skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly right.

At the beginning of the new film Spock is lowered on a rope into a volcano hanging from a little shuttle. Everyone knows this situation exists for the immediate drama and for the ramifications further on in the story, not because it's in the least bit plausible (let alone necessary). In the future they couldn't have had a robot deliver the package? Maybe just drop it in with a timer on board? The trouble is that it wouldn't have served the story, and it wouldn't have been Star Trek.

Today Star Trek is a brand, a flavour. Maybe once upon a time it was meant to have something to say about our future, but now any reasonable extrapolation would lose the essential character of the property. Hell, maybe Star Trek has never been about the future anyway. I'm sure everyone caught the bit about the morality and legality of extrajudicial killing in the new flick... I'm sure plenty of people would say the series has always been about the present as much as any other time.
>>Everyone on the internet watches porn

kids watch/read porn.. grownups do the real stuff :)
> Seem to be forgetting fire. Campfires were surely used by our ancestors, for hundreds of thousands of years, and it is plausible that we evolved to adapt to them.

He does lightly touch on the subject of fire:

> The blue wavelengths of light suppress melatonin production so daylight triggers the body to stop producing it (interestingly red, orange, and yellow wavelengths don’t suppress melatonin production and are the same wavelengths produced by fire)
What ticks me about such announcements is that too often they don't really mean anything besides the media blowing things out of proportion. This is unfortunately very common in anything nutrition or health based, but often applies to scientific "breakthroughs" as well. The media picks up some vague research result and hyping it to make headlines.

I just really hope this is not the case here, because it's truly good news for a dry region where water means everything.

This, along with the large recent oil and natural gas discoveries kind of makes me wonder how many such additional surprises the earth crust hides, that will be discovered soon due to much better discovery technologies and computational resources.
This should be upvoted instead, as it provides context, and also links to this PDF (or its official announcement).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6364340

Or to provide minimum context, the announcement should've been submitted instead.

http://nist.gov/director/cybersecuritystatement-091013.cfm
Hankook Is Latest To Roll Out Airless Tire Concept
Cmon, you can't really expect an audience base that is probably mostly introverted and cynical to actually find joy in reading about a positive find in a third world country could you? In all seriousness though, I think this can be well developed if it isn't exploited by privatization. Since, ya know, most things that would be greatly beneficial to developing countries usually are.
Yeah, virus/malware/choose your term. I'll happily settle for 'malware', it's descriptive.

Key loggers only get what I type in. And the value of the material they logged is lost as soon as I change the valuable bits without it being logged. Easily enough done with a phone call to my bank or a friend's computer or a clean install. I use unique passwords everywhere - I can prevent extensive damage with that alone.

(edit: also two-factor auth / one-time-passwords almost totally nullify keyloggers)

Lose your Persona signing key, and you can't stop it. It lives as long as the key claims to live. Imagine someone stole your credit card and is making massive purchases, but there was no way to cancel it, it would just continue pulling from your account until the expiration date on the card. Now tell me why that doesn't concern you when compared to e.g. someone stealing the cash in your wallet.
Java 7u40 Released
This isn't their ordinary "closed is bad" message. It's more like "closed just got worse, and this is why".
I would make the following points.

1) Not accounting for salting and variations of hashes, one can have at most 19 resets of core biometric assuming the normal number of fingers and toes.

2) Biometric fingerprinting merely proves that you have the digit. No proof if said digit is attached to human (see Hollywood blockbuster!).

3) Susceptibility to coercion. It's much harder to refuse to swipe your finger (willingly or otherwise) at the border than to refuse to give up a password.
Why I Co-founded Apple and Then Sold My 10% Stake For $800
Apple's 3rd Co-founder Ronald Wayne explains why he sold his 10% stake in Apple for $800 12 days after founding the company with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

His stake would be worth around $45 Billion today.
This release fixes a lot of long-standing problems with invokedynamic in the Java 7 series. It'll be fun to play with JRuby 1.7.5 on it when that's released later this week.
Hard data. Like the facts I pointed out earlier and backed them up with...data.
There's an industry effort to set up a universal licensing language and registry:

http://www.useplus.com/aboutplus/system.asp

https://www.plusregistry.org/

Though I can't say it's gained much traction.
ITV is a British TV network
One of the things I hope I can do with my hardware startup is release all the firmware, boot loader and bios related code.

I'd like to think that's something people could value, but I always hear there's no market?

I wonder if it exists at all now?
Good. They need to be stopped dead in their tracks.
The BBC's main UK competitor. It's not really big news, but rather follow-up from an interesting disvoery about a year or so ago, which was widely covered eg http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2133339/Massi... which is a surprisngly good story by DM standards, but which I picked mainly because it has a good map.
Also isn't it a fork of AOSP, so it's not like they went through the source code, I mean they don't have as much resources so how could they?
Ask HN: Grad Students: How much of your time is spent building datasets?
I'm running a pilot project with my former university faculty as a client. Datasets I've been told are a huge problem with regards to man hours.

