skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Mushroom cloud" to me basically means "we don't have time to think, because then it will be too late!". In that sense, there is exactly zero difference between Goebbels, Bush and Obama. They just outwardly behave less like total pigs in ascending order, but the rationale is the same. "Finance us, and finance us murdering you and people all over the world, or it will be EVEN WORSE."

The daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador pretending she's a nurse and that Saddams's soldiers are throwing newborns on the floor just because they can, Powell with his slides telling the UN some trailers could be weapons laboratories, and that Saddam must be attacked immediately, it's all the same to me... it's not really about nuclear weapons, whatever works is used.
>Would be thieves? Buying from SilkRoad usually means illicit drug sales (good or bad, it's not legal). So, it makes perfect sense for govt agencies cracking down on such activities to seize what ever assets were used in said exchange -- cash, credit card, bit coins...

This assumes that you accept the premise that a government should be able to steal property, simply because it doesn't like certain kinds of transactions.
A personal favorite is setting a hyper-fast key repeat via terminal:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain KeyRepeat -int 0
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Coders don't make infographics. Graphic designers and marketers do. Infographics are highly customized to their topics and you pretty much need to be an illustrator to make a good one.

I'm confused about how an infographic made through a template would look. Any examples?
I don't think that's true.

Firefox, out of the box, does _not_ use the OSX keychain even on OSX. Sadly. It ought to.
Holy crap, the government was able to figure out how to download and install bitcoin-qt!?! This was NOT on our list of possible scenarios!
Would make your deployment system very OS dependent. All other things being equal, I would generally prefer to have a completely platform agnostic mechanism over something platform specific.
Collection of programming resources without Java?
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Sacrificing everything for my dog. How I became a programmer
Relevant:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/05/think-your-skype-mes...
Steinbeck, Wells, Shaw,Twain

College dropouts.
Still, that does not mean that encryption needs to be dropped (or e2e encryption needs to be dropped, or that MS has your encryption keys).
basic problem solving skills, familiarity with a mainstream language and basic systems knowledge is what I look for in a fresher candidate. I only look through alumni networks and intern forums and shun job portals.
because people do not trust public oversight in the elected government they hand over the oversight to unelected private entities.

Yeah, this sounds like exactly the sort of thing that people would do.
IDEA: Encrypted Email
And it's interesting because when I look back at my career, the things that really boosted my position, gave me career flexibility and got me into some very well paying jobs were all skills I learned in the humanities.

But I must admit, what made me effective once I was in those positions was what I learned in my technical and science education.

I've bounced back and forth from highly technical positions and non-technical positions. Humanities education taught me how to do more than just close out bug reports as a developer, but to see and anticipate the goals the software I was making had. That kind of education helped me see outside of my cube and drive many projects forward and deliver a better piece of software in the end beyond just "accepted because it works as described in the requirements document". In many ways, leading an orchestra with 150 performers in it, synchronized like clockwork, is not much different than leading a team of software developers. You take a complex problem, a score, you break it down into manageable chunks, different groups go off to work on their chunks and you slowly and painstakingly assemble those pieces until you hold a performance/release your software.

But technical education allowed me to see how complex systems work, how to think about them and how to optimize them when I've worked in "softer" fields. I found I could often apply a complex and deep rational thinking to non-technical subjects by simply applying the same kind of thinking process to a problem that you'd have to apply to say, writing code to handle a complex data structure on a constrained system. Science training allowed me to weigh evidence, make hypotheses and rationally test and evaluate them...and to deal with high levels of uncertainty, things that my non-technical peers often struggled with.

I'm of the opinion that education should be highly well-rounded, without excuses. Technical fields should expose people to great survey's of humanities, and humanities students should spend time studying at least the kinds of theoretical logic technical people need to get around.
>I believe that we are going to move away from a lot of traditional ways of doing things pretty soon. For one, obviously centralized servers have to go

This is a pretty bold statement, and I'd like to hear your reasoning for it.

I've always seen that centralized is better than decenteralized, just because its easier. Which is why when we see github go down, some teams can't continue to work even though git itself is decentralized. One click solutions, and decentralized applications tend to not go hand in hand.

I'll agree, if we want to maintain privacy these things will have to be decentralized. However I have a hard time making the case that decentralization will become the defacto standard. Even the web has a psuedo-central hub - DNS.
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Infographics are increasingly made by software people like Ben Fry. The NYT has a whole team dedicated to these sorts of graphics.
This is all good but the biggest thing right now is that there is no coordinated effort to build a system that's easy to use, secure, and open source.

