skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attacks such as those referenced are are not relevant in this case.

As this website is being served as a hidden service, the traffic never exits the Tor network. There's no SSL in use for a MITM attack to remove, nor does there need to be.
I always wonder why prominent startup boards don't just clone their site and make one for every country in the world.
Where did you have that experience? It's very unfortunate for sure.

I've found the drivers in London to be better in general than the rest of the country. There are cyclists EVERYWHERE. No car is surprised to share the road with one and they all know what to expect from them. I'm not saying everyone gets along, but I've never felt particularly unsafe, and I used to ride 27 miles total commute a day.

Contrast that with other cities I've lived in where cyclists are more of a rarity. The motorists simply don't expect them, so they don't factor them in to decisions like how much stopping distance they'll need, whether they'll bother to look left before turning, whether there could be something behind that bend (when you can see 1/3rd of the road and so expect to see something as wide as a car). They also expect to average a much higher speed, and so IME get aggressive much more quickly when they feel they're being held up.

Don't even get me started on countryside drivers, with their 70mph round blind bends on two way roads not wide enough for two cars...
I would assume PGP is correct as written: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Good_Privacy

(Not to be confused with GPG, which is an open source implementation of the same protocol).
Explain how Google Now is any more spyware than what goes on with browser tracking throughout the industry.

To me, Google Now is that thing reading all your email behind the scenes, parsing mostly unstructured text to form a coherent narrative of your life, then prompting you based on what it discovered. It's disturbingly useful and beyond creepy.

The only way Apple can compete with Google Now is if they start to copy all your mail from iOS/OS X Mail.app back to Apple for analysis. They'll probably have an API for "Send this chunk of unstructured data to the users's Apple Action Item processor" for external applications too.

I'd completely forgotten about the insane browser search tracking google now thing. That's another quintillion times creepy.

(Note: it's only creepy because Cloud Cloud Cloud. You're giving up control of your life to Cloud all Praise Cloud. No, you can't have the data. No, you can't run it on your own. No, you can't be private. Cloud Cloud Cloud.)
Almost true but not quite. Both Harper's and Mother Jones can generally be counted upon to rake a little muck.
And also on the Desktop of every Windows OS, since .NET for-the-most-part is the new Windows API - an abstraction layer that sits and manages the older Win32 API (yes, it's also a few other things – framework, library, runtime, etc).

The author of this peace works on making games. Hence why she thinks .NET is "dying". Her reasoning (points) have little to nothing to do with her argument and just seem to be there to help influence the clueless readers and to collect those that have agendas or chips on their shoulders (80 up votes for this delusional blog post).
While people are generally discussing their discomfort with using the tube I'd just like to chip in my main concern with it being around 50 Celcius constantly year round down there.... (yes, I exaggerate slightly, but not by much!)
It won't go unnoticed :) Ken over at Popehat picked it up... and it looks like OMICS Publishing Group's site is having some capacity problems. Enjoy the Streisand Effect.

http://www.popehat.com/2013/05/15/omics-publishing-group-mak...
Maybe, but my theory is that this stems from a couple of factors:
1) Higher driving costs, and lower incomes/ higher unemployment.
2) Less appeal of consumerist lifestyle
3) Preference for walkable neighborhoods
4) Strong avoidance of situations that involve drinking and driving

Only the last one is a case that they'll be interested in self driving cars.
You should really qualify that statement, many publishers (Nature, PNAS, etc.) are of very high quality and add significant value to the articles that they accept.

Many publishers don't add any value at all but blanket statements aren't helpful.
One trick pony syndrome?

Know what happens to one trick ponies? They get acquired and made irrelevant by some larger non-benevlent entity.
Retard does not have the same "inappropriate" connotations in the UK as in the US (certainly it's nothing like using nigger or fag(got) in conversation as a pejorative).

