skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, we don't really use video chat at all. We use one-to-one text chat, an IRC room, and conference calls. Seems to work so far.
It is a world standard. London is another. But software has rarely been handled like this.
>The unavoidable fact is that what happened in Texas happened in the US.

And what happened in the US happened in North America. And happened on Earth. And happened in the Universe. How broad should we go here?

[s]I think since the tip came from Canada, we have a pretty good case to blame Canada for this. :)[/s]
yes, you can even debug processes on a different cpu architecture, over serial of you like, or a pipe, or even by hijacking dns records, or even via email, any way of organising exchanging bytes 9p is an awesome idea and when you've used plan9 for a while going back to other OSes has you constantly frustrated.
I also see police on the roads, that prevent random lunatics from driving while tripping balls and ramming into my ass at 150 km/h during my morning commute. I think that's also a function of government.

Secondly, if you think the "no trucks over 3 tons" signs impinge on your "liberty", then go ahead and drive a 25 ton truck down that road, see what happens. I'm having this discussion about "liberty" versus common sense with my 3rd grade son all the time.
Time to ban Facebook.
Does anyone know if the NSA can watch me on my iMac without the little light coming on?
I use Opera Mini on a Nokia dumbphone and the proxy is amazing.
Many illegal numbers can be stored for a trivial amount of money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number
Origin and history of Valentine’s Day
Probably: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/12/18/software-allows-hackers-...
Email Marketing, It's a Lot Like Dating
I used it, it wasn't live like Google docs, but everyone involved could still contribute to a markdown document.

An HTML view is available for every document.
Agreed.

There was the instance of LG being outed for collecting the names of images/movies/etc read from USB media being reported back to a central server but not in the same Orwellian sense that webcams forever monitoring video streams and archiving conversations.

I haven't read of any exploits of smart TVs being used to monitor subject. Feasible? Sure. Reality? Probably not.
My email to mandy when i signed up:

>It seems awesome. However earlier I had asked, How this is different than Google Docs in terms of 'competition' and features.

Her Response:
>The principal difference is that we're focused exclusively on the editorial process, while Google Docs also aims to do a lot of other things. I don't have a feature comparison handy, but you might be interested in this article from FastCo: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672260/editorially-wants-to-red...

Point, I was not convinced, this or any other App of this kind, is going to stand the competition (from Google). Let alone stand out.
> The standard recommendation has always been to wait an hour (6 confirmations) before crediting someone as having sent you Bitcoin

Seriously, how should Bitcoin replace real money if that remains true? There's a book store round the corner accepting bitcoin - so I go, select a book, pay and hang around an hour until I get to leave with the book? At least I'd have enough reading material...
Too often though it is hard to determine who to contact - e.g. you have a random IP, you look it up in whois and you find it belongs to a cable-provider.

You can't map to that to an individual, unless you mail "abuse@isp" and hope they pass along the message.

The alternative is to download all the private data, looking for email addresses and hoping for the best - i.e. They don't send a mail to "abuse@fbi.gov" about a hacker stealing their data and similar.
Instead of a headphone switch, you can enable and disable "Auto-mute" automatically, at least in linux:

amixer sset 'Auto-Mute Mode' Disabled

This lets you switch between headphone and speaker mode with a keyboard shortcut or from the command-line. If even that is too much effort, I use my webcam to detect my headphone presence automatically: http://stevenjewel.com/2013/11/detecting-headphone-use/
Do we still need banks?
> Practically speaking, it would be pretty easy for Google to make many of its already standalone updated apps fully standalone. Anyone could distribute the Gmail package, Google just won't let them.

CM and ton of other ROMs are distributing GApps as standalone Zip - Google isn't doing anything to stop them. Tomorrow if Huawei does that - it would be a different story. Then Huawei can ship with 2.3 and outdated/incomplete Gapps (no browser, just gmail, no Google location APIs, instead incompatible APIs, and do a bunch of other things that could be bad for everyone else - which brings me to the point I made - that will result in people then complaining - In China you don't get uniform Google experience - Huawei phones ship with HuaweiKit instead of Blink, HuaweiBrowser instead of Chrome - so site owners can't even create a web app that works on all "Android" devices etc.
We were aware that some miners did mine OP_RETURN.

We do have plans to move this. We previously decided against because we felt it might take too long for the transaction to get confirmed and wanted to at least wait til there is at least 50% pool market share that mines OP_RETURN.

On second thought, we might move to OP_RETURN in the next week, I will certain evaluate this a bit more tonight.

