skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This may well be the policy, but applying it outside of the government organisation is seriously problematic - it gives the government the right to destroy evidence of crimes.

There were reports that US govt ended up destroying desktop PCs because the users had seen Snowden reports on the CNN website. At the time that suggested the prospect of using this as a denial-of-service attack; inject classified material into enough places and the government is legally obliged to either destroy its own IT infrastructure or stop looking at the internet.

Would broadcasting classified material on TV give the government the right to seize and destroy every PVR in the country?

Those of us old enough to remember "Gerry Adams has his words spoken by an actor because we're not legally allowed to broadcast him speaking on TV" know how ludicrous this kind of speech control can get.
This isn't about "bad sanitation". In the olden days they didn't have clean water nor did they bathe on a daily basis. I don't think anyone is saying stop bathing or stop using water. The point of all this is water is a really good solvent for cleansing while still leaving your skin and it's support system intact. Soap is unnecessary and even harmful.
2 wheels, used by 200,000 animals, which has got to be a typo, cuz thats on average 137 animals per hour.
The article seems overly political in trying to refute the claim that laboratory animals run on wheels because they are driven insane by their environment. However ultimately they are undermining their position because it begs the question, "If animals like to have fun, should we really be doing experiments on them?". This is probably a lot easier to grasp by the general public than the more nebulous concept of whether animals experience emotions.
What science do you suggest they are ignoring?

I wouldn't call it "knee-jerk". It's not a reaction to a new thing. It is the new thing. Animals not having rights has been the norm for a long time.
Well, to be fair, they also flew past someone playing cricket, chowpatty and what I think was byculla. That's a fairly circuitous route, but I guess they didn't want the pizza to be too hot when it landed.
As a side note, sometimes they are painted to move forward the runway beginning. The runway itself it´s still hard and usable, but they want you to land and takeoff further ahead from the real beginning, to reduce the noise at the proximity of the airport and the approach route (the planes flight higher at a given point if you move forward the runway)
Sometimes yes. Other times the silly bit becomes the headline and the rest is ignored.
This realy impressed me: Koko the Gorilla watching a sad movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWxCM6llL60
Thailand Military Coup
Apology for the naive question, am I supposed to be able to see the difference between a quantum computer and a standard computer from the simulator?

I ran some basic examples, and while it seems a neat scripting language to play with the computer, I couldn't see anything unusual.

My vague knowledge about quantum computers is that they don't deal with binary bits (that can be only 0 or 1), but their "bits" (qubits?) can be anything from 0 to 1, which should accelerate massively some calculations.
Believe me, if I was a spy I would have more important things to worry about than bringing some reason to a debate on Hacker News.

The intelligence community is staffed with literally millions of people who are not spies. TOP SECRET clearance for contractors in the USA alone are >1million

This is the equivalent of me wandering into a debate on the Royal College of Physicians and try to argue the merits of certain healthcare policies.

Let's take you at your assessment - I am a 'fake' spy. Haven't I, even as a fake, demonstrated a breadth of knowledge on the intelligence apparatus that you could only dream of?

What exactly is it you think you are bringing to this discussion?

As for there being no laws; are you just ignoring the posters that have worked in similar US, Australian and International departments who say exactly the same laws exist?
On. The. Nose. +1

In all of my defence of the intelligence community I have never disparaged the Guardian. They were just doing what a free press should do, and I value a free press. The Government were just doing what a Government should do.

When they went toe to toe The Guardian blinked first. When they did the whole process became mundane (in a security policy context).

EDIT: Downvoted for saying I agree with free press! :-) :-) I love this platform
> is rooted in the idea that animals can experience emotion

Is this really still a question? Isn't it common sense that many animals do have emotions? If you call emotion a state of mind, controlled by a flood of certain hormones/neurotransmitters into the brain, then even the most simple animals will have at least fear emotion. I'm pretty sure most developed animals like elephants, orcas, etc., have pretty complex emotions that are not too far from humans.
I am sure natural way is better in long run, than lab produced chemicals. I use natural powder created from dry Acacia concinna[0] and Hibiscus rosa-sinensis[0] and for the smell part in India every used to use coconut oil but now a days youngster dont like though majority of school going children are apply coconut oil to the hair after head-bath

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_concinna

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibiscus_rosa-sinensis
There is no rent control on single family homes in SF, regardless of its age.
I think that the criticism that it is wrong to read emotional responses in animal behavior runs somewhat counter to evolution as it assumes that our emotional responses have not developed from our mammalian ancestry, but have rather sprung fully formed from somewhere. I tend to see the concept of anthropomorphism as something of a Abrahamic position, as it only makes sense if you already think of humans as being separate from animals and nature in general.
MIT "Mongrel" Shows Peripheral Vision at Work – How We Process Infographics
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"and nobody's ever said anything about my smell."

