skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Massive bills passing through Congress without being completely read.

I expect that to be the norm in the 70s, 80s, and 90s as it is the norm today and will continue to be in the future, for the same reasons.

I imagine armed drones coming into use essentially as fast as they're developed; I don't believe any past government would have abstained.

I'm with you on the widespread government surveillance, absurd "security" at airports and train and bus stations, and indefinite suspension, though to be fair, I'm not really old enough to have much of an opinion on what things were like (except for airports... truly, these are the end times :( )
So, if Walmart employees are on Socialized Medicine, does that make them Makers or Takers?
How long will it take until the FBI gets rid of these guys?
Is it possible that full-time workers would be more experienced and/or better motivated, resulting in increased productivity per worker?
There is a bit of a conceptual leap from "started a civil war that got a bunch of people killed" to "slaughtered." The question of "how did we come to this?" obviously has a different answer in the two contexts. In the former, more accurate, characterization, it can simply be explained as: Americans are an optimistic bunch that continually underestimate how deeply dysfunctional Middle Eastern society happens to be and how deep the fissures within run.
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing this information. I had no idea this was actually a sanctioned installation option, but clearly it is if you know what to look for[1]. That's actually rather disturbing, from a security point of view...

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/142dbbz4%28v=vs.90%2...
The absence of that executable flag does nothing to protect you from using an existing executable and some data such as an interpreter and source code.
I wish Verizon and Google could get along...
And retroviruses- an RNA virus that reverse transcribes itself into a DNA provirus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcribing_virus
Scientists aren't forced to believe in evolution. It's falsifiable, it just isn't being falsified.

Evolution isn't something from nothing in any way, this is a profound misunderstanding.

Your usage of the word "creationism" is at variance with many others' usages.
On the other side of the coin, there also aren't enough employees to stop shoplifters and it's policy that they can't really challenge them anyway.
Looks like they unified Hangouts and SMS. Maybe it'll be more useful now.
mvc anyone???
Probably going to move off iOS to this but it depends on the size. If it is just as big as it's predecessor, maybe not.
Zend Launches Apigility To Create High-Quality APIs
We only use that language because it's an order of magnitude easier to explain to novice computer users, and because as you stated, the problem still hasn't been fixed at the OS permissions / UI level.

A modern OS lets us do that because lots of users are the sole user of their PC and do not understand the idea of permissions.
[ Ignoring the morality of making ideas illegal... ]

This demonstrates the difference between data (i.e. the number itself) and information (the interpretation of data and use cases derived from that interpretation).

What is "illegal" here is certain kinds of encryption and security software. A prime number is not the same thing as encryption and security software. But you can specify processes which allow encryption and security software to be uniquely identified by a prime number. The interpretation combined with the data is what's important, not the data in isolation.
How many projects does chromium have? I typically work in a solution w/ about 175 projects and it only takes about 10 seconds to load up for me on 2012.
No SMS icon but only Hangout. Looks like they merge those two. Good choice.
http://www.phonearena.com/news/Nexus-5-round-up-5-awesome-ne...

5 inch screen, by the looks.
You also misunderstand a bit what happened in Lavabits case (easy to do I know). Basically the government got a court order for one of Lavabits user's email [1]. Lavabits responded they couldn't decrypt the email because they don't have the key. Government responded, ok, give us your SSL key so we can decrypt any traffic we may or may not have between you and your users. They stalled but eventually complied [2]. Court further forced them to give them the key in digital form, which they also did. And then shut down to prevent the Government's possession of that key to give them new data from their users.

There wasn't a "case" here, Lavabit was compelled and risked fines, jail time, or both if they did not comply. You get a legal court order you can challenge it in court, but when the court upholds the legality of the order (as it did here) you either comply or go to jail. Apple will comply with any legal court order (although they may object to it first, as Google has done according to court records).

[1] Presumed to be Snowden.

[2] Printed out in 4pt font (which I thought was brilliant btw)
>you'd think that any mutation optimizing for time awake would have decimated the other creatures?

Maybe the specialization into day/night has something to do with it. The decimator would need to stand their ground against nocturnal creatures at night and diurnal creatues at day.
Obligatory: http://xkcd.com/1273/
I think it's completely reasonable. It's no different from asking people at conferences, in classes, etc. And I assume the primary purpose is gauge what the candidate actually knows about the domain, how the candidate goes about solving problems, etc., - not to actually get the perfect solution to your problem, though that would be a bonus.
Yes - A is responsible. If I set fire on half of a fireworks factory, I definitely could be hold responsible if the other half burns down to.

