skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It doesn't matter if someone can see you or your car, the fact that it's a medical destination should create a right to privacy of that trip.

So what you're saying is that the government should enforce a built-in gag order on people? Interesting...
IIRC it's illegal to armour your door so as to prevent determined entry though.
Police Shoot a man's dog in front of him, arrest him for video recording
I like my deja vu sans but I wish it had a slashed zero.
It's embellished truth, I believe. Like "Reality" TV, or 100 pieces of Glass or whatever that book was, though a whole lot funnier.
Foremost to the rescue today - InfoZone
Funny no one mentions that the founders left the company long ago.
Title doesn't (really) reflect that this was part of a test, and not that someone was found to have smuggled a 3D printed weapon in.

Also, the article does not mention whether or not ammunition was smuggled as well; I'd imagine that'd be harder to hide from a metal detector than plastic -- and the gun isn't much good without bullets.
This thread has probably gone too long, and I thank you for your time and comments so far.

I will close by saying that, while I agree with you that CFFI doesn't make the problem of writing memory-safe C extensions to the Python VM any easier, I also believe that almost no one (aside from people like Numpy developers) actually need to write a Python extension. They just write extensions (or use Cython, or Ctypes) because that's "the way" to call C from Python.

In my personal experience 90+% of the Python+C problems in the world are just about calling an existing piece of C code and maybe mapping some structs or arrays into Python types; these workflows rarely involve instantiating complex objects on the Python side. For my work habits neither CPython, Ctypes, nor Cython are optimized for this extremely common use case. CFFI solves these problems for me better than any of those alternatives, and if someone offered me a Python 4.0 with CFFI and no GIL at the cost of harder-to-use extension mechanisms I'd jump on it; I suspect that a significant portion of the people who do Python/C interop work would feel similarly. I also do realize that such a change could make projects like Numpy harder to build.
Absolutely! If they don't want a contract, it's a warning sign... walk away! They don't want a contract because they have no intention of paying you.

The memetic video on this topic:

http://vimeo.com/22053820
Those are for bugs that are "under attack", where it's important that those being attacked have the information necessary. There's no evidence that this is being exploited in the wild (at this point).
> I'd look at moving away from PHP more urgently than moving away from Apache, if only because of their respective security records.

In my opinion, this is like moving away from C due to its security record.
That's a great explanation for why CFAA needs reformed and weev's sentenced substantially reduced to match the 'crime'. But he still dun goofed.
Ah, it's "What's your favorite X?" time again! +1 for Source Code Pro.
Or you could just use LESS and @import your styles. LESS @import for other LESS files works much like C's #include, rather than simply converting to a CSS @import line.
Menlo is definitely my favorite.
I don't think npm install -g works without sudo under most default configurations.
Font: Print Char 21

Size: 8
Bitcoin users not affected. As always.
Here is the Linkedin from the 'project idea' guy: http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonedhouse

Name and work history matches perfectly.

Edit: Here's a counterarticle arguing David Thorne is a cyberbully: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/funnyman-of...
As someone who used to live in a place where using a pay VPN service was the simplest solution to access sites like wikipedia or even gmail (this one was not blocked all the time though), this news does not feel really good.

This said, most of my friends there have moved on to using some VPSs for that long ago, and so do I, when I go there to see them.

Bitcoin sounds helpful for the ones not willing to use those methods, but for how long?
correction: "Plastic firearms are [currently] "harmless" [in the grander scheme of things and in most cases]."

AFAIK all current designs can only fire one bullet before breaking, making them pretty useless for most situations where someone would want one. The only legitimate threat they currently pose is targeted assassinations, and those are a non-issue if you don't have enemies. If you do, invest in bodyguards and private security instead of externalizing your security costs to tax payers.

I think the most absurd thing is worrying about planes these days. Passengers pre-9-11 are completely different than passengers post-9-11. Passengers now know to revolt against any hijackers, especially if they meet the criteria of a hijacker that would use the plane as a flying bomb. In fact, that is exactly what happened with the flight that went down in Pennsylvania. As soon as one passenger discovered what happened at the Twin Towers via their cell phone, they tried to take over the plane and averted disaster.

