skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the reasons the US has a divided Congress is to induce gridlock. This was a design goal.

Remember, government is other people making rules for you. The more efficient they are at changing the rules, the riskier it is for you to do just about anything. The more efficient they are at changing the rules, the more likely they'll take an extreme position on a contentious subject.
Thief open-sources Richard Stallman's laptop, passport, visa
And IMO (coming from a demoscener who's dabbled in malware dev for fun), they made the right choice. Sure, you pack Flame down and cut out everything non-essential, and you get it down to 64k. Good luck trying to add a new exploit later, once your target has adapted to your old ways. The goal of Flame and Stuxnet is not to be elegant or small or academically interesting (though I believe they are). The goal is to deliver a payload to their target in the most consistent way; they seem to be pretty damn dead on in hitting that goal.
@bobwebb, thanks for this - can you advise what browser (preferably with version number) you're using? You're right, it's likely the large amount of Javascript but also at present the infinite scroll rapidly loads a lot of quite high quality PNG preview images which we've found has a direct affect on some browsers. We're working on both refactoring and image optimization to correct this.

Cheers!
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Fill out a petition? :)
People continue (and chances are will continue) to make the market penetration argument for the following reason:

If the feature exists, but no one can use it, does it really exist?

Claiming that Android had a feature first doesn't mean anything to the consumer who can't get that feature on their device. Compared to iOS where announced features show up on most devices and on every new device that you buy in the store the very same day.
Ask HN: Would you ever pay for an Autosuggestion webservice?
Well me and few of my colleagues are involved in building a webservice which will provide an autosuggestion feature for almost every search field/text box your website has. If you get a webservice which can provide autocomplete suggestions for every such box. Would you like to pay for using such a webservice/api ??
What changed in these matters since then?
... to push action from a site to reveal someone that will be up for legal process. You can word that a lot of ways, but to define harassment through online communication is the sort of overreach needed to make sites do the dirty work with no due process or checks. Just the pathway. To provide a path for easy censorship is another way to put it, but you selectively left that out.
"Gender inequality is a problem that needs to be avoided" but you find that an all-male publicizing going to a "breasturant" for a team outing is a "non-issue"? Do you genuinely not see any contradiction in those viewpoints?
Infographics: Google Shopping Search is the worst of them all
All the competence in the world won't let you break basic crypto algorithms without at least breaking a sweat.

The playing field between Alice and Bob on the one hand and Eve on the other hand is inherently asymmetrical. Given equal competence and time to work on it, Alice and Bob are going to come up with an encryption scheme that Eve won't be able to break. You seem to be convinced that given almost unlimited resources, Eve can break any scheme Alice and Bob can come up with. I'm not sure I see any evidence for that.
Check out Red Pocket, they are an AT&T MVNO:

http://goredpocket.com/plans/

No contract but also no visual voicemail (iPhone).
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This is Adobe you're talking about. Wait for CS7 or CS8.
The transport is probably the easiest part of the whole system; the hardest part is convincing people of the need, followed by "we're the central point of secure to insecure" not itself being a massive monitoring target. UI/UX, key management (and directory management, kind of the same thing), and running the gateways themselves are kind of a problem too.

I hope they support multiple providers (including setting it up yourself) for Circle -> PSTN/SIP/etc., to avoid this problem. (I know Jon Callas, I guess I should ask him)

They could probably charge $500/mo for 10 users for secure email/voice/sms/etc. for groups, vs. $20/mo for individuals, if there was zero security exposure to the central servers for the groups, and if the groups could locally connect to their own/existing infrastructure. Add some trivial Mobile Device Management (MDM) functionality (forcing passcodes, remote wipe, etc. -- trivial stuff, not the huge monstrosity of corporate MDM products).

Basically, BES + VoIP for non-dead (iOS+Android, vs. BB) platforms.
In 2 AD Jesus wasn't really doing much.

Given the references to "Judean Liberation Front", it's almost certainly a reference to Monty Python's "The Life of Brian" film.
Survey: About 41% of Kickstarter projects fail
>Carbon sits on top of lower-level pieces - remember, we are talking about the guts of Mach and BSD and IO and drivers

No, we also talk about all the higher level stuff -- the post says that he showed them a booting OS X, with Aqua, Carbon, apps et al running normally. This is not just porting the lower levels, this is a full stack port of OS X to x86.