Saddam was keeping Iraq relatively stable. The toppling of the regime was done so clumsy with so little idea what to do next that it enabled the sliding down of Iraq into the madness that culminated in 2006-7
Spotify is smart at increasing the Cost-per-view of its audio ads
We recently secured a small investment from an angel investor without prior connections. Having graduated from an Ivy League 12 years ago, I realized that more than school affiliation, it was our team, product, vision, and perseverance that made a difference. I used to regret not networking more in school, but quickly realized that in the startup world, you have to be a problem solver. No time for regrets or to crib about the present. Thanks for this article. I'm going to distribute this to my team.
I'd argue the US contributed to "W2" through "De-Ba'athification," disbanding the Iraqi military, and the incompetence of the occupation (eg insufficient troops to enforce martial law/secure weapons caches). This isn't simply claiming the benefit of hindsight because there were many people warning about these decisions at the time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_End_in_Sight
Your proposal is OK if accessing sensitive information is something you only do occasionally, but it's not very practical to switch users completely if you deal with sensitive information often, which many people do.

On the other hand, if only explicitly authorised applications can create outbound Internet connections at all, and if applications like browsers and e-mail clients need explicit permission to read a general user file (as opposed to, say, accessing their own designated configuration or data files), then you significantly decrease the degree of vulnerability a user has to data leakage attacks (among other types).
Also of note is the price: it was briefly listed on the Play Store with the 16GB model going for $349.
From memory there are regular power disruptions that cost "$100,000" each time. Now checking with Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=nsa+utah+power I see/remember this is delaying the opening of the site.
> The report blames the NSA “fast tracking” the Utah project and thus bypassing “regular quality controls in design and construction.”

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/10/07/the-nsas-...
Climate models are not intended to precisely predict global temperature on short time scales, so the fact that they cannot does not disprove their accuracy or utility.

Furthermore, global climate models are tools for a particular kind of research, not the basis for the theory of global warming--which predates electronic computers by about 40 years.

Evolutionary theory cannot reliably predict complex outcomes either. For example, despite the relative biological simplicity of a flu virus, scientists struggle to predict the strain(s) that will be most virulent each year. But I never see posts on HN holding this failure up as proof that evolution is not believable.
This isn't completely true. Rick Ungar is an actual published writer with a nontrivial history (most of it outside of politics--he was head of Marvel Productions for a while). He appears on Fox News--such as that is--programs as the token liberal.
>> When some coder changes the function, it is very easy to forget to update the comments

> It isn't.

Yes, it is. Have done it myself loads of times.
Gmail certainly does: it implements DKIM.
If you're trying to find anime, I recommend nyaa.se. It's where most fansubbing groups upload torrent files to.
Yeah me too. I really think I am going to switch to T-Mobile so I can have this phone. Fortunately, I live near D.C. and don't travel much so I coverage shouldn't be an issue. It's just annoying how Verizon won't let a phone that gets updates straight from Google on its network.
Is There Any Good Mobile Phone WiFi Jammer for Office Using?
Why I hate the masses
India to distribute 25 mn Smartphones to Rural Households
If we moved every man, woman, and child on Earth to the Moon, there's at least a 40% chance they would survive a catastrophic meteor strike to the Earth.

That doesn't make it a good idea.

There's always a cost and in this case (TSA or moving to the Moon) it's a ridiculously high one to pay for marginal protection against an unlikely event.
Thanks for the article. Regarding "Netflix went pilot-less". BBC had done a "pilot" for them when they produced the Original HoC in 1990 (and they based in on a book by Michael Dobbs).

The point I am trying to make is that, they got a sense of what the show was going to look like, who it will appeal etc because they had carried the BBC HoC for a while in their inventory. I am assuming, that they had some viewership data from this.
Google Nexus accidentally appears in Google Play for $350
HN Tokyo Meetup – 21st of October, 2013
and that sucks! KDE and Razor-Qt FTW.
It was in the Play store earlier today, $349 for the 16GB. The second it's released I'm all over it!

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/10/17/breaking-nexus-5-par...
Though I have no idea about the specifics of Wireshark, there's no particular reason for them to have migrated from Glib— PCManFM, for instance, still uses Glib in its Qt port.
CNN Exposed: Paid by Foreign & Domestic Govt Agencies For Specific Content
Well, considering that iPad game DragonBox is teaching my 3&5yo algebra, and I'm considering how to make an introduction to bits-up computing for Montessori first graders, yeah quantum mechanics can be taught as a game for kids.
It's in TFA. You should probably read it before asking.
Finally viruses are doing what they're supposed to - wreck your computer instead of staying under the radar as long as possible. If people are motivated to protect themselves from this they'll also be preventing botnets and doing good to the rest of the internet.
Interesting point, but the idea of learning excel is to learn computational thinking from an early age.
> So Walmart cares about the health of it's employees, just not enough to provide them with a reasonable health care option.

Walmart is not a person. It does not care one way or another. Not because it's evil, but because it's not a person. It can't care. About anything.

