skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know where you get your info but in the translation of show I saw he said: 1)the interception is clearly regulated by russian law 2)of course they intercept communications 3)they don't do mass interception and not at the US scale and he "hopes" they will not do it in the future either 4)they don't do it like in US mostly because they don't have the technical and financial resources
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I'm giving it the 6 months that it took Grantland to figure themselves out before making a call on the overall quality - The Value of a Steal series has, so far, been the only really high quality piece I've read, everything else sounds like a proposal to study something interesting (or the abstract of the paper studying something interesting).
Any idea why the github wiki feature wasn't used for this?
So, looking at the TechCrunch video[1], are the antennae in the silver boxes seen at 2:30? I'm curious why we got to see the rest of the infrastructure but not these antennae other than their housings.

And if the box has 160 or so units per board, is all the 8VSB RF decode in there as well? The tour seems to imply that.

160 units capturing 18 mbit/sec (max) per 8VSB would be 2.88 gbit/sec going off to transcoding. But the module is using a 1 gigabit pipe? Or are all three ethernet cables attached to that module sending video?

[1]http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/16/aereo-shows-off-their-rooft...
It really depends on what you're doing. Triple-A games and most graphically advanced 3D games pretty much require you to use C++.
The worst CLI apps are terse, require too much domain knowledge to configure, and lack sensible (or any) defaults. The worst GUIs are like the baby that would result if Dali and Duchamp copulated in a live action Candyland game.
VPNs do protect against rogue networks like a hacker sitting on the same open hotspot and listening for credentials.

In a more global way, unless you're fine with one high-grade adversary spying on you, but not others (i.e. good with NSA, but not so happy with FSB), VPNs don't provide any real security.
OK, my example was not perfect, I was just trying to make it accessible to show why spurious correlations in data have a greater likelihood in larger datasets, especially super massive. The sequence was analogous to the correlation.

Given enough data it will appear but it cannot be trusted as any sort of indicator.

Prob just best to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spurious_relationship
What job should you take, or company should you pursue?
The main attraction in openess in IoT as a consumer is that it would hopefully enable the market for robust, hopefully open-source, turn-key software solutions for HW manufacturers, minimizing the amount of (inevitably broken) software the HW mfgs need to write themselves.

I think we have repeatedly seen that HW guys just can not be relied to write good enough software to be exposed on the internet.
Or try to predict availability based on recent queries. If there is only one stall open and someone checked its status 30s ago, respond that "maybe" a stall is free.
Thank you for the emphatic greetings. Normally, when I see articles with similar titles, they are articles about general programming trends. I realize that HN does not like link submissions article names to be modified. Since the article is on a website about a race car AI contest, the website does not need to provide context in the article. I'm just saying that if I was skimming through HN articles and saw the article title, I may get the impression that Java is the new old hot again.
Relevant: "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" starts in 4 days on coursera, which was created by the author of scala.

https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun
Id classify them as a hardware company because their revenue comes from selling hardware. None of their software offerings are significant revenue sources by themselves, they're just there to complement the hardware making it attractive to buy. They've even made OSX upgrades free. They've been setting themselves apart from the competition for a long time by the quality of their software but that just makes them a better hardware company.
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Calling Schneier "blogspam" means you don't read his blog.

You really really should.
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$20 per notebook is a bit on the expensive side, imo.
Who needs TV for entertainment anyway? That old Maine saying comes to mind: use it up, wear it out, make do, or do without.
If Aereo loses, there's a nice little thing they can do.

They should stop offering the streaming service, and start selling this thing (either recreate a similar competing device, or simply become a reseller!): http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_broadway.html - a TV-signal-receiver/streamer-in-one device -- which can stream either over your local Wi-fi, or across the interwebs so you can watch remotely when you're out of the house.

And then people can use this thing for themselves and their friends and families... at no cost! Aereo should ship the thing to all current consumers immediately after losing, and lock everyone into a contract of 8$/month payments for however long it takes to recoup the full $150 cost of the device.

I'll be happy if people get this device over a service because it goes a nice distance to finally putting the power of cloud in the consumer's hand.
Thanks for checking in and the quick responses!

Yeah, I selected the 'show past courses' checkbox and selected a course that was over a year ago. If you are looking for specific data points for the bug, it was the Coursera "Machine Learning" class.
Neat idea and bravo on quick execution.

But did you ever see these guys?

http://modnotebooks.com/
Well if Nokia had been making Finland proud for over 100 years, they certainly weren't doing it with mobile phones the whole time! ;)

Nokia is an extraordinarily tenacious company. They've been pivoting since before pivoting was cool.

