skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What do you use as secure Skype replacement of phone–computer calls?
There are alternatives to Skype for secure computer-to-computer text chatting and secure computer-to-computer voice or video chatting, all encrypted, free and open source.

But what if you want to call Aunt Maggie's mobile phone in Christmas without using paid Skype-out? What if you want to receive calls from Aunt Maggie in your computer without resorting to a Skype-in number?

What do you use?

Not interested in phone-to-phone. Paid service is ok. Better if libre open source, simple to set up, privacy-oriented.
It's an API available via the Android and iOS SDKs, respectively.

How to detect the network connection type on Android: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2802472/detect-network-co...

How to detect the network connection type on iOS:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7938650/ios-detect-3g-or-...
Because I'm too lazy to hit the about button and find out its an all female site (which it is), one english language gendered pronoun has one less letter than the other and I'm lazy, in this particular situation scattering some "s" doesn't change the content of the discussion in any productive way, and gendered pronouns as a concept is a fairly stupid language design decision and one way to demonstrate disrespect for a stupid idea is to ignore a stupid idea's ridiculous rules.

If our shared language was poorly designed enough to have racially segregated pronouns as opposed to gender segregated pronouns (don't laugh, its an almost equally stupid design decision) I'd probably call you all martians out of disrespect to a dumb design decision not because you're all actually from mars.

Its not because the website authors profile pics make them look manlier than myself or I admire their beards or anything dumb like that.

TLDR: Doesn't mean much.
Fair tax shifts the burden of taxes to the poor who spend majority of their income. AMT hits upper middle who end paying for everything as the non earned income people have lower tax burdens. A flat tax is the most fair on all incomes(capital gain, dividends, standard income,gift/estate).
Because upstart is easy and systemd is difficult.
Also would be awesome to implement it as a theme in https://github.com/zachfeldman/wordpress-haml-sass
I think the other point here is that it's physically impossible to stay awake long enough to die of sleep deprivation unless you actually have a condition preventing sleep.
How DC police use citizens as spies
It's not about making up the numbers, but because closing a line is an expensive and lengthy affair due to the amount of consultation that is required under the Transport Act 1962

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_train
"It's a sign of the times," Rudd said.

It's a sign that the States doesn't keep up with the times. We should have ditched Crane's cloth for polymer banknotes ages ago.

In general our currency reflects a stuffy and uptight attitude. Canada seems like a guy that says "fuck it, we're doing birds for 15 years"[0] or "How about Hockey, eh?"[1]. They've put the CanadaArm on the $10 [2], we've been to the fucking moon and only have the Eisenhower dollar where there is some moon [3], but not without that damn eagle, again. Instead we get "in god we trust," pictures of buildings and the only hint of changing anything more than shuffling the layout is occasional rumblings to put St. Reagan on a bill.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_Canadian_dolla...
[1] http://www.cdnpapermoney.com/images/Journey/2002_005b.jpg
[2] http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8542/8694157272_a1323d9017_o.j...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1974S_Eisenhower_Reverse.j...
For me one thing that has helped is to get some vital nutrients in soon after getting up. for me it seems a slight bit of salt in water and some olive oil (not much). I take that and I usually feel the difference withing minutes if not immediately.

For you, maybe you are lacking in some other basics, keep track on how your body feels and what you've eaten beforehand. You might discover a trend.
Logs should be studied in CS together with Turing Machines - they are a vital component of today's architecture. I applaud the effort of clearly describing the role of logs in today's distributed architectures in concise and easy to grasp way. Everyone studying database systems and distributed architectures should read this article. Thank's Jay!

We too have arrived at using logs at Post.fm, however with a slightly different application: syncing email clients that can go offline with remote servers (similar to Exchange). Instead of the traditional approach taken by most web apps - calling remote APIs directly (the new-age remote procedure calls in effect) I believe the new client-server architectures for web-apps will use logs to synchronise state. This is increasingly possible with the availability of local storage (web-sql, indexed-db, etc).

