skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope encouraging to vote is all they are doing. Google and Facebook have been lobbying pretty heavily against the EU Data Privacy laws.

Keep your lobbying in US. I don't want the EU Parliament to become just as corrupt as the US Congress. The only reason the EU Parliament has rejected ACTA, passed a proper net neutrality law, and has generally been pro-People, is because there hasn't been a ton of lobbying there.

But I fear the lobbying will only increase in the future as the ties with US become stronger and EU tries to centralize its power more, and the US companies seem to be charging the way.
You can get decent results on jpeg images using jpegtran, and if you don't mind progressive jpegs, you can get slightly smaller images with a progressive scan table optimized for your images (determining the ideal scan order for your dataset is left as an exercise to the reader):

jpegtran -optimize -progressive -scans scan_table.txt image.jpg > image_optimized.jpg
Time Travel Evidence – The Interview
"must be added to your debt for a variety of obvious reasons"
The main reason, I fear is that people on SS should stay on SS. You don't need them in the workforce, right? So just slap a huge unrealistic debt on them to make any paid work meaningless.

Even better, transfer this debt to kids. That will let you split society into castes real fast: Eloi and Morlocks come to mind.
Russia launches it's own government owned search engine Sputnik
Multiple people called the police when Kitty Genovese was crying for help. They didn't have 911 at the time though, so the police handled it poorly.
By E-Mailing Hacking Victims, EBay Opens Users Up to More Risk of Attack
Ah, thank you - I misunderstood the crucial piece "load AMD modules like ... they were native Node modules".

I guess I can see the value in this, if you're retrofitting a new module in the AMD style to an existing node application which does not use that style.
I thought HERE was coming to Android.
I wonder if Firefox will remain the only browser out there without a process sandbox. It's still the most vulnerable browser because of that:

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/178587-firefox-is-still...
There probably is something to this.

Perhaps if a different, more specific, standard of measure is applied during query, results will be more applicible for the intended purpose.

For instance substituting accomplished for amazing seems to provide more pointed results.
I don't really intend to risk my life going up against a knife-wielding crazy person, just so you'd be able to keep your phone.
I would probably call the police though, which was also my reaction last a bigger fight happened near me.

For me to risk my life for you, I would have to know you somewhat well, and then I would very likely intervene.

It's not only the bystander effect, but also the quite rational question "do I want to risk my own life for the sake of this woman I don't know, in this situation I know very little about?"

Once, my friend intervened in two drunk girls fighting each other. He was calm, but instead they just turned against him.

It's simply a game of pros and cons, and I can very much follow the community thing that Anderkent mentions in another thread.
Next time, yell: "She's got a bomb!"
GTRI’s MINT Program Helps Pinpoint Threats Contained in Intelligence Data
Move to Tokyo and get symmetrical FTTH for ~30USD/month.
Upstream? As a gamer myself, I'd rather have low latency. Games don't need that much bandwidth anyway, downstream or upstream.
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It's crazy nobody did this before. Using passenger location data to create the most effective transportation routes is something that should've caught on by now.
I think the UI could be better. I could see making some very interesting views with famous and this.
I'm a customer, and I don't really care what drives it. Kraken works very well, I use it all the time.
Get a government that cares about their people (mental health care for everybody who needs it & a solid social security net) and these kind of stories should become very rare.
I'm not saying you're wrong.. but I feel this argument is getting a little bit old in an era where we're being filmed everywhere by everything from subway cameras to iPhones.

On the contrary, the argument has never been more relevant than in an era when increasingly pervasive surveillance would otherwise be taken for granted.

Once Pandora's box is open, it will be almost impossible to close it. Pandora's box isn't really full of cameras, though, it's full of all the recording and image processing and data mining that goes with them. You can't do those things without the ubiquitous cameras, but the cameras are usually the only part of the system you can see and do something about, so once the cameras are in you'll never be quite sure who is doing what on the other side of them.
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The Library of Congress Wants to Destroy Your Old CDs (For Science)
Everything seems to start centralized, and become more decentralized in the long run. That's because it's easier to build things "in-house" first, and it's also simpler from ca technological point of view. P2P systems need to build communities that can take advantage of the technology, too, otherwise they won't be very effective.
I wish this wasn't the case, but as a man, there is no way I am getting involved in a fight between two strange women. No way. There is no upside for me and unlimited downside, in fact that downside is virtually guaranteed.

This is the way things are in 2014.
To quote Douglas Adams: “Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.”
I am surprised by all the down votes you got. To add to what you wrote, if someone is really hell-bent on recording surreptitiously in public, they have long had (cheaper) options such as these: http://www.spybase.com/Body-Worn-Spy-Cameras-s/101.htm
Act like a "BIg Kid": The Importance of Being Clueless
Say 'Best Practice' again, I dare you.
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This is an interesting way to organize people's work, without centralization:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAlnMWlvw9g
You miss the point completely: If Google ads an extra ad you might lose 20% of your traffic even if your rank stays the same. Or if they ad youtube videos on the display, or books, or local or whatever....

