skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you explain. The ticket is empty:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-14352

Are they talking about using Facebook's RockDB ?
Consumer spending is much higher than prior to 2008. The article you link to says the opposite of what you are saying.
Judging from the code samples they showed during the keynote, I'd guess that Google Cloud Dataflow is based on (or an extension of, or a public version of...) FlumeJava, described in this PLDI 2010 paper: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~akella/CS838/F12/838-CloudPapers/F...
What if he rents you an antenna, but you install it in your house?
> why would you want to snooze an email?

I use my Gmail inbox as sort of a todo list. If a conversation is in my Inbox, it needs attention from me - I need to do some work related to it, reply to it, forward it, etc. Once I'm done with an email thread, I immediately archive it.

If you use this workflow (many do), snoozing an email is useful. I use it primarily for threads where I'm not able to reply and provide information immediately (so removing it from my inbox until I can reduces distraction), and for threads where I'd like to follow-up in a few days, if for example I don't get a reply.
I'd consider you as someone with class and higher moral standards. Never apologise for that. We need more people like you Brian.
You're right, it is more of an emacs-like tool. Probably in the next year or so we will consolidate some ideas of what an IDE should (or could) be for WL. Some Brett Victor like things should be in there, no doubt...

And yes, we need to get PacletManager into a state where it is easy to use as a package manager. The only thing (and a big, crucial thing) it is missing right now is explicit dependencies, and a solver. If you have ideas about this please offer them (are you on the Mathematica stack exchange?)
From what I can tell, Google's "Display Select" is a thinly disguised way to filter out the mobile app ads now. Here is my guess on Google's game plan, it may be incorrect:

1) Cash in on the massive volume of bad mobile app ads as long as possible
2) Roll out "Display Select" and leave the mobile app traffic to DoubleClick.
3) How do they make up for the loss in revenue? "Search with Display Select" is the default selection now. Look closely, display bids are no longer set by you, but by Google.
4) Search advertisers pour in to the Display network, driving up bids and making up for the loss of the bad traffic.

I have had good results at scale with the Display Network many years ago. There is just so much inventory now and it is not particularly cheap (presuming real, engaged users.)
As much as I would love it if the Posse Comitatus Act addressed this, the fact that it focuses on "enforcement" by the military means it probably would be deemed as not applicable here. The NSA and CIA are providing informational support that violates numerous parts of the bill of rights, but the enforcement itself is still being carried out by the FBI, ATF, Secret Service and state and local police.

At the time Posse Comitatus was passed, I don't think anyone ever envisioned that technology would one day permit pervasive ever-present surveillance.

Are there any parts of the act that specifically attempt to curtail supporting enforcement by other means using language that could apply to information sharing techniques used in parallel construction?
> If there's an operational need for them, they'll come back at an instant.

Yes, they will come back if they're needed. The reason they're not needed is because drones are available.

> Is that said as if things turned all the better for the increased arms race?

It's said as in shotguns were not the horrific inhumane weapon they were made out to be, in comparison to all the more innovate and brutal ways we've figured out how to kill each other in the decades since. At least the shotgun stood a good chance of putting someone hors de combat instead of killing them outright; rifle ammunition was and is designed explicitly to cause massive trauma leading to death.

> wheres the lives of 100s of innocent people on foreign lands are somehow not worth much.

The Taliban kill far, far more Muslims than the West could hope to match. The same was (and now is) true in Iraq. The lives of innocents abroad are worth something, which is one of the reasons why America risks her own blood and treasure: Having a reasonably stable and secure Afghanistan, without Muslims killing Muslims every day, is flat-out good for America too.

Likewise for nearby Pakistan, a possessor of nuclear weapons (and victim of recent Taliban attacks at Karachi airport); the insurgency there isn't just bad for the innocent peoples of Pakistan, it's bad for the rest of the world including America.
I actually hope Apple won't abandon Objective C and continue to improve it. I'd like to have languages from both sides of the spectrum (dynamic ObjC vs strongly typed Swift).
Yes Shopify has a Toronto office after their acquisition of Jet Cooper: http://www.jetcooper.com/
What about some kind of integration with CocoaPods? Seems like there's going to be some duplicated effort here.
What does this article have to do with Hacker News?

Note the decidedly different tone from this entry on the same Washington Post Wonkblog:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/06/25/t...
Not without sentiment analysis applied to links. However, that's game-able.
My Galaxy Note 2 came with buttons on the headphones.
Audi The First Car OEM To Announce Timing For Android Auto
The Dalvik JIT compiler focuses on critical sections of code. There's a reason you don't see Hotspot on battery powered devices.

Hotspot get its name from the term of art for a critical section of code, though. That's not something that makes them different from each other; it's what they have in common.

