skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And if anything it's the opposite of "internet journalism"; it's part of an age-old newspaper tradition of adding the revised story into exactly the same slot in between print runs rather than the internet approach of "there's no daily space constraint; let's put Pao's background and court case in another follow-on article and leave the old one alone.
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And one the main differences between the original teardown with the counterfeit headphones was that the hinges were zinc alloy and with the real Beats headphones, the hinges were made with higher quality stainless steel.
I agree with both this post and its parent.

I would disagree with it being called 'laws', because in the general sense laws can be disobeyed on occasion, and regularily are (extremely minor traffic laws, such as using the horn while stopped, anti-tailgating laws, etc. are routinely broken here in the UK -- I don't condone it, but it does happen quite a lot). In some cases police have the discretion to ignore offences of some extremely minor laws in favour of using that time instead to catch proper criminals. Hence to me at least, that does not convey the right mannerisms.

Perhaps 'sacrosanct law' would be a better alternative? :D
I flagged a thread a week or so ago that was an opinion piece about women in tech advocating hiring women. At the end of article the author compiled a huge list of women in tech from github, linkedin and other available resources and linked to it in a spreadsheet.

Leaving aside that hiring a female engineer from google would not add more women into the ecosystem, it is poor form to take a bunch of personal data and use it to compile a list without consent. From memory, the list had full names, position and links to public profiles. This was essentially a massive doxx dump of female engineers.

I assume most of the listed individuals weren't "hiding" their employment position, but this list could be used to target them, spam recruit them, make it appear as if they were shopping employment offers etc.
Ongoing DDoS attack at Telegram messenger
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I was taught that 5.5x was the standard BOM to retail price ratio. If the revised article is correct and the BOM is $20.19 then there is a fairly large markup to $199.
Ask HN: How often does Git merge make mistakes?
I was working on an express app with a friend and git auto merged a file after I ran 'git pull'. There were no merge conflicts, but git added duplicate functions to a file after merge. I spent an hour trying to figure our what the problem was before realizing that git had made a mistake while merging.

I had never seen such a thing before. How often does something like this happen?
Anyone know how big it is yet?
I think the working assumption should be that they have been. There is no way that a company that big is not leaking like a sieve. Between social engineering, disgruntled employees, and active intrusion, they is no way that have remained unpenetrated.
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A Eulogy for the Long, Intimate Email
I was just thinking about the end of Moore's law. People in the industry will tell you they've been overcoming obstacles for decades, but there is a fundamental change going on. Previous obstacles were manufacturing: Reduced wavelength, double patterning, immersion lithography. Some were part manufacturing and part device change: SOI, strained silicon. But now we're seeing changes to the devices themselves: Tri-gate transistors and now IBMs SiGe material for 7nm.

That change to SiGe is to increase electron mobility. The material could have been used all along, but it has been easier to stick to the tried and true Si. The bottom line is that plain silicon is not really viable below 10nm. A material change to effect one parameter isn't likely to be useful for more than a node or two before the same problem arises in that material.

I'd say 14nm FinFET will be a long lived node just like 28 has been. Then 7nm SiGe will be a higher end node with higher cost. Perhaps there will be another at 5nm but that's going to be a long time.

The equipment manufacturers will need to stay in business so they'll start selling stuff cheaper to the lower cost players as development of new nodes stops. This will lead to more capacity at the advanced node. Every micro controller will be made at 28nm and have an FPU (I can finally abandon fixed point math). Every SoC with a GPU will be made at 14nm. And lastly, laptops and desktops will have 7nm parts that are very expensive due to the expense of different materials, light sources, and the number of masks.

That's my guess at the market over the next few years and lasting for at least 10 more years beyond that. It will be very interesting to see how all the players cope with this. Even ARM will suffer as their CPU license cost starts to become a problem in a world of cheap chip production.
This is an awesome dump, what types of analysis could we use this for?

tspike mentioned a QA engine which would be awesome, what else can people think of?
My information is likely in the dump, due to some contractor work I did back in 2003-2005. My best guess is the leaked passwords are the passwords needed to decrypt the most confidential portions of the security clearance questionaires, which was (is?) distributed as a DOS binary.

The protected data generally contains people's deepest darkest secrets, and information on where to begin digging for more information that could be used to blackmail them into working for a foreign power. This information is collected in order to estimate how succeptable the applicant would be to blackmail, but is also the perfect starting point for starting a campaign to blackmail current security clearance holders into spying for a foreign power.

At least the way it worked in 2003 was that a security officer emailed you an old 16-color DOS application called EPSQ 2.2. As I remember, the application actually saved its data back into the binary, so people wouldn't be confused about what to email back to the security officer when they were done.

