skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They named the app "Bunz" what did they think was going to happen?
It's not JUST that, though -- it also modifies "my city" and "this country" to be your location, too!
> "Am I being selfish?"

> I pulled my blankie tighter around my shoulders, making a mental note the owner would require more bitcoin this month as I'd gone over my allotted 36 hours of blankie time.

> "No, it's for the greater good."

Jokes aside, you've lit on the fundamental part of this disagreement: In theory libertarians believe that; in practice it's hard to know what someone really believes and easy to see what they're doing. Speaking broadly, some people disagree that the actions of libertarian people are helping anybody else unless by accident. Take for example a straw libertarian who buys water rights in drought-stricken regions and sells the water back to the people living in those regions. This person claims publicly (and may or may not truly believe) they are helping people conserve their water. After all, the free market will quickly establish its true cost. To people who think this is fundamentally wrong, it doesn't even matter what the straw libertarian believes -- if it walks like vampire sucking you dry, it might be.
Confessions of a $20K bootcamp graduate
yes, paying $6.95/mo for about a year now for just such a podcast, http://www.artiequitter.com
>But it pisses me off every time I see a Twitter thread about how native apps are destroying the free world.

I can't understand this sentiment the author claims to see. Web apps are generally going to be less free than native apps. A native app doesn't have to be open and a web app doesn't have to be open, but a web app is definitely going to require that you connect to the host, will probably keep all your data stored away from your grasp on its servers, and may change its functionality and terms of service at any time. Native apps can share many or all of these traits but at least there's a chance you can control a copy of the software. The web is a terrible software platform for users.
Ever noticed he's like the maternal figure of Pied Piper?
This is why I never try to give prescriptions on code style.....whenever I think I have something good, someone else comes along with something better. And when I see someone else's advice, I can think of something better. And after I finish writing my own code, I can always look at it and think, "Oh, I could have done that better."

See also: efficiency. There's always a way to make it more efficient.
Step 1: embrace
Marijuana delivery, I think.
Microsoft Open-Sources the Edge WebGL GLSL Transpiler
Meet Wings the DAO creation platform
Here's a good write-up on how to see if your company is listening in on your encrypted web traffic:

http://security.stackexchange.com/a/2920

(Note: MITM is just one way companies monitor employees, but by no means the only way. If your company provided your work computer to you, or if they installed anything on your BYOD computer, I would treat everything you do on that computer as cc'ed to your boss by default.)
Inside Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware
my intent in saying "rape" was as a wildcard to bundle actual rape, plus false rape, plus all the shades of gray and slippery slope thinking involved between those two poles.

Also, considering my OC explicitly said that I think rape is a real thing, and bad, I think its clear I do not discount it. I'm anti-rape. I'm also pro-truth and anti-smearing. Its the nuance in how we as a society handle these stances together that I observe is sometimes lost on certain people.
That's true, but I think he invoked Nazi Germany just because he said it without thinking about it much (I am sure if he recognized the backlash it would have caused, he probably would not have said it at all). :)
I read this as well. It's great history. He wasn't perfect, and wasn't afraid to share his imperfections.
I feel like a lot of the humor in the show came from Erlich Bachman who is no longer in the drivers seat this season.
Some important scientists are smart about everything- polymaths- and other smart only in their field of interest. Dyson and schrodinger were more polymaths, while Heisenberg and Einstein more specialisrs.
In the grander scheme of things, that's scale and concurrency. Nothing about the code is particularly novel or difficult.
I freaking love the web as an app platform. Now I don't have to wait for Google Maps for Linux, or Gmail for Linux, or whatever. That world sucked.
Austerity != hoarding cash.

Greece, Spain and Portugal haven't shown us that austerity damaged the economy. _Their economies were already bleeding_ but they were throwing enough money & debt at the problem to cover it up. Austerity is the fix that they needed to do eventually, and it's better that they did it now rather than later.
If I can't get a podcast into Overcast (because there's no RSS feed or whatever) there's a pretty good chance I'm not going to bother. I have limited time to listen to stuff, plenty of things on my plate, and unless it's something really exceptional or central to my interests, no RSS means it goes at the bottom of the pile.
Thank you for sharing this. There needs to be a better system for bootcamp shoppers, but until then, these kinds of posts will probably save others lots of money.
Ask HN: Chromium for Windows (64) from an official and secure source
I went to https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html and searched for the last stable release on https://omahaproxy.appspot.com/viewer (386251 => win64/stable/51.0.2704.84) but the [386251] folder doesn't exist.

https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Win_x64/386251/

Am I doing something wrong?

Also, is Chromium as secure as Chrome regarding sandbox and everything else? And IIUC I need to install pepper flash directly from Adobe.
I mean, that's how I MITM SSL traffic on a daily basis to do development.

