skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did I call the EFF superheros? And my question about the FBI was more-general. In light of their use of informants against political dissidence, among other problems with their methods, is it even ethical, never mind cynical, to work with the FBI?
Huh, $99.99 for the bolt thing? The company looks legit, they announce a partnership with Jetbrains on their blog, for example.

http://www.checkio.org/blog/
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Everyone has their own conscious and unconscious biases for news preferences.

At least as far as my conscious, I like to use "Does this better help me relate to the world?" as a yardstick.

I don't think anyone would argue that it's best practice to make decisions with substantial amounts of missing knowledge, yet I feel like there are a huge number of startups founded via the "I am a white, middle-class, college-attending male, and this is one of my problems that I want to solve" selector.

That's all well and good, I don't expect every freshman to be an expert on {insert problem outside that subclass} for {insert region outside US/EUR}, but... if we're serious about solving important world problems, then the people who are going to solve them need to at least be aware that it's a problem.

Aka the malaria argument
That cheaper price would be great. Tracking's not much of an issue for me as they'd only see me hit my VPN service.
We'll be treating them as separate.
I agree that it isn't useful anymore, simply because once an index has been shown to 'lead' it will be made part of future models which well then either 'track' or 'lag' but no longer lead. But that does not mean a very low BDI isn't a problem.
If you hook in libpcre direct it actually comes with its own JIT these days. http://sljit.sourceforge.net/pcre.html
This is just the beginning. People think adblockers can't be defeated. The reality is that they can easily be defeated.
Methylphenidate and dextroamphetamine are still the active ingredient of most ADHD drugs.
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FTA: "But terrorism is aimed, in part, at pushing us to jump to conclusions and take panicky steps that inflict more pain and misdirect our resources toward failed and dangerous ideas."
> > no is calling for local police to have access to everyone's email and phone records.
> They are calling for mass video surveillance of everyone's encounters with police.

That's because there are serious problems with police accountability. Citizens benefit because bad police (which we hope are a minority) are discouraged from acting poorly, due to pervasive evidence, and the police benefit because there is a clear documented record of What Happened, which helps prevent spurious claims of police misconduct.

It's something that most of the police seem not to want, judging from reactions towards journalists and people with cameras, so it's not the __police__ asking for more surveillance. (Well, I mean, they are, but not in this way.)
I just got the official e-mail. I thought this part was interesting:

"If you are concerned about the status of your seat belt prior to your scheduled inspection, you may be able to detect this condition by pulling very firmly on the lap portion of your seat belt with a force of at least 80 pounds. This procedure may detect an improperly attached seat belt but performing this procedure does not replace the need for an inspection by a Tesla technician."

It's cool that they're being so straightforward, but it's weird to see that sort of procedure so casually recommended to the end user.

Edit: I got my appointment scheduled for next week. Pretty quick and easy. I was afraid it might be a substantial wait, as the last time I needed a service appointment they were booked for a month. This inspection is only supposed to take 20 minutes, so maybe they're able to squeeze it in earlier because of that.
DV certificates does provide a service that self-signed certificates don't, though: they verify that the server controls x.com according to the public DNS system, not just according to the user's ISP/DNS server.
Amazing! This Scanner object seems so beautifully pythonic and intuitive. It's a shame it's not documented honestly: it would be a great way for beginners in python to write language parsers
Looking at some of those 'complex' management tasks it seems like a missing feature would be to poll your repositories to look for TODO: 's and list them.

For instance, I'm the sole developer of my web backend, iOS and android platformy thing and while android studio has good TODO: Integration sublime and Xcode require plugins, it would be awesome to have something that looks at all three repositories and tells me where i have scribbled a TODO: somewhere; or even just for comparing the different method names of my app across platforms -

Perhaps someone knows of some such tool already out there that does this?
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How else do you think this could possibly work?

>you lose the psuedo-anonymity of Bitcoin (the card has your name on it)
Nobody would ever allow anonymous card transactions. The security risks with that alone are ridiculous.

> It's a "debit" card, so it also has none of the protection of a normal credit card (eg: if someone steals my card or over-charges or whatever, my actual money is not touched).
Nope. Debit cards have protection, as does a coinbase account.

>It's not even real Bitcoin, it requires a Coinbase account
My credit card isn't even real money either!

>where, from what I understand, they manage your private key, so really own your bitcoins
Thats not how that works.

Its a transition between traditional cards and to new forms of money like crypto-currency.
That sounds more like a work-to-rule labor action than an example of harassing dissenters.

