skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What do you want the police to do, patrol around Lincoln Park and Lakeview where all the wealthy white people are?

No, but city and state gov't should be responsive to the causes of these issues and be proactive about solving them. Usually that will mean looking at class and race disparity and implementing policy that will provide better opportunities for those people, as well as defeating existing roadblocks that prevent those people from taking control of their lives.
If you care about compatibility with applications that use Schannel for TLS on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, be aware of which ciphers it supports/doesn't support:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa38...

Note that there are no ciphers that use AES for encryption in that list.

tl;dr: Make sure TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA ("RC4-SHA" in OpenSSL) is in your server's cipher list if you care about Windows XP and removed the 3DES ciphers because they're "too slow."
To those of you who immediately believe the tumblr and therefore condemn the accuser as a liar: On what basis do you make your judgment? Do you:

1. Know Keith or the accuser personally, and therefore have the capacity to make an educated guess as to the veracity of the claims?

2. Believe that rich people, well known people, or people with blogs don't have the capacity to do what Keith is accused of doing?

3. Believe the first side of the story you hear in any given situation?

If neither 1, 2, nor 3 is the case, I urge you to not jump to conclusions. There's a human being on the other side of the story.
> specialized apps have a lot to gain from running on more specialized platforms

Guess there could be some gains, but a lot? Enough to bother with?

What about hardware support?
Guns: They Make You Invincible
I get the same on Firefox (aka Iceweasel) 10.0.12 on Debian Wheezy. I thought there was a rendering issue until I read the parent comment.
While we are on the topic of Google indexing things and revealing security holes I think that VoIP devices should also be mentioned.

I remember when I was taking a network security class in college the professor was guiding us through the steps required to scan a network for vulnerabilities, specifically detecting services and control panels which are left open and vulnerable. Naturally we were using the college network for this, and in addition to the expected control panels of printers in different professors' offices I accidentally found the control panel for the school VoIP system, and it was not properly secured. I believe it was a Cisco system. Anyway the control panel seemed to offer access to modify various settings of the college VoIP phone system, with no password protection.

Now granted it could be that I only had access to this because I was doing the scan from "inside the system" instead of outside via the web, but I'm sure there are vulnerable VoIP systems which have accidentally exposed their control panels to the internet.
Kiva is a similar organization http://kiva.org where people can lend money to people in poor countries for their needs. I wish the same help for Kiva.
John, thanks for the info! A few more questions if you don't mind. How long have you had the service? Was it reliable? Any down time that you experienced? Were they quick in fixing problems?

I know what you mean about HDTV. I use the antenna to get free HDTV too. People come over to my place and see how clear it is couldn't believe it. It's funny people who work in the industry do not know about it haha
Ohh, got it, thank you. So Google is aware that the URL exists, even though they know nothing about the content served at that URL.

I am just surprised that a URL with no associated content would be included in the index.

But now that I think about it more, why not? It will not show up except in extremely specific searches, and in those cases it is useful to the searcher.
Please forgive me if I don't count coverage by Techcrunch as verification. Did he tweet it? Link from FB? Send a signed email?

It could be legit, but the bar should be higher than this.
You don't know what he did to him, maybe that was gay rape!
This happened exactly to me as well...fresh new idea with a few tweaks with a Bootstrap theme for a few internet projects and they were ecstatic.
There's a human being on both sides of the story here. And being falsely accused of sexual harassment is a painful event.

I can't side with either party right now (due to the lack of facts), but I certainly feel more for Keith than I do the other, anonymous party.
Go with the always on camera
Google now article
There was recently an article about someone who went from iphone to android because of google now and explained the benefits of google now for travelers. I wanted to read it later, but sadly fell asleep and now I can't find it. If anyone can help please do link me to it.
Thanks!
Fair enough. I guess I'm just not a fan of websites that want to look like printed material, which is by most accounts an inferior medium.
Why isn't apache and/or openssl shipping with "optimized" defaults already?
Having grown up in California... I loved it! Honestly... it's just very drizzly. It rarely rains hard.
As far as I can tell, it's a vague concept, and two "authors" who haven't authored anything asking people to help without really explaining any of the goals? Help with what, exactly?

I fully support making more languages embeddable, but this project doesn't seem to be real. I hope there's more to it than what's listed on their site right now!
Basically, the Indian govt. is trying to show that its "doing something" to cool down the public temper after the recent rape incident. Mr.Sibal's last comment is enlightening:

>Still, the effort may be of some value. Mr. Sibal noted that, with the same technology, parents would be able to keep tabs on their children.

What happens is: the agency that developed this device has to justify their funding. So they come up with these bullshit ideas.
He said the suit alleges the relationship was not consensual. There's a difference, and I'm guessing it's oriented around the employment aspect.
I see your point, but my Web browser is also an interface, and the way the top cuts the header off makes it look as if there is a rendering problem.

