skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
who is "you"?

The fragment is only ever transmitted by the uploaded to the recipient. I'm not familiar with Mega but presumably this transmission is also encrypted.

So your chance of getting it is low.

And certainly Mega can deny ever receiving it.
6 years in prison is a lot. And 6 years in an American prison is a lot.

While I agree with your sentiment, the problem is that Swartz faced charges up to 50 years, not that this crooked cop got convicted of 6.

Wishing this guy 50 years just because "that's what they threatened Aaron for" is the kind of attitude that is going to keep the US prison system as horrendously inhumane as it is today.
Awesome news for our neighbors!
There are huge issues with current tech and death. Basically. If you die:

1) Your family (might) need your bank info, passwords, insurance policy information, asset lists. They are all doing this, while, their favorite tech guy... is dead.

2) Where are your docs? Kids want these. Journals (evernote), writings (dropbox), stories (jira), just anything. Old iphone photos, strange 3.5 disks, etc. As time goes these are deleted, lost or most of the time: never known about.

3) What about all the things you don't want found? Old contracts, xgirlfriend notes, company transcripts, etc. Welp, I hope you remembered to encrypt your disks, well, that would mess up 1) & 2). Whatever.
Unicorns, Startups and Hosted Email
Moo.do - Organize everything in a tree:)
https://www.moo.do/
Meh, but the scale change is too quick to see if it's going higher or lower (at least to me) so I don't think it gives that much of an advantage.

Even trying to use that information I can't seem to get much better than the 50th percentile, on average. Which is pretty much what I had before I read your comment.
Per ton, container shipping is roughly 20 times more efficient than old breakbulk shipping methods. So 95% of the labour has already been automated away.
Python Defusing Bombs
> I'm certain that were human life so cheap, Pratt and Whitney would have a much shorter dev cycle, too.

I read a book recently about the history of Supermarine, and what jumped out was the attrition rate of their test pilots. Ditto for the post-war British jet industry.

There is a trade-off point between safety and fast development, but I'm glad we've moved to the side of safety.
What my old-ass dog taught me about everything
Url changed from http://phys.org/news/2015-10-mathematical-method-reveals-neu..., which points to this.
This was most probably due to shitty Seagate harddrives, the ST3000DM001 which are failing left, right and center...

Quote:

Beginning in January 2012, Backblaze deployed 4,829 Seagate 3TB hard drives, model ST3000DM001, into Backblaze Storage Pods. In our experience, 80% of the hard drives we deploy will function at least 4 years. As of March 31, 2015, just 10% of the Seagate 3TB drives deployed in 2012 are still in service

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/

Edit: They (Hetzner) have since long stopped putting those drives into servers and if such a HDD shows signs of failure they're replaced by support no questions asked...
Except that the company charging you $19 is getting $19 to provide a service to you, and their brand depends on that.
I'm in this course I've been interested in the ML family of languages ever since learning SML which is without a doubt my favorite language ever.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8701228
The client is already available, but the API is still locked down to just the beta testers.
It was a joke, I was well aware of the timeline. It hasn't moved to general availability anyway.
Swift has lots of ML heritage, tho' not as much as F# obv
How could he write that article without a sole mention of prolog?
On Coding
I don't think that's true anymore, see https://www.cloudflare.com/ssl ("Full SSL" and "Full SSL (strict)" options)
I really doubt it matters. F1 student visa isn't dual intent either, but a lot of foreign students end up marrying US citizens and adjusting to green cards in the US.
Million Dollar Shack: Trapped in Silicon Valley's Housing Bubble
Also don't forget Links browser with the '-g' option (text-based with graphics!). Super fast, with simple keyboard controls, or mouse if you really need to.
Why People Are Such Assholes on the Internet (2013)
“how to never miss a deadline every again”
If vulnerability to active spying is some sort of consultation prize, then why don't browsers disable CA checks and we can all self-sign?
i used to use this as my documentation browser. it's ideal for the purpose - opens instantly, very fast and responsive, and typically html docs don't need anything fancier than dillo can handle.
So basically: The world is deterministic, so free will just means to be able to weigh options and delay gratification for a bit longer?

