skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When everything starts at urgent and gets worse from there, people will just rescale the noise to be more understandable.

I really like that phrasing. I've been intuitively thinking along the same line but rescale is just the perfect word. Thanks!
I believed it was CIA and NSA that operated beyond u.s. borders. But of course, patterns that fbi finds could lead to other countries as well.
It seems there is no good answer (short of not using custom fonts) - while FOIT irritates me as well, the inevitable repositioning of everything on the page when the custom font loads is also deeply infuriating.
Copyright, according to the US Constitution, exists for the public good:

> To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

You may disagree with that conclusion, but there's 200+ years of belief that it's possible to be "for the public good" and be covered under copyright which restricts redistribution. The short term loss is outweighed by the long term gain, or so the belief holds.

Bear in mind that the copyright term back then was decades shorter than it is now.

That said, grant organizations are turning towards requiring publication either in an open access journal, or by having papers restricted for only a short time, rather than the full length of copyright.
webpagestickynotes.com has a diagram menu powered by js-sequence-diagrams, mermaid.js, flowchart.js & d3.js that allows frictionless text-to-SVG diagram rendering paired with a quick snapshot capability.

Additionally, draw.io can produce SVGs with embedded serialized draw.io state. Those SVGs can be added in a document or a sticky note and re-imported back to draw.io for later editing.
Or, rephrased, Congress gave the FBI a mandate they couldn't legally fulfil.
I'm sure advertising will find a use for it! Like "hyper-local ads" that can give you "just around the corner" deals in malls, etc.

> There is zero reason for an ad to be using the Geolocation API. IP-based geolocation is more than enough.

There was also zero reason for billboards by highways, before there were highways. :)
Doesn't law enforcement already cherry pick judges for the different warrants that they want?
Strings attached is fine. This PR is about making it technically possible to not ship source with a library. If the policy is "Here's the source, but you can't do anything with it," you don't need this PR; you only need it for "You can't see the source at all."

This PR is also not required for executables without source, which Go has supported forever, just for libraries without source.
I know this is getting into off-topic territory: That's exactly why I want a solid "real-linux" phone. Android is just too locked down and closed off for me. I've yet to try out the Ubuntu phone, but I'm really excited about it. Other than that, there's just no non-android linux phone that I know of.
I think you're just splitting hairs there.
For those of you who were confused by the title as I was:

> I am aware, of course, that scripts and fonts – as used in the title – are not the same thing. However, I like the comparison of the two, and used it here, because just like medieval script, a font also varies on the level of family (Times New Roman) and execution (e.g. a 12 point letter).

I thought maybe someone had developed some modern fonts from medieval scripts ... this is talking about hand-written scripts, which is still way cool.
The story is from the manager side. I wonder how it is told by the fired employee. Been in this situation before, not that nice as it's told "I helped him brainstorm about jobs he’d be happy in." So you know of jobs that do not exist in your org. LOL
I think a more accurate analogy: ZeroHedge is the 4chan of financial news. Especially all the sarcastic headlines, account names, and comments.
> Complaining that Cortana uses Bing is like complaining that Google Now uses Google.

And? I hate that Google Now forces you to use Google as well!
Clear Chat – A close source Slack competitor with “encryption”
For uses like this, I really want the ability to prevent any user (myself included) from deleting or modifying preexisting files: no matter how a client screws up, I want to be able to get old data back. I wonder how Infinit handles this.
I agree, that doesn't make a difference.

I only mentioned EB because it does that kind of thing for you and if you don't have a highly complicated setup it makes rolling updates without changing instances very easy.
> The range of consequences is also wide. At one end, the autism of a computer scientist may be barely noticeable; at the other, a quarter of autistic children do not speak.

This makes me both laugh and cry.
There is a fundamental conflict of interest between security people and developers/owners/the general public. Infosec isn't interested in curing fundamental IT insecurity by, say, using safe languages (like Rust or something JVM-based or maybe JavaScript which is also a safe GCed language) for application development and using safe OSes that aren't built around 70s state-of-art (ugh.. really no production ready examples here).
Instead infosec community - both "blackhat" attackers and "whitehat" protectors - profits from business as usual: a never-ending stream of zero days, CVEs, buffer overflows, side-channel attacks. It's not in their true interest to kill their cash cow.

