skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree 100%. I just disagree with the Ben Franklin position that people don't deserve security or freedom merely because they suffer from the human condition.
You know Iceland only has a population of ~300,000. I've wondered if a few tens of thousands of hackers moved there, they could have a pretty significant effect on the government.
Is it possible to browse through stuff that people are selling on Bitsy?
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That is extremely helpful, thank you very much.
I shouldn't have to know about weather to fly an airplane.

I shouldn't have to know about gasoline to drive a car.

What's wrong with these statements?

The universe doesn't care that something "should" be easy.
Why, even the Spiegel article says right at the beginning that it's just playing with words for the sake of elections:

"But for this change of course to be more than just an election ploy, the government should however advocate a change in the EU Directive in Brussels. Which prescribes a six-month storage of traffic data - and the Union confirms in other parts of its election manifesto that it holds onto the fundamental goal to implement the Directive. "Minimum retention period" is spoken in the Union for two years already - and means nothing but data retention."
The cultural factors mentioned in the article all sound plausible; I wonder if it has anything to do with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
Honestly, as awful as Comic Sans is, it really does make their homepage look more friendly. Considering how complicated some airline bookings can be, I don't think that's a bad thing.
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Feel free to petition your government to close them. It is your country is it not? Unfortunately even downsizing is met with local resistance due to job losses. There is no real reason for the EU to be toothless windbags. It wouldn't be easy but it could be done. I would love to see the US pull back and spend more time on Mexico etc. but I am in a very small minority and no government ever wants to reduce its own power.
You're correct, and I think that means I'm painting my strokes not broad enough. After you get your math peer reviewed, you then need to get your implementation of the math peer reviewed as well - likely by a low-level hardware engineer and not just some web developers.

Generally, however, nearly all failures of security come from misunderstanding the math when creating the implementation. So I'd say that at least ensuring anybody writing crypto has a completely understanding of the crypto math before touching the code is a very good first step in getting somewhere.
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Unfortunately, Iceland has a very difficult immigration policy. That's how it's maintained its relative wealth and prosperity.
Same here... both logout buttons did not work.
Is there any chance these could be alien signals or byproducts of alien technology? (It sounds pretty outlandish to ask until you realize hundreds of professionals actually spend their careers attempting to answer such questions [1])

[1] http://www.seti.org/
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On the 4th of this July
the fireworks appeared
as tears
falling from our skies
spirit sinking
with the fading twinkle

On this 4th of July
the fireworks could be heard
bombs bursting against nerves
and conscious
in this land that has become
so large in view
so small in vision
nothing
but the feared and the fearing
what is the primary driver of Iceland's wealth? What is their principal industry(ies)?
They're not using a crypto library, they implemented RSA from scratch.
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yes, a "Fliegenschiss" is "fly shit" ... another nice word google doesn't now how to translate is "Sammelwut"

it's like a collecting data spree
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Why did you build Bitsy in the first place? I've seen a number of beautifully designed apps in this space, so I wonder what pain point sparked the initial development?
Our (Irish) politicians have run away from lots of hard decisions recently but I really wish they'd have the balls (population, economy, armed forces) to tell the US government to fuck off occasionally.
Everything that has a beginning has an end - sorryopenerp.com/blog.html
You're referring to unemployment insurance, which is not the only equivalent to the Australian "dole". There's also "welfare" which (as of "welfare reform") is limited to 5y in a lifetime. (Getting welfare, as far as I can tell, is a major pain in the ass; so is collecting unemployment insurance -- getting unemployment benefits in Australia is -- or was when I did it -- by comparison, trivial.)

I don't know how the Australian laws have changed, but you can't just collect unemployment benefits forever without doing anything, but it is pretty close. I'd guess that the amount of crap the Australian system puts you through in a lifetime is probably about with the US puts you through in a year.
Interesting... we have a similar version - "Ni-Ni" which stands for not working nor studying ("Ni estudia Ni trabaja").

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni-Ni

which according to Wikipedia is equivalent to NEET.

However, they're NOT shut-ins (many live in hovels, no place to shut in), so many become thieves and vandals.

Eighteen percent of youth in my country fall in this category (!!!!!)
You're right :) 5333 port is closed.
RepRap Morgan by Quentin Harley wins the Gada Prize
I see a problem with the current implementation: Releases are auto-generated from git tags. That means all tags you'll ever use on your repo will be auto-exposed as "release", even if the tag reads "dead_end_implementing_foo" or "before_major_rewrite".
Tags are an implementors' tool, releases belong to product management. I want to be able to control my releases, so at least be able to delete auto-generated ones (without losing the git tag).
I can't help but think this would be better visualised as a time series with time on the X-axis and a number of series drawn as lines.
Not at the moment — we wanted to build the best possible user experience for buying & selling items rather than creating a marketplace/destination site, but that could definitely be on the cards for the new CEO :)
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They also have a very cozy intelligence relationship with the US government and, along with the UK, Canada and Australia, are in fact classed as a "2nd party partner" by the United States. [1]

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-documents-n...
80 is the new 60 basically.

