skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But if you remove them and one plane has a problem as there was not enough checks and you can bet everybody will demand that the TSA is brought back."

This is a phenomenon that can be seen in other areas too, particularly technology. I fully expect an uproar the first time a robotic car kills a family, no matter how much safer robotic cars are statistically.

It is ultimately combination of two problems I think: the inability to deal with unlikely events rationally, and the strong desire to see someone in control and responsible. How do we fix these problems? Beats me. Education is tiring and ineffective, it's statistics vs emotion.
Is that C language features or compiler-specific extensions? Arguably, sticking to the standard is actually the better alternative here in terms of portability.
Next in line: "Incredible Leader of Total Awesomeness. Bee's Knees"
I've seen it on slashdot some years ago for the first time.
I don't think Facebook's master plan is for us to log-in and click ads, I think their plan is for us to log-in and be ads. This is an important distinction from most ad-supported free web services. I do not mind being "targeted" and shown relevant advertising based on my interests of behavior patterns on the site or group of sites. I very much mind being used as an someone else's endorsement or having my actions and relationships themselves be monetized. I think most everyone does. Just pointing this out because it's a nuance of the "you are the product" philosophy that differs from most other free services.
In theory an international Setup.exe could decide what package to install and verify its signature.

Disclosure: I just started working at Microsoft, though not closely with the Skype team. My research interests involve authentication, censorship and privacy issues. Be assured that there are smart people inside who are very concerned about the integrity of these systems. If you come across anything sketchy beyond what's required by law in the relevant jurisdictions please let me know or email secure [at] microsoft.com.
Really? A single Gallup poll is "evidence" now? [1,2,3]

[1]http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/gallup-v...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/17/gallup-poll-race-ba...

[3] http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/10/rasmussen-an...
I like to cherry pick data too.

USA is the developed country with more Gunshot deaths per capita
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-...

UK 7 consecutive years with murder rate falls after stronger gun control, UK have more in common with USA than Jamaica or Ireland

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/publications/science-research-s...

The percentage of the crimes committed with firearms in USA is way higer than the half of Colombia, a third world country with multiple armed guerrillas for more than 40 years.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence
I'd agree if Instagram was widely used for artwork, but it isn't. If Instagram had pictures like Flickr has, then I'd see the comparison
http://www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2012/12/19/instagram-...

Looks like the National Geographic is doing more with Instagram than just some filters and bad food photography.
What other alternative runtimes even exist?
What wasn't a surprise is that the poll appeared just before Congress has to decide TSA's budget for next year. I've seen a few other highly complimentary articles on TSA these past few days, too - all appearing all of the sudden. A little suspicious, isn't it?
I'm going to guess that Switzerland doesn't share the opinion that America's gun laws are "batshit crazy".

Every citizen who has served in the military (most of them due to compulsory duty), is required to keep a fully automatic weapon in their house.

You have a country where a young man can do his grocery shopping with a military rifle across his back and no one bats an eye:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Car...

I'll also guess that Israel has similar feelings too.
Ah, but even semi-armed insurgents can cause massive casualties.

To argue that guns in the hands of many cannot affect a modern government military is a farce.

Had Europeans had as many guns as their American counterparts would Hitler have conquered Europe?

Making pithy statements is easy. Try putting some thoughts into your answers.
Would be great that you do the Linux book whatever the title may be! )
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Font designers are not security experts, just as the music and movie industry are also not security experts. There's just as high of a chance that these fonts are already posted to torrent sites, too.

At least with custom/designer fonts, they're not really designed to have mass-market appeal, but instead cater to having a few high-end, high-price customers. So trying to protect them, even ineffectively, makes a little more sense: the number of people inconvenienced for a given amount of item sales is far less than on a movie.

But yes, it's pointless.
>It's a pointless article without knowing what the project is.

Exactly. I recall being assigned a small project years ago to print a route list in a particular way. I'm sure it could have been done with maybe a hundred lines of Go or Python or whatever language du jour. But it came down to a two line shell script. Which one is supposed to be the elegant one again?

Also, there is a reason that a C compiler is written in C but a Java virtual machine is not written in Java.

And anything with substantially more than a thousand lines of code that isn't written in a strongly typed language is all but guaranteed to be a maintenance catastrophe full of security vulnerabilities. (Or a pile of slow, hideous fail as a result of all the manual runtime type validation you have to do to prevent that from happening.)

