skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the absence of externalities, their own good is the greater good. AirBnB's neighbors are the only ones I know of with a decent case for that (and in multi-tenant buildings, at least, there are surely some provisions for resolving such conflicts already...)
He basically said as much, though less directly, and without specifics: http://youtu.be/m8F99BT8QAA?t=6m0s

It's also telling how clumsily he's stumbling over his words. Whether Obama fears speaking freely for political reasons, security reasons, or just plain deception is something I can't answer.

(And obviously, much of what he's saying is demonstrably false, or at least misleading. But it also wouldn't surprise me for the NSA to be misinforming the President.)
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Requesting a similar guide for iredmail on Openshift.
While sitting is correlated with mortality, I don't think it's been proved that it causes it. I suspect the relation between the two is more complicated than that.

As far as stress free... Interacting directly with many customers can be a trying experience. I think it can be a lot more stressful than an office job for many people.
The general public won't care so much about the dev center. If iTunes, App Store, or Apple Store had been hacked that would be much more serious from a PR standpoint.
I visited Andrew Auernheimer "weev" rabit in jail on 19 July 2013
Pharmaceutical drugs are too inaccessible to really remove the criminal element from recreational drugs. What is really needed is for regulated, high-quality drugs to be sold over the counter, with loads of warning labels, to any adult who wants them. It make sound crazy, but we already do it with two of the most dangerous drugs known to man: alcohol and tobacco.

Nobody is claiming that there will not be issues with dependence or abuse of these drugs. The point is that people should not have to deal with dangerous criminals, nor should they be afraid of jail time for admitting their drug use.
"He responded, "when there's something interesting to publish, it'll be published." He seemed to have a sort of disdain for "salami science", where scientific and mathematical papers present the thinnest possible "slice" or result possible."

Very inspiring!
There are two implementations of go: gc and gccgo. The link above describes gc. gccgo is built on gcc and supports many more environments, at least in theory. gccgo will run on addtional processors like powerpc, mips, and sparc and other operating systems like solaris. These aren't necessarily well tested though.
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Yes, you can anonymize the last octet of the IP address.
I think they use sampling once your traffic gets to a certain size, so though they report figures down to individual hits, it's not actually as accurate as that might imply.

https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
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My guess is that from a PR perspective they might have worried that releasing the information without a definitive scope of impact would have led to days of wild panicked speculation in the media outlets, and userbase.

While there was still wild speculation, security was only one of many possible scenarios being discussed, and it was mostly treated like a regular outage.

I'm not saying this delay in disclosure was "right" (what if it had ended up worse in scope?), but I agree with sibling post (dave1010uk) that it seems to have worked out better for their brand.
I'm on my phone so I can't really put out a long response but...
> There are only about 4 hops between any 2 people on Facebook. If you take the median number of Facebook friends on one account (100) and raise it to the 3rd power, you get 1 million people every time one person is placed under surveillance.

Cool, 100^3 = 1mil. I wonder what the average number of shared friends a user has with their network. Otherwise by this reasoning there are about a million times more people on facebook than there are facebook accounts.
Relevant: http://obscenitylawyer.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/is-rape-porn-c...
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I think you missed the point of my reply - I did not raise the matter of costs, and I agree that they are not the overriding factor.

The Disraeli quote is to the point: the "representational" part of representational government is thorny, and pretty much ensures that a ruling clique is put in place whose interests do not mirror that of the electorate very well.

The constitution of representational democracies always put in place a watchdog over the powers of parliament: in the US, it is the legal system. In Turkey, it is the army. In the UK, it is the monarchy. Many people seem to think that law courts are an obviously superior guarantor of democracy than monarchies, few are able to argue the point well.
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A simpler (and more efficient) equivalent to this script would be this one-liner:

while true; do rsync -azP $PWD/ <remote>:$PWD/; sleep 2; done

Or even better: https://code.google.com/p/lsyncd/

lsyncd uses inotify/fsevents, meaning you don't have to traverse the filesystem to poll for changes.
... compared to?
GDS know and have taken a position on this http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/03/19/its-not-about...
yeah, I think you are. But I feel the same way.
It's pretty clear to me that by "thought crime" he means "thinking about a crime without actually committing it (or even intending to)". Viewing a rape video doesn't mean you will rape, or even that you want to rape someone.
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Thanks for the well-sourced, comprehensive response.
You have to consider what the Mexican drug cartels would do if you regulated these drugs and essentially put them out of business. How do you think they would react??
Unfortunately it looks like it doesn't support event tracking at the moment. Does anybody know more about that?
"MPDV, in particular, has lead to a range of terrible effects, including psychotic states leading to cannibalistic attacks."

