skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NSA Has Even More Access to Google Than We Thought
I believe he was referring to the sign up process, which is just as easy (if not easier). In fact, I often have a very difficult time (as a payer) paying through PayPal with my credit card and not my PayPal account. Sometimes I just don't want PayPal to be a part of all of my transactions. Basically, anything outside of eBay.
I think this is one of the fundamental misunderstandings: Metadata includes such interesting things as "who has been sending messages to whom at what time" and potentially also from where (ip address). This is an avenue to reconstruct social networks and behavioral patterns, especially if you can crosslink the data with other public sources. I recommend this visualization of the movement profile only derived from the collected data of one german politician (sorry, german only but fairly easy to understand) http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-vorratsdaten
The political class is still more scared of being on the wrong side of security in the event of another terrorist attack. On a long enough timeline there certainly is bound to be another attack, and no one wants to be the one who weakened the intelligence community's toolset. No one seems to understand the tradeoffs they are making.
Reading the text files, using vim, which were written in the 80s and talk about Borland and other old stuff, makes me... a bit sentimental.
A relational database system can scale to few terabytes of data, which is much more than currently available recommendation datasets. However, based on my understanding, if we are talking about Petabyte scale or more, I don't think RecDB is the right option !
Rock started as music most people thought was too simple to be interesting, and so did jazz and a lot of early electronic music. I think it's really premature to write off a music style most people haven't even heard of yet.

Given how much interesting music (IMO) has come from things like serialist classical, I suspect it's only a matter of time before someone finds ways of producing interesting sorts of tone color that are more difficult to achieve via other methods.
I'm not sure that is fair to say. I think all companies will go through a "fat trimming" period. Yahoo grew big and didn't/doesn't have the business model to sustain that growth.

Side Note: I am actually confused about what Yahoo's market is now-a-days.
Activists of Color Lead Charge Against Surveillance, NSA
From their perspective, why not tackle the additional attack vectors?

As for the internal mole, I'd imagine that any such individual's role would be highly focused. They'd be used to tackle specific target information rather than the wholesale siphoning tapped cables would provide. Aside from the simple logistic issues with the sheer amount of data they're tapping, I can't imagine how anyone could be in a physical position to do so across the entire Google network without tripping at least <i>one</i> internal safeguard?

For bulk collection, the taps enable surveillance without the possibility of detection unless the NSA screws the proverbial pooch. And if there's one thing history can tell us, it's that surveillance agencies will spend obscene amounts of money in pursuit of that undetectability. From the Project Azorian with the Glomar Explorer to the Berlin tunnels in Operation Gold, the Cold War alone proves the point.
Yeah, I was surprised by the lack of a reference to The Black Page in TFA.
"Citizen are involved" and "the democracy is not function as intended and/or there is a situation that can not be rectified democratically" are anything but mutually exclusive.
Yep, I used it before on Windows - the problem was that the Bluetooth range was too long :-).
But it works great without the need of yet another piece of hardware on you (that you need to charge I think?).
They do. That's an advantage that H.264 has over the alternatives: it is ubiquitous on phones and tablets.
Actually, Win8 lets you mark connections as being metered or not, so Win8 knows not to download updates over such a connection.

It's not much, but it is a start.
Be cool, stay in school.

I've seen some great devs make it without a degree. However, they have to work twice as hard to be considered equal. As others have noted, they never picked up some math or algorithmic concepts. It hurts in interviews as well as on-the-job moments if they're already hired.

I know parts of CS are boring and seem like most real-world jobs would never use the concepts, but once and awhile it comes up and when you don't get it, you fail.
Chip and pin cards.

I can confirm, when I first came to the UK four years ago, only major retailers seemed willing to accept my Canadian CC, and even then, the cashier usually had to call the manager to confirm that it's ok.

Another thing I have to credit Europe with is the lack of proprietary debit card systems like Interac or Plus. It's all done via Visa/Mastercard Debit, so you're never forced to do your online shopping on credit.
Now it works, thank you!