Everyone can spend their time working on their own solution but no one would use it as everyone's work will be incompatible with each other. This means no one (or rather, not enough people) will use any solutions that are developed and revert back to something like Skype, FB message, etc.

I think what we need is to establish a foundation that coordinates the development efforts for these secure and reliable software packages with a few centralized projects that become a standard (here's hope for WebRTC).
You make a great point about the economic realities of pursuing a degree in english, and even worse-so a graduate or PhD.

My takeaway from the piece, however, was that teaching the ability to communicate (writing), is in decline. Both universities and students have devalued the value of learning to write, as it's payoffs are not as great as other majors (though, political science and economics aren't exactly a guaranteed job upon graduation, not in this economy anyway). I see this deficiency constantly in engineering and computer science, and I have little doubt that other industries suffer the same problem.

I'm comfortable saying that most problems that we encounter in engineering are communication problems. Sure, there is the occasional really hard engineering problem (see: getprismatic.com). But most of what I and my peers encounter are not problems requiring major engineering feats, they're problems of human communication.

Thanks again for your thoughtful comment that lays out the harsh economic realities of pursuing english as a course of study. Still, we humans have much to gain in the effectiveness with which we communicate with one another.
Maybe I am understanding the system wrong.. but can you explain how it is good for privacy when Microsoft can decrypt your messages (They acknowledged that by saying they can do spam filtering and link blocking).

I am unaware of a way to ensure privacy but still have a third party have the ability to read your messages. However, I'm open to ideas.
is this not basic metabolism regulation? really dont know kind of always assumed this just worked in living things
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Does it mean fifty different things, though? I'd say its definition is pretty precise.

I didn't realize that anyone still used the word, let alone that there was a category, "the kind of person who says 'philistine'". It reminds me of Louis CK's thing about people who say "People from Phoenix are called 'Phoenicians'". Not a category one would knowingly step into!
A Philistine is an anti-intellectual or a non-intellectual -- a person with a materialistic frame of mind, lacking the education, intelligence, or will to focus on ideas rather than things. To suggest that a Philistine is a person who is ignorant strictly of "philosophy, art, history, or discourse" is to ignore that, when the term came about, those subjects were a huge part of every curriculum. We've moved on since then and have expanded and re-categorized our domains of knowledge.

A technology-oriented education certainly doesn't imply any kind of Philistinism, despite the lack of nuance in your understanding of the term.
What I want to know: Why can't these phones use plastic screens? Good acrylic is more clear than glass, lighter, safer, more durable. I wouldn't be shocked if iPhones were designed to shatter easily.

I'm seriously thinking of switching back to my ancient Blackberry: plastic screen that doesn't crack, battery lasts a week, make calls by pressing one button, I can turn it off and on easily...
Not sure I understand exactly but I'll take a stab at answering.

For us, the API needs to simply abstract how and where data is stored. The same API works for any supported storage service.

We've open source large parts of our code and that falls under the "stewardship" banner. We act as a broker but make it as simple as possible if you want to be the broker yourself.
Your definition of a good English course sounds more or less identical to a Philosophy course.
IME, I was pushed into the 5-paragraph form more during primary education; in secondary school, there were no such requirements. (That might be a consequence of having been moved into AP classes; I never looked into what regular English did.) I think this was a good thing, since I was forced to learn to support my claims and look at them structurally.

The issue is that "English" is a non-subject. In early education, it's about literacy: being able to read and write at all. As you advance, it becomes about logic: being able to coherently express your substantiated view. And then, at the end, it becomes about literature: using deeper historical contexts to analyze a work deeply and interestingly.

These are each vastly different subjects, but we call them all "English". Which is silly. We have other words. People with English degrees should know that.
Common Lisp was designed to be backwards compatible with Maclisp. Maclisp was developed from McCarthy's LISP.

Clozure OTOH is compatible with nothing.
The statement said Hong Kong had informed the U.S. of Snowden's departure. It added that it wanted more information about alleged hacking of computer systems in Hong Kong by U.S. government agencies which Snowden had revealed.

--right now snowden is looking like a pimp
Here are the comments from the last time this appeared on HN a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2436198
A question also comes on why humans have three color channels. Or more generally, why is the number of cones relatively small (some species have more than three).

While I cannot find the reference, some researchers recorded full visible-range spectrum for a very large number of naturally occurring objects. Then they performed principle components analysis of these spectra and found that for naturally occurring reflection spectra, nearly all signal energy is recovered with a small number of independent components like three or four. In other words, the spectra of naturally occurring materials does not vary as widely as it could to exercise the full Hilbert space available. A downside of having a larger number of cones is of course that the percentage area available to each cone will be less, so a higher density of cells would be needed to maintain the resolution and color perception under dark will suffer more. The nature then has chosen a near optimal number of cone types for vision.

