skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm afraid I don't remember.
I read somewhere that when asked to count in their minds, people count in one of two ways. It's my understanding that the majority do so verbally, sounding out the words in their minds. But some people count visually, by visualising the numbers, picturing them scroll past on a tape, for example.

Those that verbalise couldn't simultaneously do another verbal task, while the visualisers couldn't do another visual task, suggesting that separate parts of the brain were involved, and occupied by counting.

Now that I knew visual counting was an option (I was a verbaliser) I trained myself to do it. Unfortunately I'm yet to find an situation were the ability to choose between visual and verbal counting has been useful.
Well, TCP is a very simple protocol so I can't imagine what the OP means by "all of TCP" unless he's talking about IP and it's associated services.
You're not a hacker until a hacker calls you a hacker. (http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#hacker_alread...)
I deal with lots of East-Asians and everybody I know has Kakaotalk. My wife and I use it exclusively instead of texting and she uses it almost exclusively for international calls. It works pretty well and it hasn't cost us a penny.
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API are useful and have their place, but nowhere near implied "API or die".
Same for open source.

I'd say offering "free" services is a powerful business and will become even more powerful model to crush overpriced competition, grab their customers and monetize the traffic and brand visibility. This model will evolve more and more.

Regarding open source - 90% of github is full of junk, and open sourcing does not necessarily mean any kind of success. It's a case by case.
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971454

N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules
(nytimes.com)

========

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972099

Judge Rules That NSA Collection Of Phone Data Is Lawful
(npr.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971827

Federal Judge in New York rules NSA activities constitutional
(uscourts.gov)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971787

U.S. judge upholds NSA phone surveillance program
(reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971666

N.Y. judge rules NSA phone surveillance legal
(politico.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971626

NSA gets win in court over bulk data collection
(cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971622

NSA surveillance lawful, judge rules
(bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971526

NY Judge Rules NSA Phone Surveillance Is Legal
(usatoday.com)
Interesting that you suggest the iPhone changed the world because 'a billion people are using the iPhone to all their loved ones'. You realize they would have just used a phone before the iPhone, and therefore, the iPhone hasn't changed that process.

This is the point where I suggest the iPhone didn't REALLY change that much for most of us. Sure, it's easier to get maps and directions now (though old Blackberrys had that too). But the massively world changing innovations of smartphones are really minor conveniences wrapped in nice packaging.

Unless, of course, you live in less-developed countries, where a smart-phone may be your first computer, or even your first phone, and offers a connection to information and the rest of the world that you didn't have before.
The internet is a very large and general term. It comprises millions of servers, routers, generally includes things like web browsers, http, etc.

TCP is just one protocol of the thousands of protocols used for the internet, typically to carry other protocols. UDP is also used on the internet.

"not all the logic" means that this implementation is not a full implementation of the TCP protocol.

Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_protocol_suite
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
The irony of your statement just blew my mind. I wonder what perspective you're invested in where your statement makes sense.
He's a journalist, and he's doing a great job as a journalist. He never claimed to be an expert in crypto, but he knows more about the governments' abuses of power and the media's pandering than you do.

Did you hear the applause when he talked about PGP being very difficult to use? Everyone in the room agreed with him on that.
How cool. Careful, though, Neal Stephenson is probably lurking here collecting items like this for his next book.
It sounds like machine learning will help unmask patent trolls, but unless you give that machine a gavel I doubt it'll make any difference.
Look like waterfall.
WHy would you do that to yourself :O????????????????????
there is no simple explanation, or rather the simple explanation is your photos will be slightly blurry, from interference patterns due to the mysterious world of quantum mechanics. If you want a better explanation, ask a photon to make up its mind whether it's a wave or a particle.
Thank you. My bad. I thought HN had a way to filter previously posted links.
NSA collection of phone data is lawful, federal judge rules
This particular agile consultant is pretty well-known and really good at what he does, so I don't see what you are getting at.
I'm with the other poster who intimates that something extremely egregiously bad just happened out of this.

It's just not about the government's structuring anymore. A term in the Fourth Amendment just got emptied of all semantic value ("effects").

