skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
God I hate it when people try to push this stupid line...

I used to live with a British flatmate who was otherwise a nice person, but would constantly harp on me when I was eating "You're using your knife and fork incorrectly."

So for a while, I tried it her way, just to see if I could get used to it, and if it was actually better. After a while, I could kinda do it, but frankly, it always felt awkward and clumsy, and there was no obvious advantage.

Both techniques have their merits—lack of switching -versus- use of primary hand for extra knife power/control—but frankly, both work just fine, neither is obviously superior, and the main difference is what you're used to (in most cases, over decades).

If you're eating dinner the the Queen, then yeah, take a cutlery course first, learn how she does it, and try to do that. She probably doesn't care, but hey, you're eating with the Queen, so a little deference to tradition and pomp seems the way to go.

Otherwise, just do what feels natural to you. If someone whines at you, ask them which hand they'd prefer to be stabbed by, and if you're doing it wrong...
It's definitely not a one size fits all situation, there's room for personal preference. Just upthread there's someone lamenting a downside of GTalk and the like. I'm only saying that while the concept definitely sounds a bit invasive, the actual downside is really no different than that of widely accepted alternatives that don't have that stigma.
Right around that same time, Obama claimed that transparency would be the touchstone of his presidency. People change, circumstances change. News at 11.
About 2% if I recall correctly.
Hah, I wish I noticed that before upvoting this..
Fakeer, you've been banned or hell banned for some reason. Nothing in your comment history stands out to me, so you might want to talk to the admins to see what happened.
Graffiti is a trivial crime, and it's an outrage there would even be the suggestion of a 13 year sentence. The best way to deal with graffiti is to gradually increase the financial cost of doing it each time caught. If it goes beyond financial costs, for example if the person is unable to pay as their fees climb with multiple offenses, then the next punishment should be probation, and then when all else is exhausted jail time. Point being, the last resort for this should be jail time.

It's a classic example of America's aggressive police state in action. One year for this crime would also be outrageous.
Cool! If anyone has an invite to this I'd love to try it out, the demo seems cool.
E-X-A-C-T-L-Y

Although I would make a case for profiling based on names.
I feel that very deeply as a french student attending one France's top engineering school (École Centrale Paris), and currently living in the US.

No one I meet here has ever heard of my school, and I kind of feel like I have to prove myself again outside of school, if I want to have a chance of being noticed by the big companies here.

The whole effect is also increased by the fact that the size of french universities is at least ten times smaller than US universities on average (my school has 500 students per year), and virtually invisible in global ranking that are based on the number of published papers...
Very nice. You mentioned the 'moving to folders' is coming soon? That would be great! Also - would it be better to make the add subscription easier to find? I was unsure where it was at first. Although I would use the keyboard shortcut 'a' now the average user may be inclined to look for an icon or something more obvious? Anyway - great job - just my 2 cents.
No, you don't have to live there. As part of the account creation process, you donate a small amount of money ($5, iirc) to one of their local partners, and that satisfies the "participates in associations" aspect of the rule.

EDIT: See "Persons participating in programs to alleviate poverty or distress that are located in the approved area" on the members page
You don't get it, do you. The guy shouldn't do one second in jail. The threat of 13 years will almost assuredly lock the guy up for a lesser time and make it seem fair. It's not fair.
Yes, please! :D
You know what they call data you don't have backed up, right? It's called "data you don't want".

(And remember - S3 is not a sufficient backup for your EC2 storage - they're both susceptible to problems with your ASW account. Get that stuff onto disks you own as well, or at least onto a different could storage provider paid with a different credit card. Or at very least, have multiple funding sources in your AWS account, and enable 2FA on your logins)
I've given the full overview, but the plan for developing it is to do exactly that. Sadly, even the simplest things are hard for me to complete without collaboration. That's why I'm looking for help.
One neat perk is that they're super excited about supporting bitcoin. It doesn't really talk too much about it on their website, but they were at the bitcoin conference this year.
Has anyone else become seriously depressed over all this?

I mean the TSA was one thing, they are still horrible but I never fly or take a bus or train, I just hate the idea of them existing.

But since the NSA exposure, I just feel seriously depressed about the state of who is running this country and the "just try to stop us" thug mentality. It's a weight on my mind constantly this past month.
This thread is big meaningless distraction...
The main point is: You Are all being illegally spied on
The land of the free is a big lie.
Fintech is at an interesting crossroads. One road in the Internet. The other is the need for transparency/security. Since general solicitation is now legal; we'll see all types of programs released. May the best technology win. Dealflow is king. It will be the determining factor.
About that $600 figure, if you click the text you get something closer to the truth:

It was actually closer to $300 / night, but $600 sounds better
Yup...