Remember: If we, developers, used modern safe programming technologies, such as safe languages and OSes built around capability-based security, 99% of security exploits wouldn't even exist.
And the effects reach all far enough down to flip bits. The experiments that we run probably can't reach out further than a few meters. We have a very long way to go before we start competing with nature.
So the legislation achieved the desired effect?
Possibly with a little nudge, Congress can be convinced to get behind blocking this. Provided the argument against is framed as, would you Congress-person be okay with a judge in (county / state across the country) having the legal authority to hack in to your machine here in (home county / state)? Because unless I'm confused, this law would apply to Congress-people as well as citizen Joe.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11591554
How else would you do it, though? If anyone could call their product whatever they wanted how would you know that your Apple iPad was actually an Apple iPad until you tried to use it? Look at the thriving counterfeit markets in China.
I haven't seen this one mentioned yet, but the trend may also be due in part to choices the women are making about whether or not they want children. Most of the comments assumed that all of these pregnancies were "accidents" to begin with, but if you're a teenage girl, living in poverty, what kind of role models do you see, and how might you envision your own future and goals? Just like teenagers in some places can/could only have a life of their own by getting married, it is and was very common for other teenagers in some cultures to see having a baby as the only way out of their current situation, as a way to have a better life, as a necessary step for building a life with and getting support from a romantic partner, as a way to have more importance or influence in their community, and add meaning to their own lives.

Anecdotally, I knew a few women in high school who got pregnant, and it seemed to add a great deal of excitement and hope for their future, rather than the other way around. If you have nothing going for you, having a kid can seem like a good plan.

If you start giving people other options, other things to work for, and exposing them to other cultures, they might find better alternatives. Heck, this whole thing might still be caused by the Internet! But not for the reasons some other people said...
While I'm always in favor of not posting things about your professional life on social media, from the story he told it doesn't sound like he did anything wrong here. There are two sides to every story, but it seems like they kind of screwed him over by firing him after taking a sick day.
The L.A. Riots: 24 years later
The simpler, less sinister explanation, is that normal moderate viewpoints do not pay the bills, but extreme and sensational viewpoints -- whatever the flavor -- do.
Do human bodies carry more toxins now than 50 years ago?
Meja+rias+minimalis+modern+duco+MRI-012
> About 2 years ago the tenor of the publications shifted from libertarian to more and more reactionary (bordering on proto-fascist). When I skip the articles nowdays, I think that the authors have no problem with authoritarianism, as long as taxes are reduced and social welfare is gutted (it is obviously not stated as such, but most opinion-pieces speak for themself).

I think the problem with this is their ideological goals are to starve the beast and play at being antiestablishment. They were always unscrupulous about the how and have been since at least 2011 when I first noticed they existed.

I honestly don't think the tone has changed substantially.
If you've got a good mix of developers at various levels of skill I'd say you're doing it correctly then. The problem is the corporate mandates that 100% of employees be ninja/guru/cowboys. It's this mindset that keeps everyone else running around interviewing needlessly.
They don't seem ready to me. Seems like a temporary blip due to their investment schedules. They clearly have ambitions to build out a logistics infrastructure, and they haven't even setup in some obvious markets yet (Australia). Lots more growth to pursue.
That's probably because the older physicists learned the hard way that nobody has ever made any money by betting against the standard model.
I think you're reading something I didn't write. The point isn't to condoning these governments' behavior. I'm just pointing out that the fact that people are systematically altering their online behavior because the government has the ability to look at their activity just reeks of culturally induced inflated sense of self importance.

Hopefully that makes a bit more sense =)
Location based advertising is powerful, but the issue here is privacy. We have no idea where that information is going.
Thank you so much marvindanig.
We've been working very hard, and we gathered a great team! Release and funding schedule were close so we decided to align both today!
"Everything that was on my machine was uniform because I wrote it from scratch to work the way my brain works"

Yeah… that doesn't scale, no matter who you are, mr "I refuse employment unless my employer gives me 'r' as login name".
They do end up with actual charts and graphs so there is some data to be had there.
I wrote this article in 2014, but left Rackspace a year ago.

The STAR answering format is the single clearest thing I'll take with me as a good interview practice.

It keeps both the interviewer and interviewee honest and on track. I find it helps figure out what a person actually did: Yes, a whole team shipped X, but what was your role in it? Tech Lead? What did that mean there? Responsibilities and how did that turn out?
What is extremely frustrating is the rise of "cyber security" Masters degrees.

The vast majority of these people have never written a single line of code.

They don't understand security, because they can't understand the underlying logic in the code. They just write documentation to meet certain outside standards, and have no idea what I'm talking about when I talk about our security posture. They genuinely think that an online satellite campus degree qualifies them to manage security devs from top ten schools.

This coast's tech centers are starting to drive me batty.

For a data scientist, my normal trade, especially. So much red tape that it's a two month project to get myself a small server for test.

Anyone in need of a remote data scientist, Princeton University A.B., two years at a funded startup, four years work experience with a major firm, with specialties in machine learning, (real) cybersecurity, and big data experience?
Thank for suggestions.

