skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's mostly not about banning encryption though. The debate mostly centers on regulating the products and services companies can provide to facilitate such communications. If there was a precursor to companies promising to make it easy for regular joe criminal to encrypt his postal mail, it's conceivable that the government would have fracked down on those companies.

> It's one with only one right answer, but it's a "crisis" in the sense that no possible path forward will make both parties happy, so we fundamentally need the government to either realize they're wrong or to lose. Government positions don't change easily, and governments do not like to lose.

It's not the "government" versus "the people." It's a small group of people who strongly support surveillance, a small group who strongly oppose it, and a mushy middle that tends to lean towards whatever makes them feel safe. People in each group are represented within government, though for obvious reason people in the first group tend to gravitate toward positions involving national security or defense.
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They should probably be returning capital at this point, instead of preserving. Yahoo is way past its expiration date.
>I guess that's been true for centuries, but I don't see what it has to do with militias. Like everyone with a bad idea, they want to say 'this time it's different'.

Well, automation is going to start taking away knowledge worker jobs soon, so many intelligent people might find themselves in rather dire circumstances.

It's certainly unfair to compare rightism to flat-earthism. If you can't admit that there are people as smart or smarter than you who have opposite political views, you're hopelessly blinded by partisanship.
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This risk has been around for a long time so this appears to be just a reminder.
I wish it was supported within Safari, my preferred browser on OS X.
Plenty of HN stories attract few or zero comments. It's hardly 'noteworthy'. It's not uncommon to have someone complain in an article's comments that "I posted this X weeks ago and no-one noticed"
https://www-ssl.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/archi...

Volume 3A
Chapter 9, Processor Management and Initialization
Table 9-1. IA-32 Processor States Following Power-up, Reset, or INIT

The debug registers are named DR0-3 and will be initialized with 00000000H. I can't find an explicit statement for IA-32e mode (Intel's name for x86_64), but I think it is safe to assume the remaining upper 32 bits will be cleared as well.
Can you provide a firm definition of parlor trick?

Not saying I agree or disagree with you, but without a real definition of parlor trick you have a wide open no-true-Scotsman defense.
Ah, the classic 80/20 rule. 80% of the revenue comes from just 20% of your products. So your tempted to kill the 80% and become much more efficient. But the problem is that you can now apply the same rule to the remaining business. Do you keep reapplying until you only have a single product left?
I could say the same thing for a lot of stuff that's Windows only.
Or mutt if that's where you are going. I can't tell you how many emails I've accidentally sent from the browser that end in :wq
Ah, I think there's kinda two sides to this.

1. Apps should definitely work as a guest. Many do, some don't. But when a user wants to then log in, they should use the Sandstorm login button on the top right, rather than apps all having their own authentication code (and authentication bugs!).

2. Apps definitely need prettier links. Right now the grains that do work as a guest still are ugly links like example.sandcats.io/shared/gdgfdfhdsjfjsdfksdjfhsdkjfhsdkjf and you have to do a redirect to create a prettier link. Eventually I do believe Sandstorm devs intend to make it easier for you to set certain grains to be at subdomains or what-have-you.

3. Also note that for static content publishing, there's already an established method for as well, you can see my blog as an example: blog.jacobweisz.com is hosted on Sandstorm's alpha server.
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I think you make some good points, as do a number of your repliers. We're pulled in different directions by a number of business and technical priorities. What I see as a common denominator is a development life-cycle that expects increasingly nimble articulation of break-off projects and shorter iteration times into production, at least in SaaS. Concerns about code stability and optimization are not entirely lost by any means, but they don't seem to have the same priority when the business "has to" keep moving, and the tech "has to" keep evolving at this pace.
You know what they say, "Recession is when your neighbour loses his job, depression is when you lose yours".

It's easy enough to say that it's up to oneself to 'take responsibility', until you find yourself in a place where there are no jobs, and it's really not possible to thrive.
Just as a note, as I know nothing about your or your situation, but reacting angrily will NOT help any impressions you are giving.