Even sites with good search functions are often still way outclassed by google search with "site:..."—and most sites don't have good search functions...
Why does every photographer have to use that "make colors look like xbox games" effect on their photos? I much rather look at unprocessed photos that have not been distorted by color enhancing filters.
Show HN: my startup - a "distributed process monitor" for the enterprise
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Reminds me more of Dutch Schultz:

http://www.feastofhateandfear.com/archives/dutch.html
It's probably an optic with a coating that reflects some percentage (probably a small percentage) of the light, and a second detector.

http://www.edmundoptics.com/optics/beamsplitters/
You mean this? http://www.snopes.com/politics/conspiracy/monsanto.asp
New Relic did a great job on their 404 page
I think that line pales in comparison, and that is being generous. Anyway, Carl Malamud was already using it for a different purpose: https://yeswescan.org/
You also have to presume that terrorists will attempt to look like U.S. citizens (e.g. "John Smith" connecting from a U.S. IP via tunnel) to avoid surveillance.
Join an anarchist or communist group in your local area.
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If it makes you feel any better, most indications are that President Obama (very modestly) scaled back these programs. In other words, it's not that it's getting worse, it's just that we didn't know how bad it was before.
Don't worry, $1.25m buys a lot of pivots.
Most crashes as shipped are just the shader over running maximum time and it being killed, AIUI, rather than actual segmentation faults or attempts to read garbage. Most actual known issues that are potentially security concerns are worked around through preprocessing what the driver gets, and given the level of testing I don't worry about it more than any other OS component security wise. The biggest risk would probably be a new driver release shipping with bug leading to exploitable code being executed.

Also, if I'm not mistaken Chrome shipped first: and they'd done masses of fuzzing of both their code and the drivers. Nobody really rushed into it, everyone keeping it off by default for an unusually long time to catch issues before shipping.
You're not alone. What's been seriously depressing is the relatively weak public outrage. It's hard to say whether the One-Way Panopticon is a product of democracy's failure, or of its success.
>So who the F can we trust?

Hint: not the secretive spy agency.
Judge Howard Shore told Mr. Olson’s attorney to refrain from "mentioning the First Amendment, free speech, free expression, public forum, expressive conduct, or political speech during the trial".

How can you even say that in court and retain your position as a judge?
Interesting idea. Unfortunately it won't fly with me because the checking has a $2 monthly maintenance fee and they don't post their interest rates (if there are any) in an easily locatable place.
Google building Android Game Console
Is it possible to climb Golden Gate bridge legally? Or any other bridges in the USA?

I know this is allowed in some places. In Sydney, climbing Harbor Bridge is a tourist experience. see bridgeclimb.com
Yeah, but what specifically are they going to do to help the "internet community."

Is it giving low costs loans to people who want to start businesses that happen to use the internet, or is it going to give loans to businesses that help facilitate internet infrastructure.

The website made it look like they'll give a low interest loan to anyone who simply uses the internet & the only reason that condition seems to be there is because you have to use the internet to get to the credit union. More likely just low cost loans to whoever is a member of the Internet Credit Union. Doesn't really seem to have any cooperative aspect to it about promoting the internet as a community.
Naive, naive comment. Its all about the money. The cyber security apparatus is worth more than 80 billions. Terrorism is a creation from the same people seeking to profit from it. No, candidate Obama and President Obama are roles played by the same individual, neither is true, just like an actor playing a script, his job is to convince you the script is real... What does matter is the money the actor brings to his sponsors.
Hadoop hype spawns $8M for DataTorrent, Splunk, Teradata
Now make a script to download several of those at once, and you are Aaron class felon...

This make me depressed :/
Interesting, assume you are referring to Gosu's open type system; in practice how does work?

I'm skeptical that Gosu's equivalent comes anywhere close to: http://vimeo.com/user18356272/review/66548723/a0d91288e1

It's fucking ridiculous, look at what is happening there and ask yourself, does a similar feature exist in my primary development language?

As a Scala user I cannot answer yes.
We use these extensively:

http://vssmonitoring.com/products/traditional_tap.asp

I'm not sure how they work, but the sales engineer said "mirrors". The fibre units are completely passive.
Encryption does not preclude the use of MAC, and MAC does not replace the use of encryption. My preferred solution is to add a MAC to my data and encrypt them both.
I never realized how powerful HBGary was. I knew they employed dirty tricks but I did not know they had so many unpublished 0-day exploits and sophisticated rootkits. I had this impression from the Colbert Report that they were inept government contractors who taunted Anonymous. Reading this article from Ars is rather terrifying-
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/black-ops-how-hbg...
A lot of the reason for the lack of very many new car companies for decades has been due to insider sponsored regulations meant to target upstarts and using political power to crush competitors (which of course has been tried on Tesla in a variety of ways).

