skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Firefox indicates that nand2tetris.org has been reported as an attack page. Has the site been compromised? Anybody know how to contact the author?

Edit: just noticed the original Edit mentioning that you contacted one of the authors.
SV begins monetizing the drug trade.
Wear a hat and sunglasses if you're worried about it. Pay a bum to go in and buy it for you. Wear a ski mask!

I'd be far more worried about the credit card transaction and ISP log from buying this online than I would be about a camera in the grocery store. Of course you could TOR the browsing or use a library computer. And maybe eventually they'll add support for non credit card payments that can't be tracked. But throwing on a hat and some sunglasses and heading to your neighborhood 7-11 seems a lot easier (and cheaper).
You're correct. This is so people don't have to register for anything, either on upload or download.

I've used to to transfer stuff from my main machine to my virtual machine running on Virtual Box. I can also see people using it to load files onto another computer with out the need to login to anything on that computer or even have to remember a complicated URL to access their file (if they register).
What happens when you get a National Security Letter that demands both longer data retention and your silence?
Well, we have 12 millions+ nodes happily communicating every day via IPv6 that suggests IPv6 is a pretty successful "experiment."

I know you meant to say, "Failed experiment for consumer web connectivity" - but, I think it's important to remember that IPv6 has some very successful niches. Mesh networks, Smart Grids, anything with large scale flexible address and routing requirements has been using IPv6 very successfully for at least 5+ years now.

The only real competition IPv6 has over the next 20 years for global routing dominance though, is, ironically, IPv4.

The main reason is that all the Autonomous Systems have to have some common language to communicate, and share routing updates, and, for better or worse, IP is the "English" of network engineers when it comes to internetwork routing.
This might be the most illogical and unsupported assertion, ever: "Given that the human face recognition performed by the check-in agents did not keep the hijackers out, there is no reason to think that computer face recognition would help."
Who's this "we" that is constantly mentioned?
Convenience. The reason you have to register is because you moving somewhere puts some level of strain on that community. This registration gives them a chance to get a handle on city migrations. They do the same thing in Switzerland. I don't remember who, but a very rich man was denied the ability to move to some low population city because they couldn't figure out what they would do with his tax money (warning, I've not verified this actually happened but I imagine it could).
There was a nice overview of Wayland here as well: https://lwn.net/Articles/536862&#x2F;
Thanks. I have built sites in Wordpress, so front end experience, but Ruby will be my first programming language.
The eBook - LittleBookOfRuby is great. No cost and a great intro. http://www.SAPHIRESTEEL.com
LOL that is all
Last time I tried codeq, the analyzer was limited to symbols defined outside of functions. The Clojurescript parser might be a better option, because the parse tree would allow indexing usages inside functions.

I also wonder if a generative testing library could be used to generate examples.
I'm not quite sure what the point of this project is, as MESS is rather slow when built natively [1]. Perhaps some of the lower end systems can be emulated, albeit slowly.

[1] http://www.mess.org/faq#it_works_but_it_is_way_too_slow
It seems obvious now that:

Turing was a machine
Turing could think
Therefore machines can think

Of course, whether Turing machines can think is still more of an open question, although it seems unlikely that the human brain is doing anything a Turing machine can't simulate, at least in theory.
There is no candidate to replace IP for global routing connectivity in the next 20 years. I'll wager a long-bet at 10 to 1 odds up to $1,000 (you win $10,000) for anybody who thinks differently.
Thomas always says this whenever IPv6 comes up. He wants some sort of "overlay" network. He's ambiguous on what this would look like, why it would be better than IPv6, and why IPv4 will suffice as its underlying protocol.

My conclusion is that his application-level networking experience has fooled him into thinking he knows more than he does about actual network architecture, management, and performance issues. Or maybe he doesn't realize the issues even exist.
For some definition of "different". See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537512%28VS.85%29.... for example.
That seems suboptimal for being sure the phone wasn't either (a) a dud or (b) damaged between receipt and first use.

Any thoughts on being able to do at least some sort of basic self test without starting the 30 day count down?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6XpE9I0BLA
The Linux AIO interface is excellent for high-performance disk I/O but using it requires a much bigger code investment than is immediately implied by the AIO API by itself. The complexity of using it is that for it to work properly, you need to bypass most blocking and buffering operations in the kernel related to file system I/O. Specifically:

- You should always use O_DIRECT or it defeats the purpose. Consequently, the caching and buffering you normally get for "free" using more conventional approaches is not available. For good performance you have to write your own disk buffer cache implementation which is not trivial if you have never done it before. This buffer code will exceed the size of the AIO code if you are doing it well. On the upside, for many purposes you can design a buffer cache that greatly outperforms the standard kernel implementation.

