skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cost, however, shouldn't be what limits surveillance, regulation should. If police can switch from a helicopter to a drone for some mission, and save 90%, that should be a good thing.

This on my top ten list of things I want to shout from the mountaintop. If you read the legal decisions about police surveillance, they're all about analogizing to how police can follow people around, but that's resource intensive and thus limited, and does this piece of tech break that balance? Which is a terrifically insane way of thinking about it. It both makes the rules of what law enforcement is allowed to do shifty and unprincipled, it also makes legitimate deployments of law enforcement pointlessly difficult. Instead, we need strong, principled (and thus not technology-specific) rules regarding privacy, and then we can decide whether particular uses of, say, drones fall within those boundaries. Starting with the technology doesn't make any sense.

I've made this point a few times on HN, but the same goes for military drones. "The problem with them is they make killing people cheaper" is a sign of a totally broken morality. Instead, start by deciding whether killing that person (and the collateral damage it will cause) is OK, and then use the most efficient means to do it. Whether there's a pilot in the aircraft can not plausibly be a proxy for whether you should blow someone up or not. (FWIW, I'm very close to categorically against killing people.)
Could whoever down-voted that please explain why you did so?
Not in Portugal. They may extend to 25 by accumulation, but other than that, the limit is absolute.

You may conclude that someone is insane and force them to be institutionalized, but that is not prison, and the decision is not ever final.
> I mean, otherwise NSA wouldn't have released it.

Good point.
Amazon has a lot of power because of their distribution, however if people can't get the books they want from Amazon, they'll buy them else where.
What I'm claiming is that English teachers both succeed and fail at this every day. Of course, you can disagree. No one wants to tell kids their idea is wrong when the subject matter is somewhat subjective (like English or History) if they appear to be trying. Math has built in quality control because of the objectivity. It creates a constructive feedback loop.

I'm not from the US, I meant "we" as a whole. Obviously some places are better than others, but I think math education in 7-18 schools is better than physics, biology, history and most subjects. Obviously it's hard to compare.

Your point about algebra-calculus an interesting one. I've heard several time an interesting rule of thumb that to be a teacher you need to have studied about five years beyond the level you teach. I suspect that to be able to confidently use knowledge like maths knowledge, you need to have studied x number of years beyond. So, a person who never studied math past year 12, can confidently use maths learned around year 9-10 or somesuch.

In any case, I'm not claiming that we reading, writing, and arithmetic are all we should teach, just that we're relatively good at teaching these.
I searched for "waffle iron" and "tennis racket" and thought the results were pretty spiffy looking.

But I'm a little unclear on the use case for this site. Say I want to buy a waffle iron, so I search for that term and get a list of results. How do I know which one to pick? If

a) I had a hard maximum budget
b) I wanted to get the absolute best product possible in this budget (rather than say best value possible subject to price within budget)
c) When x < y, the best product at $x is always inferior to the best product at $y

then I could just look for the price category just below my budget and pick one of the items there. But none of these assumptions are guaranteed to hold; in fact, in my experience generally all three do not.
Sure, fine him 500 USD and make him to 100 hours of social work. Not 20 years and 45 millions essentially for movies that no one would ever pay for anyway, e.g. if I download 'Charlie's angels' doesn't mean that I'm willing to pay a ticket or a rent a DVD to watch the movie.

Anyway, piracy is not good but the real price of renting an online movie, say from iTunes, should be about 0,30 USD. That way no one would bother.
Both are valid. "fulfil" is the UK spelling:

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fulfil
I'm curious to know what other people use to stay up-to-date when it comes to Ruby security. Comments welcome.
Here in Sweden we have some battery-buss that can travel 60 minutes on a 5 minute charge. It just stops at the end station for five minutes and then runs it's round again. Still on testing stage. Very comfortable and quiet, tried it last time I took the bus :-)

http://hybricon.se/word/projects/buses/
~50 years of history of labels screwing the vast preponderance of musicians

I think you might be looking in the wrong end of that. The preponderance of musicians screw the labels. They sign a contract, chew up a bunch of production and marketing money, then fail to make music that enough people want to pay for the up front costs. Then the musicians don't have to give back the up front money after making some complete floater of an album.

Now, the one percenters of the music world, you know, the acts from the '60s through '90s that 1 out of 3 people actually remember. Lots of them think they should have gotten richer, and lots of them did sign contracts that had they known their label would make them a one percenter they never would have signed. But that isn't the preponderance of musicians. That is just the musicians associated with the preponderance of a label's revenue.
Of course this is financial.