But yes, I do think being mentally handicapped is "bad". Are you arguing that it's "good"?
Users generally want the fastest route, which is congestion-dependent. If they directed everyone down the shortcut it would become congested, and wouldn't be the fastest route any more, and you'd be asking why they directed everyone down it :-)
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I assume the differentiating factor here is the quality of the courses, Georgia Tech is ranked in top 10 for CS grad school. Also your tuition was low due to the fact that you were an in state student, out of state tuition is much more expensive.
Inspiration is energy
"It’s always a sign of trouble when you’ve built something you don’t want to use yourself."

Not true. More than half the products I've built during my career I would never use myself. The customers loved them, however, and paid me handsomely.
As it is now, unsecured, it is a complete honeypot to catch senders.
My WebSense filter at work blocked this for "sex". Is there sex-related language, or is the work filter just set waaay to strictly?
> The simplest explanation is that people don't download something they aren't interested in

Agree completely. Regardless of whether or not android users would miss their widgets, a big problem is that, just judging from a small local sample of friends and coworkers, no one has any idea just what the point of the app is. Facebook's marketing campaign around this thing is absolutely terrible. From their constant advertising, I've surmised that it's, I don't know, some kind of live updating slideshow of friend's photos? My curiosity is not piqued enough to even bother an install.

The marketing of it is really just terrible, which really puts me off. The strategy of "be even more of a non-current-situation-engaging dickhead in social situations with our app!" I don't see a commercial of someone in an art gallery, ignoring the paintings, ignoring the person their with, and generally just being insufferably over connected and think "y'know, I should get that app."

May just be getting old though..
How do we know that Tor is reliable?

It's the de facto standard, but, barring bugs, is it provably NSA-resistant?
> those 15 minutes of horror, which is London Underground during rush hour.

I recently visited my girlfriend who is studying abroad in the UK and I was dumb enough to arrive in London at 7 AM on a week day and take the tube from Zone 1 to Zone 4. Never again.
But you're allowed to post on HN?

Besides, watch videos and stuff at work on a phone over your own data connection.
Several years back I had a friend with a small business who wanted to do some SharePoint stuff, so I picked up 3 or 4 books on it and read them all.

Oh. My. God. That tool will solve world hunger, land a fighter on a carrier deck at night in a storm, and compute the answer to life, the universe, and everything. It does frickin' everything.

So it also does nothing. You end up having to digest a huge learning curve, creating all these specialty libraries to handle workflows, understanding that you need a view for this, a link for that. It's like having to learn Klingon just to get a cup of water.

Whenever I hear SharePoint any more, I just smile. It's a great tool, and it can do an incredible ton of stuff. I just know the pain that's involved with it, and unless I have no choice I want no part in it -- except for maybe using it as a document repository, and even then Dropbox does all I want with zero learning curve.

Microsoft is constantly distracting me with the coolness of their tools instead of enabling me to quickly solve somebody else's problem. The developer has become the market for them -- and that's really bad for both developers and end users.
Not baseball, but for the college football
http://winningformula.espn.com/
Moxie demonstrated sslstrip on Tor exit nodes. It will not work on hidden services as the address contains a hash of the server's public key.
I appreciate the attempt at an analogy but it fails here because of the agreement to the TOS. Both parties agreed to the etsy TOS which spells out, quite clearly, what each's responsibilities are. So yes, Brendan has rights afforded/accorded by the TOS - and those are enforceable rights were he to choose to go that route.
You must be quite the interwebs young'un. People have been parsing comments on geeky forums since forever. I've seen quite a few instances of it on Slashdot. For e.g.: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=89151&cid=771254...
The Java browser plugin is thankfully dying--that's what comes with the toolbar.

Java on the server is still going very strong; in fact I believe many of Google's services are still coded in Java.
I imagine a full-on garden hose would bring the thing down or interfere with it. Of course you have to see it first, but if it's there over your property you'd have an educational court adventure in your near future.
>What is your opinion on the opposite?

