skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Braintree retains the private key of the key pair so that merchants are unable to decrypt the encrypted fields server-side.

This sounds cool, but at risk of being slightly off-topic, IIRC, this is still in scope of PCI. Storing encrypted data (even if you don't have the ability to decrypt it) falls under some rules in PCI compliance.

This is all hand-wavy of course. I had to comb through so many pages of PCI compliance documentation, rules, definitions, etc when working as a sys admin to create actionable plans on getting PCI compliant before we'd actually be audited. I remember this because I found it absolutely inane that it required storage of encrypted materials be stored as if they were sensitive but was fine with transmitting credit card #s over untrusted networks and the internet as long as they were "strongly" encrypted (this wasn't qualified, either).

Im really thankful we have people trying to simplify this headache for people, but why are we content letting this be our problem? It can easily cost hundreds of thousands of $$ PER SITE to become PCI compliant (which has, from what I've seen, been insufficient to protect the information anyway). Is there any proposed legislation that would force these companies (VISA, MC, Discover, etc) to adopt a fundamentally secure transaction system? Right now they're content with shoving all costs to third parties and ignoring theft because everyone has to be insured.. why isn't there severe outcry over this? It's wasteful on the magnitude of billions a year, I'm sure, and despite its brokenness, they STILL charge for every transaction. Sure, engineering around the problem creates a niche for companies like Braintree and other payment gateways to fill, but that's really just shifting a cost that shouldn't exist from one place to another. Why?

It's all so terrible. I'd rather just use bitcoins or something.
Takedown notice commit with comments: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/735e17614cca63102b8414...

Counter notice commit with comments: https://github.com/github/dmca/commit/6a33a213e04e7fc5e74ce3...
Pretty much. Google gets hit with so many that there's no way they even read them, let alone verify them.

http://www.google.com/transparencyreport/removals/copyright/
Sneak Preview I: openSUSE 12.3 for Desktop Users
Do cookies need to be explicitly referenced in code or do they just come along with the request? The cc processor is only interested in its own cookies, not the merchants'.
Note that QR codes cannot be read in mirror image

It should be simple to make a QR reader that also reads the image flipped horizontally and/or vertically. That way reflections of QR codes could be read too. Maybe some readers already do this. The use case ould be quite small though.
> forming a "competing government" is an initiation of force

How?

> I don't think this is an interesting issue, though. Rand's philosophy is hierarchical: metaphysics, then epistemology, then morality, then politics. Derivative issues in politics are largely "implementation defined." For example, I don't think you can have a government without any taxes at all in today's world, whereas Rand thought no taxes would be the ideal thing to aim for. That issue doesn't have any bearing on whether Objectivism is correct or not.

Surely one derives from the other, and contradictory conclusions at one level should indicate flaws at a higher level. "Check your premises."

> So, it's an error of context to say that the non-aggression is some universal moral rule that implies that we all have to have anarcho-capitalism. It's not a moral rule, it's a political rule. It's part of the next level up.

Then surely this defines Objectivist politics down towards nothing at all, since it can be violated at the point where it's necessary for a government to maintain monopoly over the use of force, and it can be violated before there's a government, and so forth.

If you want to abandon Objectivist politics entirely you may, but the main selling point of Rand is her ability to derive "privately owned roads" from "the validity of the senses" (qua "concepts in a hat": http://mol.redbarn.org/objectivism/ConceptsInAHat/)

> I don't claim that I can provide evidence for the things I say about Kant, because that evidence presupposes agreement on fundamentals of Objectivism, and that's not something I can provide evidence for either, other than pointing to reality and suggesting someone undertake a multi-year study of the Objectivist literature. So, the stuff about Kant is just intended as a "sampler," something to get someone thinking and maybe intrigued.

The stuff about Kant is, to give largely the same handwavy explanation, utterly wrong as well. Rand may have built up Kant as a kind of straw man, but this isn't an honest or realistic reading of Kant. Rand's misreading of Kant is an honest mistake and a historical accident, not a useful introduction to Objectivism.

> normal people do not have the epistemological background to _not_ make errors that have to do with disassociating abstractions (concepts, principles) from the concretes they refer to. Ayn Rand calls that "rationalism," and I think that's the category in which your mistake falls

I think it's Rand who makes this error by making measurement omission so central to her epistemology.

> the only thing that kept drawing me back to Objectivism was honestly realizing that nothing else made sense

It's interesting that you have this psychological need for everything to make sense to you within a comprehensive system. This is the biggest and most problematic appeal of ideologues and systematists in philosophy, whether Rand or Hegel.
I have never seen the inside of LayerVault. The demo page only has vague outlines of similar controls. Does anyone have screenshots of LayerVault in action?
> When did I say I want to be explaining what love is?

