skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've had a problem over the last decade or so: how do governments deal with populations where the individuals have more and more power?

America has traditionally been more libertarian than most countries, so the crisis isn't as bad here, but we still see the signs. We're outlawing doing certain kinds of reverse engineering, we're making copyright violations a criminal offense, and so forth. (Most of our government reaction has been in the form of protecting large industries).

Some other countries are seeing crackdowns on where you can go on the internet, who you can talk to. To those countries, individuals simply having the power to gather information is too much for them.

I hate to make cataclysmic predictions, but I think the U.S. is going to get pulled more and more into your house and head. Where you surf, what you consume, what kinds of things you print on your 3-D printers. 3-D printing is the thing that is going to change everything, because now we can make whatever we need without having to rely on established patterns of commerce (which the government can control).

If it helps any, I don't think this is some sort of deliberate power grab. Quite frankly I don't think the people we have running things are anywhere near qualified enough to be making the decisions they are, On top of that, we have no examples throughout history of a government with the ability to control and monitor so much of each person's life. There's no precedent.

3-D printing, to me, is the one tech that over the next 50 years or so will dramatically change everything. Robots are a close second. Fun times to be alive! (Or perhaps a more accurate word than "fun" would be "interesting")
I've been using Salt for about 10 months. It's pretty simple and is exceptionally fast when compared to many alternatives. Also, the code is absolutely clean, easy to read and well commented. We actually use Salt's code when we need an example of how to do python right... especially when you want to make diffs easy.
In this case, that might be true. It's different from case to case. Sometimes, enough TV box action prompts the politicians to change laws.
Combine the graphene supercapacitor with
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OLEV and we would soon have clean transportation in the cities. Imagine what that would do for air quality!

Say that you build inductive charging points in the lanes before stop lights. The car/bus stops and charges the supercapitor. EV battery problem solved with little extra weight needed by the car.

Sure a range extending hybrid car with a engine would be needed in the start until more charging points would be available on the country side.

OLEV
http://txchnologist.com/post/43160353907/wireless-electricit...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsEYped_gZc
Once a pedestrian steps in front of the vehicle, the car’s brakes apply automatically if the driver doesn’t react fast enough. If the sensors detect an imminent collision with a pedestrian while driving at high speed, the airbag pops-up and inflates in a U-shape.

This sounds like it will be a lot of fun once those sensors start to wear out and malfunction.
It's the perfect example of why security teams are often considered to be the least friendly, least approachable part of an already unapproachable department (IT).

Their reasoning seems to be "Google Docs causes us (the security team) hassle, we don't use Google Docs, so we'll shut it down".

They might as well of shut down the whole of the Internet, for all their nonsensical reasoning, except they'd of been affected themselves then..
I actually tried that at first, but the Typo-flavored Textile in my old posts wasn't reliably interpreted by Pandoc. (That's also why I had to clean up the posts after I used Pandoc to convert them into Markdown.) Since I had manual edits to do in any case, I figured I might as well do them after I converted my posts to Markdown since it seems to be the Pandoc's best-supported markup language.
Google would do wise to open a support only store, with access only to paying customers, call it something simple. Why would they want the theft, frustrated nonusers, lost tourists, etc? Unless they are considering stores in Detroit, new Orleans, etc.
Network Admins need to learn that looking at what your users do and meddling with his data is not a legitimate activity. They should have learned that long ago. Fortunately, with encryption becoming more widespread, they will have to learn the lesson.
Some people are angry about Monsanto's actual behavior, not about the concept of genetically modified organisms.
The Right to Google a Lawyer
HTC to release the first Ubuntu slate at its event tonight?
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I never noticed that the Stackoverflow js pulls updates for vote tallies in real-time. Browsing this answer while HN is sending lots of traffic there is almost like watching a car odometer.
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here is my view on the topic http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.it/2011/10/puppet-vs-chef-fig...
To clarify, I didn't think the changing to English was weird - I think that was a smart and bold move. Like I said, I really respect this guy.

Was only thinking that changing the domain name to Japanese was weird, especially in view of the aforementioned change to English.
How about putting a middle page up with a warning?

So a student on the university network clicks a link to google docs and a warning appears warning of potential attacks using google docs, be aware, and click next to continue.

Is this doable?
Yes, some studies have shown that people take more chances when they feel more protected by safety measures. This is called risk compensation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_compensation

Still, less people are dying in road accidents now than before safety features were common.
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Nice point about your keyboard, but I'd still contend that a series of fast keystrokes is perceived as a thrum, not necessarily a series of clicks.

If you're programming DSP, then the haptic upper limits of typing is much slower than the limits of aural perception. But I understand more about what you mean by "steady frame" now.