Disregarding data that comes from sensors and the like, how much time is spent collecting data from other sources?

My current test case are patent applications. I want to get out of the echo chamber a bit and get some external feedback.

I know how to automate data collection to answer questions like that and was wondering what other pains might be out there.

Thanks!
But.. but.. it is radio communication! Using radio waves! If scientific facts not define what is legally considered 'radio communication', by what arbitrary rules is this defined?

So when a google engineering team stores unwanted, unencrypted radio communication by accident (and is entirely open about it) the courts seem so eager to throw the book? But when the U.S Government coerces telecom companies to aid in massive unconstitutional wiretapping on a global scale, congress is willing to step in and grant retroactive legal immunity to all parties?

Am I taking crazy pills??
I could not possibly disagree with that viewpoint more. I'm just going to paste my favorite statement from the internet loved Judge Posner.

"A distinguishing characteristic of intellectual property is its "public good" aspect. While the cost of creating a work subject to copyright protection—for example, a book, movie, song, ballet, lithograph, map, business directory, or computer software program—is often high, the cost of reproducing the work, whether by the creator or by those to whom he has made it available, is often low. And once copies are available to others, it is often inexpensive for these users to make additional copies. If the copies made by the creator of the work are priced at or close to marginal cost, others may be discouraged from making copies, but the creator’s total revenues may not be sufficient to cover the cost of creating the work. Copyright protection—the right of the copyright’s owner to prevent others from making copies—trades off the costs of limiting access to a work against the benefits of providing incentives to create the work in the first place. Striking the correct balance between access and incentives is the central problem in copyright law. For copyright law to promote economic efficiency, its principal legal doctrines must, at least approximately, maximize the benefits from creating additional works minus both the losses from limiting access and the costs of administering copyright protection."

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/IPCoop/89land1.html
Understood; from the article, I read "Here's an example of what an email [...] might look like" and understood it to be hypothetical. That's fairly damning, as it's not at all a tricky sequence -- standard, low-hanging "XSS."
4 Reasons Your Business Needs a Mobile App
This doesn't seem to account for anti-productivity at all, i.e. people who create more work by the end of the day than they complete. It's hard to quantify anti-productivity, let along get anyone reviewing work to admit that anti-productivity has occurred. Our work culture tends to value activity over all else, so the common sentiment is that a warm butt in the chair is better than nothing, even if that warm butt is making more work for everyone else.

I'm hoping that my method will actually ameliorate much of this. By starting the person part-time, perhaps their familiarity with the project builds "faster" over a unit-work-time than it would otherwise (I've personally found my comfort level with a project to be in some part a function of calendar time). In this way, I'm also not spending a lot on the candidate search itself.

The idea is to spend less time on much-higher-yield methods of finding people who are better suited to the job crossed with people who are happier with the environment of the job. It is about avoiding turn-over, but not in this perverse way of "ignore the problem because the alternative is worse", but by trying to avoid the hiring of a bad worker in the first place.

In this system, you'll never see a job notice from me. You won't know I have a need for an employee unless I ask you to come work for/with me. You'll only ever get a job offer from me if A) I know you're not an idiot, and B) I know you're available. Yes, that means I have to know the person very well already. If I have an opening that needs to be filled and I don't currently know of someone that fills it, then it is likely to be a long time before it gets filled, if I do nothing.

But then again, it's not like sifting through resumes is providing quality applicants. The resume and job interview are so poor of a selection process that I'm willing to try just about anything else.

There is also an element of respect for the worker involved in what I'm doing. I don't think I have a right to monopolize a person's time. I think people should have the time to be engaged in many pursuits. I want it to be up to them to choose how much they work. I want them to have the ability to find other work as well. The idea being, people who are happier in their work-life balance will be more productive.

Of course, we'll see.
I think what he means is that partnerships are a distraction for startups.
Agreed. The thing I took most from your article was where you mentioned the email was fairly concise, not long winded to end up with a "ugh, a book, deeelete" response.

Since I worked from a BlackBerry for so long, I find that emails that are about the length of these 3 messages (individually, not combined) is about as much as you can expect people to really read... more than that deserves a phone call most of the time.
Dusting and lifting all the prints to be found in public spaces is infeasible and the results can't be correlated with identities. The move to mobile phone scanning opens the door for more cheap, mass digital data harvesting.

In effect, you're making the same argument that claims it's OK if the government track every car in the country by optical plate recognition, across a vast camera network, because "Hey! you're out in public already!"