>*There was definitely a Dock in NS :-)(

Not the Dock.app. The tiled NS dock has nothing to do with the functionality and look of the OS X app, it's a completely different app.
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Just launched a simple bookmarking web app - no registration required
Nine auto makers partner with Apple for 'Eyes Free' Siri support
Name 3 differences between Vista and XP that don't involve minor UI tweaks.
I wonder how much publicity this type of breach is getting outside of the HN bubble? I'd guess not a lot because I still have many friends that act like I'm paranoid just for using 2-factor at all.

At some point though, shouldn't phone companies notice and beef up their end a little bit. Maybe we need another large phone hacking scandal to really lock down answering machine security. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_International_phone_hackin...
Chances are that iOS 6 already has a higher percentage than ICS today ;)
People need to grow far thicker skin when it comes to words.

Sometimes these cases seem to be coming from people who just bought their first internet machine and become deeply offended that arguing on the internet works by different rules than their dinner table conversations. I would even go so far and argue that trolling can lead to a higher level of tolerance, as it pushes the believes of those being trolled over the top. In an ideal scenario this could lead to realization that their opinions, views, and in the end reality, are not as black and white as they think - i.e. a Steven Colbert effect.
> Apple has never really been a big inventor of new technologies

Personally, I consider the iPad and iPhone way more than just industrial design.
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I agree with this, and I was similarly amazed when some folks calling themselves Anonymous started dumping personal information about law enforcement officers onto the web, you don't pick fights with people who are going to hunt you down and eliminate you. It may be they will just lock you up, it may be worse than that.

That said, there is a history of people who have done that, paid the ultimate price, and later been honored for their sacrifice. Seems like history can go either way sometimes in judging the act, hero or idiot.

I'm all in favor of people keeping their eyes open though as they walk into it.

For me things like Flame just tell me that what I knew as an engineer could be done, actually have been done. And that is always a bit of a wake up call.
I can can confirm this is false- the resolutions really are different.
Lessons after graduation from design school
> Why would that be, vim seems to be difficult to use because a good manual that actually teaches how to use vim isn't available yet.

What manuals have you tried? Have you tried `vimtutor`(if vim is installed, just run vimtutor from the sell).

> In fact it was surprising to me when I learned vim commands are actually a form of some terse language. Because I was only of an assumption that most vim commands are random string of characters you need to memorize. And when you memorize and practice enough you become productive.

You need to know a lot of words before you can form intelligible sentences. There is no not-knowing `h,j,k,l,esc,d,x,p,b,w,i,I...`. So yes, you do need to memorize basic operations before you can chain them. Most of the things in this cheatsheet are important to know http://tnerual.eriogerg.free.fr/vimqrc.pdf

And once you have learnt the basic, there is no manual to tell you how to combine them, because there is no syntax to do it - you just run them in sequence. It has already been pointed out in the SO thread, and various other threads here.

> I feel tempted to give vim a try now.

Your temptation will last all of 1 day. If you give up, vim isn't for you. It takes a minimum of 15 days to a month to s
top missing whatever editor you are using right now, then another month to actually start liking it.
China's female astronaut quandary
After completing "Future Technology #532", spamming nukes is the only interesting thing left to do in the game.
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We're looking for a couple strong developers to join our core team who have a strong understanding of web technologies and want to help design, implement, and scale major features and systems.

Our current stack includes AWS, Nginx, Python/Django, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, and JavaScript/Backbone.js, but we are mostly just interested in using whatever tools work best for the problems at hand.

You should:
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As a 30 year old with a 5 year old son, I question what this does to the life expectancy of the father. :)

I don't know how older dads do it. My kid wears me out at my current age. I suppose I'd be a much richer first-time parent if I delayed having kids, so I'd have more help, more baby sitting, nicer vacations, etc.
Takeaways for news orgs from Apple’s WWDC keynote
Application will be www.google.com, www.youtube.com, etc. They'll get censorship instruction from gov bodies. There are two things that are obvious now, fight google vs facebook is like who will be big brothers right hand and other is that RMS was right. Sad thing is that it is first time in human history that evil oligarchy can be beaten by engineers (google, facebook, ...). Too bad they don't get it :-(
I eventually got it, but I did end up doing the registry and mucking out some bits in /etc. Then I figured, "hey, I haven't tried Debian yet." So that's probably my next step... but it's looking like if you want it done right you're going to have to compile it yourself :/
Great app, can you please tell me what technology you are using and your hosting company? Thanks
Wage discrimination based on visa status is illegal?
No it's not.
Theoretically employer must pay "prevailing wage" ( legal types conveniently ignore the fact that increasing the supply of labor lowers the price of labor - Econ. 101, supply and demand, check it out ...).
There's nothing preventing an employer from saying, "well I'm paying what I think is the 'prevailing wage'. I have two "equally qualified" employees: one a U.S. citizen and the other a guest worker visa. I'm giving a bonus to the citizen but not the guest worker".

