skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
end users of the State Dept. (i.e. taxpayers

Given that the State Department is the authority that issues visas for travel to the US, operates embassies and so on, a lot of the end users are not taxpayers.
It's better to drink milkshakes.
It's not a matter of the browser features anymore, but rather the company behind it. Say we all switch back to IE11 tomorrow... I am pretty sure Microsoft will abuse its power just like they did during IE6 era.
Github... a bit abstract but I'd like to jump in.
I think the difference is in degrees of independence. That's obviously way too subjective (and would become political), but my point is that a small independent island nation is more independent than NYC, which is obviously 'just' a big city in the USA. NYC is served completely by .us or .com which anecdotally seems to be used heavily within the USA, while generic small island nation isn't served by any tld sufficiently.
Yeah, but the thing is, governments -- and individuals within governments -- don't have to be super secret ninjas. They can be heavy handed and get away with it because they've got power and you don't.

The US sent helicopters full of Navy Seals into a foreign country, supposedly an ally, without their permission to kill someone, and then went on TV the next day to brag about it. George W Bush threw hundreds of people into a not-very-secret off-shore prison and then tortured them for a few years and no one did a damn thing about it. When Bradley Manning leaked diplomatic cables, we threw him in a prison and tortured him for a year or three, depending on how you count.

Governments don't have to come in the night and fake your accidental death. They can come for you in broad daylight and beat you to death in the street and no one will stop them.
Lodsys is simply despicable.
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I got it but I also remember a time when people purposely restrained from turning the comment section into a joke fest. It's simple when I want to write and read silly stuff I go on reddit and when I want a serious discussion I come here.
In all honesty, I would recommend getting professional help if the issue has become so serious that you're afraid of losing control. There is a stigma against going to therapy, which is unfortunate since refusing to go see a therapist when you're emotionally unhealthy is the equivalent of not going to a doctor when you're physically ill. You can live without the help for a while, but it will become quite hazardous to your health if you don't resolve it.

I have had anger issues, although I never had rage episodes. It sounds to me that something in your life triggered this event, and that trigger may have reminded you of an earlier event in your life in which your response was to suppress your anger and hurt. This is just my guess though, but I would highly recommend you go to a therapist or even call a help line to talk things out.
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It's easy to assume "conspiracy" for everything. Heck, Senator Mark Udall's brother (one of the most-outspoken Senators with the NSA story) has gone missing. You could call that a conspiracy - but it doesn't make it any more true.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/07/01/mark-...
Yea, having pure conspiracy theories as the top headline on HN is a little embarrassing.
Jeez, take a break. No need to swear. I did google it but couldn't find much.
Apple Should Be Ashamed of Itself
OK. I was wrong. I apologize.
> its faster than a Mustang GT from the 90's

What?
I would start with a provisioning process that isn't completely opaque about such things.
The app was free, so the motivation was literally an arms race I'd guess.
While the security granted by this may be imperfect, "no real security" seems like a bit of a stretch. This eliminates the main pathways by which governments obtain access to email (subpoena of the service provider and straightforward interception of the mail as it is transmitted). Combine that with a webmail service like Gmail where the company providing it has a very real incentive to prevent code injection, and with browser vendors being exceptionally fast at finding and patching exploits, and it's hard to say that this isn't far better than nothing at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov#Assassination

Note the umbrella in my other reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5981867

There is no such thing as a coincidence.
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Mental health professionals saved my life. Do you have any experience with professional help? Are you comfortable repeating what you said here, but with a counselor / psychologist?

Maybe feel a little bit of pride, because you are emotionally aware of dangers of causing harm to yourself and or others, and care enough to ask for help.

Help to share and solve your emotional state, is exactly what you need to ask for, so I feel glad you asked HN as a comfortable place to start.
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Get over yourself, seriously.

I say "some are speculating" because there are a bunch on Reddit, I.e. some people, who I do not know personally, and have handles as opposed to real-names, so I cannot say "Bill, John and Mary speculate"

So, as I am not using the weasel word in the way you describe (as if I were to say "a source close to the crash victim") -- the terminology is still valid in common dialogue.
It used to have ftp and gopher support as well...
Really interesting. Thanks for the link.
And suddenly the conspiracy theorists are wondering if Taylorious works for the NSA ;)

Your points are well organized and I tend to agree (especially that there would be an easier way to get rid of him), but I don't think you'll stop those that see a conspiracy around every corner.

