skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Understatement of the year and it's only January. ;)

Yeah, an understatement for sure. I can only imagine what will be afoot in December... Wild guess: ransomware used to drive up the price of an alt-coin.
The idea of regulation is key to free markets — otherwise they cease to be free as soon as a majority of the players agree to collude against everyone else. The debate should be on how you regulate markets without crushing competition, not whether you can avoid it with magical thinking.
This is the first alternate scenario that ran through my head while playing "Which is more likely".
I can hardly express how much I appreciate this. I started learning Japanese a few weeks ago, 2 hours every day.
Tinfoil SMS: Secure Text Messaging For The Masses
I don't get it. Why is an administrative non-profit at all interesting here?
I've heard that using gevent with multiprocessing can cause problems, is that still the case?
Why do you think NSA cares much about hiding their activities from you?

I can tell you a story. Some years ago, back in Russia, as a [naive] kid, I've developed a surveillance system for Telrad telecom exchange [ultimately for FSB]. Do you think anyone cared to do that project in secrecy? I can give you the answer. Nope.

As far as I understand NSA can legally intercept packages and can legally install undetectable surveillance devices. As long as they are not using collected surveillance data, legally they are fine and they do not absolutely have to hide their activities at all costs. Hiding large scale operation is difficult and plugging every information leak is expensive. So they are not necessarily prioritizing that. So, yes, there is a change that we simply see their activity. And yes, it could be just an Amazon bug.
Sorry, I didn't notice. I hate that too!
You can watch the whole interview here. Unfortunately translated into german.

http://www.ardmediathek.de/das-erste/ard-sondersendung/snowd...
Under perfect market assumption, governement intervation may be wrong. But the laptop market is very different from the theoretical perfect market model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_market
That's a remarkably lame argument. If something is a conflict for a significant number of people who would otherwise attend your event, then trying to avoid that conflict is accommodating those people, not whatever thing it is that is responsible for the conflicting event.

For instance, if a significant number of US PyCon attendees were ardent chess players, then avoiding scheduling PyCon to overlap with the US Open chess tournament would not be pandering to chess. It would simply be recognizing that PyCon attendees have lives outside of PyCon, and when a particular date is bad for many of them, it makes sense to try to avoid scheduling PyCon on that date.

Furthermore, if it were a conflict with chess, I doubt you would have posted that there are chess tournaments every weekend and since PyCon can't avoid them all, it should not try to avoid any of them. You would recognize the utter idiocy of not distinguishing between major national tournaments that people make significant long-term attendance plans for (such as the US Open), and, say, weekly quads at the local chess club.
Seem to remember it being popular in Hollywood.

Enemy of the State, The Simpsons.. even AAA movies like Swordfish.. "The Carnivore program, reading every ISP subscribers email- I did what every federal judge wouldn't do"
"no serious failure possibility in the next 3 years or so for the company"

I've mostly worked in big non-tech companies and one common thing I've seen is the eternal oscillator of centralization/decentralization. So the company might not fail, but that doesn't prevent your entire team from being shut off like a lightswitch as things are either centralized or decentralized or both around the same time.

Also see mergers and project cancellations.
Weird that they have round(pi) as an example.
Indeed. Here's a simpler one than the "sekrit tech elite" wanting to kill you...

What happens when the equivalent of the Mariposa botnet, but this time for autonomous cars, roots 12 million of autonomous cars?

But, this time, we have to believe that security is going to be done correctly, right? (this time, promised, no backdoors, no 0-days, no compromised servers, no compromised keys, etc.)

I does really hope this technology rolls out as slowly as possible because the security issues do really scare me.
Between Glass and Google's self-driving cars, it is quite clear that the future of advertising is going to be potentially quite distopian where virtual billboards pop up based on your interest and location and where ads playing in music are based on where you are and what time of day it is. They might be as simple as a McDonalds ad for their mighty wings and your car will change course if you say "I'm loving it!".

This is actually the sort of natural endpoint of what I thought would happen with AR mobile apps and now that Google has Google Now on android, is doing glass and self driving cars, it is pretty clear what the future looks like.

It's more ads.
Did you actually read the three paragraphs on the first linked page?
Actually there is (or at least use to be) an idea of "progress". The hope was that people in the predominantly Russian-speaking Eastern regions would eventually "convert" politically to a pro-European direction because a primary driver of the pro-Russian leanings (other than cultural factors) was a positive memory of industrialization by the USSR which brought them jobs and a better way of life. The idea was that the older generation who remembered the glory of the USSR would eventually become replaced with a less Russia-centric one. Unfortunately this hasn't exactly played out to the extent it was hoped for.
We make mattresses. Every member on our team sleeps on them each night. It's absolutely critical for us to have this first hand experience, especially as our team becomes larger with varying body types and personal preferences.

