skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to understand the scope of surveillance, its primitive basis:

Magical Combat should be differentiated from psychic attack,
with which a large proportion of 'fringe' occultists concern themselves
with, and is largely a product of self-delusion and varying degrees of
megalomania. True magical combat has its own rules and boundaries,
which are known to the skilled, while the trainee must quickly learn
them if trauma is to be avoided. Caught up in a situation which s/he
finds incomprehensible and alien, the trainee only knows confusion
and terror. Stripped of the smug self-assurance of "it can't happen to
me" s/he learns to perceive the environment with clarity, to give attention
to the rhythms and pulses of the world. Truly, Death is a great teacher.
If you can reach forwards and see the moment of your 'death', then that
moment will give you a glimpse of your potential.[0]

Look at this from a naturalistic framework. Jesus, for instance, may have simply been a very eccentric man who behaved linguistically and personally in ways that were revolutionary. He probably induced too many magic mushrooms, or some atypical neurological condition set him extremely intuitively in line with a mystical tradition — nevertheless, these are historical implementation details of this Universe. Not uniquely interesting either way you describe it.

Now imagine that these features of a society become more widespread — where you have {J1, J2, J3, ...}, then imposters, {I1, I2, I3, ...}, and then of course randoms, {R1, R2, R3, ...}. This is an oversimplified model, but it captures the problem well enough.

Surveillance becomes a psychological management strategy that naturally emerges given the task of ruling out true adepts (altruistics) and delusionists (potentials who cannot manage their own psychic powers).

"Psychic powers" does not amount to some belief in the supernatural. If I mention the word "chair", this will not sit with you as mental residue (surely, contextual and relational analysis apply, but on the whole it will not) — but if you take recourse to JL Austin's "How to Do Things With Words" — you will certainly need to shake off words like "preapopstaticontinentalism". The first point is that a speaker has produced the word, then it comes that decision procedure of whether or not it has literal meaning. The brain has to do work — which is the basis of "psychic forces" (reducible to behaviors of neurological substrata).

—

[0]: http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/apikindx.html
That's interesting. Do you know where I can read more about this please?
Having an elevator-pitch somewhere obvious where an idiot like me could see/find it would have been nice. They really could have put 'awesome' in 15 different fonts and sizes, and maybe some 'more awesome' in there and it would have told me just as much.

I'll save everyone the wikipedia jump: This is intended to be binary-compatible with windows NT-based applications.
Agreed. I work in visualization and there's no way to really do cool things in the mobile space without dropping into apps. HTML5 simply doesn't perform well enough yet and people want a polished experience - that means app development.

I think what people are ignoring is that a lot of what we use has moved from document type sites to application type sites. I browse HN fine with mobile browser, but for almost anything else, I want the app version.
As someone who was brought up in a non-married home, I can assure you that marriage isn't required to have loving committed relationships. I'd vote against Prop.8 because eliminating the gender/sexuality discrimination is still a positive move, but if there was an option to eliminate all State-granted marriages, I'd vote for that instead.
Well, they don't "work together" - Wine devs avoid ReactOS code and devs like the plague. However, Wine is happy for ReactOS to use their DLLs - so Wine does Win32 and ReactOS does the lower, weirder layers that Wine doesn't bother with.
He doesn't get it wrong. It's a classic fraud on the market: it creates the illusion of volume when that volume is really artificial. If you were to massively buy and then immediately sell securities to make it seem as if there was a great demand, you would be indicted for violating the securities laws.

"Rule 10b-5: Employment of Manipulative and Deceptive Practices":
It shall be unlawful for any person, directly or indirectly, by the use of any means or instrumentality of interstate commerce, or of the mails or of any facility of any national securities exchange,

(c) To engage in any act, practice, or course of business which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon any person,

HFT creates the illusion of volume. As such, it is a clear violation of 10(b)(5).

Volume, as an important indicator of efficiency, has been repeatedly recognized by U.S. courts in both civil and criminal cases. Because of HFT, volume figures are no longer reliable. They no longer reflect a true, arms-length purchase and sale. This is a classic fraud on the market.
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The sad thing is that this would be a welcome move, especially the idea of making svn a transparent UI on top of git as a repository backend. Given that github already supports using svn to check out its repositories, generalizing that seems quite sensible.
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My impression with all Linux distributions is that at the end are made for developers/techies.