Welcome to global labor arbitrage, specially targeted at your profession. Big software wins. You lose!
The E-3 is a pretty good deal; indefinitely renewable, spouse can work etc. It's the visa I'd have if I wasn't married to a US citizen.
The Evolutionary Origins of Optimism
Smart Timestamps with MongoDB
Do you think it's OK to go to such places outside of a company organized event? Would it be OK if the employees went there on their own?
So someone who's got ADHD and depression should effectively be stopped from using the internet in case they get bullied?

Asking you to fill out a survey is not harassment, neither is trying to tell you stuff. This person was the victim of a vicious and malicious campaign against her, and you really have the guts to compare it to someone trying to sell you stuff on the street?

Online bullying is real bullying. Would you say that if someone sends you a text message you should ignore it because it 'could be a bot'.

Yes- people should be educated that people online may not be who they say there are, or may not exist. But I think this is orthogonal to the proposal, which is that if someone harasses and bullies you online, you should be able to find out who they are and stop them. Just the same way you'd expect the police to help you out if someone started making abusive phone calls to your house.
Dev here. The red results are because of Google's limitation for searches from one IP. Now, I wrote the app again, but instead of scraping the Google results, I used the official Google search API. This way there should not be any limits whatsoever. It works like a charm, BUT the API excludes the biggest hash databases from the results (of course...), so the results can be green even though a cracked hash has been found.
Actually I'd argue that it's a UK government problem -- the person who responsible should have been thrown in jail long before he managed to figure out how to social engineer multiple unrelated systems.

Society needs a certain level of trust to function, if the law ignores people who continuously try to defraud others than they are just going to get better at it.
Apple Sourcing Maps Data from Microsoft (Bing Maps)
TIL Microsoft uses 450 for parental control. And now 451 for legal censorship. Perhaps we could use the 450-459 range to signify various censorship scenarios. The 450s is also a nice middle ground between 400s and 500s.
What would be coming in the future, though, that we'd have to do it "right"? If this is good enough that people can't see pixels, do we ever need to go higher? Resolution seems like one of the few features that has a limit, so this "hack" may in fact be the most elegant and simplest solution for now and in the future.
Few things:

1. Broken image link on the "Access on any device" part of the tour.
2. I'm not sure what 'are in your help' means, and it's the first part of the tour.

Looks cool though, I'll check it out and report back.
Sorry, "fuck it" is an option where?
Fair enough, but I had an edge case where I wanted to use Pentadactyl, and it kept using the branded search as default no matter how I tried to tweak the settings. I eventually got rid of it, but it was infuriating for me that there was no simple way to hit, "I don't want this," and have it removed totally.
AirOS and everybody else has WDS these days, Mesh is different that uses AD-HOC mode(check meraki.com, google olsr, 802.11s etc).
Routerboard is actually also great hardware vendor, and cheap too. However it's not in US, and it sells licenses with its software with a premium, which is not attractive to customers, esp those in other developing countries. UBNT wins the battle easily with great hardware, and most importantly, free software going with it.
I'll have to agree with this. As a programmer, I'm not particularly interested in wearing a suit and tie while working so by principle I wouldn't wear it to an interview.

It really depends on the company, though. If while talking with the company before the interview they came off as lax on their dress code, I wouldn't bother wearing anything fancy. I guess it's about judging the appropriateness for the given situation.

In the end, I'd prefer to wear whatever I'm most comfortable in so I can be myself and show them exactly who I am, as opposed to carbon copy office bitch in a suit.
Currently here are my bottlenecks in HD editing on my mid 2011 MBP (which I have a LaCie Firewire 800 raid 1 hooked to).

1- The transcode from h.264 (what my D7000 outputs) to Prores
2- Transitions, overlays and basic comp'ing effects
3- Export from FCP
4- Transcoding from Prores to h.264 again

The editing itself, no, it isn't that bad really anymore. On my old Macbook Pro (2009 model?) it was pretty hard still. Yet, everything surrounding the render is just terrible. I feel that with a 16/32 core Mac Pro, 64GB+ of RAM that that many of these problems would go away. I saw where someone had built a Hackintosh the other day that was 16/32 cores and 128GB RAM... which is very tempting currently.
down modding stuff is fine, giving reasoned comments is fantastic.

lynch mob - no, but I was struck with concern and amusement by the idea of a quarterly referendum on which world figures we should target for assassination, plus maybe a limit of civilian children whose collateral death would be acceptable in the voting list. In fact its the opposite of a lynch mob. A lynch democracy perhaps.

don't quite understand the non-sequiteur part... could you expand?
Well, I thought the unreadable, unprocessable, undeleteable file named '.' was rather clever.
> _I just want a device that works, and upgrades easily._

As a loyal TMo G2 (stock Froyo) owner, I wholeheartedly agree with that opinion. As other replies called out, TMo has a knack for luring you in and never releasing OS updates.