Justin.tv is not a profit center for Twitch Interactive, so they need to cut costs. If 50% of VODs are viewed <= 1 time, and most viewed <=10 times, why not just leave them there? Obviously storing them costs money, but there probably isn't a lot of bandwidth costs associated with it.

I don't have anything against what they're doing as much as the sugarcoating of "focusing on live video"

This also lends more credence that they're getting bought out soon and want to look good on the cost sheets.
by censoring, I mean any action by HN admins that are meant to decrease visibility of comments and/or stories
On the one hand, I have a fair bit of sympathy for the preservationist school of though--and the Internet Archive does great work. I also consider it very fortunate that much (though not all) of Usenet was preserved when it may well not have been.

OTOH:

>We found that more than half of our VODs are unwatched (with 0 or 1 total views), while the vast majority are rarely watched (with 10 or less views).

The reality is that there is an increasingly indescribably volume of user-created "stuff" out there and it's pretty impractical to preserve all of it. And when it's not on a well-known site that's shutting down (think Geocities) it mostly sinks beneath the waves without anyone really noticing. I could probably name any number of online magazines/sites which went away or restructured and whose content is no longer available. I'm not saying that's a good thing but it's hard for me to get too worked up in most of these cases.
JetBlue Passwords in Plaintext
Hey Team,

JetBlue just sent me an email from noreply@jetblue.com welcoming me to my travel bank account:

"
Hello XXXXX XXXXXX XXXXXX

The password for your Travel Bank account is provided below:

Password: xxxxxxxxx (password in plaintext)

As a TrueBlue member, you can easily manage this account, including updating your password, when you sign in to TrueBlue. (Register here if you are not a member yet).

Otherwise, please keep this email as it is the only password notification you will receive. You will need to enter your Travel Bank login ID and password when accessing your Travel Bank account online. Don’t know or didn’t receive your login ID? Please call 1-800 JET-BLUE for further assistance.

Sincerely,

JetBlue Airways
"

I was shocked to see my password in plaintext and, upon researching, discovered that it's not a new issue: http://www.businessinsider.com/jetblue-passwords-in-plain-text-2012-7

A mistake like that from a large company is hard to understand, but not fixing it when it's brought to their attention is even harder to understand. I've written to JetBlue and gotten the standard "forwarded to the appropriate Leadership Team" response and they refuse to give a timeline for the fix.

I don't know what the best options are at this point, but I figured that JetBlue customers would want to know about the glaring fault in security.
True but it says in the article no one has been officially accused of wrong doing. So the people involved in fixing these games could also be involved in World Cup games and unless FIFA does something we won't know.
For what it's worth, the early internet was like this too. The early Google made a killing when they realized they could provide a useful service with contextually relevant and well placed, but not annoying ads. I don't know what they do nowadays, but back then they were extremely strict about google ad placement on other websites and required that shitty ads were not placed alongside theirs.

I have a feeling the companies that figure out how to do this will be successful. There's a difference this time though, Google acted as a portal while apps are destinations. I think this might be important, but I'm not sure.
Show HN: Phaser Game inspired by Flappy Bird with a bit of Star Wars
> Are sentences from trials ignored in role model countries?

Only sentences that we personally consider unjust. That's how the law works, isn't it?
> aren't these people essentially supporting theivery on a massive scale?

By the letter of the law: unclear, probably not.

By the spirit of the law: absolutely.
Exactly my though. Since when is "I can't get laid because my standards are too high" worth more than a tweet? Even as a tweet is a pathetic whine.
True. I wonder how advertisers could get the kind of engagement online that they got in magazines where people would voluntarily read your entire ad, maybe spending as much as a few minutes on it.
Seems like hydraulic hybrids would be a good fit, too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_hybrid

I think existing buses can be retrofitted for a modest price.
The RT and Pro are not the same thing. Notice how everyone is praising the Pro specifically. You're more comparing a MacBook Air to a iPad and asking why is everyone developing on OS X when the iPad is so limited.

The RT really should have never existed, it's a horrible mark on the Surface line.
If you actually believe that this is what has sustained the business model of record labels for all this time then I don't know what to tell you, you certainly don't understand their business and what they do.

Why did Trent Reznor sign with Columbia afer releasing music independently for many years? It's because they provide value to him.

http://www.spin.com/articles/trent-reznor-david-byrne-major-...
Just to look for criminals, of course.