What separates them must be that only one of them was designed with a power budget in mind.
The mechanism is exactly the same.
They're only out of luck if the owner refuses to install an antenna. But assuming that an antenna exists and that it sends connections to each apartment, then they're back in luck.

If the owner amortizes the cost of this antenna as a general building expense, and sets all the rents accordingly, there's still no problem. However, if the owner attempts to charge a separate fee for that connection (or tries to raise the rent for people who opt out of paying that fee) then he has not only inserted himself in the middle of the content transmission stream, he has done so on an individualized commercial basis. In effect, he's made himself a micro-distributer by establishing a cash for content deal with his tenants and the law has a major problem with that.
More than likely. Our brains are very adaptable, it would appear this is more similar to how people have been "recalibrated" to chronic pain and extreme phobias.

The chronic pain example is that a prolonged duration (about 2 weeks) of being free of pain medications can cause the body to adapt and recognize it's over-interpreting pain.

The extreme phobia was if you had someone with a severe phobia of snakes, you would put them into a room with a few dozen snakes in cages and lock them in until they recalibrate as their body can only stay in panic for so long. However... it isn't the most ethical way as it actually is possible to suffer heart failure from fear.
I just tried it; the latency is much higher than the Oculus Rift but it's still enjoyable. The demo app mainly has you flying around various places on Earth, but this comes with an SDK for further development.

I watched some folks in my office put it together and there was a bit of confusion as to how it was supposed to assemble (also reflected in some comments here as well).

The three biggest annoyances of the setup are:

- Higher latency

- Uncomfortable on the face (cardboard edges rubbing against skin)

- Unable to really fine-tune the focus

With the exception of latency, the other problems might be solvable with some more crafting. In particular, it would be good to put some kind of soft rubber grommet around the edges and then use some sort of head strap so you didn't have to hold it all the time.

Verdict: not perfect and certainly not going to be a threat to real hardware, but it does give you enough sense of presence to experiment.
Don't forget about the MaRS Discovery District and all the awesome startups there!

http://www.marsdd.com/
Is Warby Parker Too Good to Last?
Not really. My point is that Google has never had any design vision with android and simply responds to the movements of the other big names in the phone business with their "me too" offering. It's hard to deny this fact. It's also interesting how the same exact sentiment elsewhere in this thread gets upvoted.
NASA finds mysterious signal that baffles astronomers
There are thousands of scammy websites trying to game the system. It would be very hard for Google to keep on top of it, even if they really wanted to.

Sure, I can understand one or two getting through. But just looking down the top referrers from Google's own stats, almost none of them appeared to be related to the chosen target terms in this case.

There is also the issue that Display ads are 'old school' interruption based advertising. They are never going to get the same sort of engagement and conversion rates that well targetted Search ads get.

Yes, GDN is "old school" advertising, but that doesn't explain a total lack of engagement from the visitors. Other on-line advertising channels have been used to promote the same site, including multiple variants of display advertising using almost exactly the same ad styles and targeting strategies. Some seem to be more successful than others after the first few experiments, but all of them consistently achieve fair to very good engagement levels.

I almost have to think that something went wrong here, because I don't understand how Google can still be in business if our experience is typical of the results they can offer. Perhaps it works better for sites with less specific audiences or for big name brands. Still, if that is the best Google can do for a niche site with very targeted terms, it has literally no value as an advertising channel for us.
It changes the economics. If your botnet used to be able to post a million spams per second, and now it can only do a thousand, then now you're making 99.9% less money from renting out your botnet compared to last week. The fact that your botnet cost $0 of monetary transactions to acquire and retain doesn't factor into it.

Botnets may not have a marginal cost, but they still have a limited supply, and a demand for their use, which determined the cost to consumers. If they are less effective per time on spamming, either the cost of spamming will increase, or botnet operators will shift into other more profitable verticals.
What kind of usage is this seeing inside Google?
Biologically inspired models of intelligence
The API that launched today is just a backend API, so by definition your email data is accessible to the application on their servers.

You may be confusing how Streak works, where we have a browser extension that runs inside your browser, but our backend is the one doing the snoozing.
Scientists discover new material that makes objects invisible to touch
No, although you'd be excused for thinking so -- I co-invented Freicoin afterall (http://freico.in/). I'm against nominal interest, which is the non-risk portion of the interest rate.

But that is of zero relevance here. The point is that when I make a loan the interest rate is based on the risk of default, not how quickly it will be paid back. The rate shouldn't go up just because it's a short-term loan.

Additionally, none of this loans are carrying enough risk to justify 5000% APR. This is pure extortion.
I am amazed by Google more and more each day.
What a strange strange choice. Instead of moving responsibilities to a imperfect but very flexible turing-complete language (javascript), they are trying to shoehorn everything into a markup language originally designed as an abstraction for documents (html).

I liked a lot of what I saw in the project, but this "ajax as an element" makes me want to facepalm, or at least scratch my head and wonder "why?!?"

