skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd posit that the French already have our backs. A few years ago, the official body that governs standardized French attempted to wean French-speaking people from the borrowed English terminology. Et voila! "Courriel," a portmanteau of courrier and electronique was pilfered from the Quebecois for the benefit of francophones everywhere. Sadly however, if Google Translate is any indicator, then "courriel" never made the leap from official to commonplace.

Now, the electronic part is a given. But what about the courier part? Here's what Wikipedia says:

> Couriers are distinguished from ordinary mail services by features such as speed, security, tracking, signature, specialization and individualization of express services, and swift delivery times, which are optional for most everyday mail services. As a premium service, couriers are usually more expensive than standard mail services, and their use is typically restricted to packages where one or more of these features are considered important enough to warrant the cost.

Speed, security, individualization, premium? Those all sound like adjectives that I like!

Let's do the L'Académie française a solid. Let's adopt Courriel and apply the label only to our fast, secure, individualized, premium electronic communiques.
Some "scene" music that I actually listen to:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GIemGd3Ctk&list=PLkMjO0BRqWu... (FM funk)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl7TjvZzWMY (Zabutom)

Basically just really good 4-part harmony on 8-bit chips. It's really not unlike pre-Rennaisance church music (early polyphony), or a lot of modern choral music.
Fair point.

I would like to see something drastic and concrete happen, if it lead to reining in the wolves.
Legacy design is popular because it's cheap.
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If the system they create is excessively vulnerable to political pressure, then it would be better to find that out sooner rather than later. If bad PR threatens their ability to operate, then perhaps they should not be operating.
Unfortunately we don't live in the world you imagine but I would join you in trying to improve the world we actually live in. I don't see how a trade and travel embargo could possibly help - it would almost certainly make things worse! Clearly there is no actual right to privacy under international law and rules vary greatly by country and are often weak in practice[1]. This is want we need to change either through treaties, constitutions or laws. I don't know where you live but in the US it would probably take a constitional amendment - a very difficult procedure - or a very broad decision by the Supreme Court - unlikely.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_law
>or you've surrendered everything to a single sovereign

Well, Bruce Schneier has argued that that's what security is becoming today: feudal (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2012/12/feudal_sec.ht...). If you wanted to, you could instead call most if not all currently existing email services "Hobbes mail".
"Contemporary screen-readers implementing WAI-ARIA...work with javascript web applications."

This isn't a web application though (in terms of interactivity), it's a plain text page. Why do we want Javascript to serve plain text pages like this?

Also, on the WAI-ARIA site, the expectation seems to be that Javascript is used for dynamic content or widgets (for which there are Aria-roles), but that HTML is used for text content (correct me if I'm wrong about this).

Again, if you look at the source code of this page, I can't see how it would be accessible.
It's a nice thought to believe there isn't malice in the government, but the facts say otherwise. Intelligence laundering to bypass our basic legal rights is a malicious motive[1]. Russ Tice's (NSA whistlerblower) interview talking about all the people the NSA targeted (including our president in 2004) is also not only malicious, but terrifying.[2] And as Bill Binney (another NSA whisteblower) has said, we're a "turn key totalitarian state", I'm not sure how one could think a totalitarian state could not be malicious.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Tice
I've had great luck with retargeting on the FB news feed. Here's my writeup: http://planscope.io/blog/putting-retargeting-to-work-for-you...
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It is the posh word for the American "trash can", still in active use.
About a year ago I repeated this experiment (well a very simplified version) with MegaMan sprites, including a quick write up of the process for anyone interested: http://willkurt.github.io/EigenMan/
C, C++, Python, Lua
Ask HN: open source projects that have inspired your design/architecture?
I'd like to study some good open source projects that you have gotten design/architectural inspiration from. I know there is the http://aosabook.org book - but I'd like to find out about projects that inspired your own projects or design philosophy.
it looks really nice! is there a way to see the source code on github or similar?
> Dont expect much improvement with Desktop Firefox in the short run.

You do realize that you are commenting in a thread about a short-release-cycle release that adds a good number of improvements while you're also able to check on the improvements coming up in the next releases?
We now use CloudFlare to filter traffic after a DDoS last night caused our hosting provider to null-route our IP.

The specific message you saw is just HN timing out occasionally, likely during a GC. I'm working on improving general performance, but keep having to put out other fires first.
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More importantly than dictionaries, usage disagrees.
Yeah for like a split second (even if that). Do you actually hold a conversation with and/or get immersed in a billboard?
I agree with this personally, but I did have a user demand a laptop with a built in numpad. She specifically said that a usb numpad would not cut it. It's not to have at least one model that features a numpad.
Qué romántico (Fake ON-semi chip with fun marking)
The revenue generated by the tutorials goes to the open source project. That includes paying contributors. If ANYONE wants to be paid to contribute open source code or write tutorials, just contact me.
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Well, AFAIK you don't need anything more than boolean functions, since if we're talking about single spikes (not spike frequency), then there either is or isn't a spike, you don't get some spikes larger than other.

