skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the Skype Icon I made, when it wasn't clear what type of "Federal Trojan" the German Governmnent developed and used.

http://image-upload.de/image/4f96S5/4af43ed70c.png

I suspected Skype was used, because it would be the most effective way to spy citizens.

Today Skype, Facebook and Gmail are valueable resources for a Orwellian Surveillance Government.

These Skype Security articles are worth reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_security

http://www.ossir.org/windows/supports/2005/2005-11-07/EADS-C...

http://cryptanalysis.eu/blog/2011/12/28/encrypted-traffic-mi...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol
The kids on Haight street just want to bum around – there was that article* that found they could make almost as much money begging as they could at a minimum wage job.

Other parts of the city I think have more people that really are drug-addicted or borderline insane

* http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/43085729257/the-street-kid...
Of course. I am still exploring the field, but I enjoy building things from scratch and general software engineering. I guess I'll be working in the San Francisco area for other companies until I start a software consulting business or launch my own product. At least that's a general idea.

I really enjoy destroy all software screencasts if that helps
respectfully, i honestly cannot even guess what the point of this post is.
Well, if people are deliberately endagering lives of others for fear of losing their jobs; then maybe we should ensure that they'll fear the legal consequences more than their boss?

For example, if you temporarily take away the truck drivers licence as a punishment for driving too many hours without rest (as EU does, for example), then they'll make sure that they don't drive without rest, since they will definitely lose their driving jobs if they do.
You say that but yet Microsoft has created a whole marketing campaign around this. It's a humorous to think no one really cares about privacy. I think that is more the kind of attitude in our echo chamber than the other (that no one really cares about privacy).
Having moved from the U.S. to northern Germany, I have to say: the difference is shocking. Here, mentally unstable homeless people are not a daily sight on the city streets. In fact, I have seen only one San Francisco-style lunatic: and he was, indeed, raving in English. Saying that "United States social policy is [not] a model for anywhere" must be an understatement. I would ask: what social policy? Any aid from the government ("welfare") is heavily stigmatized, except perhaps for retirees. From homelessness to health care to public transportation to to education to racial tension to gun violence, the U.S. appears a mockery of itself.

Regarding the homelessness situation in California, I learned in school that it had something to do with Governor Ronald Reagan dismantling the state's mental health system.

Have you seen skid row in Los Angeles? I can't imagine that such a scene exists anywhere in western Europe.

This article looks relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Stat...
Getting enough sleep is important as well. Anecdotally, I have experienced subpar lifting performance when I average less than 8.5 hours/night for a few days.

I also plateaued on Squats during SS after about 4 months, so I lowered my work weight to 80% during my middle squat day (Wednesday in a MWF routine), as Rippetoe suggests, and I immediately broke out of it.
I wrote about just how much this scared the crap out of me too: https://scott-williams.squarespace.com/words/2013/5/14/fear-...
Um, no. Under "Why are we free?" at the bottom of your landing page it didn't mention that at all.

Any other surprises we should know about?
Strange that they didn't just install a huge metal bar in front of the tunnel, like in this video (11 foot 8, the "toughest bridge in the world"):

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c0_1351184890
It's a pattern. This is the same kind of response the EFF got to its FOIA requests about NSLs (national security letters). They were sent back a pack of blank pages as all the text had been redacted. When the ACLU issued a request to the FBI on GPS tracking activity, they were sent back 111 blank pages.
No serious shop will use this. If you release it as an open source project, perhaps someone might find it useful. If they aren't using LDAP/Puppet/Chef/etc . Checkout freeipa.org and https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa .
As someone who has shipped two production systems in Erlang, one for a fortune 100 company, another for a floundering former tech giant, I don't think it is nearly as kool-aid as you think.

It is out there, a lot, used in trading houses, used in running credit reports, used for facebook chat, used to route cell phone calls, used as the back-end component to gobs of system (CouchDB, RIAK).

Erlang has a very similar culture background to Go, it wasn't built for Academia, it was built to solve issues right in front of its creators, real world problems they struggle with everyday, inside Google and Erickson respectively.

Both are un-sexy, get-er-done type languages. Erlang has found happy homes all over the place, and I have no doubt Go will do at least as well -- most likely far better.
Toronto has way more of a handle on homelessness than other parts of Canada in my experience. It's much worse in the neighbouring provincial capitals, Montreal and Winnipeg.
Of course they are. Mental disorders can be fixed by paying for the treatment of people with mental disorders, and drug addiction can be fixed by paying for the treatment (rather than the imprisonment) of people who are addicted to drugs.

