skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would that shock you? Of course the government is going to invest in technology it could find useful. In the really hardcore stuff it's simply called a "research grant," and it powers every single American research university.
It's an illegal substance; it must be bought from illegal merchants; engaging in black market commerce exposes one to the risk of blackmail, coercion &c.

It'd be weird if it weren't disqualifying.

(I think it ought to be 100% legal, but until it is, users are too great a risk)
Screen resolution is resolved incorrectly. If I change scaling on Windows, this site reports a different resolution than my actual.
> Recognise them? Consumers in Thailand, India and Indonesia do - they are local smartphone brands. Look at the promo video. Notice how many Asian faces there are?

Me on the other hand see only the hunger for next batch of data collecting on a population that is still "unexplored".
Introducing Toxcoin: The future of distributed applications
Any idea what happened to breach? It looked very promising when it was first announced, but I can see there hasn't been any contribution for more than 6 months.
Petition to promote tor use
In support of this, in my SO's city in Brazil there's many more public wifi places than anywhere in the Netherlands.
That was a really weird "episode" in the history of Shen, IMO. I mean, the outcome was good and all, but it was really weird to ask for donations to change the license. I don't think there was any real explanation for that other that "we want money"?
Did we see the same video? Those were all megabrands, probably all manufactured by a small number of Unilever-type companies. (Of course amazon carries it, they carry everything.)
L'infinito - Giacomo Leopardi

http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mdt26/poems/leopardi1.html

Always dear to me was this lonely hill,
And this hedge, which from me so great a part
Of the farthest horizon excludes the gaze.
But as I sit and watch, I invent in my mind
endless spaces beyond, and superhuman
silences, and profoundest quiet;
wherefore my heart
almost loses itself in fear. And as I hear the wind
rustle through these plants, I compare
that infinite silence to this voice:
and I recall to mind eternity,
And the dead seasons, and the one present
And alive, and the sound of it. So in this
Immensity my thinking drowns:
And to shipwreck is sweet for me in this sea.
Nintendo issues takedown notice for Super Mario 64 HD project
Ah, alright. That's a shame. I hope they can come up with some way to do it.
In the Land of Opportunity, Why Hinder Our Own Success?
In reality, this man of privilege bounds into the store on a cloud of positivity, only to be met by the sullen face behind the counter, 12 hours into a double shift on a day that she wasn't even supposed to be here. At the Postal Convenience Center, the object of his affection barely registers his presence because she is fears going home to her abusive boyfriend who is probably halfway in the bag already. When the letter arrives at Woodstock, Carol has to go through the painstaking trouble of scanning in his chicken scratch, and she'll spend the weekend fixing that which OCR cannot unearth.

The whimsy of Vonnegut betrays the truth that too many of us suffer from too little time in the day to create genuine, shareable moments with one another. Technology can help beat back that tide by simplifying the tedious, and little by little, we may find ourselves making time to be more present in our everyday lives.

Technology should be celebrated, and not feared.
> "But what is the use of understanding monoids, other than as a step towards understanding monads?"

I'm sorry, but I don't follow. It's just terminology for communicating more efficiently with other programmers (and mathematicians, in this case). They're both a group of ideas with a label. Why would one group only serve to introduce the second group?
http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/03/27/google-loses-bid-to-...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2903192/safari-users-in-the-u...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/15/us-privacy-google-...

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/13/technology/google-pays-fin...

http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/01/hamburg-google/

Please understand, I'm not saying your wrong...I'm just saying from the outside [even as someone who works in IT and relies on data to make decisions] that I've never worked at a company that had any of these issues. It could be a question of scale and the fact Google is an easy target to make a headline with.
my experience is more direct, and contradicts yours. yay for anecdotes.
The web UI seems a little clunky and overloaded right now. I got a few errors on my cell number before it finally worked.
Hit the Flickr URL with Archive.org, which should capture both the image, date+time, and the CC license present at time of archive. The Wayback Machhine has been used in court before, so precedent does exist.

javascript:void(open('//web.archive.org/save/'+encodeURI(document.location)))
Or just take your chrome book to china where all Google apps are blocked...
Really confused about what they are attempting to test under the tabletop configuration.

