skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to the Ken Burns documentary Prohibition [1], it was both - especially if you replace "people" with "men". I don't remember all the facts and details leading up to Prohibition, but the documentary did make me more sympathetic to the temperance movement.

[1] http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/watch-video/
I tried it. I wasn't a fan of streaming @ 15 FPS w/ a max bitrate of 1,500 Kbps.
Yep, I don't disagree with this. I don't know what the answer is. My dream is some mix of US risk taking coupled withe European humanism... but that got us the UK and that's not my idea of a good time either.
Besides that, Russian politics are fairly obviously self serving, it doesn't need much in terms of illustration beyond what you can simply see for yourself.
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Actually, you're right. My train of thought was off-track. My height/bike combination makes it difficult to properly tilt even with one foot on the ground. On flat ground i can't even keep my right foot on the pedal while standing on my left and the mental image i had in mind was standing over the middle bar with both feet on the ground without hanging off it off my groin, and the tilt required even for that is way too much. Narrow spaces excacerbate this.

And before you ask: Yes, i tried the next-smaller bike type, they're considerably slower for me in transit.
Good point, although if my options were either a) handle inbound myself, rely on a third-party for outbound or b) rely on a third-party for inbound and outbound, I'd pick the latter (although not everyone would, of course).

Obviously, you'd have to trust whomever you're using for relaying not to mess with your mail.

Another option could be a VPN connection to bypass ISP-level packets filters.
That is really fascinating. The guy seems to understanding marketing to a level to not try and place his products in retail shelves as people tend to judge based on looks rather than features.

I did spend one Sunday afternoon reading up reviews on apple app store. while there were some pretty interesting ideas, I saw one huge issue - the search on app store is unreliable. One, there could be an app implementing the said "idea" or "feature" but somehow not readily visible. Second, no way to really dig and learn about your competitors. Third, the same search might hurt the app chances.
I think you can safely assume that the homeland of Royal Dutch Shell is a sponsor of some economic signals intelligence here and there.

"The rest of the world" is an interesting way to frame a response to my comment, which you appear to be stipulating is correct. I'm saying that on the matter of economic spying, there is no rest of the world.

Please stop using words like "excuse" to respond to me, by the way. You put words in my mouth when you do that; I didn't make an excuse. There's a world of difference between "is" and "ought".
This acquisition plus the Carnegie Mellon robotics lab acquisition [1] makes it pretty certain they are doubling down and putting huge technical investments into autonomous cars. They are perfect for it too - but damn if that isn't quick considering how long they have been on the market.

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/is-uber-a-friend-or-foe-of-carne...
http://spendyourleapsecondhere.com/
NASA Cuts Signal to ISS Just Moments After Two 'UFOs' Seen Leaving Earth
Indeed. The essay mentions "predictability" as a problem with solar, but that becomes moot with good enough storage & transmission.
Tell me more about this all-in insurance. Where would you find these types of insurance companies. I run a small digital studio and run into similar problems from time to time with startups - it's always startups.
I use Twitch.TV all the time (I have it up right now) and I signed up for livecoding.tv when I initially heard of it, but backed out before committing to anything.

My #1 concern is this:

On Twitch.TV I would never watch someone who is completely quiet. Half the time I have Twitch up as a passive form of entertainment. Similar to a radio talkshow going on in the background.

When I'm developing software... I don't talk. I might do an odd grumble to myself every once in a while, but the loudest thing in the room, by far, is my keyboard.

Are you expecting developers to talk out their thoughts as they type? Are you expecting people to just stare at a quiet developer's workflow and try to glean information?

Also, this comic strip comes to mind: http://www.commitstrip.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Strip-...

TL;DR: Why would I as a developer want to use your service? What do I gain from it?
It's great to see you invest your time and money in nuclear power Sam. We already have the nuclear technology to solve our energy emissions problem, we just lack the political will to make the shift away from coal/oil/gas. Great leaps in the efficiency and safety of nuclear power systems will hopefully make the shift politically achievable.
Hmmm this is not currently something we have any special feature to address currently, except that if you realise you have shown the world a password or credit card details ( it has happened!) they the best thing to do is stop the stream and delete the video immediately. We are currently exploring other ways we can help prevent this.
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Sure, would love to meet your dad. Please intro.
Codelab for Android Design Support Library
In case it wasn't obvious (it wasn't to me at first): you can drag around to move the camera. Pretty awesome, and really good performance.
Answers to password reset questions are passwords too – treat them that way
I think I might have been unclear.

I often read that "this is the sort of thing we expect spy agencies to do". I stipulate that economic espionage is part of what spy agencies do, and should do. So, "normal" it is.

