skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compare this:

>The government shouldn't have the right...

to this:

>The US Government absolutely has the right...

You can't refute a normative claim with a positive claim.

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>Are you really suggesting that our laws should be based on public opinion?

I think he's suggesting that violence (which ultimately backs state compulsion) is not an appropriate response to a non-violent act (declining to hand over keys).
For the really paranoid, to the extent that your data can be represented as a text file, you can print it on paper from your internet connected machine and OCR it into your air gapped machine, and vice versa. In this case, you only have to worry about your printer or scanner having a backdoor. If you are very confident in your OCR accuracy, you can encrypt it prior to printing and decrypt it after scanning.

Just remember to burn the paper afterwards.
This seems to only move the problem to the first item instead of the last one, not solve it.
Los sin nombre.
Also the money amounts they talk about sound very low for a team to care about. Budget is so big that $1k more per point (totally what like $270k) is not much money.
What you propose is probably possible for many USB sticks, but I don't think it's possible in general. Flashing a microcontroller often requires access to a serial interface like SPI, I2C, or JTAG. That's typically on different pins than USB (which pins can be buried in potting or otherwise inaccessible to compromised hosts). In addition some models can have particular pins connected to disable flashing.
> First, we can combine sensor readings (if light reading is sub x then phone is not outdoors, for instance) and second, given appropriate volume we can arrive at valid averages – an answer that gets to the heart of what Big Data really means.

Even with volume I think this is a bigger problem than the article makes it out to be. The first thing that came to mind was a denser city area, in fact, density aside I think there is a significant number of people indoors (house, car, bus, train) at any given point in time. This data can be very helpful during the winter and summer to get a better idea of the RealFeel temp outside but during the winter people's phones are usually in their coats. Maybe there is some magic Big Data sauce that can be used alongside officially reported data but I'm a bit skeptical and curious at the same time.

As far as noisy data goes, I'd venture to classify this as very noisy.
That's not how this works.

You can work a job that pays $1200 a month, and the program will chip in the rest to top it up.

This is not so people will do crappy jobs that pay very little, but instead so they can pursue things that otherwise don't pay very well, like working at a charity or other non-profit with a very slim budget.
That's showing off as a critical. Nothing was DONE. A lot was said.

If she had actually taken action against it, I'd buy it. She didn't and she won't, so I (and you should too) assume that's just propaganda. At least in Brazil it's how every politician plays the game.
I seem to have opted my whole domain (Google Apps) out somehow

> Based on your domain's current settings, your name and profile picture will not appear in shared endorsements paired with ads. If your domain administrator changes this in the future, your choice here will be honored.

https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements?hl=en

though I don't know exactly how. Anybody knows which domain-wide setting is responsible?
>want them to criticize him at least for the mistakes he makes before breakfast - not focus on the actual, real, concrete violations of law that he revealed.

These are not mutually exclusive goals. I'm grateful for Assange's work and the changes it has affected on the world. However, I think if you were picking the front-man for Wikileaks, he would be a poor choice.

Thankfully, the ideal people rarely do anything interesting, and Assange is a very interesting character (in both senses of the word). I was actually surprised by how little of the memo took issue with the film. Almost all of it is tone, and much of that tone is open to interpretation (does the film mock Assange's feeling of being watched, or do the characters in the scene mock it? The scene includes thugs following Assange.). I'm also surprised the film adds a disclaim as to its sources at the end.

Wikileaks seems really upset, but it seems like the film makers could have done a lot worse. I'm sure the people in the US government have their own list of inaccuracies. What do you expect from a form of entertainment?
The legalese.

(And I agree.)
How social media created the shutdown
Anyone else go to Amazon thinking 'hmmm, maybe I'll buy a 100 day goal calendar, it's probably only $5.'

The one he has on his wall is $42.50 on Amazon... I think I'll print out 100 pages and tape them to my wall.
You can feel free to use json2.js for good or evil.

The NSA breathes a sigh of relief.
> Likewise Assange is certainly intermingled with harm/death to Americans, if not directly involved.

Source? In what way has he directly been involved in any harm? Second, US Brig. Gen. Robert Carr vittnessed under oath that the armies investigation could not identify a single death. Do you know something that the second largest army in the world could not prove?

> So again, although Assange is not "the sole gunman" here he does share in the responsibility.

I guess the architect for the World Trade Center do share some responsibility when the two building crashed in 2001. Had he built them more secure, more like a bunker, then so many people would still be alive. so again, althrough Daniel Libeskind is not "the sole gunman" here he does share in the responsibility.

or maybe, just maybe I want to put the whole blame on Al-Qaeda.
One site is: http://koreanclass101.com

I am not a subscriber or even a speaker of Korean, but I did learn the alphabet in College and if I ever had time, I feel like I could learn Korean at this site.
I'm totally in love with Lua and Rust. I wanna do it always.
I believe the legalese version is the actual one and it offers protection in front a court.