Frankly, when someone tells me they work in a tech place where women are successful, I'm jealous. So if you want to point out that there is some hostile bias at work and not just the lack of hostile environments that drive women away from so many places, you need to prove that. Coming across as a woman-hating man does not accomplish this (Again, I don't know you, I'm only saying the impression you are giving).
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When a 5.56mm round strikes a solid object, it tumbles (aka "yaws", or rapidly changes orientation).

Contrary to popular legend, it does not tumble in flight.
I did read your responses. You're adding nothing to the conversation, other than complaining just to complain.
> Mushrooms seem to guide you to a place, whereas LSD drags you there, whether you want to go or not.

That's interesting. I've never taken mushrooms but I've always heard the opposite, that LSD is easier to guide yourself and mushrooms drag you.
I honestly don't see what you're getting at.

Obviously he was competent enough to get a promotion by whatever metric they were using.
I would like to see more laws to help create a better work environment for everyone. We all spend most of our time at work -- yet, somehow, we seem to give up every right as a human being when we become employees.

I do think that "hire/fire at will" is acceptable - but we should have decent lives and a great social safety net at the same time. After all, we live in a time where incredible wealth is being created (it just seems to be hoarded by the 1%)
>permanently breaks some websites when removed

Elaborate?
Like dumb parallel port cables? or db29? The good days amirite?
Weird that he titled it "my life saving drug" and went on to say it really didn't do much for him, much less get anywhere near saving his life...
My impression from what I'd read is that nearly anything that's got enough impact energy to penetrate clothing, soft flesh (denim & ballistic gel) and the hard bits of thorax, is going to get through perpendicular drywall very easily.

Here's the lightest round in common use, 22LR, holing 8 layers of drywall sequentially. This is 1/12th as much muzzle energy as .223:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ME3IEYoQXc

Here's pricy specialty frangible rounds designed not to go through walls... still going through walls in a test:

http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2014/09/daniel-zimmerman/sh...
Crowbar is a general concept - a short across a supply. A diode across the rails acts as such, so I referred to it as a crowbar. I'm familiar with SCR-based active crowbar circuits - what we're disagreeing about is narrow-prescriptive versus wide-descriptive usage of a term.

Most frayed cables are going to simply short or open, but the right combination of such would cross wires. But sure, they're going to be rare.

On a $500 device I would indeed expect a modicum of robustness against negligently designed cables and other weirdness. I mean, I'm not the only one that doesn't have a cable tester and buys cables without a connected-equipment warranty, right? Historically, electrical connections have been designed to deal with weird shit. Do you think you could kill an RS-232 port with any permutation of connections?

Of course the cost metric explains why devices are no longer robust. In fact the manufacturer only has to worry about in-warranty failures, and furthermore only the ones they can't blow off as "user error". Just because devices are designed for the 4 month (or whatever it's down to) upgrade cycle, doesn't mean that informed consumers shouldn't call out designers of such equipment as the cheapskates they are!
If BABA keeps declining in value, you'll reach a point where in hindsight it'll be obvious that Yahoo should have just sold the holdings, taken the tax hit, and distributed the money to shareholders. And that's a crap situation to be in, because you'll have armchair pundits calling out the company for not doing it.

If BABA stays in value or goes up, then selling off the core is the best option, except it's hard, it has all sorts of complications, it takes a lot more time than someone just buying the entire company, which makes it harder to find buyers, and you might not get as good as price as you could if you sold the entire thing.

Either way, you are making a huge bet on the future value of BABA, and you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
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My grandfather has two guaranteed benefit pensions: one FBI and one as chief of local police. But you're right, they're vanishingly rare for anyone in the private sector under 80.

Bankruptcy by medical disaster should be averted by Medicare and a supplementary plan, assuming it's late enough in life. Slightly earlier, and yeah, your savings can vanish.
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Hi, member of the TypeScript team here. A big reason for the file size increase seems to be the inclusion of an AMD module loader and AMD prologues themselves.

By targeting CommonJS and using Browserify, you see a nice decrease. I've sent out a pull request since finding this.

https://github.com/samccone/The-cost-of-transpiling-es2015-i...
//my experience

var self = (function LSD(self) {

if (self) {
return {
ontology: new Ontology(),
ego: null
}
}
else return self

})(former_self)

edit: spacing. But seriously though, LSD can encourage/force you to re-think things you've taken for granted or never really understood. Like what time is, or how empathy works.
My Galaxy Tab S is a great ebook reader. The screen is the best I've seen, and it's a joy for art/photo books and graphic-heavy PDFs.

