skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changing the port is still a worthwhile thing to do in many cases.

Military tanks aren't painted green because green paint is more bulletproof, they use green because hot pink tanks get shot at more.

Changing the port isn't armor, it's camouflage. Camouflage is still a useful thing.

Your point about not using a port north of 1024 is solid advice.
Almost everything DHS is doing now was being done before DHS. Even TSA was being handled by private security under FAA regulations, IIRC.

So while it may seem like an elaborate joke, it's not. Coast Guard does search and rescue work nearly every day, FEMA responds to natural disasters, etc.
To me, the key is dismantling the Leviathan and not allowing it to happen again.

My desires oppose your desires. Which of us gets to live in the world we desire to bring into being?

I hope the answer is that it is my world because I don't want to live in yours, thanks all the same.
Turning up blanks here trying to find any kind of project site for it, looks to be internal for now.

I've long wanted to see something like an Eclipse daemon offering tool support to external editors etc. Ensime [1] does something along these lines, getting Scala' compiler functionality into Emacs using the Swank protocol from Slime [2].

[1]https://github.com/aemoncannon/ensime

[2]http://aemoncannon.github.io/ensime/#tth_sEcC
Can't you just run an ssh gateway and accomplish the last goal, though?
Want to give money to an effective charity? Look for rules like these: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/~/media/GFO/Documents/Who%20W...
Silicon Valley's All Twttr (2006)
Is this the official launch price? The same company makes an atom box for $1,700.00

...just saying.
Maybe lawful should be in quotes. :-)
Scenario 1: You leave Vim to read HN for a while.

WakaTime will ask you when you return if you want to log that time to the current file or not. This happens if you're away for > 15 mins.

Scenario 2: You are reading code without editing it for 30 mins.

At wakati.me you can check the "save" checkbox to filter out any files/projects that were not written to. That file where you did not make edits won't be shown on the website.
I am wrong. No.
Is this per IP or for all incoming connections?
Did I miss something? Where does RescueTime come into this?

And yes, when they launched, people had the same worry about the server. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=80182

"I don't really look forward to any time tracking program that uploads my stats to a server. I guess Google will buy it, if you have success, as they want to know everything about everyone. I don't think anyone would want the government or Google to know your habits so well that they can make a profile for you..."
Weird language
People don't want to be perv-scanned, and they don't want to have to take their shoes off. I don't think they object to a 20th-Century level of inspection.
This spirit definitely still lives on in the Bay Area and tech world in general, but I think it's slowly being squashed by the sheer number of people who are going into tech for money (and only money).

Changing the world, connecting the "we", expanding consciousness are secondary to "crushing it". The things the author talked about in that article are seen are hippie, raver, or burner...

Why try to make this happen in the bay anymore when you're going to have to fight simply to get a room that you pay $1200 for? Better to flee to cheaper areas where you can have more time to hack and work on hippie projects. Or Oakland? I don't know.

On a sidenote, these guys seem to be fighting the good fight for this cause: http://freespace.io/events/
Yea it's not perfect, but you could just open a file and leave the editor open while you do other things for the project.
No, actually, it's not the point, it's completely tangential to any point.

Either someone has valid points or they don't.

It doesn't matter whether it's a pathological liar saying it, or the most truthful person in the world. Either his criticisms of duckduckgo have merit or they don't.

Motives, while interesting to speculate about, do not change the strength of the argument.
Of course what they're doing isn't as simple as my example. The point is you have to construct robust, enforceable and fair rules on an international basis that catch out Google et al on the one hand BUT also don't affect companies like the one I describe. The handwavey comments along the lines of "Just make them pay tax where they sell their stuff" like the one I relied to are less than helpful in this regard.
No way. GPL or LGPL every time IMHO. It protects your work from proprietary embrace and extend methods. That in turn helps keep it free for all to use and modify. Commercial licenses can still be compatible with the LGPL and GPL if done properly by the copyright owners of the code.

