skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>damage would be enormous

Would it? The NSA is reading everything and I haven't seen see many changes. I think we as a society need to sit down and figure out if these services should be in the private domain or instead implemented in the public domain that matches with our values. We spend billions, why can't we spend a few to make an internet that doesn't spy on us.

I don't think I could stop using Google. I don't know what would make me stop.
Truthfully, regarding call connect charges, ringback, per-minute fees, etc... I don't think many folks think much about the fact that a lot of the business and billing decisions driving modern telecom policy are still rooted in the same thought patterns they were in the 1950s. It drives the net neutrality debates, it drives shareholder profit expectations, everything.

And I agree - it's absolutely the wild west. After 70 years of doing it one way, we're starting to see a tipping point of new realtime infrastructures and technologies. Unfortunately, I think it's likely to become even more wild as the "silo-ification of communication" trend continues. Boo.

Don't get me started on credit card processing fees. ;)
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And then the asinine fees to change your Steam profile's background...

And then the asinine fees to sell an item to another player...

And then the asinine fees they take for community map rotations...

And then the asinine fees they take for community skins and items...

It's both amazing and disgusting how much money Valve makes from their little value-add services.
Embedded Go and Bluetooth Low Energy Hardware
I feel your pain, although here in Asia many work 9-830 and then somehow on the weekend try and do stuff that matters. My experience is that it's good pressure as it forces you early on to be judicious with your time and only do what really needs doing NOW and with some kind of order. It also prepares you slowly for the discipline and loneliness of being a full-time entrepreneur. So try and be positive as sounds like you have reason to be! Lets face it when you grow up its harder to find butterflies:)
is there a plane that flies at infinite altitude?

Is there an aircraft of concern to the FAA that flies above FL1000? One or two historic flights have been that high, so raise the ceiling to 150,000'

still not infinite.
I just found this on Twitter and thought it was really interesting especially after the recent HN discussion regarding "Scammed"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7726786

Also found the follow up press release issued by the company Dr. Oz targeted.

http://fox5sandiego.com/2014/04/29/tarr-inc-s-owner-responds...

It seems to be this company actually sells their own product with an active ingredient that was endorsed at one point on this show. Not really sure how I feel about this one. I do know there are a lot of affiliates out there pushing products and making fake endorsements but if Dr. Oz did endorse this product at one point what is the real harm?
Thanks. We changed the url to that from http://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.89.052....
Through?
Good job, did you build it for yourself?
A bell-state measurement is the holy grail of QKD. It can only be done 25% of the time and with great difficulty 50% of the time. So your channel only works 25% of the time!

For entanglement in a single qubit variable, only three distinct classes out of four Bell states are distinguishable using such linear optical techniques. This means two Bell states cannot be distinguished from each other, limiting the efficiency of quantum communication protocols such as teleportation. If a Bell state is measured from this ambiguous class, the teleportation event fails.
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_state#Bell_state_measureme...
Why is google being targeted with all such write ups but Facebook gets a pass. Facebook has many of my photos because it has all of yours. Facebook knows my browsing habits because all of you have have like button in your site etc etc.
Thank you for that history lesson!
You should definitely check out bgfx (https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx). It abstracts various graphics APIs for you, making development and debugging markedly easier. It also stops you from having to deal with the complex state-machine known as GL.
Targeted surveillance always gets its man.

Global EoE encryption's benefit is making it significantly (and perhaps prohibitively) more expensive to engage in bulk surveillance.
>>shown by all the deprecations
Yes, but they also added a bunch of stuff. Going from #version 120 and #version 430 feels like a whole different language.
Google Analytics (and other tracking cookies/scripts) are actually very easy to evade, by using browser extensions such as Ghostery, Ad-block Plus and NoScript.
Good point, however as you already noted, it's not a single app or single chat client that can change the situation - it's the acceptance of it among the bigger community. It's not a technical but an educational topic where ecosystem leaders should take the responsibility to educate ordinary people (not just HN readers) on that. I strongly believe this kind of initiatives should have a strong legal/governmental support and/or control.
Thanks! We changed the url to that from https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12852544/serve/ILLIAC_pr....
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Instead, we should pass a law that prohibits regulators who have a conflict of interest. People like Wheeler should never be allowed as FCC chairs. That he's attempting to pass regulations that refer to his own scrutiny and evaluation of fairness is a huge red flag.
Hah! I'm a big loser!

Our in-depth psychological assessment shows that you
might like a career as a cheese taster, scuba diver
or professional TV show watcher.

To be fair, it does list some alternatives. E.g., I could be a political scientist. But, then, I'd get fired and be downvoted into oblivion.

I could be a user experience designer or an online reputation manager [watch it!], but that sounds far more like a supplier than a job description.

