skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I still find it mindblowing that you have to pay for certificates

You pay for the CA to verify you are who you claim to be.
The big difference between the two is that the banks have the information and are already subject to lots of record keeping regulations and so it is not an undue burden for them to comply with a subpoena demanding information. Apple does not currently have what the FBI is asking for and to comply would mean creating that software.

If the government wants to pass a law requiring phone makers like Apple to include a back door, then that's what they should do.

For me, this boils down to whether or not people are allowed to have strong encryption.
You could use a browser plug-in that required pages with a particular attribute to conform to a Gopher-like schema.
It might get easier for law enforcement in the future.

A bill by US lawmakers, set for release in March, could require encrypted devices to be able to give un-encrypted data to law enforcement. Feinstein says the bill is "coming along ... some people are making it a lot harder than we think it needs to be". An alternate proposal is also on the table

http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-cybersecurity/2016...
I have a collection of old C64 games flying around on some of my external drives. Never got to play them. But one day I remembered Deuteros. An old Amiga game. I made it through the whole game back then without knowing English at all. I was so proud back then, I had to pick it up. I couldn't believe it but I played it through all the way again. I really can't say what it was exactly but I guess it was the flashback. The sounds, the graphics and understanding!

I continued with Lure of the Temptress. I only had a buggy version where you couldn't save. I played this with 3 other people. Beginning every Friday. Ending on Sunday... It was fantastic to finally finish it and being able to save.

But if I look at all the games I had back then, most of them are not worth it, but if you seriously look at it: they never were ;)
I think you underestimate the value of trust in business and government. Its a common failing in the hacker ethos. Just because you CAN mess with the programming of an elevator the president uses every day doesn't mean you SHOULD.
We actually started a year before IPFS so we built our own DHT, but then IPFS came along and did a better job (the DHT part was never our primary focus) so we adopted theirs. IPFS is a pleasure to work with, both programmatically and people-wise. Juan and Jeremy and the rest of the team are super friendly and responsive, and make great design decisions. Without sounding like I've drunk some coolaid, I really do think that IPFS is the future.

Currently we use IPFS for the P2P networking and treat it as a distributed hash table, so it has a really simple interface. As soon as IPNS is mature enough we will also switch to using that over our current centralised signed hash updates. Eventually we hope to use Filecoin as well for getting others to store your fragments. We have a centralised "core node" which stores username <--> public key mappings and pending follow requests, however both of these are well suited to some kind of blockchain for full decentralization. We currently proxy all queries to IPFS through our own server (either our public server, or the one you run on your machine), but that is not a fundamental requirement. We are working on a FUSE implementation as well. Everything we do is open source so yes anyone could write their own client.
It's a lot easier than Paypal to make an account and send money. Your friends and contacts are already loaded via whatever social network you OAuth[orized] the app through.

It is quite literally as easy as typing a friends name and having it auto completed. Typing in a number and hitting send.

Paypal might have an app that does something similar and it likely came after Venmo gained popularity. For most of us, who have been using Paypal since the 2000s, it might not seem logical, but Paypal UI experience does seem like an archaic UI experience by comparison even to me.
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I also have the option of finishing up my degree. Should I just go back to school full time and try to transfer and work at work part time with the same equity arrangement or should I just continue with the advice that every one else has advised.
The fact that everyone has it and people don't believe that Square Cash actually works as well as it does.
We've been using DeployHub at LaunchDarkly for a bit now, and it's a great tool to have in our arsenal. The thing I like about it is that it focuses on doing one thing well. Too many tools in this space try to control the deploy process too-- we've already got ansible and other tooling that works great there, but providing visibility + metrics on our deploys is super valuable.
They've talked about it on Reddit a lot. https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3w8dgn/announc...

Their Rust stuff is closed source, not open source.
> Windows still refers to devices by physical location.

Nope, not since NT. I learned that the hard way when moving a HDD containing Win2k around. Even though it was hooked to IDE master it would come up as D: as that was what it was assigned after it got formated with NTFS.

You can go into disk manager and assign a partition any letter than is not already in use.

You can even mount a partition into a existing FHS, much like on unix, but i can't say i have seen it used often.