The backup plan is still to move to OP_RETURN once v0.9 is adopted or more miners start accepting OP_RETURN
Don't tell people that, or the Californians will move in and ruin it.
One of the few benefits to working for a larger company rather than a startup - they can afford 1s and the more successful companies can afford 0s too!
I don't see a pricing page. What's your business model? Sorry if this question is too intrusive but I'm always asking that before using any online service to identify if I'm the product being sold.
China's Surging Tech Startup Scene
> the latter has far too often been done right before a killing spree

There's an important point that should be made here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#Biased_search...

You may have good metrics on the number of incidents that were pre-dated with announcements, but you probably have very bad metrics on the number of announcements that were followed by incidents.

There's no way you can make a statement about how strong the link is without that information.
Not FUD. It happens: http://www.macrumors.com/2013/12/18/software-allows-hackers-.... I've used similar approaches to check on my home office from remote locations. Given, I have the correct credentials to get in to my home network, but I'm using off-the-shelf tech here so there's a high potential for hidden zero-days to exist.

In college I actually discovered (6 months after it started) that a group of students had hacked my PC and were using it to host a private message board. Had no idea until someone from the school contacted me and told me to shut down my "unapproved social network" ...
Male, female or custom? Facebook adds options for users to self-identify
> I don't see how this exposes liability for you.

Is The Pirate Bay liable when people upload copyright-infringing torrents?

Arguably not, but that's not quite how the law sees it.
It's great that they're being taught algorithms. It gives a context and reason to math and fights the "when am I ever going to use this" problem. Math should taught alongside algorithms to give the techniques context throughout education.

I don't think kids benefit much at all by being taught web stuff. HTML is just a lot of boilerplate, and there are better languages than javascript that reduce the code to things happening on screen barrier.

If trigonometry is being taught alongside making an asteroids game, I think that could enlighten kids on what it can be important for. It's not just filling in values on a triangle, it's direction, it's how things move, it's integral to physics, and it's important.
Fucking Oracle...they'll let me use hex but it's a pretty hefty pricetag. >:(
Lexical scope in colors using JavaScript
The Pretty Diff application is running its own library in its scope analysis feature.
> Yes, it's nowhere near "open", but also, yes, this ensures some level of quality for both users and developers.

Sounds like the exact argument for iOS.
PLAN 9 uses its own standard of C
What most programmers today call a DSL are in fact just an API anyway!
Then engineer your cloud provided architecture to be resilient, in the same manner you do so with hardware.

At least you get $500 - with an onsite, self-owned infrastructure outage, you lose that $50k...and get nothing but pain and direct blame!
In a roundabout way, it does, as that's what the OS was named for.

But as an older unix nerd/Go programmer, I have the opposite reaction where when I hear people talking about the movie it immediately reminds me of the OS.
Wow, that is really concise!

ClojureScript also has a nice react kind-of-thing (now named reagent), though all the parenthesis makes it more noisy.
You're increasing risk for little benefit. A Javascript unit testing framework could likely be used for crafting XSS exploits. Or it could end up slowing down real users when you forget to turn it off (or whatever). Probably nothing bad will happen but it's a needless risk and a bad practice.
Flying is jerky because we do no client-side processing. A real MMO will use dead-reckoning etc.

At the top left of the screen you can see your network latency. Obviously, it depends on where you are. The server is a single US-EAST EC2 instance. So this is entirely a network issue. I can tell you that the server isn't starting to feel the load yet, and is currently running at 32.5Hz (pretty much the maximum rate). This is a much higher rate than most MMOs that run at 4-10Hz.
> The law is not an algorithm that can be applied to tell you whether something is legal or not.

That may be true in practice, but that's what the law is supposed to be -- an unambiguous social signaling system, that applies to all persons equally, without vagueness or the possibility of terminological confusion.

If a given law can be shown to be vague or confusing, it can be declared unconstitutional. Whether it will be declared unconstitutional depends on whether anyone is willing to fight about it in court.

But the principle of public law is -- yes! -- that it is an "algorithm that can be applied to tell you whether something is legal or not." A failure in this role represents a failure in the legal system itself.

> Both intent and context come into it heavily.

Absolutely false. Someone who breaks the law can't argue that their intent or the context makes any difference. That might affect the punishment, but it doesn't affect the question of guilt.
> Comcast could have been netflix
Netflix offers incredible value. Don't you think it's irrational for Comcast to offer up this value at the expense of their own profits when they are not being threatened? They are going to milk it for as long as they can.
Being an editor for Reuters must be tough... Working spell check and all. :D
Thanks, that looks interesting ... but I don't really see the point, unless it's about collaboration. (I write in customized templates in Microsoft Word's Web View.)
Hiring Interns the Legal Way
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Well next I see a progressive, I'll let them know that some anonymous internet guy is keeping a list. I'm sure they'll be impressed.

