skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He's making the same argument terrorists sometimes use to justify their actions. We're not innocent -- that by paying taxes, voting, and otherwise being a member of our society, we're culpable for what that society chooses to do.

Actually, I'm not making that argument. This may be a subtle difference that is not important for this discussion, though.

My argument is that as a victim of the US government, it doesn't make sense to keep supporting the system that is victimizing me. All the work I do in my life will be approximately 1 step forward, 1 step back.

(Quite literally, as the tax rate is probably roughly around 50% in all, though I don't really mean it in that sense.)
Firefox did a lot of work to make CAC cards work for the DoD, they didn't develop a FIPS module just for the fun of it.
Android: http://www.war-worlds.com/blog/2012/06/on-android-garbage-co...

C#: http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/06/01/interview-with-mat...

Ruby: https://blog.twitter.com/2011/building-faster-ruby-garbage-c...
(It was not good enough, they dumped Ruby)

Accepted answer? "Manual tracking of objects"
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2484079/how-can-i-avoid-g...

Google has 14 million web pages about Garbage Collector issues...
Love it! You guys keep getting awesome-er. If I may make one humble request...would love to see a lower transaction limit (<0.01BTC) in the API. My personal project (and I) would be forever grateful.
Ah: https://coinbase.com/verifications
This is only true for people who care about "Internet points".

As others have pointed out, there are many other metrics.
Number of lives you positively affect, for those of us who work in large-scale projects. Dollar bills for those who choose to get paid. Recognition by peers for those who choose to publish papers/reviewed articles.

And to be completely trite, "you get back what you put in". If all HN is to you is a place to collect Internet points, yeah, that's pretty shallow. If you think it's a place where you can have interesting discussions with people with similar interests, it's a completely different kettle of fish. I'm not here for my karma points, I'm here because I occasionally enjoy the discussions. (And I comment because I wait for my compiler ;)
Ooh that's a clever use of reshape, but wrong sadly. Yet you're right I could make it simpler, it was just what came first to mind, I did not even check it. Imagine typical sentences:

$ echo Foo foo foo. | rs -T
Foo
foo
foo.

$ echo Foo foo foo. | tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' | sed 's/[^A-Z]/\
/g' | grep -v '^$'
FOO
FOO
FOO

Also the link mentioned using wiki articles for testing, so they would have paragraphs and that's where reshape shines for things like emails, but fails here:

$ cat foo
Foo

foo

foo.
$ <foo rs -T
Foo foo foo.
$ <foo tr 'a-z' 'A-Z' | sed 's/[^A-Z]/\
/g' | grep -v '^$'
FOO
FOO
FOO

That that's though makes me think, should I treat contractions special? What about plurals? It's starting to get silly now.
As a symbolic statement by DEF CON, I like the "no feds" thing. Pragmatically, it probably won't much much difference, since any Feds who want to attend can probably attend and just not identify themselves as feds. OK, yeah, Keith Alexander might be spotted, but the average run-of-the-mill FBI or NSA geek probably isn't all that recognizable unless they wear their official ID or something.

BUT... looking at it from the "keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" perspective, I'm not sure this is a Good Thing. The feds are going to do what they're going to do, regardless of what DEF CON does. Might as well invite them in, pick their brains, and learn as much as possible to help counter their shady machinations.
Second Major Android Vulnerability Discovered
That's like asking why are taxes above 0%? There are plenty of rational people who understand what it takes to have a successful modern society. Looking at the current US feelings on money and welfare, do you really think that if this was done we would err on the side of too much assistance? I would bet it would be barely livable at first.
Is that "Go forth!" or "Go away!"? :)
Well, I actually feel much more victimized by the notion that society owns me than that I'm being spied on, although both are a problem. The societal ownership of inviduals is a much bigger problem in Europe (outside of the UK), which has never had a history of individual rights, which was the explicit purpose of the Founding Fathers when they created the US.
Use client certs then? Why do you feel current solutions don't work?
There's a fair amount of gloating around Cryptocat, but it protected people's communications from me, because I didn't know how to break it. So that's better than nothing.

