skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While the entire trial may have been televised, I doubt most of the commenters here watched the entire thing and then debated it for 16 hours with a group of 5 peers who had also sat through the entire trial.
Adam Langley is the real deal. He's also a large part of the reason Google managed to deploy forward secrecy, and the author of the Golang TLS stack.
I guess I can't argue with that.
Why does Langley need your forgiveness for not supporting DANE? DANE is arguably worse than X.509 CAs.
Why Government software projects go wrong
> The word frequency distribution follows Zipf’s law,
which is a necessary (though not sufﬁcient) test of
linguistic plausibility.

From http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/people/voynich-11.pdf, linked in another comment.
In case you didn’t know, Uber drivers see how many stars you gave them
But what is the point? Having had an opinion before the trial started doesn't preclude someone from talking about it today. Not having watched the trial from start to finish doesn't either. You're just saying "be civil"? Thanks, that's already in the site guidelines though.
And yet it's as inaccurate as casual talk that Obama will soon bring the dark Witch's armies from Narnia to terrorize the populace.

Did Thomas Drake end up being waterboarded?
I don't think exploit sales could ever be made illegal in the US. Courts have already ruled that code is speech [1], and the Constitution puts restrictions on how the government can limit speech. First 0-day exploits are illegal, then The New York Times.

Exploit sales are basically a byproduct of living in a free society. If you want them to go away, find the exploits yourself and post them to full-disclosure. Or pay someone to.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein_v._United_States
Maybe I should be a cyberathelete.... How crazy is this. Recently parents everywhere discouraged the amount of time spent playing games. Now it could be argued by the kid they're working on their professional skills.
This is an excellent idea. I remember seeing a similar attempt years ago from the guys at IBM - although it was a PHP app.

The guys could drag a data source on to a widget and automatically configure it. It was amazing.

Your site is a work in progress but so far so good! :)
Whoever wrote this was either:

1) writing gibberish
2) writing in a coded language to hide the message

Neither of these would be the same as a coordinated attempt to communicate, even if it were asynchronous.
> ...obviously aren't using DBI

There's really no way to use MySQL without DBI. But at that level, one is still writing db-specific SQL -- perhaps you mean an ORM?
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I agree, and see this as a big argument for "getting out of the building" not to look for ideas, and not even to validate existing ideas, but just to live more life.

If you're really skilled at using tech to solve problems, pretty soon you won't have any problems that have much overlap with the vast majority of the human population. It's like a mini-superpower.

So, make an artificial constraint to open your mind a bit, like writers & poets do. Work for free, start from scratch; get out of the building/city/state/country. Do things that are hard for you; you have a better safety net than most people do.

Your problems will still be different from most people's, but you'll pick up new passions, new interests, and you'll find new problems that interest you (which you can develop in the new building for a while, if you like).
> It is really, really hard for me to see this as anything other than utter paranoia.

It is really really hard for me to imagine Intel not beeing 100% cooperative with the NSA.
AMD is probably cooperating with the government on the same level as Intel.
Beyond Helium
You can maybe get some understanding from the data gathered by Hacker News Karma Tracker. This can only be done starting in February 2013, though, since it only includes accounts that have made comments since mid-January.

3326: http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/month/february-2013

2013: http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/month/march-2013

1115: http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/month/april-2013

1557: http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/month/may-2013

2717: http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/month/june-2013

973+: http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/month/july-2013

Perhaps it is a change-in-season thing? (biggest months above are February and June, although July looks like it will also be high.)
reminds me of the old Far Side... http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QMuDihPPyPA/TFBCC4Wv0qI/AAAAAAAANp...
This is nonsense. I can't count how many times I've come back to some code and had to read a comment to understand why a decision was made or looked over another's work and found a comment to explain it all. The idea that code should be so awesomely pure that it explains itself is laughable in my experience.
I missed out on all but the verdict of the Casey Anthony case. I was busy, and I had simply not heard about the trial. My friends laughed at me for not being in the know.

As a result, I later read the book http://www.amazon.com/Imperfect-Justice-Prosecuting-Casey-An... by a prosecutor in the case and I was amazed—I still couldn't see myself giving her a murder conviction. I could see myself with child neglect, abuse, maybe a lesser manslaughter, but even with a prosecutor's own words he failed to convince me of a murder charge let alone a death penalty case.

I wonder if something similar will happen when I read about this case.
Hi Bryan,

thanks a lot for testing it and giving some feedback! I really appreciate it.

The whole idea is based on exactly the assumption you mentioned: there are a lot of businesses who are stuck with clunky workflows of copy&pasting data. But who do I tell, you know that.

