skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People aren't scared of dying in traffic or by a preventable medical error. Maybe they should, but they aren't. Those risks are real, but they don't affect how people go about their lives. Terrorism is a tiny risk of death but an enormous cost in terms of percieved safety.

The perception stems from the difference in media coverage and political grandstanding imho.

At least you have a legitimate objection, I just don't agree with it.
How much more evidence do people need before we all readily conceed that America is a police state?

Before you can change reality you must first understand the reality that exists.

Police steal and murder without consequence. They are a gang of murderous thugs protected by a corrupt court and legislative body.
Ok, so what makes the ME react differently to meddling compared to SE Asia?
>TIME-SENSITIVE SOFTWARE. The software will stop running on 31/12/2016 (day/month/year). You will not receive any other notice. You may not be able to access data used with the software when it stops running.

What does this mean. Should I expect a working VCS instead of this one in 2017?

Is not a condition I like in the terms of my main tool.
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Lebesgue's theory of integration is built on measure theory, which was developed by Lebesgue and others. Measure theory has turned out to be a very natural framework for probability, stochastic processes, ergodic theory, etc. (See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measure_%28mathematics%29.)
MY OPERATING SYSTEM SCROLLS WINDOWS SMOOTHLY JUST FINE AS IT IS I DON'T NEED SOME HALF-BAKED JAVASCRIPT ON YOUR STUPID SITE CONTROLLING THIS FOR ME THANK YOU
Everything can be used for bad. Does someone who makes a knife feel bad about if it is used for murder or torture? Probably yes, I know I would, but do I feel guilty? Hell no. I cannot control what a bad person will do with my good thing. Encryption is no different, it can be (and is) used for good. Keeping people safe with secure communication is just one of those things. Yes that also means bad people can use it to plot an attack. It is unfortunate but there is no stopping its use. Terrorists have used encryption for as long as the "good guys" have.
A bad hire will drain financial resources yet contribute little to success of the product/company. If a company has a good financial cushion, then you are right that a hiring mistake will not be catastrophic. However if a company is struggling financially then it can be.
Home burglary is almost dead. What's to steal? Any TV you can carry is almost worthless. There's no market in used desktop computers, or used furniture. Nobody has cameras any more. Few people keep much cash around. Phones are probably in the owner's pocket, not left in their house. And because the economy is down at the low end, pawn shops and flea markets are choked with stuff they can't sell.

There have been single white collar crimes that exceed the value of all US burglaries. Madoff alone stole more than five years of burglaries.

The FBI has their priorities wrong. The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports tally a burglary when it is reported, but a while collar crime only when an arrest is made. This creates the illusion that white collar crime is much smaller than it is.
Programming Is Not Math (2014)
I think you are confusing military and civil intelligence, which is not terribly surprising, because they are increasingly being blurred, but it it important to keep in mind.

The NSA, at least on the margin, does not care about convictions. Their mandate has nothing to do with law enforcement.

You're right that metadata is often much more operationally important than the message. But the DEA-style parallel-construction corruption is a hobby business for the NSA.
I presume it's with reference to the coca/cocoa confusion and the probably apocryphal story that they were inspired by seeing the word next to "coca" in the dictionary.

But yes, in a world where major brands have names which happen to be the founders' surname, slogans thought up at the last minute to fill space and logos designed by freelancers for pennies this was a corporation that thought the mere shape of the packaging was so integral to their future success they held a competition to design “a bottle so distinct that you would recognize if by feel in the dark or lying broken on the ground.” It's not accidental that they achieved that.
well, your confusion of tenses kinda colors your knowledge about grammar rather questionable and i say that as a foreign speaker
That would only be useful if you are typing code directly into the productivity application, which is a relatively rare occurrence compared to copying it from an IDE.
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You may think it's "marketing mantra" if you're unaware of the technical differences. But compare, say, Apple's Secure Enclave with Host Card Emulation. Apple's design is just more secure. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/host-card-emulation-secure-...

I certainly don't understand characterizing iOS's security model as "ordinary." For example, it encrypts using a separate coprocessor running an entirely separate OS, that is protected against even an iOS kernel exploit. That's definitely not an ordinary design!
If it were opt-in, I would absolutely opt-into it. I want the companies who make products I use/consume to succeed - that's why I never install ad-block. I watch tons of shows on YouTube and niche video sites, and I know the ads are what help these companies stay alive.