That's a sad definition in my book.
Yeah, the cute mining and gemstone themed ruby library names, along with the random word javascript framework names, are much easier to understand.
> Pretty much everyone except maybe the site administrator won't notice and won't consider it a problem when a lock icon is shown instead of a green bar.

I don't know if it's worth the money per se, but you can pin a couple of trusted CA root EV certs via HPKP and know it's much more difficult for someone to "accidentally" issue a valid cert for your site.

If you do that, users won't see a lock instead of a green bar, they'll be blocked from accessing the site at all (if it's not their first visit and they're using a modern browser).
> 3) What about all the things you don't want found? Old contracts, xgirlfriend notes, company transcripts, etc. Welp, I hope you remembered to encrypt your disks, well, that would mess up 1) & 2). Whatever.

Smaller encrypted single-purpose filesystems (with seamless integration, like .zip files on Windows Explorer (or Mac Finder) or encrypted folders like EncFS. Then you don't have to choose an all-or-nothing approach.
Sure, its "easy" if Microsoft wants to redefine Windows in POSIX terms; iits not easy to keep Windows functioning as Windows and provide a POSIX compatibility layer, since Windows isn't designed around POSIX expectations.
An interesting usecase of wildcard certs: when I do not want to publish the hostnames I am using. Sandstorm[1] uses unpredictable hostnames as one mitigation against various cross-origin attacks -- if the attacker doesn't know the domain of the app, he can't try to use XSRF against it[2].

[1] https://sandstorm.io
[2] https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/using/security-practices...
That is the crux of it. Windows is not going to fundamentally change its authentication system to work around SSH. It's going to feel "hacky" compared to SSH on *NIX (also console interactivity). You'll still need to run Windows updates as a scheduled task as the system user because remote connections have a remote token and the Window Update API blocks such connections...
Down with the meritocracy (2001)
The problem is that this requires people to be constantly pro-active about where they store things, which most people aren't or don't care about right now. "Well, I can always sort that stuff out tomorrow." or even something as simple as being in the middle of an e-mail conversation and usually waiting to archive/erase that kind of thing when you finish.
Opiods (including morphine and oxycodone) are highly addictive. Highly educated and un-influenceable people get addicted to them through prescription use. Your post comes off as downplaying this very real risk.
We desperately need a new way of thinking about free will.

We really don't.

The author of the article has written off hundreds of years of philosophical debate about determinist free will versus indeterminism and decided that his interpretation of free will, which falls firmly in the causal indeterminism camp, is the right way to think about things. Admittedly that's the nice one, because determinism is hard when it comes to things like ethics and morality, but we don't need to redefine 'free will' to have the discussion. Especially when it's a low redefinition[1].

The fact is whether or not we have free will is largely irrelevant. There's a really interesting Philosophy Bites podcast with Daniel Dennett about what's important in the free will question[2]. It's well worth a listen if you're interested in philosophical stuff.

[1] http://www.fallacyfiles.org/redefine.html

[2] http://traffic.libsyn.com/philosophybites/Daniel_Dennett_on_...
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This sounds like something that would benefit mainstream browsers, for cold spots:

https://github.com/svaarala/duktape/blob/master/doc/low-memo...

"Notes on pointer compression

Pointer compression can be applied throughout (where it matters) for three pointer types:

* Compressed 16-bit Duktape heap pointers, assuming Duktape heap pointers can fit into 16 bits, e.g. max 256kB memory pool with 4-byte alignment

* Compressed 16-bit function pointers, assuming C function pointers can fit into 16 bits

* Compressed 16-bit non-Duktape-heap data pointers, assuming C data pointers can fit into 16 bits
"
You're drawing a conclusion from correlated data. Every country has seen university enrollment increase regardless of cost. Australia's university is still cheap and mostly taxpayer funded and yet they have seen just as much growth in attendance as the UK.
windows builds

http://ci.netsurf-browser.org/builds/windows/

not mentioned anywhere from download page

update: cannot open HN... no Ctrl-L
I have a lot of respect for Bill Gates. If he could just pay for a replacement desk after I smashed it so hard out of Windows rage ... ;-)
no parallel processing / shrading yet?
How does having to register to see the storefront relate to the transparency of item prices?