Another fascinating concept is Acid-State (http://acid-state.seize.it) which "keeps a history of all the functions (along with their arguments) that have modified the state. Thus, recreating the state after an unforeseen error is a simple as rerunning the functions in the history log." The idea of a log being transparently generated at application run-time is fascinating. Function calls elegantly map to 'transactions' when modifying multiple rows this way.

Another interesting outcome of thinking about database systems as logs, is that the tables are in effect read-only. You don't really "modify a row in a table", but add an entry to the log. At some point the database system updates the table to reflect the additions to the log (eventual consistency). If you make the database system wait for the log processing to complete before returning - you essentially get ACID.

Sometimes I wish there was a simpler, more transparent database system that made the log front and center, letting me specify if a SELECT requires the table to be updated with respect to the log or not. Current DBMSes seem to hide lots of functionality instead of providing a simple model that can be tweaked to a particular application.
"finally"?
I never find class diagrams so useful, especially now that I use a framework (Django).

ER diagrams on the other hand work really well to model the data for the database, and maps pretty easily back to SQL code.
>>good intentions

Prove it. I mean, how are you going to prove this? Exactly. Which is why "good intentions" doesn't mean anything to anyone with sense in their head, especially not a legal court.
> Either you need to relocate or inject some telecommuting into your existing work habits.

Not always an option.

As an example, I live in NRW but our customers are scattered around Germany.

Luckily I am located on our headquarters, but many of my colleagues need to go everywhere and not all clients appreciate phone conferences.
Throwing Coins Into the Trevi Fountain
Georgia Tech's Online CS MS Program Accepts 400
You seem to be generalizing a bit on the channels/goroutines and tasks/pipes... C# has the async/await pattern which is quite popular/powerful. I suspect recent incarnations of Java may have something similar as well (but not something I am up to speed on).
That wasn't a patch on the 2012 Zeitgeist that Google put together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY_MUB8adEQ
A few years back I worked on data taking for the CMS detector at the LHC. We were Tier1 in the US; we took the data from Tier0 at the physical detector and distributed it to 800+ orgs around the work. We had 6000+ linux machines and a staff of 10.

To say computing power isn't the limiting factor is disingenuous. Yes, you can go spin up thousands of instances in Amazon and store PB of data. Show me your budget to do so though.
I do care about difference between TED and TEDx. So you are by definition of word 'nobody' is wrong.
Unfortunately it's not as simple as that - when asking each other for data, the individual peers ask for a particular 'piece' of the torrent, where that piece isn't relative to a given file, but the torrent as a whole.

The files are concatenated into one long stream, and the piece number is an index to that, with no guarantees about alignment.

For instance, if you have a torrent (we'll call it 'X') with three files: the 4mb file 'a', the 3mb file 'b' and the 1mb file 'c', and two separate torrents ('Y' and 'Z') describing files 'b' and 'c' seperately, then the pieces would map something like this:

'Y' piece 1 -> 'X' piece 17
'Z' piece 1 -> 'X' piece 29

That's an absolute best case scenario though - in most cases, file sizes aren't quite as perfect as that (each being a multiple of the default piece size, 256kb). If 'b' just happened to be 1373kb, or anything else that wasn't a multiple of 256kb, then any files after it aren't addressable from other torrents.
http://docs.datomic.com/acid.html
There is some separate track, but a lot of the freight and passenger traffic go over the same track.
The future of PHP, at a distance
Every forecaster should do what Goldman Sachs economists did in this new report
> NSA surveillance critic

Out of all of the possible titles they could have chosen for him, they chose this? Just lump him in with the other millions of humans that are critical of surveillance?
Sorry, there's no handbook. You just have to go through life doing your best, occasionally there's a little misunderstanding and there's a witch-hunt and you're subjected to mass-Internet-bullying until you apologise for your little mistake, whether or not it was your fault. Together society moves forward to non-exclusionary monoculture where there is no risky language, however borderline or insignificant, and offenders are switftly dealt with.

