skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn was doing a pretty good job. Why couldn't she be installed permanently?

I don't understand why these kind of shenanigans have to go on, there is no way a progressive leader can honestly argue a former lobbyist is going to best represent the people against an industry.

added: (sheesh)

Republican Senator Ted Cruz removed a hold on Wheeler's nomination after the nominee reassured him that regulation of campaign funding disclosures, without Congressional action, was "not a priority."
Essentially, that is what the article seems to indicate, except that it was Britain's GCHQ, not the US's NSA, that did the tapping. The GCHQ, as part of the "Five Eyes" intelligence cooperation [1], lets the NSA do searches against the data they get from the taps.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Community
> And these people lived it ...

And, as it turns out, it's completely useless.
I'm actually only referring to a couple of places in Prelude in C# minor. Most of the song is "almost impossible" for one reason or another, but there are a couple of places near the end where the lower octaves and the upper freakish chords are played simultaneously. The 9th and 11th measure from the end, to be precise. Even Rachmaninoff with his freak hands had to roll that.
Software dev here -

First time writing mac software instead of iOS, throws up some interesting new challenges! Any questions i will do my best to answer!
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Larry Page should step down as CEO.

It would never happen, as Google shares would drop like a bomb and give credence to the argument that the cloud isn't secure enough, but at least it would show that someone at Google cares.

It would create a landmark moment though; something that would spark more debate in both the media and with American politicians.
Unfortunately, without IE supporting webrtc, we can't go mainstream with this. Is there any plugin that can be used to make IE compatible?
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Mozilla has written pdf.js to replace Adobe's PDF plugin and shumway.js to replace Adobe's Flash plugin. When will we see a java.js that replaces Java applets on the web?
NICE! Would love an android version of this!
> The Bootstrap core team doubled a few months ago when we added Chris and Julian to the project.

I wonder if this is their fulltime job and if so, who pays these guys for their awesome work. You know, since they're not part of Twitter anymore.
Perhaps this should be a problem that can be done for you automatically per commit? (via a commit hook or something)
A "Like" button in Gmail?
Cars already exist (off the top of my head I can only think of the Corvette) with HUDs, and they don't have any legal trouble.
Not sure if it does exactly the same thing, but on GitHub, if you add ?w=1 to the end of a diff URL, it'll show it with whitespace ignored.
Yes, coming up with the problem is often the hard bit.

But it happens the other way too, in that many young inventors tackle problems because "they didn't realize they were 'impossible'". More knowledgeable folk can do this too, but it requires a certain... disrespect for authority. Like Einstein's flexibility with time and space (though he was young then; he didn't make breakthroughs in later life, possibly because he himself became an authority).

Fortune favours the delusional.
No, you really don't get to sling this kind of bullshit around.

> If you believe that modern western cultures are not gender biased and this state of affairs is worth preserving, then you are a feminist! You can't deny it because you have just advocated for gender equality.

No, if you're going to insist on naming it, it is "egalitarian". I also don't believe this state of affairs is worth preserving.

>Feminism advocates for autonomy for everyone.

No, no it doesn't. Feminism, by design and definition, advocates for the rights of women. Or rather, I should say, "womyn" since large, vocal factions of the feminist movement don't support the rights of trans-people. But I'm guessing you're one of those feminists that like to no true scotsman those feminists out of play, I guess their opinion don't count.

Also, fuck your patriarchy bullshit. It's a convenient scapegoat and surrogate evil upon which much of modern feminist dogma is based.
The saddest thing I've seen in my career is that most managers don't realize that hiring is a huge part of their job if their team contributes materially to the bottom line (directly or indirectly) and can grow that contribution by hiring people.

The people the hire managers and promote people to managers rarely stop to ask:

(1) Can this person keep the people underneath them happy and productive and make them happier and more productive?
and
(2) Can this person actively seek out other people to work under them that are productive?

Hiring in too many businesses is outsourced to HR. i.e. A department manager goes to HR and says "give me someone who can do X, Y and Z". HR is then left with only keywords and has little knowledge of whether or not a candidate with a differing skill set could also perform the job well or better with a little training. Only the department manager has enough knowledge to hire correctly for the needs of their team. Why we ever let them get away with outsourcing this core responsibility to HR is beyond me.
Who doesn't wish it was still 1999? Hot stock market, millenium mania, cheap gas, dot-coms. Really slow Java makes it all come rushing back.
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Same goes for --ignore-space-at-eol

