skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also reminds me of Tent [1]. Brendan Eich also mentioned something like this idea in the same post where he stepped down from being CEO of Mozilla [2]. It's good to see a lot of brains working on the concept because I think there's a huge amount of potential in putting data in the customer's warehouse. I think we can achieve a much greater level of composibility of consumer services when each doesn't have to worry about being its own data warehouse.

[1] http://tent.io

[2] https://brendaneich.com/2014/04/the-next-mission/
The collaboration video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXWkhLyQm4s especially,

reminded me of The Mother of All Demos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY&feature=youtu.be...

We're still trying to get this out of the genetic soup stage.

CoreObject looks like a great stab at it with a great name!
It's really cool to bring up an issue such as this, but... the positive impact of SMTP over TLS is limited and low value. Honestly, who gives a hoot that constant contact newsletters are sent in cleartext?

I need to worry about where my organization's email goes, because quite simply, people do dumb things. Things like put payment information in email. Or PII subject to HIPPA or some other regulatory regime.

Secure SMTP gives me no solace whatsoever, because even if I ensure that my receiving party's email gateway is secure, I have no assurance that any relaying happening behind that gateway is secure to the standards that I need to meet. For example, under many corporate security policies, MPLS tagged connections between offices is deemed secure -- they trust the telco. My organization requires an encrypted link or fiber owned and managed by the organization.

IMO, you're better off operating under the assumption that your email is a postcard, because it is. Sensitive information should be shared in this order: in person, in a registered paper letter (the US government permits material up to the secret level via this means), first class mail, on the phone, via internal IT systems to other internal recipients, via homing pigeon, email.
If you're able to completely "solve for" the threat model of NSA/FBI/GCHQ/CIA/etc. having a serious and persistent interest in you, and knowing where you sleep at night, my hat's off to you. Few people are that confident.
I think that Swift is better and will overall be easier (I started may comment with a "Yes") BUT there will be a fair few casts and use of optional values needed when integrating anything with the general existing libraries that would cause a beginner programmer difficulties.

Example 1 - implementing a protocol (AVAudioPlayerDelagate)

You get errors unless you also implement NSObjectProtocol. The easiest way to do that is to also inherit from NSObject.

Example 2 - typed arrays/dictionaries

You can shove any NSObject in an NSArray or NSDictionary but the Swift arrays are typed (a good thing) but one that may make some things more difficult for beginners.

I suspect it is the tip of the iceberg of type related complication. This is a worthwhile tradeoff for greater safety and despite this Swift will still be easier to use overall that ObjC in my view.

It may also take a while for the documentation particularly across the internet to catch up with the quantity of examples for Obj C but this is only an interim issue.
He ought to be using what Wikipedia calls a "perspective projection", or, sufficiently in this case, a restriction thereof. Notice how the edges of walls do not appear straight on the screen, even though he mentioned correcting "a fisheye effect" (tellingly alluding to a popular tutorial on this topic at lodev.org).

A correct formula is on line 485 of my implementation linked above, found the old fashioned way using basic geometry.
Yes, still. Will be up soon again. See the cached link in the meantime: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Since Stalin was both an early Russian revolutionary and the nadir of "how the Soviet Union turned out", it's hard to accept the reading of history that says the Soviet Union didn't turn out according to plan.
There's lots of good compression software now so it shouldn't be an issue. Check out http://pngquant.org.
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It's great news. I'm still stunned by the Florida case, also linked to in this page:

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-l...

Can Federal Marshals really deputize state and local officers and retroactively seize their work product? Can these officers be involuntarily deputized?

It seems like simple theft of state records to me.
Please email hn@ycombinator.com with such questions. We always answer, though not always immediately, and I hope we're always nice.

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I'm in Asia, and checked that segment.... pretty much 0% encrypted except for yahoo (but yahoo japan is unencrypted). I really wish they would be more forward thinking. Even if the network architecture is ahead in Asia, the services feel so much behind!
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My sense of humor has no bounds in certain company and I imagine that I have ended up on a list or two because of that.
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I never said consumers have access to a free market. I'm saying access to a free market would help solve the issue.
I guess it depends on a startup. You can't just go to the street and try selling your product(well you can) but you need to identify potential customers which is marketing..
Mind. Blown. Time for me to get serious about learning ClojureScript ^_^ Thanks for putting this together; it's amazing!
When it sends them, yes, but this is more what I was referring to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842868
Which English?
This exact "implementation" of socialism doesn't prove it does better job than capitalism would. FYI I'm Russian and you can imagine what communism was (it was hell). No need to remove socialism completely, just keep taxes less and let people work. Look at Singapore.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7841736.
Increased voter participation doesn't seem particularly helpful when everyone just decides their votes based on whatever talking head is on FOX/NBC.
Who is the target audience? If the target audience is software engineers then I think the marketing text is okay, but could use some simplification as well as a brief description of why I would care. In other words, why aren't my current tools good enough? If the target audience is Google Docs and Word users who are not software developers, then I think they would be lost. For example in the main intro video, one of the first things said is "If you kill -9". I know what that means, but my sales, marketing, etc friends would have no clue.
Thank you, will give it a try
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I'll describe it to the best of my ability, as Google/Algolia etc are all failing me:

