skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a good argument to be made about this kind of thing. This isn't it.

The author starts out critiquing people who see connections between their own politics and technology where no such connection exists, then proceeds to ramble through a variety of tenuously connected issues, labeling anything he doesn't like the look of as "cyber-libertarianism", then segues into a piece about neoliberalism that has no obvious connection with the text that precedes it other than an attempt to rescue his argument by wrapping it in someone else's metaphor.

The really fucking annoying thing is that you can draw connections between, say, Hayek, decentralised networks and silicon valley hiring practices. You really can do this and actually be quite devastating, but the author seems to be throwing as many "boo" words in as possible (Hayek 'n' Mises, Ayn Rand because why not, the Tea Party) rather than assembling any kind of argument. He lumps Julian Assange in with the bad guy crowd, but I presume he doesn't think that leaking the activities of the US government in Iraq and around the world was some kind of right-wing plot. He says various things about the EFF, some which are true but which give an overall misleading picture by ignoring their actions which don't fit his narrative. By the time he gets to Carl Malamud, he's reduced to saying "I'm not sure he's done anything I disagree with, and I can't disagree with anything he's said, but his work is championed by libertarians so he's probably one of them".

The closing paragraphs, where he talks about general principles and values, are actually pretty good! If you ignore most of the factual claims, it's a decent article. I think the author could benefit from a slightly more nuanced and informed perspective on both the technology and the attitudes of the people who use and create it though.
> The NSA does not target Americans’ location data by design, but the agency acquires a substantial amount of information on the whereabouts of domestic cellphones “incidentally,” a legal term that connotes a foreseeable but not deliberate result.

The implication that Americans being "incidentally" caught in the dragnet is the only aspect that makes this egregious is absolutely fucking disgusting. This is a habit endemic in the American media that persistently differentiates between Americans and mere humans, as if the former is sacred and the latter mere fodder. I try to avoid swearing in comments, but damn it that's how angry this attitude makes me (and pretty much every non-American, I'm sure).
Direct power is democratic. You're thinking of republican (the governing structure, not the party).
Developers - Working in consultancy vs pdt-based company?
I'm hoping to get a rough survey of the sentiments by most developers regarding their employment. I know the dream of most hackers is to work in large tech companies like Google and Facebook, but other than that - what is the major difference/ turn-off of working at a consultancy-based company vs a product-based company?
No, the "allegedly" is that they did it deliberately. They definitely put this woman on the No-Fly list; she's demonstrably on it. The question and concern is over whether they did it in order to hinder her testifying in this case.
Adobe's Creative Suite runs great in KVM (with the Spice backend). Runs faster than Virtualbox or VMWare Player, even over remote session.
The purpose of separate, secure passwords is because otherwise all it takes is 1 website out there to be insecure to compromise all your logins. If your computer is compromised you already lost, regardless of whether you use a password manager or not.
can you tell me more about what you mean? for instance if your wife sends you a nude picture through something like oovoo does that guarantee someone has stolen it?
> Management of versioned dependencies between libraries and components developed by different teams. This is absolutely central to what software engineering is all about.

Let me put it this way: I develop in Java (and Scala) using maven, without ever touching OSGi. What is the problem I'm supposed to be having that OSGi would be solving? Because I've never seen it.

> I don't think you've understood what this is. In Ceylon, null is the singleton instance of the perfectly ordinary class Null. A nullable type is just a union type of form Null|X, for any type X.

You're right, the short syntax put me off (it's something I worry about in scala too).

> Sure. You should see the crazily cool stuff we can do with stuff like the signature of max(). You'll be impressed, I promise!
> After that, check out signatures of operations like Set.union(), Set.intersection(), coalesce(), compose(), flatten(), curry(), etc, to see a bunch of other things you just can't write in Scala.

I tried to do that, but it looks like you don't have an equivalent to javadoc/scaladoc with the standard library docs publicly available? Either that or google can't find them.