Can you cite more than anecdotes to support this? For what it's worth caffeine can also induce psychosis, like any other stimulant (which is what MDPV is).

"Even the strong and broad legalization proposals, in which I can see the wisdom, acknowledge the need to control substances which regularly cause users to behave violently toward persons or property."

We already have a model for that: alcohol.
Not a fan of Che(e)ney are we?
Every time you add a new property to Player, wouldn't you be forced to update all such functions to pass along the extra properties?
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As the Topaz guy said, the slowness is due to the abuse of hash table lookups, allocation and copying (HTLAC) https://speakerdeck.com/alex/why-python-ruby-and-javascript-...

And the abuse of HTLAC patterns is due to the lack of non-HTLAC APIs; the syntax is trascurable
"No, I don't want to not link my Google+ account to YouTube"
Not to be picky but I think it's MDPV, not MPDV. Could be wrong of course.

IIRC most of the so-called cannibalistic attacks that were attributed to bath salts turned out not to be. For instance the famous Miami face-eating attack turned up no evidence of anything but pot in the guy's system - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_cannibal_attack
I've been using Stripe for a little over a month now. I think their developer tools are the best available.
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I'd support this two-tier scheme if, on the clean feed, we could do away with the semi-secret blacklist and the stupid anti-p2p blocks. By all means help to keep schools and libraries away from pr0n, but leave competent people alone.
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There are actually 3 settings in Settings -> Privacy:

192.168.100.xxx
192.168.xxx.xxx (recommended)
192.xxx.xxx.xxx
Exactly, as if they couldn't store them.

Maybe, just maybe, enough lay people are used to using "Google" to query a mountain of crap (the internet) to find a few interesting nuggets that they realize the government could do the same.

Step 2: getting people to realize how badly this can go when correlation = causation, and you are guilty by association.
As far as I can tell, the "A criminal offence. Stop making up thought crimes, you authoritarian zealots!" comment didn't mean "don't include intent, that would be thoughtcrime" it meant "don't make viewing/possessing pictures illegal, because you can't do so without either making thoughtcrime or making every /b/ (or imgur roulette, omegle, etc) user a felon"
The title is slightly inaccurate / misleading. He quit his job and now runs his own business together with his girlfriend (i.e. they both work). Her part in this is not negligible, perhaps she is the main asset of the company.

(I don't know why this gets modded down, but let me clarify: his old salary is his personal income. The "doubled" salary is the income from his business, apparently the combined salary of both of them - so it's misleading to say that he "doubled his salary")
> It's vitally important that we maintain and fund 'wealth redistribution' programs so that a lot of folks are at least able to carry on from day to day.

Many people disagree and believe that this end is much better served through charity than through (wasteful, bureaucratic, inherently un-personal) redistribution.

Tax planning for the purpose of charity is just "putting your money where your mouth is".
At some point in their career every programmer tries to write their own rsync. I must have written at least three — none of which are anywhere near as clever and reliable as rsync.

Why do we do this?
"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

So after 30 years we have replaced stuff with known effects that we knew how to cope with, with stuff that is more dangerous with lots of side effects, untested and people are getting high all the same.

Where should we put the "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner?
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This is true not just at "building an MVP" stage. At my current startup, we are focusing on traction, across different channels/verticals. We have found it quite useful to test and learn about these channels by running experiments.
Nice suggestion. I didn't use inotify because macosx doesn't have it and nodejs equivalents eats too much CPU for some reason. I tried to make it as simple as possible.
The game programming industry is pretty well known as being the "sweat shops" of the tech industry. Not at all surprised about this story.
They do have a good life, but I don't think they just "sit"- they do a huge amount of charity work, as well as a lot of the kind of soft diplomacy work that few others heads of state can- if Obama visits a country it has immediate political implications. If the Queen visits, it's just a feel-good "enhancing ties" trip.

I've been living in the US for the last five years and have come to appreciate the Royal Family more than when I was in the UK- their apolitical nature means that they are more internationally appreciated than most other world figures.
The article is about programmers in China.
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My problem with this article is that the assumptions used are simply mirrors of his criticisms. He remarks that 'all they have' is a number of convictions but the arguments on the other side are also particularly weak.

Considering the film Avatar literally has what can only be considered an animal rape scene in it and very few people noticed and actually took children to watch it I don't think 'rape culture' is a particularly egregious term.

I'm no uberfeminist, but I can certainly see how pornography is extremely abusive in most cases. There's a reason there is a genre called 'porn for women' whos primary draw is that there's no gagging or slapping or facials. Sure some women enjoy these actions, but why the heck is it everywhere in porn?
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Illegal to produce - easy. Illegal to design - that is almost impossible to enforce and way too vague to be of any use.