- It was a Sign Up button that I believe was a Jquery plugin, and when the signup button was pressed it would just send your (the site admin's) email address a note saying that the user had signed up and it contained the form fields

(The purpose being for people who are building prototypes/MVPs of their apps, so that they don't need to build a user auth system yet)
The interviewee, Davide Graeber, is considered to be one of the leading figures of the Occupy movement so probably does not believe that a solution to this problem lies with the confines of modern capitalism. He identifies himself as an anarchist.

There's more detail on his political/economic views in his book, 'Debt: The First 5000 Years':

http://p2pfoundation.net/First_Five_Thousand_Years_of_Debt
If we keep thinking on tine slices of time, even a shoulder surfer attack (with cameras in case of a pass-phrase :)) can be a problem... We are not talking about how to prevent a break during the time when the user is typing the password (torture attack is still a valid one and no technology will ever prevent it). But I like good ideas: once mounted, the password cannot be retrieved as it's stored in the chipset itself... I don't know if the test pins on those processors will make this vulnerable but it worth a try-catch. And if Windows go into sleep/hybernate, you loose the password and have to mount again to restore operation. This is possible as we mount the driver as a removeable media.
this is the perspective projection that we have with our eyes:
spherical projection.
detail here:
http://www.treeshark.com/treeblog/?p=301

At any given moment we're only looking at a very small slice of that larger spherical panorama. Our brains are constantly constructing a coherent 3d model, with the help of various schematic constraints, such as expectations about straight lines being straight.

We perceive straight lines. but that's not what we see. But the curvature is usually so slight that it is very difficult to see.
Indeed, you're right: http://i.imgur.com/oQ7S3Jo.jpg

On my old laptop, the demo looked fine. But after switching over to a widescreen (and higher FPS) you can tell that it's slightly wrong up close, and noticeably wrong (jittery) in the distance.

I wonder what's causing the jitter...
The product is an objective c library. So yes, it's targeted at developers. This blurb is front and center:

> CoreObject is a version-controlled object database for Objective-C that supports powerful undo, semantic merging, and real-time collaborative editing.
Transmitting at full power probably isn't that rare. It could mean you're far away from the tower you're talking to, and that could even happen if a tower nearby is overloaded and you've been handed off to a more distant one to balance the load. It could also be due to noise on the channel, being in a building that blocks the signal, etc.

Also, information from the baseband processor in your phone (the processor that handles the radio transceiver, and would know what power you were transmitting at) may not be easily available to the processor that runs the apps.
Exactly the question to be asking, in my opinion.

I like what Balgair has to say, to some degree - though voting without education may backfire, so it's not that simple.

Some off-the-cuff ideas re; debt reduction, in the hope that others find their flaws & suggest others:

- Facilitating P2P debt may help make debt cheaper by crowdsourcing the "overhead" of evaluating creditors. I believe there's a site that does this but can't recall the name.

- Reduce student debt by making expensive college degrees obsolete. I think the next step in that (now that we have libraries, wikipedia, coursera, udacity, etc) may be changing hiring practices: a startup that helps companies hire based on experience/aptitude rather than falling back to the college degree heuristic could have a big impact. Relatedly, other startups (or FOSS) might replace the traditional degree in other ways, like guiding students through free online tracks or connecting them to advisors, mentors, internships, peers, and jobs.

- Change how employers pay employees. Most large employers have cheap debt and/or lots of cash, while many of their lowest-paid employees have terrible credit. This means they have to rely on mind-bogglingly expensive services like Payday loans and credit cards to cover their basic expenses (which don't come due on payday). A startup that helps employers pay daily instead of fortnightly, or pay bills directly, or even provide credit directly to their employees could put a lot of money back in poor pockets.

- I don't know the other main sources of American debt. Car payments? Large houses? I just don't know. But a systematic investigation of the sources of the debt, the costs of servicing it, and the underlying reasons it's required may be a decent way to scout out some good ideas!

