skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I apologize, this is an assumption I'm making. I guess I meant the youth that hang out all over Westlake, especially later at night, resemble the homeless youth around Portland.
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It's legal, but it's bad. It's good to highlight examples of allowing corporations to donate to political campaigns minimizes's the citizen's voice.
Yes it's crazy. Take cooking for example. If you can prepare a hearty meal from basic ingredients you will be healthier and wealthier and hence happier than someone who lives on takeaways and ready meals. And schools can't even teach that! If you can do first aid, you can look after your family and maybe save a life - and schools don't teach that! If you can sew, if you can budget, a whole host of basic life skills, that schools completely fail to impart.

But noooooooooo, let's teach the kids to "code"...
The main difference is that because we use Ember's object model throughout our charts, it is very easy to extend them and tie them in to your application with bindings and computed properties in a generic way. For example binding the charts interval to a dropdown is just a matter of declaring a binding in you handlebars:

{{time-series-chart
barData=barData
lineData=lineData
selectedInterval=selectedInterval
}}
uptime robot didn't work... interesting concept though
Robots designed for hugging might go too far: http://pbfcomics.com/115/
There are two issues:

1) Does the Fifth Amendment apply?

2) Does the Fifth Amendment prohibit certain things?

The Fifth Amendment, like the others, generally applies to not just citizens, but legal residents and others who are on U.S. soil.

The second issue is what's interesting here. The literal text of the Fifth Amendment is:

"No person... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself."

Literally, it prohibits people from being forced to testify against themselves in a criminal trial. The Supreme Court has ready it very broadly to prohibit all sorts of other things, but one limit it has recognized is that it still only applies to "testimonial" incrimination. Think: testifying on a witness stand. Non-testimonial acts, like forcing someone to unlock a box, are not covered.

Some courts have held, and the EFF argues, that providing an encryption key is unlike providing the key for a box because it requires you to recount things that are in your memory, and is therefore testimonial.
I work for FiftyThree (the people who worked with Greg to make this). We're hearing from a lot of people interested in doing this - here is another example of a book made from sketchnotes: https://vimeo.com/75830198
only company that mentioned the royalties they pay microsoft was HTC and they are paying $5. and HTC is a very close partner to microsoft. others probably pay more.

And microsoft licenses are only bulling, it is not even useful. So i'm guessing it would get close to $100 per device.
Yea, sadly your clipper card has a secret key that you can't access.
I live in Redmond/Bellevue and this is very interesting. Do you know anywhere that I can read more about this?
If I built a safe in which combination A would open the door, but combination B would activate a system to incinerate the contents and upon presentation of a valid warrant for the contents of the safe I entered, or directed another to enter, combination B...could I be accused of tampering with evidence? Does that re-phrasing clear up the question?
Hey does this mean that if a Bitcoin exchange gets a hold of an AID then they could write an app that would let me use my phone to pay with bitcoin at an existing contactless terminal?
Like, apps can emulate contactless cards, but you can't necessarily upload existing cards you mean?
Sorry, I just don't quite "get" it yet I think :P
Considering a lot of them are there during school hours and you'll see the same ones there sleeping with tarps at night - I think its safe to say homeless. Probably better to say 'young adults' though - Seattle YouthCare (http://www.youthcare.org/) does a great job with the younger groups.
The Step Detector and Step Counter platform support is an especially interesting addition.

Perhaps a nod to the wearables market, with the upcoming Google watch hooking into it for some Fitness tracking smarts?
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I've been on Straight Talk since I got a Galaxy Nexus over a year ago. Their customer service isn't great, but I never really have to deal with them. Just drop in the SIM, set up auto-pay, and blacklist their spammy reminder texts, and it's fine.