For every joke there is a minority that it excludes.

Alternatively, people are thoughtful about what they write and equally thoughtful about their standards of evidence and credibility when they call people out on things. People stop and think before bullying each other in the name of equality and try to exercise empathy for everyone.

But sadly I don't think the human brain is wired for that.

(Yes I'm still annoyed about Noordhuis and incredulous about how vindictive and hateful some people can be.)
I work in technology, I am a geek who has worked for big companies and yet I don't use Facebook, I think is a waste of time. I realize that most people there are just self promoting, I use linked in which is more useful for me to make connections.
I know, right? Denim isn't even shiny. How can a society collectively agree on assigning value to something to use as currency and not use shiny things we dug up!
Adorable seal plays fetch
Yes. It works reasonably well in this specific case because it's such a niche thing (you don't download 1.25 TB of Touhou music if you don't really care about Touhou music), but it doesn't benefit from people who continue to seed things they've long forgotten about.
As far as I know (I'm not a lawyer, but I do academic research), that third checkmark means we can share our papers within our staff group and with collaborators without them necessarily subscribing to Elsevier. We cannot however publicly make available our published manuscripts, thus we're forced to list citations + doi's even if the manuscript should be read by everyone
Erik Meijer points to this as research in this area: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.146....
No it doesn't. The gold standard is and always was ridiculous. Pegging a currency to an arbitrary rare metal limits the tools of monetary policy that now prevent inlfation spikes and worse. the rapid deflationary cycles common 100 years ago.
Without the gold standard, we are able to add more money supply when demand for our currency spikes, this prevents spikes and crashes in prices. In case you aren't familiar with business planning, large price fluctuations are bad, very bad. If prices are falling, people stop buy (counter intuitive right?) because they put off purchases until they can get a cheaper future price. Then demand slacks, and companies lay off workers. Then demand slack further due to unemployment.
Contemporary monetary policy allows us to constrict money supply and adjust interest rates to prevent price collapses. A gold standard arbitrarily prevents these actions.

TL:DR; The gold standard is an arbitrary limitation on an already abstract system, that offers us nothing. Historical revisionism is the only reason the gold standard looks appealing.

*edit for readability
Very good point! It's not the reasoning and logic behind regex that would turn a beginner away from it, its the syntax that is being used that often results into expressions turning into impenetrable goo!

(thanks for the verbal expressions link btw, seems really promising)
TED conferences are basically an organized unconference of incredibly long lightning talks. Of course they don't have any value, it's just a bunch of random schmucks ranting about something they're passionate about in a way that gets youtube views. But there's nothing wrong with that.
No wonder that, very often, solutions to problems I struggled all day just pop up in the shower next morning.
http://www.google.com/trends/topcharts#date=2013. Not a text file but, a much better format than the op.

Edit: Apparently this is linked in the bottom left corner of the page... totally missed it. What an effective site design.
Isn't it more convenient to use something like Pocket for this?
IMO the most important aspect of this whole debate is money. Lots of money is made from manufacturing and selling bicycle helmets. That's why the bicycle-naive general population only knows about helmets when asked about bicycle safety.

Given that skills training, traffic engineering and other key components of real (i.e., statistically defensible) bicycle safety are not profitable how would you go about fixing this dysfunctional aspect of our automobile-centric cultures?
Please don't. Aside from the obvious questionability from a moral perspective, you could be setting yourself up for fines, penalties, law suits or jail time.

Ignoring whether or not copyright violations are morally good or bad, they are most certainly illegal in this country. Whether or not you feel comfortable engaging in such behavior on your own is nobody else's choice to make, but I would respectfully request that you don't do so publicly on HN, possibly subjecting others to legal woes.

Also, for what it's worth -- not sure if this is a guerrilla marketing tactic or not, but the book is currently available for free on Amazon either way, and perfectly legal:

http://www.amazon.com/Unlimited-Influence-Sell-Any-Idea-eboo...
Do you worry about dreaming less?

