skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tip: You can run any graphical app as a tab in ConEmu. There's really no need for BitVise. You can run PuTTy and even Sublime inside a tab AND initiated from command line.

Try this iTerm2 :)

http://i.imgur.com/FWigyp6.png
What phone isn't? Is even cyanogenmod safe from the NSA?
I just can't take a judgement of unsavory seriously from someone who's chosen to call themselves cuntfart... :-)
I love how the instructions for "how to make a chair to cross a stream" are:
1. swim across the stream
2. make a chair to cross the stream
The government doesn't need to be encroaching on being a totalitarian regime to keep 'big corporations' in check.
I haven't read the bind source in a long time, but my best guess is that it's in memory.

http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/networking_2ndEd/dns/ch02_06.h...

Has some details, and I believe Bind and PowerDNS call it "Smoothed RTT" or SRTT.
> I think the only useful way to ensure this is to make it the default in any e-mail client.

I agree.

> But this is still only half the way uphill -- it also means storage should also be secure

That would be ideal. But even without that, something useful has been done since it is practical for the NSA/GCHQ to read all internet traffic, it is not pratical fro them to burgle everyone's house.

If PCs come with encryption as standard, it needs to be a steganographic file system, with multiple keys revealing different sets of files and with the number of possible keys being very large. Otherwise, an adversary could simply use rubber hose techniques to get the information.

> including remote ones like Gmail

Gmail represents a single point of failure and is thus always going to be attractive to an adversary. Anything stored unencrypted on gmail, Google Drive, or equivalent -- one should assume the NSA can read it.

> The first one is unlikely to happen IMHO, as it would mean companies that depend on mining your e-mail, like Google, would basically have to stop doing it.

You're right in that gmail's business model is basically anti-privacy. We need to convince people to use local email software not store their email on a remote website (such as gmail).

> The other one is even more unlikely to happen as it would require people to actually invest time in using computers

You're right, because it's impossible to have a zero-user interface filesystem encryption (since people need to type in their password).

> something which our society has constantly brainwashed to think they shouldn't do -- everything should be plug'n'play and trivial and just work out of the box.

There's certainly an element of truth to this.

> Now that our decades-long dream of seeing everyone having access to a computer and to a vast network of information has finally come true, it doesn't look like such a beautiful dream anymore...

Computers can be the biggest tool for freedom and empowerment ever invented, or the biggest tool for coercion and oppression. I believe this will be one of the biggest political issues of our times.
Why do all Windows consoles use crazy thick fonts? It always seems weird to me, as someone weaned on xterm.
AT&T and Sirius/XM want to become next OnStar + LoJack
Some of these aren't as simple as they seem at first glance:

> Dynamic binding: easy enough.

That technique won't be fast enough for dynamic languages. You really need polymorphic inline caches to make dynamic binding fast, which requires careful cooperation between the code generator, the front end, and the IR. A C compiler won't give you that level of control.

> Garbage collection

It doesn't work that well. The problem is that C compilers don't provide a way for the runtime to find all roots on the stack (tell apart integers from pointers). You pretty much either have to be conservative on the stack or spill all roots to the stack across function calls. Neither of them is very good: the former costs accuracy and prevents you from using a bump allocator in the nursery, and the latter costs performance.

There are other issues to consider as well, for example tail call optimization and undefined behavior.
Hey, if it frightens "our" government's corporate clients, then it's terrorism. Can't have corporate persons messing their corporate shorts now, can we?
Ah, s3cmd then!
Cygwin is my primary means of interfacing with Windows, and combined with a bunch of shim scripts I've built up over the years, I get a very similar experience across Windows, Linux, OS X and Solaris.

I actually prefer a Cygwin terminal on Windows to a Rxvt or similar lightweight terminal in X Window. The biggest pain in Linux is the selection buffer. With Console2 on Windows, selecting text puts it in the clipboard buffer, and you can then select a bunch of text in your IDE and overwrite it with a paste. The same workflow doesn't work at all well in Linux; first you must delete the text in the IDE, then select the text in the console, then very carefully aim where you want the text inserted and fire with the middle mouse button.

Even worse, IDEs like RubyMine clobber the selection buffer for common operations like Ctrl+Shift+N (Navigate | File); not only does it clobber the buffer, but it hides the window if it loses focus, so it's actually impossible to copy text from an rxvt terminal into its search box!

