skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not? Sounds like a reasonable band-aid to me.
Bernia de la Rionda is the one who should be fired. Along with the judge.
I also regret that somewhat now. It'd be nice to actually see where I started out from instead of just assuming that I did half-efforted head seperations.
If you were being paid more money to grow beets on land that could support soybeans, why wouldn't you grow beets? It's economically rational to the farmer who's getting subsidies -- even though it's economically irrational for the world as a whole.

Subsidies distort the market, and produce completely illogical results. You can't get rid of just one subsidy, because that just gives an advantage to the next-most-subsidized item. But remove all the subsidies, and things will return to an economically-rational state of affairs.
> I often sat in the library reading back issues

Luckily, my college had a very complete collection of BYTE, dating back to their second or third year. I am quite sure I read everything they had.
The Melbourne shuffle isn't that hard, you can learn it in a week or so.
By the way,.Brazil gasoline alcoholis are currently US corn alcohol.

US subsidies to corn and subsidies to.any ethanol.resulted that selling cane ethanol to US and buying corn ethanol turns a profit for fuel.companies. Yes, it is that bad, diesel.pollution with shipping and all.
Twitter's lessons learned in service oriented architecture
Fair enough. For what its worth I personally don't hold much of an opinion one way or the other. As I said in original comment this perception originates in story bias. I love the Economist and they do a pretty good job of putting the facts in there but having read it now three times, two of them critically, I still come away with the impression that they are "damning with faint praise" these governments.
Yes, it ended up playing out that an employee saw an potential instance of misconduct and did not try to correct it within the organization. By informing his boss (or their boss, etc. on up the line) he could have demonstrated in addition that the boss is corrupt and should be removed from duty.

Now because of due process (there's no actual evidence that his boss wouldn't have actually done the right thing, the employee just assumed) the boss will still have her job and be in position to act contrary to the interests of justice in the future.

And at this point his management has a reason to remove him from the job. Maybe he can fight it as a wrongful termination, but for now he's out of a job. I hope he gets his job back, but saying that your boss is corrupt is reason enough to give your boss enough rope to hang themselves IMHO.
Doesn't "link" imply some common cause or connection? Saying you can use A to improve B isn't really what I would describe as a link.

Why couldn't it have been titled "quantum non-locality could change game theory equilibrium"...or would it have not been sensational enough?
All this time, I've been a jock?!
http://checkup.io - It's a simple idea, we monitor your sites and let you know when they are down.
Show HN: Appcubator - Easy way to Prototype Web Apps
These sorts of things are subjective. I personally like Ruby at least twice as much as Python. Since Ruby is far more Perl-like than Python, it's hardly a surprise that a Perl programmer thinks it's better.
There are "born" dancers out there, which just kinda grew into it. The rest learned the stuff, and hell did it look akward in the beginning. If you want to dance, just start doing some moves, see how you can make them look good, and then see what other cool moves there are.
Moorcock this is the official purpose, they never even feigned it being something'.else.
Hah I never noticed that. It is strangely incredibly fast...
I'm not quite sure about that, people feel quite intimidated when they see how this government treats people like Snowden and Manning. I would argue that the self-censorship is one way to avoid being treated like them.
> any one else notice the shoutout in toy story one to BYTE?

No. Where is that?
No, I've published two books previously with traditional companies, and wanted to try something new.
Thanks for sharing. I have been a similar service called Cloudmailin.com to extract tracking numbers from third party drop shipping suppliers. They have a decent API, might have to check out your service next time I need to set one up.
Clojurescript book from oreilly, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025139.do

(On the whole, a really excellent set of books for the language)
Border Patrol has 10 Predators in operation along the U.S. border. They're supposed to only be used within 30 miles of the border, but they loan them out to other agencies for more internal purposes all the time, including detecting fishing violations.

