skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All valid points, but I would add two more.

Firstly, the means to make mass surveillance significantly more difficult and expensive already exist, we just don't use them routinely as a society. This lack of security and privacy awareness is harmful for many reasons, only a few of which are related to potential abuses by government organisations, but part of the reason they haven't been used more is because of the pressures imposed formally and no doubt less formally by governments. There is always going to be a balance here, because obviously there are bad people in the world and governments are expected (reasonably or otherwise) to protect their citizens and organisations against those bad people. I doubt any government is going to willingly give up all possibilities to intercept communication, but I think you could have a situation with much more transparency and oversight than we have today to keep that power in check and directed to its intended purposes.

Secondly, one of the most disappointing things about this whole affair is that our own intelligence and security services (I'm in the UK) seem to be more concerned with covering their backsides and keeping tight with their US chums than they are with actually, you know, providing for the security of their own country. In an era when foreign surveillance is a significant threat to everyone and so-called allies are among the prime culprits, the duty of our services is to treat those allies as hostile to the extent that their observed behaviour demonstrates they are hostile, and to respond proportionately. US spying on all our citizens' data? Promote encryption as standard and advise businesses on how to keep their data out of US jurisdiction. If allies have legitimate grounds for wanting sensitive information about British people (and I'm certainly not saying they won't have legitimate grounds for doing so from time to time) then let them request that information through proper channels and in compliance with our laws (and make sure our laws provide for assisting allies appropriately but with appropriate controls and oversight as well).

Ultimately, you can't rationally expect governments to protect their people without allowing them to use the technical tools and legal powers necessary to do so, but neither can you rationally protect your society and way of life by destroying it. This debate is all about resolving that inherent conflict in as fair and practical a way as possible, and to that extent, I think some fresh views in politics could improve the current situation considerably.
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You read it in 3 minutes?
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Unless you are intending to accuse Cloudflare of aiding illegal activity in order to sell services, you may want to change your statement, as this could be considered libel.
The common thread in many of these announcements seems to be coinbase.
I don't know any janitors in poland. But think of the possibilities. You could offer a "Janitor's day in the life" to entitled tech workers. The tagline could be "Step outside your bubble and see how the rest of the world lives."
well, this is bad news
European techies should favor Hailo over Uber if they ever have hopes of a real startup ecosystem ever blooming in this side of the world. The startup scene can't afford to see it fail.
Is this as big as it seems to me? This seems huge. Is it huge? I can't tell. Should I be excited? I am.

Now if only I could make it easier for people to pay me in bitcoins for small freelance work...
The latest update really disappointed. I'd rather re-built the distro myself.
not entirely true.

enabling source filtering in all networks will essentially kill off these UDP amplification attacks, because the attacker wouldn't be able to spoof your address as the source address.
I've been using Digg Reader for a while and I'm actually kind of shocked that most people haven't moved to that. It has its bugs (sometimes showing incorrect numbers, the mobile app locks up sometimes), but it's honestly the best alternative that I've found so far.

Maybe it has to do with its free-ness, as people worry about them shutting doors like Google Reader, but if you're looking for a free solution then I'd definitely recommend it.
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As for features... I thought their primary selling point is being smart - their pattern recognition logic, that translates swipes to words and sentences. A good dictionary, a good language model and so on.

I really doubt the thing that differentiates them from other keyboards is that they learn from message history and sync that over the network.
It is wrong to expose such level features into a a programming language. These are exposed as actual types. More and more stuff is being added to HTML, CSS and is without any thought as to what the language is meant for. Just because it can be done does not mean it should be. It is a better approach to advance type interference and compiler technology, add language primitives that assist such code generation.

The web page shows a Mandelbrot which is a terrible example because they are best done with shaders. In face there is no real use case for this. There will always be specific things that cannot be done and no language can address them all. How many apps need SIMD based physics? In fact I am not even sure what kind of physics needs SIMD.
Those were my fears with sticking with something like Scala. I just know I would fall back on imperative programming rather than being forced to understand functional programming.