Plus, all that was done in the time before wifi on board. Nowadays, many people on a plane are using wifi to browse the internet, send email and chat. All those people have access to communications outside the plane, whereas in 9-11 pretty much no one did (at least not legally)
Who cares? The best font is consolas. No debate, just is.
I'm using Flask with Flask-Restless for an API.
Ask HN: What do I need to create a Pre Launch Site on Heroku
Hi HNer,

1) What do I need to create and launch a signup site on Heroku using node. My question is more towards number of Dynos and Database I need to select

2) Assuming 1k-25k visits, What config should i User

3) Can I launch and collect all the email data on Heroku free tier.
That kid doesn't deserve what happened to him. That being said, what do you think the response should be for publicly threatening to kill school children? Remember, threats of violence have never been protected speech.
Is this is a serious project? The Github page has been saying "There is nothing to see here yet." for the past three years. Sounds dead to me.
Also my current favourite — the light version specifically, with semibold as the bold variation.
Jay-Z And Warren Buffett Talk With Steve Forbes About Success And Giving Back
Contactless smartcards like you describe are much more fraud resistant than existing skim-friendly magstripes.
You seem to believe that Snowden can control the media.
There's nothing particularly unexpected by this, is there?

You see a big spike for "NSA" and "Prism" initially, then "Snowden" gradually takes over.

People consuming information about the NSA leak learned everything available during the first week. There is nothing new to be learned there.

Snowden's whereabouts are, however, an ongoing saga. As a result, I, like many others interested in this, are searching for Snowden news which is constantly changing.

It's encouraging so many are searching for Snowden. No one would be interested if they didn't already understand the context.
Four-year old flaw makes '99%' of Android phones open to hijacking
And their jobs are getting harder:

"It used to be that we'd get letters that were somewhat legible but the machines weren't good enough to read them. Now we get letters and packages with the most awful handwriting you can imagine."
http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgqQAqAesA1wIVANUA/wACFQDVAi...
How do you show backing in a case like this? I say I don't have it and I show them in support that... ?

I'm not trying to be mean, by the way, I'd honestly like to know. ^^;
I agree. I always keep my copy with me when I fly.
If you want a more educational overview than this list which is kind of poor for discoverability (not to mention some egregious oversights), Slant has an awesome topic and there are lots of type samples. http://www.slant.co/topics/67/~what-are-the-best-programming...

I'd vote Source Code Pro and Inconsolata-g
I suspect that most people who commit copyright infringement are not credit card thieves.

However, I don't like drawing conclusions without evidence, and I don't think it should be considered naive to ask for evidence before making up one's mind. In fact, I'd consider it extremely foolish to do otherwise.
I actually started a startup once, when I was younger. The legal structure was a company. What legal structure is yours, if not a company? A partnership? Or even worse, it has no legal structure? Just a sweat equity and a promise?

After two years we were not profitable and wound up the company. I made a lot of mistakes and learnt a lot about writing maintainable software. We hacked shit together quickly and out the door, and we paid the price in the medium term.

At least our feelings are mutual. You would never hire me and there's no way I'd ever work for you. So it's all good!
For one thing, that's not really analogous. The analogous situation would be e.g. if they had a drawing of an Asian who was furiously working on solving an equation.

For another thing, I believe you will find that Indians are, in fact, Asians.
Why not also use email + google image search. For some people it's likely to turn up an image of the person. From their, you can increase you confidence interval for age, gender and possibly ethnicity.
For anything substantial (like say, their actual crawl), they'll only do it on a case by case basis with a rather restrictive license and you have to drive up there and plop down the machines to copy it onto.
Heck, a repeat of 9-11 went out the door when they decided to lock the cockpit. Which, really, they should have done much earlier considering all the planes that were hijacked in the past and the previous attempt(s?) to use planes as weapons against buildings. I can think of at least one person who got as far as a plane, intending to have it flown into the White House, I believe, long before 9-11.

