skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, thank you. It's great!

I'm interested in the 'business' aspect of this site.
How do you plan to make profit ?
How can you make people come back to the site when the stacks don't change that quickly ?
Remember that Amazon has its new music service for Prime customers. If they didn't integrate that into this somehow, it would be quite confusing.
Wouldn't it be fairly simple to just monitor network connections to see how often it's sending data to Amazon's servers?

Granted - then of course you can have the argument that it's always recording, and then only sending data at the opportune time so that it's a little bit more hidden. And to that - I'd just say you can keep track of how much data should be being sent for the average command.
Well, this announcement refers to a beta version. Draw your own conclusions.
WhatsApp now shows when texts you sent have been read
> If you do something with the knowledge that someone might be breaking the law but you have no specific knowledge, it's going to be very difficult to make a case for conspiracy.

That's not correct. The conscious avoidance doctrine basically says that you aren't allowed to be an ostrich: deliberately taking steps to shield yourself from knowing about a crime leaves you as liable as having knowledge of the crime.

Additionally, you don't need to know a specific act: just knowing that the site was designed to facilitate drug transactions is enough. This would be easy to prove. Check the code - if Benthall created the categories, which included drugs, he's entered into the conspiracy.
There's a difference between people being able to steal data from your email or computer, and having something record everything you say in the "privacy" of your own home.
Thanks. and yes that is a good point that you make "especially in comparison to just voting it is hard." and the solution for it. I will take this advice and work on it.
Thanks for dragging me in to this. This is an even better example of the point I was trying to make, yet you're still doing this bland dismissal. You should really stop and think about the privacy implications of this technology for a few minutes.
Life is short. When you do get your job, sometimes you'll code and do things you like, and sometimes you won't.

Right now you have the choice - do what you like. Have fun.
> idiots
> paranoid

I don't see much difference between calling someone an "idiot", and calling them "paranoid" and dismissing their concerns to an FAQ.

> Our time is probably better spent discussing the value of the product itself.

Confidentiality has a large impact on the product's value, at least for many people. I don't see them as independent issues. If you feel, like many, that confidentiality is necessary to its value then the focus of the discussion makes sense (if it wasn't so redundant).
Are you a conspiracy theorist generally or just when it comes to Uber?

Having anxiety about letting things go has nothing to do with a sense of nostalgia. It's about the power of feeling like you have access and information, about the anxiety of losing something from years of your email that you might someday want or need, about a sense of entitlement that if you write it, it's yours to keep. I'm just speculating, but I could go on and nowhere on my list is "nostalgia". I think it wouldn't be on your list either; maybe you just wanted to score a debate point with a false equivalency?

I'm not one for online debates so please, have the last word. But so far all I've seen is you making a baseless accusation. And yes, it is absurd. Tell me, at what point in the Uber interview process does the coercion and fraud happen? How exactly do you think it went down? And why do you think it's more likely that this was a conspiracy, instead of just a guy who liked having access to things and felt entitled?
Or he's a government agent. After all, who's really verifying
he a) exists, b) goes to jail?

Ok, that's enough fearmongering paranoia for me today. See
you tomorrow hacker news! :)
Why the hate? I've never heard of terminal.com...
A tiling window manager in Rust, inspired by xmonad
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Echo is always on and connected to Wi-Fi so it's ready to respond instantly.

Music: Listen to your Amazon Music Library, Prime Music, TuneIn, and iHeartRadio.
This post is interesting, but he should have just read the code:

https://github.com/reddit/reddit/blob/master/r2/r2/lib/norma...

This is an effect of the normalization algorithm, which biases towards trying to have a post from as may different subreddits as possible on the front page.

Edit: At least we're consistent! Ketralnis said the same thing about an hour ago. :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568021
This is similar to Blackberry's BBM service. Note that this doesn't apply to text (aka SMS) messages, but only to WhatsApp messages sent via a data connection.

EDIT: Yes, pretty much any IP-based messaging service has this capability.
I've been using a chromecast + an HDMI audio splitter as a cheap way to stream. It works really well for apps that support chromecast, such as pandora.
Thanks for the insight. Looking forward to finishing your book.
It wouldn't have to do it in real time right? It could easily batch typing sessions and have the server chew through them asynchronously.
The team that created Kafka is leaving LinkedIn to build a company around it
I wonder if the South Park guys read HOOKED? Wonderful coincidence.