Look, I'm not saying you stink, but you need to smell hobo-levels for people to speak up about something like this; a smell level way beyond what would have negative social repercussions.

What I'm saying is: even if you smell a little, not enough to put people over that (huge) threshold to bring it up to you (note the recurring 'Ask Abby' topic of 'how do I tell my colleague/spouse/friend they smell'), you'll still be known as 'that smelly guy'.

(again, not saying you smell, just that 'nobody ever told me' is not enough to believe you don't, and being falsely informed of this topic will have real consequences for people).
"At some point the acne fixed itself"

... as does most adolescent acne.
You are not wrong. I did two years of law school and my initial reaction was one of incredulity.

However, I can only repeat what I have said all along; regardless of the stupidity or the flaws - it is still the law. Classified material stored on insecure devices results in the device being destroyed to prevent further breaches.

In regards to the CNN reports etc - the US has a history of reacting disproportionately to events. See Hugh Miles book Al Jazeera for some truly frightening examples including the bombing of an Al Jazeera office in response to the allegation AQ were receiving coded news messages. To which the Pentagon responded "Oops. Must have been a mistake...we swear. Thank God you were not in there, you might be next time."

I am biased but I like to think the UK has taken a very scalpel-like and proportionate response to the whole situation.

David Miranda, come with us for a minute. Would you like a lawyer? No. OK. We need your laptop. OK you are free to go. Safe flight.

Guardian. Hi, we need those laptops. If not we can get a warrant for the whole building. Laptops destroyed. OK. Carry on as normal and let's all get back to work, us silo-ing information and you trying to un-silo it.

^^ In a nutshell.

I mean, think about it, how do you think this situation would have been handled in Russia, China, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Iran or even East Germany back in the day. You think there would have even been a discussion, an option?
I don't know how credible this is, but scientists have apparently declared that some non-human animals have consciousness: http://fcmconference.org/img/CambridgeDeclarationOnConscious...

>The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states. Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors. Consequently, the weight of evidence indicates that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neurological substrates.
That would be a displaced threshold, marked with arrows rather than chevrons. Can be used for takeoff but not for landing (usually to ensure obstruction clearance on the approach).
> the more nebulous concept of whether animals experience emotions

Is there debate about that? I suppose I took it as a given, hence all the efforts people go through to treat lab animals humanely.
(seriously, wtf? :))

https://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-us-11/bh-us-11-briefings.ht...
don’t apply something on your skin which you theoretically can’t eat.
http://easyayurveda.com/2012/05/16/are-soaps-and-shampoos-re...
Do animals in cages run only after being fed? Do animals run around after being fed in general?
Scientists create bionic particles 'inspired by Terminator'
They mean because they are trapped in the cage and can't run anywhere else. Not that it's just in an enclosed area.
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Imperial College had two as the computer science department had its own /8. Probably still does.
As someone who has nearly paid-off a mortgage I have absolutely no interest in whether house prices increase or decrease.

I'm buying somewhere to hopefully live for the rest of my life. I have no idea what the current 'value' of my house is, nor will I be enquiring.

If it turns-out that the house eventually achieves negative equity, who cares? I'm still living in it and that would actually mean my property taxes decrease...

People still buy cars despite meteoric[0] devaluation.

[0] meteors plummet to the ground, you see
Let me translate that, German natives, feel free to correct!

A grandiose powerpoint presentation that anybody that works with PHP, MySQL and Apache on Linux should see Nils Lngner, known by many from the legendary PHP-Blog PHP hates me (but that's ok), has explained in detail in 20122 how you can serve up 16B requests on stern.de for breakst, and all that without touching the code.

The presentation is a solid example for excellent workflow optimization: Nils started out with a (theoretical) 'money is no object' strategy (which still used about 6,000 servers!), and optimized step-by-step, until in the end only 4 (!) servers were required. Again, without touching the code. Just the first step, in which static content and dynamic content were separated, reduced the servers down to about 60, so down to about 1% (!!) from before the optimization. Added to that comes an extreme reduction of the rendering times (from 6 seconds down to < 1 sec), potential front-end improvements are still not used (about that some more in a bit).

These are numbers that inspire some serious thought, and also the answer to the question of whether having Dev-Ops in your company is useful: Yes.

A very good example for what the amateur PHP/MySQL/Apache-stack itself can do in the high end-segment of performance.

Is there more?