I suppose I could be an epidemiologist. But I'm lazy, so that would only work for really interesting diseases. Gotta stay motivated, don't you know!

I could be an animal scientist or trainer. Maybe that would work if I could be as sensitive as another recently posted author (octopuses). But I seriously doubt it, I being a slacker!

I could be a cartoonist, except I can't draw worth shit. I could be a lyricist or a poet or writer. But that takes talent. Which I don't have.

I could be stonemason or a plasterer or a stucco mason. But, did I mention, I'm a slacker!

Baker. Getting warm. Bread being baked does smell nice. Yeah, that's promising. Except I'm too rich.
'Practical thinker' it is.

Fairly accurate. I've been a coder and entrepreneur. I love solving problems and building stuff.
For all interested, here is a link to a recent talk Perlman gave at Stanford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGAnDQEQJ_s

Since many will not watch through the whole thing here is a basic synopsis.

If you are looking for pCell's strength to be in any sort of physical layer innovation, stop. It's not the actual antenna 'box' that you see in photos that is doing the heavy work. That is just a basic RF frontend that Artemis could care less if you broke it open and reverse engineered every component inside.

Perlman's talk confirms my suspicions that this is not an RF advancement at all. It's a software advancement. The real work is being done by the "datacenter". The overall RAN architecture is a CRAN (Cloud RAN) architecture, which means that it fails miserably to be innovative without it's special software.

We are not talking about protocol stack software (as found in LTE eNodeB's and LTE capable UEs). We are talking about Artemis's proprietary software (which must be some killer highly optimized, low-level, kick-ass mathematics and networking algorithms).

Artemis's datacenter seems to create a virtual enodeB for every device accessing the CRAN (the access points being the 'Cloud' of those antenna boxes you see in the photos/videos which work together).

Each device then communicates physically through the boxes but virtually with an enodeB "server" in the datacenter. Thus, it reads the environment AS IF it has an ENTIRE basestation (tower) all to itself. :P

Now if you know every device's information via uplink information provided by the protocol stack and every access points information provided by the already in-house data then you could theoretically play around heavily with wave-front mathematics.

But I think pCell's potential is being a bit overestimated. I remember Perlman saying something like pCell offering a 10x advantage or something. (Sorry don't remember every detail I watched the video late last night).

That advantage level is cool, but it seems Artemis is pushing (and for good reason) not some sort of instant HUGE advantage with pCell, but a long-term scalable advantage.

According to their claims, it seems that you should just be able to add more access points (as well as extend the processing capability of the datacenter) to increase the overall capability of the CRAN.

It would be neat to know what algorithms they are using, but they really seem to not want to say anything that might even come close to giving it away.

I am not sure what aspects of the channel quality and UE feedback they use from the protocol stacks (LTE, wi-fi, etc.) but they seem to have something working.

We shall see what happens.

EDIT: It's a funny way to think about it, but it seems that the 'innovation' exists outside of the protocol stack. It's like a "sub-physical layer" that "transports" the actual link between the device and the virtual enodeB by placing the wave-front 1cm around the antenna(s) of the device? (Open to critiques on anything I said) :)
Oh, please. Ethical?! I certainly don't consent to kettling and acts such as the brutal killing of Ian Tomlinson.
Meanwhile, in "socialist hell-hole" Sweden, I have an unlimited calls, texts and 4G data plan with these speeds http://i.imgur.com/62yT2ig.png (45Mbit down, 7.5Mbit up)

It costs me ~$48 per month. I average around 10-12gb per month, but don't have to worry about any charges when tethering my laptop to the 4G.
You should patent it.
You hit the nail on the head.

Google Analytics is on a substantial proportion of the Internet. 65% of the top 10k sites, 63.9% of the top 100k, and 50.5% of the top million[1]. My own results from a research project I did using the Common Crawl[2] corpus estimates approximately 39.7% of the 535 million pages processed so far have GA on them.

The real key to tracking is the referrer data.
For the vast majority of clicks, you land on a site that has Google Analytics or you've just left one that did.
As Google Analytics tracks your referrer, that means they still have your full browsing history if you jump from GA => !GA => GA => !GA => ...

According to my research[3], Google gets activity information on 51.43% of the 42 billion links analyzed in the 535 million page corpus as either the start or end of the link uses Google Analytics. This activity means they can accurately track browsing history on most sites, even those that don't use GA, simply as timing information, referrers, and knowledge of the web graph end up leaking user activity.

Used in an anonymized fashion, this is beneficial as it helps Google understand real world web traffic and hence rank search results accordingly (far better than simulated activity based upon PageRank or similar).
In the theoretical situation you drop anonymization is where this gets troublesome.

If you're interested, there are more details at "Measuring the impact of Google Analytics"[3], though much of the discussion is on Hadoop + Common Crawl. For a privacy focused write-up (primarily worried about the NSA using Google Analytics), refer to "Google, make Google Analytics HTTPS by default"[4].

