skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Curious; what type of display were you reading on? How big is
it? What was its resolution?

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Reading it on a 27" 2560x1440 display was really nice. Same in
vertical mode on a 9.7" iPad, but not so good in horizontal
mode; it felt constricted like watching a letter-boxed 16:9
movie on a 19" 4:3 TV screen.

What I've found is that optimal text formatting varies greatly
across devices. This is very hard to design for due to the
variety of screens. From small screen devices like cell phones
and gray-scale Kindle's, through larger 24" - 30" monitors and
even larger HDTV's. On top of that there are DPI variances.

I've always been a fan of MVC, separating the model (actual
document data/text/pictures) from the view (how it's
displayed), and using a controller (device/screen-specific
code) to display things optimally.

It would be nice if there was a standard that existed
allowing authors to simply write documents, saving them as
models. Then, each device could read from a standard model
file and, using custom controller code, generate a view
displaying the text/images optimized for its display.

Right now you see web developers creating multiple CSS
layouts for different screen layouts. This works for most
cases, but not edge scenarios. It feels very hacky, and I
can't foresee people building websites/content-delivery-mechanisms
like this 10 years into the future. There must be a better way.
Google search indexing might be one downside of this system, as Google tends to give a lot of weight to domains that match your search term. But in this case the actual domain is a "nonsense" hash.

Perhaps the browser extension could be set so that whenever a search term is entered, it submits Google searches for both the raw text and its hash. If Google has indexed a domain that is a hash, and that exact hash is submitted as a query, you would get the right result as #1 every time.
Maybe because it says that on the page that was submitted.
I'm not too familiar with the extent of California's "long arm" with respect to websites, but CA tends to take the position that most any contact with the state gives CA jurisdiction (I'm probably a bit broad here). So, a website that collects info from CA residents could be seen as conducting business in the state and would be subject to this law. Physical presence is usually not a requirement.
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It's cool that you know before you've seen the numbers. Perhaps you could share the answer for us non-prophets. Also, what other wisdom can you impart?
The discussion here is covering much of the same ground as one of the earlier submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5622993

Discussion there is closed and hence can't be further extended, so it's worth commenting here if you have something to say.
French telecom operator, Orange, threatens to sue NSA over cable tapping
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There's also the consumer component. How many people would buy unbranded non-shrinkwrapped cigarettes off the back of a truck?
Federal jail would be a federal thing. There are federal prisons in CO, most notoriously the Supermax in Florence, but they don't put simple drug dealers in there. Federal arrests for pot in CO?

Most recent stats I found are 2010 http://www.ccjrc.org/pdf/2010_Colorado_Quick_Facts.pdf
Latinos/as account for 17.1% of the population in Colorado, but 31% of the state prison population.
• African-Americans make up 3.8% of Colorado’s population, but represent 19.4% of people in state prison.
• Anglos are 74.5% of the state’s population, but only 46% of the prison population
CO has private prisons too. I think that's nationwide these days, sadly.

Now bear in mind that pot has been de-facto legal in CO for about 4 years already. The Denver PD (largest city in the state) has been de-emphasizing pot enforcement for several years. There's been greater emphasis on other enforcement areas, like domestic violence and drunk driving.
My prediction is that advances in neurology in the next 50 years will make our current understanding of mental health look like homeopathy. It is very difficult today to accurately diagnose people with mental diseases like ADD or depression when we don't understand how the brain works on that level of detail. My understanding is that it still depends largely on interview-style questions about what the person is feeling. Imagine what will happen when "How do you feel?" turns into "Please relax as I use this scanner/cap/whatever to observe how you feel," when mental diseases can be defined in precisely in terms of neurological functions (or malfunctions). If those kinds of advancements happen we'll be far more prepared to address boredom and other mental health problems.

Edit: Not to diminish what psychiatrists and doctors are doing today. They're doing the best they can with our current understanding and technology and probably helping a lot of people.
The alternative is very simple and was already tried in Ancient Greeks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition
So practically speaking, this California law will have a national effect.

