skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly. The entire argument rests on the idea that we are certain that the NSA is trustworthy and is using its powers judiciously against, not only foreign powers, but those that pose a security risk. That assertion is exactly what is in question (for good reason).

I think some people see the NSA as fundamentally good and trustworthy, but perhaps exercising a little bad judgment and/or overreach. Others see their breach of trust as reason for grave concern and a flagrant abuse of power that merits our consideration that it may be the tip of an iceberg inadvertently revealed by a rogue agency.

Where people fall on that continuum probably drives their responses to subsequent revelations more than anything.
"We do not use foreign intelligence capabilities to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies"

Nobody with an unspoiled mind and following the news last year will believe this bullshit.

If there is anything, people all over the world (also in the US) should have learned: Statements from people of some federal US organisations can not be believed at all -- in many cases the complete opposite is true.
Not to downplay any of this, but this seems like standard compositing done in most movies, and especially TV shows with smaller budgets. Big set pieces, or shooting on location is expensive. The more you can fake, the cheaper it is. For example, any shot in a stadium, or a place like Times Square is often much simpler to fake than to go out there and film on location.

World War Z breakdown:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTr0k6-8_Fw
What Happens When Google Wants To Buy A Google Ventures Portfolio Company?
A lot of that is due to the strategy shift from trying to aggresively expand your business by adding as much value as possible, to trying to extract as much rent from the market as possible once you've achieved a dominant position in the market.
>The coach/player metaphor is an extremely weak analogy for Software Engineering. Sports aren't changing nearly as rapidly as software engineering is. If you don't watch a soccer/basketball/football/baseball for 10 years and come back, it's basically the same game. The last 10 years of software engineering have changed so much with mobile, map-reduce, responsive design, P/B/S/I/A - aaS offerings, dev-ops tools, cloud computing systems, new languages, etc...

Watching? perhaps. Coaching? No. And that is why I don't think the analogy is weak.

I'm very familiar with two sports, basketball and football. I'm intimately familiar with football. The subtle changes that most fans, particularly casual fans, don't see is what makes coaches who they are and what makes great coaches worth their weight in gold. Not to mention coaches that can get the most out of specific skillsets of players[1].

As just one example. The pistol became all the rage last year with several running QBs running it for their teams. The good teams could, for the most part, coach their players on this style of offense and how to counter it. It was a different style of offense that wasn't used in the NFL and the teams and players had to react...the coaches had to to actually coach them on how to play the zone reads etc etc.

Even further, a coach has to be ready to adapt mid-game, mid-drive and in situations. Game conditions dictate them be ready for quite a bit and ready to coach up their players at an instant...or better still...have previously coached them on such a situation. The game, to the fan, might look the same, but not to the coaches.

This is why for people who are familiar with coaching and managing software, they do hold up. Both are at their core about leading a group of people to a common goal, articulating the goal, the way and (sometimes) the how.

So, in summation, you still don't want your coach running routes. You want your coach getting ready for the game and coaching everyone in that manner.

[1] - I mentioned specific skillsets of players. The pistol was an example of this. You have young, inexperienced mobile QBs who can do a few things well. You adapt to their skills b/c you know, while they have potential, they don't have Peyton Manning's situational football IQ yet (if ever) and ability to read defenses. So you simplify, mold the system around their skills. Good managers do this with developers as well. A manager is not going to just "off you go" to a developer. They need to know strengths and weaknesses. Even with my experienced managers, directors and such, I have a firm grasp on personalities, trigger points, strengths and weaknesses.
"By repeating this, we find that e^x is the sum of 1 periodic function. But this is absurd."

No, it's not absurd.

e^x is periodic with period 2 Pi I.

Maybe the article was limiting itself to real functions and the existence thereof, but this example raised eyebrows.
of course. but not greatly. Generally (depending on the client implementation). The actual download of the data (and the images) far eclipses latency issues.

30ms vs 160ms delay is irrelevant when it takes you 3 seconds to download all the image tiles :D
It is for automated real time facial recognition.

Watch BBC's The Human Face presented by John Cleese and Elizabeth Hurley, it is from 2001 but it has a part on facial recognition by machines.
Can we get a Politics tab on the HN bar so we can filter the endless political debates? This should make everyone happy?
MURDER OF INNOCENTS
If you run your brain on a computer that is twice as fast, you will get twice as much done in the same amount of time. In this case it is the AI that is running faster, as it builds faster computers to run on.

