skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me the difference is very simple:

KDC has shown a structural disregard for the law and his victims to line his own pockets, this is not a one-time affair or something that you could claim is a mistake, an accident or something done half drunk, and he's been convicted of those crimes. It is to me beyond any doubt that he's a common criminal, he's merely found a nice little gray area in which he can operate using the proceeds of previous criminal activities to launch a new operation. He's basically doing what every criminal that is whitewashing his money and reputation has done.

Julian Assange has done a whole pile of things that seemed to have been for the common good (no profit motive as far as I can discern, you can of course debate whether or not they really were for the common good but that's out-of-scope), he's been too hungry for the spotlight in my opinion and has made WikiLeaks eventually more about him than about the data, this was definitely a mistake. I don't think WikiLeaks ever needed a figurehead. By making himself a figurehead he's become an Achilles heel to WikiLeaks and that in turn coupled with his flaws has led to his public downfall and a ton of damage to Wikileaks.

Where I draw the line is that (1) his motives for running WikiLeaks for the most part seem pure and that (2) Everything KDC does is to enrich himself at the expense of others and that he's been convicted of crimes that are directly related to such activities.

This makes them very different kinds of characters in my opinion.

Does that clear it up sufficiently?
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It also happens to be the EU's consumer-warranty period.
Is it flashable? Hope so.
How I Bootstrapped Bootstrappers.io
It's funny that a 'mediterranean diet' is often touted as a way to encourage people to use olive oil and salads but that around the actual mediterranean cooking with lard is pretty standard, and they seem healthy enough.

http://befiteatfat.tumblr.com/post/24324936614/the-fats-in-t...
Apache Spark, ETL and Parquet
I think calling him a rapist is correct. AFAIK, no-one (including him and his lawyers) is contesting the accusations against him, including the one that he had sex with a sleeping woman, which IMO is definitely rape.

Of course, I still think that the whole charade around having him extradited to Sweden for questioning is just a tiny little bit too convenient for the powers-that-be to think it's only about the rape.
> It's sad that BitTorrent is otherwise basically dead (as a way to obtain content). Where I live (Germany) you often get immediately subpoenaed (or the German equiv.) if you use it to download something.

That's just plain wrong. Maybe if you are downloading the latest hollywood flick from TPB you'll get a "Abmahnung" but that's about it. It's nowhere near "dead". If you are not using one of the big public trackers you won't have a problem. There are also free templates to fight these letters.
> While I find Dotcom to be a epitome of a shill, I doubt Greenwald or Snowden would back this particular claim if they truly believed it was false.

Can I just ask you, what's the claim? I cannot watch the video at this time (I'm at work)...
Out of interest, could a network provider actually tell the difference between say the data to update warcraft (which at least used to use a torrent style download), and the data through uTorrent of a textbook, and so on.
Looks great! Several questions.
1 - Since you do not provide trial, do you have documents? I at least need to have a feel on how to integrate it into my program.

2 - How is the extensibility and flexibility? Since I'm thinking of desktop program integration, this is a key to me.

3 - What's the number of lines in this library?
Haskell Dice of Doom – Part 1
>(as much as they would like to lead you to believe in their keynotes)

This is not unique to Apple. When a business has market dominance through regulation, lockin or high entry cost, they usually spin it as being simply because they provide the absolute latest and best service.

It's especially easy to see among internet providers that provide stoneage speeds, as they will brag about their amazing cutting edge internet service.

One may say "no shit sherlock" to that, but there is a lot of potential advertisement that wouldn't be equally deceptive in that context. They could advertise themselves as "tried and true" or "the enduring provider you can rely on".
The talk here is about smartphones. Of course a 10$ old Nokia phone will beat everything.
> We are due for another pandemic.

What do you mean by this?
Have a read:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/23/women-a...

That is one piece that speaks strongly to me, mostly because of the position the women that wrote it take.
Believe it or not the biggest barrier to adoption in those countries is not income per se as the middle class has been growing for over a decade, but trade barriers and import tariffs that make even the cheapest phone ridiculously expensive by western standards.

