skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other HN readers are making some assumptions that I have to take issue with.

A1: Stories about this kind of thing are posted by people who want to take business away from the U.S..

This is possible, but there are a lot of people who value privacy too, and I suspect they are in the majority. Want to prove me wrong? Get polling.

A2: Everybody else is doing it, but only the NSA got caught.

First, this doesn't make it acceptable. Second, it's entirely possible not everybody else is doing it. Third, even if everybody is doing it, the U.S. has more money to pour into black-op projects than any other nation on Earth, so it's a safe bet that the NSA is, by far, the worst offender.

A3: Countries like China spy for corporate gain, but the U.S. would never do such a thing.

Right, the U.S. has never staged a coup or conducted a war that benefited U.S. corporations, and certainly wouldn't need intelligence to help with that sort of thing in the future...

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If you're okay with what the NSA has been doing, here's something to consider. Several years ago Sony got a lot of bad press for putting rootkits onto audio CD's. They wanted to stop piracy. Honest customers had nothing to fear from Sony! However, honest customers did have something to fear from viruses, malware, etc. that were subsequently written to exploit the security holes created by the root-kit.

The NSA is collecting data on you. You trust the NSA and your nation, so you're not worried about how they'll use that data. Fine. Do you trust everyone who works for them? You probably shouldn't. They certainly don't trust their own employees and they still got burned by Snowden! The NSA might not be looking at your data until you do something terroristy, but who else could have access to the NSA's data-stores? Would anyone know Snowden had stolen all those files if he kept quiet about them? Probably not. Odds are you're pretty boring and nobody is interested in what the NSA has on you. What if you were actually really interesting, and your enemies had a lot of money? Do you plan on becoming interesting at some point in the future, or are you firmly committed to being a bore until you die?
A Chromebook is essentially a cheap linux machine.
littlesnapper 1.3 - capture and print Snapchat pictures to a little printer.
1280x1024

...and to try and resist the urge to answer every question with a bad joke.
I would not recommend mtgox, which is known about its delays with withdrawals, and has higher prices than other exchanges. Check out bitstamp, btc-e etc.
Title should be - The best Markdown editor for Mac and Android (and it's free).
Sadly, it doesn't deal with YAML frontmatter, that is often used in blog engines like jekyll (github pages) and middleman.

(found that issues can be filed here: https://github.com/ClockworkEngine/LightPaper-Support/issues...)
On my Macbook Air I have remapped the eject key to forward delete.
It already comes with a Linux. You might want to put a different flavour of Linux on it, if you care enough. It's pretty easy, at least if you are willing to boot from external media.
We are also working with some amazing facial recognition technology that will roll out in 2014. Stay tuned :-)
Good thing it's available on more than one platform? http://clockworkengine.com/lightpaper-android/

Although in my experience, the best software of its kind is usually limited to one platform. Otherwise, you're stuck catering to the lowest common denominator of all supported platforms.
I agree but then again everyone uses the superlative adjectives as a default.
I agree that just because it's obvious doesn't mean it's not valuable, but my position is that it does not deserve the various government-granted legal protections of a patent. If it is obvious then it is something that you run into, not something that you create. By all means exploit your first-mover advantage as much as you can (be it a genre, a market, or a technique), but don't ask the government to grant you a time-limited monopoly. Just because it didn't exist for centuries doesn't mean it took centuries to create.

(note: "obvious", "straightforward" and "easy to understand" have various degrees of subjectivity attached so it's never easy to argument in these terms)
To be fair it's easier to fake reality when you have root access to the whole brain and don't need to interface through HDMI and GPU.
No reason to leak anything from Russia. It's not a secret but a law here that SORM-2 devices are mandatory to install by each ISP (very small ISPs may wait for up to two years, though). It must have full access to mirrored traffic crossing the AS border and RADIUS traffic (in case of TACACS+ ISPs are also asked to reveal encryption keys).