Regarding your issue with the extractor UI: Your screenshot is showing the second out of three steps. The purpose of this step is to refine the data selected in the first step. If you are sending html emails (with dom elements like h1, links, tables etc.) you can directly select the data in the first step with your mouse. So you don't need to refine the whole email body in the second step.
>But what is the point? Having had an opinion before the trial started doesn't preclude someone from talking about it today.

I'm not saying people shouldn't discuss it, I'm saying the discussion should be focused on the trial, the events, and the facts instead of people just blowing up with emotion.
> For secure, synchronous communication we have OTR and, when run over Tor, this is pretty good. But while we have secure asynchronous messaging in the form of PGP email, it's not forward secure and it gratuitously leaks traffic information.

This is probably a stupid question, but what exactly is the distinction here? Why can't we just think of the "asynchronous messaging" email-equivalent as long, drawn-out synchronous OTR communication?
> milspec != NSA

What exactly is "milspec"? I was under the impression that military security standards in the US _are_ produced by the NSA.

> highly likely the Russians would help the Iranians in such an endeavor in exchange for intelligence sharing.

I must be missing something... yes, but what do Russians have to do with it? I thought this was a US drone captured by Iranians. Genuine question here.
You obviously know nothing of my work.
Are you asking the use case for relative line numbers or for the plugin? For relative line numbering, the benefit I see is the ability to move with precision to specific lines without (a) switching to line-wise selection mode during visual selection, or (b) losing your horizontal cursor position, both of which are required for using the :<line number> jump. As for the plugin, it just makes switching between relative and absolute numbers conveniently automatic.
Commenting to mark for myself to comment more later - huge college sports recruiting fan and this looks amazing. How did you get the data? I looked through my alma mater UVA and it was flawless, and I would know. Saturday night is a terrible time to have posted this + Zimmerman verdict. I'd delte before you hit an hour and repost Monday around 730 west cost or east coast
Your implication is that a computer of sufficient power and proper programming can develop an illusion of self and qualia. Perhaps that is true, but it is far from "dull" or "known."
> look at how Manning looks - like a ghost

Manning has looked like a ghost at the best of times, just look at his Wikipedia article with his 2009 picture in the Hollister shirt and compare to the recent photos of him being escorted to/from the trial going on now at Ft. Meade.

What specific pictures have you seen where he looks injured?
I feel like http://aspen.io/ sort of does something like this already. Written in Python and just uses the filesystem to generate content rather than a MVC.
I took a look at the site and I have no idea what it is. Care to elaborate?
What exactly is "quality", and in what sense does it exist outside of human perceptions?
Thanks for doing this! I don't know what to expect, but it's nice to have the cameras rolling.
While the termination and conduct is reprehensible, nothing about this example involves facts relating to putting the defendant in prison. You seem to be sneaking your personal judgment on the specific case into that general sentiment.
thanks so much! appreciate the comment :-) come say hello if you are in SF.
> r/Technology leads all SubReddits, with an average of 2,027 Karma per Post

Is this saying that all posts in r/technology get an average of 2027 karma?
I'm not sure if this will help or not but I would head over to http://clarity.fm and find someone to chat with.

Your bound to get some great advice and gain some valuable insight.
I agree that they would be impossible to enforce, but there are quite a few nations across the world that have achieved minimal gun ownership and relatively high levels of safety.

They have cultures that emphasize an open and diplomatic dialog with the community, and they support trust and reciprocation between law enforcement and common people. Meanwhile the most heavily armed citizenry see it as an existential necessity, which breeds distrust and fear.

Consider for a moment the simple and logical decision-making processes between two logical individuals of equal threat to each-other but deeply suspicious -- if one advocates disarmament then the other will view it with suspicion. In actuality the danger is non-existent, but (for example) an ignorant third-party under the protection of one would screech at the very idea of deescalation.

My point is that weapons control is as much about perceived safety as it is about defensive and offensive capabilities.
Submitted a question here: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/q/9210/2512

Feel free to edit the question if you have anything to add!
Is the male military really "proven to work"? Perhaps a more feminine influence would have better outcome, with less dead and destroyed on all sides of international conflict. Who nows?
You can always refuse to do what the Don says... just don't be surprised at what the Don does after he finds that he has no use for you.

I wish I could tell you the world was different, but it's not. We live in a real world, not an utopia. No matter where you go there will be some variant of the 'despot with a stick', whether they call themselves guv'nah or not.
This feature is exposing that my neural pathways for typing numerals above 4 are weak. Jumping 13 lines is so much easier than jumping 7... I have to actually look at the keyboard to type 7k! This will require some training.
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Reading about this, and the recent brouhaha concerning hospitals posting their pricing online, made me realize how essential pricing opacity is if healthcare providers want to maintain their all-knowing god/parent like relationship with the public. Doctors don't quite seem doctorly when they're grubbing for money.

(only an observation that seemed funny in my mind, don't bother debating it because it's not 100% serious)
Can you legally sell exploits of physical systems? Say, a book containing instructions for breaking into any military installation?

