skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No, you said that you thought what I was proposing was similar to civil rules.

That was the position you took. You suggested that the two parties should have equal standing, both would present their side of the story and the judgment would follow from that. In other words, the civil system, not the criminal one.

Here is what you said, word for word:

"If I could design society, I would remove the dock and in all court cases have two identical sides of the room - person A (person A could be the state or the Crown) says person B did something, person B says that person A is falsely accusing them of doing something. There's no defendant and victim, just two opposing stories and a trial to establish reasonable fact." [emphasis added]

That describes the civil court system, where the sides have equal standing and the evidence standard is "preponderance of evidence". But then you quoted the criminal standard -- "beyond a reasonable doubt". So I pointed this out to you.

> Big difference, dickhead.

I recommend that you read your own words before objecting to how other people read them.
Physicists Create A Water Vortex That Ties Itself In Knots [video]
It turns out the real challenge in creating excellent things is being as excellent at saying no as you are at saying yes.

Learn how to build an organization that can do a few things, really, really well and you will win. The trick is getting really good at saying No.
I'm not sure how viable it would be in NZ, but in the strip search prank call case (as seen recently in the film Compliance), the perpetrator bought calling cards from a couple of Walmarts. They were able to trace the serial number of the card back to the stores, and comparing video from both, found the guy on film walking out of both stores. So even these prepaid credit cards might not be completely infallible.

More information here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam#In...
Okay, didn't know Meetup was caught-on down here. I used to use Meetup in Philly and would see a lot of notices for Meetups in NYC but never noticed anything in the DC area. Thanks.
5 new Java sandbox exploits found after Oracle labels first "allowed behavior"
I guess it might just be a bug in some (web-)mail clients which just stripped <img>, ... tags or something rather than all potentially url-referenced assets. Not certain though.
I understand both your comments, I didn't bring up the US, other people did and I am just responding to that.

My comment is not about comparing anything to anything, it's about the throw away comments that "x isn't as bad as y so we're not doing too bad" when instead of pointing fingers we should be looking inward towards our own flaws. People in glasses houses and all that.

(Yes yes, it's still not as bad a NK but you should still try to fix these issues)
Ship Now, Not Later, the story of shipping Arrival
For our internal use, we use HipChat. We still use Skype occasionally, but it's primarily for external contractors. HipChat ticks all the boxes for us, so give it a try.
If users wanted Twitter-like, see 100% of posts as the default, Facebook would have done it. They maximize for engagement 1st and then they monetize that engagement.

For example, if people were most engaged seeing every post (which they wouldn't be, because of the nature of Facebook where you're mostly friends with people you don't care about), they could have far more Timeline "Suggested" of "Featured" posts than they have now.

Facebook with Edgerank is a far better experience than pre-edgerank. And if you don't like edgerank, you can make your default to see all posts from most recent to least recent.
One thing a lot of people don't realize is that a good deal of how the internet routes traffic is simply determined by trust. Yes there are complicated legal agreements between AS's but when ti comes down to it any AS can advertise any route they want. Most edge routes are configured to simply trust routes as they come in. If they didn't we wouldn't have such a redundant infrastructure.
Within Five Years, Most VCs will have a Partner Focused on Electronic Trading
The first amendment reference to "petition" has nothing to do with the form of the request. It's all about the RIGHT to complain about the government itself and to request a solution from it without reprisal.
There was a pretty good talk about it on Linux conf au

http://lwn.net/Articles/536862/
http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2013/mp4/The_real_s...
"We haven't forgotten that crock of shit yet."

Ahahaha. That's great.

I was coming here to post the same thing as a question... Because I feel like they're on a mission to replace all the core components for the look and feel.