I think their data cap is around 2GB, but I've never come near that. What are you guys who are breaking 5GB caps doing with your phones anyways? The plan is unlimited voice, which is nice, since TMobile's 100min voice can be a little limiting sometimes.
Ah, the context-free grammar. Reminds me of my MediaTakeOut Headline Generator (http://robertelwell.info/mediatakeout-headline-generator/). Mine's an N-Gram language model though, so a lot more noise and nonsense.
Haha well, if you put it that way now I do look foolish! I mean, I can count the number of people I know who watch Twin Peaks on 1 hand so yeah, you should've been safe.

But I'm sure you can imagine my surprise at reading Laura Palmer and thinking, "why do I know that name..."

I'm not upset or anything so don't feel bad! I was pretty amused at the irony, actually. The 'ruined my evening' part was more for comedic effect.

That said, if anyone tells me another spoiler from The Wheel of Time for me... god help them. I'm looking at you, Wikipedia.
it's just the plain corruption of human nature, democratic process or not....democracy was not structured to work this way
Do you know if T-Mobile has improved in the Phoenix area? The website shows 'excellent' coverage around here, but all I read online is horror stories of not having any signal in buildings etc.
Apparently they wanted to work on that in the last 6-10 months, but I haven't heard anything about it since.
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though BTsync is "meant for large files" I wouldn't really advise syncing truecrypt files as it syncs the entire file not just updating lines in the file... (though that would probably be much more efficient) even still using truecrypt would still require entire file syncs the second anything changed. :/ maybe instead encrypt each file separately using AES... might be slightly better as you won't be syncing whole gigs of files if you only changed a small text file...
Very unlikely. Laptops have crappy mics, they don't really have a response near 20 kHZ, as do crappy speakers. Also, this virus would have to analyze and deal with ambient noise. That's a pretty big level of sophistication for malware that can fit in flash memory.

So far, extraordinary claims, little data to back it.
Using a Surface 2 (RT/ARM) to get actual work done
Ouch. No degree disqualifies you? I guess some places don't take technical experience.
It may or may not be a bad thing, but it should at least be an entirely transparent thing. There have been some other campaign contributions in this race that have been funneled through PACs to the point where you can't see exactly who is backing a candidate.
Bull markets precede bear markets, and bull markets attract more HBS graduates into finance. That would be my guess for the mechanism.
So next step would be two Asus PQ321Q?
This is a good question, and the differences are pretty small. One difference, although I'm not sure what the impact is of this difference, is that if you say you've forgotten the key, that's an acknowledgement that there is data there to be discovered, just that you can't provide access to it. Does this leave a door open to other efforts to decrypt it? I don't know.
I'd really love it if there were a 4" or 4.3" phone that still featured high-end specs. Unfortunately most of the "mini" devices seem to be intentionally bad in comparison to the flagships.

If they weren't so expensive, I'd rather have the much smaller iPhone 5S than a Nexus 5, but the price is so cheap I can't really justify going with Apple.

There was a time when I was on-board with the large-screen phone trend, but now that I have a tablet that I take pretty much everywhere, I don't really need a gigantic smartphone in addition to it.
Wow you're quite right, Google has already indexed the manual, if anyone else is looking for more details:

ftp://ftp.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_display_projector/esuprt_Display/dell-u2414h_User's%20Guide_en-us.pdf

Too bad the panel is not a bit nicer...
What it feels like to have your startup torn apart by 90 Harvard MBAs
The 32GB came out to about $445 after taxes and shipping in WA, a state with a relatively higher sales tax but no income tax. Since used 16GB iPhone 5/5c models are going for around $400 on Craigslist in the Seattle area, I think this phone is something of a bargain.
Did they threaten you about not using online media streaming?
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I really hope the new version of Android fixes the bug in their Wifi-enabled location service in version 4.3, as it's been draining the battery on my Nexus 4, with the only fix available being to disable it.
How snide of you. Do you feel clever now? Jacob was the only judge to find this way and, as pointed out, is now in the employ of Samsung. I'd argue that this particular version of the "truth", clearly the one you are choosing over the several that disagree, is highly questionable. Linking a newspaper doesn't make this ruling anymore valid either.
Tesla a hit in America's wealthiest zip codes - but all in California
Can you suggest anything which there is a reasonable basis to believe is more significant than the fiber project in Comcast's analysis of the political landscape in Seattle relate to their interests, or is this just pure distraction?