For now.
Are those apps also available for Android?
A MIT economist has a small chance of having a net worth of eight figures that would put him in the 1%.
> Meanwhile, wages have been stagnant and debt increasing for everyone who is not in the 1%.

That is factually inaccurate. People in the top 50% are doing fine. The issue is that people in the bottom 15% are having their teeth kicked in.

The "99%" are not a coalition. That's why the Occupy movement fell apart. They had no goals, because as soon as you start talking specifics you realize that people at the 50th percentile don't want the same policies as people at the 15th percentile.

Obvious example: The mortgage interest tax credit. Get rid of it and the government would have more money to spend on programs to help the poor, and meanwhile it would reduce real estate prices, which would lower rents for non-home owners. It's a policy that hurts the poorest in society, but the top 1% couldn't care less about it. The reason it stays is that the middle 60% want it.
Iconfactory vs. Pixel Winch
I had a thought about a similar concept. Imagine a place where you could get an inspiring message and self-help among others who have experience to share, along with community support for secular activities... kids could go to class to help prepare them for the adult world, learning about essential things like personal finance that are pretty much non-existent in the current public school curriculum.
As long as they don't overdo it and its clearly visibly where something is coming from, I have no problem with that. I know, ideally there should be no mix between editorial content and advertising but on the other hand I think it's better when users trust a news paper because of the regular content and not because some press organisation says they're the good guys. Nonetheless, in my opinion a native ad on a news site should still fulfill journalistic requirements like verifiable sources etc.
Time to get a nice tough crowbar 8-)
He probably can. 5 years with living wage and he would be debt free. If he has filled for bankruptcy before (which I don't know) he might be denied the chance again.

// Swedish
Sometimes book knowledge ISN'T as good as experience. Mettle is not tested from the couch.
That's in SEK so about 5m € or 7m $. Nobody knows how much money they made or even has an estimate. But they did have lots of advertising for years on one of the worlds most popular sites and their costs for running it were minimal. They are bound to have made something from it.
But if a site is self signed the browser could show something like "This site is not authenticated, don't enter any personal info/passwords"
Ada's main popularity problem appears to me to be due to its advantages not being immediately obvious when writing small programs. For example, comparing a small program written in C and Ada the Ada version would appear extremely verbose to most C programmers.

Ada's advantages start to really show when you deal with much larger pieces of software; what appears verbose or overly-strict at a smaller scale provides valuable assistance when dealing with large codebases.

Unfortunately, many seem to dismiss Ada after doing little more than looking at small code examples and complaining about verbosity...
Sequoia Capital Just Raised $530 Million To Invest Exclusively In India
Woah, talk about fickle..

The future of manufacturing is going to be standard platforms with high
customization around them. Common components and then customized wrappings,
if you will. The reason is that consumers are pretty sophisticated and want
their own thing but you can't build a phone for each and every person
that's different. It's very difficult to achieve that…with a supply chain
that's in Asia, even with modern jets. It has as much to do with time zones
and culture and language. There's reasons why in a (creative)
hyper-competitive industry you're going to end up with advanced
manufacturing in the U.S. And this is a trend that we're beginning to see
in many industries

— Eric Schmidt, 2013-08-02
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/baig/2013/08/01...
That's extremely nicely packaged tech. Thanks for posting this. Electrical buses have been around just about forever but this is by far the nicest integrated whole that I've seen.
I think this is a good idea. It could be combined with a system similar to HSTS so banks could protect against MITM attacks.
What happens when there are multiple best solutions?
>So what about a good, solid, liberal arts education? The one thing that universities were supposed to be masters of for centuries? The one thing that allows each of us to participate in and enjoy life to its fullest? Where does society go for that?

Europe.
Reduce your university fees by an order of magnitude or two, study for longer with less emphasis on grades, and enjoy a bit of culture on the side.
I'm only half-joking.
It wasn't until a 10th grade class in world history that I encountered a teacher who wanted you to not only know the answer, but why the answer was correct. He ended up being one of my favorite teachers ever.
Nice looking book. Handy to keep in your back pocket in case you're walking down the street and see someone staring at a laptop and yelling in anguish, 'Please, can't someone help me implement a proper noise algorithm!? This is an emergency!'
The idea behind HSTS is that the proper server commits to something for a significant period of time, making the later MITM fail.