- You need to minimize the number of file system metadata operations that can block and/or bypass the file system altogether. I recommend the former. In practical systems, you end up doing very coarse file system operations, like allocating a huge chunks of disk, and then building your own lightweight disk management system on top of that. Again, this is a lot of extra work for the sake of using AIO effectively.

- You need to figure out the best way to schedule all of the disk I/O operations you are now responsible for. Background writing, prefetching, etc that are used to optimize disk performance are now part of your implementation.

Linux AIO is simple and pretty nice in the abstract. Using it well requires some complex domain expertise around scheduling, file organization, and cache replacement algorithms and techniques. There are no libraries that provide quality implementations of the supporting infrastructure that I am aware of so you have to roll your own. You can't do just a little bit of AIO and see much benefit in most cases.

There are big benefits though which is why advanced database engines are implemented this way. If you build out an entire userspace disk I/O subsystem on top Linux AIO you can easily double your disk I/O performance or more relative to using the conventional POSIX, mmap(), etc interfaces. Furthermore, it often can be designed to degrade performance more gracefully during periods of high I/O pressure.
delete from orders, customers where...

There will never be a way to prove the records are gone. It's all based on trust.
Yes, the Onion can be oddly prescient at times. This has always been the scariest for me:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/bush-our-long-national-nigh...;
Further sass: you can click the title to change the error code, and it talks down to you a bit if you enter 666. There might be other fun ones too.
Let down by New Scientist magazine
even https://www.burnerphone.us&#x2F; is informing google (and a few other sites) when you visit.
Still waiting on my ISP.
I'd love to implement IPv6 on my servers, but no way to test it atm. (unless using tunnels an alike)
Edit: Just rechecked at my provider ... they are rolling it out this year ... I'm actually surprised.
Leahy and Paul plan on mandatory sentencing makes sense
This would be a great way, on a compiler or project that doesn't have this warning enabled, to conceal a deliberate bug and have it appear to be accidental.
It's a ridiculous machination of a bitter person's imagination.

To be sure, there are likely people who think this way. But after reading this article it's pretty clear that even if this were a prevalent stereotype (I haven't seen enough to think it's even close), this in particular is not a good reference for it.
Given how often homophobes end up being closet homosexuals, I think the question of "When did you choose to be straight?" is extremely pertinent. It's likely that they did choose to (try to be) straight, and think everyone else does the same.

It is interesting how much of the anti-gay rhetoric basically boils down to homosexuality being the more attractive option, but one which we must refuse (and outlaw) for the good of humanity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-child_policy

Upwards of 200 million people are spinning in their mass graves at your abject ignorance of the 20th century history of totalitarianism.

Hint: the world "total" is a clue.
That proof attempt fails, because opening and closing are fundamentally different. To close, you have to find something to do with almost 200 occupants, many of home will not be allowed by their home countries to return. This problem does not arise on opening.
I agree; this is quite amazing work! I've been meaning to do something like this; perhaps generate a native executable or something similar.
This is a good question. Is there documentation that really explains the Quartz architecture somewhere?
CIA's "Facebook" program dramatically cut agency's costs
Rendering the government unable to read your communications is always a better solution than convincing them to promise that they will not. Technological solutions allow the individual to have control over trust.

Burner phones are not crypto, but they are a good idea for similar reasons.
https://lobste.rs/. But it's a pretty small community and is invite-only. (Existing members...an invite would be appreciated :) )
The Institute of Fiscal Studies' application seems to be net of income tax and council tax. Is this the same for the linked graphic? I can't tell by trying to track down the data source on http://data.london.gov.uk&#x2F;
Well, if the government had to 'redownload the entire Internet' every 6 months, then they might decide to curb their information habits (or like a junkie they might just look for ways to skit the rules).
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Hat and sunglasses? It sounds cliche, but the prosecution has the burden of proof, and if they can't make out your facial features or hair, and you don't arrive on a traceable mode of transportation (like, a bus would work), then it could have been anyone.
No, he can't. Not without a valid SSL certificate for cryptonote.org. Sure, there are problems with CAs, but it would nevertheless be very difficult to obtain such a certificate.
Say you were going to be a whistle blower for some Government scandal. You want to communicate with the NY Times but you don't trust the government to not subpoena the phone records, any email records, etc. A phone that isn't linked to you sounds like a good idea.
Some more facts about Wayland and client-side window decorations, quoted from here: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/02/client-side-wi...