Not if 'nothing' is "don't send the message", rather than the "send the message in the clear" that you're assuming.

Bad crypto gives end users false confidence in the security of their messages. They then send messages they normally wouldn't, and suffer the consequences when those messages end up being read by others.

Amateurs can play with crypto all they like for fun, but they have no business releasing a product to end users.
I don't agree with the statement that Secure Ideas makes; they are opting out because DEFCON is supposed to be an open collaboration place, but if the very netsec community doesn't have the balls to stand up to the extreme over-reach of the NSA, then we are farked.

Yes, most of us have known for years the extent of the spying the NSA/USG does -- and I believe it's time to take back some individual sovereignty -- the NSA has all but dissolved this.

For me, this is not a political issue, its a human rights issue. I have no respect for the NSA and its apologists, period.
California's Proposition 13 property tax law.

Much of the special exemptions relating to health care and insurance which effectively tie it to employment, while restricting the ability for other groups to form for pooled risk. Addressed somewhat under Obamacare.

Big Ag subsidies.

Patent and copyright laws.
This is debatable.[1] After hearing about this through NPR I initially thought that it was terrible; however, after doing more reading it seems to be unclear what kind of effect this is actually having on their economy.[2]

[1] http://marcfbellemare.com/wordpress/2013/01/quinoa-nonsense-...

[2] http://ain-bolivia.org/2011/05/bolivian-quinoa-questions-pro...
I'm not sure that language features making code more succinct really ruin the question.

The C# isn't even that succinct compared to doing a similar thing in other popular languages. For example, in Haskell:

topTenWords :: String -> [String]
topTenWords = take 10 . map fst . sortBy (flip (comparing snd)) . map (\l -> (head l, length l)) . group . sort . words
iPhone doesn't come with bloatware? Why couldn't Ubuntu pull that off as Apple has? Less bargaining leverage, I guess...
I remember seeing a headline in Thailand "rise in rice prices hits small farmers hard". I've seen similar things in Kenya: "high maize prices devastate small farmers."

It turns out many subsistence farmers (of which there are roughly a billion) are net consumers of their staple crop. In order to survive, the poor diversify across a variety of agricultural products. Large industrial farming operations are growing the rest of the rice/maize ... and I'm guessing quinoa.

So, if the same pattern holds here, farmers consume more quinoa than they sell, and suffer when prices go up.
> And while I'd probably still do something, I'd no longer see any need to make any compromises to work together with anybody else.

How is this a problem, when all the essencial work is done by machines and people who do like to do those particular types of work?

"Work is fulfilling" is one of many illusions the society created to shield itself from the fact that we are still, as we have been for the entire history, slaves who can only either work or starve. We are used to this state of the world so much that we've invented many cultural memes so that we can feel good about it.

It is very similar to how people invent 1001 reasons why death is good and gives meaning for life. It doesn't. It's just we can't bear the sadness of our situation, so we invent excuses and stockholm-syndrome ourselves to avoid the pain.
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I think they make a really good point, which is that true neutrality is something beneficial for the whole community.

Besides, DEFCON's statement was symbolic. If the NSA is watching us constantly anyway, they're going to be hacking us and us hacking them even if we and/or they are not at the conference.
I agree. I think I actually meant to ask about "intra-solar-system" travel.
5 reasons to avoid code comments
It's a slightly pedantic thing, but since the article is about the syntax of the loops, the author has misused the range loop in most cases.

When you only provide one variable for assignment, you are actually assigning the key (or incremental value), not the value, the syntax is:

for key, value: := range someThing {

When you do:

for something := range someThing {

something won't have the value. If you just want the value you need to use:

for _, value := range someThing {
I wonder then, what about the Melanesians that have 6% of DNA of a unique population?

Or that asians and whites have wildly different reactions to milk.

Or that some diseases only affect blacks, or whites, or whatever?

