skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was recorded with the Epiphany Eyewear smart glasses, made by my startup. Check them out here:

http://epiphanyeyewear.com
Tumblr's censorship bug?
Good call -- it WAS totally tobal #1.
You can't make this stuff up. Or can you? At first I thought it's an elaborate joke, but I couldn't find any real pointers to the jocular nature...
Arpanet Logical Map 1977
Iceland was a member of the EEA and is a candidate member for the EU.
Exactly, because sysadmins have time and luxury combined with training in programming, they know how to make their jobs easiy.
930 AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing

It's the oldest currently extant parliament. Ancient Greece doesn't count. England may or may not count (from 1215); UK since 1707 and UKoGBaNI is since 1800.
I think is a pretty common psychological tendency, no?

It's like more about the derivative (delta/improvement) of quality, the velocity of the game relative to previous efforts not its actual position in space.
The 19-year-old jailed for the crime of sarcasm
You're correct, energy cannot be created or destroyed, but it can be spread out to the point where there is no differential. Heat death!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe
Mashable claims it was around 300 people at the NYC protest.
https://mashable.com/2013/07/04/restore-the-fourth-protests/

I imagine a few more people would have shown up but on the 4th, plenty of folks already have their day planned out or want to spend the day with family/friends instead.
They handled themselves pretty well for the first half of that conversation, with some intelligently phrased questions. Unfortunately, during the second half of the clip, the conversation degenerated into petty childishness.
> Programs written in Hancock work by analyzing data as it flows into a data warehouse. That differentiates the language from traditional data-mining applications which tend to look for patterns in static databases.

Seems like Clojure and Storm:

http://pseudofish.com/storm-a-real-time-hadoop-like-system-i...

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-twitterstorm/

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Zolodeck

https://github.com/nathanmarz/storm/wiki/Rationale
> Before that we probably need the surveillance state to get scarier

I don't know how it could get any scarier short of them starting to round people up, and when that happens, it'll be too late.
Ah, the web was invented to keep military sites in communication (presumably so that they could keep killing people) while the rest of the world was dying a horrible, nuclear death. So it kinda was.
I like rose
Quoting and linking to wikipedia is too hard?
It's actually not confusing, you just have to ignore the statutes and State Department, because they don't control. Case law does.

The Supreme Court made a constitutional ruling (meaning it can't be overturned except by constitutional amendment; Congress and the Executive are powerless to change it themselves) in 1967 that US citizenship cannot be lost involuntarily.

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2521246303796542...

"The very nature of our free government makes it completely incongruous to have a rule of law under which a group of citizens temporarily in office can deprive another group of citizens of their citizenship. We hold that the Fourteenth Amendment was designed to, and does, protect every citizen of this Nation against a congressional forcible destruction of his citizenship, whatever his creed, color, or race. Our holding does no more than to give to this citizen that which is his own, a constitutional right to remain a citizen in a free country unless he voluntarily relinquishes that citizenship."
If you wait long enough on the Village screen, they catch the thief. You can either execute him, and get a lot (or all?) of your goods back, or you can learn from him, and get "Stealth", which makes for less wilderness encounters.
I do wonder how much of that we're responsible for sometimes. I was quite little when the internet started to become popular, to the extent that I barely remember it, but I do remember that it used to seem to make people... well, I don't want to say smarter but definitely more rounded.

Lots of people say that technological solutions to social problems don't tend to work. However, things like the size of textboxes, the granularity and orientation of rating systems, the way that threads get created for comments, the efficacy of ignore options and so on... you do have to wonder, I think, how much of an effect these have on the ability of people seeking better conversations to find them and be nurtured by them.

Especially when you consider how that sort of thing's going to interact with search engines as a fairly standard point of entry. If you can't sort for a desired quality then ... oh dear. :/

You know? I was talking to my father a few months back now and he said that there's nothing on the internet. Now you and I know that's not necessarily true - but equally actually finding something like Gwern's site or Hacker News, unless you were looking for it, unless you were moving in certain circles already....

