skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well they do try to (at least on the surface) to protect their own sensitive information. NSA's other mission (besides spying) is and advising govt agencies and military on keeping their data safe.

Now this involves a lot of red tape security certifications, hardening 'scripts', monitoring, auditing and so on. They legitimately do not want sensitive information leaking. Projects employ air gaps with CDs being burnt and that is how data is transferred some times.
Such is the case for decades. They call that tentacle the CIA.
I'm not arguing that ethics are bullshit. I'm arguing that they don't apply to your relationship with Starbucks because Starbucks is of a size and makeup that it's achieved a humanity index which approaches (if not reaches) zero. It's akin to applying an ethical framework to your relationship with a robot.

I agree that "because I can" is causing enormous problems. The most damaging perpetrators of this are these corporate super-organisms (Starbucks being just one example) and sociopathic assholes (this includes patent trolls).

In dealing with either of those entities (but not each-other!) we do the world a disservice holding ourselves to a one-sided ethical yardstick. Fuck ethics when dealing with them. Play by their rules.
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> AnandTech is often the only place that measures and reports anything about the screens of computers, tablets, and phones aside from how many pixels they have (color space, color accuracy, etc.). For this alone they are gold.

Not the only place. I have found the German site NotebookCheck.net to be more thorough than Anandtech when it comes to laptop reviews.

Not only do they measure color space and color accuracy, but they also measure backlighting levels across the screen, comment on backlight bleed, test for viewing angles, check the reflectiveness of screens, etc.

In addition, they also test decibel levels of the fan, temperature of the laptop surface, etc. at various loads. They point out situations where a certain laptop may ship in two configurations. They point out the pros/cons of the nearest products from competing vendors, which have also been tested with equal thoroughness.

In other words, they actually test the machines against a checklist, to assess the performance of each element. In contrast, when an Anandtech reviewer claims that a machine is quiet or that the screen is matte, you don't actually get all the information. Maybe the ventilation system was masking some of the sound. Maybe the screen is only semi-matte.

The only problem is that NotebookCheck is based in Germany, so some of the machines they review are not available in the United States. Still, I'm happy restricting my choices a bit to avoid being surprised with a laptop purchase.
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As my own overview of online marketing tools was well received here, I thought I should share this overview of content discovery tools by Robin Good as well.

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"and they've made an effort to change"

This is weird. What should YC change? Tech Stars doesn't do blind apps or publish all the stats you request so that's not it.

"I didn't really want to deal with keggers full of falling-over-drunk guys, jokes about "chicks", guys hitting on me, etc." "I have no inclination to fight over casual sexism"

Very difficult to work with if you're concerned about imaginary things or looking to read into things that aren't there. This sounds much more about you than YC. Good luck.
The NSA and the erosion of trust
It's hard to believe that you are equating the fact that Apple chooses who to invite to press conferences (what else do you expect them to do?), with Samsung paying for shills to fake reviews and forum postings.
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Not what I got out of it. Ever hear of 'poetic barbarism'?
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Reminds me of some native English speakers who say "an historic ..." Pretty common even in accents that won't drop the H. Seems like that word is an outlier though.
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So only if you help them associate all of your internet traffic with a registration. Hm, sounds privacy-conscious.
"Please lead with the location of the position..."
I'd be surprised if most of them are even aware of it, let alone care about it.
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That's true, but the "h" there is followed by an "i", which sounds more natural. Omitting it in "ha" sounds odder, but it looks like it's just a typo.
Thank you pessimizer. Interesting data.
Yes, it is a brilliant marketing move how he's playing it.
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A delete your snapchat meme going around Facebook
The argument for both sides are valid. My use of 'brilliant' to describe this story and the emotions attached cone from a personal experience with a C&D letter; my sister's fledgling in-house one-employee business was served a C&D letter for a naming dispute that had very little legal basis. However, my sister did not have the legal experience or money to fight this battle. Fortunately her business is thriving now, but it caused her countless sleepless nights and anxiety, so when I saw this article my first reaction was to send it to her.
"An" can also be used if the first letter is an h and the first syllable is unstressed (an historical event is the example on the Wikipedia page), but, I'm pretty sure the h in hashing is in a stressed syllable, so that doesn't count either.
Sorry about that, can't edit my post any more.

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Colorado Stores Throw Open Their Doors to Pot Buyers
I subscribed my wife to it, then discovered she doesn't like pugs. Consider this a feature request for "doodles or corgis maybe".
The System better get wise because eventually enough "reasonable" people like me will start to agree with this sentiment and we'll have ourselves executions in the street because I'll be looking the other way because the solution is less worse than the problem.

Don't say it can't happen. Governments much more entrenched than the US have fallen due to mistreatment of their populace.
The person paying $6000 for this unit is a delighted Final Cut Pro user who has read the reviews and understands how the machine is tailored for them.