This is still in beta version and I'm figuring out what works best. Currently paths are created by domain experts and users can propose changes (or even create new paths) and vote on particular courses.
The actual proposed edits are here: http://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/frcr16_8mad.p... (page 6 of the documents after the letters).

Note that "jurisdiction" in this context is primarily referring to "venue." Venue is a set of rules within the federal courts' rules of procedure that specify which of the 94 judicial districts within the federal court system particular matters must be brought to. Generally, a warrant must be issued by the court in the district where the person or property to be searched may be found. This change relaxes that requirement under specific circumstances: 1) the location of the computer to be searched has been concealed by some technological means; or 2) for cases under 18 U.S. Code § 1030 (fraud in connection with computers). In that case, a judge in any jurisdiction where some of the criminal activity occurred can issue the warrant.
Good article, I can't help but think this is the real problem though:

> and Bob’s demand that you explain the vulnerability is met with your impatient demand to “just do it".

Maybe rather than say "Just do it" you could say "Any user can delete our entire database and steal all of our data". I think Bob would understand why this is a bit more important than his current tickets, and by not doing it when told about it any fallout would be his problem.

He might hate you for giving him the task but it would be done.
Research into the reasons for procrastination and how to stop
A Bridge Between Redux and Meteor by Gabriel Poça
I haven't gotten a response in more than a week now, so I'm going to assume that info can't be shared. Sorry!
Well, Wolfram also spent time with Minsky, so he'd have stories to recount, but not with Ramanujan. That alone would explain the numbers.

I find the Ramanujan story actually reads more like a Mathematica advert, whereas the other more like a very self-involved eulogy.
Typical childish behavior, down vote criticism, ignore the facts.
Ex-Racker here. There are different levels of support available. AFAIK, there exists a level of support where you talk to devops engineers directly, but I believe its kinda pricy.

In general, I think you get what you paid for: most customers don't want to pay a lot for support.

Its true that Rackspace does employ a lot of non-technical people and train them. I actually really like how they do this: I've worked with many people who moved from support to developers, and they are not only top-notch, but understand the pain points of customer-service and help make the offerings very user and support friendly.
The problem I see is the "it won't happen to me!" attitude. That's how these bills get passed in the first place, and Congress think they are so high up the food chain that it won't affect them.
I see a developer who's in and out of a company depending on his mood and opinion of the company several times, then complaining when he gets fired for not showing up at work.

He blames the all night coding session, but from the sound of it told no one he was doing this, and operated in a bubble. Then he seems surprised when at 11:04 the next day (which is almost 9 hours after he's gone to bed) he's woken up by a message asking if he's alive. The author, by his own admission, is unreliable.

To the author - it sounds like there's a huge disconnect between your opinion of your usefullness to the company and theirs. Perhaps instead of giant middle fingers on blog posts, consider thinking about it from their perspective.
> that you could get pregnant from oral sex

Well, there was that one case...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/02/01/ncbi-...
Get rid of patents.

The purpose of patents and copyright is to promote innovation and reward creators, and there are plenty of alternative possibilities for doing that. If patents and copyright laws are stifling innovation, for example in drug development, we should scrap them and look for a new model.

Dean Baker has written a lot about this and has proposed a public bounty purse for useful innovations. He would reward an organization that developed a cure for malaria with several billion dollars, and there would be another reward system for creative work, for unexpected innovations that benefited society, etc.

http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/more-thoughts-on-patent...

http://cepr.net/publications/reports/financing-drug-research...
Psychology of Time and the Paradox of How We Mediate Our Capacity for Presence
On P9 at Bell labs, everything could be connected and uniform. In the real world with corporate firewalls, HTTPS is very nearly the only reliable option for connecting to other computers.

On top of that, the fact that most workstations in this world do not have public IP addresses, and p2p becomes really a non-starter.
That's fair, I haven't read it.
Why Running Helps Clear Your Mind
Whiteboard + draw.io for component, flow and class diagrams (if it comes to that level). Whiteboard for UI. If I have a dedicated UI dev, they can take a pic of my whiteboard sketch and build a static prototype faster than me attempting to draw it in some legit fashion :)

Quick static/stubbed out prototype app in some cases with whatever tech is appropriate (for mobile been digging ionic quite a bit lately for prototyping).
After nearly 20 years in various kinds of infosec companies, there are companies where jerks are not common, and companies where the jerks are very common.

You cannot fix the jerks in the first kind of company. Learn from them, quietly, and look for your exit.

Some people think that there is a correlation between being really good and being a jerk. Only in the sense that the only way a jerk can survive is if they are very very good. Some other people try to pattern-match them. Mimicking the "jerk" part is easy. Mimicking the "very very good" part is not. (See also: making a name for yourself by being a jerk is a lot easier than making a name for yourself by being really good.)