The better solution would be to teach people to stop being careless about trailing whitespace in their commits.
Why the rage ? Guess you don't get the point of the post w/e.
I have worn one. It does not impinge on your normal field of view. It's up and to the right of where you're normally looking and you have to make a conscious effort to direct your attention to it. In a car, as other people have said, the only thing it is likely to block your view of, is the inside of your car roof.
Yes. It would be considered a private datacenter environment. Someone with DC access or in this case the ability to tap a closed fiber network can still attack it. This mostly applies to state actors.
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For what it's worth, we have an API endpoint that has had the right IP network listed ever since it went active. If you _need_ to verify IPs for whatever reason, use this:

http://developer.github.com/v3/meta/
Ask HN: Is there a solution for eye-contact when video chatting?
Is there a hardware solution for video chat, so one can look at each other at the same time, in the eyes?
> actions taken abroad aimed at non-US persons.

Aren't Google and Yahoo US persons?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#Corporatio...
This is basic, but web presence is not a substitute for getting your face out there.
Thank you for this primer, this is related to something I'm studying right now and is much easier to understand.
What's the highest form of wit?
Well, telling the truth isn't means rage.
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Some of the methods detailed here would definitely be useful paradigm shifts. Digital signing for data, Mobile addressing, and broadcast GPRS would all be useful features of a future internet. But who's going to pay for it?

In one of their documents they offer the idea that there's an incentive for ISPs to cache this information to prevent charges from lots of queries. But even with caching, they still aren't getting any money from anyone to pay for the services. You're not even sure where it's going or what it contains. Somebody's going to have to pony up for the bill, and it's not going to be the ISPs out of the goodness of their hearts. And if it involves different networks (like cellular) you're going to multiply the number of people who need to get paid to make global data access useful.

I predict that this "future internet" is going to require a subscription-based fee that rivals your cell phone and cable bill combined.
Can you lay out the charges, special prosecutor?
Because, while not bosom buddies, the medical professionals and insurance companies are better at working together to influence costs up?
maybe they like oracle more than adobe
In light of the criticisms leveled against these strategies in from 2002 - 2004 its difficult for intelligence policy makers to argue the risks were unknown. The indifference to risk, public opinion and constitutional issues is jaw dropping.
Indeed, when I come across empty lines, white space at the end of the lines etc. I remove it all, commit it and then start actually changing the code. White space in diffs is distracting from the actual changes.
I would suggest Dan Deacon for someone who writes "unplayable" yet very tuneful pieces: eg.

http://youtu.be/TPg4Vcr56F0?t=10m15s
A human interpretation of sheet music is a 3 tier soul transformation. Composer - Interpret - Listener.
Computer played music has an digital filter that eliminates a lot of soul in between.

Music notation is only a recipe for making music. Playing the recipe is not making music.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's just a coping mechanism.
People are probably missing the idea. In the past, like with the WikiLeaks cables, they released all at once and it didn't have that much effect, after one week most countries were already on some other matter. The slow dripping allows this case to continue being discussed after six months. Can't remember this ever happening before with any other subject like the fake article on Saddam's WMD, the CIA flights and torture cases, etc.

Given what we currently know about the human mind and how people react to news I expect this to be the future way of releasing highly critical information.
“© 2012.”

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My project is based on reading tons of blog posts within a particular space (responsive web design) and triangulating on reoccurring themes/problems which seemed to crop up across them (i.e. a common and universal problem).

However, I often wonder if people aren't underestimating the effects of good marketing and sales on the outcome of ideas rather than just the market fit. Granted, a product with great market fit will better sell itself than one without excellent market fit. I often think ideas that should have succeeded and didn't, failed because of poor marketing and sales process, not because of the idea or its implementation. I think we all know of products which keep selling despite there being better alternatives.
We do know that more interesting things are certainly possible with many many notes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muCPjK4nGY4
To quote composer John Adams, "We forgot that music was supposed to sound good."
I've found using phones at an arms length has worked reasonably well, but found no elegant solution for laptops
People miss them all the time, while not wearing Glass.
Good! A person operating a moving vehicle should have 100% of their attention focused on the road. I have yet to see an argument to the contrary that doesn't attempt to rationalize unsafe behavior.

Any device that actively creates distractions occluding a person's field of vision should be prohibited while driving.
The real issue is that in practice it is often difficult to separate these two changes. You may correct code in one place which requires correcting code elsewhere in a cascading effect. If you limit your correction to just one area (in a single commit) then you introduce the possibility of breaking the build. The other issue is that if you fix all the whitespace stuff first you may find the owners are not willing to pull in your commit for various reasons. I often find in open source the smaller the change the more likely it is to be merged. It's a complicated area and unfortunately often the "two different commits" strategy doesn't encompass the full complexity.

