skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US bases are the one kind of US controlled space in Germany the german government has a right to inspect.

Which is why the assumption is that any espionage happens through the embassies (ie. as usual).

There's quite some unused space in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - maybe we should just tell the Five-Eyes countries to relocate their embassies there, instead of keeping them right next to the most important political (Berlin) and economical (Frankurt) places of the country.
A rule of thumb is that if a lot of people find the process is broken then the UX is probably bad, and needs a redesign.

That is true, though in this particular case it's not clear whether it really is "a lot" of people or more a vocal but possibly small group who are also using another specific tool, which might itself be the problem because it isn't flexible enough to do the job here. It sounds like you have a password generation/management tool where it is easy to delete a valuable password before you're done with it and with no way to get it back, which I would argue is probably a much more serious usability problem!

Ideally the change password process would be made clear for everyone and avoid the problem entirely, of course, and if we're just talking about a simple old/new password form (I haven't seen it) then surely that should be possible here. I'm not defending the status quo (again, I haven't seen it). I'm just saying I don't think this issue is quite as simple as you previously suggested, and possibly Kickstarter aren't the only ones with room for improvement here.
He isn't a fan of Apple either.
Not particularly new idea. In the days of OpenMoko they had this idea to do Bluetooth pairing by shaking two phones held together.
This hardly sounds like freedom to me.
Yep, exported it to Speaker Deck =) http://gregfranko.com/blog/building-javascript-tools/
Citation is the reddit link itself. Am I missing something?
Show HN: Back-end driven quote-on-a-space-background generator
I haven't had the same experience as jaredmcateer. I often find myself more focused when I'm high - it's easier to achieve that flow state and to think creatively. Cannabis can be very helpful for seeing big ideas and thinking in modes that are different from your everyday way of thinking.

That being said, I've only been high for personal programming projects, I wouldn't be likely to smoke before an interview.
Gwern has written a lot on the subject of Nootropics: http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
Here's an interesting exception :
The poet Rimbaud wrote all of his poetry before the age of 20 and is considered to be one of the greatest poets of all time.
Einstein, in particular, is an interesting case. He was 26 when he had his annus mirabilis (1905) in which he published 5 ground-breaking papers in physics, including the Special Theory of Relativity.

However it took another 11 years until he was able to grasp enough of the mathematics to finally formulate the General Theory of Relativity in 1916, at age 37. Of course, if you're going to use statistics from Nobel Prize winners' works, you have to keep in mind that Einstein won not for the General Theory nor the Special Theory of relativity with which we usually associate him. He won for his paper on the photoelectric effect, one of the other papers he published in 1905...at age 26.

Edit: It's probably also worth pointing out that, someday in the future, it's not inconceivable that we may eventually place the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox in the same league as Relativity. That paper was published in 1935, when Einstein was already 56 years old. If it is not currently considered of the same merit as Relativity, that is only because we still don't have a good handle on the full implications of that work. (And, yes, I realize that ultimately EPR will likely prove to be wrong, but a great scientist teaches as much by being wrong as by being right.)
Ask HN: What sites like GrooveHQ offers discounted SaaS Products for Startups
Sites like groovehq.com list software who are offering 90 days trial or xx% discount specially for startups and small businesses, can someone tell me list of similar sites ? it will be helpful to others too

Thanks
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Ask HN: Is anyone successful with the 7-minute workout so far?
I’m refering to this article:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

Here are the HN comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704485
> Is the designer responsible that a site becomes unusable under Wingdings? (Sorry for the strawman.)

Rather than apologize for making a strawman, how about we not make one in the first place? Nobody's talking about dingbat fonts from the 90s - GP is talking about usability today.

> No, but I just checked a few of the sites we made and none break from ctrl+

I'm glad your team has thought ahead, but I can assure you that many have not.

I can't count the number of sites that I've seen that would be completely unusable for people reliant solely on mobile devices (used as primary computing devices in the developing world), for people who rely on screen readers (blind and otherwise disabled people exist too!) - I could go on and on.

The common rebuttal I hear to this is that "the average user doesn't care about this", and the website isn't designed for "edge cases", which always makes me cringe. The wheelchair ramp at your storefront may not be used by your "average" customer, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't have one, even if the law didn't require you to[0].

Amusingly, in many cases, the sites that are the best-suited for a range of devices (desktops, tablets, phones) and clients[1] are the ones that look like they stepped out of the late 1990s.

[0] http://www.adawheelchairramps.com/modular_ramps/ada_modular_...

[1] Take a minute and check if your site works in Lynx. If not, there's a very good chance your site is inaccessible to visually impaired people (yes, Lynx and similar browsers are still used by people with disabilities today!).
> What if I don't care if some corporation comes along and takes my code and releases a product based on it? Cool! I've helped the world somehow!

