skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about black boxes that capture all traffic going through their servers and send it all to the NSA? Would that count as just one request?
Um. Does ancestry.com disclose statistics on requests by law enforcement?

Could governments get any creepier?
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010-07/23/content_110...

tl;dr about 718 million internet users
The countries with corporatist labor systems (non-militant, union/employer consensus decision making) typically have low unemployment and strong economies. Examples: Germany and the Nordics.
Yes I like coding. I'll try and do what you suggested. But how did you find the time ? It gets very hectic at time doesn't it ?
Not that this needs pointing out, but this also means the mysterious Chinese server also gets to read all your iMessages. This is some kind of quasi-MITM, and for that alone Apple would be in the right to block this kind of thing from ever working.
It has not been taken offline. The OP changed the link to point to the "updated" version of the story while the original one is still at http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2011/05/02/134597833/cosmo... which still has the audio file and link to buy it on amazon.
>This is currently downmodded because people don't like the implication. And they shouldn't, because it quickly forces someone into either a) agreeing with the law or b) saying that SQL injections must be, ipso facto, legal.

Not if you make a distinction between using a service and breaking a service. Analogize with entering vs. breaking and entering. In many cases it is valid to punish someone for bypassing security. But if a system has no security by design, then there is nothing to bypass. SQL injection, on the other hand, is always bypassing the design of the code, and loses any presumption of authorization.

P.S. Yes there will be edge cases. There are always edge cases. But this is not an edge case. The lack of security was definitely design, not software-bug.
Interesting..

That's fucking cool! Although it will be hard to put into practical use.

:)
I disagree with some of it agree on some of it, but i strongly disagree with section on cultural values.

First of: "Spend a lot of time figuring out what you want your cultural values to be (there are some good examples on the Internet)." Do spend time figuring out what your cultural values are, but don't look for them on the Internet, or to put it another way: don't have cultural values for the sake of having cultural values.

"Treat your values as articles of faith" - also don't do this. Don't take anything as article of faith, you should have a reason for each value. If you can't put a reason on value, how much value does it really have?
yea I know right...

I just wanted to make it for fun
BBT doesn't flesh out those characters. Most other shows I watch do.

Ben Wyatt on Parks and Rec comes off as a much more realistic nerd than any of the characters on BBT.

Abed Nadir in Community is also a whole lot more fleshed out than the characters in BBT.

The BBT characters are the epitome of stereotypical, caricatures of nerds. None of them are ever shown to have interests other than the traditionally nerdy kind.

If by "fully fleshed out human beings", you mean they happen to be main characters, sure. But by any other definition of "fully fleshed out" vs "caricature", they're much closer to caricature.
Hey, nice project.
I had started something very similar some time ago but I realized that the oop approach doesn't work quite well as you can't force other to use your classes.
Then I decided to go functional style, where you receive "kind of" unexpected input but produce predictable output; the result is a very simple and small api that plays nice with others.
Take a look at the code at https://github.com/eridal/prelude

I'd really like to join forces :)
And USA isn't?
You've managed to completely miss my point.

If the policy were about making sure that people were paying attention, then they would interrupt people sleeping, reading dead tree books, wearing earplugs, or doing anything else that takes their attention off of the attendant. They don't.

The policy has been retconned into being about attention, but the claim that it's about paying attention is belied by actual behavior.
the centers of civilization in the Old World (Fertile Crescent, Mediterranean, India, China) were pretty much established by 300 BCE if not well before that.

So wrong... huge portions of Asia had massive material changes during that period. The rise and fall of multiple empires in many of the major population centers (Cambodia's Angkor, Funan and predecessors, Central Asia, China's Shu, India's significant naval and land empires, Indonesia's various naval civilizations, Myanmar's Ava and Pegu, Thailand's Dvaravati, Vietnam's Champa, Dong Son and Zhenla), extreme changes to the structure and material culture of societies through Buddhism, the expansion of China, the Silk Road, Hinduism, Islam, the Mongols.

China re-invaded Vietnam in 1403 with significant use of gunpowder[1], in the first major gunpowder utilizing land war in the region, commemorated by Chinese imperially commissioned French copperplate engravings[2]. They then mounted gunpowder weapons on a huge fleet of ships and sailed as far as east Africa in seven separate voyages[3].

[1] http://www.asiafinest.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=279471 [2] http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/coll...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He
I think the difference is that these targets aren't Al-Qaeda members. They are people accused, with no oversight, of being Al-Qaeda members. So you have to trust the targeting decisions of just the president and his aides, rather than those people plus judges in the judicial branch. Whereas in a normal war, it is easier to justify who the enemy soldiers are, since they are in uniform or shooting at you.
The issue is still that you're likening surveillance to harassment more than you're likening it to an intrusion of privacy. Based on this argument alone, I'm less inclined to agree with your position, because surveillance isn't harassment.