There are good people who are not jerks. I've worked with a bunch of them.
The means justify the ends in this case, I think.
Introducing Ellie, Eligible's (YC12) Bot-Sized Assistant
This is actually a really interesting project, I love a good chart.
Why you shouldn't exercise to lose weight
> They don't care about analyzing the likely outcome of the case had he lived, it's brought up to share anger and outrage over the injustice.

Precisely. He didn't have to kill himself, and if he'd put a bit more forethought into what he was doing, we'd probably be discussing this in a thread around an interview with him rather than with Ms. Elbakyan. But nobody wants to hear that, because it detracts from the story of this generation's Bobby Fischer.
Another important reason for slow adoption of open access is that most open access journals charge significant publication fees ($1000 or more.) Most academic labs run on shoestring budgets, so that's a lot of money. The principal investigator has to choose between standing on principle and publishing open access, or paying for equipment and reagents or sending students to conferences. That's not an easy choice to make, especially pre-tenure.
And that's not even taking into account the thousands of docs in the US who work out of private practices and community health centers.
Seems like a leaky abstraction. Did their interfaces have a way to account for differences in latency and failure modes, or was that hidden?
Advertising could find a use for my DNA profile but that doesn't mean they should have access to it.

Obviously this is all a sliding scale and has nuance, but I'd say ads should not be using anything that is behind a permission prompt, like geolocation. Tremendously hostile to both the user and the site hosting their ad.
Nothing could prevent a remote filesystem to have a local cache, actually this is what every remote filesystem would implement quite soon.

The real novelty of Infinit is that you can mix and match multiple storages and build a unified filesystem with encryption on top of this. Roughly something like truecrypt over aufs over (sftp+local fs+s3fs+whateveryouwantfs)
We plan to add versioning for exactly this. It's on our roadmap which you can find here: https://infinit.sh/documentation/roadmap
Apparently it only allows for company/school emails at signup. It's not aimed at personal use.
shocking that the nyt article doesn't mention wage, salary or profit.
Hushmail sounds like what you want: https://www.hushmail.com/personal/features/?source=website&t...

But it costs $50 per year. You didn't mention that you want free, but I figured that I'd mention the cost. Hushmail includes some extra privacy features that you didn't ask for, but it does do the things you asked for, like the unlimited email accounts (aliases) and no expiration.
With some reluctance, I follow ZH on Twitter. Like other sites like Russian Times, Haretz, Al Jazera, it is good to be skeptical, but it is also good to break out of the hold that mainstream media has. In the USA, the "news" is so bad that I honestly believe that I get more information from random reading, just a few minutes a day, of sources from many countries on the web than the network "news."

I travel a fair amount, and it seems like people in other countries don't have an obsession with "news" that so many of my acquaintances in the USA have. I think that one hour a week is about the maximum amount of time anyone should spend on the news - better to spend the time engaging in business, family and friend time, write a book, volunteer with a charity, community involvement, etc.
I once looked into their financial statements and came to the conclusion that per article published, they had about $2500 in costs and $5000 in revenue, so 50% profit margins. If you look at the price of comparable PLoS journals (i.e. not PLoS ONE), the publication costs are also about $2500, so I think this is in the right ballpark.
Yes, but the legislators did it for their own personal benefit, not out of the kindness of their own hearts.

It's self-serving narcissism the whole way down.
Ego depletion, the idea of willpower as depletable resource, fails again
Some advice. Don't air your dirty laundry about former employers in public. It may help you feel better but nothing good will come of it. Simply move on.
> Sadly, they do it for their own benefit.

Around here a consulting company has specialised in this (you don't get an interview unless you have an autism spectrum diagnosis) and last I heard it wasn't at all sad:

Some autistic people with correct skills were paid good money to do things they really liked well like iron out rare bugs in financial services etc.

So not only to fill some quota and not taken advantage of. Oh, and said company made good money IIRC.
they do.

although the FBI is a domestic enforcement agency, Congress specifically gave it the ability to hack any computer anywhere in the world.

Despite whatever concepts you have ever heard about any agency's mission or limitations, Congress has the ability to delegate tasks to whatever agency it thinks have resources, and then those laws stay on the books.
I meant around the time of the flash crash and in them making hft more mainstream
Doesn't it feel like this particular use of artificial intelligence is just a way of stopping general purpose computing in the marketplace?

I mean "artificial intelligence" would still need to be licensed by the user at the end of the day.
Does no devices mean no ownership?
Does anyone think Haxe is a good server-side language? I'm still desperately thirsty for a server-side language that has a sound, yet understandable and easy-to-use static type system.
Snowden’s disclosures about NSA spying had a scary effect on free speech