> According to the documents, CBP already appears to be flying drones well within the Southern and Northern US borders, and for a wide variety of non-border patrol reasons. What’s more — the agency is planning to increase its Predator drone fleet to 24 and its drone surveillance to 24 hours per day / 7 days per week by 2016.

There appear to be no privacy controls for citizens currently, but they may add them… eventually.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130705/17154023725/borde...

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/07/customs-border-protect...
Yes, it's also a brand name of a prominent manufacturer.
From the government's perspective, Bitcoin could be the least of very many evils. Don't forget that the protocol logs every single transaction publicly, and companies have the usual mandatory reporting for transactions over $10,000. In the future, if Bitcoin becomes a well established currency, Bitcoin companies would have no option to refuse requests for information - Liberty Reserve is a good example of what noncompliance will result in. They could only pray the deal is not altered further.

Sidenote: Liberty Reserve was shut down a month after the FinCen released clarification of regulations that neatly closed the loophole they exploited, and at the same time greatly legitimized Bitcoin operators that comply with the strict MSB regulations.
IEEE's "Computer" and "Software" seem able to endure a couple more decades.
How Google Glass can evolve as a tool for journalists
this could actually be interesting for event organizers. one could forward their rsvp@event.com email address to mailparser.io and get a csv file back with all the attendee names in it.
Wish you guys were in New Jersey ... ;)
Now there's an industry ripe for disruption. Must be patents.
Heh. So they can get a P-1a visa now? That is an improvement over the mess of an O-1 or a dicey Tourist visa. A long time ago when the robotics club invited some Japanese Sumo robot competitors over there was a tremendous fuss over what sort of Visa they could get.
Post-Scarcity Economics
I googled "site:malwaredomains.com compression" and nothing turned up. Can you recall any instances? Do you know where they get the data from? I must be missing something obvious but I don't see where the describe the how the list is created.

NB: I am not disagreeing with you I am just curious to look at some of the recent compression vulnerabilities.
Which site are you meaning? Thinks like Google? Its made me realise how much I depend on so-called normal layouts for things like next page buttons etc. something I had never thought about really.
Obviously I don't frequent many sites that are primarily in another language, Der Speigel is the only one I think. That site is left to right reading so it can follow the same formatting styles as English. I haven't noticed any German language related layout quirks there.
Did you read the about section?

The fragment is never sent to the server.
Brilliant!!. Can someone point me to an open source project which uses core.async so I can see it in action.
Added the example to the same Gist:

https://gist.github.com/mraleph/5991990#file-example5-dart
Lexeme - A simple lexical analyzer written in ruby
Thanks for the tips, cmer! I was always a big fan of AjaxWhois and am sad to see that it's gone. Why did you decide to sell it?
Pursuant to Brady and Giglio, a prosecutor has an affirmative obligation to turn over all testimony and documents that are exculpatory or tend to impeach the credibility of a prosecution witness.

In layman's terms, a prosecutor has a duty to turn over all evidence of innocence to the defense, and failing to do so is a violation of the law and ethical rules.

I should note this includes expert reports, especially when the underlying evidence is of the "data dump" variety.

Unfortunately, it is extremely common for prosecutors to try to skirt this rule. Much like police protect one another, employees of some district attorneys are expected to cover these violations as an almost routine matter.

As prosecutors enjoy almost absolute judicial immunity, the regulations in the Rules of Professional Conduct are all that provide for sanctions in case of a violation. This measure has proved rather toothless as many state ethics boards, often composed of former prosecutors, are reluctant to issue sanctions.

Even in the most egregious violation of the Brady rule that I have seen, which occurred during the Duke lacrosse team case when ex-DA Nifong hid an exculpatory DNA report, the state ethics bar did not issue sanctions for that violation.

Credentials: I am not a lawyer, but I have worked as a paralegal for several years and captained a mock trial team for both high school and college. I have written documents that have been submitted in the courts after approval by attorneys, some specifically on this point.
The guy's talking absolute hogwash about reading it for the ads. Yes, some of them had nice stuff, but the there were a load of great columns and a young me read most of them, learning a whole load. I still probably have a bunch of paper clippings somewhere!
you should mention your current technology stack for the web dev.
why can't you spend $20 per customer?