I didn't say the markups were available on a per-item basis, I said you could see which stores were marked up and which ones weren't. Just click on the store dropdown, and you'll see this:

http://i.imgur.com/KElc00R.png

We'd rather not mark anything up at all, and if something is marked up, we'd prefer to tell you by how much, but we can't do this right now for structural reasons.

If you're worried about unknown markups, just shop at any one of the stores that says "Prices are same as in-store," and you're safe.

That being said, everyone at Instacart would agree with you -- secret markups suck, which is why we built this feature to tell you which stores are priced the same as in-store. The unknown markups don't exist because some guy in a smoky room twirling his mustache hatched a devious plot, it is just structural. The user interface should have reflected this reality earlier, and it didn't, but now it does. We really do want to be as transparent as possible with our prices.

If you have any specific feedback I can take it directly to the consumer products team, or you can email feedback@instacart.com. They love feedback, positive or negative :)
On the Postgres list

"Sadly, fractal trees are an invention of Tokutek and are heavily and publically patented."
It has a built-in debugger that you start using `node debug /path/to/script`. See more here: https://nodejs.org/api/debugger.html
It's not just creating the certs that is the challenge but also managing them; back-up, revocation, re-testing after expiry and across different development environments etc

And from the client perspective is makes pinning much easier.

I'm not a fan of one-wildcard-to-rule-them either but keeping active certs to a handful through the judicious use of wildcards is a real boon.
Yes, that's probably a better way of aligning incentives.

Plus it could be trialled on a small scale at first with just a few prisons. The main thing you'd need to watch out for is that prisons didnt just start working hard to offload their worst prisoners elsewhere.
I beat 99% of people trading $PG, ranking #21. Wicked hella good! The Trading Game:
This is a cool game! But does it represent the real world? It seems to be a game of reflexes. Or does ranking in the top 100 means I actually can predict the future?
It's a bit hidden on the page in the documentation so I'll write it here to save people time:

NetSurf doesn't support Javascript properly.

For some that might be OK but for most it'll be a showstopper.
Lavabit held an encryption key that could decrypt evidence of a crime. They received a subpoena for that key. They followed what was likely any lawyer's advice to comply with the lawful subpoena (ordered by a judge, not a TLA).

This reasoning would not apply to CA's.
Another idea is those friendly conditions only seem to have occurred once here on Earth - everything living is descended from that one Thing.

That's the kind of train of thought that keeps me up at night.
Yeah. I don't know how likely it is, but I can't pretend it hasn't crossed my mind; with introducing provisions that make "sense" (in a cruel sort of way) in the US market to other countries that have proper nationalised health care, one would expect those provisions to move the needle at least somewhat towards the "health as a commodity" side...
Most sites I tried were somewhat broken. But to my surprise my own website worked just perfectly (sans javascript powered comments and ads of course). And blazingly fast!
What Is the Steam Link from Valve Made Of?
It's easy to dismiss Silicon Valley companies as trivial, but if nothing else, SV stands for a culture of experimentation. This, by contrast, sounds like an engineer's nightmare:

> “In other years we hid him [McCune] behind the curtain and slipped him some sandwiches so management wouldn’t know what the investment was,” he jokes.

Maybe a decades-long attention span wouldn't have been required in the first place if the company in question gave their engineers better support.
See my above reply to wpietri :)
Clojars.org is down
27 striking facts about startups around the world
And in my limited tries Netsurf is faster and much much better at displaying modern websites (not perfect of course).
Ask HN: Tips to remain productive at College?
Struggling to keep myself disciplined and stop myself distracted from just working on side projects rather than my studies.
Tips?
Well that would be it then - but it was sold as "joining"
I just smiled and nodded.
Ok, so that explains why many sites did not work. Almost nice, though, not to experience all that annoying/excessive javascript that is so prevalent these days. I just love that NetSurf homepage - nothing that moves, pops up, scrolls oddly etc.
Thousands of Magento websites compromised to serve malware
Are You or Are You Not Outsourcing IT Services?
That's their objective : http://www.dillo.org/funding/objectives.html

It does not work for "apps", but to read documents (the initial purpose of the web), it's excellent.
Remember that you only need one of the hundreds of CAs (650 at my last count) to generate you a cert to essentially compromise a site's connection security. Free certs mean more sites will use TLS, which means there will be more targets, which means more incentive to start attacking the weakest CAs and/or their verification practices.