They just globally refactored the entire legal system.
I block everything and I get 25 blocked when visiting The Atlantic. Probably the worst site I've seen yet.
Let's roll. Preemptive is now the default.
Only identical URLs, not the same story from just so many different sources.
The Carver Mead interview is more than a decade old (and honestly I'd never knew about it before) -- great find and read. Is his characterization of Bohr and the statistical thinking (a remnant of poor tools) still believed?
Optimize my decision making around building and maintaining relationships with those who are important to me. I am basically tired of living with the anxiety of _knowing_ certain relationships are important and _wanting_ to do something about it but not _committing_ myself to building those relationships. I spend a lot of time doing things that I now realize are much less important.
Cute yes. Clever yes. Intuitive?
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971454

N.S.A. Phone Surveillance Is Lawful, Federal Judge Rules
(nytimes.com)

========

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972426

Judge rules NSA phone surveillance lawful
(nytimes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6972099

Judge Rules That NSA Collection Of Phone Data Is Lawful
(npr.org)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971827

Federal Judge in New York rules NSA activities constitutional
(uscourts.gov)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971787

U.S. judge upholds NSA phone surveillance program
(reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971666

N.Y. judge rules NSA phone surveillance legal
(politico.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971626

NSA gets win in court over bulk data collection
(cnn.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971622

NSA surveillance lawful, judge rules
(bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971526

NY Judge Rules NSA Phone Surveillance Is Legal
(usatoday.com)
Apparently some people hate the JS/SCHEME meme [1].

http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2013/07/18/javascript-isnt...

I'd happily agree to Self rather than Scheme but I can't edit now :)
Attackers Launching Large Scale NTP-Reflection Attacks
There's not much of an article here.
On #bitcoin-dev, the BTC developers consider this problem to be a non-issue because they think it is easily detected simply by the number of orphaned blocks.

No one on the IRC channel explained how this problem would be handled once it is detected. They refused to engage in such discussion, except to say that they wouldn't use Stephen's solution because it could introduce other problems. The current response has been an almost resounding, "We're going to stick our head in the sand and ignore it." (And then downvote you on HN for bringing it up and attempting to discuss it. :p)

Edit: Here is the full, unedited transcript of what went down on #bitcoin-dev (in RTF doc format): http://jmp.sh/v/sTXe0VvyTW7pM3WgOGkT
I have to agree with the other poster.
There are many indications that they are storing content
AT&T's predictions of 2014 in 1994 were surprisingly accruate
Just wondering, but is the source code available? Otherwise it would be foolish to use it to store coins.
haha, yes, your lack of imagination in this regard is tempting to jump all over, but I point you at exhibit A, the past.

I used to think my 50GB disk was massive. Now I have more RAM than that, and use it all!

Photos will increase in size because of many factors, possibly including multiple focus points, or more color information, or 3d or a whole suite of yet to be thought up reasons.

I am very sure social networking sites will store larger files than 6.2k x 6.2k, with the 4K monitors and video and cameras producing larger and larger images (think medium format, even a piddly little smartphone now has 49MP!)
According to official sources (http://www.ubuntu.com/phone/install), the Ubuntu Phone beta has the following capabilities:

"Connection to the GSM network on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4"
"Phone calls and SMS on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4"
Could you explain where it the irony is the GP's statement?
The road to Invisible.js
Interesting.

Wonder why Amazon doesn't seem to have those problems. To me, they have just as many, if not more products to support and yet they're still known for their exceptional customer service.
Because TCP is very simple, you can't imagine that "all of TCP" means what it actually says? Huh?
Nice! An image in there bears a startling resemblance to an image I did in 2005 to try and describe what I do as a "createc" : http://www.flickr.com/photos/81073195@N00/2829444578/
Bitcoin Exchanges Shut Down in India After Government Warning
How would such an "investment" increase Google's bottom line? Are you sure it would not be a mere expense?
You say it like it has to be one or the other, but why can't it be both?

Google has chosen businesses where most of their users aren't, as you point out, their customers. They're the product.

What made them interesting in the beginning is that their behaviors were different than the economic incentives. They were engineering-focused, so they made a great search engine, and didn't worry about revenue maximization. They were, as far as I can tell, really serious about organizing the world's information, and about not being evil. That helped them crush their competitors.

