skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privacy isn't just about hiding my data in general. It's also about hiding it from certain people.

I'm not sure why you haven't considered the possibility that I don't want the government to have my data from an entire collection of web sites, but might not mind any one particular web site having it. More to the point, I worry a lot more about what the government can do with my data than what Facebook can do.
Right, the interactive escape character. That's easily fixed with "telnet -E". That is,

echo -e "test\035help" | telnet -E www.google.com 80

will not give any help text output.

(I was, in fact referring to telnet option negotiation which will not happen if not using the telnet port. Since the escape character for interactive use is so easily remedied, it did not occur to me to consider it a problem.)
> If a Chinese national came to America ... he would be going to a less repressive land from where he left. Thus, no hypocrisy.

So, it's wrong to blow the whistle on the least-repressive land in the world without submitting to draconian punishment? Let's say the US disappeared from the world (closed its borders entirely, took off in a giant spaceship, etc)... Does this mean that whistleblowers in Russia must accept punishment for their message to be valid?
you should check out some european termination laws if you want a laugh.
I'm not exactly encouraged by Amazon's "fix": they simply started serving their custom spy instructions over https. It almost tempts me to write a different extension to observe these instructions and then crowd-source a database of them. What nefarious shit are they doing, that justifies this extra layer of indirection?
It doesn't do that anymore, since at least last fall when I switched to Firefox full time. I remember running into this previously -- maybe Fx 3.5 days? -- when I tried to do a unit conversion google search and it would send me to a horrible unit conversion site.
Storage isn't so cheap when you consider that it doesn't last very long, so we're constantly having to move stuff to newer (thankfully usually bigger) storage devices.
Could he even tell them that he knew that the government contracts would fall because he refused to comply with the government? Would that be insider knowledge of something?

So they were going to crush his business and he tried to cash out? I don't know the whole story, but it seems that this is one of those cases where the SEC chose to occasionally enforce the law....

Would it be illegal for the companies that complied as they may have known that cooperating with the government would earn them lucrative contracts that their companies could benefit from?

It just doesn't seem right. Everyone else gets retroactive immunity and Nacchio goes to jail.
I somehow suspect that the opposite would be true for, say, preschool teachers or nurses.
Texting is Ruining Your Dating Life
I disagree. It's dangerous to let people slide because "they're just doing their job". People "just doing their job" are the enablers. Without them, none of the really serious man-made tragedies of history would have been possible.
heavily electrified big vessel? like submarine or a ship. At least at the start, there were a lot of fires from wires and other pieces of electric equipment. And you can't just go with extra thick wires in the plane design.
It's not just a URL; it's a whole URL scheme!

Home page: http://jessicahische.is/awesome

Blog: http://jessicahische.is/thinkingthoughts

About page: http://jessicahische.is/anoversharer
What’s a (Good) REST API?
Making Singlehood Acceptable
How do you detect a jailbroken device from software? Presumably someone could just patch that, but maybe that's a bit beyond what most people want to do.
I responded directly to the question in the
title of the post here at HN:

> If correlation doesn’t imply causation, then what does?

not directly to the article or the discussion here on HN.

I don't think that the article makes much
sense.

I gave a very simple answer, (1) and (2).
For (3), that's a mess and closer to the
discussion.

My view is that for causality, what I gave
with (1) and (2), simple, childishly simple,
dirt simple, is, unfortunately, in reality,
about all there is to the poor, struggling
subject.

Put more respectfully, beyond my simplistic
(1) and (2), working with causality is
super difficult and quite unpromising
as in mostly just f'get about it.
For my (3) it boils down to
ways to reject causality
and then we accept causality
once we get so tired trying
to reject it we just give up
and accept it. Why? Because
without something detailed and
mechanical, say, from
chemistry, biochemistry, and
the forbiddingly complicated,
detailed biochemistry of cells,
we are missing anything very
solid to call causal. E.g.,
in my (1), with the universal joint
that failed, we have a simple
explanation that makes a solid
cause; getting something
so simple and solid for a
cause of cancer from smoking
will be super difficult. Don't
worry, I don't smoke, but
neither do I claim really to know
a cause of cancer.

Causality is a great, intuitive
idea for humans and animals,
but looked at in detail it's
tough to establish in all but
some narrow situations.

For causal networks, path analysis,
Markov random fields, directed acyclic
graphs, lots of diagrams with circles
and arrows, f'get about it.

For getting causality out of data
analysis, mostly just a fool's errand --
f'get about it.

There is a significant reason I concentrated
on (1) something mechanical and (2) something
from classic physics -- those two darned near
cover what can be done with causality.
For the biological sciences -- causality
is really important but really tough.
For the social sciences, they try and
try, and my wife did in her Ph.D. in
essentially mathematical sociology
and my brother did in his Ph.D. in
political science, but, net, watching
my wife and brother struggle with
trying to make causality work in
social science, where it's so easy
to make it with (1) and (2), I
just said f'get about it.