As for the plain English, I think is because in law you have to be very explicit in order to do not leave any holes.
Their biggest source was Manning, who only had access to US intel. Hence a disproportionate amount of US leaks. If you go through their archives from before the Manning leaks theres plenty of Russia, Canada, Aus, UK and other countries intel being dumped
So why don't you give up half of your income to a family or group of students who are struggling?

Do you feel more confident that a government entity would do a better job at picking a family or students? Or would you only want to do it if everyone at your income bracket was also doing it?

Serious question, not trying to be a dick.
Everything fun is illegal somewhere.
Enforcement costs can easily outstrip the revenue collected.

One example might be public transit where the cost of printing tickets, tokens and passes, plus paying fare collectors and maintaining the equipment to prevent people from jumping gates is way more expensive than just letting people on for free.
You can't just say depositing money on a site is a crime, there were plenty of non-illegal things bought and sold at the Silk Road. Plus evidence of intending to one day maybe buy something illegal is not evidence of having bought something illegal.

Tangentially related, in the cases where the USG seized offshore gambling sites, they returned deposits to the players, even though playing there was ostensibly illegal.

Granted offshore gambling is a little murkier than buying heroin in terms of legality, but see paragraph #1. Having funds at/on TSR is not a crime.
That article did a lot of simplifying, but probably simplifying that was needed for the person who asked that question.

An interesting thing about Apples take on AArch64 in particular that some people have been speculating about is about how Apple's Cyclone core's memory subsystem works. ARM cores usually use the virtual (post-MMU) address of data to determine where in the cache data lives, but if you stick with page size as big or bigger than the L1 size you can start your L1 lookup at the same time you do your TLB lookup, and save a lot of latency. Apple's control of the OS is what lets them force 64K page sizes.
The Mincome experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mincome) did research into this and found out that, surprise, people don't like sitting around doing nothing. On the whole they want to work.
I would've backed Ubuntu Edge if I knew this existed back then. Being able to use Go for mobile dev would be so fun.
If this is the opt-in/out checkbox, mine was already set to not allow them to use my name/profile photo:
https://plus.google.com/settings/endorsements?hl=en
The term “standard library” has a second interpretation that is increasingly relevant in modern programming: as well as meaning “the [one true] standard library”, it could also mean “the library of standards”. It doesn’t necessarily have to provide its own tools. It can also define conventions and frameworks that establish a baseline for interoperability that everyone else’s tools can work with.

I don’t believe it’s realistic to create a standardised toolbox when every new language come along and expect everything in it to still be a good way of doing things ten years later, as requirements change and new ideas come along. This is probably why so many languages today have at least a de facto standard place where you get other libraries when you need them: PyPI, CPAN, Boost, etc.

On the other hand, there are many recurring themes that appear in those libraries, particularly in the interface they offer and their overall design: basic data types and data structures, application-specific concepts like windows and database connections and file formats, architectural tools like publish-subscribe mechanics and test hooks. Standardising these common ideas, so it’s as easy as possible to connect up libraries from different sources or to replace one library with another, offers many benefits in efficiency and maintainability for a programming language’s ecosystem as a whole.

We already see examples of this being done: many languages have a somewhat standardised interface for connecting to SQL-based database engines, for example. We also see some unfortunate examples where it wasn’t done quickly enough, such as the myriad string types everyone defined in C++ because there was no standard type for so long.

I suspect the most successful programming languages of tomorrow may not have anything like as many tools available “out of the box” as Java and Python and C# do today. However, if I were a betting man, I’d wager they will all provide solid foundations for managing third party libraries and much better frameworks and conventions for interoperability between those libraries.
Why 404.
It doesn't have a lot of .onion websites indexed. The two I tried to find are not in their database (for one of them I got a result though, because it is mentioned in the hidden wiki).

I don't see any way of submit a site for crawling.
The core language is pretty much settled at this point, it's mostly libraries that are actually changing. The syntax is basically finished.

That doesn't mean that it's stable, it's just that we do know what it looks like.
What information can retailers see when they track customer movements?
Technically, the legalese version is written in plain English. ;)

But snark aside, I don't think this plain English version is all that enforceable since it doesn't mention at any point about being a contract that you're agreeing to. IANAL, but I think this is part of why the actual TOS isn't written in "normal English". All the stuff that makes it binding (or is supposed to, anyway) and prevents lawyers from twisting the words is what we call legalese.

I don't so much blame companies for this sorry state, but the legal system and the lawyers who inhabit it. Google and the like are just doing what they must to navigate in that environment.
I'd be curious if a strongly phonetic alphabet/writing leads to less changes in the sounds in the language...?
The more we integrate with China, the more they will leech off our progress. There's no objective stance on whether or not this is bad or good, but globalization will basically allow China to leech our progress artificially and reduce our own standards slightly.