Compare the prices of some Chinese android phones in their home market with the prices in India. A Gionee model that went for around $230 in China sells for nearly $400 in India, almost twice the price. And is not as if the Chinese don't pay any taxes.
Make the right choice between hourly rate and fixed price
The most interesting thing is to see the presence of micro-SD cards, and the tacit acknowledgement that a lot of the world actually needs this kind of thing as the network isn't good enough. Let's hope this means the Nexus line get that.
Apple dropped DRM in iTunes because of bad PR. Everything Apple have done with regards to content distribution has been a balancing act between industry demands and PR.

Except for Sony, every other media player disregarded DRM. You may not have noticed this if you only had an iPod. The fact that they joined the ranks of their competitors in this regard should not be seen as a positive, it should only be seen as PR.
"shill"? That implies he's working for anyone but himself. "Colourful racing identity" is the usual Australian euphemism, I'm sure there's a New Zealand equivalent.

Really, the amazing thing the US did with MegaUpload was to make Kim Dotcom look like a hero by comparison ...
More code is more complexity from a maintenance point of view. You have to maintain n copies of the same code, specialised to n types. Find a bug in one, hopefully you'll remember to correct it for all n.
Actually Australians don't have to vote, they are required by law however to attend a polling station on polling day or have registered for a postal vote and returned the postal vote envelope. The actual vote papers can be blank, or indeed you can write in if you want; even for people who aren't on the official ticket (i.e. you can legally vote for Mickey Mouse). If a write in gets enough votes they are free to accept the position. In Australia you are also required by law to be on the electoral roll if you are eligible. In short in Australia suffrage is universal (for citizens who are of majority age; currently 18) and mandatory.
At least you have the option of installing Cyanogenmod.

Look at the iphone. The old ones you can throw away. There are security holes that have not been patched and there is no alternative OS you can run on them.
This may be an ignorant question, but why not use the <% %> syntax popularized by ERB instead of { } for view bindings?
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Alright, fair 'nuff.
Sick and tired of this spam. And using sockpuppets to upvote too. Not classy.
No thanks Google: the next five billion already have Firefox OS.
> Except for Sony, every other media player disregarded DRM.

The Sandisk Sansa Fuze[1] had the bizarre "slot radio". http://gizmodo.com/5126743/how-sandisks-slotradio-turned-a-g...
I have an old iPhone 4. I bought it when it was released four years ago and the latest supported iOS version is 7.1.2, released this summer. That’s four years of support, which is quite decent IMHO.
Implementing a Custom Forward Pipe Operator for Function Chains in Swift
14 Things We Learned from Tim Cook's Revealing Interview
Tcl (1990) doesn't directly have macros, but with a calling convention that resembles fexprs it doesn't need them:

proc swap {_a _b} {
upvar 1 $_a a
upvar 1 $_b b
foreach a $b b $a {}
}

Foreach is a builtin, but is trivially defined as:

proc each {ls script} {
for {set i 0} {$i<[llength $ls]} {incr i} {
uplevel 1 $script
}
}

Perhaps more interesting:

proc until {cond script} {
tailcall while "!($cond)" $script
}
Google Demonstrates New Android One Operating System
iPhones get updates for 4 years.

My 4S will get updated to iOS 8 (it came with iOS 5).
As one of the many whose international 2013 Nexus 7 LTE mysteriously took three extra weeks (compared to the other Nexus devices) to get the 4.4.3 update and still hasn't gotten 4.4.4 (unless that fix was rolled into the late 4.4.3), I'm not that confident the Galaxy Nexus situation is unique.

It may just be a coincidence, but it's hard not to notice that OS updates were faster before the US Nexus 7 LTE was certified on Verizon. Hopefully, the Android L update will be better, but I worry.
You need deep packet inspection [0] of the traffic. You'll probably need in addition some signature and algorithm to distinguish between different type of content, but this is probably doable for unencrypted content.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_packet_inspection
India is a strange place in regards to pricing! I have no idea how Apple manufactures iPhone in China, sells it for $650 in US but will sell same one for ~$900 here.