"This is a win for everyone"

Except as you pointed out, it's not a win for everyone all the time.
No! That is pointedly not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is that I don't need every detail of my life to be private. I prefer that nobody go in and start playing games on my chess.com account, but I'm willing to take a higher degree of risk with that specific account than I am with, e.g. my financial accounts.

It is possible to care about privacy and still accept a more convenient (less secure) way to access specific things.
Not exactly - three years ago the shipping demand hit an all time high. Large container companies began building new never-before-seen super cargo ships which can carry an enormous amount of cargo. These ships rolled out of the production line earlier this year and have had a very heavy impact on shipping. The slowdown in the Chinese economy compounded this, as China is one of the largest users of shipping.

As the Chinese economy picks up and global trade values continue to rise with growing populations, this effect should decrease and you should see shipping prices rise. Compounding this is that smaller shipping companies are being merged into larger ones as the low prices make their business unsustainable.

So you can also expect this index to spike rapidly in the future as consolidation occurs.
I like to use https://kanbanflow.com/

It takes the usual kanban approach that Jira and Trello use, but is contained in a no-nonsense html5 friendly, mobile friendly website. No complaints, free to start, and premium features aren't costly if you need them.
It is more than enough to power a thermostat. Just not all the time. The trick is to wake up from deep sleep often enough to do the job.
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I never thought I'd ditch Sublime Text after using it almost exclusively since TextMate (so for the past few years). I especially never thought I'd ditch it for a Microsoft product. And perhaps most importantly, I never thought I'd use an editor that didn't have Vim keybindings (yet! it's at the top of their list, apparently).

But after using VS Code for a while now I'm pretty sure I'll keep using it, at least for Node.js development. The IntelliSense support through TypeScript definitions, the out-of-the-box support for what I consider essentials (linting, task running, emmett, etc.), and perhaps most importantly the built-in debugger make my life significantly easier.

I enjoyed working with node-inspector, but the debugging in VS Code is a lot more convenient (mostly).

To be fair, for non-node development I'd say VS Code is not yet good enough to replace Sublime Text, but that might change when enough plugins and features have been added.

What it boils down to for me is that VS Code somehow seems to be optimized exactly for my workflow. It doesn't have tons of buttons and interface elements that I don't need (as many IDE's do), and it isn't slow. But on the other hand it offers very sensible defaults that other editors such as Atom and Sublime don't have. On both those editors I've had some issues with setting up linting, debugging, IntelliSense, and a few misc. other things. The main reason for that, I suppose, is that they're all plugins developed by different people. I like how these just come with VS Code and work right away.

I'm rather baffled that I'm saying all this, considering my general aversion of using Microsoft products (even if this is based on the past). But it is what it is. VS Code is a huge timesaver for me, and (mostly) hits the sweet spot between plain, fast editor and IDE.

But please give me Vim support ASAP :).
The risk of what? Coinbase stealing everyone users bitcoins and running away? Better not use any bank, credit union, or money transferring service to stay safe.
What a shitty idea!
Hah, Is this a joke or is there actually a doge service that does this?
I'm not against downvotes but I'm curious what in this comment is attracting them? Would help me be more insightful in the future.
We use Trello with a slack integration on certain boards.
There's an evolutionary reason for all manner of cognitive biases. That doesn't mean that behavior is correct.
Markdown is perfect for to-do lists, I keep 5 days (1 week) of todo files that I compile to HTML and view on any device in-browser, and edit on whatever machine I'm working from at the time.
What was the lag time between the last time happened and financial crisis began?
Well if you conduct transactions on their platform, then they know the source/destination, notes, amount etc. AML laws require them to detect and prevent illegal activity on their platform (just the same as Square, Stripe, Venmo/PayPal, your bank etc).
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There's no joke about the benefits of automation here. I recommend you take the time to figure out how to do it, being a provider.
That's super interesting, thank you for this comment.
The test would need to be validated against a single SKU of phone, guaranteed to have the same camera module across all units. That's a big advantage of using the iPhone for hardware applications - the number of configs is very small.
Where was that thread about making financial bets based on how many negative comments were in a HN thread?
I wish that were true, but honestly, plaintext isn't fine for anything at all in 2015, whether authenticated, important, public or otherwise, whether the network is the internet or a LAN.

HTTP sites have had attack scripts injected into them by nation-states, used to DDoS others on a massive scale - and that capability, and the desire to use it, is unfortunately proliferating rapidly.

Unless you want to be part of that problem, you're going to have to go HTTPS on everything - cat videos included - no matter how important or unimportant you think it is. I really wouldn't be surprised if tcp/80 goes the way of tcp/23.