Some negatives for China are that we create an artificial large wealthy market that creates tons of jobs for China, while China isn't actually developing a proper consumer market for their own goods. This could create dependence but it might also mean it messes with the natural development of a developing nation.

A lot of the same reasons The Federation in Star Trek has a no-interaction with less developed races.
Why would someone write a review for something but then not expect to have that review used by the business to further their sales?
Well, the gains are smallish. Real-world gains from hyperthreading are on the order of 10-20% when you load up a CPU with two threads.
Thanks for the source.

I think using that that something is "more vulnerable" is misleading though. Do we really think that 8_32 is 4 times more vulnerable than 8_64? Isn't it more likely that 64-bit users are less likely to run random malware?

Of course I definitely agree that XP is "less secure" and everyone should be planning to move away from it. But for a well-managed corporate network it just doesn't seem like such a big deal as MS are making out.
> Yep, because as any Friedman loving economist (like Charles Gave you're linking to) will tell you, there's only one God and it's the Market.

Oh but I love Friedman too. And what's wrong with the market? What else is the market but people freely exchanging goods and services voluntary? What is more peaceful than two people making a voluntary deal? What are we entrepreneurs doing if not that? See Friedman's famous pencil example http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlTRau_XgGs

> No, you see, that's the thing about Social Security (you seem to know so much about), that's what the OP paid, the rest was paid to the doctor by the Social Security.

That's my point, 21€ and 7.5€ is what you see, what you don't see is the 60% income tax we all pay to get this. Not really that cheap anymore.

> Where did you find "private property is sacred" anywhere in the declaration of human rights?

omg, really? You haven't even read the first line of the declaration? Here you go:

"dans une Déclaration solennelle, les droits naturels, inaliénables et sacrés de l’homme"

Article 2:

"Ces droits sont la liberté, la propriété, la sûreté et la résistance à l’oppression."

Well, that was easy :) http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/histoire/dudh/1789.asp

> Surely, the problem is the taxes.

Good, now you get it.

Finally here's another good one from the 1789 act:

"Un peuple libre n'acquitte que des contributions, un peuple esclave paie des impôts »". A free people pays bills (ie from private companies), a people of slaves pays taxes. Yep, that's from our founding fathers. Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand could not have put it better. Have a nice day citoyen :)
Switzerland is ground zero for "Protestant Ethic" so I'm not sure that's really the problem.
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Or easier ,delete your Google+ Account.

Today you have the choice to opt-out , tomorrow you might not.

I hope people here will stop with the "Google+ > Facebook " propaganda, their goal are the same: data mining,tracking and selling ads. It's even more difficult to manage privacy on Google+ than on Facebook.

I dont have anything against these services but there is a price to pay for "free" ones, and it will become more and more expensive.
I actually use mostly the Wikipedia article and the overarching Korean language article[1] mentioned for most of the basics, though I may not be such a good source for gathering materials as I'm just gingerly walking through the material.

If you're _really_ intent on learning more than just Korean, getting familiar with the IPA[1] would also prove useful if you also want to speak the language.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_language

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
When Our News Is Gerrymandered, Too
https://kbhpodhnfxl3clb4.onion.to/add-domain
Absolutely. For conversational value, it's great. But in a discussion about empirical research, it's misleading at best.
> It will be: "You can't watch this video because you don't have IE11 or Chrome" because Firefox will be legally barred from accessing the CDM.

This is not in evidence. You might be right, but since there is no obvious reason to believe it, surely you can see why others don't make that assumption.

> And if you want to know how that future under EME looks like, go no further than look back at the 6 years of utter stagnation when IE6 held that monopoly.

I can't understand what parallel you're trying to draw here. The IE 6 monopoly did not arise because of a DRM standard; it arose because Microsoft killed its competition by giving its browser away for free with Windows.
So if I've deleted the Google plus service from my Google account, I have nothing to worry about?
That's self-serving bullshit. A corporation is a collection of people. They share no less moral responsibility for their collective actions than would an individual.
If giving up Osama Bin Ladin's location also required giving up the privacy of everyone that uses Google to the CIA, then I would say that act would become OBL crowning achievement.

He already succeeded in destroying an icon of our economy and taking thousands of lives with it. Are you really suggesting that its acceptable for us to debase one of the basic human rights that are the foundation of this country in order to capture one man? This is exactly what is happening with Lavabit.

I don't think any law should be based on public opinion, but when the interpretation of a law is potentially unconstitutional, then that interpretation becomes a matter of public opinion that should be decided in the US Supreme Court.
Show HN: Terra Ex, a 4x multiplayer online game
http://www.terraexgame.com

Terra Ex will be a 4x ("explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate") multiplayer online browser based game. Our Kickstarter will begin Oct. 16th (link to KS preview is on our site). We are making this game, in part, to fund STEM education. Details are on our site.