Nice icons.
That prism is part of the object, and the light coming from it enters your eye. You are not viewing a screen - your retina is, in effect, the screen. It's wholly inaccurate to say it doesn't project into the eye.
Ensure (http://ensure.com/)

Fortisip (https://www.nutricia.co.uk/fortisip//)
The same people who fiddle with gps while driving would be fumbling to unfold a map while driving. The technology isn't the issue.
MIT Wristband Could Make AC Obsolete
I agree, but when Rails came out, there was a whole lot of Ruby on Rails is going to kill Java type posts. I guess this means Meteor is reaching some mindshare.
In what way were previous disclosures refuted? PRISM and MUSCULAR aren't mutually exclusive.
NSA spying shows how to lose friends and alienate allies
Wordpress: Easy way to enable SSH for updates
How could one compare "exception handling" and "debugging"? They are two differed things. JS exceptions handling IS weak by design, no matter what debugger you are using. :)
If it's passed in plain text the tracking pixel wont load.
>fat trimming

and if that's the case - that's exactly what you say instead of - "these are bad devs and we don't need them".
Hey person with family and kids - screw you - good luck finding a job after Yahoo CEO declared you an unworthy asset.
The size (by cross-section surface area or pretty much any other metric) to thrust ratio is substantially improved, meaning they need a smaller, lighter ball encasing the unit.

I suspect that the thrust-to-weight ratio is also better since they're carrying fewer motors and ESCs around at the expense of some servos and surfaces, which are almost certainly lighter.

Plus the rotors are in a much more advantageous position for containment within a ball.

I'd be interested in evaluating the efficiency of vectoring prop wash using control surfaces versus modulating the speed of fixed-pitch rotors. There's almost certainly something there but I don't know which direction the comparison would go.

Anecdotally it's much easier to get good yaw authority using some type of thrust vectoring (control surfaces, tricopter style tilt-rotor, etc) than using counter-rotation like most quadcopters do as well.

I'd love to build one of these types of machine even sans ball and see how tough the trade-offs vs. a traditional multirotor are in real life; on the surface the design seems superior to me.
They still deserve to be skinned alive though. As feminists are fond of saying "intent isn't magic".
In my experience/opinion, the worst part is when you try and try and get no good data at all from one.
The problem with e-mail is that gathering the meta-data is almost as valuable as looking inside at the message contents. Secure messaging layers aren't going to help you there - unless everyone starts using something like Tor.
thats just the federal part. CA, HI, WA, KY, and many other states are hundreds of millions (billions) more.
Hi, I'm the founder. Another article came out today, in which the author talked about the comparison to Pearl: http://vator.tv/news/2013-10-30-lawdingo-raises-690k-to-help...

In general I think the narrow vertical approach makes more sense that the general purpose expert advice network. Legal is supposedly Pearl's largest vertical in every country around the world.
> imply that he thought the US was doing something unique

But the US is doing something unique. No other country has the global reach and the sheer military budget that the US has. It's debatable that other countries are "above" it in moral terms, but the US certainly has taken it to a whole new level.

Edit: I also don't see where "But he's building his whole argument on ... US was deserving of special disdain". Despite the larger scope of the US's transgressions, you are saying "but they do it too". I think that the Tu Quoque fallacy absolutely applies. Nowhere is it said that other countries would not be worthy of equal disdain under equal circumstances. And if it were to be said, it would be wrong.
> [1,2,"10",3].sort()
[ 1, '10', 2, 3 ]

That's the problem.
> That all said, my 40s have been the best creative period of my life, by far.

Agreed. Wrote my first novel in my 40s.
The stupidest trend in laptop design
> 'as long as it's royalty free for _us_ to ship'

The deal makes it free (as in beer) for everybody.