Nokia still exists in its 3 business lines: Networks, HERE, and their Advanced Technologies business.

Now will they ever reach the heights of what Nokia was to consumers around the world? I doubt it. But I've learned to never say never in this world...
Not really. They don't have a way to change their laws. It's Putin's Russia.
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John has some great shows about TV's, their technology, their interfaces, and how they can get in the way of the picture quality:

See here: http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/16

Also, see here for details about John's "Journey"[0] [high fives self] researching and purchasing a TV recently:

http://atp.fm/episodes/43-brilliance-enhancer

[0] - If you've listened to John discuss video games recently, you'd be high fiving me too :-)
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Are there any free solutions out there for simple time tracking?

Even just good applications for logging worked hours. Currently I just use a spreadsheet to log when I get to work, and when I leave.
Agreed, but doesn't the $20 include the service and shipping costs?
> by hardware people who have no clue about software.

and

> Short version: Hardware organizations don't get software.

I concur with these two commenters.

Going back to the 1970s, starting with DEC, it's been my observation that hardware companies don't get software. (I worked at two separate companies that OEMed PDP-11s and developed operating systems instead of using DEC's.)

Rather than being viewed as critical to a product's success, in far too many cases it seems like the software is merely a component on the bill of materials for a device without which the unit can't be shipped.

Companies that achieve excellence in both both hardware and the accompanying software are so rare that they might as well be thought of as unicorns.
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The problem with magic seatbelts is that all the tooling surrounding the magic has to know how the magic works as well.
Ha, I didn't scroll down to the footer!
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I have TiVo Product Lifetime Service and built my own antenna but would love Aereo because of #3. I live in an area where it's difficult to get good reception and this would solve a huge problem if I could get the local stations reliably.
It does not miss it, just ignores it. The author states that there are lots of things we can improve but the point is that we have too many variations on the theme without converging to a solution that has few (or no) dependencies and comes with built-in build knowledge and the ability to discover what you want rather than make you declare it.

Such a tool should be:
- Zero (or few) dependencies. Likely written in plain C (or C++, D, Rust) and compiled to distribute in binary form.
- Cross-platform
- Support any mix of project languages and build tasks.
- Recognizes standard folder hierarchies for popular projects.
- Easy enough to learn. Not overly verbose (looking at you, XML). Similar to Make if possible.

Examples of the auto-discovery: It can find "src", "inc", and "lib" directories then look inside and see .h files then make some educated guesses to build the dependency tree of header and source files (even with mix of C and C++). Or it could see a Rails app and figure out to invoke the right Rake commands, perhaps checking for the presence of an asset pipeline etc. Or a Node.js project. It could check for GIT or SVN and make sure any sub-modules have been checked out.
most banks (esp in asia ) didn't have much tech investments(other than the core investment they anyway make for banking services) in fee-based-revenues(against interest-based-revenues)(and hence its management) for sometime until the 80's or 90's.Later a lot of them started getting into the fee-income management for almost all their services.Some even got into product-catalog management (if that's what you call prod-eco-system) building their own service eco-system(eg many payment gateways in developing economies were run by banks) and loyalty management systems.

Service customization was a long run topic, in banks (esp europe and americas) , not that they were less agonized with technology but most corporate and wealth clients (of these banks) enjoyed lots of (un-federated) customization benefits.The very costs of these services led to them being so.(eg we have very few payment gateways in town , even today!)

However with depreciating computation costs these services opened up for federation , hence more customization.

However the repo-runs etc in the recent past led some raising very skeptical views of these.(e.g. fee based rev estimation on ABCP charges etc...)

Its however a very complex and dynamic market.Long time back DB research had a paper on complexities in retail pricing.(https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/DBR_INTERNET_EN-PROD/PROD000...)

Overall the thing being:service federation, service eco-system , service-customization etc are not something new banks for banks (that they have to learn from others)

Its only the revenue vs cost benefit that keept it away from these.

With regulatory policy changes in investment-banking post the repo-run era , banks are left with fee-based income as one more tap to top!Thus we see these banks doing these nowadays(as though suddenly jumping).Its not tech that led to these decisions.

Usually in reatail-banks : decisions are not driven by successful technologies , but rather by late application of those ...
I put a performance comparison for React on the homepage yesterday (the link takes you to the actual test page so you can run it yourself). It simply measures running js time for initial rendering, which is the ugly, unavoidable cost of frameworks that authors don't like to talk about. The numbers are mostly averages, but should give a reasonable idea of what is faster than what.

I also do go more in depth here ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/comparison.html ). TL;DR: The main differences is that Mithril is a lightweight MVC, whereas React is a powerhouse at doing only the "V" part.