So call it manual, algorithmic, display change or whatever, you're f-ed and call moves more of web traffic to its own properties.
"how do you cope?"

A good part of my hair is already gray and I'm not even 30 yet. That's how.
all the scores are null

how often is the feed updated?
Games don't use much bandwidth, what you need is a low ping (you get in with ADSL by being near the central, and having your ISP set you a fastpath profile). Unless you need that bandwidth to stream what you're playing.

"symmetrical asymmetrical DSL" is an oxymoron, but where you get ADSL you can usually get SDSL/SHDSL. It's just going to be a lot more expansive :)

ADSL is pretty much a death technology, and the sooner we leave it behind the better. There is Annex M which could give a decent boost in upload (~3mbit) but it has seen a very low adoption rate.
Just move inside a rack. There's a lot of buzzing noise, but it's cold, dark, and there's good internet access.
Walk down a busy street in London: about 70% of people are walking along while looking down and fiddling with their phones. That's the use case.
Teaching Entrepreneurship Gets an Incomplete
You say that as if it's a minor thing ("the only thing
I'd expect") but you might be expecting someone to risk
their life, get accused of rape by an unstable person,
put themselves in danger of injury or lawsuit. It's
not a trivial matter.

Strongly seconded.

This happens more often than one would think.

I do not want to alarm anyone but it is not entirely out of
the bounds of reason to expect law enforcement to NOT acknowledge
your good Samaritanism or worse, punish you for it.

"Good Samaritan Backfire or
How I Ended Up in Solitary After Calling 911 for Help"

Discussed previously here on HN :

How I Ended Up In Solitary After Calling 911 For Help

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7233730

Direct link to blog :

https://medium.com/human-parts/9f53ef6a1c10
That's great. We're not disagreeing. I just happen to think that covers a few holes on the sieve. You won't, with that, rid politics of money; you won't, with just that, restore real power to people.
Ask HN: Printing via an HTTP request to a thermal receipt printer
Hi there!

I would like to send a POST request to a thermal printer, but everything sucks so far...
Does anyone have any suggestions on which one is the best one?

And also any libraries that would be helpful. Thanks so much guys!

I'm considering these:

* http://www.adafruit.com/products/600

* http://littleprinter.com/

* a standard Star/Epson printer (I don't want to use these because it's costly and I'm a startup)

Thanks again !!!
"High pay is highly rewarding," Kolbert writes, and in a winner-take-all economy, we're motivated to put in extra-long hours to, well, win.

We trade time for money. If you enjoy your work, and someone is willing to give you a large sum of money for your time, then working long hours makes sense... but only if you couldn't be doing something that you'd like even more than money with that time. For example, a reasonably high level executive position might pay you $250k/year for 20 years - so $5m - but it'd take you away from your family doing business travelling for 2 weeks out of every month. Would you trade a total of 10 years away from your family for $5m? Some people would. I wouldn't.
What do you think, is factor of time missing from the Internet?
It's important to understand that a license isn't on the code itself, but merely on a copy of the code. A copyright owner reserves full rights to whatever the hell they want to do with their code; open-source projects just release a version with a specific set of restrictions. It gets more interesting with contributors, and specifying a license for the contributed code.
Excellent question, I had ebay in a post I was preparing, I've updated the text and bit and posted it.

http://jacquesmattheij.com/ripe-for-disruption

Ebay has been setting itself up for failure for a long time now, but I'm not surprised that people decided not to take on Goliath. But with this incident there might just be an opportunity to swing the scales in favour of a new entrant.
As an American I am always laughing each time I read this. There are people on both sides who choose to work a long number of hours. I would not be surprised to read the numbers are not to dissimilar.

Far too much of this workaholic issue only occurs because people want lifestyles they otherwise could not afford. Two cars, the big house or exclusive location, the island vacations, and such, are not necessary for a happy life. Yet there are many who think so and adapt to make it happen. I don't begrudge them for a minute
"They do nothing to hide the fact you're wearing Google Glass"

So... does that mean the man would like to have a "spy" camera that also probably happens to send who knows what to a company with less than good privacy behaviour history? (no, I'm not saying that Google is harvesting all data so they can one day set up the New World Order).
Not really, having an explicit path seems more useful and clearer to me. Easier to read the code and find the file. Things like "gf" in vim will definitely work on it to open it up too.
What's interesting is that some recording is acceptable to people. A friend researches lifelogging (methods to record your life experience). He has worn a Sensecam (a device that takes still pictures every 30 seconds all day long, with a button for 'I am using the restroom now') with no complaints from anyone. He explains what he's doing and they are fine (it's very visible hanging around his neck). He asked a student to wear a Sensecam with a sound recorder and noone wanted to be anywhere near that guy, because sound was a record they could be held to. I see the potential in such devices, but there is a balance that has to be respected, between the public and the private.
Yes, it is the name of the planet that is home to the Fremen and the sandworms. In the book(s), the name "Dune" is a nickname for Arrakis.
Sometimes it's not about what you're doing, but what you can be seen to be doing.

