skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feinstein and Burr have forgotten (or maybe never knew it) that their role in the Intelligence Committee is to act as oversight for the NSA and CIA, not as their PR department. It's as if they think their role in the Intelligence Committee is to do the intelligence agencies' bidding - not the other way around. That's what's insane and what has already gotten too far.

There is no intelligence oversight in the U.S. The intelligence agencies seem to be running the Senate, or at least the Senate Intelligence Committee.
If you think you're going to get me to reconsider my take on Yarvin by empathizing with the amount of flak he's taking, you have a higher bar to clear than you might think. I come from 1990s vulnerability research. Look into how intractable grievances got resolved there, and get back to me. To fully empathize, have all your utilities turned off, first.

Yarvin is a racist. It's not a secret. He couldn't even help himself from pitching racism (I'm sorry, "HBD") in his Lambdaconf announcement! He's not exploring the idea as an essayist.

He's also a third-stage guild navigator grade message board nerd (it takes one to know one) with the full bag of tricks ready to deploy for when plausible deniability becomes convenient to him, as it has with you. It's much more fun to get people like you twisted up into knots about the fairness of it all than for him to face the social consequences of the odious beliefs he's preaching.

But by all means, anonymous HN commenter, do continue telling me how scared I should be of people mining what I've written and using it against me. There's a lot of that writing to find, an embarrassing amount here in particular, and I've signed my name to all of it.

I am unlikely to see any reply you write to this, given how old the thread is. Sorry.
This seems like it would be a great idea if it can be done because the market for it would probably be very large.

However it seems to me that doing this would be very difficult for at least 2 main reasons.

First spreadsheets can be organized in essentially arbitrary ways and there is no standard way of defining the semantics of data in them. There can also be all sorts of references between data items and unlike SQL there is nothing to explicitly define the nature of these references. How could a program take an arbitrary collection of spreadsheets and transform them into a webapp that has significantly more functionality than just loading them into Google docs ?

Second spreadsheets often use macros and other programming constructs so I think you also have the problem of building a general translator from macros/VB/Excel functions to javascript/whatever backend language you're using. This again seems like a fairly difficult problem to tackle in general.
Or make a big hole in it, as happened last time.
If you don't know about it, School Bus figure 8 racing is an (amazing) thing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUuWWqRBpwc
Care sharing reduces demand for parking spaces and promote public transit which is generally considered a good thing.
If WordPress enables (preloaded) HSTS, that would not matter.
Thanks for the input and resources!
Squarespace needs to follow suit
>I'm pretty sure 70.78% is more accurate than I am with reCAPTCHA manually.

exactly. Many reCAPTCHA are beyond simple recognition and make me start guessing. I expect we'll see new type of reCAPTCHA - you're a human if you make mistake and robot if correct answer is typed in :) Similar to those 1x1 images not visible to humans, yet visible to the robots.
That would mark the first time the broad public actually changes behaviour because of a perceived threat to their anonymity and data.

I'd be putting my money on the soap people if that were to play out.
How exactly is firefox 'complicated' ?
If you are on the Project Fi network, Google can use open wifi networks for making calls. You'd need to leave wifi on to take advantage of this.

This is taken care of by google, so I never connect to a network/sign-in, etc.
Yeah, it's enough to get people to be aware of the cluelessness at face value. I'm not sure I even want to contemplate the level of cynical deviousness implied by the harm being intentional. Or, as is often said, never attribute to malice what can be explained by cluelessness.
> the better and more popular your work is, the more money you'll make from it

That is not always true. Highly specialized content, which has tiny audience, can be equally profitable. In the end, money reflects the need for the content.
I think it would be great if there were a way to mouse-over a word and get a popup with the word's translation and information like part of speech, conjugations, declensions, etc.
Thanks for reading. The Economist ads are a great point that I didn't address, and makes me even more worried for the high-quality news and content industry than I initially noted.
When I wrote to Feinstein in the past, I received a form letter telling me that her mind was already made up and that she knew was was in my best interest. She didn't even have the courtesy to lie and say that she would consider my opinion. I'm in her district, and I lost a lot of hope at that moment.
More of an indirect way of suggesting that basic presentation and marketing skills are more important than whoever runs the site evidently thinks.
Audi also has an RS7 set up for self-driving on a track. It can turn quite good lap times but currently the racing line is just preprogramed and so it can't handle other vehicles on the track at the same time, but it's still neat progress.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2k2LpV6H7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOYsI1cqUrw
I am sure an Uber for white people would be quite a success despite being morally offensive. Thankfully people fought (and still fight) to stop this sort of crude discrimination and any such business will soon be sued out of existence.