This entire "don't be evil" crap has really got to stop.

Corporations respond to incentives, not moral arguments.

If we, as a society, have decided that we want employers to completely provide for the health of their employees, that's fine. We should make laws requiring them to do so, with penalties in tow for non-compliance.

But please stop the entire "they just don't care!" crap. They're not supposed to. They're corporations, not people.

And yes, I know people run those corporations. Those people have fiduciary responsibilities to their stockholders, not to your moral compass. This is something resolved on a societal level, not on the corporate level.
Thanks for the links. I'll add one link, direct to the project page, since it has links to the actual data, as well as much more detail than is in the articles:

http://berkeleyearth.org/

I note two things on a first read-through:

(1) The project confirmed the data on temperature trends, but the error bar sizes are only reasonable back to about 1860; further back than that, the error bars get quite large. This is glossed over in the statements of findings: for example, the summary of findings (http://berkeleyearth.org/summary-of-findings) says: "Global land temperatures have increased by 1.5 degrees C over the past 250 years", but the error bars in 1750 are about +/- 1.5 C. You can't conclude anything reliably when the error bars are as large as the signal you think you see in the data.

(I also note, btw, that this conclusion is mis-stated in the NYT op-ed by Muller: it says "Our results show that the average temperature of the earth’s land has risen by two and a half degrees Fahrenheit over the past 250 years, including an increase of one and a half degrees over the most recent 50 years". Neither of those statements are consistent with the summary of findings page on the project site, which claims, and shows, 1.5 C rise over the past 250 years, as above, and less than 1 C rise over the past 50 years.)

(2) The project looked at statistics on temperature trends to test whether the "urban heat island" effect might have biased the conclusions; since they saw the same trends when looking at rural areas only, they concluded that it didn't. But that isn't the only criticism Anthony Watts made of the individual station data: he claimed that the locations of many individual thermometers, urban and rural, were poorly chosen (the classic case is one that was placed in the hot air exhaust stream of an air conditioning unit). The Berkeley project did not go and eyeball individual stations, as Watts did, so they had no way of assessing this effect.
I doubt it, but nethack might be worth a shot.
Comcast, Verizon Kill Technology Joint Venture After 17 Months
No different opinion allowed?
Please give me more down vote, I do not care in fact.
You could slippery slope that argument ad infinitum, though. Even the interpretation combined with the data mean nothing if you don't have intent. And even with intent you have to have a computer. And even with intent and computer it has to be reasonable that you could use the computer. Let's imagine I am laying in my bed by the computer completely unable to speak or move. I can only breathe. But, I intended to copy a rights-protected DVD and then fell ill for 10 years while I had everything in place to do it sitting right there beside me? Are you going to charge me as I think there in a semi-comatose state? What if I was copying a copy-protected DVD, but in got stuck in the process, while I laid in my bed in a coma? What if the coma started immediately before the computer started executing the copy, and my pet mouse stepped on the keyboard, starting the copy? What if both the pet mouse and I had the intent to copy the DVD? What if the pet mouse's friend was watching in a nearby corner and had egged the pet mouse to touch the keyboard knowing that the copy-protection would be circumvented, but the pet mouse had no intent to circumvent, but I did, and I fell into a coma prior to the enter key being pressed by the mouse? What if the mouse spontaneously combusted atop the keyboard, pressing that key that the other mouse and I intended to be pressed, and the other mouse was an illegal, but had applied for citizenship of both the U.S. and Britain simultaneously while holding a non-resident visa for Australia while vacationing in the states, and was smoking a cigar in an area clearly marked as non-smoking?
Bountify | Crowdsource Small Coding Tasks
does the bar chart (http://s3.amazonaws.com/pix-media/blog/424/ad_cost.png) irritate any one else here? I feel like it's a rather biased data visualization, it seems patently unfair to compare the finale of breaking bad with the average of a network. If anything, it should be contrasted with the finales of each of those network or possibly replaced with a figure representing the average cost of an ad on AMC.
You can arrange a chat protocol, I think, where MITM isn't possible without being easily detectable in a low latency environment. The idea would be that when you see the "..." of the other person typing, you're receiving an encrypted copy of the letters of their message. When the message comes through it contains information needed to decrypt the message that was received over many seconds. You could always be chatting with an imposter, but a middle man would have to wait for the decrypted message before sending out the re-encrypted keys, which would add a big awkward pause before every response even started being typed.
Yeah, Ansible is something we are strong considering for managing docker hosts and container instantiation. As for building and provisioning containers, I would still argue that Dockerfile is superior for most of the work that needs to be done. Runtime configuration file templating is definitely something I'd like to see included in a Dockerfile definition, but until then at RelateIQ we are looking to a simpler solution than Chef for that and Ansible looks promising in this regard as well.
If you're price sensitive, get a Nexus 4. They're clearing stock at the moment, so it's probably $100 or $200 cheaper than it would otherwise be. You'll probably find that the ones on the Google Play store are cheaper than the ones on eBay.