The state of dialogue on the internet looks a lot like the result of a really horrible sorting problem interacting with a bunch of weird incentive structures to me.
The only reason anything happened with SOPA is not because we somehow showed the government that the people didn't want it. It's because we threatened the business that supported it with lost profits. All of their lobbyists were the ones that decided that one. It's a bit more difficult to do that with the NSA. It's not like the federal government looks out the window and says, "what do the citizens want?" these days. It's more like, "what can we get away with?"
This deserves to be on the home page for a number of reasons, including the quality of the writing:

> Nevertheless, a woman in Canada, who inexactly described

> herself as a “concerned citizen,” ...

>

> The heirs to the constitutional settlement of the late

> eighteenth century are as entitled to its bounties as

> were its architects — idiot boys included.
I don't see that. Could you please be specific?

Please note that shortly after I made the comment you are responding to, I made an additional comment clarifying why I suspected possible astroturfing.

Also, note that I'm not "anti-Microsoft." I'm making a facts-based argument that Windows is not suitable for business that need security.
Oldest extant parliamentary institution in the world. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althing

Standard pub quizzing trivia ;)
Great energy in LA today! Thanks and great job everyone! We even had a supportive police officer who blocked traffic for us during the march!
To counter, I worked at a small web hosting company between 2007 and 2010 who were responsbile for creating Europe's first cloud computing infrastructure and the worlds second, according to them at least.

They had about 9 sysadmins go through their doors, a maximum of 7 at any one time with a max of 4 coders. Of those system guys I'd hazard a guess that around 50% of them couldn't code at all and only really two could get anything beyond procedural scripting, if that.

Not to disrespect these guys because some of them were between good and really good at what they did do, but there were also decisions such as to rely on expensive SANs and proprietary software to tackle issues that could have been and later were replaced by internal code because, in my opinion, these guys were unable to comprehend automation on a scale that a developer could unless they already knew of software available to do such a thing.

After that I worked for a massive hosting company with much more segregation of departments and as far as I'm aware operations didn't code despite the deparment being a lot larger than the previous company.

It's funny because back then I was arguing with both these companies that operations should be driven from an automation stand point utilising devs skills but it wasn't exactly a great point since I was the only developer on staff for much of that time in the first company and the second wasn't interested at all.

For the record, I'd like to be a devops but I'm pretty sure I get shut down from those roles from a percieved lack of operations experience and buzzwords. Much of that because I'm actually honest and my experience of sysadmins are that they were gatekeepers unwilling to so much as let me login to some of their systems. Meh.

I'm sure theres a lot of sysadmins out there who a very capable software developers but I think it's a stretch attempting to call often simple configuration languages and extremely short glue scripts programming. But hey, as long as you're adding value, who cares what we're calling it.
Ev Bogue is a mentally unstable guy who comes out of the woodwork every so often to say crazy 'edgy' things. He generally builds little cults and then destroys them in fits of mania. His last title for himself was "Cybernetic Yogi."

After he destroyed his minimalist and post-human blogs and communities he's recently got into coding Node. Presumably because he lost all credibility in the other fields. His thing is to "quit" services. He quit Twitter, quit writing, quit Facebook, rejoined Twitter, deleted his blog, undeleted his blog, quit his identity, created a new one, and so on. This would all be very amusing if he didn't take it so seriously himself. He is at best, very mentally ill.

I find his current work particularly annoying because he's a guy who has about six months of coding experience claiming that Node.js is the messiah of the web. Just not worth it. In six months or so Bogue will quit Node and discover the new 'it thing' and ramble about that somewhere. The problem is that he writes about topics that he is not adequately educated on. He does this because he has a deep need to be seen as an expert.