We iterate on our own internal feedback in addition to our customer's.
And of course, Enemy of the State is a sort of sequel to The Conversation, a (great) movie from the '70s.
See also Movitz: http://www.common-lisp.net/project/movitz/ and Lithium: http://github.com/nathell/lithium/
OS X: Don’t panic – if you are using FileVault2 and OS X Lion (10.7.2) and higher, the OS will automatically turn off DMA when locked – you’re still vulnerable to attacks when unlocked, though

Phew.
Uninformed speculation on which option is more likely cannot rule something out entirely.
> great article.
BugMeNot - New design
If it's a fully competetive market and everyone makes optimal market decisions etc., I agree, but these assumptions are false.
fwiw I recently had a large, professional shipment company state that my product had been delivered to the new town over, albeit to the same street address I had ordered it to.

The product was in my po box, but the shipping company claimed it wad delivered to another adjacent town.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
I'm on the end user consumer side (can't speak for enterprise). Unfortunately, no, there hasn't been change for the better. Their primary focus is on reducing operating expenses rather than focusing on technological innovation. There has been some reorganization; however, in the end it's still the same old guard leadership that's been in charge for decades (nothing new).
We're building an email client called zinbox which I use everyday. First it was hard to use but after a few ui change it started to get comfortable. I think it's really hard to develop software if you're not using it.
I bought a house in Detroit for $500
May be effective against casual industrial espionage, but it’s a fat lot of good that’s going to do if your computer was seized. It can’t be hard for a forensics lab to get around that particular defense!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynzcUw9wv0E#t=18
(where rubber cement is the leaf. just go around it!)
Google, Samsung strike patent cross-licensing deal
Ask HN: Who is hiring interns?
I'm a university student in Waterloo, Canada, looking for a job this fall. I've got a broad developer skillset and an incredible passion to learn. Which companies are interested in interns?
I had the same thought. I imagine that, in said future scenario, the author is assuming that the ubiquity of self-driving cars has progressed to the point in which drivers are far less attentive to their routes (given the autonomy of the cars). Compare that to the present; if you're using gmaps, you're engaged with where the car is going and perhaps more likely to notice the alternative route to Krispy Kreme.

Then there's the safety aspect: current mapping/gps providers would really come under fire if they were asking you to take your eyes off the road for any longer than they already do. Most, if not all, offer enough voice guidance to remove the need to look at the screen at all. Even if the decision-making process were to be done out-loud, I could see some safety concerns arising.
What's the Future of the Subscription Model? [2001]
You need to keep in mind that the rovers also needed to survive the six months in transit in once piece, and the airbag-assisted landing in one piece, both of which add necessary reliability and durability factors to make sure that the thing lasts even the 90 days. Also, you need to keep in mind that those cleaning events came out of left field. Yeah, they were expecting to maybe get a few extra weeks out of the rovers, but because the wind behaved in a manner that was completely unexpected, the panels weren't as dust-caked as was expected, which had always been the real limiting factor.
ITT, people who have never been to DC. Dulles is one of the main airports everything flys into for DC. As for as I know, it is the biggest.

Dulles has a lot of government contractors and big companies in the area, but that's about it.

What would be suspicious is if it went from Dulles to Langley, from Langley to Ft. Meade, from Ft. Meade to Quantico, and from Quantico to Alexandria....but Dulles to Alexandria is really standard.

edit: It isn't like it got back on a plane and went back to Seattle to be delivered to this girl. It looks like they straight delivered it to the wrong city. The government has pretty good OpSec when it comes to things like this. You think they would straight up route her package through Ft. Meade if they were planning to install malware on her computer?
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Pohl and Kornbluth nailed it in the 1950s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
What if your news article keeps buzz marketing Krispy Kreme?
This is OK, so long as the social consensus is aware of this fact. When average people hear "This comes with Windows 8", there is an inherit understanding as to what that means, and I don't think the bloatware is assumed, or that the average consumer is even aware that it is bloatware, and not part of the experience marketed to them.

I'm not sure how you would introduce bloatware to the average consumer, but right now it just comes across as a sneaky decision, not consumer-driven one.
The ones that say their research activities occur in California and New Jersey?
Yep. But the package hasn't arrived, so all we can do is make wild-assed hand-wavy conjecture. Or something.