Can someone from the polymer team elaborate the reasoning behind this?
Keep Calm And Play MineSweeper
A Pyramid in the Middle of Nowhere Built to Track the End of the World
It's one of DragonFly's goals, but afaik the clustering support is scheduled for the HAMMER2 rewrite that's still in progress: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2012-02/msg00...
I think part of the problem is that some services' TOS do give users the option to restrict access to their information so if you go and scrap it that might cause problems to the startup where that content was posted to.
> LinkedIn definitely made me skeptical on allowing even trustworthy-seeming companies access to my contacts.

Trustworthy-seeming companies like, say, Google?
The Company Town in the Twenty-First Century
> I am not talking about an operation assuming any risks in order to spare enemy doctors, but if the whole point of the operation is to take down the doctors in the first place, I'd call that shady.

Targeting doctors would be flat out illegal, if marked as doctors. But recovering wounded (which is what's being described here) is not a job performed by doctors or medics in these specific cases. Even for U.S. forces, the initial extraction of wounded soldiers is almost always performed by other soldiers on the battlefield so that the the medic (normally only one) can work in a somewhat safer spot while they stabilize the casualty for MEDEVAC.

If there are cases where a second shot is launched without militarily actionable intelligence that reasonably indicates the follow-up shot is also against military targets (i.e. not doctors, chaplains, civilians, etc.) then that would be a crime too. I'm not trying to say second shots are always permissible just because there have been times when Taliban have committed perfidy, you'd still need good intel each and every single time that tactic is used for it to be legal.

But what I am saying is that often the story you read about actions in war are completely one-sided to make you believe that people are really going around doing things "equivalent to gunning down unarmed civilian peasants in order to deny food".
Doesn't matter. I know you don't like that but that's the way it is. Common law isn't source code running on a machine with perfectly defined rules, it's a set of values adjudicated by judges.

They looked at Aereo and said: It looks like a cable company and quacks like a cable company so it's gotta act like a cable company. The precise configuration of equipment they have in their datacenter doesn't matter.
Searchcode: A source code search engine
instead of "shittysecurity.com" you might want to use something like "example.com", for one because some people will see it as inflammatory, and because some eager devs might be presenting this to bosses who will take offense, and based on that emotion, decide the whole thing is bullshit.
The quotas are per user. So you can poll the /history endpoint per user. But yes, this isn't very efficient.
It appears to have interoperability issues. The Apple livestreams certainly never seem to play reliably in non-Apple HLS clients.
OSX 10.9.2/Safari 7.0.3 reproduces this as well.
Excerpt:

As such, Pruned suggests, it offers convincing architectural evidence that we should consider "the "U.S. anti-ballistic landscape as a subset of Land Art"—as lonely pieces of abandoned infrastructure isolated amidst sublime and almost unreachably remote locations.

I don't know if the content per se is all that meaty but the writing and photos are engrossing.
"Date Before You Marry": Getting Familiar with Your Startup Co-Founder
I've heard of the phobia method, as your body eventually exhausts its adrenaline stores and you're able to address the issue more rationally instead of under physiological duress.

I had not heard about the chronic pain example though; thank you!
I think you can train it in general. Astronauts, for example, usually get over zero-g sickness after a while, and flying in small planes makes you less sensitive to turbulence.
Chromium Version 34.0.1847.137 Debian 7.5 (268882)
I think I was on 2.6.38. Seems like it ought to work, but didn't. Dunno.
No, the "no rights zone" only applies to non-USPERs outside of U.S. soil. NSA might reasonably be able to claim that they didn't know a given email address used outside the U.S. actually belongs to a U.S. person, but they'd have a much harder argument claiming that a phone issued to a U.S. area code didn't reasonably belong to a U.S. person, even if used overseas.
I'm not arguing that the law is the way I think it should be. I'm just arguing that the law is really dumb, and that it's pretty clear the legal system just makes decisions that serve the interests of powerful lobbies, rather than some intelligent or even discernible set of rules or principles.
Yep, we should run/deploy out of the DVCS.
Wow. The USA ones are awful.
Sorry i mean the javascript/webtech plugin,forgot the name JSDT perhaps,need to check it. ;)
Maybe a significant proportion of the clicks you got were from click farms or bots, who were working for the benfit of the site hosting the ads (and incidentally making lots of money for Google)?

I have had much better results with Search ads.
> So the Fourth Amendment removed that concept completely by directing that any unreasonable search of a person or their house, papers or effects much be done under a warrant that was specific in nature.

