skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I had no idea. That is crazy cool. Do you have any recommended resources for learning how this works behind the scenes?

http://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/units-of-measure/

The units are lost at runtime and are used for static type checking only. So if you were to consume an F# lib from C# (for example) then you wouldn't have a such strong system. Hopefully one day they'll end up as part of the CLR so it can be enforced at runtime too.
The technical solution can not solve all problems, wikimedia plans to activate HTTPS per default for all users: http://blog.wikimedia.org/2013/08/01/future-https-wikimedia-...

One of the problems is that certain countries block HTTPS (e.g. China), should wikimedia effectively block all chinese users from free knowledge that wikimedia aims to provide? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia
That depends entirely on what you want to watch, surely.

It's still $30 more, so if those extra channels aren't worth $30 to you then it's much better.

Besides, I'm not sure what you get if you have a larger cable package. The HBO $14.99 appears to be for a big back-catalogue.
A person flipping burgers for $8/hr could buy a grill and 5x their income and easily run the administrative part of their new venture from a smart phone.

Umm. Yes. All those stupid burger flippers, why don't they just buy grills...

Oh, maybe it's because McDonalds can leverage automation and globalization a lot better than your entrepreneurial burger flipper. There's a tiny bit more to a Burger venue than buying a grill. "Running the administrative part from your smartphone" doesn't exactly tip the scale.
Their opinions are bought and paid for. At current rates its 75 Billion dollars a year.
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I understand the benefits of a single connector, but,
Isn't this a security nightmare?
Today you can avoid plugging an usb drive as a security measure, but with a single connector you're exposing your laptop when charging or when connecting a proyector in a conference room.
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Yes, when I was younger I too would have thought, "Thank goodness someone will run the patent office that understands software."

Now I think, "As a Google shareholder, she is too invested in the status quo."
"No comment" from Cook would be an interesting standoff. If he were prosecuted for it, that would confirm something NSL-like. But would it be worth it to a CEO to go to jail for a few years for a principle?
I'm commenting solely on the factual incorrectness of saying the above was not a deal, when it very clearly was, assuming "deal" means a more economical choice. That's all.
Well, I'm not going to all that trouble specifically to use a Mac; both the headset and the USB battery long predate the MBP. (And USB headsets have never made much sense to me in the first place, regardless of the machine with which they're used.) These are just the expedients I currently use, of the sort which I've found all portable machines to require.

The sine qua non of a computer's usefulness to me is its ability to support Emacs. While my experience has been that, all else equal, any portable machine is inferior for this purpose to any desktop, I have yet to find a better portable Emacs machine than the 15" rMBP. When I do find one, I'll use it instead.

If your "all Apple users are fashion-obsessed lightweights" proposition is susceptible to the white raven's disproof, this should amply suffice. (When was the last time you ran across an Emacs user who was either "fashion-obsessed" or "lightweight"?) But I suspect you'll prefer to explain away a white raven, than to reconsider your apparent confusion of reality with an "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC" ad.
In the First World, yes. Easy cross-border is an exception on this continent though. To give you an example, I traveled from South Africa to Zimbabwe via the Beitbridge border post last year and it was an absolute nightmare, taking nearly 8 hours just to get through the Zimbabwe side. Our party was flush with US dollars (they don't take anything else), had all the paperwork and an infinite supply of patience. We could at least afford to pay the ridiculous "fees" and "levies" to get in. My workers? Not so much.

You are at the mercy of the staff at an African border post. And boy do they know it.
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Yeah, I agree, I read so much stuff, that sometimes I "have" ideas that are not mine (or sometimes, I remember an idea I read, but I can't find the source on google). Sometimes it's just that we have integrated some stuff in our brain, which would be a compliment to the author of the original text, but is actually a minefield.

I don't really care because I'm in real life, but in an academic environment I would be trashed. I'm so glad that I'm not a student or academic in the US right now.
>Why is this getting down voted?

This isn't Reddit. Stop caring about Muh Internet Pointz.
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Thanks for the link, very interesting that it's a technical limitation for them to not enable HTTPS.

About china, maybe only the IPs from china can use HTTP, maybe only zh.wikipedia.org can use HTTP, ...

I think legal solutions are just temporary fixes, technical ones fix the root of the problem in a more generic way.
Thanks for the recommendations! Got 4 of them for less than $40 :)
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> Too bad that you're not too bright about the future. A lot of people are working on fixing it. Maybe these links will inspire you to think about it differently?