You're still using definitions of privacy violation, surveillance, and harassment with which I do not agree. The distinctions between the three don't have to be drawn where you seem to be drawing them, and both the example I gave and invisible surveillance should qualify as all three.

By the way, would you still call it harassment if you never got in the way of the person you were following, never acknowledged your presence, and generally let them go about their business while you were busily recording everything they did? Most people would still be very unhappy.

You realize you're not saying anything more than, "I think it's wrong, so I'm going to go searching for a rationalization," right?

That's not the case at all. I've raised arguments that appeal to technical people in the past, and users like rayiner jump in with a claim that "common people" just don't care about technical stuff. Now I'm using arguments that appeal to the aforementioned "common people," and you're jumping in to say they aren't technical enough :-).

Moreover, I was responding to your specific claim that "it's unreasonable to expect that you will remain unseen when walking through a public park."

I'm not interested in doing that hard philosophical work ... but I don't think it's impossible to come up with a reasonably sound proof.

I don't expect to conclude the privacy and surveillance debate once and for all in this thread. No doubt Bruce Schneier, the EFF, and others are way ahead of us on formalizing the best arguments.
You're still welcome to get a PPL and have as many cell phones as you wish turned on while you fly.

If you think anything that doesn't directly cause accidents aren't worth regulating, you don't truly appreciate why we have such good air safety.

Letting he pilots chit-chat when landing can't hurt either, right? Millions of successful flights before the sterile cockpit environment idea came about, would perhaps seem like close to zero risk for you, yet we are all safer now because of it.
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Is that assertion based on more than emotion?

Emotion? It's based on honest assessment.

Please show me one architecture firm who will hire a self-taught architect or an aeronautical company that will hire a self-taught aeronautical engineer. Other careers are simply unable to attain without the resources of universities because you can't practice the craft to even begin to be proficient.

The offset in the percentages has a lot to do with IT. I do not consider much of what IT does to be STEM. It's skilled labor with respect to (T)echnology but a lot of it is no more skillful than a carpenter using math to cut a 2x4. Yet some articles put the carpenter as a STEM job[1]. I'm sorry, I just don't consider a mechanic or electrician as a STEM job in most situations.

[1] http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/06/10/study-half-of...
If those people were plotting to kill hundreds/thousands of your more innocent citizens, then you could do a lot worse. The problem is where you draw the line.
> Is anyone else skeptical that they can motivate publishers to spend time/money porting their games to the Linux platform?

All they have to do is heavily subsidize (or give away) the console they are undoubtedly working on. Right from the get-go you can stream your existing PC Steam games to your TV which everyone will jump on. When the installed base is large enough, publishers will follow.
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I'd love to see some real-world examples of this sort of thing. The inverse-square law coupled with the power output of your average iPod makes me seriously question how effectively even a seriously fritzing device could interfere with communications.

I'm sure it happens (the post a bit back about the guy's laptop that was broadcasting mic input due to wacky wiring is a great example), but I'm really dubious that it's significant enough to actually interfere with comms from a system designed to throw radio signals 200 miles.
Actual soldiers are acknowledging their participation by wearing uniforms. Al-Quaeda members are not doing this, so they more or less force the US to use equally shoddy tactics. I think that this is very dangerous, the terrorists are winning in the sense that they are dragging the US down to their level and thereby subverting democratic principles. The question is how you can do anything about it.
I watched most of Breaking Bad for the first time this summer (all but the final eight episodes), and while I really like Walt at the beginning, these last few episodes (really starting with Say My Name, the second to last episode in the first half of season five) my like started to wane. I still like the character, but not as much...

I think Abed Nadir from Community is more my type of nerd. Probably because I find the character similar to myself.
What a cool project! Great work.
And here you are, posting messages in plain text to a public forum...
> That organization sounds rather degenerate.

That may be true, but it doesn't seem that uncommon.
If you're going to repurpose the analogy, do it right. The librarian is supposed to let you into x room. Someone somewhere expected you to look at one record before leaving, but you check out some other records. But at no point did you wholesale sneak past the librarian.
not very many as the free trade is mostly unpopulated and mostly filled with construction sites and no residential buildings. Maybe after more companies move their offices there you will see more users. But they will all only be able to access facebook only from their office so it is not like there will be that much new traffic to these sites
Whoever told you that about Teradata was very bad at arithmetic.
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And how would you fix the "flawed statistical studies" and "BS analyses"? Being critical is easy. Making cogent suggestions for improvements is hard.