They are saving transportation costs as we are right next to China. Maybe I'm missing something important but I will never get the logic of this kind of pricing.
Go to a traditional store and look at coolers. They're all terrible.

People that use coolers need them waterproof with bottle openers, or expect to haul them long distances with children. It's the market of parents who drink beer near water.
Just saw the ks video, is just me or did anyone else get a big infomercial vibe from it? is like I was waiting for Billy Mays to show up and say "Hi I'm Billy Mays and this is the Coolest!"

Aside from that it's a relatively simple product that harks back to the age of all-in-one solutions like Tvs with VCRs built-in, microwave ovens with toaster and coffeemaker, and who can forget that boombox with a Sega Genesis?
"...incapable of admitting problems..."

From the Go FAQ:

Why does Go not have generic types?

Generics may well be added at some point. We don't feel an urgency for them, although we understand some programmers do.

https://golang.org/doc/faq#generics
The first rule of email: if you do something incriminating, don't use email.

IRS seem to be holding up fine. You just need enough chutzpah to go all in: we don't have the emails, what you're gonna do?

Which is what seems to be happening. Key says he has no recollection of such a conversation

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
Well did you get the international edition? Because I did, and that was even worse. Samsung managed the updates and had their own branch of Android for the phone. It both lagged the Google version and stopped at 4.2.x, which was terrible because the Galaxy Nexus suffered dearly from the flash fragmentation issue which was only fixed in 4.3.x.

I managed to flash the phone to the Google branch and get it to 4.3.x after being stuck on dog slow phone for over 6 months, made it usable again.
> there is on alternative OS you can run on them

There is Whited00r. I have an old loaner 3GS that runs snappily on it. Since Apple is quite good at supporting older devices and an iPhone 4 is still (for a few more days) able to run the newest iOS, projects like whited00r remain obscure compared to the cyanogenmod.
Warner Bros (allegedly) Conspired with NZ Over Dotcom Extradition
I think this stuff:

- The Kim Dotcom "big reveal" is out - and has almost immediately been dismissed as a fake.

- The "reveal" is an email which purports to show Prime Minister John Key involved in a plan to get the internet entrepreneur into New Zealand so he could be extradited to the United States.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...
> They could advertise themselves as "tried and true" or "the enduring provider you can rely on".

The problem with that is that consumers nowadays are far more focused on "cutting edge" and "latest and greatest". Not much is made to last anymore (especially in the consumer electronics industry) and most people seem fine with that. I know buying a smartphone isn't the same as buying services from an ISP, but I think the same principle applies. Faster speeds are more important to consumers than "tried and true" services and so if ISPs want to maximize the effectiveness of advertisement, that's what they'll do.

In the worst case scenario, "tried and true" and "the enduring provider you can rely on" would turn consumers away from your service because they would make your ISP seem old and boring (again, not something that's bad per se, but bad going by the preferences of the average consumer).
"sha384 was chosen because it is possible to fit an ELF binary into sha384 digest"

Except none of the sources have a sha384 that ends up being an ELF binary.

In the first example, the important thing is that the sha384 digest starts with 0a23, so "\n#" so that this essentially "compiles" to an empty shell script.

In the second example, the digest starts with 2e202a0a, which is ". * \n", so it only really works because the source, 0.c, is the first file in the directory, and is both a sourceable shell script and a C source file. Remove it, and the trick doesn't work anymore.

In the final one, the trick is similar, but the digest starts with "sh * \n" instead.

