skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right on that second point, that needs re-wording. With that in there it's surprising we've had so many people from Europe, the US, Canada, and even non-London-UK apply for and get internships with us :P
> And how useful is it to run your own encrypted email server if the email message itself isn't encrypted in transit?

It isn't, of course.

The proportion of mail that is encrypted is the square of the proportion of email users who have encryption set up (assuming all email users are equally likely to mail any other user). So if 1% use encryption, only 0.01% of emails will be encrypted. If we want most mail to be encrypted we need 70% of people to use encryption. This means it has to be REALLY EASY TO SET UP AND USE.

Ideally, when someone buys a PC/phone/tablet, and uses it to communicate with others, it should do strong encryption out of the box, so that the user would have to take explicit steps to not encrypt.

Most of these devices run software controlled by Microsoft, Apple or Google, all of which are deeply implicated with the NSA. So it's futile to expect that they will willingly protect their users' privacy. Therefore the next best thing is to write software that once installed will be really easy to use, that is to say in normal operation it will take no effort at all to use (zero user interface).
This, alongside the recent "I put Mr. on my CV and got a job" is fascinating. I have had to rethink my own -isms over the years and its amazing just how prejudiced a right-on liberal has turned out to be - its almost as if I evolved in a totally different environment.
He lives in the US so it's odd that you're surprised.
US Immigration recognizes League of Legends players as pro athletes
Yeah this is simply an indirect way to pay for a service and it's incredibly expensive too for the result.
You are making a lot of assumptions in your post. Have you questioned any of them? How much it costs to set up a system to avoid tax? How tax havens actually came about? How corporates actually use them? The information is out there and there's at least one good book on the subject (Treasure Islands by Nick Shaxon).
New Debian leader seeks more innovation within project
You looking for an apartment or a house to rent? An apartment may be a bit easier to find, but rents right now are pretty high. My business partner just went through this exercise for her sister and it was not fun to say the least.

I live mid peninsula - meaning Belmont, and know the area around me pretty well after living here some 25+ years.

Foster city is pretty kid friendly and a bit cheaper, but be prepared for finding a place to be a challenge in general.

The commute to MV by car can be a nightmare depending on time of day, you may consider taking the train to MV and biking to the office.

Redwood city and Menlo park are also options, but neighborhoods in these areas area a lot like New York City, a block or two can be a HUGE difference in neighbors and whether or not you will feel comfortable.
Honestly this kind of denialism ("You didn't meet Linux users, I doubt that highly") gives me the same impression as the people rabidly defending Linux while not even noticing the article is satire.

If you really don't feel there is some problem with the Linux community, you probably aren't spending enough time acting as a member. All the Linux users I know personally would react reasonably to this article. Also all the Linux people I know would probably enjoy reading this article since it's funny.

With that said I don't feel this is a Linux-specific issue. There are many communities that have problems seeming hostile over seemingly insignificant reasons. As a person who likes to try and help people, it makes me upset to watch almost 100% of questions in programming IRC channels get bogged down in a ridiculous never-ending trail of condescending "Why?" questions. Linux elitism and condescending IRC help and etc. are all the norm for tech people but stuff like this will help turn away new participants as fast as anything else. In other communities I see people getting vitriolic over music genres or art styles.

As you mention, there are tons of smart, sensible Linux users, just like there are tons of helpful programmers. But invariably, the angriest or most opinionated people in a community will start posting the most and will end up making their entire scene look a little uglier. Sites like HN that incorporate user moderation are helping. The other thing that helps is simply when more level-headed and polite people put themselves out there to push their semi-neutral agendas. I know I personally have stopped a few "Why are you even THINKING about that!?" trains by simply answering the user's original question when I was able.
Men created the problem. Women like her can solve it. I knew it would come to this and other absurdities. All these men, accusing other men of anti-women sentiments, even when there weren't any. Some(mostly men!) have make it a personal crusade to vilify all men by definition. Some men are awful, some women are awful too. This kind of behavior will only sterilize our environments in the worst possible way. I'd like to see more women like her seeing the problem - and men taking notes.
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> Some of the people peddling homeopathy really do believe it works, and that's just as clearly nonsense.

