skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Why did you choose PGP, when we have OTR and Axolotl -- which are specifically designed for informal communication where repudiation (recipient Y not being able to prove to others that X sent the original message) matters.

2. How are the public keys securely distributed? You say that "a public key is like a username", but without a central authority you hit a lot of issues (essentially the CAP tradeoff, but for user IDs). And with a central authority, you have no trustworthiness. Or are the users just meant to find public keys themselves (in which case you're back to the current state of affairs).

3. The name choice is stupid. Why on earth would anyone sane in this political climate call an encryption program "Felony"?
I assume (presume perhaps) they're a windows user and the -dev mention is more for the case where debug symbols and packages are separated from non debug binaries.

I only know that windows does something different more akin to debug symbols in each binary by default with chicanery to not have it impact things in the general case. But I'm not a windows programmer this is about as much as I know about windows in that regard.
Previous versions of Windows didn't require all this 'telemetry' and those operating systems did just fine without it. Why now all of a sudden it's this important? Pretty suspicious imo.
They just applied the approach that browsers have to the OS. Now everyone is freaking out, which is largely legitimate, but it is hard to argue that there is not a non trivial positive result for everyone to standardize on a Windows platform if you use Windows.
It is when I have people from Malawi and Nigeria wandering around outside my house.

Literally right now. People from Malawi are wandering around outside my house. All illegals of course. I have no idea why the police don't deport them but it must be a political decision by higher-ups. The ones I asked don't even lie about where they are from. They are very confident they won't be deported and I am curious about why that should be.

MENA countries have been troubled for many decades, often centuries. We can't take everybody merely because they are suffering. That would be like importing everybody from Boliva and Brazil because they have a lower standard of living than the USA. That is an extreme political stance to take.
lol js amirite

Good circlejerking
In the same series:

1. Hacking Team’s Galileo RCS – Repurposing espionage software
http://hyperionbristol.co.uk/hacking-team-galileo-rcs-repurp...

2. Galileo RCS – Installing the entire espionage platform
http://hyperionbristol.co.uk/galileo-rcs-installing-the-enti... (This one)

3. Galileo RCS – Running an espionage operation
http://hyperionbristol.co.uk/galileo-rcs-running-an-espionag...
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Right, and that's the cost information I'm looking for.
> The tax code is so overwhelmingly in favour of the investing class that, if it were re-balanced, you wouldn't have to take anyone's money to achieve a similar outcome in a decade.

Except this 1% are exactly the sort that have the resources to just leave Canada if it ceases to be financially favourable. It's unfortunately not so cut and dry.
I appreciate the irony that TCL is basically a dead end but Guile development continues. Thanks for giving context for why!
What you're saying is: you wish to stay with the original iOS 5.0? With hundreds of vulnerabilities unpatched?
Good questions, let me give my perspective. I go to the gym almost purely for strength training (lifting weights), not cardio, so I'll focus on that. Here are reasons to go to a gym to lift weights (no order, but the last reason is the most important):

1. Strength training can be a good way to get fit, as far as I know. It's probably worse than cardio in terms of developing things like your lungs and basic ability to run for an hour. But from the little I know, I'm pretty sure it's a good way to be healthy, which is many peoples' goals, and that's what most people mean when they talk about being fit.

2. Another thing lifting weights does is make you stronger. This is useful, as being strong is good for many things in life. Arguably, this is more useful in "day-to-day" life than being able to run a long time, as you're actually lifting and moving things pretty regularly. (e.g. moving furniture, if you have a child then lifting/playing with the baby, etc).

3. Strength training makes you bulkier, and therefore look better. Or at least some people think so, to some degree. As another commenter said, this is an aesthetic thing.

4. Lastly, and most importantly, people are different. Most people, IMO, don't consistently do a sport they don't like. One lesson I've learned in life is that, if you want to e.g. get fit, the best thing you can do is find something that gets you fit, and that you enjoy doing. So efficiency/cost of the sport here isn't the most important consideration, it really is enjoyment. And enojoyment is, again, a personal thing, just like some people like playing the flute, some like pianos, and some like guitars. (And some prefer to draw, which is free, or to do photography, which can costs tons in equipment).
Dalerus, as Zacharycohn says, the 18F group doesn't respond to RFPs. But I personally don't see that it would be a conflict of interest if they were allowed to respond. I could see a conflict of interest if the 18F group was a private company employed by the government and allowed to both draft requirements and bid on contracts. I wouldn't want to see Microsoft drafting requirements and bidding on them. But 18F is part of the government.