Tangent: people think life extension will magically materialize with some singularity type event, but in reality it's a slow creeping thing. The single most powerful life extension technology ever developed is the cardiac bypass, for example.
> Why a more transparent NSA would be good for Barack Obama

Who cares, it's time to start talking about what's good for the People, for real democracy.
Well, you say that a flexible and high level enough language ca span all platforms and be itself a platform. The JVM is close to such a platform and Clojure is good lisp for it, so you "only" have to figure the abstractions right... the thing is that "use the code as a concrete, formalized model of abstract thought" is kinda hard-to-impossible, even in the most cross-platform language with the best meta-programming facilities, you'll end up with knowledge that (a) is not in the code (like everything about how Engelbart's prototypes interacted with humans to really augment their capabilities), which is not a problem in and of itself, but you also have (b) platform dependent knowledge and code that cannot be abstracted away, and (a) and (b) inevitably overlap making a total mess, because the interaction/usage related knowledge that's no in the code actually relates most to the platform specific code that's can't be abstracted well.

Anyway, my point is the platforms and programming languages are orthogonal: having the best cross-platform language in the world won't get you any closer to a "platform that can evolve well", and all programs will have platform specific code that won't benefit from the language at all.

And a "platform that can evolve well" can manage to do so even with crappy languages as defaults. Our best such platform, the Web, has Javascript, a language that I imagine will keep evolving because it has the weird characteristic of "you can always ducktape more stuff to it" (I imagine future versions of Javascript with optional advanced static typing, concurrency features ala Clojure, macros ala Lisp or Scala etc.). A better language will not necessarily be "a better language for the platform" ie "something that will help the platform evolve better" (the "platform" I'm referring to here is HTML/Javascript/JSON/REST/HTTP/etc.), it will solve a different set of problems and maybe it will or maybe it won't be adopted as the "platform's first class language".

If you like Lisp, work to make Parenscript or Clojure-script better (I hope you pick the 2nd and let CL die and rot... it taught us a lot, but it's time to let it rest... there's no chance in hell it will ever gain any traction again), as this is the only way we'll have a decent Lisp for the Web.
This made me think of a court case a few years back. The defendant was arrested for shooting a potato cannon (PVC pipe, BBQ grill lighter and hairspray for propellant). When the charges were read as using a dangerous weapon the defendant's lawyer replied that if a potato were a dangerous weapon then Ireland would be a superpower.
You might not be the target audience for this page. I think this is more about educating people who don't know what A/B testing is. (edit: if you are on HN, you probably don't need something this juvenile to explain the concept)

A lot of people will need something thats this simple to digest on their own speed, though. I will be sending this link out to a few past and potential future SMB clients.

The amount of people like "Bob" who are running their own website is astounding. They need simple things like this that help introduce them to the idea of A/B testing.
I'm sort of split in the middle on the two sides here, but as an example of what I would hope for, in this case I'd say passing a 1 to this function in that location should have resulted in a run time error, not a happy useless implementation. Preferably with an error message that points to some helpful documentation on the topic. That's an example, that can't solve everything, and I'd despair of trying to fix every possible stupid error that way, but it would be helpful.

That's not even really a "security" concern, that's just good software engineering. Passing this function something that fails the prerequisites ought to be checked. (And yes, I'd check that it's prime, too. It's an expensive check once, but trivially memoized, and you can even prefill the memoization with the usual 65537 value to make it even cheaper. In this particular case, IIRC, the exponent is always or nearly always simply reused,)
1. Can you tell me a bit about pricing in the future?

2. How is this different from your competitors?

Thanks
Exactly, the storage capacity must be lower. If the data center uses 65 MW and a single hard disk with all overheads 5W, there can be at most 13 million of hard disks there resulting in the maximum capacity of the order of exabyte, not zettabyte, or for the given example, at least 100 times less.

That gives "only" an order of (17e4/0.019) ~ 10 million times bigger area for the file cabinets than the Stasi files, or the square 3000 times bigger in every direction compared to the Stasi one.
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I hope we can also get some examination of the safe-harbour agreements that allow the shipping of data to the US, contravening the usual data protection laws, when certain guarantees are given.