(And I'd still like to hear whether you can do something as general as scalaz's sequence. It's a function that takes F[G[A]] to G[F[A]] for any F and G with suitable typeclasses (Traverse and Applicative, IIRC), so the same function works for Set[Future] or List[Validation] or Vector[MyMonad]) - I don't think you can do that without higher kinded types. And it appears as an extension method on the F[G[A]]).

> Does scala have toplevel functions? I thought they always had to be nested inside some object?

Point, but I find it hard to care. You can stick them in a package object if you really need to emulate one at toplevel.

> But my real big problem with Scala here is it just doesn't have proper function and tuple types that you can abstract over. Instead you have F, F1, F2, F3 ... F22 and Tuple2, Tuple3, ... Tuple22. That to me is just rubbish.

It's a bit rubbish yeah, I agree. Shapeless 2 makes it painless to treat tuples as HLists (using implicit macros - a concept which admittedly would have utterly horrified me six months ago) which means you can work around it in practice.
Yes and no. Sure, the automated agents would need to perform some of the roles that are now performed by the user, but it's just one more layer: before, we just had text viewers, and all the formatting was interpreted by the users (add we still see in plain-text emails). Then came document viewers and that whole layer moved from the human to the machine. This is just one semantic layer above.

And no, I'm not suggesting that were must build agent capable of human-like learning, that's why much like we had to transition from ad-hoc formatting marks to some kind of standard, we must also help our agents by tagging the information in our websites with standard marks.

But the widespread conception of REST is actually an RPC architecture with more endpoints, and that's holding us back from building a smarter web.
on behalf of cmd.fm:
Oh, it's a very important security issue, we realised thanks to you:) Fixing it immediately!

Best Regards,
Have a nice day:)
Is it possible that the development of these technologies is compartmentalized? And the single engineers only know the part that they are supposed to work on but don't really understand what is the larger project that their slice will be a part of? It would probably be hard to pull this development methodology off.
I Love it.. for so many reasons :)
Oh, I was there, and I'm aware of this.

The rich media thing: it's useful. A minimal markup (such as markdown) would likely be sufficient. The ability to be able to emphasize and strongly emphasize text, create bullets and numbered lists, indicate (multiple levels) of quotes, hyperlinks. There's not much that Markdown itself doesn't provide.

A small amount of chrome for the masses would be nice. For the most part my feeling is that existing HTML markup goes too far, generally in the direction of unusability for far too many websites.

Another feature which is quite useful is indicating followups and actions. Here I find Reddit has one of the best models around, though the UI/UX lightweight nature of G+'s Notifications widget is also nice (the absolute uselessness of most of the actual notifications, and the inability to filter / set precedence / classify types of notifications is a major failure of the site). G+ also suffers from one of the largest DOMs I've seen in any major website -- I've backed off using it pretty much at all, and find my browser memory footprint is vastly more bearable.
I'd tend to disagree with your assessment of iOS' performance on the iPad 2. I have an iPad Air and an iPad 2 and quite frankly the iPad 2 crashes less and runs more consistently on iOS 7, as opposed to my Air. It feels as though iOS 7 wasn't ready for the Air, but it has been improving with each update.
Not sure I follow. Significant parts of the left see the institutions of the state as a means to the realization of democracy. Take, for instance, most socialist, social-democratic, or Left parties in contemporary Europe. They advocate for the state to take an active role in making space for democracy (for instance by legislating codetermination in the workplace) and de-commodifying labor to protect the working classes from capital. True, many leftists -- especially those in the communist and anarchist left -- have the long-term goal of abolishing the state, but that doesn't mean the institutions of the state cannot play a role in advancing some of the goals of the left in the interim. Even Nikolai Bukharin did not deny this.