Is this a stated mission? Have they replaced anything else "major" other than the window manager?
I see two prefixes advertised by 51040, with very different paths:

cr1.ipls# sh ip bgp regexp 51040$
BGP table version is 210945139, local router ID is 8.30.x.255
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal,
r RIB-failure, S Stale
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
*> 194.14.56.0 4.69.180.161 0 0 3356 5580 3.987 51040 i
*> 194.71.107.0 4.69.180.161 0 0 3356 2914 39138 22351 2.207 51040 i

I don't know what, if anything, they use 194.14.56/24 for, but both appear to belong to the same organization (although the registrant records differ just a bit).

EDIT: I'm gonna dig into my database and see what the path looked like a day or two ago.

EDIT: 2 days ago: the .107/24 path: 3356 3549 16150 51040

16150 is "Availo Networks AB" and they do appear to do heavy prefix filtering -- as they should -- but I see no import policy for 51040:

$ whois -h whois.ripe.net AS16150
...

It's possible and plausible that TPB is using one or more VPNs to hide the true route traffic is taking (who knows what they're really doing, though).
Without seeing the proposal or statement of work from the website developer, I'm not going to comment on whether this is an outrage or not.
On the one hand those standards came from somewhere, and that somewhere is likely someone else forking an existing project and making changes to it.

On the other hand, adhering to standards that are years old isn't a great way to advance. Standards have to grow and adapt and, wait for it, change.
But the super rich can't take their wealth with them, but if they invested in solving big problems, their name might be remembered in the history books.
Anything other than basic text formatting is at least a major security problem. The simplest scenario is a phishing attack that disguises itself as a plaintext message, with blue underlined URLs that are actually links to the attacker's site. There have also be CSRF attacks carried out by HTML mail. More sophisticated attacks are also possible:

http://blog.mxlab.eu/2010/03/13/phishing-emails-with-attache...

Even more sophisticated attacks could be imagined. Suppose you train users to look for a digital signature check; an HTML message could be used to create something that looks like such a check, tricking people into believing they received a signed message. The sort of monitoring used to unsubscribe Fab's readers could have been used to determine when people are at their desks in a particular office, or who is more likely to read a scam message.

It is a no-brainer: HTML mail allows the sender of a message to render things of their choosing on your screen, and potentially execute code they have written on your computer (similar things can be said about the web; the difference is that setting up a website is useless if nobody visits it, but with email you get to send someone the message without waiting for them to request it). There are other complaints about HTML mail, but the security angle is biggest in my opinion.
CUFP 2013 CFP (Boston, MA, Sep 22-24)
You should avoid RH based distros for Desktop related activities. Perhaps you should try Ubuntu, Mint or Suse.
I don't really understand your point.

Why, WHY call what you're talking about "white people problems?" You're 1) wrong and 2) insensitive that many people find race-based classifications offensive.

Have you spent much time here in the bay area? A huge, huge chunk of the people experiencing these "white people problems" are of asian descent.

Anyway, I'm not one for online debates. Go ahead and have the last word, but I think you could be a little more artful next time and communicate yourself without the noise of racial labels.
Without reading further into it than the paragraph itself... this seems like a pertinent worry of any hiring manager about any employee ever.
Cmon guys, only -4. You can do better!
What one considers a "big problem" depends on your values (i.e. where you want society to go and how you want it to get there). From my perspective, many of the "big" problems are just that because they are the result of complex dynamics and structural challenges that cannot easily be solved by one actor (organization / business / government).

Many of these problems are so-called collective action problems. If you are able to get enough funding and a strong team, that may not be enough: you need more than technical chops to move the system enough to make a difference!

P.S. I'm glad this topic is getting some air-time!
> That is not what users expect. It is called a timeline for a reason.

Is that reason because things are roughly sorted by time?

It's a timeline of interesting events in the recent history of your friends and interests. Being a "timeline" doesn't mean that it has to include everything. Should a timeline of the history of the USA include every event in the history of China? Not if you actually want to succeed in communicating any subset of the information on the timeline effectively...

People expect to sign in and see stuff about their friends. They don't expect to have to hand manage every single connection they ever make to decide who is or isn't worth paying attention to.

> Twitter works that way and nobody thinks it's broken.