P.S. Everyone who notes "Google Analytics is easy to evade" are correct but missing the broader point -- the majority of web users will never do that.

[1]: http://trends.builtwith.com/analytics/Google-Analytics

[2]: http://commoncrawl.org/

[3]: http://smerity.com/cs205_ga/

[4]: http://smerity.com/articles/2013/google_analytics_and_nsa.ht...
The world is less violent than ever. The average person's chances of coming to a violent end have been declining for a while:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/world-less-violent-...

Much of the common violence and atrocities of the past when portrayed in movies and other forms of entertainment are shocking and far removed from the every day experience. See the most recent US Academy Award "Best Picture" winner for an example.
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said Dan Kaminsky, co-founder of the White Ops security firm and an expert in attacks based on over-filling areas of computer memory.

That sounds more like buffer overrun than OOM. One is a Heartbleed-class vulnerability, the other is a pretty straightforward DoS situation. But of course why would we expect Reuters to be able to distinguish between the two...
Having worked on ATC, this really does sound like a software bug. Fixing such a bug on a delivered system would require an immense amount of costly testing. Adding memory is the cheap option.

The other thing to consider is that some of these systems are rather old and could easily have less than a gig of ram.
There is also 0 A.D.[0], which is inspired by Age of Empires.

[0]: http://play0ad.com/
Ask HN: Favorite domain availability checker?
So my favorite domain name checker is down: www.domai.nr

The top google results for others were actually pretty crappy. Works fine for the really common tlds but that's about it. What does everyone else use?
Finally! Something useful on this site! XD! busts out gameboy color and become more blind than I already am
That's a locally exploitable vulnerability. While it could have been used as part of the larger attack, it implies that the attacker gained access to the system in some other way.

Correct me if I'm missing something.
I got the exact same results. I suppose this means I'm in the right field.
To the inventor? Perhaps, but there is a great deal of risk and additional work involved. Most inventors take the easy route rather than trying to market and sell their inventions themselves. However, there is a lot of risk involved in doing so. Risk that your idea won't actually translate into a workable invention. Business risk, and so on. With an easy payday in sight there is a greater incentive for people to spend their spare time working on such things, if they have domain expertise. In contrast, working on their own they'd have to contend with the risk that their invention won't actually have as much of a market as they thought or that they wouldn't be able to monetize it very effectively, and so on. With a prize a lot of that risk becomes less important, and shifted onto google's plate instead of the inventor's.

Also, google isn't necessarily depriving the inventor of patent/licensing rights, the $1M dollar prize is likely just the beginning of monetary return for the invention.
No. But I suspect his local MP will ask the Police to investigate. The officer who asked the police to pop round will probably be nagged for being naive. There may be a weak apology and it'll blow over. The damage I suspect will be for the politician who attempted to misuse a complaint about online bullying as political intimidation. UKIP won't be affected because they're a protest party, most people voting for them don't care about their tactics they see them as a single-issue party.

Edit: fat fingers and predictive text!
I always held the down arrow. It worked about 30-70% of the time.
I am reminded of the game Dreamfall[1] where part of the backstory include a company putting on the market a lucid dreaming device, hence would trigger a decline of sales of traditional entertainment systems because why would you buy movies when you can dream anything you want on demand.

(Although the game backstory goes further with its machine being able to not only trigger but also shape and even download the contents of the dream, posing copyright and mind-control issues, but that's another thing :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamfall%3A_The_Longest_Journ...
FAA Is Probably Lying To The Public About Drones
this is really pedantic but why is End To End Encryption shortened as EoE?
Currently only supports markdown files, if that was a markdown file with the code in a fenced code block it would work.
I think hudibras was been sarcastic
T-Mobile, I'm guessing, as I have the same plan. Look at http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans. It's near the bottom, under "Pay by the day" even though it's a monthly plan.

$30/mo. for 100 minutes, unlimited text, 5 GB LTE data, throttled to 2G but unlimited with no overages after reaching 5 GB. And their LTE is fast as hell, I have pulled 30/10 on it which is faster than my Qwest/CenturyLink DSL (at the fastest speed they'll sell me).
Appreciate the heads-up.

Whenever I see such BIG and over the horizon forecasts I'm instantly dubious for at least two reasons:
- Lots of Black Swans can circle and cross reality in short amounts of time.
- Global averages don't count for much if localized, extreme concentrations exists that swing towards depleting and /or insufficient resources.

The myth is not the myth of the pop. explosion, it's the myth of yet more BIG forecasts!
I think you are being far too naive. Of course they use this information to their advantage. Just because it hasn't "leaked" or is "illegal" doesn't mean it isn't done. It is only stupid if you get caught, stupid.
My use of the term "holographic" was taken directly from Ng's dissertation, near the end of section 3.7: "...Camahart showed that holographic stereograms can be synthesized from light fields." Whether he's strictly correct with his use of the term I don't know.

