skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
after being suspicious at first, i'm quite impressed with the clean and beautiful design and the process.

it's kinda 60% photoshop, 25% css and 15% html excercise
German parliament passes Internet censorship bill
Don't worry too much. The belief that nuclear energy will turn us into masters of the universe is an index fossil of the 1950s. This FAQ won't outlive the baby boomers who came up with it, all of whom were presumably raised on too many My Friend the Atom filmstrips and not enough Mad magazines.

When I was a kid I had a sort of Popular Science-y book from the early sixties that talked excitedly about the plans to dig the second Panama Canal by using underground nuclear blasts. Even as an eight-year-old I knew that this was a hilarious anachronism.
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How they did find out who the man was? It seems he used only a nick name on his account. Did they ask Twitter for the identity? This is disturbing.
Wow, very good examples! So what can be done to anonymise access to these services? Tor of course is one idea, or a different proxy server. Anything else, or other considerations?
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I know I may be downmodded for saying this, but:

the kind of "Indian spirituality" you see outside India is totally different from the actual stuff. most gurus open their "ashrams" in the US exactly for the same reason most entrepreneurs want to move to silicon valley - more money and visibility. sadly, these "ashrams" aren't ashrams in the true sense, more like religious businesses.
Mythryl Programming Language
While this is good news I still believe that current projects to get solar energy from sunny areas in deserts like the Sahara are more feasible.
Totally unrelated to the actual content: I'm running Firefox 3.5 (on Windows), the site offers a ogg video download, yet the in-page video is served using Quicktime.

Something tells me this guy needs to improve his browser detection mechanisms.
Why would anyone think that a "universal OS" would only launch a browser? I think ChromeOS may contain Google's Native Client allowing web apps to run native code on the local machine. If so, Microsoft and Windows is doomed.
Well, you could have tried. I don't see how one could express disagreement regarding the education of people, such that they realize we are not all-powerful being destined to control every aspect of the Universe.
I only left the touch-screen out of my argument because I frankly can't remember what kind of touch screen the typical Android phone has.

Which, of course, may also be a symptom of the problem. (Though perhaps it is just a symptom of my poor memory.)
Was this with our most recent release -- Tahoe v1.4.1? Could you tell me more about what went wrong? Perhaps by opening a ticket on http://allmydata.org so that the other people who are responsible for making it easy to install can see the issue.
Upgrading the browser is not too tedious a task. In fact, if your IT department had left Windows Update turned on, they'd have at least IE7 by now.

Of course, they can't leave WinUpdate on because they did not legally purchase Windows :p
It seems to me that Android is really about taking share from Windows Mobile, not the IPhone. Given that, it would make sense to take the multi-platform approach that they have. This article, and the comments within it, seem to simply be "stuff that must be said" given the recent announcement re: Chrome OS.
My impression was that Chrome OS was supposed to be a netbook OS, focused mainly on getting online and a browser up and running, and little more. That is as far as you can get from a universal OS.

Anyway, since we really have next to no detail, I guess this is all wild speculation, so discussion has somewhat limited interest until we get something solid.

As for Windows beeing doomed... I kinda doubt thousands of companies worldwide is going to ditch their current platform, all their current software and jump on something entirely new and unproven.

If Linux failed as a desktop OS against Windows (with massive centralized administration features) in the corporate world, how will a Linux distro with even more trimmed down feature set going to be appealing?
IMO, Facebook and Twitter could really change things if they wanted to.

Heck, don't drop support for IE6. Just show a banner on the top of the page which says something to the effect of "Hey! You're using outdated software. Would you like to upgrade?". Millions of non-geeks use Facebook/Twitter everyday. Even if 1% of them upgraded, it would make a hell of a difference.
Typically "frequency" means the same thing: something that is repeated over time. I'll mention a specific economic example I've seen (sorry, can't recall exactly where) to illustrate.