Maybe it would be enough if an international treaty required all nations, and their intelligence and law enforcement arms, to abstain from using software exploits, and requiring them to disclose any exploit information they acquire to system vendors for prompt correction.
We spent a LOT of time on our extractor UI at http://getdispatch.com :)

Add fields, highlight parts of your email, fields are mapped!
Why do you think the use of a stack reduces the optimization space?

There are plenty of models for stack optimization. Even if you don't go down the purist track, plenty of approaches use register-allocation and optimize from there. Feels like an outdated CISC vs RISC argument.

People also use the JVM because of it's Memory Model and robust threading.
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Negative. Plenty of white people are into guns and no doubt are in possession of photos of themselves with their guns. A white person into guns is a "patriot" (despite of course not belonging to any well-regulated militia nor having any actual obligation to the nation's defense).
I saw that. I still think it needs a lot of simplification. But don't let me rain on your parade, the app is done very well so far. You are clearly good hackers working on a real problem, so it will get sussed out in time I expect.

I might very well be wrong too, it wouldn't be the first time!
Agreed, I should have cited my examples more carefully. A better example of an active Python 2 project is Ansible. There are others when I looked into Python several months ago but I can't remember them all of the top of my head.
Probably.

A more recent example: can you sell the NSA's confidential slides? The Washington Post apparently can.
Just wanted to say a special mention to the knife_or_banana method:

def do_GET(self):
try:
self.knife_or_banana(self.path)
[...]

def knife_or_banana(self, path):
# THIS AIN'T THAT SECURE, BUT FUQIT
root, ext = os.path.splitext(path)

[...]
What about them, exactly?
You can't, if you're that serious/paranoid about it.

It's possible that the HSM maker wasn't approached by the NSA and is secure, but there are very few of them in the US so chances of the NSA having missed one is very low. Plus, without a STM to inspect the silicon and reverse-engineer it, how would you know?

So what if you buy one made outside the US? Say, China. Well, there's the obvious possibility that the Chinese authorities have backdoored the silicon. But my guess is that the Chinese maker just cloned one of the US vendors, including the portions inserted by the NSA...
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For posterity: https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/06/27/botchingpfs.html
> (free will) is not a discoverable or knowable thing like the others.

Sure it is. You just need to stick with meditation until you reach the jhana of the arising and passing away:

http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/dharma-wiki/-/wiki...

That's the first time you get a glimpse of the fact that free will is an illusion, although you don't fully experience it until you hit enlightenment.
I agree with your points, and would like to add that with EasyMotion it has even less use.
Same thing for Sublime Text: https://github.com/tmanderson/VintageLines
http://domai.nr/ has some cool features that you might want to incorporate.
> (only an observation that seemed funny in my mind, don't bother debating it because it's not 100% serious)

No, no, this is a worthwhile point to make. Whether selling used cars, life-saving surgery or hiring young hackers for awful pay, information asymmetry can you give you a sizable advantage by itself.

Reading about a system like the RUC is a really good demo of this. To an outsider it might seem the strict confidentiality could be excused for preventing lobbyist influence - yet it also gives free rein to avoid media and public scrutiny in the light of day.
Thanks, I'll take your advice!
Just do a search for Phil Zimmermann and what they did to him in the 90's for having the audacity to create PGP.
Its a site showing the roster for every college basketball team in Division 1 with profiles for every player on their roster, and every HS player they're currently recruiting.
Where's the rampant fact-checking and criticism of major dietary studies I usually see on HN? Could this have anything to do with bias against high-fructose corn syrup, which is chemically almost identical to honey?

The LA Times reported on the study in depth, and there are some serious deficiencies.

> "After eight weeks, three groups of rats weighed essentially the same – the chow-only rats (462 grams on average), the 24-hour HFCS rats (470 grams) and the sugar-water rats (477 grams). But the rats that were able to drink the HFCS solution for 12 hours each day weighed in at an average of 502 grams, a difference that was deemed statistically significant."

> "Complicating things further, the researchers cite a related study of female rats that found no difference in weight gain between animals that consumed HFCS or sugar over an eight-week period."

>"the researchers found that rats allowed to drink the HFCS solution gained more weight over six months than rats with no access to a sweetened beverage. The difference was dramatic: rats with 24-hour access to HFCS gained 27% more weight than the rats stuck with chow only. But the researchers didn’t include a third group of rats with access to sugar, so it’s impossible to say whether HFCS was worse than regular sugar."*

>"The researchers remedied this problem in a third experiment involving female rats. Over a seven-month period, rats that were able to drink sugar water for 12 hours a day gained 183% of their body weight – the exact same amountas rats who could drink HFCS solution for 12 hours a day. However, female rats with 24-hour access to HFCS boosted their body weight by 200%. It’s not clear why high-fructose corn syrup was more fattening over an eight-week period when it was available for 12 hours of the day (but not 24), yet the opposite was true when the experiment lasted for seven months."