About the game (from the site):
"Our story begins eons from now, when Earth collides with Mars. Humanity must face an uncertain future: we must forge new civilizations in the far corners of space. Your ships are small at first, but opportunity is endless. Will you become a merchant society or focus on espionage? Do you seek to dominate the universe or live peacefully among other races?

Once you branch out into the galaxy, you'll have the opportunity to work with or fight against other players. You can build up your weapons or search for planets rich in minerals."

The stack is: PHP, MySQL, Memcache+APC, nginx, JQuery, SOLR, CloudFlare, our in-house Javascript+PHP framework, hosted at DigitalOcean.

We added an "Easter egg" on the site where you can click the starports on either side of the "ACTNOW!" button to launch fighters. And once launched, you can click them to shoot them down. Have fun! :)

Thanks!
Perhaps because the division between the language, and the filesystem, is arbitrary and drawn by OS vendors, not language users?

The race is on to build an OS that is 100% completely open source, and this may as well be accomplished by the language having package management. Boot to a linux-kernel, naught but /usr/bin/lua and /usr/bin/luarocks, and a well maintained .lua archive, and you've got a very useful embedded environment. Very useful.
This, ladies and gentlemen, is a particularly detailed and good read. Please do give it a glance if you haven't already.
> This implies that no algorithm is ever O(1) for an asymptotically large number of elements--not even hash tables or pointer dereferences.

O(1) is about number of operations required by algorithm to finish for given data size, not about the time. So latency doesn't matter.

Also: if the amount of information that can be kept in universe is finite (most probably it is) - then you can make algorithm that takes the same amount of operations no matter data size (just always add dummy data to fill up the data to the physical limit). Thus every algorithm is technically O(1).

Proof: let N be the number of bits that we can keep in memory. Every deterministic algorithm either does infinite loop, or finishes the execution after at most 2^N changes of state (otherways it is 2 times in the same state with different follow-up, and he can't, cause it's deterministic). So if we design an algorithm, that for every data fitting into memory calculates the result and then does busy loop for the remaining steps until the step 2^N - this algorithm is O(1) no matter what it does.

There's probably a hole in my understanding somewhere, cause algorithmic complexity would be a really useless definition if that was true :)
Presumably, he is interested in a solution to the class of problems, not to an individual instance of the problem. Giving up half your income in taxes in his method is a proposed solution to the class of problems. Giving up half your income when no one else is is a proposed solution to a single instance of the problem.

And with universal basic income, recall that there is no 'picking' performed.
"Plain English" is the legal equivalent of pseudocode. (By similar reasoning, the courts are analogous to CPUs.)

The TOS isn't in plain English for the same reason that Android isn't written in pseudocode: the CPUs won't run it.

Also -- pseudocode ignores edge cases, boundary conditions, etc. to make it readable. Production code (and legal documents) can't escape these requirements.
It's mostly driven by competition. Because all processors have to pay interchange (about 2-2.2%) at scale, and also cover fraud losses - there isn't much room to slash prices and still make a profit.
I am filtering so only errors coming from my JS files get captured, but something in Chrome is still saying errors from other scripts are coming from mine. I know because the errors reference variables and functions that do not exist in my codebase.

I'm using this on a site with 1.5M pageviews a month, so even a very small number of errors results in quite a number of items in Rollbar. It is also effectively impossible to reproduce the issues since they are client-specific.

My current solution is to work on expanding my list of "invalid" errors that should be ignored. Based on sandstrom's comment, I'm also going to look at the Content Security Policy functionality.
Thank you! Most interesting bit imo:

"If you have a Google Account, we may display your Profile name, Profile photo, and actions you take on Google or on third-party applications connected to your Google Account (such as +1’s, reviews you write and comments you post) in our Services, including displaying in ads and other commercial contexts. We will respect the choices you make to limit sharing or visibility settings in your Google Account. For example, you can choose your settings so your name and photo do not appear in an ad."

Now the question is where are the settings? I assume it will be allowed by default. Will my choice be respected in the long run?
> There are plenty of reasons why we can and should work less and still enjoy the benefits of a decent, modern life.

Or work more, but do so because you love your work, not to cover for some basic need. If I could retire next week, I'd probably work a little less, but wouldn't stop.
Thanks, I'll check it out later.
Sailing is a good example of a sport with development classes like the Aussie 18 and International 14 where there are few rules and tech is really important, and also classes like the Laser that are cheap, strict one-design boats.

There is room for both forms of competition.

Having grown up racing Lasers, I'd have to say, however, that watching a sailboat race is incredibly boring no matter what kind of boat. Competing is fun, though.