Really shoulda locked those doors....
Crowd-funded and open-sourced film-making?
An interview with Nicolas Alcala, Spanish director of the sci-fi indie film el Cosmonauta.
iPredator are associated with the Pirate Bay, which is another theory as to why they've been targeted in particular.
Apparently WaPo's key demo is imbeciles.

>You can play around with the graph here, and the trends don’t change substantially if you try “NSA” instead of “National Security Agency” or look at how the whole world is searching rather than just Americans.

Oh yeah? What if you combine the two?

Further, Brad Plumer, you may want to put yourself in the position of someone doing a Google search before you announce what people are trying to find info on. If I search NSA, what happens? I get results that don't have anything to do with the PRISM story. Same goes for the word 'prism'. 'Snowden', on the other hand, will bring me exactly what I need, so that's what I'm going to search for. Or don't they teach you how to Google at the Post?

I'll stop there. Anybody with half a brain could think of another dozen mundane ways to call Brad Plumer stupid. Except, of course, for Blad Plumer, who is stupid.
that's a great job reproducing the font, although I'm having too much trouble with the l1I on that to use it regularly
Litotes
Show HN: Gifanator - send & receive animated GIFs by phone (my 1st Ruby app)
No, I'm aware of that, and I mean amoral. Could be the person I replied to confused them, but I actually think amoral is more fitting, since numbing your conscience may be immoral, but effectively makes you behave amorally, no?

Though I do think being amoral is a position on the moral spectrum - wether amoral people want to see it or not - and to me it kinda implies immorality. I find amorality much more dangerous than mere immorality, also because it can often seem benign and go unnoticed much longer.
Lack of italics is a deal breaker for me.
I think that the has screwed up in regard to his own safety, possibly because of bad advice from the Wikileaks people. I'm certain that he didn't plan to be stranded in a transit hall in Moscow. In regards to the news he has held a quite low profile himself recently.
Would it?
Wouldn't the catalog be enormous, and the model could be from almost any angle?
Not trying to call BS, I am not a computer vision expert, its just whenever someone says something like this I always wonder the actual feasibility.
His statements were plainly nothing of the sort.
Will they pass on the savings?
If a larger percentage of (normal) people used VPNs then this would change; VPNs would be scored as a closer to normal factor in calculating fraud risk.
Stare Decisis is a bitch, and the Supreme Court's broad regard for it, and especially their unwillingness to overturn it except where absolutely fucking necessary in order to render judgement, effectively turns bad precedent into law.

The difficulty with which to find a case to directly challenge it on the merits you want it to be challenged, and have that case escalated to SCOTUS, and have that case be heard, and then receive a ruling clearly in your favor without some other myriad legal issues clouding it from the main point? The odds are infinitesimal.
I use it and typically have my font size set fairly large. One advantage of this is that it encourages short code blocks.

Then, if I'm dealing with code that is massively indented, like HTML, or JS with deeply nested callbacks, I can shrink down to a normal font size and still be able to read while also being able to see everything.
Surprising, you say? Do you have a link?
Start a shell corp in Country B, sell Company A to Company B for cheap!!! Voila, you've just moved your company out of Country A.
Global Android ad share numbers ‘continue to shrink’
I'm aware of the fallout from the Michael Church Google Saga - it prompted him to write lots of fun and interesting things here and elsewhere.

No idea about the saga itself however, anybody care to sum up what specifically the high ranking googler is apologizing for?
6x13
tl;dr Tor Browser Bundle is pretty darn safe on Linux. OS X and Windows - some traces are left around.
Yeah, but thats the weird thing. Sarcasm is obvious, until it isn't. In 2013, is it reasonable to systematically ignore someone who says "i think imma shoot up a kindergarten?" I guess what I'm asking is what's the criteria you and I are using to determine he wasn't serious? I intuitively know he almost certainly wasn't going to act on that statement, but assuming I'm a law enforcement officer, how do I justify ignoring it?
Congratulations. Any word on what they plan to do to prevent anyone else from being Churched in the future?

