skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm also uncomfortable with the way Google collects so much user data. I wouldn't go so far as saying it's creepy though - they don't do anything sinister or nefarious with your data, but they do have an insatiable appetite to track and record as much of your online activity as they can.

They can track you across mobile, desktop and tablet devices. They have a desktop OS (ChromeOS) that potentially tracks everything you do online - whether you're running apps or browsing the web. You have to sign in to do anything - even to print to your desktop printer; all print jobs are routed through their cloud print service. Over the course of a few months or a year, Google will potentially know more about your online behaviour than you do.

Google's fingerprints reach into every corner of the web - you can't avoid them even if you're not signed in to a Google account. Google Analytics is everywhere as are the many Content Delivery Networks (CDNs). In fairness to Google, they do have an opt-out tool for Google Analytics. And many sites benefit from using Google's CDNs, although Google obviously benefits too).

What worries me is how easily Google avoids scrutiny on issues of user privacy and data collection, particuarly from the tech community who give them an easy ride on such matters.
Small, cheap, and high-volume eats the world, and it's hard to beat DRAM. For any silicon hacker, this is disruption-in-waiting: make DRAM compute. Doesn't matter how, just do it well. Whether it be naive CMOS sensor substitutes like this, Micron's Automata processor - http://www.micron.com/about/innovations/automata-processing - (their IEEE paper is surprisingly good), or whatever you find fit, once you hit volume production you've probably won. It's hard for standard logic processes to hit cost-parity with this beast.
This is kind of a bad idea because if the source address of the connection is being spoofed, your machine becomes a TCP port 22 proxy to any other host. Not to mention the fact that you expose yourself to denial-of-service attacks.
With the recent push (shove) of Google+ down everyone's throat, I find myself avoiding the use of Google services that collect & store too much personal data about me. I've tried Google Now but couldn't convince myself to stick to it. The negatives outweigh the benefits. Plus I love a tighter control on how my phone battery is drained. Google Now doesn't let me do that. I see an additional 20-30% drop per day with Stock Android & Google Now enabled. So long.
As someone in the fitness tech industry, the lack of info on the device should be telling. Indiegogo and Kickstarter are becoming full of new HW devices that promise amazing results with very little proof. I really wish these crowdfunding sites required a prototype to independently verify in-house prior to accepting the campaign. Sure it's not a perfect solution (as there could be exceptions of experienced HW developers needing capital to execute and build their realistic prototypes), but it sure would cut down on a lot of "make big promises and flashy videos, excuses later"
This looks great, nice work.

Do people using this sort of thing (or the YouTube style top of the page loading bar) actually get back real % completed values from the server or do they just use it to show that _something_ is happening?
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Leaking someone's email address and associated name is bad enough. If Yahoo don't see that as sensitive it places the ability of miscreants to entirely own and abuse Yahoo Mail accounts in some kind of institutional context.
Upvoted this. Here is one of my personal heros: http://techland.time.com/2013/03/04/how-an-83-year-old-inven...
It's not all that useful if you don't have iOS or Android. They need a way to track your location + I think they scan your mail locally on the device instead of on the server (and they can't do this on desktop).
I disabled Google Now on my Android phone; it was creeping me out. Government surveillance is bad, but for some reason Google collecting every bit of information about my life and constantly analyzing and using it (against me?) scares me much more than some bits collecting dust in an NSA data warehouse.
Great question. I'm in my 30's and I've wondered on more than one occasion what we'll all be programming in 30 years. DNA? Nanobots? What will the web look like? Will we be still hacking away in virtual reality when we're in elderly homes, drifting away with the occulus rift 8.0 lenses in?

If anything, I'm excited at getting older and being able to see where all this rapid evolution is taking us.

@People over 60 here: What is it like learning and keeping up with the flurry of new technologies at your age? Do you find it more difficult to grasp with age or does it get easier?
This page is too green. Can you try with a white background?
>> "It kept showing me sports results - I'd rather read the phone book."

There are only two reasons this should happen.

1. You googled the sports team

2. You have a sports team setup in the Google Now settings

On the card there should be a button in the top right to let you tell the system you don't want to see sports results too.
The United Nations creating a uniform system of regulations, WP.29 was established on June 1952, for vehicle design to facilitate international trade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Forum_for_Harmonization_o...

As of 2012, the participants to the 1958 Agreement include 52 countries including all of Europe, China, Russia, Japan, Australia.

Part of the regulations is a common specification for fuel use - litres per 100km.