EDIT: asterisks are inconveniently turned into italic formatting. Consider all asterisks in this post as not followed by a whitespace.
Firefox os phones are not even available widely in retail stores in Indian tier 2 and 3 cities. Android ones on the other hand I hope will be available in remote corners as well.
You don't stand a chance against a highly resourceful deliberate attacker, regardless of whether they're NSA or someone else (chinese, non-national, ...). I expect in the coming decade we'll see a digital armsrace which will end up in collective disarmament (through hardware-based security which cannot be bypassed) when it affects business in such a degree that the economy is harmed. There is one global constant in all nations and political philosophies: what is bad for the moneymen gets weeded out.
It seems reasonably proportionate not to suspend all regulations on drug testing. If you did that then the vitamin peddlers out to make a fast buck would swamp anything that might actually help. The amount of con artists massively outnumbers the amount of people with a cure for Ebola.

I agree that it may be an idea to look at trying some of the experimental treatments, however given there is a 50% chance of surviving with palliative care and that we know how to stop it spreading given the resources, I am not sure that turning the situation into an unregulated free-for-all for every quack looking to make their name will really help matters.
What prevents it from being installed on high end devices?
Well that's not to be sneezed at, even though it remains crude.
>lots of processing power

>expandable storage

>dual SIM cards

>replaceable battery

I wish we could get a phone like that in the first world...

Shame the One's specs are actually very weak...[1]

[1]http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/android-one-smartphones-launched-pr... - TBFH google should be hit for false advertising calling that CPU/memory combo 'lots of processing power'. Lots in 2003, maybe.
Some support for mobile use would be handy.
The Unbundling of Social Networks
And for such cases as in NSA, where the actions, though technically illegal, were clearly intended by the leadership - "sanction" can easily mean an official written reprimand stating "this is not acceptable", followed by a cash bonus and a promotion.
Nixon said he wasn't a crook.

Time will tell, the problem with email is that you can't really shred it and that it likely has passed through some points in between where at least the headers got archived.

What I'm curious about:

- if the email is not fake, how did GG ascertain that it isn't

- if it isn't fake how did KDC get hold of it

- if it isn't fake does Key really believe that he'll get away with doubling down?

- if it is fake how did GG miss that? (it will damage his rep badly)

- could it be a case of misinformation?

- if it is a misinformation attempt, who is the target?

This is going to end badly for at least one party.

The email text seems just too juicy to me, but stranger things have happened and turned out to be true. Not releasing the email+headers is a strange move. That would make it harder to deny it if it is real, at the same time it might allow for removal of remaining traces of evidence.

Tricky!
How Instagram.com Works
Now practically speaking I've been playing on a server with qcraft in survival and found that its of little to no real use.

> Entangled (grouped) blocks are far to expensive, needing 12 (!) dust per entangled block which makes it impractical to build anything large with it. I find it a little less frequent than redstone.

> There is no compressed block of 9 dust like ALL vanilla ores have, which makes storing a bit annoying.

> The automatic observer that activates through a redstone signal only works from the sides not top/bottom which makes it more difficult/impossible to build any redstone activated structures.

> You cannot pickup once placed qcraft blocks, which is super annoying.

> only a few basic full-block types can be used as quantum blocks, no tile entities and no blocks from other mods (zero mod interoperability)

> the player portal is ugly and fixed to an even size (even multiblock structures are annoying) and why no teleport across dimensions, I mean its expensive enough

> ...

It seem to me this mod is very unfinished and not really made for survival nor created by people who actually play the game, and I think its annoying that it introduces its own ore into the world with such little practical use.

Now if anyone thinks thats too harsh of a critic, you need to realize how good minecraft mods have become, look a thaumcraft[1] for instance. The bar is much much higher now when it comes to mod quality.

[1] http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/min...
Et tu, Kiwi?
I would argue that war can be a result of overpopulation. Famine is also - it occurs in the places least able to deal with ebola. "Global warming" - we could reduce emissions by reducing population without changing the per capita energy consumption. Unemployment - not enough jobs is the same thing as too many people. Strife in the middle east? Too many people in that area of the world with not enough resource (or governments that squander what they have).

