skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this scenario, have I already discovered your service prior to the app's availability? If so, I (personally) don't pay much attention to media blurbs on the site of the service/app itself. If I'm already using Exemplr, I don't care whether Exemplr.com has a pull quote from Gizmodo about the new Exemplr app on the App Store. As long as your site/mailing list/whatever communicates why I might want to use the app for your service, that's enough for me to try it. A full-fledged review is a nice back-up for paid apps, though.

If I don't know about your service already and/or the app is not just an interface to a service (contrast an app that interfaces with a photo upload service to an app that actually manipulates photos taken by my phone's camera), then it's kind of a different story.

I feel like I'm coming across as a little difficult or that I'm being confusing. Does that make sense?
Meanwhile, in reality:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-06-03/pacific-islands-growin...

"Climate scientists have expressed surprise at findings that many low-lying Pacific islands are growing, not sinking.

Islands in Tuvalu, Kiribati and the Federated States of Micronesia are among those which have grown, largely due to coral debris, land reclamation and sediment.

The findings, published in the magazine New Scientist, were gathered by comparing changes to 27 Pacific islands over the last 20 to 60 years using historical aerial photos and satellite images."
Only injustice I'm 'dismissing' is the stereotyping in that comment.
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2500 for the decent spec MBP? What in the name... really apple? I just bought an MSI laptop with a 1920x1080p, r290Xm, 16gb ram, 1tb storage (true , it's not ssd) and a a 2.5 ghz APU from AMD for 1300$ . So... what 1200$ apple tax?
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Hello good people of HN,

I am a computer science student(21 years of age). My course is focused on AI and as such my final year project has to reflect this.

I am interested in neural networks and Active learning(changing models with based on stream of data).

I will be grateful for any project suggested.
I think they actually propose something like rendering two 1080p streams at 60hz to get the effect of both higher resolution than 1080p and higher framerate than 60hz. That's their intent, apparently, who knows if the staggered frames actually create problems for viewers if the frame rate isn't just doubled.
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>"It was those kinds of hackers who Alexander, when he was running the NSA, said were responsible for "the greatest transfer of wealth in American history" because they were routinely stealing trade secrets and competitive information from U.S. companies and giving it to their competitors, often in China."

Oh, and here I thought the greatest transfer of wealth in American history was the massive rise in disparity over the last thirty years between the nation's top 0.1% and everyone else.
Watching how the comments here have sunk gives me little hope for Hacker News.
Nice article, thx
That's kind of surprising given how their hardware model is setup, with pods of HDDs that are filled up and then essentially archived away. I guess the amount of space freed up is enough that it makes sense to open those pods back up for writing.
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He's not a clueless career bureaucrat. He's been in the cybersecurity business for a very long time (from his Wiki page):

> Alexander worked on signals intelligence at a number of secret National Security Agency bases in the United States and Germany. He earned an MS in business administration in 1978 from Boston University, an MS in systems technology (electronic warfare) and an MS in physics in 1983 from the Naval Postgraduate School, and an MS in national security strategy from the National Defense University.

While the government is often woefully behind the private sector, it's also sometimes several steps ahead.[1] You might not like his views about the right balance between security and privacy, but I wouldn't underestimate the kind of insight Alexander can bring to the table, for reasons that have nothing to do with his political pull with the NSA.

[1] Anecdote: I worked on a DARPA project about a decade ago. Commercial implementation of similar technology is probably another decade out. And that was pretty run of the mill stuff, nothing classified. I can only imagine the type of shit you run into at the NSA. The military often just hits a particular pressure point before the private sector does, and they have the money to throw experts at the problem.
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Every level of government, right down to the municipal level, can ask Facebook to hand all that data over at any time. They don't even need a court order if they claim it's an emergency or involves a child. https://www.facebook.com/safety/groups/law/guidelines/ Facebook admits to turning over data on tens of thousands of people in the USA. https://govtrequests.facebook.com/country/United%20States/20...
I work for a large enterprise company and we're using Docker in our Continuous Integration environment to unit test components needing to run on an application server. We have an eye to using Docker to manage production migration - ultimately we want to be migrating containers into production rather than software. We're not there yet, but we're working on it.
It's not just that, though. All of the casual information that you post on Facebook, including timestamps and whatnot, can all be used to infer and create a detailed portfolio as to your personality, location, political views, sexual orientation, interests, commonly visited places, employer, etc. EXIF data from photographs alone is a goldmine.

