skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly, I don't like this kind of condescending comments. I'm european too and I hear this kind of statements all the time.

We Europeans in general and particular Scandinavians have it very easy to judge in our warm and cuddly nests.

A lot of what is wrong in the U.S. today goes back to our own absolutely unparalleled failure in the roughly 40 years between 1940 until 1980.

I think the American people could be far more powerful and demanding if they weren't hindered by their absurd notion of "socialism". And the reason why the politians can pull this term out of the cage in order to scare and control their folks is rooted in our continent.
Taking that a step further: it is like an exterminator going around different of restaurants, then crawling under customer's tables while they are eating, saying, "Don't mind me, just looking from rat droppings."

A more legit exterminator would agree to come past while the customers were not there.
Larry's request at TED a few months back that we have more faith in corporations shows how much we have already lost to the hands of an increasingly commercial internet. When it is clear that there is no neutral party to trust any more (gov nor corp) balkanisation through enforcement of new laws is a needed and natural effect.
So you can go up and down to the space station again and again? Sounds almost like the trampolin Russia suggested to the NASA to use for access to the ISS.
I think Park Dietz hits on an important point, one which the writer may not entirely buy into, but I do.

Tragedy after tragedy veers into "discussions" about gun control, violent videogames, violent music, violent movies, and lately, misogyny. This is not to be dismissive of those topics, but it's frustrating to realize the common element is mental illness and watch, yet again, that particular topic become eclipsed by the issue of the day in the national media.
Applying the label "capitalism" to a government run school system is outright laughable.
"I just want to go [back] to Mars..."
You typically sit closer to a Laptop screen than to a Desktop screen, so this should be pretty close to retina level DPI depending on the viewing distance

http://cdn.avsforum.com/4/4c/600x376px-LL-4cd4431b_200ppdeng...
When I was a senior in High School in Toronto in 2009, our school had recently purchased a pallet of brand new $100+ calculus textbooks. The up-to-date textbooks were chock-full of politically correct pictures of minority students doing math in wheelchairs by typing equations into their latest-gen $200 Texas Instruments graphing calculators. On the other hand, they were missing topics such as integration entirely since they had been removed in recent versions of the Ontario math curriculum.

My math teacher, however, handed out the same tattered calculus books students had been using since the 1980's and forbid the use of calculators on all tests or exams. We learned math by proving theorems and solving word problems involving few, if any, numbers. I went on to study math in university and freshman honors calculus was a cakewalk compared to Mr. Sidhu's twelfth grade calculus and vectors class and his 30 year old textbooks.

I fail to see how any amount of money could improve education unless it's spent on hiring better teachers (which the unions would never allow). You really don't need much besides a chalkboard, a copier, and a high-quality, engaged teacher.
the actual usage is "whore o' Babylon". is it really something to get your panties in a bunch? get over yourself
Here's a chart which shows the ideal viewing distance for various resolutions, based on the smallest detail the human eye can discern at 20/20 vision.

http://cdn.avsforum.com/4/4c/600x376px-LL-4cd4431b_200ppdeng...

This monitor is pretty close to retina level DPI based on the typical viewing distance, but i guess a 24inch 4K would be even better.
Wait, Microsoft's OneNote also have OCR.
There's a Samsung 4k pre-order for £500 on Amazon, Overclockers etc.
Gonna give this a go for my next project, I just hope they implement real-time capabilities like Sails/Deployd ASAP
Google bows... Misleading title by Financial Times that doesn't bow under laws eh? Funny how the media can manipulate the wording and judge someone.

It's called LAW! You don't BOW to it, you OBEY.

What would FT do in Google case? form an army and go fight against the EU?... Sick of reading articles like that.

Its sad that the EU is voting those laws, but its not Google fault of trying to be a legal company...
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They have no impact on each other's beliefs or findings. They're completely independent.
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Also open data like OpenStreetMap will really help DuckDuckGo and other services to contest google in that market. Especiylly when that data is connected to Wikipedia & Wikidata then they can show similar snippets as google.
> A lot of what is wrong in the U.S. today goes back to our own absolutely unparalleled failure in the roughly 40 years between 1940 until 1980.