To answer your question, absolutely! Education should be a naturally enjoyable experience but unfortunately institutionalized learning generally squeezes every last drop of pleasure out of it. I'm looking for technology to bring back the hooks that make learning for its own sake fun again.
That's true in most industries, don't dig for gold, sell shovels.
Is Spain inflating the Catalonia souffle?
Tao3D: 33x Shorter Than JavaScript for the “Helvetica Clock” Chrome Experiment
Yes! That has been a requested feature for quite some time so we added it: http://stackshare.io/parse/parse (more here: http://stackshare.io/stacks). A lot of the non-verified stacks have citations, so even if someone didn't post their stack you can see where the info came from.
You're right, and the main reason why the article doesn't go deeper into SPAs is because talking about SPAs with Angular/Ember and Rails is a topic so wide it could be its own article. I tried keeping it short, mentioning common Rails' integration caveats.
I'm sorry to hear about your brother. My relationship with my brother should be better - I should work on it.

As for Nick - In the summer before starting high school we were playing with some other friends and he found his dad's handgun. He thought it wasn't loaded.

I think if it hadn't happened I'd be working in the oil field like the rest of my classmates. When that happened I was very reclusive in high school. Never went to prom, dropped out of band. After writing all this though it made me realize I should appreciate the now moreso than live in my mind's past.
Manipulating the Consumer Price Index: Hedonic Quality Adjustments
Ah, I was forgetting about rounds, you're correct that you won't be able to match the memory bandwidth then.
Why "almost certainly"? They don't seem particularly connected
Embedded Elasticsearch Server for Scala Integration Tests
i would much rather have a device that i can actually control and trust instead of having to spy on a device that's most likely spying on me in ways i might not like.
Any decent voice-optimized codec (CELP, CELT, Speex, hell even old GSM)can squeeze that in 1Kbyte/sec - actually even half of that but let's retain some quality.
Include silence detection and you probably have less than 60 minutes/day from the average household.
And storage is cheap. Oh, and Amazon has lots. S3?
I felt the same way. I really wish we didn't have to get used to that though. It's like the worst combination of a video and a website, and ends up as something like an annoying guided tour.
My X201 is fine with FreeBSD. in fact the battery life is slightly better than windows 8.1. Hibernate doesn't work so I just shut it down.

Performance isn't an issue really even though its an i5. If it is too slow, I ship the problem elsewhere (the feck off great big 24 core E5 HP Z620 in the office).

Sure there may be 10% difference between BSD and Linux but that's negligible these days versus the positives (like being able to just pkg install ruby21 without having to bugger around with rvm or wait three years for debian to pick it up in stable)
While a neat idea in theory, I have some qualms about this. User agent detection sounds great, until you have a user that spoofs their agent. I often do so for various reasons, and from time to time I forget to turn it off after I've finished what I was doing.

If this service becomes common, then I will be given broken webpages seemingly at random. The other option, a polyfill covering specific features and served to all clients, regardless of user agent, doesn't suffer from that.
> If the number of voters could be calculated as a simple percentage of total active Reddit accounts, and Reddit's traffic has doubled, then why haven't the vote counts in /r/all also doubled?

The people who are joining reddit now are more lurkers than participants, so as the site grows, the percent of people who participate (vote and comment) gets smaller.
True for me too. now that whatever task I do or See around I see this 'Hooked' pattern everywhere. Not just tech apps but in real life or non tech products, online offline market.
And there is no shortage of people who think they can outsmart the FBI, but one slip and there goes your life. I sleep better working for a living.
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Good point. Noises have been made for a long time that Tor is compromised given a sufficiently motivated adversary. For instance, [0], among many others.

In light of those noises, my non-rhetorical question is this: Why would any Ulbright wannabe reside within the US DoJ's sphere of influence? Get thee to Russia, and quickly! And while you're at it, keep your hardware in some third, fourth, and fifth locations, neither American nor Slavic.

[0] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/has_tor_been_...
To check for that leak they had to have customer service reps, city vehicles, fleet insurance, technicians qualified to work on a live, potentially leaking gas line, gasoline for the vehicle, and they arrived at my home in less time than a phone-call to TWC generally takes. I really doubt some IT staff costs more.

As for the Torrent: Give the customer what they pay for, and no more. If my internet issues are because of Torrents, I have to ask: Why does the lack of competency ISPs have never seem to work in my favor?

edit: Also "not very difficult compared to":

I have an amateur's idea of the utility side (mostly from DIY and having relatives in the trades) and I think you're sorely underestimating the skill and care involved in making sure this stuff actually works. Large scale projects for anyone can be challenging, but it'd be amazing if anything ever worked at all if utilities put the same (lack of) planning care into their projects that most tech companies do.

Most people probably don't even know what a P-trap is for. Or ever noticed that their gutters are actually sloped for drainage. What material their plumbing is made from. How many receptacles can be placed on a circuit. That the brick on your house isn't actually load-bearing. What weeping holes are for.

