skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need a static IP, yes, but any VPS will get you one, so that can hardly be an issue. In seven years of hosting my own email I never had issues with delivering mail to other providers.

Setting up an SMTP daemon and IMAP/POP3 server is rather easy, the most difficult decision being which SMTPd to choose (I like Postfix, but Exim is Debian’s default and hence supposedly good as well, others like Courier) and then reading the relevant manpages :)

If you search for, e.g., "Postfix tutorial", you'll find plenty of reasonably good guides.
Community developed Meteor packages are on https://atmosphere.meteor.com/.
>>Sites like MyFitnessPal and MyNetDiary would likely disagree. They have hundreds of thousands of users.

That doesn't mean much. I used to use Fitocracy to track my workouts, and while the app itself was very useful, the data entry part absolutely sucked and it was ultimately the reason I gave up on it and went back to pen and paper tracking.
> you should also solve the spam problem as part of the protocol.

I disagree. Different problems sometimes require mutually exclusive solutions.

In fact, receiving lots of unsolicited mail provides some plausible deniability. So a spam free-for-all might actually be a useful part of the new network.
I'm sure 10 years down the line someone will be raving about how the latest NinjaScript based framework is going to be the death of Foo#, and anyone who doesn't think so should go back to their crusty old enterprise Ruby legacy code.
As of 1:41pm PST, there is no mention of this news anywhere on the front page of the NY Times website. There have been similar ...time lags... in the past when covering Snowden related news at the NYT. It's a shame one of the most important news sources in the US is so slow in their coverage, either intentionally or not.
> Do you really believe that this is the modus operandi only of the United States?

Your fallacy is: Tu quoque
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
I actually assumed and tried to verify really hard that that was the original slide and not "artists concept". I just can't believe someone would present that. Beyond the hubris (which is literally unbelievable ref first sentence for my disbelief), it's just unprofessional and childish.
oakwhiz is correct, I was wrong in my statements about cards taking up more than one slot. The blog has been updated accordingly. Sorry for the misinformation all, I could have sworn there were cards that did, but googling turned up nothing.
An envelope is a good analogy for the 2.0 method described in the article. Contents are more secure but metadata is not.
Right, sender pays. https://github.com/zedshaw/utu
I'm not sure I buy the narrative about 1mm connectors. You don't currently line up the contacts on your graphics card - the card only fits into the slot one way. What is preventing us from taking the current design and doubling the number of contacts? Manufacturing tolerances get smaller, but they're certainly going to get smaller if we start printing the same number of connections.
If you're not already, look into doing a
couple of resistance training sessions per week. You don't have to be He-man lifting huge weights, in fact you're better not to be. Focus on core and "all of body" movements.

You'll not only feel stronger and look healthier, you'll also burn a lot of energy. And as you get older, maintaing strength and flexibility guards against aches, pains and injury.
First, I clearly presented this as a hypothetical and emotional reaction and I did this purely to illustrate my feelings. Second, I obviously can not be angry about a country but only about people. Currently there are a quite a few people from the US government I see regularly in the media and they make me angry with what they say, but there is nothing special about this people being from the USA.

I have been to France once and while the overall experience was very good there was one bad experience. We had a problem with the motorway toll and stopped to ask a woman working at a toll station. She was obviously able to understand my English question but did not even try to answer in English and I did not understand a single word. This was not bad enough to make me angry but it was very impolite and I have no understanding for this, not even given the history of the relationship between France and Germany. I knew that I had to expect things like this, but it was a single exception and I am happy about this.

So no doubt that there are many people in many countries thinking of their own people as superior, but this is not acceptable in any case.
So they need to do something like create a completely free codec that blows current offerings out of the water? :)

I read some of the Daala "demos". I don't know video codec technology from a hole in the ground, but it sounds pretty interesting. http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/
Google withdraws public DNS service from Brazil
Or ctrl-shift-power if you don't.
No, you could not. But now we are entertaining that notion.

That is the change that has occurred.
Remember the cop also has a dash cam. It's trivial to sync timestamps on the two videos and show several seconds missing from the beginning of your video.
Honestly, I think you can take most of the notes out of there and it will sound better. I'm not saying that it sounds bad, but the influx of keystrokes doesn't do much there sonically and adds some annoying artifacts.
And yet they accidentally hired at least one contractor with a conscience!
They're both web frameworks with a heavy focus on RAD. It's hard to see how much more similar they could be before they started to become indistinguishable.
they most certainly are player related. I can easily avoid every problem the parent has described on a low quality DSL connection by downloading the video directly and watching the partial download in a native video player.