Some back story:
http://ariherzog.com/blogger-insists-on-twitter-users/
http://adamtervort.com/blog/2011/01/26/minimalism-isnt-dead-...

"Gwen Bell Blocked Me; Ev Bogue Blocked Me"
https://plus.google.com/u/0/114850856787256556043/posts/GLYo...

"Far Beyond My Ego" (parody)
http://farbeyondmyego.blogspot.com/
Thanks. I had not seen Jefferson's remarks.
Bright guy. And now apparently
to cover up the flaws of
"honest as other men, and not more so. They have, with others, the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps" the court is awash
in pretense of impeccable objectivity, competence,
and final authority!

If we take Jefferson seriously, then for the
constitutionality of the Patriot Act, etc.,
the SCOTUS
is not really a superior arbiter and not
the last word but
just one stop on the way to
the voting citizens.

Sounds like time to revise the letter
I have under draft, waiting for the SCOTUS
to make their unique contribution to
the constitutionality, quit deferring to
and waiting on the SCOTUS,
warm up my FAX modem,
send to my Representative and two
Senators, and tell them that the final
arbiter here is the voting citizens,
that I vote, and that my decision on the
constitutionality of the Patriot Act and
whatever else the NSA has been using
and generally the means, direct or indirect
through London or wherever, is
"No" -- not constitutional, and, thus, I
expect them to correct the situation with
legislation.

So, as a voting citizen, the attitude for
me to take here is not to quibble over
fine points of law or the precise wording
of the First or Fourth Amendments but
just to state, from my power and authority
as one voting citizen, that this NSA, FBI,
CIA, DHS, whatever Federal Government under the table, around the world
backwards and into the back door, spying on
my Internet usage, my USPS usage,
my FedEx or UPS usage, my license plate locations,
my favorite French or Italian wines,
my cell phone tower usage, the items I buy
at A&P, Wal-Mart,
Sam's Club, the items I charge on a credit card, my purchases at Amazon,
who visits me, whom I visit,
my Internet posts, my garbage items,
what my kitty cats eat, etc.
is unconstitutional and,
besides, unacceptable as in torques me off,
and I herewith demand that they pass
laws that will shovel out the stalls
of the NSA, FBI, etc. and stop that stuff
where stuff is not the only word I have in mind.

They can't "subcontract", send the ball, or
hot potato, to the SCOTUS, and have to
do some real work themselves -- find
ways to protect the US within the
Constitution.

"But where can standing be, if legal opinions are based on secret courts, and gag orders are imposed on everything?"

Apparently someone thought that that was a cute
Catch 22, but I don't think it will wash.
So, if the FBI shows up at my Web site server
farm (when and if I get it built!), hands
me a double secret, triple top secret,
national security letter (NSL),
where the first rule of NSL is never
to talk about NSL, I just say:

"I have not told anyone about your NSL;
still,
I've already consulted with my lawyer
about any such thing, and he advised me
to say that we will see you in open court.
Have a nice day. I've got to get back to
work. Oh, gee, it looks like my
kitty cat has made a mess on your nice
NSL -- here, you can have it back."

Maybe by the next 4th of July we will have
this mess cleaned up.
A bit is a 0 or a 1. Two bits is 00, 01, 10, or 11. Each bit doubles the amount of information. This means that information representing information as bits products powers of 2. To get the number of bits (the power of 2 to represent the number), one takes the log, base 2, of the number. If I took the example of 2 bits and limited it to 00, 01, 10, there would be 1.6 bits. Log2(3) = 1.6.
The plural of anecdote is not data. Just search "social mobility OECD". Could probably even use I'm feeling lucky or ducky, if you've made the switch to DDG.
Create Dockerfiles for easily buildable Docker containers
HN Submitter Stats, a tool for identifying spammers on HN as you browse
Poor title. It's just a $37 tutorial on setting up a webserver etc.
Vindication?

The broad (though not universal) taboo against eating primate meat has some basis in the higher risk of shared/cross-species diseases, due to a closer genetic relationship.