And yet, if believing in homeopathy cures the ailments that homeopathy claims to cure, doesn't that in itself mean homeopathy works? Perhaps not in the way it's advertised, but still.
Probably some combination of:

a) He's getting asked a lot.

b) By publicly announcing a deadline, everyone involved (including him) will be racing to hit that deadline or lose face.

c) He's telling the world "I say what I do and I do what I say".
Four RubyMotion Pitfalls and One Non-Issue
Right, thanks for pointing that out. That makes this what, then? Hash-blob programming? :)
Show HN: Audio Sort - Visualize and Audibilize Sorting Algorithms
Personally I love it... to each his or her own :-) It's verbose but information-rich, no?
I would think a big motivation is that he personally wants to be able to go from LA to SF in 30mins. He probably spends a lot of his time flying around the US
It's a bit of a straw man. In NYC at least, many of the hedge funds have more "startup" like environments than the startups do.
Ah, didn't know that. Guessing they don't allow CD burning, but I imagine that's a dwindling use case.
Sure would be lovely if some of our German hacker brethren would start a strong gmail competitor. It wouldn't even need to be "NSA-proof", but just something with a large userbase and an order of magnitude harder to spy on, with no jurisdiction for NSL shenanigans.
Am I missing something: does it mean that to verify the compiler with DDC you need a trusted compiler that always produces the same binary output as an untrusted one, so to verify GCC you need a compiler that duplicates the whole GCC functionality but is trusted? What is practicality of that approach? Proving that "hello world" produces the same output doesn't prove that the crypto functions wouldn't be patched?

Please a specific example of what would be needed to prove GCC and LLVM now.

EDIT: I'm not interested in toy compiler and theoretical pie-in-the-sky examples, I want to know how practical it is for the systems in real use. GCC and LLVM as they are now please. If the proposition is "suppose that we have something that can compile gcc sources and we trust it" tell me what is that, does it exist and how hard would it be to make it. Don't talk to me about your experiment where you change one line in TTC and then prove it's changed by comparing the binaries.
"If this is funded, what’s stopping you from buying Hackaday, then selling it and keeping the money?
The same could be said if Jason sells to someone else. At least with this plan there’s some accountability."

Is ^this really true? I don't think so.
Well he didn't say he never attended one, only that he chooses not to now. Anything else is editorializing. I don't know the guy so I can't say anything about his opinions, but I'm amused at how many assumptions people are making about this guy.
Sometimes I take one week to answer emails. If I see the matter isn't important at all, it can take forever to answer. Maybe some mail goes lost, can't tell.

But answering your question, no, it is not a problem to write someone if they publicly post their email addresses on their websites.
But how much money is that? I mean the median income in the US is less than $30k. Live on what most people in the US live on, and with the outrageous hourly rates of most consultants you can do for-pay work about 10 hours a week and have the rest of the time to yourself to work on what you want?

Why does it take millions of dollars to be able to do good work?
IIRC mailbox was a pivot from "orchestra todo," an iphone collaborative todo app that won awards on its own. You might want to check that your other "big bang launch" examples really fit that description.
"Gaming the system".
Did you do a feedback round? I have some:

1. Please don't have the site ask me for permission to use notification center before I even sign up. This opt-in step could happen later.

2. As a potential user, I don't feel you need my first and last name right at the outset. Other services get by with email and password. The longer your signup form is, the more likely I am to bounce.

3. Saying things like "The party is on" evokes feelings of wild, reckless fun, not necessarily feelings I want associated with a service that I might rely on to keep my data secure and available.

4. As a logo, the origami figure does not convey anything positive that I can think of for a file storage/syncing service, but it does convey some negatives.

All that being said, 15GB, sweet! I'll definitely look into it.
It's defence against legal compliance with the NSA.

Emphasis is privacy and compliance, not security.
Certainly the patent trolls could argue that patents are essential to their patent troll company survival...
NeoCities Wants to Save Us From the Crushing Boredom of Social Networking
> Show me (in Greenwald's own words) where Greenwald claimed this of Snowden.

From TFA:

> Asked about a so-called dead man's pact, which Greenwald has said would allow several people to access Snowden's trove of documents were anything to happen to him, Greenwald replied that "media descriptions of it have been overly simplistic.

> "It's not just a matter of, if he dies, things get released, it's more nuanced than that," he said. "It's really just a way to protect himself against extremely rogue behavior on the part of the United States, by which I mean violent actions toward him, designed to end his life, and it's just a way to ensure that nobody feels incentivized to do that."

Which does sound like a direct quote from Greenwald, partly confirming (Yes, docs can still be released if he's dead), and partly rejecting (the "overly simplistic" and "rogue behavior on the part of the United States - which suggests it's not automatic, so enemies of the US would need to convincingly false-flag it for the desired outcome)
so what you're saying is, say you're working on your tablet/mobile/pc with an intermittent connection, it will continue working and update the db when a connection becomes available? is this the main benefit compared to the solution mentioned earlier?
Just to clarify a single point here. There are no writers or editors at odds with eachother. Brian is doing this in an attempt to buy it from Jason. I'm moving on to other things regardless of what happens at Hackaday. We're all super good friends and get along great.

As for the rest of the thoughts and concerns, well, not my problem!
Quine-relay: An uroboros program with 50 programming languages
Please take note: Merkel has behaved extremely apathetic considering that she is in the middle of a reelection campaign. This has multiple reasons, one of which is that her ideological compass indicates that "staunch support" for whatever the US does is always the right answer. For example, she always supported the Iraq invasion. Fortunately she wasn't the chancellor then.