Because the cost per click is roughly $X0, and (to put it mildly), a click is not a 100% guarantee that someone will buy a phone system.
Dictionaries are not politically neutral. They record the popular, not the best, understanding of a thing, and they privilege the "mainstream" from the perspective of very white, very male, middle class academia. In practical terms, dictionaries are good at telling you what a subset of the population thinks. It's more or less argumentum ad populum, indirectly.
this is my favourite conspiracy theory that the CPUs are backdoored. just assign a bunch of registers with some special values and execute a specific instruction and the CPU will drop all memory protection. take something like google's NACL or a javascript JIT where you have enough control over the registers and you have a permanent browser exploit.
Does anyone have an analysis of the drawings? How accurate are they? What about the detail of the human anatomy, is it comprehensive? Is there any meaning in the series of diagrams?
These questions won't decode the text, but they may give an indication of the quality of the text.
Based on a WAG, I'd say the book's text is not particularly informative, it is merely the "challenge" that generates the interest.
Linux Podcasts That Slipped Through The Net
it's all over the place since we have been building and rebuilding things, but currently it's mostly rails and node.js. Hosted on Heroku.
Ruby has two things over Perl: a reusable library built in the same object system you want to use (most of CPAN predates Moose and uses the brain-damaged vintage 1990 dispatch setup directly) and a culture of raising exceptions (rather than returning arbitrary bad values nobody remembers to check for). Sometimes I wish Ruby and Python could have merged, but it'd never work so long as Guido prefers expressing everything procedurally rather than in reusable block objects.
Thanks, I'd meant to set Strict-Transport-Security to solve that, now done.
It's pretty brand new, so I don't think there are any "real" projects using it yet. But you can check out this example repo from David Nolen (the blog posts author) for some more examples.

https://github.com/swannodette/async-tests
It's as mindcrime says.

When I hear/read people asking for ideas (or bemoaning the lack of one) I get a bit sad. I get sad because ideas come from experience. Not technical experience (although that's a good source too), but life experience. Snowboarding. Working a part time job. Doing Krav Maga. Working for a huge, ugly corporate. Each of these is the source of an awesome idea I have (I have seven that have legs).

Here's one of them. Go talk to a !good! DTP guy at a media company like Ogilvy[1]. Ask him or her about the conflict of interest between the sales guy, the artist, and the DTP guy. And then think about a SaaS job-card workflow system for media houses that uses labels for tagging jobs, tracks changes to EVERYTHING, including hours spent on a job per person and job stage, provides an audit trail, and approvals process. These guys have serious pain. I've got a conceptual architecture I'm happy to share.

[1] I choose Ogilvy in particular for two reasons - first obviously, because I know a good DTP guy at Ogilvy. Second, because they're one of the largest media houses in the world, and still have problems with something as simple as getting a print ad campaign out the door for say, British Airways.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/31/139 Since there was a minor amount of confusion I want to clarify: RDRAND architecturally has weaker security guarantees than the documented interface for /dev/random, so we can't just replace all users of extract_entropy() with RDRAND.

I still don't get it.
We need posts like this for every language. Nowadays, thanks to the open-source culture, the ease of sharing and installing libraries, you can do just about anything with any language.

You can run a start-up on Python, Ruby, Java, Scala, C#, Haskell, OCaml, Clojure, Common Lisp, C++, etc... Programmer familiarity with language semantics and tools is likely going to make a bigger difference than the language itself.

Google runs on Python/Java/C++, Facebook runs on PHP/C++, Twitter on Scala/Ruby, and a number of large sites run on all sorts of other crazy languages.