None of that speaks to HSTS/Pinning... which is the feature meant to protect against this sort of thing. I'm specifically asking about how a company can bypass HSTS/Pinning without modifying my local browser.

Everything I'm reading indicates that's not possible.
I empathize with the sentiment, particularly with open source and professional tools. But in mobile gaming and learning, parents are big spenders. Even in 2013, parents of children aged 6-12 in the U.S. spent $2.60/mo on mobile game apps or mobile in-game items.[0] Also I'd guess that children under the age of 16 contributed largely to the success of Snapchat and other such apps.

[0]: http://digitalkidssummit.com/2014/10/01/kids-6-12-in-the-us-...
Supernovae 2M years ago may have changed human behaviour
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11872823 and marked it off-topic.
Sure - can you shoot me an email? sachin [a] braidtogether.com
Are you in a debate club or something? I'm surprised this discussion has continued so long. This is one of the longer discussions I've ever had online. I'm impressed. If you're not already into debating, I'd recommend checking it out, you'd be great!

> But having fooled me doesn't somehow vindicate the expert

I never said it would vindicate anyone. I just said people make decisions based on their interpretation of facts, or their perception of reality. Since reality is always perceived through some lens, there is no objective reality. You are, of course, free to disagree.

The fact that interpretation and context impact our perception of facts is not a bad thing or a good thing. It's just a thing. When you're 7, and your parents tell you that skateboards are dangerous, you'll probably believe that for awhile. At age 10, you might see a friend riding a board while wearing pads. You might think that's pretty reasonable and change your mind. For those 3 years between 7-10, you stayed away because your parents kept telling you it's too dangerous. Adults aren't so different from kids. We don't have time for all these detailed messages from companies and politicians. Each news headline gets about 5 seconds of people's attention. People don't have time to read an article about every topic.
Yeah, but networks are keen to air bullshit debugging sessions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CtzaSzO2cE
Quick! Somebody make a slackbot!
Your rephrasing still doesn't matter, Solaris event ports are not signal-based.

My understanding is that Solaris event ports were intended to offer equivalent functionality to Windows' I/O completion ports, so this should not be surprising.

Solaris also has its own native async I/O API in addition to supporting POSIX async.
I can think of a few Senators. Right now the federal government claims the right to detain American citizens on American soil indefinitely and without trial. Look up 2012 NDAA Section 1021. The Senate is debating, right now, whether to add an amendment to this year's NDAA to restrict this somewhat, but even the Senator proposing this amendment (Mike Lee of UT) will tell you that there are circumstances where the government needs to detain American citizens indefinitely and without trial i.e. without due process. He just wants to restrict the current practice somewhat.

I'm glad you don't know anyone like this, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
NHTSA did review all the fire incidents involving Tesla cars and found that the outside shell in the bottom was too thin and the debris broke it and damaged the batteries to cause fire. As far as I know that's a legitimate issue media has brought up and Tesla then took steps to make the shell stronger so that debris couldn't damage the batteries.
Seems the spirit here is more smaller events, but we still run a 720-864 person event every 3 months here in Perth, Western Australia

www.rflan.org
I was lucky to hear Heisenberg speak at MIT shortly before his passing. But I forgot what he talked about, something historical I recall. His son was a MIT professor.
Dirac gave a talk that year too. But it was his silly numerology topic on large numbers.
Recommender Systems 101: Basket Analysis
You can't really say that in general it is "30%". Is that for multiple sclerosis? What type of intervention?

Generally the placebo effect will vary depending on the type of intervention. A very novel and invasive intervention like this will have a high placebo effect.

Given that psychological treatment alone can reduce the fatigue in MS to below that of healthy controls (van Kessel 2008), it's likely that the placebo effect plays a large role.
If you're in the comments, trying to figure out if this is worth your time, it absolutely is. I've never seen anything about this process that's more complete, and it's basically all right.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11872787 and marked it off-topic.
Yep, I agree - people have a tendency to focus on what you said rather than what you were trying to get at (the context).

And I don't blame people, its human nature, but I am thankful I've reached a point where I can take a deep breath and think about what someone has said before issuing a gut reaction. :)
The money is always in selling the shovel, not digging.
> Poettering started it and was later hired by Red Hat, which at some point adopted systemd.

Almost right. He worked at Red Hat already, but Red Hat wasn't interested in his ideas for a new init system (they were moving to Upstart, which is used in RHEL 6), so he decided to work on it on his own time, and Red Hat eventually decided there were problems that needed to be fixed with init, and adopted it[1]. I can't find a hire date for Poettering, but it's possible what you are thinking of is PulseAudio which was started in 2004, and was also controversial in the beginning (there's a trend here with Poettering...)

> Red Hat doesn't have the power to force distributions to use systemd or to make other projects depend on it.