For an example of embrace and extend look at some of the libraries usurped by Microsoft such as Kerberos. I bet they wish they'd have used the GPL.
Maybe we're arguing the same thing. I kind of view it like... If there's a group of people who aren't talking, adding someone to facilitate communications doesn't add much. Improving the structure is better than adding on top of it. (This is sometimes why PMOs fail. Adding someone to make sense of a bunch of projects doesn't address why they weren't making sense previously)
The lower price of (presumably illegal) immigrant labor has a structural difference - the idea is that both worker and employer are taking a risk by doing a transaction off the books.

However, the employer has greater leverage because he can report the illegal to USCIS, whereas the illegal worker presumably has a precarious financial and social situation in the country and has to "take what he can get". Hence, there's a downward pressure on wages.
I want to work on a website for all sorts of publishers, invite / interview process to post as to have no shitposting. Users will be able to register and set a monthly reading budget, which will be divided equally amongst all the authors you read in X time period.

I want this service to have an API so you can easily push content to other platforms like Tumblr, facebook, or your own personal website, housing all your content on my site.

I would use this. I believe in paying people for their hard work and I want the money to go directly into their pockets. No overhead.
Information sharing has definitely made strides, whether or not through DHS--else how could Manning and Snowden come up with such quantities to leak?
Improving the work environment, as only one example.
Even the ones who have their shit together and were a blast to work at gave horrible interviews.

Fundamental attribution error. It was luck that they turned out to be a compatible work situation.
I'm repeating myself now, but I probably should have dug this up much earlier.

https://www.softwarefreedom.org/resources/2007/gpl-non-gpl-c...
The NSA’s Massive Data Center Is Coming Online Ahead Of Schedule
Let me see if I get this right:

You're saying that it's sleazy to sell people (non-hackers who aspire to be hackers) things and services that they want and are willing to pay for?

Is that really what you mean?
Linux kernel v3.11 released and officially named "Linux For Workgroups"
DHS was supposed to sensibly help coordinate existing departments with common goals hindered by bureaucratic divisions.

Instead we have something increasingly akin to a military which considers citizens at best suspicious and at worst presumed enemy combatants. Catholics, Evangelicals, and other predominant religious denominations are listed as indicators of potential terrorists. Anyone getting on an airplane with so much as a soda or can opener is presumed smuggling weapons. Anyone exhibiting self-sufficiency/survivalist tendencies is declared suspect. Vehicle checkpoints asking citizenship & business & destination are operated hundreds of miles inland. DHS employees are admonished to obey orders without question. Ammunition procurement[1] exceeding whole militaries is normalized. "Drone assassination" of citizens on home soil is declared (not legislated) lawful. Wholesale civilian monitoring (to wit NSA scandal) is common, and its consequences far from transparent now (save vague "a few terrorists were stopped"). Defacto national IDs are imposed/coerced (a la "Deine Papiere, bitte"). Wasn't long ago that every one of these points, and a whole lot more, were indicative of the worst oppressive governments; their recent commonality all a consequence of DHS.

This isn't just a result of a few vacancies at the top. This is systemic of the American leadership viewing the American people, and their historical values, being considered hostile opponents.

[1] - Yes, I'm aware of the alleged budgetary long-term purchasing theories. Even taking that into account, it's a whole lotta firepower intended against...who exactly?
A process for making products that people will actually use
"They're not tricking anyone"

Don't forget Apple. They told Apple that they would not use this key in certain ways, even though they do.

I don't see the problem with calling this "illegitimate". Jailbreaking so you can sideload apps is legitimate. Somehow cracking Apple's verification so you can sign apps without their involvement would be legitimate. But signing up for an enterprise account and then using the keys they give you as part of that in ways they tell you not to is, I think, legitimately illegitimate (ahem).
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Ask HS: What's Wrong with Twitter, Why Isn't One Machine Enough?
Just few quick, (hopefully) thought-provoking questions:
1. Is this a business or a hobby project?
2. Do you really need Beta 2?
3. Do people like it enough to pay (assuming it's a business)?