The linear/nondigital functions IMHO seem to be used as implementation details - for example, a neuron "fire iff 1+ VIP-input fires or 3+ normal inputs fire" can be implemented in wetware by having 'vip-inputs' have thrice as strong synaptic connection, summing all input values in the dendrite, and adjusting so that the firing threshold is appropriate (i.e. a linear function); but in silicon the same thing can (should?) be implemented as a boolean function / logic gates.
> It's hard not to come to the conclusion that these activities were essentially criminal. I don't see how the administration can fail to disavow them, investigate them fully, and hold their instigators accountable. It feels like Special Prosecutor time.

Well, the article makes the point exceptionally well; it's unclear why MUSCULAR is needed when PRISM already exists.

However as long as the interception was exclusively between overseas Google and Yahoo data centers I'm not actually sure it's even clearly criminal.

Instead I think it shows a rather stunning 'loophole' in current U.S. law and case law when you intersect a globalized Internet with laws meant to deal with national-level communications.

Frankly, this is the same feeling I experienced when it became clear how global companies are able to "nation shop" for maximum tax advantage. I didn't like seeing it then, and I don't like it here.

But although the behavior might be technically legal (thanks to the platoon of lawyers) it's certainly not in keeping with the spirit. It seems to me that oversight much become much, much more intrusive than it used to be.

Instead of writing the law and then letting NSA squirm for years until it finds loopholes that work for it, it's time to force effective oversight deep into every level.

Because what's most striking to me is that I'm not sure that even the law as it stood before 2001 would have made this behavior technically illegal. MUSCULAR couldn't have happened then, of course, but now that American data is being farmed automatically to data centers around the world....
From the link:

> Google is buying a piece of a new transpacific fiber optic cable

Only a half dozen or so companies actually own undersea fiber. It requires a huge amount of effort to lay and maintain including hundred million dollar cable ships.

Everyone (even Google) leases, or in this case buys, capacity on shared cables.
This is a bad trend, but eliminating trackpad buttons is probably worse. (The fact that most people don't realize it is worse makes it even worse!)
> i've seen you on IRC or IRL before, right?

Yes, at several meetups - Lisp, Haskell.... most recently, you came to my "Go for Statistical Programming" talk to heckle me - though not about generics, as I was expecting. ;)

> (are you coming to the haskell computer music meetup this wednesday?

Damn. That's right up my alley, too. But I can't. :/
No, the worst trend is the squashed screens. People writing - be it English or French, or source code of some kind, or for that matter, many other kinds of creating, work vertically, not with these super wide but not very tall screens.
I'd really like a diff option that ignores changes that don't alter the AST.

That's pretty outside the scope of git diff or gnu diff, though.
No. Sorry. The President does bear full responsibility. That's the nature of the job.

If he wants to claim he wasn't aware, OK. But he is now and it's his responsibility to fix it. Again, that's the nature of the job.

If the President wanted to eliminate these programs, they'd get eliminated. It would require the exercise of political will, but it absolutely could be done.

The problem, actually, is right here, when people start making excuses for our leaders.

Stop.

Hold them responsible. Responsibility is why the job even exists.
I've admired this essay of Orwell's since I first read it years ago, and have striven to shed stale metaphors and pretense from my writing ever since. I wonder how well I have succeeded.
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We can't build blobs without taking the MPEG LA license.

Blobs can be verified against the open source. See https://madiba.encs.concordia.ca/~x_decarn/truecrypt-binarie.... More on this in a future blog post.

/be
I used to think I wanted a laptop with a number pad on it, then I saw one that actually had one, and hated it instantly. I feel bad for the poor saps that did get one.
Google N-Gram analysis suggests otherwise, with dustbin more common in books in 2000 than the 1940s/1950s:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=dustbin%2Cwast...

However, it has be losing in relative rank to 'trash can'. I believe dustbin is far more common in British English than North American English.
In addition to what pigubrco said, browser developers consider it dangerous to give Web pages direct access to TCP/IP because that would make it very easy to create botnets. Instead, browsers expose high-level APIs like XHR, WebSocket, and WebRTC and the implementations take care to not be vectors for new attacks.
I agree on general grounds that the Glass is mostly for entertainment, but you argument is not a good one. That a device is not optimal for a particular kind of photography doesn't preclude someone from using it for photography artistically or professionally. Using "crappy" cameras can conceivably add to the photo; using the Glass for photo is no less valid than filming a movie with a black and white camera even though we have color cameras.
I appreciate the monitoring and happily pay to renew it every month. But I involuntarily cringe when I get a billing e-mail from PagerDuty, or a newsletter or something.