There's nothing making drug addicts homeless other than the fact that we drive up a thousandfold the prices of substances that cost pennies to produce.
The Job Guarantee or Employer of Last Resort (JG or ELR) program is a better solution.
1) Immediately moves the economy to full employment. All but eliminates social ills associated with unemployment.
2) Puts a floor on labor standards. That is in order to hire somebody out of labor pool, private business has to offer a better package. Health insurance should be automatic. (My Gosh prisoners get free health care!)
3) Counter-cyclical/Auto-Stabilizer/Buffer stock effect on macro economy. As economy improves people leave the JG program. As economy weakens, people shift into JG.
4) JG labor force can be put to work at local government levels to boost services.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_guarantee
>So why should I want to subsidize single mothers?

You aren't subsidizing anything. You are allowing the mother to raise their child with more options available to them. At the very least, it increases the chances of the child's success, and overall the chances that you are not paying for programs, prisons, social services in the future.

> Why should I disincentivize teenagers from gaining their first work experience?

Because they are "gaining that experience" instead of completing their schooling in many occurrences. I don't need to explain why it's a good idea to have as many people as possible stay in school, do I?
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I see a cow. It's purple.
The UI looks damn clean! Congrats on shipping!
Check out the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5...!

They show the whole stand spins around on a center axis for the signature.
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> The clever thing about iMessage is that no-one even knows they are using it. On iOS at least, that's going to make it very hard to beat.

It's only clever if it is actually solves the problem people are having. If not, then it's an anti-feature. The only question is whether iPhone users have non-iPhone owning friends/family or if iPhone users all have unlimiting texting plans. I'm guessing a significant portion don't fall into one of those two categories.
In the US at least the state DOT's have that information and have a GIS office that would make it available for a nominal fee. You'd still need to check a lot it in cities. Big worry would probably be liability; if your database of overpasses has an error (inevitable) can the truckers insurance company hold you financially responsible for relying on your app?
> Do their employees snoop of US citizens? Nope.

I'm glad you're so certain.

> Information is critical in the world we live in. It's troubling that any secretive organizations would be able to have this much power over citizens, BUT the alternative is much scarier.

That's just scare mongering. As a country we got by for over 200 years without government surveillance, and nothing has changed to make it necessary now.
Same. Maybe this is evidence of how unpopular my site is, but I think I've paid a dollar or two over the last three years.
Except, you know, if you signed up for it, you should really try to do the right thing and unsubscribe. Can't remember whether you signed up for it or not? Maybe you're signing up for too many things (and, yes, I agree that there's far too much of "sign up to find out more!").
Ask HN: How many monitors do you use? (I use none)
I am perfectly happy with Mac Book Pro with Retina with no external monitors. Instead of moving my head I feel it is faster to switch apps. Am I missing out If I don't use multiple monitors?
Hi guys.
Thanks a lot for pointing the hash '#' bug, I din't realized myself (and was very simple to solve).
Now I think it works fine, no matter you enter the hex value in the input with or without the '#'.

I'm trying to find a workaround too about passing the '#' in the URL too, but I still did not find a good solution.

I'm working right now in adding support for Pantone and RAL color formats...

Thanks again for your testing ;-)
Greetz.
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Oh they are ? I seriously was thinking it is still downhill for RIM. Glad to know they still have hope.
they're probably also trying to get more places to use Square, period. in that case, you also have the hands-free pay-with-your-name/face thing that presumably works here too, and means they basically just have to tap your image and it's done.
That's fine as long as they don't kill people by driving while fatigued
You've mistaken cynicism and a lack of empathy for maturity.

Not everyone has a family, and even if they do we should be pushing for institutional changes so that the family isn't forced to make a choice between eventual bankruptcy or turning their family out on the street.
one of these games maxed my CPU. Can't imagine what it would have been like back in the day.
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Yup, this is currently the best and quickest way to fix problems with Firefox. If you set up sync, you can reset browser and reload context (extensions, settings, history, passwords, ...) in a few minutes.
>I just don't like people bashing something without valid reasons

That really doesn't seem to be the case here. Like you, the article's author(and several others here) have had issues with it for their particular use-case, and the reasons are clearly listed in a well organized paragraph by paragraph summary explanation in the article. Others here who've had a similar experience at least stated they had issues with it as well, even if they didn't go into much detail about it.

And speaking of the lack of valid reasons, to be fair, many relatively new technologies like these often get significant praise/hype without many valid reasons as well, other than [X]startup/company is using it, so it should be able to work for me, or it must be an awesome technology to use.
This. Is just sucker marketing to the 'cant afford a real POS system' and I don't mind giving-away for free (betraying) my customer-base for a cheap-assed alternative, merchants who can't be boned to read and comprehend the T&C.

