skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An analog would be like the NSA harvesting data from Samsung and then passing it to Apple

This sort of activity is a serious problem, and the NSA does engage in it. The US is no better than other countries in this regard.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...

http://thehill.com/policy/international/198506-report-spies-...

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/09/12/huawei_ac...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-busted-conducting-industria...
I attended an RMS speech at UT years ago, too; and I don't remember this happening at all. Are you sure it was "heckling"?
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I think you can find it here (HN search tool, pretyy good): http://hn.algolia.com/
I've visited MetaFilter on an off for many years, and I've never heard of AskMeFi before today. I didn't even know they had a section that was similar to Quora or SO. I've only ever seen it as a link aggregation community.
What do you think of the idea of adding an "Update" intro text to some blog posts that aren't necessarily evergreen resources, but aren't dated sensitive posts.

Such as if you wrote a post in May 2012, then in May 2014 adding a quick intro saying "Updated May 2014: I've added x, xy, and xyz, but this post is still relevant today." or something of the like?
As long as it's not Yahoo buying them, I'm ok with this. Getting bought by Yahoo seems to be the kiss of death, and by death I mean a long slide into irrelevance.
Hoodie doesn't provide any email privileges in it's core. There is an email plugin that does that, but it's just a showcase and we would not recommend to use that in a production app. The plugin is maybe 10 lines of code, you can easily use that as base and put all the security in it that you would do in a REST API as well.

I'd be also very interested in your basic use cases that you think Hoodie couldn't handle. It would certainly be great input for the project.
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I think this might be some confirmation bias in action; if you actually look at the front page of http://ask.metafilter.com/ today (or pretty much any day in recent years), or the popular questions at http://ask.metafilter.com/home/popularfavorites , the majority are not in these buckets you're complaining about.

("Recommend good books/movies/tools for X" questions are disproportionately represented in the "popular" list, because users interested in the same topic tend to favorite these so they can follow the recommendations too.)

My own favorite AskMe thread recently was this crowd-sourced deciphering of a hundred-year-old postcard written in Norwegian in an obsolete gothic script:

http://ask.metafilter.com/257990/Help-me-decipher-this-handw...
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I love this extension and have been using it for a long time! It makes it convenient to use a single browser to access multiple Gmail (or other mail or any other service provider) accounts without having to clear cookies manually and without having to associate or link accounts together (the latter is something Gmail allows, but I prefer not to use it). Just close the tab and the cookies are gone, allowing a new session to begin.

The same holds good even for web searches, though I rarely use Google/Bing and instead use start page or DuckDuckGo.
I'm thinking that adding an "Updated May 2014" intro text to older blog posts that are still relevant can do a lot to show the date, but also show the readers that you still approve of an older post and it's relevant a few years later, and that someone is home, reviewing their old work.
I wonder how that would have effected migration of humans across the planet, and how their various cultures adapted and formed. Some would see the Moon every day and night, others might only see part of the moon on the horizon. Others might only have distant stories of ancestors who saw the Moon and left it, or stories of the Moon leaving them. Others might forget about it entirely...

I imagine some cultures might resist moving away from where they could see the Moon. The omnipresent Moon might become a sort of god to those that lived under it, such that they would fear traveling so far away from it that it left. Maybe others would fear the perpetually darker nights.

This seems like it could be the premise of a science fiction story, perhaps similar to Asimov's Nightfall.
http://wrst.ca/?p=33

This is our startup's required reading list, maybe you'll find it useful.
That's very true. I'm thinking more of the about.com type of results (which would also qualify for your description of a well funded competitor). Perhaps I was too disparaging of Google's changes, overall they're increased search quality. I just find it unfortunate when sites like Metafilter get downranked as collateral damage.
Probably has to do with him not signing up for a debate by mob, rather a speech. I'm sorry, but how often does the TED audience challenge the frequent idiot on stage?
In the case of the car and the phone, they've added complexity (a service layer) and I think its worked out well. The user gets to do what users should do and businesses grow doing what they do best.

The idea of removing user serviceable parts is tenable, but basically boils down to saving a sliver of people from shooting themselves in the foot while raising the total cost of ownership for everyone.

The problem with discussing this is that the technical mechanisms for making external service mandatory rather than common is that sometimes the reasoning isn't necessarily to enable a business model leveraging exclusive access. So measures taken to for that reason contort themselves to pretend like they're not that. They sneak it in alongside a chance that does bring me value but pretend like they're intrinsically linked, even when they're not.

A dipstick replaced by a computerized sensor to the in-dash readout, or iphones in a world where everyone who wants to fiddle around gets an android device are relatively benign examples.