- Nothing in Wayland requires them

- QtWayland allows Clients to turn them off

- KWin as a Wayland compositor will use server side decorations
Such Randian nonsense. If the dems are such egalitarians and want to destroy the wealth of others, why do you have growing disparity and retain the Bush tax rates? And if you say Obama has more of this than Clinton, why are wealthy people paying less taxes now than they did in the 90s?
The numbers for women in programming/tech are even worse than the article states when you look at minority women:

"The numbers for minority women are even more dismal. Hispanic women represent 1% of the high-tech workforce, and African-American women don't fare much better, at 3%. The better the jobs, the lower the proportions are of women and non-Asian minorities. Despite the diversity of the population of the region, Silicon Valley, which boasts the highest salaries among tech regions, fares much worse than the national numbers."

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3010423/the-geek-boy-irony-behind-...
Whistleblowing?
The title (h2 tag even) is literally "Creating useful 404 pages"...
Mildy bad things are less common, but very bad things are possible now that were not 50 years ago. One individual can have a much worse impact.
Though the same argument was used against Keynes earlier this year by Niall Ferguson.
That being the case and if you want to get started with Ruby in the context of web sites/applications, take a look at Michael Hartl's book - http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book - working through this will help you feel like you're making progress (again, learn by doing). If there's something you find that you don't understand about the ruby language (i.e. symbols, booleans, etc.), I'm sure you'll find the answer and explanation in The Well Grounded Rubyist.

Do this after working through Learn Ruby the Hard Way.

Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book is also a great intro to the language - http://humblelittlerubybook.com/book/html/index.html
Well, the behaviour you are describing just sounds like Microsoft's anti-virus software - and they have a datacenter in Georgia - something to consider.

If you are genuinely concerned I think it is pretty simple to contact real professionals with whatever data you have.
In what sense is Github closed-source?

(edit: The FSF makes the distinction between propietary software and Software as a Service: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-se...)
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Ignore the crypto approach for a minute. The issue is responsibility. If we aren't responsible directly for the crimes our government commits, who is. People look at the scale of the problem, the difficulty of the solution, and decide because it's too difficult, it's not worth doing. Why? Because they haven't really accepted responsibly. Our government is invading other nations on false pretense... what have you or I done in return? Shouldn't the wheels screech to a halt at this point? Why didn't they? Because no one is responsible to inact a solution we actually believe in, because all of the solutions require too much damn work.

There was a comment below to the effect of "If only terrorist targeted the real problem instead of innocent civilians...", I don't think the comment was meant as sarcastic, which just depresses me further.

You don't plant a tree underneath a power line then blame the tree for doing what's expected, known, and in their nature.

#edit, I shall elaborate as I know I sound crazy.

Think about software, the employees complain for more time to refactor, the boss continues driving forward with feature creep and reactionary programming/patching/hotfixing. The developers are just as responsible for the quality for the software and will have to support the decisions. Instead of putting their job on the line to stop this behavior before it's too late, they grunt, complain, and meet their silly deadlines. Fast forward a few years, the company cannot keep talented developers, simple new features take years, now the developers are ready to either quit or put their foot down, but now it's way too late, bad choices in data partitioning, scheme design, etc, now you need a complete rewrite. See how the solution scales with the problem?

To me, the problem is out of hand, so naturally people will start trying to start doing what should have been done a long time ago, except it's too late, and the actual solution is still met with "well, no, but I'll do the easier version now".
If you believe Obama, regular IRS employees can harass organizations and individuals they don't like.
I think that's totally different than the NSA having them, but yes, I would.

It's not really the point, though--I can have opinions about whether specific practices are overreaching, but what I really care about is disclosure.
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Or (in enough cases to be a valid concern), not without using sslstrip. Which is trivial.
> It's a ridiculous machination of a bitter person's imagination.

Whoa. Hold off on the ad-hominem attack there. She's probably reading this and saying that is not cool.

Just because you don't like reading a (non-professional) attempt at deconstructing a prevalent (I know of it) stereotype and evaluating it's negative impacts, doesn't make it right to make comments like this.
Regarding delivery - Maybe something like a BufferBox paid for with cash/bitcoin? Does this exist?
How does this surprise anyone? Bradley Manning released tapes of the US military murdering civilians after the military denied it happened. Dude went to jail, military continued to deny thing there is evidence of, and on we go. People literally see the guy who exposed heinous crimes as worse than the people who committed the heinous crimes. It's utterly depressing.
Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
OK, not only is medium.com now monopolizing HN for no good reason, it's monopolizing HN with absolute crap. Would you people please stop upvoting this?

