skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it may not be of much comfort to you, but sometimes naysayers are important. Even if they are wrong about the overall trajectory, they may in the process of naysaying point out specific weaknesses that the visionaries might have missed, and, thus, ultimately allow for the success of the product.
pretty much everything would be different in the US if it weren't for the two-party perpetual anti-motion machine and the buying of politicians through campaign finance and the revolving door. Greenwald probably thinks that to attack these things, we need real journalism, just as we need it to attack militarism and surveillance.
how about it. Well, we haven't.
I did exactly the same! The Moving Truck icon is inspired...Photoshop could learn a few things ;-)
There were so many naysayers. I didn't know HN existed then.
Agreed. Facebook also treats the "Friendship" status as meaning, more or less, "I'm really interested in what this person has to say about everything." And that's not always the case. I've removed people simply because I was tired of seeing pictures of their kids on my News Feed or people arguing back and forth about marijuana legalization legislation. It doesn't mean I don't consider them to be my friend.

I know there's a whole set of settings one can go through to limit the content you see from certain people, etc. etc. but that's also another huge problem with Facebook in general. They take it upon themselves to decide for you which friends are more deserving of your attention. 90% of the time, it's never right. I consider myself a pretty tech savy guy and even I couldn't be bothered trying to understand how to do something like that. It's easier, for a lot of people, to just remove someone from their daily news feed.

I used Social Fixer for this feature alone. I used it because the way I use Facebook (and everyone uses Facebook differently) is to keep in touch with old friends, the friends that moved, got married, graduated. I feel deceptively connected to these people even though I'm not because I have a way to sort of keep tabs without having to keep tabs on them. When they stop appearing in my news feed, they traverse into that vague friend/not-friend category and I'm left wondering what Tom has been up to all these years. Social Fixer usually would let me know that Tom has actually deleted his Facebook account and that's why he has appeared to vanish from my digital life. Sometimes it told me that Jane has unfriended me and I was left assuming Jane got tired of all the gifs I was posting.
Not surprised. Not to be cavalier or anything, but I mean, even I was about to start a side-project to solve those things.
I have floppy disk images of MORE, the greatest Outliner that ever existed. Is there a way to mount the images so I can install it?
It should be the unfriender who has priority - no one should be explicitly told when you unfriend them.
Live in the present. (sometimes we forget)
The Indian Prime Minister Is Spy-Proof, Has no Email or Cell Phone
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The inflation rate in Japan since last year (the "Abenomics" effect) has only moved from -1% to 1%, not exactly a huge effect.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/japan/inflation-cpi

Yet even this small amount of increased inflation (or technically, the expectations of future inflation) is the primary driver behind the recovering economy. The additional currency in the market is irrelevent and is the whole point of this exercise: it does very little or nothing in a liquidity trap.

For what it's worth, I also live in Japan and I haven't seen anything like you have experienced regarding your purchasing power. My rent costs the same, my train and bus tickets are the same, can't tell any difference at the grocery, etc.
Good, Captchas should have stopped being a spam prevention measure years ago.
Wow this takes me back. Lovely combination of apps to be there... quite impressive what was done with so little system resources. Nice to see pagemaker & word striped down to their bare essentials.
That'll probably impossible in the browser due to security reasons: otherwise misuse could trap the user on a website
NSA 'monitored 60m Spanish calls in a month'
The military of the United States consists of five distinct branches: the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, and the Coast Guard. Neither the DOD nor the NSA actually belong as a subordinate of any of these individual branches. Indeed, the DOD's purpose is, in effect, to pull these disparate commands into a single point of control for civilian authority.

The NSA is subordinate to the DOD as part of the DOD's directive as a component of national defense, but it is separate from the military and Obama's derived responsibility for their actions comes from his leadership as a civilian over other civilians, not from his leadership as a civilian over military personnel.
Awesome! It would be amazing if you open sourced your own solutions for it so we could learn from you- I find the topic fascinating! :-)
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I guess I should have specified other than the obvious other source.
OS X has better support for its own hardware, like the trackpad. How can that be a matter of opinion?
Here's a video demonstration: https://vimeo.com/77431982.

Apart from one blip (scepticism vs sccpticism) it outperforms me.
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I am an Indian and knowing our Prime Minister, I can believe this is true. The problem doesn't end there, though. India's political system is unlike the American one, where the President has powers. In our case, the PM cannot or doesn't call all the shots. There are other entities and bureaucrats that actually hold the power. And I can vouch that they do use cell phones and emails.
checkout captchasniper, was the best one a while ago.
This sentence discredits the writer:

"Libertarians have joined environmental groups in lobbying to allow government to use the little boxes to keep track of the miles you drive, and possibly where you drive them — then use the information to draw up a tax bill."

