skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you ever looked at what rape is in REAL life ? It's something done massively by men and a huge proportions of rapes are by men on women. Words don't exist in a vacuum. Rape is not some vaporous ethereal concept.
Am I the only one who had to google the "docking problem"? I've been programming for over 30 years, and not once have I had to model the quaternary structure of complexes formed by two or more interacting biological macromolecules (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macromolecular_docking).
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Is being maried and having kids a specific French problem? I don't and that's part of the trick, you can't blame the country or whatever when you consciously took decisions that might hinder your bottom line. And being maried with kids is very uncommon for a young talented developer in this country, we get married and have kids later in life than in the US. That's the post i was answering to. For famillies there are other stuff to funel state money to their pockets.
Most female players I come across in online games are bad. I met one really good player once, and she was a CAL counter-strike player.

It may be that I've played with more women than I know, but those with girly names tend to be awful. I'd probably give the boot too if I was playing Gold on ME3.
You make a good point.

The only problems I can see is that the two lines will very quickly become "pink or ponies for girls" and "dark or soldiers for boys". Whether that's actually a problem or not is for other people to decide.

There's another small problem with quality of testing - there's some possibility of confounding factors in the research.

Both of these come down to "do boys and girls actually prefer different toys, or do they get conditioned by society to like different toys?"
It's all clear now, prism is German project. There are also theories that NSA could potentially be German project also. Nazis.
But if it's guy -> guy remarks it's probably difficult to be "sexist" though I guess that is a semantic argument.

Though if the insults are gender neutral "lol noob scrub" then I guess it might be unfair to expect preferential treatment because of gender.
First off, you should be really thankful that you have your living situation figured out already. I moved to the Bay Area myself many years ago, without fully realizing what a pain it is. I'd say finding a place to rent was about 70 percent of the hassle.

Second, you should have plenty of options to communicate with your loved ones back home: skype, google hangouts, instant messaging, and so on.

So I would say, just do it, and hope for the best. Making a big change like this almost can't help but broaden your horizons.
Note that this should be read as a companion piece to this HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5768570.
How can anything on android be anonymous?
It does sound harmless, which is why it's the Orwell-approved nomenclature. In fifty years it won't sound at all harmless, and there will be a new euphemism.

"Attack destination" made me smile. The English word destination doesn't work like that, but maybe it should.
> I could drive to Boston, but what's the point: the Boston group is only predicting an attendance of 40

This defeatist attitude is why the predicted attendance is so low.
EU is also spying on US, it just hasnt turned into a scandal yet.

Its not out of malice or intent to hurt the other party, its just pure power, information is power. Who knows most at the negotiating table wins.
With all the news reporters in that specific transit zone, and after so many days, I find it hard to believe that nobody wasn't even able to see him. My best guess is that he acquired a fake passport/ID and is free somewhere in Russia or elsewhere.

I doubt he can hide that well in such a small airport transit zone, especially from news reporters that are well trained at spotting celebrities in large outdoor spaces - never mind airport transit zones.
Thanks for the reply. Cool, you are right then, I dug into it too much. Sorry for the confusion. It's still a cool product.
I think it's _hugely_ unlikely that the NSA has a way to break something like AES-256. Advances in crypto of that magnitude don't come out of nowhere, and there's not even a hint of how you would do that on the radar.

That being said... A focused attack by the US Government is a treat model that you just can't protect against (and still use any sort of modern technology). You can use all the encryption you want... They're gonna drop rootkits on your devices, bug your house and car, compromise your associates, etc... The fact that there have been some cases where encryption prevented an 'easy' wiretap, it doesn't mean they weren't able to get the information through some other means.
Is access of such publicly available information by a military/government employee on an Internet connection they're personally paying for, using a device they personally own (such as on a home PC), also not allowed?
NSA slides explain Prism data collection
You're not wrong. Our current ruling party has never been actually opposed to surveillance and is not really strong on privacy (to say the least). However, I think besides collecting cheap points with the German public, there is another factor behind this "stomping of tiny feet" as you call it:

Germany is somewhat of an economic powerhouse, but paradoxically radical innovation is culturally frowned-upon. This means that German tech is usually not ground-breaking but incrementally-improved-to-death (by heavyweight scientists with a lot of clout). Since there is reason to believe that a large part of all this spying is simply industrial espionage on behalf of big US companies, I believe the German government is afraid the local industry will quickly lose even more ground than it already has. Since innovation in this country doesn't move very fast, the damage would be long-lasting and potentially devastating.
Poor woman.

