skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the article? It stated his post being:

"Oh yeah, I'm real messed up in the head. I'm going to go shoot up a school full of kids and eat their still-beating hearts.

LOL J/K"

While it's pretty clear to you and I that he shouldn't be taken seriously - there's certainly no question about the intended context of the joke.
They've said they won't do an FF7 remake until they release a better new Final Fantasy game.

...So I wouldn't count on it.
In the UK you only pay 9% of what is over 21k pa though, so its not that bad (note, this is different than 9% of the total wage).

There are also a few more benefits. Technically if you never find a job you will never have to pay for your tuition.
Our Community is Too Fragmented
As far as I can tell from the other discussion, that only applies to 1 VPN provider due to their high chargeback rates. You can still purchase VPNs anywhere else.
Don't feel insulted. Haters are usually busy doing nothing but focusing on others. Focus on your path, your bank account.
The only real fact that we have in this context is that the NSA and POUTS are both willing to lie.
Technically yes, but we're talking about pickles[1] in a big mac. And a property of pickled cucumber is that they can be conserved for much and much longer, therefore easier in the 'hit' on global supply and also way cheaper.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled_cucumber
Which was the point I also made. However I'm not trying to argue that it the teenager is entirely in the right. Sometimes several people can all be in the wrong. However right or wrong, he doesn't deserve locking up over it.
Oregonians will be pay for college until their late 40s?

What about the next tech billionaire. Will he pay USD 30 million for every billion he makes?
How New Delhi manages Kashmir
That's not a trick. That's "use a faster library".

I guess the trick might be "always profile, because performance bottlenecks might not be where you expect".
If you have the option of paying a percentage or a flat fee, it would seem like those with an expectation of high future earnings would always take the up-front cost, leaving you with a much smaller pool of students. Once you near the end of that 24 year period, I'd also expect to see a lot of deferred compensation schemes amongst high earners.
This is the kind of idea that sounds great to everyone but the type of student you need in the your system to remain solvent.
Steve Thomas:

Yes this is scary but I believe everything is/was over
https. So this just means that it was host based security.
Meaning we have to trust that Cryptocat didn't
store/transfer encrypted messages or leak their SSL
private key. They should generate a new private key, to
prevent someone from breaking into their server and
stealing it. Which might let them decrypt old captured
messages.

Cryptocat response:

Our SSL keys are safe: For some reason, there are rumors that our SSL
keys were compromised. To the best of our knowledge, this is not the
case. All Cryptocat data still passed over SSL, and that offers a small
layer of protection that may help with this issue.

whoosh
He didn't say "big fucking deal". A guy menaces you with a metal club. Then he hits you with it. That's a big fucking deal, and also not a surprise.
This was good until the lame Star Wars Episode 3 reference in the end. Using a utterly poor written movie and worse, quoting it, does not make your argument stronger.

This being said, I agree with the contents.
Don't be so disrespectful.
Whilst there may still be plenty of scope for error, I think there is a large difference between using CryptoJS and "rolling your own".

I wonder how "correct" CryptoJS itself is though.
Not by itself, but there are certainly people who use it in a condescending manner.
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/03/attack-of-we...

It's possible to implement RC4 "correctly" (as far as we know) by discarding the first several thousand bytes of the keystream, but TLS doesn't do this.
3% of salary is broadly very similar to the UK's version which is 9% on earnings above £21,000.
I have no idea. We wouldn't have assessed it. A single person/week to assess a whole multiparty cryptosystem? Absurd.
It's my perception that people seriously involved in mathematics, particularly sensitive things like crypto, must have a thick skin. It's a field that is all hard skills and no soft skills, and I'm not sure it could practically be any other way. The professional is either intensely correct or incorrect, and often provably so.

Like in this case. I can call your ChicagoBoss application crap, say it is far from OTP design principle, baked with magic parse transforms, etc. and I'd be an asshole because it's a matter of design opinion, not provable fact. The author here has published a crack that absolutely proves that the CryptoCat guys were wrong, and that matters.
Thanks for the feedback. I'm giving the first demo of Predictobot on July 28th at PyData Boston, so the "live" site should be up around then. It has nice demos.

Glad you like the logo. It is by the most excellent Ty Wilkins (http://www.tywilkins.com/).

Send me your mailing address and shirt size via email, and I'll send you a t-shirt, with my cool robot logo. My email in is profile.

(That applies to any of you other HN'ers out there that want a t-shirt.)
So? That doesn't back up the flamebait claim that every illegal action a US citizen engages in results in going to prison. I don't care if my country is unpopular right now, it's still BS.
Now that's a great idea. Is it possible to route around enough of the SEC-or-local-equivalent regulations to make it viable?
I hate the domain name honestly. Too long and 3 syllables, good domain names are 2 or less, you need something that is going to stand out and get noticed IMO.