Yes I think you're right in our point of disagreement. In Chris Nash's terms, you're interested in liveness solely in terms of manipulation-driven feedback loop, and I'm interested in it predominantly in terms of performance-driven feedback loop, and only secondarily in manipulation-driven feedback.

The diagrams at the end of this paper might clarify:
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/nime2012/Proceedings/papers/217_Fi...

(I've seen a more detailed version of this somewhere, maybe his PhD thesis)
It's not actually illegal in the United States. As opposed to child porn that does not have 1st amendment protections.
I think you're quoting Steven Landsburg: http://stuartbuck.blogspot.nl/2008/08/spikes-and-steering-wh...

But remember this is a fallacy: http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/259350
A term used to describe speech protected under the US Constitution / First Amendement, i.e. it's illegal for the government to ban this sort of speech (they can ban other sorts of speech). Reddit is based in USA, and learn close to the US legal definition of free speech (except in some cases).
We had that from the 1900's until something like the 1960's.

All it did was cause a lot of unnecessary deaths.
Tick, tock, tablet time - Ubuntu Tablet announcement.
What's exciting about this is not an ubuntu tablet, but that Netflix might now have a compelling reason to build a linux client. Me excite.
Yes, it's websockets. You can check it in Chrome by keeping the console open and refreshing the page. Would be interesting to test in IE.

BTW, as much as I am amazed to see websockets in action, the real time updating of vote count feels creepy and distracting at the same time :-)
Really? HN is now including witty posts in Stackoverflow as news?
Ask HN: What are some good freelancing sites?
I'm not talking about oDesk or eelancer bidding websites.

I want to know something similar to authenticjobs.com or envato job portal.
Patches for Zero-Day Adobe Reader, Acrobat Flaws to Arrive this Week
While I wouldn't advocate PayDay loans, it may be worth looking at Zopa - the P2P loan agency
http://uk.zopa.com/

Also, ask your employer if they have a season ticket loan. They'll give you the money to buy your train ticket - you pay it back (interest free) via payroll.
What's the worst that can happen if they do malfunction? Presumably no airbag, but you're no worse off than being hit by a car without pedestrian airbags.

I suppose the other type of malfunction would be accidentally discharge, but this is a) exceedingly rare, and b) no riskier than the airbags already in the car
I have never seen so many stupid, misinformed comments by people who have never touched assembly in my life. But this is the internet.
You're assuming the money paid is linear in number of users. Given Opera's publicly available finances, that assumption seems to be false.
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The cynic might say having only four hours of sleep didn't do her any favors, based on some the decisions she made in her time as PM.
No, their reasoning is that the continuous phishing attacks caused unacceptable trouble with their email system (e.g., Hotmail dropping all emails coming from Oxford). Due to extensive international collaborations, keeping a universities email system running is probably one of the most important tasks of the IT team. Google Docs is nice and useful, but nowhere near as important. Given that they, practically speaking, had no alternative way of dealing with the phishing attacks effectively, they made the right choice in temporarily suspending Google Docs access.
I don't think you should throw out the stuff on Puppet. Perhaps expand and add how to do it with Chef too.
This kind of black-listing of specific domains is, unfortunately, just a game of whack-a-mole that's very hard for defenders to win.

If they're seeing targeted phishing (which the article implies that they are), then the attackers will just observe the drop off in people following the links and move the phishing forms to another domain or service, making it very difficult for the admins to keep up.

Really addressing this kind of problem has to come down to a combination of awareness training and improved authentication techniques (i.e. move away from static username/password combinations)
My Students Are Lions
The code was awful because there was no accountability. No oversight. Nothing happened to you if you checked in junk, as long as it compiled. Q/A was happy if their tests ran and every function did mindless NULL checking on parameters.
I've had this idea many times. I actually bought my bitcoins in person with cash. I'll tell you what the experience is like:

First I waited at a subway station. He was 10 mins late, so I was constantly looking around for him, looking fairly suspicious. Once he arrived, I immediately knew it was him. Ever seen a hard core crypto anarchist in real life? Yeah, long hair, dark clothes, amazingly friendly, super intelligent, totally has a file over at Mosad, CIA, CSIS, etc.

Did the cash exchange, but it was awkward. Do I give him the cash first? What if he runs away? Same with the transaction. Oh and my block chain was out of date and updating it on Starbuck wifi took forever.

In the end it worked out and we went for beers afterwards. He was a really interesting guy. I think the main problem is that either side could rob/rip off the other side. But I think it could work, and it is one of the few way to stay anonymous.