You can entertain my views and my
first very short post as a
contribution to the discussion
based on a lot of background
and a claim that more is a fool's
errand or just chalk it up to my ignorance.

One more point: I didn't even mention
correlation. Why? Because correlation
is so far from causality that it's
hardly worth even mentioning.
In Georgia, it is the mostly used title - "Programisti".

Because, we don't have one single word, the synonym of "Software". So word by word translation of "Software Engineer" in Georgian would be:

Computer Program Provisioning Engineer.

Nobody uses this title.
You're not only making a claim that he might be tortured but that any interaction that he would have with the US criminal justice system would inevitably result in torture. That's just ridiculous. Yes, in the decade after 9/11 a number of people were subjected to interrogation techniques that many people (including myself) would consider torture. However, this happened under a legal theory that would not apply in Snowden's case (it is impossible to consider him an enemy combatant) and is no longer in use. There is no reason to believe that someone who goes through the Federal civilian criminal justice system will be inevitably subject to torture.
So, ex-KGB automatically means you were born to be an evil sadist? Amazing.
SoundBrush, An App That Lets You Draw Music, Turns The Untrained Into Musicians
As a non-js based programmer, This is some excellent insight in what a webapp looks like when built with node.js. I'm definitely gonna be reading through this to get my feet wet with node, as it's something I've been meaning to do but have been so occupied with other languages. Thanks for sharing!
Some universities do, but it's not a nationally mandated thing as far as I know.

I'm a domestic graduate student at a university that requires TOEFL scores (http://www.ets.org/toefl) and my department is rumored to have a policy of calling international students they are strongly considering in order to double check they can hold an intelligible conversation in English. That said, you can still get students who aren't very strong in "conversational/professional speaking level" English who pass through these requirements.
For the most part it's excellent, and I love Hische's work, but the lowercase 'm' is not as distinct as before. It looks like it says "MailChirry".
Can we stfu about Godwin? Do you even know what it means? It's from the time of usenet and all it was was an observation that when the Nazi's come up the discussion is usually over.

It's certainly not a good excuse to go ignoring important lessons in history. Nazi Germany is one of the better examples of why "just doing my job" is not a valid excuse for anything.
No, keep reading. It is more targeted than that. It sniffs the results of your Google searches , and sends the result over HTTP (not HTTPS) to Alexa. (See "It reports contents of certain websites you visit to Alexa") It knows you are searching Google because they have a special whitelist that detects when you are visiting Google's URLs, even the encrypted ones.

This behavior looks premeditated to me.
Interesting idea, thanks.
I have one friend who doesn't use Facebook (for reasons unrelated to privacy), and it's really quite frustrating. If someone wants to hang out, they send a group message on Facebook. Then someone has to be responsible for communicating to my "outcast" friend via some other medium about the event. This becomes a pain in the ass when trying to schedule things.

I personally would love to use email, but people just refuse to do it. Everyone wants to use Facebook because everyone is on it. Believe me, I've tried to get people to switch to email. But it always reverts back to Facebook.
Interesting article... I found some of the presuppositions annoying - they seem, for example, to assume that all startups are something web-based and depend on website visitors as customers; and there seems to be an assumption baked in this piece that "hackers" and "hustlers" are mutually exclusive.

But looking past that, there's a nugget or two of good stuff.

One actionable item I took away from this was from here:

There is no social proof on your website. Without testimonials, social media following numbers, “as-seen-in” PR credentials, association memberships or some kind of third-party evidence that you’re legitimate, you’re not building credibility.

Since we're very early-stage with little name recognition and no brand association to speak of, we should be leveraging any avenue we can to gain this "social proof". Off-hand, I could see having a page that mentions companies the founders worked for before Fogbeam (a list that would include IBM, Red Hat, Lulu.com, Redwood Software, UNC-CH, etc.), and a place to mention industry associations and other 3rd party groups that we are associated with. We (either as individual founders or as a company) are members of NCTA (North Carolina Technology Association), AITP (Association of Information Technology Professionals), CED (Council for Entrepreneurial Development), AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), ISA (International Society for Automation), EFF, IEEE, and the ACM. But none of that is on our website! D'oh.

So, speaking only for myself, I found at least one useful, actionable takeaway from this article.
Ask HN: What non-email tool do you use for internal discussions?  
Where I work, we have too much noise in our inbox. Consequently, it's difficult to get people to concentrate on the more-involved discussions because they are too distracted with calendaring meetings and booking travel.