I'm interested in what information gets distributed to which US corporations, and maybe why. That is, should the NSA give Boeing info it's filched from Airbus, or should Lockheed-Martin get it, too? Why exclude Grumman-Northup? Did LockMart give more in campaign contributions? Is that why they got the insider info?

I want to use real US companies, I'm pretty certain that defense contractors aren't multi-nationals. Certainly you could erase specific corporate names and re-fill the blanks with corporations from another, arbitrary, market.

The problem is that the NSA (or whoever, the President maybe) becomes the arbiter of which corporation succeeds and which doesn't, regardless of what the rest of the market perceives, and how the rest of the market acts. This seems like a bad idea.
Java for desktop isn't at all bad.
No, “the revolving door” refers to people spending time working as legislators/executive officials, and then going to work in the same industry they were regulating, and basically getting time-shifted favors/salary in return for their help while in office.

Spending 6 months or whatever working as a programmer for the US Digital Service and then going back to a job in industry is something quite different.
That's kind of ignorant of the fact that such a mentality starts breaking down a system of trust and confidence that can lead to major cracks in economy and retaliatory actions. It is never a good rule to simply play a game that only has one rule, that everyone is allowed to cheat.
One more thing, all lib/codes i can find on the net use Math.random() that's why i made this lib. because i use it first :)
Right because completely aborting would break things, who cares about security?

This is just horrible and I honestly hope nobody will ever use this, I'm sorry.
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Shell is not the Dutch government, and I'd be fairly surprised if the Dutch government would let its intelligence services be co-opted in this way. The 1950's have not been forgotten here and Ken Saro Wiwa has streets named after him here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Saro-Wiwa
It seems like a reasonable assumption that the information in question has monetary value. So the NSA is essentially stealing from the companies in question. Usually stealing things has a distorting effect on markets but it usually taken as something of a "wrong in itself".

I find it remarkable the number of commentators who put things as "it's OK if it's being done to non-Americans".
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2458706/microsoft-subnet...

"Although the feds denied it, Peter Biddle, the head of the engineering team working on BitLocker in 2005, claimed that the government makes 'informal requests' for backdoors. Allegedly after making claims about 'going dark,' the FBI 'informally' asked Microsoft for a backdoor in BitLocker."
Does it really matter if the car driver won the court case if they had to spend $10,000+ on a lawyer to do so?
In defense of Google
Of course! And I am certain that she and colleagues always used GPG or similar when e-mailing between her personal mail server and the State Department's official mail server. Because it goes without saying they would do so, otherwise those e-mails carrying untold sensitive information would have been routed in the clear. And that obviously never happened.
French and US relations have been "odd" ever since WW2, if not before.

The Euro was in part seeded by De Gaulle in an attempt to restrict US economic involvement in western Europe.
At first glance this seems like a terrible business decision by Microsoft.
Android supports Java 7 since October 2013.
Perhaps, it very well could have been. I made an assumption since sendmail was, for the most part, the MTA in those days. Yes, others (including qmail) existed but sendmail was, by far, the most widely used. I, myself, was a sendmail fanboy for years until I eventually moved to postfix in the early/mid-2000s.
One of the things that annoys me about these revelations is that, particularly in regards to the espionage aspect of things, essentially private businesses are de facto in some way gaining from either increased inside knowledge or increased protection from the likes of the NSA or French equivalents etc...

However, if private people, journalists or NGOs are targeted by foreign governments (or corporate intelligence) they are never told about it (probably leading to the death of sources etc) - and if they conducted hacking/espionage activities for the greater public good (for example to expose information about people wanted for genocide in Darfur, those who murder journalists in Russia, diamond corruption in the DRC) they would go to jail...What a sad world we live in that we would rather prioritise protecting clean engine patents and airplane deals instead of human life :(
... did the math and came to the conclusion that he was just
incredibly lucky

Woah. Red flag. Just incredibly lucky doesn't exist. Odds are odds.
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The espionage is perhaps most bothering of all. In some ways, most of us can rationalize spying for the purposes of security (albeit a dangerous and perhaps short-sighted rationalization) but when it's done with the intention of economic advantage it clearly undermines our entire financial system and the best features of capitalism: which is to reward those who innovate; delivering the market with higher quality products at lower pricing over time.

Because now you have a 'special access' class of the economy that can subvert this innovation/value mechanism with stolen data. Add corrupt politicians, easily exploited loopholes, biased media channels, and a docile public - and it's easy to see how this special access class can twist, distort (and ultimately destroy) the system.