Lets make a list of all the journalists that are a link between Wikileaks/Manning/Snowden and a journal, then we can look back 5, 10 years from now to see in what accident they each died.
der Spiegel is one of the major German news publications and it has an English site:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/search/index.html?suchbe...

but it might be a couple days behind.
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I have no shame in saying that the MySQLgame was definitely part of the inspiration for the Schemaverse, my own little SQL project.

There are some main platform differences, as many have pointed out, but those who like one of the other generally fit into one of these two reasons:

1) Botting/AI vs Human Interaction only - When people started writing bots to play MySQLGame, others seemed to get furious. If you want to do well in the Schemaverse, you likely have to write some form of AI at some point, either in SQL or any other platform you wish.

2) Story vs no Story - People who like MySQLgame really appreciate the fact that the story is simply the numbers. I think that does make for a pretty unique game on its own, even outside of the SQL aspect of things. The Schemaverse is a space battle.

Shameless plug, if SQL games interest you and you will be at DEFCON 21 in Las Vegas this year, there will be another Schemaverse championship. Start getting ready now and it will take up very little of your conference time but you could win some great prizes and sweet sweet SQL game street-cred. https://forum.defcon.org/forumdisplay.php?f=690 for more information
This is a cute hack.
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not right now but we are working on it. Would you be interested by this feature?
From the last slide it appears M$ pretty much volunteered first, ahead of everybody else.
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavored to subdue us, is of all others the most improper to defend us.

This quote has always been a favorite of mine. It's from an argument made by loyalists (to Britain) and others who wish to stay out of a conflict (with Britain) Sudbury the commonly perceived protection afforded the populace in North America by the British Navy.
You are operating under the assumption that our politicians didn't know about this before. There's a really really low chance this is true.

It's much more plausible that everyone has been spying on everyone else and countries with restrictions regarding spying on their own citizens have backroom deals to get access to intelligence via other nations.

To give an example how tight the relations are between the US and Germany, start reading how our secret service came to be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehlen_Organization
> The only problems I can see is that the two lines will very quickly become "pink or ponies for girls" and "dark or soldiers for boys.

Just so I'm clear, I'm entirely against this.

What I /do/ support is one set of city-scape sets that focus on internal details and the characters involved, and a second that focuses on the building and external set details.

I think that this hits a legitimate play-style difference that happens to be mostly, but isn't entirely, along gender lines.

I'm against the knee-jerk reaction that we're absolutely equal, and everyone gets the same!

We accept, routinely, that there are behavioral differences that are statistically significant (because of genetics, exposure in the womb, hormones, etc) within a gender, but there seems to be a class of people who categorically insist that there is no such trend between genders.

This isn't to say every little girl wants to play the same way, but that there are statistical biases to the genders which might be intrinsic, not societal constructs.

"Equal before the law" and "equal member of society" does not mean "the same in every way", and trying to enforce the last of these can be harmful rather than helpful.
There is a very good chance that an email server running on a "home" IP address block of any of the major ISPs will be blacklisted.
The politicians themselves aren't listening - and by being a surveillance target, you've already been othered to the point that your viewpoint will simply be taken as a sign you're untrustworthy and a dangerous element.

It would be nice if the politicians were required to hear complaints, but that only works if you're rich enough to make a difference in the Game.
You know, you can think that but, ITER, concorde, ariane, Airbus, M51, part of LHC, some air carriers are created partly here. It's not startuppy at all, but I would not say nothing happens. There is some kind of state driven innovation. I don't like it but it exists and gets shit done.
Why make it so hard? Why not just install virtualmin [0] on a Debian (or whatever Linux you prefer) server and get it over with. You also get web hosting, DB hosting, mailing lists, webmail and more as a bonus. And you don't have to worry about security updates. Just install and create your virtual host, and modify DNS for your domain. Couldn't be easier. Oh, and it's completely free.

[0] http://www.virtualmin.com
Neat, but practically who would want to do this with an API rather than installable software?
The Pirate party in Germany has become such a sad display of juvenile trolling, aggressive genderism and political incompetence that I doubt their numbers will increase.
Here's the link to archive.org version:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130630002034/http://www.guardia...

It states "This article has been taken down pending an investigation."

Here's the 404 from the next day:
http://web.archive.org/web/20130629225229/http://www.guardia...
I wanted to get into that as well, but ran out of brainpower. This is supposedly the revision that fixes the bug:

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-...

Would love to hear your conclusions about what the ultimate cause was if you get that far.
All of those are not just real possibilities, but you should be surprised if that isnt the case. Israel has access to NSA data.

