skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, Slack is an IRC alternative (you can connect to it with an IRC client, but you lose many of the features) with assorted bells and whistles (emoji, adding reactions to posts, easy management of private rooms, etc), a bunch of integrations with other services, and persistent and fully searchable history.

That last one is really the key feature to me.
there's no fat pay cheques at GCHQ, they're well known for paying 2-3 times less than the private sector: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2015/05/gchqs-government-sancitoned...

it really makes you wonder what sort of people their roles appeal to...
I was referring more to their startup time. The runtime introduces delay when you type in the script command on a CLI.

Regardless of that, the factor-of-two-or-sometimes-faster argument sounds a little far-fetched for me, care to provide some sources on the benchmarks? Not saying it's not true, I'm just not accustomed to seeing highly extensible and dynamically-typed languages such as Common Lisp perform so fast.
Anyone who promotes the idea that total surveillance over the entire population as a valid means of keeping order deserves not one iota of human decency - for they provide none at all to their fellows.
Wow:

This is where it’s clear the authors overreached and created a toxic spill waiting to happen.

If the City finds you did indeed host someone or assisted someone else as such, even for one night, then the City can take action against you.

But then it gets absolutely bonkers. If you didn’t host anyone, or it was just your Aunt Rose visiting for the weekend, then your cranky neighbor can still sue you anyway, and the City has to help them do it. And we’re not just talking about filing suit so the City can collect its fines and fees, but filing for “special damages” that the neighbors get to keep for themselves.

This sounds incredibly bad.
It's sad that some people are downvoting the parent post. It makes a valid point in a reasonable way.

There certainly are problems with the excessive government surveillance -- it is also the duty of a government in any civilised, democratic nation to protect its citizens from itself, after all.

However, it seems unconstructive to go all gung-ho against people who are probably mostly just trying to do some good from what is inevitably sometimes an awkward position. It's like arguing we'd be better without a police force because sometimes bad people manage to become police officers and sometimes their colleagues can't just flick a switch and shut them off, or arguing that we shouldn't invest in military forces because it gives the government the power to kill people from afar and in any case diplomacy is preferable to violence. Those things may all be true, but that doesn't mean we'd really be better off if the organisations with a degree of corruption or inadequate safeguards were eliminated rather than fixed.
> Stop conflating two laws that mean different things.

Can you point out where I did?
Wow. With that approach, I fear that a lot of innocents will be hurt on your path to 'justice'. Whatever happened to 'It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer'?
GCHQ have a brainwashing program that is designed to keep their staff in line with the status quo. If you so much as step into an interview, you have joined their cult.

And it IS a cult, make no doubt about it!
Thanks :)

To dive a bit deeper, while XMPP/IRC exists, and it wouldn't be hard to make the Zulip server natively speak XMPP to clients, that in-and-of-itself wouldn't be quite useful. A message sent to stream "ops" with topic "prod deploy" might look like this†:

<message
from='coven@chat.shakespeare.lit/ops'
id='162BEBB1-F6DB-4D9A-9BD8-CFDCC801A0B2'
to='hecate@shakespeare.lit/broom'
type='groupchat'>
<subject>prod deploy</subject>
<body>Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.</body>
<delay xmlns='urn:xmpp:delay'
from='coven@chat.shakespeare.lit'
stamp='2002-10-13T23:58:37Z'/>
<addresses xmlns='http://jabber.org/protocol/address'>
<address type='ofrom' jid='crone1@shakespeare.lit/desktop'/>
</addresses>
</message>

But there aren't any existing clients that have the UI to:

1. Show per-message subjects/topics in a meaningful way

2. Allow users to easily reply to a message preserving the subject

So we'd need client changes to make it truly useful.

†: Adapted from syntax specified in XEP-0045
It looks a lot better on my Linux laptop! We're investigating.
As the article states, Chromium uses run-time checks (feature toggles) extensively. This lets half-baked features land and start undergoing testing before the feature is ready to be shown to the world.

But we don't say "oh no, this feature isn't ready, let's wrap it in checks". The feature is wrapped in checks from the very first commit, so that everything stays stable on master and on any release branches which are cut from master.

Then, when the feature is ready for prime-time, the developers working on it go through and remove the checks. So they don't accumulate in the codebase.
It depends on what you mean by "customer". The chrome team has traditionally viewed end-users as the customers. Normal people who just want to use the web and have it work well. Those people could care less how the program is updated ... the less they have to worry about, the better. And having Chrome automatically update means that they are always safe from malware, the browser continually gets better, and works with the newest websites, without them ever having to do anything at all.