Not suggesting you didn't know that, but it's still worthwhile to point out.
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As others have noted, this is very important.

Could care less about 2.85% or other silly gimmicks.
Some new thoughts that I had:

Will you currency support chargebacks? If so it will invite fraud, if not there will be big sob stories on how people spent their money and ended up not getting what they wanted from a merchant and having no recourse (assuming it gets popular enough that average people use it).

Right now PayPal charges merchants a 2.9% fee. I'd imagine your service would need to charge as high or higher fees since they benefit from economies of scale and experience.

If I use the service a couple times a month, the high fees are going to add up. I would be better off just taking the money I save and investing in the pro-environment ETF directly.

Apparently the break the law and ask for forgiveness approach is no longer viable due to increasing regulation and criminal penalties. See this for a very good resource:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5306988

You haven't mentioned how this project would be funded and the company organized.

Assuming you decide to try to play by the rules:
Would it be a non-for-profit? If so where will the requisite funding come from?

Would you plan on getting fund from VC? I'm not sure there is the possibility of big profits and growth to interest them.

Although you could build a cheap prototype/demo, it doesn't seem like you could make a cheap minimal viable product.
The EFF using Gandi is enough of a blessing for me. I've also never heard of Gandi enforcing their ToS in that manor. I did quite a lot of research on Gandi before choosing them. Finding complaints about their behavior is difficult.
Marc Andreessen: Beijing Should Be Another Silicon Valley, But….
Not that it's a popular language, but a type-provider-like feature was recently added to the dependently-typed language Idris (see https://github.com/edwinb/Idris-dev/commit/46964d7d57c18826d...).
Who is the most important intellectual of the past 25 years?
Virtual Stage of The Darpa Robotics Challenge Complete
> If they could tell the difference, then there would be no justification for dragnet surveillance.

... of Americans.
James, I'm in no position to help out someone right now, but I do hope things work out for you. I offer you my best wishes and an upvote. Best of luck and keep trying.
Yeah protests - just like with civil rights, it only took 50 years to end Jim Crow laws which were incredibly outrageous and it looks like it's going to be 50 years since Stonewall before gay people can finally be treated like human beings and marry across (most) states.

So in 50 years they will suddenly agree that maybe the TSA and the NSA are a step too far.
Nup. Tried diff browser/os. Let me know if I can help provide any info via DM.
It's a feature, not a bug.

They want to case a wide net.
> Eh, have to pin Guantanamo on Congress, not Obama.

Obama in 2008 -- "I will close Guantanamo". Don't fucking care what and who and other excuses. He promised, but didn't deliver. That makes him a liar. It is very simple. Now you can dissect that and ask, was he stupid and didn't know that he didn't have the power? Maybe. Well then he is a stupid liar. Was he aware that it wasn't really in his power to do that, well then he is an just a simple run of the mill liar.

People are also simple-minded and are easily manipulated. But that is exactly what the hope was about. The hope was that he wouldn't be like others. He wouldn't lie. He would say stuff like "I can't make that promise" if he really couldn't.

> if we don't get involved then we're just letting 100,000 people and counting kill themselves and stoke up sectarian violence

Apart from PR articles and lobbying campaigns, I can't remember the last time I heard the world in an uproar about US _not_ intervening and invading a country.

I knew exactly what he was by his voting record as a senator. He voted to give retroactive immunity to telecom companies spying on American citizens. It was plain and simple, a single action told me more about who he was than a thousand of his warm and sweet promises and hopes.
Abuse of power isn't intrinsic to government, but there's a huge difference between the type of power that the State can abuse vs private corporations.

1. Your association with private corporations is voluntary, unlike (for the large part) your association with government.
2. The State can and will use physical force and threats thereof to enforce it's authority.

To the extent Corporations abuse power ungoverned by the free market, they do so primarily via association with government.
What's the latest and greatest in terms of M$ feature availability on Mono these days?

A couple of years ago whatever the successor to LINQ to SQL was at the time, was not available/not implemented (maybe Entity Framework?)

Anyway, curious about doing equivalent of Scala + Play + Slick on Mono, which I assume is F# + .NET + Type Providers/LINQ to SQL.
Fortunately, we don't need public outrage. For once, we will be saved by the fact that our government is practically owned by large corporations:

The PRISM participants, specifically Microsoft/Skype, Google, Apple, and Facebook, have more customers outside of the US than they do inside of the US.

This "we only surveil foreign entities without a warrant" (despite being a lie) is more than sufficient to put a bullet in the head of the US internet industry, or at least its significant competitive advantage in the global market.

Google is leading the charge, but don't expect the others to be quiet about it, either— we're actually talking about direct effects on revenue here.