The EPSQ questionaire had two sections... one contained some basic data that your employer needed to see, and one contained drug use, alcohol abuse, mental health, financial problems, legal problems, etc. You picked two passwords that were used to encrypt the two sections, filled out the questionire, and emailed it back. You then gave the less sensitive password to the security officer. I don't remember if I sent the more sensitive password to the OPM or if EPSQ 2.2 contained public key crypto/obfuscation so that the OPM could recover the sensitive information encryption key. In any case, the human-picked password/encryption key most definitely could be used to decrypt the most sensitive data (blackmail information) in order to facilitate saving a partially completed questionaire and finishing it up at a later date.

These days, I really hope EPSQ is a web app that's accessed via a binary with a single TLS certificate authority hard-coded (and using perfect forward security), so copies of super-sensitive data aren't left in several mail queues protected only by (generally low-entropy) human-generated encryption keys.
Internet popularity should not take precedent over journalistic integrity.
You state two discrete events and in the next sentence talk as though they are causally related. Maybe economic mobility is harder in the US now than before. Could economic strangulation by regulation be the cause of it? Maybe the wealth transfer induced by central banking is? There are many unknown variables that could cause that. But people only cling to what fashionable prescription makes them looks good. The evidence of >500 million people lifting themselves out of poverty since liberalization of china's and India's economy proves that it is possible beyond a measure of doubt if economic freedom is increased. But that is not a fashionable opinion is it? Any flavor of marxism/socialism/redistributionism is good except what works. Funny
Everyone's in the right job. You just have to find customers who don't know how much everyone else charges :)
Isn't that he same point the article is making? People in both GG and anti GG were both doxxing, making sock puppet accounts, closing each other's events with threats. It was reported as 'internet people hate women' the same way this was.
Insofar as they went along with the overall thrust of the "blackout", yes; that is support of a mysoginist agenda. However /r/science tried to sit on the fence by claiming they had to make their subreddit private due to its frequent collaboration with /r/IAma -- a reason which was nonsensical. None of this began until Reddit's administration indicated its intention to begin banning certain subreddits. The mindless culture of harassment and hate which has festered on reddit over the last couple of years couldn't tolerate a woman of color being behind this perceived attack on their majority-young-white-male "freedom". It's a joke to think that any of this would have happened with a white male as CEO.
Extensive prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9866755
>I fail to see how reframing the argument is going to change anything

I would argue that joshuak's formulation above is not a reframing, but the original and correct definition of the right to privacy. Just as with property and liberty, the default presumption should be that there is an intrinsic right of title, and that any challenge to that entitlement should face a heavy burden of justification.

>Tit for Tat. If you want to take away our privacy, then we MUST have complete transparency in return.

Such a trade off could really only be made to work in the light the formulation above.
Not Vietnam?
You might want to read more history.
Bose sound quality is shocking. A pair of €300 Bose headphones sounded worse than a pair of €20 Sennheisers to me. This is not an exaggeration.
One of my pet peeves with reporters and writers is that they believe themselves to be studied, enlightened and informed, more so than their audience. And if true this would be great.

If true they could inform me and give me better understanding of the world around me.

Sadly, I find, most of them rely on gut, opinion and lack rigor. They lack basic scientific investigative techniques. So we end up reading mostly opinion backed by further opinion, sometimes backed by unreliable social sciences studies. By unreliable I mean the results are often one offs but they are cited as if accepted fact.

For example, antivax. The opinions of antivax are given the same credibility as epidemiologists. That to me is egregious. Sometimes they do the right thing and call out the questionable opinion as they tend to do with the anti global warming crowd.... But I bet that is helped by their political leaning more than by their being rigorous.
VAT is 25%. And the tax is depending on your income. It's from about 40-51%.

However, living in Denmark I've got multiple things in return:
- Free health care
- Free schools and university (got my computer science degree for free. Only had to pay for the books).
- You get paid about $1000/month while studying to cover apartment rentals etc.
- If you loose your job, you will still get paid by the state to continue living :-)

When having got your education, and you might think that it's crazy to pay so much in taxes of your income, but remember what you've got for free to get there :-)

However, I think the whole tax-system needs an overhaul. For example there is a 180% tax on cars (+25% VAT). So many people are driving in unsafe, fuel-consuming cars. Lowering the tax on cars could lead to roads with safer and more fuel-efficient cars. Electric cars have been tax-free the past years, but it looks like it's going to change in 2016.