The difference in both cases is only a matter of difficulty.
I have not unfortunately experienced the typing thing (my typing speed is getting faster), but I can definitely say my appreciation for compact functions and mathematics has increased a great deal.

I would also add to the list:
1) In my day-to-day life, precision has become more important. It's tougher for me to accept imprecise statements as they often reflect incomplete knowledge which, as we all know, will lead to "bugs" or lots of head-banging
2) Logical problem solving skills have increased right in line with my debugging effectiveness.
3) As walls of abstraction get torn down through application of technology and programming, I find it harder and harder to identify and describe technology to non-technology users without cringing (see number 1)
They were, 3 years ago, when they outed this issue themselves and submitted their code to a third party for review.
Yes, as you stated it's basically Sublime slanting the characters.

Here is the ticket on Github: https://github.com/adobe/source-code-pro/issues/6
PUT is almost functionally identical to a PATCH, so it’s not exactly an entire other verb. It’s also a very standard verb. Using the example from a pull request on Eve ( https://github.com/nicolaiarocci/eve/issues/96 ), what if you want to indicate that the middle name is no longer known? Marking it as null means there isn’t one, not that it is unknown. Sure, for many applications the distinction doesn’t matter. But for plenty, it does. (I just recently had to fix an API’s implementation of PUT that actually was more like a PATCH but needed to be a proper PUT.) And it’s foolish for an API to require knowing a nonstandard way of expressing `undefined` when simply not defining something is the best way to not define it.

Eve looks nice, but they really need to justify not supporting PUT, beyond just “PATCH is usually better”.
The goal post here isn't about the address book API issue.
It's about the fact that having a curated experience doesn't automatically imply better privacy.

The address book was an example of that.
Go allows you to iterate over a string as a series of code points.
It's true. My first thought when reading "if it is managed properly" was "yeah, right." We humans tend to fuck things up.

You see? Cynical.
I agree on the subject line (which is "Verify your email address") and that the mail is sent from "Google Scholar Citations", but as it was possible to include arbitrary CSS files, the content could be changed to pretty much anything... Although there was a length-restriction on the user's name, there were two other fields that weren't escaped properly and thus could be used to insert more HTML-content.
http://www.tineye.com/
Dear Mrs. Hall: Boys and Men Can See Sexy Selfies and Still Respect Women
Very good news that it is replenished from mountains and thus is not a fossil aquifer. Should make it easier to manage.
We cannot even think about ideas, leave aside communicating, without involving symbols. Language is a necessity for thinking. So what you said above, doesn't really say anything.
Mary Roach had a bit in her book Packing for Mars about the huge impact fresh food has on astronaut morale. She also included a great anecdote about how some early Russian cosmonauts ended up eating some onion bulbs that were meant for a zero-gravity plant growth experiment:

The diary of cosmonaut Valentin Lebedev includes a story about a batch of onion bulbs taken on board Salyut as part of an investigation of plant growth in zero gravity. “As we were unloading the resupply ship, we found some rye-bread and a knife. So we ate some bread. Then we saw the onion bulbs we were supposed to plant. We ate them right then and there, with bread and salt. They were delicious. Time went by and the biologists asked us, ‘How are the onions?’
“‘They are growing,’ we answered….
“‘Do they have shoots?’ Without any hesitation we replied that they even had shoots. There was great excitement at the communication station. Onions have never bloomed in space before! We asked to speak to the head biologist in private. ‘For god’s sake,’ we told him, ‘don’t get upset, we ate your onions.’”
Thoughts and Observations on Today’s iPhone 5C and 5S Introduction
Somewhat off topic, but it seems like it would be better to use some future unpredictable events to really remove any "nothing up my sleeve" doubt. e.x. hash of the sum of all S&P 500 companies' closing stock prices on a specific future date.
Sadly, it's more true than you can probably imagine.

Realize though, that the pool of people actively applying to jobs is, on average, FAR worse than the total population. Even companies who are pretty bad at hiring can make some kind of selection for quality, and great engineers get fired way less than terrible engineers, so in theory, the very worst engineers in the world would continually apply for jobs and never be hired, or would be quickly fired.

My experience suggests that it's very rare to get a superstar from any passive method (that finds active job seekers). That pool is just to dilute with talent. To get the strong candidates, you have to be active (to have a shot at the passive candidates) or extremely lucky.

It's no surprise to find only 1 in 100 of unemployed engineers are truly good. If you just post openings, you're unlikely to interview even a representative sample of the population, let alone an above-average sample.
The only real use for a bigger screen is that using the internet is considerably more usable. The easiest way to see this is to compare the internet on an iPhone vs iPad - even though you have exactly the same inputs (assuming you don't use a stylus), the iPad is orders of magnitude easier to browse the web on. There is a similar effect (though obviously lesser) to interacting with web pages on a 5" screen vs a 4" one - much more so than the extra inch would suggest.
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Adriaan Van Wyk, CEO of K2 (Part 1)
Seagate brags of 1m SMR drives - where are they?
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> I was at 60k when I started, but on my second job almost doubled my salary, and still got a significant increase in my second change.