Please explain.
If your security policy allow putting stuff into Amazon... ;)
I'm all for more women in engineering and technology, but
as I said to a customer recently,"I don't think I have
ever hear a female say,"I reballed the faulty nvida chip
with artic 5 in the a with a hair dryer at 3 a.m., didn't work and I spent the next 40 hrs. trying to fix it!".
Actually, I'm kind of glad most women aren't interested
in the stuff I'm interested in. As to power and money, most
guy's-- if their honest became rich because they knew it attracted women? Of yea, a rich father always helps. The sad part is it all works in reverse for wealthy women. Wealthy women scare off most guys. I have a very good looking ex-girlfriend, blond, wealthy, etc. move to Silicon
Valley hoping to lasso some guy--she is still single. I truly believe men are intimidated by her position in life.
In all honesty--I was extremely attracted to her, but
wanted someone with different values--yes--children, introspective--a Zooey, or Fran, but there's a part of me
who wondered if she was struggling would I look at her differently? I look at the personal ads and almost 100%
of the time the ad I want to say "It all works in reverse."
Meaning what's desirable for women is not desirable for men.
I hope this changes in the future.
The Boston Public Schools has 4,500 teachers, not including any other staff. Any organization in the US that employs 4,500 professionals is going to have a budget in the hundreds of millions of dollars at a minimum. The fact that this budget is enormous compared to the state budgets of third-world countries is simply because salaries are higher in the US by orders of magnitude.

The reason that schools can spend a lot of money on flashy projects when regular, annual needs are not being met is because it's often much easier to fund flashy new projects. School districts can fund technology purchases through bond measures or through grants, but funders are unlikely to be interested in paying money for everyday non-flashy things like cafeterias. It's entirely possible to get grant money that's specifically earmarked for one particular project and also have longstanding needs that aren't being met.
Nobody actually thought that less than a penny was being spent on schools. What they were saying was that money that was currently being used for defense should be shifted to other things.

If you really wanted to attack the commenter, you could have compared rates of growth since 1980 in both defense and education, or compared defense/education spending ratios of other countries to our own, or anything other than what you did: posted the DoE's budget, a count of the number of students, schools, and school districts in the US, and a mention that most school financing is funded by local taxes as if it were something you didn't know was common knowledge.
Hi Duncan!

I have done some of these already, and working on others right now. I have prepared landing page, set up mailing list, and going to put some ads. I still need to make sure landing page copy is good enough. Will also contact people who sign up, thanks for mentioning this! Will think about screenshots because what I currently have is only some text describing features.
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This is capitalism in government, that was the whole point behind the "venture philanthropists".

Watching plan after plan crash and burn with them blaming the poor is like a getting a time machine ride to 1860's Britain trying to deal with the massive dislocations of the industrial economy without doing the one sane thing they could have done: massive government intervention in the economy to slow down the worst effects of industrialization.
> How much have you donated to open audit projects?

Personally I've never donated for auditing, but in my free time I do look at code myself.

Today I had to install a proxy server, so I downloaded the source to Apache's traffic server. Within five minutes I'd decided that the code contained enough problems that I couldn't recommend using it.

Now I've reported those bugs, and made a contribution..
Virtually all governments spy on their and other countries' citizens these days

Virtually all governments have ever done so, these days it's just easier.
A trend that appears to be synonymous across a lot of markets (electronics, fashion, etc)... just swap that '$' out for a '£' and call it job done!

Why? Because they can.
Turns out jblow's right. I banished OpenDNS because it was breaking basic DNS functionality to serve its ads (and is terrible privacy wise), this is the exact bad behaviour from ISP openDNS was supposed to help with.
But don't take my word for it and read this 2009 post from Stephane Bortzmeyer working at AFNIC in R&D in DNS security[1].

As jblow said the whole "no more ads" post reads as PR spin, same goes for your reply to him:

- growth numbers don't tell any story apart maybe from «many people read the "Open" part of the OpenDNS name and turn their brains off» [2].

- DNS nerds run their own DNS and keep away from openDNS for breaking DNS and invading privacy.

- not causing issues for most people doesn't disprove that it did cause issue for many people.

I do remember the browser landscape before openDNS and I'm quite happy to debunk your boasting attempt at being significant. The "search from the address bar" functionality has been around long before google chrome came to existence, actually it was in opera before openDNS existed and even better it allows to choose the search engine and use several with the use of a keyword. This was then added to firefox back in firefox 3. Again don't take my word for it and look a this 2008 post[3].

[1]: http://www.bortzmeyer.org/opendns-non-merci.html

[2]: http://beta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1297613&cid=2864072...

[3]: http://googlesystem.blogspot.fr/2008/06/searching-from-addre...
I was horrified when I realised that all the names in Game of Thrones are just normal names as pronounced by my one year old daughter.
You wouldn't happen to have a link or know the model number would you?
To add a note, if other readers don't know who Catmull and Clark are, you may have heard of Catmull-Clark subdivision, which is (I think) one of the more interesting geometry algorithms out there, as simple as it is. Pic below:

http://doc.cgal.org/latest/Subdivision_method_3/subdivision-...
One possible contributor to that is the creation of government-subsidised housing programs that forbade fathers from living with the family, which many black families relied on due to poverty, systematic racial discrimination, poor access to education, and housing discrimination which made it far harder and more expensive for them to buy homes than anyone else.
You can do something besides just trusting Google, and that is using and promoting alternate search providers. Google is approaching monopoly status in the search space because we're allowing it. With a bit love, DuckDuckGo and Bing could make dents.