No. I don't live in Seattle, and don't have a dog in the fight. Just pointing out that a lot of people -- "corporate persons" and otherwise -- are dissatisfied with McGinn's performance as mayor.
> "If you want to find a scapegoat for panhandling, I'd first turn to the recession..."

How many of those homeless people are on the streets because they lost their factory jobs and the bank kicked them out of their McMansion? I am guessing very few.

The recession didn't make these people heroin addicts or mentally ill. The homeless people that make people concerned about walking around downtown Seattle during the evening aren't the "couchsurfing until I can find a new job" kind of homeless people.

Pointing at the state of healthcare, mental or otherwise, hits the nail on the head. That is a problem larger than Seattle though.
This would be great. Firebase is somewhat of a competitor and offers this feature.

https://www.firebase.com/docs/security/simple-login-persona....
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No, the JDK.
1. Harvard MBAs aren't the "best and the brightest". Top-20 graduate programs in CS, math, and physics, are far more selective. Possibly a quarter of the CS students at Stanford are legitimately smarter than I am; in top MBA schools, there might be one or two per year who ties me.

2. The good MBAs from Harvard still go to hedge funds and private equity firms, because those pay $500k+ right out of school. (No startup comes close.) The mid-grade MBAs go to venture capital and large banks and corporate senior management. The ones who end up in venture-funded startups as VP/Finance are the leftovers. Bossing nerds around is not what these people want to be doing. They want to work on the billion-dollar deals and at the currency arbitrage desks.

Trust me. While there are good MBAs out there, the ones who end up managing startups are the ones who ended up falling to their third or fourth choice. And to fall that far from a prestigious MBA (like Harvard or Columbia) means the person really fucking failed.

3. What this means is that, when MBAs invade VC-istan (as they do during bubble times, like now) is that the best of the colonized tribe (technologists) must answer to the worst of the colonizing tribe (MBA-land business types)-- the ones sent out into the hinterlands because they weren't good enough to make it in the mother country. The dynamics that emerge from this are, from a distance, hilarious.
You're right to question my bald comment. My answer: history. I think the history of music (and more generally of art) is the story of the breaking-down of existing borders, while the history of those who would try to enforce the borders is the story of Canute on the beach.

Some early music used 5-note scales and regarded 2nds and 7ths as unusable (I'm referring to music in the west; folk music elsewhere often still uses 5-note scales). Early music was monophonic, but that limitation was overcome by the 12th century I think. Bach was genteel, but Beethoven was emotional. Brahms was tonal, but Debussy allowed atonality in music. Cage allowed aleatoric sounds to be music. Glass allowed excessive repetition of simple patterns to be music.
Here's the page for the fiber project: http://gigabitseattle.com/
Related: http://www.hhs.gov/digitalstrategy/blog/2013/10/more-on-the-...
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What do you guys think of it? I currently use Eclipse and I find eclipse more of a messed up platform but it is really good when it comes to development.

Is Android Studio good?
Or an acoustic coupler (seriously old school, that one)?
This looks nice, but I am little confused why a client side charting library needs ember as a dependency. Maybe I don't understand the intended use case....
Love the concept. Hope these start popping up in other cities.
My point is just that icon fonts are fundamentally broken.
Indeed - I'd rather have more battery life.
Compared to SF, Seattle's homeless issues are... quaint.
Yup, 4k is great but 4k at 31.5"... who cares?

Give me 4k at 23", then I'll care.
Answered this a little further down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6648758
> Bear in mind that no one is forcing the employee to accept this.