USSR bugged the US embassy in Moscow for decades, using a laser.

A few years back, EU found the Parliament building was bugged, surprisingly the buggs where not installed after construction, but during, by US, somehow the construction guys were involved. The entire building was surveilled at all times. If you google it will appear, but if my memory serves this is from earlier than 2010.
Perhaps one should translate to American: The Greens are the liberals in German politics, the FDP is the free market party, which results in a mix of libertarian and crony capitalist politics. (Similar to the pro business wing of the republicans.)
No, the predicted attendance is low because no one has heard about this.

Only organizing among Redditors, not bothering to reach out to people with more experience organizing protests, and not partnering with affiliated organizations (Tea Party, Occupy, various student groups) who might all come together to rally around this is why predicted attendance is so low.

Update: Added first sentence to emphasize point.
What you may be missing is the difference in length between:

Create a file ~/bin/phplint
Type out the shebang
Copy the command from the terminal into the file
Save the file
chmod +x the file

And:

type #phplint

I'm sure Mr Venkat wouldn't claim that he has rendered script directories overnight. But he has come up with a way to make your shell history a little more usable.

I observe that people vary a lot in how hard they lean on their history. I live and die by mine; it serves as a combination of replacement short-term memory and treasury of tricks. Some of my colleagues don't really use it at all, using scripts or aliases, or even just retyping commands every time, like savages. If you're not a heavy user of history, then this idea won't help you. If you are, it might.
I think a lot of that crap is missing language features. If java 1.0 let you pass around functions at least as well as c# then many of those patterns would not have been worth talking about.
What if the intent of these "leaks" was less (inform the public) and more (instil fear for the chilling effects?) It seems that every day we see stories about the govt or police getting away with this or that but the population never does anything about it. Pretty soon everyone is desensitized to it and a couple of weeks later everyone is joking about the whole thing by making memes about the NSA listening to this or that.
Call me behind the times, but I like the fact you can DL a virtual appliance, and have it working in 10 mins flat.
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Surely, the racism part is. But since race isn't announced through the name tag, I imagine it's less prevalent.
Does someone keep the raw materials somewhere (the slides and others non-article stuffs) a la wikileaks?
I find it confusing to call this kind of attack "SQL injection", as it is much better described by "privilege escalation", isn't it?
Its nice that at least something happens, but the German Supreme Prosecution Service is not independent from the government as the supreme court is. So if the German government is involved somehow its only eyewash for the crowd and nothing will happen.

At least more media coverage, that is good for mobilizing more people to protest against it.
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I personally find it problematic that such an infrastructure is set up, because it can be used for industrial espionage (which is also a matter of national security). So anyway, I don't trust :) But my point was just that if the NSA has these surveillance programs all over the world, it should not surprise Germany that they are under stronger observation by them than for example the UK, which operates a CCTV surveillance state and shares all its data with the US.
I don't know what "vanilla" OSX ships with, but I've seen references to Rails pop up in logs in Console.app for my OSX Server when I was screwing with replacing their Postgres db with my own.
I love Schemaverse! I love showing it to people and watching their reactions. I've actually thought about doing a little presentation on it at a meetup next month. Thanks for the adding some awesomeness to postgres.
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Defacing public cones... The guy wasn't exactly PAYING for the orange cones he was using.

Consider if every road project has to pay an extra $1000 for lost cones it becomes a police problem quickly and they crack the whip hard.
I have some questions:

1. Why return an array of texts? Where do the texts get split up? At page boundaries? Column boundaries? At the end of each line? If a line is interrupted by a corner of an image and continues a couple of inches afterward, does it get treated as a separate text? (I once used a PDF->text extractor program that spit out every word sepearately, often in an incorrect order. That probably had to do with how the PDF was organized internally.)

2. "The PDF file should be smaller than 1 Mbit" -> You mean 1 megabyte, right? Because 1 megabit is only 125-128 kilobytes.
Are you using NodeJs for the cron jobs too? (I am assuming you have cron jobs running to fetch feeds periodically).

Edit: I looked and it seems you are fetching the feeds on-the-fly.
Not the IRA and ETA ?
Senator Feingold speaking in US Senate against Patriot Act (Video) (2001)
It is not working and says invalid feed even though the address is correct and works with all other readers.
Protip: Always name your ships with malicious attack code. If nothing else, at least you'll look like an Internet badass.
"Its the economy stupid." Industrial espionage. Innovation that can be copied.
Every "gender issues" thread on HN seems to attract new accounts that are here only for gender issues.