AND electricity is expensive by the end-users. The electricity itself is cheap, but when I buy electricity for 200 DKK, I have to pay about 800 DKK in taxes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Denmark
The British Highway Code states for pedestrians:

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If there is no pavement, keep to the right-hand side of the road so that you can see oncoming traffic.

(http://www.highwaycodeuk.co.uk/rules-for-pedestrians---gener...)

For the Americans, pavement in British English means sidewalk :)

After learning this (in school road safety lessons I think?) in general I always assumed you should walk on the right as a pedestrian for consistency (even though the highway code doesn't contain any rules for sidewalks) but it's not universally observed, particularly in London where there are so many foreign tourists.
If anyone is working with the data, we should see how many users actually hivemind comment on things vs OC
So, they essentially put in hardened versions of these:

http://www.telescope.com/Telescopes/Cassegrain-Telescopes/Ce...

http://www.telescope.com/Astrophotography/Astrophotography-C...
(not quite enough pixels, but close)

Well, something like those, anyway :-)
Regardless of whether the article's editorial stance is a bit kind to Pao, I think the fact that numerous racist comments were directed towards her is a lot more pertinent to the story than the number of Asians working in SV...
Well, yes, because the tens of millions of people working 3 minimum wage jobs aren't being "strangled by regulation".

It isn't a "lack of economic freedom" that makes the poor get screwed by shitty jobs and all the fees tacked onto poor-people services, it's the cottage industry that's sprung up around screwing the poor. The poor have little to no political power (and they wouldn't have time to exercise it, juggling their three part-time minimum wage jobs), so there's very few people actually looking out for them.

It's funny, when we do peel back regulations, and the poor get screwed further, these myth-of-overregulation people never reflect on that. They never stop to think that maybe, just maybe, the poor are getting screwed even further because it isn't regulations that are hurting them in the first place.
The Pao NYT piece never changes the directionality of the concerns it raises. The quick-take piece mentions gender concerns; the final version fleshes them out and, in the process, alarms "TechRaptor" by increasing their emphasis in the story.

I can go find other examples of this happening --- of a concern raised in a quick-take being fleshed out, and thus changing the emphasis of the narrative in the story. In fact: I bet I can find a bunch of them, all in the NYT, just by taking a bit of time with NewsDiffs.org.

Do you doubt that, or can we just stipulate that this happens all the time?

If you doubt it, I'll do the legwork, but I'm going to ask that you stake a $20 bet to charity on it (if I'm right, you donate; if you're right, I do).

(Or you can do the legwork yourself!)
Just guessing, but it could be because he runs a competitor to Kleiner Perkins, who were tarred in the updated peice.
Wow. I never expected to see Sailor Moon references in HN.

I never tried Lua before. Is this a good place to start? I'm looking to learn something new.
its maybe not direct replacement of MCU, but more like addon on, customized peripheral that handles things that are too fast for software, examples could be: PWM input, i2c PWM controller, barcode emulation controller, nonstandard interface that need precise timing where software bitbang would eat too much cpu time.. etc.
That's transmitted shortly after closest approach, but that won't be the highest resolution image taken. It's just the highest resolution where pluto still fits into the frame. The highest resolution images will just be of portions of Pluto. One will come in on the 15th, but I believe the rest won't be transmitted until September due to the slow uplink speed.
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I was commenting on the motivation to edit existing articles rather than posting new articles, or even just pulling the original article.
Young blood to be used in rejuvenation trial
I have a GitHub repository for getting all the HN data the hard way using Python and the Algolia API, and storing them in PostgreSQL: https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions...
I remember comparing the iPod to a minidisc with the same headphones and the same audio compression rate. The iPod was really poor in comparison.
Dataset on BigQuery is 265GB.
That would be reasonable if the entire hinge were metal, but only the visible portion is metal where internally it is mounted in plastic. It's only as strong as the weakest link and that bit of plastic holding the metal half of the hinge looks very weak to me.

The zinc alloy in the knock-offs is weaker than stainless steel. But still much more durable than the plastic its hooked to. In either one the upper part of the hinge will break before the lower.

I don't think the metal is there to add weight, however. Seems to me to be so it looks shiny and has the appearance of being more substantial than it is. (Thus stainless steel which doesn't tarnish readily.) I think it does make a difference having metal on the shell of the ear cups because that's where your fingers touch. Over time painted plastic will fade and show smudges. The metal covering can be wiped clean and maintain its appearance longer. But everything else is plastic and will fade so a pyrrhic victory.
Aside from starting a gun race with the burglar and fearing losing your life altogether with your possessions, I never follow this reasoning. How is it worse facing without guns a unarmed intruder than facing with a gun a well armed one?
thanks, i'll give it a go.
Again: it is not standard practice at the NYT to note rewrites between quick takes and final versions. If you spend even a few minutes on NewsDiffs.org, you're going to see that this happens all the time.