While I suspect they're mostly laying dormant and don't think they're secretly massively abused in mass-surveillance, no idea what those black boxes are doing, though. The point is, they're here, they have full access, and they technically could be abused anytime, so don't transfer any sensitive data to or through Russia unencrypted. Like with any other country, possibly except for Equestria.

Disclaimer: I work for an ISP.
RBI has mismanaged our currency?

Sorry the global crude oil prices are soaring, thanks to sanctions on India's major oil supplier(Iran). Major world economies are in a state of war since the whole past decade. None of these are under RBI or Government of India's control.

Yes there is corruption, but we are equal partners to that.

In case you haven't noticed bulk of India's import business depends on software. There is massive anti-outsourcing wave, and at the same Indian start up industry hasn't really compensated for that.

There is every reason why the government can be skeptical Bitcoin in India. We have massive tax evasion situation prevalent here. This is not a anti-technology anti-capitalism stance the government is having here. The public cheats on taxes so often, the government has 0 reasons why it should trust some thing new like Bitcoin.
For six months I exercised three times per week with a personal trainer at set appointments to make sure I would go. Lots of weight lifting. That provided the fastest results. I also improved my diet though my sweet tooth remains. I've been far more sedentary (though still getting some light exercise, walking around the neighborhood, going up and down a 7 story parking structure) and have been able to maintain my weight which is a good sign.

I'm probably going to try the same thing again since it worked so well a year ago. I'm 20b away from my High School weight but a bit leaner.
>> rather than acting as mindless sheep following who knows what.

>I'll tell you right now, that anyone who uses that phrase is more of a "mindless sheep" than those he criticizes.

Does accusing someone of being a mindless sheep because they call others mindless sheep make you a mindless sheep? For that matter, sheep aren't mindless but if they were then if I described them as mindless sheep then how could I then be a mindless sheep? By the very nature of describing their mindlessness I show that I have a mind. Plus, I am a human and cannot be shorn, so I'm clearly not a sheep.

Ponder on that.
> Things culminated with iOS7’s release which took the concept of flat design mainstream.

Yeah, Windows 8 and Android are pretty niche.
* Don't worry about others judging me

* Don't judge others
>> My wife has just asked if you're reading
>> Craig Shaw Gardner, whose covers are also
>> done by Josh Kirby.

> No, not really.

Worth checking - it's a mistake one of our friends made.

Anyway ...

> ... we'd read together a tome until we found
> a good joke.

I wonder if this is the mis-match in your expectations. Yes, there are jokes in Pratchett, but that's not where the majority of the humour lies. It's more about word-play and visual imagery.

It's not to everyone's taste, and I'm not trying to convert you, but given enough time it would be interesting to find where the difference is between us that makes me really, really enjoy most Pratchett (although not all), and for you, not.

But there is no time, so it will remain a mystery.
If you're using the Dedekind cut definition why use the line at all? Just say a real is any set of rationals bounded above, with arithmetic defined the obvious way; defining equality is slightly fiddly but it's fiddly with a number line too. What does the line visualization gain you?
Study: Consumers Will Pay $5 for an App That Respects Their Privacy
Stephen King gave the same advice as well "Read and write four to six hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can't expect to become a good writer."
(quote from wiki)
The Android version is not free.
This has been a common observation since time memorial: equivalent Mac systems tend to be competitive. Apple just doesn't compete in the very low end of the market at all.
I guess I have a while to go. What about editing etc.
looks like it doesn't know that markdown supports tables.
Don't waste your time worrying about school too much. Make sure you get into things like https://www.deutsche-schuelerakademie.de or http://www.deutsche-juniorakademien.de.

(Their Alumni organisation (http://www.cde-ev.de/) is actually open for everybody, and I can only recommend joining. https://mind-hochschul-netzwerk.de/ is also worth a look.)
Some words about “hardware accelerated” instructions.
Very nice!

Correction: Smalltalk to Objective-C is not "needs C syntax". Objetive-C's OO syntax is actually Smalltalk's. The two reasons are "needs C interoperability" and "needs performance".
vega.org.uk has some nice videos thanks for the link.