But this is kind of a good thing, because after enough attacks on the old model, people will ask for an improvement or replacement of the model.
StartSSL is so painfully obtuse and difficult to use that I eventually just gave up and paid someone to do it for me.
It looks like today is Alternative Browser Day on HN.

So for those who don't know it, there's also Xombrero:
https://opensource.conformal.com/wiki/xombrero

It's based on Webkit so it's more compatible with the "modern web" than dillo/netsurf.
> does it represent the real world

When you are done with the game the stock ticker appears in the top left of the chart - that was the real world price you were trading.
Apple Removes Over 250 iOS Apps That Collect Personal User Data
Nmap Options for Firewall IDS Evasion in Kali Linux
> Is there a good reason to say that Rust is an OCaml dialect?

There is, maybe, grounds to say that all languages with S-expressions, first class functions and garbage collection are just a type of lisp.

But I would not say that all languages with strong static typing, some form of type inference, algebraic data types, patterns matching and functional programming features, are a dialect or OCaml, or ML.
> Someone who uses a condom perfectly, each time, every time, still has a 50% lifetime (35 year) chance of having a child.

That statement makes no sense. If the condom is not broken or slips off, there's no chance that a woman is inseminated. Unless the man has magic sperms that can teletransport themselves into a woman's womb.
This is beyond fucked. Those granted such incredible influence and the trust to not abuse their position of power should be punished proportionately when they do so.

This, on the other hand, is a joke.
Not if you have a steady, cheap supply of the product you're addicted to. I'm pretty seriously addicted to caffeine, but I don't have a problem with that because I can get high quality coffee very cheaply.
Testing Web Application Security by W3af Scanner
Neat, brain waves seem like the brain's global dispatch system.
Yes I was in hospital on diamorphine for 3 weeks (had a little button to deliver it to me). When I left hospital I had oxycontin and endone pain killers, both of which are opiates. I've not used them since.
I use plain text file.

I use the following format:

----

2015 September
Weekends/Holidays - 13,15,20,23
Wasted days - 26,27
Project{Name}/Component{Name}
01 - what I did
02 - what I did
...
Project{Name}/Component{Name}
14 - what I did
16 - what I did

2015 October
....

----

So, I have a breakdown of my worklog by days and grouped by months. Multi-month components/projects have an entry in each month. Holidays and weekends are noted down for me to quickly know why there's a gap in the middle of working on a component. Whole days wasted due to meetings are also noted down.
MicroPython on the BBC micro:bit
Agree. From the article:

"If you are able to imagine a number of options for yourself, weigh them with regard to your interests, and then commit yourself to the one that seems the best, you are exercising your free will."

So .. if the number of options you CAN imagine is arbitrary (which it by definition is), you've just described a computer program written for optimisation.
We already had a lot of architectural transitions throughout the computer history (a very small part of which I witnessed) and we could emulate nearly all of the deprecated architectures quite well. I am optimistic that it can be repeated.
Some of the tooling is really great, e.g. opam Just Works, utop feels very comfortable and merlin is amazing[1].

The lack of a standard build system is annoying yeah; I tried for a while to make do with just ocamlbuild and a Makefile, but eventually gave in and learnt Oasis, and it does the job just fine for my purposes, just feels a bit messy (compared to something like cabal, which at first sight hides a lot of the intermediate steps).