There was actually a practical example of a man FOIAing his documents from Facebook, which revealed that they had over a thousand pages specifically devoted to him alone on every facet of his life. Even though he was only a "casual" user (one wall update a week, or so). You can see it in the documentary film Terms and Conditions May Apply.

As for me personally, I've never had a Facebook account. Although virtually no one is impervious, reducing social media presence is still always useful to get rid of the blatantly incriminating things.

Unfortunately, the biggest threat is perhaps, what other people are saying about you. I have no idea about what's going on there...
That's consolidation of wealth -- transfer (in this context) implies it leaves sphere of American influence.
There was a lot of circumstantial evidence pointing to this fact already, and Snowden finally confirmed this last year in an interview with Der Spiegel [1].

[1]: http://cryptome.org/2013/07/snowden-spiegel-13-0707-en.htm
I tried to use OS X as my main OS, but I just couldn't get past what I considered "illogical" and "inconsistent" keyboard acceleration, keyboard navigation and user interactions.

For instance, in Windows and Gnome I can hunt through menus with the keyboard by simply press ALT and then the underlined letter of a menu (then use the arrow keys to look around and press ENTER or SPACE to pick one). This is consistent throughout those environments but on OS X you can't navigate like that, you have to memorize 2,000 hot-key combinations. Microsoft kind of ruined that nice feature with the "Ribbon" but the new keyboard navigation system for the ribbon is still more logical and consistent than what I've seen with OS X.

That's why I like to just put my Unix dev environment in a VM on Windows. I get the best desktop experience (for me) and when I need it, I have Unix.
Actually it was a correct statement. Decomposition is a sort of 'slow burn'.
My impression is that rideshares can be fairly restrictive in terms of timing, available orbits, and so forth. This seems like it could be useful for small research payloads with odd requirements; not a huge market, but not non-existent. The ESA designed the Vega for smaller-than-Soyuz-2 payloads; this would seem to slot in nicely under the Vega.
"The source and destination is always clear. It's to the server and from the server."

That's exactly what I mean by not clear: to the server and from the server are the exact opposites. So if something is not present on one side, it can do two things to make both sides equal: it can delete it from the one side, or it can copy it to the other side. If all it has is a "sync" button, not a "sync to server" or "sync from server" button, it's not clear what it will do.

Something that deletes files shouldn't be called sync, but should clearly be marked as a delete operation. And deleting something from one location should not have the surprise effect of deleting it on other locations too, unless it's called "remove everywhere".
Nonsense, Snowden's revelations give credence to the NSA's capability. One could even say that Keith Alexander owes Snowden a great deal of his notoriety to him.
It's very secure.
"Include" is not "limited to": https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/operating-systems
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Amazon just announced a 3-D printing store
Nice article, great examples and excellent presentation.
Take a piece of graph paper, and then put another on top, offset in the X and Y half a square size. You can still see the lines underneath, making it look like the grid has double the number of squares.

The rest is math.
I never said they were supposed to care. :P
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Most of us define 'better' as 'what I'm accustomed to', me included. Explains the longevity of weird old editors etc.

But to be truly objective, there'd have to be some argument about ease of learning a system, or even ease of adjusting as the system changes. By that measure, Windows' switch to the 'ribbon' has disrupted a large community accustomed to menu interation etc. I'd call it a big step backward.
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File sync with multiple devices is fraught with danger. Remember the old 'briefcase' on the Windows desktop? There's just no way to distinguish 'I don't want this file on this device' from "I don't want this file on any device'".
No idea how you use laptops, but I've never needed more than 1TB on mine, let alone more than 256gb and I still have more than 50% free most of the time.

Perhaps it's time to declutter your digital life?
Absolutely. In attempting to solve the problem of the influence of testing, they've also taken a huge step toward improving quality.

This applies to all of us.

http://blog.deming.org/2013/02/the-idea-of-performance-ratin...
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Doesn't work here. :O
My last upgrade path was to pay $300 to get my MBP completely factory refurbished, then replace the internal HDD with an SSD.
Suing General Alexander would probably do more harm than good -- this stint in the private industry is likely just another carrot on a stick that he's offering to the world's greatest hackers.