There's actually a project that uses React to enable HTML-y Mithril templates here ( https://github.com/insin/msx ), so the two can certainly coexist.

Mithril's light weight is mostly a result of picking a very small set of tools that are simple but useful on their own, but that also happen to come together nicely and that can play ball w/ Javascript's FP capabilities and the JS ecosystem as a whole.

Mithril is also a bit of a experiment in making a framework that gets out of your way - more hacking and less figuring out what is the syntax to do X. If that's your cup of tea, I'd recommend checking out the blog that I just started last week ( http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/ ), where I talk about reusable programming techniques.
Thats less than half of the equation. They still have to get the signal to a transcoder, transcode the stream, store it on a "personal DVR" for each customer, and then stream it to you.
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I think what you're getting at is the distinction between this:

float x;

and this:

kilogram x;

The former, as you say, only tells you about the underlying representation. It says "this is a float, so the computer should store it in such and such a way." That's fine, but it doesn't tell us enough.

The latter example is far more useful. In my imaginary language, the declaration implicitly tells the computer to store the value as a float, because the kilogram type has been defined as such elsewhere. But that's not all it does! It tells us and the compiler that this float represents a real-world quantity measured in kilograms. It prevents us from mistakenly passing kilograms where a pounds were expected, or seconds where kilograms were expected.

On the Haskell front, you might be interested in the Dimensional library, which does just that. It also works elegantly with multiplying and dividing units. E.g. if you have a miles value and an hours value, you can divide to get a miles per hour value.
Weird text over emacs. What causes it?
Hmm, maybe the overlay changed since you posted (11 minutes ago), but all I see is a sticky-slim footer with the cookie mention.

I've always liked how rockpapershotgun.com does it...it also uses a sticky-slim footer, but the text reads: "Rock Paper Shotgun uses cookies. For some reason we are now obliged to notify you of this fact. Not that you care"
Personally I would not consider connecting a TV to the internet. Aside from usability factors, it's hard to assess security (therefore the TV-ware has to be assumed a hazard), there's little transparency into what it's doing, update mechanisms are sketchy at best.

Most new models, it seems, have the so-called "smart" features, but it's harmless if you don't connect it. I just use a TV as a big monitor - plug in a PC and use a wireless keyboard from the comfy sofa.

More curious is why the TV and monitor categories haven't converged. Eventually I predict, they will, when demand for OTA tuners fades and "cord cutting" (as the cable TV industry calls it) goes to higher percentages.
No, far from it. My comment is at +7 (6 upvotes, at least).

People, inside and outside of tech, are waking up.
Hopefully "Internet of Connected Things"
See also this blog post about using using single-member structs in C to achieve similar goals:
http://spin.atomicobject.com/2014/03/25/c-single-member-stru...
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Ah thanks for that info, that helps!
It sounds like they're actually using each antenna, but the absurdity of this situation is that this could actually matter legally, considering the exact same service would be provided to the end user either way.
You'd think broadcast and cable companies would embrace doing their own competitive product to extend their reach.

Instead they still to this day create a false demand by holding back American innovation, that only works if their aren't other alternatives.

If broadcast/cable want to live on they need to get to innovating and improving service, not fighting everything that challenges their kingdom.

I hope Aereo once again opens up competition on overpriced and monopolistic practices. Cable and broadcast had an immense lead when broadband internet innovated (with the help of taxpayer money and rights to provide the service they agreed to), then they stopped, got fat and turned to hogs.

Monopolies can sometimes move everyone forward for a time (At&T/telcos leading to software/C/C++, Microsoft spreading computing and internet, possibly Apple and the smart phone initially) but eventually, if the leaders aren't innovating and get too comfortable, they need to be jolted awake as they are no longer the leading innovators nor the future.
Not exactly.

Contrary to NSA story (who are known to collect data without court orders), we have no information on SORM-2 abuse at all. It's unknown whenever in absence of active court warrants those boxes are just idling on a rack dropping packets or do something they're not (legally) supposed to do.
Alot of stations went to lower power transmission with the DTV conversion, and some VHF channels are really difficult to pick up.
As far as I know, you can still carry their plastic card that has the same reward structure. App mirrors the card functionality.
I want to be writing scala so bad, but there doesn't seem to be any jobs in my area. Are there any scala specific job boards out there?
Couldn't agree with this more. I cringe at laugh tracks that literally get set off after each line of dialogue in many exchanges, especially when it is not even a joke and not funny.