[1] http://the-lambda-church.github.io/merlin/destruct.ogv
http://the-lambda-church.github.io/merlin/merlin-vim.ogv
A software test is equivalent to a testing small part in an engine design. The cost of failure is low. The cost of a full production test in an engine design is clear, but it's the equivalent of a product handover and acceptance testing in software. The cost of failing that test could well run to millions of dollars.

The only difference for a SaaS startup is that they're their own customer for product development (in the sense that they build and test in-house rather than someone else paying them to build a product). The cost of failure is still there, it's not measured.
They might be specifically picking stocks that have done well.

In that case, you would on average make more money in this game than you would in real life.
Looks like I'm reading the "wrong kind" of science fiction, was really surprised that I haven't read a single book from this list... Some I knew I should, others I haven't heard of before.
Xiaomi just made a 'hoverboard'
The point is money. It shouldn't be hard to imagine a business that is earning money but will never again grow, is worth no further investment, and is therefore being run out. I reread what I wrote; you appear to be deliberately obtuse.
Sorry. °C. I would get heat if it was °F.
So, it's still all about trust then? I thought Let's Encrypt would go beyond trust.
I've never used street heroin but I was a very heavy drinker up until 1.75 years ago. I cut down gradually after having my first child, til the point when I stopped for a year. I had my first drink again in February of 2015 and have had alcohol semi-regularly since then without issue. I discovered that the problem was I drank too fast. I had learned to use alcohol incorrectly, I think if my parents had shown me how to drink when I was 12 - 14 and gradually introduced me to the effects and how different rates of consumption and different forms of alcohol can effect you I would have been better equipped to have a healthy relationship with alcohol. As it was I learned from my friends (the blind leading the blind ... literally). Still, I'm really fucking glad alcohol is legal, because if I was drinking moonshine I would have been in serious trouble and probably wouldn't be alive now.
Anyone have a link to actual paper? Without it there's nothing to be said or thought about this.
Will be interesting times for EU startups when at the end of January 2016 model clauses and corporate bindings break down due to the 29 Working Group and EuGH decisions.
I'm the author of the linked article and involved in bringing Python to the BBC micro:bit. Happy to answer questions.
It doesn't matter. They threatened him with it. They didn't threaten this DEA goon with it. His union lawyers or whatever made sure of it. It was real to Aaron.
Fedux.org – Setting up an HTTP proxy with ruby
Your last three sentences are sarcastic nerd-rage (with which I completely agree), but your boss (not _your_ boss, necessarily, but the more generic/stereotypical "your boss") utters those words in complete earnestness...
Not when you have companies forcing online registration, expiring software, cloud services/storage, DRM, ...
Ah, but to use the Full SSL options you need an SSL on your origin server (which CloudFlare doesn't provide for free)!
Don't use Python's pickle – Introducing Camel
From a comment on a similar reddit-thread[1]:

> So thus beings the transition. EV certs are going to be the only ones that get the "green" chrome in browsers anymore. Sites using standard SSL are going to get the normal no-lock/white treatment. And sites without SSL will get the caution symbol/yellow treatment.

I don't like it, but I suspect this is where we're heading.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3pg37u/lets_encrypt_...
I agree. I've been keeping work/life journals using various systems and inevitably either the tool would become unsupported, my data would get corrupted, or the 'friction' of opening the application would eventually make me stop keeping track of things.

What really worked well for me instead has been to us Notational Velocity (nvALT to be specific). I create a new note for every day (titled YYYY-MM-DD), and especially for work notes I add a timestamp for every new entry for that day (ISO 8601).

The result is one folder full of text files that I can quickly update and search through using nvALT. I can use the same app for storing all kinds of other things, but I can also use any other text editing tool for my notes as well (grep, WriteRoom, Sublime Text with markdown plugins, etc.).

Currently I moved my 'journalling' into a locally running web tool, but because the source data is just text, 'migration' has been trivial. It's quite possible I'll move back to the plain text + nvALT solution though. I usually do. I just can't help tinkering.
All discussions about free will are completely useless without first defining what exactly "free will" is. Is your definition of free will compatible with the assumption that the brain has to obey the laws of physics? Do you believe that free will is somehow magic?