This stuff has to last decades.
> I'm a little frustrated at the moment -- The future is arriving with voice controlled devices, yet I don't trust any of these companies with my words.

The public doesn't understand the technology or its implications well enough for consumer demand to have an effect.

I think regulation likely is needed. In terms of confidentiality these are dangerous products. For example, the confidentiality of health and financial information is regulated, I assume because consumers cannot evaluate and design security systems and therefore cannot demand them from vendors. The same should apply to these products (which will capture health, financial, and much other private data).
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I don't think a single-server hidden service is meant to protect against a global, active adversary. If you think it does I would love to hear your thoughts on my question[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8568667
Your 9 cell is probably knackered. I get about 7 hours out of mine and its two years old.
Oh man. Just what I needed. A microphone in my house.
By the way, there is an awesome course track on Data Science from Johns Hopkins on Coursera right now, which includes introduction to R.

https://www.coursera.org/specialization/jhudatascience/1?utm...
Dammit this was one of my startup ideas...oh well. Nice work btw. It might be interesting to group companies by industry. Considering I work in education, I would want to know what LMSs and CRMs are used by educational institutes for example.

Which raises another thought: wouldn't some organizations want to keep their stack secret from competitors, since a mature stack is usually the result of years of experienced decision-making.
"Browsing" button on the main page doesn't work for. Firefox on OSX.
Yeah, let's keep drugs illegal, it really seems to work.
You have to look at it not from the perspective of a black market site, but from the perspective of anonymity. Sites operated on the TOR network are supposed to be anonymous which is a valuable contribution to the existence of free speech. The freedom of a country that outlaws acts between consenting adults can be debated, but there are many countries that are undeniably oppressive. If the US government can track down an anonymous site, then it is likely these countries can too.

Arguably anonymous sites can harbor truly dangerous crimes like murder for hire, pedophiles, and terrorists. However, they can also protect political activists and whistle blowers. So while this isn't necessarily a cut and dry issue, it is much more complex than just saying these are black market sites so who cares.
I'm a native English speaker. I'm British. I have minimal regional accent (to the point where people find it difficult to pinpoint where in the UK I'm from.) I'm not far off RP and I'm still yet to find a service that gives me high accuracy.
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> Why would any Ulbright wannabe reside within the US DoJ's sphere of influence? Get thee to Russia, and quickly!

100% agree with this. I imagine it is mostly that people never think they'll get caught - or they view the risk of getting caught as much lower than the benefit of not moving, in any case.

Edit 1: To add: I think "people" also underestimate just how easy it is to get caught.

Getting caught doesn't mean you're stupid, or inexperienced, or anything except that you slipped once.

You forgot the proxy, once. You sent your personal pubkey your rather your darknet pubkey, once.

It takes next to nothing at all to get caught.

Edit 2: The link you posted was about a javascript 0day exploit in the Tor Browser Bundle. Implementation flaws will always be there, but if the theory is broken as well... My question is about if the tor protocol itself could theoretically shield a hidden service from a global, active adversary. Which I think it couldn't.
For me, I used foobar because it was the last one that didn't try to be 'smart' about shuffle play.
> has this been proved ?

Yes!

> would be very interested to know who proved this and how they went about doing it.

Well. There's this thing you do. It only takes a few minutes. Then you wait about nine months. At that point you start collecting data. The first year or two are somewhat inconclusive. The data (and the subject) can be very noisy. By the time you've made observations and collected data for about eight years the conclusion is inescapable: Monkeys.

According to my observations across three of these experiments I would add that monkeys might sometimes have an edge over some of the crap we pull.
I was wondering about that because I saw only one application from my employer, but a few dozen from an Indian outsourcer that we have used in the past. This town is small enough that it's likely 90%+ of them are in this company.
I, for one, am always surprised yet impressed by the things the cartels do. All the while not being shocked at all.

They would be such an interesting psychological / sociological study if it didn't mean potential torture and beheading of researchers. I mean this level of organized crime makes Al Capone look like a petty pick pocket.
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/Deceptive-Practice-The-Mysterie...
Another spy in the house listening to you like the telescreen in 1984.
I'm fascinated by this concept and I've even had some ideas about making something similar, though I haven't worked them out

I'd love to look at the source code for this.
Nir, thanks for giving us your time. I'm in the process of starting a men's life coaching business and I think some of your concepts may be beneficial in terms of behavior change. How could the model be modified to help people change their habits and adopt new ones? I appreciate your response. Thanks, David
While I agree with you, the illegal drug trade got these guys started and off the ground, I think at this point they would have other avenues to keep themselves in business. I hear the human trafficking business is quite lucrative and booming these days down their way.
my grandmother...what big technology you have...all the better to monitor you and make you dumber my dear.
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Nevertheless, selling illegal drugs on the internet is illegal. I don't think you can say that attempting to bring down darknets is an example of government corruption in this case, notwithstanding the inevitable argument that the government is corrupt in any case.
How do you know that it's actually off?
'Alexa' as a trigger word...