Objections about camera phones have subsided because people understand them better. Unless someone is pointing the phone at you, which is usually an obvious action and not something that is widely done covertly, you aren't being photographed. But there are still concerns: I'm about to go vote in an election where there will almost certainly be "no camera" signs up at the polling station and specific advice against taking selfies that might inadvertently contravene laws about disclosing who voted for whom.

You have no such guarantees with a camera that by design is always looking out with the wearer and doesn't advertise whether it's recording or not.
Medical Devices Are Leading the Pack of French Innovators
BPF: The Forgotten Bytecode
> a atmosphere of a very (very very, haha) competetive nature.

I would call it fear. There is very little actual competitiveness in the workforce, but it looks that way as people go about trying to look important as they fear the next guy who can and will do the same job for $1/h less. The fear of taking vacation is part of this, well, for the few that get vacation time.

American priorities are messed up, work yourself to death so you can retire and enjoy life when your too useless to work.
I have friend that once intervened between two drunk women fighting on the bus. What he got out of it was that both turned on him, and threw stuff at him. Nobody else on the bus turned to help him, but he managed to get the women off the bus though (after they attacked him). As a man stepping into a fight between women, you have limited options when things go wrong.

The common rule is that men don't hit women, so if they start attacking you (which, hypocritically is perfectly okay), you can only hope to defend yourself. Was it a man though, you could fight back, but that still means you've just put yourself in danger by trying to help.
Maybe he likes to stream his gaming to twitch or something, I've heard that is a thing nowdays.
Ask HN: anyone from Berlin startup scene?
Hi, I am an Italian computer scientist who will be in Berlin for a few days starting next weekend. Since I will have Saturday 24th and most of Sunday 25th free, and since I have heard that the startup scene and related "hacker" community is pretty big over there, I was wondering if any HN reader also happened to be free on those days and would not mind chatting over a coffe or a beer, sharing some experiences. Or even just point me to some co-working spaces/hub where I could just step in and watch people creating something. My main interests are games, graphics/visualization, and data retrieval. You can find some of my contacts in my profile.
Hope those kind of threads are allowed! In any case, thank you in advance.
True, but there's also another factor: in Go it's easy to write string manipulation functions that are fast, while in most dynamic languages some regular expressions would run faster than your hand-written routine.
A Roller Coaster Ride through Relativity
Not trying to be in vogue. If anything, my limited knowledge of history shows me that dystopian societies are far more common than liberal democracies. In fact, I'd argue that it's a cyclic thing.

And good luck with adding still more technology to the stack and expecting better things to come out of it. What's going to be required is a new set of societal mores about our interaction with tech. I have no idea how long that will be in coming, if ever. Who knows, maybe we'll end up with a new religious movement, that'd be cool.

I'm a big supporter of tech and science and an overall optimist -- if you think the human race evolving into machine intelligence and then dying off counts as optimism. As I said, that's a tough call. You could argue it either as a great thing or a terrible disaster.

I do believe that we have several inflection points ahead of us: getting off the planet, transhumanism, the panopticon, and so on. We have to make it through each of these successfully in order for the species to continue. Let's hope the answer to the Fermi Paradox isn't just that intelligent species tend to self-destruct.
What's Important in Algoirthms
Yes. I agree. Our need/want for privacy is generally being eroded as we interact with new technology. This is not necessarily a good or bad thing. We get to judge continuously each available technology - old and new . Current consensus is that Google glass is creepy. Future consensus might be different.
The death rate amongst those from public schools was almost twice that of other soldiers:

http://www.newstatesman.com/2013/12/real-eton-rifles

Indeed, could argue (as Orwell did) that the public school system trained men for their place in war with the "old lie" of Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

[NB For those not in the UK - "public schools" are the self-appointed elite private schools, most people go to state schools]
You're right. I'm being lazy and should look beyond the pre-installed apps.

Perhaps, Big G are actually trying to encourage some diversity in the market by only pre-installing apps that people are wary of using :-)
I think the role of automation is misunderstood. The issue here is not that human work is becoming less and less necessary. That would be true if automation solved the challenges humans can solve, but the truth is there are a lot of very hard problems which require human attention from cancer to global warming to food supply to improving the odds of survival of humanity by settling other planets.