Well, you were asking me to retract this statement based on the theoretical existence of a test:

> Love is a subjective experience of consciousness. We must first have some clue about what consciousness is, then perhaps we will be able to scientifically explain what love is.

Anyhow, I was using it as an example of something that we can't currently test for, not asserting that it will never be testable. So no, I'm not arguing that it will never be testable.

If we do test, however, it will most likely be a test for the brain activity associated with love, not for the actual qualitative feeling of love. As I've said, we know nearly nothing about what subjective experience is despite all we know being subject to it.
Here is another one from the UK.
Have a look
http://facingtheworld.net/get-involved/donate/
North Korea ends peace pacts with South
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This was a big article already not even two days ago on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331766

Why is this being upvoted a 2nd time in the same week to the top of the homepage...
An existence of a single-common father doesn't imply that there were no male humans alive before or at the time he lived. It's just that descendants of others haven't managed to pass the Y forward.
I know this isn't the right venue, I don't know how else to get in touch with you, Carter.

I still have your camera that you lent me when I let you keep my backup squash racket. I didn't know you had moved to NYC without returning it to you, and I still feel pretty bad about it.

I'm sorry, but the little guy just up and stopped working. He had a good life. Can I return the favor?
Repairing a badly damaged package system in Ubuntu
LayerVault, the same people who brought you DesignerNews.

If that's indeed them who sent the notice, they are just shitting all over their reputation and alienating a lot of people. Talk about "starting off on the wrong foot"... and for what? A design that is border-line trivial. It would seem that their best option for getting the situation under control is to release their own version of the toolkit. A version that is sufficiently different from their original background-color, border-radius and icon @font-face. If not, they are bound to repeat the clone wars of Svbtle.

Edit | LayerVault actually appears to be a pretty useful product, clearly with a lot of thought sunk into it. Which makes it twice as unfortunate that they decided to pursue something like this. Google "LayerVault videos" if interested.
So, is that an example of reclaiming the word "bible thumper" for the moderate wing - very classily done btw.

I just love this stuff on all humanities shared family tree - especially as I did not read the first paragraph carefully and thought they had discovered the 340,000 year old man was called Albert Perry !

Humanity it seems has travelled, adventured and loved all over the world for far longer than we can imagine - its a privilege to be part of such an inspiring history.
Non-lethal rounds used to stop gunman in Queen Street mall siege
As far as modern evolution theory teaches as (not original Darwin absurdities), new species arises in the course of genetic mutation. Mutations are kind of random and quite rare, so it is unlikely that the mutation leading to birth of homo sapiens happened many times. Looks like we have one common ancestor, the "chromosomal Adam".
Cairo website down
Beautiful. I think I just found my new desktop background.
The redesign really feels like it really will translate well to mobile, as in the Facebook Phone. Instead of a grid of apps, you have a strip of categories of information (feeds, events, notes, chat) followed by your favorite apps. Then instead of a separate speed dial screen you have those user icons below that.
The BBC article mentioned refraction, but Iceland Spar makes it possible to see the direction of polarization of skylight, which means it could be used on small, clear patches of sky on an otherwise overcast day to find the direction to the sun. This is another way it could act as a "sunstone" for navigation. Whether it actually was used this way is unfortunately not known.
Basically. But if someone files a fraudulent or incorrect notice, they open themselves up to having to pay damages and legal fees to the injured party.
Honest question: have you played the new game?

I got a few hours in before I ran into the issues everyone outlined, but after having built a pretty sizable city, my impression is that the multiplayer/online aspects of the game are pretty much worthless. It feels more like a feature box being checked than a core element of the game. I get the impression that they tried, but it ultimately feels incongruent with the core mechanics.

There's another element, which is a bit hazier, but being that this game is a sequel, there are certain expectations that people come into it with for a Sim City game -- expectations which aren't met. Sim City is a game about playing mayor, and all the social nonsense is sort of getting in the way of that experience. Especially since the whole "online" aspect has kept me from playing it today AT ALL, because the "server is full" -- despite the fact that I played 10 hours yesterday and felt no need to interact with anyone. I'd happily leave behind the whole social nonsense and just play the damn game if it would let me.

This isn't a proper Sim City game. It's like going to a restaurant and ordering spaghetti, and getting something entirely different. Sure I want the restaurant's take on spaghetti, but you can't stray too far without inventing a new dish. I wanted spaghetti, and instead I got mac and cheese. Some people might like mac and cheese, but that's not what I came here to get, and I'm disappointed.
All I could find.

http://i.imgur.com/yFHlGVH.png

http://i.imgur.com/VX1h4Xj.png

http://i.imgur.com/oyAYDM8.png

http://i.imgur.com/ZUlf0hF.png

http://i.imgur.com/QMSTZ8k.png

Given that they don't show it off on their demo page, it's either incomplete or clunky.
How to get TOUGH with clients 
I recently received a call from a young designer who I met when she was in art school. I reviewed her portfolio and several years later at a local graphic design group meeting, she reintroduced herself and thanked me for being kind and helpful in that review. She became an avid reader of my articles on the design business and on one occasion told me that when it came to clients, she needed to “borrow [my] bastardness”.
A Method to Fight Software Patents and Make More Money
because they actually took it down.
The basic idea is that for a provider (Github, Google, etc), to keep their Safe Harbour protections, they have to act like a 'dumb pipe' and just obey these notices. Just like how the phone companies trying to keep their Common Carrier status[1].