It seems like their hypothesis needs to be tested in the middle of space away from the gravitational force of the sun and earth. If your calculations are off by a factor of 10^120, then making the test 1000 times more sensitive isn't going to help either.

Wouldn't scientists have had evidence of this being the case with the pioneer 11/10 anomaly? There was a slight deceleration that couldn't be accounted for, if dark energy was present in a vacuum wouldn't the pioneer probes (and the voyager probes now) show an acceleration that matches initial calculations?
Bad idea. If tor use is required, all browsing will slow down, the relays will crash under the traffic, many services will be inaccessible (like anything using cloudflare).
Nearly two months passed since that post, I'm sure they're outdated already.

It would be interesting to see them refresh it soon and compare the progress in two months.
The people who downvoted SwellJoe: Can you explain? The facts about the "netbooks" are verifiable facts, see e.g. [0]. That's a business version of "embrace, extinguish" (no extension here), and it's classic for the Bill Gates / Ballmer era.

Microsoft was strongarming the manufacturers - in 2009, they could still do that easily (and they might still be able to today). The carrot and stick was reduced Windows licensing - but only if you make netbooks unusable. And thus netbooks died. I hope that Nadella's Microsoft is not like that - it looks way better than the Ballmer days - but having been bitten multiple times, I'll wait until I trust Microsoft again.

[0] http://www.pcworld.com/article/169919/5_netbooks_microsoft_h...
> 10 hour battery life on an 8 second boot?

8 second boot ,frankly who cares ? my windows machine takes 40 second to boot sure, but I boot it like 2 times a week.

10 hour battery life ? maybe on idle, I bet this thing doesn't last 10 hours with 50 tabs opened or when playing youtube videos ...

I can't believe there are still people defending that stuff, it's netbooks all over again but worse cause it's only a browser ...

Or we are on full astroturfing mode like anytime there is a Chromebook thread on HN i'm not sure.
The British recognized US independence in 1783; Federalist Papers published in 1787-88.

Regardless if the Federalist Papers had bragged about smuggling a subsequent investigation would have compelled printers etc to name the authors.
I started a few weeks ago. To save you a lot of Googling;

1 - Go to CodeAcademy and do the Python and Ruby starter tutorials.

2 - Pick your preference.

3 - Choose a framework. The choices are fairly obvious: Django for Python or Rails for Ruby.

4 - Do the starter 'app' that the framework of your choice offers. (I went with the Django 'Polls' tutorial)

5 - Get a hold of the books; JavaScript and HTML & CSS by Jon Duckett. Both are amazing!

6 - Choose a project and get started.

7 - Get lost. Then get lost some more. Then you slightly get a grasp of how things are working, and then you introduce something else and get lost even worse than before..

8 - NEVER GIVE UP! It's okay to get frustrated and walk away for a few hours/days. Just keep pushing.

9 - Remember to appreciate the things you are learning. Take as much in per session as possible then do something else.

Good luck Sir. It's rough. But it's more than worth it when you finish your first project!
Finding the forgotten women who programmed the First electronic computer
Well to be fair, he does say he's not a security expert nor is he a 'bad guy' as he puts it.

The more people saying "out of date Wordpress installations are dangerous" the better in my opinion.
Ah, that makes sense. My Eee came with an SSD, and I installed Linux the day it arrived. I can see how it would have been a different experience with Windows and old-school hard drives.
It varies pretty wildly.
In plenty it can become public domain this way, but that takes roughly forever.