In the meantime, you might think upon respect a little. It turns out it's not just a far-left thing. If a liberal walks into the middle of a conservative talk and starts shouting slogans, people in the audience aren't just going to say, "Hey, tell us more, stranger, about your novel views." They're going to shout him down and throw him out, because his behavior is disrespectful to the existing audience and dialog.

The difference between you and that liberal is that the liberal will know that he's protesting, not trying to participate in a discussion.

I understand you want it to be magically different for you online. Which, hey, it's nice to have unrealistic dreams sometimes: it adds some spice to life. But if you actually want to start influencing other people's views, rather than just have the satisfaction of vomiting your notions and upsetting people you didn't really like anyhow, then you're going to have to work on on demonstrating respect for the people and the existing discussion, something they were building before you turned up.
It's a great idea. I want to swap something with you, are you still running this?
Ben Edelman is literally paid by Microsoft (and admits as much), with his one goal being to target Google.
So i'm not wildly surprised that he would paint a bleak picture of what is going on - that's what they pay him to do!

Before this he used to paint a bleak picture of google advertising:

http://techrights.org/2011/08/30/ben-edelman-works-for-monop...
The Royal College of Art (for whom Wagtail was originally developed) have commissioned an 'archive' feature, which will take a snapshot of the whole site, or a sub-section of it, and export as standalone HTML with all assets. We're planning to extend this feature to support publishing to S3 / Github Pages / SFTP etc.
Coding up pricing right this minute, actually.

It's going to be similar to Github: free for public projects, small monthly fee (~$8) for private projects.
The next-generation Internet protocol IPv6 gets real
Paper Minecraft (2D Minecraft) on Scratch
I made a sample project with react, coffeescript and a few grunt runners to get you started

https://github.com/triggity/react-coffee
Remote worker here, I agree with most things he said.

I work with an on-site team, and I'm the only remote worker in that group. We use a permanent Hangout that I can keep opened in the background, in order to hear what's going on at the office. With the press of a button I can 'upgrade' it to a full two way video chat. I'm using an old battered laptop sitting on a stand, along with a good quality microphone and a webcam I can pan remotely (pretty fun). Here's a picture: http://imgur.com/OD4V9Z4

When it's open it feels a lot like if I'm sitting there. I can take part of informal conversations, etc. It's pretty great... although it does sound creepy when I describe it.

Still my coworkers are totally OK with that, and honestly once you get used to it it's fine. I'd see and hear the same things if I was physically there. And since I'm in a different timezone, I still get to work all morning mostly uninterrupted.

Also, we have similar setups in a few conference rooms, so it's always extra easy go gather people for quick talks.

I'm curious to know if other people are using something similar.
I haven't read of anything specific to smart TVs either. But here's my concern: this can (and is) happening with webcam-enabled, network-connected computers. A smart TV is essentially just a computer that's _always_ network-connected and, as evidenced by someone walking into a room and saying "TV on," always on as well.

Feasible? Very. Reality? We don't hear about every detected exploit ... Smart TVs are new enough that, even if this _is_ happening today, we won't hear about it in the media or online for quite some time.
This is something we've considered doing (and that a few dating companies have tried in the past). It can be hard logistically to coordinate for compatibility, scheduling and similar interests, with a reasonable price point. On the other hand, doing activities like this can make for much more successful dates. So it's something we're thinking about adding on over time, once we have a big enough pool.
Stuff like no possibility of meltdowns, no direct long-lived radioactive waste, plus cheap and abundant fuel.

Fusion reactions can only be self-sustaining at incredibly high temperatures and pressures. If the containment mechanism loses power, the reaction stops. Unlike fission reactions, at least as used in current reactors, which have the potential to keep on going unless we do something active to stop them. Yeah, the modern, well-designed ones have lots of designed-in safeguards against this, void coefficients and all, but it's still safer still to be running fusion.

Hydrogen and it's isotopes in, with other isotopes or helium out is better than assorted radioactive heavy metal isotopes with relatively long half-lives. The only possibility for dangerous waste from a fusion reactor is any transmutation that takes place in reactor components from the neutron flux. Seems likely to be better, but I don't think anybody has really investigated what this part will look like in a running fusion reactor with reaction rates high enough for commercial power production.
> Hiring the wrong people is bad, often much worse than missing out on good people. The point here seems to be "hire everyone," which is simply bad advice.

I keep seeing your first statement repeated in various forms. Is there anything other than anecdotes to support the assertion? It seems like one of those "common sense" or "self-evident" truth things that, on examination of actual real-world data, likely isn't quite as valid as it would seem.