Basically the letters are there for backwards compatibility.
well put!!!
SQL sucks compared to mongo ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Daniel, thanks for sharing your thoughts. My initial focus will be in public datasets (e.g. Imagnet). People are already making their code and results available online through different mediums. However, I'm hoping having a specialized platform where you can share your whole environment will improve discoverability and reproducibility which should have great impact in collaboration as well.
The question that all the writers are asking is: in such a world, how do I make a living wage and put food on the table?
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The remedy for illegal search is that evidence obtained through the illegal search is excluded at the defendant's trial.[0] That's all you get.

In short, if this isn't punished, why won't it happen repeatedly?

It isn't punished, and it does happen repeatedly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclusionary_rule
Thanks for your insights. Our early customers also mention that prices are too low.

We are now adding tiered pricing plans and charging for based on usage. I'll make sure to add that in our current YC application too.
Because if one of those companies struggles or goes under then you have a serious problem on your hands. It's also indicative of the lack of a thriving startup culture.
Relevant podcast: 99% Invisible's incredibly creepy look into number stations http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/numbers-stations/
I think the most reasonable comparison would be with Square, and it's a question of marketing. While Square has p2p payment features it's marketing is mostly towards businesses with its tagline being "start selling today" right on its website. Venmo's tagline is "share payments," indicating they're marketing themselves mostly for p2p. Paypal is a bit of a pain to sign up in comparison with Venmo, which allows seamless Facebook Auth via your phone so is easier for people to sign up for. Kind of all irrelevant since Paypal owns Venmo anyway, but there you go.
This feels like the beginning of global population flat lining in the coming years. We eventually want the population of the world to level out and decline for environmental reasons. Are there ways to combat the adverse economic effects of a declining population besides trying to raise the birth rate?
Well sure, there's a "libertarian" angle and there's a "pragmatic" angle here. I don't want to be beating a dead horse but with the way things are shaping up for bitcoin things are getting pretty centralized and as a result easy to control.

As for being "outside the bounds of politics and the law" when it really comes down to it you can only go so far especially if there's something as sensitive and highly visible as "money" is involved.
Even in the reasonably "soft" western countries there are subpoenas, cease and desist orders etc. All of that can be set in motion by the government who has the final say.
In China - they just disconnect the whole country from the internet :)
http://hnrankings.info/10763732/

If any censorship was going on, it would have fallen off the front page. As it stands, it stayed above #10 for 16 solid hours.

The title was edited to remove clickbait.
By writing things that are worth paying for?
That error was factory test error code -- it was never meant for end users. It was a bug, that's all. Any other kind of bug could exist that prevents a device from booting (like the recent Jan 1 1970 issue).
In the 1930s the majority of basketball players were Jews. So, race has little to do with sports performance at least in basketball.
Yes, and the fight won't stop after this court battle.

A bill by US lawmakers, set for release in March, could require encrypted devices to be able to give un-encrypted data to law enforcement. Feinstein says the bill is "coming along ... some people are making it a lot harder than we think it needs to be". An alternate proposal is also on the table

http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-cybersecurity/2016...
Unfortunately most sites I visit don't offer reader view as an option.
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Instapaper? Reader View? RSS readers? Ebooks? Separation of form from content is both practical and commonplace.

Your blog post may be beautifully styled, but that makes no difference if I can't even load it, or the fonts are so thin I have to squint to try to read, or the glaring white background makes me see floaters. A blind person doesn't care about the whizz-bang of $framework if your JS-only site breaks their screen reader.
If you were to take a seedling from a tree and grow a new one, then great. But when you take the whole tree then it is a problem. Some cacti take a century to grow, and there really aren't very many of them.
It's times like these when I think to myself why I'm bothering to enter this field? I mean, I really wanna go into the tech feel to make awesome stuff, but hearing how hard it is for people who look like me (black African college student in the mid west) just gets me down.

Then again, software engineering has only been a thing for about 40-50 odd years and is young as compared to other professions, so I guess things will change.
> Has there been any significant effort to really comprehensively evaluate the data around gun violence and gun control?

http://www.businessinsider.com/congressional-ban-on-gun-viol...
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This is the new anti-dating and anti-Tinder App
Imo the bigger issue isn't the bigco itself going down: it's the hundreds of suppliers (and there are many levels of suppliers supplying to higher tier suppliers) that may also go down in a domino effect.
Great, good luck!
Wao. Much hate. Such speech.