Without any info about your product/users/market it's quite hard to give you anything more precise.
Port knocking: sending a stream of special packets to verify that the user is trusted.

Sounds familiar.
I don't think I've ever seen it put so succinctly, but that is exactly the sentiment.
A nightmare? Is it hard/impossible to wrap the allocation function with a boolean check and a spin in ObjC?
This was 6 years back. When probably Terry Semel or Jerry Yang were at Yahoo!
It definitely has a cool name though. Reminds me of Justice League.
Yes, we all know that "great artists steal." And of course, every musician has been inspired by some one before. There are only so many chords. But that's a red herring.

When musicians directly copy another's work, i.e., sampling, don't they need to get permission? And if the owner of sampled work says "no, you can't have it", then that's that.

Again, easy to do =! ethical.

Mass surveillance has become widespread. Deal with it.
Ever wondered what many embassies contain? There were serious health concerns about staff in the British Embassy in Moscow during the Cold War from all the stuff the Soviets were throwing at the building trying to work out what the occupants were up to.

Ever wondered what that odd superstructure box on a visiting warship parked in your local naval base had inside it?

Ever wondered why Britain was so keen to hang onto random colonial possessions and the Cyprus base areas? And why other Western countries didn't mind?
This is part of the "other allegations". I'm not discussing them.

The allegation in the OP has nothing to do with this - he says he can change the results AFTER the ballots have printed the results.
Of course. My impression was that Rails was just a means to an end though. That said, learning Rails would probably be a lot easier after first grokking a simpler php setup.
Data science? Is that we're calling DBA work nowadays?
For most cases, gpg encrypt it and stick it in Dropbox.

If you're super paranoid, copy it to some physical media that you can store securely.
Interesting, here in Scotland at year 3 of Secondary School (~14 years old) you choose 8 subjects from about ~40 available (this varies on the school). You have to take English, Maths a Science and a Social Science - but you have a reasonably choice. These are examined at age 15 in "Standard Grades".

In 5th year (~16 years old) you usually do 5 subjects - not sure if any of these are compulsory (English used to be, but I don't think it is now) - these are examined in your "Highers" (Higher Grades). I did Maths, Chemistry, Physics, English and Engineering Drawing (this was before CS was available, it is now).

Highers are used for University entrance and, in Scotland, depending on your birthday you can get your Highers and be off to University when you are 17. Sixth year at secondary school in Scotland is either used top up your exams if you didn't get enough to do the course you want, doing more advanced courses and/or going to parties...

The downside of this approach is that you specialise very early - basically you choose at 14. Which is great if you know what you want to do and not so good if you don't. This is aggravated by UK Universities traditionally having very focused courses e.g. I did a CS course and all we had was 4 years of Computer Science and Maths classes with some Statistics for light relief. Again this is great if you pick the right course and dreadful if you make a mistake.

[NB I have a 14 year old son and we've just been through the trauma of picking Standard Grade courses]

FYI Here is a exam paper for an Advanced Higher in Computing, which I think is pretty good:

http://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/papers/papers/2012/AH_Compu...
There's at least one person like you in every one of these threads, propagating the idea that money or economics makes injustice okay.
Interesting concept. I wonder if something like this is used for codeschool.com.
That looks like a more elaborate version of something I thought of as a kid, which was basically a vacuum tube going all around the world (one big torus if you will) with carts on super conductive magnets. I was thinking mainly of connecting Tokyo and New York and some place or other in Europe. Cart drives into the station, station gets sealed off and air pumped into it, then passengers leave and board, the doors get closed and the station sealed, then the thing speeds off at a gazillion miles per hour. Yay! Of course you'd have to start braking long before arrival, but the idea wasn't really about saving time (I could not possibly have anticipated how pampered and stupid grown ups are), it was mostly about saving energy, the idea of near zero friction just fascinated me. Though I was never sure if cooling the magnets and keeping the vacuum up wouldn't be more expensive than the energy saved.