Mozilla could afford licensing H.264 for Firefox long time ago, but they've been fighting for license that allows anybody to build fully-functional Firefox fork (unlike Google — they bought H.264 for closed-source Chrome, but left FOSS Chromium without H.264 playback).
Ask HN: is Google under attack?
Everything seems working fine but not the accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin, which keeps loading forever.
Everything looks great. I could definitely see myself using this.

Your biggest obstacle is probably going to be reaching critical mass. There are a lot of ways to help you achieve that - in this instance I'd suggest going the OKCupid route. What they did was offer a supplementary service (quizzes) that was fun and relevant for the users even before they reached critical mass.

You just need to make the app as useful as possible for existing pickup games. With the push notification reminders it's already useful but perhaps you could add score keeping (I'd love to know what % of the time I'm on the winning team) and easy group communication (without excluding non iphone users).
> Regarding "work within the framework to modify the framework" Snowden decided not to work within it and we still don't know what will happen to him.

What we do know is that he got shit done. His voice has been heard, people are talking now, he has had an impact.

Opting to work outside the framework is often not safe, particularly when the framework includes provisions for harming those who opt to work outside of it, but sometimes that is the only effective option.
Wow, amazing! :)
AFAIK, it works the same online as your typical magnetic strip card, however, it's associated with a PIN which likely (hopefully) isn't stored by the merchant. Similar to a card security code (CVV).

Otherwise, offline you place it into a card reader and enter a PIN. The card then authenticates the transaction only if the PIN matches. The card stays within the reader as you enter the PIN.

Further reading,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip_and_PIN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV
I'm 35. I've worked for a couple small companies and I am at a startup now. I certainly hope my life doesn't end now. I certainly would love to get something started but I feel I'm old enough where I understand the value of family and sane time limits. Looking back I could see myself taking a shot in the dark on something but I'm not necessarily disappointed that I didn't. I've learned so much and continue to each day. If you want to be a billionaire by 25 you'll kill yourself. The odds are so astronomical it's almost funny. I say spend your years learning what you can, then start something when you have savvy and perspective. But that's just me.
Microsoft's plan is more coherent than you think
Talking about sentimental, This made me giggle, "there will
probably never come a time when a good assembler-language programmer can't out-program a compiler."

Reading that reminded me why I'll never make predictions on computing, especially on what can't be done.
The problem lies in the context.
If we speak to each other we take human context into account. So does a musical interpret. It is just another medium. Music instead of words.
A computer does not understand human context.
This has already be proven by Weizenbaum with his program Eliza.
If the Computer does not understand emotion, he does not understand how to create music.
There is no possibility to formalize music exactly, so that a computer can play it accordingly. I doubt that this will ever be possible because a true artist takes human context into account in his performance. So there is no static formalization of music.
The only solution would be that the composer plays live on the computer. But an instrument that can not be played by humans is useless in this situation.
Employees win in battle over LinkedIn contacts
The idea is that we're simple stimulus-response machines running along the treadmill of life, with our day to day consciousness, identity & lifestyle choices dictated by our fuzzy pattern-matching ability; we are subconsciously conditioned by rewards unconscious to us, and we live our life by unconscious heuristics designed to maximize progress towards such rewards.

If we could better understand what we actually enjoy then we could design a lifestyle that maximizes periods of real well-being and enjoyment. Happiness is a loaded word but wouldn't you contend that the modernity, and all the alienation contrived therein with life reduced to private experiences, could be improved for all by an optimization of private experience?
Police Ticket a Driver Wearing Google Glass
Lawdingo (YC W13) raises $690K to help you find a lawyer.
On Mercurial, all of those options are just "hg diff -w".

You can also ignore whitespace when picking commits apart with hg record (akin to git add -p, I think).
> [1999's] slow Java

Java 1.2 (1998) used a JIT and a generational collector. It was probably faster than today's Ruby, Python, or PHP.

What was slow was start up. Applets in particular were really horrible since they completely froze the browser for several seconds.