On a brighter note - the speed difference is negligible with modern cryptography, and as others have mentioned, TLS 1.3 is developing handshakes with less TCP round trips. It's possible that a future protocol (taking into account what's been learned by Google's QUIC experiment) may deliver faster handshakes over UDP if possible to avoid the TCP handshake overhead - there's energetic research in that area at the moment.
The BDI's indication is supported by the decline in rail traffic, the decline in imports/exports in/out of China, and corresponding declines for the BRIC nations. Its supported by the recent (and growing) closures of mines and mills globally. From Janet Yellen, Michael Pettis, Zhou Xiaochaun... all acknowledge this decline. You're in a very, very small minority.
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if you got a new contact in your address book you might want to send him the first whatsapp message 30s later, so it better checks for new contacts all the time...

If there is no listener for of some kind in the api (android system telling all apps who want to know once there is an update), it will have to ask the system over and over again.
"Banks are so unnecessarily expensive to transmit value"

.. which isn't really true in the EU ("Faster Payments"). It's only true in the US because the regulation is fragmented and reflexively in favour of the capitalist over the consumer. It's the banking equivalent of Comcast.
Actually, I'm not sure we'd agree. Personally I'd probably find that costume hilarious (depending on how well it was executed) but then I have a dark sense of humor. For example, I find this anecdote from John Cleese about his mother hilarious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f74L2hRZE1Y

But let's assume that I found that costume 'offensive'. What would I be entitled to do? that is, what should I be able to do? Nothing.

That is, other than get offended, I don't have a right to do anything other than that. I certainly don't have a right to not be offended.

Taking offense is so subjective that it is meaningless. Think of it this way, you may not like mayo on your french fries but a lot of people do.

Does that mean that you have to force others to not enjoy their french fries with mayo?

No.

It just means that you eat what you like and leave others to enjoy the foods they enjoy.

Gosh... now that I've typed that out I hardly can believe that it has become so irrational that we have to actually spell out such things to one another as adults in the year 2015.

sigh
Really impressed by the fast page loads and readability. This matters more than anything and they nailed it. I wish other publications thought like this.
I've had my credit card and debit card stolen several times. One time, the person who got it took out over a thousand dollars from an ATM in another country. I got it all back (from Chase) within 5 days every time, which would never happen with Bitcoin.
I think there's a big difference between "read once" and "know". When some people say a fact is "known" they mean strictly that you are able to recall that fact in toto. That is probably overkill for a Web programmer.

After you read something once you don't strictly know it. However if you run into a related problem down the road, you have a good chance that you can remember enough of what you read once to put a Google query together and find the original article.

After thinking about it a little more, what they probably mean is that while most programmers will forget most of what they read here (because they don't use it day-to-day) it is reliable information that will help shape their intuition about how memory works. That is probably what they mean about every programmer and this article.

Every programmer ought to read and test their intuition about how memory works against the content in this article. If they are surprised by something they read, they have the chance to adjust their intuition so that it is closer to the truth.
Because visually, it's reminiscent of Eclipse 1.0.

For better or worse, a sizable proportion of developers choose IDEs on the basis of looks.
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So if we want to help persecuted refugees like the Jews were being persecuted in WWII then it sounds like we should give the highest priority to Christians and Yezidis who are targeted by ISIL, killed as infidels and sold into slavery.
That's changing as of this month. Most banks have already issued new chip cards, which require a PIN. If a merchant is still using the old swipe and sign system, now they'll be liable for any fraudulent transactions if the customer has a chip card.
I wish that was the case. I wouldn't have to worry about DRAM latencies anymore
I would note that siphoning off massive amounts of money does happen in the fiat world despite regulation (but because off ineffective implementation of regulation) e.g. the Madoff case.
95% drop or so between May and Dec 2008.
Concerns about consciousness, intelligence,and Stephen Wolfram's use of the personal pronoun aside, I think it reasonable to presume that communication with early stage AI systems will desirably include the development of a vocabulary and syntax structured for 'precision'.

It does seem reasonable that if AIs evolve they will, in their evolution, develop constructs of 'reality' that Wolfram calls "Post Linguistics Emergent Concepts"(1) and that, if they do, until human languages develop deeply "precise" 'words' for each of these PLECs, Spock will have to translate for Kirk; Spock, talking to an AI, will be (mostly?) unintelligible to Kirk.

This raises the question can one reasonably believe that humans are capable of more than 'bare bones' precision in words? Can one be both Kirk and Spock?