As a practical web development environment, I think Linux is the way to go to minimize the distance to production. But my preferred means of interacting with Linux is ssh, either to a VM or over the network, from a nicer desktop OS. Which for me is Windows.
This is my biggest gripe, otherwise I like it. Visually the design is pretty, but in terms of representing information it leaves a lot to be desired.
PMCs are allowed to operate because the government allows them to operate.
I agree that trusting google with wifi passwords is about as benign as it gets (especially if you already trust them with everything else) but the reason we encourage password encryption isn't because we don't trust the service provider, it's because we don't trust hackers or unethical employees. There are a lot of people who would love to get their hands on that data.
How War in Syria Turned Ordinary Engineers Into Deadly Weapons Inventors
"The Nexus 7 is already a great, durable, child-friendly tablet, and it has been available to anyone for years. "

Actually, the release date was July 13, 2012.
Well, if you don't use Google Apps with it, then yeah probably.
If that were the case then why are Russians buying Microsoft phones too? Sorry doesn't pan out as an acceptable reasoning.
In case you were looking for the necessary plea "for the children!" it was here:

"God forbid if the day came that a child is abducted from that mall," he says. "We would have that tool available to us, to look at that data and see if we can't find a possible suspect vehicle."
TechZone360 (ugh, so many ads) article with a little more information:

Network Solutions Experiences Hijacking of DNS Records
http://www.techzone360.com/topics/techzone/articles/2013/07/...
If only the icons in iOS7 were more carefully designed as with these. I have a feeling that changing your icons is going to be a more popular thing in iOS7 than in previous versions of the OS.
What would I give a kid? Nothing. They can use the families shared devices.
A bit of cloth at the bottom could help with that.
This is awesome Chris! Exquisitely executed.
This is actually a step up from what I've been doing which is using views to selectively load what JS a certain page actually needs - instead of bloating it up with several different libraries or frameworks that are all gang banging the page when it loads.

Performance wise, I've seen a significant increase in page load times.
Is that what happened, then, or did various countries simply deny permission to fly over?

Not that that wasn't pretty sorry. The nonsense of inspecting a president's plane is bad.
Unlimited mobile internet is $13(Beeline) — $20 (MTS) per month in Moscow region. Quality is far from good, can't compare to other countries though.
Ok..

We will send some 'Coca Cola' as apology.

Get over or get your own aerial space...
I don't understand at all what you mean. To open pages in a new tab you middle click the link. Pages that automatically open in new tab are annoying. If Chrome has something that stops this, I'm extremely happy. The user should control whether a page opens in a new tab or not, and indeed the user can do that -- left click or middle click.
Thats probably why Dacia got so popular...
You know the cmd and ps fonts can be changed, right?
Nokia HERE map/geocoding UI. Lots of features, good developer documentation.
Could you re-route the keys to random unicode values so that if someone types 'a' they get '%' instead. That way if someone took a few pecks they would hopefully get frustrated
It's not very detailed article but unlike most popular articles articles about quantum computing, it actually informs the public that quantum computing has physical limits that technological advances can't overcome.

Those points you criticize are actually correct. Quantum computers could not solve problems you do with your laptop every day any significantly faster than normal computers.

People think that quantum computer is just massively parallel classical computer that makes 2^n computations in the same time as classical computer makes n computations. This is false. All quantum computations must use algorithms that create their results with interference between states.
I didn't choose the name...it chose me.
Haha, very true. Very true.
This, if you had a big enough filter you would both start and end with the large rocks and have the fine sand in the middle.
If the iPhone is considered "expensive" due "high import taxes" at $920, how is it selling on the black market for $3500?
Chargers typically aren't grounded. The AC and output sides of the charger are electrically isolated, but it seems like that isolation isn't working in your case. It's not uncommon for enough high-frequency current to leak through to be felt, but based on the description it sounds like you've got full AC leaking through. I strongly recommend you don't use this charger, since there's a real risk of electrocution in that case. I wrote the original article, so if you send me this charger I'll tear it down, figure out what's wrong, and post a writeup (my email is on the article page).
And yet what about the "JQuery soup" problem that everyone complains about? Isn't that due to having DOM manipulation code strewn about willy-nilly?
No idea this existed, is it me or does Withings look way more awesome than the Nike+ gear?
While it would be nice to have some minor integration with my car using something like Bluetooth I do not want a fully integrated system between car and phone as it will of course be proprietary and locked down tighter than anything you have ever seen. With a fully integrated system it won't take long before car's come with their own "Parental Controls". You could restrict any car function, music/radio content, phone functions, more stuff than I can imagine.

I don't even want to imagine what Automotive Bloatware would be like.

Think of the children legislators would jump on the opportunity to enact a ton of new laws to "protect" us

Its bad enough that cars with the "old" iPhone dock connector are now permanently obsolete, these new integrated systems will likely be the same.

Its going to be interesting to see what develops
My impression from visiting there a couple of times is that there is much more healthy competition among phone companies. It is very easy just to buy whatever SIM card you want--I could just walk into one of many phone stores and get one for my trip. There was also quite a bit more advertising for the bigger brands, which leads me to believe they have to work harder to acquire and keep customers.

Dealing with phones and SIM cards there was much nicer than in the US, but that isn't saying very much! The US phone market is a complete mess.