That's what the author is arguing here -- that the state should not be ruled out tout court as a potential site of engagement for those seeking to realize the promises of radical democracy. The author is not saying that state already is the realization of democracy, as your paraphrase suggests.
> we'll have the power of (current gen) desktop graphics in just a few iterations

And where will desktop graphics be after those few iterations? Several iterations more advanced. Integrated graphics will never be competitive with discreet graphics, therefore systems that do not support discreet graphics will never be competitive with those that can (in gaming, of course).
I take it you're missing the 90s? (Alas, most of my Usenet usage was between 1994 and 2003.)
> Nobody expected

But the gov't did.

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

I followed the Yousef trial and only heard about the blowing up airliners over the ocean part. I've never found a reference pre-9/11 about crashing them and believe these details were filled-in only afterwards.

No doubt keeping everyone else in the dark helped keep us safer. /s
Yeah, commas.
I think you don't know quite how old investment banking is. Hundreds and hundreds of years old. Look up the history of the Rothschilds, say, and the industry was well established before even them.
The syntax highlighting in this article is nearly unreadable (light grey and yellow on bluish white).
Does anybody know whether the price of the airline ticket is refunded in case the passenger is denied boarding?
What I've found is that some sites will either truncate your password without telling you or restrict you to 8-20 chars.
Hiding From Your Manager Can Increase Your Productivity
I fall back on text-mode readers (usually w3m) for sites which are too broken in GUI browsers. It works rather more often than you'd expect (in large part because web crawlers need text).
My understanding is that the scale goes from Postgres (edgy but worth it) to MariaDB (I didn't pay attention while you listed your requirements, here's something that'll suit you), to MSSQL (let me stop you, I heard you need support). Everything else is built on top of the database. This scale doesn't fit all the technologies, so it doesn't need to fit every use.
Why do people uninstall apps?
Thanks for this. It looks awesome!!!
Credit card fraud comes of age with first known point-of-sale botnet
Survival Lessons Learned from Accidentally Enraging an Island City-State
Wat? Scala
Correct. That's why it's ultimately anti-democratic and not at all attempting to adopt leftist ideals (other than maybe social freedom). Note I said "direct power" not "direct democracy" which tends to be confusing to observers.
Once you've got this a bit more solid, I'd strongly urge you to submit this to HN.
Well, it is a loss for us, but unfortunately it's just not technically feasible to have a global seamless login experience yet. We're working in that direction.
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You're not on the ball since age 14 - your parents are ages 14 - 17 or 18 and you try and take over after that.

This is the problem with Harvard et al.: you get in b/c your parents have the financial resources to keep you on the ball until its time to sit your Harvard admission exam (or w/e the procedure to get).
Financial resources will come in the form of being able to spend quality time with you (and teach you about keeping the ball close) instead of seating you in front of the telly or private tutoring etc.

European unis on the other hand (bar top notch British unis which are another kind of messed up) operate on the principle of offering young adults a bright future if they man / woman up and bash their heads through some severely tough undergrad years.

Social mobility and stuff ...
Until mp3 fixes its Walkman story I'm going to stick with cassettes.
The best part of this isn't even that she was placed on a no-fly list.

It's that the DHS lawyer specifically told the judge that she wasn't and the daughter was lying before the documentation was produced.

The only way I see out of that accusation is by claiming that the airline was lying to the daughter.
Then the lawyers should fire their client for lying to them.
So we should all just give up? Economy is pretty dependent on gasoline/oil too; but I'm glad people are looking into finding better sources of energy. We know gasoline burning & the process of obtaining oil is not good for humanity for a big list of reasons. _If_ it's found cellphones can be harmful, hopefully we begin researching how to make safer versions. Personally, I think there's been enough studies on it to make it at least plausible and I choose to error on the side of caution.
The judge won't care if someone did it on purpose. Results matter.
Why do we need a tipping point?