On that note it is encouraging that Wolfram appears to think our systems may be (become?) a driving force in our evolution; we may evolve to a point the use of a precise or imprecise language is a moment-to-moment choice.

It may be that these precise and imprecise languages will develop into a single language.

Before that happens, if you were such a dual-linguist, which language would you prefer? Under what conditions would you switch? What would communication be like in a world where the commonly spoken language was a meld of precision and imprecision? Which of the two would have the most influence on the other? Past a certain stage are there generally distinctions in character?

(1) see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMviBl46dXg
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Because WhatsApp uses your phone book as the only way to interact with its contact list. You can't add someone to directly to your WhatsApp contact list.

It could probably access it less often by only sending deltas, but that would mean their servers would have to store your whole phone book. I don't think that's any better from a privacy perspective.

Of course Facebook Messenger doesn't do the same, it has its own contact list coming from Facebook.
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I've actually listened to the BSD Now podcast episode where they discussed NextBSD…

IIRC, launchd is a simple process manager, and it never had anything to do with XML. XML/plists are used in Apple's implementation of launchCTL, the command line client.

http://www.nextbsd.org/welcome-to-ghost/ NextBSD is explicitly a "science project" – they don't want upstream FreeBSD to become NeXTSTEP :)
Interestingly turkey has slightly less tryptophan than chicken: http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/much-tryptophan-poultry-7904....
Login and start the game, then click on the "+" buttons on the upper right corner next to the amount of resources you have.
Gah. I would love having this.
That's fast - do you require documentation validating corporate relationship?
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This seems a bit clickbaity to me. WhatsApp works directly on your contacts, there isn't a remote roster like Facebook Messenger or Telegram.

So if any app were to access my contacts 23k times, I'd say WhatsApp is the one app which could justify that.
When developing complex and robust systems, the measure of effectiveness of a program is how little the original system changes in response to new stimulus. If the system constantly needs to change, it's not meeting the stating requirements.
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Very cool! Thank you for sharing.
Still a happy user of FogBugz.

http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/
are ambiguities only meaningful to humans?

Seems to me that computers were instructed to (1) refuse to work in front of ambiguities, or (2) resolve them by choosing one of the options.

Kind of like when `yacc` tells you that some rule is ambiguous, but then it ends up resolving it by deterministically picking always the same option.
Google should be required to give root to any user that request it for their own device... (anyone should be able to get better control of their own device). It would be easier to control crazy permissions.
Strictly speaking, they verify that server controls x.com according to the CA's ISP/DNS server/any other parties in the middle instead of the user's ISP/DNS server/any other parties in the middle.
Those cases are handled in "secret courts" run by "secret judges" with "secret prosecutors".

Apparently the defense counsel is also secret since they don't come out afterwards to say what happened to their clients. Assuming the prosecuted had defense counsel.
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that's the recommended course of action, IIRC.

personally, I prefer to do all my gray market drug purchases on the ol' regular internet with a prepaid debit card.
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I think it makes sense - you'd probably be driving the car in for the inspection, so it'd be nice to have some sort of confidence in your seatbelt for that drive.
I didn't say not to bother; I just said the protection provided by ASLR is weaker, even on 64-bit systems, than most of us believed a couple of years ago.
Oh wow I will sign up for one! I have been a Coinbase user since they started operating, and am currently in the middle of a year-long trip around the world so I have been looking for ways to minimize my international ATM withdrawal fees. My US bank (Wells Fargo) charge me a flat $5.00 fee per transaction, and my french bank (Crédit Agricole) charge me about $8.50 for the equivalent of a ~$220 withdrawal. I see that Shift has a flat fee of $3.50, so yay for beating old legacy banks! Though I am kind of sad to see that the Shift debit card has no chip. Cards with only a magnetic track are becoming increasingly difficult to use in countries other than the US.

Also, it's worth noting that both Shift and Coinbase are YC companies.
I think I get what you're saying here. You don't "need" to know this to write code. Which is true - heck, you don't "need" to know how a tcp/ip connection works, or how disk storage works. But one day you might.

When you put fuel in your car and you turn the ignition and step on the gas, the wheels move. So all you need to know is where the fuel goes and how to turn the ignition and where the gas pedal is. But one day, I guarantee you, the wheels will stop moving.

When your boss storms up to your desk and says "Why aren't the god damn wheels moving?! We're losing ad revenue every minute!!", I hope Code Review Guy is around to tell you how fuel injectors work.
Inflation positive? WPI, PPI, CPI and oil prices have all fallen. Where are you seeing any relevant signs of inflation? Remember growth in M2 is offset growth in bank excess reserves sequestered at the Fed.
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