skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I envy this guy so much! I felt delayed by school, which offered slow-paced, and uninspiring environment (learning interesting stuff on my own, after the lessons; at ~15 I started reading academic textbooks in physics and chemistry).

Right now I am very much for adjusting education to students, rather than the other way around (without expecting that everyone gets magically enlightened at the age of 18-19). Especially as the cohort-based learning is a direct heritage of the Prussian education (for teaching soldiers, not - scientists or engineers).
Zesty is hiring Ember and Rails engineers
It's true that bad actors will use those things regardless of if it is legal or not. I agree it's a bad comparison because the difference here is that nerve gas and guns have potential to kill other people even if given to "good guys".

Secure communication does not kill other people, it protects yourself. We should allow everyone to have that because by taking it away the only thing we will do is harm law abiding people.
Anonymous is accusing this Silicon Valley startup of helping ISIS
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It's standard to have guns drawn when doing a sweep in response to any report of an unauthorized presence in one's home, even without a claimed eyewitness to a break-in, as in this case.

Years ago, after I bought a new house but had not yet moved in (I was moving individual loads as I had time), I came to the new place to find an upstairs light on. Now, I was fairly sure I would not have done that without noticing as I left, but I saw no sign of forced entry or active presence. So, I called the police, explained that this was probably just my screwup, but if you have an idle unit, could they stop by when they have a chance?

Two officers responded, did a sweep of the house, guns drawn, finding nothing, and were very nice about it all. <facepalm>
Only by other Christians pushing their own interpretations. When Ben Carson says that the world was literally created in 6 days, lots of people say he's crazy, but the only people who say he's misinterpreting the text are people who want to push their own interpretation, generally because they want to push the idea of Christianity being totally copacetic with modern science.
> super fast typing response

How do you measure the typing response? Do you have a speed camera hooked up or something!?
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I think your nit-picking needs more thought, nuclear bombs are illegal for an individual to possess, and if someone had managed to obtain a bomb from say the former USSR, they would most definitely be considered a criminal.
Wow, I had somehow missed Hydrogen but that looks amazing. It will probably be what finally gets me to drop Sublime for Atom.
My biggest concern isn't so much that the government could get a warrant with probable cause and intercept a few emails or monitor my web browsing, it's that for all I know (seems pretty likely?) a significant chunk of everything I do online is intercepted and stored forever, encrypted or no.

If we allow a ban on secure end-to-end encryption, are we setting ourselves up for a future government to go back and demand access to everything we've ever done? Do I want to have somebody in 2060 datamining my entire life? It's worrying to me.

Short of putting better end-to-end encryption everywhere, I'm not sure how we prevent that. As you say, that sort of encryption is pretty uncommon, so maybe this is what we're headed toward either way. I think it's worrying.

But I'm not an expert on cryptography. Are there are other solutions?
whole heartedly agree
Amazing, a government apologist is top comment, I'm sure there's no astro turfing going on here!

Ask people who work in policy, the reason things are a certain way is rarely technical, its usually political, which is a qaint way of saying decisions are made by corrupt power brokers.
So people are dying (because of overblown, badly coordinated) police efforts and the reason is the way funds are allocated in the US?

That makes me even sadder. Sounds plausible though.
> It should be a human right.

It actually is a human right.

The right to privacy is one of the most fundamental ones that we have.
The reason I passed on AES is far less justifiable, but important to me for aesthetic reasons: Using Skein just seemed like way more fun. Programming without whimsy is drudgery.

You seem like you know what you're talking about but that last sentence is approximately the scariest thing any software developer working with crypto has ever said.
Technically, each and every one of the UN member states should back these up.
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> a government apologist

That's entirely uncalled for. Just because you disagree does not make someone a government apologist.

I guess you'll call me a government apologist next.
Does anyone believe that the difference between the Lebesgue and Riemann integrals can have physical significance, and that whether, say, an airplane would or would not fly could depend on this difference? If such were claimed, I should not care to fly in that plane.

-- Richard Hamming
I don't have any ride-sharing apps installed. Uber just showed up as an option in the directions section below car, walking and public transport, along with an estimated fare cost and 'first ride is free' offer.
Next time also print their SSN on the cards, or something similarly private they wouldn't stick on their keyboards :)
It's Pixelmator - http://www.pixelmator.com/
Pixelmator [1], a more affordable Photoshop clone. (I personally prefer Acorn [2].)

1: http://www.pixelmator.com/mac/

2: http://flyingmeat.com/acorn/
There are two XML files and a PNG file in the one zip I looked into...why doesn't that work with git?