That doesn't quite absolve the employer e.g. if I am stuck in sahara desert and bump into a man starving for days. At this time if I offer him food in return for his soul, would you consider it a fair trade? Even though the poor guy has a choice to reject my offer?
Verizon doesn't want it on their network

That strikes me as odd. Why would Verizon not want any phone on their network that isn't incompatible or defective so as to cause problems?
Honestly, I recommend the HTC First. I have one, it's the perfect size, 720p screen, solid specs. You can get one for a song these days and FB home turns off with a couple taps. You probably won't get 4.4, though...
Seriously. If we can have 220+ ppi displays in laptops, and 260+ ppi displays in tablets, why are there no desktop displays which are even 180 or 200 ppi. If the resolution is going to be 3840×2160, I would rather see that in a 20 or 22″ diagonal. Those would be much better for a 2-display setup.

The 24″ 1080p display is some kind of sad joke: we had better pixel density on a comparably sized monitor with the Apple Cinema HD Display in March of 2002! (1920×1200, 23″)

Edit: sure a retina desktop display is going to be very expensive, so maybe there’s not a mainstream market there yet, and margins would have to be high. But it’s disappointing that you can’t find them yet at any price. I’m hoping Apple makes some moves in higher resolution desktop displays sometime in 2014, considering they now have machines designed for pumping so many pixels.
Yep, if only the "forces of thruth" actually knew what they were talking about it would have worked great. :) Btw, I've asked for help in other places (which I won't link to as I like to keep my internet identities somewhat separated) but no one has an efficient way to deal with large collections.
The languages section seems a bit trendy and misses a lot of old-school work that predates the popularity of the m/r paradigm. I would suggest additions like Linda and tuple spaces and Hoare's csp paper (also somewhat trendy at the moment but still old-school.)
So does anyone know what US carriers this will work on? I wish they would just say it somewhere.
The problem is that the teen audience is fickle and doesn't want to be commingled with adults. So if Snapchat grows massively, they're going to have to deal with that reality.

Some people are worried about the ads and monetization driving away audience, but I think teens are used to subsidized apps—instant messenger, Shazam, Pandora, etc.

I think the biggest problem will be sustained interest and popularity in the face of a much larger, much more aware older demo coming in.
This is where OS X's hi-dpi support is so great; the UI elements in e.g. Aperture are rendered at 2x, so they are beautifully sharp, and the image is rendered at 1x.
Yes! It is indeed supporting the Java 7 features.
> Why is that when the government says "But, but computer!" judges abandon common sense and case law.

It's exactly the opposite. It's technologists that say "but, but computer!" and demand special treatment for computers are involved.[1] Judges generally treat computers in terms of real-world analogies to concrete things, and these analogies often clash with idealistic notions held by technologists.

This case is actually an excellent example of that phenomenon. I've heard people say that their laptop/phone/etc is an "extension of their mind" or something to that effect. Because the 5th amendment only applies to testimonial incrimination (because of the use of the word "witness" in the text of the 5th), you need that nexus to the mind in order to justify concluding that forcing someone to give up an encryption key is equivalent to forcing them to testify against themselves.

The more obvious (to me, anyway) analogy is that a laptop/phone is like a backpack or briefcase. I keep documents, photos, notes, etc, in my laptop just as I would keep them in a briefcase. Well, under the case law it is not prohibited under the 5th amendment to force someone to unlock a briefcase! That act has no nexus with a person's internal thoughts and is thus not testimonial.

[1] Other examples include various CFAA-related things. Nobody would defend just walking into peoples' houses and saying "hey, your locks suck!" but defend analogous behavior with regard to computer security all the time. You also see it in the e-mail context. E.g. most people who complain about the government possibly subpoenaing e-mails they store on Google's servers would not see the problem with the government subpoenaing Enron's records they stored at their accounts' premises. Technologists generally want to ignore the obvious physical analogies in favor of ones based on how they perceive the electronic world (i.e. it's "my personal documents" even though it's stored on a cloud and dozens of engineers and sysadmins have access to them).
I just tested the built in speakers and mic on my 3 year old MacBook Pro using sine waves and a spectrum analyser.