Clearly these guarantees are meaningless in today's world.
I agree. The sames true with me. I find myself getting distracted and fiddling around with new frameworks and libraries. I think I'll try your approach of nailing myself down to a Functionality First approach !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_rendition_by_the...

Ah the US missed a beat, the Irish politicians would happily have him detained in Shannon and escorted on to a Hercules, by men wearing blindfolds so as not to see any evil.
Fish, geothermal energy, tourism, CCP.
I am ignorant of the deep aspects of Japanese culture, but my suspicion is that it's a high-pressure society that uses shame heavily in the false belief that shame is a motivator. In reality excessive shame generally produces withdrawal, demotivation, and depression.

Combine this with the demographics -- it's very hard for young people to work their way up in an elder-dominated culture -- and you have a recipe for irrational expectations followed by shame and withdrawal.

That's my outsider suspicion.
My knowledge of this only comes from Michael Lewis' book, Boomerang, but in there he writes that Iceland got wealthy when they figured out how to securitize their fishing industry. They also starting smelting aluminum.
No. Can we please stop this adolescent drama? If you think there's a better country, please, leave the US and go there. Do the rest of us a favor.
I guess Docker brings all of the good stuff you guys have known about for a long time to us mortals :)
Android: The dominant platform of today?
Obama has lost all credibility, nothing much else to say about it. His charisma and intelligence hides the fact he's no different from all the rest.
I would be interested to know as well.

Regardless, he is a proven genius that deserves to be funded - given that college dropouts can raise angel easily. I find this to be sad.
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Because it's completely factually wrong. Go is not AT ALL dynamically typed.
Yes that's how I originally tried it, but it was hard to pick out the trends since a bunch of lines were grouped together. Admit that the way its been done here is fairly strange, hopefully its useful to someone.
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Or stay and fight. You know, like everyone else did before even when the others would say you should just go away.
You can't do absolutely nothing, once you upload something(encrypted or not) by default is public, dropbox/gdrive etc.., even if you send an email it is public.

Is really naive thinking that "some storage outside US/NSA jurisdiction (and I'm using encjs encrypted storage" will stop government to reach you, because they really don't care about jurisdiction.
"Declare the East Coast US States independent and be done with it; I am tired of waiting."

How does that solve this problem? I mean, I can't even guess which side of this issue you think the "East Coast" is on.
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Much better to be quietly disappeared?
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Clojure/core.async walk through by Alex Miller
I've been fascinated by the mturk concept since it launched. I sign in from time to time and complete tasks that look interesting.

Unfortunately, the service is flooded with $0.02 spam tasks (Register an account and post ad-copy on a specific forum etc). The highest paying single tasks routinely involve translation/transcription of Arabic.

The most I made from a single task was about $2.30 for 10 minutes, part of which was completion of a pre-screening task to demonstrate a certain level of English reading comprehension.
Given that ultimate volumes aren't relevant, I think a stacked line chart (with colours for each language) might be appropriate. You might need to bunch together the least popular languages as "other" to get that to work though.

What struck me however was how little the popularity of the largest languages changed in terms of their question frequency.
It's amazing that this got through, you don't need to be a crypto expert for this to jump out as wrong. Anyone with undergrad number theory or crypto should easily be able to realize that using 1 is crazy.
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I've setup a personal server on moln.is recently (2 months) - 18 euro / month for 1GB RAM, 1 core, 50GB disk space, 1GB traffic with 1 GB NIC.

They seem to value privacy. I am not too happy with the SLA but then I had no issues so far - satisfied with the service so far.
The inequality adjusted HDI says there are exactly 15 countries better than the US in the world.

Also, don't you find it a tiny bit ironic that your response to him was childish and immature e.g. "Well you can leave, if you don't like something". If everyone was like you, we'd have no progress, no revolution, and no change.
Agreed. NZ is one of the five eyes and relies quite heavily on the ANZUS treaty for defence.

In Snowdons case I'd avoid NZ - even if it was possible to get there without flying through psuedo-US controlled airspace.
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It's perfectly reasonable to enjoy most of the things about a country and still find issues with it. It's also perfectly reasonable to question and complain about stuff when you think it's wrong. Not doing that, putting your fingers in your ears and running away is arguably the worse crime.
I can only speak for the Atlanta protest, but it was just sad. Your regular ATL assortment of Occupy types, militia looking folks open carrying guns in tactical vests, copwatch groups, guy fawkes mask wearers, random college age people, and the single Georgia Capitol Police Officer sitting in his car across the street. I don't think it ever topped 100 people.