Economists wanted to explain a productivity gap between male and female employees at some employer. So after looking at the Fourier transform of timeseries of sick days, they noticed that men's sick days behaved like a bump function near 0. Essentially, if you are sick today, this increases the odds of him being sick tomorrow.

On the other hand, the Fourier transform of women's sick days had spikes at f=1/28 days as well as the bump at 0. This means if a woman is sick today, the odds are increased that she will be sick n x 28 days from now (n an integer).

That's what the Fourier transform does: if your signal has a component which repeats over time, the Fourier transform will find it.
Summary: Back in my day, we had to walk up hill both ways, in the snow to have an affair.
Scribd would be much more useful if they supported predictable URLs of a document in their various formats. For example, if I uploaded My_Awesome_Document.docx, it could throw it into an URL like http://www.scribd.com/bradgessler/My_Awesome_Document.docx and let me enter URLs like

http://www.scribd.com/bradgessler/My_Awesome_Document.pdf
http://www.scribd.com/bradgessler/My_Awesome_Document.doc

to download the various formats of the doc. an URL shortner would sweeten the deal for tweeting/sharing docs. iPaper could just be another option for sharing/embedding a doc.

I'm probably just a vocal minority.
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Damn right we need to destroy the Cylons! Look what happened last time!
Think about the Great War, that is World War One. It was for a while a war of attrition with Britain and France trying to bleed Germany white. It was truly terrible in a way that modern terrorism can never hope to be. So terrorists try to terrify even though they fall far short of being truly terrible. They are attempting a mindfuck, one that is mostly smoke and mirrors, with only 0.01% of the blood and gore of WWI.

The bathos of becoming unfunny practical jokers would destroy a terrorist movement. The terrorist must conduct himself so that, in the eyes of his victims, he is a fierce warrior who, when captured, has claims to the status of prisoner of war or political prisoner. If his victims are not frightened but are very annoyed then they will turn on him, sedate him heavily and lock him in the ward for the mentally retarded who are violent.

Bruce Schneier finds fault with the authorities saying that they defend us against 'movie plot' threats. I don't accept this criticism. Terrorist are constrained to operate within a socially constructed mythos that is mostly owned by their victims. Terrorists have to conduct attacks that have Hollywood's stamp of approval as 'terrorism'. Hollywood has no latitude on where it places its stamp of approval; it goes on visceral, primal dread, not left luggage.
Why is it every two days someone is conspiring a new way to take my waves? In summertime, east coast surfers ONLY get to surf hurricanes. We love hurricanes. Its the only time we get overhead waves, glassy smooth water surface and offshore winds.
"Im a big fan of apple user interfaces though they lack a bit in functionality and obviously they are very expensive unless you have lot of money"

This reminds of a great JWZ quote: Linux is only free if your time has no value.
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My non-expert understanding is that the efficiencies come out better in the big picture despite adding a conversion step. You can get maximum sun time in space for the solar component and have a very cheap and very efficient rectenna on the ground that isn't much affected by atmospheric losses.
Those old-timers, they never had affair bots.
The problem here is that in combination with Wave, Google is setting the platform that we are supposed to develop for a year or more before it exists. That IRRITATES the hell out of me. It is the same kind of egotistical douschebaggery Microsoft used to pull: pre-launching products to gain control before contributing anything.

Watching the Wave introduction video... when I see that semi-euro, T-shirt wearing trim-bearded fuck up there on that stage with his falsely elegant peppy smart talk planning a 'boating trip', and the scripted passing back and forth with 'the best project manager in the world,' I see one thing and one thing only in my mind: Ballmer's sweaty bitch tits bouncing up and down, round and round, as he stomps and screams, vibrating to the tune of "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!"

At least Ballmer had the good sense to be ugly, which gave him an odd kind of dignity.