I am interested to know what sort of thinking went through the investors heads when they were pitched Chariot.
I would say that unless China is your market focus on R&D / marketing / customer service in your primary markets and worry about that first. You can grow there while the folks in China will have troubles addressing anyone beyond their borders.

As for cloning your site into Chinese it's probably harder than you think and even still your site could be blocked with the right payoff to the government. When I was managing bitbucket.org a Chinese company approached us to license the technology and setup a mirror in China -- we refused and almost immediately bitbucket.org was blocked in China. A few weeks later a clone of bitbucket.org showed up with far less features.

It took many months of effort, however after working with the Australian Embassy and several lawyers to contact the Chinese government we were able to file a position with the Ministry of Technology (or Information, cannot remember exactly) and then a few days later our site was unblocked.

After it was all said and done, in the end we decided to focus on markets that are more approachable (western) since we could better service those markets as they matched our identity better.
Maybe this is a stupid question but why do they land that thing on floating vessel vs. fixed target on land? Seems like it will be more difficult to manage this in the ocean given that the vessel itself is moving around with the ebbs and flows of the waves..
Hey, hey, don't mix weirdos and actual GNU Project together.

Had GNU Project had ever really insisted on plastering "GNU" branding on some derivatives? I really doubt that. What they had always asked is to call their OS by it's name and give the proper attribution when you base something on it. Just like everyone else (BSD) does.

The OS without kernel is called "GNU", and with kernel it's "GNU/Linux". Oh, and the editor's "GNU Emacs" (because there are other Emacses). That's all that GNU Project had ever asked.

If you see some weirdo telling that, say, Debian must be called "GNU Debian" or something, tell that they're nuts because Debian is not a part of GNU Project. But if someone expands and explains what Debian is ("Debian distribution of GNU OS with Linux kernel"), then surely, it's only right to give GNU some well-deserved attribution about the OS they wrote. That's all they ask.

Oh, and I really don't get why author says it's not "Ubuntu" but "GNU". Ubuntu it is, with Ubuntu being a GNU distribution.
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I'm not really sure how that applies. You'll have to define what you think is the guilt-trip, and how it's different than social pressure.that provides a positive effect. I see a loose social contract, but that's the same effect that prevents a lot of negative selfish behavior, so I see it as mostly positive. There are of course cases where you are pressured to conform for conformity's sake, and there is little or no benefit in much of that, but I don't think that applies here
I came here to say the same thing. GNU provides user-land applications and libraries. I have a hard time seeing their jump to "GNU operating system". There's a LOT of code that makes up a *nix distribution and GNU, I'm sure, is a fairly small part of the overall code even though it's a pretty important one.
Is the main point to be alienated or is the point to further your cause through effective outreach? I suspect they thought the former was the main point, but group pathologies made it the latter. (Again, this applies to both groups I mention in my comment above.)
Bbeing emotional is key to being human
Brendan Eich just can't seem to catch a break.
There should still exist one well-known unencrypted page. Sometimes, I need to log in to hotel or airport wifi and therefore need to accept a MitM attack. I would prefer this not to be the case.
Serious question: how would you store them?

When you're the server, you can hash them, but when you're the client, you need to access the credentials in order to send them to the remote server, so you can't hash them. You could encrypt them, but you'd need the decryption key readable by WP anyway, so it'd just be security theater.

See https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords
This also reminds me of private vs public health care. For fun, look up the "American Letter Mail Company" too.
Clearly, I need to stop eating wheat.
Most of the earth is water. The launch vehicle travels a significant lateral distance and the can burn less fuel getting to a nearby boat vs far away land.
It's harder to land on water but it requires less fuel overall, and is safer. Check out the launch/recovery diagram on this article and it will become more obvious why it would require more fuel to return the booster to land:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/8/11392138/spacex-landing-suc...
It is less essential these days than it used to be. There are replacements for just about everything from other projects. Many are under even more permissive licensing. A userland is not enough to form an OS either. It is enough to be an organ donor for other operating systems. Each Linux distribution could be considered its own OS.

