skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does anyone know of any good ad-dons or extensions to blocks medium.com articles from showing up on HN? By the amount of low quality articles that make it to the front page, seems like there must be some kind of voting ring for them.
I used it in Chrome and had to do this for it to work.
I wonder what kind of effect legal marijuana would have on the same crowd if it were available as a nice alternative to Alcohol
Given that they've also offered $23m for Human Right's training It seems likely they can afford to lose the $23m since they're effectively doubling that 'loss'.

Why do you assume this money is set aside and actually exists when it sounds like a simple stunt?
How about the loss of creativity? I feel that one of the long-term consequences of being constantly watched is that you learn to act in less experimental ways. You take fewer risks, and reduce your actions to what's "safe".

Ask yourself - how easy would it be to do your job if somebody you didn't know or trust was sitting behind you evaluating every decision you made.

In my opinion, the financial and societal implications of a populous that behaves strictly to conform for fear of consequence, translates to slower innovation, less technological advancement, and will have a long term negative economic impact.
Patent troll that sues public transit systems gets hauled into court
Micro-payment channels implementation now in bitcoinj
White House petition backs direct sales of Tesla cars
I think the answer is "Yes."

By that I mean that I think people often mean both. Some projects are obviously hackathon-like projects that were done in (something close to) a single weekend.

Others probably took on the order of 4 days to a few weeks cobbled together over weekends. I worked on http://lifestyle.io/ for probably about 5 days total before launching it, and I've given it additional love since.

I wouldn't get hung up on what you can get done in a weekend anyway. Focus on creating real value with what you do if you're intending to profit. (Hint: many of these weekend projects forget that part entirely!) If you just want to have fun, then you definitely don't need to worry about timescales.
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Disagree, I don't think their inferior search results have anything to do with tracking/privacy concerns. It's just an inferior (meta-)crawler (they don't do the crawling themselves). Crawling/weighting is extremely expensive, and it doesn't seem that anyone puts in nearly as much effort to this as Google. DDG simply don't have the resources to do so.

Edit: I should point out that DDG has been my primary search engine for a year, and for most searches its results are great or at least decent enough to answer my question. I fallback to google for fuzzier queries, e.g. when I don't know what I'm looking for.
"Baller ass" in this context is equivalent "badass" or "awesome"

Edit: Source: Grew up in LA?
This reminds me of the saying: "Never compare your beginning to someone else's middle." It's never too late to start, so it's never too late to be awesome.
C++ for most of my algorithm work and computationally intensive work. C for my system programming work. Java/Python/JavaScript for my web related stuff. No assembly language? :)
Remember to post pictures of the country-of-origin label on your social networks, and to say why.
It's a wise man that gives up what he cannot hope to keep for something he can't lose.
The leakers have put themselves in positions of enormous power and responsibility. They are deciding which documents the public gets to see. There are potential positive benefits to this but there are also significant risks (for instance, the release of the diplomatic cables and US military logs which included the names of people who talked to American officials could easily put those people at risk). Given the positions of power that Assange, Snowden, Manning, et. al. are putting themselves in, I think that it is completely reasonable to ask questions about their character as it directly relates to whether we trust them to decide what the public gets to know.
I'm really not sure how I feel about these things. On one hand, these are great escapades, and they result in fantastic pictures. I do like seeing "forbidden and forgotten areas". On the other hand, I would never want to encourage anyone to do something like this. It's illegal for a reason. The reason is not just your own safety. If he had fallen on to the road side of the bridge, not only would he die, but he would risk the safety of others driving across the bridge. Even in the best-case where he doesn't hit a vehicle or cause an accident, the morning commute is screwed up because of what on the surface appears to be another suicide.
Thanks for the feedback. We take the ability to search fast very seriously. There are a few home screen options in the app -- just look at the settings. Also our mobile web site is still accessible and maybe preferred over the app altogether.
This article's opening line:

RC4 has long been considered problematic, but until very recently there was no known way to exploit the weaknesses.

... is especially amusing once you learn how to exploit the flaw in RC4 he's talking about. It's among the simplest, most blatant crypto algorithm flaws ever published. It's also very old; it was known at approximately the same time as RC4's first publication on the Internet.
Surely there has been some manipulating of the search results (this non-standard version of) Lorem Ipsum to get those results form google translate. A more standard Lorem Ipsum text comes up with a pretty standard translation (it actually seems to revert to the original Ciceronian text which it is based on).
Multiple vulnerabilities found in ZRTP code used by Silent Circle, others
This just in: Internet idol receives less-than-flattering personal profile, Internet commentators disgruntled, have apparently never read a personal profile article before.