From the current perspective (the presentation is now 2 1/2 years old) it is really interesting when one compares the performance jumps of the recent PHP versions (php 5.7 is up to 30% faster than PHP 5.5, which was much faster than php 5.3), and when you compile the whole workd using HipHop or when you start using optimized nginx. Front-end wise there are a lot of possibilities nowadays, binary image files can be compressed extremely without much visual loss (take the first .png you have on your desktop and ship it to tinypng.com, and that's only for starters!), Icons can be sent as zipped paths or sprites, and a shipping an (almost) empty body and then to use javascript to populate the page is also relatively normal. This can save 50-90% of traffic and requests, and associated CDN costs.

In short, the 'beginners stack' with PHP, MySQL and Apache definitely has the tools to deliver high-end websites. When you do it right. But then again, since Facebook and Wikipedia we already knew that.
That caught my eye. Surely that's evidence of corruption in itself, if a particular area's courts seem unusually biased in a particular direction?
Here's the link:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6925644

And whether it is "state of art" or not, I don't know, we'll have to wait and see, it does seem to solve a lot of issue that GG have, now whether they will manage to 'make it real', that's another issue..
It's just a viral video... India passed a law a little more than a year ago banning the use of any aerial device in Indian airspace by civilians .... Apparently something to do with security and privacy
Well, when you encounter a running wheel for adults along your way, you would try it too: http://www.notempire.com/images/uploads/grasswheel.jpg

... which doesn't suggest that you would enjoy being imprisoned for life in a tiny cell where there is a, running wheel, bed, food and nothing else.
If you are not relying on edge case behaviour of Function.prototype.bind, including the polyfill here should be enough:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Looks great. Having to wait for the first email to arrive is a bit weird - it would have been awesome to be able to browse through the past too.
Tell HN: Videos with privacy
Hello my dear hackers

I like watching videos, but I want to minimize youtube interaction with my browser. This for various reasons, you know them already.

I want to share with you my recipe for this:

1. Install youtube-dl, ffmpeg and mplayer

2. Combine them with scripts or shell functions like this:

function ytmusic { youtube-dl -o - $1 | ffmpeg -i pipe:0 -vn $2 }
function ytview { youtube-dl -o - $1 | mplayer - }
function ytlisten { youtube-dl -o - $1 | mplayer -vo null - }

3. Use the functions, or youtube-dl directly to {listen,save{ videos,audios}}

Also, the last version of http://duckduckgo.com allows you to fetch youtube urls without entering youtube. Once you've got the url, youtube-dl can do that for you.
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> I've actually just left Balanced

Does that mean you might have some free time to work on your Designing Hypermedia APIs book?
Sounds basically like the fundamental research on log structured file systems done back in 1992. http://www.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/lfs.pdf
In my experience it's not the hardware that's the problem. On my office's surface 2 pro it feels awesome, but windows 8 lowers the experience greatly. W8 is confusing for first time touch users and nothing feels self explanatory.

For someone who expected a tablet experience it's not good either. It's more of a laptop with a touchscreen than a tablet. One example would be the updates. When I recently reset the surface I had 85 updates to install. While this is fine on a pc, it's not an expected experience on a tablet. You'd want it simpler, with one update to cover them all. Maybe also a version number to make support easier.

I think microsoft should rethink their concept.
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We're totally off topic here, so just a few clarifications:
1.
Yes, I do not know what happened to Reddit and Digg. Where these sites though as clearly focused as HN? HN is clearly rotating around entrepreneurship. This means that politically (i.e. economically) is bound to oscillate around various forms capitalism ranging perhaps from socialdemocracy to neoliberalism. I'm not judging here - I'm just saying what the perceived specs are.

2.
I personally detest religions and I'm allergic to cops (corrupt or not). I'm not an extreme left-wing myself but I happen to know some and I'm sure as hell that they cannot be compared to paedophiles or corrupt cops. In any case you can use some other -less extreme- examples to make your case. (Added bonus insight: Being Greek I've grown tired* of home grown right-wing official reasoning/propaganda that tries to equalize Greek neonazis with Greek left-wing and extreme left-wing parties. The way you phrased your examples is exactly the way some of the clever propaganda is constructed in Greece.)

* I also know how dangerous such propaganda is as it only serves to raise nazis poll percentages. Something that happens across all EU.
I was using "spy" as an informal shorthand for "member of the intelligence community". Perhaps "spook" would have conveyed this better.

So no, I don't think you are an actual spy. I don't think you've "demonstrated a breadth of knowledge on the intelligence apparatus that you could only dream of" either.
> not to a significant extent.

You do realize there are literally trillions of bacteria in and on you right at this very minute, don't you?
Many objections to ideas around social benefits are not around the practicality of it, but whether non-citizens could 'unjustly' get it. It makes sense from a branding point of view, at least in the American & Western European political milieu.
People may call it "ad".
People may criticize the law.
People may criticize other peoples.
But its a huge step forward to compete with international markets.
Hero Cat Saves a Child From Dog Attack (Video Game Version)
Why are so many web developers such morons?