If you instead view IT departments as the customer, then yes, they care and want to have control over the deployed version of the software on their networks. Chrome does have some controls for this. I'm not that familiar with them, though.
That you think so is very concerning, everyone deserves human decency. Your views sounds dangerously close to zealotry, the same sort of views that have harmed so many in the past...
These agencies have all the incentive in the world to "encourage" popular websites (bbc.co.uk perhaps) to make their cookies particularly detailed and leaky.
Godwin. That is all.
I think this is far different from a sexual revolution. Through history, our notions of acceptable sexual behaviour changed quite dramatically, so the sexual revolution isn't that unique.

But all through history, human beings had some notion of a private space. The catholic confession booth is the only counter example i can think of, and even there it was just between you and you priest which was trained specifically for that role, and you had some control of what you did expose there.

And at least some psychologists ,when asked about this issue, believe that a right for privacy is critical for the psychological well being of people, not something we can give away without consequences.
How would I generate this graph for my MBA?
[Disclaimer: The following is a digression into political and rhetorical philosophy. Caveat lector.]

Of course, such a rigorous delineation of denotation and connotation is the mark of a decidedly literal mind, and the neoreactos do laud the socio-linguistic adriotness to see both accident and essence. Thus this appeal to pure dialectical interpretation (which I affirm as my preferable norm) of politically sensitive statements seems vulnerable to attack in ways resonant with their assault on arguments for universal human rights - the ideal which is being discussed is not the practicality which the victor hopes to influence.
"As reports like this are making increasingly clear, however, these platforms were developed by people who never imagined the struggles that women face online. We’re using tools that weren’t designed for us; they had other people and values and priorities in mind."

Wtf are they talking about? You think twitter was developed for misogyny in mind?
Amazing. He doesn't event really defend it - he flat out admits this is what they do. The only contention he has is that it should be obvious that it is the case that they'll charge you if you aren't careful to unsubscribe between certain days of the month.
You're being intentionally obtuse here since it's literally the first words of my post. You did quote someone else and pretty much endorsed it, but that quote contains a pernicious falsehood.
Thank you for sharing the story.

I too think that being buckled-in is the most important, but a 4 or 5 point harness will just not work in a street car. Maybe my best advice is for you to read the relevant sections in the SCCA handbook. Forget about the cage, assume just a cross bar and harness. You will see that it makes it impossible to have the harness at a safe orientation for the driver yet allow a rear passenger. Also when you add the cross bar as it also required, it is now unsafe for a rear passenger.

Further any car with a cage has other compromises and some of those reasons for a cage are for things like being able to quickly jack the car up and rigidity (not just safety) but limits how people can enter and exit for example.

A harness is just not a good fit for a street car. The three point seat belt is an excellent compromise.
In some way it's a brilliant move by Apple to monetize on people that strictly reject online advertising.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279743 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10280146.
Veering off topic a bit, but you might be interested in planar n-body coreographies. Not that they exist in nature, but...

http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~jm/Choreographies/
Is there a “coupon” stuffer for website shopping carts?
Like a password stuffer, except for active coupon codes.

I worked for a website which had various weekly coupon offers, sometimes very great deals. They also used generic "coupon1,2,3" codes on the backend, still active on the live site to archive the various specials. When the specials get deactivated, the coupons1,2,3 all remain active.

Just so if you say, go to totallyawesomemugs.com and want to buy a mug, you see "coupon code" in the shopping cart so... 5% off is better than no % off, so i wouldn't think this wouldn't be really that blackhat if the coupon codes are active.

I've seen old website password stuffers ages ago, which is why i ask if there's an app/plugin like this for possible discounts in shopping carts.

I've used "Honey" before as a plugin, it didn't do much that i could see, just randomly try codes that expired or never existed in the first place.
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It is the surveillance zealots you should be worried about, not those who would disallow the conditions necessary for them to continue to deprive us all of our rights.

Total Surveillance is a Crime Against Humanity.
I can't even possibly fathom any reason to be either pro or anti airbnb. It's like being pro- or anti- fuchsia, to me.

Could you explain why you don't like airbnb? Did the CEO kick you in the puppies, or something?
Yeah, it's still flash video today, but Twitch announced today they plan to implement HTML5 streaming in Q1 2016

http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/25/twitch-html5-whisper-twit...
Sorry, I don't mean IRC client as in uses the same protocol, but rather that it primarily does what an IRC client would. I think it's great they've found success though.
I'm a RAAF engineer; there are some pilots that don't like it, but they're in the minority. They're typically the guys that aren't very open minded in general and are literally just making their opinions off low-quality journalism they see on Facebook, etc.

I've spoken to many other pilots and even the star-ranks that are in charge of the program, even dined with the CDF, and they're all firm believers in the jet's capabilities and would love to fly it for a living. I've also done quite a bit of research myself, and the jet's stealth, radar, EO/IR sensors, payload, range and EW capabilities are all top-class, with many being the best in the world.