Since it is near impossible to determine if a visitor is a California resident or not, sites/apps will just implement the necessary notices and features to comply with DNT for everyone.
I've suggested in the post that something along the lines "we do not react to Do Not Track signals" may be a start. It's hard to tell what will be a standard down the road. If you do honor those signals though, a more thorough description will be in order.

Also note that (6) sets out slightly stricter standards regarding disclosure:

(6) Disclose whether other parties may collect personally identifiable information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across different Web sites when a consumer uses the operator’s Web site or service.
Marginally ? Have you seen anarchy ? You get warlords, feudalism, that kind of stuff (see Somalia).

I'm assuming the writer lives in the US; I think he greatly exaggerates the issues; the system works; most people live with enough food, enough necessities and without the threat of violence; we CAN make it better, but I'd much rather improve on it than try to come up with a new one.

BTW, I haven't seen ANY system that works wholesale better than ours; have y'all ?
I guess the simple answer is:

* Taxes were not paid

* Utilities were not upgraded

* Pipes did not break

* Windows did not break.
More research seems like a really good side benefit if it happens.

Inhaling burning plant matter is still bad for you. There are alternate means of ingesting the compounds in Marijuana though.
Not quite. I think that most startups where technology is not their raison d'etre still fit that bill.
Okay, true. I concede. It's nevertheless interesting.
Am I the only one who thinks "Do-Not-Track" is a snake-oil-grade security and what this header reliably does is only adding a single more bit to uniquely identify the visitor?
The Nehalem microarchitecture made aligned and unaligned memory accesses have the same latency and throughput, except in weird edge cases like loads which span an L1 cache line boundary.
Nobody concerned cares about your use of drugs, though. Exceptions are made if they need money for a program that Congress refuses to fund, though, when they'll make sure that their man's shipments of drugs will get into the country safely.
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He wasn't wrong about automation: most routine jobs CAN be done better by machines, it's just that humans are cheaper and more flexible :)
On Windows, I'm still using Winamp as of today because I haven't found an alternative of equal quality. Not sure why though considering that Winamp is so old, at least enough time to develop a good alternative!
There can be a downside to it, but just as likely, if not more so, a positive benefit. Most people need something beyond willpower to motivate themselves and setting up stakes and urgency can dramatically help. If you want to avoid the possibility of public embarrassment, the site Stickk with the stakes of money going to a charity you dislike if you fail is a powerful motivator as well.
I think it's slowly becoming the consensus that computer science is a practical skill that children can pick up with moderate ease, and I can only imagine interest will increase in the future..
I think this could be accomplished without creating a new system of domain names by using visually similar non-ascii characters in an IDN[1].

"food in chicago.com" becomes
"food⋅in⋅chicago.com" becomes
"xn--foodinchicago-lj4hc.com"

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name
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> It would be nice if there was a standard that existed allowing authors to simply write documents, saving them as models. Then, each device could read from a standard model file and, using custom controller code, generate a view displaying the text/images optimized for its display.

This standard is called "HTML". What you describe is the entire idea of HTML. Frankly, it's embarrassing that a web browser presented with a long stream of text won't keep the line lengths capped at a reasonable length.
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You'd be amazed how little dust accumulates in a place when people don't go there. That's because people are actually the source of most house dust.
>Orange has reiterated that the privacy of correspondence and negotiations can be broken only by special court order, and that the conditions and reasons for such action should be clearly defined in French law

So Orange is suing a U.S. government agency under French law? Unless the NSA or its EU affiliates beneficially own assets in the EU (that can be traced to it) this is a PR ploy.
Its Twitter account was also hacked and a message posted, but it appears to have been deleted.