Exactly. Systemd was adopted by many distros because they thought it was the best choice. There's no way for Red Hat to to force it on other distros, and of things that might be susceptible to market forces in Linux, I wouldn't count the init system as one. Almost all software will only interface with it through a startup mechanism, if even that, and that's generally minuscule compared to the rest of the software development. It's likely smaller than the distro specific packaging config in the vast majority of cases too.

I'm not sure where this myth started, but I don't think I've heard it put forth from anyone that has a clue about how the distributions operate. It's interesting that it's so pervasive.

1: https://www.linuxvoice.com/interview-lennart-poettering/
Next step is a chrome plugin that randomly searches for stuff in the background.
It seems like you're so close to having a full predictive virtual keyboard (with nothing but dynamically-generated keys).

Have you given any thought on integrating this with some sort of bluetooth thimble-like button (makey makey?) on each finger for untethered typing?

I've written more about this line of reasoning here[1] if you're interested. Feel free to ping me on twitter if there's any way I can help. Congrats on this awesome project!

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11223697
If by "out" you mean they're out having a post-trial lunch because they already turned in their verdict decades ago then... yes.
> "When I flew away for an appointment, I installed four alarm systems in my apartment," Appelbaum told the paper after discussing other situations which he said made him feel uneasy. "When I returned, three of them had been turned off. The fourth, however, had registered that somebody was in my flat - although I'm the only one with a key. And some of my effects, whose positions I carefully note, were indeed askew. My computers had been turned on and off."

http://www.dw.com/en/snowden-ally-appelbaum-claims-his-berli...

And other similar and very recent account of the US gov harassing Tor developers:

https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/fbi-harassment.html
My understanding is that, yes, this would be caught by pinning, which is why Chromium disables pinning for "private" root certificates, which is what it considers the ones that your employer has set up on your computer: http://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/security-faq#...
Google Maps is magical, but it isn't magical when you can't view uncached tiles or search for things when your connection is offline. A downloadable map application that you could purchase and view and search entirely offline would be even more magical.
Sounds like it. Our university web security lab was testing this.
Also, a point-to-point delivery service requires an average of about 2 trips (pickup + dropoff) to complete a job. Pizza delivery requires an average of less than 2 trips to complete a job; the pickup trip gets spread across multiple orders.
There are plenty of early adopters who purchased Monero for several dollars each. And it languished at 30-50 cents for well over a year. And is now only ~$1.

So there's been plenty of time for anyone to be an early adopter....continuing through today and easily for months to come.

Or skip Monero altogether. Aeon, a related project is available right now for less than 1 penny. And has been for quite some time.

So, as to your question, Done. You can be an "early adopter" right now.
> has went downhill.

Speaking of writing going downhill...
I find the dismissal as "PC" of all valid criticism against the privileged offensive.

In what context would his comparison of the rich 1% and the persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany make sense? The 1% rule. The Jews were historically persecuted and derided and faced discrimination... real discrimination, not mean words.

The "mob mentality against the rich" is inconsequential. The rich and privileged by definition hold all the cards. You can say mean things against them -- well, as much as the mass media in their power will allow you, anyway -- and what does it matter? They are still rich and you're not. This is like saying that it's mean the slaves are saying bad things about their masters; or that it's mean that the peasants are insulting their king, who after all takes care of them. It's ridiculous. Not only do the rich have everything, we also have to be careful not to offend them? We also have to admire them as heroes?

The public has "no real justification"? Really? Besides this being a tiny group of people who hold the vast majority of wealth and power?
Then almost by definition such a cryptocurrency is doomed to failure.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Public...

>Firefox (and Chrome) disable Pin Validation for Pinned Hosts whose validated certificate chain terminates at a user-defined trust anchor (rather than a built-in trust anchor). This means that for users who imported custom root certificates all pinning violations are ignored.

That last sentence is key. From Wikipedia: some browsers "disable pinning for certificate chains with private root certificates to enable various corporate content inspection scanners and web debugging tools. The RFC 7469 standard also recommends disabling pinning violation reports for such certificate chains."
I don't actually expect it to be that expensive - myself and the authors of the paper have a working demo of the paper which I wrote myself in a couple of weeks (react-native clients / bigchaindb) and should be scalable to population levels (I'm still working on speeding up the crypto since I used some of my old demo code). A side note: this was my first project using react-native, and I found it to be quite fun.

As far as transparency, that's sort of the main point of the paper: if everyone can themselves check the votes by doing something as simple as looking at something like bc.info, then that imo is a large increase in transparency from the current system which only allows the room-members themselves to verify the results. I agree with you that caucuses in their current form are easy to explain, however I think we can abstract away all the difficult parts and make it a pleasant / easy experience.
Is it just me or has there been a lot of these aggressive takedowns lately?

