skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hmmm, not to sure about the Panetta report part.

I thought it was an internal CIA report ordered by Panetta while he ran the CIA. The oversight committee became interested in it because it supposedly confirmed transgressions that the CIA was simultaneously denying to the committee.

Somehow the committee came in possession of the report. The CIA is arguing that while viewing computer documents at the CIA,committee investigators hacked the CIA network and obtained the Panetta report.
I don't have any continuous contractual relationships with any studios like I do with my employer. Maybe Netflix or HBO would qualify, but they don't charge their customer per unit, so it doesn't really apply here either.
This is true for the old generation, not true for the not tech savvy new generation that watches movie on laptops, tablets and PCs.
I agree. CJB commented elsewhere in this thread (
cjbprime) and he knows better than I do what went on back then.

I think that creating educational content is an incredibly important thing, and that it should be freely distributable to all and translated and localized broadly. It's a huge undertaking.

There are a few projects around trying to do things like this (against the impressive might of the textbook publishing industry) and I wish them the best of luck. OLPC will be only one benefactor of such efforts, and KA is certainly a great project.

Another hub of free educational content and tools is is Moodle. XO Server ships Moodle with content packs, but again, I'm not sure what is in them, sorry :/
You can start near here to check on them: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XS_Community_Edition links to http://schoolserver.org/

hth and thanks for discussion,
adric
Outrageous - Someone sticks their neck out to give you an intro and you effectively lop it off when you fail to respond.
Any Android app can read your WhatsApp database
I believe the answer for iOS is both yes and no: it natively supports text subtitles, but not DVD/Blu-ray-style bitmap subtitles.
Why don't you show the full help message when the command is run without options?
#2 actually sounds kinda interesting...
no, not amusing at all. do you have any suggestions for something better (i mainly lurk unless i can answer something obvious)?
A Wikipedia snapshot is great, but it's not a textbook. It's a reference.

If a community was going to get 100 laptops, I was hoping each laptop would get something like 1/100th (or 1/50th, for replication) of the videos. No "school server" necessary. But I guess that idea is dependent on the mesh network...

It sucks that the mesh network and the hand crank didn't work. Did the rip-cord work?

I'm glad the Khan Academy videos were getting translated, that's great.

> our small US team

I wish you'd figured out a way to go big. Something like enlisting the top 10 US universities for Education degrees to get all of their graduating students to each make a 30-minute educational video for OLPC as a senior project. Make it trivial to record videos on the OLPC itself, and trivial to share them with each other...

Never mind me. I'm just an armchair quarterback. Thank you for working on it.
The technical details for this brouhaha, if I'm interpreting them correctly, sound like they might approach Dilbert levels of managerial incompetence.

From Saturday's NYT article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/08/us/politics/behind-clash-b...

The room designated for the staff, called the “electronic
reading room,” was a spartan office with tables and
computers set against the walls and a large conference
table in the middle.

...

According to a recent court filing in a Freedom of
Information Act lawsuit, the C.I.A. created a “network
share drive” segregated from the main agency network, a
provision intended to allow the committee to work in
private.

...

It is unclear how or when committee investigators
obtained parts of the Panetta review. One official said
that they had penetrated a firewall inside the C.I.A.
computer system that had been set up to separate the
committee’s work area from other agency digital files,
but exactly what happened will not be known until the
Justice Department completes its inquiry.

...

By then, C.I.A. officials had come to suspect that
committee investigators working at the Virginia facility
had seen at least a version of the internal review.
Senior officials at the agency ordered a search of
several years’ worth of digital audit logs that the
C.I.A. uses to monitor its computer systems.