But as far as I can tell, they've become just another large company. Many thousands of people, interacting mostly with fellow employees. So the people, always numerous, have also become little. Which I think is always the seed of a company's downfall. E.g., Microsoft, which has floundered for how long now? Cut off the roots and the whole plant eventually dies.
Considering the number of talented people at Spotify I'm constantly surprised by the lack of quality in their products. For some reason they are unable to leverage the talent pool.
New York Soon to Trail Florida in Population
Reading digital sources: a case study in ship's logs
If you’re looking for a dedicated Markdown editor on Linux, maybe you’ll find something on my curated list, e.g. https://github.com/rhythmus/markdown-resources/blob/master/m...

Also see discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6969897
Another thought:

A few people are pointing out use cases where a 39MP photo might make sense down the line:

-Group photos

-Head to toe shots

-Panoramas

Let me just point out that this research is done on "high-resolution passport-style photographs." That is a close up head shot with a normal FOV. You fit your whole body, your friends, and everything else in the photo... you're going to need hundreds to thousands of mega pixels for this to work. At the end of the day, it looks like you still need > 39MP just for the face.
The key is a constant in the application, while ECB is embarrassing the mode can't help you here.

But if it makes you feel better you can upload arbitrary bytes to Snapchat, encrypt it with your own not-stupid method.
Did you have a particular statement in mind? Given that the comment was several sentences long, it's not clear to what you are referring.
Most of the nodejs success stories I've read have taken a serial, blocking system and made it parallel and non-blocking. The wins in this context are hardly surprising, and say little about the value of nodejs specifically.
Are you really saying that it's not a exploit to be able to get a username from a phone number? They can bruteforce every single possible cellphone numbers (and they prove that it doesn't even take that long).
How is this not important?

Do you know what is a DOX? Do you know how easy it is to get one when you have some basic information about someone? With this new information you can now find a phone number based on their username... more information about someone = easier to DOX them.

The bulk registration is not really an exploit, you are right, but it's a good way to hide the other exploit as a new user. Yeah they don't actually have to hide it because even when they say they do it, Snapchat doesn't rate limit.
Then who was the first hacker?
The name for this is a "false proxy", and its confounding effects are pervasive just about anywhere you look. The problem is that any time you use a proxy to make decisions, you create an incentive to falsify that proxy.

The worst version of the trap is when one manipulates a proxy and honestly believes that they are helping.
Ask HN: Plans for side projects in 2014?
Would love to know your plans/goals for any (tech) side projects in 2014
Funny thing, I asked someone about this, who poked around... and discovered the Linux options are far smaller. There's _one_ option (I don't recall its name) but nothing like the choices for Mac and Windows. Lots of Android choices though: http://blog.smartbear.com/mobile/10-live-wallpapers-to-gussy...
Pivotal Labs, for example, does it with much larger than 100 person offices. They've got a repository here ( https://github.com/pivotal-sprout/sprout ) with their recipes for setting up their workstations. They have 72 contributors to the repo, so I guess it's not just a centralized manager.
My Christmas Shipment is Late, and I’m Very Happy
If you want to go with reStructuredText, I highly suggest using Leo[1] -- it uses rST heavily internally, and provides fantastic tools for working with it.

[1]: http://leoeditor.com/
Transform any picture into a polaroid photo. Client side.
Ask HN: Should I create "Optimizely for Mobile apps"?
Optimizely created an amazing A/B testing tool for web sites. I want to create the same for native mobile apps.

I wonder if this is something app developers/product-managers need?

I'm a developer of several iPhone apps and I created a framework for myself that allows me to control my apps from a central dashboard.

It allows me to change texts, colors, sizes, buttons and test different variations to see what works. I do all this without requiring to plan these tests upfront. That's why I think it's similar to Optimizely.

I'm planning to realease this as a SaaS under aircontrol.io and I wanted to know if there's a market for it.

Any tips for going forward?
History is full of tyranny using alleged external threats as an excuse for power and money grabs. So, yeah.
Your experience may be anecdotal, but it's also supported by data:

1. The 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1429049), finding that while only 25% of all software startups file patents, about 67% of venture-funded startups do.

2. "Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?", Ronald J. Mann, 2005, (http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=510103), finding that the answer seem to be "yes", amongst other interesting conclusions.
Meet the Stats Master Making Sense of Wikipedia’s Massive Data Trove
Of course it works. I can and have lived in SV on a monthly budget of about $2000. That can be squeezed to $1500 in a pinch. Even in a year where I was severely underpaid, I saved $20,000. I came out of another year of voluntary mostly-unemployment down only a few thousand.