God help the NYT if they ever run a less-than-godlike profile of, say, Elon Musk.
Flask is a framework for writing applications. You can build whatever. I've used it for blog engines, geospatial models, and much more. A CMS is exactly as you say: a system for managing content.
A few more,

Delphi , http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE4/en/Web.HTTPApp....

Java , http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/jre/api/net/httpserver/...

.NET , http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.httpliste...

Erlang, http://erlang.org/doc/apps/inets/http_server.html
Break up the union then?
Now I'm imagining an automated translation of a story from, say, the Star Trek universe to the Star Wars universe, substituting place and character names based on frequency of use in each universe.
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I personally value a better service way more than my privacy, but everyone has the right to make their own choices, I guess.
Snowden in the US-Russian "SpyWar"
It's not every American, it's every human being. This isn't just happening in US but most likely in every democratic country as well. We're not special or unique in this area, yes we should be leading the world in terms of how to protect our privacy but we haven't led in that area for decades. So I'm not surprised about this.

Now, as for the question. The problem is after 9/11, everything changed. People did task the government to prevent further 9/11 attacks and sadly, they can only do that by doing what they're doing now. IMO, 9/11 wasn't the point of what the terrorists were doing, but the aftermath of it.

I'm the man who believes that we don't deserve security if we use it to justify the loss of our rights. However, that belief is easily shaken when and if my family are harmed in an attack that could've been foiled, and my first reaction would be, why didn't the government stop it? So, you can see the problem right here.

Nothing is worth losing our rights over, we fought so many wars to protect it, suffered so many loss as the result of the wars, and yet, we're giving them up easily for terrorism.
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It's a (rather poor) take on the name "Go". Boldly GOing. But by all means, ascribe it to some mental failing of Go programmers, any more so than say Scala programmers.
I'm really curious about the t-shirt project being a "micro-project". When I heard micro-project, I thought a couple of weekends of working, small niche market, and mostly electronic based. Teelaunch seems to require a large physical component (t-shirt printing and distribution). Even if you print on demand there's still a lot of work to be done there and high capital expenditure.
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I feel you, but if someone happens to CATCH you wearing incognito socks (perhaps while you're mid step or something).. well, that's basically the most beta feeling in the world (so I don't think it's worth the risk!!)
What would be the flaws with this 'stateless' approach:

1) for each new session, generate a secure random token as a property of the session

2) serialize session properties to a byte array and encrypt the array, using, say, AES.

3) set the encrypted session state as the value of the (HttpOnly) session cookie

4) when rendering secure pages, decrypt and include the clear CSRF token in the X-XSRF-TOKEN HTTP header (only top-level HTML pages, no other requests)

5) on the client, include the CSRF parameter in your XHR requests and form posts.

6) on the server, verify the CSRF parameter against the value in the encrypted session state from the session cookie

The only shared server state in this case would be the secret key used for AES; this could be part of the production environment configuration and updated with each deployment.
I think many of the HN readers just don't use Windows. I personally stopped using it for anything but PC gaming about 3 years ago.

This may be changing with Azure, but it feels like Windows is still the minimum bar needed to gain entry into the Microsoft ecosystem.
The center of the Sun is extremely dense, and a photon can only travel a tiny distance before running into another hydrogen nucleus. It gets absorbed by that nucleus and the re-emitted in a random direction. If that direction is back towards the center of the Sun, the photon has lost ground!

It's not really the same photon, though, is it? It's just some measure of energy.
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Love the writing style, and the fact that these guys manage to keep it so light, and not take themselves too seriously. Keepin' it real... Nice gimmick.

Posting using your own software to pimp it is a good idea, too. I'm not sure I like annotations in this case, because I really read them all anyways, which means that it's just annoying to click them all. There should be a way to expand them all into the body of the article, if you wanted to (is there?).
Doesn't this make various three strike laws unconstitutional?
Same. It als really rubs me the wrong way how he claimed the baller ass Russian dude's AirBnB listing was $600, only to later annotate "It was actually closer to $300 / night, but $600 sounds better". Everything sounds better when you exaggerate.
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Indeed. This aspect is especially useful when new developers join the team and they have questions about which modules and methods to use for common tasks.
That doesn't change the fact that the more any entity relies on threats, the less it can have have real friends. This is like the physics of relationships and just how it is. Wether or not it applies here doesn't even matter for it being generally true, and the US seems to threaten friend and foe alike, if in doubt. Why, it even treats its own citizens like subjects quite often.
Totally should be tots, "This writing steez tots rules"
I think the corpus of latin/english translations is not large enough, because the translation of even the basest schoolboy latin seems mangled; different declensions of the same word get different translations. 'Ancilla' [female slave, I was taught] is translated: maid, handmaiden, women, and ancillary, depending on declension?
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>Nowadays you can just throw all your sessions in a Redis node and access them in a fraction of a millisecond from a thousand different servers.

