skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
File/data management is one of those things that are very fundamental to what computers do and one of the first applications for computers, but where advancements have been quite limited. We are still mostly stuck on simple hierarchical structures with short plain text string as the sole identifier for files. Files themselves are mostly opaque blobs, file managers usually having limited info about their content.

Admittedly file managers these days at least can show thumbnails and in some cases even previews of the file which is great. They also are capable of extracting some metadata of files, but that still feels bit tacked-on in most cases. Versioning is also available in various forms, but that too could certainly be better integrated to the system.

Imho it would be interesting to see a system which would forgo our current conventions of files and directories, and instead would be more strongly be based on the concept of tags, metadata and objects.

But I got sidetracked... I meant it is nice that people are trying to rethink even a little how we manage data, even if this particular project doesn't really hit the mark for me personally.
I would be very interested in seeing the stats. I am much less interested in reading the hand-wavey pseudo-explanation which feels like speculative rationalisation instead of science.

"i lack imagination. At least, that's what my two children 'qwerty' and 'F12' tell me" -- Milton Jones.
Apple buying Beats for $3.2 billion? Smart move
The microscopic structures of dried human tears
Another unnecessary layer to deal with...
First to file merely does away with the battles between inventors both trying to file for the same invention claiming and trying to prove that they invented it at some time prior to filing. First to file does not effect prior art and things that are already public domain. You can't just cruise on over to github and pick a FOSS project and be "first to file".
https://twitter.com/billbarnwell/status/464525645377441792
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"Software Collections give you power to build, install, and use multiple versions of software on the same system, without affecting system-wide installed packages." I already have that power, it's called my skillz.
Hi Martey, thank you so much for alerting us to this issue, and for your other suggestions. You should have already received the email below from CC general counsel Diane Peters; I'm posting it here so that others in this thread can see it too.

Cheers,

Elliot Harmon / Communications manager, Creative Commons / elliot@creativecommons.org

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Martey,

Thanks for your help in identifying this issue and for your related suggestions. You’re welcome to post this reply as an addendum to your blog post; we’ll also be posting it on the Hacker News thread.

We regret not replying to you promptly about what we were doing to resolve the issue, and to express our gratitude. That was our error, and we apologize. Our immediate focus was on locating the file you identified, confirming that no other files with sensitive information had been inadvertently uploaded, determining what information the file contained, and identifying and contacting affected donors. Thankfully, we were able to remove the file the same day you reported the incident. That was our highest priority.

We have since learned that our rapid deletion of the file limited our ability to access statistics about its use. We will share an update if we learn more about views or possible downloads.

As to your other suggestions, they are well taken and we will do better. Both emails for the audit committee on the contact page are functional, but in order to avoid confusion, we removed one of them. We have also emphasized that audit@creativecommons.org is the most appropriate portal for sending privacy-related concerns at this time.

Thanks again for calling this to our attention, and our apologies for not more quickly replying to you individually.

Diane M. Peters / General Counsel, Creative Commons
While true in a narrow sense, it does so by targeting the lowest common practical denominator—in practice, a chip that looks a lot like a 386 or 32-bit ARM with no SIMD pipeline. That puts it as little more than a better GNU Lightning.
>Australis sealed the deal and made them nearly identical in the most critical ways.

How is that? Using the hamburger icon, which was used by Mozilla in mockups before Chrome used it, or rounded tabs (which Chrome doesn't actually use), or making the customization UI (something which Chrome doesn't have, yet again) not look like it's from the year 2000?

Please identify the critical ways in which it's imitating Chrome.

The most important aspects for me would be customization, and Chrome doesn't offer anything in the same ballpark. And with Chrome, you have to resort to tedious workarounds to install certain extensions if you don't want to login to your Google account. And if we ignore all of that, Firefox's add-on ecosystem wins too.

People get upset at every UI rehaul; you could hear much the same sentiment after Firefox 3.
Nothing fancy... Fedora 16 (yeah, yeah, I know... I've been too busy to update lately) on a relatively low-end Toshiba Satellite laptop. KDE for desktop environment, with lots of Konsole sessions open. Firefox and/or Chromium for browsing, Eclipse and/or Emacs for editing code, LibreOffice for spreadsheets, presentations, etc. On that one, though, I do plan to switch to Apache OpenOffice sometime soon.

Beyond that, well... We use a Mediawiki instance for sharing information, SugarCRM for customer management, Jenkins for CI, and Bugzilla for issue tracking. We also use Google Drive and/or Dropbox for swapping big files, Github for source control, and have a few VPSs at Rackspace (to host the company website, Bugzilla server, Jenkins server, Mediawiki, etc.)

