skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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consider that the FBI considers potential alternatives to the US Dollar to be a matter of "domestic terrorism":

http://www.libertariannews.org/2011/08/30/bitcoin-fbi-admits...

yeah, that seems like a reasonable application of the word "terrorist" :P
Technology serves people! Nice joke :)
> Is it really a surprise sperm rates are lowering given the number of chemicals in our food, pollution and exposure to hazardous materials on a daily basis?

Why would it affect sperm count but not longevity?
I know obviously an amateur who hasn't had to work in the real world i doubt sound on sound would agree with him/her on this
Age accelerated face cloning and spying to get information and iris or other samples needed?
Well, a deeper strategy would be to avoid a suspect technology (SSL, PKI in general) and rely on something both simpler and (we think) more secure: SSH.

Unless your system is rooted, or the NSA is building backdoors into all operating systems, you have good assurance about the safety of your SSH connection.

So, setting aside our firm for a moment, the general case would be a rational endpoint that you control (maybe us, maybe S3, whatever), a secure channel (SSH) and good encryption tools (duplicity, git-annex[1], hashbackup, truecrypt).

So while I was being flip in my original response to the OP, I am now seriously proposing that this all already exists and can be procured from many different providers - a lot of whom can and should be considered "nsa friendly" or even outright hostile.

[1] http://git-annex.branchable.com/encryption/
> Who should be taken accountable for this?

Anyone and everyone with knowledge of it who didn't do what he did, IMO.

I realize that's a wide net.
This "rant" is exceptionally incoherent/convoluted -- at times arguing against itself:

> The fact web browser technology are mostly the same across browsers is great for developers, but users never cared: because the market leading web browser defined the technologies people could use. And the people using the market leading web browser were unaware of the compromises other web browsers used.

What is being said here? That respect towards web standards is not important? Sure, when Internet Explorer had over 90% market share and was in the actual position of defining what the web looked like users didn't care. And they continued not to care for over 5 years as IE stagnated the entire world wide web due to the simple fact there was no competition and therefore no reason to innovate.

The author thinks today's browsers are bad? Without Firefox causing Microsoft to wake up you'd probably still be using IE6 today. At least with standards in place it's possible to have some reasonable balance between browser competition and an actual functioning web.

> My other problem with Safari is that they are doing fuck all with it. It gets updated, what, twice a year?

That's what I mean by "incoherent/convoluted -- at times arguing against itself".

The rest of the rant is just assigning opinion based importance to certain features over others. I personally couldn't care less about sharing my tabs across devices -- in fact, with my personal workflow that would often end with my cell phone automatically trying to load 50+ tabs that I left open at work while researching a problem. While on the other hand, I could not get by without a searchable browser history, even if it is just to find some news article I read 6 hours ago. The author claims this feature is useless because of Google -- yet I don't find Google to be a sufficient answer when trying to find content which was only posted a few hours ago.
Yes, but governmental violence is also used in the furthuring of private profit, and I'm not sure private profit off government policy is just a side effect and not also a symbiotic relationship. Bombs are expensive, rebuilding is expensive, terahertz scanners may do nothing for "security" but do wonders for bank accounts; and many of the costs to tax payers ultimately end up in private hands. Historically, governments have a lot more horrible things under their belt, but I'm still worried we now simply have an additional problem. I don't see much of a difference between power for the sake of power and profit for the sake of profit, and they make a great couple, too.

(That must be someone else, since I never used this nick before this account and don't even know what LP is. The Libertarian Party?)
I wonder if there will be as many comments as usual complaining about any type of profanity.
It's much easier.

Use html documents and convert them to pdf with xhtmltopdf :-) (just call the console application with arguments).
Is there any actual evidence this actually existed, such as a picture?
I staple a blue plastic cup to the top of a walking staff and coat the cup with a layer of tanglefoot. It's like a fly magnet. In the thick of the season I might catch 75 in an outing. This guy had it figured out years ago, http://nfrec.ifas.ufl.edu/MizellRF/deer-fly-testimonial.htm
Very useful, I think I'll implement this inside of an exception handler :)
Nice one! creative use of technology and gives a vent to instant frustrations..bravo!
I started on 29 Days leave at a UK FTSE 100 company.
Are We Having Fun Yet?
how good is the enterprise tech support for this api?
The privacy boom won't happen, sorry. Most people have already forgotten about the NSA snooping.

But anyway, here you go: https://heml.is/
Solid documentation.
All of those are international conflicts. These are all Western companies killing people in the developing world.

As for the number of people killed, you're just arguing about quantity, not anything fundamentally different and less violent about the nature of corporations. Corporations are clearly willing to kill people. If they were bigger and had more resources, like governments, they'd kill more people.