One can only imagine what humanity could achieve without these parasites infecting our lives and businesses.
Could you create couple of sample videos for those of us who do not want to create an account?
Do you use any particular app? There are a few out there.. headspace, calm, etc.
All security is through solutions being obscure. I don't understand this criticism. Encryption just puts mathematical bounds on the obscurity, for instance, and a lock only works through the obscurity of having to find a crowbar.

Security is measured through degrees and layers. No secure system is provably secure to all attacks. Something like the above would definitely add a lot to the cost of attempting to understand the data flow, and that shouldn't be discounted. If I were building a root kit/drm, this would be a pretty decent way for me to hide data and computation long enough for me to adapt, away from the tools and patterns people understand.

Security through many layers of obscurity is how our internet doesn't fall apart. Just think about the massive amounts of plaintext email you can sniff between servers.
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Just to be clear: we're talking about an organization that stands accused of relaying information obtained from Chelsea Manning to the government of Belarus, among the worst of the Russian client regimes.
> how do I identify people to target?

Publication demographics, backed up by readership surveys. (I know pretty old school but it passes muster even in Germany for privacy protection) Places like TechCrunch survey their readership and identify demographic characteristics that you might want to target. (age, sex, buying habits)

> With no cookie, how can an exchange or network
> know that anyone wants to show an ad to this viewer?

Because they have already made the decision based on the readership, if the publication keeps identity information and demographic information it can share it with the advertisers. Their is no "risk" of showing it because they only pay on conversion, there is only the publication wanting to get better at showing the correct ads.

How that would work in practice, if you have a login with a publication they can share demographics about that login when they ask to get an ad[1], if not they can share general demographics.

> multiple parties showed an ad to a user. Forget,
> for now, how that user was identified. If that
> user then converts, which partners get how much
> credit?

The partner who got brought the customer gets 100% of the credit, everyone else gets 0. For generic items statistics will have that conversion happening randomly amongst all the possible places it is shown. For non-generic items the partner that got the reader to the point of doing the conversion "wins" that particular round.

As you have surmised it does not support the notion of building an ad network through the use of cookie analytics. However I suspect such tracking/monitoring networks are going to be put out of business by a combination of privacy laws and browser changes. They are already considered "bad" by many consumers and transitively by those consumer's representatives in government.

[1] Caveat the privacy policy of course
> Curious how we never seem to see Russia as the focus of Wikileaks releases.

I can't even comprehend what you're trying to imply here. Do you genuinely think that Wikileaks is friendly to Russia for some reason? If so, say it. Because that would be really bizarre and inexplicable.
> When I'm developing software... I don't talk. I might do an odd grumble to myself every once in a while, but the loudest thing in the room, by far, is my keyboard.

I have previous experience streaming and so immediately got myself in a mindset of talk talk talk. In fact, I stopped working on my project and had an hour or so conversation with viewer/viewers about JavaScript frameworks and a bit of a deep dive on React. To be fair, I've always been someone who yells at the screen while gaming, so extending that kind of behavior of saying what you're thinking while coding isn't too hard for me.
"Helping rich people get taxis easier". As a Lyft and Uber driver, I count among my rides: getting a rough looking fellow (who has spent years in prison after accidentally killing someone in a bar fight) get to the only job that would take him - affordably and on-time (he would have been fired otherwise). I've given an enlisted navy family from Oklahoma (husband was deployed) get home from a late night run to a distant Walmart - the military pay for an e-3 is low and I imagine tough to support a family of three and there are few other options without a college degree.

It's crazy to read about this guy who wonders if this all matters... The amount of money that the government spends to get a marginal improvement on society beyond basic functions of the government should be even more dismaying.

And it's incredibly patronizing to despair from on high that tech doesn't do any good for society.
I worked on renewable energy projects a few years back, and while the idea of a large disruptive technology development sounds awesome, the reality is that there are already a plethora of renewable energy turbines and designs that would greatly improve the world... But the engineers and inventors running around with these ideas have no idea how to go from a small scale proof of concept into a fully built out manufacturing and implementation process.

Even if they do figure out how to get engineering and manufacturing in place, then there are regulatory barriers to figure out. There will be politics involved, and legal challenges. And of course, you need to actually operate the sites on an ongoing basis.

All of these challenges can be overcome... but most people who know how to do so already work in the energy industry. What is really needed is a group of people who can bridge those gaps to take an innovate design from an engineers drawing board, and jump through all the hoops to make it a live production site. If such a group were to be built, real change could happen very quickly.
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Really? So if my email sends get stuck in a client's Gmail spam queue, sucks for me or them? Sucks for me a lot more and I'll move to a hosted service instead that can guarantee email delivery.
If you can generate on demand then you don't need batteries.
Ask HN: Halfway through school, realizing I don't enjoy software engineering
I'm going to be entering my 3rd year of school this fall, one of top 4 CS programs (Stanford, Berkeley, MIT, CMU), and I'm currently doing an internship.