This is not data? People use freely the same techniques to categorize humans, to categorize other animals with significant variations in their species, why only humans you must not use the word "race" and use other words to describe the same thing?
To put this in perspective, a fairly typical 1.6kg hexrotor with NO payload will pull around 200W of electrical power in hover[1].

These guys are lifting 130kg with ~750W...

[1]: 6.6Ahr battery @ ~14.4V, 95Whr of power. It'll go through that in slightly under half an hour, so it's pulling ~200W in hover.
Small scale multirotors aren't very efficient.
http://www.mikrokopter.de/ucwiki/FlugZeit#MikroKopter_als_He...
Key line: "When we upgrade or update products we aren't absolved from the need to comply with existing or future lawful demands."

That sounds a lot like "we will introduce backdoors in MS updates".
Well, welcome to high-level programming

count = take 10 . map head . reverse . sortBy (comparing length) . group . sort . words

That's ignoring Unicode rules for word splitting of course
That's a reason I use different sets of SSH keys from different hosts, or at least different classes of hosts.

It's rather troubling to find that many SSH management tools (including Puppet/Chef recipes) deal poorly with multiple keys per user.
I am aware of how the accounting works, technically, which is why I added the parentheses.

Perhaps you can provide more detail as to how you think it changes the analysis in the context of this discussion.
Transforming Our Company
Looks like somebody wants to nominate themselves for a government contract.

A statement such as "We believe the exclusion of the "feds" this year does the exact opposite at a critical time." is just ridiculous. Even more bizarre is the idea of mentioning openness in the (current) government context.

If there is a positive effect between the openness of the hacker community and the Feds then why did we end up with the current situation?

The current situation is incredibly bad so I absolutely support the decision by DEF CON. Even if there is only one single occasion where people stop talking/avoiding a person who is working to close with government agencies this is a success.

People who work for these agencies will always hide behind some "greater good" narrative and avoid taking personal responsibility. My hope is that by getting personally shunned by their former peer group it might help them realize that this is not longer just business-as-usual.

Government loves to really up the public with the us vs them rhetoric so they definitely deserve a dose of their own medicine.
There are other plants that provide the "complete" protein profile. For example, hemp seeds do.
Oh yeah, I have no doubt that's true for a lot of people but as far as I know you folks are still a small minority.

Even when I'm doing CSS and I spend a lot of time in firebug/dev tools that's just for experimentation, the first step before interacting with git is still changing some file which I do in an editor. Although I also use a lot of "live preview triggered on save" type workflows rather than building stuff in the browser which I know is unusual (not for long I'm guessing).
10/100 Ethernet?! What the? This is 2013...
I don’t think alfred does that by default, does it? Even with the powerpack.
Well, that's kind of my point, isn't it? Except the meaning of "long-term" changes fast as the progress of technology accelerates.
Bitbucket has side-by-side diffs.
They just have casino & hotel surveillance run facial recognition on everyone anyways.
the CA's become single-point-of-compromise for the whole PKI. It's a bit more nuanced than that. A compromised CA can issue new certs which can spoof old one's identity, but it can't be used to create certs which will read traffic from an existing host. The big risk is that someone is subject to a MITM attack, doesn't clue in on the certificate change (their client should note this), and accepts the new key.

Signed / validated keys (used for major sites in some browsers) also help this somewhat.

Not that SSL/TLS isn't a huge mess.
the way I see it, it's "impossible" because (for example) if you use plug to keep your music in sync, it won't be viewable in iOS's music app, only through whatever app plug puts together.
Some comment styles can fill a lot of screen space.

Configure your editor to hide them then. Other than the maintenance problem of comments falling out of sync with code, I don't think these reasons hold up well.
I just shot Dylan an email -- thanks for the recommendation.
A failproof way of getting together with the person you like!
Email? Be more specific about your use case.
I'm pretty sure nudge is not a Bernays reference (could be wrong). It's, well I am not too sure, but likely out of Chicago School of economics.

As for rocks going up hill, old old books, bloke called Sisyphus.
Shared or VPS hosting, for one.

http://xmission.com/hosting
I am pretty sure this is parent's conclusion of his logical argument.*

So the citation you are looking for is the bunch of sentences before the one you quote.