"Work for the NSA and you get will leave with a very powerful patent portfolio, and (most importantly) minimal risk of getting sued!"
Ah thanks. I had read about a lot of evidence pointing in the USA's direction, but didn't realize Snowden also confirmed it. Arguably still hearsay, but certainly adds more weight to it.
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This is not a well-formed question, mainly due to ambiguity. Perhaps you mean something like:

"In how many startups do I need to invest in order that my chance of making an overall annualised return of x% (where x is 0 or 10 or 20) over y years (where y is 5 or 10) is above z% (e.g. 99)."

The above is a question about diversification, and assumes that the quality of startups is constant as you add more to the mix. For this to be the case, you probably need to set some stable criteria to make the investment decision.

If you knew the answer to the question, you would need to maintain these criteria. You can't rely on diversification to save you, and just 'spray and pray'. If you aren't selective, your portfolio (and its returns) will be dominated by duds.
3000K is still considered very warm white.
Daylight is 5700k.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature
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Ditto! I've been taking 5mg Melatonin Fruit Gummies for almost two years now – Love them :)
Are there any types of error which mighz happen in Rust but are impossible in C++?
* Disable everything that's not the web server

* Turn on the firewall to only allow 80/443 and SSH in case you turn something else on

* only use passwordless SSH

* Use the latest version of (apache | nginx | other web server)

* subscribe to a mailing list for exploits for the software you're using

* Patch monthly, if not sooner for critical bugs
All white lights produce "some" blue light. As the other comment mentioned, the white point/color temperature indicates how much. I'm a fan of lights with adjustable color temperature, such as the Philips Hue bulbs. I use ~5000K-6500K when working, then fade down to dimmer light at ~2500K in the evenings. I use a Kinect for this, rather than the Hue app.
My buddy Tom says "If its not on your current computer, its lost". Imagine when Dropbox closes one day (as every company ultimately does), how much will be lost.
Kind of, and I acknowledge it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8102128

But even then it wouldn't be decentralized.

Everyone would have his own single point of failure, but it's still centralized (as I explain there) because SMTP is designed to rely on centralized services (DNS, which you can't practically avoid) and assumes servers which are single points of failure (even if there are millions of them, you can still be cut off from yours).

A government can disrupt email communications even if everyone has its own server because SMTP assumes single central points of delivery by design.

> if the first route does not work

Bitmessage does it even if the first route works. Which is exactly what makes email centralized, and Bitmessage not.

Imagine a malicious MTA saying "ok, got the message" but not relaying it. The email is gone forever and you wont even notice. In Bitmessage the message will reach its destination one way or another... by design!

If you have to hack email to be more like Bitmessage for it to be decentralized... what's exactly your point? :P
> He knows deep inside information into what surveillance programs the NSA operates.

I assume any application of that information would have him arrested too.
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The same happens to the Holy See, not to be confused with the Vatican City. The Holy See technically doesn't have territory nor citizens although is recognized as a sovereign country.
That is a narrow use case related to Y Combinator chatter. You can post to ask or tell something to the HN community.
But it has the power to completely undermine public discourse and thus democratic decisionmaking.
I see your point, however I have to politely disagree:

The naive solution to the problem you described would be to simply broadcast every email to every possible receiver. And in fact, I believe this is how bitcoin actually works (but I am happy to be corrected).
If I had a child with leukemia, I'd try complete darkness (and long nights) anyway after reading this article.
I like that the Indian start up scene is getting serious now.
Entrepreneurs are brave enough to compete with the big players unlike a few years ago when most start ups were basically simple web apps or a tech consultancy kind of thing.
As an Indian this gives me hope that a soon the brain drain will stop and a lot of talented Indians abroad (with connections and some money to invest) will come back to India to either start up or work for one.
Without Snowden no one would take him seriously Id venture to say.
Seems to me that the official report would have mentioned "a giant smoke plume clearly originating from this one site was obscuring the target area" rather than reports of smoke and clouds covering the whole city.

It seems reasonable to me that the attempt may have been made, but I doubt it was responsible for actually averting the attack.
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They will fax you the details.
Just a heads up your validation links come up as http://localhost:3000/user/validate/...

:)
"this physical intuition kicks in as early as two and a half months, and vanMarle and her colleagues think that it is probably present from birth.".

Does someone has any idea why they believe it is innate?
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"incriminating". You don't want to use that word. Because if you're actually doing something illegal or immoral, that is not a compelling reason for us not to act on it.