There's a lack of user centric focus.
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"A win for freedom of speech, and of the press."

I'll agree on the speech part since it allows for groupings and patrons of movements to be more effective, but I think the press just lost some of its influence. Given the partisanship in the press, this isn't such a bad thing. They've been pushing their influence for years and can basically spend unlimited money on politics so its fine for "non-press" to be given the same ability.
> Yes, there is a strong free speech argument for donating money to campaigns, but make no mistake... oligarchs would (maybe already do?) run our country without any restrictions in place.

I think that the one thing that efforts at campaign finance limitations has done is underline that wealth is fungible power, and that restricting the manner in which it is premitted to be applied to politics does very little to limit the influence it has in politics.
Google Maps are for Googles to build. The problem arises when every one wants to build fancy applications that serve no real purpose. I prefer to see some "utilitarianism" in the web.
"she has 16 hours of gymnastics practice every week, which markedly improves the report from school and now she's in love with it so I can't talk her out of it. I've tried. So spring break would be ideal."

This is going to sound harsh. So, essentially even though you have an available resource (FIRST) since your daughter would rather take gymnastics you are then going to push off this responsibility to a complete stranger and buy them lunch as a thank you? (Recognizing that that person of course will gain some karma by helping you out..) Why not just have your daughter learn a lesson early on about priorities in life?

Gymnastics, nice, leads to ?
Inspiration to be an engineer that gives a child career direction leads to...
I've been using, and highly recommend, SimplyRain: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/simplyrain/id635166382
App interoperability is also huge in Android thanks to Intents. No such feature exists in the web space and none are anywhere on the horizon - the app experience is simply the better experience.
Wine does Win32 well enough to run malware. It's not so much 'sploits as just running software that does socially unpleasant things.
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What I can use as an alternative for Ubuntu One?
I love the concept of the middleware to modify the requests. When are you guys going to start sending the invites?
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Damn, it looks like they have increased the price on the launchpad since I picked it up. It's now $10. It comes with two micros though with separate use cases, so you can use the launchpad for prototyping before putting it on a breadboard.
It is definitely a free speech issue, however, I’d argue that the compelling state interests in preventing corruption and ensuring fairness and access in elections, is a great enough one to merit modest limitations. Indeed so did the Supreme Court until only recently, after the upholding in Buckley. My comment is more about the overall nature of the issue, but I do want to point out first that today’s ruling over aggregate monetary limits, is frankly a small issue in the overall challenges faced in reform.

I understand your point, but I think it belies the reality of what takes place in most campaigns from my professional experience here in DC, though yes it is anecdotal of course. Yes, a small group of individuals can seek and gain funding, and they do, but in order to have a serious outcome on a race, you need to be able to shift vast sums of money and fast, often in the last 2 months. The Tea-Party influence on the 2010 midterm elections is a great example, the money that supported those candidates, did not come from the tea-party grassroots, but from a band of very rich donors, with very vested interests in legislative outcomes. And I don’t mean to single out the GOP here, the DNC has it’s own fair share of lobbied well-connected interests. Then of course there are the industries and organizations that simply fund the most likely to win in many races, ensuring candidate support for their industry when the time comes for considering legislation.

If I was to start a Super PAC for lower class family concerns, say universal Pre-K, how much of their disposable income do you think they could afford to donate to a political cause? It’d be no where near the vast checks that can be written by opposition groups. And even if successful, I will still likely get outplayed in the long game with legislative lobbying since I don’t have the continued funds to support an ongoing effort.

Now what would be a solution that doesn’t infringe on individual rights to free-speech, I’m not sure. Perhaps we should go back to completely publicly financed elections, though that obviously benefits the current two-party dichotomy over independent challengers, and would likely require serious constitutional amendments to be considered. I admit that more thinking would be required here, but I don’t think its a stretch to say the current system is severely broken, and in fairness to all here, was broken well before this relatively modest change.