But all that aside: bleh to passengers, think freight! If it's too complicated for people, because they won't use it if it takes as long as taking a plane... even though being a passenger on just one airplane ride is like riding a fat car for a whole year (give or take, it's nuts either way)... then automate it and use it for cargo. Especially since in that case and for a lot of products the vacuum wouldn't matter, the cargo could just ride in open carts and get picked up by robotic arms. Heck, you might even just throw it on while it's moving, and even use hooks to get cargo off without stopping the cart at all. This might seem too tricky... until you realize what marvels are going on in a bog standard HD these days, right? (though I remember a similar invention for passenger buses from MAD Magazine: something about spring-loaded seats haha)
I'm not attacking your choice, I'm just saying that according to my ethos, taking BSD licensed code and relicensing under the GPL is:

1) Rude.

2) Simply the cost of doing business under the BSD license.
Uber Adds Fare Splitting
First definition is obeying laws/rules, that fits.

Second definition is "Being in accordance with established or accepted patterns and standards", and that's where it hurts me to read the characterization. They are doing something acceptable and that is very standard in the realm of computing, and seeing it discouraged sucks.
InfoQ API
An easy way to find and discover videos on InfoQ.com. Also makes an API available.
Interestingly the only info I could find about their change policy is here: http://www.yelp.com/topic/san-francisco-i-hate-zipcar
As an "all-in-one" this looks appealing (although the Wandboard Quad is still probably a better deal once you factor in all the additional charges that CompuLab tends to add). If you're looking at something specifically for networking/routing, it might be worth noting that other i.MX6 boards have had GigE performance issues: http://boundarydevices.com/i-mx6-ethernet/
Worth noting that:

grep -A n -B n

is more easily written:

grep -C n

If you think "C" for "context" this is easier to remember too.
> Obviously nobody is forcing women to stay at home at the point of a gun. However, I think it can't be discounted the degree to which women are pressured socially to take on primary caregiver roles.

My wife and I (~30, educated professionals) have a 8-month old. My wife as zero interest in staying at home. But from the minute she got pregnant the pressure started. My mom and her mom (both of whom work/ed) suggested that may she should stay at home for a few years when the baby was young. She's constantly bombarded by parenting fads that tell her she's a bad mom if she doesn't breastfeed/wear her baby around in a sling/etc. Those fads are never very compatible with professional working life.

And the moment we start talking about married women, the wider discussion of the pay gap (assuming it is only due to working less) becomes less of an apples to apples comparison. Your spouse, at least by law, shares your income (as you do hers), and has alimony in the event of a divorce.

I don't know if you were thinking at all about the wider discussion (tangents are of course ok to have), but I thought I should just mention it since it didn't seem to have gotten much mention in this thread.

> Meanwhile, nobody has any expectations of me. Nobody wonders why I don't take a few years off to raise the kid. None of the parenting fads are aimed at me. Heck, my own mother gets nervous whenever I have responsibility for the kid.

I like how you say that nobody has any expectations of you, and then contradict yourself in the last sentence. Clearly your mother has the expectation that you will have less responsibility for your child than your spouse. That is still an expectation. And people in general are probably expecting that you won't take time off for work to look after your child. That kind of expectation a blessing for somebody, and a burden for others. Maybe you have less expectations in the sense that you aren't expected to do more paid labour than your wife, but I doubt it.

What is more controversial: a stay-at-home dad or a mother who works full time? In some ways the expectations put on women are more flexible, or shall I say optional, than the ones put on men.
Uber's iOS App Gets a New Icon
I was speaking more about longer distances than just 45 minutes. The initial proposal seems to be more about longer distance traveling over daily commutes. My experience with bus trips is them being 30% to 60% longer travel times for more money than it would cost in gas if driving a car.
Your Computer May Already be Hacked – NSA Inside?
One of my favorite little tools that makes all these others better is pv -- PipeViewer.