Proposal:

1) Human progress arises from the development and improved use of tools/technology (and I'm including concepts like "if", as well as skills, as kinds of technology)

2) Our tool use abilities interact multiplicatively/geometrically. E.g., [what I can do with a hammer and a shovel] is not the sum of the [things I can do with hammers] and [the things I can do with shovels]

3) Our tool-use-abilities started meagre

4) Tool use is not uniquely human, but humans are better at it

5) Accidents of history and human development have allowed for the accumulation of tools (agriculture, e.g.)

... this "explanation" (or what have you) yields exponential growth curves that, I propose, would look very similar to those of humans. If there was a "tipping point" perhaps it was (5) -- the introduction of some substrate upon which cultural knowledge could grow.
Used to be, the economy decided tobacco was safe.
It's not possible to get Usenet from the 90s, as it simply isn't archived. 80s is archived via Internet Archive and you can get 10 years worth from 2003 via Usenet king GigaNews.

Google Groups has the 90s, but it's locked behind a 'Googlewall'.
Does anyone have any idea how this fits into Yahoo's overall strategy?
TCP/IP and telecom cos who own racks of networking equipment are two different things. These kind of distinctions are important.
Could you please be more specific about the glitch? We would like to fix it, sorry for inconvenience:)
(cmd.fm team)
I pretty much agree with you.

One of the failings of Reddit over G+ is that it doesn't have the equivalent of a personal "user subreddit" page.

I realized I could fix that: http://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius

(not that what's there will be of interest to most, but it's a neat convention / hack IMO).
You're right, I misread your post.
I wish they could use OAuth 2.0 instead of having to type in the password.

http://developers.soundcloud.com/docs#authentication
While in school for Computer Engineering (2002-2007 or so), I actually had two ethics classes, one specifically for Engineering and one for Information ethics. I dont know how standard that is, but all the engineering disciplines had to take the Engineering one and computer scienc-y students had to take Info ethics.
Cool. But those are some damn ugly fonts.
I submitted it 2 days ago but it just dropped off the 'New' page...
In the late 1970s, Relational Software, Inc. (now Oracle Corporation) saw the potential of the concepts described by Codd, Chamberlin, and Boyce and developed their own SQL-based RDBMS with aspirations of selling it to the U.S. Navy, Central Intelligence Agency, and other U.S. government agencies.

...

SQL became a standard of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 1986, and of the International Organization for Standards (ISO) in 1987.

So does time of infringement matter in copyright cases? Is the fact that it became an ISO standard later relevant?

Unless Oracle was psychic, they could not have foreseen SQL becoming standardized, right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL
At this point, the DHS appears to be merely an antagonistic bully, and the only "security" it offers is in the form of high-paying jobs to mid-level government hacks. It should be done away with along with the TSA and the NSA.
Andy Rubin to head up Google's robotics division
Yeah, you've never used KDE before.
FWIW, I think version 4 is a worthwhile upgrade on iOS, and I see the price at $9.99 at the moment (at least in the US store).
It's not that Java APIs are particularly good, but that they exist and are massive in scope. Sun put a ton of work into designing and documenting these APIs, and morally speaking they should be compensated by having some kind of ownership over it.

If the appeal finds for Oracle I'll laugh... Google at least hastened Sun's demise by being too cheap to pay for Java, then they were too cheap to buy Sun when it was for sale. If they end up having to pay Oracle for it, that's karma at work.
Do you require startups to be legally incorporated, or can that be done during the funding process?

Also, Is your preferred US Entity a Delaware C Corp?
I suppose the Judge should have the power to find out whether her name is on the list. If he cannot, we live in a police state.
one buffer per thread, I hope?
I humbly disagree. I was waiting for the site to "finish loading", and when I realized that it had, I was delighted.
john@doe.com and fuck@off.com can beat that - pwned three times each. See also noneofyour@business.com.
For his query: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/10years/query.php?body=Star+Wars...

The top post is this: http://www.dejadejadeja.com/10years/getmsg.php?whichmsg=ixlp...

It has a post date of: Wed Dec 15 10:30:01 1982, but is given as 1970-01-01 in the search results.