Incidentally, there's also a bunch of extra Dropbox files that you probably don't want to be including. It looks like you developed this on a Mac, saved it to Dropbox and then created the Zip on a Windows box.

Sorry to say it, but the whole thing feels like an amateurish wrapper around:

pbpaste | /usr/local/bin/pygmentize -g -O style=... -f rtf -l ... | pbcopy

which appears to do all the work.
"When I click on a link I have no idea what is behind it."

You're a real, online adventurer if the links you click are so random that you have no idea what's on the other side. That means you religiously avoid sites like Google, Yahoo, Youtube, Facebook, etc where you understand what your getting and what's supporting it. The rest of us know what's behind some links and not others.

"Every link click is executing unauthorized code in your browser sandbox."

It's authorized because you clicked it knowing that. Whole web model is others supplying HTML and JS, at a minimum, to your browser without you knowing what's in it before hand. It's why I run sandboxing and isolation schemes. Anyway, you're more than happy to run all of it but the advertisements. So, clearly that isn't your real worry. :P

"And let's not forget that "news" on the internet today is simply "copying and pasting an entire article from another site, modifying the title to be clickbait, and waiting for the masses to consume your ads""

Given that, I guess you don't use news sites either. Means the hacker who is controlling your PC is also an avid reader of Hacker News. You might want to restore from backups and harden your system more. Adios.
I have 3 'followers', basically no content and 10,755 views. I'm sure few humans have looked. Probably mostly search bots. I do have viewers on youtube though.
The results show that there's no great circle that touches no dry land. They give the largest (small) circles that do fulfill the condition, and additionally give the great circles that touch the minimum amount of land.
But if HTTP is stateless, can you actually cancel an operation?
Sure. And I think the situation here is analogous.
I can't really say; I haven't been on the job market for six years, which is pretty much the time frame when IoT became a thing.

That said, I'm currently working on telephones for the hard of hearing, and they're internet-connected, so maybe my current job is in IoT...
I know Old Testament, but you obviously don't know Quran. Read it and compare, that's all I can tell you. One describes what happened in some ancient times, ancient times even for the first reader of these texts. Another gives pure "instructions." Read and compare.

Or read the "Gospels" from New Testament for the "deeds of Jesus" especially related to stoning:

http://biblehub.com/niv/john/8.htm

and compare with the "deeds of Muhammad" as told by Hadith:

http://quotingislam.blogspot.co.at/2011/06/muhammad-ordered-...
It's confusing, but ASP.NET 5 ships with ASP.NET MVC 6. ASP.NET MVC 5 was released in October, 2013. I'm assuming you meant ASP.NET 5 / ASP.NET MVC 6 since that's what was announced today.

There's a good chance you know this, but since some people reading this thread might not I figured I'd give some more detail.

It's definitely in Microsoft's interest to make Azure a great place to host your ASP.NET applications. The team that builds ASP.NET is part of the Azure group, and that's what pays the bills. (disclaimer: Microsoft employee, Azure fan)

However, ASP.NET 5 has been built to run great on your own web server. In addition to IIS on Windows, ASP.NET 5 has a cross platform, open source web server named Kestrel that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux: https://github.com/aspnet/KestrelHttpServer/

The team's working really hard to make sure that ASP.NET 5 not only runs cross platform, but that it works well and runs really fast cross-platform: https://github.com/aspnet/benchmarks/blob/master/README.md
For one thing...the pay is often too low. Qualified individuals may be on the market, but not on the tech market. Same reason why so many Physics PhDs who can program C++ in their sleep choose to go to Wall St instead of Silicon Valley. Labor sits on the periphery but wont dive in unless they get market pay.
Having lived in both Switzerland and US I have to say that US is much more friendly towards the immigrants from non-EU countries. Swiss make it nearly impossible for people outside EU to get a permanent redidence permit (have to wait for 10 years for a C permit) whereas in US there are multiple paths (EB1-3, NIV) and a plethora of employers (tech companies in West and East coast at least) who would offer GC sponsorship as part of the deal.
But those are not the same thing. Encryption in this case would be like the location of the kid and bomb being kept secret.

The bad guy may have told someone in person where the location is... or sent an encrypted email. But unless you were involved in either conversation, you are still in the dark.
Could we get the Principle of Charity added to the guidelines? In both this context you just mentioned, and the more normal context of discourse.
Spoken like a true pirate. I've heard people that rob stores use the same kind of logic. At least you're honest about not caring and ripping them off. I'm mainly calling out the dishonest here. ;)
Locks only stop honest people.

Destructive entry is by far the most common with simple burglary and such - not lock picking.