The state of video players on the internet is just flat out terrible. Given how restrictive the policies and philosophies are around downloading the videos and watching them directly, browser players arn't actually competing with native players. I don't think normal people realize just how terrible they are. I can't imagine this situation ever getting better.
Matatu: Its more addictive than poker
Thanks for sharing it, Thibaut. I'm based in Belgium, and it's true that vat issue is solved with Recurly (and hopefully in a near future with Stripe).
1. Both Chromium (nominally backed by Google) and Opera lack the H.264 codec by default.
People are not going to start hating Americans. They have already been hating Americans for hundreds of years. It started with the "degeneracy thesis" in the 18th century, where it had been suggested by European intellectuals that the American climate led to physically inferior animals and humans. The reasons for hating Americans change everyday.

Hating a group of people is a completely irrational, unconstructive approach to solving a problem. If one has anger about something, they shouldn't lash out at group of people.

If people want Americans to change something on their behalf, for their benefit, it needs to be from a standpoint of respect. They can start by asking nicely.
I think the reference is to faster-than-light, warp, etc.
Great catch! We fixed that early on in the live reviews, but clearly didn't update the screenshot.

Thanks!
Even Google, champion of HTML5, still forces the Flash player on YouTube for videos that have ads, regardless of what your browser supports (or doesn't). So immediately caving on h.264 wouldn't have gotten rid of Flash; it would've left the Web depending on one more not-quite-freely-implementable blob.

If nothing else, it's probably due in part to Mozilla's stance against h.264 that we're even having conversations about alternative codecs today.
At least they didn't make the mistake of calling it "Secure Mail".
This isn't just fashion. We launch client apps in 6 weeks, time isn't negligible for us.
Many of these have similar risk cost vs. risk reward tradeoffs. Climate control helps keep you focused (I know I have a hard time focusing on the road when it's 40F in my car) and cruise control helps keep you predictable to other drivers.

Bluetooth integration assumes people are going to use their phones either way, and thus handsfree is the safer choice. GPS informs drivers in advance so they don't have to swerve across seven lanes of traffic to make their exit.

My point is, what problem does Glass solve that makes it worth the risk?
Since Dell is offering a fix that consists of replacing the laptop's palm rest, it might be related - maybe the palm rest is made of neoprene or something similar.
I'm seriously considering working on this. I can build the API/server side as well as the mobile components (Android at least).
That would require making the gimbals higher tech than they currently are now though.

I'm wondering if you could perhaps detect it by detecting a sudden unplanned twist around one axis with an onboard accelerometer.
It is already happening. Not specifically with python or ruby (although possibly, I don't follow them), but several languages have "compile to javascript" options now. Just like we treat CSS as purely for the machine generated from the SASS which is for people, we treat javascript as purely for the machine generated from the haskell which is for people.
You might be missing the point. Biological systems are the result of Natural selection, and the processes of Natural selection are fundamentally irrational. Any biological system, including our own brain, is essentially the outcome of a random, irrational process. There may be cases where we can arrive at some abstractions, but such cases may be the exception, not the norm.
I find contrasting google and facebook to be mildly crazy. On the other hand: https://plus.google.com/humans.txt
I'm cool with the heat. I am not perfect, don't pretend to be. I welcome the conversations and I am seeing interesting responses.
I think it can be summed up to; you're expecting a specific final solution. Open ended questions that don't have a best solution will require you to pay more attention to the process, rather than the result. In this article, the guy was smart enough to figure it out, but during the pressure of the interview, didn't stumble upon the right solution or fully verify his initial solution, but was able to as soon as the pressure was off. With an open ended solution it's not about getting it right, but how you try to come up with an answer.
Is it crowd sourced?

So for example, can someone sign up as a summarizer (and possibly get paid to summarize?)
Intel to start manufacturing 64-bit... ARM chips.
I would stay. Outside the networking opportunities, you can try and score some internships which are competitive but are an easier path to get into some companies.

Also, many of the bigs (Facebook, Netflix, Google, etc) have candidate interviews that are full of algorithms questions. Not having a degree can be a mark against you at a big company.
Very early in the article the author contrasted this service with LegalZoom, but the first thing that came to mind was something like Pearl.com. It's good when there's a service like this that's focusing on only one thing so I'm interested in seeing where this goes and how it fits into this space.
Well sure, people in positions of power pretty much equally suck everywhere, I think we can consider this as baseline. But I do find it disturbing that "American exceptionalism" seems to be rather widely accepted the US population, and that they're not even ashamed to express it, and that state officials implicitly or openly do the same. I have no doubt that some people in Germany harbour similar sentiments, but they're really at the fringes and in the dumps in comparison.