Can we kinda stay away from jailing people for thinking? I want to delay 1984 or Minority Report a few more years.
Fair points, but on the flip side, it's one thing to prosecute because it's your job, and another to persecute simply because it's your political ideology or fundamental belief. For all we know, Spitzer felt like prostitution laws were stupid, which really wouldn't make him a hypocrite at all.
There is no metaprogramming here. You may not be familiar with a style of programming, but that doesn't entitle you to spread FUD about it.
I think there is a whole lot of 'It doesn't effect me' going on.
Since I'm being downvoted, let me clarify for the “hackers”.

By “pure”, I mean lacking unaccounted side effects (including crashing and non-termination).

I take a rather strong view, as you can tell, of what it means to “support” pure functional programming. That is, I think it is insufficient to show that your code lacks appeals to falsehood and rampant non-termination. Because your code is linked with other code from other sources, it must be shown that appeals to falsehood and rampant non-termination are in fact _impossible_.

(By “rampant non-termination” and “appeals to falsehood”, I mean the use of circular reasoning. This is distinct from structural recursion and coinduction, which can be used to do REPLs and servers.)

So yes, Virginia, there is indeed a Pure Functional Programming. But you can't do it in Haskell.
Haha. HN is truly the home of dubious calls of "ad hominem".

(Really. Use HNSærch to take a look)
Sorry, I was not talking about your own sidebar... nobody knows about yours... it is our secret :).

...

DM has been receiving some flack from their readers for it (the sidebar) so I suspect they are trying to make up for it but ultimately knowing it draws eyeballs.
I don't know if that is less terrifying than a relatively obscure drug which turns people into cannibals.
I have no idea why people would want to mess with this stuff. Here's an interesting article I came across a few years ago, when spice was starting to get popular. It convinced me never to touch the stuff:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-terrifying-reasons-you-shouldn...
Despite the fact that legalisation would not only make drugs safer while simultaneously cutting funding to organised crime (lets not forget the tax revenue as well) the UK Gov still believes prohibition is the key. I'd love to see them give a detailed reason as to why alcohol is legal while cannabis is not - it's pretty damn obvious which is 'healthier'.
Ask HN: Take down my reverse-engineered Snapchat lib because they asked?
A few months ago, I spent a couple days reverse engineering the Snapchat protocol and wrote a quick and dirty library to use it in your own PHP apps:

https://github.com/tlack/snaphax

Today Snapchat has written me requesting that I take it offline:

Hi Thomas,
I'm writing to ask that you remove Snaphax from github
and no longer publish or distribute it. Snapchat does
not permit third party software to access our API and
we consider Snaphax to be an unlawful circumvention
device under 17 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1).

Please confirm that it has been removed by end of day
Monday, July 22nd.

Thank you,

Micah Schaffer
Snapchat, Inc.

I haven't had much time to really finish Snaphax (and I doubt I ever will) but I strongly support the idea that third party software should be able to interact with the services I use every day.

I am under the impression that reverse engineering is still protected under fair use doctrines. Is this the case? How should I respond, if at all?
Who gives a crap?

All of a sudden they won't have hundreds of millions of people clamouring to give them money all the time.
Sure, I just thought the suggestion that you don't even need to disclose it, while true in theory, can be risky.

My original post wasnt intended as criticism, it really just trying to provide commentary that while Canada doesn't have the full protections of Cali, the typical contract only assigns specific areas relate to your work.

Also, related, non-competes in Ontario at least are largely unenforceable.
I haven't got chemistry knowledge, but isn't the effect of say a THC analog is based on binding between THC and a certain receptor?

Wouldn't it be possible to offer kits or services for chemical manufacturers, to test the level of binding of their chemicals, and define that above a certain level of binding , you're chemical have to be regulated in some way?
While I can see how this can be useful, that means you'll constantly breaking things on the development server while you're writing code/testing. When working on projects alone I prefer to have a simple script that runs rsync with some predefined settings whenever I want to upload changes for someone to see (I also have an option to upload database). For multi developers environments I guess git would be the way to go.
> "the main causes of drug deaths in the UK are"

Does the UK not have the prescription drug abuse we see in the US?
Why is that really sad?

More people need food than games.

More people want to make games than sell street food.

The food business is brutally hard work, and I have a lot of respect for anyone doing it (well). There's no a priori reason why game programmers should be rewarded more than street food vendors.
facepalm

Yes, I redact my above comment to remove that example.