Scala itself doesn't seem bad, but my gripe is just getting a working project set up. With sbt, I know I have to create a few files just to get up and running. Not knowing Maven syntax - can be embedded in sbt, I think - or sbt itself, I don't find it appealing to learn that kind of tooling outside of work.
I've always thought it would be a good idea to just route all traffic through tor with an insecure ssid (and a separate one for yourself. It would take care of security concerns, or getting blamed for torrenting.
Again not sure how Contino do it but if your using autoscaling groups the best way todo this is pass in a bootstrap script (shell or ansible) into the group when creating it so that will pull down the correct images if more instances are needed. To give yourself some control, you should probably do what we do - pass a simple wget in which pulls an ansible playbook stored in S3 so we can change version numbers etc without taking down the whole group. I've found there are many ways todo this but keeping things simple helps alot.
One of the problems is that the Android app is draining the battery whilst it can't connect to the Feedly servers.
Shown HN: Social engineering with Chrome's autofill
That's a good point. That would be interesting data to analyze.
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This one really deserved downvoting, great job whoever did that :/
I read before ;)
Depends on the parents. I got half dollar coins, which are rarely used in the US (making them more fun to receive).
Not all vegetables must be produced in the way you describe. In my tiny, poorly-weeded backyard, we've got herbs, beans, peas, 6 kinds of weird lettuce, arugula, tomatoes, strawberries, gooseberries, and more onions than reasonable. Right, it doesn't feed us entirely most days, but we don't have to buy many veggies. I don't get paid to tend it. The time out there is probably good for my mind, given all the research showing green space as effective as pharmaceuticals in combating ADD/ADHD in children.

If we all had our little gardens the food landscape of America would change wildly. Japan's got tiny little gardens tucked into every corner. It's a different model of production.
>It’s because Apple prevents you from owning the relationship with your customer.

And that's a good point for me as a consumer.
I don't want a new relationship per cd I buy.
Aw man, I ate chips when I was 9, no chance for me now.
i would guess the sell off the advanced machinery like blackhawks for cash - let others strip them down to see how they are engineered. doubt they would have trained pilots or spare parts for repairs, which are the operating challenges of sophisticated deployed machinery. on the same note - the AK47 is popular in desert climes for its dead-simple architecture - avoids the headaches of fussier gear like an m-16.
Which bodes extremely well for them. They may quickly become the PayPal of bitcoin for providing a solid service allowing businesses to interface with BTC; as PayPal did for giving businesses and individuals a solid service to transact using the internet.
I smell Iraq war #3...
Interesting. No idea, but guess so.

Or maybe they have separate builds (doing A/B testing, having region-specific versions or something like that). But I guess localization error is a more probable version. Where do I report one?
Can you accept Coinbase payments?

That's the thing here: Coinbase is just another payment processor. Most businesses are used to having to accept "some extra payment processor".

Since you get to do some sort of announcement, which more most companies means you get to be in the news in a semi-positive way, why not? It's risk free for them - or at least only as risky as their ability to sue Coinbase for missed payments.
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The new Moniker looks a lot like the new Namecheap - lots of change and a poorer user experience.
American Companies More Interested in Outsourcing than H-1Bs 
The largest users of H-1B visas are Indian bodyshops that specialize in moving American jobs overseas.
I was wondering , if we can do Home Automation and use the latest iOS 8 features to control most of the stuff in house
The fact that Apple can and does reject apps makes me very hesitant to invest time in developing on the platform.
My son, who's now 2 1/2, has had endoscopies every six months starting from when he was 9 months old. (He suffers from eosinophilic esophagitis, and the only way to accurately determine his eosinophil levels is to biopsy tissue from the esophagus.)

So, this study obviously worries me a great deal. It's definitely something I'll want to ask his doctors about ... but I have a feeling that the answer will be that it's a downside we'll have to accept.
I guess, but to me this only makes sense for the bigger artists (if it makes sense at all).
I don't think iTunes wants you to lose interest in that new artist you have been listening to, they want you to buy more music all the time.

Some examples of this: ping, recommended artists, etc.

If you want to argue that you want users buying your music instead of a different artist, I understand, but to me music is more a matter of taste (and you can have hundreds of albums just awaiting your perusal) whereas while software can definitely have a taste element, it is supposed to accomplish some goal.

There is a finite amount of software you are going to want on your phone or computer (besides games which are more consumable), and unless your software in orders of magnitude better than your competitor that I already use, or something new that I don't have and cant do without you, I am not going to switch.
And the most beautiful part of the Constitution is the checks and balances. For instance, the Executive branch is supposed to enforce laws from the most generic to the most specific, as you've indicated. However the Supreme Court Justices are supposed to use their brains, and realize that a law banning gay marriage, written into the Constitution or not, is inherently unconstitutional because the Equal Protection Clause takes precedent.
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> Can you accept Coinbase payments?

I don't need help for accepting bitcoins. I trust bitcoins themselves, I consider them a real currency, not something that has to be immediately exchanged for centralised currency. So I'm fine just accepting them without an intermediary. My hope is that as bitcoins get more popular, businesses like Coinbase will seem less important.

Instead, I need help getting bitcoins from all the people out there who have no idea how to get bitcoins.
> Do users really don't care and blindly ignore all security warnings?