So, based on that very vague description, I'm imagining someone set up an ad-hoc SharePoint server, dumped a bunch of PDFs and MS Office docs on a file system, and absent-mindedly left the C$ share open, and then maybe someone accessed the server as an SMB share, and it showed up in the event logs, and now it's snowballed into "ZOMG u 1337 h4ck3rz, u pwnt mai FIREWALLZ!!!1one"

But never let a good disaster go to waste, right?
I had my mind blow the other way, in the past, when I realized that Mysql did not do that. I took it for granted.
This is a great lesson from the article: "Prioritize the opportunities that are furthest along, biggest, and most likely to close. If you do that, you’ll manage your pipeline most efficiently." -> the best way to learn how to prioritize is to fill your pipeline with more sales leads than you can handle. Nothing like a 14 hour workday in sales teaches you about how a good lead for your business looks like. You can't give every sales lead an equal chance. It's basic sales triage: don't concentrate on leads who you'll win anyway or who you can never win, focus your most work on leads who need your expertise to make a decision (for you).
If they're worth spending the effort of creating an application like this, then they're worth something. And yet this offers nothing for that something.
I would love to use Shen, but I refuse. Clojure's license is restrictive enough (I can't write GPL projects in it). But Shen isn't even free software by any definition.
I would go with Solitaire sine mine just lost. Did reach 1024 though.
Y Combinator is at the Top (2012)
Twitter touts its direct response capabilities to advertisers
Yes! Excellent. In their face.
Well, they were hurdles for us when we taught a classroom of fourth graders how to make Foldscopes. Kids give up on things quite easily and don't necessarily think a free personal microscope is cool.
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First time I've heard of them to be honest. What are their boundaries? Do they stay within "professional health" areas, or do they have expertise in nutritional fields as well?
I pressed solve from the start, and the AI lost.
I often wonder what would happen if the de facto standard in an industry were to disappear overnight. If taxis disappeared, would more people find ways to participate in carpool/rideshare systems?

If we stopped making new movies, would people learn to appreciate older classical films they'd never considered before? Surely there have already been more movies produced than a person could consume in a single lifetime, though it's debatable whether or not most of them are worth viewing at all.
The copyright industry has been 'crying wolf' for ages. No-one should listen.

We do not even know that very large amounts of piracy would be bad -- the market would probably reconfigure and adapt.

We should increase people's ease at getting and using informational goods (by reducing artificial restrictions) and see what happens -- yes, observe the actual evidence.
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Is there a way to specify which account the gist should go to? Many people have more than one github account (personal, client1, client2, etc.).
RTB online advertising fraud
Ohhhh, I see.

It only 'raises Constitutional issues' and '[undermines] the Constitutional framework' when it happens to you.
It might be a problem if your device doesn't have enough entropy sources early on when it generates its SSH host keys, like a router for example, although there were some improvements in random number generation on MIPS lately:
https://factorable.net/
Obviously. But then it's incredibly dangerous to run any command posted online without thinking; at least this one is easy to understand and verify.

Given the demographic of this site, I thought I'd be insulting everyone's intelligence by offering up a more verbose description. I mean the description is the command itself! And verifying the contents of the URL is as simple as viewing a web page (if anyone can't manage that then I wonder how they're reading that command to begin with :p).
Cinelerra will be presented at NAB 2014. They say it is undergoing a redesign of some sort.
Hey CJB!

Thanks for wading into this olpcnews FUD inspired mess ;)
Glad to see you, even to rehash old arguments.

Cheers,
adric
IMO, you don't really go to RH for funding but for all the opportunities they can open for you if you really have something that is cool and working. The funding is a cherry on the top.
There's hope! With a sufficiently complex caching and verification system, we can deploy chunks of JS that implement interpreters in-browser, last a long time, and can possibly be pre-compiled into an optimized form.

If we really view JS as assembly for the web, I think there's an interesting future.
I love how the CIA is spying on her meanwhile she's helping the NSA spy on us all.
I have no idea why we haven't already kicked broadcasters off the spectrum and farmed it out for mobile data. Its far more valuable for 2-way communications vs Judge Judy.
Organigr.am : efficient and elegant org charts and online directories
Awesome, thanks for that! I was going to try when I saw the thread earlier but couldn't figure out how.
A big advantage of the paper design is that they can be flatpacked and shipped by the thousands cheaply.
I'd certainly watch it, but I don't see it winning any Oscars...
If plenty of music is being made, so what? If certain businesses cannot make so much money, tough luck on them -- they should get out of business. That is the market.