Finally, of course votes aren’t being bought in the election - but a campaign costs a lot of money. http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/11/politics/congress-election-cos... The average US House race will cost 1.6M to win and the Senate 10.4M to win, and that increase far outpaces the rate of inflation. That money coming in is critical to reaching voters, paying for GOTV, and ensuring victory, beyond just the money spent on ads and outside group advertising. Then of course, all of that money these candidates raise, it’s not free money from well meaning corporations, they will expect to be repaid when the time comes, and they are.
If you are alive and breathing, you are probably violating some law already.
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Under what conditions will a B-tree out perform a hash map? Seems like the hash map was far and away the better choice in his test.
Exactly this.

Reinventing the wheel in this case is really risky. Screwing up accounting is a sure fire way to get into trouble. Don't take unnecessary risks when you don't have to.
My impression wasn't so much "opaque" as it was "dreadfully, soul-suckingly bureaucratic". It's been a long time since I looked, so this may have improved since, but it was really hard to figure out what the first step towards helping with packaging is (aside from the triage/testing side).
Maybe the founding father's "fear" of the ignorant masses and choice of representative government needs to be reevaluated. Go back to direct actual democracy. But with ranges instead of yes/no. So as to capture "average is true signal".

Maybe first step is chance voting of representatives from yes/no to 1-100 how much you wan this person to win.
Fair... It was never their core business and never skyrocketed. And I'm a heavily user of the service.

Any other good alternative, maybe FOSS, except Dropbox?
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If what you're saying is true, democracy is worthless. Decreasing the amplitude of political discourse would have no effect on the ignorance of the general population and their lack of skepticism and poor decision making. It would just create a new game of regulations that rich individuals could play around and avoid to get the result they want anyway.

It is not an uncommon belief that laws like BCRA were designed to entrench incumbents.

"The history of campaign finance reform is the history of incumbent politicians seeking to muzzle speakers, any speakers, particularly those who might publicly criticize them and their legislation. It is a lot easier to legislate against unions, gun owners, 'fat cat' bankers, health insurance companies and any other industry or 'special interest' group when they can't talk back." Jan Baran, a member of the Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform
No, but many useful, protected forms of speech and the press require money. Congress couldn't constitutionally shut down the New York Times by making it illegal for them to purchase ink.
Subfolders is huge. That, combined with URLs like http://127.0.0.1:8888/notebooks/SomeFolder/aRandomNotebook.i... means I can organize and reference files elsewhere. I happen to keep a TiddlyWiki worklog, and being able to directly hotlink to my IPython workspace is just fantastic!
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I agree. It is a market system which will accomodate regulation and there is no perfect solution.
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Fixed! Thanks for noticing!
I'm glad I read this comment. Maybe my basically driver-defunct M-Audio Firewire 410 can be revived using ReactOS. Cool.
Kudos to MS for making their personal assistant extendable by third party apps. Neither Apple nor Google have managed to do that yet.
2012 didn't necessarily prove that money has little effect on elections, it proved that money doesn't completely cover-up being a total jackass.

The best funded campaign still convinced ~47% of voters to vote for a candidate that stated he didn't care about 47% of the country. That should be downright scary.
Speaking to more than a few people requires money.
It's funny because the origins of Ubuntu One were a clear attempt at getting some SAAS money. Finding revenue streams has always been an issue for Linux distributions, especially consumer-oriented ones like Ubuntu, and UbuntuOne was yet another stab at the problem. Then they found that it's hard to compete in SAAS against giants like Microsoft and Google, where that sort of service is often a commodity driving profits in other areas. Focused companies like Dropbox can do it, but if your focus is elsewhere, then you don't have a chance.

I wonder what they'll try next.
Well, like in this article [1] on the front page yesterday, there's a sentiment that individual rights and private property per capitalism should give way to something more "collaborative." Only "collaborative" is not new, it stinks of failed historical experiments and the exact kind of repression described in this article in Romania.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/31/capital...
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I haven't tested it out yet but ADP supposedly integrates tightly with Xero and will auto import once you've mapped the correct accounts.
Awesome! Any idea how public the public voting will be? i.e will a large community (4chan) be able to vote for their own idea and win easily?
I'm having trouble figuring out what this actually does from the web page, although it sounds intriguing.