I'm seeing lots of 1970-01-01 results. A bug, perhaps?
Cell phones don't emit ionizing radiation (the kind that causes damage to DNA).
and it's fixed:)
Do those glasses have no benefit? They're marketed to gamers as reducing eye strain [0]. I step away from the monitor often enough that I don't get overly bothered by it, even if I'm programming for an extended period of time. I do also run f.lux as well, though.

[0] http://www.gunnars.com/
I agree. Just look at who Palantir hires. I imagine its a pretty small number of nose-holders and more often people who think they are doing good and people who think spying is a necessary evil so lets put fine grained controls on it.
The 1,000,000:1 (20 EV) dynamic range is not that incredible when taking into account that it's dynamic, not static - it's the sensitivity difference between fully dark-adapted and direct sunlight, not the ratio of maximum and minimum luminance that can be simultaneously perceived.

My DSLR can do more than 20 EV of dynamic contrast ratio quite easily: first, it has a static contrast ratio of at least 8 EV (a conservative estimate); most lenses have about 7 stop difference between their minimum and maximum aperture; and my camera's ISO sensitivity range is 100 to 12800, that's another 7 stops. Together, these add up to 22 EV (a ratio of 4,200,000 to 1!) A high-end camera could probably easily reach 26 or 28 EV. And cameras don't need to a hour-long adaptation period.
Would love to see something similar perhaps a part 2 on deploying this in the wild as well.
Democracy is collective action whether by direct or indirect voting. Direct power is individual action (with the implication of freedom from collective action), and is thus libertarian or classically liberal, not democratic.
I was finally declassified...

Should that be "It was finally declassified"?
So why is that in polite company, even those that are opposed to our various wars are obliged to toe the line, "we support our troops"?

Even in 21st century America, we continue to fool ourselves, thinking that somehow soldiers can be noble, heroes even, all the while being engaged something that is immoral.
I imagine you basically mean that the called function stack-allocates one list node, sets up a "return trampoline" so when a return is executed, the returned value is returned one more level up, then jumps back into the code that called it. The issue I see is that returning gets to be a somewhat more expensive operation due to having to return several levels up.

Am I completely wrong here?
There are also algorithms that convert the raw data from the sensor into a compressed stream. That would downgrade the quality of the camera.

Though, that does make me wonder if our meat software does something similar.
This is offtopic, but I think this comment is exactly what I mean...

Go read what he had to say about the ordinance. It is more than reasonable.
Should've mentioned this is a free high quality online "ebook" from Ilya Grigoriky. He's a performance wizz kid!
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If you're connected to the world wide web and you send/receive data, there's a strong chance that either:

a) Either sending/receiving machine is broken into

b) Someone or something is intercepting your message

c) The service you are using is broken into

There's just too many holes to plug and too many people with expertise in these domains orders of magnitude above ours that they can use to either be malicious, or help our cause.

Your computer/device needs to be secure. Your other parties devices need to be secure. Your connection needs to be secure. Your third parties service needs to be secure. The internet the third party uses needs to be secure. Their data centre needs to be secure. Then their ISP needs to be secure.

All data is online.
he's a figurehead and obscured from reality from the most part. Who cares what device he's on, he doesn't make any difference either way. They could put a log in his place and it would have the same effect on this country.
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The real zinger - when you enter your email address to check, they store it and steal your identity :P
I don't think cyber-libertarianism is incompatible with direct or representative democracy. It's probably fair to say that the structure of government takes a back seat to certain expectations about what a "free" person may do in the internet age.

I also agree that cyber-libertarians would not support restrictive government regulation. But it would also not support restrictive corporate control. Effectively, it recognizes new interpretations of the rights to assembly, privacy, property, and speech (and perhaps others). I don't see how that's incompatible with "the right of people to act collectively through government". It just clarifies the implicit stipulation: "as long as natural rights are respected".
I love the fact that it uses Google Analytics.