This doesn't work if you've got a family, but it's not that hard for a single person.
The lawyer is a second party, not a third party. In the telephone call situation, you are calling someone else, using the phone company's (the third party's) equipment.

In any case, there may be attorney–client privilege, but it only applies if the lawyer is acting primarily as an attorney for you. If you are using the lawyer just to store documents that you don't want to keep yourself, then there's no privilege.
Yes, this basically lets you run classic game consoles in modern browsers, through emulation. The physical consoles are in many cases extremely hard to find, so emulation is the only practical option to relive them, and emulating them in browsers is the best way to make it accessible to as many people as possible.

This is done via JSMESS ( http://jsmess.textfiles.com/ ), a port of the MESS emulator (which can emulate many old machines) to JavaScript using Emscripten. JSMESS has been around for a while, the most recent news being announced here is a new set of classic game consoles that have just been ported.

Very cool that the Internet Archive is doing this, otherwise these machines that played a significant part of many people's childhoods would remain only in their memories.
Perhaps the part where he says businesses misleading their customers with free software will be more successful than free software. What a great business strategy, misleading your customers. Nobody has thought of that one.

I could pick it apart more but that would be cruel.
This is how Android phones get updated (infographic)
This looks good. I like to keep all of my stuff in one place if possible (notes, todos and calendar) so I might give this a shot.
90% of GitHub is supposed to be junk. Maybe an even higher percentage would be correct. Little to no friction is the point, and even so, the junk that's on GitHub has nothing to do with the success of open source. This is unlike the commercial closed model, where reputation of failed or junky projects can be harder to shake.
It may not make you a hacker, but it sure makes your job of getting into someone else's computer a lot easier.
No, it's not. From your linked article:

The basic facts are that Scotland accounts for 8.4% of the UK population, 8.3% of the UK's total output and 8.3% of the UK's non-oil tax revenues - but 9.2% of total UK public spending.

In other words, "if you ignore one of Scotland's major economic outputs."
You guys are just to smart for me, I guess I'll have to withdraw from having any conversation at all since I've been downvoted into hellban for asking a question.
To be honest I tuned in really late :) But I am sure looking forward to watching all 30c3 videos in full when they're edited and uploaded, they never disappoint. Best part of winter for me.
I don't think you understand what "3rd party" means.

The storage unit is a 2nd party. You (the first party) have a contract with the storage unit (the second party) to store your things. There is no third party.

Compare that to the phone company, where you (the first party) talk with someone else (the second party) using the phone company (the third party) equipment.
You've got very high standards in image quality :-)

Nikon D600 at 25600:
http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/nikon-d600/nikon-d600G...

Not even close to "piss poor" in my book.
Logistics companies could become the “search engines of the real world”
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There was at one point - Clutch (http://clutchio.github.io/) did it and then got acquired by Twitter. They've open sourced everything though (https://github.com/clutchio), maybe you can start researching from there.
Thanks for the links. I honestly have trouble remembering all the revelations at this point, given how many there have been!

However, those links still seem to imply that the NSA does not store the content of domestic phone calls. My point simply was that I believe the law is still crystal clear that the warantless collection and storage of the content of American's phone calls is unconstitutional, just as it would be illegal to x-ray the contents of letters. I can't imagine any court disagreeing. The fact that "metadata" on either may be legal under the third party doctrine or based on "reasonable expectations of privacy" is much less clear due to prior precedent, although I certainly agree with you that it should not be.

(Of course we also now know that the NSA has not been forthright about what they actually do, or what protections are in place to ensure that they can distinguish between domestic and international content. Indeed, it appears that with Internet content there is woefully deficient controls to ensure that domestic content is not stored. There is also another way they constantly chip away at privacy: arguing that there is not a 4th amendment issue until the content is searched, not merely indiscriminately stored.)
Mt. Gox's prices and delays tend to be specific to the US. I haven't heard of Mt. Gox troubles elsewhere.
Just like when I tried Mario Kart 64 on the Wii's marketplace. It's lousy, really lousy, compared to the newer versions. Don't ruin great memories, they belong in the past for a reason.