The purpose of copyright law is to ensure good amounts of production for the public overall. It is not there to help certain rent-seeking companies make money.
If there were ever a title worthy of being enjoyed without compensating its creators for their labors, it's "12 Years a Slave", right?

The cognitive dissonance, it burns.
Good luck.

I don't think a missused word was ever reclaimed, in any language. But while you are on that path, can you do something about "hacker" too? (Or maybe you should start with the easier, less valuable "ordinary" and "literaly".)
Please explain how crowd-funding a movie even makes sense? There are plenty of movies with actors I love that are terrible. Have you seen RED (or worse, RED 2)? For the same reason your boss doesn't pay you for the month you haven't worked yet, you shouldn't expect people to produce movies without any reliable way of getting paid.
And they found what we all know, her husband, Richard Blum, has had billions steered his way in the form of government contracts.
Thanks for the clarification. I thought he was making a reference to World War I, and the idea of being the first to go over the top meant they would be mowed down by machine guns.
Popcorn Time is like Netflix for Pirated Content
The article should have been titled:
Attention seeking paper desperately succeeds at stating the obvious (while keeping a straight face)
So close to getting 2048. Cool stuff!
It's not just a hole. There is a ball lens that provides 140x magnification. The lens can be translated in the x, y, and z directions. To me, that's deFinitely a microscope.

Why are you so infuriated?
It sounds like you've been using CFEngine 2. CFEngine 3 class (boolean) scope is limited to the bundle it's called from in the bundle sequence. The bundle sequence provides procedural flow control if you need that. Convergent programming does take some getting used to.
Except you're being scammed by Hollywood. I had numerous friends who went to school for film and went elsewhere due to finding out that the purpose behind it is to turn a profit, not to create something of worth. Every blockbuster movie contains the same boilerplate concept, the masses are too hypnotized to realize their money is being drained.
Just use a fixed seed and it's 100% deterministic. Benchmarks use random numbers all the time. (In fact, PRNGs themselves often make OK benchmarks.)
Very interesting.

The following is completely speculative - I know - but possibly relevant. Bear with me.

I have noticed a difference among investors. There are the engineering/slightly Aspberger's types who tend to be prior founders who exited well. And then there are the HBS hail-fellow-well-met sports-loving never-ran-a-company-but-i-know-im-a-genius types. Yes, huge generalization - but those are the two bins I place them in. My observation in my experience is that the first type seems to be less influenced by attractiveness and appearances than the latter, and make better bets. I mean - take PG or AH. Need I say more? Now, that's not to say the aspy-types are free of biases - not at all - just that they are less likely to be swayed by attractiveness.

In any case, I wonder if other people have observed this effect or whether it's just me.
very cool.

now... for a who can make the optimal AI competition... :P
> I'd much rather see a team take existing hardware, existing operating system, and develop an app for it that acts as much as possible like the "Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" from Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age."

I guess that's any compsci person's dream when they read that book, including mine.

One thing that I've noticed in recent days is something that is related to Popcorn Time (another top story on HN as of this time) -- young people love streamlined workflows and tend to avoid complex ones.

I think this observation is reflected in many popular apps/services of today (Facebook, WhatsApp, Spotify) but also in many startups -- most ones are like Uber and deliver something that we already know and use (taxis) but with a streamlined process.

I am getting a bit worried that this migration to the simple is killing a lot of projects that are noble, but "clunky". OLPC might have been one of those -- the interface was never as polished as Uber/Spotify, even though they certainly aimed at it being rather simple.

And here's my main point: I am worried Project Gutenberg is exactly one of those projects that will disappear because they're clunky in the eyes of the young.

The website is old-looking (a Wikimedia engine, likely) and it is not that easy (compared to shopping for apps on a phone) to search for the right book -- look for Emile Zola and you will have to look for many, many results, some of them being the same book but in a different language (and there is no sorting based on say your location).