In response to your previous post, the idea is that the user has to take some responsibility for their security (we can't stop them from entering their bank credentials into a friendly form on www.phish.com either), through a UI that makes it clear that the identity of the server is unauthenticated.
That's why I hope the teach corrected this student:

> [One student] though the probability was 50% since it would either rain or not.

His or her mathematical reasoning was wrong; having two options does not mean there is a 50-50 chance.
Isn't it also packet loss ? The Mathis equation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_tuning
tput <= mss/(rtt*sqrt(plr))
if you have no packet loss then rtt starts to matter less it seems to me.
Careful about what you deduce from that. Just because they sent it to you in plain text doesn't mean it is stored in plain text. Was the password something you put in or something they generated on your behalf? If you do a "forgot my password" and they can produce the password they are either using plain text or reversible encryption (not much difference). If you get a reset link or a new randomly generated password its hard to tell how they are storing them.

Not that emailing them is a good idea, but it requires a different kind of attack than if passwords are stored in plain text.
>Should people with passion be forced into pursuing careers that utilize their talents better? No way.

I agree with that statement but what you're saying is Peter Parker should not be forced to be a Spider-Man or Bill Gates should waste his billions on parties because he likes to party.

I'm not trying to sound socialist it's just the world would be a much better place to live if people with power and talent really took responsibility and made a good choice.
There are better ways to learn about new products on the web, so ads suck more.
But you repeat yourself. It's in the 1% interest to contend that inequality has nothing to do with economics, regardless of the fact that it's what defines a specific and articulable inequality.
But really, teaching the 5 cases version is also not quite right. Maybe even numbers are "a bunch of 2s added up" and odd numbers are "a bunch of 2s and a leftover one". Then you just deal with the cases... two bunches of 2s is still a bunch of twos, if you have two of the leftover ones you get another two...

The point is, both lines of reasoning are fine. The value comes from having the students struggle through any of many, many ways of explaining it, comparing their answers, and thinking about the aesthetics of the models, and getting a tangible feel on their isomorphism. All of which you can do before needing to even have memorized your multiplication tables.

That said, 100 addition problems can be useful: jamming the addition and multiplication tables into your memory so you can do the needed symbol manipulation later. But similarly massive problem sheets for, say, remainders or algebra is just silly.
Basically > 90% of my year at school in the UK went on to university. A lot of these people IMO were never really of the inquisitive mind or drive that I thought would be the type to go to university. However for one reason or another it was pushed by my school that pretty much everyone in the final year should go to uni. Most were of middle class and I think, at least within the UK, it is the done thing to do if you are middle class or above to go on to uni. We don't really encourage or present alternatives.

My own experience with university has been a mixed bag. I've loved the lecturers who have challenged my ideas and not just presented solutions. However others I feel encouraged wrote learning through the way they presented courses and a lot of exams are question guessing to gear up to pass. However on the whole I think I have come out of it with more logical basis and reasoning for things, it's definitely been at least beneficial intellectually and I love that. I think that part is wasted on quite a lot of people though who go to uni merely as the done thing.
> supporting theivery on a massive scale?

That depends on your attitude. Only a very small minority of content creators make a living from that activity. Some people are always going to be cheapskates of varying degrees. Unless they are actually manufacturing and selling counterfeit copies of my books, in my view it doesn't rise to the level of a tort, much less a crime.

Google indexes downloads of my books. What consequences should that have? Same as for Pirate Bay? If you are a poor person in Pakistan, how else are you going to get it? If you are a rich person in a developed country, you are just a jerk if you lack the creativity to ask for a review copy. I don't see a practical way to have a different view of the situation. I could rail against downloads, but what is that going to do?

Publishing is a leaky bucket. If you take the advice of someone like Guy Kawasaki on how to promote a book, you should go with the flow and give away as many copies as you can. Every time I speak at a conference and give away a few dozen signed copies, sales go up. Someday that kid in Pakistan who torrented my book might work for a system integrator that hires me to train them.

If I thought reality wasn't OK, what should I do? Many of the problems in the computing industry come from efforts to deny the reality that content can't be protected beyond the audience's willingness to be honest.
What's the difference between this work and for instance [1] where they use F7 and F#?

[1] Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Cédric Fournet, Markulf Kohlweiss, Alfredo Pironti, Pierre-Yves Strub: Implementing TLS with Verified Cryptographic Security. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy 2013
Not enough to fully understand the situation, but great documentary. Highly recommended.
Freely available, of course, so here's a magnet link, for those unwilling to open their PirateBrowser / to bypass TPB censorship.

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