Some people believe we can have brain simulations much sooner than that at the current rate, but I would argue we will have other forms of AI even before that. We didn't build airplanes by modelling birds.
When women are needed (2005)
Its even worse for not sharing any of its hotkeys with Photoshop.
So now one needs to run BSD, air gaped and in a Faraday cage to be 'secure'... So now what does one do with it
The only places they are getting hired are likely the ones that have hr do the hiring. I doubt there are too many places where someone who didn't know what active record was could get a job.

I've done some interviewing and it's pretty surprising how bad most candidates are for technical positions.
It seems to me you missed the "can be inserted by the manufacturer" portion of the article. Doesn't require physical access, just that they purchase a compromised machine.
Sometimes when you hear the US arguments in this matter with "foreign ears", you feel just as a second class human.

No wonder, when you don't belong to "gods own people", isn't it?
Ryan Air will accept national identity cards, except that the UK doesn't have a national identity card scheme. Also Ryan Air don't consider UK driver licenses a valid ID, even for UK citizens travelling WITHIN the UK.
He'd get a cut of the referral's sales, that's why the link to sign up is itself a referral link as well. This comment is spammy as it gets.
In older PCs the FPU was a separate chip.
Right? The whole time I was watching it all I could think was "this really isn't all that impressive".

Most of what they did is stuff that's been in movies for decades. There wasn't anything really interesting. I mean, almost all of Revenge of the Sith was digital sets. Avatar's use of the same techniques is much more impressive, especially when you consider they did some rendering on the fly so James Cameron could see the digital world on a screen while filming.
If you enjoy watching compositing effects videos:

http://vimeo.com/35769675

http://vimeo.com/stargate/videos/sort:date
That makes the title of the submission misleading, since "Show HN"s are almost always projects undertaken by the submitter of the post itself. The use of first person adds to the confusion.

Contrast with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6097155
Interestingly, this would also seem to have the potential to defeat encryption, since it directly accesses working memory.

This is why I have always been cautious about those who advocate personal cryptography as a privacy solution. We need clear laws, first and foremost, to reign them in. Otherwise, we are effectively saying that if they can get it (i.e. decrypt it), it is fair game. Cat-and-mouse is not a game we want to play with the NSA.
Why do you go into political discussion boards (meaning political news here), when you don't like them?

Just wondering.
I'm sure no one wants to be spied upon, but the real world doesn't work that way.
Just go to Facebook ;) SCNR!
I have Verizon Fios. When I go to watch a Youtube video on my Android, I often notice the video won't load. I then turn WiFi off, and the video streams flawlessly over 4G. I don't know when Net Neutrality died, but it did.
I bet if you compiled this into a small book(let) called "The Tiny Book of Web Design: <x> Tips to <pretentious verb> <pretentious adjective> Websites" and sold it for $5.99, you'd get a lot of buyers.

Joking aside, awesome tips.
That's a great example - we're certainly thinking about how to balance the power of static assets, which let us display a few different versions, versus supporting generated content from web servers like Rails or Django, where we can only display what's on your server.

Really, really appreciate the feedback!
I have a similar issue using Brighthouse in Florida. For the longest time I was able to stream HD quality from netflix through my roku, until recently. I always suspect that my ISP is somehow the cause, the only problem is I can't imagine how I would prove it, or what I could do even if I could prove it.
Don't think of it as public speaking, think of it as a performance.

You wouldn't go try to perform a play without scripting it and memorizing your script first, nor should you do that with your presentation. Once you do that you can ad-lib and it will seem natural. Even the off-the-cuff jokes aren't really off-the-cuff.

And go twice as slow as you think you should, and pause a lot. When people get nervous they talk faster and don't realize it. If you're nervous your perception of time will change and small pauses seem like an eternity. Slow down and force yourself to break for five seconds between "paragraphs" and you'll be way ahead of most people.
I think he means that a distinction should be made when considering whether to leak information.

Is this information something the public needs to know, because it tells them something important about their democracy, or would releasing this be an ironic hindrance to the common public interest?

That's how I read it anyway.
I love smalltalk, seaside, and the website is beautiful.
In my mind the difference is that I don't have to build it! Using this I can just plug in my numbers and go instead of spending time building a spreadsheet.
Considering there is a per-read fee paid it has to be better than libraries are for authors.
Jazz/Folk Song: Business as Usual
Jekyll dummy content
That's why the parent called it political ammuniton.

Circular logic is the C of politics.
What is the use of acting naive about foreign affairs, diplomacy, and statecraft?

Are you really suggesting that your country's intelligence service doesn't attempt to do the same?
No, that would be the 2nd law of thermodynamics which guarantees we're fucked when it comes to sustainability.
It's very well done. But in most of the takes you can perceive it's in a green/blue chromakey from the outline of people's hair, some moving takes, etc. Also, the light is not quite 100%.