The other way is to get a lawyer friend of yours to walk into a bank and send a wire to a Ukrainian bank account. That way even if they look at the security tapes you are covered.
Well if some random cop said it, it must be true. Also, how do we make sure people know they're going to get caught? This is comparing something we can control (sentencing) to something we can't (absolute certainty of catching every criminal).
I don't mind reposts of old stuff when it is interesting, but this has been introduced about a year ago? The streets are filled with the Volvo V40 (first model that has it, and every V40 has it standard) over here, so to speak.
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If it's your network, and you graciously allow me to use it, and I, through my use of your network breach the security of systems on your network, would you not do anything in the interests of not meddling with my data?
It would not be legal (in general) in EU. Data Protection etc.

Yes, child porn is banned on reddit. But things that are protected free speech, but not child porn ("sexually suggestive images of minors") are also banned on reddit.
Is the bitcoin market big enough in london to make it a sustainable business ?
The quote continued:

"That’s easy with unencrypted traffic. If the site uses SSL, then you have to do some kind of SSL interception. Straightforward on a corporate network full of tightly-managed systems. Much harder on a network full of student machines, visitor laptops and the like, and in our opinion, something to be avoided."

Obviously, they do not see intercepting traffic as desirable. But who has time to read the article before commenting these days...?
Yes, to actually catch the point where you should leave is the hardest thing. Kudos that there are people out there who can. So there's still hope!
The general public isn't out committing these crimes. Do criminals (and potential criminals) know what sentences are like? I'm not sure, but I'd guess they'd more likely to than people in general.
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Thank you for the links. There's a link to a great book in there: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Road-Accidents-Prevent-J-J-Leeming/d...

As a motorcycle driver I know I drive a lot more devensive when I'm on two wheels.
Risk compensation isn't linear, and it can't be considered in isolation.

If there was a long spike on the steering wheel, most likely it would be chopped off by end users; otherwise the vehicle wouldn't be driven at all.

ABS is associated with a decrease in motorcycle injuries even though riders ride faster with it, especially in the wet. But ABS on a bike has a bigger value, because a slight slip on a bike is a very serious problem; a sliding front will cause an accident almost immediately, while a sliding rear when cornering may cause a serious high-side.
If Google opened retail stores then that would give users a point of contact for support issues in general. How would they respond to issues with their non-physical goods? Right now they hide behind their website and respond when they please. But with a retail store I think that philosophy degrades quickly. This would make it easier for consumers to hold someone accountable.
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24 here, and it's still quite laggy for me on an i7 Macbook Air.
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> 2) He behaved in accordance with the advice he was given.

I think that's not clear. In particular, in the event the NYT ombudsman calls out as bad judgment on the reporter's part, the one hour charge at Norwich, the reporter changed his story about Tesla's advice in a crucial way, but in a way that most readers didn't pick up on.

Originally, he claimed Tesla told him he'd charged it enough and could unplug and go, despite it still showing insufficient range.

Later, he weasel worded that they'd told him up earlier, before charging, that an hour charge "should" be enough, and so after an hour (that was really 3/4 hour) he took off. This was deliberately weaselly, both in the not really and hour, and in the taking off despite not having range back on the gauge.

Many readers, even here on HN, are still under the impression that Tesla was consulted after an hour of charging and told him it was okay to unplug and go (his original article's language). Instead, after less than an hour of charging and warming the battery, he unplugged knowing the range was insufficient and without checking with Tesla.
Summary of the blog posting:
Google Docs forms are being used in phishing attacks against stupid users. We closed down Google Docs. It didn't work and we had to open it up again after 2.5 hours.

Unfortunately, there's no easy solutions to so-called phishing attacks other than educating users. I would recommend that the IT dept. dedicate its considerable resources and creativity to that end, and try to minimize use of the shotgun approach in the future!
thanks for the link. Any links on creating a .onion link and the rest of whats needed?
"A decent criminal lawyer will take that in a month and tell you that he needs $2-$3++ million for a drug case."

[citation needed], which is really a passive-aggressive way of saying "bollocks". Well I'm not saying that Pablo Escobar's lawyers didn't bank that much, but really - there are thousands of drug dealers tried every single day, a sizable percentage of that with turnovers way over 100k / month - you're not seriously suggesting their defenses all cost millions? 500 hours (= almost 3 full-time man months!) at 150 USD / hour = 'only' 75k.
There's a video on youtube of the the pedestrian airbags in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4d9dqaMDxI&feature=play...
What is actually wanted to say is this: Zen is a blissful state that can be reached during meditation, which is said to feel like a 30 minute orgasm. Thus it is not the same as flow.

I just wanted to point that out, because people seem to be using the word Zen quite liberally for everything that is related to being in the present moment. This might lead to misconceptions.
Just bookmark that and open it to close it
The real question is, as IT professionals, why would there be more use than expected? Would you expect the premier free cloud competitor to Office to be heavily used?