For short-lived test/dev servers, we use AWS / EC2.

Programming language wise, most of our products are developed in Groovy and/or a combination of Groovy and Java. If I need to knock out a quick script to do something, Groovy is my go-to language if I don't feel like doing it in bash.

One big thing I want to do, is ramp up my knowledge of sed, awk, bash, etc. I'm far from a shell scripting guru and I'd like to "level up" on that a bit.
I doubt we'll ever get the net neutrality we want until we swallow the pill of paying for what we use—like we do for other utilities—instead of some imaginary total capacity. How do we make sure transfer amounts are monitored fairly? How do we make sure our software is accessing the network only when we want it to? Those are technical challenges we'll need to solve. But if we want ISPs to play fair, then we must absorb the simple concept: If you stream Netflix all day, you should pay more than the lady next door who checks Facebook a couple times per week, even if the bits are flowing at the same rate.
Hi Raphael. It's an interesting approach, and thanks for making it available. I just tried running your benchmark on an Intel Sandy Bridge system (E5-1620) and got results similarly disappointing results to those that you found on Haswell. I posted the numbers as an issue on Github.
I've dealt with a lot of legacy Fortran (and Pascal) code, and while the I agree with the article in that Fortran has to go, Haskell and Clojure seem VERY weird and pointless choices in the area of computing (see the comments on the ars website, a lot of valid points there).
But the biggest problems that I've encountered in the Fortran code I dealt with were not exactly Fortran-related:
1) Terrible variable naming (aaa = eee / ccc + 1. and so on)
2) goto's, huge chunks of code with no structure (or, even worse, structured with goto's)
3) disregard for numeric accuracy and overflow/underflow

And this, imo, has more to do with the way CS is taught to scientists - I had a two-year course in C/C++, and we spent those two years writing all kinds of trees, lists and stuff like that. Needless to say, that is good and all, but that didn't exactly help us with writing scientific code later on - a lot of people wrote terrible code to get their AVL trees working, for example, just to get a passing grade.
No one taught coding style, working with CVS, computer arithmetics and such.
The same goes for the MATLAB course I took.

In my opinion, it would've been a lot wiser to teach people scientific computing using Python. It has tons of scientific libraries (a lot of people that I know who are involved in scientific computations often neglect to re-use code, use publicly available libraries; teaching people how to use third-party packages/libraries is important), forces programmers to indent (the amount of unindented C code I've dealth with makes me shudder), and makes them realize what makes a program fast or slow. Besides, using Numba/Cython/Theano/multiprocessing), it is possible to give a more or less painless introduction to the world of parallel/optimized computing. And only then start teaching C/C++/OpenMP/MPI/Fortran.

Now, I'm judging from my personal experience and from what I've seen at my university (which is the second-biggest research university in the country), there's a huge difference between how CS is taught to CS students and science students (physics, mechanics). The knowledge that science students receive is subpar, and, unfortunately, enough to start writing computational code.
The code is very well commented and I'd highly recommend if anyones interested in scraping to read through it. As a bonus, the Appendix details all the steps to run the script making it very easy for beginners.
At least as of a couple years ago, that was true, and the way the arm was engineered was very deeply tied to these modes.
It looks like a good resource from a very quick skim of the document. It is a shame, however, that the English may not be too polished.
Cloudflare's cdnjs already exists, and allows people to contribute anything they like to it by making a pull request against https://github.com/cdnjs/cdnjs. Why would you choose to use this instead?
Why not spend all that time that goes into making changes to the UI on actual functionality, like multi-process, sandbox, faster WebGL?
Why do you write a 600 page book and offer it for free?
The Weather App, as I understand it, is built by the Bing team, who use WinJS (javascript) for their apps. This native compiler backend is for .NET, so they wont benefit from this at all.
The Anti-Foreword by Dennis Ritchie [1] is especially funny.

One of the authors (Daniel Weise) wrote a post mortem ten years later. [2]

Back in the heyday of /. there was a funny discussion going on. [3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie

[2] http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~weise/uhh-download.html (link inside broken, book PDF is now linked from the HN title).

[3] http://slashdot.org/story/03/04/26/2354245/unix-haters-handb...
I'm colorblind and I'm very interested in this.

A few years back I purchased for over 700 euros a pair of Chromagen glasses that promised to do the same.

http://www.chromagen.us/

With the Chromagen glasses you had to go to an specialist place and get your eyes tested with a variety of glasses to see which combination was the best for your type of colorblindness. Luckily for me both glasses were the same colors (pink, which even if I can't see it properly, I would prefer if they were another color).