What we see here is the absolute minimum she thinks she can get away with. However, since the criticism over here of her inactivity (and complicity) is only getting started, the situation might push her to go further than that.
> Attitudes towards public transport in general seem more favourable in the EU, Japan, China and South Korea.

As a result, they aren't in as desperate need of public transport as the US.
How many tigers have you repelled? Which species? I'm particularly worried about bengal tigers in my apartment complex. Can it handle those?
Facebook's silence on PRISM could result in legal action
Re: Determination

I was asking for someone to talk to, not a stick.

With that in mind, if you would like to talk to me my email is included in the public key on my profile. (You don't have to use the key if you don't want to. You can just import it and read the email address. I do that to stop spammers from finding it.)
3D CSS Clouds
This slideshow lost all credibility when it said to put your analytics in the <head> tags. Sure some analytics providers might recommend you do that, but that is wrong and only serves to

A) Slow your site down
B) Introduce a single point of failure into your webpage

All scripts should be loaded either async or at the end of the dom.
I think he specifically wants California to build this instead of wasting $100bn on the HSR project. I'm sure he'll be open to building hyperloops elsewhere as well.
1. I'm basically not allowed to voice an opinion that isn't completely aligned with the feminist status quo (I believe in equality, fuck me right).

Many people not involved with feminist groups often think feminists think the same about everything. Which shows they know nothing about actual disagreements within feminists groups. Just look up transexual issues & feminism. That's a big source of disagreement right there.
So far their designs have been fairly conservative, but they've made some pretty significant advances in manufacturing process and in materials as compared to their rivals, despite their designs being relatively similar. Heavy use of friction-stir welding would be an example of the former, and the PICA-X heat shield material would be an example of the latter, and details of the former (if you watch SpaceX factory tours on youtube, etc.) are considered trade secrets that aren't shown to the public, even though they're not patented.
Dalvik is designed around criteria that are nearly diametrically opposed to those for Hotspot. Hotspot goes for maximum performance. Dalvik's JIT compiler is designed for maximum impact on performance with minimum computation. In other words, Dalvik's JIT is designed for battery powered devices.
Hey guys, I launched Lean Domain Search on HackerNews in January 2012 [1] and it's safe to say that without this community's support and encouragement it wouldn't be where it is today. I can't thank you all enough.

If you have any questions I'd be more than happy to answer them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3470977
haha, that's true (1:0 for @ankitml)
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Europeans have problems with NIMBY, but not nearly to the extent that the US does. It takes about 1/5 as much money to construct a mile of track in France as in the US, and 1/10 in Spain. My guess is that part of the point of the Hyperloop is to get around land use restrictions by going over them, and the largest payoff for that would be in the US where conventional land-based transport is hardest.
Has he laid out in such stark terms, though? He has been saying the documents could cause "grievous damage" or something along those lines, but that's a far cry from "more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States."
I'd like one! william.bowers@gmail.com
Generated in-app, and uploaded.
Ah yeah, that's the article(s) I wanted to link here but couldn't find anymore. A very good read!
Or rather, wondering what it might be; nobody knows for sure yet except Musk.
It's long been argued by Jerry Pournelle and others that a fully reusable spacecraft could be built by being "starkly conservative" in materials and technology, but using modern construction techniques.

See The Rocket Company

Grasshopper seems to be following this play book.
I seem to remember something about trolls trolling trolls.
Edward Snowden Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize
Xeons support both EEC and non-EEC ram. It' depends on the north bridge chipset on the motherboard if you must use EEC.

Some Opterons require EEC, some don't.
Why do you consider the climate to be a stupid reason? If your mood is, like many people, closely linked to the weather, if you love the sun, the sea and all the outdoor activities they bring, why wouldn't you stay? I can perfectly understand someone who chooses a less fulfilling professional life in order to see the sun every day. In fact many companies in the nicer parts of the world actively use the surrounding climate and geography as a recruitment argument.
NSA - RDRAND
I've been reading some stuff about all this mess and i've decided to check out the implementation of RDRand.
I found this "we are architecturally guaranteed a reseed" a bit confusing , maybe someone with more experience in random number generation and encryption makes some sense out of it .. if you check the code there's a ASM call if the feature is supported and that's it.
I found it curious
Clean slate again for Microsoft’s Windows (Phone) 9
It's useful for those that attended the talks. You generally don't need the audio, but just the highlights from the slides.
There's no way there are that many Europeans on Stormfront. The single most caustically racist topic on the website is Muslim immigration in Europe, particularly when it's discussed on /r/worldnews. And the ugliest rhetoric comes from Europeans. At least self-described Europeans.
"Meg Whitman, Marissa Mayer, Virginia Rometty, or Carly Fiorina"

Terrible examples. I was motivated enough to wikipedia them to gather the following data. Whitman and Fiorina have no tech background at all and have never worked tech jobs, pure management material all the way. Fiorina is legendary for destroying HP not exactly a glowing endorsement for women in anything. Mayer and Rometty went to school for tech but between the two of them they've only got about 5 years experience in tech/engineering before succumbing to the dark side of management.