Even without the DMCA, if the service provider interjects itself into the dispute they risk legal action against themselves. For example, they could evaluate the claims wrong, and get sued to allowing actually infringing material to stay up.

It goes like this:

1. DMCA is filed by a person/entity with the service-provider.

2. Service-provider takes down offending content.

3. The person/entity that submitted the offending content now has the option to file a counter-notice with their service provider claiming that they feel/know there is no infringement. If they do file a counter-notice, then we continue on. If they don't file a counter-notice, then the story ends here.

4. The service-provider notifies the person/entity that filed the DMCA notice that a counter-notice was filed. The service-provider can now restore the content, but there is some weird stipulation that they need to wait something like 10 ~ 14 days before doing so.

5. The person/entity that filed the original notice now has to take legal action against the person/entity that they feel has infringed their copyrights if they want anything more to happen.

The party that files the DMCA notice stipulates that they believe that their work has been infringed under penalty of perjury.

[1] For a long time, people on the Internet believed that 'Common Carrier' provisions applied to ISPs, but it really only applies to phone companies. The Safe Harbour provisions of the DMCA are meant to give something similar for ISPs, though there are different rules.
Testimony of Ms.Soon Ok Lee - A North Korean prisoner.
Something can be a "rip off" and not infringe.
It was actually down at the time of that post too. I know because I was using Flat UI in a new project and had to ditch their vector illustrations which were the items in question from this DMCA.
Ahhhh, different story - I am too used to 20 year olds giving up their jobs to sleep next to the laptop to think there may be other more risk-reasonable people out there :-)

Good luck.

From reading your blog I can guess what you are referring to - I would be interested in interviewing you for my own blog of interesting programming things - any objections?
This researches are in fact very "biblical".

First of all it seems that homo sapiens had one ancestor, as Bible says. Scientists would say that mutation leading to rise of homo sapiens was just a random mutation, the "bible thumpers" are also happy, since they might say, that this mutation was not random, but God induced.

All these recent genetic findings are easily digested by avarage "bible thumper", there is no fundamental disagreement. One can still belive in God and use genetics without getting crazy :).
No more Death by Powerpoint Presefy enables Second Screen Presentations
Interesting. Here's the FAQ response to the eagle question: http://tolkien.slimy.com/faq/History.html#Eagles
Most used files:

lsof -n | grep REG | awk '{print $9}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
Thanks, I'll check out those titles. I wonder if they still have libraries these days?
So I recently went from one of these simple forms to a more complex one due to a client's request. I did this because his customers were complaining that they didn't understand why they didn't have to fill out all this information. Everyone else makes them fill it out and they thought it was an problem or scam of some sort.

I implemented a full form asking for all their information and toss out everything during processing. It's a very silly thing but it makes customers feel better about the checkout process for some unknown reason to me...
That's using your browser then no?
No shit. And let's quit going along with the fiction that the online requirement was for any other purpose.
Not exactly sure how to take your comment but Pandora is a public company, the IPO was an "exit" in the valley's sense. Maybe that's what you meant? LastFM was probably the other great example.
Both Apple and Microsoft have said they are worried about patent issues, and it's why they aren't implementing it.

That's what they stated publicly as the reason, but if anything the real reason would be that they would rather not having anything Google touches succeed, even if open source, and they'd rather get fees for h.264.
Well... It depends, I suppose, what you define as equality. I'm too young to actually remember this, but I know from various sources that women under communist regimes, at least in central Europe, were seen as capable of working as hard as men. There are many posters of women driving agricultural machines (I don't know the word in English - something that's used to harvest cereal) and doing various other works that are traditionally associated with men. Aside from posters there were poems, novels and plays written that depicted women in the similar fashion, and later even tv shows, some of which are still popular today, showed women as soldiers, spies or even "entrepreneurs" of a kind. They supposedly had no problem with getting into colleges too. I don't know how much of this is true, but I guess the communists really did something for gender equality; I won't tell you what exactly and how much of an impact it had though.
!!:2-$
After the Tetris debacle[1] on iOS and putting obtrusive adverts into their iOS games for new ones despite me paying for them (a cardinal sin IMHO) combined with endless DRM debacles and horror stories about how employees were treated, I took the decision to never buy or install another EA game again.