I tend to see our government (today) as a very mismanaged large corporation. There are people over-reaching and those above them are trying to hide the damage and spin the conversation.
Flights from almost all airports Google flights doesn't even supprot some of the major international hubs, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong all not available.
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I think your point is one that almost sounds deep, but actually isn't. Just because some people say not to read much into something big, doesn't mean that everything else (unrelated things) all now need to have stuff read into. Much the same as just because somebody uses the words "that's a good idea", maybe about the idea of watching a TV show for example, your immediate response doesn't have to be "A good idea? That's exactly what they said about killing Jews in 1940s Germany."
Ask HN: Why aren't we using paired keys instead of passwords for authentication?
I don't know why we don't have paired key support built into browsers, and extensions built for major web languages.

For users, it may seem similar to OpenID (sign in with google/facebook/twitter, etc.) but the public key could be provided automatically by the browser.

Of course, there may be portability issues, but with the availability and prevalence of smart phones, tablets, etc. and with the increasingly common "browser sync", I'm sure that could be easily dealt with.

So if anyone is working on this, where are they, and if not, why not?
I wish they had used an interchangeable faceplate system. Then I could remove the black face and paint it any color I wanted.
The Portuguese authorities allowed ~150 CIA flights carrying "al-quaeda sympathizers" to Guantanamo (and other places) [1].

Now they deny right-of-passage to a flight carrying the president of Bolivia. Because? Well, you know, doing otherwise would upset the American authorities. It's realpolitik.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition#Portug...
Joyent Manta
It's quite remarkable how thoroughly you have tried to refute my simple statement of a possible alternate scenario, while simultaneously propping up the alternative (and just as baseless) theory, loading your post with a delightful collection of emotive words.

We're all mostly adults here. We can rationally discuss that there are many possible scenarios. This is not and will hopefully never be a site where people who try to create a reality in their own perception dominate.
Wow. I think the amazing thing with this whole Google Reader fiasco is not the death of a single product, but rather the apparently systematic destruction of any remaining bastions of trust that the technologically inclined have in Google as a whole.
Realize that Google uses a lot of caching to make this fast; the prices are actually pretty stale. The more up to date the information the slower accessing it is. Generating flight itineraries and prices with near realtime availability (especially for today and tomorrow) is incredibly difficult to do. The less often you do it the faster the result can be. Since Google isn't a seller of seats they also avoid all the crap the DOT requires on disclosure and accuracy. I only wish it was possible to do real-time this fast.
With the right band it could be very fashionable - kind of art-deco.
Let me spell it out for you:

Sneaking around reading people's online history, then using that information to draw unwarranted conclusions about their character, is rude. Stop it.

Meanwhile, it is obvious that the person you're responding to posted the same link in two different threads because... there's multiple threads on HN which are discussing the same issue. This happens all the time.
I didn't think I had to clarify that a nonprofit taking donations in USD would count as money transmittal since that would apply to all nonprofits accepting donations. But I take your point, my statement was all-encompassing.
I find it hard to fault any organization for trying social media in 2012. In fact, I think it's actually worse for the head of marketing at any organization to not spend any money on social marketing and stick to just traditional media. Or at least have a good reason to have avoided it.

Failed to get the right audience? Lack of clear goals? Wrong strategy? Unfortunately, par for the course in marketing ...
Some people work on apps where Apple's policies are unclear or inconsistent.
I was wrong. It was a "durr" moment.
Implementing a minimal HTTP file server in Ruby
Check your diet. I get this type of frustration and such from red food dye. Sorting out my aversion to dyes has made my life a thousand times easier.
No, you don't get to do that. You can't say "I'm speculating that this person might have been murdered. Wow, look at what the world is coming to, that people are even considering the possibility that this person was murdered. (Besides, sometimes people do get murdered...)" This is begging the question in its most basic form.
As a mechanic, I have never seen any vechicle burn like
that vechicle. I know it has a high pressure EFI system, but it has one way valves and other safety features. It looked like someone poured lighter fluid throughout the car. I imagine the Government has access to odorless flamable fluid?

As the my own paranoia, I am not thrilled about even talking
about this incident. I'm definetly more concerned about
privacy since the NSA reporting. I am also using DuckDuckGo, but it's horrid right now.
Australia's Moonlighting Boom
That could mean more sophisticated systems and likely less time to reverse engineer

Car electronics change very little year to year. If you have an unreported exploit, it wouldn't surprise me if it were valid for more than 5 production years. The bigger issue is that the networks in these cars are only secured by physical access, and there are more devices on the bus every year.