In The Wolf of Wall Street it's very, very well done. Only in one take I could see it was chromakey but even, just because it was being told. If I purely had one look and should guess, I would have said no.
This is fucking creepy. But like most creepy things, the idea is also kinda neat. :)
Tinder app for Windows Phone Released Open Source
You've read incorrectly then. Google had said they will honor Boston Dynamics current contracts, but will not take new ones.
Libraries are not free - you pay for them whether you use them or not.
I'm really happy the App Store doesn't know who my friends are.
Haha you nailed it. I met with their main tech boss who was an older gentleman who basically kept telling me that the new system they have planned to roll out(from Oracle) will have the features that my site had. My site basically texted students soon as a class opened up. It got crazy traction.

I'm also well aware of the grading scandal as I still run a grade distribution site called blinkness.com which is heavily used on campis(even though I left unc years ago). We have a feature on the site called "Top A classes" and the professor in question always ranked very highly :)
The world is not friendly to non-alcohol consuming people.
You probably won't see anything on their 16nm node until some time in mid to late 2015 and it should be pointed out that it is not a real node shrink but instead a fake one where they use the same 20nm node but have introduced FinFET. While this gets them increased energy efficiency it does not give them the other benefit of a node shrink (increased transistor density) and so that means that means there will be less chips made per wafer driving up the cost.
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers/

http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/

https://www.linode.com/

http://www.hetzner.de/en/

You mentioned that you wanted something reliable and with SSD for $5. I honestly think DigitalOcean is the only host with a decent reputation in that price range (and yet you frequently hear people complain about them). You might want to consider paying slightly more. $10 to $20 a month should do it.
The intent was to say that ordinary people and extremely smart people seem to like BBT [1], with the dislike coming from those in between. Among BBT fans are George Smoot, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Stephen Hawking--they aren't doing speaking cameos on it to boost their resume for a career switch to acting. :-)

I probably should have just went with the original quip I had, which was "People you consider idiots like it, and people who consider you an idiot like it", but that seemed a little insulting so I dropped it.

[1] or at least ordinary people and extremely smart people who do not like it do not seem to complain about the show online.
Hey, I'm the one who made this. Glad you guys liked it! This one was a bit quick and dirty, done for a workshop at the Mozilla Festival last year, I'm going to try to do another installment though!
Why is it that on Internet forums, such as Facebook and Reddit, and the knee-jerk reaction of many people is name-calling and statements judging the value of a person's life.

Have you met any of the people involved or any of their family members? Do you have evidence to support your statement that they are "pathetic" and deserving of "uncurable forms of cancer"?

We should all remember that we are all imperfect human beings. You can judge the actions of a human being to be or not to be "right" or "wrong", but it's not appropriate to judge the person themselves, especially when you've never even met them.
I love this. I've been curious what a one-line solution would look like. :)
Ask HN: What do you recommend for a web development novice?
My friend, an experienced software engineer, is extremely new to the world of web development. I am building him a list of resources, libraries, tools, workflows, tutorials, etc. to help him get up to speed. I would appreciate the recommendations and suggestions of the HN community.
Thought experiment for deciding a web app's architecture
Because smiling makes people’s faces less, rather than more, recognizable.
Nobody mentioned Speak Up. It's a wonderful community of people where everyone helps each other out in planning and preparing for talks. It's been slightly inactive recently, but every mail gets an assured response.

Link: http://speakup.io/
there are usually two approaches to a problem: top down and bottom up. PSD -> HTML is a top down workflow.
There are valid objections to that claim, no question. But students asserting this in their defense nevertheless has a great deal of power, because universities still want to be bastions of free speech. It is close to the core of the self-image of university and college faculty members (and an awful lot of the administrators, too), even when the reality falls short of that ideal. So these words make a very strong moral argument in context, and might succeed in building on-campus support where other arguments wouldn't.
This is another example of how Snowden has compromised national security by leaking secret information that has nothing to do with American metadata and everything to do with the NSA's charter and legal mission.
Sure, I'd love to have a terminal replacement that shows eight-colored letters on a black background just like Windows! I have no idea why Mac users love this kind of crapware utility. It's been so since 1984 - the big difference being the scores of semi-useful utilities no longer crash your machine every few hours - and I've never gotten the appeal.
This seems to be a herald to the situation described in the poem All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (1967) by Richard Brautigan.

I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.

I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.

And yes, incredibly creepy.
This is why I all but stopped using this site to ask questions. I love the questions that SE loves to hate because they're the ones that are most informative and teach me the most. I can't ask open-ended questions about why something is the way it is, or why something works the way it does unless I know there's a concrete answer. Even then it's a battle to not have the question closed (or get it reopened!), or to explain why answers to questions x, y, and z do not sufficiently my question.