E.g. What data do you want? Where can you get it? What tests / analyses do you want them to run? This is a hard bloody problem, so I find "Monday quarterbacking" particularly frustrating -- especially when the priceomics folks are doing a good job of showing / communicating data with documented assumptions.
The show Numb3rs had a similar thing, mathematicians to check accuracy. :)
Every voting system has its pros and cons. The nature of the voting system influences how candidates campaign but it's not the only mechanism that affects how government operates. It's a far to simplistic suggestion to say that "rank voting" would solve the problem. For that matter, why not any of the other dozen different types of voting systems?

In short, the voting system is ingrained into the constitution and will not change in the foreseeable future.
I am curious as to what effect do these reviews have on sales. Some of them rate the product 1 star as part of the joke bringing down the overall rating of the product. Anyone know if that reduces their sales?
Recruiters might use LinkedIn because there are lots of good programmers whose community participation does not occur on Stack Overflow, but still have LinkedIn profiles.
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No, you missed my point. My point is that anyone can accuse anyone of a crime, so the law has to reduce the incentive for someone to make something up to get attention or revenge. "He said he would kill me," is nearly impossible to prove, so if you punish it severely, you create a cure that's worse than the disease. If you restrict it to certified letters, though, then you have a better balance.
So you expect them to answer every single conceivable question you could ever come up with. They made an attempt to product information.
I came to the same conclusion as Saurik, (though didn't go as far as looking up the Server and seeing it was from China).

I had hoped that I could decompile it, get the special sauce, and make a client for Qt-based OSes and also Windows Phone. Looks like I won't make any progress today
As per http://www.dbms2.com/2013/09/23/thoughts-on-in-memory-column..., this new technology makes a lot of sense if you're committed to Oracle, and have the huge IT budgets to make such a commitment possible.

If you're just starting out, however, Oracle is rarely close to being cost-effective.
In fact, searching for x such that 1+4x10^(Ceiling[Log10[x]])-4x^2 is a perfect square gives you tons of integers that make up half of a pair that has this property. 123288,328768 is my favorite pair, for arbitrary reasons.
the steering wheel laptop holder also had lots of pics of road catastrophes, etc.
You likely won't be able to do anything at all, as the client is fairly dumb. It just takes requests from Apple's server, encrypts with CTR AES and a static key, then fires them off to the Chinese server for actual processing. Unless you want to use their server in your own application, you're just as snookered as before; you still need the secret sauce.
Many, many PC games support a controller these days.
If, as a customer, you don't like what Dropbox, Google, Microsoft etc. are doing, then cast your economic vote and don't use the one product that represents the bulk of their revenue. Most companies earn most of their money from one, maybe two, products (focus on not using those). For Google, don't waste time with email, focus on search...and so on.

Google: Search
Microsoft: Office
Dropbox: File sync/sharing
etc.

You don't have to go cold turkey, but it's easy enough to switch one at a time. Help other people (friends/family/etc.) to switch as well. Big changes happen one person at a time.

More importantly, you will see change if a major corporation sees a threat to their revenues.

Cast your economic vote. Repeat. Encourage others to do so as well.
How much did you pay for it, if you don't mind me asking?
Maybe, maybe not. But murdering people isn't the only awful thing a government can do. If it feels it can get away with this it'll think it can get away with anything.
ACID compliance is not ever a strict requirement, it's an abstraction guarantee. If you have a fully ACID compliant database with a sufficiently expressive query interface, then the complexity of the datastore is a perfect abstraction.

The ATM machines people use every day to exchange money are not fully ACID compliant, and they do not use "transactions". It's a calculated choice on the design of the system to account for the guarantees in different ways and balance discrepancies that occur after the fact.

If you need full ACID compliance and need to operate at "Google scale", you reorganize the problem so that you don't need the compliance.
There have been these baby steps lately, enabling the 2d support on the tegra 2 and now supporting "out of the box" functionality (i guess getting a functioning 2d desktop).
I wonder what the relationship is with their stance on 3D support. These aren't really contradicting the proprietary driver monopoly on 3D acceleration that they like to keep.
Unfortunately, it seems to have been.
Or you could just chalk it up to the fact that the post was a "shoot from the hip" post that was channelling a bunch of rage against Big Pharma and psychiatry while containing very little in the way of facts. Not only that, but Big Pharma has no horse in the race as there is no drug to sell here.
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I'd guess that 1-star joke reviews help sales overall, by spreading links to the joke reviews, and thus to the product. And all of the products I've ever seen a joke review on already had a bunch of normal reviews, so the one review rating wouldn't affect the overall rating much.
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BBT bugs me for the same reasons. I've yet to find someone actually in the life that enjoys the show. It seems to be an outsider's view of 'what nerds and geeks do', rather than written by nerds and geeks. This is given away in the article when they say they had to be shown students' apartments to see what they looked like.