Also, I didn't get that the point was "hire everyone," so much as "don't let superficial appearances interfere with a decision making process".
Thanks for the hard work. We need more CMSs in Python!
Is this really a good idea? I thought neural networks didn't do as well as other methods outside of image classification and problems like it. Many of the advancements in Deep Learning were learning to extract features from unlabeled data. I assume all of Netflix's data is labelled.

EDIT: The deaded comment below me makes a good point, but they still have labels in the sense of what everyone watched and for how long.

Also the new title is terrible. Oh I guess it's a different article now???
Tech Companies Push for Greater Wi-Fi Access
I'm baffled that Managerial work is lumped into High-Skill jobs...

Easily 80% of managers I've met/worked for have been decidedly low skill. Especially when compared with engineers, research scientists, programmers, designers, etc
You should try https://draftin.com/. For what little writing I've done, it always seemed to work well. Right from the beginning it worked well with exporting and publishing, which were my main concerns.
Additional question : why should we care about income inequality?

The post WW2 area had less income inequality because the world economy had been torn apart.

We are now just going back to pre WW1 rates - ie basically reaching the point where we were before 2 world wars destroyed so much wealth.
"All Amazon hosted websites have been blacked out from Comcast Warner Cable while we undergo contract negotiations. Thanks for your patience, here's a free Video on Demand for the inconvenience"
Alibaba, Baidu’s Li Mount High-Stakes U.S. Forays
Why would you assault someone in a club? I thought you're from a ~civilized country~
The Bitcoin community has two answers to this:

#1: "Well if you buy a book with a credit card, the bookstore has no guarantee that that charge actually settles successfully."

#2: "Most people won't use Bitcoin directly. They'll keep their Bitcoin with a trusted provider. The trusted provider can verify capability to pay as quickly as a SQL transaction, via any mechanism mutually acceptable to it and the bookstore, which need not involve the blockchain. Providers which routinely allow their customers to steal from other members of the ecosystem won't be trusted for very long, and be forced to transact through the blockchain versus being being extended instantaneous credit."

The response to #2 is typically "We could call those providers 'banks'" and the Bitcoin community is, how shall I put this, divided by how much they like that outcome.
Does this announcement make you nervous about continuing your product? Are you interested in being connected to the people behind editorially to talk about it?
SASS for sure. I've used sass in development for years now, and I prefer to not use LESS. Having LESS as a requirement was an immediate read flag for me :)
Why Stack Overflow in Portuguese?
Oh, I'm not talking about anything crazy like in-person meetings.

MVP would be a prompt ("How do would you implement a Valentine's Day card?") and matching service (W4M seeking Angular expert), and then links to a shared code editor with chat screen--could even use somebody else's product. Minimal buildout.

Way too easy to overthink this product.
I don't follow your first remark. Are you trying to say that because he said "kindergarten" instead of naming a specific kindergarten that it's no longer threatening or a threat?
Hive UDFs in Ruby
Fedora Linux for Desktop - Great documentation, community and support. You get the greatest, latest and the most robust distro in terms of drivers and stability (I've tried Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Manjaro) that requires very less sysadmin work (unlike Arch etc.).

Debian Linux for server (stable, tested).

Rant: Few years ago the state of yum based distros was very bad and at that time Ubuntu came and was instantly favoured. Right now rpm based distros are in much better shape and deserves a shot. About pkg-management -- I find apt clumsy for example you need to apt-cache search/list, but to install do apt-get install; I like yum (search/install etc. just one tool) and rpm a lot.
Not if you disconnect the camera and mic. Bit of a pain to do on an iMac but easy on an MBP (pre-Retina).
You just nailed it, I think yours is possibly the most important comment on this page. Roads, bridges, education, prisons, electricity, water, managing public lands/other commons, the postal service, and now communication infrastructure are all things that should be owned by the public. Putting control of communication in the hands of a few large oligopolies is undemocratic.

Since the most common objection to this is privacy, I propose that the government provide the infrastructure (fiber, airwaves, satellites, etc) and that the use of that infrastructure have strong privacy guarantees and the protections of the existing unalienable rights in the forth amendment of the constitution:

“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

ISPs already have strict privacy guidelines, and if anyone thinks that corporations act to insulate users from government surveillance, they are fooling themselves. The protections must start with government itself and require constant vigilance. With regard to the commons, the profit motive should be limited to government contractors in service to the people, not the other way around.
People used to say the same thing about Microsoft and Office.
I have pointed out that there can be correlations between genes and behaviour that are not caused by genes but by culture. Your link is irrelevant.