This is what happens when reporters don't understand what they're writing about.

*"(Why didn’t they test the long-term effects of sugar? The researchers said it wasn’t necessary because sugar consumption didn’t affect body weight in their first experiment. True, but neither did HFCS when made available for 24 hours a day, and they did test that.)"

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster_shots/2010/03/high-f...
They have to share that too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exculpatory_evidence
Oh thank you sir! I've spent hours trying to remember where I read this comic.
> The truth is that it is easier for most governments to justify giving subsidies to their own citizens rather than foreign countries.

I don't disagree with that statement at all. It is a statement that only speaks to public sentiment and it strikes me as probably correct.

> Also self-sufficiency on food is seen by many as a security issue, and therefore there is a resistance to relying on others.

I don't disagree but I suspect there's little actual analysis going on among most people as to the actual tradeoff: the current system means we have an agricultural system that can carry us if we have to fight a world war capable of completely disrupting world food markets, as we are a net exporter of food. On the other hand strife, terrorism, and small wars are more likely until the developing world actually leaves extreme poverty behind. Having to compete with subsidized agriculture in the developed world slows this process. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_subsidy#Poverty_i...

> The USA pays people to keep land ready but unused so that production can rapidly improve.

The only guy I know who gets one of those subsidy checks because he owns land will never, ever be a farmer. His yard was farmland once. Interesting system.

> The European Union instead accumulates surpluses - aka the famous "butter mountains" and "milk lakes". Those are just different means to the same end - ensuring that there won't be a major famine.

The policy contributes to poverty and famine in Africa. Ideally we would find a way to mitigate famine risk here without sticking it to them.

> The US policies started earlier, and were motivated by the Dust Bowl in the 1930s.

I can't speak to European policy but the incentives and politics today in the US (in the area of agriculture, and everything else) are radically different than they were eighty years ago. Still, I take your point and thanks for sharing that.
I'd -consider- "trusting" a random number generator that collects entropy from a Chinese, a Russian, and a US based HSM manufacturer…

An "array of mutually untrustworthy opponents", if you like…
Book suggestion: "Four Steps to the Epiphany"

Basic takeaway is not to add structure until it's painfully obvious that you need it. If you hire a VP or CxO from a large firm, he's going to staff you up like a large firm, and you can't afford that yet.
This is the best argument against making them illegal, in my opinion. If you believe source code, code implementing cryptography, and privacy software like Tor and OTR is speech, then you can't set a double-standard just because you don't like what exploits may or may not be sold to do.
We already make certain practical exceptions to free speech that take intent into account: slander, blackmail, death threats, shouting fire in a theater, etc.

Though I'm dubious about creating (more) wedges that could erode constitutional rights, outlawing only the selling of exploits seems reasonable. Whereas if you tell the world about a zero day exploit for free, it falls back under free speech.
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Any gun-owning Floridians here wanna comment on this?
Side note: everyone in our team is available for hire
And a violation of Github's ToS.

(Interesting reading: http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html)
sorry about that it's our initial prototype
Yes. JVMs are slow for short-lived program executions compared to native code. By default, Hotspot does not compile a method until it is executed 10K times. Most libraries in the Java ecosystem are written to optimize performance over a long execution lifespan at the possible expense of startup time. The Apache HTTP libraries allow pooling of threads, HTTP keep-alive as an implementation detail, buffer re-use, etc. So, evaluating these libraries by starting up a new JVM for each run inherently tests them under a circumstance for which they were not designed/optimized. Gradle (a build tool) sort of solves the problem of short-run invocations by forwarding command line requests to a long-running Java background daemon.
Just finishing up Stranger in a strange land and I'm so surprised to see 'grok' on this context. I don't think I've ever seen the word before in my life. Pretty awesome.
I am open sourcing my high school APCS project
What Marx got right
> "Dogs" occurs more times in titles in r/aww than "cats" or "kittens"

That can be a fact.

> Despite their internet popularity cats are not submitted nearly as many times on this cuddly SubReddit.

Or dogs are rare enough that they're worth naming, because cats are default. Seriously, run whatever calculations you want, but be careful about what conclusions you draw from the numbers.
FYI...Your FB Auth is in Sandbox mode.
Saw this just today. Interesting how the company is spreading the risk of this hardware project by:

* Outsourcing-and-(partly?)-open-sourcing the manufacturing (and probably all of the customer service) to anyone who'll sign up via their "100k Garages" website

* Open sourcing the API

* Soliciting app developers to build job-specific smartphone apps to send a CNC data stream to the hand-held CNC router table.

Seems like the target end user market would be carpenters and contractors who do custom high-end work on-site.