I read Hoffman's book some time ago and found it interesting but a tad repetitious. A Google for the Atlantic Monthly article reveals a much tighter piece of writing. The video gives me a voice to put to the writing.

Video at 12:58 or so

"This is a man who had no home... all his possessions fit into one small suitcase and some plastic bag that he had from some shopping store in Budapest"

There is a core of sadness there. 2nd world war was rough on a whole generation of Europeans, and the writer George Perec exhibited similar frenetic activity and the use of arcane games to fend things off? Erdos's chosen game field was more useful of course.
Motions: we already have too much of them.

For me Wikipedia had the best content and very high ranking, and its "un-designed" interface is telling strongly that making things "designed" was often unnecessary. Sometime ago an "[edit]" link appeared where hovering a section's title. It was annoying and has been apparently removed.

The first thing I do on a new smartphone install is to remove launcher animations, which are laggy and useless. The same with any PC install, either Linux or Windows: go to the settings and uncheck all animations.

Most animations other than simple sliding on mobile apps are also useless. Any the only moving thing that is useful, the "loading..." spinning weel, is often even absent.

So I think it will be like with rounded-shades-UI vs flat-UI: once doing animations is easy and mainstream, it will not be a marker of craftmanship, and will be dropped except when really useful.
> It's only data that never leaves the US

It seems to me that the NSA finds it a lot harder to get at data that never enters the US at all.

I have doubts about sending data to the US in any way - I work for a European tech company, and some co-workers want us to use private repos on GitHub for our source control. I am personally against this simply because it sends important data into the US. That kind of thing should be kept on-site.
I use the Advantage Pro. I map it to ESC (vi!), the default thumb keys are ok for Control. The rubbery little ESC on the Kinesis is crap.
It might also be worth mentioning haroopad - http://pad.haroopress.com/
Platforms Are Eating The World - WIRED
I've never had that problem myself, and I don't know if you've already tried it, but I've heard of people using bitter nail polish. It seems like a clever way to change that habit.
THE TRUTH UKRAINIAN PROTESTS JUST MY OPINION
>> Did you really just write a long winded "wake up sheeple" post? Are you trying to be a self-parody?

At this point internet libertarianism is a form of performance art, I'm sure of it!
I see random people confidently asserting that btc isn't illegal in India. Don't listen to them. Talk to a tax lawyer.

If you're in India, the sensible thing to do is to stay away from bitcoin. This is based on my conversations with my brother who is a tax lawyer. According to him the legality of btc and the laws that govern its purchase/sale in India aren't clear at all and there is an expectation that the RBI will clarify the regulatory framework and the laws that they believe apply to btc. He also believes that RBI has historically favoured extremely conservative interpretations so they will likely shoot down btc. This is obviously not legal advice, not least because it's coming through a lossy channel (me).
Given the field (Y, 0, +, 1, *), you need to show that either 0 != 1, or 0 = 1 is the only element in the set.

I don't remember the precise proof, but if memory serves it derives from the existance of opposites and inverses, and 0 and 1 being unique in the set, due the commutative properties of abelean groups.
You are right that the entire blame for INR depreciation does not squarely sit on the shoulders of the RBI. It is a problem with reasons that go far beyond the control of the RBI.

Yes, there is a huge current account deficit (export/import imbalance) and that is a big part of it.

However, as the agency that manages the circulation and control of the currency, ultimately I look at the RBI as the 'face' of the Indian Rupee.

That said, the government doesn't have to trust bitcoin. However, regulatory burden in India is extremely high regardless of the kind of business you want to start. India ranks poorly on several 'Ease of doing Business' indexes. [1] I'm bringing this up since you mentioned the start up industry. It's just not that easy to start something in India.

Yes, tax evasion is a huge problem in India. But that's a cultural thing. The government has made it very hard to evade taxes (as long as you rely on existing banking channels) for now, but it doesn't really stop anyone. I can imagine that they are afraid that people will launder money by exchanging cash directly into bitcoin. However, why doesn't the government then go after the real estate business in India that normally takes 30%+ of the money in cash ? It is extremely hard to buy properties in resale unless you agree to pay a large percentage in cash. Oh wait, the government likes to put their black money into real estate.