Square = tracking/profiling of customers without their direct permission = scam-artists. Jack, please reply.
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Haha, yes, thanks. I added quotes.
If this is true, why is OTR offered at all?
How To Fail - don't avoid failure #ValidatedLearning
Oberon and Oberon-2 were available in 1991, which Go takes the method syntax and package concepts from.

GC enabled system programming languages, which failed most likely due to the Pascal syntax.
More than likely they are.

It is never read by humans though unless flagged.

And hopefully there are checks-and-balances in place to alert others if a government employee is accessing data about someone that he personally knows.

It's not as easy as "only save texts with the words bomb and weed in them". It's all saved, then analyzed, then retained a few years, then eventually deleted. Is that acceptable for the US government to do?
Doing 100 pushups or 1000 situps is mostly an exercise in endurance, which is trained very differently from strength. I highly doubt his claim.
True, and they allow unique and sometimes amazing ways to solve problems.
I'm sorry, I found the explanation below the signup page. One-page sites still confuse me :)
I wish he had gone into more detail regarding how "gongkai" functions, aside from ignoring IP restrictions.
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Funnily enough, Firefox died on my system today and I haven't been able to get it working since.

Just freezes after start up, even in safe mode (well, when it even booted up, which it stopped doing after a couple tries).
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This sort of economic blind spot is shockingly common, and presumably stems from the belief that economics is zero-sum. The idea behind subsidizing single mothers and keeping teens in school (which is the case that your parent comment was describing) is that the cost of this subsidy is theoretically lower than the expected cost of losing productive members of society or even worse, losing them to gang activity, which has further costs (single-parent households and high school dropouts are both _strongly_ linked to gang activity).

You may as well be saying "Why should I be paying taxes to put out a fire at the house down the street"? Well, if/when the fire spreads, you're going to be paying for it like it or not, so it seems like common sense to address the problem before the total cost is far higher.

The relationship between gang activity and dropout rates is something of a chicken-and-egg problem, but given that "stopping gang activity" is damn near impossible through enforcement alone (this is basically the tactic we've been trying), it's strange that our culture is such that attacking the problem from the other side is anathema.
Try this: http://afritech.com/item?id=2689 (Maybe you could just whip up some python in a day)
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Garmin already offers a specific product line for truckers and bus drivers, that deals with these kinds of issues - beyond vertical clearance you have issues of turning radius and maximum load.

I've seen them being sold at major truck stops in the US. You're not suppose to use a normal consumer GPS if you're driving an oversize / multi-axle vehicle.

http://sites.garmin.com/dezl/
Good luck! Can I ask why there's no link to your Github profile on the page?
This article leaves out an important point: Most, if not all, programmers I know do care about these issues, but we can't solve them. We would if we could, but it's not what our profession is good at.

The title of the article, "come here and work on hard problems – except the ones on our doorstep," speaks to this. We programmers have the tools to solve many interesting and important problems, but certainly not all. Deeply rooted social problems such as homelessness cannot be solved with a mobile app or data analysis.

So programmers see homeless people on the way to work, and we feel bad, but what can we do? Maybe the author wants us to feel guilty about the gap between rich and poor. But bear in mind most of us are not the rich of America. We're in the middle. Yes, it's much, much more comfortable in the middle than at the bottom, and I think most of us are grateful to be where we are. But most of us aren't aristocrats; we work for a living. And we're also not the ones who want to further widen the income gap. Rather, we tend to vote for progressive candidates and policies.

Is there more we could do? I'm not sure what it would be. Charitable donations help a little, but won't solve the problem. Volunteering helps a little, but again, it's marginal. It's the people who actually work in advocacy, politics, and homeless services that are really in a position to help solve these problems. Programmers just aren't the ones to do it.

Coincidentally, I actually do have some experience in the homeless services world. And from what I have seen, the solution is basically money.

Much of the homeless population cannot be permanently cured. There is no homelessness reboot, where you go in for rehab, mental health treatment, etc., and you come out ready to face the world as a gainfully employed, self-sufficient person. Even with treatment, relapses are the norm, rather than the exception.