This is because the name itself has been burned into my mind as a reason for dread. "What's broken" "How bad is it?"

It seems pavlovian.
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I have no idea why numpads even exist on most desktop keyboards. They just make it more difficult to reach the mouse. I use the Filco Majestouch-2 in its "Tenkeyless" (no numpad) version[0], and it's great being able to reach the mouse so easily.

0: http://www.amazon.com/Filco-Majestouch-2-Tenkeyless-FKBN87M-...
It was turned off. You're in the wrong thread.
Cool idea, I'd love to see this be integrated into the OS at a lower level so whichever window is active is given dominance over the minimized windows (presumably the music player). That way, you wouldn't have to use heuristics to determine which source of sound is the music player. Also, it would be nice if it could pause your music rather than fading it out.

btw, this probably should have been submitted as a link, rather than text.
Or even, non-locomotive travel, as it were. In the relativistic sense.

No discussion about interstellar travel can proceed without considering the Alcubierre drive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
It's not a great idea in principle at all. It should have been obvious that it wouldn't scale from the beginning by design.
I think it's fairly common in British English.
I have direct personal knowledge[1] of demanding 'dash cam' video only to have the police department tell the court it had become "lost and unretrievable". So the chain of custody is important.

[1] My sister-in-law is a public defender, and she demands it all the time and gets a variety of pathetic excuses why "this time" it is unavailable.
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It is simply a data format that is non-standard and that you have to pay for proprietary decoders. What is new about that? just because google give you that feature if you pay them with your data, does not make it free for everyone. so it is not in place for firefox.

Or should firefox charge a fee for each user? it is crazy, even so when the alternative is already existent and open standard.

what is even crazier is that they demand a payment, for a spec which only "benefit" over the open source code is that they can add DRM on top of it, so they can also charge the end user.
Doesn't Google and Yahoo both operate shell companies overseas in order to avoid US taxes though?
As pointed out above, misconduct of other countries does not justify the own behavior. There is really no big difference between collecting the information on your own or letting someone else do the dirty work and then just crabbing the results. I should have pointed out more clearly that I am not especially against the behavior of the USA but against behavior like this in general but I did so in some other comments.

Besides that the US are doing (almost) unique things among to most developed countries, for example I can not even imagine any EU country doing something like Guantanamo or having the death penalty. To make it clear again, I am not primarily angry because of the spying on its own but the sentiment as to human rights beyond it.
Sounds like somebody likes to sit in the left lane at 65, "because it's the legal maximum!"
So it's BSD license but you don't get the mpeg-la license if you build it yourself, because it's covered by cisco's capped binary distribution license with mpeg-la.

So "it's open source, but you can't use what you build".
I don't think pushed hard enough for the adoption of TLS. It's only finally THIS YEAR that they made available their ubiquitous AdSense code for SSL/TSL. Because many websites derive their full livelihood from AdSense, Google has effectively been stalling the widespread adoption of SSL on the web. If you were a news website and you used AdSense, then forget about ever implementing SSL; it would kill our site.

Although I'm glad they have finally started serving AdSense in SSL, Google need to take ownership in their big role in keeping the internet unencrypted. If they have had a had a change of heart, that's great. But I don't trust them any more.
There is a difference between people who 'think' texting while driving is safe because they are ignorant and people who think that it's safe because it doesn't actually lead to any accidents.

The people in the latter group can be proven wrong objectively by data that shows accidents that occur as a result of texting while driving, whereas the former group is irrelevant because they are simply ignorant.

There is currently no data or at least not enough data to support the conclusion that simply wearing a Google glass (which does not imply use in the same way that holding up a cell phone while driving does) causes accidents.
It is not a crime to be interested in something like this.
I'd much rather see modular, standardised laptops. Mine doesn't even have a removable battery.
I am curious if you could expound on #3. I am starting a migration myself.
that was what I was referring to - leveraging the dollar's status of reserve currency. That's coming to an end for sure tho. Will laugh my ass off then at their ignorance.
Thanks, this is a good article. I too like having a site that only focuses on legal. Legal is big enough and there isn't much of an overlap like you have with verticals like computer tech, electronics tech, car repair. Best of luck.
I love his A New Microsoft presentation when it came out, and I'm thrilled he's making an impact inside the company today.
Well, this is perhaps the way we should write code too:

"What am I trying to say?
What words will express it?
What image or idiom will make it clearer?
Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?