However, I still stand by my statement that PGP UX is a client issue, not an inherent protocol issue (ie, it's fixable without abandoning PGP entirely).
Well, it's now being used to block access to thepiratebay and other torrent sites if I recall correctly. And of course it's now being expanded to ALL porn (though that part has an opt-out) and rape porn.

I'd call that a very clear example of mission creep.
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It works, at a huge scale, and poorly.

Post a new app to the App Store. Poll various friends to see when they can actually access it. You can watch their database replication slowly happen in real time over the course of hours, as the app randomly appears for more and more people. People will often be able to access the app through a direct link but not through search for a few hours before everything synchronizes. You have to give it about twelve hours before you can reliably count on all users being able to access it.

Let's compare this to, for example, Google search. The scale on Google's end is much larger. What's worse, they're indexing external content that they have no control over. Despite these handicaps, they have no problem with rapid, coherent updates. More than once, I've typed up a reply to a comment like this, posted it, then hit up Google for some additional information and found my own comment posted just minutes ago among the top results.

Google, working with external data they don't control, serving vastly more requests of vastly more complexity, is able to provide coherent results within a few minutes, while Apple takes hours to roll out new data that you explicitly send them.

That kind of stuff is where ideas about code quality come from. No amount of "but they make lots of money and are popular" can counter this.
Died 2001, you mean. At least in the U.S.

(Sometimes, I think the U.S. started to commit suicide in 1981, though, with the advent of Reaganism, but that's a slightly different discussion)
My best guess is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
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:) in my defense, rsync was doing too much for my simple needs. I wanted to have a simple and customizable experience. While I agree with you (no little script can match the power of rsync) it's good to have alternatives.
We commonly say that hackers should save up 3-6 months of floating money, especially if they are in the self-employed or contracting/consulting world. You never know when the next job is, you never know what could happen.

I don't see how being a small business operator of something like this is different. The source of income is different, the wisdom is the same.

Hopefully they were able to set aside months worth of floating money, and even weeks due to a natural disaster wouldn't wreck them.
I appreciate that. My issue is with the term 'thought crime' as indeed the thoughts in your mind can determine whether or not you are charged with a crime at all. I don't see a problem with that and only the narrower definition of 'acts purely comprised of thought unconnected to physical actions' really holds up.
Wicked cool concept, I can definitely see this being useful on several fronts. Just out of curiosity, how are you determining the "links to your competitors but not yours"?

The example query is """
(www.nike.com OR nike.com) NOT (www.adidas.com OR adidas.com OR redirect:nike OR domain:nike)
"""

I assume this is assuming that "you" are Adidas and "your competitor" is Nike?
DNI Asks Why People Trust Facebook More Than the Government
Really?

Being a game programmer is a choice taken by people with good choices available to them. They could be working less hard and/or earning more elsewhere. They choose not to. I don't see why that's a travesty.

Sweatshop is working is horrible conditions that no one would choose if they had any decent options.
Would you trust closed-source encryption?
A wonderfully trite platitude that can be selectively applied to any pet issue. Let me guess; you're a climate change skeptic.

edit: I'm not implying that it is wrong to be skeptical, I'm saying that the poster's alignment is obviously that of a skeptic because it's a common tactic for this particular brand of skeptic to suggest that politics is at play in the mind of scientists. If anyone agrees that politics makes good science then that statement is not a platitude.
American here. As a parent, I don't want my daughter to believe she's better than anyone else and, for the most part, I don't want others treating her differently than any other kid. It's because we value individuality and "forging your own path" that we protect their innocence at a young age; I don't want her doing something because I think it's a good idea.
I also think dashboard cameras, Russian style, would help in documenting accidents and curbing aggressive and substandard drivers. As a automotive commuter I'd gladly send videos of the dangerous crap that nearly kills me daily to a central insurance agency.
The blocking of Newzbin was a court order, not an action taken by the Government.

It does seem that they want to regulate material 'advocating terrorism' though, which could easily be a slippery slope. Still, without evidence such an argument is fallacious.
> May I suggest (at least for people who aren't trying to remain anonymous/pseudo-anonymous here), PGP/GPG key IDs and fingerprints in your profiles?

PGP fingerprints should be verified out-of-band (ie, in person) before being signed.

However, that's not a bad idea as long as people understand what the fingerprints do and do not imply.

I, for one, put my PGP fingerprint on my business cards. Most people don't even notice it (it's light grey text on white, easy to miss), but a few have caught on.
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Agreed. What he did might have worked in 2004. But these days he's just going to end up in serious legal hot water.
Oh, you can still get high? Great! I guess it's not such a bad thing that we're throwing so many people in prison, then!