So many websites have arbitrary restrictions on what can be a password?

eBay have handled this breach poorly, and I hope the suffer, so that in the future they and other organisations will handle these situations better
Good stuff. It's a testament to a good process that you managed to flip it live without more major problems. Obviously there's not as big a difference as 1.8.x -> 1.9.x, but I've still seen some weird errors in production…
If a shell company does not own the patent how can they (as a licensee) sue for infringement?
Banyan will be shutting down May 2014
I also wondered about this and any throttling-based protection / rate limiting based on IP. With IPv6 the address space is huge and makes blacklists far less effective (or much more memory consuming and slow, but that's something that can be resolved with things like Bloom Filters I imagine).

It would take some time to adapt implementations. I speculate this gives attackers some opportunities to use old-style hacks that were largely mitigated, but suddenly re-appear with IPv6.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted for this, it's actually a quite relevant point, i.e., the the side-by-side comparison should include the consideration that you get to enjoy rent-free accommodation in the home for a certain number of years (or even generations!) once it's paid for. It gets more complicated when you have to factor in a positive probability for various outlier events such as the house getting bombed in a war, the entire city going Detroit, etc;
I'm talking about thousands of years ago. The reason native Americans didn't spread epidemics to Europeans, rather than the other way around, is because Europeans had domesticated animals. The diseases of animals jumped to humans after so much exposure.

Cholera and HIV also evolved recently and thrive because of denser populations.

The statistics also show infectious diseases declining a lot over the last hundred years so I you're theory can't be correct.
The biggest factor in the problem is the US administration complicity, plain and simple.

It's not a technical problem, it's a social one; the are simple ways to largely reduce the problem, which are not applied, because it would hurt corporate interests.
They're marked as 06 or 09, and it's impossible to have runways 60 or 90 so would be hard to make that mistake.
They only got FTL wrong, because it's a Faster Than Light engine.
Human are animals too in the end. We are just a bit more evolved than the other animals, emotion wise. So, I think emotions just evolve with the species. Maybe the mice are starting to get emotions for liking running in a wheel. The slug is just coincidence I would say.

Russell Stannard can explain it very nicely:
http://fixyt.com/watch?v=IF54xqYhIGA
I was living and working in Bangkok during the coup of '06. It was relatively tame. There were armed soldiers and tanks on the streets, and there were similar restrictions such as the curfew and gathering size limit - but it was mostly incident free. The reasons for the distress were the same.

I remember calling the US embassy the night it began, and they told me to stay inside and hung up the phone.

While I could never live there again, I really miss the people and culture. Never was a coup so laid back. I hope this ends peacefully and quickly, but I doubt it will change much about the political situation.
Nice referral link you got here.
Whoever wrote the title: the article doesn't mention regexes even once.
The law is ridiculous, but if we learned anything from our history is that if someone can access/control it - someone can own it.
Egypt: Massive public unrest against a democratically elected leader. The military steps in and takes control of the country to stop the unrest.

The West: Military coup? I don't think so.

Thailand: Massive public unrest against a democratically elected leader. The military steps in and takes control of the country to stop the unrest.

The West: Military coup! This will have consequences!

I wonder what the difference is...
Well that's humans for you. Until proven otherwise, a species lacks intelligence, emotions and self-awareness.

It was not long time ago we'd claim that for our peers, based on silly traits like skin color.

By the way, I wonder where's the "proof" that humans experience emotions. I demand someone prove it to me.
I hold no judgment on what's going on here, other than I hope those who live in Thailand stay safe and well.

I will comment on the articles quote, about "one person one vote" being a bad state of affairs, as "uneducated rural voters" having too much power. This is something that I hear quite often in various places, and I've never quite understood it. Sure, I get the tyranny of the majority, but as far as I can see any other way of tackling voting is rife with even larger issues.

But I'm not 100% on that, so I wanted to open the floor to other opinions from those far smarter than me here on HN! Is it possible to restrict voting and end up with a fairer system?
Windows 8.1 has an inbuilt Alarms app which includes countdown timers that you can use for keeping track of time in general (Pomodoro technique etc;). Here's how it looks like : http://i.imgur.com/cz0tg6Z.png

Non-Windows 8 specific : Eclipse has a full-screen plugin that I use to be free from distraction when working with code.

There's an Autohotkey script for making any window full-screen + borderless, too. It's great for focusing on one task :

http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/78903-yabt-yet-another...

Autohotkey can automate various other things like having keyboard shortcuts for Volume levels, opening applications, turning off Caps Lock, etc;
This seems like a good place to post my Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bobsgame/bobs-game