You seriously believe that? Adding tons of extra complexity, latency, and potential failure modes to gain absolutely nothing is not a trivial thing.
I am curious. What was the biggest regret of the dying patients?
The scary thing is that it's possible. Personally I don't care of what they collect because I don't fear the present government. However I fear that any big entities can do the same or that any malicious group could infiltrate the government to get access to these data (or collect more).

The fact that we consider our online privacy as granted is the scary part.
Super relevant meetup happening tonight with SFHN for those that are interested in knowing more about raising a seed round: http://sfhn-seedround.eventbrite.com/
Debian mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2013/06/msg00720.html

Reddit's reverse engineering discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/
That doesn't mean there isn't an active role you have to play in making yourself better. Moving may get you over a hurdle of feeling hopeless, but if you aren't active in pursuing self improvement you'll quickly find yourself in the same spot.
These are very respectable people: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo
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Next you'll tell me that DaVinci did not hide clues about Christianity in his work or something...
I saw your post last night but was too tired to respond and apparently I am too late now.

As some of the others have stated, be the professional one here. As a PM - he/she/it sounds to be fairly awful but I haven't walked a mile in their shoes so it's hard to judge. It does sound like there's trouble in paradise there... As fun as it is to fantasize about the "Fk you, Fk you, I like you, Fk you..." scene it doesn't benefit you ever. I was at very similar situation at my first job. It was a very similar situation but I saw the handwriting on the wall and I found a new job. Shortly after I left they started offering early retirement and then eventually they started the layoffs.
I see track lighting and immediately assume a botched renovation job or if it is a new space they ran way over budget and then realized they needed lights in the room.
I am not assuming these famous minds are correct, I am saying you won't get people to listen to you if you dismiss these famous minds as obviously wrong with a 4 sentence comment.
I can't decide if this is a result of Google's use of statistical machine translation, or an Easter Egg.
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Please explain how typos help check for leaks
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Also, please note that "lorem" is translated as "China", and "ipsum" is translated as "footbal". At least for me.
Which is exactly why we need to lean hard on our government to pardon Snowden. Whistleblowers are the only real oversight these programs have[1], and the more we cow and break them the more abuses we will see.

Sign the petition if you haven't (https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/pardon-edward-snow...), and don't stop there: write letters, make phone-calls, visit your officials' offices, get involved at the party level and see about pushing things there, give money to organizations like the EFF. If anyone else has other suggestions (or more details about how to do any of the above, or interest in coordinating any of the above), please add!

[1] Congressional oversight is a joke when money is so important in politics and the only people who will know about the decision are the contractors who will be contributing to your or your opponent's campaign next cycle based on whether you let them keep the contract.
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That is true for call and put options but employee stock options are not the same thing. A call or put option as you stated is for 100 shares per option contract. An employee stock option is the right to buy N number of shares at a strike price, not in blocks of 100 per contract.
I also find it ridiculous that they charged him for "obstruction of justice" for not being at home when they executed the search warrant. It's not like they told him in advance they were coming to search his house.
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You can't lie to a compiler, but you can present it with some demented truths to persuade it to do what you want.
The article misses that he continues to be an important figure in the community (beyond the categorization of hummus). For example, his involvement in the SOPA strike was crucial. Jimmy didn't decide or even initiate anything. But after ideas had been bubbling and percolating through the community for a few weeks, he focused people's attention, and made the issue credible to the majority of Wikipedians.

Jimmy is disappointing if you're looking for a saint. He's made a lot of mistakes. (I think he'd be the first to tell you that.) If he is exceptional in any way, I think it's that he is comfortable being a leader almost in the conventional mold, but he's also comfortable yielding to the full power of peer production. Maybe, ultimately, he can explain that kind of leadership to elites in the rest of the world, too.

Disclosure: I don't know Wales well, but I worked for the WMF (after his principal involvement) and have met him socially a couple of times.
Google Hangouts better than Skype? Not so fast…
If you release multiple copies of the document, each with a slight variation, then keep track of who got which version, you can (potentially) figure out who leaked the document.
Did the study take into account the rise of private higher education companies that have sprung up in the past twenty years (like the University of Phoenix)? These colleges are publicly traded companies that have campuses all over the country. They have a higher acceptance rate, they focus a great deal of marketing to lower income communities and they notoriously accept people that may not necessarily be ready for college (as long as they can pay the fees). Maybe the story isn't "the labor market is so bad that even college graduates are taking menial jobs" but instead "more blue collar workers are getting degrees (that don't necessarily get them better paying jobs)".
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> Johnny Ive designed Aqua too.