1) Twitter has extremely different use cases.

2) I think Twitter is horribly broken. I rely on non-broken external clients to sort and filter tweets; most high volume users do.

> If someone spams your timeline it's really easy to unfollow and solve the problem.

Again, Twitter is a totally different use case. I might not want to unfriend my Aunt, who loves me very much, but I sure as hell don't want to see her every little post. I don't interact with her messages, so Facebook stops showing them to me. That problem seems solved to me...
I was installing Arch on RaspberryPi and tried disabling root (since I had seen it done on other distros). Not long after I was fiddling with LVM. When I rebooted it halted on my fstab which couldn't find my VolumeGroups and required my root password to continue booting.

I ended up popping out the drive and mounting it on another box, changed my fstab to noauto, got things to boot and reenabled root.

I figure distros that disable root are setup for these corner-cases where root is required.

The other obvious case is if you're using LDAP and the network is down. Maybe I haven't looked in the right places, but I haven't heard these things discussed.
A Tour of the ISS with Commander Suni Williams
Something people often seem to miss is that if everyone switches to building their browsers with Webkit, then if you come up with a better engine, you have immediately leapfrogged all of the competition at once.

Servo, I am looking at you.
Everything Jeremy said. And my compiler isn't far away from being polished enough for me to consider it ready to be labelled 2.0. Check out the 2.0 roadmap: https://github.com/michaelficarra/CoffeeScriptRedux/wiki/Roa...

95% of the language features were supported during my funding period. Since then, it's nearly reached 100% feature parity, and the tooling/interfaces have been much improved. The code is a lot cleaner, a lot smaller, more modular, more extensible, and uses standard IRs.

If you want to try it out, see the online editor here: http://michaelficarra.github.com/CoffeeScriptRedux/ (shameless plug: it was built using my new browser bundler with full minified-JS to CoffeeScipt source map support: https://github.com/michaelficarra/commonjs-everywhere)

For anyone curious about the compiler implementation process, see this recent slide deck from my MLOC.js talk: https://speakerdeck.com/michaelficarra/an-analysis-of-the-re...
Anyone who feels inspired by this should enter the Seven-Day Roguelike Challenge! It starts this weekend! http://7drl.org/
MOOCs have serious problems, no doubt, but declaring them to be a negative after less than four years is a bit much. And he doesn't even have a proper critique of MOOCs, he just dislikes them on the grounds that they're a danger to traditional universities.
Other than, e.g., Red Hat[0]?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayland_(display_server_protoc...
Maplace.js - A small Google Maps Javascript helper
What a fun fact, thanks for sharing! I found a video that shows the whole process: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUpGTvPrCG8
> merits of this process

I can't really imagine a more effective outcome in any representative democracy of 300 million people where 99% of them don't give a shit about your "right" to tinker with your cell phone.
I agree. There could have been many other projects tied into the scope of work.
SFHN Presents: Johnny Mnemonic
This was exactly what I was thinking, also for insurance purposes. Another 'hook' here would be that you partner with a homeowners insurance company which can give more accurate home owners insurance rates based on what someone actually has, and it helps in making a claim. I do the cheezy thing and basically walk around with an HD video camera every couple of years and film what is on the shelves and in the drawers. If nothing else it helps refresh your memory.
Same here. Berlin is absolutely awesome. My wife and I came back to the US this winter to visit with family so they could meet our new baby. The longer I'm back in the US though, the more I miss Berlin.

If anyone is in the video game industry and wants to try and move to Berlin, this is a pretty good company who is hiring right now: http://www.yager.de/career/

The way I immigrated was by having a baby with a German. That allowed me to get a work permit / permanent resident status without any hassle at all.
The worst thing is using C++ for a GUI engine. Don't do that mistake again!

The code looks quite weak at the first glance, but at least not so ugly as average open-source code.

The architecture solutions seem a bit weak too, even weaker than a GUI engine I have written being a junior developer.

Overall, their code seems to be written by a junior developer.

