skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Remember how someone leaked a presentation on how DEA was using "parallel construction" to prosecute cases when they were initially tipped off of illegal surveillance. They (DEA) might follow the subject and try to weave a chain of evidence that would make seem plausible that an agent accidentally stumbled on the crime somehow (so as to obscure the real source of the information).

Well spy agencies do this very often. For example if a an agent defects (say in this case someone from the Chinese intelligence agency). And they give up the names of 10 agents working for China in US. Well, if FBI goes to their homes immediately and starts arresting them, it will most likely disclose who that original source is. Presumably that kind of information is compartmentalized in China (or any intelligence organization) and once leaked it is trigger a mole hunt on a relatively small group of people (who have been read into that program).

So FBI might start monitoring those spies, and maybe only pick the ones that can do the most damage (or are about to leave the country, for example) and choose to prosecute them. Or I don't know turn them into double agents.
Ok, I looked the list of updates. Some of them don't apply to me, many I don't care about, a few I do. So I appreciate the reminder (thanks guys who did the site) and will upgrade ASAP.

Still, I didn't identify any change would prevent the site from working so I'm just curious. Anyone care to shed some light on this?
One backer paid $10,000 to be the person who hit the big red button that would launch all the 'sprites' into space... damn.
Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbir_Rahman

I got both the smallest Wikipedia page I've ever seen, and the one with worst "words I understand" to "words that make me go 'huh?'" ratio I've come across.
These companies spend the most money to kill net neutrality
> Regional competition for services which require expensive infrastructure is non-existent once the first player has entered the market.

This is just as true when the first player is a local (or State) government as when it's a private company.

> Quality is the exact reason why something like transportation is handled by local governments, as opposed to letting private toll roads dominate the market, which have no incentive to patch pot holes when it's the only option available.

Local governments often don't do a good job of patching potholes either. (Nor do State governments, which often own major highways.)
If I'm reading Wikipedia correctly, Wired is owned by Conde Nast, which is owned by Advance Publications, which also has a large stake in the Discovery network.

Hooray for an independent press!
Must have been a tough choice between Theseus and Algernon.
I'm sorry if I missed it... What does that mean though? Does it mean that Lenovo will be acquiring a litigation free company, or just that Apple wants a time-out with Google, and the game will continue once Lenovo is holding the ball?
ShowHN: Merging Reality and VR [video]
Im job hunting soon and lots of people will be looking at my github. Im not sure if this would be cool or not. On the fence.
>People only get away with that crap because people tolerate it

Man, did you ever nail it. The people who do this kind of stuff are needy, and they are frequently bottomless in their neediness. When they see someone who is patient or tolerant of their nonsense, they will lock in like rabid pit bulls (apologies to rabid pit bulls), and they will make that person responsible for their emotional well-being.

Now, once you've allowed them to go down this path, you're headed for trouble. You think you're just being nice or understanding, but you can never satisfy these people, so at some point you will have to draw the line. And when you do, they will perceive it as some grand slight because you were once so "kind" to them. Then, more drama, but this time you're the bad guy.

Bottom line: you can't entertain it for a second. As soon as it is spotted, cut it out like the cancer that it is and keep it moving.
"* If you just let the market do its thing, then fewer people will have access to Internet overall.*"

Care to add some justification or reasoning behind this gigantic leap?
Ada, C, C++, and Java vs. The Steelman (1997)
I don't really expect anyone to keep theirs after the initial novelty has worn off, it was just a quick, fun thing for me to make.

Hey, what happened to that flashing RGB thing with the catchy song on your website?
Make it say "HIRE ME!"
> a mixture of antimony and potassium tartrate

Antimony was someone else's random article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7758751
> Why don't we spend $10M to bolster the review team and clear the queue instead of creating $150M worth of perverted incentives that the companies will inevitably recoup from the health care system?

Because:

1. the $10 million would come out of the FDA's budget while the $150 million doesn't; and

2. spending $10 million to clear the queue would do nothing to incentivise drug development for neglected diseases, such as leishmaniasis.
Using existing s3 tools with libres3 and skylable sx: duplicity
Ask HN: What do people think of Ray Kurzweil's theories (AI, etc)?
Someone mentioned in another thread that Ray has a controversial reputation amongst the machine learning community. If you're into machine learning, I'd especially like to hear from you.