The government of Togo also doesn't kill many people in foreign wars. Its not because they're instrinsically less violent.
Roadmap: Internationalization based on Accept-Language.

Ironically, if this could be done for certian languages for which there is no simple analogue for "fuck off" (ex: Japanese, where you need an arsenal of slang to suit the various occasions), it would be of great service to mankind.
Guess what. All those other governments are probably busy creating their own Prisms to spy on you and you have no legal recourse with them. Self serve seems like a better option.
I agree. I don't think the author has been to India. I lived in Hyderabad, and the mosquito's there were super fast and super aggressive. Fans? Hah.

Before sleeping, I'd close all the windows and doors and spray the toxic anti-mosquito product. After half an hour, I'd go in and find all the fallen mosquito's and squish them, since they weren't actually dead, just stunned. After a while they would just get up and fly away if I didn't do anything. Then, I'd use an electric zapper to find the remaining ones which were unaffected by the spray.
Then, before sleeping I'd light a mosquito repellent, and also apply a mosquito repellent to my hands and feet to keep them away.

Only the above regimen worked. Skipping any of the above meant I'd be slapping away angry buzzing mosquito's the rest of the night.

Fans wouldn't do jack to slow them down. The only other thing which was semi-effective was cooling down the room with an AC. They seemed to get a bit slow then.
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In the short run, I have found these annoying when just trying to write some quick stuff.

But the tradeoff is acceptable, it guarantees better organized code, and blazing fast compile speeds.

You win some you lose some
Mark Pendergast's book For God, Country, and Coca-Cola linked in the references covers this and more and is a good read. It also has the recipe for Coke in the back and the story of how he found it.
Actually I believe the containers are implemented with something similar to http://lxc.sourceforge.net/ which is more akin to a process level chroot, and kernel resource limits. This also the same technology that fundamentally underpins Docker and some other similar super-lightweight virtualisation technologies. With lxc and buildroot, for example it's trivial to create a self-contained 20Mb image for running a PostgreSQL server. With all the security guarantees [sic] that would be provided by paravirtualisation.
related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanta#History
I've used logic extensively since 1991 on the Atari. I spoke with two other professional users last night and they agreed. Reviews not withstanding, those of us who were power users feel cheated. There were strong rumors that this version was never even going to come out and that the dev team had been reduced.
Totally expected to see an article about a white form of carbon (which would have been fascinating!) but this is a decent second option!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coke_%28fuel%29
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How I do email
This article on the EFF page[1] states that EFF represents them.

[1] https://www.eff.org/cases/first-unitarian-church-los-angeles...
Well, if there are, you will now have a service to tell them. I think it's the /off/:name/:from method.
/linus/:name/:from

Will return content of the form ':name, there aren't enough swear-words in the English language, so now I'll
have to call you perkeleen vittupää just to express my disgust and frustration with this crap. - :from'
I could be way off here, but I could've sworn I've worked for a supermarket that, apart from blue Pepsi, at some point sold white Coca Cola. This was in either the 90's or early 2000 though.

And again, perhaps it's my memory playing tricks on me.
Long article about the invention of DDT and it'sssubsequent use and misuse. http://www.gladwell.com/2001/2001_07_02_a_ddt.htm
The article doesn't seem quite clear on this: did they simply remove the coloring, or did they add something to the drink that would break down/bind to the coloring molecules and render them colorless? I'm not really sure why you would need a chemist to do the first.
How would you really know it's Coca-Cola by just looking at it? Could just as well be something else.
It's fairly easy isn't it to get access to the hard disk of a hosted machine?
Your best bet is to comb the references cited in the article. There is a good chance the published non-fiction books themselves have further citations.
Because mixing in a little milk to make it look like coffee would have been too efficient and inexpensive.
That's the joke. There are about a dozen different language and cultural dependent "standards" for writing decimal separators and number groupings.

I especially like the ambiguity you get in those cases where some places use the period as decimal separator and the period as number grouping character and then other places do it the other way around.
i think it's more like 10-20 years ahead, but point taken :)
The only PDF reader I have installed is Chrome, and I'm pretty happy with it.
I've used KeyLemon before on my computer.

Removed it the day a friend of mine unlocked it with his face(he looks quite different).
Please don't go around posting that psydo-science. It is a ninth-grade science project. It has no backing at all.
This anecdote is mentioned in this book: ( http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002STNBRK/?tag=dedasys-20 ) which is an interesting look at world history via popular drinks: beer, wine, distilled alcohol, tea, coffee and coca cola. None of it is probably all that new in terms of the history portions, but it's an interesting and novel way of looking at things and makes for pleasant reading.
Don't under-estimate rubber hose cryptography.