I know that in previous threads where employee evaluation and management has been discussed that there have been some pretty good ideas suggested.
Way more important than iPod
scott-at-leafly
I like Menlo too.
On the flip side, if Snowden didn't put a human face to this controversy, it's likely that the NSA leak would never have received the kind of publicity it has now.
> Engelbart hated our present-day systems.

I'm not trying to say "[citation needed]" here, but I would be interested in seeing a source for this. Does anyone know of one?
Missing Brother of Senator Udall Found Dead
I find the 1 and l in Consolas to be far too similar.
I, for one, was taught about the peril of hubris, by my parents and teachers. Not everyone was so fortunate.
Thinkster: A better way to learn AngularJS
I've been using Latin Modern Mono (http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Latin-Modern-Mono) in Xcode for nearly five years, and I'm fairly certain I'm the only one who does that.
I've loved a variant of Inconsolata called "Inconsolata-dz".

It's a fantastic font.
FYI the non-English-speaking world are equally susceptible to ignorance and apathy.
It sounds very interesting. I just emailed NDMA to see if I can somehow acquire a copy. I'd be more than happy to pay for it.

Big ideas definitely take time to catch on.
Looks like it's still available, on Windows for $149: http://ndma.com/resources/ndm8543.htm
Last time I looked into PyPy (2-3 months ago):

- There wasn't up to date documentation about basic topics, like how to compile it.

- There isn't comprehensive documentation about what RPython is supposed to be.

- In the repository, it's hard to figure out what is RPython and what isn't, what's code for the interpreter, what's code for the stdlib, etc. Specially because modules import from each other in crazy ways.

- It's hard for someone who's not a contributor to peek at the code to figure out why client code isn't running on PyPy, since the only people who understand the architecture are the authors.

- The code itself is pretty opaque and light on comments.

I understand it's a fast moving project and that it had major rewrites so far, but those are the reasons why I say it's not a viable alternative for production.
Yes, take a look here: http://deals.t-mobile.com/unlimited-4g-data-no-contract

It's $50 for the first line (unlim text/talk/2G web), then $10/month for 2.5GB 4G, or $20/month for unlimited 4G.
Anonymized. Why does anyone care about this if the data is anonymized?
Try the Droid Sans Mono variant with slashed zero.

http://blog.cosmix.org/2009/10/27/a-slashed-zero-droid-sans-...
I think it was in the 90s when I read about neural nets being used to correlate air plane type to a static silhouette (might have been radar) from any angle. Of course, airplanes can't be slightly modified and printed out in minutes, so I'm not sure this would work here, or how much of a PITA constantly retraining the neural net when new schematics are made would be.
Can you pay with cash? What personal details do you have to provide? I find burner SIMs handy to avoid marketing efforts, every time I get hassled I let it expire and pop in a fresh one. But I'm outside the US currently.
Completely in love with "M+ 1mn Light", here's my current Sublime Text setup: http://www.odis.io/rizo/st-1.png.
While not as good as hosting your own server on your own hardware, what about buying a VPS server in a country unlikely to play along with whatever three letter government agency you are trying to protect your privacy from?

I reckon the simplest effective action people can take is to simply host all your stuff in a jurisdiction outside the one you live in that is unlikely to respond to your jurisdiction.

Given the news from the last three weeks, the safest thing for the average person is to simply conduct all business via a remote server in another jurisdiction. This seems even more prescient with the contempt of court cases in both the US and UK involving the non-disclosure of cryptographic keys.
I had heard about this, but didn't know about the "taking the Apple logo in vain" part. It's so wonderfully Steve Jobs in its being both crazy arrogant and also probably correct.
To be fair, there are good and bad apples in any general population. Startups are no different, and the posted conversation is a complete trainwreck.

In defense of good startups:

1- Some of us pay equal to or more than BigCo, so you're not always making a salary trade-off.