Some interesting things since I had the glasses:

- The first time I saw red trough the glasses was surreal: coca-cola, a tomato, carrots, etc. Was a very emotional moment because you realize how much info is missing in your sight.

- As much as I got excited when wearing them I got depressed when taking them out. The world is excessively green to me which once I saw the world with red in it, a green world is incredibly boring.

- While I tried to make them as fashionable as possible (had the glasses on an Oakley frame (hey it was 10 years ago) I don't think they look to good.

- They were not really sunglasses per se, so I would wear them and still be bothered with the sun which this new ones seem to have figure out.

I will sure give this ones a try. They look good, seem to be fashionable enough and the price is accesible.

Just need to figure out the emotional aspect of it as is really something. I wonder is there's a correlation between mood with colors and colorblind people that can't see red being generally grumpier.

P.S: talk about resting on your laurels. Chromagen always had a marketing issue in my opinion and this is just surreal:

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s3/sh/decd967f-f4da-4ff3-b9fa...

They are displaying Google Ads in their site and I get a retargeting ad of EnChroma Glasses.
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So if a botnet operator infects my machine, gaining access to my files... and then the FBI gets a warrant to install further software on my machine, ostensibly to investigate the people operating the botnet, haven't they just gotten a "warrant" that entitles them to everything on my machine, independent of who owns it?
Edit: I get the "last mile" distinction in their proposal, but if the entire idea of Internet delivery was classified under common carrier laws, that would cover last-mile.

"Common carrier" worked when we had a (true monopoly) telephone system where touchtone was considered a radical, once-in-a-decade technical advancement. What incentive does Comcast have to, say, push standard bandwidth to 100Mbit while being paid regulated, low margin rates as a dumb pipe provider?

Mozilla's proposal is interesting, but I think it's probably too clever by half: Even if the FCC wanted to get into the business of setting "fair" rates for "remote delivery", I think Congress would prefer they didn't, and that matters.
http://www.jsdelivr.com - uses multiple CDNs, including MaxCDN (which this appears to solely use)
Try searching 'club mate' and your country. Results came up for a UK branch for me, just checked and the same happens for the US.
http://blog.yurichev.com/node/80
I think it's a work in progress.
The paper is linked from the article: http://casasanto.com/geoffbrookshire/papers/CasasantoJasminB.... I think your dismissal of the article is perhaps a little too harsh; for a popular report on a study, it's better than the median we see here.
The end has been marked for over a decade you realise?
This works both ways: patent holders view of what their patent covers expands dramatically if they need cash. Your work might have been a very specific problem but if the company goes broke, in a few years everyone might be hearing from a lawyer claiming it covers far more than you claim now.

Having clients receive letters from shakedown operations (e.g. a patent for part of a wired in-store POS system being claimed as integral to every online storefront) I'm rather skeptical about your belief that there's a significant problem of dishonesty on the patent reform side. Yes, there might be the occasional headline which oversells things but for every example you provide you can find a dozen cases where someone's lawyer made an equally outrageous claim which cost people doing actual innovative work millions of dollars.
Not to mention one of my favorite quotes on audiophiles:

"Regular people buy sound systems to listen to their music. Audiophiles buy music to listen to their sound system."
It annoys me a little that

a) Someone thinks so many people can be divided into just two groups

b) the idea that validating an assumption should also automatically validate the reason. People in the north might be more individualistic than in the south, and yes they grow wheat and not rice but that doesn't mean one depends on the other. It just doesn't seem all too scientific to confuse correlation with cause.
Ex-NSA chief is launching a cybersecurity consulting firm
I found you have to drink a lot of it before it becomes drinkable which is a bit of a catch 22...
Thanks, really appreciate the detailed feedback.

There's an automated tweet sent out when an app is added to the directory. I presume you got notified of that via email. I've intentionally not emailed app owners directly as I thought that would be pretty spammy. Perhaps it may be worth doing, especially if the benefits of having a full listing would be explained in more detail.

I like the idea about letting users update info on webapps, much like what Lanyrd is doing for events. Not entirely sure how to go about implementing it though, but will probably start by letting users review apps and go from there.

The stars are refreshed once a day, but the rating you see on StartHQ is relative to other apps in the directory, not all the sites on WoT.

I've sent an email about claiming your profile. You've actually claimed it by signing up, however updating the profile is still a manual process.

Did you try out the launcher and search? Would be great to get your input on that.
I think your analysis makes more sense to me than that article. I am from north and barbaric.
Saving the tags in the file name has many advantages. First of all your tags are not vendor locked. You can use the search capabilities of your operating system to search for the tagged files. And last but not least, just by simple synching your files with for example dropbox oder owncloud you are getting your tagged data on all your devices... You don't care about complex db sync mechanisms...
Honest question; if a very naive one (Since I haven't thought about it very hard...) But why wouldn't a very simplistic metering be acceptable by that definition?