Also, scale still matters. Killing a person or slapping them in the face are both violence, but there is still a difference, otherwise we could just reduce all to "physical and chemical processess going on" and completely stop thinking. I don't believe for a second that Germany, or even France, Italy or Russia (which I consider rather right wing) have programs to scoop up traffic from Google's internal network in place. Maybe they would like to, but they can't pull it off. And while I wouldn't bet on it, I wouldn't be surprised if China doesn't either.
But, by denying movement, you are suggesting to treat US citizens as second class humans. To what purpose? in order to punish them? To educate them about your importance?
The effect is just reminiscent of a very simple FM synth; you start with a sine wave and add another waveform whose cycle starts below the audible spectrum. Start cranking it up, and you don't hear any "pulse" it just takes on a different timbre.

So, by playing a bunch of notes really fast, you just end up with a different kind of buzz.

I'd rather just use a synth. This is like monkeying with waveforms using a step function. Kind of limited.
A better use of all that money would be to play the lobbying game the enemies of freedom so effectively play.

This is the the thing I completely fail to understand. If all these huge tech firms with all this cash really care about privacy, people, US reputation, etc, then why are they not pouring their money in to politics like, say, the weapons manufacturers do? Why aren't they "buying" politicians?
Im not doing too bad(about 45k/per year) and still living at home (only 20yo). But how hard would it be to try and go to school while working at a startup style company after moving from out of state? I heard they are a lot more time consuming than normal companies (50-60 hours per week vs 40).
Brands vs. Technology
Do you think social platforms are being built to solely benefit brands or they're still interested in pushing tech envelope?
My biggest issue with personal analytics is storage. I want to track everything, from browser history to keystrokes, but I don't want to share this information with a third party. I think solving the data problem is the first hurdle.
10 encryption tips for the enterprise
I think the real question is, "what is the point of homework"?

Rather than creating an app that does your homework for you, I think it would be more useful if we created apps that determined whether or not you needed homework in the first place and gave you the right amount of homework based on how well you're doing.

As an example, you could look at the work that the Khan Academy is doing: http://www.khanacademy.org/about/blog/post/58354379257/intro...

Have you read Neal Stephenson's The Diamond Age? What do you think of it?
Andrew Kim: Minimal to the max
One benefit I see over a simple pencil and paper is the ability to translate between languages. I believe they showed an example of that in the video in which Chinese Sign Language was translated to English presumably on the fly.
Twitter interview puzzle creator?
If text was such preferred and dominant ways of communication for deaf people then sign language would not have been invented in the first place. The fact that it is used more commonly to communicate with people with hearing disabilities tells me that this is interesting.

Besides this is a research project. Just goes off to show the potential a full body recognition platform such as Kinect can have.
The downside is that to even get an internship, I would still have to move somewhere else, not many startups in DC.
"But longer battery life"
Feedback wanted: we're building next geo-chats startup
Great, so you'll see developer penises instead of ordinary ones?
The bigger problem with Ara-style modularity is that as computing power shrinks (in both size and power draw) it becomes pointless to think of modules of "a" computer.

There's simply no point to try to separate processing power out of any component that has other physical constraints. e.g. displays, lenses, antennae, etc.

So you won't want to slap a 'better' camera onto your smartphone to leave your DSLR at home. But not because the interconnect between lens and mobile "base" will become too wasteful or inefficient. Simply because that future lens will be a stand-alone camera and it will operate within a network of things, in which your mobile phone won't be a necessary component.

Similarly with any other useful components. You won't have to make any trade-off of space other than "what can you physically carry".

Need more storage? Put a storage pod in your pocket. Want a rangefinder? grab a 'network of things' capable device. Need more battery? grab a power brick that can charge anything with a capacity limited only by your willingness to carry it, rather than being locked into a form-factor unrelated to (and possibly in conflict with) your power needs.
I've been a working software developer for 15 years. Professionally, I've done everything I would have hoped to do if I'd had a degree. I've worked at Prestigious BigCo, Tiny Startup, Game Studio, and a couple others. I have zero college education. It has almost never come up. Hardly anyone has ever asked, and when they did, it was never a big deal. I once had one manager who kind of sneered at me a little bit over it - a little odd (?) considering he didn't have a degree either.

My advice is absolutely to stay on and finish your C.S. degree. Making the (safer) assumption that you're going to live to a ripe old age, the time you'll spend is really nothing much. The tech industry will not go anywhere without you (and it sounds like you're already working anyway). If you finish, you won't have the regret that I sometimes do. You won't feel like you have something extra to prove to your peers, that I sometimes do. You'll have a lot of extra academic options, like going to grad school, or teaching. You'll probably have a little extra self-confidence, and yes, after all, you'll learn something that you might not otherwise.