2- Options are a lottery, but with better odds than most people give them credit for: 13% of VC-backed startups exit for over $10M, 5% exit for over $50M, and 2% exit for over $100M, which is what I'd call a meaningful exit for all parties involved [1]. Everybody's experience is different, but many of our early employees can attest that options sure can be worth quite a lot.

3- You get to have real impact at a startup. Try doing that at BigCo.

4- The culture isn't soul-sucking.

If you find the right startup, I think you are "optimizing for happiness". Get paid market, be in an environment where you can have autonomy and impact, get stuff done and shipped, and focus on what you enjoy doing.

You don't have to worry about the millions of ups and downs of starting your own or freelancing. And you have a 1/50 lottery ticket of making it big, and a pretty decent chance of picking up some sizable savings.

Obviously, I am biased :)

[1] http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-truth-behind-9-out-of-10-st...
That would be annoying. Still, though, it wouldn't change my mind about this topic.
Any references on "The volume of fraud occurring through them is measured in billions of dollars a year."?
Actually, WP Supercache and nginx can form an awesome team.

You configure WPS to spit out gzipped copies of each page on disk, then you configure nginx to serve gzipped pages directly whenever they are found (gzip_static and try_files).

Basically you can serve compressed pages straight off disk. And thanks to the miracle of operating system file caching, it's usually straight from memory.
Coding is easy as ABC
Canada's recently announced Open Data Portal and RESTful API
> I think built is support for units is a bit to specific. Support for cheap type alias'es would work, and be far more general

Go has support for cheap type aliases for which names typed with the same underlying type are distinct types which are not mutually assignable, and, in fact, Duration is such a type with int64 as the underlying type.
I must have wasted hours of my life on that website. Damn you Andy Herzfeld!
What about a computer vision system that uses the stars and the sun to determine location? I imagine that such a device would need an accelerometer to determine it's orientation relative to the horizon and a decent sensor with normal prime lens (focal length equal to diagonal dimension of sensor)

A temperature and pressure sensor may also be useful because so long as the calendar is set correctly, the system could narrow down it's possible locations by comparing actual temperature and pressure with a database of historical highs and lows.

I would imagine any approach using the stars in the sky would be extremely accurate. It only needs batteries and access to solar power to remain functional.

What other sensor data would be valuable to help infer geolocation? Magnetometer?
It has become rare to see such genuine meaningul positive comments on HN but it's gratifying to see it still happens. Bravo BaydinAlex!
Consolas has too much of a Microsoft flavor for my tastes. That, and I find its less angular competitor Inconsolata to be much cleaner and more elegant.
> It doesn't matter if someone can see you or your car, the fact that it's a medical destination should create a right to privacy of that trip.

So what you're saying is that the government should enforce a built-in gag order on people? Interesting...

They already do with regard to medical information, in the form of HIPAA. A right to privacy has to include the right to prevent others from disclosing certain kinds of information about oneself. You could also consider it from a defamation/slander/libel perspective.
Well done Xobni
1- Some of us pay equal to or more than BigCo, so you're not always making a salary trade-off.

True, but BigCo's also have consistent (if meager) raise policies.

2- Options are a lottery, but with better odds than most people give them credit for: 13% of VC-backed startups exit for over $10M, 5% exit for over $50M, and 2% exit for over $100M, which is what I'd call a meaningful exit for all parties involved [1]. Everybody's experience is different, but many of our early employees can attest that options sure can be worth quite a lot.

With a typical engineer slice, a $10m or even $100m exit isn't meaningful. You might get $10-20k per year of vesting. Even in bad years, bankers get better bonuses (without the tax problems.)

3- You get to have real impact at a startup. Try doing that at BigCo.

Startups win that comparison, no question. A startup doesn't guarantee an impact, but the odds are a lot better.

4- The culture isn't soul-sucking.

There are soul-sucking startups and non-soul-sucking big companies. Cultures tend to regress to the mean with size, so the really amazing and really horrible companies tend to be startups, while all the big companies tend to be somewhere in the middle.
every time i read something brett writes, i learn something new and feel like my world view has expanded a little bit.