These are difficult problems and not enough human potential is being thrown at them.

The real issue is that decades of neglect have led to substantial under investment in human capital and so large number of people are unable to contribute where human attention is most required. This brings about suffering for the people involved and slows progress for everyone else.

Charitable payments like basic income or social welfare free up a lot of recipient's time that they'd otherwise need to spend at work. They could use this time to develop useful skills and expertise.

How about gating the level of state support on the recipient's commitment to acquire skills and expertise necessary to solve important problems?
I don't think anyone uses SDSL anymore, VDSL2 is where the action is at (in DSL tech).
In the context of nanotechnology (specifically MNT/molecular manufacturing as described by Eric Drexler in Engines of Creation) "free energy" could refer to photovoltaic panels that cost essentially $0.

That may or may not have been the author's intent. It's what I thought of when I read that sentance
How We Learn – Ask the Cognitive Scientist (2002)
And that is the problem with discussing basic income. It is a term that is not well defined. It has never really been done anywhere so there is no reference implementation.
algorithms not algoirthms
I think one of the main problems would be that the loud and angry forum types wouldn't care about know why disabling addons (by the entire raid) would fix the issue.

They would still see it as a problem with "the devs" and not a problem with the addon.

Communicating it clearly to addon developers, that may have helped I think. You know, use the com channels sparingly and for short, targeted messages only, because "lag".

From what I remember there was quite a bit of pride surrounding having the most used addon. And the ability to say "my raid addon doesn't cause lag like the old favourite" would have spurred on some devs to get even more creative with limited resources.
Actually this is how some of the countries run things _right now_. Brazil, Argentine for example, Mexico is close.
Rich living in gated communities or secured compounds. Moving in armored cars or with dedicated security force. Isolated from the poor and miserable majority.

Favelas/villas in the movies are not works of fiction.
HermesIQ – A Life-Saving Software?
> I'm not saying you're wrong.. but I feel this argument is getting a little bit old in an era where we're being filmed everywhere by everything from subway cameras to iPhones.

That's a fair point but personally I still feel there are some important differences. CCTV footage is usually used (ostensibly) for security or logistical purposes (e.g. traffic management) and comparatively rarely ends up on YouTube or Facebook. Glass footage on the other hand is acquired by a private individual with less visible motives and no oversight. That's not to say that CCTV footage is never abused or personal footage usually is, but on balance I would expect more people to be concerned about being recorded by a random stranger than by a random shop.

Secondly, the 'almost covert' nature of Glass makes it feel to me inherently creepier - you can see if someone is pointing a phone or standalone video camera at you, but if someone looks your way wearing Glass, are they recording you? I expect many people (particularly women, given some of the websites out there) would feel nervous about that. It's easier to consent to being recorded when you know its happening, and therefore also easier to prevent it if you don't consent.

I expect that a person holding a phone in front of them everywhere they went as if filming would experience a similar level of hostility to that reported by some Glass users.
The one difference in the story though is that a guy that knew the victim realized what was going on, walked with her a couple steps and then left her on her own.

I can somewhat understand not getting involved with strangers - you don't know if the apparent victim is actually the instigator or even if the two are pulling a scam together. But if I even peripherally knew a woman and she told me she was being robbed at knifepoint, I would hope I wouldn't leave her to her fate like this guy did.

I would at least take my own dummy wallet out and give it to the mugger in exchange for leaving everyone alone. It has about $20 and a bunch of used up American Express gift cards in it.
Indy starts BlueIndy, all-electric 'car share' program
I have a feeling that "being busy" is just a gentle form of crowd control. I could see it in Japan, people being terribly busy at work, yet producing very little, spending most of the time during the day at job, unable to do anything in their spare time. I guess that's how Asian society makes sure there is no unexpected creativity leading to "interesting times". It could also help individual people to cope with social anxieties by being "busy".

I wouldn't be surprised if the same were happening in the States. I don't believe people can be super-productive more than 5 hours a day unless they work on something they are passionate about or are on drugs.

From my experience, just walking away from a difficult problem, taking time to walk in the forest, relax on the beach, playing sports with friends, doing completely unrelated relaxing things with total focus often leads to sudden inspirations on how to tackle difficult problems. It's like life is telling me to relax and rewards me with great ideas that can be immediately executed, for being just well balanced.

I remember flying with one US businessman between Hawaiian islands, and he curiously asked me how many vacation days do I have - when I told him it's 6 weeks, he went on to complain about how crazy is it in the States, with average of 8.5 day or so of vacation per year.

People, please live your lives!
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Fire at French Nuclear Plant