Oh you have a $200 high security lock? Too bad it's on a $20 plank that breaks very easily.
Ah... But let's say you and I have already met up in a training camp in Afghanistan or Syria and installed an apk on our smartphones!

But those are interesting points.
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He is defending a corrupt institution which has repeatedly lied, tortured and murdered.

Also,what he wrote is wrong, chances are not better than even that some random issue is a certain way because of some complex technical reason, most decisions in DC are made through the lens of politics, ask anyone who works in policy and they will say the same.
I've always wondered why Google and Apple didn't do just that.

They offer some of the biggest distribution channels available, have deep pockets, and have a VERY vested interest in killing the status quo because of the freedom it will give them for using music and promoting artists in new ways.

That is definitely one industry that needs to have more competition.
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.

The tool is essentially a wrapper. I do not deny that in the credits.

However, there's nothing wrong with that. It's simple, yes, but it does what it promises. (Additionally, it still took a couple hours in QA and README presentation)

There shouldn't be Dropbox metadata though. I'll double-check that.
Luckily, you are just one person. Here, we're speaking about an entire market. And yes, 2x and 3x market wages would absolutely cause major shifts in labor. Even < 2x market wages would accomplish this. It already happens the other way, 1.5x and 2x market wage multiples drive flow of skilled engineers from California to Wall Street.
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Yes, that was exactly my point. People keep repeating the iOS security being fundamentally better marketing mantra but it has been ordinary although the closed system helps it somewhat and they did seem to get the fingerprint security right. And I was referring to Android's permissions model when I said no you can't bypass it.
Any visa can be terminated for any reason at the border, no difference there b/w TN and H-1B (IANAL).
> Actually they can, just not on the 4WD Vehicles. They can, say: walk.

There are some pretty big distances in many places in the west. That's why people here rode horses rather than, say, walking, once upon a time.

In the grand scheme of things, a few off road vehicles are probably not that bad. Something like a coal mine, OTOH, is going to permanently alter the landscape.

I wish more policy were aimed at reasonable compromises rather than "no, everything must be absolutely pristine!" on one hand and "let's exploit the crap out of it!" on the other.
This reminds me of the humorous "One-Star Reviews of National Parks" http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/08/i-cant-stop-r...
> A needle of length L is dropped at random onto a sheet of paper ruled with parallel lines a distance L apart. What is the probability that the needle will cross a line?

Thickness of line is needed right? Otherwise P approaches 100% as thickness approaches 0?
I'm not sure how to even read this, after I give it the requirements file for my last Flask project. It says six projects block transition for me, then offers me a goofy badge saying 4 blockers. Over on the right, the top thirteen of the projects in my file are black and not given as links.

(However, it is clear that going to Python 3 would not work.)
The problem with what you are saying is that even if a backdoor could work technically, and it was actually used effectively by the authorities (the Paris attackers communicated over unencrypted media), it STILL would not do anything to "keep people safe".

130 people were killed in those attacks. 361 people died in automobile accidents in Minnesota in 2014, to find a random statistic. Terrorism is simply not a real threat, and eliminating it will not make anyone any safer.
Can you provide a source that shows the laws of economics not applying to technology labor markets?

As for your source -- how about common sense and the most basic econ 101 chart on supply, demand and price?
http://www.investopedia.com/university/economics/economics3....
The higher the supply the lower the price.
My brother is similar, he has a floor-to-ceiling bookshelf completely full of books, the books being double layered, the outer layer jutting out like he has no other space left to put his books. I find he reads more like game of thrones and historical fantasy than Star Wars or Star Trek though. He isn't married and he still reads, now on his phone.
>And while at it, maybe even have a limit on the number of targets each agency can investigate, so they chose them wisely.

This is an insanely bad idea. I understand where you're coming from, but think about how that would play out in real life. I was going to write it out, but I really think that you can probably figure it out if you do think it through. From the perspective of the intel/policing agency, and from a political side, there are too many good reasons why we should not limit the number of targets an agency can investigate.
I'm a math geek, but I'm also a mostly self-taught data scientist.

"The Elements of Statistical Learning" (https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/local.ftp/Springer/OLD/ESLI...) is far and away the best book I've seen.

It took me hundreds of hours to get through it, but if you're looking to understand things at a pretty deep level, I'd say it's well-worth it.

Even if you stop at chapter 3, you'll still know more than most people, and you'll have a great foundation.

Hope this helps!
Most of us aren't so lucky. I really do wish we lived in a 100% UTF-8 world. But even if we did, I don't see how e.g. regular expressions would work.
I don't think it's entirely irrational to throw money at counterterrorism that could have saved more lives elsewhere. However I do think that the money is better spent on prevention (integration, aid, ...) than on war.