Hearing about the pros of Perl from a Perl programmer is nice, even though I'm not particularly fond of Perl. I'm personally building apps in Clojure, because I like Lisps, Clojure has great features and a great environment, and it just suits the way I like to think about problems. I think it's the best language ever, but I also understand why people would think the same about Ruby, Python, Scala, JS, etc...

I think some people make too much out of posts like this, yes he thinks Perl is the best language, and it probably is for him. At the very least, he gives compelling reasons for Perl programmers to continue in Perl, and not feel like they 'need' to switch to Python or Ruby...
Do the right thing, wait to get fired? [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6029823
Forget drug trafficking. That's peanuts and far more risky that the other alternatives they have.

They could easily fund themselves with the information they are gathering by just maintaining a large investment fund that trades on any investments vehicles that are unlikely to result in insider trading finger pointing, such as commodities and currency.

Equity and debt markets would be hard to work with at scale and not get caught, but commodities and currency leave more than enough room to accumulate a sizeable operating budget if your information is very good.

Were I an institutional investor, I'd be very concerned about participating in the markets given this possibility.
I founded http://www.accountportal.com about 4 years back. We had our first paying subscribers within the first month, but growth over the first 12 months was very slow.

Things continued to grow at an moderately increasing rate after that. Our initial app was based on Adobe Flex (i.e. flash backend); worst decision ever. The iPad was released - initially we thought (hoped!) that the decision to not support flash would be overturned in time. After a few months it was clear that we had to change.

It took us 6 months to completely rewrite our app, during which time growth pretty much flat-lined. However, the rewrite was probably the best decision ever, since it has allowed us to move much faster then we ever could before, and subscription rates increased.

I'd say that it took us 3 years to get it "right". There are still loads of things we need to improve (product tours, engagement emails, etc), but we're getting there. Those first years were tough, and many times we thought of giving up. We're now doubling numbers every 12 months. We're up against some pretty huge competition, and those kind of growth rates suit us just fine given that we have always been 100% bootstrapped and that we're now cash positive.

The two biggest factors in gaining traction were:
(i) Trying loads of different approaches. Different marketing channels, different prices, different emails, different anything. Having said that, we sometimes get some really weird stats coming through that have no rhyme or reason. Why is one month 3 times more subscribers than the previous month, and then back down again? Sometimes it just feels like a "roll of the dice".
(ii) Not giving up. We were in the fortunate position of being able to stick it out for a long time (some may say longer than we should have). I sometime heard stuff like "good entrepreneurs know when to give up", and I'd guess that some (most?) would have in the same position as us after a year or two. The early years were an absolute slog - so be prepared to think in terms of years, not months.
you are right, this falls back in "normal" crypto-as-js security considerations.
Excellent! Though this is precisely illustrative of what I was talking about with respect to JavaScript likely needing promises and generators for non-trivial work. Is Dart going to add sugar over both futures and streams?
Can't help you guys out, but congratulations!
This was a very clear warning to all other state employees: if we sign your paychecks, you better help us throw people in prison when we want to - even if the facts don't support it. If you don't, we will not only fire you, but attempt to ensure that you never work again. It's a scary glimpse into the base nature of people attracted to jobs as prosecutors.

Prosecutors do serve a purpose in society. A small percentage of the people they incarcerate are actually dangerous and need to be restrained. However, the kinds of people that are attracted to spending their lives destroying the lives of other humans tend to be vindictive monsters and generally awful people, not unlike the worst of those they prosecute. I hope he sues for wrongful termination and is successful.
It seems like the compiled js code from the page's examples is quite large: csp.js minified ~83kb

I wonder if most of that is the runtime and libraries or the resulting JavaScript code is just that big.
I see your point, though thte important thing about Godel's incompleteness theorem is that it consists of a proof rather than being a emre conjecture. I do admire this paper insofar as it formally describes the problem and thus gives us the tools to use tools from domain A in domain B and vice-versa, but the actual discovery part fell a bit flat for me. Perhaps I let my expectations get raised too much by the information-poor press release.
It's not even universal across all KDM et al installs. None of my Arch + KDE4 log out when using ctr+alt+del.