I've only ever experienced this with peers who I know well, and I actually find there's a pleasant intimacy to it. It would definitely be weird if it happened in a formal context though.
Maybe they meant 1 billion rupees?
Sure, I'm just saying that there are plenty of companies that think of themselves as startups that don't have KPI's growing at 5-7% a week or even a quarter, unless they invent some metric that makes them look good even if the needle isn't moving.
We post about startup jobs in Stockholm regularly here (http://swedishstartuspace.com)
I was just referring to the classic New Yorker style of putting all the periods in the acronym. :)

Shame there wasn't an excuse to use a diaeresis.
This is more true for consumer services, less true on the enterprise. Though it's a problem that great PMs need to overcome when building enterprise applications.
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Ironically, infographics in articles is the opposite of "New Yorker-ified".
Brendan replied earlier to someone else:

"The problem here is that Etsy isn't my boss or my manager. That's the whole reason I sell through them. I want to avoid someone looking over my shoulder to make sure I'm working all the time or working within their absurd guidelines."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5709457
One of the great ironies of modern computing is that we stopped building ECC into consumer hardware right when we got enough RAM to really need it. What fraction of server hosting has ECC RAM? No one seems to know if Amazon EC2 does, for instance, which suggests it probably doesn't.
America's New Oligarchs - Fwd.us and Silicon Valley's Shady One Percenters
Oh the perception people have on security is varied and TV and hollywood makes it look easy, we think banks are hard and professional and reallity is a mix of the two. Some good, some exceptional and some fall short of expectations. Been many clever and not so clever ways of stealing from banks and also been some amazing and clever ways banks have stole of customers and non-customers as proven in times recent. Sad part is you steal from bank, then you break the law and if a bank steals from you, it is usualy goverment sanctioned as in the case of Greece.

Though any tester who did pentesting on banks would of signed a NDA and if not, somebody really messed up and how are we reading about this within 10 years of it happening!
Oh, the number of bugs I've fixed by performing "unrelated" and silly actions...
Would you hug Hilary Clinton if you’ve met her on two or three different occasions? Of course not. And it’s the same for the female CEO of a major bank. So then, why would you hug a female work associate that you’ve only met twice?

Answer: you don’t hug Mrs. Clinton or the female CEO because you respect them too much.

Now, notice that this is how men treat ALL males.

http://danielmiessler.com/blog/on-hugs-vs-handshakes-for-fem...
> I would make a project out of finding all the shortcuts and hacks like this applicable to my routine

I'm often amazed at how often people don't do this. The last place I worked was always a nightmare to get to because of traffic, so I worked out all the possible shortcuts I could take depending on where the congestion was. I thought everyone did, until I was discussing this with colleagues who then revealed they just set off for work earlier.

One of them even lived right nearby and didn't know some of these shortcuts - all you needed was google maps.
Except for those that didn't.
Ask HN: Where should I eat sushi in San Francisco?
I am headed to San Francisco for the first time next week and I'd like to find a couple good sushi places to go to while I am there. Any recommendations?

Google Places or Yelp links appreciated!
It's a Schematic not Geo map. The Tube map is not intended for walking.
~700 miles each year is about 2 miles each day. Presumably if saintx hadn't structured his or her life around maintaining walkability then it would be necessary to travel longer distances each day. This would drive the total cost up. I don't know anyone who owns a car and only drives 700 miles each year.
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C# is a great language. It takes things from java and improves simple things like passing by reference, setter, getters etc. It has great features like linq and it had things like generics before java. VS is by far the best IDE. I feel it is much faster than eclipse. Other than the not being free part it is my favorite language to program since I started out with c++.
Nice. I have to say this is the best approach to "wikileaks"-style journalism since wikileaks itself imploded. Now here's hoping they have what it takes to publish what lands in their inbox, even when the US Govt objects...
> When someone downloads a movie through a pirate bay link, they do know what they're doing.