I'm under no doubt whatsoever that if the NSA show up and grab all my hardware, and wave their $5 wrench menacingly, I'll give them all the keys/passphrases they ask for.

I'm "sure enough" though, that they can't read my EncFS/GPG/TrueCrypt protected data without me knowing about it. Not even the data synced to Dropbox/GoogleDrive/Jottacloud.
...wait, [TrapWire](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrapWire)?
It remembers me the ASP.NET life cycle. Doing so is a clever workaround for lacking of function override in PHP.
"Are you saying it has nothing to do with the difficulty involved?"

No, of course not. The "simply" was what I was disagreeing with.
Oh please.. So much grasping at straws for a story that doesn't exist!
I am so glad Suster said this. Hell, I would have been glad if any of the most visible VCs said this.

I get the sense that people really do believe that tech startups are actually a different beast, that the basic rules do not apply, and that we really are not building businesses as the rules just don't apply to tech startups... they are different.

We should be calling bullshit on that. The core rule should be that revenue should be higher than costs.

It seems so dumb to say, as it is obvious. So how did we end up in a place where people will tell you with a straight face not to worry about revenue, far better to grow (increase costs) and increase valuation.

As soon as you are in that game it seems that the goal has shifted to the next funding round, the next inflated valuation, and not to have built a sustainable and possibly high-growth business.

The exit should not be the end and your goal. It is the goal of the VC, and your paths may be the same for a while, but before the VC you need to find the right ingredients for a new business, and after VCs have exited you need to have set your company on a path of sustainable growth.

Growth is important, but n times no revenue is still zero. Revenue should be our most important metric, and growth should be second to that.
The other week I wrote this little server + browser extension that looks at HN submitters and domain history. Sometimes it reveals interesting things, like TechVibe's army of spammers.

http://imgur.com/mQSfyDY

https://github.com/benlowry/hnsubmitterstats
Just checked the German iOS, the words mentioned in the article - abortion (Abtreibung), rape (Vergewaltigung), virginity (Jungfräulichkeit), ammo (Munition) all work. The correct word is proposed after entering about five letters.

Must be an Anglosaxon/American thing then, unsurprisingly. Any other data points?
Crystal Pepsi? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi
Lol. Have you ever tried mixing coke and milk?

I saw it happen once. My friend ordered a white russian (vodka and milk) for our other friend and a black russian (vodka with coke) for himself - the bartender was pretty drunk and he mixed the two together, forming a greyish foaming abomination of a drink. My mate left it in the middle of the pub and noone even touched it.
Some of us prefer the term mature.
i like the effort guys, but secure web apps is a tall order. the attack surface of a web app is huge and the web was just not built for client-side crypto. the dependency list for most web browsers is gigantic and attacks against even one of the deps could lead to your crypto being blown.

keep in mind that cryptocat had been audited at least once and they totally missed the completely-busted prng. i am betting you guys will do a better job than nadim et al :)
"Challenge the status quo" does include "try to get their way politically by resorting to tactics which target civilians in order to cause terror". The animal rights movement certainly has been involved in that kind of "challenge" on a number of occassions. It's not merely a matter of declaring people criminals for having a political goal, but also when they are indeed committing crimes in the name of animal rights or the rights of the unborn or whatever.
> if we monetize too early we will scare away our nascent marketplace and not grow as fast

What about slight, unobtrusive monetization? You don't have to put up a paywall, focus completely on revenue, and ruin your entire site. Add in a tiny premium feature that a small number of users will buy to pay the bills.
No, dynos are 'containers', not processes. Those run inside the dynos. From the documentation at https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/dynos: "The commands run within dynos include web processes, worker processes".
... and that's how the biggest straw man on earth came to be
I suppose Microsoft Azure (CDN) could be considered a contender in the same space.

Possibly dropbox (html & assets in a public folder) might be considered.
A brown cow (or white cow in this application) is yummy but quite different than an unadulterated coke. The suggestion is the same as telling people to add milk or sugar to their tea. And people are opinionated enough about that[1][2][3].

Besides, a little chemistry to break into a new market isn't a bad expenditure.

[1]http://www.brainofshawn.com/2008/03/14/sweet-tea-is-an-abomi...

[2]http://hikiculture.net/topic4148.html

[3]http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10913-milk-wrecks-the-...
Can you share any good examples who use this approach?
i would not count on the canadian government not running a system that is substantially similar to the usg. intelligence services often aren't concerned with laws, so expecting legal protection matters is a very much misguided path.
Good as in pleasant, or good as in effective at launching great products?
Modern Coke use caramel color (E150b). Perhaps the color used to be natural from the ingredients, or there are some ingredients that are not colorless.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caramel_color
Sounds like Reddit would be an example (though someone else would have to mention how well it's working for them).
> The article doesn't seem quite clear on this: did they simply remove the coloring..