I have come across these things that you have pointed out and yes they are steps in the right direction. But if you ask me if any of those will become the mainstream de-facto thing that everyone will use some time in the future? Based on the evidence available at the moment, I would still stick to what I said and maintain that it is highly unlikely given the current state of affairs. Yes, I would be very glad to be proven wrong but not enough atm to feel optimism. :)
One of those things...

Friendfeed was technically better medium than twitter in every single way at the time (maybe still) yet it died (don't mean that it failed). Another example of why making social startups is a huge risk.
The Archive Team on the case to archive the content as usual #humancentifeed https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/575143304859361280
the magic bands combined with smart watches make paying for things with your phone seem far more feasable

you can pay for everything in the park with your magic band (I think you might have to stay in a disney resort for that to be the case)

I'll admit, its really nice, I never take out my wallet if I can just have them scan my wrist
HD video decoding is a fixed workload so higher end CPU's spend less time working and get to down clock. There are plenty of games for example where they simply max the CPU so it's a good idea for your heavy load useage to scale.

Anandtech then just displayed numbers for useage levels vs hms.
Wow, I had no idea. 3 weeks for them to do the physical hard drive hook-up, or 3 weeks of data transfer once it is hooked up? (Or a combo?)
Indeed, but also, McDonalds has teams of lawyers and clerks to deal with complicated food regulation.

The very same regulation encouraged by their lobbying:
https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000037...
> I cannot open /tmp without using the terminal

Shift-cmd-g, /tmp
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what about making it a normal usb drive as well. let me explain:
when one inserts the drive, one gets asked for a password.
if you type the wrong password, the usb drive shows you some fake content, and in the background “burns down” everything it can.
if you are the owner and type the right password, you can use the usb drive normally
Interesting. Just to clarify why I asked, I googled "MM millions" and saw the answer right away but a search for "BB billions" came up rather empty (I read the first result and skimmed the title and snippet for the first page). "1BB" came up with bed and breakfast results. "$1BB" did have some results, though some were like me that this was the first time seeing it and they were asking about it. The other sites are blogs and nothing like Bloomberg.

Anyway, thanks, next time I see it, I guess I will not be confused.
HD video decoding is a fixed workload so higher end CPU's spend less time working and get to down clock. There are plenty of games for example where they simply max the CPU so it's a good idea for your heavy load useage to scale.

Anandtech then just displayed numbers for useage levels vs hours:minutes.
SimpliVity (Boston) raises $175M at $1B valuation
5% of the number of commits, came on the project last year vs been there from the start 5 years ago, pulling stunts like this at the conference... yeah, he'd be a great replacement
WiFi... every upgrade I've done since Lion has caused me pain. Upgrade, and WiFi stops working reliably. Last time was on a virtually new MacBook Pro, upgrading to Mavericks, and it took me two weeks to get it working again.

So I'm kind of wary of the 'wireless everything', which would be great if the wireless was working solidly in the first place.
I agree that we need encyption everywhere, although I think the current apporoach of implementing it in client software is not fit for purpose. You constantly see apps making mistakes in how they implement encryption that leave the user vulnerable. Because the data is encypted it is very difficult to validate and moniter.
I think Antirez said it best: "A darwinian selection will work to make sure we have the best Redis possible."

Last time I checked, Charles Darwin didn't take notes about a voting process amongst animals, rather how leaders were "chosen" by leading.
Similarly, simply standing has been shown (by some studies, though I don't know how far these are through the peer review and such processes) to be beneficial. This is why some use standing desks. The differences (to posture, circulation, a few more calories burned, & so on) may be small - but a small positive is still a positive.
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I don't think it would have any material effect. Most if not all hyper-corporations route transactions off-shore, and hold cash off-shore, specifically to drastically reduce the amount of tax they pay.
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they cannot and will not step down while other
countries, basically everyone that is capable
to do it, will do it

It's true that even if the NSA stopped tapping undersea cables, that wouldn't stop China doing it.

But there are plenty of other things they could do. Instead of weakening encryption standards, they could work to strengthen them. Instead of trying to get software vendors to install backdoors, they could get them to use deterministic builds with release checksum transparency. Instead of developing hardware backdoors, they could develop inspection systems to find them.
"They've largely built out their core infrastructure and mopped up most of the spare labour pool."

What? There are 750 million (that is twice the population of the US, or 1.5 times the population of the EU) subsistence farmers in China. And that's only counting subsistence farmers as spare labor.
Interesting, although surely extra-vulnerable to TSA objecting to electronics and lithium batteries in luggage.
> I'm commenting solely on the factual incorrectness of saying the above was not a deal, when it very clearly was, assuming "deal" means a more economical choice.