If you can wait a bit and are not particularly price sensitive, get the Nexus 5 when it comes out in early November.
Thanks for responding. I'm no longer skeptical!
Now if they can do this in Linux, then I can use Mint or Ubuntu 100% and access my email without having to open my company device... just keep it handy.
We remember the big results of science: Newton's gravity, Einstein's special relativity, Darwin's natural selection, the Alvarez hypothesis of dinosaur extinction, etc. In doing so we forget the orders of magnitude more research results which were eventually proven wrong, or inconsequential.

Most of the papers that are wrong today will be caught eventually, or simply won't matter in the long run. The truth machine is not broken, it's just bigger and slower than most people realize.
If this would become common (or any "other way"), it could very well be made illegal shortly after and requires some sort of visa. The issue is not technical, it's political.
Excel isn't just about "boring office tasks"! There's a whole website devoted to games built in excel: http://www.excelgames.com/ (my favorite is http://carywalkin.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/version-1-3-ar... )
Spreadsheets are useful, and the school teaches them. So what? Schools also teach trigonometry, and most people never think about it again. Same with a lot of things.
That would cost $25,600 and require 256 valid Social Security or DUNS numbers.
Metroid.
NIMBY anti-growth types are bad, but the "war on cars group" is my least favorite.
> Are you telling me I'm a threat until proven otherwise, or that we should have policies that treat everyone or a select few that way?

not really, no, this seems like you're responding to something else here.

> I only mentioned the free market because if they were to take this over, solutions would be available for both of us.

how exactly, I'd pick one airport and you'd pick another ? I'm not sure that's very practical in many situations.

> If I were you I'd reflect on how others feel here.

I know how they feel, the TSA is an offensive, incompetent and heavy handed group, combating a so called "issue" that in reality is not an issue at all. The HN community looks at issues in a statistical fashion - terrorist attacks kill extremely few people, so there's really no reason anyone should care about them, slipping in the shower is a much greater hazard. If only the rest of the world could think like they do, nobody would care about terrorism and it would just go away. I look forward to when that comes to fruition.

> I'd love for you to point me to people who are happy about laws like these from a sociological or philosophical perspective.

Well I'm not speaking from any authoritative background here but I'd guess that the average US traveler would prefer there be some level of airport screening (probably not at the crazy levels we have at the moment with the TSA) not for any sociological or philosophical viewpoint but probably more like a "hey can't someone sneak a bomb onto the plane here?" kind of standpoint - which sure is informed by the media and all that, and statistically is an insignificant threat, but there you go. (so perhaps the psychological perspective is the primary mechanism at play here).
> And control: see http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2013/01/12/what-does-it....

Yes, I'm aware of the statistical concept, and do controlling in a few other essays. My point was: 'control' is not an instantly obvious application. What am I controlling and how? Am I modeling it as a separate additive categorical variable? Quantitative variable? An interaction? (All different in R's formula notation, because they're different - +, *, :, and |) When you say

> I also would control for 'LSD is the first thing exactly as often as the test"

I don't even know what I would be controlling here, since I don't know what the order is supposed, what the 'test' is, and so on. You may think your suggestion is clear, but to me it's as clear as mud.
When I was 11 Dad taught me how to use Excel to make a spreadsheet to compare the new minivans he was looking at buying (because I kept stealing his brochures and poring over the feature tables at the end). I later used it to make a chart showing how, compared to my brothers, I should have a later bedtime. Admittedly, I was a major nerd, and still didn't use Excel much, but I mention this to point out that kids can find uses for it.
Visualizing Git activity, 9 week iOS project
Isn't verizon all CMDA? I thought the deal was all the Google phones were GSM. Haven't looked to closely at that recently though, they might all be universal.
That's different from saying that the layer's product can vary from tab to tab.
Excel's one of the first apps I learned to use and it's still a useful part of my toolbox to this day. It's incredibly powerful, and unlike so many modern web/iOS/android 'apps', it teaches you that the computer is your slave, instead of the other way around. You don't have to conform to the whims of some developer and bend your tasks to fit only what they anticipated.

You could certainly create a better spreadsheet than Excel and teach it to kids instead, but it's a great way to get started when it comes to understanding that computers exist to do your bidding and that you don't have to be afraid of numbers and data.
Yeah but ... in Linux at least you have to set +x yourself on the downloads. Which is basic sanity check.

In windows there are too many ways to get elevated. And only one level of elevation.
Very much looking forward to the open source release!
"These crash courses accomplish in 12 weeks (or less) what top computer science schools might teach in four years."

Yeah about that, no.