"Zarubica found a chemist who could remove the coloring from the beverage, thereby granting Marshal Zhukov's wish."
Interesting results. The only problem with that kind of private method is that another Cell method wouldn't be able to call it either.
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In French, "avortement", "viol", "virginité", "munition" all get autocompleted.

I don't see why the last two would anyway, it's not like we've have a strong stance on these matters. Abortion and rape are something else entirely, but I don't recall any company or even public servant going out of their ways to get us to be forbidden to talk about it.
I disagree, I think even if anti-prism litigation is successful there's no way we can trust the government to not do it again. I think there need to be ubiquitous technological solutions to ensure a basic level of privacy, and short of a technological solution we can not assume that we have privacy.
This doesn't address the issue of Google, Microsoft, Facebook and the other big companies (including banks, grocery chains, HMOs, etc.) building individual profiles out of the information they collect and trade about you. And once they have this information, voluntarily handing it over to the government. Or acting as their own de facto surveillance state without the help of the government.

Sure, have all the end to end encryption you want. Your information is still getting out there.
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Since Windows 8 started shipping, its users trying out Ubuntu for the first time may be more familiar with Unity due to them both having similar search functions and layout.
> Num Lock on the number keypad also is a relic

Using the numeric keypad as directional arrows can be more comfortable when gaming. I personally prefer to use it as arrows when gaming and numbers when working. I would not buy a keyboard lacking a Num Lock key.
Support would be a classic example of this. Access to phone support rather than email, guarantees about response times, etc.
Tab Clear? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tab_Clear
Yeah, I understand. I was speculating about possible changes to social norms and body postures in response to recording technology like Glass. As an alternative to an indicator light, maybe Glass-wearers will learn not to look at other people at all, so as not to give the impression that they are recording. Similarly, perhaps there are ways that we held our pre-camera cell phones that would now imply recording, so we've all subconsciously learned to hold our new phones differently.

In other words, it could be a lack of obvious physical gestures that indicates we are not recording, rather than the presence of obvious physical gestures that indicate we are recording.

A world in which we don't 'point' our heads at strangers is definitely weird and possibly undesirable, but interesting to think about.
But why would they need a chemist to tell them how to simply not add color?
When I tap "unlock pages", I just get a blank screen titled "unlock pages". Is something wrong?
So you couldn't figure out how to change the DE?
Maybe OSX and Windows are the right choices for you.
> a black russian (vodka with coke)

The barman doesn't know what the fuck they are doing and I used to work amongst functionally drunk barmen. A black russian is vodka, coffee liquor (like Kahlua) and milk (optional). Even if he wasn't drunk what he gave your friend was shit.
You wouldn't need milk. Just serve it in a coffee cup.
Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi
Jlgreco probably meant: "did they not add coloring [during production]", for which to make sense the color would have to be added during the production, which could very well be; the article probably meant "found a chemist who could remove the color", implying the color is a by-product of the production and comes from other ingredients. So, the article is not explicit about this, but the whole context would lead me to believe that it is the second explanation that was meant.
Honest advice: The power of paredit lies not in managing the closing parens. I found that the benefits of paredit show only when you use barf/slurp/split/join. Keep the paredit cheat-sheet around (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PareditCheatsheet) for quick reference, and if you're anything like me and don't like the emacs-meta-ctrl-style key-combos, customize the keys, I've found the defaults to be quite lacking for vim/evil users.

Using paredit only for parens-matching feels to me like using only hjkl in vim. While you can use vim this way, you won't fully reap the benefits until you start to use the other movement commands.
Two recommendations if you want to learn more,

How to Win Friends and Influence People http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/06...

and Romancing the Room
http://www.amazon.com/Romancing-Room-Engage-Audience-Success....

Both of these definitely helped a lot with my public speaking.
It appears to do this now, albeit brokenly.
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Is this just an interesting tidbit about the history of a popular drink, or a subtle anecdote about how under socialism all animals are equal, some just more than others?
I assume in the original recipe the color wasn't added, but was a consequence of how it was produced then.
On a vaguely related tangent to this, Coca Cola does not block infrared and near infrared light making it mostly transparent if viewed through an IR capable sensor with the visible spectrum filtered out.
I don't think Google made any money until they launched AdWords about 3 years after they started.
I think you're answering your own question here. Coke without coloring isn't completely clear, so they hired a chemist to mask whatever natural color coke has. At least that's the impression I got from that sentence.
To be specific: a black russian is a white russian without the milk.