Worst of all -- most consumer ebook devices are pushing their own bookstores, making it more difficult to load and read books from outside sources such as Gutenberg.

Loading up tons of free books to any kid's "device" sounds like the first baby step to a Primer, and yet even the basic foundation of that -- Project Gutenberg -- is as clunky as OLPC (and lacks a lot of old books, too).
Is this completely conjecture on your part? Or do you have additional studies?
What expertise do you specifically mean? Btw, Labdoor was in our batch, they test nutritional supplements and tell you whats really in them.
> Perl is all but dead because Larry Wall, Perl's developer, thought it'd be a good idea to let someone else implement his spec for Perl 6.

I don't agree that Perl is all but dead, but I agree that one of the bigger contributors to the length of P6's 15 year gestation is quite plausibly Larry holding his tongue and commits in relation to compiler implementation.

Fwiw:

* According to Larry (a couple weeks ago) the community told him to stay out of compiler implementation at the start of the P6 project. He complied, constraining his P6 toolchain coding to pieces such as the STD grammar/parser.

* Late last year Larry said he planned to change that, with his main focus set to be optimizations. And in the last few weeks he has indeed begun landing a stream of commits to Rakudo and MoarVM. (So far his commits mostly relate to Unicode handling, which looks set to be a notable P6 strength, but there have been some significant optimizations too.)

* There is a de facto reference implementation: Rakudo/MoarVM.
This was a little harder to find than I expected:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16555779

"These findings demonstrate that female facial appearance holds detectable cues to reproductive health that are considered attractive by other people."

Found via http://asutriplehelix.org/node/99 which also cites some other related papers

EDIT: I really, really enjoy finding cases where something I assumed to be true is questioned on the grounds of scientific correctness. It is always a wonderful opportunity to bring my thinking closer to reality, no matter if my assumptions are true or false.
Our startup is already working on the first one. We connect people to healthcare providers and services, and we're in the process of partnering with the #1 most recognizable company that provides health information to consumers. Join us in Houston, home to the largest medical center in the world!
With her 'perceived' reproductive capacity would have been already a bit more palatable.
Oh wow, I wonder if someone saw this thread, or if that was just a coincidence.

Either way, very cool! Thanks for the heads up! I can't use it now obviously, but I can add a diagnostic disable line that'll work in the future.
> Or, were you demonstrating the method overriding + calling to parent use case?

Yep. This gist is what I run co-workers through for demonstrating OOP in JS.
The analysis didn't come in negative. It describes the key idea in Yarrow and Fortuna as "simple but brilliant", and finds that Fortuna does its job rather well. It corrects a couple of (not very large) errors in the paper that introduced Fortuna and presents a modified version that does better.

None of that makes either Schneier or Fortuna look substantially bad. Accordingly, there's nothing very surprising or impressive in the fact that he's prepared to accept it.

(For the avoidance of doubt, I am not -- at all -- making any criticism of Schneier. Just saying that Schneier's response to this paper isn't anything special.)

[EDITED to add: Perhaps you were thinking that the paper's presentation of the "premature next" problem amounts to demonstrating a weakness in Fortuna? No -- dealing with the "premature next" problem was a key design goal of Fortuna, and it did it rather well. The paper just shows how to do it even better.]
That could be a valid idea for a startup, where movie people can sign up to sell 'virtual tickets' that provide users with the legal right to watch a movie no matter where they got it from. It could even be transferrable, identifiable tickets (... ahem, cryptocurrency, ahem).

Most copyright disclaimers allow that already ("without the expressed written consent of the copyright owner" etc).

Has anyone ever implemented this?
I've been playing this for awhile now and I think I have found that the best method is to only use 3 directions. This forces your highest number into a corner and only spawns 2's and 4's in the opposite corner. You build up numbers that cascade down to the corner. It almost never gets stuck, but if you do I guess you'd have to push the 4th direction you haven't been using.
I did not create Scrapy; you would have to thank Pablo Hoffman [1] for that. :) He's the co-creator and lead developer.