It feels to me a bit like a glossy magazine printed on good quality stock having a cover with a crease in it by design. Most would just assume they got a creased copy until the saw the others.
I honestly hope this was a joke.
First, this is going to be a civil trial, not a criminal one :)
The goal of the civil system is definitely not to find truth, only settle disputes "fairly". This often does not require truth.
This is why the evidentiary rules/burdens in a civil trial are very different.

Even in the criminal justice system, the goal of the criminal justice system has never been to find truth, only produce justice or deterrence.

The last part sounds a bit like a tautology, but essentially, most criminal justice systems were created with the knowledge they can't figure out what really happened in most cases (take murder, where at least one person who knows what happened is dead, and another stands accused), so the goal is usually not to find the truth. Justice is easy, truth is hard.

There are also plenty of cases where truth is irrelevant to the aim of deterrence. It doesn't matter if you catch everyone who is speeding, or even that everyone you ticket was speeding, your goal is usually to get a high enough rate of catching actual speeders to deter the conduct.
I think this apply to those that remain selling to apple.

The children on the component maker that were dumped, are screwed,
Email template design is important to optimize click-through rate, but by definition it cannot increase subscribes because people who are not subscribed cannot see the great new template.

To grow a subscriber base you need to market and optimize the sign-up form, not the newsletter. One great way to do that is to wrap it in a catchy-titled blog post and submit it to Hacker News. :-)
I worked with Peter and Ilya last week on putting this into our site. The client-side code took about half an hour, including setting up our segment.io account. The backend code was equally simple (but took longer as there were more calls to replace).

There are a couple major benefits to this service:

1) Your marketing guy can go in and turn different analytics products on/off without touching code.

2) One call to track() pushes events to all of your enabled services. You don't have to add/remove calls to change which services they go to.

3) The backend code is asynchronous. This is a huge win, because you can call it in code handling a web request without worrying about it slowing down the user experience.

4) You don't have to deal with crappy APIs from companies like Marketo. We were able to remove a couple hundred lines of code that dealt with talking to marketo, in favor of one line of code that talked to Marketo via segment.io.
We are going to build SCVs
I think you're right, I would just generalize your point. There are human beings on both sides of the story, we must remain moderate and refrain from making too much judgements until more facts are known and the justice has fully investigated this case.
What is with this absurd first world notion that nobody should ever have anything bad ever happen to them in their life? Self-defense has been part of being alive since the dawn of humanity - living in a civilized (to various degrees) area doesn't negate that. You are either prepared to do what needs to be done to protect yourself, or you rely on passive measures (living in a nice area, avoiding dangerous situations, etc.) and hope you don't become a victim.
Is this anything more than a clever rhetorical move to put the onus on lower level workers who are struggling to deal with systemic changes?

My statement is purely descriptive, which I note you don't controvert. White collar temp jobs have substantially increased their share of the economy relative to the mid-20th century. And the structure over time of career progression is also substantially changed as a result of that.

Saying, "well, they chose to do it" sidesteps analyzing the systemic issues. No more than saying "well, black people choose to work for less pay than white people" analyzes anything meaningful.
We are the worst people so far
There aren't degrees of infallibility and a jury of one's peers may be less fallible.
I'm reminded of the engineer that saw 20 standards that did almost the same thing, so he created one standard to unify them. And then there were 21 standards.
Hey, I am around the same age as you and in the process of establishing my own business. Despite the fact that that you have a lot of ideas, What is your basis for creating these? why not start with something your passionate about? That is the difference between a brand and just a regular company. Just my 2 cents. If you have time check out the book, Start With Why, by Simon Sinek.
While in this case there's not really enough information to make any kind of judgement, I feel it is important to point out that sexism can occur between people of the same gender and sexism is not strictly relegated the realm of how one gender is treated by another.
David Mamet: Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm
If you look at who was speaking, the man who was trying to evangelise tech was a good example of that. In that respect, having a woman who was evangelising would be a good counterpoint. I'm not entirely sure of the point of the angle of a guy who didn't believe it was a problem was though, given there's an obvious gap still there.
Concession: I haven't listened to the interview as of yet. I know they did have a young girl programmer who spoke too, but it was a pre-recorded bit, so didn't have any interaction.
I imagine it'd look fine on a MacBook Air. It doesn't on a 23" monitor, that's for sure.

I want to believe that the people behind it didn't bother to test it on different viewports, but I have created websites that look fine on everything from iPhones to large monitors without writing viewport-specific CSS.

It just seems incredibly sloppy, which is hard to believe for a company like ALA.
I've just been made aware that there is evidence that someone has been trying to steal property worth more than $1M!