The other issue is that Microsoft now uses "the cloud" to store all your data, treating your computer as a terminal, therefore people have no need for your service!
(1) Centralization is bad.
(2) Defending centralization through appeal to child-like naievety is transparent.
(3) Normal people, those who we can trust, don't visit North Korea for a holiday.
(4) When you visit North Korea and claim it's for a holiday, but do so with a politician, you don't appear any more believable.
(5) When you go out with a woman from the Council of Foreign Relations - summarized by the world's most respected academic as "essentially the corporate input to [US] foreign policy" - you don't appear any more believeable.
(6) When you can't recruit people without throwing in an eternal childhood with food made for you, casual dress and bright colours, you know you have lost hearts and minds, even when your slogan is don't be evil.
(7) Riding on the success of (thinly modified and rebranded) Linux to destroy all competition in the mobile space is a winning commercial strategy.
(8) Stealing and corrupting Java to do it is a masterstroke.
(9) It's OK because my daughter came to North Korea too.
(10) Oh look, all the flunkies are telling my daughter she is smart now.
This actually describes how I have approached system administration over the past few years. I'm just now trying to change that. I'm embarrassed to say, but I'm writing HTML for the first time -- in 2013, not back in 2003 when all the cool kids were.

OK so I'm not a cool kid anymore. But I can be again, I just have to slog through some tomes and actually build something cool. Isn't that what being a nerd is all about?
Yes, precisely my point. Hence the phrase "rooting without rooting".

If it's possible use this vulnerability to arbitrarily rewrite the contents of any or all of the APKs loaded onto a given phone, then this flaw allows for the ability to engage in a key behavior that makes rooting Android popular: Disabling all of the unwanted bloatware that device manufacturers usually prevent you from deleting.
Only kids in their 20's drink. Know thyself. Think different.
No. OP is saying that he is not outraged because he wasn't surprised. He may not like the fact that it is happening, but he is not outraged. That was the point of the comment. A little bit of 'I told you so', and a little more of 'stop getting so upset, because if you really cared you would have known.' The only thing that changed with Snowden is that now you know about it.

But lets be honest, we are talking about spying. If we didn't already know, we should have assumed, because the point of spying is to know everything. What did everybody thing spying was? Because it certainly isn't legal. And now that everybody understands what spying entails I am supposed to be outraged? Yawn. Wake me up when the secret police ACTUALLY start taking people away. Because until till then, the NSA is doing its job, and that is spying however legal or illegal it may be.

But when that day comes, if history serves as any precedent, I'll know about it before you do.
Aaack, thanks for the heads up. It is fixed, once the DNS propagates.
What was his exact comment? I'm frustrated that one of the most critical pieces to this story is seemingly being paraphrased.
I am literally paying for it with my tax dollars. I honestly do not see a vast gulf between that and working for the NSA as a recruiter. I guess because I don't believe spying is 100% evil?
I agree.

They say you should write to your audience and this feels like the author did and it’s targeted at an audience - that, well, is not HN.

I wish it had been targeted at HN - as then I would have read it. But after the first couple of sentences I gave up - and waited for people with more fortitude, to read the doc and report back here. (Thanks to everyone who did that.)
My heart bleeds.
Hot To Become A Hacker
Bill before Icelandic Parliament to grant Edward Snowden citizenship
Or control comment-spam
I'm surprised no one mentioned the Rainbows app server, a multi-threaded version of unicorn.

Unless you're running jRuby, you're limited by Ruby's green threads. If you want to saturate all of the cores on your server, you need 1-2 processes per core and then a thread pool within each to keep it well utilized.

I've been running a 4x10 rainbows process/thread setup in production with good results on AWS dual core systems.
Does anyone remember this.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5194489

The story where he thought his computer was backdoored by a government agency and provides no evidence other than some weird paranoid hunches.

His original blog post http://log.nadim.cc/?p=110 has been removed, but you can find it here: https://gist.github.com/chrisbutcher/4748293/
One thing I find helpful to keep in mind that if you hang a wall full of analog clocks, they will synchronize. That's just what happens, without any of the clocks ever formulating a plan and the rest agreeing to it.

In the same way, it's just common sense that powerful entities, while also competing with each other, synchronize in keeping the unwashed masses in check. If ants can do it, so can people. That in itself doesn't make any old claim valid, but it means looking out for signs of such "unspoken conspiracy" is simply paying attention instead of acting like a goldfish (by which I don't mean to diss goldfish, just trying to make a point).

I expect snow in winter; that doesn't mean I may claim rain is snow, but it means I wont stare for 30 minutes when it does start snowing, and wonder what all the white stuff is. It also means I sometimes get irritated with people who do.