Say you developed a program that keep tracks of group of people. The Ku Klux Klan use it to track down black people, and the anti-tolerance movement use it to track Ku Klux Klan. You helped the world and the anti-tolerance movement should be happy right? If they would prefer that the tool could not be used by the Ku Klux Klan, then they are evil zealots with no ideological tolerance.

Pardon my French too, but that's is fucking idiotic.

> And people who want to use my code don't have to get involved in GPL politics and drama!

That is a very dishonest statement. People can use Debian without becoming involved with politics and drama. I will state fact-less that most people who use GPL have not becoming involved with politics and drama.

> I know religions with more ideological tolerance.

Like BSD proponents I suppose? You own comment stated BSD as the right choice and anyone who disagrees is wrong. Maybe instead of preaching tolerance, you practice tolerance of people that disagree with you. Is it not more tolerant behavior avoid derogatory terms?
Somehow, "considered harmful" has become a strong signal that the arguments in the so titled article will be weak. Why is that?
At work (where my script to convert all of our projects from CVS to Hg is complete for almost ¾ of a year now) I now resort to a hacky PowerShell script that allows me to work locally with Hg and then push selected revisions to CVS. Mostly because I fear that we won't ditch CVS for quite a while and when we do I'm probably the one to blame for lost developer productivity while we're coming to grips with a new tool.
> Eventually we'll just jack our devices directly into our visual cortex instead of bothering with all the issues screens+optics brings.

This will not work. The visual system is not an "information processing" system like a computer. In order to wire an "accurate input" into your brain, you would need to duplicate all of the nonlinear optical, electrical, and chemical transformations performed by the eye, in which case you might as well just use your eye.

In other words, we don't just see what comes out of the screen, so wiring that data into your brain will be gibberish at worst and a somewhat compromised new sense organ at best.
You can blame the people in charge of the ES spec. that's the single most important thing to have in any language,how to properly import external files. Having to rely on the DOM to do that is a horrible hack. Requirejs is a DOM library,not a javascript library.
Yes, it was a trivial decision and looks like that decision was not taken, so people expected that to happen sometime: "Well, I've said multiple times that I'll be working on this during the PyCon sprints".

More than that, the closing message: 'Closing, rejected, due to use of "approval" as spam.'

Yes, it is up to the maintainer to do that. How he do that matters.
> A NEW GENERAL PURPOSE DATABASE DESIGNED FOR BIG DATA
AND THE CLOUD THAT PERFORMS SIMULTANEOUS TRANSACTIONS
AND ANALYTICS … IN REAL-TIME, ON THE SAME DATA SET

Well they certainly have all the right buzzwords present in their pitch. Other than that there's very little to go on right now as to how much merit their product deserves.
Stackoverflow is down.
So the team consists of ( http://deep.is/our-invention/ ):

1 CEO
1 CTO
3 Founders
1 Chairman
1 VP Product Management
1 VP Sales
1 Controller
1 Director of Engineering
1 Architect
1 Consultant
2 Engineers

Yeah... sounds like exactly the company i would never buy from. A company which basically consistes of 80% "upper management" positions and barely any "real workers"..
Especially when the website is only about marketing claims and very unspecific details.
I can't even find downloads or documenation..

No, i'll stay away.
And worse than that both are subject to concurrency issues.
Except he wasn't a member of the MIT community. He was a Fellow at Harvard University Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, but not a student or faculty member at MIT.
App Store Bans The Word Flappy
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More like: point 1) source maps
Absolutely. To nearly everyone, the user interface is the program. This sounds like a truism but really is the opposite. It has important practical consequences.
Which is where I found this link: https://twitter.com/gwern/status/435111412277313537 :)
>Say you developed a program that keep tracks of group of people. The Ku Klux Klan use it to track down black people, and the anti-tolerance movement use it to track Ku Klux Klan.

Stop it. You're basically engaging in a not-hitler version of Godwin's Law. And it's not even relevant, since the GPL is only about source code, not about whatever that code is used for. In your completely arbitrary and fucked up example, as long as the KKK released the source code to their tracking app, the GPL has nothing to say.

>You own comment stated BSD as the right choice and anyone who disagrees is wrong.

No, I said BSD is a de-facto more permissive license. It objectively has fewer restrictions on a developer than the GPL. Read what I said, not what you want me to have said, please.
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You don't appear to have a link to it from your profile?
> Then, in December, Rubin was contacted by the New Jersey attorney general’s office, which asked for, among other things, a list of all websites “affected by the Bitcoin code,” copies of “all contracts and/or agreements” with customers, “[a]ll documents and correspondence concerning all breaches and/or unauthorized access to computers by you,” and “[a]ll codes, source codes, control logs, and installation logs concerning the Bitcoin code.”
I think the question is where you want to say that the jQuery plugin should load before jQuery. If you have 20 jQuery plugins, which cross-leverage some of the same dependencies, and then all rely on jQuery -- do you want to rely on ordering script tags for dependencies in the HTML? Or do you want to leverage a module system that lets you coherently state what the dependencies are?