Although if other HN users aren't having that trouble, maybe it's me, not you.

Do you essentially use this as a proxy, where your apps contact it, and it contacts the apis, so it can keep stats on your api use? That's what the three phrases on the home page sort of imply.

But then when I watch the video... it all goes by so fast, but it's giving me the idea that I had it wrong, and it's doing something else (CORS? What would CORS have to do with what I thought it was doing?)

Is it too much to ask for a couple sentences/paragraphs explaining what it does, instead of just a couple words and a video?
And I just bought the new Roku Streaming stick...I'll be curious to see how they stack up.
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"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."

-- John Kenneth Galbraith
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FYI, Plot.ly allows live updating plots in a notebook. I haven't used them, but it looks neat. Here's a double-pendulum plotting example: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/plotly/Streaming-Demos/bl...
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> Wine devs avoid ReactOS code and devs like the plague

Is this due to any patent/copyright issues?
Haven't you ever heard the phrase: Money talks, bulls--t walks?

Money is the ONLY speech heard by career politicians
Never underestimate the value of seeing "Someone who is like you" doing something.
The idea of wallets with dozens of digital currencies ties in with another idea which I've been intrigued by recently.

Apart from the payment mechanism functionality, units of cryptocurrency are much like shares in a company.

The Cypherfunks experiment (www.thecypherfunks.com) illustrates this concept: Imagine anybody could own shares in the music industry. To make this possible bands simply accept payment in a specific cryptocurrency (e.g. FUNK). As more people support bands using this form of payment, the value of the cryptocurrency grows and the entire network of bands and their supporters benefits.
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It's not only about file storage. Ubuntu One offered a Web service to programmatically access the files. Imagine you've developed an application that interfaces with Ubuntu One and is mission critical for your business.
It's a shame that this is proprietary and hosted—as good as nonexistent in the discussion of general-purpose tools.
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Great point. As for the questions below, let's talk real numbers for the US in 2014:

Average household owes $7,115 on their credit cards. Average indebted household owes 15K+.

http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-card-data/average-cred...
I use it for blogging and documenting my work. Here's an example blog post I put together on compressed sensing: http://www.gallamine.com/2014/02/a-brief-introduction-to-com...
"A Revolution in Money" would mean that no third parties do have control over its value.
Nowadays we have something like a server based money network.
If the server (bank) goes down, everybody is screwed.

Imagine a peer to peer kind of money network. Every member is a bank himself. Getting a credit works like crowd funding. People can invest their money into several projects. Investors get a certain percentage of the profit. This way you avoid the "interest and compound interest" problem.
True for far, far too many articles IMO.
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> That's not true everywhere. I'm not sure if it's US-only behaviour, but in other countries, the majority don't use credit cards for debt - just as a convenient payment mechanism.

Sorry to pull an HN special on you, but do you have any kind of source for that? I've never heard it, though I have heard that debit card usage is much higher in Europe.
And I just bought the new Roku Streaming stick...I'll be curious to see how they stack up. Amazon offers a comparison of FireTV to the Roku3, but not the Roku Streaming Stick. And the Stick is just $49.
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I think it's a fascinating move on Microsoft's part to integrate a video game character into a users day-to-day reality. I can imagine some nostalgia fueled sales happening as a result. But moreover, I can't help but be reminded of the movie Her. Where the lines between our physical reality and our digital reality start to blur
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It's not that hard in practice either. Besides mutation testing (which becomes a rather slow affair when your codebase is of significant size) you can just do coverage checks. If you have a simple branch coverage, that alone can guarantee (in most situations) which methods are used and which aren't in your tests.
Gotta spread the word on this one!
From the InfoQ article yesterday: "Although posted on April 1, the switch is not an April fool." (http://www.infoq.com/news/2014/04/svn-migrates-to-git)

The whole thing was clever, but I'm not sure it counts as as being "fooled" when the gag specifically denies being a gag. I'm not sure I like this precedent (and I love April Fools jokes in general).

But maybe the article from yesterday was a third-party source who had fallen for it? If that's the case, then well-played. :)
You don't have to be a "Designer" for this