Consider this scenario: The 18F team works with the Secretary of the Interior's office to draft requirements for a system needed by the Department of the Interior. They gather the requirements and conclude "This isn't a huge system. We can do this ourselves." Do the individuals working at 18F get raises or massive bonuses for doing the work, or do they continue to receive the same civil service graded salary they've always been receiving? It is certainly in the 18F department's interest to have work and continue to exist, but I don't see any huge payoff to the head of 18F the way there would be if a large company got a contract.

Or, to sort of repeat a scenario I offered earlier in this conversation, my wife wants our bathroom remodeled. I interview her and find out what she wants and write it all down. I go over it with a few companies that do bathroom remodeling. I receive their bids. I conclude that I'm capable of doing the work myself more quickly and more cheaply. I award the "contract" to myself. Where's the conflict of interest?
> A great many pensioners and households would have suffered, but then the government could have introduced emergency bankruptcy laws and ameliorated the worst of it.

Exactly, bail out the people, not the corrupt institutions.
Which Operating System Keeps Users More Engaged
Regarding "D: EU expands eastwards", my understanding is that this was largely driven by the then British Conservative Government as a ploy to prevent further integration between EU countries. "Wider, not deeper" was the theory.

So the free movement of Eastern Europeans into the UK was due in large part to the Tories.
Is there a limit to the infinite scroll ? Images stopped loading after "Play-By-Play" for me (Chrome 51 OSX)
Remaining silent can certainly make you appear as though you have something to hide, but at least you're not saying anything that can be used against you. By talking, everything you say is a potential trap, especially if unrelated statements get weaved together out of context. Even if you are telling nothing but the truth, once you've given the same story over and over again over a period of hours of interrogation, most people are bound to let fatigue and frustration result in misspeaking at least once. You say something differently about the situation once, and suddenly everything you've said must certainly be a web of lies, right?

Interrogators - at least in the US - are notorious for overstepping what any person would consider appropriate. Repeatedly hounding someone until they start to admit committing a crime just to get the interrogation to stop, is despicable.
It would probably help if you described how you build a large, event-driven system with callbacks in Rust. Then, the parent and anyone else doubting it would see specifically how to go about it without problems they describe. Also, any links you have to posts specifically on good style or structure for these in Rust would be helpful if you couldn't give details on your own work for whatever reason.
Microsoft upped LinkedIn deal due to Salesforce pressure
We've discussed this before, and, yes, the article is ranty, but the underlying issue is near and dear to my heart.

http://intercoolerjs.org is my attempt to recapture the simplicity of the earlier web development model while still retaining the UX advantages of the modern web.

http://intercoolerjs.org/images/back_to_the_future.png
Ah it is! Sorry if the description itself is misleading, but I thought it would be nice to be able to listen, while skimming over search results, so I decided to hid the video during searching.

Maybe I could do something like in YouTube's iOS wpp where video goes to down-right corner, but I thought I would keep it simple.
I switched from Firefox to Chromium due to one major issue: For some reason, the memory and CPU usage become way to high after long running sessions. Only restarting the browser will resolve the problem. The problem is so severe that sometimes the browser doesn't respond and CPU usage affects other programs. I'm skeptic whether the Mozilla team will ever tackle the issue, given their recent priority to add features.
Shout out! We're moving there in the next couple of years to grow coffee.

We'll be in Ponce in August (that's where we know the most people, so we'll rent there for a year or two while learning the ropes from some coffee-grower friends and looking for the right land).
You are totally right about the power channels, but the truth is they are focused on the construction sector. The old commies who stand behind this are not that confident when working with IT and that is one of the biggest reasons the law passed. They still don't acknowledge or don't care that it will be harder for them to steal from IT public tenders.
Could some one explain how this works?

...the strategy was to lose on every sale but make it up on volume
+1 for 'Privacy'. Liberty is America centric. And privacy is more specific.
Or maybe he shouldn't be giving opponents of strong encryption a PR gift on a platter.
Alley Cat managed just fine, and that's a game from 1983-1984

> One of the most amazing things about the game is that it actually sets its own clock speed so that the speed of your computer is irrelevant. This means you don't need Moslo to enjoy the game :)

http://www.myabandonware.com/game/alley-cat-1q
Fork and rename?
I appreciate your view. However, I think it may be a false dichotomy to say that the only way to keep Windows secure is to require updates that bring along privacy concerns, software and hardware incompatibilities, and radically different UIs.