I think I prefer this stagecraft http://bit.ly/pwGXs to this stagecraft http://bit.ly/15aSar because Google's culture of arrogance is starting to disgust me.
Amusing how the "clean and beautiful" design includes filling the top 30% of the browser with useless filler.
Personally I would rather have one very well designed phone than a 1000 'cheap plastic' ones.
"Education" implies that the people who oppose you are merely ignorant, rather than wrong. It's profoundly disrespectful -- a debating tactic to avoid confronting the opinions of those with whom you disagree, or listening to their arguments.

I can understand how someone could reasonably believe that there are things that we intelligent beings could never control (the spinning of a galaxy or something), but it seems really odd on a tech-oriented site to find those who not only don't agree that we could control natural phenomena on this one little rock, but who don't believe that any argument worth listening to could exist, such that they're calling for the education of those who disagree, rather than the convincing of those people.
Any other Canadians here really want to use mturk but can't because of the US-only restriction? I've never understood why the requesters need a US address.
The medium is the lover
I've been in that; It's not as cool as it looks from the outside.
That the artist's budget was limited?
Not sure if this is the reddit (et. al.) effect, but man that site is sllllloooowwwww for me.
Not necessarily - there's still voicemail to consider.
>> Users will still be able to access the flagged websites, but they will be advised that viewing child pornography is illegal.

That is not true. It won't be possible to access the website.

Edit: ... by just clicking the warning away.
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I can't stop laughing about people telling it doesn't look like osx. alright its not osx. it works for me, and im happy for it!
Fourier Transforms when used in the fluid turbulence theory and analysis can be thought of as a decomposition of the flow into eddies of a spectrum of sizes. Here the Fourier variable is length not time and the wavelength of a Fourier component defines the size of and eddy in the decomposition, the amplitude of the Fourier component defines the amount of kinetic energy in an eddy and the cutoff wavelength of the eddy decomposition is related to the viscosity of the flow. The problem to be solved by Fluid Turbulence Theory is to understand the transfer of energy over time between the eddies representing the flow field as defined by the Fourier representation of the Navier-Stokes Equation.

Your are correct to note that the interpretation of a Fourier series has a great variance and can become quite abstract.
I'd much rather make OS X more like Ubuntu.

I like my macbook, but a lot of software just doesn't run on it. I'd also like it if xmonad worked for all windows, not just X windows.
The reuters corpus was used for a lot of papers, and TREC.

http://lucene.grantingersoll.com/2008/05/18/open-source-sear...

http://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/volume5/lewis04a/lyrl2004_r...
Mythryl is a rewrite of the SML/NJ compiler

http://mythryl.org/book153.html

And for the code examples:

http://mythryl.org/book117.html

It looks like they've put a familiar, scriptish, face on an old gladiator. SML/NJ has more academic street cred than any other compiler that I know of. It did for the compiler research of FPLs what the Fortran H compiler did for procedural languages on pipelined architectures. It has been hacked on by the who's who of compiler research groups; Princeton, Stanford, UT Austin, etc. (thank god CMU had better things to do, staying a Lisp shop ;-)

P.S. Dr. Norman Ramsey, I know you read Reddit but I am not sure if you come here; old man, you turned me to FPLs in 1998 with your original "hacker challenge" :-) I stumbled upon your site looking for blackhat "hacking" materials and ended up writing a linker a month later because I stayed and read your papers.
You can access the servers by their IP adresses. The filtering will be DNS-based
LOL.. come on, you are still in BSD age.. take a look at ubuntu and then say!
SIC codes - not SEC codes. Just the easiest list to find. SIC are international.
No, sir, they moved to Vegas to avoid sales tax on shipping to CA residents. They no longer have a CA nexus.
Ok, serious question: what's the worst that could happen?

Some internet entity (could be Google, could be someone else) knows everything about me - all my personal details, everything I've ever done on the internet that wasn't encrypted. What's the worst case scenario for me, realistically?
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Do you have a link for that information?
NR books are gratis online:

http://www.nrbook.com/a/

That's the previous "legacy" C version along with Fortran.

The latest version is available as well, behind nasty frames and URLs hidden in "accept our terms first" javascript div { display: none; } crap.