In other words, do you think dreams are useful (giving solutions to the day's problems) or just "garbage collection"?
Customs Asked to Leak Kim Dotcom Secrets to FBI for “Brownie Points”
I was at Compute Midwest (a tech conference in Kansas City, Missouri) this past fall and saw a demo of this very thing by Autodesk's Andrew Hessel. He ordered some customized bacteria (maybe yeast? I don't exactly recall) with the conference title encoded and then sequenced into the microbes. It was very interesting to me that that level of manipulation is available to any of us, right now (even if it's not exactly useful).

It did bring up some concerns, though -- do we now have mail-order anthrax manufacturing? This isn't something I'm seriously worried about, but it does seem like something to consider in the future as this technology evolves.

Something else I just thought of while typing this is that this would make an awesomely sci-fi means of information storage. No need to remember a password, we've encoded your gut flora with your private key!
Auto plating videos and animated GIFs are the bane of my Internet browsing. Luckily, both are easy to stop with Firefox.
Warren Buffet has frequently said that he is perfectly willing to pay more taxes, and that his secretary pays a higher percentage of her income than he does. There are numerous reasons for government inefficiency, but how could you run efficiently if there is always a target on your budget's back?

EDIT: You are absolutely right that the government spends money on stuff that I don't want, like bombs and wars, and I think it is extraordinarily generous that men like this give so very much to charity. However, I also believe that if we as a society have decided that there should be an estate tax, then there should be an estate tax and that the loophole should be closed.
PHP was doing MVP before it was cool.
Polymer banknotes are not necessarily better. I find the new Canadian bills to be much harder to count, since they are so slippery. Also there have been reports of them melting in the heat and breaking in the cold.
Something is getting lost in translation here. How does some kid inheriting a bunch of money adversely effect my or anyone else's ability to earn a better living? As distasteful as it may be that someone can win the genetic lottery, the reality is it doesn't preclude others from creating more wealth for themselves. This is one of the biggest economic misconceptions in the world...it's not a zero-sum game.
> I'd probably call you all martians out of disrespect to a dumb design decision

Nope, the equivalent what you did is use the "white pronoun" for a black person.
The first exomoon candidate: A Sub-Earth-Mass Moon Orbiting a Gas Giant
How many times will Monads be reinvented?

name.trim.filter{ _.length != 0 }.toUpperCase

becomes:

name >>= (return . trim) >>= (guard . ((/= 0) . length)) >>= (return . toUpperCase)

I've purposefully used >>= and return instead of fmap to show that '.' above is almost >>=.

EDIT: I've just noticed a type error in the use of guard, but you get the idea.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou0lU8WMgo
I can't blame them for doing it but I'm sure it will lead to me using facebook less. I probably won't close my account but just use the site less. My newsfeed is increasingly annoying as it is.
I think you summed up my statement better than I did.
There must be something wrong with this list when Edward Snowden is at #97 and Paul Walker is #2.

To make this more clear: Snowden was the top Google search for many days, perhaps as long as the incident of Paul Walkers death until now.
You clearly missed the part of my comment that said "there was an article that said". - I am in no way throwing anyone under the bus.

I'm on mobile - but I have posted the article here before. If I remember later Ill find it and provide you the link
A nice idea - yet technically unfeasible.

First problem is the time and storage you need for loading/unloading a whole train worth of carriages - I expect at least 30-60min, if not longer. And most container facilities are not equipped with large storage areas, just for short-term storage.

Second problem is power: a freight train carriage usually just has two connections to its neigboring carriages: torque and the pneumatic brake line. Basically you'd need to somehow add electricity infrastructure (which 'd then again require specially modified freight carriages, and likely even different locomotives. I'm not sure if freight-only locos carry the 1kV heating power, which is (ab)used to provide electricity in passenger trains).