We need a prosecutor to draw up charges...oh, wait.

Who prosecutes the prosecutors?
Thanks for replying stackcollison!
Yes, it's crazy how expensive internet service is in NYC area. I just wish Google fiber or other gigabit service can get here sooner. My friends in other countries are getting hundreds of mbps for their internet service. I don't know how our country, supposedly the most technology advanced country in the world is still talking low mbps internet... It's time for a nationwide upgrade.
1080p monitor, full screen, 96 pixels to the nominal 'inch'. Looks nice actually. Its that header...
This is based on my experience in SF (i.e. muni/bart), but the public transit experience is pretty variable. Crowds, homeless people, traffic conditions, timely connections. The tube is probably a little better/consistent, but rating the experience would be a good feature to add in SF.
Every tech site is referencing it.
What an impossible position.

On the one hand – work has become such a big part of our lives. If we make it impossible for romance and work to co-exist, that reduces a lot of surface area for finding long-term romantic partners.

On the other – at a certain level of authority and prominence, you just shouldn't have sex with someone you're working with. There's too much that can go wrong. This is the nightmare scenario for at least one of the parties, though we don't know for sure yet who it is.

But even if things don't shit the bed quite this bad, you're just asking for awkwardness and trouble in most cases.

Impossible.
Is it this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5006967 ?
Would what's proposed be considered an "exokernel"?

EDIT: To add some context, would it be like http://www.openmirage.org/ ?
Related: http://erlangonxen.org/
Kara Swisher says she got the same statement from him.

http://allthingsd.com/20130125/keith-rabois-long-statement-o...
This isn't even remotely true, most sexual assault cases result in no arrest or prosecution. Even in significant cases where a person of power commits sexual assault, they are likely to win their case -- the Diallo case comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_v._Strauss-Kahn
Secrets in the code
In many such projects the hardware support is handled by a hypervisor. But that's more like bare virtual metal.
Nonsense. There are systems all over the world that give only a passing nod to protection of the innocent, and they still work because the guilty are punished most of the time.

As I said, the basic purpose of the law is to provide order.
That's the point - just because the other party is anonymous doesn't mean they deserve less empathy. Of course, we're biased to the more vivid human character, but it's just a bias. Let's try and correct it with reason.
A gun? Pepper Spray? You have no idea how the rapist will react to that.

By screaming in pain and flopping on the ground, one would hope.

And someone shouldn't have to have the burden of ending another human's life just to not be attacked.

Well sure, but given the choice of injuring / killing an attacker, or being attacked, what do you think most people would pick? What would you pick?
Yes to all of the above. And I think there are other days when I can express my concerns, now it's time that I start celebrating Watsi's success. :)
Robots and SLavery - what do humans want when they are "Masters"?
Unique inside Mega, yes, but not globally.

Imagine if UNIX systems did as you propose. The rainbow table for the salt "root" would let me do plenty of damage.
It would be interesting to see benchmarks to indicate if such a project would give a useful gain in performance, compared to say, just running Erlang on its own, via of the many available OS kernels.
I totally agree that most news sites do a poor job of verifying information before parroting information, but several sites are quoting a statement from Square that seems to verify this (e.g. http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-square-e...)
It's more like "feel-good being the enemy of the good". Without other good policies, a more efficient car has ~zero expected benefit. With the other good policies, the more efficient car is marginally relevant.

Pure, unadulterated feel-good-ism.
It has been suggested that running an app directly in a VM with no OS uses the hypervisor like an exokernel.
That struck me as odd too. When I saw someone I had a single date with was interviewing at the company I worked for, as she left the building I went to HR and told them so that there would be no surprise later. And that was just a single date, not an ongoing relationship.
I'm glad.

Not because of the non-profit nature of this startup but the endorsement YC has now given to non-traditional and perhaps massively big ideas.
Am I the only one that was confused about that last line of "already working on something new and hope to announce that in February"...

He's gone through something as traumatic as a lawsuit, a resignation, potential for trial, potential embarrassment of family, friends, colleagues all in the last two weeks... And his sign-off is that he has, in the midst of it all, already begun to work on a new startup?
No, not that one. The one I am seeking was mainly focused around the power of Google Now
I can't wait to be able to release the sources of this bad boy:

http://viennot.biz/google-play-crawler-dashboard.png

http://viennot.biz/google-play-search.png

Expect it in April :)

EDIT: Notice in the search screenshot how I'm missing the R references. This problem is addressed by lxdvs in Apk2Gold.
When I design website related work in Photoshop, I have a section of layers that contains shapes with dimensions of the common resolutions ie: MBA 1366 x 768, 1024 x 768, etc.