If anything the message to young women with a list like that is women should get out of tech and into mgmt/marketing/beancounting ASAP because tech is a dead end for women.

Now, rather than 1%er management crooks, why not an example of a techie like Limor Fried? There's a real engineer, who happens to be female, someone who would make a good hero for young women in engineering / tech / programming. If you don't know who she is, you should look her up on wikipedia. There are of course a zillion other good techies who happen to be female, but an EE-chauvinist like myself is going to promote another EE. I can think of a relatively famous FPGA dev and many others.
you must be gay (not sure why people use this one)

People use that because they think a man acting like a woman (by having sex with men, by being the receptive partner in sex, by being penetrated, etc.) is a terrible thing for a man to do. Some homophobia is a form of misogyny, hating men who act woman-like.
The WHO report is back from 2000, so it's certainly possible the rankings have changed since.
Exactly. That way NSA can cross their fingers and say "No, no, of course they don't have 'dossiers' on everyone, that would be crazy!" while they fail to mention that they can run a query to build one at any time.
I'm not sure if you're understanding what my websites business model is. College applicants want information about schools to help them choose where to go. Student reviews is one of the best ways to provide this information. Right now student reviews leave out a lot of information because the questions being asked of them are too general. I think that my questions will prompt students to talk about things and provide information that you can't find elsewhere. That, coupled with the fact that I think my site is more well designed and more comprehensive than the competition, is why I think it'll be successful.

Regarding how much money is in this market, I see companies like Princeton Review, Unigo, College Prowler etc. seem to be rather large companies, so there must be some money in this business. Enough money where I'd be rich if I displaced the big players (or at least became a big player).
I wouldn't speak at male-only events either.
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I've been reading some stuff about all this mess and i've decided to check out the implementation of RDRand.
I found this "we are architecturally guaranteed a reseed" a bit confusing , maybe someone with more experience in random number generation and encryption makes some sense out of it .. if you check the code there's a ASM call if the feature is supported and that's it.
I found it curious
That doesn't mean there isn't a significant amount of mythology that is widely agreed upon in feminist circles. If you expect insane conspiracy theory nonsense like "patriarchy" to actually be supported by evidence rather than accepted on faith, then you are not welcome in feminist discourse, plain and simple.
Penango - Secure Webmail
I'd like to answer the question. The answer to the question is: "because OS vendors have stopped doing their job".

Have you not noticed that the OS no longer provides the features of an Operating System? Wouldn't a "true OS vendor" have added peer-to-peer and file-sharing-across-multiple-networks/nodes to their feature set by now?

What I think has happened is that the OS vendors: Microsoft, Apple, and to a much lesser extent, the Linux crowd - have forgotten that they, themselves, define what the "OS" is, but it is the users who require it.

Why on Earth some OS vendor hasn't solved this mid-80's problem of network file sync, is simply this: there is no profit in it. In short, the bugs and holes in featuresets provided by the current OS vendors have been filled in by an industry far too furiously devouring itself to care that they've gone off-task.

The fact is, we should've had DropBox -like features integrated into our OS's, already. We should definitely have had Bittorrent-sync like features, implemented already. We should definitely be demanding these sorts of features from the OS vendors - but do we?

The answer is, no. We don't. Because, every 5 years or so, newcomers to the computer scene, the teenagers of the now who will be the next-bright-new-thing of the morrow, fail to keep up with the state of the art just well enough that they end up re-inventing the very thing that their much-hated "prior generations" have been, literally, on the cusp of inventing .. for years.

So yeah, we have this situation because there is no longer a 'true OS' out there in the world, but rather 'front-ends to a business model'. Maybe that will change, who knows, but I bet that before it does, the words "operating" and "system" will have to suffer a bit of re-definition, here and there. Or wait, maybe that is exactly the problem ..
In what way would the polygraph be superior to the Quadro device in the article? The polygraph's effectiveness is limited to the technician's ability to instill fear and doubt in the subject, which can just as easily be accomplished by the Quadro device.

Polygraph test results may be inadmissible in court but confessions collected as a result of the polygraph examination process are perfectly admissible, despite test process being as intimidating and hostile as possible.
Awesome news! Congratulations Matt!
A better title would be "Richard Stallman on RT" :)
What actions do you think you would take if you were in his situation that would be less reckless or selfish?