There is one significant non-signatory to the agreement.
Or write about how you work your ass off delivering bagels at 6:00am.
I don't mind the green, but trying to read green on green is a bit hard.
That reminds me of the idea that "The world is its own best model", credited to Rodney Brooks. Basically rather than having an intelligent agent rely upon a complex predictive model of its environment to explore the actions it can take a better/faster/simpler approach might be to actually interact with the environment and see what works - "intelligence without representation".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Brooks
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You don't need to hack someone's account to send mail as them, you just need a server that will get into the popular services. That's the reason social graphs are sensitive, match up people who trust each other and send them messages as each other.

Interesting point about password resets though, if you can read (have hacked) the email you're into pretty much any account. BTW in case you're unaware any Android/iOS device can run Google authenticator and generate 2FA tokens. Email behind 2FA is probably the best security/friction tradeoff for that sort of message, but not many people use it.
> He says the loss of his sight, the second time, was more profound to him than the first, because it was permanent.

Why was the first time non-permanent while the second time was? Did the system damage his visual system in his brain?
Your work is impressive, and I don't mean just the Android applications :-).
Does any operating system or commonly used program report file sizes in terms of 1 GB = 10^9 bytes? As far as I know they all use GiB and MiB, whether they call it that or not.
An interesting assumption to consider.

Just to pick one current example, JUS[0] presently has a capacity of 1.28 terabits per second.

If, for some reason, we were to run it at an even 1tbps, piping all data through a single spiped connection, the security requirement would be broken after just over 4.25 years of continuous operation.

8 streams of uncompressed 4320p@60fps video multiplexed into a single spiped connection would also break that requirement in a bit over twice as much time.

These are contrived but possible scenarios with present commercial technology. In 10-20 years, that assumption might not be so safe.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan-US_(cable_system)
Very well-written bite-sized intro. I've always wondered how well JITs would do if they had access to a scratchpad RAM (kind of like many GPUs). It's a very different problem than with a register allocator but I feel it'd be more useful for a JIT since it probably knows more about the program structure than whatever LRU variant the cache algorithm is using.
OK I don't know anything about why he supported the campaign, and AFAIK he haven't spoken publicly about it at all. But even if it was because of religious beliefs, he is not being forced to resign because of his personal religious beliefs. He is being forced to resign because he supported a political campaign which had real repercussions for real people. That is a pretty big difference.
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Sounds extremely involved.
It's only of use to students who can afford an iOS device. Probably a demographic with an higher income than the average student.
1 GB = 1 GiB when you don't know what you're dealing with: take a look at the 1.44 MB floppy per example.

1.44 MB = 1.44 B * 1000 * 1024

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/121839
Hm. When I made up a quote for the hypothetical man I was not actually trying to posit that this man's encounters (as representative of the tech/programming everyman's) with feminists consisted of him being told that he is evil. I actually value what feminists write, something that you didn't seem to pick up (not that I explicitly put it down).

Also you characterize my second "approach" as "charitable". This is interesting; spending time listening to women is apparently charity, with "oh boy another feminist move along" as the "[less][!] rational" baseline.
http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...

http://blog.llvm.org/2011/05/what-every-c-programmer-should-...
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Windows uses GiB, but displays GB.
On Linux, most tools uses standard SI (1000 = K, 1024 = Ki), but not all of them...
Are crowdfunding platform going to be the home shopping channel of this decade? There seems to be a lot of resemblance with the miracle products with dubious claims and ripoffs that are more expensive than the original.
I think that makes you strange, yes. Even in tools we tend to see beauty.
Do we really need the might in the heading?
So we live in a world where you can browse to a page and have your network compromised? Consider reading the story.
Cloud to butt
And this is why I keep cleaning my cookies and surfing in private mode.
>He had the jacks removed from his skull at Kingston General Hospital in 2010 as they were infecting badly, due to being made of titanium.

I was under the impression that titanium was one of the few materials considered to be safe for human implantation.
omg, I love you. Yes folks, also, remember not to create 18 QUINTILLION connections (18 billion billion) with the same key. :)
Most real numbers only exist in fever dreams and acid trips, anyway.
I have no idea why anybody would do business with a company as awful as Yahoo in 2014.
This PDF has some test results and a more detailed description of the technology and science of the device. The article does not seem to reference it, so it was probably posted to the campaign after the article was written.

http://healbe.com/files/Healbe_HistoryTechnology_04031-C.pdf
If you use a different firmware, would your problem be fixed?
OSX has switched to 10^9 bytes a few iterations ago.
What's the distinction you're drawing there? I flag most articles that contain the word "sexist" in the title because I know such articles usually cause a flame war.
Or just use a UUID.
In the case of my submission, I legitimately came across spiped while researching a problem I was working on today, and I thought others might find it useful.
Is this tarsnap product placement or what?
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A search on Github for Xtend classes reveals 10,502 results:
https://github.com/search?q=class+extension%3Axtend&type=Cod...