I'm a bit surprised that the huge image isn't responsive so that it changes in size - to always show or hint that there's something below the fold (ie: https://yourkarma.com/ )

This new design have nothing to indicate there are stuff below the fold when viewed on a MBA 1366x768 or any with 768 height - it looks like a giant magazine cover. Unless that was the intended effect.

(But then I'm using Chrome, so might look different in other browsers)
Neither participates in the competitive bidding process that sets the interest rates. Social Security gets special bonds not available on the open market, and the Fed buys Treasuries from primary dealers at market rates (since the whole point is to inject money into the private economy).
So, the really cool part is this:

"At Watsi, 100% of your donations directly fund medical treatments. Watsi.org is separately funded. They pay all their operational costs from their own funding, and none from your donations. They even eat the credit card processing fees."

It doesn't sound (as) cool me if the founders can only do this until they go broke. It looks like they do accept direct donations to fund their operating costs, but it seems to me that the demand (if that's the right word for the desire to donate) might not increase at the same rate as the demand to fund treatments (and therefore costs for credit card fees, hosting, staff) increases. Better to take a percentage and be transparent about what you use it for.
What about hardware support?

Quite so, hardware is the holy grail. (Alan Kay: "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.") I dream of a golden age of experimentation in vertical stacks: specialized hardware designed for specialized classes of application with only so much OS as is needed to support them. Perhaps if the cost of developing hardware falls the way the cost of developing software did, we might see something. Why not an Erlang machine? A Lua machine? A spreadsheet machine?

Enough to bother with?

Order of magnitude is table stakes for interesting, wouldn't you say? Radical experiments demand radical gains. Surely there is room for an order of magnitude if one is willing to sacrifice general-purpose computing.
Antigua could also become the next Cuba.
Confirmed that he resigned is not the same as confirming he wrote the blog post.
This can be argued to be morally unethical, although some people don't see it that way, but that has more to do with how people view children both as people and property.
It's interesting to see the Institute for Justice,

http://www.ij.org/

"the nation's only libertarian, civil liberties, public interest law firm," mentioned in this story. The involvement of specialist lawyers with knowledge of civil forfeiture law probably helped the motel owner win the ruling reported in this news story.
I've never looked at a quality magazine cover and thought 'did they mean to for it look like that?'

I thought that with this page.

So, that's one glaring difference.
Efficiency and Bullying
Show HN: Don't forget another movie release. Thoughts?
Update: Really appreciating all the feedback I'm receiving and will start right away at implementing all of it. I haven't put a link on the site to follow on twitter yet, but to get updated about new features follow Movie Cron on twitter @MovieCron ( http://www.twitter.com/MovieCron ).
Just donated. What an awesome cause and an amazing effort by the team. I'm asking other organizations that I donate to, to follow Watsi's example in transparency.
To me, it's plainly obvious that people in those other countries need our help more than people in the United States. What other concern is there? "I'd like to help people in MY country" is just a vaguely nationalistic bigotry.
The Institute for Justice has been fighting this one for a while. I'm glad they were finally able to get the judge to see what was going on.

(Full disclosure: I am a supporter of IJ.)
What if the attacker has a gun/pepper spray?...

Not to mention that many women state their bodies just shut down like they weren't even there, even if they had a way out/way to defend themselves.
The way I read the last sentence:

"all... cannot" --> none can

"not all... can" --> some [perhaps many or most? -- note again the 87% conversion figure] can
This is the first time I've heard it outside of a mathematical context. I'm an undergrad student.
"Caswell estimates the U.S. government will have to pay at least $600,000 toward his defense fees.". What a waste of taxpayer's money.
HN is bad at subtext, so let me offer you a decoder ring on the subtext of the 'pg story we're commenting on:

YC is working on addressing the problem of funding Watsi's overhead. The point of the service is that end-users don't fund Watsi, they fund patients. In the same sense as you need to take it sort of on faith that Airbnb can bootstrap and maintain a two-sided market for short-term lodging, you should probably take it on faith that Watsi's model is going to work; if you want to make Watsi work well, go fund a patient with it.

There is a real 13 year old girl on Watsi right now who is unable to walk because of a correctible congenital condition. Who cares about the Watsi founders? Go help the girl! :)
"Rabois has written an emotional post about the situation on his personal Tumblr. Here’s an excerpt:" - Techcrunch
Slavery was the primary economic engine for a long, long time in US and its originating colonies and it was a primary reason for the economic prosperity and viability of colonies.

I agree with you that they are not the same, but both political and social wrongs that can and should be addressed (yes slavery still exists in the US, both de facto and actual i.e. human trafficking).
Wouldn't it be more effective if coupled with some distinctive and excruciatingly-loud alarm, as a means of drawing attention to the scene / getting the attacker to flee before doing anything?