Many in Europe are already calling for penalties for violating EU privacy laws (many/most/all of these companies use the Double Irish tax minimization strategy, subjecting them to EU law at some point in the chain). Some municipalities and governments have already prohibited the use of e.g. Google Apps on security grounds.

You can't throw one of the largest industries in the US under the bus in the global market and not expect them to spend as much as they need to to protect their business models.
No, but that's the only way boot camps can guarantee a job. The person is worth their 'warm body' value.
Just to clear some of the myths surrounding the exams - I studied for only a week (and only one subject - physics) before the exams in 1997 (the year the paper leaked and the exams were re-administered). I cleared the exams with a rank of ~1500. In the two years prior to the exams I was busy making money assembling computers. Did not take any coaching either.

I guess what I am trying to say is that the exams are not as hard as they are made out to be, and the students, at least some students, are not as studiously dumb as they might seem in retrospect. I know that most of us who cleared the exams with decent ranks were just luckier that those who didn't.

Oh, by the way, I almost didn't join IIT because that year the tution fees were hiked by 10x (from $30 to $300 per semester).
No offense, the warm and fuzzies are great; but this is the anti-thesis of intelligent and productive discourse.

I wouldn't mind at all if they just wanted to create a safe place for these things to be voiced, but they threaten the integrity of the entire community with the current choice of actions.
I think the NSA considers this a feature, rather than a bug.

If they can't tell the difference it makes it far easier to suspend rights reserved for Americans in the process of spying.
Single Page: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/06/27/the_nsa_can...
Here Be Monsters
I just want him to leave now. I won't feel relief until I see that helicopter flying him away on that last day.

It's one thing when there is a clear idiot like Bush but when someone as educated and thoughtful as Obama supports this and lies to the people with word-play (making it legal instead of ending it) it just makes me sick.

Even worse, is watching all the liberals support and defend this and try to paint Snowden as someone selfish. Only commentator I can watch these days is Chris Hayes, he "gets it" because he is a progressive and not just blindly liberal.
I feel the same. Mostly because I feel helpless about it. How are we supposed to bring about real, lasting change? How can we trust a government that views the Constitution as an inconvenience instead of our most important legal document? One that they swore to uphold. I'm trying to come up with an effective way to help solve this problem, but everything, including encryption, has serious issues. The only truly effective thing I can think of is to start using Bitcoin, because the government has no power if it can't tax, but Bitcoin is a whole new area of FUD.
When protests don't work in democratic nations it's because defeatist attitudes keep people home. You know what they say, if you don't try then you've already lost.

As it stands right now this may be our best shot. Y'know... that and sitting around bitching about it on the internet.
When you monitor all of the network traffic, you can easily deanonymize (even encrypted) tunnels via simple timing attacks. VPNs don't help.

I keep getting into discussions with people this month about Tor, and they keep bringing up the fact that "we don't know how many tor nodes are run by the government or other attackers". Fact is, if you can monitor all of the long-haul network traffic in full, you don't need to run _any_ tor nodes to deanonymize all of the users. You can just watch the traffic flows as they go into the tor network, bounce around, and pop out - encrypted or not.
I don't think he's upset because Stripe has a new competitor. I think he's upset because MasterCard copied every little detail of Stripe, down to the wording and the little UI details. I would be upset, too, if a large company released a product that was a mirror image of mine.
Looks like they don't handle recurring charges for you. So you'll have to be the one to hold onto the card number and jump through the PCI compliance hoops. Or go with a card vault service.
What's the difference between an American and a Foreigner?
Start by referring to the holiday properly, as Independence Day.

Perhaps part of the reason it's lost so much meaning is that nobody refers to it by anything but a number.
Your Email icon looks suspiciously like Customer.io's logo...
That's interesting, because what I've read indicates he has massively scaled up the programs, including through the continued expansion of PRISM during the last four plus years.

Do you have any sources where I can read up on Obama scaling back the programs by comparison? In all seriousness.
I disagree. I have an Amazon EC2 instance and use that as a backend for some apps. I doubt that any of this data transmitted over unsecure HTTP is in Utah.
Right. Beast has been demonstrated live on stage. It's on Youtube. Paypal couldn't block it in time even though they probably heard it was coming.

RC4 is broken and the bias attack is very bad, but the attack requires a lot more connections.
>Wait, you commented on your own submission with this rant

What the fuck does that even mean?

Should the poster of an article not add his opinions on the article he posted?

I posted it because I found it interesting. Including interesting enough to comment on.

>Why bring it up here? We've already hashed out this entire discussion, as you can see in my other comment that you've downvoted.

Huh? I didn't downvote anything. In fact, when I left this thread, mine was still the only comment. I just come back and was pleasantly surprised to see 9 more comments added. Paranoid much?
Sqwiggle from the article sounds like it would make it more obvious when everyone is working.