Ultimately, though, much of this comes down to Policy and Culture. Student debt would evaporate if we just had free education. Cost of Living would likely plummet if we had terrific public transportation. There may be tax schemes (land taxes?) that would lower rent/home ownership costs. A culture of minimalism would likely also reduce cost of living =)
I'm curious about the regulatory side of this.

Did the FCC grant these police departments a license to transmit on frequencies assigned to cell companies? Did the cell companies in question allow the police to use their frequencies?

The FCC is usually quite particular about interference with cell phones. For example, it's illegal for prisons to run a cell phone jammer but they can coordinate with call companies to run a fancy repeater that MITMs calls in the area and only allows authorized handsets.
"this attempt is just a recipe for funding snake oil."

Everything is snake oil and an end-run. Have you ever read Nature? Have you ever submitted a grant to the NIH?

""virtually no academics respect it" is just factually untrue." Virtually no reasonable academics respect it.

Read this, an interview of Sydney Brenner, no doubt one of the most important biologist ever.
http://kingsreview.co.uk/magazine/blog/2014/02/24/how-academ...
Yes I read that. Then further down I see the following in User Experience:

"Collaborative editing on any document, Easy data sharing between applications, Everything is searchable, past and present"

"On any document" doesn't sound like Objective-C any more. One of the videos shows drawing shapes not source code. If it had "library" in big and bold somewhere then I would probably be like "Ah I see". But the word library is not found on the page except in the description of a minor feature.

Bottom line: I was (still am) confused what this thing is other than it does some cool version-controlled, collaborative editing.
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I wrote a program a while ago that would take articles I save in Pocket, Readability and/or Instapaper, convert them to epubs, and save them in my Calibre library so I could read them off-line with my ebook reader at my convenience.

One of the things it would do is look up the URL of the article via the hn.algolia.com API and put links to the Hacker News submissions in the meta-data.

It seems that doing this sort of reverse lookup, mapping the URL back to the corresponding submissions in Hacker News, has stopped working with hn.algolia.com.

Not sure if this is intentional or not, but in the meantime, does anyone know of a similar facility I could integrate to do this?

Thanks.
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itd be cool to have this like http://www.monkeysphere.info/ between browser and server, and not rely on CAs.
In this sense, I'm guessing he's pointing that those who help with more immediate, physically-demonstrated (helping) results are getting paid less. Coming back around, like you said, I agree that jobs (such as chemists) do "help." In fact, he's helping the helper. Yes, as you mentioned too, even though there might be no "consumer good" produced, senior managers can be described to help indirectly, although the clients may not see their actions on the front end. It's a weird combo of perspective and purpose to grasp. Most jobs are 'helping,' whether it is for something or someone; its not a one-to-one process, but often a chain of events that can change order. "The more your job helps others, the less you get paid" is pretty shallow.
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This can happen that some particular difference between species makes inferring risk of a molecule inaccurate. The real LD50 of nicotine is probably a good bit higher than thought now, but we can't just go poisoning people to really find out so we rely on animal models.

I suspect that MDMA and related are somewhat physically harmful but is it more neurotoxic and has a greater addictive potential than legal drugs like alcohol? I don't think so.
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As an iOS developer with several apps in the store and maintaining an enterprise app, I have no interest in Swift. The syntax seems like a step backwards; people complain about javascript constantly, and yet this is like a javascript mask on top of objective-c. Perhaps when it gains some popularity and people figure out what it's good for, and if it's sticking around, I'll learn it. For now I'll stick with objective-c, especially since it took like 3 years to become proficient with it.
Which implicitly means that swift code can be compiled for iOS 7. Which isn't surprising since the compiled code uses the ObjC runtime.
Can anyone write code to feed on this post and spill out stats (count) of each service/app? Thanks :)
It's an acronym: "Content-Addressable, Multi-Layer, Indexed" Storage. Nothing to do with ocaml.

Content Addressable: What things are named depends on their content. Two identical things have the same name. For example, the "name" or "key" for the data is the SHA-1 for the data, ala git.

Multi-Layer: The whole storage stack is built out of several layers. The blob store sits on the bottom, and only knows about bytes, and access is via the SHA-1 of those bytes. Things that you might store (Files, directories, sets, collections of tweets, social graphs, etc) build on top of the blob store by additional blobs that hold pointers to data blobs. Again, it's sort of like git. A front-end might sit on top of that abstraction.