If I were a knucklehead, I'd definitely trade a Hornet / Super Hornet / Growler for an F-35.
> there's absolutely ZERO chance a hotel will cancel your room on you 12 hours before you show up in europe.

wrong
> Starting from one end of a body section, a rotary rasp ground down the tissue to a specified depth

Interesting. So they did not preserve the slices, but rather ground off shavings little-by-little. I had envisioned the process similar to slicing meat at the deli.

Looking at the pictures in the article again, you can actually see that the cadaver was frozen in a liquid.
Is the list in the whitepaper correct? It shows in part:

nap [
pan ]
lep (
pel }

If that's not a typo, using mirrored words for ( and } is downright malicious.
Clearly you've never showed up at a hotel that's full despite having a reservation. I have.
US-China agree to not conduct cybertheft of intellectual property
"I work for the NSA." Doesn't give me any useful information about their duties or role in the organization, but I know where they work. I imagine cover stories are more important when dealing with human intelligence assets (spies undercover).
Same even with OSX, which to me is usually quite a bit easier to read.
Yet Another File Encrypter (NodeWebkit)
FWIW: I wrote the first half of that comment, then 5 minutes later, feeling it was too snarky without explaining itself, added the sentence: "There's overreaching first-principles boil-the-ocean dorm room rethinking of concepts, and then there's renaming the ASCII characters."

I'm a parent of two teenagers, neither of whom seems particularly interested in new names for punctuation.
And another issue: if we squeamishly restrict these things how will we compete against societies that don't?
What are the policies behind the commit queues? Is it mandatory for a change to be queued?
I wonder what you're supposed to when the guy holding the gun says "Give the alarm code. Good. Now give me the duress code."
My one big question is: does Zulip support push notifications to the next version of the mobile app if you self-host the server?

I'm not exactly sure how that'd be possible, but I wonder if they've managed to figure it out somehow. It's the one big problem with self-hosted chat apps like Rocket.chat and others - APNS and GCM are both centralized, and it's hard to federate them to provide push services for self-hosted instances of open source projects.
Only do a code challenge if it takes a <=4 hrs. If it takes longer than that, then make sure it's a substitute for the onsite whiteboard portion. If they're using a code challenge, in addition to the whiteboard interview, and as a first pass filter, walk away.
how to test this? just speak to android-search without any update needed?
It's a bit overblown. Civil lawsuits cost money to prosecute, so they're unlikely to be pursued unless there's a good chance of winning.
Obama, Xi Reach Agreement to End Cyberattacks
No, there actually isn't. If you click a little green "read about installing" you'll get some bash snippets... which are split up into one-line-at-a-time embeds in lots of text and in any case use the placeholder "ppa:user/ppa-name" instead of substituting in the Right Thing.
I love this idea! Just the kind of thing I'd like to invent myself :-) However, some more questions before I sign up:

- is there a set time in which the demo runs? (e.g. 1st - 14th October)?

- is there a min/max number of participants

- what happens with our email addresses after the game is over?
When I crew it takes a few minutes to adjust the seat and harness anytime we have a driver change. The genius of the modern three point seat belt is how easy it is to put on (comparable to lap belt, yet much more effective), how comfortable it is to wear (with the advent of the spool and height adjustment), and effective (due to seatbelt pretensioners).
> And for the most part, no, customers don't demand stable old releases of Chrome. They've learned how bad of a security and usability mistake that is from IE6, and they don't want to repeat past mistakes any more than we do.

I suspect that there are lots of enterprise customers that haven't learned that (encountered it, but not learned it), but they probably aren't Chrome customers, since they are still using IE.
RYOT in Haiti
Of course, Pixie is not the most appropriate tool for every possible application. How fortunate that we have so many great open source tools to choose from!
yes. the speech processing is done server-side, there's nothing to update in the app.
We changed the URL from http://www.kurzweilai.net/first-brain-to-brain-telepathy-com... to the original source that it points to.
Kinesis is for streaming computations. It's closer to Apache Storm (which typically uses Kafka) than Kafka.
I Have Read this Medium Post.

The author makes a great case against Prop F, prop F seems like a totally shitty law and isn't going to fix the housing problem. It sounds like that isn't what the law is about anyway, but there is a great way to fix the housing problem. The argument he seems to allude to in his notes, is that people seem to choose sides based on their sentiment surrounding the current resedential/housing market.

In economics there are 2 forces at the heart of most problems. These are called "supply" and "demand" and they govern price. SF has not been keeping up with it's infrastructure, is a decade behind in new construction, and building new resedential properties will take ~5-10 years to complete. They are not actively building properties that will sufficiently meet demand even now. So this won't go away.

Unfortunately, people who paid a lot for houses have a vested interest in not raising supply, and the amount of regulation surrounding new construction creates massive amounts of friction. It will be interesting to see how this problem get's solved. I agree with the author though:

It is not going to be Prop F.
Elixir is a different syntax and standard library on top of the Erlang VM (BEAM) and OTP, the distributed/HA magic written in Erlang, that Erlang (ecosystem) gets a lot of its praise for.