If I remember correctly, this was finally fixed many years later with some version of Java 6.0.
I visited Meteor's blog just now at http://www.meteor.com/blog to see if it would break my Back button the way that your blog did. Indeed, it did. Clicking my Back button at a Meteor-powered site seems to always direct me to the top of the previous page, not to the location on the previous page where I left off. As I wrote in the parent comment, this issue is very annoying.

Is this a problem that the Meteor developers are working to resolve?
How do I become HIPAA compliant? (a checklist)
3DTool - a simple model viewer and photorealistic 3D renderer (inside a browser)
So does that mean that piano music played on an insufficiently fancy piano is soulless as well?
Well as others have explained, its part of the natural cycle all good drivers adopt. Mirrors, dash cluster; for speed and idiot lights, and in general just knowing what is going on around you.

Also, most in car GPS systems do take as well as give voice commands. With steering wheel controls you can do your stereo equally as well.

There was a motorcycle helmet recently shown off by some odd company that incorporated glass like features. Sorry, no way. The last thing we need is just off the line of sight images to distract.
This is the second worst application of the "animal-inspired" moniker that I have seen.

Nike calling their sneakers "bio-inspired" because they had leopard spots on them was the worst.
The paradigm is that it's easier (cheaper) to have less performant code that takes less time to build for developers then it is to have maximum performant code...

This project at least provides the potential for people like myself who have existing Java projects with longstanding functioning methods that I don't want to rewrite in Node.js... Yes it's another layer, but for some functions that layer can be less complicated then reimplementation.
There are of course differences in the treatment of citizens and non-citizens and this for good reasons like controlling immigration. But there should be no differences when it comes to human rights including privacy rights and this is what I complain about - different treatment as to human rights. And this goes beyond spying and also includes for example torturing people in Guantanamo. And yes, not only the US are breaking foreign law, but this does not at all justify this behavior.
IME, bullet point summaries only have value if they are done with a very specific target audience, and the summarizer is intimately familiar with the interest of that target audience.
RIAA: Bitcoin Makes it Hard to Track or Seize Pirate Bay Donations
I agree, this is an awesome project. I'm particularly curious about how CSL speakers have to constrain nuance in their signing for the translator to remain accurate.

I know nothing about CSL, but ASL phonology is rather complicated. There is a lot of assimilation, for example, and the meaning of signs can change based on the spacial orientation of consecutive signs.

My old linguistics professor told me about a joke someone made at an ASL conference. He was signing with a colleague, and talking about his progress improving his ASL. She then begins making the sign for "improve":

http://lifeprint.com/asl101/pages-signs/i/improve.htm

But instead of making contact with her upper arm, she shifts her right arm downwards and repeats the starting position of the sign. This is the ASL equivalent of a "...NOT" joke, as in, "your signing has improved... NOT!"

The degree of space between starting and ending positions in the "improve" sign can articulate different degrees of improvement.

While I suspect this kind of nuance isn't yet translatable by this project's sign-recognition software, I would really love to see what kind of progress they're making in this area.
http://www.dmv.ca.gov/pubs/vctop/d12/vc27602.htm

This is the law relevant to the current situation. It has to do with televisions, and makes no provisions devices capable of multiple functions (for example, cellphones can be GPS devices or show movies).
Having worked for leading Video Relay Service for the deaf, I can say without a doubt that, unless this is seriously flawless, it won't catch on very well with the deaf community. Also, it's been anticipated for a long time. I don't see it disrupting VRS services for at least a decade. Furthermore, in the video, everyone signing is doing so at a snail's pace.

That being said, the FCC still pays $6 a minute for VRS services.
I can say that the RailsApps stripe tutorial was useful for me. My understanding was that the Rails Apps Stripe tutorial was not supposed to be a "good" or even an "allegedly good", but simply a starting point, one that would give other developers a quick way to get up and running with Stripe. A spike, if you will, to help understand how something might be done, before doing that thing in your own way to suit your own purposes. Simultaneously, by not having too much code, it could be understood by beginners and improved by others.