Do they? Would it make a difference in court if they didn't?
What an awesome idea, this needs to become a standard. This will lead to lots of interesting and previously impossible stories in the future!
"The money that would otherwise go into a second vehicle, fuel, insurance, and maintenance instead goes toward higher quality food."

I love this. It shows how so many of our lifestyle choices affect one another. I'm sure the domino effect doesn't stop here either. I've noticed how much more I feel like a part of the human race when I bike. When you drive a car you're so isolated, it's easy to get angry when someone makes an honest mistake in the next lane. When biking or walking you always have to constantly confront smiling faces and "good morning!"s and I think it's important to have this interaction with strangers.
FWIW, when I did my onsite interview with Google a few years back, I saw a pretty good mix of Apple and other brands (both laptop and phone wise). Didn't see a whole lot of tablets, but this was before they really took off. Maybe some companies are just less draconian and more forward thinking than others? Any company that told me I couldn't use a certain product or brand, no matter what it was, wouldn't have me as an employee for long.
Not all of them did:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in...
The problem is not rationality, but the goals that rational being has to fulfill.
First, get this off of HN please. I don't see the direct relevance.

Second, if this does have some relevance to HN with regards to usability, then this is a usability success, not a failure. Are there more efficient ways for one person to navigate the tube system. Absolutely. Does this means it will be efficient for all. No.
Ever seen "Big"?
It's a sad day when a US based publication is leading the charge to protect its sources to ensure the vitality of the freedom of the press. I had expected this in an authoritarian regime, not here.
>I live in a low cost of living area and the cheapest car sold by the local Carmax is $8K.

The cheapest car sold by my local Carmax is $10K. At a glance, the cheapest cars they sell anywhere are in the 7-10K range.

That's how a used car dealer works. They buy cars for $3K, run them through a carwash then sell them for $8K.

The classifieds are full of decent/good cars in the $2-5K range.
Testing the D-Wave computer
A good moment to plug the book 'Traffic' - http://tomvanderbilt.com/traffic/the-book/

A good (geeky) read about all kinds of traffic issues including routing.
He probably doesn't play Farm ville either, but everyone is happy to cash the checks.
What is the purpose of the people on the New Yorker end having to switch machines? How can the submitter trust that they've done that?
I'm pretty much ignorant about Tor, but I'm curious why the .onion strongbox address they give is a string of random characters, instead of something recognizable/memorable?
The claim that haskell thinks you need separate tools is silly. The fact that the language provides abstractions for parallel computation and for concurrency does not mean the language or its designers consider them unrelated problems requiring different tools. Haskell is a particularly bad example to support this sort of misleading claim, as the language supports both out of the box without using different tools, and the same page you quoted even says that (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Parallelism):

>Concurrent threads (forkIO) will run in parallel

The simple example being say a webserver. You use forkIO to spawn a green thread per connection. This gets you concurrency. Now if you want parallelism, you simply tell the haskell runtime to multiplex those green threads over more than one OS thread. You don't have to change your code at all. The whole argument and terrible gift analogy seems to rely on redefining parallelism to mean "making sequential code parallel". I think most people are in fact thinking of making concurrent code parallel when they talk about wanting parallelism, like the webserver example.
This is just blatantly untrue. Take a look at Pulitzer Prizes for Investigative Journalism since 2003 (http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Investigative-Reporting):

* The New York Times

* The Blade (Toledo, OH)

* Willamette Week (Portland, OR)

* The Washington Post

* The Birmingham (AL) News

* The Chicago Tribune

* The New York Times

* The New York Times

* ProPublica

* Philadelphia Daily News

* Sarasota Herald Tribune

* The Seattle Times

* The Associated Press

* The New York Times

If that's not a diverse group of news organizations, I don't know what it.

That also doesn't include things like the Walter Reed Army Medical center scandal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Reed_Army_Medical_Center...), because it falls under the Public Service category: http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Public-Service.
Github Pages, to my knowledge, doesn't support HTTPS. They'd have to move it.
I disagree, many if not most cities in the East coast have been dominated by .NET since at least .NET 2.0. There are cities where it is hard to find a programming job in anything else. And the holdouts are mostly old Windows-centric tools like Delphi and VB6.