Elegance is a function of adaptability to purpose. A screw driver is an elegant tool to screw in a screw but an inelegant tool to hammer a nail.
Isn't the reason mostly that the spectrum is licensed? So the only ones that can actually set up a picocell are the ones that own spectrum, and they don't have a good reason to do so (except in remote areas / on boats).
The Amazon pricing is similar to chargeback models in large enterprises. Actually it's cheaper, because big enterprises typically require the you use SAN at $5-15 per GB/mo.
I work with the people developing the SSL Observatory. So far, the Observatory has never been used to discover intentional malfeasance on the part of a certificate authority (though it's found certs that shouldn't have been issued). The Observatory exists, though, because of many data points showing pressures on and uncertainty about the certificate authority industry: successful compromises of CAs, rumors of governments coercing CAs to misissue, some trusted CAs unclear on the concept of what they were supposed to be doing, and other risks. Google's pinning responds to the same set of concerns.

One nice change from just a few years ago is that the system is starting to get a lot of scrutiny.
Shell -> Perl

That's what I usually do when my shell scripts get out of hand.
Perl has had the DateTime suite of modules since early 2003. (Shameless plug since I'm the author). https://metacpan.org/release/DateTime
>The point is, unless you're paying them money, you have nothing to threaten them with.

That self-righteous attitude being made fun of (i.e. That'll teach them!) is the morose self-righteousness so many of our generation feel these days when they figure out that they aren't the special flower who produces sacred works of art and are rather an id in a database who needs to be exploited for revenue somehow.

No one gives a shit if you stop using Instagram over this perfectly legitimate (in my eyes) move that was unfortunately retracted. Don't announce it over Twitter, because no one is listening but yourself.
LOL. Quora is such a Crunch-whore. I swear, the only people who know of it or use it are Arrington junkies. Why is this still a "hot" startup? It's just Yahoo! answers with VC and less illiterates.
>> Quora and Wikipedia have long been seen as complementary <<

That depends on who is looking ...
Hey @mwargh could you email me at help@learncodethehardway.org? I got awesome goodies for you.

I ended up completely redoing the LxTHW base structure and converted all my books to it, but I haven't got around to updating the repo with the new gear. If you email me I'll hook you up with the latest.

The new gear uses dexy (http://dexy.it) still, but uses all the features of the newer dexy and switches to rST intead of latex. I also have a converter that converts from the old latex structure pretty well. The results are much easier to host and convert to pdf, mobi, epub, html, etc. and easier to write.

So, contact me (or anyone looking to do one of these).
Why did Google search plus your world fail? Because facebook and twitter will never let Google to do that!
I empathize with the people who have no other choice but to work for the TSA, that is a shitty place to be in life, but I reserve the right to at the same time criticize their job and them for doing it.

The extension of your argument (and I have seen this said here many times before) is basically that we should not criticize Rhinoceros hunters because said hunters may just be trying to etch out a place for themselves and their starving family in this world. Yeah, it would suck to be in that position, but hunting Rhinos is still reprehensible. I understand why they do it, but I cannot condone it and I cannot withhold my criticism.
My impression of EC2 and S3 has always been that they're appropriate for meeting short term needs (to handle extra load or to function as backups), but that's about it.

Their long-term pricing is terrible compared to other options, and they offer few benefits. At the low end, standard VPSes are much cheaper. At the high end, never mind colo, there are dedicated and even managed servers which offer far better value.
The stone man looked it, but was not a statue. Once every few years, sometimes in winter and sometimes in summer, he would become flesh for long enough to speak a few words. All listened, for he was wise. Then he would sleep. A color appeared in him. His hand began to tremble. His mouth began to move. He said, "This is not the solution to that problem." Then his mouth stopped moving, and he returned to stone.
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Buy a book. Make an app . Release on app store. Dont worry about finding the perfect book, just buy one (I'm partial towards the LaMarche book), work through the examples, then build your own app. IF you run into any hurdles while building your app, google and stackoverflow are your tech support.
Instagram put forth a new TOS in which they could sell your photos to be used in advertising and you would have no rights over that. They wouldn't pay you for it. They wouldn't tell you when it was happening.