Ultimately you'll need to know Erlang (language) anyway if you want to use some external libraries that aren't in Elixir natively. IMO, Elixir as a language is not too different from Erlang, other than syntax.
I would use the ORM for basic queries, where the conditions were not too complex - its easier than join syntax. If you need anything like subqueries, or extra conditions on the join caluse it gets tricky (in the django ORM at least), and SQL is easier.

Right now I am working with a suboptimal database design, where I need two nested subqueries to get the most recent event in a related row. I changed them to joins then to (indexed) temporary tables, to try and improve MySQl's performance. It worked to a degree. I doubt that would be possible in an ORM as it is working at the databse level rather than a hgher abstraction.
Have you ever lived in a community with an HOA? Some of the people there take finding violations, infractions, and actionable offenses as their second job, and will not hesitate to sue you just because. So enabling these people by requiring the city to help them sue is like dumping a tanker full of kerosene on a forest fire.
That's why a strangely sound election strategy is to just vote no on every proposition. Most of them have heavy corporate sponsorship and are written to deceive the public.
Plus we ( the UK ) have now jumped onboard with remote drone assassination of UK citizens abroad. Even though there hasn't been a death penalty on the statute books since 1998.
Wow, respect for a great hack! I wonder if there are any other known actions that give as strong and recognizable an EEG signal as closing your eyes?
Someone proposes a cost effective solution then someone else feels the need to take the solution to a limit. "Just put everything underground"

How about we try the cheaper solution first then talk about burying highways at a later date?
I work for a similar service, Iron.io. We're platform agnostic, but closed source.

Can't tell if that ticks your boxes or not. If you're interested we're free to try.
Want to see more comparison between lenses for Canon.
A $3B tech company with no outside investors is planning a big IPO
I wasn't really thinking of the "you could get sued" angle so much as the "you could get sued BECAUSE you let your Aunt visit for the weekend" angle. It sounds like the law basically outlaws having family come visit, among other things. It sounds just fucking crazy to me.

Though I don't live in SF and likely never will, so I guess if SF wants to get even crazier than it already is, it can. I have no power to vote in city level stuff in SF.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10280685 and marked it off-topic.
Thought so. I've seen CL used in odd ways on the v8-users list so I got confused. Thanks!
Love programming in Mathematica in college but the closed source development and expensive licenses made it a non-starter for me over the years.
That's very, very nice! Thank you!

I noticed that on the most expensive lens, in the "car" scene, the focus seems to be very different than with other lenses. Which makes the comparison difficult. Your DLSR most likely records autofocus points: it might be a good idea to actually display them in the JPEGs, because at such high apertures you really want to look at what's in focus.
https with a modern transport security stack that uses HPKP, HSTS and cert pinning, sure. curl doesn't use those, though.
Not in Europe, but I've had it happen twice in the US. Once in Dallas, once in Avalon on Catalina Island. (That one was, "Um, sorry, we only have you booked for one night, and we don't have any openings for the second night.")
I guess you (and danmaz74) have a point here. In both my supposition and yours, we are assuming computers are smart enough to coordinate the vehicles well, only for cars, the infrastructure already exists. I guess my only reply here is that, yes, there is the cost of the infrastructure itself; however, let's say that this PRT thing takes off, the fact that their infrastructure is physically separate from the road, it would initially alleviate traffic issues much more than self-driving cars would. Having to deal with irrational, nondeterministic human drivers would probably make traffic alleviation not as apparent at first compared to a completely parallel infrastructure.

Still, this does ignore adoption rates. In a more real world, I think you'd argue that adoption of self-driving cars would be quicker and easier than adoption of PRT, that might hamper my model. So, perhaps the conclusion of the article is right after all.
Mobile Ad Brokers as DDoS Distribution Vectors: A Case Study
http://static.cardesignnews.com/CropUp/728x-/media/10926146/...

Sadly never made it to production.
It definitely doesn't mean you have to wait for the audio to finish playing. It does mean that your brain thinks the audio. Which has a lot of consequences, including the energy it takes to think...

Most people do read poetry silently, in the same way they read prose (I don't literally subvocalize), and the sound still is everything. Try reading these two poems silently:

http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/gems/the-tay-bridge-disa...
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174183
Ah. Yeah, I consider those trails to be far too circuitous to be useful for commuting.
http://www.salesforce.com/company/news-press/press-releases/...

“At Salesforce, trust is our number one value and nothing is more important to our company than the privacy of our customers' data,” said Burke Norton, chief legal officer, Salesforce. “Contrary to reports, Salesforce does not support CISA and has never supported CISA.”
Just Imagine How Nicki Minaj Exp0se H-erself on Stage