Libertarians are for use tax and privatization of roads. Unless misled by clever wording, they would never support a state administered use tax that tracked your location.
Personally, I'm very disappointed with the level of support for open source I've seen. A Github account with a dozen or so projects all related to a CMS is not what I call supporting open source. At best its a concession to the developers you've attracted to help with your political platform. You just won't get certain developers if you don't also allow them to participate in open source. It's calculated and expedient here more than altruistic or in the name or transparency, openness and letting the American people own the works for hire they have paid for through taxes.

If he (or any politician) wants to really support the idea of open-source they would require that everything that can be open-sourced will be open-sourced. The only exception I see to open-sourcing would be limited to almost strictly to military or defense related software and hardware projects. For every single other system, the source code should be out there in the public. Start with every single non-critical piece of software that is not part of infrastructure like transportation and public utilities and once security practices and norms improve and stabilize among the non-critical stuff, slowly and carefully open source all the rest except for military and defense projects.

At the price tax payers are paying for software, we should own the code outright many many times over.
"FINTRAC told LibertyBit in an email that it was not considered a Money Service Business, which would require registering with FINTRAC. The agency told LibertyBit that since the transfer of funds is a corollary of its actual service of trading virtual currency, it need not register."

tl;dr: Less regulatory burden in Canada.

(Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2039347/canadian-regulator-ta...)
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Could you please share how you did that in Automaton? I'd love to do that to my backups.
Microsoft reportedly sourcing components for its own smart eyeglasses
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That's what I meant; I didn't mean to say it had to be the same cancer. If the breast cancer was located in the same breast and same area that was irradiated (assuming the radiation was local and not systemic), that would make a strong argument that it was likely secondary to the childhood treatment. The fact that the second cancer was breast cancer isn't all that convincing by itself, because it's an all-around common cancer.

My point was that it's another explanation that has to be considered. It doesn't mean the explanation you proposed could not be valid.
You should try http://www.snapzu.com. It's like a more mature reddit alternative. Cheers!
Nexus 5 will be launched on 1 November
great tutorial. I was able to get through all of it this evening. it was fun having a data set to play around with the whole time. everything was well explained and it was easy to read.

and looks like working for the city of chicago is the thing to do...not bad salaries out there :D
Having thought more about this. I'm leaning more towards the pro-limitations side of the argument. Clearly games are more addictive now. I doubt many lives were ruined over pac-man and missile command. If young me had grown up around WoW perhaps I'd be different?

You mention the gaming binges at friend's houses. If you have the opportunity, ask the parents if those marathon sessions happen on a normal night. There are a few instances in my youth were I recall overindulgence, and most were at the urging of friends. Friends who were manic in their desire to get as much time in as possible before their parents returned. The idea of 'limits against overuse don't apply the second you leave my house' is precisely what got many of my friends in trouble later in life. Merely trying to assist with perspective. Please don't take this as a critique of your view (as I'm in agreement) or parenting ability (congrats on the high test scores).

>I'm dubious about your claim, particularly as most levels of freedom and responsibility are gradual with most kids ... But I have seen stranger things.

I'd like to point out that the scenario I describe wasn't a free for all. Falling short of expectations was met with discipline and restrictions as any child could expect. Simply that regulation of tv/game time was a personal choice provided that expectations were met.

The important part is the guidance. Finding the best way to show the kiddos how to recognize a bad habit. I'm thinking a good middle ground would be a discussion where the time limits are decided, but then applied universally. Something doesn't stop being a bad habit just because you're at a friends house.
Economics forecasting is harder than the weather.

How do you build an economic model that can deal with the introduction of mobile phones? What about some new energy source that cut the cost of energy dramatically? What about the fall of Communism?

Also the weather doesn't have expectations that react to the weather forecast. Economic models get incorporated into people's expectations and this feedback can actually alter the economy. If you read up on The Phillip's Curve and stagflation you can see an example of this interaction.

Weather is actually decent for forecasting. You can constantly get new data to verify your model against. If you are forecasting for a week you have hundreds of tests to do per week.

Any forecasting where the predictions matter over the scale of decades is harder because the time span means you will have less data available for validation.
The actual lawsuit docket is available here:

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=1860459
Of running multiple regexp at once
too many open files, Ubuntu has default /proc/sys/fs/file-max of 1024.