* which sounds a little bit like an open question "am I wrong ?" type.
Isn't the point of bitcoin to stay anonymous? It's nice to be able to purchase it instantly, but it seems to be going against the purpose of bitcoin.
The image stabilization and a proper optics set seem nice, but honestly 41MP sensor is practically useless itself. Even professional cameras with high quality sensors are not usually sensor resolution limited - i.e. increasing resolution wouldn't be much use since at the pixel level the image is already at a significant noise level/optics limited. For such a small sensor and f-number, I guess 41MP is not only useless, it's detrimental, because you're paying for nothing. Although it's possible it may improve quality a bit wrt lower resolutions due to downscale averaging.
A quick search revealed that quinoa is between £4.50 and £8 a kilo in the UK and brown rice is £1-£4 (depending on quality).

To the rice you could just add some bran (£2/kilo, but you don't need much) and another, cheap source of protein to make it similar to quinoa's nutirtional values.
Here's hoping that the free time slots are now filled with talks that discuss ways to escape the surveillance state. Particularly how systems for the use of masses could be erected.
With the info you have, you can easily figure out the cipher and apply it to the middle initial. This being said, it still means a recruiter has to go to some effort to scan the code to find where the ciphertext is and examine it.

I imagine webmaster@stephendiehl.com would also get to him.
The article implies that the off-by-one error in the Cryptocat random number generator is catastrophic. Correct me if I am wrong, but surely that is hardly the case. The random numbers generated are a tiny bit less uniformly distributed than they would be without the error. That's an imperfection but does it have any practical consequences at all ? I know that flaws like this can introduce weaknesses that are vulnerable to attacks, but my intuition tells me this flaw is very close to the "doesn't matter" end of the catastrophic->doesn't matter spectrum. I am more than willing to be educated by someone with specialised domain knowledge.
Stop saying mobile web apps are slow
And none of them work! I mean, my phone is locked to the Chinese App Store, you'd think the built in apps would at least work here also.

Also, who the hell decided to give a bunch of apps the same prefix in an alphabetically ordered list?
If a full time job doesn't pay enough for people to live on, then they will make up the difference with government assistance (e.g., my tax money).

I'd rather see them go on full government assistance, so they can spend full time looking for a job that DOES pay enough to live on. That costs more up front, but should cost less in the long run, and since I expect to be paying taxes for a long time I care more about the long run.
Maybe the application could generate a randomized number of empty fakes whenever a new user signs up, and then fill them up overnight or during another low-load period. But this would obviously not help as much if the system was already compromised.

Also, to make things really convincing, there would also need to be fake transactions which the application could somehow recognize as such. The solution to that might be with fake products, these being in fake product categories that are in a fake category root. Complicated, yes.
Del Mundo.
For some people the point of Bitcoin is to get rich via speculation.
Can this learning be something in the genetic makeup, that these worms now have some kind of genetic advantage to find the food?
JS isn't that bad if w/ underscore or d3:

d3.entries((s.split(" ").reduce(function(p, v){
v in p ? p[v]++ : p[v] = 1;
return p;}, {})))
.sort(function(a, b){ return a.value > b.value; })
.map(function(d){ return d.key;})
.slice(-10);
brown rice tastes bad and has anti-nutrients that block absorption of B vitamins and minerals like magnesium
Edward Snowden and the disaster of privatization
Actually I just meant that it's not unusual for 14 year olds to be generally attractive. Some teenagers are models and actresses and popular because of their mature looks. If you seek out relationships with 14 year olds, then that's some kind of paraphilia, but if a teenager (virtual or otherwise) starts making the moves on an adult man, then you just hope he has the willpower and sense to say no even though, biologically, you couldn't blame him for being interested.
Just want to say that I love this clarification and I hope you don't mind if I use it in the future
You never had problems with out-of-date comments ?
We still need karma for linking because Google failed to provide us with the long term value it demonstrated to society when it was established. Had Google been successful, (at something other than Ad Words) then these other forums wouldn't be so popular.
If I give you cash, can I buy bitcoin without the hassle of fully verified identification?
I too work in the newly-named "Cloud and Enterprise" group. Previously we were "Server and Tools Division" which also included Active Directory, Azure, and some other stuff as well.