Furthermore, we should also consider the responsibility that _Microsoft_ bears for releasing vulnerability-laden operating systems in addition to users who decline OS updates for the above-mentioned reasons.
Ah, so you meant the executive branch is a single legal entity.
There is no party which does politics or strategic decisions in Bulgaria. ALL of the political scene is usurped by ex-intelligence officers and they suffocate any possible alternative in infancy. It is quite depressing and I don't think there is a way out.
Every line of code is always documented
the course seems to be not available anymore
In my experience, having installed Windows 10 on 7 computers so far, Windows 10 has been unstable and full of small bugs. From blue screens and freezes to missing drivers to blurry fonts to the File Explorer failing to open or taking a couple of minutes to open, there seem to be common bugs at all levels and not much movement on Microsoft's part to fix them. The design is opaque, with settings scattered between two quite separate areas (Control Panel and Settings), and the start menu is less functional than the one in Windows 7 (for example, the frequently used programs don't really seem to be your most frequently used programs, and the tiles are a waste of space and hard to organize). The upgrade advisor will recommend that you upgrade even on machines where crucial components will be missing drivers after the upgrade. In several cases the upgrade has taken me from a stable, functioning machine to an unstable machine with some non-functioning hardware. Windows 7, by contrast, has felt stable for years, and even Windows 8.1 felt more stable than Windows 10. Add the concerns about MS's spyware and it's not hard to see why users don't want to upgrade.
That's the old web! Use the modern web!
TP6 had 255 byte strings and you couldn't implement your own WriteLn. It seemed like it was still breaking free from academic pascal.
Didn't notice the URL - I've changed it. Thanks.
If we wear suits and ties, we do so intentionally, not just to conform mindlessly :-)
Swinbox is a smart inbox, coupled with a powerful task management tool designed to facilitate team work
I would upgrade, if it wasnt for the extreme disregard for user privacy in windows 10. Basically you have to go through a mile long checklist just to get to what I would consider should be the default baseline(see https://fix10.isleaked.com/). I would rather pay for a non-spyware version of their product, than be the product.
Although not strictly "defunct", point taken - changed it to LibreOffice.
Strength training provides different health benefits than aerobic exercise, and is important even if you don't want to "bulk up": http://www.everydayhealth.com/fitness/add-strength-training-...

And weight lifting is one of the most effective ways to develop strength.
> web development might have been a lot less annoying

That's not a concern most of the people resisting W10 have.

> I still don't really get why people would not want to upgrade.

For lots of people, Windows has been good enough since XP SP2. For those people, Windows 10 is better in ways that are mostly irrelevant to them and the benefits are less than the cost of changing. They use their computer for four things and that's about all they know or want to know about the computer. In other words, if it isn't broke, don't fix it.
I became aware of it after setting up the website, unfortunately. I hope I won't have to change the domain and the name.

Another violation, that I became aware of later on too, is hiding the player during searching. According to the ToS section "Prohibitions" entry 14, the player must be bigger than or equal to the minimum video player size, which is 200x200 pixels.

ToS: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms
There have been plenty of experts with 0 dependency from the oligarchy. They all either failed or started dancing to the tune. Even if they have pure intentions, they will get manipulated, used and eventually thrown out while the agency will serve as a means to block companies who don't know the right people.
Are you sure it wasn't just "GL" (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIS_GL)? OpenGL started in 1992
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The state of our healthcare system is terrible. I really have to think twice about going to the doctor because I don't know what it will cost me for simple procedures.
It's not so much the level of zoning, but its recent liberalization. Properties that are not living up to their zoning potential (ie you are now allowed to build something much bigger) are being pulled off the market for redevelopment. Then the new units are so geared towards ownership and investment, many being pre-sold individually, that they never return to the rental pool.

A more restrictive approach could discourage such redevelopment and sequestration, keeping rental units as rental units.
Also, you can found your own start-up
Two control panels with settings scattered all over the OS, privacy invasion, in-OS advertising, frequent forced reboots, and more generally, inability to turn down future OS features. Keep in mind the "geniuses" who came up with Windows 10 are also the idiots who came up with Windows 8: contextual menu at the bottom of the screen, very very far from where the mouse is when it clicked, full screen everything (at the age of 4k monitors...why???), hiding the option to create local windows account behind several layers of non obvious opt-out buttons, etc. If these guys take the same moronic design decisions, they will flow through your OS update whether you like them or not. And if Microsoft wants to launch Candy Crush Soda on every start up, there might be nothing you can do to prevent it.
Even though I don't approve these tactics I can predict that in a month's time when the free upgrade will no longer be available we'll be seeing the opposite news from people who "missed the free upgrade boat".
That's why one should always go for libraries, not frameworks.
Seems that under the guise of security it seems that sites can leave their payment process to be complete crap (UX/UI, feedback and everything else). I see this far too often; sometimes not even the "Error" appears, just a page reload without any indication. It is not that hard to be clear guys...
Just some small feedback but since it's for developers, you might want to add authentication via Github accounts.
> Yes, immigrants who have been accepted are all UK nationals and they belong there now.