And he will probably ask himself two more:

Could I put it more shortly?
Have I said anything that is avoidably ugly?"
You don't think there are correlations in behavior? I'm pretty sure when I drink I don't sleep as well. What if you could show that with actual personal behavior instead of "some study"?

And as far a motivation, the mobile component is essential because it will literally buzz in your pocket to remind you to do things.
If this is the right way, then exactly the connectome camp will reveal the way the brain works - all their methodologies on how to extract connectomes from brain samples also (by necessity) reconstruct the whole dendritic tree structure through which the synapse is linked; so all parameters for these dentritic computations would also be included in their data.
Demoscene encompasses pushing limits of video hardware (mode-x, 3d) and god know how many copper bars than mod trackers (audio), but there's definitively sizable overlap. Heck, keygens allegedly often have some cool shit in them besides serials in the form of demos. Sometimes the UI themselves is reported to be clever.

For the uninitiated, mod tracking is kind of like midi but with either or both synthesized and digitally-sampled instruments played typically by software. A friend in high school in the late 90's ranked near the top 5 globally with a beautiful piece that used like 32 channels, all in software. No help from a GUS with this.

http://artscene.textfiles.com/music/mods/S3M/MODLAND/
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I just read this:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/if-vlc-can-ship-a-free-dvd-pl...

What's the deal with VLC and H.264? Is it along the same lines?

Also I don't really get why you'd stick with the non-free codec if there was a free better alternative. What's so good about H.264, and is it better than the free competition?
Also, there's actually a much more relevant section later on in the spec (just got to p18):

For constrained
applications, where there is a choice between representing a specific
number as an integer and as a decimal fraction or bigfloat (such as
when the exponent is small and non-negative), there is a quality-of-
implementation expectation that the integer representation is used
directly.
We will need WMF at least until OpenH264 does High Profile, and I believe we are not going to be able to use only the OpenH264 binary blobs. Therefore we'll support other back ends (but not necessarily all possible back ends).

/be
There have been a number of rulings [1] that have made laws restricting the filming of police doing their jobs unconstitutional. So that aspect of it is on pretty solid footing.

[1] An exemplar : http://www.infowars.com/supreme-court-upholds-right-to-film-...
Were you already experienced with Clojure? I am just starting out with Clojure, so datomic being such a young database makes things challenging.
>The concept of the POW is to stop spam

Your other points are good, but this one is wrong. Bitmessage is currently bundled with a client because that makes adoption easier, but ultimately, Bitmessage is first and foremost a protocol. POW increases the cost of flooding attacks on the network. Clients like Thunderbird (it was easier for me to integrate Bitmessage with Thunderbird than my regular email provider) stop spam.

The scaling is a rather hard problem, since, for anonymity, "everyone gets everything." If you have any ideas about how to scale a network like that, OR have any comparable methods for hindering traffic analysis, you should publicize them.

The timing attack mitigation via sleeps /is/ a rather ineffective substitute for constant-time decryption.

In summary:

1. POW is a non-issue, and part of the design at least the way you've put it.

2. Scaling is inevitable given the tradeoffs being made, unless you have a better idea, for which I will pay money

3. Timing attacks are a temporary problem, but they can certainly be "flushed out."
Don't disagree with any of that, but I bet the reason lots of laptops have numpads is that when Average Customer sees a laptop with and without one next to each other in a store, he will not choose the one without the numpad because, well, "you never know". Or the one without doesn't look like a "normal" keyboard: "maybe it's horrible to type on after a while?" etc.
"dustbin" isn't a catchphrase.
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Obviously your concern isn't the general discussion, but to establish whether I'm incorrect :-)

Like most HNers I'm checking in on stories and commenting to the best of my knowledge while working. If I can invoice you for the time, I'd be more than happy to provide you with a properly MLA formatted list of sources.

In lieu of that, I hope you'll trust that I'm not just making this up. I do recall there's a list of at least 4-6 states that are very hard-line on this issue, and probably a majority of the states have laws prohibiting the driver watching video while driving.
I am very happy to have a numpad on my laptop (first time I've had one after five laptops without) and in all likelihood would only buy a laptop in the future with a numpad. The balancing issue took a few minutes to get used to, if I use on my lap, but otherwise, it was an easy adjustment to make. Using the numpad when entering figures into Excel or other programs is much easier than before when using the top-line of the keyboard, and no longer need to have a usb desktop keyboard around to help with that.
Here's a link to the project:

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