Oh and another cool feature is worddiffs for when you're editing text.
It sure looks like it could be strategic.

The "taps foreign heads of state" et. al. really due blood, e.g. DiFi shocked the intelligence community for doing a public about face.

Presumably because monitoring us proles is just fine with her, but other members of the international elite? That's beyond the pale, and I don't assume her call for a "top-to-bottom review of U.S. spy programs" is to do anything more than find out other such elite embarrassments.

BUT, to the extent the above is not true, or is making this Total Surveillance State toxic, now's a good time to drop this tidbit.
It's not, GPS dashboards are dangerous as well. A lot of people are just too distractable to have these kinds of things stealing their attention away from the road.

I'm all for people being distracted, but not when a) they're driving a one-ton killing machine and b) very often the things distracting them are just flat out wrong: I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car with a GPS (or iphone) and it gives completely ridiculous directions. Sometimes it's better to just switch off your targeting computer and pay attention.
By releasing the documents in this order, they give government officials just enough rope to hang themselves by prompting them to defend themselves by making statements about what they do and do not do, and then releasing new documents directly contradicting those statements.

In a weird way, it actually motivates them to tell the "whole truth" because they don't know what documents will be released later so they don't know what lies to tell.
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> The government takes the position that their agents are almost completely unconstrained by law when it comes to actions taken abroad aimed at non-US persons.

More to the point of the article here, the government takes the position that their agents are completely unconstrianed by law when it comes to using information shared by foreign intelligence services that their agents had no part in collecting, and the collection here is done by the GCHQ -- a British intelligence agency -- who simply provides NSA the privilege of submitting search terms and getting matching data from the collection GCHQ does from their taps.
> Was this outside of warranty?

I honestly don't know, the car was a 2002, this was in 2007. I bought it used a year before (from by father). IIRC it had 115k miles on it when I bought it. I've been able to get another 60k on it since then.

I've never quite bought the "chip fried" line. My suspicion at the time was that this was a frequent issue that they were trying to keep somewhat under wraps (hence the near-free repair), but now I am wondering if there was a firmware issue that they fixed by reflashing something.

That or they couldn't find the issue and it resolved itself when they reset something...

I wish I had pressed for more details, but I was mostly just happy the transmission hadn't killed itself.
Aside from the indignation, I'd like to see proof that Google wasn't aware of this stuff. My guess is that it was approved as long as there was plausible deniability.
I for one agree with you. There are a few specific cases where client-side crypto has benefits regardless of the fact that you need to (at some point) trust the server. I think the best examples involve protecting history or data residing on the server up to the point of being compromised. See my other comment on here for my use case.
Nice catch. Definitely a typo, we're only a few months old, but I'll have that set dynamically from now on.
I don't trust Google more than anyone else out there. They are in the business of making money and don't much of a damn about their users. The only reason the NSA spying is a problem for them (imo) is that it may affect their bottom line due to user concerns and therefore affect their products. NSA has direct line to Google Cloud, guess I'm better hosting my own servers rather than pay for business Google Mail and Drive. I'm not sure Google would give it away for free, they now own Motorola remember, in the fight against all the phone giants, patents are king!

The 2nd part makes no sense at all. Why would Google not want to know everything about you. That just goes completely against their business model. There is no such thing as a free lunch.
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> you can't trust anyone

That's become quite apparent. I just wonder if there's any solution, or if it's a mathematical certainty that communications are insecure.
You can't write an Android app ... You can't write an iOS app...

Realistically, don't phones provide already-licensed hardware codecs?
This makes the recent warning atop my personal gmail that "State sponsored actors may be trying to access your account" particularly ironic.
Also everyone should be using tig: http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/
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my simple private journal can be used to track things

http://journalcat.com/
Contactless payment data can be picked up at a distance
It detected correctly that I was in Toronto and then the search for restaurants names would all return homonyms all across the world. =(
I am at a loss for words. Arrogant, self-righteous, disrespectful, ignorant, mendacious...nothing cuts it. It is illegal in the US but who cares about the rest of the world? I can not remember when something similar made me that angry as the current conduct of the US does. If I would not know better that this would negatively affect the whole world and innocent US citizens and that emotional reactions are usually not good - I would just cut all cables to the US, stop all trades of oil, raw material and goods, deny US citizens to enter any foreign country and then just do your shit over there and get happy with it.