I can do some car maintenance, but if I needed a new clutch I'd take it in to get serviced. The fact that my brother can and would replace his own clutch keeps costs down at the shop for me. The fact I can go to a mechanic not licensed by Ford keeps costs down. The fact I can buy off-brand parts for many simple service jobs keeps costs down.

My co-worker bought a replacement battery for his car but couldn't install it himself, it cost him 2 hours of service available only from the dealership to get the car's DRM switched to the new battery. I don't consider this state of affairs and trajectory we're on at large "working out well."
> Today with our busy life's cooking something simple takes an hour to complete.

No, it doesn't. There's plenty of simple things that take a lot less time than that, including inactive cooking time.
Some 'null's show through for one of the teams in New Jersey.
Are Tesla's Plans for a Giant Battery Factory Realistic
Most rooted phones can install the XPosed Framework, which can then install XPrivacy. See http://repo.xposed.info/module/biz.bokhorst.xprivacy for details.
Trust me, I have tried. All I can find is this post (must be real-time).
Does any rational basis for data caps exist?

If you saturate your connection with Comcast until you hit your data cap, and then turn off your cable modem for the rest of the month, you'll cause more trouble than if you stream Netflix from 2am to 2pm, and don't do much during peak hours, exceeding your data cap by factors of 2 and 3.

This looks an awful lot like one of two things:

1. Abysmal ignorance of how TCP/IP networking actual happens.

2. Monopoly rents by another name.

Can anyone say for sure which one it is?

Can anyone else say why Comcast's few competitors aren't trying to steal customers by blaring ads about how they don't have data caps?
Depends on the work you do. The feedback I get from clients is definitely not that I'm overpriced. It's that I'm really valuable to their efforts. My goal is to provide as much value in the business sphere as I do in the development sphere. And I've never had a client leave me (though I've left one or two.) I have had several who come to me a couple years later asking for help to fix what the cheaper option did.

There are definitely potential clients that can't afford me—for those I try to find a way to help them anyway, whether it's by reducing the scope of work, offering free advice over a long lunch, or pointing them toward someone I trust who charges less. But I never reduce my rate. Doing so is just working for free. I've come to understand through a lot of remediated projects that I keep fixing problems created by large shops (that shall remain nameless) that were billing 2x or more what I did. That'll do a lot for making you feel better about charging more for yourself.
No, not with producing unaligned accesses, a problem with unaligned accesses in the LLVM code itself.

They're worked around by forcing alignment at the cost of performance if I remember correctly, or in some cases, they're not and cause LLVM to fail.

The alignment problems may be unique to the SPARC backend of LLVM, but I don't recall the specifics.
Strange. Twitter bought We Are Hunted and turned it into twitter #music and killed that off a couple of months ago.

Now they're thinking about soundcloud? I can't see how it ends well for anyone.
doesn't look like it does ellipses? I had looked into doing something similar for faces but needed to use ellipses.
Tumblr seems to be doing well. Their recent mobile app update brings some interestingness to the mobile blogging experience.
Netflix bug accidentally creates amazing synopsis mashups
Sad that the code syntax highlighting doesn't work on assembly
I can't help but wonder if reddit's still growing popularity is a contributing factor. reddit found a slightly better way for the community to moderate itself so they've been able to have a higher programmer to moderator ratio.
Did the NSA help to kill UWB (Ultra Wide Band) communication?
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So they can shut it down like Posterous? F*ck that...
I was thinking the same thing. Figure out the scalability issues, work on performance, and of course anti-detection. Then roll it out somewhere more sophisticated.
Sure - here are concrete example of seeds.

I call them seeds because you have to realize that they will take time to give fruits. This is not an emergency technique.

Blog posts: from time to time, I was writing an article on my (now defunct but soon restarted) technical blog. It is currently offline but you can have a look here [1]. I created linkable content that got some coverage, and some of my former customers saw the blog and it created credibility to them.

Videos: similarly, I've tried since I think 2009 to give at least one talk per year. It has to be recorded and available on the web afterwards. Even on small topics, in small events to get started.

Some video examples:

- https://speakerdeck.com/thbar/transforming-data-with-ruby-an... (video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW863DOXqZQ) => people contacted me afterwards to do ETL work

- on bootstrapping https://speakerdeck.com/thbar/retour-dexperience-sur-le-boot... (video at vimeo.com/85490636) => people asked me to help them build SaaS afterwards

You can also just tweet useful, non opinion-oriented tweets and links, and grow an audience this way (I have around 1460 followers http://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere but started much lower). People looking for skills will find you this way etc.

Hope this helps!

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20121031083446/http://blog.logeek...
Maybe. I'll check it out, at least.