A remote exploit must fetch a pretty penny, so I would expect professionals to get to work on pre-production units as soon as they are available in the hope that they don't change substantially.

then gain intimate physical access to the vehicle to seed the exploits before eventually remotely exploiting them

I think you read this wrong - the car was disassembled to explore the systems, but after vulnerability development, physical access to a target was not required. This is suggested by "Sniff MAC address, brute force PIN, buffer overﬂow" and "Call car, authentication exploit, buffer overﬂow". If modification was required, executing an exploit would involve a predetermined handshake (which is described later in the paper), not something as crude as buffer overflows.
Are you saying governments don't do anything secret, because they don't have to ? Well, you are surely misguided. Tons of governmental operations are clearly not happening in the open. And it wouldn't be the first time they make an assassination pass for an accident (or suicide, or whatever other "natural" event). Even "democracies" do that all the time.
I would go so far as to say Haskell is better.

But, then you gotta remember, "worse is better" (New Jersey style), and Go is worse. New Jersey style: (1) be simple in both implementation and interface (2) correct, be correct as long as it doesn't make it more complicated, simple is more important than correct (3) consistent, when you can be consistent, do be, but simplicity is more important and (4) completeness, be as complete as you can, but realize completeness can be sacrificed for any other objective.

I think C and Go share a lot of New Jersey style -- Go is great in simplicity (remember simple isn't easy). I think Go will continue to go quickly because of these attributes.
The first impression I got from this was an interesting combination of creepy and incompetent.

The creepy part: The site gave 5 suggestions for places I might want to fly to. 3/5 were cities I've traveled to multiple times in the last few years. And while I might accept e.g. London as a default suggestion for anyone in Europe, something like Helsinki is a lot harder to justify.

The incompetent part: Google knows damn well I live in Zurich. They have Google+ profile information, they have my Android information, they have ip geolocation (which definitely gets my ISP right). So why is the suggested starting airport 150 km away, in another country? Ridiculous.
Texas is the only state that joined by treaty as an independent county, so it seems reasonable that Texas could maybe repudiate that treaty and leave. I think the example would have been better if they had picked one of the other 49 states, which were created from US territories and were part of the US before they were states. Clearly it is not legal for them to leave; there was even a big war fought to decide that question.

On the other hand apparently the Supreme Court disagrees with me [1], and only 33% of people polled think that Texas can secede [2].

[1] http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2012/11/constitution-chec...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_secession_movements
> I find it understandable the the CA regulator wants to know what sort of entity it is dealing with.

That's the kind of thing a regulator should figure out before making legal threats.
Because paired keys aren't user friendly to a non-developer. Which is most people in the world.
I would definitely (and will now) look into it. There is nothing more heart breaking and disappointing then coding for hours, setting up an infrastructure, becoming bootstrapped...then getting a cease and desist. Only thing to compare to that type of disappointment would be doing a quick patent search on a business method you might be implementing.
Why Functionality is Important in Skeuomorphic Design
I'm pretty sure those flip things don't like to go backwards. So I'd assume an unlike would just freeze the number and absorb the next like.
Good question. Here are my bullet points:

* Fault tolerance comes first. Built in from ground up.

* High concurrency.

Yap that is it. Ok, it has many other features but they amazingly fall from those one. Here are the secondary features and how they relate to the primary ones.

* Fault isolation. If a system is to be fault tolerant, faults must be isolated. If one process crashes it shouldn't bring down the whole system.

* Easily parallelizable. Because of isolated processes and the desire for high concurrency. It was easy to build in a sane scheduling algorithm that can spread the load across multiple CPU cores.

* Functional. Functional programming discourages handling large states. This a large Java class with 50 instance variable that could be modified by a 20 different methods. Functional programming encourages passing the state along explicitly.

* Built in distribution. It is hard to make a fault tolerant system (ok impossible in practice, to be more precise) without redundant hardware. Servers will fail but your service must not. You must have more than one server read to take over. Distributing your application across multiple physical machines is built it. You send a message to a local Erlang process like this:

Pid ! Msg.

Here is how you send a message to a process running in another data center. Maybe half way across the world.

Pid ! Msg.

That is pretty nice.

* The system is responsive. A non-response system can be considered a failed system in some domain. Think about a mail server. If the user click on a message and it take 5s to return a response and open it, maybe the person would consider the system as broken. This also comes out of concurrency and fault isolation. As the load increases instead of throwing errors everywhere the system gracefully absorbs the load while still staying responsive.
would you please look up what "conspiracy" and "theory" means? thank you.
Here's the page in question:

https://www.facebook.com/democracychallenge

There's definitely engagement happening on here. 2 percent of 2 million people is still 40,000 regularly engaged people. And on top of that, the algorithms probably had an effect on their engagement—they regularly had posts that gained 5,000+ likes as of last year, though the number has slowed down significantly. The question is, was it worth the cost as far as exposure and marketing goes? Did it reach the audience it was looking to reach?