Also, much of the development behind GNU components were meant for other operating systems than the GNU operating system. There would be many more working on the GNU kernel if that were not the case.
The problem is reverse transcriptase[1] (the enzyme that causes the copy errors) is a key part of how HIV infects the cell[2]. If we could fix that, we could simply block it from working at all, stopping the virus's ability to copy itself into the cell's chromosome. This is actually how a lot of the HIV drugs work (reverse transcriptase inhibitors[3]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_transcriptase

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS1GODinO8w#t=100

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse-transcriptase_inhibito...
what is the read / write time like?
this seems to create very homogenous neighborhoods. it would be nice if these styles were mixed up a bit. otherwise this would create very depressing environments.

this also seems like it wouldn't work inside the US. the main barrier to housing affordability here is zoning laws that prevent density and enough housing units from being built.

that said, i think with some modifications (ie create more variation) this is a good way for countries to be proactive about preventing slums.
Probably because that's the direction the rocket is going: out over the Atlantic.
What design did they copy? As far as I can see you are both just using Twitter Bootstrap? The logo - is that the lightning icon?

What is the background functionality? Are you competing in the same market?

If you are worried about looking similar to other sites then spend some time on a more distinctive design than Bootstrap.
I agree it would be good to make the changelog unreadable but what are the numerous other ways it's insecure by default? As for the rate at which vulnerablities appear, Drupalgeddon was a very rare case. I haven't noticed Drupal having security issues noticeably more often compared to other software, what are you basing that claim on?
I'll bite, why is this something we shouldn't "let go on?" The CIA invests in companies doing research that support it's mission. You can disagree with the mission and work to change it, but what is wrong here? Why is it a crime to let a company develop this technology?
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I built a gui/music downloader using this last year. Called musicBoo in case you want to check it out. Its multiplatform, having problems in deployment though (in java swing)
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This is the second website I've ever built. My first one was also a React project, a few months ago, but with a single json file as a 'database' and a much smaller scope. In this case I've used searchkit (http://searchkit.co) to build a more sophisticated product, while learning about elasticsearch queries, typescript, and too much css to think about.

What is it? Basically, it's a site that lets you impose tons of filters on search results, all of which help to explore the vast array of Magic: the Gathering cards that exist. It also shows a breakdown within those filters so you get an idea what you're looking at. (For example, there are 2427 cards that are pure red, represented by setting 'Colours' to red and 'Colour Count' to 1. If you look at the Type filter, you'll see 1361 of those are creatures. Of those, 403 of them have power 2. In the Subtype filter, it shows that Humans have most representation at 265, followed closely by Goblins at 241.)

I've had a lot of design and feature feedback from people so I've already got a good amount of fixes and new features to add. It's been a good experience so far, learning how to make this (except, really, css). In particular, the searchkit devs have made this much easier by helping me out with questions and such, especially concerning elasticsearch.
> What's so difficult about just opening an incognito window and suffering the couple of seconds it takes for a computer halfway across the world to deliver you content while you sit at your desk?

The whole point of the post was that I'm doing something inordinately ridiculous to access a little bit of good content. Scraping and incognito browsing are both anti-patterns that are symptoms of a sick media industry. A media that is sick cannot provide us with good news and content that we can use to further our critical thinking, and we should be worried and thinking about how we can possibly solve this problem instead of trying to bypass it.
"Secondly, when you see someone using a GNU/kWindows system, politely ask them why. Tell them that there is a better operating system out there—the GNU/Linux operating system—that not only provides those technical features, but also provides the feature of freedom! Tell them what free software is, and try to relate it to them so that they understand why it is important, and even practical."

Am I the only one thinking of crusading Mormons here? ;)
If you receive a sealed letter and the police get a warrant, they can search your drawer and open that letter.

Also, if you have a letter, you can discard of it as you see fit, and the information therein vanishes into the aether. This agency is removed when we move into the realm of bits over digital networks, where information can be copied and retained without one's authorization.

The agency to discard of the letter as you see fit, at a time of your choosing is in effect restored through the use of strong cryptography.

If you have a private conversation with someone, a prosecutor can subpoena that person and force them to testify about what you told them.

Having an unauthorized recording of an event, and asking someone to recount an event are very different things.

attempting to maintain powers

It's not about the 'police maintaining powers they already have' because the situations are different. If the situations were the same, the powers would be the same, and this conversation wouldn't exist.

The situations may seem similar to you, because we make sense of the world through analogy, but there are important differences.

The essentially instant and infinite nature of bits and digital data allows for all those 'warrants' and 'subpoenas' to be 'served' before they have even seen a judicial system. I.e. governments can suck up all the 'locked' data into giant 'pre-crime' databases. Or, require that communication networks retain data, when it's not already happening as a matter of course.

If governments are then given the key to that locked data they essentially have a time machine to attempt to dredge up any evidence, or whatever they want from people's personal effects.

