more cars.

"Ford Motor Co (F.N) could be in a position that would have been unthinkable only a few years ago - with a fully funded U.S. pension fund."

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/31/us-autos-ford-pens...
Although "Business" is in the title Business Insider is closer to a Buzzfeed than it is an Atlantic or a New York Times.

It is interesting to see the sentences people got for their crimes. I agree all of those mentioned in the article are wrong, but a death sentence seems incredibly harsh.
That mean, that the NSA know all passwords too?

google must work with the NSA and must give them access to everything, but all is secret because FISA Laws.
When the iPad 1 was brand new, there were no other tablets so I didn't choose an iPad over an Android tablet, but over a light laptop or other gadgets. And in retrospect, I should definitely have waited for the iPad 2 which seems to rival the iPhone 3GS in terms of longevity.
Building an invisible tower near the airport sounds like a bad idea. Not because a 747 is going to run into it, those are flown by sophisticated enough computers, but what about smaller aircraft where the pilots are more likely to be flying partially by site, or if something goes wrong?
> And, although they have never said so directly, it is obvious that Google can read the passwords.

This is not necessarily true - they could encrypt this data so that it requires a user password to read, and transmit these settings for client-side decryption. They probably don't though, and in all likeliness can read your WiFi password.
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Still, this isn't what I expected when I clicked the link; I was expecting something about point-free or combinatoric programming :)
The article makes the assumption that criminal activity led to the financial crisis. Rather than poor policy combined with risky behavior by some, and as the above poster said, bad business decisions.
Thanks for the feedback. Too your comment on the map to make me see it was rubbish! It was left over from previous versions but no longer did anything. Also have tweaked the partner activity as well. You where right.

Thanks for your help

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Hmm, weird. Just try searching for "USB Y Cable" images, lots of results like these will pop up:

http://www.everythingusb.com/images/list/apricorn-aegis-bio-...

Basically, it's a USB extender cable, with an extra pair of power wires soldered on and terminated in a USB male header - the original use is for power-hungry disks, where you'd plug both the male headers into the computer, increasing the available power (as USB 2.0 can only give 500 mA through a single port, per spec), at the cost of hogging two USB ports. It can be re-used as a USB condom as well.