I mean, the threat is empty because there are no people like that. Everybody hates and everybody has some choice words to say in moments of anger but nobody will just go out and hurt another over a few words on the internet. And if you would, you're an unstable inhuman psychopath who can no longer be considered a person. You would have gone and killed people no matter what age you live in and no matter what words are said to you, because you are fundamentally not a person. Animals like you are why the second amendment exists.

In closing, What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo
> Is nobody willing to acknowledge the reality of genetically inherited IQ?

What are you saying? are you really saying the lighter the skin the more "intelligent" one is? Ceteris paribus ? you know it's ridiculous and you know where this kind of "pseudo-scientific" ideology leads.

> Is that why we hide the truth,

What truth ? racism ? Ask yourself ,did you come to that conclusion after researching the topic or where you seeking arguments to fuel and rationalize your pre-existing bigotry ? Because with the same arguments you could make the same case to justify sexism or antisemitism. Yes for the nazis, the "vile" nature of the jews came from their genes.
I agree that the article's examples are great, but you don't need examples to convince me that a zero-warning API shut-off is a bad thing. Regardless of how many people are using the API (if it's non-zero), why not send them emails 3 months in advance? It costs you virtually nothing and almost certainly prevents this article from being written.
> Has there been any significant effort to really comprehensively evaluate the data around gun violence and gun control?

The NRC did a review in 2004 that is probably the closest to what you're seeking: http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10881/firearms-and-violence-a-cri...

It's not the comprehensive review of the literature you're looking for, but more recently in 2011, the Justice Department put out a report that might also be of interest: http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf
I like to think of hobby software as one of the last realms on earth where you can have a meritocracy

I like to think that, but I'm really not convinced that it's true.
Most companies won't pay for advertising online without the ability to monitor performance independent of the publisher (who could easily lie to make more money) and without the ability to more accurately detect fake clicks (which the publisher could help fake). Part of the way the big ad networks work is to detect fake visitors/clicks - on behalf of the publisher and the advertiser's competitors - and exclude them. We can argue the success/failure of how well they do it, but we can't really argue that companies want it.

One way you can do self-hosted ads is pay for purchase instead of pay per view or pay per click. In this, the website would participate in an affiliate program or company, promote their product on the site, and then get a cut of revenue (sales/subscriptions/etc). Unfortunately, this is a very small portion of advertising revenue and is very hit or miss.
Mmmm, I've seen dozens of decentralized social networks come and go. Hope this one makes it.
> hostility masked as objectivity

Well put. Thanks for posting valuable comments instead of responding in kind—it greatly improved this thread.

It takes longer for reflective and informative comments to show up than it does for reflexive ones, but they do eventually. It takes time to think and write something good. And often a thoughtful comment only gets posted because someone feels compelled to reply to a glib one. Here's an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11184489.
In this metaphor, I expected Bitcoin to be canning and Ethereum to be vacuum drying.
> What's even funnier is that white people are only a small percentage of world population but have the audacity to refer to all other races as 'minorities'.

I am fairly certain that is because they are often referring to other races in their own countries. If you live in the US, most of your news is about North America and Europe, both continents that are predominantly filled with white people.
>> why do companies bear the moral responsibility for fixing social ills?

Er, because they're part of society?

And because in the case of giants of the corporate world, like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft, they actually do have the wherewithal to influence that society to a degree that even governments often don't?
I can't remember the last time a promoted tweet was relevant for me. I am not going to buy Samsungs new super expensive phone, I am not going to be using mail-chimp.

So why do I keep seeing ads for crap I don't need and products I already know about, instead of new products that are useful that I can actually use? Maybe if ads were useful people would want to see them and so they wouldn't have to be annoying.
You do what most countries do. You allow skilled immigrants to enter the country and take the hit on the social costs.

They also have the side effect of, in most case, raising the birth rate for you.
> believe the data and not your gut.

Without considering where the data came from, under what assumptions was it collected, when was it collected, etc. how can you blindly lay faith in some "data"? I have some data which says N horses died on the streets of San Francisco last year; will you believe it? It just so happens that "last year" was 1895. Doesn't that make the "data" useless?

Show me any other major industrial sector where a 17-year-old can start a company and be bought out for $30MM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_D'Aloisio#Summly
Show me where highschool dropouts can make more than Harvard MBAs.