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.

Its a cliché to say "defend our way of life", but throwing money at creating the illusion of safety so I dare go to the football stadium is just that. I wish we didn't have to spend millions securing a football match, but one can't dismiss it as a waste without assigning a zero value to the idea of going to watch the match. Times many thousand spectators.
So, here's my take on all this 'surveillance is good for you'.

It more or less proves (to me at least) that the government(s) and the various secret services have absolutely no idea who to monitor specifically. So instead of targeting their operations they want to monitor all of us, just in case something of interest pops out that then allows them to focus their attention.

It's a pretty scary thought: just imagine, all that money, all those resources and still they can't do anything other than to put their ear to the ground and hope that someone messes up in plaintext so they can then try to backtrack and see what they might have missed.

In all these attacks it never happened that everybody was under the radar. Always one or more of the attackers that were technically known or even already under surveillance. And yet the attacks happened anyway. Too many targets make for a very thinly deployed service, which then has to be automated to make it work at all.

It's a pretty sobering thought, it also suggests via yet another route that mass surveillance is indeed meant to attempt to 'keep us safe', and that it fails miserably. The road to hell is paved with the best of intentions.

Terrorists have it so easy, all they need to do is to be just a little bit unpredictable or simply old-fashioned (in person) and there won't be anything whatsoever that we can concretely do to stop them. The only thing that actually gives a bunch of actionable data is when an attack is executed or when an attack goes sour (or rather: sweet as in, it does not work) from which direct evidence of contacts or plans is gained. This will then lead to a relatively short lived number of arrests clustered around the people caught or implicated and then it burns out again where the data ends.

And so then we get to wait for the next attack...
I've read the source document, and it makes a good attempt at explaining the issue in a mostly balanced way to a less-technical audience, even if it does gloss over some things. Its recommendations, though, are mostly familiar ones with familiar refutations. Here's what they're asking for:

"The federal legislation would provide in substance that any smartphone manufactured, leased, or sold
in the U.S. must be able to be unlocked, or its data accessed, by the operating system designer.
Compliance with such a statute would not require new technology or costly adjustments. It would
require, simply, that designers and makers of operating systems not design or build them to be
impregnable to lawful governmental searches."

And this is the main thing that they find frustrating:

"Case law holds almost universally that a defendant cannot be compelled (by, e.g., a grand jury subpoena
or order of the court) to provide the government with her or his passcode, because such compulsion
would violate the defendant’s Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination."

I was under the impression that they already have a tool to deal with this called "hold someone indefinitely until they give the password up."
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It's not about some abstract historical notion of right and wrong. The US has created an environment that fosters terrorism. Whether this is wronger or righter than any historical colonialism by other countries is completely irrelevant. We've created "the YC for terrorists" in the countries we have smashed in the Middle East, and now there is a lot of terrorism.
I wish the body of the article separated stats for civil forfeiture vs. criminal forfeiture.
Whats your reason for emigrating?
That's a good analogy, but the padlock has already bolted!

Information about the uncrackable padlock is widely available. Bad guys will always be able to get these padlocks from the black market. The question is whether we want the good guys (i.e. us) to have the padlocks too.
"I was able to leave and come to Shām (Syria) despite being chased after by so many intelligence agencies. My name and picture were all over the news yet I was able to stay in their homeland, plan operations against them, and leave safely when doing so became necessary," Abaaoud claimed in the interview, according to ISIS."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/europe/paris-terror-attack-mas...
This is like in WWII, when Churchill and Turing gave so many newspaper interviews re: how awful it was they couldn't crack Hitler's encryption anymore that he finally gave in, went back to the 3-rotor Enigma machines and we won the war.
The artist who painted Facebook's office asked for stock. He's now worth $200m
Ah, sorry, I know nothing about Yeoman -- I'm only familiar with console applications :)
A major reason my previous employer hired H1s was their inability to easily change jobs. This provided stability to the company. It also provided the H1 workers near-zero ability to quickly jump at opportunities, change jobs, negotiate salary, get raises or anything that typical free agents can do. You basically got to freeze someone's salary for 5 to 8 years.
Why did MS fork atom.io again? Why didn't they do Facebook-style and just add modules that supported their stuff like how react ecosystem is now supported? Atom was slow but is picking up speed now and would be nice if it was simply aligned.
Thanks! I tried the most basic building command possible and it works well. Displaying the PDF on the right panel would be very nice but it's a start. For reference I used the following tasks.json:

{
"version": "0.1.0",
"command": "texify",
"isShellCommand": true,
"args": ["-p","${file}"],
"isBuildCommand": true,
"showOutput": "always"
}