[1] https://github.com/pablohoffman
Here are some newer contenders in the FOSS video editing arena:

http://shotcut.org/

http://code.google.com/p/flowblade/

New compositing tools (both from France):

http://natron.inria.fr/

http://buttleofx.wordpress.com/

I'd say 2014 looks pretty good for FOSS/Linux video editing!
> we wouldn't have 12 Years A Slave.

We may still have 12 years a slave but maybe not at the same level of quality.
I thought the "Always Free" badge was interesting. What is the business?
It's probably a double bind.

If she's ugly: "Why would you want to fund an ugly girl? Let's get some hotties in here."

If she's attractive: "She's too hot. How could she possibly be a serious hacker / business leader? No one will take her seriously if she looks like that."

Maybe this is too cynical? (I sort of hope so.)
AFAIK MIN macro is not standard (not sure though), so I made this:

--- hxindex.c.orig	2014-03-11 17:55:17.305697689 +0200
+++ hxindex.c	2014-03-11 17:58:30.331318646 +0200
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@
#define SECNO "secno"	/* Class of elements that define section # */
#define NO_NUM "no-num"	/* Class of elements without a section # */

+#ifndef MIN
+# define MIN(X, Y) ((X) < (Y) ? (X) : (Y))
+#endif
+
typedef struct _indexterm {
string url;
int importance;	/* 1 (low) or 2 (high) */
@@ -435,7 +439,7 @@

/* Count how many subterms are equal to the previous entry */
i = 0;
- while (i < min(term->nrkeys, globalprevious->nrkeys) &&
+ while (i < MIN(term->nrkeys, globalprevious->nrkeys) &&
!folding_cmp(term->sortkeys + i, 1, globalprevious->sortkeys + i, 1))
i++;

I also created an Arch package with this patch:

> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/127354948/arch-repo/html...
Add "built-in fulltext search" and the fact that you've just replaced Redis, Sphinx/Solr/Lucene, and Mongo with a single application.

THAT, I think, is the biggest sell, at least to me. The fact that PgSQL does so much and so well.

I used Pg for full-text search in the past and the fact that I did not have to bother with setting up Solr or an interface was a wonderful feature. The search index lived right alongside my data.
It is the middleman problem. It is not yours. Movies will never disappear. You think all studios will close, no, they will just evolve or die. There are thousand examples of dead labor, technologies that passed away without much drama, just because consumers wanted a different thing or changed their consuming habits.
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Why Y-combinator is not on f6s yet?
Small webapp to bring fresh and fun experience to company reviews
I think the only dependency is curl.
I found one not-completely-horrible strategy was just blindly running round the curser keys.. eg. up - right - down - left, repeatedly. Got near 4000 points with that..

Great game though - wasted waaay too much time last night playing.
You don't cross out maintenance and support by having more efficient hardware. Those giants, by my understanding, make a lot of money from support or directly from taking care of servers/datacenters.
I read the article. It was plenty of evidence.
The pirate's service comes with risk and sometimes difficulty. Not everyone knows how to torrent, and you risk malware infection and/or "strikes" from your ISP.

It doesn't cost any money, but that doesn't mean it has no costs.
I've done exactly what you've described and never ran into that problem. Quite the opposite in fact, on some dev servers I've have to manually fudge the auto increment number because it didn't automatically reset to zero after I'd flattened the table.

Like I said before, you can even create an empty table and define the auto increment to be 10000 if you wanted. So there is a persistent value that's stored. However I suspect the issue here is that I'm using a different MySQL engine to yourself.
Wikipedia is wrong about the usage of OpenGL on consoles.
So the searching of Congressional computers supposedly happened in 2010. She's speaking about it now because she feels the CIA is threatening her committee by turning over the investigation to the Justice department (another Executive branch department).

I know I should be outraged but really all I have is WTF. The head of the Senate oversight committee knew that the CIA had violated multiple laws and did absolutely nothing about it for 4 years. This is oversight? This is what we're all depending on to protect us from an out of control set of military / intelligence / industrial dicks?
I'm waiting for Linus' response, which will definitely make the author cry and regret for what he had said.