It's interesting that the people I know who like it are the ones who like to be close to STEM or academia, but not actually in it. A sort of living-the-fantasy. Admiring the trappings you talk about, all wrapped around a fairly bog-standard sitcom.
I'm willing to bet that the post your replied to was considering "No Autism" as a point on the spectrum, even if that's misguided.
It is annoying when people throw analogies around describe it to a highly technical audience. When is hacker news going to discuss the fact that User-Agent in the http header is not a security feature? When is the discussion that sequential id is equivalent to no security?

No analogy in the world is going to change the fact that User-Agent checking and sequential id:s are not security features. And if courts are allowed to make them security features it is bad news for everyones security.
As a commercial pilot I must say that cell phones and other electronics, have an influence in navigation and comunications.
It has evolved over time though, the past generation airliners (like B737-200 and MD80) that didn't have GPS or laser inertial navigation, used a magnetic sensor(it detects the earth magnetic fields and gives the data to the navigation instruments) that was easily disturbed by the first generation of cellphones. It could change your heading indication up to 40 degrees. The worst cases where due to the pilot's mobile. Also cd players and the first portable nintendos used to have a mesurable effect on those planes.
Modern airliners are better isolated and shielded, also modern electronics transmit with less watts and are better designed. It has become a smaller problem defenitely.
For example the problem with comunications is not a big one, it can be a bit annoying (like when you hear your car radio and the cell phone starts receiving a call), but I haven't hear of any mayor comunication failure or trouble caused by that.
The only problem remaining is that the most sensible fase of flight is a low visibility approach with the autopilot engaged. In this mode the airplane is using highly accurate radio signals from the ground station, and radio altimeter readings to guide itself till landing. The frecuencies are very different, but when you have 100 people trying to con ect their cellphones to call home and say that they are landing (while at 200 knots). The phones have to try very hard to connect to the ground antennas. This is not a problem if everything is working properly. But if a cable or a computer is in bad conditions(remember that avionics suffer from physical stress that is not usual to ground equipment: humity, vibration, shocks), that may cause bad signals that may triger a system failure (this is the best case as this way you may go around and try again safely), or just modify signals enough to degrade de autopilot behaviour but not trigger an alarm.
Although rare, this has happened and it's been the reason the prohibition has been kept all this time.
I suppose that the stadistical and technical study of this faults have led to understanding that this cases are more unusual than they used to be.
Also it's a fact that even if you ask people to shut down their electronics, there is always a part of the passengers that simply don't know how to do it (older people), have theirs at the checked luggage, forgot it on with the laptop(the rest of us), or simply ignore the crew and hide the phone. So effectively enforcing the prohibition was impossible.
I still recommend to set everything in flight mode at least for take off and landing, as we the pilots usually do (please don't tell anyone!), that way you'll also save battery.
Approval voting, for example. Rank voting is ripe for tactical voting, too.
That's the total number of users. This is very specific to the Free-Trade-Zone which, at present, is in the process of being populated by businesses. I don't know if residences will increase there, but this seems to be more of a calculated move to allow Chinese companies more freedom to work outside their borders and to allow external investment in China; not necessarily to allow ordinary Chinese citizens greater freedom to access information.
If users not using any PIN is moving to TouchID then it is good. If users using PIN moves to TouchID then it is not as sunny.
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> and the phone being much closer to my face

I was curious about this statement, so I've just checked with my old, non-trendy Android phone and the results were:

Face to laptop monitor: 66cm
Face to smartphone: 55 cm

Not too surprising as most people I see using smartphones hold them at near full arm extension.
This is blowing up all over the internet right now.. It is pretty amazing that there is an app like this which works, but it is even more surprising that this has been around for a bit, and it flew relatively under the radar.

I just tried it out myself, and my boss who uses an iPhone is in total shock.
Very interesting, although I am somewhat surprised that given its knowledge of the logic, it doesn't generate tests.
I reject that analogy pretty hard. Account ID is basically locker number. It's not a password/lock.
Throwing out a good gallon of milk because the "Sell By" date means something
And I imagine the line you draw for where it's "sloppy programming" vs a legitimate break-in coincides exactly with your knowledge and skill level...