In particular, something taken during our lifetime will almost certainly not become public domain until well after we are dead.
I'm curious as to why they chose to use a separate echo.Context. Why not create a type with an embedded io.ReaderCloser and a map[string]interface{}. Then replace the req.Body (it's a io.ReaderCloser) with the custom type. You could then write methods that take a http.Request to add/delete/modify the piggy backing context field. No need to have a Context type in your handlers.
It's also perhaps that Germans are vary before an OS which is an internet machine and comes from a company where main revenue is ad business.
Lean Start-Up Methodology Simplified
Really? We're that politically correct now that we can't have a joke meeting-room-ballpit to celebrate the opening of a new building without offending someone?
And yet my CMO just sent out a memo saying he thinks everyone is working from home too often. #sigh
Contractors that prepare works for the US government can own copyright, and since most of the work for the government is now contracting, this doesn't buy a ton.
Managing a Meteor.js Application in Production (includes code)
Patch review vs. diff review, revisited (2013)
We'll have to agree to disagree then. I don't want a bank of buttons anywhere. Do you really want 30 different devices to set up and then worry about whether they've lost the connection to your wifi or run out of battery life or had their contacts corroded by your ever-soggy button presses?

I'd like an app with a lineup of Amazon Dash consumables. If my hands are filthy or wet I'll try to keep a single intention in my head for 30 seconds until that's no longer the case. And if I don't feel like doing that I can just write a note on a pad.
So, the problem is this. The myth is about a "10X programmer". No qualification. If you look at hiring discussions, there seem to be a significant number of people in these circles that believe there are programmers who are nearly 10 times as productive as the average (or bottom; this seems to change from poster to poster) at nearly everything they touch. If you don't believe me, read some of the hiring discussions here.

Jessica is not a "10X programmer". Jessica is a "10X $TASK programmer", where $TASK may or may not comprise an entire role. $TASK might even be as large as "web dev" or "enterprise dev". It is nearly impossible to screen for, though, unless someone has directly comparable work experience, where directly comparable includes intangibles like work environment.
The best part about this presentation, aside from the scrollable slides, is that it didn't break the back button. :-)

I think it's a nice high level intro to exactly how easy it is to exploit an un-patched site. Obviously not ground breaking, but a nice intro nonetheless.

I think the key takeaway is, assume anything on or near your Wordpress is compromised. Because the attackers have IP maps of pretty much every Wordpress site, what versions, and what plugins they are running, so the moment an exploit is published their botnets will be attacking you within minutes. This already happened to Drupal and no reason to expect it's not happening to Wordpress as well.

The best defense is not storing anything which is not already public on the server, and a single-click restore feature which should be used liberally anytime a priv-escalating exploit is patched. (assume you were compromised, even in the absence of any logs indicating that you were)
Not really on topic: so arxiv.org is a "preprint" site for scientific papers -- does that mean all papers go to arxiv.org, and then only the ones that pass peer-review actually end up in journals? Or are the papers on arxiv.org considered "published" already, and are on the site for archival purposes?
Amazon’s Dash Button Is Not a Hoax, It’s Phase One
miniLock – File encryption software that does more with less
Mountian View, CA on Google Maps (Pacman)
I'd love more up to date data on if a University degree at these private universities pays for itself, and if it does how long does that take.

I can find some information, but most of it is really old, and pre-dates a lot of the increase we've seen in the cost of education, in particular at private Universities.

It seems like pay isn't keeping pace with the cost of education, so you have to wonder if some of these degrees will literally never pay for themselves, or will take near retirement to break even.

I'd love to see the US government release a web-site which lists the total cost of each University's tuition over 4 years including required books for the courses (easily an extra $1K/year at many) and any other required fees (e.g. you MUST live on-campus the first year). It might open student's eyes up to what they're REALLY getting themselves into.
"Chromebooks in Q3 2013 had at best a 1.2 percent share of the PC market and a 0.76 percent share of the combined PC-tablet market."

Latest IDC figures show Chromebooks continue to struggle
http://www.zdnet.com/article/latest-idc-figures-show-chromeb...
Wouldn't it be (10/16)^7 ~= 3.7% ?
Doesn't DuckDuckGo use Yandex's search results?
This was updated less than a day ago: https://github.com/breach/thrust

It is align with the main developer's 'ExoBrowser' arquitecture: http://breach.cc/2014/07/15/next-steps-for-breach.html
Old computers never die - their owners do. You can still have fun with an old machine - just get one, turn it on, and go for it.
Yeah, but Office in the browser is worse than Google Docs, in my opinion.
Rob from Twilio here - thanks for using the service. Localization and fraud/spam protection are definitely the two most useful for Twilio Lookup, but suspect there are a couple more than might be less obvious.