There's nothing similar about that to anything. Nothing like that has ever existed in the history of the world.

So we have a new situation, and with it a new choice to make. This choice requires we ask ourselves, Do we want to lean towards tyranny or lean towards liberty?

Terms like 'progress' are relative and subjective, but still useful when there is mutual understanding. What is being progressed towards? A freer society with less potential for government overreach and tyrannical actions.

So in that case, yes this bill is regressive.

And, that's just one aspect of what makes this bill objectionable, and frankly, retarded.

Anyone with an inkling of how the modern economy works and it's reliance on cryptography, knows that this bill is ridiculous.

The simple matter is that you can't have modern strong cryptography with 'backdoors,' or whatever doors. It doesn't exist, it never will, the two are mutually exclusive. And further, the cryptography genie is not going back in the bottle, that is just as inconceivable. So it would be best for everyone if governments educated themselves on these matters and stopped wasting everyone's time and money on this.
Napster, torrents, and the free internet warped an entire generation's perspective on things. This sort of "everything should be free" attitude isn't going away any time soon.
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If you're the client, you need to store the password in a way such that you can send it to the SMTP server. Storing it in any other way than plain text is just security theater, because if WP can read it to send the emails, so can the attacker who takes over WP.

https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/PlainTextPasswords

The only way to secure this is at the email server itself, by limiting the permissions of those credentials; for example, the IMAP/POP server could have a filter to save the bounces to a specific folder, and then allow access to only that folder for those credentials.
I think the GNU/Linux fight has been over for a long time. Hearing once again why GNU should be included in the name is about as interesting as being told that kerosene, heroine, and dry ice are all trademarks (and, coincidentally, key parts of my camping kit).
Cygwin does that. forking does not perform very well.
SHOUTING doesn't make it true.

Elections do not matter, not for anything important. The civil rights act happened because people were willing to go to jail over what was right, the same goes for the draft.

Gerrymandering has made most elections farcical, and money does the rest.

Running as an independent is a way to get exactly nothing passed as both parties, which really are just one two-headed Hydra, will shut out outsiders.

And this only covers elected officials, most laws and regulations are made by life long bureaucrats.

It's amazing the myopia of people, this bill is but one of the thousand examples of our corrupt illegitimate government. Again the government does not care for you or your beliefs, it cares for power and money, it will pass secret trade deals, it will pass secret laws in secret courts, it will torture and imprison those that oppose it.

Does anyone have an honest response? America is a corrupt police state run by an unaccountable elite.

Amazing how so many people refuse to see the truth that is so obvious.
The ocean landing is more difficult. But you have to realize getting to orbit is not about height, it's about speed. By the time the first stage is separated the rocket is going 3000 m/sec away from the launch pad. It takes a lot of fuel to arrest that motion and go back the other way, whereas the barge will be right where you want to land given the situation at separation.
It's not wrong in general. `const` is a property of the binding, not the value. If it were an object instead of the literal `2` then the author's point would be valid.
See for me, the strangeness of this post is not the anti-ad message, though she does lay it on a bit thick, it's the solution. That said, I'm quite happy with most anti-adwall points of view, I share them. :)

Maybe I'm just not enough of a techie any more, but "switching between Android and iOS" doesn't strike me as unusual enough that any one site is the only place with the right answer. So long before I break out curl and write little python scripts I'd hit at least two non-paywalled sites for an answer. Or in the case of Wired turn JS off and happily read all their content. Either is much quicker than the simplest scripting moment...

I'll save the scripting moments for the sites that appear to be the only place with an answer to something esoteric, like the single hit for a driver or kernel issue.
There needs to be a javascript flavor/js based language that allows operator overloading...so that there can be something like numpy in javascript. I love js's semantics much more than python's so it'd be great to do quick and dirty numeric stuff in js.
congratulations to them again, but sure there has to be some land mass somewhere they can use. Or are they just predicting a day they don't want to be bound to any nation?
It's not like the Windows kernel is bad or useless.

The NT kernel is pretty darn good, so long as it's not polluted with things that don't belong in it. It shares a lot of heritage with the VAX kernel. A lot of the same people worked on both. If you don't molest it, the NT kernel can (and does) run ultra high reliability things like RAID arrays.
Iranians are not arabic in general.
Hmmm, good point. Ok, if you count individual messages, there is more spam, but if you look at the kinds of spam messages, they are way less diverse. So spam goes into one of ~10 buckets (419, pharmacy, fake conferences, view my profile, etc.), but the rest goes into 1000 different buckets. But you still have a good point.
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