For the same reason as Real Estate, I highly doubt that the Indian government will ban bitcoin or make it illegal. They have plenty of money they would like to sink into this new genius asset class. They might however make it harder for regular people to get into it.

Besides, you can always wire money to bitstamp and buy bitcoins as much as foreign exchange controls would let you.

[1] - http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings
bah! "Can't open because it's from an unidentified developer"

Anyway, fixed that:

System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Allow Apps Downloaded from Anywhere
Elysium uses Intel's startup code in the movie.
I've stayed at some hostels in Toronto and most of the staff were travellers. Still the experience is not exactly like a boardinghouse because most guests are there short-term.
You can't go around banning stuff to curb tax evasion, this does not solve the root cause.
I don't want to trick myself into not doing something. I'd feel stupid. Plus, I don't want extra hassle of putting something onto my nails. I bite my nails just because I've never really worried about it, but now I feel like I should stop and I don't want any "lure" to achieve this :)
* ace my current project (a medium/big rearchitecture of an application stack : move to web front-end, data analysis, software quality, etc)

* write and publish : I have two short stories and few blogs articles that my wife finds interesting, maybe others would be interested as well.

* get fit : I used to be MA instructor, but because of my (now-closed) start-up, I let it slide. 100 push-ups, 1 hours run, -10 pounds, etc.

* double my income : I don't really care about the money per se, but this keeps me away from doing things nobody cares about.

* learn & use monads & monads transformer (haskell)

* master the javascript ecosystem.

* publish my 3d procedural modeler.

* move to another city.
A better workaround is to right-click the download and then select Open, which will then ask you if you really want to open. That way you maintain the additional protection in general while still bypassing it for this (and similar) instance.
In the UK, kids do (or did) get taught various forms of discrete mathematics at fairly young ages. Boolean algebra, very basic set theory etc.

However, to get some basic programming done, you don't really need any of this, and in fact the code may help you grasp some of the maths so it might even be better to start that first.

Either way, the world runs on code now, it's everywhere. Giving all children a small taste of that, so that they can decide later if they want to pursue it as an interest or a career, is a good thing.
OP, what is the newsworthy part of TFA?
iOS 7 was one of the last major hold outs so Apple adopting a flat design approach after Windows 8 and Android could be considered the culmination.
The pro is paid. There's a freeware version too
Note, that retext also supports restructured text (which is imo the superior markup language).
iOS7's transition to flat design was behind both Android and Windows 8, and clearly followed them. I think the point the author is trying to make is that Apple, the biggest proponent of stylized, squeomorphic design moving to flat UI behind Google and Microsoft was really the final defeat of brushed metal and rich leather in UIs.
I think that sometimes you have to find out what are specific terms used in that field, it might not be initially obvious for a new comer in a field.
Hehe. I balked at that too...

It also states that you cannot order the field of complex numbers. Whereas I seem to recollect that there are ways to do so. For instance, z1 < z2 if x1 < x2 or x1 = x2 and y1 < y2.
So basically you're saying that things have improved but that we're not there yet, and that we haven't achieved the ambitious goals set out a decade ago. Still sounds great to me. It took Europe centuries to get from where most developing countries were at two decades ago to where we are now. Said developing countries are doing it at a 10x rate. Your characterization of 2013 being a year of setbacks doesn't follow from the points you raise to substantiate that claim.
Would be nice if it supported the git extensions for syntax highlighting.
Emacs works out of the box. I'd probably do the same for vim.

I have the dvorak version.
The biggest concern they have is transactions which happen within Indian users. They will get absolutely no information about it. Although when finally someone realizes the money, it has to come to the bank, but taxes like Sales Tax/Service Tax (think chain of transactions), which are based on the transactions cannot be enforced.
Several good points here...