Screenshot here: https://twitter.com/MikeElgan/status/418482819611230208
Some people (most?) operate better when there are external motivating factors and a sense of accountability. It's hard to do something for yourself by yourself. It can be easier when friends, family and even strangers are there to offer encouragement and hold you to the goals you've set for yourself. For example, I think that's the biggest value add of joining CrossFit vs joining a regular gym.
This might actually make it harder to stick to your resolution, as there is some research evidence that publicly announcing your goals partially fools your brain into thinking that they are already accomplished.

http://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_keep_your_goals_to_you...
also mentioned here
http://www.cbronline.com/news/tech/networks/telecoms/orange-...

with all these "big brother" news, I almost forgot about the submarine cables - which is a simple way to get all the data.
That is not a charitable interpretation of what he wrote. Try, "A master of C must already know about structure packing deeply enough to teach it".
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They can now get a legal job selling it over the counter. They can get licensed and sell it legally via delivery or whatever (I don't know the regulations). They can leverage their growing operation into a legal business that sells to dispensaries. They can get a job in another field...though, the skills acquired through dealing illegal drugs aren't necessarily very marketable.

I dunno...but, we didn't, as a nation, mourn the end of bootlegging as a career option when alcohol prohibition ended. So, I'm not going to mourn the end of the small-time drug dealer (or the large scale cartel dealers, either).
One of the lies that keeps corruption churning is that the only alternative is anarchy, destruction, and more corruption. "Corruption" vs. "revolution" is a false dichotomy.

There are more effective non-violent ways to "burn down the system." Alternative forms of democratic participation facilitated by modern technology, improved voting systems like approval voting, etc.
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Are you seriously saying the system has become consistently worse since the 70's ? In what respects ?

I think we have (in the USA) a better safety net (especially now with Obamacare), a lot more respect for gays, a lot less racism, a lot more controls on the police, plus the internet which somewhat decentralizes power. I'd say it's had its ups and downs, but has been getting better overall
With Xbox One having an always on camera facing you this might actually be possible, although I think that the right size probably depends on your eyes and vary depending on how far or near sighted you are—that's just a guess.
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People has this belief that we are somehow rewarded for passing thousands of new laws every year.

The people in Congress are called "lawmakers." That's the problem right there. Even if society were to reach an ideal 100% perfect state, they'd still need to pass more laws to justify their jobs, so we'd soon be broken again.
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The pipes bit is actually the thing that seems most improbable to me. Pipes break when the water in them freezes, which occurs when it gets cold and the water isn't flowing.
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I tend to agree.

Some marketters just have really weird ideas about what they should be allowed to do. Or even what i should be allowed to stop them doing.

Spam is obviously evil to most people, until they decide to spam for their particular product.

SEO has had some strongly negative effects on the www. I'm sort of thinking of starting a movement like "contrast revolution" or "viewable in any browser". My banners would be "zero SEO performed here".
I believe one of the reasons for adding "class" types in C++ was to break from the C's restrictions on the struct layout. But even then the trouble of breaking binary compatibility was too much to pay for freeing programmers from minding their own data.
A snapchat user can have "Who can send me snaps..." set to "My Friends" (this is the default option), and then they have to accept a friend request from the pug before the snaps go through.
IIRC these "visually similar" characters cannot be registered anymore due to widespread abuse in phishing/spam emails (päypa1.com, e.g).
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEJIR0-KJu0
Well, DNS is nothing but a mapping from a domain name to an IP address. All this is is a mapping from a piece of text, to a domain name to an IP address. Alternatively, a mapping from a piece of text to an IP address. In other words, it's nothing but a domain name with different syntax.
Of course. The full quote from the study:

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Sex differences in juvenile activities, such as rough and tumble play, peer preferences, and infant interest, share similarities in humans and monkeys. Thus if activity preferences shape toy preferences, male and female monkeys may show toy preferences similar to those seen in boys and girls.

We compared the interactions of 34 rhesus monkeys, living within a 135 monkey troop, with human wheeled toys and plush toys. Male monkeys, like boys, showed consistent and strong preferences for wheeled toys, while female monkeys, like girls, showed greater variability in preferences. Thus, the magnitude of preference for wheeled over plush toys differed significantly between males and females. The similarities to human findings demonstrate that such preferences can develop without explicit gendered socialization.