It may have, at least for a while. Based on this 2011 press release that trumpets its 80% user base under the age of 24, they were clearly trying to reach young adults, no matter what the IG says in his report:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2011/03/159381.htm

It may not have been worth it in the end, but I get wary when I see standard-issue "government waste" stories like this, because what often happens is that the truth is somewhere in-between.
I really hope you guys start doing more in-depth high-concurrency testing. This is a huge risk / problem with many frameworks and kits. It seems to be a blackhole in your tests for some reason, which is a shame because the are so well done in other regards.

Having a framework which falls down horribly at high concurrency is something people need to know about -- in how they structure and design applications and how they structure deploys. It can also help them pick frameworks that fit them better (some frameworks will do great at high concurrency, some won't).

Can't wait till you start adding high concurrency (which should NOT require any code changes from the implementation providers, you add a zeroes to the concurrency.. 100, 1000, 10000 tests).
That could be it. Or the United States could be applying the typical measures of pressure in the diplomatic toolbox, consisting largely of economic incentives, concessions that meet other countries' policy goals, and appeals to mutual interest. You know, the standard tools of statecraft that have barely changed since the Congress of Vienna.

You decide which seems more plausible.
Well, physics.
Wow, your post brought back such great memories of my first trip to Amsterdam. Visiting the Van Gogh museum, walking through the red light district, having savory pancakes at a famous place... while all fun, are not the experiences I remember. Taking the tour and tasting at Browerij 't IJ, grocery shopping for a BBQ with a local friend in Muiderpoort, eating Bitterballen, the random pub I hung out in waiting for my tour of the Utrecht Tower... Those are things that I will always remember.

There is nothing hipster about wanting to experience things locals regularly do. There is also nothing wrong with doing touristy things. I love the pictures I took at "The Bean" in Chicago, or climbing the steps of the Utrecht Dom Tower. If you /love/ classical art, then the Van Gough museum or Louvre are must sees, otherwise I agree that in 20 years it'll just be a checkbox "I've been to the Louvre!". For me, it comes down to that I remember more experiences with people than with things.
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I asked about this when I heard about the shutdown but no one responded. I guess now we know the answer.
Websocket-based Tethering for iOS devices
In the current incarnation, no they're not, but built into the browser? The user wouldn't need to see anything more than a "sign in with you private key" button, next to the "sign in with google" button.
Everyone who comments on this thread needs to read this:

* Raising the minimum wage doesn't shift the distribution of wealth (companies lay off workers, companies no longer have profit margin close down, companies shift highering demographic).

* Raising corporate Tax doesn't shift the distribution of wealth (the increase is absorbed by the consumer)

* Income Tax on rich & (with exceptions on groceries/utilties/rent to make it non-regressive) sales Taxes & Social Programs do change the distribution of wealth, (danger being lower rewards = less risk taken, but this is debatable).

If I was a liberal, I would be pushing strongly for social programs & taxes instead of minimum wage. The economic benefit of having more workers actually working (because they are allowed to work for $4 an hour) is HUGE. and with social programs their life would be like you wanted it.
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Sorry to hear about this OP. How old are you? If you're an adult, then definitely consult a medical professional. A psychiatrist would the obvious person to start with; s/he might also refer you to a neurologist for a brain scan (the equivalent of checking into whether it's a hardware problem ;-) ), and would otherwise address the problem with some combination of therapy and/or drugs (psychologists aren't technically doctors and can't prescribe drugs). Therea re lots of possible causes and I'm no medical expert, so I don't want to speculate on what a doctor might tell you.

That's a tough problem to deal with but you've already taken the right first step by addressing it instead of avoiding it. I have issues with depression and anxiety have a psychiatrist that I visit occasionally, which I've found very helpful. It's not all roses, because we don't understand the mind/brain as well as we need to, so it's rare that a psychiatrist can just 'fix' a problem, but it's very helpful to know that I can consult someone who's dedicated their career to assisting with such problems.

I'm sorry to hear that you're struggling and hope that you'll feel better soon.
Would be nice if Mixu had provided some credits for those who he's appropriated from.
Mayer has some performance-linked bonuses and the acquisitions probably some how improve them.

So it isn't an executive mistake per se but rather misaligned executive and shareholder incentives.
Better to use Diaspora. G+ and centralized social networks in general is a dead end, and not something "used in the end".
Probably 100% odds of being positive for Mayer.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=YHOO+Key+Statistics

Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm):	82.55%
Operating Margin (ttm):	16.44%

Balance Sheet
Total Cash (mrq):	3.01B
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our beloved chancellor merkel is outspoken, too, while enacting draconian laws just as full of stupidity as fisa, patriot act and ndaa. don't let yourselves be fooled by quacking senators.

that said, politicians are usually not as much a threat to tyranny as journalists.