Also I'm not sure how Bower got dragged into this since it has nothing to do with module systems. It is a nice tool though for just tracking what third party libraries are in a project and their versions. Not sure what they did to prove to be an "abomination" :-)
Probably due to the recent breach of security. Lots of people accounts have been logged into from china.
my first run with git also got me a corrupted repo. never got support for it.

but this os pointless, the keyword in your post is "forced".
The italian word of course is, in Italian, pronounced completely differently than by the student in the video.

I doubt their intention was anything other than a play on the word "gesture".
It amazes me that HN users would spend time commenting here before taking a few seconds to navigate a website. Here is an overview of technical information: http://deep.is/knowledge/deepdb-white-paper/

These are the interesting things that sticks out to me:

The understanding that storage system throughput is maximized by using sequential access patterns led to the creation of streaming, append-only transactional and indexing algorithms. Our approach is unique in that all database files (i.e. transactional state, indexes, and metadata) are streamed, append-only files.

...

The CASI Tree breaks from a traditional b-tree on-disk approach, eliminating update in-place operations on fixed size pages. Instead, the CASI Tree is an append-only Purely Functional Tree data structure.

...

A complete database audit trail is maintained when running in archival mode, making all previous database states available. These states may be queried in read-only mode, efficiently supporting read-only analytics of point-in-time transactional database states
He still posts but his comments are auto-killed. You can see the comments if you turn on showdead in your preferences.
See @buster's comment. 100 "managers" and 2 engineers, what can go wrong?
You are the reason I look forward to municipal fiber. Hello utility regulation.
Pixels != Little Squares [pdf]
Reddit's empire no longer founded on a flawed algorithm
For me, one of the most exciting things about Bitcoin is that it can be used to solve incentivisation problems in decentralized/p2p applications like this, without relying on a centralized 3rd party.

BitTorrent has done well essentially using bandwidth as a currency, but it still relies on some users giving away more bandwidth than they consume, which doesn't necessarily work with other applications.
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Would you use this app, easily collaborate around links and ideas with Linkly
Did you show your designer friend what happened when someone presses ctrl +? Or uses a different browser or loads their own fonts or etc etc etc?

Why would either of those things be a problem? Attention to detail is attention to detail at any scale.

It’s true that at scales smaller than anyone would normally notice there can be a difference between a clean optical alignment and a “perfect” mathematical one. This is a challenge that folks like font designers and artists working on icons often have to face. If you zoom in dramatically (say 5x or 10x, not 120%), these details would probably look slightly off.

However, at the kind of scale we’re using for examples here, zooming in will only exaggerate careless flaws like having things misaligned by a pixel or using the same border-radius for nested elements where concentricity of the rounded corners was intended. A well designed page will continue to look clean and tidy at larger scales, and it won’t mysteriously break just because someone zoomed or had different font preferences.
Or you, the designer, could learn a little CSS and git and submit a pull request with the micro-optimizations you want changed.

Every time you request changes instead of making them yourself, you are taking away from the time they can spend delivering improvements in their area of expertise, executable code.
If it isn't asking for a company registration number, then I think any name will do...
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You need a free(r) market for that. Comcast gets franchise agreements with each municipality, and there is no competition for cable TV or internet.
> In a capitalist system there is really no such thing as "plenty of profit"

The telecommunications industry in the U.S. is anything but capitalist. Furthermore, people don't really have a choice regarding their internet service, so ripping them off for another $50 is pretty low.
What mountains? I live in southeast AK, and I love the mix of tech work at home, and good outings in the wilderness, completely detached from the tech world.
Agreed. I will add more info and 'how it works', etc..
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I thought that too, but remember this has to all be done at runtime, so depending on LLVM would require an Emscripten-ized version of LLVM (does such a thing exist?) to be distributed with the generated js and similarly depending on Emscripten would require a copy of Emscripten to be distributed with the generated js. And from what I hear the runtime performance of Emscripten itself ain't that great.
A lot of buzzwords, but little actual information. How fast is it? Is it equally fast for both OLTP and OLAP style work?

It seems to be optimising to remove the ETL step of transactional - analytical data migration, but you still need the analytical speed.
1) I concede the market share point (it is closer to 90% -- the point was more that the US is about 60-70%, a much smaller portion.)