EDIT: Just to clarify it a bit more, I am not primarily angry because of the spying - read my mails if it makes you happy. What really pisses me of is this sentiment of thinking of non-US citizens as second class humans. We are not spying at US citizens, only at this other guys across the ocean. And sadly this sentiment is also present in part of the media coverage. Especially when the story broke there was a lot of outrage about (accidentally) spying at US citizens, but spying at non-US citizens and breaking foreign law in peacetime is deemed acceptable.
It was confusing to me that you were thinking from the corporation's viewpoint! That makes it way more complicated than necessary. a) Apple constantly toots their horn about putting user experience ahead of anything else. b) Apple has lot of money. c) There are lot of products on the market - phones, tablets that sell for both premium and no-profit, that have 2GB RAM. d) Apple sells the iPad at premium price points e) I am certainly not the only one that would benefit from more RAM. I bet lot of people will benefit from having more memory for their "post PC" device.

As a user I don't have to care what Apple has to do to get the RAM up - renegotiate with their vendors, improve battery life, sell a different SKU with more RAM and $16 more in price, eat up the cost as a price to pay for user experience etc. You kept explaining why they couldn't do it when others have been there and done that.

Frankly even viewed 100% from Apple's standpoint, none of your arguments are very convincing, especially so if you look at what actually is involved in 1GB of additional RAM and when even lower priced devices have it.
No problem.

People who don't like or get prototypes have certainly reimplemented classes with closures, but classes are not a requirement to be OO, objects are; classes are just one way to do it, prototypes are another. Objects don't require classes, though many a JavaScript programmer thinks so.
You have fallen into the trap a little ;) what does it mean to be a global keader? What are the true goals? Scrrr's comment was discussing happiness. Neither China nor the US do nationwide happiness surveys AFAIK.
I have a feeling James Gosling choked on his coffee this morning. :)
They did not break German Law. Germany still has past WWII contracts with the Allied Nations in certain areas.

http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...
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It is impossible to listen to it in the first place.
Here's an argument: assuming the worst suspicions, Google and the others are complicit in PRISM, so they deserve our scrutiny here. If this one were dumped at the same time, since Google was blindsided by this, people might forget to scrutinize Google for a while.
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I agree. This is just a move by Cisco to prevent the adoption of free codecs.

But why do you say that Mozilla resists free codecs? They are shipping with Theora, Vorbis, Opus, WebM/VP8 support and are quite active in that area. Meanwhile they were forced to adopt H.264 platform support because all other major browsers including Google Chrome and mobile platforms including Google Android use it and a large amount of Youtube videos are only available through H.264.

Google either lacks the will or capability to make a dent. If they'd ship Android without H.264 support then vendors would simply patch it back in. They said that Chrome would stop supporting H.264 but nothing happened. YouTube still uses H.264. (And Chrome stable still doesn't seem to support Opus.)
I don't think it is necessary to require users to run their own nodes, but simply allow the option and encourage a community to form around doing so.

Basically, set up a scenario where the startup is service-oriented and must stay honest because it competes with its own community for users on the official node. Most users will prefer to trust the startup with their data for ease of use, and there will be an enormous amount of credibility gained by having a mechanism to keep the startup's greed in check.
Sure, but in that cat and mouse game between Google and the NSA, Google might actually have a chance. From what tptacek has said above about the kind of stuff Google's been doing (SSL with EC and perfect forward secrecy, etc), they're actually able to make it difficult for the NSA.

Plus, in the world of "I can sift through terabytes of data in seconds" even a little lagoon isn't too little.
This is the very sort of interaction that leads me to be very, very unoptimistic about ever seeing Moore's Law style runaway advancement in biotechnology.

Biology, it seems, is deeply unabstractable. Ie, as one moves up the levels of organization, one rarely (never?) reaches a point where a higher level can be fully modeled without also fully modeling each of the lower levels.

This is in sharp contrast to computer engineering, where, for example, one can model a processor with all practical accuracy by treating the individual as idealized boolean logic (As we move towards smaller and smaller transistors, this abstraction is threatening to become "leaky", but this has been true thus far throughout the Moore-ian advancement).

I suspect that there may be a limit to the degree of complexity humans can "manage", and thus, without the benefit of effective abstraction, there is a limit on the degree of advancement we can achieve in bending biology to our will.

(An example that speaks to this, in my mind, is the fact that our attempts to chemically tweak our own biochemistry (viz. drugs) are hilariously crude (flood the system with a handful of chemicals, which hopefully drives the system as a whole in the general direction we want) compared to the regulation that the body carries out on its own.)
Looks great! I don't really suffer from the possibility of people snooping whilst I'm away, but it'd be a great convenience device.

I'm an iOS developer as well, but I haven't delved into OS X development. What makes the device compatible with newer MBP's but not older ones (i.e. my 2009 model)?