It's as misguided as most of the IT departments I've had to deal with blocking browsers other than IE because they are "insecure". No the other browser are not insecure, they just haven't bothered getting up to speed on the security profile of those browsers and confuse getting regular security bulletins about IE to be the same as being "secure".
Meh, I was thinking more of the latter. First generation sensors I'd imagine would be more prone to erroneous readings, including false positives. Randomly having the car force you to a stop in traffic could be a little annoying.
One of the benefits of the Lenovo X1 over the Dell is the inclusion of a WWAN card on the higher end machines. With an embedded SIM card, you never have to worry about tethering again! It's rather surreal to have access to the Internet as soon as you boot-up in a remote location.
"Unlimited - Send bundles up to a terabyte in size, totally free."

That's not really "unlimited" then.
I quite like wide screens for programming, I just have two panes of code side by side.
According to the developer of ghost, the ghost-ssh features will be removed in the near future. Which is sad.

More at https://github.com/bjeanes/ghost/issues/40
That's a fair comment, I have used a number of the Dell business level laptops and found that for my tastes the keyboards have been significantly worse. I really like the Macbook keyboards, I find they've got just the right amount of travel to resistance and clickyness for me.

Keyboards are possibly the hardware equal of text editors.
They could deal with the email issue in a number of ways, all of them causing the security, systems, and network teams hassle, but not end users.

For example, blocking all outgoing SMTP traffic except via approved internal relay servers would make tracking these millions of unexpected outgoing emails much easier. Most organisations already put these kinds of restrictions in place, it seems Oxford don't.

As far as I can see, their temporary blocking of Google Docs access did nothing but annoy users, cause them to lose face amongst users, and in the long term make users less likely to cooperate with the security team.
Site doesn't really explain too much. So it's just another one click hoster that allows really large files? Why is the title all caps?

This is just advertisment. I don't see any real value in this link.
and they've compensated for that, by allowing the driver to still see once the airbags have deployed.
This is something I wish more companies would do with their free products.
Or if you don't need realtime upload (only realtime download) then use Server-Sent Events, which is HTTP-compatible and thus supported by proxies already.
I can confirm that.. it's amazingly fast in its demise :)
odd - not killing safari here (5.1.2 - snow leopard) - maybe it's a safari 6 thing?
"No graphical ads"

Brace yourselves, text ads are coming.
I agree somewhat. I would not be willing to say impossible, but I am also not convinced it's possible. I would like to see people try. But it could be impossible for a discrete classical digital computer. It's a distinct possibility, and without "magic."

I think what I was getting at was this: I'd take the Kurzweil crowd more seriously if I saw them really engaging seriously with the depth and breadth of biology... if I saw them talking about the sorts of things I was talking about seriously instead of hand-waving them away.

I get the impression (I'm knowledgeable in biology BTW, and a programmer) that they are making the frequent programmer mistake of failing to have respect for the problem domain they are entering. A similar error often occurs in creative product development. In this case you have a software effort to subsume/encapsulate an informal industrial process that is approximately five billion years old. There are lots of things going on that we don't understand yet, and that will not yield to a cavalier, dismissive approach.
"it seems like a good basis for a future secure Unix"

There's QNX for that: http://www.qnx.com/products/neutrino-rtos/secure-kernel.html
It's used in industries such as automotive, nuclear, etc.

Perhaps you meant "future secure open-source Unix" ;)
(QNX source was closed the day RIM announced the purchase)
Felix Salmon has now apologized.
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2013/02/19/an-apology/
I don't think it's do-able, given the nature of SSL.

TBH, many faculty and staff will be just as bad; though, I question their assertion that anyone interested in a Higgs Boson would let a Uni-admin task distract them. Some physicists may not have any common sense, but are generally more tech-literate than average.
Users don't read warnings, they just click next.
"no alternative way of dealing with the phishing attacks effectively"

How about not using passwords? All students, staff, and faculty should have ID cards; start issuing smartcards, and start using cryptographic techniques to authenticate users. Also, digitally sign all official mail, and instruct the users to check those signatures.

These are not insurmountable problems. The real issue is that the IT team is not willing to push for a real solution, and instead went for a bandaid on a broken leg.
And my own tool, this time in Perl, which is thoroughly documented here:

http://www.steve.org.uk/Software/slaughter/guide/
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Is there something sneaky in the wording of 'no graphical ads' ? Makes you wonder if they will display text only ads.
Yet Another iOS 6.1 Lockscreen Flaw Lets Anyone Access Everything on Your iPhone
Google docs runs over SSL so there is no nice way to do this.
Why is 3D printing a gun any different to making one with machining tools? Surely the same laws should apply, and this is just an advancement of home-manufacturing technology that has no real involvement with gun laws.
May be im wrong but why not set LIMIT of only X no. of mails can be Sent/Minute via user account.

Find out how many emails people usually send per minute/hour and just DENY relaying anything else over that limit. That way it'll be less profitable for spammers to acquire user account details if he/she can only sent X mails every minute.