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Male monkeys preferred roughhousing and toys that developed their spatial intelligence. Compared to boys, female monkeys preferred dolls that developed other forms of intelligence.

Gender differences vary widely by culture. Stuff like gender differences in IQ is wholly inconsistent across different racial groups.

Interesting. I can't really find anything on this, and Wikipedia doesn't have anything either:

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

Are you referring to a study about a village where women were able to solve a puzzle faster than men?

For instance in some countries it's women who test better in math.

This would be shocking if it weren't true.

I'm curious to here what countries those are, because I suspect the countries that women test better in math will be the same countries that spend a disproportionate amount of time and money trying to improve women's math scores.

A possibly relevant example: Men and boys tend to have better spacial intelligence than women and girls. But as an Israeli (I think) study showed us, spending extra time instructing students how to pass a specific type of spatial intelligence test resulted in everyone doing well on those tests, not just the boys.
"federal property" - I'm sure the TSA at DIA will be stepping up their pot detection and nail plenty of unsuspecting tourists. I wonder if Colorado will put up a sign going towards the airport reminding people of federal law.
In the interview that Eric Schmidt did to Julian Assange a few years ago, Julian talked about a similar system that I found quite interesting: http://wikileaks.org/Transcript-Meeting-Assange-Schmidt#602
More than likely a guessed admin password.
Try reading some more ESR, that is a common theme in his writing, unfortunately.
Fortunately there's always meth :(
I experimented with force feedback a few years ago... The simplest method I used, was to take 2 servos and cross wire their potentiometers to each other... The servo update rate was not fast enough to avoid oscillations, but it was still cool.
I can read and write C, but I didn't know much about this, and I was only vaguely aware that bitfields exist.
A lot of mentions of airports in the first few paragraphs -- no doubt a foreshadow of articles to come on the DOJ.
If any college-aged folks are interested in collaborating with someone as inexperienced as they are, I'd love for you to shoot me an email at mattferrell2@gmail.com.

I'm working on a crowdfunding-esque site if that's something you're interested in, and I'm always down to work on reverse engineering/vulnerability research type stuff.
Limiting the text

Just a few letters per line

A novel concept
This blog is not hosted by the Skype but on WordPress VIP. This means that, most likely, the blog was not broken into using a software exploit of any sort since the security on VIP blogs is professional. Knowing that this is the Syrian Army, this attack was most likely done using phished credentials.

If they had any sort of system access they would have defaced the entire subdomain or the main site. So most likely, this is nothing to worry about. Your account data most likely still in safe hands.
here I found more details http://www.cbronline.com/news/tech/networks/telecoms/orange-...

"An Orange spokeswoman was quoted by Reuters as saying: "We will take legal action in the next few days because we want to know more about the eventuality that Orange data may have been intercepted."

Orange is yet to decide to whether to take an individual action or to join the current legal action launched against the federal project.

Under the surveillance programme, the federal government had collected metadata including telephone numbers, times and dates of calls, calling card numbers and the serial numbers of phones processed by various operators in the country."
According to Moz it's hardly important at all: http://moz.com/search-ranking-factors
With our luck, the fed gov't will announce that states can choose to expand marijuana laws and they will pay for the infrastructure and it'll be just like Medicaid!
That my government is doing just about everything a tinfoil crazy could come up with. I live in a true surveillance state.
In turn, various C code is then written depending on this expectation, meaning a non-compliant compiler would break a significant number of codebases.
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I think most ad/marketing companies are perfectly willing to stop tracking people who specifically request not to be tracked -- provided there aren't too many people making that request. Witness the opt-out cookies (http://www.aboutads.info/choices/) which are a kludgey hack, but have been supported by the industry for ages and, as far as I know, work as described.

The issue is whether or not that DNT box is checked by default. As we all know, most people don't change default settings.
Vaping, edibles, and tea. At least that's what pop culture says.
- There are no successful clinical trials on marijuana by the FDA.

For someone who praises science, your statements really show your ignorance.
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