This is important because the "TechRaptor" story doesn't concern itself with the NYT's standard practice --- in fact, it doesn't even seem to be aware of the practice. Instead, it takes a commonplace and uses it as a fig leaf to suggest that the NYT is distinctively bad at covering tech.

Reasonable people can argue that it's bad that the NYT posts quick takes and then substantially rewritten final stories. If they make that argument, they should acknowledge that it happens constantly.

Reasonable people can argue that the NYT sucks at covering tech. If they make that argument, they should not make quick takes the fulcrum of their argument.
I’ve got grapheme→colour and sound→colour synaesthesia, and some other, weaker associations. Never really examined it too deeply until my teens, when I started noticing some of the features stated in the article, such as a strong ability to distinguish and mimic foreign sounds, recognise and draw faces, and distinguish absolute pitches. It has its pros and cons—I’m pretty easily overwhelmed, for one thing.

If you want to experience synaesthesia firsthand, many people report synaesthetic experiences when taking psychedelics. Being accustomed to that kind of sensory cross-talk, I find it really enjoyable to heighten it, but if you’re new to the feeling, you may find it difficult.
Agreed - they should. For me it's just that which is exasperating, since ostensibly some even went to college for it.
160GB.

One bz2 file of comments per month.
I have done AVR in ICE65 but I do not recall the max clock I was able to achive. Internal clock is 48MHz, with some speed tweaking I guess a 4 clock-per instruction AVR core could work. But the beauty is that you can implement part of the "code" in real hardware.. or add custom instruction, or roll your own cpu..
Ownership of guns or a citizenry with guns does not degeneracy make. Education, or lack there of, is the ill to the mention you made.

Take Switzerland.
http://world.time.com/2012/12/20/the-swiss-difference-a-gun-...
My personal experiences in some of the cases you have mentioned. 2 times house break, both times I confronted the burglars with a kitchen knife and gave them an avenue to escape which they took. I would never want to kill someone because they tried take my property. It's just stuff and quite frankly I value human life much higher, even if it is the life of a criminal who is taking my things.

The fact that there are so many of these situations points towards a different and bigger problem in society and I would much rather energy was spent on fixing them than treating symptoms with firearms.

I do agree that the cat is out of the bag but I still don't want anything to do with guns. They are bad news and only good for killing which is an experience I would rather avoid in life.
If you replace a good article on apples with a great article on bridges, it's still a bait and switch.
Someone should try make a sentient twitter bot that learns from the Reddit data
That is the reason why there are currently huge North-South power lines planned to go through Germany. As you would expect, from the German states to small villages everybody is fighting over where they will be build. Germany has a huge generation of fit retirees and it has become a meme that they engage in citizens initiatives to fight power lines. Then there is our special child Bavaria, for whom these lines are primarily build, who wants them to go through Hesse.
As linked below, I've played around a bit with this dataset: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3cjyvb/rel...

BigQuery is the best interface for it. Can resolve queries on the entire dataset in less than a few seconds (however, you only get 1TB processing free per month. Since the full dataset is ~285GB, you only get 4 queries per month. Plan ahead on the May 2015 dataset, which is only 8GB.)

I can answer any other questions that people have.
For the sake of argument, let's stipulate that the mainstream US news media consists of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the LA Times, and the Washington Post.

Could you cite an example in any of those four publications where undue weight was given to "antivax" people?

Just so you know: I 1000% agree with you that giving equal weight to antivax crazies and professional epidemiologists would constitute "undue weight".
Thanks for the tip. Yet another thing I will file under "see if it's still around in a few years" before I bother with it too much.
I, myself, couldn't care even a tiny bit about the style of Beats. I buy them because I like how they sound - I like heavy bass, and I found Sennheiser headphones in the same price range to be sounding completely flat and boring for my tastes. Tried even super expensive Sony X-Bass headphones but couldn't find anything that would be comfortable. Have both urBeats and Beats Studio headphones and swear by them - I can use both for hours, my ears don't hurt even though I wear glasses(huge problem with most on-ear headphones for me!) and the music is exactly how I like it. The name on the outside could say diddle-doo for all I care.

The problem is, that people assume everyone wants the best possible sound reproduction. Not true. For the same reason why some people actively like and even prefer greasy dominos pizza instead of the "authentic" stuff.
That doesn't mean they are wrong - they just follow their tastes. I found the music played by Beats to be exactly to my tastes - if I find something else which hits that spot but for less money - I will buy that next time instead. But I haven't yet.