Yes, tech has problems with gender or ageism; but skin color is hardly ever an issue. In fact, if it is, it is in the other direction. I had a friend who graduated from a top CS school and couldn't get a faculty position. The Chair at one department actually told him: if you were a woman or minority, I'd hire you right away.

BTW: I'm not implying that everything is great. But compared to other sectors, tech is actually a pretty decent place to be if you don't "fit in" into the convention.
<kids shooting themselves or their family>

Realize that a lot of these press and anecdotal reports are false. Depicting an innocent (and more importantly, unprosecutable) child as the shooter lets a negligent (or perp) teen or adult evade investigation and prosecution.

There were several stories last year about a 2-year-old finding a handgun and shooting a family member with it. Given the hand strength and coordination of even your strongest 2-year-old, the idea that any could actually lift, grip (given the hand size vs. the frame size of even the smallest production handgun) aim, enable (e.g. take off safety where appropriate), and squeeze a trigger with the action necessary to make it fire straight is at best lottery odds. I don't think it's ever been demonstrated in a laboratory condition (which you would think anti-RKBA researchers must have attempted).

I could theoretically picture a kid pulling a trigger with thumb strength, but that could only hit the child or somebody directly behind him.
I always wondered about this app. Have been using it for years and no idea how they stay afloat.
> So is there any legal recourse against the public servant who violates the law, if the law itself provides no penalties?

(1) By definition, if the law provides no remedy, there is no legal recourse;

(2) The law often provides remedies, either specific to the violation or more general, but there may be difficulties in securing them (e.g., many violations of people's rights are, in fact, crimes by government agents. However, prosecutors are unlikely to pursue such crimes, especially if they were in support of executive policy rather than a rogue -- with respect to the leadership -- agent. Many also would generally open up civil liability under generally-applicable principals of law, but public officers and the public entities they work for may be able to assert various forms of governmental immunity to such liability.)

Ultimately, the remedies for bad behavior by government often must be political, rather than legal.
Which do you think is the mode effective time to implement a style guide: at the start of a project or after thousands of lines of code have been committed?

I don't see this as being dramatically different - establishing the ground rules for contributors before they commit a single line, so they can make an informed decision as to whether they want to be involved or not.
As I understand it, the port that USB is implemented on for the Pi machines is actually meant as an OTG port, made to act as a host by the drivers. On models with more than one USB port, there's a hub+ethernet chip. On the single-USB boards, they can actually be configured to act as OTG devices.

The whole situation means that OTG is unavailable on most models, models that have it only get one USB port (so OTG/host is an either-or proposition), and for the multi-USB+ethernet models, performance over those interfaces is worse than you'd expect (if I remember, BBB gets several times the transfer over USB and network, all at lower CPU usage, right?)
There are still more than 10,000 public NNTP servers around though I haven't looked at its trajectory to know whether the numbers are increasing/ decreasing:

https://www.shodan.io/report/kNLypDbO

Here's the actual search query:

https://www.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A119
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On paper a simple flag, but stringently enforced by every program and consumer deck out there (professional decks where a different matter).

As for what was better or worse i will not get into. MP3 was already turning into the de-facto standard, and thus Sony did themselves no favors by having people go the long way round.

I guess i missed the news about the last Sonicstage release, as by that time i had given up on how Sony was handing tings.
Likewise I read all Hacker News links and comments over an iPhone HN app. Absolutely don't miss the form at all except in the cases where the source HTML is not semantic and so the reader mucks it up. But that's an issue with structure relying on form.
0. Is README in good shape and the API is sane?
1. Last commit date in last month
2. Number of stars depending on the complexity of the lib
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I didn't at first either, but after using Venmo, the simplicity of the UI is amazing.

I can easily search for a friend, and send them money right away. In addition, you can request money from people.

It's really easy to split groceries, utilities, and other bills with roommates and friends.
'skilled immigrants'.

That's what they're calling mass population replacement now?
Man I can't get into this stuff at all because the curiosity and uncertainty alone would kill me. This thing, the cicada thing, that reddit number subreddit thing. Ugh.
If I remember correctly, PayPal owns Venmo.
And this is why I never read TechCrunch articles. They are a tabloid, and as far as I can tell have no place on HN. The comments never seize to be amusing though.