That said, I'm very happy running my "legacy" Froyo OS: My GPS is fast and spot-on, data pipe is 4G-wide, and my bit-laggy camera app is supplemented by dedicated hardware for anything cleaner than "LOL quality."
<< There's nothing preventing an employer from saying, "well I'm paying what I think is the 'prevailing wage'.>>

The employer does not determine what the prevailing wage is. The US Department of Labor does. Prevailing wage = the mean wage for that position in that region.
The way it works now when you get a new Mac, the iLife apps (and presumably Lion) are "granted" to the Apple ID you use to register the computer. Thus you can use that ID to install them on other computers.
That would go directly against freedom zero, and criteria 6
J2ME (compatible with Gmail): http://ds3global.com/index.php/en/news-a-events/news/97-secu...
Please correct me if I am wrong, but as far as I can see not a single feature that is compared in this article is exclusive to ICS.

Those features are also available on 2.2 and 2.3, so the whole discussion about "ICS is vaporware" is irrelevant when talking about those features.
There is an advert for Steers (a hamburger take away franchise here in South Africa, their burgers are delicious!) that came out around about the same time that McDonalds came to the country. It depicts one guy unpacking a stack of tiny burgers onto the table, bragging to his buddy about how little he paid for all these tiny cheeseburgers (getting the picture?)

His buddy opens up a Steers bag, pulls out one great big Steer Burger, looks over to the other guy just before biting into it and says: "That's great, but now you have to eat them."

The point of the advert is clear, I think mine is too.
A weird phenomenon that I have observed is the general public does not seem to consider killings that incorporate the use of aircraft to be assassinations.

Drone attacks, Apache missile strikes, and even dropping Navy SEALS on people with helicopters all seem to fall into some sort of "standard act of war" category when talked about in public. If you even merely refer to these things as assassinations you are written off as trying to use exaggerated or at least loaded language.

It's almost like people think "assassinations" are limited to snipers and James Bond figures breaking into your hotel room and making it look like a suicide.
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Eh, this was never about instantaneous travel, this was about a slight increase in speed.

Instantaneous communication causes some serious problems with time/causality anyway.

That said, there's always Tachyons. [0] and I think the information transfer that happens during quantum teleportation is faster than light [1]

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation
If the decision to go was unanimous then how is this a problem? They went to a restaurant that advertises the objectifying of women, with employees (of the eatery) that are totally OK with it as well.

Now, if one of those employees decided to voice resistance to the idea and they carried on despite this, we would have a problem.

I don't see a problem with the author's specific instance, nor would I have a problem with an all female/ voluntary crew heading out to man hooters and throwing it up all over the intertubes.
We run on .NET - most code is written in C#.

Hosting wise we run on Appharbor, which is kind of like heroku for .NET.
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You can ignore them right up until they file an actual case - if you continue to ignore it after that, you will lose the case by default and be subject to whatever penalty they or the judge decide to levy against you.

(IANAL, this ain't legal advice, don't take legal advise from random Russians on the internet.)
The site is painfully slow if you're not on ridiculously fast internet connection. One simple page took more than a minute to load.
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Integrating, assembling and perfecting existing technologies and ideas is what they are. Interface demos with similar or identical gestures existed before. Capacitive touch screens existed before. These two devices have been big leaps, yes, but I don't see why it contradicts my point. My point was: Stop justifying your favourite products vs. my favourite product by saying stuff like "but it can do that too, your stuff is so unoriginal, duh!" /Louis C.K. voice off. Just fucking choose and live with it - or change it.
Apple: Unoriginality At Its Finest
I don't think it's as simple as you make it sound.

If somebody writes a tool that helps 100 million Chinese people access the unfiltered internet, a percentage of them will be caught and punished in devastating and inhumane ways. Some fraction of the illicit traffic will be blocked and the holes sealed up.

The remaining people will have access to material that, as far as the Chinese government is concerned, poses a tremendous risk to the state's continued authority. If this - as the state obviously believes - would help speed along the atrophy of an authoritarian state, net human suffering would be reduced overall.