One issue I had discovered with the above study was that it was possibly cyclic. The database of spectra they used did not had too many samples of (different) objects with the same apparent colors since the latter was collected primarily to count the number of human-distinguishable colors occurring naturally in nature.

If the number of primary colors visible to humans were significantly larger, I can on the very least say that TVs and printers would have been significantly different than what they are, if at all they would have been practical.

The above however does not answer the question of the electromagnetic radiation frequency span sensed by the eyes. In other words, why is the visible range not wider than what it is. Again, some animals do have a wider range. Had the visible range been wider, it may have required a larger number of primary colors to cover the expanded Hilbert space. What a physicist once told me is that the range of frequencies that are visible to humans and animals correlates very well to the frequency range under which water is transparent. See [1]. This according to him offers a solid indication that life originated in water.

A few more interesting thoughts:

1. Figure out what determines the shape of the locus of the spectrum (monochromatic) colors on the color chart [2]. It is an interesting exercise to derive this locus from the measurements of the spectral responses of the three cone types. Note that the outer boundary of the color chart has a straight line bottom with purple to magenta in the middle. While the non-straight boundaries span monochromatic colors, the colors on the straight edge at the bottom cannot be monochromatic. Figure out why.

2. A question comes if the spectral responses of the cones could have been such that the above locus would have concavities. I am not sure of the answer, though am sure colors outside of the locus but within its convex hull would still have been visible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Absorption_spectrum_of_liq...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cie_Chart_with_sRGB_gamut_...
For any phone I would recommend buying the digitizer/lcd combined. It's such a pain to separate the two (on phones where it's even possible) and only slightly more expensive.
Even just setting START TLS REQUIRED might solve your spam problem, as long as only a tiny minority of people did it. That would have the added benefit of protecting you from Yahoo Mail users, the FBI, and such.

At this point, I'd consider NOT using START TLS for your MTA to be nearly as irresponsible as not using ssh instead of telnet/rsh, or not using secure passwords. It correctly pushes all the pain onto the sysadmin (and a very tiny amount of pain), rather than end users.
No, it's the alternate universe HN that would be literature-based.

This one is loosely oriented around topics such as general interest, startup-financing, and social/political dealings, with the fans of each occasionally arguing that the others don't belong.
I wonder what's going on..
And yet the classical/baroque/renaissance art museums are packed to the gills full of tourists who just sqeaked in after a 3 hour wait in line, while the modern art museums, while not empty, are certainly not trying to fend off the crowds.

Nothing can prepare you for the press of people even in the off-season clamoring to get into the Uffizi -- who's main claims to fame are:

1) being the main museum in Florence

2) a forgettable Michelangelo

3) one stiff da Vinci and one musky da Vinci, both forgettable.

but while there you might turn a corner and see something like this http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Piero_di_...

which would be just at home in a surrealist installation at the MoMA as in the Uffizi.

But I do have to agree, the never ending pictures of punctured saints with long faces, Madonna and Child's and Crucifixes does get tiresome. At least there's always Caravaggio to make things interesting for the modern audience.
I'm curious how you'll feel about this comment in ten years.
Paysey - The BitCoin Credit Card
Microsoft Caters to Betas & Teens in Entry to Bug Bounty Market
So India should take orders from Beijing?

China Said to Have Made Call to Let Leaker Depart
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/world/asia/china-said-to-h...
Looks like just misconfigured web server. www.nsa.gov works fine vs. nsa.gov times out.

Edit: www goes to an Akamai CDN vs bare domain goes to a straight IP address.
Or some maintenance ?
Watch out, the donate link in the article (and the one in the header of their website) doesn't use SSL. You can manually type in https and it works.
I hate it when people do this. Can we just pretend www doesn't exist anymore?
anyone feels competent to compare Spark vs Akka and other similar frameworks/solutions ?
IOS 7 might be the death of Apple
I assume some one is DDoSing them or hacking them or it might just be maintenance.
I am amazed at how a minor RC release of this framework gets voted to the front page every couple of weeks. Whoever is making it happen has some serious HN-foo, or knows how to avoid tripping the voting ring detector.
Indeed. Throw-away society, bad for the environment.

Not sure why you are getting downvoted.
They probably need the CPU cycles somewhere else. Maybe a lot of calls going on right now...
I'm curious... I understand that the Microsoft servers are functioning as supernodes now.