On a side note, ctr+alt+backspace used to kill Xorg (still can if you enabled it - but these days that shortcut key is disabled by default)
This is a really, really, really great idea that I've been thinking should be practical for a couple of months now. I wish these guys the best of luck. I even started work on a (not yet even vaguely functional) prototype of an open-source version of pretty much the same idea ( https://github.com/seldo/makomi )
Thanks. I wonder what you'd like to see in terms of hard evidence?
It looks like it's using this CMS: http://git.develooper.com/combust.git/
Right you are, I missed that part.
What don't you get? RDRAND is an interface to a non-blocking PRNG backed by a HWRNG. You can't directly get the output of the HWRNG. Intel uses the PRNG to condition the output of the HWRNG, but it will still give you numbers if the HWRNG is having trouble (HWRNG errors can be detected, but the RDRAND instruction itself doesn't trap on HWRNG failures). If you trust Intel's PRNG sufficiently, then you can use RDRAND directly for /dev/urandom, but it takes a lot more trust to use it for /dev/random.
Faulty 3rd party software should never be allowed to cause kernel panics (aka BSODs)
Ok, then I misunderstood the comment. I was thinking they were saying $20 was too much to spend, not that they wish they could get away with only spending $20 per acquistion. Thanks for clarifying!
There are two issues here, I think. One, as a layman in math you end up reading about / paying attention to the discoveries you can parse and understand, thus introducing a bias by ignoring the results that require years of math training to understand. Second, the specific examples you listed are not entirely accurate or even comparable (one is a theorem, one an axiom). There is a risk of misunderstanding the results when they are presented in English, oversimplified and converted to common terms. This oversimplification may lose important details (not just formal stuff) and may end up with a common-sense sounding phrase that trivializes the result and doesn't really do it justice.
The FuqIt Web Framework
ugh had no idea intel was built into the core

i distrust
You misread the source. Your interpretation would only make sense if the article read 'violated public records law by retaining documents.' This is a pretty elementary grammar mistake on your part.
Socks, the Doctor and the End of the Universe
my understanding (and i'm not an expert - just trying to help with the discussion) is that getting sufficient entropy is quite hard. i vaguely remember at least one issue, perhaps on startup, where there was insufficient entropy to do something, and so people switched to some other less random source and screwed everything.

so if this reports unlimited (or at least, larger than anything else) entropy then there are likely situations where it's the only source available (people don't typically have lava lamps wired up). and then an attack seems possible.

[edit: while startup is the case of the bug i remember, you might "consume" entropy faster than it is generated at other times too (i imagine a server running https has a fairly high demand for entropy, for example).]
If you ideals aligned closely with the Founding Fathers then the very fact your government is spying on the citizens would be something to care about, it would matter.

The 'it doesn't really matter what they know about me' attitude misses the whole point. The point is, it really matters that they are collecting data on citizens. The Founding Fathers would be disappointed to know that apathy was the downfall of their vision.

And where will you flee to? What kind of life do you think you'll have in a world where America sets the standard and all other governments follow suit? Citizens around the world shrugging and finding ways to tollerate the new paradigm whilst still living as comfortably as possible, because being monitored doesn't affect them.
I feel like this could end up being a pretty good educational tool to get people/students/whoever interested in developing web applications as well.
I know these guys and I'm continually impressed with the quality of the work they put out. Good work!
The Heart of the Matter: A Film
https://appcubator.com/aboutus/

Yeah of course your mind would be blown since you're one of the co-founder of Appcubator...

Kind of a lame comment.

EDIT for Context: Deleted comment by user ksikka: "Woah. Mind Blown."
Further down the thread:

> Not to mention, Intel have been in bed with the NSA for the longest time.

> Secret areas on the chip, pop instructions, microcode and all that ...

What does "pop instructions" refer to here?