But it doesn't get much use as a browser - not least because of Google's bizarre decision not to include a PDF reader.
In your other comments I noticed you referenced meditation. Can you talk about the effect that a 20 minute meditation session has on you?
I have an etiquette question. We're allowed to put positive comments on jobs listed here, why are we not allowed to critique jobs on here?
`ln` is a utility commonly used for making links. Searching for this project in the future is going to be a pest.
I should clarify. My COLA statement includes increased medical costs/consumption, longer life, lack of keeping up with GDP, etc. Total lifetime costs might be better phrasing.
I came here to express the same sentiment. I'm trying to come up with the best way of saying not to do drugs, but yet everyone should try psychedelics at some point in their lives. Mushrooms are a much better experience, especially for a newcomer. LSD is much more of an intense, laugh at everything high, and to me felt very "chemical". Mushrooms made me feel like a million dollars, and was much more of a relaxed experience. You'll definitely feel like you can solve all the world's problems, and maybe even comes up with next big startup idea! :)
> Maybe these drugs are just a shortcut.

That's exactly what they are. Few people reach through meditation what these drugs can show anyone, but meditation will get you there as well, perhaps with more control.
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"We made black with light"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmHSIEx69TQ&t=35m18s
It's old news, but underused. This is a life savior especially when you have to deal with software that you don't control, which spits out unoptimized assets. If you have compilophobia, use EasyEngine [0] or Centminmod [1]!

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Wow. People don't talk about it too much in the same breath as all of the new trendy AI stuff, but Swiftkey has been doing incredibly smart input work for years, and is probably the most actually-useful AI app available for Android. I think I had it since it's earliest days, like 2009 or 2010?
I've tried using commercial radios before, but the biggest annoyance is the difficulty in either 1) getting programming software and 2) actually using the software, which usually has an atrocious UI.

At least with a purpose-built ham radio you can enter frequencies directly on the handset, even if it's a pain. Although the programming software for them is almost as bad.
Would a 35million dollar salary change your mind?
"I don't need AR, just give me a wearable interface to my phone so that I don't have to pull it out of my pocket to interact with it."

Isn't that the idea behind smartwatches and Google Cardboard?
Now I'm jokingly imagining running Emacs and "term" mode with mutt or elinks and running vi to do the editing. It sounds silly on the surface, but I think is a testament to the composability of the tools.

Edit: tested Emacs/elinks, and it works if the TERM is changed from eterm-color to vt100. Hooray for text and Unix.
I'm coming to appreciate the plight of the middle class at this point. How the hell am I supposed to put away enough savings for a house, retirement for two, and college savings for 2.5 kids? Between myself and my girlfriend, "household" income is around 200k.

I should be exactly the person opposing these tax increases. I'm squarely in the white, male, 95% demographic.

Yet, the more I look at the financial figures for the total population, the more I realize how lucky we really are. I can't conscionablely oppose paying more in taxes. I just wish the system of expenditure was more rational.
Here's an interesting study that seems to counter this claim:
http://psychedelicfrontier.com/psychedelics-reductions-suici...

http://jop.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/01/08/026988111456...

Classic psychedelic use is associated with reduced psychological distress and suicidality in the United States adult population

"Psychedelic users showed a significantly lower likelihood of recent psychological distress, as well as less suicidal thinking and fewer suicide attempts, than non-users. Users were 36% less likely to have attempted suicide in the past year.

Use of other illicit substances, say the researchers, are “by and large associated with an increased likelihood of psychological distress and suicidality.” The use of non-psychedelic substances is a suicide risk factor, they conclude, but psychedelics appear to have the reverse effect."
There are several teams at MS using ember (and ember-cli), and they've been PR'ing improvements. (Source: MS hosted the last Seattle Ember Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Ember-js-Seattle-Meetup/events/2278796...)

What helped me the most was moving to Node 4+, which made memory management MUCH better.
Ha - yes, I would take one year of 35M and then likely be fired.
> Sure, it is - it's worth a few billion.