They've since recanted.
Do "completely general" programming languages exist?
In Ruby, you can add methods to existing classes. Language features like that fascinate me. I want to see what happens when you take this dynamic-ness, or generality, to the extreme. Are there other languages which let you do interesting stuff like that? Something that comes to mind is being able to modify the behavior of all control structures during runtime (I'm not saying this would be useful). What is some other dynamic behavior that would be interesting?

I've had some experience with lisp (scheme) and I think at some point I was asked to write an if function or something (SICP). I don't use scheme much nowadays because it's not as popular.
Yes, and I used 'smart' but what I actually meant is 'well-informed'. Doesn't even matter if they're smart, but a well-informed person should have a basic grasp of how constitutional law works.

Some basic problems in this thread:
1. The U.S. Constitution does not exist in a vacuum. You can't just read it and make a pronouncement on what it means. It has been applied and interpreted by the courts for over two hundred years, and case law, especially Supreme Court cases, are necessary parts of understanding the Constitution. I'd have to look again, but I don't think there's a single comment in this thread where case law is used to provide authority/support for someone's assertions. In other words, people are just spouting off with irrelevant crap. (All of this is true regardless of what Scalia or anyone else says about "plain meaning"; their plain meaning is often not plain to others (need to look at cases), and/or they pick and choose what they think is plain and what's not).

2. It may seem counterintuitive, but there is no such thing as an "absolute" right. At least not in any human legal system. Rights sometimes conflict with other rights (in which case at least one needs to be limited), rights are (and always have been) limited when they conflict with what courts determine to be a "compelling" government interest (need to read case law and reason by legal analogy to understand if any particular situation may rise to level of "compelling" interest), and they can be limited in less restrictive ways when the government's interest does not rise to the level of being "compelling". In other cases we may speak of a right as being absolute, e.g., right against "cruel and unusual punishment", but it should be obvious to anyone in U.S. over last ten years that that right depends on how courts interpret "cruel and unusual", i.e, it's flexible.

Those, I think, are two main things. But, really, without my even saying those it should be clear to anyone reading this thread that it's conducted at the level of two (earnest but uninformed and perhaps inebriated) college freshman debating late at night in their dorm room.

3. Another smaller thing. In some cases people in this thread have tried to interpet the language of the Constitution. Many of these attempts at interpretation are laughably bad, don't involve careful reading. If people coded with such little attention to detail programs would be crashing right and left. (Of course, the text of the Constitution is not program code, like any laws laid out in human language they're subject to interpretation, often misinterpretation.)
404 for me.

Make sure to update your nginx/0.7.67, there was a number of security related upgrades.

Don't use the one in ports. Compile or if you are on Ubuntu:

sudo -s

nginx=stable # use nginx=development for latest development version

add-apt-repository ppa:nginx/$nginx

apt-get update

apt-get install nginx

;-)
I have this problem myself. When I work at home - which is usually only 1 day a week - I have a hard time not getting distracted.
I bet a lot of engineers will agree. Even businesses might go along with it. The problem that's unsolved is not the will for crypto, it's key management. There's no transparent way to handle key management.

If it's transparent, that means it can be transparently broken, too.

The other issue is data recovery. You can't choose full security and also have a "oops I forgot my password, please restore" feature.

If these actual hard technical problems are solved, I'm sure security will spread very quickly.
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An idea I heard on IRC is to use the 5 minute rule.

Start doing something for 5 minutes. Anything productive. Only five minutes. It's not that long, is it? Now, if you still don't feel like doing it, you're tired; take a break. If you're lucky, you will start feeling like doing it and continue!

The point is to get immersed in what you're doing. Small steps can also help - do many small things, not few large things.
If you buy a phone you get a USB to Lightning cable. You can buy more of these if you want. Why is this a deal breaker?

There are a lot of devices out there that aren't Lightning and would benefit from a system like this, so 4 regular USB ports is a lot more useful than specialized connectors.
Do you still need to compile all of LLVM? I tried to install Rust a few days ago and came back to my computer using gigabytes of swap space, which I assume is due to LLVM.
And... ? Can this person no longer post photos to Instagram now? What has Instagram done to this person that is so terrible?
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I think Chad blinked when he heard the sound of multiple trucks backing up to his garage to collect all the stuff he thought he was going to sell.
Thanks for posting the article. Really helped!