Use it any place in a pipeline to see a progress meter on stderr. Very handy when grepping through a bunch of big log files looking for stuff. Here is a quick strawman example:

pv /data/*.log.gz | zgrep -c 'hello world'
241MiB 0:00:15 [15.8MiB/s] [==> ] 2% ETA 0:12:12
Absolutely. I implemented 5 regional health information exchanges. We resigned ourselves to accepting that a disclosure was a matter of when, not if.
> has produced no credible results and yet eats 69 billion a year. Many of the services people attribute to it are actually handled by other Departments. For the most part it just doles out grants - why can't that be elsewhere?

The purpose of the Department of Education isn't to "produce credible results." It's a welfare program for minorities, the poor, and the disabled (I don't meant that pejoratively). ~72% of that $65 billion goes to just three things: Pell Grants, Title I grants (direct aid to municipalities for the disadvantaged), and IDEA grants (direct aid to municipalities for the disabled). Sure, you're funneling money to the people statistically least likely to benefit from it, but that's not the point. The point is that everyone can get at least a minimum level of education, even if they are poor or have a learning disability. It's the minimum basic guarantee we give to people in a society where we pretend to be a meritocracy but tolerate dramatically unequal starting positions for different people.

Municipalities could not provide this guarantee on their own. White flight in the 1960's and 1970's left inner city school districts decimated. E.g. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is 86% black or hispanic and 87% low-income. 24% of the system's budget comes from federal sources (about $1.65 billion). 31% comes from the state, and 36% from local property taxes.

Inner city schools in the U.S. are mostly similar in terms of demographics, and the result of a fragile political compromise. Middle class people fund the systems, but don't want to send their kids to schools that are 85-90% low-income minorities. As a result, you can tax them only so much before they just move out to the suburbs. State and federal funding keeps these school districts in existence, and with state budgets strapped as they are, the DoE is the lynchpin that keeps the whole thing from collapsing.
You know what's more important to me than to do whatever I wish to with your code? Doing whatever I wish to do the code of every single person using your code.

Of course, the chain can't end with me and I'll have to publish my own changes. But it's worth it, I'm not a proprietary software asshole, and in the end I'll benefit from other people's changes and insert it back in my own code and improve my sales that way. You, me, the other programmers, Stallman, the users, everybody wins!

That's how I see it anyway. In the end, you have your own priorities and if you like to give without always receiving, that's understandable too. Ah, tradeoffs...
60 billion alien planets in our galaxy could support life
Ironically, the HN auto-linker doesn't pick up on it, either.
Signed Mac Malware Using Right-to-Left Override Trick
I'm 23, didn't know.
10 years worth of articles have value, I bet 80% of their monthly traffic comes from search engine. No amount of opening up a new free hosted wordpress blog and calling it the new hackaday is going to change that.

You might not see value in it, but I wouldn't be too surprised if some big blog network snaps up hackaday soon.

With a little bit care you can make some serious money with that much traffic, even if most of the traffic is tech savvy and some of them might use adblock and generally immune to traditional ads.
Trayvon Martin would have never turned his glasses on, you don't record yourself pummeling someone unless you want to get arrested.
Cynical comment: do you really expect that on a startup forum, where people are explicitly trying to make businesses on a shoestring, people will advocate for not allowing proprietary embrace and extend methods?

Open Source is free labor, but only if you MIT.
Regardless of its legality, I'm sure the spooks would find an excuse to come shake you down.
It's really great, might be confused with a real content for a while (almost like http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/), but this one is slightly overdriven: "The pedantic academic would easily confuse the idea that the literature would have us believe that a messier box is not but a cod."
More Than an Apple a Day: Combating Common Diseases