Yahoo market cap: $27.5bn

Alibaba post-tax: $17.5bn

Y! Japan post-tax: $6bn

Net cash: $5bn

Market value of core Yahoo: -$1bn. Ouch!

If Yahoo didn't have those assets, the market cap would fairly reflect the value of a slowly declining multi-billion-dollar business, and it would be perfectly positioned for a takeover by private equity, who would proceed to milk the company dry, delivering tremendous shareholder value for everyone...

But since the uncertainty around the stakes are so high, you get the above weird valuation of the core, which makes selling off the core very difficult. The market doesn't "know" what a fair price for it is.
And where would one find such "suitable" environments? It's not like I can just go to a shady bar and ask around.
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Well... I am not going to claim that Oasis itself has better uptime than Github. :)

(Although we have had very few unexpected issues, we still need to take Oasis down briefly during updates. This is something I'm working on fixing, and until then I try my best to schedule updates when people are asleep...)

As to GP's concern about longevity of the service, the key point is that unlike any SaaS service, you can easily move your data off Oasis onto a self-hosted server running only open source software, and end up with exactly the same user experience you had before.
It's only fun in theory. What's not fun is when you have to answer to investors, which give no shits about you or your employees, and only dollars, or what they perceive will increase their returns. Often, this is aligned with what management wants to do and what the employees want to do, but in a situation like this, the incentives can be heavily misaligned.
Another implementation using ARM support for cache locking: http://research.microsoft.com/~ssaroiu/publications/asplos/2...
I've heard tor black markets are decent way to get that. Safer than asking to strangers depending on where you live. I've also heard getting a test kit is a good idea.
Readability also works: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/readability/oknpjj...
Your only leverage is getting a new job and/or straight up quitting. Unless you're willing to do either of those, they're going to keep dangling that carrot.

Force their hand and say you'll have to seriously consider other offers unless there's an equity package coming from them within a week.

Only do this, however, if you're willing to have your bluff called. If you're not, you have no negotiating power and will be relying on their kindness.
For one, this is on-demand and doesn't rewrite the default keybindings of the browser. It is nice for anyone else using your browser where they can ignore it entirely. It's a tradeoff and each has their benefits.
This reads like unhinged paranoid performance art
What I have been using for making programmer's notes is CatWiki[1], a very simple wiki that uses Markdown and stores its pages as text files.

1: https://github.com/cabalamat/catwiki
I believe that psychedelics and meditation all point to the same source, and in fact some of my most profound trips seem to point directly at meditation. I've since taken up the practice and use psychedelics much less, but IMO they're still invaluable depending upon the context.
There is precisely zero reason to believe this. If you target developers first, you'll get systems that suit developers needs (see: Unix). Quit using trite phrases like "Basic Economics" as an unsupported justification until you learn something about the topic.
That's the more sound advice.

Also, random_bytes() > openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() :P

Though if you use random_compat[1] it might be the same function ;)

[1]: https://github.com/paragonie/random_compat
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What's unprecedented to an even greater degree is the scale at which mundane communications are now recorded. In the past, the bulk of private communications were opaque to the government, even with a warrant, because people exchanged private information mostly verbally, face to face.

Today many analogous conversations take place online, in instant messages, in email, and in other persistent media. Even when the content of a communication isn't recorded as an artifact of its medium of expression and transmission, there's almost always a record left behind to indicate that the communication took place, revealing associations and hinting at what was said.

So by emphasizing the legal history of searches of "long-distance communications", you've moved the goalposts by a mile. Changes in the way we communicate with one another, reflecting changes in communications technology (and changes in society), mean that governmental powers in searches and surveillance, powers which formerly applied only to relatively rare forms of communication, now apply very broadly. At the same time the government's cost of performing such searches and surveillance has plummeted, multiplying the power of police and spies to monitor our words and use them against us.

It's an unprecedented state of affairs, indeed.
Yahoo to look at job cuts, alongside spin-off
Just to be clear (and expand on ocdtrekkie's comment):

- Most apps today do not require login when accessing a sharing link. It's an important design goal for us that your friends don't have to create accounts to collaborate.

- <vaporware>We plan to add ways to bind grains to easier-to-remember names in the future.</vaporware>