For me, it boils down to a simple question: If the NSA doesn't intend to use my data or data about me for some malicious purpose, then why do they need it?
Hopefully the kids learns exactly this. How to get rid of the Google lock-in, and installs something that unlocks the full potential of the hardware.
I'm not sure "objectivity" means what you think it means.
OkCupid's Unique Approach to User Onboarding
"I commend Google for it..."

Why? This initiative is clearly in their own self-interest. That's not meant to be a cycnical jab, but just stating how it is.

Much more disturbing to me are the privacy implications. Since you cannot use a Chromebook without signing into the OS, Google has the potential to track everything you do on a Chromebook. And now they're giving these computers to kids.

Just stop and think about that for a few seconds. Over the course of a year, Google will potentially know every single website you visit, every document you print (even to your desktop printer), how ofen and when you use their online apps, and who knows what else? Their vaguely-worded privacy policies simply don't tell you what they track and record.

The privacy implications are horrendous in my view. Until Google clearly and unambiguosly state what they track and record I would never recommend using ChromeOS (that, plus the limited capabilities of the OS).
It's really cool. I developed intellij plugin inspried by this

https://github.com/daisy1754/intellij-howdoi-direct-paste
"I also understand in the European-style approach to teaching Math, students start off with a foundational approach to Calculus through Real Analysis, and not the hand-wavy & computation-driven Calculus course."

Yes. Where I graduated, all engineering majors learn the axiomatic definition of the real numbers including the "supremum (least upper bound) axiom" at the beginning of the first calculus class.
Wat else ? It's free! But this is no big deal for Ubuntu users. ;)
I really love what OkCupid's doing for onboarding new users. They incorporate quizzes and ratings to make it a breeze.
Slighlty OT: Anybody knows why installing an OS on mobile hardware cannot be just like installing Windows in the old days? First installing the base system and then drivers for 'non-standard' hardware components. Why do need hardware manufacturers and OS vendors to talk?

Getting the G-Suite seems to be a problem now but there are already some alternatives for each of the G-Suite's apps and I'd welcome any newcomer to this stage-so I wouldn't consider the G-Suite as the main problem with Android.
I just hope that designers stop ruining user controlled standard behavior like scrolling on web pages.
Example: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
Top 5 Business Apps for Your iPad
> Patents and copyright provide small businesses or inventors the means to monetize their innovation for a time.

No they don't. Quite the opposite: they prevent small businesses from innovating, as they're hampered by the legal minefields of patent and copyright infringement. They only benefit large corporations that already have a legal team and their own patent portfolio to bargain with.

Two lies that can be ignored; a rich man telling you what's best for the poor and a large corporation telling you what's best for small business :-)
Scotland receives money from the UK in roughly the same proportion that the UK borrows money from gilt investors. Scotland would certainly have a budget deficit after independence, but not out of proportion with its size.

What interest rate they would have to pay on that debt is a different question...
Forth: order wrong in arguments C
30C3: Streaming
To be honest, I do not have good writing skills
Because Gates is an exceptionally well-informed man on the subject matter, and I'm very interested in what one of the wealthiest persons in the world has to say about action to prevent the world's biggest ills.
Any particular reason this is better than Mou? The only advantage I can see from the website is the tabbed file viewer, but I guess I've missed something. (10.8+ seems a disadvantage over Mou, it has versions for 10.6 & 10.7)
But isn't that the same as selling something through OLX ?

I suppose the issue with buysellbitco.in was that it was missing some paperwork that it should have had because they were accepting people's money (INR) and selling bitcoins on a commercial scale.

I'm not sure why they said it violated foreign exchange acts though..
I have been using super-caps for some time to remap Caps to be Escape or Control if pressed together with something else. https://github.com/cmatheson/super-caps

I must admit, on my computer I'm super productive. My left hand isn't moving at all and my left's pinkie feels relieved because it doesn't have to bend to Control key. On other computers I'm totally screwed. As OP mentioned before, I have ruined my muscle memory.