Personally, I agree with some of his theories (eg. that humans aren't really hard-wired to think in exponential terms). I certainly take his claims of immortality and mind uploading with a grain of salt, however.
There's also the problem that social interactions are emotionnally stressing, so it's hard to have a scientific (external observer) point of view when you must have them yourself. Unless you turn sociopath. Which would be my advice.
True that. I predict lots of misleading headlines from this. Though unsupported elsewhere in the article, a quote at the end indicates that NCGS is still a recognized disorder just of lower incidence than previously thought. More importantly, it acknowledges that non-intestinal symptoms still exist (type 1 diabetes, Hashimoto's, neuropathy, etc).
sx + libres3 looks like a way to backup my personal data in a cheap cluster with RaspberryPi/Beaglebone nodes + 4 TB external hard drives.
I've not followed this at all but the ARRL was launching satellites decades ago when I was a ham. Whatever happened to all that? (Yeah, I guess I should be Googling.)
With respect to their servers' location in Switzerland, if you don't live in Europe, that will not benefit you. Even the best of laws require you to actively defend yourself. I for one cannot travel to Switzerland and represent myself in a Swiss court, at least not at a tolerable cost.
None of this responds to my point in context that the analogy "libedit is to readline as Android is to Java SE" does not hold due to arguments that were levied against Android not being applicable to libedit. I also am confused by some of your comments here regarding my stance on fair use: I think that there is a core misconception people have in this case with relation to the separation of "infringement" from "fair use", but to be clear: I would not personally bet much on Google winning fair use (though I would also not bet much against: the jury was hung before, I doubt Google will manage a more intelligent argument, and so maybe it will go either way).

More importantly, though: nor am I even certain I wish/hope that Google does win, as I have great sympathy for the argument that they were never intending to build an interoperable system. I tried very hard to not put a strong opinion in my comment on the other thread (as I really and truly can appreciate a number of other consistent positions, including ones as strong as "copyright is inherently wrong"), so I'm guessing you just assumed me to be arguing for the thing you wanted (which sounds like "Google should win"): I maintain my "relatively positive assessment" even in the situation where Google loses, as I think this case is materially different than ones I care about.

Finally, I will point out that you are preaching to the choir on "chilling effects": that is what my entire final paragraph both admits and (in the nod to the comment from grellas with respect to "uncertainty") laments. The only positive thing is that "interoperability" does have some status in the world of copyright, if nothing else in the DMCA's reverse engineering restrictions, and there is a wide pool of precedent for the legality of building systems based on the knowledge from said reverse engineering (so it isn't just that you get to reverse engineer things and then feel satisfied with the knowledge: you get to release production systems that embody that learned knowledge).
I'm leaning toward sloppy reporting: The reporter swallowed the assertion that the disk contained what the FBI said it contained, without questioning how they know.
Seems premature to take a victory lap on a product that hasn't shipped yet!
This was 8–9 years before Flowers for Algernon was published.
Vedis – An Embeddable Implementation of Redis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_Theatre
While it does technically fit Our Incredible Journey's requirements (acquisition, shutting down original product, use of the word "journey"), Word Lens has one very nice exception: It's a truly native app that does its translation on-device rather than in the cloud. You'll be able to use the app and its language packs for years.
I want to dedicate all of my working time to this project this summer!
Help deliver Coin (YC W13): We are hiring an Embedded Software Developer
This makes me wonder what the longest Wikipedia article title is...
These are both good points, but it is also important to note that it is not very easy to hire people to review drugs at the FDA. They have to be pretty aware of the state-of-the-art in their field in order to be able to effectively provide guidance to the drug companies.
> Not really, most proprietary software licenses don't interfere with the ways in which I prefer to release software to clients.

So, you value developer freedom, but not user freedom. Copylefted software is "tyrannical" to you because it prevents you from using the software to build proprietary software.

>GPL users tend to want to modify the code

Well, some of us modify some of the source code. But I use most free software unmodified. Free software isn't merely to satisfy my penchant for hacking, but to give me the freedom to have control over my computing and share with my neighbors.

>paid for software

Free software is about freedom, not price. Software can be both free and "paid for".
>The FDA has probably caused more deaths in the past half century than all of the rest of the American state put together, wars and all, by slowing progress in medicine, making all sorts of avenues for research and development unprofitable, and making medicine that does exist far more expensive.

As long as we're throwing around bullshit: false hope and pseudoscience has caused more unnecessary death at the hands of tricksters and con men in the past two thousand years than all wars humans have fought or ever will fight.

Having worked in biotech I was never a fan of some (or many) of the FDA's policies but I found this insulting. You have no clue how hard it is to develop any medicine that doesn't harm the first few patients you give it to, let alone one that actually reaches the market to help thousands or millions. You have no clue what it is like to be the only gatekeeper between a $900 billion industry working on some of the hardest scientific problems of our time and 300 million people. Almost all of whom want their cake, to eat it now, and for the calories to magically disappear from their gastrointestinal tract.

The FDA is not a product of pharmaceutical companies, it is a product of a political system made of voters like you who decide their policies based on Libertarian pamphlets, Fox News, and Reddit. A political system that allows pharmaceutical companies to selectively withhold data, that has gutted the basic scientific research institutions that allows pharma to finance billion dollar ventures, and that mercilessly punishes any mistake that it itself is supposed to catch.