This is the sort of painfully anti-male rhetoric that makes actual feminists cringe. I don't identify as one of those -- I think it's more constructive just to make gender-neutral decisions and leave the activism to activists -- but those I know and have known cited people like this as a difficult obstacle to their cause: How are you supposed to engender trust, respect, and understanding, when the people who are most easily identified with your cause are irrational ragemongers?

Misogyny, misogynistic, misogynists. Repeat it long enough and maybe someone will start to feel bad. Don't give in to this crap; it's exactly the kind of prejudice it rails against, except what it's railing against isn't even the right thing, as instead of taking a realistic approach to real issues it has created a fictional monstrosity by blowing real issues out of proportion for the author's own gratification.
Porn pays.
Seems like almost all of this could apply to a male as well. I think the "sales guy" stereotype is just as, if not more, common.
Sure, but I assume this would mean Haskell bindings for Wayland first, which as far as I know don't exist yet.
It is a choice for bisexual people, though, and it doesn't make their same-sex relationships any less valid.

I think the driving force is actual growing gender equality. There is no longer the assumption that "husband" and "wife" are inherently different roles, nor that women are the property of men. When relationships are presumed to be between equals, it no longer matters whether society can easily sort one half of the relationship from the other.
Please strike "public library" from the list of people who keep records for any length of time. This is a topic that libraries have known about for a long time, and most libraries have policies like "privacy of library users is and must be inviolable", and to "destroy [patron records] when no longer needed."

(Technically, "keep" includes "keep until the book is returned", but you mean "keep" in the sense of longer document retention, and I feel it's unfair to lump libraries into the same category as a bank, which has a legal obligation to keep long-term records.)
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It isn't a speech - its a reply to a question.
There are definitely screenshots on the website (http://jonas.nitro.dk/tig/screenshots/)
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Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "
Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"
Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price”

Just negotiate in opposite direction :-)
This is a ridiculous suggestion. The NSA employs an incredible concentration of some of the smartest people in their fields to work on analysis. I am certain they don't outsource their core purpose.
The directive telling intelligence chiefs to draw up cyber target list
Sometimes you can learn a lot from carefully worded denials. They thoroughly denied that their Prism software is related to the Prism program but they did not deny that they sell information gathering software to the government. They most likely do sell information gathering software to the government. Their close relations to intelligence services are well known. But that software is not called Prism.
> "No aliasing when rotating/wobbling windows"

Has anyone ever used those things for more than a single day? I honestly thought the current compositing window managers don't even support that novelty stuff anymore.
I've honestly never really quite recovered from watching the dreams of the cypherpunks die so hideously and completely. I guess it's because the ideas / movement / whatever bubbled up when I was at that age when you think this is going to be the groundswell, my generation is going to cause a fundamental change in the world.

If you're unfamiliar, there was a strong meme in the late eighties through early/mid nineties among a certain set that the perfect storm of public key encryption (still wonderfully unbounded in our minds) and the emerging global network would be a nexus point for personal power in privacy, anonymity and security and in many real ways break down the bonds of the states. It's worth noting that this was about the time that the soviet union fell, and many in the know had gotten a first taste of global presence by hearing about the people in the streets via usenet before it made the news.

It wasn't that I was particularly a hard core believer or activist, at least compared to many I knew. But for those who understood what an immense impact the internet was going to have it seemed to everyone I knew - NSA, hackers, professors, that it was just how it would be. You couldn't hope to spy on pretty much anyone anymore when you could use perfect encryption to scramble a telephone call or an email. Kind of like when you knew everyone was about to have a touch phone.

I was ideologically aligned and mixed in such circles, nerds were still outcasts so not really too big a world, but my life was busy with other things - but I watched from a distance, fascinated with all the ideas and things to come. I'm not sure I've every really been more sure something was going to happen, at least to a very significant degree.

The government was sure too - that was when they came up with CALEA and people got upset but mostly scoffed - there was a real sense that they were just in their death throws.

Things got pretty busy, Internet boom. Company got bought by an agency, every big name anybody needed to be on the Internet yesterday. Was a blast though a bit of a blur - ended up in SF as the whole thing worked itself into a nasty hangover. Can't remember worrying too much about when the cypherpunks were going to win but still knew it had to be coming, err well it's just about adoption.

It really sucks to wake up after a bender and realize that you helped kill the dream that you were just waiting for someone else to make happen.

Working infosec as california recovered put me face to face with reality pretty early in this cycle. Not only was the thing I was so sure of totally not how it went down, with shift from relatively petty financial fraud and wankers to states and srs.bsns abandoning defense to focus solely of offense it's been very hard to square. It's hard to believe many people ever feel so sure about something that turns out so absolutely opposite.

Fuck, at least nobody killed rms.