If there's a little pig in us, that'd argue for stronger taboos against eating pork... exactly as in Judaism and Islam.
Maybe benchmark it yourself? I think something is amiss, it should easily 'hello, world' at 2x higher rate than Rails. Poked around the setup a little a while back but nothing jumped out.

Hunches: it's either going through webrick or not running with RACK_ENV production
Maybe it's better to know avg programming and avg administration and use both skills to do something really interesting? Advantages: use existing codebase, fill holes with own code and set up infrastructure for a project. With a smile :-) Disadvantages: mastering specific areas, but this could be personal preference because having more then one person collaborating on the same thing can be real painful. It all depends.
That's my point. For any small/medium sites, switching to NGNIX will make a dramatic improvement on all aspects of your site, while dicking around with caching will cause you endless headaches.
All parents in the USA should be fearful that their child will be torn away when they too say something so childish.
I'm not entirely sure why Node.js is constantly used as an example. Is this somehow 'distributed' vs. Rails/Django which are 'centralized?'

Maybe it has to do with selling his "Deploy Node" product for $37.
In case people are wondering what stavrosk is referring to, kba wrote:

I'm tired of people labeling their applications as "cryptographically secure" with no proof of correctness or any kind of guarantee. It's just a blunt and stupid statement.

The author of this clearly has no cryptographic expertise and just wrongly applied a cryptographic scheme.

In the description, it reads "[..] messages are encrypted and decrypted at the end points such that malicious machines on the network cannot eavesdrop on the conversation, including the chat server," but no effort is made in the client code (client.py) to ensure the server works as it should. Yes, the server can't eavesdrop on the data as-is, but that means you have to trust the hosting provider is using exactly your server.go, thus you have to trust the server completely after all. And if you do, why bother trying to hide it from the server in the first place?

I'd feel even less safe using this than IRC over SSL.

The major problem with this is that you're trying to do something impossible. In order to have a secure connection between two or more people, you need to either have a key in place or establish one. Both of these options are extremely hard to achieve.

In the former, you have a to get a key in place (which can't get transferred through the server for obvious reasons), so that has to be established before any confidential data is being transferred. This is clearly not happening.

The latter option is a key exchange protocol such as Diffie–Hellman. This can work; you can in fact make a key exchange between two parties where an eaves-dropper will be none the wiser for listening in. But then you have another problem: authenticity. You have no guarantee that you are in fact talking to who you think you are.

Your system makes no effort to overcome either of these challenges.
While I disagree with the OP, I don't think blindly adhering to the constitution makes for a good argument. There are very good reasons for everything in the constitution, but each is only as strong as those reasons. In the absence of good reasons for something, the fact that it's part of the constitution does not matter very much! If anything, it means the constitution should be changed--that's why we have a ready amendment mechanism.

Now, an argument in terms of civil liberties or the danger of concentrating too much power in too few hands or possible abuses of the technology or invasion of privacy would have been completely reasonable, and such arguments have been well made in other posts. But yours by itself is completely empty.

The constitution is great, but it's hardly the perfect authority on everything and shouldn't be revered as such.
There's at least one fairly well-know biology professor/blogger who is unimpressed with what he dubs the "MFAP" hypothesis:

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/07/02/the-mfap-h...
There's a lot of low hanging fruit :P for example the webpage is awful, something out of the early 2000's, the main system is made on Forte4GL and doesn't support 64 bits so we're having huge problems with scaling.. and the list goes on and on and on..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_4GL
I don't think human meat is currently kosher or halal, so would it really matter?
People need cryptography everywhere. Otherwise the fact that cryptography is being used leaks information.
"He’s been incarcerated since March without trial."

That's the problem. A jury of his peers would throw this out no questions asked.
>That doesn't even make sense.