1) Smarter Routing - quite a few developers have expressed they'd like to know whether or not a phone number is a landline or not before attempting to send a text message. Twilio Lookup will describe whether the number is mobile, landline, or voip so you can choose the appropriate communication to reach the number.

2) Error Checking - While libraries like libphonenumber are useful for determining if a number can possibly exist, there are some conditions where determining if a number does exist is more valuable. This can be used for error checking - if I as a user input a typo in my phone number (e.g. I mistype my personal phone number as '(347) 193-6073' which does not exist instead of '(347) 923-6073')

I also suspect across larger applications carrier info might also contain useful demography. For example, knowing that your users in Montana mostly use Verizon might inform your advertising to surface more CDMA devices in that market.

Ultimately this will probably end up like every other product we release - the killer use case is one we never even considered.
What was she trying to do?

For me, it's the camera-printer link that keeps messing me up.
I think you don't account how little time doctors invest in a single patient, and how much expertise they've got compared to the net. And on the other hand, many patients have a lot of tenacity ,because those are large problems for them.

But i agree that the ideal result from opening all this up, is the rise of medical expert systems advising patients, the same systems that have been blocked by doctors, some of it because of conservatism, some because they don't want to lose autonomy and let their job become automated with what that entails.There's no need to wait for watson, they already exist.

And with the medical error rate around 15%, the fact that doctor only gather half the needed questions in their medical interview, etc. - i'm sure something like this could have pretty big effect on health.
Have you seen those GoDaddy commercials with Danica Patrick? Those commercials appeal to people who, I'd gander, have a lot more to lose (and aren't as wise to the potential sly tricks... of the internet) than what could be phished over the phone from your telco provider.
Development is mostly using Avr Studio to do embedded stuff. The tablet was the Asus VivoTab8, the non-note version, unfortunately. The bluetooth keyboard was just some generic keyboard and case [1]. My only complaint really is that the meta keys are cranky within putty, but other than that, it's been pretty solid for me.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KCKXIXE/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_d...
Drunken Linux Distribution Changes Name
“One tech job creates approximately five service jobs”
Encryption Companies Throwing Shade Keeps Everyone in the Dark
There are two books you can buy ; the latter one uses Shen; the first one (The Book of Shen) teaches you Shen. If you know Lisp & Prolog, it should not be hard to pick it up from examples and the source code. The book is worth it, I just wish there was a digital version; I think it would sell a lot more.
If I don't want people paying someone else to use my information, I don't care whether that party ever actually sees it or not.
Isn't this completely opposite of how Slack actually grew in businesses? Everything I've ever read says they took a bottom-up approach by getting employees to adopt it outside of work.
Google has indeed sold information to the NSA.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertlenzner/2013/09/23/attveri...
Interesting link. Suggests that presenting unnecessary choice leads to passive behaviour. I'm thinking of active choices rather than seeing a row of a dozen different identical kitchen towel brands at the supermarket. Like, what are the ethical standards of this shop, how does it treat it's suppliers, does it exploit it's workforce etc.

Every decision is important, and every time it is automated for the sake of convenience is a little bit of disenfranchisement.

Again, it depends what you consider important. Purchasing decisions arguably dictate much transnational economic concerns. For example palm oil, the fair trade movement. As a global citizen I would say that was well spent decision juice.

I'm sitting higher up on my high horse than I started, but discussions tend to polarise / crystallize views!
Deflation is not just a problem for "debtors". It's a basic and simple problem with the economy as a whole. The very basic problem is, if the 100 dollars I have in my wallet right now will be worth 110 dollars next year, I would naturally be disinclined to spend my money today?