For more conventional, but still pro workloads, most of us will be much better off with a $3000-4500 model.

It's going to be interesting to see how pro apps end up tailored for this architecture.
Seriously? Ever heard of whitepages.com?
If you want to present a boorish caricature and then snarkily knock it down, I guess congratulations? Gizmodo and the stolen phone debacle has absolutely nothing to do with this.

Having early access to products and personnel for Apple reviews is a huge coup for media outlets: They need Apple far more than Apple needs them (if Anandtech didn't get sent a day 0 $7000 review unit, AnandTech would have gone without a lot of views and a front-page of HN and many other sites. Apple would have lost nothing -- the target market for the Pro would have just read the reviews elsewhere, and are at no risk of buying a competing workstation).

Apple hand-selects who gets these early access units, and thus who gets the attention of an early review. There is a strong incentive for those reviews to gently understate negatives and to overstate positives, remaining on the list for the next go around. In this case a workstation that prioritizes the irrelevant (box size is never even a discussion point when talking about high power workstation, but suddenly it's the primary design point?), and has some astounding faults that most other companies would be eviscerated for: The dongle approach of expansion; Power draw that at times exceeds the power supply rating; Chipsets going to 100C+ because the "thermal prioritized" design was actually "being novel small" designed; Performance that even in CPU+GPU scenarios only marginally improves on the performance of a box from four years ago?

I would posit that had this box carried a Lenova or HP tag on it, the reviews would be extremely negative, if not mocking.

This is not unique to Apple: Exactly the same thing has happened over the years with various industry or namespace leaders, reviews veering towards the positive to assure that you get to the front of the list for the next wave, in a perpetual cycle. There was a time when getting early access to Microsoft inspired a whole industry of fawning and soft-gloving.

Bizarre that gress is so desperately trying to present the notion that I'm somehow defending Samsung and their pathetic attempts at astroturfing support (though such is the entire business model of the PR industry, which every business engages in, so pretending it's so unique is delightfully naive). Their tactics seem very trollish so I'll simply ignore their nonsense.
Regarding these issues specifically are we better off today then we were 100 years ago? 500 years ago? Sometimes I feel like society has increasingly less problems to worry about, and therefore more time to spend looking under the microscope.
Thanks for the motivation, I'll have some more thought on that and try to implement it.
GNU Octave 3.8 released with experimental GUI
I just want to say that I am very appreciative of the quality content found on khanacademy.org. You folks are basically teaching quality online courses without tuition fees. You are helping people around the world who do not have the resources to attend school. Education is the best path for progress in suffering societies.

Consider having a bitcoin donation address.

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Unless it's changed recently, the phone number is user-supplied and I'm not sure if it's verified at all. They do claim that the phone number "will be stored as unique mathematical representations (or 'hashes')..." rather than plaintext, but I imagine if you know it's a non-salted phone number that's been hashed, it's pretty easy to brute force. But were they lying about hashing the phone numbers? I guess it doesn't matter if they hashed the phone numbers if they're going to expose an unlimited query API that can be brute-forced like this.
An excellent book. I'm glad it's hitting front page of HN. I think that any aspiring game developer should read it.
Another point is to look at the position of sovereign wealth, large banks, and investment funds. If you held a trillion dollars, would you park it in a currency that is backed by a state, or trust that kind of money with mere agreement? Would you put most of your net worth in bitcoin?

Now let's allow that bitcoin has become universally accepted and is indexed to some basket of goods. Then it should be reliable as a currency, right? Well, yes, it'll be an international currency ... just like the Euro! And what we saw in the last few years is that the Euro system is inherently unstable because of unbalanced trade and uncontrolled government debt. You have the PIIGS countries
facing the choice of massive debt service or withdrawing from the currency altogether. You have the wealthier countries being forced to support the deadbeats from their own tax base.

In the end, currency is what people make it out to be, and people will game the system. Whatever system bitcoin settled upon will have its own problems. At least with a state backed system you have players who have self interest in mind.
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Why fight it in court when he can get this much free publicity by conceding?

If Starbuck were to ever cash that $6 cheque, it would rank as one of the best advertising spends in history.

The cost of changing the name on that beer? Probably rewriting it on a blackboard.
My mistake regarding the Eclipse License, and I stand corrected.

However, I stand behind my statement regarding BSD. Because of the restrictive nature of the GPL, one cannot take open code with it, and combine it with code written under other Free licenses, such as the CDDL. One risks being sued, etc, for that. Look at the problems that arose over cdrtools, for example. There are much less restrictive ways to solve what the GPL purports to fix, such as the Apache license.
Fixed. Sorry, French is my first language and I do my best in English, but I learn every day :)
I'm a TSA agent. After reading your comment, I'm commanding you to take off your clothes, wherever you are, and subject yourself to a full pat-down.