Seems to be too ambitious so far.

The problem is that it is actually really hard to make a proper GUI engine. It requires enormous experience and amount of expertise, like you can come up with something decent after building a few your own engines and closely analyzing existing solutions.
Now I'm not an Apple person, but looking at the article, it does not seem like there's actually such an API or a promise of an API... so is there actually a reason to believe an AppleTV API actually is forthcoming?

Because I don't doubt they want to (and to some extent have the potential to) dominate this space, but I don't think it's necessarily valid to assume that means opening a public API.
So, with all the critical details here about CCD sensors, you expert guys are telling me that I should not rush out and spend $10 K, $20 K, or whatever for the latest Nikon/Canon single lens reflex with a CCD sensor and a bag of lenses and, instead, keep my old Nikon Nikormat with its bag of Nikon lenses?

Let's see, opening the bag for the first time in a while, I have a Nikkor 200 mm f4, a Nikkor 105 mm f2.5, a Nikkor 55 mm f3.5 macro (good for closeups and general usage) with an extension tube for getting even closer, and a Nikkor 50 mm f1.4. Ah, I guess the f1.4 is for taking shots of the girlfriend in her little cocktail dress sitting at the candle lit romantic dinner table waiting for the rest of the evening! Or maybe I should be sitting at the table taking the picture as she comes in with a frilly apron over her cocktail dress and carrying a serving tray with her hand made Sachertorte mit Schlagobers (whipped cream)?

Also in the bag is a Honeywell strobe light: It uses a 900 Volt dry cell battery if can find one and otherwise just uses the A/C adapter. The recharge time on the A/C adapter is fast.

I suspect I will be able to buy film such as Kodak Kodacolor for a long time, but processing is an issue: I've had Sam's Club start with my Kodacolor 35 mm and return to me a CD with JPG images with 1818 x 1228 pixels which seems to be a little below the resolution of the best of the Nikon equipment. At one time Kodak offered Kodak PhotoCD with much higher resolution.

Any suggestions? What about getting good processing and scanning to JPG of the film? Sounds like my old Nikon equipment is still competitive with newer single lens reflex cameras with CCD sensors and roughly 35 mm image width?

E.g., on resolution Dalsa made a CCD image sensor with 48 million pixels, a light detection rectangle 36 x 48
mm, i.e., much like 35 mm film in my Nikon, with each pixel a square 6 microns on a side, capturing about 55,000 electrons per pixel, and, net, 6 K x 8 K pixels. Sounds good until notice that apparently each pixel is for just one color, red, green, or blue, and they use a 2 x 2 array of four such pixels, one red, one blue, and two green, for one 'color' pixel. So, in such 'color' pixels their sensor is 3 K x 4 K and, thus, not necessarily a lot better than 35 mm film?

Where am I going wrong?
This article seems to only apply to situations when you're stuck with the same person (pair) every day.
> We the People

You're confused about who "We the People" are. "We the People" are not the technolgenstia that hangs out on HN. "We the People" are my wife's parents in rural Oregon. There are things they care about, but this is not one of those things.

"What this process reproduces" is inaction on issues that don't rile up more than a tiny minority of people. I'm not sure why this is surprising.
Permadeath only really works for games that don't have an explicit narrative. It's no fun to die and then have to sit through the same conversations and plot twists all over again. Roguelikes tend to be complex and random enough to allow the player to experience something entirely new each time they play. There's still an overall story, but every telling of it is unique.
Cloudflare is not a replacement for Akamai. They've just admitted to having a single network ops guy monitoring their network at night. Cloudflare is what happens when amateurs attempt to run a CDN.