Whenever I install an app on my Nexus 5, I click through the "this app wants XYZ permissions" dialog without reading it. Not only do I not read it, I get a little angry each time because I can't do anything with the information and it's just in my way.
Accessing JVM arguments from Java
They are probably shooting at the Chinese market.

When you live in a dysfunctional country, gold is consider a useful investment.
and here come calls for a union of all taxi drivers nationwide in the US

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/07/business/pinched-by-ride-s...
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It's not parallel, a framework, or a GPU feature. It's single-instruction-multiple-data (SIMD) which is used to speed up single threaded execution on a CPU when working with lists of numbers.
Any ATM attached to a bank does let you deposit, actually. In the states, mostly just in envelopes that are counted later, but in China, they actually count and verify the money in place.
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Such a strange situation where US State department supports the same rebels in Syria, but when they cross the border to Iraq they fight US allies/US. Mind-bongling.
Many times when I think about world news, images of "The Player of Games"/Banks novel popups in my mind.
Goldbugs like anonymity. You know, in case Obama decides to pull an FDR and confiscate all their precious Au.
Yeah, it doesn't really seem like "switch to the feed provider who isn't getting DDoS'ed" is a solution.
From my limited experience, the cloud is always more expensive if you know your exact usage requirements. If, for example, you know that six octo-core 16 GB RAM, 512 GB SSD-in-RAID1 servers would fit your needs from now until 10 years from now, you will do better to just rent them from SoftLayer, Hetzner, etc.

However, if you anticipate growth, or need to be able to spin up a test server, then shut it down a day later, etc. then you are better off paying premium for the cloud. Sure, there are economies of scale at play here: AWS has so many servers, they are not paying a person to log into every one of them every so often to run updates, etc. However, make no mistake: everything you would have to do with a server, Amazon has to do too. In fact, they have to do much more to keep all of them running at once. That cost will be passed onto you.

Even with all of that, it's cheaper if you want to be able to spin something up, then shut it down. Another great example is the additional services provided by the likes of AWS: you can get things like load balancers, cache servers, database servers, orchestration services, etc. You can do all of this yourself, but at some point it's cheaper to just pay for something like ELB than to learn how to do it yourself and spend the hours to set it up. Human time is more expensive than that.

Lastly, if you just need a really small machine, there is no beating the cloud. You simply cannot get a dedicated machine for $5/month, and you likely never will.
I'm in the same boat. Was thinking of leaving for awhile, feel kind of bad this is what pushed me off the edge.

For me, I stopped and thought about how I access my RSS feeds. I used to be a pure desktop RSS reader, and then I started using both my phone and my desktop, and since Google Reader shut down I've mostly just been using Feedly on my phone. Since I only check my feeds on one device now, I don't need to worry about syncing across platforms, which is the primary purpose of Feedly in my opinion.

If that sounds like you, and you're on Android, check out gReader. While it can integrate with Feedly and a few other services, it can also just act like a "dumb" RSS reader and just download the feed content to your phone instead of relying on a sync service. So far I'm enjoying the experience.
fish/sftp/ftp/smb, all the KIO Slaves are still here, working fine on KDE4 and are all ported to KF5 as well.
I'm enthusiast of KDE. Keep up the good work guys!

BTW I'm using KDevelop to edit PHP. It's come a long way since its introduction, and is now almost on par (feature-wise) with Netbeans, which makes it the second best free PHP IDE for Linux!
How's this blackmail? What secret are they threatening to reveal?
Best thing they can do is offer a bounty :-D that seems to be extraordinarily effective
This is great news. This means IPv6 there is that much closer to being a reality.
It's frustrating because Italy is one of the most beautiful countries in Europe and has many nice people living there.

Funny you should mention Sweden, they actually have quite a bit of gang activity and organized crime there. It's not as visible as the Mafia and definitely not as organized but being an 'open society' is definitely perceived as being ripe for the plucking by the not-so-nice elements in our world.

I find it favorable to compare with the other opposite: dictatorships. There you usually have very little small time crime, all the crummy criminals are caught and punished (usually very harshly). But the government is the elephant in the room in those countries, they are the real criminals.

I think that crime is somehow systemic, that it is almost impossible to have an open society without having crime in the populace and as that model shifts towards a more closed society the crime shifts with it until the majority of it is found amongst those that rule.

There simply is an element of society that will try to game any model in such a way that they maximize their pay-off while minimizing their potential exposure to hard work. Parasitic behavior. And being a parasite works, it's a good niche to be in and plenty of people that find the regular roads to riches closed to them for whatever reason figure that they're going to get theirs no matter what.
> ...from a company with less questionable ethics

Ok, I'll bite. What is questionable about Uber's ethics?
The rate I'm paying no longer exists and the company I'm with got merged into another one so my point of reference isn't so good. :)

That said, there are a couple of companies on Webhostingtalk that have good prices for hobbyist colo if you look in their colocation forums and search for "Seattle." Opus is nice ($129 for 4U and 3A of power with 400GB of transit) and there is a company in Seattle--their name escapes me but I've seen them on WHT--that is $35 for 1U and 1A with 500GB of transit.