Now, one can debate whether economic growth model as understood today (where Growth == higher number of transactions) is the most desirable model of economic goodness or not. But so many other metrics of a happy economy (jobs, govt spending on public services, societal optimism etc.) are so tied up to a growing economy in the current model, that the only practical way this could be changed is via a huge political revolution... which has it's own problems. Given all that, it'll be hard for a reasonable thinker to welcome a permanent state of deflation.

And fwiw, IMHO, it's no more than a thought exercise. We're nowhere near an actual permanent state of deflation.
Hacienda small RESTful service to manage content and translations stored as JSON
Much obliged on the bug reports. We've corrected the number on the demo page and confirmed it is working now.

If you both would like to shoot me an email to rob [at] twilio [dot] com, we'll ship you a t-shirt as thanks for pointing out the error.
Who is "you guys"? I personally applaud Mozilla for their stance on many things. Especially for allowing/enabling things like NoScript. However, I must admit that this has a practical limit, at least for me. Without per-process tabs (or similar) Firefox will start to lag more and more behind modern browsers and at some point the deficit will become insurmountable. (I realize the difficulty of achvieving this, but as a practical matter, it must happen, otherwise...)

EDIT: I should say that I usually keep Firefox open for days (with only ~30-40 tabs) and at some point it starts consuming unreasonable amounts of CPU just... idling (apparently).
New Study Reveals Business Owners Investing in Technology in 2015
Amos Yee: Lee Kuan Yew Is Finally Dead [video]
Trying to reply to sibling post:

She works as an interpreter/translator and needs to be able to write documents in multiple language systems (e.g. non-Latin alphabets) in a way she understands.
This is what we do! I'm at Patients Know Best; we've been live for a few years now, and the momentum continues to grow -- this is an issue that is hitting a tipping point.

The article touches on several important aspects of working in this space -- mainly, the benefits are real (even for people who aren't able to diagnose their own brain tumors), but there is cultural resistance to giving patients the "real" data. We've worked with medical professionals who are seriously uneasy about giving patients access to their own records -- sometimes for more sensible reasons ("a patient could easily misinterpret what this result means without context") but also fears that just don't materialize in reality (like "patients will bombard me with questions" -- as discussed in the OP).

Some of the resistance is curiously connected to the legal protections that healthcare professionals need to enforce on behalf of the patient. They're actively trained to follow laws that seriously restrict data-sharing, insecure storage, etc... and it takes a while for it to click that this is actually the patient's data, and the patient is the one person who has more right to it than anyone.
Cats and toddlers are going to go nuts on these!
My problem with S&S is that I travel a lot and don't want stuff to pile up when I'm away. It's a good concept but just doesn't work for me.
That's not a rebuttal. Tempting as it may be, I will not go for the straw man argument about meat/weapons/LGBT issues.

Obviously I'll have to come to terms with the fact that "people in the world" have different priorities to mine regarding ethics; that doesn't change the fact that I believe certain things to be wrong and that (independently) I believe people should be held accountable for actions, even if just following orders (which was the original argument I was responding to).

Working for the NSA isn't a human rights issue, another reason that the gay marriage thing is a straw man. I'm not claiming someone shouldn't have the right to work for them, I'm just saying if they're instructed to do "wrong things" that those things are still "wrong" even if you're only doing them for your boss. (for whatever values of "wrong" -- hence your point about ethics being individual)
Can't commit to anything yet - do appreciate the feedback though.
I'm only very slightly older than this article; my first computer was an XT, so I missed the early hobbyist days of the many competing platforms; I was well into the clone era.

One thing really jumped out at me:

"Of the ones I've seen, a green-tinted monitor by NEC (model JB 1201M) seemed the best bargain, at $210; but patriots should take note that NEC stands for Nippon Electric Company."

We like to marvel at how fast technology moves. But cultural attitudes can change just as fast.
Kinda ironic as it's usually the uber liberals that tend to get grossly offended by perceived social injustices such as gendered pronouns or dongle jokes.