You're already enrolled, you're already going - why not finish? If I had it to do again, I'd get a degree in C.S.
They were right when they said that about rails though. Rails was a fad. It was not good. It codifies industry worst practices into a framework that can most charitably be described as "writing PHP in ruby".
Well, it would help if you would write in a way that is not insulting and condescending.

There's no "if" about it. All security is based on threat model, the lock on your front door is based on the threat of the average criminal, and not Watergate burglars. Are you guilty of bad security? Is it your fault if your front door lock gets picked because you made assumptions about the sophistication of your attacker?

You originally said "I'll never trust them again", but that beg's the question, just who will you trust? Unless you are using end-to-end encryption with everyone, there is no way to secure against NSA interception, and pretty much all of Google's cloud competitors are actually worse in terms of deployed security. And assuming end-to-end is secure is basically just assuming a threat model where the NSA or Chinese government can't plant infected firmware or hardware in your devices.
Lawdingo does not have subscriptions for people looking for lawyers- you just pay the lawyer for time spent

https://www.lawdingo.com/about/clients/phone-consultations
Yes crowdsouricing is involved.

Hired summarizers + Crowdsourcing (with a lot of scrutiny though)
It's a little hard to make out, but if you look at the photo of the ARA, those aren't 100-pin connectors -- they're more like USB connectors. Power + Data = 4 pins. So not all that hard to line up, especially if you have guides in the screen portion to slide in your modules. And unlike USB, there'd only be one way to orient the pluggable module. :)

My chief concern would be pocket lint getting in there.
True, such options are available. To my understanding there is a performance hit involved, though, unless something like asm.js is used.

I also believe there are some current projects that compile Python and Ruby into JS, but I'm not sure how mature they are.
I could see this being an awesome sign language learning tool that would give me instant feedback on whether my signing was done correctly.
Not good:

> Unable to connect to MongoDB: connecting to mongodb://web:###plaintextpassword###@dawson.mongohq.com:10036/bistro_production failed: Operation now in progress

Hmm, as the site is down I don't even know how to contact them. Hope they'll see it here very fast.
Really? You see no benefit to video for communication instead of just typing in a chat window? What about facial expression and body language and every other reason people use video over audio regularly?
http://gigaom.com/2008/02/25/googlenet-update-google-buys-a-...
You also need to do QA on the older version(s).

(That said, I personally appreciate allowing it to work with older versions since I haven't upgraded to iOS 7 yet and waited a long time to upgrade to iOS 6.)
> Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers.

You speak of Google as if it were a single person and not 46,000 people, or as if the threat of a long-term federal prison sentence isn't enough to make most members of society keep absolutely quiet.
ClojureScript is probably more efficient for Clojure, but running Scala REPL (and scripts) would be really nice. Some tasks are not CPU-intensive, they mostly wait on network I/O, but expressing them in something like Akka is just cleaner.
the differences are in how quickly the software can get written, and where that software can go to be run, and in how many different places.

It could be we haven't improved those either, but there's more to life than raw performance you see.
This is really neat.

> While this is clearly a massive achievement, there is still a huge amount of work ahead. It currently takes five people to establish the recognition patterns for just one word.

I don't get it. They're saying they need five (only five!) seperate people to train the thing, and then it works pretty well for everyone? That seems to be working pretty darn well to me, I don't see the problem or 'huge amount of work'.

Probably something lost in the journalism.
The important slide of the talk is 65. It shows the exclusion zone of LUX and some competing experiments in the parameterspace of dark matter particles. The parameters are the cross-section ( how likely a DM particle will react), and the mass of the particles. The funny thing is, that several experiments detected a signal, but they do not agree with each other, and the signals are in the exclusion zone of other experiments.
We have the ability to park threads and atomic CAS implemented, so we should support java.util.concurrent.

Granted, it's possible that it invokes a native function somewhere deep inside itself that we don't implement yet, but fixing those are usually very simple.
Then you probably don't eat spaghetti.
Care to elaborate on the grammatical differences? You've got me curious now.
Personal analytics is indeed a very interesting topic (cool article from stephen wolfram: http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...).

The biggest challenge imo is privacy and security: How do you safely collect and process everything (from emails to texts)? While I could implement something for my personal use, would anyone give access to all their communications to a third-party service? I wouldn't.

Maybe there is some better way to collect this information (just metadata? do some analytics and store results instead of raw messages?).
It is built in Meteor, we just switch our whole site to use it. We switch from rails because we have much more Meteor knowledge on our team.