That said, I have no idea how much the law about phone subsidies helps this.
Not yet. The most popular shop Svyaznoy seems like promoting however.
We've just enabled third-party app support via our API and have a pretty powerful personal dashboard https://api.howareyou.com/ and https://howareyou.com/ – we're still working on integrating different applications and devices, but using our API, there is no reason why you or any other developer can't add your own.
I purchased a laptop from OLPC years ago, as part of a buy-two-to-get-one deal. I eventually gave it to my niece. She got it when she was three. She's seven now, and still loves it and carries it around everywhere. Neither I nor her parents really understand all of the things she does on it (actually the interface seems quite confusing to me), but apparently it's a good design for certain young children. (I hate to play favorites with other nieces and nephews, but most of them would have destroyed this device long ago, like they destroy every smartphone they can get their mitts on.)
At this point I feel you might as well assume that every device and every website stores your credentials in plaintext until explicitly proven otherwise, I guess. Or maybe unsalted md5 if they're a bank.
I'm on a Mac, I don't have a middle mouse button.
I would suggest if you're simply looking at VC firms as a means to get financial capital you're ignoring a large amount of what they can do for you.
You've Got 25,000 Mornings as An Adult: 8 Ways to Improve Your Morning Routine
Seems interesting. Anyone have a DB benchmark we can run this against?
How America's First Eco-City Died
Here's pothibo's talk code samples that he mentions in the beginning of the post: https://github.com/pothibo/open-code-ajax

I liked the idea and added a demo using Flask/Python as well :)
Didn't I just read on HN that the Valve thing was BS? http://www.develop-online.net/news/44746/Valves-perfect-hiri...

I know Chas fairly well, and I'm reasonably sure this isn't what he was talking about.
"Professional" degrees seem to be the new thing in Uni-marketing. The assumption appears to be it would be corporate sponsored, thus "cost does not matter".

They may need better data science behind their marketing.
This is also opt in, as part of the first boot process. It also makes it very clear what will be stored. The difference is that this is free.
I'm not sure one person not representing more than one person is a rule of English. I think that might be more along the lines of physics.
Traditional well-regulated customer-supporting carriers don't have the margins that black market dealers do?
Britain should rise above Russian money and power
60k - hehehe, good luck.
People prolly will tell: "It's Berkeley, dude!".
> Governments wage wars, not corporations.

People wage wars. Whether they use governments, corporations, churches, or other vehicles to do so is a matter of convenience and what is available -- all have been used. If you shift more power to governments, governments will more often be the choice. If you shift that power away from governments, other choices will take over.
The hotspots I use "regularly" aren't actually the issue- I could certainly remember the passwords for them easily. But over time I've built up a huge network of hotspots that I wouldn't like to lose- that coffee shop I went to a few months ago? That hotel I stayed in last year? It's quite nice to have that just connect automatically.

And you're presenting a false dilemma here. Of course I'd prefer this information be encrypted. I was simply replying to the OP that stated WiFi saving could be in "no way cast as user convenience".
Well, if I become aware of them doing so, then I'll up my confidence in this method being more productive. But I can't, at least off hand, think of a time when this sort of approach has worked for a country that hasn't had fairly significant leverage.
I am not sure to understand your question, it has been said in the article that if everything's mass was increasing proportionally we could not test it since we have to compare two things to see an increase. But I am no physicist I don't know if there would be another way actually to test mass increase without comparing two objects.
This article is old (March 2012) and has been submitted at least twice prior. Here's the small discussion from the last time this was submitted to HN, over a year ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3699293

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3699293
One of my favorite electronics tear down, he looks at two fake apple chargers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi-b9k-0KfE
Two Other Problems with Mobile Traction
As a grammar nerd, I call bullshit. "They" as gender-neutral singular pronoun has been part of the English language for centuries, and it's only in the last hundred years or so (give or take a bit, I don't have time to look it up right now) that prescriptivists have started freaking out about it. Yeah, it's a little awkward, but modern English NEEDS a gender-neutral singular pronoun, and "they" is the best we have.

It was good enough for Shakespeare, and it's good enough for me.
That's a great point! I initially had labels along the x-axis and then removed them for simplicity. But looks like I went a little too far.

Each individual data point is total steps and or calories for a singular day. The count in the top right is for today (and it's always the last data point on the graph). Then it goes today-1, today-2, etc..

Thanks for taking the time to check it out and providing some feedback, I do appreciate it :)
interesting, not a ton of details of how. off to the source I go, thanks. sounds like it assigns a 'score' of some sort to each authoritative ns.
Glad you liked it!
I'm from Ełk (Lyck) and love this town - it's small but not too small and very scenic. We've had German tourists coming since 15th century :-)

Poland is... a 'special' country in so many ways - ppl taking pride in outsmarting the officials by exploiting all possible loopholes.