It prohibits unreasonable searches outright (it doesn't require a warrant for unreasonable searches), and also limits warrants to certain standards. (Implicitly, it has been held to also mean that warrants are usually necessary for a search to be reasonable, since if there were no generally-applicable warrant requirement for reasonableness, the limitation on the conditions in which warrants may be issued would be meaningless.)
Very cool! I built a command line tool to solve a similar problem a few years ago: https://github.com/christiangenco/t_time_tracker
[Android L Demo] Paper Elements Sampler
Is there a transcription/summary available anywhere?
It's high time that we get user-controlled sandboxes that could enforce additional security restrictions and are application-transparent. If a third party app requires access (R/W) to my Google Drive files, I should be able to limit said access to a single folder, for instance, and any other content should simply be invisible to it. These restrictions should be tuneable at any time (before and after app install) and there should be visualization tools to control their effectiveness.
>The companies will pay you $5-15k, depending on the candidate, as a referral fee.

I have tried, and from what I've seen, it is quite difficult to get that sort of a relationship with a company. If you have a recruiting agency that has that sort of relationship with a big company? You can sell your recruiting agency for a lot of money.

If you don't have a relationship with the company doing the hiring, you have to go through recruiters who do, and you will get $0-$2500 per referral. I've placed a lot of people at this level. I've gotten $2500 once. The rest of the time? I get a "thank you" (and the person I placed, often, feels they owe me a favor.)
From what I've read, the real worry with (for example) C++ is not whether you can control packing or memory ordering. The real worry is when you create data structures that are fundamentally cache-unfriendly. The compiler won't reachitect an object into other objects to make it more memory friendly.

Simple example from the slides on optimizing for the PlayStation 3; if your object is large and full of different data, you miss a lot and burn lots of cache space every time you access it because it is so large. If your object is small and just a collection of pointers, you burn little cache space when you load it, and data can be arranged more appropriately.

http://research.scee.net/files/presentations/gcapaustralia09...
You can require arbitrary complexity and therefore if you implement logic which will increase complexity every time username/password are not valid, you should be able to achieve just that.

Checkout jQuery plugin github repository for details on available options.
Well for example, I just skimmed through it and I don't see an explanation of quoting, probably one of the first things I would want to explain, around the time variables are explained. It also has examples like this:

#!/bin/bash
for i in $( ls ); do
echo item: $i
done

which both uselessly calls ls (you may as well just use a glob) and doesn't work as intended if there are filenames with spaces in the directory.

You also have:

#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq 1 10`;
do
echo $i
done

Why is it using backticks here instead of $() as in thr former example? Also, no mention that seq is not available on some systems. And, you should be using bash's sequence expression[1] anyway (added in bash 4.x), so the guide is likely out of date.

1. http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Brace-E...
I tweeted the following at the time, trying to be sarcastic and cynical:

‘What if there was a material as simple as paper that could change shape based on touch? I’m not saying there is. But what if there were?’

I was pretty disappointed to find out that I was right.
Supreme Court rules against Aereo, saying it is violating copyright laws
I love it when the legal process works as intended.
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You're doing some pretty massive projection there. I said that the timezone increases support costs if you're not where your market is, and it's worth putting on a list of hurdles for startups. I didn't complain about the timezone, just mentioned that it's not the trivial issue you painted it as. It's also winter here in Melbourne, where it gets cold enough that I've heard both Scots and Canadians bitch about how stupidly cold it is here (because we don't insulate our buildings properly), and when summer rolls around, I love the heat and 40+ degree days. And when it comes to 'sparsely populated', I've argued several times here on HN that Australia is one of the most urbanised large countries in the world - despite the outback image we promote, far more of us live in the cities and we have a very centralised population.

So not only are your complaints wrong about me, they're the diametric opposite of who I am and what I say. It's fine if you don't like the country and want to live somewhere else, but don't just make shit up about your former fellow citizens in order to justify your movement to yourself.
It's not a bad idea; there's in theory a very weak such wall already present so it's not as if there's no precedent. And I'd certainly feel better knowing that techniques like parallel construction could be replaced with a formal mechanism under strong oversight for use in serious criminal cases, without destroying intelligence sources and methods.
X-ray signal detected 240 million light years away
I guess it depends on the text editor. Some editors will save new versions of a file with the same name by writing the current buffer to a new file and then atomically moving that file to the target location, which has no reason to write on the same sectors.
Remember we are talking about _building_, actually JITing a JIT using a dynamic language _for_ a dynamic language.

I haven't run a 32 bit desktop or server system since 2004. 32 bit is quite dead. In 4 years, only the cheapest ARM SoCs will be 32 bits. In embedded devices, yes 32 bits will be around for a great long while.
Perhaps $5 buys a lot more skill in some countries than in others?
CF Summit Video: SAP’s Shares Microservices Architecture–Hybris on Cloud Foundry
Net neutrality protesters arrested late last night at Google headquarters
I'll second your point on Android Studio. I was really hoping to see it was getting some serious attention this I/O (but I'm not watching everything live so maybe there is something I haven't seen yet)