So, yes, I think you can do better especially if you just want space for a medium-usage 1U.
They're moving south very quickly - they're fighting in Tikrit already https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27800319
* Get a site/blog up and link to it from the Chrome extension page.

* Extensions are hard to monetize - frictionless affiliate links and donations.

* Post it on social networks, make a press release and forward it to famous blogs citing the Korean viral effect it's had.
Amazon is now punishing Time Warner, too
Libel is nearly impossible to act upon in the USA. Thank you, first amendment.
Algorithmic complexity attacks and libc qsort()
Yes. An easy way for someone not familiar with dbus: Use d-feet (should be in your repos) to find the running Konsole and the relevant interface, activate it and play around with it inside d-feet, and then activate it on the command line with dbus-send (you'll need to read dbus-send(1) to get the syntax). Or you could try: https://code.google.com/p/dbus-tools/wiki/DBusCli or http://www.bramschoenmakers.nl/en/node/609
> I get a little angry each time because I can't do anything with the information and it's just in my way.

I don't install apps that require permissions I'm not happy with. Don't be so callous with your own security.
Well, 50% is an arbitrary barrier, but the possibility of a double spend is already there at 48%.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if p is the percentage of hashing power you have, then mining amounts to throwing a biased coin with probability p of showing heads, and to double spend with 6 confirmations amounts to getting 6 heads in a row. p=48 or p=50 is a small difference in that respect.
Comcast, yes. Cablevision, no. I was speaking of the latter.
It's giving crazy Yii errors right now - "that works"?
In high school I tried building a PC into a refrigerator, and the results weren't pretty. The fridge could not keep up with the heat being generated by the CPU and over time it got too hot and shut down. The electric bill was also quite expensive, keeping a fridge running full blast 24/7.

Maybe hacking up the fridge to have the Freon running right over top of the CPU, but I'd rather take my chances tearing apart a Chromebook than tearing apart a fridge.
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A Different Animal
Your average Democrat who wants to sabotage school vouchers will vote for vouchers of 2 or 3 thousand dollars. Meanwhile spending fifteen grand per student on the public school system. Great way to "prove" that vouchers "don't work".

The true idea of a voucher system is that the parent gets to decide where ALL of their child's share of that spending will go.
52metrics.com is an employee feedback application that automates the task of asking regular questions from your team members.
Your team members get asked one question a week, over email and the resulting feedback and answers are recorded and presented on a dashboard. You can either act on the feedback yourself or assign it to the relevant people on the team.

The questions are designed to measure critical parameters affecting an employee. Namely, team-behavior, culture of the company, work load and relationship with managers. The questions are deliberately designed to have qualitative answers, which generate deeper insights into human behavior than scaled responses. Currently, the product is in active development, and I am accepting teams for a free closed beta. The chosen teams will be getting to use the product for free for 3 months.

Have a look at the link and give your feedback.
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[Infographic] The Average Facebook Page Performance For May 2014
I guess this is part of the continued move away from paid apps - but as a user, I found this confusing.

Swiftkey states that their goal is to get as many people using the app as possible, so they're making it free - but nowhere do they define for their users how they are planning on making money.

That leaves me thinking the one of the following: you'll be selling my data, you'll be doing in-app purchasing, you've found some other magical revenue source, or you'll be going out of business. I don't want to spread FUD here - my point is that as a paying customer this is not a good way to communicate. I have no idea what the strategy is - but if you want me to remain a customer, I personally would like to understand what is going on.
£150 is inline with other SE UK based 1 day conferences such as FullFrontal, Edge etc.
I think that there must be good interest in this given that all the early bird tickets went in a day.
Would be good to see a full lineup soon, but confs organised by devs for devs can only be a good thing.
Also like to see a CoC on the site too (maybe I missed it).
Wow, that's insane. But that result is fairly typical when a feisty new CEO hands down an ill-defined "new vision" for an existing product, and the people left to implement it have to figure out what that looks like. But it sounds like no one even tested core functionality at all, which is sort of scary for something as infrastructure-y as a domain registrar!

I moved most of my stuff to IWantMyName and haven't looked back. Super smooth experience and they add new TLD's often. My initial attraction was .io registration that didn't take a few weeks, but I've since been doing most of my .com/.net/.org registrations there, too.

One day I'll stop being lazy and move everything off GoDaddy over there. :)
I saw it. Deleting it right now. Apparently couldn't take the load.