The idea that you need to be able to hide your political speech is a problem to start with. You won't be saved from tyranny by that power - if you use it, you already experience it and tyranny needs no reason to kick in doors beyond suspicion. Accurate intelligence is what you need when you're trying to do things right (or you've executed all the dissidents and the remaining ones are still a real threat).

Those who want to hide don't interest me. If there fears come to pass, I'll be long dead, and they'll have sat by and done nothing while it happened.
No, the analogy holds. One is across national borders, the other across economic strata. Here is an article from Forbes describing welfare as wealth transfer:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2011/07/15/mak...
I was recalling "Multicollisions in iterated hash functions" published at CRYPTO by Antoine Joux in 2004 talks about this subject.

https://www.iacr.org/archive/crypto2004/31520306/multicollis...

It amplifies collision finding by ﬁnding r-collision in time log2(r)2n/2, if r=2t for some t. Figure 1 in section 3 is a very intuitive picture of how.

The third paragraph of section 5 states that the attack is inapplicable on hashes with truncated output.

Although, now that you mention it, my dusty crypto knowledge is not enough for me to explain why this technique would be inapplicable on the internal states of a decomposed hash even if it's inapplicable on the final output. I shall have to read more.

I agree that if one can find a way to apply an HMAC it should also obviate concerns around length extension, and also that combining hashes (carefully) should be able to break only when both are broken.
if something is not present on one side, it can do two things to make both sides equal: it can delete it from the one side, or it can copy it to the other side. If all it has is a "sync" button, not a "sync to server" or "sync from server" button, it's not clear what it will do.

It's only not clear because you're using "sync" in an abstract sense. In Dropbox, it is clear: if the side had the file and it disappeared, it's considered a deletion. If it never had it, it's assumed it should receive a copy.

There's no ambiguity in the context of Dropbox, even if there is in the term "sync" generally.

Something that deletes files shouldn't be called sync, but should clearly be marked as a delete operation.

Why? A deletion is just another action comparable to adding a file, moving it, etc. Sure it may lose data, but if you edit a file, replace the contents and copy it to the other side with overwrite, it can lose data too. That's why Dropbox provides a 30-day backup feature.
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Nothing you said is incorrect, nor do I behave differently (who doesn't utilise JQuery?).

That being said; it seems like a copout to ignore glaring issues while waving our collective hands in the air and saying "just use a library to abstract it!"

One of the reasons libraries are as popular as they are (particularly JQuery which does "nothing" except provide an abstraction) is because the standards are so weak and cross browser support so incomplete.

A lot of people think we're currently in a great place in terms of web-development. I actually disagree. We're still in a bad place, it just so happens that were were in an even worse place previously (e.g. IE6 era).

Is there any real motive in the standardisation community or web community in general to make the spec' good enough so JQuery is no longer required by 9/10 websites? Why isn't $('#something').click(); built in yet?
I wouldn't hire a security company run by the former head of the NSA. Is there any question in anyone's mind that if he was approached by the government to put a backdoor in your company's product or infrastructure, he wouldn't hesitate for a second to say yes?
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So I read this as "within 15 minutes, land up to 60 miles downwind of the generator is obscured."
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In Dropbox, it's very simple: the former is simply not supported at all. Your file should be in all devices or none (mobile excepted).
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> The naive solution to the problem you described would be to simply broadcast every email to every possible receiver.

Exactly. And to every possible relayer too! Assuming we've dealt with the SMTP assumption of hostname = final delivery point.

You might have read the parent reply before I finished it (I have a bad habit of editing after sending replies, sorry).

As email works now, you'd receive duplicate emails, right? Easy to deal with if you wanted to, but Bitmessage works like that by design and assumes duplication as part of the system.

So, if your solution to the centralization problem is, literally, for email to become more like Bitmessage/Bitcoin... then what are we arguing about? :P
Does anyone know if there is a deadline or time limit to apply?
How good of a view do you need dropping a bomb with a 1.3 kilometer blast radius?
Those are separate languages, they shouldn't even have named "Perl 6" with "Perl" in it.
I have a good book on the subject: Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations.

The TL;DR version is that any job worth doing has some hard to measure components, so the best you will get using measures as incentives is to lag in the hard to measure parts. So the recommendation is not to stop measuring, but to make individual measurements invisible to management, and be just tools that people can use to improve their own performance. If your team is doing far worse than average in a measurement that you all find important, you will work on it anyway.