And again, this assumes that all channels are equally valuable to you. Spending more money on things you do not want is not more economical.
You can also check this : http://www.erogol.com/machine-learning-pathway/
When I sit down to work on a laptop, I want to open my laptop and start working. I don't even think about a charger until three or four hours have gone by. Your farrago of impedimenta is alien to me, but no doubt if I had something like it, the MBP's relative paucity of ports would annoy me, too.
> Would HBO make more money if they sold each episode separately to everyone all around the globe

They would make more than they make now, that's for sure. Because right now, there is no way for me to pay them.

> Because, an extra cost, for example, would be the subtitling.

I don't want subtitling, just because I'm from a foreign country. What little legal content consumption options I have, they always and mandatorily come with either dubbing or subtitles.

> HBO would have to hire people to do this job per episode, per show, etc.

Like I said, that's what they (or in this case you, if you work for them) think, but that's not what I asked for. I want the show, within a few days after it aired, in an open format, with none of that internationalization crap or any added "value". People who want those extra things can use any of the existing sales channels.

I want what I can have right now illegally and conveniently, made legal by paying for it.

This might not cover or replace the existing subscriber base, but it would be an opportunity to bring additional customers on board at next-to zero cost. Just by shutting up and taking my money.
Hey, I have one of these... it's called an iPod shuffle.

Which curiously uses the headphone jack as an USB port[1].

Perhaps there's hope for someone to hack up at least an USB2.0 port on the MacBook using this method?

[1] http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/11/usb-ip...
Last year, I found a usb key on the ground, almost busted, still I'm too curious to know what's in it so I bring it home. Plug it in, then I learn a little more about the USB protocol as the kernel notifies me there's an "Over-current condition on port 3", just before a tiny bit of smoke emerges from the key.
First, no part of our model involves monitoring how many "mistakes" someone made, and second, if you see what challenges like this are like (again, see Microcorruption), you know that there's no realistic way to do them that doesn't involve making zillions of little mistakes.
I went to, probably the same, (big data) Gigaom event.

I really enjoyed it - good people and talks.

There weren't, however, many customers there. It was all other people selling stuff. So I didn't go again.

The recent wave of data related businesses are now generally at the phase where they need to meet potential customers from corporates at events.

Not sure how/if this affects business model though! The profitability of events is opaque to me.
> The crypto challenges were how we (for instance) hired Alex

But that's the use from your (or Matasano's) perspective. I joined the crypto-challenges not at all because I want a job in security, but because I continuously heard people be super-enthusiastic about it (both the participants, as well as yourself, tptacek :) ), because it reminded me of the old Malattia+ 3564020356 puzzles (level 6!), because it seemed more fun than the Euler Project puzzles (which I did enjoy, but you can only solve so many palindrome prime puzzles before it gets tedious) and of course because I would learn things about practical crypto.

Unfortunately I only got halfway the first set of the Matasano challenges, but that was more because I did it in Python and at some point got frustrated by its lack of speed :) (even using NumPy) I did make a rather elegant English-text MLE detector using a log-probability frequency table of only 256 bytes :) I thought that was pretty cool. I might have another go at it and this time use Java instead.
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Your expert baker example is spot on. I know a chef who asks new cooks to cook a scrambled egg. If they can't do that right (and many can't), it points to real problems with their basics. If they feel cooking a scrambled egg is somehow below them, that's not good either.
Thank you for taking the time to answer.
Also sounds very unprofessional, wonder why the organizers let a talk like that go through.
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At times, I have wondered if the government's murkiest depths are organised enough to have fostered growth and developments in these companies of the future. You know, get their tentacles in sooner rather than later.
OP: Thoughts on functional programming, dependent typing, etc. couched as a ham-fisted parable.
The English proverb would be "who pays the piper picks the tune."
I find the complete opposite. Xtrafinder side-by-side view and everything else advertised by xtrafinder does seem to work great for me. Totalfinder might still be better as I have not tried it yet. They both look like fine augmentations of finder in general. What else are you looking for?
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So, er, carry a VGA dongle? I mean, most laptops don't have actual VGA ports these days.
You're ever going to get that, sorry. The big content providers are never going to sell you a file that you can turn around and put on Bit Torrent. DRM isn't going anywhere any time soon.
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The idea of a "magical wristband" isn't much different than Great Wolf Lodge using their magical wands. Kids love it and it gets deep into their parents pockets.

http://www.greatwolf.com/
Every time I read about a private company being targeted, I remember how simply state-level spies have been compromised. Hanssen[1], for instance, betrayed the CIA over 22 years, for just $1.4M. The info leaked included info on other agents, at least one who was executed.