Of note, when searching Amazon for "NEW and ORIGINAL IBM Lenovo Thinkpad Keyboard 42T3209 42T3177", I find one seller ("u fix it", who "Ships from TN") selling that item. Assuming that's the seller Andrea bought the keyboard from, that clearly doesn't jive with the tracking information, which shows the item shipping from California.
Gambling and market speculation (and even theft) are related in that they're all 0 sum games. Every dollar you make is a dollar someone else wishes they hadn't lost.
Investing is different in that when you win and earn a return, nobody feels that they lost.
It's an (somewhat distorted) oversimplification to call this a Cold-War style chess game. Both groups are authentic, i.e. people in Western Ukraine genuinely feel closer to the West while people in Eastern Ukraine genuinely do feel closer to Russia. The US influence is nearly non-existent (if you discount Hollywood movies of course) while Russia exerts very significant influence by placing economic pressure (such as banning imports from "misbehaving" countries that were formerly a part of the USSR), providing PR expertise to Russian-supporting political parties, and so on.
It's not on precisely the same subject, but this reminds me a bit about the piece "cockblocked by redistribution", which argues that pick-up-artists' game can't compete with the Danish social system: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/cockblocked-by-redist...
I believe in free trade in principle, but I'm unwilling to sacrifice environmental and labor protection on the alter of neoclassical economics. Our trade policy should have strong barriers to entry. If you adopt our model: liberal democracy, environmental and labor protection antitrust and corruption enforcement, then we can have free trade. Otherwise, you don't get to participate.
Julia supports arbitrary precision arithmetic just fine, but you need to explicitly use it. Overflow checks don't matter in Python or Ruby where everything is relatively slow.

See also: http://www.johnmyleswhite.com/notebook/2013/01/03/computers-...
"American dream" is a lie rich people tell you so you will work for them til exaustion, you know: "because if you work hard you get there".. meanwhile they are in their big yachts, playing poker and laughing at you.. :)

Do what you love... work hard in it because your work is just fun.. make time for your family and loved ones.. you may or may not do enough money from your work..
to support your family, friends and the good moments with them..

Of course.. society must support people movements towards prepare them to work in whatever field make them happy..

If everyone is in the place its supposed to be.. the world would be a better place..

If you think like everybody else, you will end up like everybody else.. so live up your own dream.. find it out.. dont follow this sort of hivemind dream.. this is something from the television/radio era.. where people were supposed to listen and obey (you know.. the elite)..

Now its the internet era, a era where your interaction counts, where you can count as a individual even in million-people societies

Have the courage to be a individual
Streaming on ESPN is mediocre. My streams are poor quality, buffer, pixelate, etc while this never happens on Netflix where I regularly achieve "Super HD."

I don't understand why people think Disney will start their own streaming service when they never started their own cable TV company. Large public companies want to get a high return with as little capital invested as possible, which means they will always prefer licensing their IP rather than owning metal.
Keep in mind that The Washington Post was recently acquired by Jeff Bezos.

This article makes much more sense when viewed in the light of Amazon's current PR problems due to their treatment of poorly paid warehouse workers. They are desperately trying to automate as fast as possible, and this piece tries its best to spin it as a win-win for everyone.
Link to the actual article, to bypass the blogspam:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2014/01/21/here-are-...
If it would bring jobs back to the Delaware valley, then in a heartbeat.
the problem with html/template is that it's made for Go programmers. A good template language is one that's made for front end devs and designers. html/template tends to be painful in practice because it's too difficult for a non-gopher to use.
Re #3: Were Clinton and Obama in top 1% when they were born?
Yep, the last few lines of the package tracking could have come from about 90% of the packages I had delivered to my house in the past few years, until I moved out of Alexandria.
yup: http://i.imgur.com/JifAPWE.jpg

"kaufkraftindex je einwohner" -> "purchasing power per capita"
5. Family Structure. Forget race, forget jobs, forget schools, forget churches, forget neighborhoods, and forget the top 1—or maybe 10—percent. Nothing matters more for moving up than who raises you. Or, in econospeak, nothing correlates with upward mobility more than the number of single parents, divorcees, and married couples. The cliché is true: Kids do best in stable, two-parent homes.

This is classic.
The entire point of the fucking market is to share information. Pump and dump schemes are not information, they're noise.
What I don't understand is that neither exceptions nor segfaults are handled gracefully when using multiprocessing. The former do not have the full traceback, while the latter aren't even detected and cause a deadlock. This requires running the code again in single processing mode to figure out where the bug is. The new concurrent.futures module has the same problem.
The crucial distinction is that buying shares is not a zero sum game; it's possible for all investors to "win."

This is not the case in gambling or commodities markets; for me to win, someone else has to lose.
I work on Teaspoon (a javascript test runner for rails) that has support for Jasmine and Mocha -- I don't use it every day, but the team does use it on a daily basis. The thing is that people have submitted a bunch of pull requests for features that I don't personally use (QUnit, Angular, etc.) and that has made it harder to maintain those features.