It's perfectly capable of sending and picking up a 20kHz signal by itself. The frequency response starts dropping off drastically at around 14kHz. Around 21kHz seems to be the practical limit.

However, there seems to be a bit of distortion going on. I'm not sure it's possible to send a clean inaudible signal without introducing lower frequency components.
My experience isn't too different, but keep in mind that probably none of us here are close to the typical Google user as far as their typical expectations and how well those expectations are being met by their searches. (Most of us probably never click on Google's ads either, even though they somehow continue to earn Google millions of dollars. Not saying Google isn't becoming more irrelevant to average users, but our experiences don't necessarily give us a healthy perspective on that.)
Just for reference, the deleted comment used to say:

Raw performance is nothing without memory usage information.
>democracy was not structured to work this way

The laws of economics (Incentives 101) care not for the intent of the lawmakers.
I'm a fan of Go and an even bigger fan of Lua, and I'm not sure I agree with your summary. Go and OpenResty can push 300,000 "Hello World" plaintext responses a second, and some Java stuff can do x2 that, so JVM frameworks are strictly better? And something called cpoll_cppsp trumps a sane language choice? Don't be cute. :)

It is perfectly fine to not squeeze every drop from your hardware and pick Go or Lua. In the same vain, Flask may be x20 slower at a meaningless benchmark but you'd note that the ones that involve actual work, you know, the kind your complex app will actually perform, the more involved it is the more the difference shrinks. All the way down to x4, in other words not an order of magnitutde.

The real takeaway summary should probably be: a well made framework like flask doesn't have so much overhead that the productivity gains it offers are not worth trading a bit of performance for.

A terribly made framework (I won't name names) will bite you in the ass. Choose carefully.
245 ppi is nowhere near what the human eye can perceive. You can make all kinds of assumptions about view distance and so on, but higher resolution is almost always a better thing when rendering text, rich content, and so on. You kind of sound like the people of the past who said "we'll never need a terabyte of storage" or "256 MB of RAM is enough for anyone" and so on.
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The coating is in fact great. I use U3014 at work and love the that there is no glare on the screen compared to that on my MBP.

If I am going to edit photos or watch videos/movies, I wouldn't like it. But for coding it's good.
Go's numbers are quite impressive considering how young the language is. That combined with the concurrency primitives and ease of deployment makes Go very appealing.
The news is this: First computer monitor capable of 60Hz 4K arrives. Previous 4K monitors have been 24Hz. That opens up a number of important markets including 4K playback of video and 4K gaming.

Sure this isn't a retina display. That would be a different market.
>This is an absurd idea. Enormous amounts of alcohol are consumed in airports and aboard planes

You aren't getting on a plane when you're evidently intoxicated, either. Nor are they serving you alcohol to the point of intoxication on the plane. That's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
I'm on Straight Talk and got flagged by their system.

Went 1 day without data access, a few days with limited connection (very slow) and a few weeks later they disabled my hotspotting ability.

I was using my phone as a wifi hotspot since I don't have internet at home.
I can second every point @Spittie wrote. I love Firefox for Android.

To be fair to Android Chrome, it also does Sync if you login with your Google Account. It doesn't handle passwords very well though. I also like how Chrome handles clicks on links - so if the link is too small, or if you're hitting two links at the same time, then it shows you a magnified view of the area you've hit, a feature that's very useful on a mobile phone (not so much on a tablet).

But Firefox did improve by leaps and bounds and has unique features that no other mobile browser currently has, like Addons (AdBlock FTW).
This is a great technique, because despite the mood in the echochamber here sometimes (I also have absolutely zero interest in using them), many many users legitimately do want to like things or share things or interact with social widget whatevers at some point on some sites.

Using libraries like this makes that interaction absolutely explicit, with minimal loss of ease of use, which means that nothing is shared until that explicit signal that the user wants to share.
Looks like they had some issues building with rebar: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/49...