I'd be curious how it responds if 'Alexa' is contained in the actual music its playing, this immedieatly came to mind:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Downeaster_Alexa

I'm not an expert in voice recognition, this might just be a silly thing that has been long addressed...
Likewise. I'm all for recognizing a credible threat, but there is nothing credible here.

The level to which the readership of HN abandons all pretense of critical and rational thought when a surveillance angle on a story presents itself is downright frightening.
Many of these applications are probably for a transfer of status implying that the beneficiaries are already on an H1B working for some other employer.
I'm wondering why they would image the server. Did SR2 not use full disc encryption using LUKS? How would they be able to access anything on it, I know if I were running SR2 I'd have the longest private key ever stored in my brain to decrypt the drives.
I like it, it just that tower, it comes with, is useless.
I didn't call anyone an idiot. I said the general HN population is treated like idiots because there's always "that guy" who feels the need to sound the alarm every time something gets sent to Google/Apple/Amazon. I got it the first 10 times it was discussed. I've been warned.
Pretty printing using Dart
Absolutely...meh. No interest.
> Most people don't care because they're not culpable enough to feel paranoid.

Maybe you didn't mean it literally but it's a popular expression in this context. I don't think a desire for privacy is paranoid; it is normal, healthy behavior.

But to address the gist of what you say, I think you assume an understanding of data security that is far beyond most end users. How many even know what "metadata" means, or how 'cloud' computing actually works? Go down to the mall (assuming you are not in a tech hub) and ask. On top of that, they would need to understand the confidentiality implications of the system, and then the political, social and other implications of confidentiality.

The public is not able to make an informed decision, and government and industry are taking advantage of that:

If people don't mind, why are so many of these practices kept secret or obscure?
Exactly. I don't actually carry a phone these days and people think I'm crazy. Personally I just don't want to be available all the time but it has certain privacy advantages.
A Dart port of Philip Wadler's pretty printer
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/prettier/prettie...

Make sure to scroll down to the more complex examples and drag the red line around to change the column size (didn't get that the first time and expected +/- to adjust the column).
Can you tell me exactly which HDMI audio splutter you use? I want to try something similar.
Maybe if they had used invitations to gauge market interest they wouldn't have a quarter million unsold fire phones sitting in a warehouse.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/24/amazon-uns...
Thanks for the feedback. This may be a good addition to RailsScript in the future. As always, pull requests are more than welcome
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What's Moore's Law have to do with this at all? Just trying to understand. This was do-able ten, if not twenty years ago.

The model helicopter guys have been using gyro-stabilized platforms for probably decades. These are cases where the darn thing would be almost impossible to fly without the gyro taking control of various aspects of the aircraft. One of my current helicopters (1.5 meter rotor) can be tuned to go from docile-and-almost-boring to what I would call "tasmanian-devll-mode".
You always think you have enough time. "I'll call him next week." "I'll drop in and see them next month." After he died, my sister and I drew closer for a while, then spent a few years barely talking. Today we work for the same small business and I get to see her every day, and for that I'm thankful. We've grown a lot closer as a result, and that is a precious thing that can't be measured or quantified.

Seriously, call your brother. Today. Right now. I don't know the nature of your relationship with him, but I have a feeling that even if he acts awkward or annoyed by it, deep down he'll realize that you took a moment out of your day just to think about him.
The Rails unobtrusive adapter for jQuery jquery-ujs has a pretty neat implementation, you can take a look at it here https://github.com/rails/jquery-ujs/blob/master/src/rails.js...
Building a simple VGA-adapter for an 8-bit self made computer
EAutist project
Huh? It's the state government that has the law mostly preventing municipal broadband. If the government wasn't so powerful, the corporations couldn't use it as a tool against us.
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> service outages at the time the imaging was conducted

That whole "correlation is not causation" maxim comes to mind here.
> too big of a list for them to follow up on thoroughly

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

Define "thoroughly."
> For many people the NIST and also the Brainpool curves have an doubtful origin and thus the plan for GnuPG is to use Bernstein’s Curve 25519 as default. GnuPG 2.1.0 already comes with support for signing keys using the Ed25519 variant of this curve.

That's great to hear, but it seems like this represents a split from the OpenPGP standard, which requires NIST curves[1]. Will other OpenPGP implementations (e.g. OpenPGP.js), start to have to offer extensions to be compatible with GPG?

[1] - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6637#section-4