Nostalgia Critic, Louder with Crowder, now Criswell... I'm sure I'm missing more too.
Call me crazy but as I understand it from kids today it's pretty cool to be a "nerd" today
Could be, but more likely the opposite: the species will be at a disadvantage compared to its competitors in the wild (which are, naturally, optimized for survival and not correcting humanity's mistakes). It will not thrive on its own and will need help from humans to do its work i.e. probably not scalable.
By now, they probably filter the array from the history.
Perfect! This is the missing link! Thank you for helping me understand.
I vaguely recall that there was a "shotgun" set of modems you could pair up and get 128k over two 56k connections. I had just the one, but it felt so, so good to get sub-200 ping in Action Quake 2 and CS.
I always thought Russ Hanneman was based on Dan Bilzerian[0] even thought Bilzerian isn't actually an angel or VC.

0. https://www.instagram.com/danbilzerian/ (NSFW)
Yes, it's using a Double Ratchet implementation - an independent implementation we wrote in C/C++ called Olm (https://matrix.org/git/olm/about). We've also added a new group ratchet called Megolm which lets users in the room share the same ratchet to decrypt the group messages.

The actual ratchet itself does nothing to protect metadata - it's just encrypting the payload of the messages in the room, and providing a 1:1 ratchet to exchange the details of the group ratchet for the room.

Obfuscating metadata is a Hard Problem, and if you don't want your server admins to be able to see who's talking to who, you'll need to look at something like Vuvuzela or Ricochet or Pond. In future we may go down the metadata protecting rabbit-hole, so to speak: https://matrix.org/~matthew/2015-06-26%20Matrix%20Jardin%20E... has the details.
I might add that this is pretty much exactly what Elon Musk is asking for with his "Neural Lace" idea to merge humans and machines in "symbiosis".

Replace thimble-keys with OpenBCI and you already have it.

Urbit.org sounds like a good fit for the immutable append-only content-addressable private keylog (now would be the time for a portmanteau generator). I would love to help in any way to make this happen.
Hint: nobody ever gets offended, they just get concerned that other people might be offended.
Not even decades ago, it was realized that lots of money could be diverted from good use by making alarming claims about the possible negative effects of anthropogenic CO2. Nor is this realization lost on those touting CO2 sequestration. Back in the old days, the same types made money selling snake oil.
Electric vehicles had been put on the path of inevitability by the Toyota Prius over a decade before Tesla got anything on the road (well I say this fairly often but: in reality they've always been on the path of inevitability, automakers have been trying the electric car every decade or so since the birth of the car)
He was on the short list for having all of Snowden's documents. If that doesn't make him a primary target for the US government, I don't know what would.

Remember Greenwald's partner was harassed and detained all the way in UK at the request of the US government because he was close to one of the people on this short list of Snowden documents holders.
I think it is a stretch to compare the Mortgage crisis to the online advertising business, but I don't disagree with the basics of this article. There is a huuuuge (as Bernie would say) problem with online advertising. It is way too easy to defraud the advertiser and so the whole space is filling up with really (and I mean really) sleezy characters. And you know they are sleezy when they try to get you to use their tech on a web site but you have to sign an NDA which says you won't disclose to anyone where you got your tech or how much money changes hands?

When a company offers technology that, when installed, intercepts Google pages and inserts an ad on that page at the top you have to ask yourself, really? And while its clear how this rips off both Google and Advertisers you wonder why there are squads of people out hunting these folks. And then you ask, who would hunt them? the IAB?

Build an advertising platform that cuts out the sleeze balls and guarantees non-Bot traffic and you'll do well.
Probably my current favorite is Tuesdays With Stories[0]. It's a consistently funny show and a unique look into the lives of a couple of comedians with pretty distinct personalities as they continue to progress in their careers. I've had the chance to meet both of them and they're awesome dudes as well.

[0] http://www.tuesdayswithstories.com/
I object to swearing. I believe it's a very inefficient way to convey meaning, especially in a technical context, where it may make it actually harder to follow the line of thought. In addition, in some contexts (e.g. socially conservative environments), it could potentially be offensive to some people, and I generally think it's not worth to offend people unless there is a reason for it. It may be argued that some swear words are particularly good at transferring connotative meaning, but then the English language is rich enough that you can find other ways to do so.
Awesome! Thank you so much for this :) I've been experimenting with using Echo for home automation (mainly TV/Logitech Harmony related stuff) and this is really, really cool for that. A tangent: Siri on the AppleTV 4th gen was pretty cool until I got Echo - now having to have that remote and press a button seems archaic. Apple and Google will definitely release something similar soon.
Yup. I've got iOS native code written for iOS 2 still runs like a champ. My 2 year old angular 1 code is looking like a total rewrite.
I'll give that a shot, thanks.