But when one computer calls another, and neither are behind NAT/firewall/etc., is the actual audio stream going directly between computers, or are they both sending the actual audio to/from the Microsoft servers?

Obviously Microsoft could choose to redirect it through their servers whenever desired, but I assume that audio communication is still direct, whenever possible?
Docking and berthing of spacecraft
Goodness, yes.

My academic background is a mix of humanities and third-rate engineering (history and economics, hah).

I find that even at high levels in undergrad history, there's little sense that arguments don't have to-- and usually don't!-- adhere to the 5-7 paragraph template/bullshit one's often taught in secondary school.

I used to tutor a fair bit, and weaning people off that stilted and artificial convention became one of my preoccupations.

Now that I'm done bloviating, an interesting historical analogue: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-legged_essay
This is one of our top priorities and we're hoping to have it fixed by the next release.

While I don't know all the subtleties of your use case, I've found that by simply swapping your IDs with class selectors this hasn't been a problem either for Selenium or for CSS. It's pretty straightforward to convert an existing codebase with codemod: https://github.com/facebook/codemod

If you're still curious about React, feel free to drop us a line at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/reactjs with any questions or concerns you might have. Thanks for giving React a shot.
No, it doesn't just mean anti-intellectual. It's specifically about culture, and has always included the inability to appreciate (or hostility toward) the values conveyed by art and literature. You don't get to change what words mean, and as someone who just accused me of unduly criticizing others, you might want to avoid personal insults for a spell.
It is all of those things; different facets of the same gem.
If it's DDOS (or even if it's not), what insignificance. Does anyone think anything important runs off of their public website?

https://xkcd.com/932/
http://www.nsa.gov/ works fine
You're mostly talking about what's basically a phishing attack, right?

I'm not really sure there is really any defense yet devised for phishing attacks against 'average non-power users.'

I'm not disputing you though, I think it is a problem. But unrelated to how securely a given app stores sensitive info, which is what OP is about.
If it's a DDoS attack, reminds me of this xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/932/
Servers with archaic configurations are quite difficult to change like that. Besides, I can reasonably assume the NSA, like most major government agencies, uses some wonky, overly complicated rats' nest of a CMS that croaks with/out the www.
Just to be clear, you're mocking someone as a tin foil hat type conspiracy theorist for implying the government and facebook have employees who work together to share information...

Sarcasm?
Xubuntu 30-Day Challenge
The New Face of CyanogenMod.org
Flowcharts are a great documentation and vizualization tool, if used properly it greatly reduce time required to understand system processes and behaviour.
NASA is also configured this way. It drives me nuts because half the time when I want to visit NASA's site I type `nasa.gov` and get nothing until I remember they need the `www.`. It might just be common to how some government sites are configured.

Clickable links:

http://nasa.gov/

http://www.nasa.gov/
It is trivially proved to be non-anonymous. Pseudonymous, yes, but not anonymous.
You're assuming a lot here. A lot of intelligent people are told at a young age that college is an answer to their life aspirations. Just college. Not college and smart decisions about what to study and what habits to form and who to make friends with and what to do in the years in between. College. That's it. As a culture, we've told young people that.

That's what I was told at least. I went to liberal arts school and studied psychology and I had no idea what would be necessary to get a job after graduation. In fact I assumed since I was in college and all these smart interesting adults around me seemed to think studying psychology or English was a normal decision that I wouldn't have to worry about practical things like finding a job afterwards because I was at a good college and after a good college those sort of things fall into place. Fortunately for me I am resourceful and patient with the idea that my education taught me to think and communicate well and that practical skills are things you can acquire on your own time and hard work.

But a lot of teenagers are told college alone is an answer. And young people are naive. It is a problem with how we guide young people through their lives not a problem with them not understanding the world.
I'm curious, why the https? Muscle memory?
AngularJS. Just wanted to be the first to mention it on this week's Ember.js thread.
The problem I've always had with this is that DNS root levels (., no www) can't be a CNAME - unless there are any DNS gurus in the audience that can point to some alternate configuration I've overlooked.
We force the www. at work because of DNS limitations.
Imagine what will happen when it hits 1.0 final!
Xkcd, ironically, has an even more common hiccup with domains. Notice the https:// . This makes every style and background stuff break on browsers that enforce HTTPS consistency because these are served from "imgs" subdomain, which doesn't have SSL and/or has a hard coded http:// in the template.
Sensationalist title. You could also argue that physics performs sophisticated calculus every moment to determine exactly where it should place your moving vehicle.

Math was created to model the world - it does not create the world itself.