Electronic Arts (which EA is the mutated-gollum-like growth of) was actually a software developer that was based on the idea of the developers being artists. They shared lavish profits with them, put the developers' faces on boxes and made some amazing games. If you want to see some highlights of Electronic Arts' back catalogue, take a look at these:

* M.U.L.E - http://www.worldofmule.net/tiki-index.php

* Desert Strike - http://www.mobygames.com/game/desert-strike-return-to-the-gu...

* Populous - http://www.mobygames.com/game/populous

* The Bard's Tale - http://bardstale.poverellomedia.com/

* F/A-18 Interceptor - http://www.mobygames.com/game/fa-18-interceptor

* Indy 500 - http://www.mobygames.com/game/indianapolis-500-the-simulatio...

* Road Rash - http://www.mobygames.com/game/road-rash

A lot (but not all) of these were games developed when Trip Hawkins was in charge. Trip Hawkins went on to found the failed 3DO console, which is where a lot of the modern 3D versions of the popular franchises (NFS, FIFA etc.) first started out.

If you don't like DRM, being nickel and dimed, or scummy company practices. I highly recommend you boycott EA and spend your money on the plenty of City building alternatives on Steam[2] instead.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_(mobile_video_game)#App_...

[2] - http://store.steampowered.com/
There are actually substantially more steps involved in reverse engineering more modern SOCs. After depackaging the chips you have to strip the metal layers, special protective layers etc to get to the base layers. Modern processes can have upwards of 8 metal layers along with a top layer composed of filled metal (there are issues with processing if a relatively uniform amount of metal isn't on each layer).

After you get the images of the metal layers (you likely can't do this optically for things down near Metal1) you can image the poly and diffusions. You can probably guess which transistors are which based on which power rails they would have been connected to.

Things might be easier if you know what standard cell library the designers used when laying out the chip, as then you'd more easily be able to identify the base logical functions faster.

If you're being thorough you'd also have to make sure you obtain measurements of the widths of each of the transistors (so you can later figure out the relative drive strength which matters for things like identifying keeper circuits or more precision analog elements etc).

Determining some transistor behavior make require even more complicated tests to identify doping levels and if you were trying to duplicate the process you'd have to identify a large number of other materials (for example if they use copper you'd want to find what chemical they used to control the diffusion etc).

It's pretty interesting stuff though.
That's just the browser zoom. It doesn't increase the quality of the photos.
Well, they probably sailed mostly on summer (because of weather) when, at northern latitudes, twilight conditions are persistent for most of the "night".
It's really a trivial cost compared to the DynamoDB price before. It used to cost about $3600/month to get 5000 writes/sec. Now in a bit more than 2 months you'll have broken even on the reserved price compared to the old DynamoDB price, and in a bit more than 3 months compared to the new DynamoDB price, for the 1 year investment. Any company using Dynamo for anything serious will probably rush to get the reserved capacity, since they've probably been spending a multiple of the reserved cost per month anyway.
This game. Who'd've thought that this game could be used to do so much?
Anti-government joke: something stupid or bad happened. That's just like the government! Har har har har
GroupMe stops fee-free bill splitting early
As part of the launch of this feature, GroupMe promised fee-free transactions through to March 12th. Likely caused due to too much abuse. All transactions are now seeing fees of 3.5% + $0.99.
A) I don't get it - Is it a proprietary database maintained and provided only by Amazon? If that's the case, then isn't that a terrible trade-off for a business to get locked into a proprietary database on a proprietary platform?

I agree it could save you a LOT of cash, but, assume you ran Mongo or PostgreSQL, then if you aren't satisfied with provider A, you can dump them and migrate your data to provider B, let alone all the modifications you can make on top of these Open source databases...Sure, you may face downtime, but that's not as bad as being locked into a proprietary database that you have no control over.

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong..

B) How does this compare to LinkedIn's Voldemort (which seems to be inspired from Amazon's Dynamo[1])? Voldemort has a lot of positive feedback from real world applications running at Scale, I guess.

[1]http://blog.linkedin.com/2009/03/20/project-voldemort-scalin...
Beautiful!! Someone should make large posters out of this.

The process gives it an artsy mechanical feel, as if we could see the sign of time and efforts these little things put in computations.
Couchsurfing: A Sad End to a Great Idea
You are right, but most of the time, when a website is that complicated to access, it is not worth it.
I think these are the icons in question from LayerVault, DesignMode, and similar icons from Noun Project.

http://imgur.com/IH1osAD
Why do you even use Facebook?
> it seems that homo sapiens had one ancestor, as Bible says

Not really; we're apparently all descended from this chap, but he's not the only living male human at the time. He himself had a father, just like we all do. And while there is a female equivalent in "mitochondrial Eve", they didn't live at the same time. So it doesn't really bear much resemblance to the book of Genesis.