It's an SA problem, not dev problem.
If the managers are not developers then they are by definition incompetent to manage a software project like this. I have met a lot of competent managers that were not technical, but I have not met one that was competent enough to manage a project involving legacy systems with poorly written code and little to no testing or automation. If you are not a developer, you simply cannot understand these types of problems enough to manage it.
In addition to the seat-width, the other dimension that has been shrinking is the seat pitch - the distance between rows of seats. Seat pitch, of course, determines how much leg room you have, whether the seat in front of you hits your knees. A low seat pitch can be extremely uncomfortable - and airlines have been been squeezing seats closer. A seat pitch of 31" seems to be the norm now among most major carriers, down from 32" or even 34" in the past. Now, you have to pay extra to get Economy plus/premium seating to get the 1" of extra leg room, that used to be the standard in the past.
> American "democracy" has degenerated into a circus the permanent government uses to decide which frontman serves its interest better.

Can you actually point to a period of time when things were better?

Framing the problem as one of degeneration, rather than as one of inadequacy, is in my opinion one of the most critical problems with our approaches to change. It makes us look for ways to repeal implemented changes assuming that we'll regain a golden era by doing so, rather than actually looking at the situation, operating from first principles, and building something actually effective.
"Back, and to the left"
"It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating."
can as in "is technically and organizationally capable"? Fairly simple, especially when we're talking about the government and mobile phones. The US Embassy is about 200 meters from the Reichstag, just at the edge of the area where most of the government is located, just as the British Embassy. The Brits have a radome on the roof [1] and the Americans are reported to have hidden equipment behind fake walls [2][3]. Sufficiently sensitive equipment should give them a good reception on what most mobiles in that area do. Otherwise see the hack on belgacom: Root the provider and you have the mobile. Not all of that is legal, but I'm not certain under which law the Radome on the embassy is illegal.

[1] http://www.bing.com/maps/?v=2&where1=Wilhelmstra%C3%9Fe%2071...
[2] Infrared picture of the American Embassy that claims to be an indicator http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/bild-930301-561363.htm...
[3] http://www.duncancampbell.org/embassy-bugging
I'll see what I can do about getting a Hypercard-specific demo together.
So they have invented the world's best OCR software?
Contrary to some other users here I don't see Greenwald's habitual hostility as a negative thing, at least in his case. What he writes about, writes against, are systems of oppression and death -- if you agree with his positions in the slightest you will agree with that. The alternative of "maybe killing American citizens with drone strikes without due process is a bad thing, I think it might be, don't you?" would not have gotten him where he was (in terms of readership, visibility, reputation, w/e etc) before Snowden, and probably would not have appealed to Snowden.
I wonder who owns Hypercard these days and if it could ever be released into the public domain.

Edit: Seems as if Apple now own it again as part of FileMaker Inc.
http://launch.co/ offers also a great recap.
>"It’s a tiny thing but the upgrade from three quarters of a TB to 1TB of SSD made the difference for me. Once, I had a MacBook Pro with many tens of gigabytes available get bricked by some upgrade … (all) because it didn’t have enough spare storage room. So I don’t want to be close to full on (storage, ever).”*

I wonder what he wants all that storage for. I'm a bit nuts about how many Coursera videos I download and keep and I buy media via Amazon, but I can't even imagine needing 10 gigabytes of storage on my laptop.
Dean Baker called the housing bubble as early as 2002:

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/reports/the-run-up-in-home-pri...

By 2004 he even sponsored a $1000 contest for whoever could make a good case that there wasn't a bubble:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/18/business/personal-business...
The real issue is not government officials, but the People.

Governments can spy on each other as much as they want, they have the consultants, experts and money to protect themselves accordingly.

The citizen, on the other hand is often very poor, illiterate or at least has no clue about how tech works and what it can do to them and their right. They need protection from "third parties" (neutral and non-corrupt entities).
I never understood why aren't more Ruby extensions build on FFI instead of the MRI C extensions way - it would make everything work seamlessly on JRuby or Rubinius or Maglev and would also involve much less work.

...hope someone of the big Ruby backers take this project under their wing.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie is her "correct" name in some sense:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Curie_Sk%C5%82odowsk...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
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The promotion of false conspiracy theories is not harmless. In the past, what one historian dubbed as the "paranoid style of American politics" has led to fear of and antipathy toward certain religions and social and political movements.