This is a clear indication that your skill set is in high demand.

> "We need H1-B visas because there is a shortage of computer programmers living in the United States who will work for $64,000 a year when the average salary of all programmers is $94,000"...

Doesn't your previous comment actually confirm this statement?

You took a HIB job paying a wage that did not accurately reflect your skill level and your ability to move up in wage scale so easily is a clear indication of that fact.
I'm not saying OK, I'm saying modern tech makes it trivial compared to the past.
So do we believe the new Firefox OS will be the way forward, as a good alternative open source OS? I haven't looked into it much yet, and the hardware of the ZTE is severely underpowered at the moment for my needs, but if this is truly open then I can see myself getting on board, even flashing an Android device with it (if the hardware allows).

Didn't know about F-Droid, that's the kind of marketplace I think that is the best of both worlds, open source but verified by community members.
Parent is arguing that having no image significantly changes the value. It is very challenging to determine how much value was created by using the infringing image, one that the court must decide. What is not challenging to determine is that the image provided some value (where that is a dollar or a million is a different question).

Actually, even if it provided no value whatsoever, even if Buzzfeed did not make a profit off of it, this would still be infringement and the photographer is entitled to remuneration.
Photoshop has added, and is regularly adding more, features based on similar technologies. An example of a content-aware featuree: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D58CG_-AWnY
Chinese spammers are abusing Picasa galleries to spam people now. Couldn't find a way to report that and never heard back from them on Twitter. Marking the emails as spam doesn't stop more making it through. (Actually, marking as spam seems to do SFA.)
NSA: Apple Controls the Public
If you build it...
OK let me start by saying... I really despise buzzfeed -- I think it's a waste of space on the web and notorious for stealing content and just re-flavoring it. I have created a little self-righteous boycott of the site where I refuse to click on anything from their domain. A man has got to have a code...

HOWEVER -- I think it would be REALLY fun to write for them -- I think the challenge of trying to figure out what's hot on the internet and what has people's attention and then trying to get as much traffic as possible would be a ridiculously fun daily challenge.

Would I ever actually consider doing it? Not a chance in hell
"you are ignorant of the modern experience of using the web because you have literally opted out of that exact experience."

I am not, and I haven't. I often do use modern browsers, such as with HN (and other sites that require it), as I have already mentioned. My frequent use of elinks does not somehow make me unfamiliar with modern browsers in any way. Elinks does not induce brain damage.

If you want to talk about mail clients, where I use a terminal based client as my primary client, rather than just a frequent client, there might be more substance there. However I certainly do not consider myself unfamiliar with GUI desktop clients (particularly outlook) or web clients (particularly gmail), or GUI phone clients (particularly gmail, again). I know how to use those, just as I am sure many regular outlook users know how to use gmail and how many gmail users know how to use mutt. My personal choice, while an unusual and eccentric choice, does not render me particularly incapable of being aware and familiar with other choices. Furthermore, I consider myself perfectly capable of offering others advice. If my mother asked me what client to use, I would tell her to stick with the gmail web app and phone app. If a coworker asked me what they should use, I would recommend that they continue to use Outlook, unless I knew they were receptive to and interested in using mutt. I really don't see how using mutt could be impeding my ability to make sound mail client recommendations.

Using mutt to compose and read email does not make me out of touch and ignorant of Outlook anymore than using Windows Phone 8 makes somebody out of touch and ignorant of iOS.

Shoot, another example with some actual evidence: I use a Chromebook with Debian on it. I enjoy this setup immensely, but if you search through my comment history you will see that I am very critical of it when talking about it with others. This is because, despite my eccentric setup, I am not out of touch with how most users use their computers, and with what most users expect from their computers. I understand that the setup I enjoy is not for everybody. In fact, rather few people would find it acceptable.
"NSA hates sunshine."
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But we can't do 25mbit. 25mbit today is the extreme upper end that you never achieve. My household connection can do about 12mbit. I can't buy a faster service even if I want to, I'd have to literally buy a commercial building in the CBD to get that type of access. And the upload speeds on that will never exceed 1mbit a second.

If we were talking about enabling everyone to buy say, 10/10 or 20/20 symmetric service then I would not particularly care - in fact a lot of people advocating for FTTH would be placated. But it is not possible to do that with current infrastructure because current infrastructure sucks. Symmetric DSL tops out at 2/2 for about $600 a month.
It might be system-dependent. I'm on OSX and the command works properly.