Yes, there are nutty theories and nutty claims. But they are so in their own right, not "because it's a conspiracy theory". This is exactly as logically valid as saying "that's a Jewish-sounding argument", to Godwin this thing for good measure.

Not that you don't know all of this, I just felt like rambling a bit. HN prides itself in having argument instead of memes, but it's still tinfoil this and tinfoil that without even blushing sometimes, which is the lolcat of the domesticated pseudo-intellectual if you ask me.
I NEVER SAID HE DESERVED HIS PUNISHMENT!

In fact I said what has happened to him was unacceptable (several times in this thread!). The problem here is yourself and a few others are looking at this in a very black and white way so applying the same good vs evil logic to my argument. What I actually said was that I think the teenager was in the wrong, but less so than those who jailed him. He definitely doesn't deserve this and I would never imply otherwise.
hey alternativeTo team,

congratulations!

at this achievement, i hope you will put some effort (also) in improving the UX of the site so that users like me get keep visiting whenever we want an alternative.

Some observations (at http://alternativeto.net/software/google-reader/ page):

- Ads are covering a large part of the area

- The list of alternatives are not prominently visible (need to scroll down)

- UI is a bit cluttered (offering too many options)
For anyone actually looking for the ultimate HTPC, I've tried pretty much everything and the absolute best I've found is a combo of an Apple TV with Beamer.app [0] to play just about anything and everything with a great UI, awesome Netflix support, iTunes renting/buying, etc. etc. etc.

0: http://beamer-app.com/ (I'm not affiliated in any way, other than being a very satisfied customer that has had several feature requests fulfilled by the author)
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South American nations hold summit over grounding of Bolivian president's plane
Until recently, it was considered ridiculous to think that the NSA is spying on citizens of countries allied to the US. Now we have proof.
Yeah, I worked for 2 years as a sysadmin, and now I'm working on building a website in one of those scripting languages that apparently don't count as programming, so perhaps I have a better perspective than most on this. The strange conceit of this article is that all sysadmins apparently want to be programmers but just lack the self confidence to actually do it. I think that this is pretty wide of the mark. If anything, sysadmins know how much more stable and reliable mature tools are than the sort of half baked solutions the author is recommending that they push themselves to develop. When you spend your entire day supporting fragile solutions, your first inclination is not usually going to be to put more of those into the world.
Alas, deleting it probably means you are the only one not having access to the data! This is the kind of stuff NSA keeps. Surely your telco also keeps it. It's probable some ad networks also know where you were.

Like you, I agree it's invasive, but I think you're addressing the problem in the wrong way. I wish I knew what the right was was!
Relationship between Dungeons & Dragons “hit points" and sales conversion
i think that someone, who is teaching others that they are writing crap crypto, should express himself less vaguely than like: "... depending on your browser you might get these two lines of extra data ..." (in "public key")
Maybe the fallacy of this reasoning is that is very hard to succeed the very first time ?

And if you fail just once, your future success is also based on your previous failure ?

But I see his point nonetheless, if you take the stigma out of failure, you are less motivated to succeed...
It's quoted in the article.
I generally agree with Elon Musk, but I disagree here. It is not so much that I think you learn more from failure or success itself. Rather I think you learn more when you think deeply about why something did or did not work/happen. In my experience, people usually stop to think deeply when they fail.

In addition, success usually means overcoming failure again and again especially for something hard like building a rocket. I suspect he is equating failure with quitting. I would certainly agree that you learn nothing from quitting, but failure is not necessarily quitting.
English is my first language, and I write for a living, and it's not sarcasm.
Unable to publish paid apps (including in-app purchases) neither in Apple Appstore nor in Google Play.

Unable to receive funds through Paypal (only sending is supported).

Living in Georgia, Europe.

EDIT: I read the title as "in your country". Anyway, problems are real and can be useful for your needs.
Why not link to the blog post directly? This link will break as soon as the author writes another blog post about devops.

http://cuddletech.com/blog/?p=817
Indeed, and that is what I've seen from many Europeans.

However, I think that must be a convention from before the universal adoption of the metric system by the EU, as the 22nd General Conference on Weights and Measures (held in 2003) declared that the symbol for decimals should be "the point on the line or the comma on the line".

i.e. the official metric system symbol is period or comma, regardless of what actual Europeans use.

http://www.bipm.org/utils/en/pdf/Resol22CGPM-EN.pdf [page 11]
I only use my Boxee Box as a Netflix device today. We simply can't get all the over-the=air channels where we live. And for some reason, Boxee is antagonistic to Aereo.