What, that legislation hasn't passed yet? Got my super-PAC on super-speed dial....
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No - GCD is only about distributing workloads across CPU cores, and doesn't involve the GPU.

OpenCL uses a special programming model so you can't use it for general application code. It's good for doing repetitive operations on large arrays - e.g. Image or signal processing, or machine learning. OpenCL code will run in the CPU if there is no GPU or if the overhead of shipping the data to the GPU is too high.
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I remember when this first appeared on Kickstarter and I almost backed it. However I didn't because the the device is not yours; it's a subscription model where the hardware is part of that subscription and you had to pay to ship it back to them.

If you read the FAQ on their kickstarter page it states;

"What if I cancel my subscription? We'll give you a pro-rated refund on your subscription once the device is sent back."
The "system" certainly is corrupt and flawed (particularly in the US), but I'll pick this flawed system any day if given the choice between it and a bloody revolution with millions of dead and wealth destruction on a gigantic scale.

The American revolution?
One thing I'm not clear from your description is... The widgets were tightly-coupled with their ancestors? (In order to create them)
Honestly I don't know why. I generate 60 bytes of pseudorandom and that worked on first try.
This would require a good amount of coordination and risk. These politicians are pretty well connected. And I think that if one politician was threatened, they'd likely bring in many others for support. As much as politicians may hate those of the opposing party -- being blackmailed by the NSA would likely go too far and would be the quickest way to have congress shutdown the powers of the NSA. No one in congress is so naïve to think that the NSA blackmailing a politician could never happen to them.
Hi there, I work for Space Monkey. Let me shed some light on all this.

The vast majority of our Kickstarter backers have responded overwhelmingly positively to the offer. In fact, we extended the offer in large part because Kickstarter backers asked over and over again "can you make it so that we can own the device instead of lease it?"

The percentage of backers that have already converted from the $120/year plan to the $49/year plan is huge. We take this to mean that we did the right thing.

Having said that, we aren't forcing anyone to upgrade. If users want to stay on the $120/yr plan, we're happy to let them do that.

All users who are unhappy with this, or who were confused about device ownership are welcome to a refund. John included.
The only thing I disagree with in your comment is the "Which in this case is not true." portion.

We cannot make that inference based on the information in the article and the bio that has been linked exhaustively in this comment section. Please see the comment from 'tzs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6994924

If someone has more information, I suppose they could step forward; but I really think we should hew in the direction of addressing arguments instead of dissecting qualifications. That's not to say you should never question qualifications, it's just that it's so much better to address arguments. And it was really weird that people short circuited to dissection mode, as though we should simply ignore the man and move on. (I'm not trying to imply this about your comment.)

The rest of this comment isn't really directed at you, I just want to append the rest of my thoughts here.

I was really surprised to see some of HN get so hung up on the formal training of an interviewee in an otherwise relatively benign article. It seems like the kind of thing that HN would usually embrace.

After all, are we really going to ignore the 115+ publications that Mr. Greely has either been an author or co-author of? Many of which are in leading journals of fields relative to this discussion. Are we going to discount the decades he has spent studying and interpreting this domain? Does the fact that, for whatever reason, Stanford has acknowledged his expertise in multiple areas relevant to this discussion not count for anything? How exactly do we weight this demonstrated experience vs. formal qualification?

What is frustrating to me about a couple comments here is that they got hung up on the wording of the venturebeat post and then short circuited to qualification sniping mode.

I think it would be more productive to address the interviewee's related opinions and stated facts.
Just because Starbucks is a large, profitable organization, it doesn't mean that it gives people a blank check for doing anything they want against Starbucks regardless of whether or not it's wrong.

> The most damaging perpetrators of this are these corporate super-organisms

That doesn't mean all corporations including Starbucks are the same. Over generalizing something doesn't help. Are you going to tell me that everyone belonging to a particular ethnic group is prone to stealing so we should just lock them all up at night?

> In dealing with either of those entities (but not each-other!) we do the world a disservice holding ourselves to a one-sided ethical yardstick.

When you start down this road, it'll be easier and easier to start breaking your own rules on when it's right time to do the right thing (or prevent yourself from being asshole at times).
This is exactly the goal. The DOM's strength was representing documents, not user interfaces. In this era of web apps, trying to use the DOM to build UIs is a massive pain. The web is really years behind in providing a native UI tool kit, and all of this DOM abstraction is just an attempt to paper over the real problem: The DOM is not good for building UIs.
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Buy this book. Buy it right now. It is an incredible read. It is an absolute riveting page turner that I could not put down until I had finished. Seriously.
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