This beats Ceylon by factor two (4,189 results) and is close to Kotlin (12,233 result).
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is this journalism? the first paragraph is about how he isn't believable because he has a russian accent yet works in the valley. seriously? Isn't the valley largely made up of foreigners pursuing crazy ideas? This is subjective and fishy armchair journalism at best. Even if the product is junk - there needs to be more substance than "i dont feel like its right because he has an accent and my 2-3 hours of research from my chair didnt show up much". Try researching some biotech companies that are in super-stealth mode - you will find nothing - yet they've often raised double digit millions in funding for their products from VCs...
At least that shows this is not a crowdsourcing specific issue.
> On a serious note - this looks like a really useful addition to the toolbox of "low-level unix flavored tools".

Anyone have a list or collection of these? I feel like I'm missing out on a whole world considering I just learned about spiped from this post.
It's in the title of the original article.

It still has most of the impact of saying 'It's bullshit', but it is a lot safer from a legal standpoint.

edit: I think most of us will read a little of this and the other articles in the series, and then delete the 'might'
Neat. It would be even nicer if it had hover and active states for the buttons as well.
Forget it, I was not used to JavaScript RegEx. I just looked it up on MDN, and it really defines `\w` to be very limited. Doesn't really make it any better, but whatever.
Thanks, my (embarrassing) mistake!
Of course, hashing _and_ expiration would be best.

I'm not really seeing any good reason _not_ to expire them...
I think the vast majority of sites just make the progress bar move in a way such that it appears to be loading quickly/making progress, but when the server is finally ready the bar just jumps to the end.
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I had a red/blue variant that was one of the most aggressively ugly assaults on readability I've encountered.
Why did the devices start to fail after 8 weeks? Was it because of the infection?

Are there any similar devices that have been installed in people that have been more successful?

$100,000+ for 8 weeks of sight is very sad to think about.

What was the approximate resolution of the image that he saw?

WEAR YOUR SAFETY GLASSES!
Yea, I found out about the OpticRAM while doing research on this.
titanium is safe. the jack part is unsafe.

to have a subdermal anchor for external hardware is extremely tricky. flesh pockets around the anchor and has tons of potential for infection after prolonged use.

I , too, was confused by the wording.
Much respect to you sir!
Heh. This was my university intro-to-C textbook, and the course was taught by Pieter Hartel. Great lecturer.

It's not about functional-as-a-religion coding in C, and it really is a beginners book. Good though.

Pieter always used to say that he got around 50 pence per copy sold (from a roughly £15 pricetag)and if we found a typo we could have our 50p back :)
True, but the profoundly high cost of living in a dense, walkable area might indicate that more people want to do this than that market allows.
Nautilus and Thunar (to name a few) in Ubuntu use SI prefixes.
Good point. I would still say that the route "from Alto to Macintosh" is thinking more in IQ terms and that the full path, Alto to Macintosh to market, is frequently underestimated. I had a feeling that while Kay may have appreciated the first half, the second half was rather absent in his talk and he kept presenting it as though the software they built was sold ten years later by somebody else. For example saying that Microsoft took Bravo and sold Word.
Peter Murray Rust [0] is in his 70s and still writes code most days [1], and is a hacker in the original sense. He's retired from his professorship but still runs an active research group making awesome software to liberate knowledge from scientific publications, and he runs the Open Knowledge Foundation and various other groups. I'll ask him to respond himself.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murray-Rust

[1] https://bitbucket.org/petermr
Linux is all over the place. For example:

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1K
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 0.157131 s, 6.8 GB/s

'dd' interprets command-line arguments "M" and "K" as 2^20 and 2^10 respectively, but when it reports the total amount copied, it uses the decimal GB (10^9). It also uses decimal SI units in the average speed calculation.

My favorite file manager, Thunar, reports file sizes in decimal units. Not sure if it's distro-specific, though.

Many other programs, like 'df', have a switch (--si) that turns decimal units on or off.
XFCE (Thunar) uses SI units (just verified against ls -l).
I like the top-line horizontal version. It's consistent with the new "progress bar on top of single-page application" convention.
Not unless patio11 decided that I needed more help and started paying people to submit links.
I wasn't serious, just surprised to see spiped and this link submitted within a few hours of each other.
Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile does this too. If your connection drops out, the progress bar continues to move towards 90%, then gets stuck there forever. It's maddening.
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>The net subsidy is usually from city to suburbs and countryside.

Because of progressive taxation and the fact you have to pay people a lot more to live in dense cities. Any time you want to propose a flat tax you'll have my support.
> I don't buy the thing about email not being accessible enough

There's nothing to buy. I will not email mods about false negatives. It's inconvenient.
On IE they used ActiveXObject called "htmlfile"
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Microsoft reveals concept for in-car entertainment system
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity

You misinterpret the word "charitable".
Dear Google,

Please don't tell (or at least influence me) on how to live my life. When I want information I'll ask you, not the other way around.