What reason do you have to pitch Cloudflare?
I lived in South Africa and I wrote my thesis specifically on post-apartheid race politics. There is an added problem here, which is the extent of corruption in so-called Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) programs. The contractor here is a black-owned business, which is all well and good, but such companies are often a front for thinly veiled corruption where connected "entrepreneurs" can bleed taxpayers of millions of rand in the name of social progress. Unfortunately, whereas BEE has created some wealthy black businessmen, it has done almost nothing to solve abject poverty among blacks in South Africa, and the program has been captured to an absurd degree. It also can't be criticized, and any challenge to it is denounced as racist. See the last line of this article: "Ntsele told the newspaper opposition parties had an agenda against black businessmen and that the website’s cost was fair."
Responsive design for a government website, means, among other things, that it must be handicap-accessible and conform to screenreader guidelines, be viewable on browsers of constituents who may not have purchased a computer in the past decade (i.e., IE6), and also compatible with modern browsers.

This is a lot of work, especially making a website that is screenreader-accessible or works in IE6. You don't get to just abandon those visitors, like so many websites do today. Those people have just as much a right to access a functional government web page as people using modern browsers.
I agree.

I really hate the trend of removing useful functionality in the aim of, what? I dunno.

I'm happy to have that functionality hidden away in text mode config files if needed, to keep the gui nice and clean. That way you just need a check box saying "Turn on advanced features? [ ] Caution: these are not supported and you're on your own".
Wouldn't monocultures be susceptible to the innovator's dilemma? Consider if WebKit, or Linux, hypothetically became completely dominant. It would eventually collapse under its own weight and become bloated. If a rising new kernel or rendering engine is sufficiently better than the dominant "standard", then it could become a real challenger to it. From a very superficial perspective, I view the growth of Chrome at the expense of Firefox as such a phenomenon.
25 is too late if you want to become a professional athlete perhaps, for anything involving brain skills, you're still a kid.
There was one on the fail blog which showed where they had to pixelate the glowing Apple logo on the top of the laptop.
Uh, platforms like Node can easily simulate the browser, despite being 'browserless'.
IIRC, I remember talk of Apple switching to the Intel C compiler ~ a year or so after the Intel switch. I'm not an Apple dev, so I don't have first-hand knowledge.
Hehe. Downvoted for pointing out Cloudflare are amateurs.

Welcome to the club.
Well, it doesn't matter all that much that each of us agrees that building Technology X will help with Big Problem B. Why?

1. It is hard to predict how innovation unfolds, builds on itself, and cross-pollinates. For example, who predicted that 140-character-or-less social media messaging would benefit democratic uprisings in Egypt?

2. We aren't going to agree on the big problems.

My criteria is simple: somewhere/somehow in the economic system and public spheres, we need diverse investment in technological advancement across many time scales.
Actually that first paragraph was designed to defend against flames, and it appears to have worked. The piece also talks about the fog of war, as it applies to tech. Two pundits both wrote long pieces about the Mac's apparent victory over Windows, and neither mentioned malware.
Yay HORSE the band as a soundtrack!
Debating which particular technologies are "big" and "small" is rather silly IMHO. No offense to armchair commenters on Hacker News, but this is not a new topic where we are breaking fresh ground. For example, there are numerous articles on Innovation Policy, such as http://www.itif.org/publications/global-innovation-policy-in...
> That is not what users expect. It is called a timeline for a reason.

Timeline and Newsfeed are two very different things. The feature in question is the newsfeed.

If you go to somebody's timeline (previously "wall") you will see every post they've made in roughly chronological order.
Bug bounties recognised in infosec qualifications
Also, "We totally agree that Congress should do something about that. Not us though. We're not gonna do anything."
Anybody know what this will be licensed under? I would think (L)GPL, but https://launchpad.net/mir isn't clear:

"Licences:
GNU GPL v3, GNU LGPL v3, MIT / X / Expat Licence, Other/Open Source
(Boost Software License - Version 1.0)
Commercial subscription expires 2022-09-24
This project’s licence has not been reviewed."
I'm not so much into physics but based on what I understand - ok, we might get just enough photons reflected back by MACHOs if we build a massive new telescope.

But then how do we separate them from other photons - ie the ones not reflected back? Do photons reflected by MACHOs have a specific signature on their EM wave ??