Indexed: blobs of JSON that have a few special attributes are recognized and indexed. So, you might have a bunch of blobs with these special attributes (ie, "tag") and be able to ask the indexer "Give me all blobs with tag equal to foo", rather than having to search through the blobs directly.
Is the balloons playground he demoed in the keynote available for download?
At first I thought that Apple's new scripting language had an object storage system built in. ;-)
And then there's the Board of Overlords. Or The Council of Sauron.

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:The_Council_of_Sauro...
I am glad to see Contiki getting some "air time" I have been working with this for the past year and I think it has great potential.
One of the great things that Contiki has going for itself is the community. It's very active and growing quite rapidly and it's very welcoming to newcomers.
A native client has advantages over a browser extension. For mobile devices, there isn't much choice except to use a native client for email. But that would mean open sourcing the client, if that's how you read the cleartext.

Google needs a few more pieces, like Web-of-trust facilitates by social connections and real time communication, but this is a good first step.
Why do you say this? I dont think all side channel attack surfaces require local access to the machine.
an attempt could probably be made to calculate the power usage assuming it is the main power consumer by subtracting other major users of power like CPU, screen brightness, wifi, etc.

actually, scratch that. most android phones have per-component power consumption readings, so while you couldn't get the actual tx power, you could just base it off of the baseband power usage.
I have to say there are so many conversations I have (usually consulting with someone looking to do a startup) and one of the first things that comes up regardless of the market/problem is "maybe we could do some machine learning..." and I immediately think "you're doing it wrong".

I didn't start making significant sales in my businesses until I learned to stop focusing on the tech stuff and just throw together a manual process and start working on selling.
this made me lol. thank you.
Depending on what information is available, you might be able to get a good idea if it's fake or legit by looking at signal strength, jitter, latency when communicating with that tower.

If the phone is mostly stationary, then there could be a cause for concern on the phone's behalf.
Just an FYI, its still pretty unfinished, so that's partially why the website/documentation isn't more clear about its purpose.

I imagine that description getting better when they start wanting more end users to use it.

Right now they have a bunch of pages which are html with 0 css styling, cause it ain't done yet. Despite these things, I find camlistore extremely cool, and look forward to it's growth.
"Chrome's renderer -- the part of the browser that interprets the Web page coding and turns it into something a human can look at -- crashes about half as much as on the 32-bit version."

Surely they should fix the renderer code, not rely on 64bit protection to stop it crashing.
Thanks for your elaborate answer, I very much appreciate it. After these discussions, Swift sounds like adopting the best of the worlds of fast and dangerous (C, C++, Fortran), slow and easy (Python, Ruby) and slow and safe (Haskell) languages (I'm listing the extreme examples here from my perspective rather than the actual influences to Swift). I especially like the 'safe by default - unsafe optional' stance, since this gives you the ability to create a working program quickly, but still optimise it later through introducing unsafe behaviour. This can allow Swift to be used for HPC purposes further down the road (provided [1] substantial parts will get Open Sourced, [2] it gets implemented on Linux and [3] it gets support for parallel computing both on node, core and accelerator level). Without having worked with it yet, here's what I'd love to get in order to use it for HPC:

-UnsafeButWarn compiler options -> replaces safe versions of arithmetic / arrays with unsafe ones, but issue runtime warnings whenever unsafe behaviour has occurred. Meant for debugging the runtime into never going unsafe, such that checks can be disabled.

-Unsafe compiler option -> replaces safe operations with unsafe ones. Meant for the production version that has been extensively tested but needs to run as fast as possible.
Really glad you liked it.
> In this case, police used two versions of the stingray — one mounted on a police vehicle, and the other carried by hand. Police drove through the area using the vehicle-based device until they found the apartment complex in which the target phone was located, and then they walked around with the handheld device and stood “at every door and every window in that complex” until they figured out which apartment the phone was located in. In other words, police were lurking outside people’s windows and sending powerful electronic signals into their private homes in order to collect information from within.

Seriously ? And no police officer was ashamed of what they were doing during that whole time ?
When they talked about the WWDC app being written in Swift they also explicitly mentioned that Swift will run on iOS 7 and 8 as well as OS X Mavericks and Yosemite.
The lack of fall through makes me a bit sad since I think that it's a very powerful programming construct and it usually only hurts people new to the concept - but of course one can live without it.
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While knowing C certainly helps, it is not essential to learning Objective C, at least it wasn't for me. If you try first to understand it at a high level, then it is very doable (and fun!).
FYI, it's a Reid Hoffman quote, referenced here http://paulgraham.com/really.html#f3n
Well, sure, it sounds bad when you phrase it like that.
Can you give me an example that would be relevant here?