If you're still having trouble wrapping your mind around the shadowy part... Look at this image and imagine the light source coming from behind instead:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Saturn_HS...
No such problem here.
the authors of the amendment made their meaning abundantly clear. Since you obviously didn't read my entire post, I'll re-iterate this quote:

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." George Mason Co-author of the Second Amendment during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788
Look, obviously Instagram's servers, infrastructure and software are their own. I think that's so obvious on the face of things that it's trite to labor the point. They are in fact a company, serving users, and need those users' trust to do what they want to do. I am totally fine with Instagram or any free service making money and experimenting with ways of doing that. I have no issues with contextual advertising or trying to sell me something. The issue people complaining about is one of trust and a feeling/fear of broken faith. (e.g. "Hey, use our cool site for photo sharing! Oh by the way, now all your photos are belong to us.")
I'm working on it! Hoping to submit the pull request in the new year. :)
You're right - it's a compiler extension to a language (apparently) called "GNU C"[1]: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Nested-Functions.html

Seems like a very nice feature though.

[1]: First time I've heard this term. I'm not sure how I feel about it.
"I don't like some of Instagram submissions, therefore it is all worthless and not worth getting upset over."
I think the result is that there really needs to be an effort on the part of these online service providers to clarify their terms and make human-readable summaries of users' rights/licenses so that everyone understands where they stand contractually.

There was a post on HN quite some time ago about the Terms of Service agreement on http://500px.com/terms, take a look. I really like what and how they have laid it out. It's a really good idea and wish more companies would do this. I for one skim over the ToS, esp for free online services, and although I think many of us are the same we may start to read them more carefully from now on.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3831357
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Not badly enough, apparently.
If the British were overthrown with Facebook and Twitter rather than an armed revolution, I'm pretty sure this would be the 2nd Amendment.

You know the alternate universe where it was "One click by land, two clicks by sea" and Paul Revere's Ride consisted of opening at least two dozen tabs to post in different forums, plus a half dozen IRC channels...
I still don't really get your point. :-)

Anyway, it is probably a good thing if conspiracy theories abound when the local government overstep boundaries -- even if there are no conspiracies, it keeps the politicians' behaviour in control. :-)
"Just?" Quora's still 'hot' enough to talk about because it's like Yahoo Answers, with VC and fewer illiterates.

Being like Yahoo Answers isn't so bad: Q&A is a strong category/mechanism, always drawing attention and triggering interactions with useful byproducts. Reliable information (with or without authorial personality) is evergreen on the web, and the big funding indicates a level of resourcing and longevity. Just fix the issues with Yahoo Answers and you'd have a big winner.
I don't think it is quite a Superior Orders defense, but it certainly does seem morally equivalent to me. "I did it for my starving family" and "I did it because my commanding officer would shoot me otherwise" are probably pretty related (some regimes do their best to blur the line between these), but I feel there should be another name for it.
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You haven't said anything about what changed. So, blind stab in the dark:

Eat right, take your vitamins, make sure you have good sleep habits, exercise, and stay properly hydrated.
I'm sure that if the press release were being served off a domain that was even a little bit recognizable, like 'thomsonreuters.com' or similar, everybody would be willing to accept that as official. corporate-ir.net just sounds sketchy.

Also i doubt that typepad would be as trusted if your blog wasn't as popular. If it were some company whose blog i've never read before, i wouldn't be inclined to trust announcements from typepad. but everybody here knows the aws blog.
Target based ads are CPC, so its pay per click. Lets do some simple math, i send out 10,000 messages. 10% open the message, 10% click the link or whatever. Whats my cost per click assuming $1 per message.
Couldn't you create a repo in bitbucket and push to it as a new remote head to keep your revision history?
I hope that dollar goes 50 cents to Facebook and 50 cents to the poor victim of the message. But what am I saying, this is Mark $uckerberg we're talking about here.
I try to isolate myself from technology that can go on the internet, I have even been looking into buying a laptop without any networking support so I can use it to be constructive around a computer.
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Yeah, for the moment it still uses a custom LLVM, so the first compile is still a pain (though LLVM does build in parallel really well with -j8). I really hope that the Rust devs make it a priority to upstream their LLVM customizations, especially if they hope to be pegged to a stable LLVM release by Rust 1.0.
What about a tiered gun control license?
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