I guess "stopped a recount that had been proposed by the all Democrat Florida Supreme Court, which had the effect of awarding Bush a majority of votes in the Electoral College." is over your head.

>Really, you can't use Google to search for stories about election recounts over the last 12 years? You're just being lazy now. How can you expect me to take you seriously on elections when you obviously don't pay much attention to them?

>Here's a story about a recount. Last year. In Florida. The Republican lost. Happy now? http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/84068.html

Probably because I don't pay attention congressional elections because I don't live in Florida? I'm sure many other citizens wouldn't pay attention to that.

Really, you can't scroll through this thread? Now you're just being lazy now. How can you expect me to take you seriously when you obviously don't read through this thread to look if I stated my participation level in the puppet show on federal reserve note strings we call an election process in its current form? If I can have some of your Kool Aid, I'll be happy.
Jupiter and Venus are much more plausible than the sun.

There are just simply no available building blocks in the sun. The sun's gravity is so strong that it sorts out it's elements by atomic weight almost perfectly. Hydrogen, Helium, and then some heavier ones. At that point... we're just out of building blocks. What would we build the life with? Swirls of Hydrogen? Hydrogen can only bind to itself, one at a time. There's no way to make any structures.

As someone with a biochem degree (which is admittedly biased towards earthling life): my understanding of life is that it's fundamentally about selectively letting certains molecules in to create energy and chemical gradients. It's about separating one's inside from the surrounding, so the inside can be manipulated.

The insides of cells are a very different solution than outside--- and along similar lines of homeostatis, the blood of dolphins is very different from sea water.

I just have a ton of difficulty seeing how a uniform pool of plasma could hold life.
Javascript and crypto. Am I on a fool's errand?
Hi,

I'm working on a little project that uses the openpgpjs library[1]. After seeing the epic shitstorm here[2] it's got me worried about whether or not I'm doing the right thing and whether or not I should release it at all.

I'm a security person, a pentester but not a pro cryptographer. My project involves using symmetric and asymmetric OpenPGP encryption in the browser, not on the server - hence Javascript. Java libraries like bouncycastle seem to be available but to me I don't see much of a difference between Java and Javascript implementations (without formally reviewing both, neither of which I'm qualified to do from a crypto perspective) beyond the fact that no-one wants to use Java unless they have to.

So my question is, should I carry on with my project but open it up to cryptographers I know to evaluate before public release or am I on a fools' errand using Javascript? If so, why?
I'd recommend seeing a podiatrist anyway[1].

I've known about my alignment issues for years - mega tight hamstrings and weak gluteals so I got my first pair of (corrective) running shoes from a local, reputable, running shop[2] after a gait analysis. I couldn't run further than 3 miles before the pain in my knee became too much.

The shop then referred me to a podiatrist and switched my corrective shoes for a neutral pair, with insoles from the podiatrist. Since then I've had no problems and have run a half-marathon and 10k.

[1] Not that I'm an especially experienced runner but I've known about my alignment issues for years and, with running in particular, really notice the difference the right correction makes.

[2] http://www.mymoti.com/
All the anecdotes I've heard have been in the direction of increased susceptibility to colds around and after a marathon event. Maybe if you don't spend time around people when so weakened you could avoid sickness.

Have you considered that you may just be lucky in not falling ill lately? I've had several >1yr stretches without illness and have never done endurance exercise (max was a single half marathon).
No long copy is the wall of text in a magazine ad. The exact opposite of tl;dr. It was more prevalent in the past, and you don't see it any more.
I know Charlie from back in the UK - I don't always agree with his writings and ideas, but I can't deny he's one of the finest journalistic authors I've had the pleasure of reading online.
This is quite real. McCarthy has been published by Oxford Press. Here it is from the horse's mouth: http://www.macroevolution.net/human-origins.html
Hybridization is actually a pretty interesting hypothesis for species differentiation in higher vertebrates, given that generations are often very long, hindering traditional accounts of evolution-through-mutation.