While I know installing ad-block is still opt-out (not -in), it's still a choice of a click that I'm making. I want to support you, but I don't want the choice of privacy made for me.
> the US for 6 years, a person has to wait another 10 years to reap the benefits of permanent residency simply because they were born in a particular country is morally indefensible

When phrased that way, sure it feels that way.

But it's not because you are born in a specific country, it's because your country of origin has a lot of people who are attempting to immigrate to the US, and each country is capped.

Imagine if they lifted that policy, then countries like Mexico, India, China would lock out pretty much any other country from immigrating to the US. Add in the Amnesty program for undocumented workers, and you could imagine that nearest neighbors to the US would lock everyone else out.

So instead of penalizing Indians (in this case), you've now penalized everyone else.

What system, given a fixed number of applicants, would not apply some sort of penalty by proxy?

Contrast that to pre-1960's where laws SPECIFICALLY targeted blacks american citizens.

The US has no moral requirement to treat non-us citizens 100% the same as it does it's citizens. Yes they have perhaps lived in the US for 6 years, and paid US Taxes. They have also enjoyed a certain level of comfort afforded them, that they presumably would not have had in their native country.
To combat against that risk of hitting the canopy, most modern fighter aircraft do a couple of neat things.

First, there is a linear shape charge embedded in the canopy. This is detonated at the moment ejection is initiated. This charge completely shatters the material. So instead of having a whole canopy flying about, the canopy is retained and the pilot ejects through this shattered material. The charge is supposed to shatter this such that the pieces are very small.

Ejection seats also have a couple of small posts at the top. The purpose of these is to assist in punching through the shattered cockpit.

Ejection is still the last resort, and your friend accurately relates the risks. But work is being done to make the process a little less risky.
Utopian for Beginners: The Invented Language of Ithkuil (2012)
http://i.imgur.com/nnwVNui.png
The second-to-last plot (near the bottom right) goes from "occupied" to "no structure", even though it seems to have no structure in both photos. Another lot on Camden goes from red to blue even though it also remains unchanged in the photo (no structure before and after).
Yet, most democracies aren't being massively targeted by terrorists. Largely just those involved in imperialism or regions contested by imperialists. jacquesm's comment is spot on.

Additionally, notice that what jacquesm said is never brought up in these debates much like what U.S. did in Operation Ajax or sanctions that followed wasn't factored into recent Iran debates. Much easier to pretend all this stuff happens in a vacuum that requires a surveillance or police state. Which doesn't work anyway:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10591617

https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/08/refuse_to_b...
It really depends on how large is considered large, since for me it crashes when opening a 60MB XML file...
It now redirects to http://smallrooms.co/ which seems to be some kind of entrepreneur podcast. Growth hacking!
You're already running in a JIT/interpreted VM, timing attacks will be something that can't really be worked around.
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Obviously, but appealing to others' religious beliefs is hardly a compelling argument when trying to make a claim about correctness or truth. My point is that if you look to secular scholars, they are unlikely to be accusing Ben Carson of interpreting the Bible incorrectly. They might call him an idiot, but they'll call him an idiot for his belief that the Earth was created in 6 days, not because he argues that the Bible says this.

When I said it's "hard to accuse someone of misinterpreting...", I meant that it's hard to accuse them in a convincing or sound manner. Obviously it's easy to accuse anyone of basically anything. You just open your mouth and make the accusation. But to do so convincingly takes effort beyond "I don't like their interpretation so they must be wrong". The literal interpretation actually seems like the default, and any other interpretation demands support.
I don't understand the answer. We see Christian extremists, who "peddle a message of terror" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism). Why didn't the atrocities of, say, the Lord's Resistance Army end up with a call that all Christians had to reform their faith? Would it have made a difference?

We see plenty of people from other faiths, including Christians, who want the equivalent of sharia - where their own religious laws take precedence over secular laws. (Eg, anti-gay marriage justified by Biblical interpretations.) Many passages from the Bible are also full of views that don't really fit with our modern life. (Eg, is it okay to have slaves? can a women be ordained?) There's been centuries of schism and reform on those points, and still no consensus. (Eg, that whole Protestant thing.) Why expect more from Muslims than those of other religious faiths?

As the interviewer suggested, I find the Ali's views "absurd and offensive", including even the term 'reform'. What I understand is that the vast majority of Muslims want a return to the more secularized world of the 1950s and 1960s. Back when ideals from communism and socialism had a bigger influence in middle eastern political practices, and where Islam was seen more as moral rather than a political influence within a secular state. (Eg, rather like the Christian state church of England.) Back when women could wear miniskirts in Kabul, and Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize in science, was still considered Muslim by his nation.