The new name makes a lot more sense to me (and makes for a better acronym too).
If you're curious, the source to peer library is at: https://github.com/peerlibrary/peerlibrary :)
Idea: Uber for cash
Assuming it just runs it as a shell command (and fires up a shell in doing so), that would work.
To Combat Leaks, Russia Brings Back The Typewriter
I'd say it depends on the person.
A feature bitcoin provides is it can be "anonymous", however most bitcoin purchases and purchasers don't need anonymity.

see here: http://zerocoin.org/
As usual: if you want to see the real reason - follow the money.
"We do not want to make this a "political" move"

Bullshit, that's exactly what it is.
It's key/value store, not "key-value".

The slash: http://goldmanosi.blogspot.com/2012/04/when-did-slash-become...
Someone credible is finally trying to compensate for the abysmal failure that is Bitinstant (see http://bitinstantscam.com and basically any Bitcoin forum). That is fantastic.

However, let's not get carried away. This is not instant for first-time users. You still have to go through verification and wait at least 4 business days for your first purchase to go through before reaching the qualifications for instant purchases. Coinbase really needs to adopt convenient, instant deposit methods such as Western Union and Moneygram in order to reach critical mass.
Am I the only one who read that as "Quora" should be taking over the world and ... And went to the Post looking for a really strange article

Quite interesting nonetheless
Software is becoming a cheap commodity, due to open-source, due to the freemium model on the web, due to piracy, due to the $0.99 or ads-enabled apps that are so popular lately.

Cheap software is becoming a cheap commodity.

It's relatively easy for any competent software developer to write a diary app with a pretty UI skin, or a basic text editor and formatting engine to drive a lightweight word processor, or a simple puzzle game. I could write a relatively good application in any of those categories in a weekend, and no doubt so could thousands of other people on HN today.

And importantly, that's just fine. There are very many people who will get some value from a fun puzzle game or a simple personal organiser, and who will pay a small amount in return, and so there are many software developers who make a decent income writing just that kind of software.

But what about the next level up? When I had to write a serious document for an organisation that normally used an on-line "office suite", I gave up and switched to more traditional software. It turns out that things like footnotes and cross-references and tables of contents and careful page layout matter if you're producing something that many people are going to spend a lot of time using, and at the time Google Docs could do exactly none of those things while Word could do them all easily. At the rate they were paying me, with the time saved by using the more powerful software, the cost of that software was probably recovered in days, if not hours.

The reality of modern web and mobile software is that a lot of it is cheap, and it should be cheap, because it adds only a little value and it isn't very hard to create it. The trouble is that some software does add a lot more value and is hard to create and shoudn't be cheap, but companies like Microsoft have inadequately defended their ground and so even software that could save a customer $1,000 a week gets comments like "$10? No way!" on app stores.

This isn't a "Post PC" era. This is the "Web Era".

Not until Google Docs does footnotes and cross-references and tables of contents and careful page layout, it isn't. Some people just got the wrong memo.
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I think I might need to clarify the issue -- the problem isn't that you can't pay out to multiple people, it's that you have to pay out to each person with a separate call to the API.

In order to pay out to two separate people, you'd need to make 2 POST requests to transfers#create (at least as far as I can find in Stripe's documentation). I feel like instead of one transfer at a time, it should be both transfers at once. Say you have a cart with 5 items in it. That means 5 separate POST requests, when this seems kind of unnecessary -- why not send them and process them all at once? PayPal supports this behavior, so why not Stripe?

In other words, a request might look like

{ charges:
[
{seller_id: 12, amount: 400},
{seller_id: 13, amount: 400},
{seller_id: 14, amount: 400},
{seller_id: 15, amount: 400}
]
card_number: 1283123412341234
...
}