Edit: unfortunately I can't test your theory, because the 'most popular' links only go back so far. And, I'm interested in the ones in a typical 'day range' for favorites, around 10-60, or so. But, it would be interesting to test.
I don't mean to question what it almost certainly a well-meaning comment, but could someone from metafilter (I already saw cortex in the thread) endorse this or suggest an alternative? I'd love to send a few bucks that way to keep the wolves from the door but just want to make sure they're going to the correct bucket.
This comment was downvoted, but I do understand the tenor of your comment. It was the first thing I thought of, too, when I read the post on MetaFilter.

Without more information, though, I am afraid we cannot jump to that simple conclusion.
Any other efficiencies to be gained on the technology side?

If the userbase is steadily gaining, it seems like monetizing that traffic should be inherent and profitable unless the infrastructure is inordinately expensive.
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Has SoundCloud come up with a decent monetisation strategy yet?
Thanks for the note! This blog is now defunct, I removed the link from my HN profile.
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Url changed from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/19/chip_and_skim/, which points to this one.
Thanks. Parallel execution and background will come at the same time. It is the next highest task in the queue after the API is completed. Additionally execution output (both stdout stderr) will stream via websockets, so no more timeouts.

In regards to pricing, our philosophy is the more servers you add, the more value Commando.io provides. Additionally our lower tier plans are discounted heavily since those are catering to smaller organizations, usually running $5 or $10 a month servers on DigitalOcean. With that said, pricing is still being tweaked and tuned, so absolutely open to suggestions.
That's all well and good for people who enjoy doing that. But I'm not interested, and I suspect a lot of other people aren't interested.

And you can turn it around and say, "Well then it's your own fault OSM isn't better," but the fact of the matter is, I don't care, and I'll just use Google Maps, or Apple's maps, or some other map that has the info.

I like OSM, and I think it's neat, but trying to guilt people into helping out is going to turn away more people than it's going to bring in.
This article seems to be more focused on teaching the reader about the Redis protocol and Go than an attempt to make a truly production-ready client interface. Certainly someone could take what they learn from this article and go on to do such a thing, but I think the author is more concerned with teaching than building.
Well, considering I haven't had a paycheck in 18 months...

I would quit working on the product I've been slaving over, a basic income means horrific taxes. I didn't work hard so they could be confiscated.

Now that I've got a basic income I switch gears, I start growing food, fishing, hunting. So that I can sell for untraceable, untaxable cash. I also start tutoring at the local college in math and computer science, once again cash only.

I convert the cash I keep stockpiling into precious metals, gold, platinum, palladium. They take up little space, and will be easy to transport once society descends into chaos. I expect it will take at least 20 years. At first most people will keep working, but when they start seeing other people who seem to be happy not doing anything they will start asking themselves how stupid they are to keep funding everyone else's party and they themselves will drop out.

Before things get too bad, I slip out of the country. Most likely a sailboat out of Florida, the story is I'm heading to the Caribbean, except once far out at sea I head for my real destination, never looking back.
I knew that the Gameboys were Zilog machines, but I never really put any thought into game development. I imagined they used a higher level language during actual development and ran the code through something that would result in the assembly for use in whatever. Pretty cool stuff.
are there any phone apps that allow you to buy bitcoins on the spot?
It's about as illegal as OpenTTD is; the initial version of OpenTTD was disassembled TTD extremely literally rewritten in C.
Vim users may find this more useful: http://vimgolf.com/
Who came up with the name? Does it have any hidden connection to what it does?
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I had the same reaction, but it seems to dovetail with her needs. She said "this is literally just 'I am moving on in my professional life.' MetaFilter remains my online home."

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/23245/State-of-MetaFilter#114...
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Way too much animation. I shouldn't have to wait 10 seconds for all the content on a landing page to Powerpoint its way onto the screen.
Apparently I'm not?
If any gophers need a solid redis library I would recommend: https://github.com/garyburd/redigo

This is a mature library that I have been using for years.
Whatever the NSA say, the opposite is true. Whatever Snowden has provided, has been found true.

Come on. Wake up. They crossed every single line so far anyone can imagine. Of course they're doing industrial espionage.
We are working on Commando.io Enterprise, which is self-hosted and comes bundleded as a virtual appliance that runs on VMWare and VirtualBox just like GitHub enterprise. Send us an e-mail enterprise@ our domain to stay in the loop on it.
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"Fugly" was probably overstating things - you need to do something non-default to be ugly. Stephen Diehl is default bootstrap. Ben Tilly has no CSS file.
hahaha

Ok, I take your very well made point.
That donation link appears on this page: https://www.metafilter.com/about.mefi

"Supporting MetaFilter
The site and server can always use upgrades of hardware, software, and bandwidth. If you'd like to chip in, you can donate via this PayPal link."

Which does in fact link to https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_b...