P.S. I want to be able to write CSS as:

typedef div { display: none} hidden_div; :-D
Site is running really slow now, but the wikipedia article provides a quick taste. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythryl
State of Georgia needs to do similarly.
Why is this on the front page? It's nothing more than an ad-filled article talking about playing with an API wrapper in a command line.
good info. I suggest also looking Bastille linux and SE linux, and the Oreilly book "Network Security Hacks"

http://www.amazon.com/Network-Security-Hacks-Protecting-Priv...
Identity theft (since they have all your details), blackmail of some kind (perhaps someone malicious at Google has discovered you're having an affair)?
At the same time, we judge things that we don't know by its look.

For people who don't know what difference between OS X and Unbuntu, the theme is the OS.

This happens everywhere. Racism is one of this bias. We tends to judge non-white as criminals in certain situations.
Properties of Digits: Benfords Law
This is the bill(in German): http://dip21.bundestag.de/dip21/btd/16/128/1612850.pdf

relevant part:

Die Sperrung erfolgt
mindestens auf der Ebene der vollqualifizierten Domain-
namen, deren Auflösung in die zugehörigen Internetpro-
tokoll-Adressen unterbleibt.

my translation:

The blocking will at least take place on the level of fully-qualified domain names, the resolution of which into IP-adresses will remain undone.
That won't work for sites on virtual hosts.
I do, but it's German:

(2) Für die Sperrung dürfen vollqualifizierte Domainnamen, Internetprotokoll-Adressen und Zieladressen von Telemedienangeboten verwendet werden. Die Sperrung erfolgt mindestens auf der Ebene der vollqualifizierten Domainnamen, deren Auflösung in die zugehörigen Internetprotokoll-Adressen unterbleibt.
Source: http://www.zugerschwg.com/

The important part is "Die Sperrung erfolgt mindestens auf der Ebene der vollqualifizierten Domainnamen, deren Auflösung in die zugehörigen Internetprotokoll-Adressen unterbleibt." what means "The blocking is done at least at the level of the fully qualified domain names, whose resolution to ip adresses is omitted.".

Still searching for a native English source.
$ easy_install twitter

will install you a minimalistic yet more powerful Twitter API with a sample command line client included.
You should maybe pick different manufacturers to clarify your point.
> There's a way to set the infix associativity and precedence, isn't there?

Yes, at least for your new operators like , ++, ==> etc.
Does anyone know - or know how to figure out - how much power is 'stored' at any given time in the globe's power transmission lines?
Intuitively, this must be a pretty huge amount - basically 1x the global power consumption at any given instant?
Anyone know if there's any/much spare capacity, that could actually be used as a massive distributed battery?
Then you can use a foreign or even your own DNS server. Avoiding the censorship methods is not the problem.

The problem is that a democratic country installs such censorship mechanisms though in its constitution you can read "censorship doesn't take place".
Small nitpick: "Schützenvereine" are more about drinking beer and having a party ("Schützenfest"). If you want to shoot, join a "Schießverein".
You can just used a DNS server which is not inside of Germany. Or you retrieve the IP from somewhere and setup your local hosts file or whatever. That was the point why this law provoked the biggest petition in the history of the country.

It does not really help against the matter it is directed at. It just establishes an infrastructure to be used for censorship in general. And no doubt that it will be used for much more than child pornography soon...
I agree, that is a problem. The 'think of the children' or 'be afraid of the terrorists' argument will at some point probably be used to outlaw encryption and to make it mandatory that you sign in to the internet. No more anonymizers, proxies etc.
It is broken since a long tome
http://www.newstatesman.com/north-america/2009/07/pilger-oba...

and I disagree with de above: OZ rocks, not just as friends!
I think after you have green card, they will track down you for exit tax as citizen on tax.