First of all, I really don't think I'm good at programming. Like not good - I struggle with anything but the easiest interview-type questions, I'm not particularly good at school assignments without a partner, and now at my internship I feel even more inadequate.

I've bombed my Data Structures class and Algorithms class, not too well in AI, and okay in everything else.

There's a good chance my 'dislike for CS' is coming from my constant failure, but I don't know what to do. What options do I have (both CS and non-CS, industry and academia)?

I've been doing some computational finance stuff on the side which has been interesting, and also will probably get a double degree in math by the end of my four years (which, I've also been rather mediocre in, grades-wise).
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> And none of those - and definitely not France - have been caught spying on US politicians in their own offices.

They would if they could (and I'd bet that one has at one point).
When I play video games, I don't talk unless there is someone sitting near me watching me play.

I imagine the same would be true for programming.
It depends on concentration. If the concentration is low enough, then the alcohol will exit your system in the same sweat that keeps you cooled down, and the same pee that gets rid of other stuff (pee is rarely saturated).

It's only when you drink enough alcohol that you start sweating/peeing specifically to get rid of alcohol that you get diuretic effects.
> 85,000 unique identifiers (1.4Mb).

Basically all the data fit in the CPU cache, so what was being measured was mostly the number of steps needed for each algorithm.

For most real uses, the cache is a large part of the performance. If you are using the data in order, the trie may be faster because the next entry will likely already be cached. If you are using data in random order or doing other work in between lookups, the hashtable may be faster because it only has to fetch 1 or 2 lines into the cache instead of several.
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Nah, just a gigantic fraction of the economy, their largest company (the second largest company in the world), and an operator in the world's most cutthroat extractive industry.

Virtually every major city in the US has a street named after MLK, but there are still cops here that single black people out for beatings.
There is also a very large amount of snake oil in the renewable energy field and a ton of ideas that keep being recycled that have long ago been invalidated.
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Precisely! The issue is storage.
There are many ways to create energy: solar, wind, water, nuclear (thorium!)...but storage is still unsolved. And Lithium is NOT the answer, not at the scale we need.
How bad is your business model if it drives you to spam here?
Beware of Greeks bearing bonds (2010)
>How exactly do you propose a cyclist train falling?

The same way most people learn to ride without training wheels. Slow, wobbly, tilting, and falling often. Except this time, it's on purpose. I suggest using safety pads.

>That is an amazingly dickish comment and shows me you're not even attempting to see my side.

I'm sorry, but I don't think maintaining balance on a bike, even at slow speeds, is a problem for the majority of the population. It's a problem that usually only presents itself in children and those learning how to bike. If you suffer from an innate lack of balance (ie. most people would consider you a 'clutz') I would suggest walking over biking for you own, and other people's, safety.

>Do note that the important point is not the question of "how to stop in time?" but of "ugh, the procedure of stopping here is quite annoying, i'd rather go on".

Rotating the pedals backwards or squeezing in the right handle isn't what I'd call a "procedure" anymore than moving your foot from the gas to the brake in a car is. Does it suck to have to stop at intersections? Sure. That's not an excuse to blow right through it (not that it seems you think it's an excuse either).

Driving a stick-shift car is far more of a hassle to brake. Especially when going up hill. Yet cars are still expected (and often do) come to a stop.
That's true. I hate the great divide amongst Linux & BSDs cause otherwise we could have the best of both worlds.
Fusion and Fission systems tend to run 24/7, unlike Wind and Solar. There is far less need to store energy when using the former types of generation.
> this is what NSA is supposed to be doing

I don't think anyone knows what the purpose of the NSA is. To have more secrets than everyone else?
To hack or not to hack… that is the question
Hey - I totally recognise that this is not for everyone and that is the point. Our aim is to educate people, so our best streamers are those who are engaged with their audience and are chatting and discussing what they are doing as they work. Some people do what you say and just show up put headphones on and code, and obviously those people don't have as big a following as people who are engaged!
ok. sounds good to me.
Oh, as in Stunna was gambling that the player didn't have an exploit and that the developers were drawing the right conclusion. I'll allow it. :)
Regarding hardware-assisted self hosting, there is http://internetcu.be which, among other things, does email (and bypasses ISPs restrictions by bundling the "box" with a VPN and providing static IPv4 and 6 addresses to each user).

It's some sort of "freedombox" [0] come true. It works out of the box, in a plug and play fashion (and it's based on free hardware [1] and free software [2]).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomBox

[1] https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-...

[2] Debian, https://yunohost.org ,...