That's hardly a reform, but a restoration.
I'm going to put it out there that this reflects badly on our community when we dislike RDBMS "just because."
We really need to set an age limit on how old people can get while staying in office before being forced to retire. We already prevent people younger than 40 from running for President. Why should we let people older than 65 do it? What's the difference?
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Thanks for a view from different angle !
The big question is how they are going to grow, or is it small enough to only ever need 3 people (err...)

A company needs to grow and while this will work for the short term, to attract talent you need to have a talent pool.
Really good to know !
I swear the media has a bias too. So many articles are bashing encryption lately. I wish I could do more to fight misinformation and general ignorance than posting on my Facebook though. Ideas?
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No, you could copy and paste it, and then add highlighting after it's pasted.

I guess one advantage of using a single command is that you can select, right-click the selection and run the service, and then paste. OTOH, I would probably end up doing a normal copy with command-C, pasting with command-V, and then having to do it again because I forgot to do the special copy.

OTOH, if you're going to have a combination command, it seems that it's more common to have special behavior in the paste operation rather than in the copy one. See "Paste and Match Styles", "Paste Special" etc.

No big deal in any case, I was just wondering what the rationale was behind the UI choice.
We were burgled last week, and they stole thousands of dollars worth of jewellery, a laptop and two ipads...

...and the spare key for my car, which they used to steal the car.
If you break it down by country, you can see the same halving for every country. It is unlikely that a social reason behind this, or a botnet going down as someone has suggested. It is more likely an intentional or unintentional change in how the number of users are counted.
Let's legislate Pi=3 while we're at it.

I'd hate to live in a world where only criminals could be secure.
Also, with the proliferation of internet-connected devices, a lot of electronics can't be resold if stolen. If an iPhone is stolen you can remotely lock it and it won't be usable as long as it's still in the country, and many TVs will send phone-homes that can be used to trace stolen property.
I upvoted you because I agree about the cognitive dissonance between having a lower limit but not having a higher one (as the old adage goes, don't tell me what's too little if you can't tell me what's considered too much), but I respectfully disagree. If one person is an idiot at 79, that does not mean that another cannot be well-informed and in-touch at the age of 85.

Then there's the premise of your argument: that he doesn't know what he's talking about. I counter that just like David Cameron of the UK, McCain knows full-well what he's proposing, but he just doesn't care about the cost. It's not about being out of the loop, it's about having a different agenda than the one you're seeing. His goal isn't to ban encryption so "terrorists" can't communicate, his goal is to ban encryption so that when someone currently not committing any crimes and without the intention of committing any crimes either does "something bad" in the future or otherwise falls afoul with the powers that be, decades of digital surveillance and intercepted communications would be instantly available for whatever nefarious (or otherwise) purposes the NSA, NSC, FBI, CIA, or whomever would have to serve their needs.

EDIT: Part of my argument seems to have been misunderstood, my response about 79 vs 85 was just in direct counter to passing a maximum age limit; I don't believe we should have a minimum age limit, either.
It's not that "we have done so much damage", it's just that terrorism exists, full stop. Europe has a long history of home-grown terrorism - Paris in particular had a lot of various groups attacking it in the 80s, for example. The US has it's own home-grown terrorism as well, the stereotype being the KKK.
The terrorists will use encrypted, unbreakable methods no matter that Google or Apple use is their OS. That's really the only point that matters.
Cinematic obscenity in America: A hundred years of over-baring censors
How to Write a Technical Blog Post, Pt. 2
How does it create waste?
> Certainly not my field, but my understanding is that unless a mutation has a direct impact on survival and fertility... then there is no evolutionary drive for it to go away.

Well, genes get corrupted by random mutations, and if they have no survival value, there is no correcting force. So they drift out of the genome.
Great idea, though maybe leave out the link.
In India the jobs represents a pretty good way to get out so you will end up with good people.
He spends at most $50 a year on pre-paid so economically does not make sense.
I'm happy not working for that kind of meat-grinder company. If all they see when they look at me is a price tag, they clearly aren't the kind of place that can offer work that would be worth my time.
I want to outlaw sputtering old gov officials who won't let go and gracefully head out to pasture.
On the other hand, treating things too generously is a good way to find yourself down a rabbit-hole. Some ideas really are worthless (note that if no other ideas are worthless, the idea I'm expounding here is worthless, by definition), and it's good to be able to recognize them before you waste too much mental energy.
"So politicians and intelligence services calling for encryption want, institutionally, to keep people safe. How can tech companies do that without breaking or backdooring encryption? That's the real problem to solve, and the first person to figure out how to do that will be way ahead."