I struggle with saying no, because I want the library to be useful, but I also don't want to have to maintain and potentially break features that I don't personally use.
It fits. The answer is almost certainly No (an honest mistake is far more likely, and nefarious activity wouldn't look like this anyway), and you can tell from the way they write (e.g. vastly exaggerating the import of the tracking info) that they deeply want this to be true.
Their insistence at treating their prime streaming like just an aspect of the normal purchasing view is also annoying. If I'm searching through shows, It doesn't help me to see multiple seasons of the same show 'on the shelf,' both SD and HD versions. It just takes longer to find what I want that way.
Hackathon Feb 8, 2014  Milton HQ in Fullerton CA, Free Beer and Food.
Not sure if this is proper etiquette or not, but my company is hosting a Hackathon in Fullerton CA, CTF, Free Food, Free beer on tap.

here is web link to it http://www.miltonsecurity.com/event/hackathon/?eID=18

and FB link is https://www.facebook.com/events/636754659720874/

Prize of Nexus 7 tablets for winning team

jim mcmurry
Hey I've been developing a grocery tracking app that notifies you via push when you're low on any grocery (according to your own specified metrics) by tracking what you eat. I input all my food into this app and it will alert me when I get low.

Maybe we can work together?
The keyboard can be modified, for example, with SURLYSPAWN, a 'Keystroke monitor technology that can be used on remote computers that are not internet connected'. It's probably one of the most used NSA devices, being cheap($30) and easily installable.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/NSA_SURLY...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog
Russian population also stopped growing after USSR collapsed.
I think it doesn't make sense to compare wealth across the nation due to different costs of living. In some areas top wages are extremely rare since the cost of living is very low. For instance, the average salary in NYC is much higher than one in kansas, so the chance of moving from the lowest to the highest will be higher in nyc since there almost no chance of the highest in kansas at all.
Well, maybe if they hadn't combined the US and Canada PyCons, folks excluded would have a better chance of attending one or 'other ( I kid, I kid).

Seriously, it's a bummer that this apology took so long, but it says a lot about the community that Jesse and the Board are willing to own this and have made explicit their intentions to do better in the future.

None of us are perfect. The important thing is to own our mistakes and endeavor to do better in the future. And that's what this statement means to me.
I'm surprised that so many people believe in the free market ideology (e.g. market regulation is always wrong). The error in this type of reasoning is very simple. They first assume an idealized market model and then derive conclusions from it – but the idealized market is just too different from real-world markets. It's really that simple but many really smart people fall for it.
Julia uses machine arithmetic for integer computations. The alternatives have serious drawbacks in technical computing, see

http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/faq/#why-does-jul...
They buy stuff from Finland not because it's cheaper but because they can return VAT when they cross the border.
blogspam? I personally curate articles that I think are interesting and add some commentary sometimes. If providing a summary and a link to the original article is blogspam then I guess hackernews also qualifies as one - based on your poor point of view.
Yes, one part of what they do is in NJ/CA. Alexandria is where they're based. I'm not leaping to any conclusion; it just seems remotely possible and they're based there. You're the one saying there's nothing interesting in Alexandria.

Given what the company researches, their history and mission, it seems like exactly the sort of place where this wild theory suggested by the OP could be a reality.
All of the big providers are currently running streaming services. They are getting the experience necessary now. MLB has been quite successful in streaming to devices and TVs.

Disney charging each customer instead of the cable share is going to be above the money Netflix is willing to pay for all of Disney's content. All of the big players have quite a lot of content they are currently getting ready for digital streaming. Disney and HBO are already on Apple TV and others (heck Disney is there a couple of times).

Netflix doesn't have the money to scale up to their content machines before the cable money goes. They'll live if Amazon doesn't get aggressive.
One great way to start is to use OpenCL libraries. We work on clMath (https://github.com/clMathLibraries) and ArrayFire (http://arrayfire.com) which are both easy to pick up. Once you get comfortable with libraries, you can start trying to write your own kernels, and you'll know which things you'll need to write that aren't already in a freely available library. Good luck!
Eh, in the case of Closure pervasive immutability, I don't want to write imperative code anymore. I am sure you could write in a functional style in Julia but all the code I have seen seems to rely pretty heavily on explicit stateful loops. At that seems to be a design choice not just for speed but, from what I have read elsewhere, to be familiar to Fortran and Matlab people, seems like a bad trade off to me.
My first thought is "sounds like it's time to raise the minimum wage."

Then I wondered. Should someone who is physically or mentally unable to work always, for the rest of their entire life, get less than minimum wage?

I mean, an employee at McDonald's takes home, what, $28,000 a year post-tax [1]? That's $2,300/month, which isn't much below the $2,884 you quoted. Except most McDonald's employees have the ability to get jobs in the future which pay much more.

So shouldn't the debate include not only a comparison to low-end jobs but the average lifetime earnings?

[1] http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_minimum_wage_and_the_danis....
The entire point is that the high cost makes domestic production more attractive, because you can offer a lower price than the foreign-produced, tariffed variety.
>direct DMA access

Direct direct memory access access?
Actually it just means work.