One difference is if you marry a non U.S. woman. then you need to put her on waiting list for 5 years before she can come to U.S. because you are only a permanent resident. But since you have paid millions of taxes. I guess you are rich enough if this happens to do things in alternative way such as EB-5 for her.
Clean doesn't mean minimal.
um isn't viewing child pornography illegal in Germany? Seems kinda redundant
German conservative party CDU already requested it to be used to block

- first person shooters and online games (they call them "killing games" and think they are responsible for school shootings and rampages)
- sites hosting instructions to build bombs (and with them probably everything related to chemistry...)
- 'pages of hate' (yep, I have no idea what they mean with that...)

Soon there will be requests to block websites of other parties, online gambling, torrents... possibilites are endless.
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This is (so the government says) directed at material which is hosted in countries that do not cooperate in the deletion of such material. Of course the government made a big joke of itself when publishing lists/numbers of those countries. It was a disgrace.
When I first read reports of it, I don't think he really attempted to hide his link to the alias. That being said, if you tick off a government enough, they will find a way to trace you (anonymous twitter or not).

http://identi.ca/jeanfer

"jeanfer jean anleu

STATISTICS

User ID 54636
Member since 14 May 2009"
Actually, the Android SDK makes it supremely easy to build applications that are built specifically for different types of devices with minimal effort. The implemented separation of XML resources, combined with the ability to further refine/subdivide resources based on phone capabilities, without having to write any code to make the choices at runtime, is incredibly useful and powerful.

For a simple example, let's say I want to optimize my application's interface layout for whether the phone is in portrait or landscape mode. I simply make two copies of the layout definition and place them in specially-named resource folders, like such:

res/
layout/
main.xml # basic layout
layout-port/
main.xml # optimized for portrait mode
layout-land/
main.xml # optimized for landscape mode

Then all my application needs to do to load the layout is:

setContentView.(R.layout.main);

Android then takes care of loading the appropriate layout element on the fly based on the device's capabilities and state. All I have to do is include optimized versions of the layout for whatever I think in important.

This capability not only covers screen orientation, but screen resolution, screen DPI, touch versus stylus input, hardware or software keyboard, and more [1]. And it all comes basically for "free" because my actual code doesn't have to know about any of it; it just asks for the base resource, and Android does all the selection for me.

So yes, running on lots of devices is part of Android's plan, and they've been working from day 1 to mitigate all of the problems inherent with targeting a divergent platform, and it works. So yes, Android will "scale" to any number of devices, and it's trivial for developers to stay on top of everything if they use the SDK the way it was designed.

[1] http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/resource...
Of course it is. As it is in 99% of all countries. But there are elections this September, so they did all kind of silly bills to get publicity for their party.

And with many people this works: "Oh, child porn on the internet? You have to DO something against it so nobody can access it. Hiding it is the right way to go."

That deleting it and prosecuting the people responsible for it would be the much better way, and required by the law, is forgotten if you can impress some voters. And it's cheaper and easier for them.

And now that we have this censorship instrument, let's block xyz (replace with something they don't like) too. No matter that our constitution says "censorship doesn't take place".
Government said child porn is not illegal in India and other countries. They forgot _every_ kind of porn is illegal in India. #fail
I wrote a Gmail and Hotmail backup client for the web that syncs every day to Amazon's S3 via IMAP and POP. After several months of trying to sell it, I can tell you that search advertising isn't working very well. If search advertising doesn't work, does that mean consumers don't understand what they are searching for? Is this market not ready yet?
Startup idea: Facial recognition from mobile phones?
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It looks kinda ok, but all the keyboard shortcuts and cmd instead of ctrl would expose the fake immediately.
Right. What I wanted so say is that you won't be able to just click the warning away.
Greencard holders are also obligated to pay exit tax after several (8?) years of residency.

IMHO, this a big deal only if you have illiquid assets. If you don't have any the only problem is having to realize the unrealized gains - not the end of the world.
You're right, this is not very clear in the article.
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I would use an autocorrelation for that, not a Fourier transform.
Net filtering a $33m waste: child groups
See my explanation above: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=699223
Hah, I think a large number of people would disagree with you that not being married and not having kids is lucky.