This is a stretch in my opinion. This article is thinly veiled legacy defending. Not admitting to any of the Warren Commission's flaws just plays into the hands of the conspiracy theorists. Frankly there is a lot to be suspicious about. I'm not saying there is a conspiracy, but the Warren Commission deserves to be criticized.

For example:
Seth Kantor's testimony of encountering Ruby at Parkland hospital after JFKs assassination remains a baffling thread that the Warren Commission dismissed out of hand. Kantor had a very normal and somewhat productive journalistic career up until the assassination. During the Warren Commission he wasn't even suggesting any ideas for what his encounter with Ruby might have meant, he just wanted it out there that it happened. Later he became a little conspiratorial (from what I've heard), but who could blame him after watching the President get shot and running into the assassin's killer soon thereafter (if he was telling the truth)?

If I had to be I'd say there is probably no conspiracy, but I think it's very safe to say that the Warren Commission is not even close to the entire story. People can't be blamed for filling in the details with their own imagination.
As far as I know bots, even advanced ones, have an extremely hard time with dotted fonts. Just change the Captchas to use some really dotted or unique fonts where the letters are made up of smaller elements that don't connect. You can extend the life of Captchas for a few more years.

http://fontspace.com/malwin-b%C3%A9la-h%C3%BCrkey/merkur

http://fontspace.com/honey-and-death/dotline/8617.charmap

http://fontspace.com/bythebutterfly/bubble-bath

http://fontspace.com/jecko-development/jd-lcd-rounded

Eventually, the spammers will make a bot to analyze the distance between dots, group them into letters, and the race will be on to use other methods. I see this as a never ending virus/immunity battle. We're pretty much at the end of Captchas. Other methods like mouse movement, surfing time, scrolling, etc... can all be mimiced as well. Computers can or will be able to simulate humans very well, even our imperfections.
GitHub, Linode, Spotify, and Netflix.
With the advent of the FDA, the likelihood of something similar to radium as a cure for cancer is unlikely. Although, I sometimes think with experimental international stem cell therapy or kombucha, there's bound to be something...
Sure, if you have some money to start with. If you're at the lower rungs of the ladder, inflation hurts you even worse.
This is cool, but there's no indication from the article that it's novel, or that it's better than existing methods.

The article linked to 28 other different systems that have claimed to beat / demonstrated beating captchas at some point: http://www.karlgroves.com/2013/02/09/list-of-resources-break....

Without a performance comparison to existing methodologies on a benchmark dataset and precise details on the models, this is a neat marketing demo and nothing more.
So this is an idea you came up with on Wednesday.... and by today you've thrown up a really basic site and want to charge people? Haha... that's superb.

How about you pay me to interview you first. Then I'll let you know if you're qualified to interview me.
Put it this way, people will always have to point out something. If the only faults they can find are over pixels, you probably did an amazing job.
phantomjs.cloud: (phantomjs as a service) http://phantomjscloud.com/site/index.html

it's cool because: my first web project, needed subsystem of my next web project ;)
Representative quote:

"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. "
You seem to have misunderstood the comment, (the sibling comments should help explain, or maybe some light reading about the invention of the transistor).
Be careful Ryan Zhou is the same person with the sketchy past behind Bitcoinica. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoinica

Context: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=81581.0
Computers can simulate everything from visual character recognition to mouse movements and everything else we do online.

My prediction is that Google will one day enter the "Bot Recognition Market". They've got so much data on everyone and their browsing habits from Gmail, to Adsense, to Search results, to Google Analytics. Their cookies, browser, javascript, and ads follow you around all over the internet. They're the only company capable of putting all that data together and returning via API: "This user is a real person, we've analyzed 3 years of data from them, go ahead and let them sign up"

Or returning: "User is a bot, their IP has no purchases, no google account, no search requests, no adsense impressions, etc..."
His statement is correct, and totally irrelevant when considering consumers.
One thing I like about python is it's simplicity. Just one look and I ken what it's trying to do. As to the question why it may seem overwhelming; well, I think it has to do with the extreme number of choices.

For me, I simply picked one, Django, and worked on a simple post/comment app. After that, I move on to blogging app, then file sharing app, then payroll, etc. After dozens or so application, coding using Django comes automatically. Thats when I decided to try out Flask, and repeat the same process.

Yep, small, incremental steps.
I think that if pg can't even tell for sure what's going to be successful and what's not, really how surprised can you be that the common HN commented couldn't tell what's going to be big.

If you're a startup and you're pretty sure there's a market for your product, people telling you their gut feeling really doesn't matter imo.