I think the other problem is that search doesn't matter as much to anyone else. Yes, Microsoft made Bing, but Bing is essentially a side project for MS -- their crown jewels are Office and Windows, and everything in the company revolves around that.
Just like everything MS does ultimately comes back to Office and/or Windows, everything Google does ultimately comes back to search. If a company with resources, like Amazon or Microsoft, made search a top-tier priority, they could take marketshare from the big G.

One potential move that would greatly assist Bing, for instance, would be for Microsoft to make Android phones and put Bing as the search provider instead of Google. They could team up with Amazon and use Amazon's app store. Instead of doing this, Microsoft released a totally separate platform. Why did they do that? Because Java is competition to C#. Who cares about C#? Microsoft cares, because C# (and Xbox, and...) is about keeping Windows the dominant platform for any and all software, because that's how you keep selling Windows licenses and keep Windows shipping on every PC sold. It's all about protecting their lock-in. If MS embraced Android, they may help Bing, but they'd be undermining the Windows lock-in strategy.

Every company comparable to Google has similar problems. DDG is noble but nowhere in the type of ballpark where they can realistically compete (for now).
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It doesn't create extra effort just for the companies involved.
>>Crypto-racism from the left is a problem

"Crypto"??
do you have something like this but log scale? the most interesting part of the graph is the most unreadable.
Double disappointment (it also looks fairly ugly, as do all monitors I've seen apart from Apple's ones, which don't work with non-Apple computers :-/)
It tells me all kinds of things that we've all known since the 90s.
Seems pretty accurate to me. Lots of things don’t actually work out.
Yea, are things like removing results from search engines really the right solution to the problem?
Choosing to brand someone who is comfortable with publicly displaying their sexuality as a whore (however they choose to spell the sentence) shows either a low intellect, a meanness of spirit or simply someone who rushes to draw conclusions without thinking.

It's pertinent to the topic, in any of the above cases, as they all make you wonder if you can thus trust the rest of his review/opinion.
I have no problem with punishing unauthorized access although the punishment is stupid severe.

I mean once you've been sentenced under the CFAA you might as well have a shootout with the police or kill some people it make no difference hell the extra charges won't make much a difference you're still facing life.

Does that make sense to anybody?

What they do require though is an exception for researchers and you can define researchers anybody who discloses the vulnerability to the owner of the vulnerable system before publishing it publicly. A security researcher is required to disclose publicly the results of his research in order to be considered a researcher.

A regular hacker cannot claim to be a security researcher since hackers never disclose the vulnerabilities they find to the owner of the system even if they do share them publicly with other hackers sometimes. It is not in their interest to let the owner of the vulnerable system know they have a problem.
There is something really disturbing about a system that allows personal ambition to play such an important role in how the institution of justice operates in effect, at least in specialised matters like this.

Expensive attorneys and ambitious prosecutors, each trying to twist half-truths to, more or less, ignorant judges and jurys. Makes me wonder if some of these servants of justice are forgetting that, their specific role aside, as the above description suggests, their common goal is to reach an honest conclusion about whether someone actually did something wrong, which implies everyone's effort to understand in what ways are the related actions harmful and how does that harm balance against fundamental freedoms.
Isn't the canonical answer to these kinds of questions that you're missing the sales tax that would inevitably be added on to the US/Canada prices?

Although, having said that, checking Quebec[1] gives me CAD803 which is ~GBP443 -- ~GBP150 lower than Amazon's UK price of GBP599.99

[1] http://helpsme.com/tools/free-gst-hst-pst-sales-tax-calculat...
The tyranny of lowest price
The intermediate cert should be requested from the server - might take a peak with wireshark if I've got time later.

I work for a security company so have zero expectations of privacy when I'm on the corporate network (which I was here) but I also see the same issue on both 3 and EE in the UK.

I don't generally see issues like this on the corporate network so there's something different about this case.

Of course Acxiom really should serve the site and intermediate certificates together to reduce round-trips and speed up the handshake.
You should read the essay "How to do what you love" by pg [0]. One thing he says is that it's easy to think you love something just because it has lots of prestige around it. I don't know you, so it is possible that you will love technology, but from your comment "Because the tech industry is what I'm passionate about. My lack of drive comes from things like lack of self-confidence and motivation.", it seems to me that you're into it just because it seems cool from the outside. At least for me, it's impossible to be passionate about something and lacking of drive about the same thing.

What is it in the tech industry you are passionate about? Do you like to solve complex problem through coding? Do you think technology can give you more leverage? The tech industry is huge, so my advice for you would be first to find what you really like about technology.