The site's getting hammered right now, but if you can't get through directly you can also check through the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NMFYgwZ...
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Is anyone else curious on what data setup the NSA is using? Do they have some crazy non relational ZFS setup that makes Hadoop seem like a kid's toy? Or is it just a bunch of off the shelf enterprise SQL servers duct taped together?

My bet is on the latter.
Perhaps a better way to describe it is that during the additions, the accumulator only ever needs to be shifted right in order to be aligned with the next number to add, never left. So the accumulator can be 53+3-bit wide and carry at each step the 53+3-bit representation of the partial sum already computed, and this is enough to produce the correctly rounded result after all numbers have been added.

This explanation assumes that the N partial products are added sequentially. I don't know what techniques are used to achieve the 4- or 5-cycle latencies of modern desktop processors. Implementations with more parallelism and/or that are part of an FMA unit have it harder, but I still expect that they don't naively compute a full width partial result before rounding it (in the case of the FMA, it would be impractical as the partial result could be thousands of bits wide)
If you're logged in, you can also use the "My Ask" tab to browse questions from selected tags/categories, instead of all categories. Useful if you prefer, say, science questions over relationship questions.
That is our existing paypal account, yes.

We aren't formally doing any fundraising at this point -- that's an account we've had set up for ever mostly for the once-a-month "hey, here's five bucks, buy yourself a beer" tip from a random happy/guilty user -- but if you toss money in that, it ends up with us, and I won't tell you no.

If you want to be extra sure about the paypal link, visit the one at the bottom of Metafilter's about page, here:

http://www.metafilter.com/about.mefi
I'm not much of a gamer besides the occasional game of League/DotA; I use it primarily while coding/reading/writing.
I share the distaste for terribly suboptimal solutions, but I'd also like to add another thing - I don't understand this complete lack of concern for wasting power. Bits aren't free; if you make a million of computers redo the same computation that could be done on a single computer once, you're literally making humanity burn a million times more coal for it than needed. I know that this feels irrelevant for any single page, but when scaled globally, this kind of thinking scares and saddens me.
csshx is great but lacks the audit trail (output stored) we offer. Additionally with standard parallel ssh tools, you don't have centralized user access management, and cloud provider integrations.
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It's a different and cheaper way to moderate a community. I don't think that necessarily gets you all the way to better.
Might be able to get an idea if you go through old SBIR's
I am a new dad and here are some startup ideas for you
1. Baby cry detector to activate several things. For example: iPhone app will open and turn on "white noise" to calm down baby. Then milk heater will turn on....

2. Some kind of ceiling projector to show high contrast photos like stars or cartoon characters...

3. Automatic board book flipper, maybe hanging down from the ceiling. So the baby and just keep looking awhile away and no need to hold (which you may accidentally drop on the baby's face).

4. Wholesale of everything bundled: diaper, clothing, wipes... Like a larger version of Costco but you have to buy everything at once and get a discount.
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oh goodie - someone remade IRC... I know it is a troll statement, but come on...
This looks useful.

How much does it cost?

Is there a way for me to download a backup of all my cards?

Better remove the delay on the home page. It's annoying.
This is a pretty commmon technique in video games generally referred to as "data driven design". Basically put as much of the runtime decisions that are made into a data value that can be tweaked by designers without having to ask an engineer to do it each time.
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Looks like a standard reel-to-reel tape recorder used simply as a graphic device to represent audio recording.
That, or he's not too optimistic about the lifespan of our universe :\
Will take that into consideration - to be fair, the existing screenshots are from Chrome (just running on OS X).
Once we roll out of beta, we anticipate having a smaller starter plan, but the price point will be similar, around $8 - $12 a month.
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Are there any studies exploring links between basic income and inflation? Will prices of essentials move up because of a sudden appearance of purchasing power on part of the entire population?
Hi, author here; experimenting with some ways to explain two very useful concepts that I feel don't get enough mainstream popularity, despite being applicable to many languages :) Let me know if there are any obvious mistakes, awfully written sections, or questions :)
Version branching physical items would be great in many areas of life.
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted, because you're correct. The reason C has so many undefined and unspecified cases was so that the implementation was relatively easy for compiler writers.
Well... IE 11 failed in rendering this correctly like i knew it would. Yet every other day my PC nags be about updates
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It's freemium, but the premium accounts are actually worth buying. You get more upload time, better stats, more customisable embedded players, etc. Lots of people buy them, I assume it's already quite profitable. The "prosumer" market for music production is expanding enormously at the moment with the american EDM boom.

If twitter shuts it down or ruins it, there will be blood. A lot of people depend on it and there would be instant demand for a replacement if the userbase turns its nose up at any changes.

OTOH anyone promoting their music on SC is almost certainly already doing so on twitter as well, so some simple, well executed integration could go a long way.