What I think the world wants is the ultimate cut-the-cord solution. Boxee could have been that.
If everyone here who complains about the folks behind Cryptocat being dumb is such much smarter, how about some of you build something like this so we can all see compare. Commenting in HN doesn't prove you know better, ship something and we can all be sure.
It's about time someone decided to debunk this awful bromide.
Everyone who will fail (and succeed) conjures some personal lesson that is ill-derived, and eventually gets passed on as ambient, philosophical noise that people mistake for wisdom.(cough Brad Feld)
You can only learn what not to do again from a failure, but a success gives you a recipe for future success, at least to a certain degree. At the end of the day, there are guidelines to follow, but everything is personal. Everyone has their own methods. You are respeonsible for your own pool of wisdom, and that requires building it from the ground up. I wouldn't say that an example of said pool that was constructed without any experience of failure is any worse than one built from success.
You can learn from failures and successes. Why does every headline need to be so self-assured and bombastic these days?
"I'm f---ed in the head alright, I think I'ma (sic) shoot up a kindergarten and watch the blood of the innocent rain down and eat their still-beating hearts," he said.

According to http://www.news.com.au/technology/teen-justin-carter-jailed-...
Ask HN: vmxnet3 in vmware fusion 5?
I am running a VM on my mac and I need to set two network with vmxnet3.
I am a web dev and have no idea what is it.

I am using vmware fusion 5.
In the preferences of the VM, I have a network card but no vmxnet3 parameter.

I trully hope you are better than me with this.

Thank you all.
I guess you usually don't learn much from success, but success proves and/or validates what you have already learned previously. OTOH failing offers and highlights things to learn, but it doesn't automatically mean you do learn them.
I very much agree with you. As much as I appreciate the idea of everyone going to college, I think the idea of making loans easy for anyone to go to college has been a huge disservice to a lot of people. Students don't view the money as "real", they simply view it as a free pass to go to the "best" (i.e. most expensive) college. Universities know that students can get loans to cover their costs, so they raise the costs as fast as they can. Also deserving some blame are parents who don't spend enough time really working with their kids to remind them that a $50k/yr loan, WITH INTEREST, is going to be insanely hard to pay back.

But ultimately universities are going to raise tuition as high as they can because they know that students can get loans very, very easily.
It's fairly straightforward (conceptually, if not in actual implementation) for a system without PFS, since you can reduce the problem to N interoperating conventional public key systems (e.g. how PGP works for multiple recipients). (and, obviously, just use OpenPGP for it...). But PFS is probably highly desirable in the "Syrian protest" scenario.

Or with a trusted third party (at the limit, just do irc-over-SSL.) This is probably fairly safe if you pick your TTP correctly -- I'd trust the NYT or USG even if I were a Syrian protester with the FSA.

I agree overall -- and am not trying to defend CryptoCat, just the CryptoCat market niche.
I would have thought that something like this would be based on income, not capital gains.
I wonder how long it will be until children younger and younger are jailed for this?

I can see a time when a 6 year old will be jailed for pointing a plastic toy gun at another kid at school and saying "I'm going to shoot you"
Sorry, I just can't get excited about a "plot" that never went beyond the stage of fantasy. When it was revealed that the FBI had a habit of finding nutty losers with terrorist fantasies, encouraging them in their planning, promising to provide them with explosives, and then "stopping" them and marking it up as an averted terrorist attack (and putting the poor saps in prison for years) everyone knew it was ridiculous. This is pretty much the same thing. Fantasy is a long way from reality. (Is there any unhappy fourteen year old who hasn't dreamed of offing a few of his teachers and classmates?) I really don't care if some weirdos in the Houston PD have daydreams of heroically saving civilization from Communists or crypto-Islamists or patchouli-scented reptilian overlords or whoever they thought Occupy was. Their only real crime (as opposed to fantasy crime) was not being able to tell the difference between a document that belongs in the "/Users/HoustonPopo/MelGibsonFanfic" folder and a document that belongs in the "/Users/HoustonPopo/ContingencyPlans" folder. Sounds like a good reason for internal disciplinary action, but not for FBI intervention.

Meanwhile, we have no idea what this plan is contingent on. The U.S. military made contingency plans for a hostile invasion of Canada, for goodness' sake.
Never heard of Beamer, but I rarely stream/control video directly from the laptop. I've been using Air Video with both the iPad/iPhone (http://www.inmethod.com/air-video) + Drobo for media storage and it works like clockwork. I will still take a look at Beamer.
Still regularly using my 1st gen Boxee box and in many ways I prefer it to XMBC. It's fairly solid and reliable, the UX is excellent. XBMC had a much clunkier and inconsistant UI - plus
all the messing around with Linux distros or other host OS's made it much less appliaance-like.

I'm planning to play with Android TV sticks next but I think they are still pretty immature at this stage. However - it is a platform rather than an app so I think it can evolve quicker to fill the TV niche. I find it incredible that Google is doing so little themselves to help it.