2) If you read up a bit on antitrust law and/or were a smaller specialized/vertical search site competing with Google, I believe you would disagree. Take, for example, Nextag, or Mapquest back in the day. Nextag's traffic declined significantly simply because Google put its own results on top of the SERP ("search engine results page.") Same thing happened with Google Maps pushing out competitors by putting its own maps product on top of other products (though there is understandably some difficulty to prove whether or not that's due to the signal of the user or the preferential treatment of the Search provider. I think that's why you don't hear too much about this point, as it would require Google revealing details about their algorithm.)

Given the significant market positioning, by law you cannot use market dominance and scale in one market to push out competitors in another (i.e. definition of anticompetitive behavior.) For example, imagine Amazon was a lot younger and just starting out in the current search climate. If Google comes along and starts putting its own recommendations for shopping at the top of the SERP in a market where it has total search dominance, Amazon would be dust. Imagine also if Google decided "Hey, since Twitch.tv won't sell to us, let's start putting our own results for game streams at the top of the SERP, and relegate Twitch.tv a few inches down on the SERP," Twitch.tv would plummet (at least in the EU / international market.)
Question for folks who have 50 or 105 Mbps connections. Do you really get that speed? I have Century link and am supposed to get 12 Mbps. However, I'm lucky if I get 5 Mbps. Sometimes it slows down to a crawl - 50 to 60 Kbps.
Centercode is a good, for-pay beta service provider. (Centercode.com)
Demonstrating a change in a local repo, or even with a local CSS stylesheet, isn't "doing whatever you want", it's a prrof of concept.

There ate plenty of broken corporate cultures out there.
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Experience has taught me to be naturally skeptical when a startup says they designed a database from the ground up. It seems like they put every buzzword of machine learning and database design into their website, and the staff seems to be primarily management people and only a handful of engineering staff.

But who knows, maybe in 5 years we'll be doing our business analytics with DeepDB, but most likely we'll be doing business analytics with a tool that doesn't seem this sketchy.
Unfortunately the NFL does not, and that's what I (and most others) really want to see (in the US of course.)
Ricardo's Difficult Idea (1996)
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Should you do a startup with your spouse?
> No, by technicality of the licenses ...

This teacup tempest is entirely of GNU's own making. It's nobody else's fault that their licenses are so onerous that they can't even keep them compatible with later revisions they themselves produce.
Scala versus Python and R: software archaeology in bioinformatics
Don't cellular providers now support wideband audio calls with certain handsets? For example, the Nexus 5 and iPhone 5(c|s) on T-mobile. How does wideband audio compare to a land line?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wideband_audio
What I took away from the OP was... the curve keeps going after 35. Phew.
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Exactly! This is how I feel about companies too. I am charging them. They are trading their services for my money. If I can get their stuff cheaper without dealing with them, why would I trade with them?

Shrink-wrapped software, for instance, has no value proposition from the original proprietor. Photoshop? Why should I trade with Adobe for a few hundred dollars when I can get the same from another user for no charge from him?

Someone like you opened my eyes to the false dichotomy. Businesses and consumers are not different. Each wants something that the other has. They want my money. I want their product. If they can get more money without changing the product, they will. If I can get more product without changing the money spent, I will.
If B2B, decide on a few target verticals. Verticals that post email addresses to websites would help you get started easily, else get creative with linked in and google to find emails.

Then create an email campaign using something like Toutapp.com to email these people telling them you'd like their opinion on a tool that does x for their needs.

If consumer, try the same thing with facebook or similar.
Seems like it works just fine for my natural gas, electric, and water/sewer utilities. The last mile is well on its way to being the next one to be regulated.
Anyone else on mobile have the site menu obscuring the right side of the page?
I do! We've been doing it in the UK for decades, very few people complain about it.
For every disciplined effort, there are multiple rewards.
> I don't think it's "political" to say you want anonymity or privacy to exist on a network

anonymity is just a tool you use to protect your privacy if it's being prone to attacks. Pseudominity is fine most of the time.

> Isn't that what they're doing?

> So I'm not sure what you're really attacking here.

Bittorrent or previous protocols were not advertising their project as some new idea that still needed to be implemented. Previously they just released their apps, people used them, the app evolved and it grew more popular.

I think I see too many of those project embryos while there already is freenet and tor. It's either an attempt from investor to attracts tech unsavy people into a security trap, or inexperienced or tech unsavy project initiators. Maybe there is more work to be done to make freenet and tor more accessible to new users instead of reinventing new techs.

Nowadays with the sharp increase of internet users, the noose is indeed getting tighter and tighter. It doesn't mean you have to reinvent the wheel... Improve it instead.
In reality,the market already basically dictates this, for who can claim that a Wall Street banker works more than a teacher?

Um...
Google cache to the rescue!
The parent's recommendation was not based upon data not being corrupted lately. He stated that this issue is not as prevalent as it used to be, countering the commentor's slightly outdated experience, and then went on to list off features as the basis of his recommendation.