Or we have a great many people placing an enormous value on their HN karma score.
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All of that spending took a downward turn somewhere in the 80s & 90s. As a consequence students must bear the vast majority of the cost of their university education starting somewhere in the 00s.

As a percentage of the total, yes, but I wrote this in another comment a few days ago:

Why Does College Cost So Much? is the most comprehensive treatment of the issue I've seen, and it argues that the main driver of college costs is Baumol's Cost Disease.

Universities like the University of Washington are also in a spending arms race: universities are increasing their per-student spending, even in the face of falling state spending: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/06/04/public_univer...

Universities are in something of a prestige arms race, and that arms race is in part being enabled by subsidized loans that can't be discharged in bankruptcy. It's not clear that greater support from states would change this basic dynamic.
I had always assumed this was to encourage parents to buy different versions of the same toy, instead of having their kids share one.
Some languages do have indeed good enough librairies to do that, some don't. Moreover, they are quite slow and not always really easy to integrate.
I think both the Guardian and Washington Post have them. Greenwald said before he had thousands of pages he wanted to analyze before posting more. It's better to do it this way, than post all in bulk. The latest WP article already seemed a bit overwhelming.
lol. This is going to be a hard habit to kill. But I am a grammar-nazi :). I found this http://www.kentlaw.edu/academics/lrw/grinker/LwtaEllipses.ht...
Now my (naive?) hopes are a tiny bit higher that the American espionage suspects will get extradited from USA to Germany to face charges and possible punishments.

Edit: has such action EVER taken place?
+1 to the rosetta stone. I'd love to see more libraries including something like that.
I find it much more likely that the lack of interest/poor organizing is why rather than a few skeptics on the internet. Their Twitter page has less than a thousand followers, their Facebook page has just over 2,000 likes. You can argue the people involved don't want to use social media, but the reality is no one is hearing the message besides a couple hundred insiders talking amongst themselves. It is hard to quash a movement with defeatists when there is no movement.
1. That's indeed dependant on the way the PDF has been created. Sometimes, you can even have letter splitted on different text token.

2. You're right, I mean Megabyte
It depends on how large your shell history is. I often have useful commands scrolled out of my history just because I got busy doing something orthogonal that involved a lot of shell commands.
Ask HN: How many of you will be impacted by a BART strike?
I'm wondering if any of you Bay Area folk take BART or other public transit, and your thoughts on the upcoming strike?
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There's an other issue: one can question the quality of judgment of the paper's editorial office.

Their primary source apparently is not the most reliable, and figuring that out is not hard. They either did not know that, which would be bad, or they knew and ignored it, which would be bad, too. The third option 'they knew, but had a secondary source confirm it' seems highly unlikely as the article doesn't mention it. Also, if they had conformation, why would they have to retract it?

And yes, one can read a conspiracy theory behind the phrase "Madsen, who has been attacked for holding controversial views on espionage issues". I don't think that is enough for a respected paper to justify publication of this article.
Because if the general public was doing it 50% or better would be squished. Public employees have to clean your guts up off the pavement each time it happens. It's not "victimless" after the same old guy has scrapped 30 people off the bridge and has mental health issues.
Then it's not a negotiation between friends interested in mutual growth.

I agree information is power. But there are limits to power. Trust also matters.
Yes.

EDIT: BTW, I think your question actually answers itself. That is, the reason there is such a proliferation of MVC frameworks is that they largely have been found lacking, so someone sets out to create another (presumably simpler) one. Simplification is almost always the motivation.

Likewise with Grails and others that run atop the JVM (which frequently even encourage adoption of completely different languages).

All of these are testament to the dearth of a clean, simple, elegant Java web framework.
The phplint example isn't a great one. If you use phplint enough you should either:

1) Create a generic shell script as others have stated.

2) Create a Makefile for your projects with a 'lint' target. If you create many different PHP projects, consider a project template directory with a Makefile that already has this, so that every new project automatically has the functionality:

make lint

This idea has been around though. I can't recall if I've seen tagging used before, but saving an unexecuted commandline in the shell history by commenting it out is another useful hack that's been around a while.
I've recently been working on extracting text from PDFs myself. I've found that `pdftohtml -xml` from the Poppler utils does a decent job of it, and includes a bounding box for each piece of text. I've submitted a few patches to their Bugzilla to also include the transformation matrix as well as some extra styling information.
Maintaining some privacy in spite of the NSA’s PRISM program
I tend to feel the same way. My plan is to make it reasonably affordable - maybe $10 per month. I want to make enough money to make it worthwhile for me to maintain it and improve it.