You get what you vote for.
Commit history banner I appreciated: https://twitter.com/gjreda/status/432661964209143808/photo/1
Well, yeah, I don't see much inherently meaningful in copyright either, in particular because drawing boundaries is ... difficult, to say the least.

But I think your example still doesn't quite capture what I mean ... even though, well, maybe it does, but let me explain ;-): What I had in mind is in particular that getting familiar with an API requires effort, so it's kindof an investment on the part of the developer. After all, an API is as much a human/machine interface as it is a machine/machine interface. As such, it is problematic to allow anyone to have a monopoly on that investment, essentially a monopoly on the use of those developers' knowledge. And protection of investments is one of the arguments (the argument?) for interoperability exceptions--so, why only for machine/machine interoperability and not also for human/machine interoperability?

I guess the "investment" aspect doesn't work that well for your example, but I still can see some value in the argument, in particular if you apply it to DRM (type) systems and culture in general.
Almost no tests :-(

https://github.com/EpicGames/UnrealEngine
Why all the hubbub about rain forests then?? Running out of phosphorus would be scary!
The object themselves are stored across the peers, not the connection information.
If you are not "normal" - it's hard to communicate.

If it's hard to communicate - you cannot accomplish much.
To be fair, those kinds of stories usually play out in the financial news around drug companies, many of which have lobbyists and a team whose job it is to make sure they can get their drugs through.
I imagine the app will come down within a month or two of the transition, but it poses an interesting question:

The Google Translate app is a native front-end to the Google Translate service. Word Lens actually does its translation on the device itself, with no need for cellular service in whatever country you may be exploring. Will Google add an offline photo translation mode, or will the Word Lens tech move to the cloud?
INTERSTELLAR TRAILER
I wasn't complaining about being downmodded. There's no complaint there. I'm just aware that what I was going to say is an unpopular opinion on HN.
Alt Coin Rush Ends | Graphics Cards Available at Retail or Below
They can still hit a big red button, I guess.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_of_vernal_equinox
Insuring the apocalypse
Haha this is great. How did you find this?

Just to clarify for the passersby, it isn't the University of Ohio, rather, Findlay University
People always talk about the money, but specifics are tough to come by. What is the typical salary for a first-year I-banker? How about the median for the ones who make it to year five and year ten?
The tremendous time and money requirement to navigate the FDA process for approval of a drug meanwhile does a lot to disincentivize the drug development for neglected diseases.

It's biting its own tail.
>the express goal of the GPL is to force all software to be free

The GPL does not force software to be free. It is not viral. Please stop using such dishonest language. The GPL will only be a part of software project if you choose to use it. It doesn't invite itself in.
I can only read this wrong because I found a shot glass "mathematically perfect" earlier this evening.
It's worth noting that the most recent update includes the ability to skip a firmware update if you only want to play the games already on your system.

While this might not have helped him here (his firmware sounded really old), they've already taken this sort of annoyance into account, and so at future get-togethers, even if there's an update, you'll just be able to go and play.
I believe that Europe has a fairly interconnected grid, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continental...
Also, although the plant is 20% of the energy generated in Switzerland, it is not necessarily 20% of the power generation capacity, and is most likely much less than 20% of the generation capacity of Switzerland. Generation Capacity being the amount of KW that can be generated at a time.
Ask HN: How do you organize your text files?
I write all my notes in text files in Vim. How do you organize them into folders so that you can find them later? It is difficult to come up with an a priori categorization. Ideas?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roeweriella

Interesting part is me being from Bosnia & Herzegovina...
There are still a few instances where rebooting Linux after an update is a good idea. Kernel updates, for one.

Mostly, though, the applications and services in Linux can be restarted individually, making updates a non-reboot snap.
Have you considered that the problem could be that your company is writing proprietary software?
Funny how they mention iTunes as one of the "key components" that are restored first, whereas Visio, Project, Adobe application are relegated to a second round.
Games have such demanding architectures that I can forgive them for not testing, as writing tests for code that's not written for it is very hard.
Yeah I would agree with that. Hopefully!

As for the RGB thing, I am surprised you recognized my name! I had to take it down awhile ago at the request of the original author. He was fine with me having it up there as long as I credited him (by the time he saw it on there it had been up for like 10 years, originally I had no idea where it came from). I think he was nervous about a potential issue with the copyrighted music (it was a midi of the beverly hills cop theme).
Apologies if my earlier post was unclear, I deleted a few sections in favor of brevity but it was left confusing.

The spectrum giveaway to broadcasters was predicated on 'Universal Service' being supplied by telecom companies.[1] That digital TV spectrum would be immensely valuable for wireless communication today, so it should absolutely be considered a subsidy as a result of the Telecom Act.