One more thing. Maybe you will find my comment contemptuous, but I promise you that it is not the case. I am just writing what I would like to have read when I was younger.

[0] http://paulgraham.com/love.html
I don’t really see what privacy has to do with it. Really. Privacy, to me, isn’t something that is timed. Either it’s ok to state something publicly or not, time shouldn’t matter in my opinion.
So it's 3.84K then. Almost 4K.

A bit like how a carrier one sold me a phone with EDGE as 3G. I mean, 2.75G is pretty much 3G, right?
> shows either a low intellect, a meanness of spirit or simply someone who rushes to draw conclusions without thinking.

I disagree. And so do a lot of other people. Look up the word in the dictionary. It's an accurate definition.

I'm more bothered by the fact that as soon as I read that sentence in the review, I knew someone who loves to be offended by everything would have already commented about it on HN.
U28D590 - You can get it on eBay from Korea for £450 including VAT and customs duty.

Although probably better to buy in country for warranty reasons.
Ah, that was stupid of me :) Thanks!
Note also that 20/20 vision isn't actually that high, especially if you're young, so the chart isn't necessarily definitive.

"a subject diagnosed as having 20/20 vision will often actually have higher visual acuity because, once this standard is attained, the subject is considered to have normal (in the sense of undisturbed) vision and smaller optotypes are not tested."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_acuity
> where they do not have control over information about themselves on the internet

The biggest gripe for me about this thing is that removing a link from google doesn't remove it from the website itself.

But people think they're safe once the can't find it via Google because Google is all they know. Especially in the age of removing URLs from the browsers input field and all.
I bet Rommyronance would get mercilessly bullied at school.

Did she ever generate lists per census? That would be interesting to see how the names changed.
If you're talking about automating the configuration of those hosts - to make sure that all of them have password authentication disabled, all of them are running ntp, etc, etc, then you need to look at:

* Chef

* CFEngine

* Puppet

Or similar. You write "policies" (read "rules") describing the state you want your server to be in, and they do the necssary. Each of these has a master-host and all the managed-hosts talk to it, to arrange the execution of the policies.

If you prefer to run things over SSH instead of having a deamon, then you can look at Ansible, Fabric, or similar. Finally there is my own tool Slaughter which is closer to the first set of tools, but written in Perl and without the need for a deamon.

If you want more specific help please .. ask a specific question.

I could just as well say "A cheap student" for your question..
Same goes for Switzerland.

Calling yourself an engineer without a license is like calling yourself a doctor or a lawyer without a license - it's a crime.

Again, software engineers are a little less troubled than say civil Engineers, but you should expect that a potential employer asks to see your dimploma/certification at job interviews (I have been asked that several times, and have asked it from candidates as well).
I'm also concerned with google's tracking and would be happy to use an alternative to 8.8.8.8 but openDNS is not exactly shining on the privacy side as pointed out in 2009:

« They also keep permanent logs of all queries, which could be subpoenaed by a government entity. Their joke of a privacy policy allows them to sell your logs to "Affiliated Businesses", which pretty much means anybody. Not that it really matters - they could amend their privacy policy tomorrow morning and be selling your info by the afternoon.»
http://beta.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1297613&cid=2864072...

As much as I'd like to diversify the entities tracking me, I don't think I'll ever return to openDNS which is not to be trusted in my book, reading the spin that the "no more ads " is just comforts me with this idea.
Actually, the French law against collecting race statistics applies exclusively to the government.

Any company could theoretically ask for its employees origins, though it would then have to be very careful not to give any hint that it might take any kind of discriminatory action from this data. It's hard to think of a reason that would make this data useful to a company anyway. But private statistics institutes do collect it. Also, the government does have data regarding foreign citizenship and place of birth of immigrants, because that's not racial data.

I don't think alextgordon was talking about law. I think he was saying that UK companies (just as French companies) would simply not care about collecting this data.

Anyway... I realise the historical and cultural context is very different between UK/France and the US/Canada, but I think our approach of race is widely better. For an anecdotal data point, my wife is Canadian, and Asian. When we lived in Montreal every encounter with random people seemed to be an occasion for them to ask her "where she comes from", with a slight frown when they heard "Montreal" as an answer. People would talk to her in English, and to me in French. It felt strange to me and a bit weary for her. We live in France now, and where she comes from is a topic that never comes up, the last time it happened was with Flemish tourists. My parents didn't ask either at the time, they just assumed she was from Canada and most importantly that it was none of their business. I like this attitude.
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My immigrant grandparents named my mother an anglicized version of their intended name after pressure from the older children, who said, "In America you say ____, not ____". I think there is probably something to the theory that the family gets more Americanized as the older children are raised in American culture and "correct" some of their parents' old world ways.