Third problem is maintenance and cleaning: container load/unload facilities are not equipped with the place and the necessities for properly cleaning the containers, and even less maintaining them.
In my experience this isn't obvious to most. I've hosted an event 8x a year since 2000, and you can see the people who seem to be 'on a mission' as opposed to the ones that are a bit more subtle about it. If it takes you less than 5 seconds to produce a business card, you're probably a bit too anxious.

Many people view events as an almost speed dating type atmosphere instead of just staying in the moment and not fixating on the need to acquire (info, contacts, etc.).
As ridiculous as it sounds, many journals, including Elsevier journals, require you to transfer copyright of your article to them. See http://cdn.elsevier.com/promis_misc/phcgj_copyright_form.pdf for one example.
The Atari "vector display" games actually had a second processor that did the work of driving the electron beam. The primary game processor would compute and send a list of coordinates to the vector generator, and it would do the hard work of moving the beam around.

This lead to some neat hacks, like the guys that swapped the vector generator stuff for a laser projector:

http://www.pangolin.com/images/SIGGRAPH_Tempest.jpg
Well anyone worth their salt should have known something like Snowden would happen eventually. Even if they didn't it would be smart to start infiltrating communities that they thought they might want "cred" in later.
> Get their emails/phone numbers, call them once in awhile, grab a coffee.

That works great for those ex-classmates or work friends, who just so happen to live in the same town (or same area of a large town) as you, but that's not why I use FB -- I use it to keep tabs on family. Family members too busy for an hour-long weekly phone call (or I'm too busy to make time for 5-10 of these weekly calls) and too far removed for in-person visits to be viable every few months.

Your advice may work for some, but it falls flat for a lot of common use-cases.
Apple Plugs Gaping Holes in Safari Browser
I don't disagree, but the problem is that writing laws is really damned hard. There is a lot of complexity in the real world, a whole lot of special cases to think about, and also a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money if they can find the holes. Intuitively you would think that writing a really simple law like "each person must pay X% of income in taxes, no exceptions" would work, except that that's how we got the almost-universally-despised Alternative Minimum Tax. This is also why laws also tend to have lots of unintended consequences.

>> If you are suppose to pay X% of the income you make from transactions in the US or money transferred to heirs then you should pay that X%.

Just for fun, let's see if I can avoid that tax...
1) What if I transfer the money overseas, put it in a trust, then transfer control of the trust to my heirs? It's not a transaction in the US.

2) What if I create a tiny, worthless company, give my heirs all the stock, pay the miniscule taxes on that value, and then contrive to make the company worth more? eg, lend it a bunch of money at no interest, or buy a bunch of stock, or purchase a lot of whatever it ostensibly makes?

3) How about if I just buy a ton of life insurance on myself with my heirs as the beneficiaries? Sure, it'll cost a lot, but as long as the overhead is less than the tax bill it's a net win.

That's off the top of my head. Pay me a few millions bucks to do this and I guarantee I can do better. :)
Using Cold Boot Attacks and Other Forensic Techniques in Penetration Tests
If anything things like this are a reason... http://www.fastcompany.com/3023263/work-smart/the-surprising...

Facebook has gotta start looking out for it's user's interests.
Apple approves only gay social app for ages 12 and up
I think the big thing is to make the case for one and the case for many look exactly the same in the language. Is that nicer to look at with do-notation?
Looks like you missed the part about everyone moving to 'mobile'
Slobberknockered: The Tough Hit the NSA Didn't See Coming
Yeah sorry it's not that important. I suppose I was more sensitive to it because the discussion was derailed into misogyny (which derailing I participate in).
I don't know why Instagram or Twitter haven't done this yet, but I'd love an application that shows me the top 10 newsworthy photos on a world map (Google Maps). So in the US, I might see a few over NYC and LA or maybe another in the Gulf from a recent oil spill. The photos would change based on where I zoom in or out.

The app could look at Instagram's popular page or how many retweets/favorites the photo had on Twitter, etc.

It would be a visual guide to news. Future enhancements would see a scrolling timeline, so you could choose a date and location and see what was going on. And in a few years, the collection of photos would serve as an amazing location-based history of our world.