If you aren't using a primarily email-based tool (like a listserv), what do you use to facilitate in-depth, asynchronous discussions on internal and confidential issues?
There's no evidence that solitary confinement is being actually used to prevent suicide/harm in these political cases, and a great deal of evidence that it is simply punitive. For Manning, the prison psychiatrist repeatedly stated he was at no risk of suicide and tried, unsuccessfully, to have him taken off the naked sleep deprivation routine that he was on.
It's called "memory diamond." I'm aware of it thanks to Charlie Stross[1], who credits the idea to Eric Drexler.

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2007/05/shaping_...
I will probably get downvoted into oblivion for this... So let me preface by saying that I really like the new design.

At what point do you as a startup justify spending a huge amount of money on a "designer" to tweak a font? Does it look nice? Absolutely.

Would I, as a business owner, pay a lot of money to change one cursive font to a slightly different cursive font? I'm not so sure.

Sub question: What does a design tweak like this cost? From what I've seen, sought after designers can go for some serious $$$.
More anti-consumer crap from SquareEnix. It's really a shame they are hellbent on running their fantastic franchises into the ground.
Moment Timezone
I wonder how Airbus pulled this off?

peeks from under tinfoil hat
Legally purchase a $7 app and get screwed by the DRM.

Pirate a $7 app and subvert the DRM using a Jailbreak tweak like xCon.

It seems that this only hurts the legitimate users, as others will still be able to pirate the app.
Tab Mix Plus is another option, with plenty of settings for everything concerning tabs:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/
I am graduating in a few month and also applied for some jobs in the USA (I'm from germany). I found it somewhat intresting that every employer I sent my resume to was asking what gender and race(!) I was before I could submit. You could also choose the option not to give an answer, but I have never seen that in germany.

On the other hand some people on HN find it odd to have a picture of you on your CV - which is the norm here.
It has nothing to do with being dynamic, it is about names. The article insists that you need to be able to grep for the identifier, but you don't have the identifier. So you have to grep for the function you are in, find all the places it is called from, and then sort through all the functions passed into it as arguments. The function passed in as an argument is often an anonymous function, so it still won't have an identifier anyways. The entire concept is just plain nonsense.
if you have a few good links i'd be interested in reading about the long term affects of Ritalin/Adderall/Concerta/etc. It's frankly hard to trust raw search engine results on such a biased topic.
Actually, you DID read this last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5782761
So logging every single URL you visit and every search you make on Google isn't evil? This is the kind of nasty extension that your browser warns you about when you open a private/incognito window. I realize you were just talking about the HTTPS aspect of it, but your parent asked about the generic "this".

It's pretty clear they "might do this" so they can data-mine your browsing activity, which is now associated with your account, and serve you more targeted ads and product recommendations. So I guess we have to extend your catch-phrase with "...and never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by greed."
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The liberal West where laws are enforced by teams of soldiers that conduct armed invasions of civilian homes, threatening bystander's lives, killing their pets, destroying property, and never being held accountable for any of it? The US may be better than Russia when it comes to human rights, but that is not really a strong statement.

Snowden has sided with the West. If the government were never embarrassed by its bad behavior, we would keep losing our rights until eventually there was nothing left but tyranny hiding behind a constitutional facade. It would not help anyone for Snowden to return to the USA at this point. He will never have access to classified information again, and in all likelihood he would find himself in solitary confinement until the end of his life.
Georgia Tech’s $7000 polyester masters in computer science
I think the assumption is that top universities don't compete on a perfectly international level. For example, not everyone can speak enough English to attend an English university.

(Yes, insert jokes about how your TA was unintelligible- I mean the students who do not speak a single word of English. I would bet they are less likely to attend English universities.)
How many classes did you take with other engineering students that other STEM majors (say, chemists) did not also take?

My CS program was "in" the engineering school but after freshman year the required curriculums diverged greatly. Sure, we both took Physics III and whatnot, but so did all of the other decidedly not engineer STEM students. Even the required/suggested math classes diverged after Calc II (with engineers skipping Calc III and taking IV instead, and most CS students taking III but not IV.

We didn't even take the same ethics courses. CS took computer ethics while other engineers took engineering ethics.
Does anyone know how real/near-term this is?

IBM and Micron are on the sponsor list but not Intel. I've been hearing about 3D memory for a while but haven't seen anything that feels like it is near market.
Just wait until you hear what their deductible is.
They don't actually claim it's fast or give any measurements of speed (apart from "ultrafast laser"). It seems reasonable to be on the order of other laser-based optical storage systems (CD, DVD, blueray).
EDIT see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6034075