Ng also mentions working with Zebra Imaging on printing such "holograms" [sic], so that's certainly a possible application. I'm not sure a lot of consumers would be interested in that, though, compared to simply showing pictures.
Enjoy your freedom :-)
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it worked about 10 or 90% of the time for me
FWIW, I like yours a lot more.
Do carry on in software development.

But save enough of your income to interest your economist side.

One morning, you will wake up and realize you made over 50% of your income before you tumbled out of bed!

Carried to an (eminently achievable) extreme, this is called "fuck-you money". Some achieve it suddenly, but many gradually.
1/2hr a day, but probably lying to myself and underestimating.
Perhaps you missed that redbot.org is now one of the sites using SNI? That means that the tool can no longer connect to itself: https://redbot.org/?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fredbot.org
Dropbox link is now up.
Could a user "fake" additional site visits in between each real visit in order to obfuscate the actual visits to GA sites?
Error Messages Are Evil
There's a new one!

https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=bitcoin+eur
Chrome for Windows is one of the most common setups for browsing the internet, so this isn't an edge case situation. That post originated in 2009, over 4.5 years ago.

It's good to hear it might be finally addressed, but I wouldn't say they've been actively working on it, when all the other popular browsers had this sorted years ago.
Enclosed tube maglev system tested in China
I took a scuba diving course with an instructor who formerly worked as a diver with a local aquarium, and he related to us that the aquarium had to replace their octopus population every few weeks because they would keep dying of boredom, so to speak. They would put the food in hard-to-open enclosures, but it just wasn't enough. Octopuses need to be challenged and engaged.
It gave us food for thought about whether we should be keeping creatures with such a powerful intellect in captivity.
Seems kind of slow? Or is it just me?
Typo or http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=om7... ?
I love articles like this! They're a very fun exercise in what you /really/ need to have a programming language. Here's another one: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2013/03/list-out-of-lambda/

It's in JavaScript for those who prefer JS over Ruby (although for the purposes of the exercise the language choice doesn't matter much).
dude - that config is awesome. I have T430s which is better by far (sorry !), but here's my config to configure the touchpad sensitivity, disable two finger right click, etc.

https://gist.github.com/sandys/6030823#file-t430s-configurat...

Can you add your configs to gist.github.com as well - helps me clone it.
Gene startup 23andme casts eyes abroad after U.S. regulatory hurdle
This is a pretty good example of why we use mathematical symbols to describe calculations and control flow instead of english phrases.
There are two first would countries in the world comparable to the United States, and one of them is only an almost.

Australia - Widely dispersed population, universal coverage hard to build out, environmental factors. Unlimited Voice/SMS/MMS 2.5gig data allotment - 121.73 USD (Telstra)

Canada - Population in a small band near the border but many rural areas must be covered by mandate, universal coverage expensive to build out, environmental factors. Unlimited Voice/SMS/MMS 2 gig data allotment - 82.61 USD (Rogers Communications)

United States - Population widely Scattered, many rural areas without significant infrastructure improvement raising construction cost for bearer facilities hence huge construction costs in 4g rollout. Unlimited Voice/SMS/MMS 2 gig data allotment - 75 USD (Verizon Wireless)

Beyond the above - there has never been a time in the last 10 years where there was not a major network rollout in progress by the major carriers in the US, first they built the digital networks (96-2001) then the 2.5g rollout (EV-DO/EDGE (2001-2007) then the 3g Rollout (EV-DO Rev A and HSDPA) (2007 - 2009) now the 4g Rollout (WiMax then LTE) (2009 to Current). This has been the case world wide - but because of the geographical features of the US (higher construction costs and lower density) our telecom costs will always be higher than Europe and Asia.
It's Google, they would have made a Google+ page.
I would guess that it was some form of an numeric overflow, signed/unsigned issue or out of bound array access, because the only abnormal thing here is U2's altitude.
> Much of the common violence and atrocities of the past when portrayed in movies and other forms of entertainment

To be fair, they are never portrayed in a very realistic way. Or at least not in a way in which you care about the characters dying on screen.

As to the claim of "less violence", let's rather say "violence in number is decreasing", but there are still very violent AND cruel acts being carried as we speak in many parts of the world. And let's not forget there are still many places as well where people are enslaved - the fact that these behaviors are resilient does not say lots of good things about humanity.
This is part of a system the FAA has been trying to replace (unsuccessfully) since at least 1990: http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-internationa...

(The AAS often appears in software engineering classes as an example of a classic "train wreck" project)
Mainly because the CAD industry refuse to move forward.