Currently working on two (not so sexy) projects:
1. an application for moneylenders to manage their customers and contracts (which looks like a hugely underserved and quite rich market)
http://dkpro.azurewebsites.net/demo (google translate should help)

2. quick & dirty app for filling out monthly contracts.
http://smieciowki.azurewebsites.net/
Aimed at small business. Alternative to messy MS Word forms).
Ideal target: ~8-12 contracts monthly where it's already a headache to keep all the paperwork organized but not too big to hire a payroll professional.
I did that process myself at my last company: it was at least 3hrs/month wasted in frustration, chasing ppl to correctly fill out and sign the form. So the pain is real.

IMPORTANT:
Looking for someone to help me with 1. (coding and marketing)
I'm very close to finish and I would LOVE to adapt and sell it in other countries! I'm willing to give a generous share of revenue!
The post is more about the obsession with getting top tier VC names in your round rather than finding a specific investor from a less popular VC or investing fund that gets your biz better. Investors can be great and helpful- but in the end of the day don't obsess with getting a specific name on your cap table- obsess with building a great company.
Looks good. Website is a bit slow though
Cloudary, Spreadtrum Pull Out Of NY
Doesn't coLinux rely on using a device driver to give the Linux kernel a dedicated chunk of physical RAM? Not quite overhead, but worth considering.
I submitted a bug stating that the OS' facilities for managing audio (i.e. AudioManager et al) weren't working according to the spec/docs, some classes would report an incorrect volume during a call. I only tested it on a Samsung phone, I didn't bother testing with other brands because breaking on Samsung would be bad enough for my/any Android app.

I understand what you say, but if it was the other way around my reply would have been something in the lines of "1) please confirm it by testing on another phone brand; 2) if it's specific to Samsung, here's the link to file the bug"
Fine.

Let me restate GP's question: "Why do all Windows consoles use crazy thick fonts by default?"
NJ Congressman Rush Holt Is Attempting To Repeal Patriot And FISA Amendments Act
You could have called Starbucks out for things a lot worse than using a singular 'they'.
But if you can buy it from the carriers more cheaply than the black market, who would pay more than triple that to the black market?

They're not carrier-locked, when purchased direct from Apple for $920, are they?

And if they're selling for $3500 on the black market, exactly how "expensive" can they be, at $920, let alone how could they be "expensive" due the import taxes that result in an official product that's less than one-third the price of the illegal product that skirts those taxes?
In general this ought to "work", but most dns check services and uppity sysadmins will complain loudly and bitterly that there's more than one SOA if you don't do a proper primary-secondary with IXFR.
Especially given that Marxism is a science, and has undergone major changes as things are learned. Hence "Marxism" vs. "Marxism-Leninism" vs. "Marxism-Leninism-Maoism."

Edison: "I have not failed 1,000 times. I have
successfully discovered 1,000 ways to NOT make a light bulb."
The Vast Wasteland Of Online Music
That's perhaps a 3rd standard deviation case for backing up WiFi passwords, but not plausibly for harvesting data on all Wifi networks including those in private dwellings.

And collecting data on every network was what I said could not be cast as user convenience, so it appears that my statement has been taken out of context and then strawmanned.

In no event, however, is it a case for storing those passwords as plaintext.
Ladies of Silicon Valley: Lean Back (a response to Sheryl Sandberg)
A friend of mine told me about Unsene: https://unsene.com/

They are a chat service that does in-browser encryption of messages.

They have an Indiegogo project: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/unsene-secure-and-private-...

(I am NOT affiliated with the project, but have played with it and heard about it from a friend who knows some of the people working there.)
Many TV shows from the 80s and 90s were mastered on analog tape (U-Matic or Betacam) with variable quality (250 lines on U-Matic, 350 lines on Betacam SP) but very low by today standards.

Furthermore, these sources are often cropped/zoomed/stretched from 4:3 to 16:9, which lowers quality even more.
Isn't this the same technique used in parabolic trough solar power installations? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Energy_Generating_Systems

In essence, it's also the same as a solar power tower installation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower
There are two major branches of socialism: utopian and scientific, actually.
Tokaido - First prerelease
Wasn't it Yule Nonflie and Erik Searchenplanen?
I dislike the premise of this article.

All the alternatives have worse disadvantages:

- repeating the name "Matt" is awkward

- gender is an awkward requirement for sending a giftcard

- assuming someone is male unless they are known to be female is awkward

- "he/she" is awkward

And, crucially:

- singular they is widely used and understood and has significant historical precedent https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
Sometimes, it's good to encapsulate stuff into a class when you have a complex logic around a specific theme.

It's not one or the other. It's one AND the other.
A Journey Into Our Food System's Refrigerated-Warehouse Archipelago
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