That's the problem: they can't. The tech just moves information around in ways that are visible and can be invisible. Even the subtle timing of the signal can be used to communicate. What you're asking is that tech companies do two things:

(a) Ensure every tech with communication mechanisms can only work in a way known perfectly ahead of time and controlled to prevent all leaks.

(b) Ensure that every message, regardless of its words or properties, isn't aiding evil somewhere.

(c) Ensure that it's impossible for a user to put obstacles between their identity and a communication tech so we know exactly who the evil-doer was.

That's simply impossible. It can't be done at all. Talking about lay terms, North Korea has the most totally controlled Internet and country locked down by both technology and terror. Possession of a cell phone can get you locked up and leaving can get them after your family. Yet, there's regularly communication from small numbers of courageous people coming out of that country. If that ideal surveillance setup won't work, how on Earth could any tech accomplish the same thing with the diversity of sites, language, interactions, and tech that exist in Western countries like America?

It just can't because it can see bits and read the minds/hearts of those that create them. That's what the government wants. It's not possible. Otherwise, they'd probably have eliminated most crime already looking at people's homework in school or text messages divining their character. ;)

Also, the problem's been known so long there's even a meme for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_bit
I like how we are lumping together tax evaders and political opponents, as if it was equally wrong to apprehend both.
Home burglary is almost dead.

http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/press/hb9411pr.cfm

"The median dollar value of items and cash stolen during completed household burglaries increased 54 percent from 1994 to 2011, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. The median financial loss during completed burglaries in 1994 was $389 (adjusted for inflation), compared to $600 in 2011. The average dollar loss in 2011 among households that lost $1 or more was about $2,120."
John McCain also selected Sarah Palin as his running mate in 2008. People understand that McCain's heart is usually in the right place, his judgement isn't exactly sound.
Well you can change jobs if you have an I140 approved. I've been in the US for 10 years and I honestly don't care about getting a gc. The I140 from my previous employer allows me to get 3 year extensions on my H1B. The downside is that your new employer has to restart the gc process again, which is fine since I get to work on things that I'm interested in rather than getting stuck in the same job for years on end.
I'm pretty sure kup0 was referring to how Office has generally been in past versions. The latest version of Office are much better made and performant for the same reasons why VSC is well-made and performant: Microsoft has started taking these user experience issues a lot more seriously.
Math is a great example of how notation is sooo important. Doing math with roman numerals is.... possible, sure. But for pretty much any math that's worth anything, it's just a bad notation. It obscures what's going on and makes it harder to mentally deal with. Notation is a critical tool of thought.
Do you have a reference that explains this? I'd like to learn more.
> Since the services are not a single file, it is not user-friendly to download directly from the Repo if the files are not zipped.

I think you're conflating two separate things, source code and a packaged releases. The Github repository should have the source code, which in your case is the XML code for the workflow and plist. You then create a release [1] from that software. It's usually customary to include the script used to build it, which in this case is likely just a shell script wrapper around the zip command to create the archive.

The important point is that the source is always visible. Uploading zip files into the repo gives the impression that you're trying to hide something, even if that isn't the case. Also, one of the great things about open source is that people can be curious. It's likely that if you had checked in the unzipped files, people would have browsed through them in the Github UI to see how it worked. Fewer people will take the time to clone the repo or download/unzip/browse the zip file.

[1] https://github.com/blog/1547-release-your-software
Jorge Luis Borges described the situation as "two bald men fighting over a comb"
And Europe life isn't bad either. I'm glad it works out for you. I'm considering similar option, maybe we should chat? :-)
The last time I checked out Azure there were no shortage of ways to get locked into their ecosystem. My favorite though is this guy https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/services/mac...
home encryption is killing government,

...and it's illegal.

The US government is a monolithic institution that is governed by the mandate "move slow and break things". They can only legislate what they can enforce. They can't stop people sharing music, they can't stop people sharing data, and they sure as fuck won't be able to stop encryption.

They definitely will be able to drive it underground and limit the average American's privacy though. It is just that, as far as anyone can be a typical America, they aren't a hardened radicalized terrorist. Let's take stock of the wars against nouns:

* War on Drugs, massive failure.

* War on Terror, not only failure, likely made problem worse.

* War on Math, if we measure this by people prevented from using encryption, then we are losing. However, if we measure this by student test scores relative to other nations, we are def. winning the war against math.