Cordell Ratzlaff was the design lead for Aqua:

http://www.cultofmac.com/87889/how-mac-os-x-came-to-be-exclu...
You give a different version of the document to each person, with unique typos in each one. If the document gets leaked, you know who did it - the typos form a "signature".

Sometimes a typo is just a typo though.
I like Go. I really want it to succeed as a language. However, it does have some unfortunate warts.

To me, one of the biggest issues is the lack of true exceptions. Exceptions that show the call stack (as in Java and .NET) take a lot of the mystery out of real-world troubleshooting an issue with a third-party library (for example). Panic or returning an error doesn't provide the same utility.
"Hella-beta"

I'm assuming they are speaking of beta in the kind of male-dominance sense it holds in the animal kingdom.

So being "hella-beta" is kind of backing down and giving up the power to someone else who is the alpha of the group.
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The service is already available as a segment integration :)
> Go has a rich standard library which covers a lot of areas.

The last time I've looked at it there wasn't queue, deque, stack libraries in standard library. There wasn't even a UUID library. I'm not sure if it has these libraries in 1.1.

> In fact, Go is probably the only language that can claim to have a fully working Web server as part of its standard library.

Python has a built-in HTTP server (including a CGI one too).

> Go has built-in concurrency, which allows parallelism in an easier way than is possible in other languages.

How does Go make it easier than those unnamed languages? Go didn't even have race detection tool until 1.1.
Great!

Many countries have bowed to US demands in the last years due to threat of losing trade benefits.

After the Australian Prime Minister agreed to (illegally) send troops into Iraq with Dubya, 16 US Trade Negotiators came to Australia within a week and negotiated previously unseen trade deals to benefit Australia. When questioned directly about this, the Australian Prime Minister shrugged and said "What was I going to do?"

After living in South America for a year, I'm very excited to see those countries develop more and more, and reject US rule and meddling more and more.
I don't know about you, but I'm calling flower merchants and buying Fair-Trade Ecuadorian flowers.

Facebook needs some "Made in Ecuador" stickers methinks.
Everybody involved gets a slightly different unique version of a document. It would be clumsy to do it with typos, better to change the justification.
Google, FB, Yahoo pumping money into astroturfing the EU for lax data protection
I'd love to spend a winter at McMurdo ... but I have no idea how to get there without being a scientist :(
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Oh, I think I can shed some light on this! Never studied Latin but I sing a lot of church music. The very popular "Magnificat" text in Latin in includes the line:

quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae.

This is traditionally translated as:

Because he hath regarded the humility of his handmaid;

Or:

For he hath regarded the lowliness of his handmaiden.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificat . In context, Mary is definitely not talking about being a slave, but a willing servant.
Free. Valuable. Accurate.

Two out of three ain't bad. I dispute "accurate" as a Wikipedian. I'm trying to fix some problems

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOFIXIT

with some articles that have been in appallingly bad shape for years. The last time I edited those articles, they were swiftly made worse by drive-by vandalism. I'll see what happens this time.
But I can throw in an iframe or something to get your browser to make a request against that domain (and get a cookie)
Vive la git diff
I find it amusing the the Guardian seems to position this article in such a way that it is meant to disparage the Obama administration. While the administration is far from above criticism, and a variety of other Guardian reveals do justifiably criticize the President, my personal takeaway from this is a sign that the administration did at least attempt to curb some Bush era privacy invasions—though perhaps to a pitiful extent. Funny how the article doesn't seem to put it that way.
Technically this probably should be tagged as (2009). It's also technically a (TOP SECRET/STLW/ORCON/NOFORN) document, so if you have a clearance, you shouldn't be viewing it. (if you don't have a clearance, you also shouldn't be viewing it, but that's someone else's problem...)
> once you learn how to exploit the flaw in RC4 he's talking about

Quick version: RC4 has biases in the key stream it generates. This means that for a given offset, certain bytes are more likely to appear than others. How do you exploit this? Collect a large sample of the same plaintext encrypted under different key streams. Examine the biases apparent in your samples and compare them to the actual key stream biases. You should be able to infer the actual plaintext byte.
Fax would be a nice addition. It's antiquated, I know, but still widely used in many industries. Hard to find a good outbound fax API. Anyone have any recommendations?
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