I'd be totally fine having my internet metered, if the costs were commensurate to the service provided, and the service was as regular as other metered services (e.g. water/power)

I've heard why the common carrier argument isn't "the best solution", but I don't fully understand why metering hasn't been championed as a way to have the two sides (consumers and the companies) come to some common ground, or at least "call the bluff" of the companies using justifications like the above ("people use internet differently", "people will never use this amount"); so why not just see, and charge accordingly?
US? Some pointers here (online and physical locations): http://club-mate.us/
App Casting (LeanBack) vs. Tab Casting (Chromecast)
How does a keygen generator actually come up with a valid registration key?
It says "Powered by jsDelivr" at the bottom of the osscdn pages. Does that mean that this is just a curated list of OSS libraries available on jsDelivr?
The mailing list was a lot funnier :)

I wonder if anyone still has the real archives (there are partial, sanitized archives).
And Keyhole was named after the original US spy satellites, the KH series†, dating from 1959. High-res imagery download was via parachute-net.

†http://fly.historicwings.com/2013/02/kh-1-the-first-spy-sate...
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> Why nobody is showing concerns about her to the USPTO?

What are the odds that her supervisor has no idea what's going on? They either have a broken quality review process or, more likely, have been told to do more with less for so long that people know they aren't doing good work but need to deliver numbers. Hiring people to work in the federal government is a bitter political issue so it's almost certain that they're understaffed, particularly since the legally-mandated process and payscale will complicate hiring technical experts in fields which pay well.

In either case, you can complain about this person in particular but you really should be contacting your congressional representatives to request both legal reform and increased budget / accountability for the USPTO to avoid some congressman's “savings” costing industry billions when a bad patent is issued.
Just two weeks ago I was talking to a guy in the military. His government job was to monitor military test taking. At times only 2 people would show up in one day to take a test. He gets paid $20+ an hour. I didn't ask how many hours a week he worked, but I got the impression it was his current main job.
Did you read the article?

a proposal made public yesterday that would give federal agents greater leeway to secretly access suspected criminals’ computers in bunches, not simply one at a time.

"Secretly access" and "in bunches". Sounds rather like a general warrant to me, and without probable cause, except maybe to fearful know-nothings, where "hacking" is essentially the same as "magic".
Interestingly, I've always been taught that the difference is explained because of dryland farming vs irrigated farming (so essentially, rice vs wheat), which leads to difference in development of agriculture and so on. I'm actually surprised that there doesn't seem to be a consensus about that yet.
Because he did such a stellar job to keep NSA secrets secret. And he failed in his basic mission to observe the laws of the country he was serving.

I love how failure in the high levels of politics is always awarded with money, lucrative jobs and contracts.
The reason it's good to proactively think of future threats is because so many past concerns have proven to be true. Several months ago, no one on Hacker News really believed that BIOS backdoors were much of a threat. But today it's a well-established fact, for example.

The tools of law enforcement probably aren't going to be revealed, and they're hard to discover. Nobody knew about the zero-day exploit employed against Tor browser, for example, and there are almost certainly many more tricks like that up their sleeve. They already take steps to conceal them; parallel construction is an unfortunate reality. And since there's not much justification for a whistleblower to reveal the techniques, it's unlikely someone will come out and talk about them. We'll probably need to think along the lines of "What's technologically possible, and how is it useful to law enforcement?" It's not a good idea to wait until a weapon is used before thinking about how to react to it.

The history of communications technology and how governments have reacted to the technology is actually quite fascinating. Wiretaps used to be extremely commonplace, and since there's not too much legal protection from the government rifling through your digital life at will (at least compared to getting permission for wiretapping your phone), it seems like it's better to err on the side of caution.

It's also important to realize that even though some governments follow due process, several powerful ones don't. Also, there are other global other considerations. The US has made it pretty clear that their legal restrictions are designed to apply to US citizens, not any foreign person. You may be forced into a situation of choosing which governments you'll trust, especially when cross-nation collaboration becomes even more pervasive. Assuming that other countries adopt a similar attitude of "Our citizens are protected; other citizens are examined," then the US may simply outsource their databases of information to be examined by some other government, like any other member of the Five Eyes.

I understand your concern and skepticism though. It was a question I've often wrestled with myself.
For some reason, this article was rather heavily flagged. I've overridden that, because the project looks serious and credible. Are people just reacting to the title, or is there something else wrong with this story?
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