Regards,
Human Being
Yes but in this case the word is rather superfluous.
I remember wondering why anyone called them 1.44MB. I could understand 1.38MB, and I could understand 1.457664MB, but where in hell did 1.44MB come from?

Now I realize that they mixed 2^10 and 10^3 in the same sentence. Thanks for finally answering a question that's been in the back of my brain for 20+ years!
For an alternative and cynical view of Xerox PARC, have a look at Ted Nelson's Computers for Cynics 2 - It All Went Wrong at Xerox PARC (15 minutes video):

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=c6SUOeAqOjU
It's good for the brain if you learn to moderate your programming activity. Doing 100 hour weeks for more than a year will basically mess you up.

It takes about 2 months to come back from a burn out, playing high speed games can help you chill, help you step down to the speed of normal life again. But the best thing is to learn to say 'f* it', and take a few days off here and there.

Programming is like the gym for your brain, video games work in a similar way - but it's in a slightly different part (from my experience) of the brain. ie: they are related, close, but not the same - but do compliment each other if used in a balanced way.

Source: Programming for 32 years.

I will never accept the term 'hacker' - it's annoying
Remember that we're talking about digital video/audio fingerprints here, so it's not just a case of "someone uploaded a video with Sintel in the name".

The question is why Sony would be uploading a copy (or a content ID fingerprint) of an open-source work to YouTube and claiming it as their own.

YouTube's ContentID would appear to be Working As Designed. The problem is that Sony would appear to have falsely claimed title to a work that is not theirs. It's for Sony to work it out, and for the uploader to quickly and immediately hit the 'dispute' button, which effectively then moves the situation back to Sony to "put up or shut up".

I'm not sure that the best way to deal with this situation - which is clearly an error and nothing more - is to run directly onto twitter and start screaming about there being no better reason to support open movies and urging everyone to "donate now" though.
The writing is kind of hard to follow.
What they really meant was "2880 512-byte sectors". :-)
Hmmm, next time you're in Bonnie Scotland you can buy me one ;-)
This is the first time (as a non game-dev) I'm reading about a P2P game where each peer computes only part of the world. That's quite clever, especially for an indie developer who'd be hurt more by spending lots of money on server resources. It should be possible to build quite massive multiplayer worlds this way. Has this ever been attempted, say, in a WoW or Eve type game? I imagine that for massive battles, each peer could serve as a proxy for all the data it has received already, such that only one connection to another peer is needed to see the whole thing - similar to how bit torrent works. Lag could become a larger problem there of course, so it probably only lends itself to a slower paced gameplay where players don't target each other using a visor - but it should work for a WoW style combat system, no?
I've been seeing spam that's "from" my Facebook friends for about a year or so now, so we're already living in that world.
I guess that's why the email can only be unsent or modified until the recipient opens it.
Talk about bad luck! Loosing the sight in one eye at a time in two separate, but almost exact incidents
The article is a strawman: No one argues that the SI prefix G- is base 10. The example: "A 200 GB hard drive holds..." is blatant question begging ("It's 10^9 because it's 10^9").

The real questions are: Why did hard drive manufactures move from a (misnamed) base 2 to base 10? They were confused before but then saw the light (decades later)? Why did all OSes and utilities use base 2? Why do most still use base 2? Why can't we use base 2 now?

Making the consumer think he gets more for his money doesn't give you an advantage over your competitor (if he's doing the same thing), but it does put more money into the industry as a whole. Imagine a home ice cream machine fad. All manufacturers might rise more or less equally, but they all make more money now that people believe their lives are better enhanced by putting their money into ice cream.
Really? for me it's either competently done with care and precision (call it 'quality') or some degree of not those 3 things.

Maybe it's just a word usage. For me, "beautiful" are things like lush ornamental gardens or rolling green hills on an early spring day.

A, say, 30-in-one screw driver, however, is not - regardless of how suitably manufactured it is. It's just a tool to me.

For me I'd say "what remarkable durability this tool has - at such an affordable price. Look at how compact it is" definitely compliments, but nothing with an emotional attachment.
I'm the other developer of AnkiMobile along with Damien Elmes, creator of Anki.

The iOS app is the sole source of income for Damien, who develops, hosts and supports the entire Anki ecosystem for free. At some point a few years ago, Anki was taking up so much of his time that he had to decide whether to quit his job or stop developing it. He chose to quit his job and make a paid iOS app.

I think £17.50 is a reasonable price for such a complex app. Many people who own it use it for over an hour a day. If you think of it as less than ten cups of coffee, and consider that you would pay much more for a textbook, I think it's a good value investment for the educational return you get.

If you really really cannot afford £17.50, you could always join the beta program next time there's a call for testers on the user group, or you can use the web version on your phone.