Compared to that, SV is much much better in my opinion. I can't even watch BBT because the laugh track is so grating and don't get me started about "Bazinga", the most trite manufactured catch-phrase ever created.
Sorry about that - should work now!
Interested to know the technology behind Nipple Alert. They should create that site.
Wait a minute - it wasn't Schneier who submitted the link, was it?
What they might also be misssing -- and the article highlights this -- is that its not just a correlation analysis. There's also a fairly well-developed explanation for the causal mechanism that justifies the hypothesis -- lead has already been established to have significant effects on brain development and behavior (and been specifically linked problems in impulse control and executive functioning.)
A commercial laundry server product: http://www.laundryview.com/lvs.php
I had the same full-screen thing on mobile; on the desktop it's indeed as you described.
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> Maybe they could add a reservation queue to the bathroom as new functionality.

The FIFO system does not take urgency into account. When making a query, it would be good to give an urgency rating on a scale of 0 to some_number.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/23/tarnished-silver...
Ya :). Most of my writing to date hasn't been about ST, per se, but this was my first trial. Sorry that if it is too marketing-y.
> Would that satisfy Euro law?

Note that this doesn't exist. Only local law could force sites to implement this, and afaik only the UK had a defunct specification of something like that they did'nt even follow for government pages. So, just the usual law craze.

> Is there a nice JS lib to detect and put up an unobtrusive hover-over popup in the bottom corner or something?

Well, I don't know if this is nice enough as I didn't use it, but it looks ok: http://sitebeam.net/cookieconsent/
The site itself looks alright, its obvious what you are trying to sell. Ironically the first selling point is also a reason why someone would not want to use your service

"[...] A million-dollar idea? Maybe the first sentence of the next NYTimes bestseller.[...]"

What is your guarantee on keeping these secrets a secret? Why should we ship off our ideas and thoughts off to some company to scan them when we could do it ourselves on our own scanner?
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Didn't Need/Want start a Kickstarter project and then a company around this?
Clever move from HBO to create that page...
No, fortunately there's no laugh track on SV. I'd be surprised if HBO ever used one, though it could have worked on Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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Looks like this is actually code for sending completion pixels in a video ad.

http://static.squarespace.com/static/531f2c4ee4b002f5b011bf0...
Agreed. I don't think the author ever said hacking was an inferior or unreasonable tactic -- she never said clever kitchen extensions were bad. She just wanted people to be able to separate and properly judge what is a clever kitchen extension and what is proper house foundation, and know when to use each.

However, I don't agree that hacks are inherently short-term only. It's possible, although very difficult, to come across a quick, easy decision that will improve your long-term as well as your short-term.

Like what Twitter did at SXSW 2007. They set up 2 huge 60 inch plasma TVs in conference hallways -- that one small, quick, dirty easy decision caused them to explode in popularity.
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Raspberry Pi is great and easy to work with. I got it, I don't need 5 inane projects per day to remind me about it.

I particularly like this one, but for me life is too short to waste time in useless projects.
I'm currently working on a build tool that doesn't work using the traditional "makefile" approach. Instead it's designed as a Python library, and you have the full power of Python at your disposal.

Sadly it's not ready for prime-time yet (early designing stage), so I won't link my highly unfinished project.
I'm actually in a really good place IDE-wise, have a stripped down Eclipse (Platform + RCP build) with 2 Scala plugins, Scala IDE and Scala Worksheets.

SBT does the heavy lifting (have automatic build turned off in Eclipse) while Eclipse provides the dev environment.

Really snappy, zero spurious errors, it's like night and day compared to 3 years ago, woo hoo ;-)
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Just because you're in a market doesn't mean you can actually receive broadcast TV. I need a 100 foot mast to see over a nearby mountain to broadcasters that neighbors 2 miles away can get with rabbit ears. Aereo's NYC region goes out to the tip of Long Island https://aereo.com/coverage/nyc
Wikipedia is far from an "accurate source of Islamic Law", but you seem to be a fan, so here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam#Opposition_to...

Regardless of whether or not you decide to dismiss these positions as out of the orthodox, it's a logical fallacy to assume that because some Muslim-majority states implement some of the penal code describe in Islam, that any activity by these states is somehow part of or sanctioned by the religion.
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Who knows. In their dataware house all they need is email id to link data from different apps to have a great knowledge about you and send more targeted ads.
It gets mentioned, and then another HN story pops up on Aereo and we have to review the facts and stances over again. And again.
Yeah - this is exactly the kind of distinction I was trying to make. Reminds me of Abelson's famous quote, "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." That's an idea that's largely forgotten when it comes to type systems.

Thanks for the pointer - I'll be sure to check out the library as I dive into Haskell over the next few months.