Or [2], Walker gave crypto info to decrypt Navy messages. For a few grand a month. There's plenty more listed even on Wikipedia. The amounts involved seem... not that high.

Now, sure, Apple almost certainly has higher security. (Quote from the above spy: "KMart has better security than the Navy.")

But with state level resources, do we think employees can be flipped? Or, why is the NSA not getting to grads early on, helping their career, while having them really be agents all along?

I'm on my phone and can't find the reference now, but there was a young physicist that leaked into on atomic weapons purely because he felt the US shouldn't have a monopoly on the capability. The chance that some bright, highly-sought, employee feeling that the US should have spy capabilities is approximately 1.

Is every remotely sensitive employee routinely monitored? Their families? They never get into " life threatening " scenarios? Or embarrassing scenarios that they might feel is the end? (For some, that's as simple as getting a mistress pregnant, and not being able to bear others knowing.)

Just seems like the human employees have got to be compromisable in one form or another, given the resources of the NSA and CIA.

1: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen
2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Anthony_Walker
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Surveillance isn't something that just manifested at the same time as "big" data collection. The NSA, CIA, FBI, and other alphabet soup agencies have been conducting surveillance and spying for many years prior to the Internet.
I'm not fine with that. He's questioning whether another human being should be allowed to live or survive. I'm puzzled how calling for someones death (retroactively or not) is even remotely defensible in this context.
What race/competition dynamics we are going to have are for the benefit of the participants. Microcorruption has been running for over a year; the first finisher finished a few days after we released it. I'd have paid very close attention to someone who finished Microcorruption yesterday, if I was still hiring for Matasano.
More like one and a half to me
It reads kind of like a fluff/marketing piece but I'll be damned if it wasn't pretty seamless. I have no idea what it was like prior to the bands but the whole experience was clearly made a lot easier by them and the accompanying app (which is pretty solid). I needed my phone and my band, that was really it (well,...snacks, water bottles, strollers etc..)

It was 85% well done, when you're actually scanning it can be a bear to get it just right, took a few days to get used to flipping my wrist around awkwardly and had a panic moment when one came off.

2 other things:

1) We didn't experience any of the location oriented deliveries/notifications, maybe they stopped or maybe we aren't special

2) That restaurant is very cool
Yeah, it's not the best game at making clear what's expected of you. I'd say if you've managed to progress to a new room that you haven't been able to before, obtained an item, or at least learned something new (an actual lightbulb moment), then the puzzle is still unsolved.

I do have to say I had to look up the solutions to one or two puzzles when I played it.
Nice, I didn't know about the EB-2 visa (and I do have a master's degree).

Would a prospective employer find an EB-2 sponsorship easier, harder, preferrable than an H1B visa? I understand the 1 year vs 6 months, but it's a 50% chance with those 6 months. Does it have less restrictions on job switching?
"hobble a few meters every half hour or so"

I get up every hour almost without fail, and walk all the way across the building to get a drink, or bathroom break, or any excuse, sometimes I do nothing at all. Often I walk to a different floor. This was on dr advice a long time ago WRT back probs and general health. I'm a heck of a lot more productive in the 10 minutes after I get back than the 10 minutes before, so its almost certainly a substantial net gain to my employer.

I do the same daily mileage as the author but compressed into my lunch hour, in addition to the above, weather permitting. I'd be interested to see shoe wear stats. When I slack off in the depths of winter or the peak of summer I can see my shoe soles not wear when I don't do a couple miles of pavement at lunch hour.

Its also interesting to look at financially, I can only get a couple hundred miles out of a pair of shoes, and I need to buy decent walking shoes not cheap junk solely based on appearance. I would guess shoe wear on a rubber belt is very low compared to concrete... then again I don't pay for whatever wear I cause to the concrete sidewalk and someone is paying for his treadmill wear directly or indirectly.

When I worked in a suburban office building I walked the nature trails and shoe wear on shredded bark was approximately zero, and it was more emotionally satisfying than dodging panhandlers in the city.

Related to above I tried wearing trail hiking boots and the wear was high on pavement. Lunch hour walks would probably be a good strategy for breaking in new boots, but it doesn't work long term for exercise.

It was an interesting article although there's plenty of space for further study.
This is the first time I see Algolia in action. So far it seems to do the best job of all HN search engines that I have seen.

Does it mean HN is paying Algolia for this service or is this just a trial ?