I think that Mr. Bowkett has a fundamental misunderstanding of the Rails Apps project. And I probably would have very much appreciated any improvements he could have made to the sample app code.
Only reason why is to make pretty diffs. Now git has options so people don't have to deal with anal retentive details like that any more. The best option is of course to have a pre-commit hook that strips trailing whitespace from lines. The absolutely worst option is to force people to spend brain cycles dealing with that stuff.
That seems.. wrong.

Back when PCs weren't very good and you had to make real choices about what processor, hard drive and so on to get, DELLs customization and modularity business flourished.

Now that performance is "good enough" for practically any computer you can buy today, the market is moving to highly integrated tablet solutions, the only choice left being disk space, and it's getting less important every day. Meanwhile, DELL is going private.
>we're stuck in a perpetual game of filling up spare CPU cycles with nothing in particular.

There are lots of CPU cycles, and plenty of cases where trading a few for increased flexibility makes a ton of sense.
Too bad it wasnt even bid out.
It's unfair to call Daala vaporware. The source and documentation are released, and you can see it's making progress: http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/daala/demo1.shtml

> Are we being told, forget VP8, use H264 for now until Daala?

We're told Mozilla can't win battle against H.264, but will be fighting the next battle with Daala.
> You need as much data as possible.

You need to separate the signal from the noise, and ramping up the noise isn't the solution. Quality takes precedence over quantity. Benjamin Franklin identified thirteen 'virtues', and those signals seemed to work for him.

> I propose a simple data entry framework: click a button, and that event gets tracked.

The problem with data entry is that it requires the motivation and initiative of the user, which is precisely what the user lacks. That's the reason people get personal trainers and life coaches: you need someone else to keep you accountable and motivated.

> Machine Learning Matters

Here's where I think almost all of these personal-analytic type applications go wrong: it's trying to solve a very subjective human problem with a very objective machine program.

Here's an alternative startup idea: a web application for life coaches and their clients, focused on providing them the tools they need to communicate better with one another. I'm betting that life coaches use email, text messages, phone calls, a calendar, and maybe a spreadsheet. They probably could use some help integrating all those tools and all the data they are collecting.
And on Windows, it's just Windows-L.
Gospel Artist Poses Nude WTF???
GOSPEL ARTIST POSES NUDE!

Evon Latrail is the author of a children's book "When Mommy Went to Heaven". She wrote/recorded a few songs; "Lord Bless My Enemies. And, even has a song entitled, "Can't You See (Abortion Is Murder). She went Pro-life after having a abortion! Really???? Now here is a photo of her posing in chocolate as a "Swamp Girl". The word Hypocrite is floating around somewhere. This story has made front page news in the local paper. Go to Google or YouTube and search, Evon Latrail.
Intel Will Start Producing ARM Chips In Its Manufacturing Plants Next Year
I cannot speak for other sign languages, but ASL uses a few different forms of word order -- Object, Subject, Verb is used a good bit. There are often rhetorical questions thrown in that are immediately answered by the signer. Facial expression is also very important to convey meaning.

A few examples:
The signs for 'wish' and 'hungry' look the same. The difference is the facial expression.

If you wanted to sign, "All we want to do is eat your brains", the order would most likely be: 'We want do-what? Your brains eat.'

There is another form of signing called 'Signed English.' It borrows most of ASL's signs but puts them in standard english order. It has been a bit controversial in the past, though.

You also run into odd colloquialisms or regional signs. I'm not quite sure what to call them. A quick example is the word 'grass.' I learned the sign for grass but, for some reason, that sign means 'truck' where I live currently.

Anyway, I'm rambling. If you have any specific questions I can try to answer them.

edit Watch this youtube video with captions enabled. The video is captioned in english and in "ASL": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQYjZc7gKXc