I also disagree with your outlook for the future. Enterprise loves frameworks only slightly less than they love expensive proprietary software packages where support is built-in. I'd love to see non-Microsoft tech like Go move into the enterprise in a serious way but I don't see it happening. For most of these companies their developers have no experience in anything but the Microsoft stack and a good portion of them either can't or won't learn something else. So you're immediately talking about losing a large chunk of your staff. And good luck finding Go developers.

I can't see Microsoft abandoning this segment so it doesn't make sense to even talk about alternatives.
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Irreversible binomials
Exactly.

In our new beta site (yet to launch) Walking and Cycling are right up front alongside public transport so we're pushing more options to the user.
Can India Extradite a US Citizen for violating webpage and internet data consumption/viewing related crimes defined in India and convict them and get some fraction of that billion dollars?

Could the Taliban do the same thing if some Americans were found guilty of educating women against sharia law and be executed?

How much do I need to be researching internet crimes defined by other countries so I don't get targeted by predators from other ecosystems?
Fast Customer Service Wins You Happy Customers Quicker than Anything
Visual map for prioritizing product development in startups
Algebraic Machine Learning in Haskell
> I do not believe that Go's concurrency primitives are better than Haskell or Erlang's, full stop.

Unless I'm mistaken (and please correct me if I am!), synchronous primitives can be used to implement asynchronous primitives, but the converse isn't true. If that's the case, why would Erlang's asynchronous primitives not be inferior to Go's synchronous primitives?
I disagree. Sometimes maintaining that type of freedom of the press requires strong vigilance and defense on the side of the press, rather than taking it as a given.
On a not so unrelated experience from many years back, pick a large bank, find the training room. Pick your flavour of thumb/floppy image unix/linux and boot of that and run tcpdump, then realise scary how some training rooms not as isolated from the real network/systems as training for many are live systems with training accounts/logins :(.

Another common issue is find a fire exit with disgarded cigerrete butt's and odds are somebody has taped over the door sensor or disabled it and you can just break into the building that way without an alarm going of. Done the going in as weekend to do a cleaning job which was covert security audit and found we could of just gone up the external staircase and in via a fire exit thanks to smokers and there adictions.

Also was common on trading floors to find unapproved modems so the blessed keeness could catch up from home or at weekends, nowadays how many end up trojaning there own pc's so they can remotly work without official sanction from IT and the security department.

Biggest fault in most systems will be the staff, one way or another, intended or not.

Like I said, more you look into it the more you store under your matress :).
When I turned 16 (within the past decade), Dad spent $1400 and bought a 12 year old old Mazda hatchback - the thing was completely gutless and didn't even have a stereo, let alone airbags and traction control (ABS, maybe, I feel like it's been pretty much standard for years now). Many of my classmates had similarly worthless cars - "reasonably safe" has a lot more to do with the driver than the vehicle (admittedly, young drivers tend to be stupid, but safer cars will just make them more reckless (at least at the macro level)).
Can't agree more! Love the way you described "What is SEO" LOL!
There's no sex-related language, though it might not like the photos in my portfolio.
The New Yorker style guide mandates periods in acronyms. It's pretty goofy.
"I could spend quite a lot of time tracking down obscure/rare records from the past 10 years; travelling the country, digging in record shops, etc. That doesn't mean it would be appropriate to sell them on Etsy - it's not Ebay"

Vintage fashion is a big seller on Etsy, so your analogy would actually be appropriate.
You seem unreasonably grumpy... take a breath, chill out. I enjoyed the video and upvoted it - as did many others, clearly. It's of interest to hackers. Tom Scott is also "one of us" - a geek comedian. Probably one of the reasons why others have been upvoting this.

You might enjoy this excellent video of his talk at Ignite a few years back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyMdOT8YJgY