I'm not saying all of these are correct in an absolute sense, just that population certainly plays a role.
Agreed. I only ever buy phones with SD cards, because:

* Streaming wastes battery

* Streaming wastes data usage

* Streaming costs money; especially stupid when I already own my music and don't like renting data

* Streaming is useless when a car/train is in a tunnel, when on a plane, or when just out of signal

* Most streaming services lack breadth (not enough bands) and/or depth (only having a small selection of music per band) of good music

* I don't trust streaming providers with my privacy
Expandable memory and changeable batteries--these are features Google's been removing from its flagship Nexus phones, much to the consternation of those like myself who want modularity, flexibility, and open design. FM radio would be nice to have, as well. "Everything is in the Cloud" is a pipe dream. One can only hope that this South Asia phone is a worldwide trend and not just a concession to 3rd world shortages of data connections.
Nobody wanting it.

Android has the smartphone market for people who want a device with customisability/moddability, good software support and options for hardware and the flexibility and power of having an accessible Linux system behind the scenes, while the iphone has the locked down walled garden "make all my decisions for me" market.
No "knowledgeable people" can rule out anything. You must consider any machine that is connected to any network compromised, if you have anything "sensitive" on there. You have to define for yourself what "sensitive" means.

(not even being facetious here)
Your move Microsoft. If not now then when ?
>millions of people could have their first taste of 'Internet'.

Eternal September 4.0?
Seriously, i think many people don't care about the Android version they are running and won't care to check for updates even if they are available.
99% of people won't bother so it doesn't help developers. I hope Google supports phones for about 4 years. My Nexus One lost official support after 18 months.
Transitioning to material design
Cool. I will have a look at the frameworks suggested. Thanks
The “community manager” role is a fraud and a farce
If you want Android then Samsung have a couple of android phones, called Galaxy Star, around the $120 price point. The low end Huawei phones are also around there and should be available in most countries.

That being said, by all accounts the moto e is a better phone than either of those options.

The other option I would seriously consider is a low end Lumia device (520 or 530). Sure it's Windows Phone and not Android, but if you don't have a particular reason to prefer Android you'll get a perfectly good smart phone for very reasonable price.
Manufacturers do not abuse the Malfunction Indicator Lamp. Its _legislated_ purpose is to alert the driver to issues which could compromise the emissions control systems of a vehicle. A loose gas cap causes a pressure leak in the EVAP system which captures fuel vapors from the gas tank.
The problem is one of juxtaposition. Imagine standing next to Al Capone when he's showing a letter from a congressman implicating a whole industry. You might not have anything to do with the subsequent fall-out, especially if the thing turns out to be a falsification. But it will still tarnish your reputation. The only way it will not is if it turns out that it is all true. And all that would not even require you to open your mouth.
The main problem there still exists though: Everything-as-a-website (still) doesn't work, and nobody wants to write apps for it.
Comcast Is Threatening to Cut Off Customers Who Use Tor
> Your not trying to protect yourself form the NSA. If the US government saw you as a real threat they could walk into your server room and taking the hardware, or launch a drone strike.

Unless they want to use your hardware to attack someone else or building a wide dragnet or want to steal corporate secrets or ...
Wow, thanks for the link. I didn't know about that at all...

Surprising that it's from 2009. I thought that the big players had worked out the public's opinion by then, but it may be that that product was in development during the DRM battles and Sandisk had to either release it, or scrap the product.
In terms of being unnecessarily hard to program, that was the Saturn. Which Sega learned from and made the Dreamcast relatively easy to program. They just chose the a newer revision of the CPU architecture they used in the Saturn, which wasn't a terrible choice.

Interestingly, developers complained about the N64's difficulty too, so Nintendo also made the GameCube easier to program. Which just goes to show that a console's success has little to do with how easy it is to program.
Modulo certificate pinning.
Australia is behind the times in this respect. Voting is a right, not an obligation and non-participation is a form of protest against the system as a whole rather than a forced choice between multiple options none of which you may agree with.