The more direct subsidies come from many other places. A good place to start is the Universal Service Fund[2]. Every landline bill, every cable bill, every mobile phone bill has a line item for "Universal Service" on it. These funds are collected from consumers then 'disbursed' to companies for them to provide service extensions. This has been happening since 1997. They've disbursed over $80B back to telecom companies as part of the telecom act, the GAO isn't too impressed with how it was being spent.[3] Besides the direct subsidies, they got favorable depreciation schedules, and tax relief.

The oddly interesting Robert Cringely did a special for PBS on the mess, which is probably the origin of the $200B number[4]:

Over the decade from 1994-2004 the major telephone companies profited
from higher phone rates paid by all of us, accelerated depreciation
on their networks, and direct tax credits an average of $2,000 per
subscriber for which the companies delivered precisely nothing in terms
of service to customers. That's $200 billion with nothing to be shown for it.

[1] - http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/ca...

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund

[3] - http://www.gao.gov/modules/ereport/handler.php?1=1&path=/ere...

[4] - http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...
idk what everyone else here is talking about, but I can copy with vertical panes with my mouse just fine http://i.imgur.com/lWxygYn.png
A video about this, for folks who would rather watch/listen than read: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz6v6OfoQvs
Evernote. With tags and notebooks.

But, I hate it. I would love to switch to something else. Maybe just plain text notes in a directory stucture indeed.
What prevents someone from using this to store backups of their harddrives, photos, etc, and consuming as much space as possible?
I'm old enough that my first experience of 'big computer' graphics in the mid-Eighties was on one of these:

http://www.pdp8.net/tek4010/tek4010.shtml

Tektronix 4010 storage tube display.

It was actually pretty nice, as long as you just wanted to draw a picture.
It was part of the greater Telecom Act of 1996.. The broadcasters were gifted the spectrum largely because it was assumed that we'd have universal broadband by the time of the HD rollout. They're not causally linked, but the spectrum being swallowed by the broadcasters is a side-affect of the same nonsense.

A copy/paste from my other comment:

The more direct subsidies come from many other places. A good place to start is the Universal Service Fund[2]. Every landline bill, every cable bill, every mobile phone bill has a line item for "Universal Service" on it. These funds are collected from consumers then 'disbursed' to companies for them to provide service extensions. This has been happening since 1997. They've disbursed over $80B back to telecom companies as part of the telecom act, the GAO isn't too impressed with how it was being spent.[3] Besides the direct subsidies, they got favorable depreciation schedules,

The oddly interesting Robert Cringely did a special for PBS on the mess, which is probably the origin of the $200B number[4]:

Over the decade from 1994-2004 the major telephone companies profited
from higher phone rates paid by all of us, accelerated depreciation
on their networks, and direct tax credits an average of $2,000 per
subscriber for which the companies delivered precisely nothing in terms
of service to customers. That's $200 billion with nothing to be shown for it.

[1] - http://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/ca...

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Service_Fund

[3] - http://www.gao.gov/modules/ereport/handler.php?1=1&path=/ere...

[4] - http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2007/pulpit_20070810_0026...
I don't think they saved the photos verbatim -- rather, the idea was to use the CRT to slow-scan the photographs and analyze them by recording the light that transmitted through the film.

http://www.computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/PDP.1.dir/
Josh Wise voted into NASCAR race by Dogecoin community [video]
Please don't be astonished if I pick at my toe fungus and eat some of it.
I actually asked a question concerning Chinese intelligence gathering on US entities which by extension relates to Snowden. Why would the Chinese spy so heavily in the US, but pass up US secrets that's practically on their doorstep?
Mine suffered from the same. Two things fixed it:

1) Flipping the unit on its side so that the power button is facing me and the wires stick up in the air. Apparently the original run units had a metal base which affected signal from the antenna.

2) Switching the Bluetooth controllers to get the priority no matter if there's a game downloading or not. This feature/option was included in a recent update and you can find it in the Controllers->Settings menu.

I have a chocolate brown Kickstarter-backer model and I no longer get controller lag.
I don't have any interest in being a salesman (working for someone else). As someone in the very early stages of trying to start my own business (technical founder), this type of thing sounds interesting, but 8-10 weeks of a full immersion program is just too much. Even if I had the time and the money to attend a rigorous 2 month bootcamp, I have a hard time believing that would be a good use of my time. Something more tailored to a part time schedule would be more interesting to me, and even then it would be a tough sell.

But if you do decide to push ahead with it, good luck. I do think there's probably room for this type of thing targeted to sales people if you can deliver the goods. I've only known a few people in sales, but it truly is a wonderful sight to see a pro work his magic.
Make this go into the shadow DOM too.

http://htmltree.peterbe.com/?url=http:%2F%2Fkaran.github.io%...
Yeah, I didn't know how much I needed starting at $PWD until I encountered tmux doing it that way.