Consequently, the realistic and humane solution is to put up the money for a basic safety net. Considering the number of homeless in our country and the rather modest price of providing basic food and shelter, it would not really be a noticeable drain on our society. And just to head off criticism: We're not talking about putting lazy people in the Hilton and feeding them caviar. Even spartan, barracks-style homeless shelters, such as the ones where I've worked, are a whole lot better than leaving people on the street. So-called lazy people (i.e. those who can work but don't want to) will not take advantage of this, because it's not an attractive option. No matter how lazy you are, you will choose to work over living in a homeless shelter if you can.
San Fran's housing policy and strict land-use regulations have prevented the creation of large-scale housing units (both public and private) that address this problem elsewhere. The homeless population isn't an accident; it's the creation of government regulation and middle-class fear of high-density housing.
1998 Slashdot called and wants its comment back.
It's not a big company, but Silent Circle offers end-to-end encrypted voice, video, and text chat. Also secure email, which can use PGP. Here is a summary of their text chat protocol: https://silentcircle.com/web/scimp-protocol/
Apparently this is the ticket being referred to:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-2986?page=com.atlassi...
Indie game Haunts unable to compile its Go code
So we are reaching a stage where government is not just dancing around hot issues but by now they apparently don't even pretend to give a crap anymore.

Unfortunately there are still enough people around whos' reaction to this is "let's start and online petition and beg the administration to declassify all the "and"s in the text".
Having moved from the U.S. to northern Germany

I'd really love to learn about what is actually done in Europe. Where is a "mentally unstable" person to be found in Germany? If a "San Francisco-style lunatic" (like the one you saw in public in Germany) is encountered out in public in Germany, where is he put?

P.S. I have adequate reading knowledge of German to be able to read German-language links about what is done for such people in Germany, if anyone here has any such links to share.
You need to educate yourself on the monetary system. Taxes do not necessarily fund government at the local level. Non-convertable floating fx monetary regimes are self-funding. Its kind of like saying where does the score-keeper at the basketball game get points to put on the score board ? Can he run out ?
Larry Page funds voice health research initiative
>Please don't waste your time with this "workout," unless of course you're so weak and fragile that it'll literally kill you to do a squat.

I think gym-nerds vastly underestimate how out of shape the median person is. I started doing a variation of this regimen every day before work two weeks ago and I feel better already. I was sore for the first two days from just a few sets of squats.

Who gives a fuck about being able to bench press all you can bench press? It sounds like macho bullshit to me. I don't care about being as strong as I can be.

I care about not being winded when I hit the top of the stairs, and I care about not having back aches from sitting in a chair all the time, and I care about dying a bit later than sooner. If a few simple bodyweight reps once a day or three times a week will get me there without the expense and the hours wasted travelling to and from gyms all so much the better.
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On inflation (I don't want to duplicate comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5706941

On Rothschild&co: I'm quite serious: President Pompidou used to work for them, prior to the 73 law that forbade the state from borrowing to the central bank (there were no Euro, back then). The only alternative was to borrow from private banks, of course. and Rothschild conveniently happened to be one of the big players, and happened to finance a significant part of the French debt.

Well, as far as I know. My sources are mainly Pierre Larouturrou, and Étiène Chouard, left-sided French economists.

On deflating the debt: I doubt the solution would be to do it at once. On the other hand, why not keep the budget as it is, and just stop borrowing from the market altogether? It would progressively Lower the payments on the interests, freeing some budget to actually lower the debt, or doing some other investments. I did not however measured the impact of not borrowing from rich people any more.
I can't help feeling that they're at least a year too late. At one point, BBM was used by a lot of people. A year ago there was a void for multimedia messaging and group messaging that wasn't really filled by anything, but Whatsapp has completely filled that space. Everyone I know (twenty something graduates in the UK) uses it. That kind of market penetration is hard to match, even with a brand like Blackberry.
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No. They already have the lowest memory footprint. They don't need to figure out that they need to fix memory leaks, since they are doing it with great success.

But it will help them identify and fix current and future leaks.
There is no Europe. I can only speak for my country, the Netherlands, and there is no such thing as people not having the personal funds to buy or rent housing. That's why we have minimum wages, social security, rent subsidies and regulated rent.

The homeless here are people mostly people with mental health issues that reject or don't respond to treatment.

It's by far not a perfect utopian system, but to have people being homeless just because they can't afford it would be considered an unacceptable failure of a civilized society. Decent housing, like healthcare, is considered a human right, not something people have to be able to "afford".
Take the recommended dose (one or two scoops) and you'll be fine. Overdose and your heart will stop. Same exact thing as any stimulant.
You're projecting your desires for a bit of freedom from the rat-race onto the homeless.
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In Canada, most in store transaction are using Interac and not credit cards. I wonder when Square will accept both. I guess europeen countries have something similar to Interac as well (french's blue card?).
That's exactly my point. It does not appear that the information was "published*, unless your definition of "published" includes "we meant to make this private, but screwed the pooch on security".
A vehicle with its tires blown will take longer to stop than one with its tires intact and brakes applied. This would just turn it into an 40-ton wrecking ball - what if there's stopped traffic in the tunnel?