I'm still grateful to them for ridding the web of Expert Sex Change though.
Your company looks interesting, do you limit yourselves to a particular region or are your services open to other areas?
I figure this is in response to the Silk Road extradition trial that's coming up (January 21).

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/courts/man-faces-extrad...
I'm not sure calculus is a great example for your argument. How many kids do you think would actually learn calculus on their own? It's something that most kids think is way beyond them and they don't even know what it is (other than a kind of math) until they actually study it in school.

And that's a standard subject taught in high school. I think if instead you look at why kids learn music or art or dance or drama or sports or a foreign language or religion, you'll find that the parents and relatives and friends often (not always) have a lot to do with it. And even with parental support, often the kids decide it's not for them. And that's fine; at least they got the chance.

I don't see computer programming as being all that different; not every kid is going to be into any given activity, but if they're not exposed to it in a way that makes it seem interesting, that's going to drastically reduce the number of kids who even try it. And that exposure is going to vary pretty dramatically depending on where you grew up.
I have the same problem, this one for instance http://projecteuler.net/problem=267 I have absolutely no clue how to approach.
Ohio Dealers Vs. Tesla: Sen. Patton (R) Proposes New Anti-Tesla Law
Oy. Students at your university certainly have my sympathy.

I've always been leery of the mitm cert, not only from the users' perspective, but also from that of the organization. If a rogue administrator used the cert to set up a "real" mitm for a local bank's site, I think the school would be on the hook for that. That's just one example; one could imagine other variations on that theme. Whereas, if the school simply acted as a normal ISP, that whole class of vulnerabilities simply doesn't apply.
Impossible, their CPUs today are about 3-4 times slower than Haswell. It's too much to make during two or even three years.
What is meant by “Now you have two problems”?
That's why you start the search when you don't need it, yet.
The now court-confirmed method to enforce net neutrality is to re-visit the FCC ruling that internet network providers will not be treated as a regulated common carrier utility.

A simple decision. Politically, the present administration is not likely to act to do this.
I came looking for a discussion of the mechanism by which such an attack might be possible.
Coinye dev abandons ship, takes BTC and runs
The first sentence: "A real function is said to be periodic if there exists a real number P > 0 so that f(x+P) = f(x) for all x." Complex numbers aren't mentioned at all.
Daaaaaaaaaaamnnn it!

Fuck, I just made bash.org didn't I? :( Maybe it's only IRC, I can only hope.
I assume the FBI exploiting Firefox in a previous version of Tor Browser Bundle (on Windows only!).

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi...
poking around, it seems Sonic is part of Open Connect. I would expect that to explain a lot.
You might like Rosalind (http://rosalind.info/). It's like Project Euler, but with a strong bioinformatics (espeically) genetics slant. There is certainly math, especially combinatrics (for obvious reasons), but much more so that Euler there is background given in the problems, so it's often much more about coding a reasonable implementation than about knowing some obscure corner of number theory.
I suppose it's possible, but if I were the NSA I wouldn't bet on getting a signal past the neighborhood distribution transformer. There's often enough disturbance on a building-wide circuit to cause problems with powerline networking. Your 42" LCD TV probably has enough power-conditioning circuitry to interfere with network signals.
I remember reading once that doctors who manage other doctors still practice medicine part of their day. If so, why, when they have a business that also changes quickly and is actually life threatening, is that the case? Perhaps they realize remaining in touch with your field is valuable. Here are some papers with findings that indicate how practicing doctors as hospital administrators improve the quality of their hospitals above those hospitals that have just business managers. http://www.amandagoodall.com/papers.html

Why then is it the norm that so many developers who move into management do so to "get away from developing"?

It seems unique to development, or maybe just uniquely easy to see when someone is clueless about technical matters.

Anecdotally, all my worst managers were "out of touch" but thought they still were hot stuff technically. My best were either completely non-technical and trusted their team, or were developing at least 1/4 of the time (and he worked mostly automating all the crap work we hated and fixing bugs).
Sweat of the brow and database rights aren't recognized in the United States.
Maybe it's Snowden, maybe it isn't. It has been suggested by the reporters of this information that the Snowden name may be used as a cover for other NSA leakers.
How can BingoBo help businesses solve their SEO problems?
Strange comments. Have you ever heard of marketing? Advertising? When you create a new product and you want to get it noticed out there in the crowded world we live in, then you market your product and you advertise it. Or else you learn to be satisfied by the crumbs from people who stumble upon it as they pass by.

An App store is just a marketplace, and now the app stores have evolved beyond their unusual initial phase and are more like any other real world marketplace.
What do you use to save them?