Instead, longevity and data density is emphasised, and application for long-term storage. Sounds like a replacement for tape.
If one notes that a joke is fact, it does not imply they didn't understand the joke.
I can read that patent one of two ways. Either it's perfectly novel gibberish, or most of its claims are preempted by Meridian 59. Or possibly even some more limited early-90s graphical MUDs.
They changed the language definition for Python 3 to make True and False keywords, unlike in previous versions.
Wow that was a fast jump from technology to cynicism/paranoia. This is useful only tethered, under the direct control of an operator.
The first 3 digits of a SSN indicate where the child was born. While not as prejudicial an aspect, there are definitely some geographical biases among some groups.
Lisp macros also provide ways to take ugly, hand-optimized code and clean it up to provide a cleaner, friendlier interface. Like all macros, this comes at no runtime cost (since all macros have been fully expanded by this point).
The article gives you a mental tool that you can apply as you like to various situations that you encounter. It's like learning a type of logical fallacy. You wouldn't disregard an article that described what a "false dilemma" is as "having no data".
Plausibility is a measure based on less than exact knowledge of the world. I indeed don't know with certainty the relationship between Greek debt and Facebook value.
Not all less-than-perfect knowledge of the world is subjective however - subjective involves personal prejudice but there's more than personal prejudice operating in the judgement that Facebook prices won't affect Greek Debt - there's an understanding of finance, a doubt about action at a distance, etc.

Also, if you read my post, I'm not "disregarding" anything. I am simply saying that some things have a higher bar than others.
In China, it's also the norm to include a photo with the CV. When I was hiring a team there, all of the applications were de-facto required to have it from the company perspective. Part of it was an age-ism thing (no older developers need apply was the underlying current), and in the case of office-reception type personnel, it was obvious that it was appearance based.
I can confirm that. I really miss that feature.
This makes no sense. I, like many people here use a Mac and Chrome and can't remember the last time it crashed. I suspect this is something specific to your installation, possibly a rogue plugin you've installed.

My experience is quite the opposite to yours. neither ff or chrome crash much, and chrome is significantly faster.
The first thing I do when setting up Firefox is configure some keyword searches. Second, I remove the search box from the toolbar. I guess I miss search suggestions, but I'm more of a quickly-type-a-query-and-then-hit-enter person so I don't gain much from suggestions when I use Chrome.

What I miss, however, is a way to configure search engines and keyboard search without re-enabling the search box. I wish it was somewhere in settings or an about: page.
I wrote a utility ages ago to find orphaned Ruby methods. It greps (actually, acks) for method names. Naturally this only goes so far with a non-trivial Ruby codebase, which limited its usefulness. https://github.com/built/funk
>There is no reason to believe that someone who goes through the Federal civilian criminal justice system will be inevitably subject to torture.

Do you consider solitary torture? Whistleblowers have been subjected to brutal solitary conditions, and they don't even consider him that.
I ran my math several times, and the values seemed, literally, incredible. The first time I did this I got something on the order of 4x the power of the original engines of the Hindenberg / Zeppelin. I'm still trying to figure out where I went wrong this time.

Units: dimensions in feet multiplied to give surface area. Convert to meters. Insolation at 1 kW/m^2, PV efficiency of 20%. Oh. I got kW and MW confused. Wups.

I'm actually getting 1900 HP now, which is closer to my original results. Brain damage....

mW == megawatt.
I saw exactly the same thing. The older logo was definitely clearer in that area.
God, what's wrong with the US these days. As a European I find myself rooting for Russia, an odd experience, yet I'm not alone. Obama's silence in the whole matter really strengthens my contempt for the man.
Logos go everywhere so to have something that is really amazing that you use for years; why not spend a few bucks to make it look even better.
Agreed. Tu quoque is really prevalent in this thread.
Stop applying the ter 'toture' to every corrrctional policy you disagree with.
When it comes to sexual bias, hacker news readers/commenters generally discard the "evidence" bit. And of course, nobody mentions the author's obvious anti-male and age bias ("but when I viewed it through the skewed view of middle-aged men who thought I was a woman").
Citation? We know of 3 fire mishaps on the 787, across 66 planes over 1.5 years of service. That's 1 mishap per 33 service years, which doesn't sound 'magnitudes' better than a typical road vehicle. Perhaps you have better statistics?
Female bosses discriminate worse against women than male bosses. The causes to this is debated, through if we want a change, we do indeed need to change people rather than men.
Long time NYT subscriber here. I am fairly sure I am going to cancel my subscription. I don't like that they didn't even include Snowden's short statement; wasn't that newsworthy? I thought the opening sentence in the article did not set an impartial tone -far from it.

This reminded me of when the NYT helped the Bush administration make a case for invading Iraq.

The writing in the NYT is good and I generally enjoy it, but I want impartial news coverage that seems easier to get by a random sampling from a few international news sources on any story I am interested in.
Prisoners commit suicide all the time; the wardens keep stats so they can brag about how hideous they are. That's been true everywhere, forever. The innovation we've seen in the USA with solitary confinement, which is intended to break those who effectively oppose prison management when placed in the general population, is that the tax-paying public is actually dumb enough to believe it's about preventing suicides. If one really cared to prevent the myriad of societal pathologies that stem from our shameful prison system, the best way to do that would be to release those whose imprisonment causes those problems.