No matter your opinion of them, the Tea Party was very successful at staging effective protests. Occupy was a total failure. (At least in ATL, most people supported OWS until Occupy ATL, at which point they were almost universally hated. Living a block from the park occupied, and having my bldg regularly used as a urinal by a group who, due to no decision making structure, could not agree whether or not they should have violent protests, I agree.)

The difference? Tea party protests in every city were orchestrated by some group (that was likely more astro-turfing than grass roots) that chose the speakers, invited guests with name recognition to speak, and kept the "fringe looking types" in the crowd and not the stage, and were generally more like attending a concert than protesting in the street.

For a protest to be effective, you need to get turn out from the mass population. The Occupy style no leadership sadly does not seem to work. I believe the unfortunate reality is you need a stable legal organization like the Tea Party, the NRA, MADD, etc to actually create long term political change. If we had a National Privacy Association with millions of dues paying members, we could have congress blocking the NSA at every step.
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(1) The SCOTUS ruled in NLRB v Mackay Radio that hiring scabs was legal. To the best of my knowledge there are no additional restrictions specific to public sector unions. You are requested to provide documentation for your claim.

(2) It isn't the union stopping them from using that infrastructure, it is the government and their own lack of skills in its operation.
That's an absolutely phenomenal trace... Obviously he's working under somewhat idealized noise conditions (as he described), but that trace is _cleaner_ than what we get out of the portable ECG monitors we carry in the back of ambulances (it also has much higher resolution). These are monitors have a price tag that you'd be more familiar with on a new car...

Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware that there's a big gap between some wires in a breadboard and a ruggedized, battle tested 12-lead. I'm not complaining about the cost of our Lifepacks; rather I'm ust blown away at how great that trace looks with such rudimentary equipment.

I'm gonna have to 'borrow' some electrodes from the station and give this a shot myself...
"Should the Commission decide it necessary to suspend the data sharing agreement of passenger details — including personal and sensitive individual data — it could ultimately lead to the grounding of flights between the EU and the U.S."

It's simply not going to happen.
And the sad truth is:

The following elections will just repeat this f#@ked up cycle.

The US suffers from several _systemic_ failures. It's a systemic problem and needs to be addressed as _such_.
Ubuntu's Mir plans cause divisions
One would hope that at some point previous to this they had a video on a separate version of the page and did a bit of A/B testing themselves.
The usual ones to recommend here are KeyCzar and NaCl (apparently pronounced salt, not related to saltstack AFAICT).

NaCl in particular provides simple Public/Private and Symmetric modes. The Authenticated Encryption Symmetric mode here is good - http://nacl.cr.yp.to/secretbox.html
Agreed.

First off, I was distracted by that slideshow because I kept thinking, "Who the f sells fishes online?"

Second, I felt like there were two points in the video because of the whole offline analogy. 1) Selling online is better than offline 2) A/B testing makes you more money
Does the data provide views by tag? I'm a frequent beneficiary of SO content, but rarely have to ask new questions myself. Measuring views could give a more accurate depiction of how many devs are working on each tag.
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omega tau did an interesting podcast on radio telescopes which included a discussion about the specialized hardware radio telescopes use to process the signal data. I think it was on: http://omegataupodcast.net/2009/08/16-radio-astronomy-and-th...
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Correct. It does not account for spouse or children.
Another option would be a stacked area graph like this (the one on the right)

http://www.asymco.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Screen-Shot...
Anna Hazare accuses UPA of 'betrayal' on Lokpal,
This was juiciest episode in the series. I couldn't help but smile when the financial support was withdrawn.
In N Out is essentially the same (worse fries, but with shakes, and with customizations like animal style and the 4x4), and is religious, and has been around since 1948 (vs. 1986, and only recently in California). Five Guys charges twice as much for the same burger, though. I've tried both head to head once Five Guys opened in San Jose, and the meat, cheese, and lettuce/etc. itself was better from In N Out, the bread at both sucked, and fries at in n out were horrible by comparison (although IMO McD's fries are still the best).

Shake Shack is better than either (and, 3x the price of in n out), but is only on the East Coast.
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> The amount of land under cultivation in the Andes is still a fraction of what it once was.

And yet I haven’t heard of famines in the past few years – which, given Europe’s history before ‘modern technology’ came along, should happen every now and then with the older methods.

Certainly modern agriculture does have some drawbacks, and with an appropriate set of priorities, you can probably claim that it is worse than what we had 200 years ago, but it works surprisingly well at feeding seven billion people while at the same time only requiring a tiny fraction of said seven billion people to actually be employed in agriculture.
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