No, being an intra-EU migrant under EU free movement does not automatically make you a UK national. You retain your original nationality unless and until you go through the naturalisation process, which few have bothered with because it costs >£1500 and until now does not convey much benefit.

This is why people are worried about the Conservative party leadership candidates refusing to rule out expelling EU nationals - millions of people, some of whom have been here for years, are potentially affected.

> Now have we asked the country side UK people whether they want to distribute more visas in 2017 to non-EU highly skilled foreign workers, followed by a passport 10 years later?

No we haven't, but that's nothing to do with the EU? Generally the pressure has been to reduce "immigration", so the non-EU visa rules have been made more onerous, especially spousal visas.
Age and verbosity has imho no influence. I'd rather say the following points are important:

- the project is not on github, issue tracker looks like from 2 centuries ago, ditto website, several different forum (maillists) instead of e.g. one discourse instance for the 'whole pascal project'

- the granularity of the code libraries is difficult (compiler, rtl, component sets (ui and non-ui), tools, lazarus, web, ...). You cannot just clone one of these parts and work on it

- no (fully supported) Cocoa support and thus the Mac platform is a bit handicapped (32bit Carbon), too many obscure legacy platforms, too many options, too complicated

- no modern defacto standards, e.g. md/rst formatted docu, different syntaxes/dialects (fpc, delphi, mse, oxygene, smartpascal, etc...)

- iirc license situation is a bit 'chaotic' (some LGPL 2.1 (with exception), some GPL 2 (3?), some MPL 1.1/2, more?) and in comparision to newer languages, e.g. go/rust (MIT, APL) the licenses are more (copyleft) restrictive. I like that more modern environments dropped ideological for pragmatic

- afaik no big company/organization invests money into the pascal ecosystem (if this were the case, probably most of the points above would be different)

This is just to say why I think it is not more popular, I very much appreciate the project/work, it's great!
No 'flextime' place that I've ever worked.
> An actual filesystem on ZFS makes all of these limits disappear. Does anyone offer cloud storage based on that ?

rsync.net advertises

> a ZFS filesystem, accessible with any SSH/SFTP tool, running on a UNIX system.

You're paying for that though, rsync.net starts at 8c/GB/month (for 10+TB), the smallest offering (under 1TB) is 20c/GB/month), by comparison S3 is 2.75c to 3c/GB/month in standard storage (and 1.25c/GB/month for IA)
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Yeah, this.

I'm 33, I've been listening to PHC since I was 10 or so, its something I've spent a majority of my Saturday afternoons doing - I look forward to the new host and the new format, but its clear to me that it will never be quite the same.
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Just because Facebook is making these decisions based on profitability doesn't remove them from the moral sphere, though. If the side effects of the decisions Facebook makes are substantial (which seems common to me with ad-based business models) people are perfectly justified in being outraged because of those side effects, regardless of whether the decisions are good for Facebook's profits.
>barely enough to be noticeable

For me it's (off the top of my head) about 10%. Definitely noticeable.
In June we showed Volleyy (https://volleyy.com), a tool for responsive newsletters. Got us to the front page of product hunt, and a sizeable boost in our active user base. We are still working on growing :-)
You seriously can't do this yourself? Clone the repo and change the name using find-and-replace and run install. No need to insult.
I actually first found HN in my weblogs nine years ago, when this guy called "pg" posted a link to a post-mortem I wrote up of Twiddla's accidental launch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14389

I actually spent today working on a new document viewer for Twiddla. It has been relatively successful, with tons of happy users, but still isn't bringing in the same sort of revenue as my other bill-paying product.

Edit: Here's the "last week" link that somebody mentioned on that thread. That must have actually been the one I found in my logs (since I responded to it):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10872
Perhaps not a great idea to copy the all-caps title verbatim. Fairly certain de-capping this title wouldn't break the rules of editorialising titles.
Right, and the fuller explanation is one click away:

http://www.aarp.org/money/credit-loans-debt/info-07-2009/bul...

Seventy percent of respondents report having some form of debt or loan obligation

Having a balance on your credit card or having a mortgage is very different than being a net debtor.
Many people think it's worth it, especially in the beginning. Fewer can come to terms with the invested time when their progression slows done because of increased fitness, getting older and/or having more commitments. If you do something that is also an experience, continue to have visible progression and/or builds/maintains relationships with people it's easier to keep doing it for a long time.

I would imagine it's the same if you play an instrument and would be far more likely to continue practicing if you're in some sort of band.
That's why progressive web apps are so interesting. It's only after you visit a site a couple of times that the banner to add to home screen appears. And you don't have to download a whole app, just the app shell. If you visit a site sporadically, you are not bothered by the constant updates that you suffer with native apps.
The endless quest for self-importance continues I see.