skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How old was he in 2008? Here is the latest census data http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s0107.p...
Say that to thepiratebay.

This legislation isn't about shutting down porn websites, it's about blocking their access at the ISP level. This censorship is circumventable by using a VPN or other such technology. Censorship -> damage, Internet -> routes around damage.

This has nothing to do with cutting off a website from being accessible by removing it from the Internet.
Note: 5% chance works out to 1 out of 20 times.
George Dyson: NSA – The Decision Problem
Bootstrapping is not a crime

That should be a laptop sticker...
And dammit I missed my chance at making a "fowl play" joke ( should be "foul play" :) )!
> the responsible thing to do is to at least give your users the option of opting out of such tracking by third-parties

Reddit do this. You can choose to load their js from their own servers rather than a CDN.
At this point, I think capitol hill owns them, and would hate to send their lackeys to jail and interrupt what they have encouraged them to do: fleece the plebs to pay massive consultant fees for their insider information about bloated govt contracts and pending financial manipulations.
Zipkin depends on the services in the stack to be able to capture trace identifiers, record and send to the collector timing information, and forward trace identifiers for outbound calls. This is easy in Finagle as all of this logic is already abstracted away for most of the protocols. Note that Finagle is open source so its ready for use today.

If you wanted to record and forward traces inside your own services, this is relatively straightforward (though not super trivial) to do. There are other implementations beyond the Finagle one in development by the community - I would suggest hopping on to the zipkin-users Google Group.
To me the generalizations in this article come across as ironic or satirical.
I tried doing the passive income thing. I set up dozens of blogs with adsense, amazon affiliate links and sold software.

What happened surprised me: it was soul-crushing. I felt dirty. Turns out that meaningful work is what fulfills me. Making "free" hands-off money doesn't excite or inspire me. Totally a learning experience.
Uhhh maybe they came from a Tier 3 city or something. Most Chinese I have talked to know about Tiananmen
I think he's being ironic.
Mac OS X Quick Look plugin for WebP files
> governments who murder and torture their citizens.

What about governments that murder and torture citizens of other countries? The number of Iraqi and Afghani civilians killed by the US is pretty high - this fact alone is enough to make the US one of the worst human rights offenders in the world.
A little comic releif
This seems like a very broad generalization of the Tim Ferriss apostle population. I've seen several people create interesting passive income businesses (Muses as he calls them in 4HWW) that have nothing to do with blogs/apps/affiliate sites.
MOOCs could be disastrous for students and professors
Just to be clear about it, I'm pro-MOOC. However, I think there is an interesting discussion here.
I think boredom is partially a result of forcing your brain to do something it doesn't want to for too long. For example, sitting in a chair or using a computer. It's better to treat the problem (stop sitting in the chair or using the computer) than treat the symptom (do something novel sitting down at your computer).

I almost feel bad for hijacking this thread, but it is phrased in terms of boredom not "I made a Reddit reader".
Barnaby Jack "jackpotting" an ATM at BlackHat USA 2010:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-dS4UFomv0&t=5m47s
Where's all this skepticism every time the same thing happens to a Russian hacker and people call it an assassination?
Booh! It's at the same time as PyCon Canada.
That's an illustration of just how difficult it can be to try to operate a website with the governments of the G8 out to get you. It's something that requires extraordinary efforts for TPB and only works because it's a meta site, if they had to seed every tracker they index they would have died long ago. Moreover, because of the nature of their site and the demographic it's used by it's trivial for them to slap ads on the site and make a lot of money, no matter what.

Compare that to, say, a reporter's personal blog and videos, for example. Especially if they have a family they are going to be much less able to pull the sorts of hijinx that TPB manages. When they're shut down once they will stay shut down and they will more than likely just keep their head down from then on.
Right. For example, if your goal is to reduce total number of crashes, (assuming you are in a position to meaningfully impact this,) the ability to identify "hotspots" is extremely valuable.
That thought just gave me goosebumps all over my arm.
Most of the responses here are from developers but from a more business perspective, I find this article somewhat flawed. Regarding "It Would Take a Big Event for You to Get Promoted," the author says "For example, say your boss has been in her position for five years, and her boss has been in his position for seven—and they both seem very comfortable where they are. That means, in order for you to move up, something would have to entice one of those big wigs out of his or her position. "

A good manager should be able to promote and advance their employee if they're adding significant value even if it doesn't mean taking the manager's position.
[...] [O]bjectionable [C]ontent for [K]ids [S]ystem ?
Actually we are in tyranny's clutches and have been for a long time. That most don't recognize it for what it is shows just how powerful it is.
Chromecast's dirty little secret: you'll need power from somewhere
This is a good example where some color would really help.

There are points with the same color where their collision count is different by a factor of 10.
> The kind of "us and them" mentality we've seen in recent debates about privacy and security is an anachronism, a work of fiction based on romantic notions from a different time and place.

All notions of groups of people are equally works of fiction, whether its everybody-is-"us" or "us and them". As long as you don't have a single government of global scope, you are going to have the consequences of separate governments (and, no, "no governments" doesn't get you out of that problem, its just the limit case of lots of governments, where every government consists of one person.)

> The key difference between political vs. financial influences reigning in that mentality is that the established ruling class in each "us" group can still exert considerable control over the political landscape, but the financial landscape is shaped by reality and has therefore adapted faster to modern life.

That's an amusing story, but it is by no means true. Particularly, it relies on the absolutely ludicrous idea that "the financial landscape" and "the political landscape" are separate things. Particularly, it pretends that the "established ruing class" that has influence over the "political landscape" isn't the same set of wealthy people whose preferences are reflected in the "financial landscape", and that the "political landscape" isn't a product of how the "financial landscape" has "adapted to modern life".

> You can spin your surveys showing that 99.97% of $YOUR_COUNTRY's citizens have no problem with $ABUSE, but if the reality is that the abuse is unpleasant and people don't like it, the money is still going to show it. Ask anyone in the air travel industry who has the option of using various controversial security measures or not.

Do you realize how the nationalization of air travel security in the US (which relieved airlines of responsibility/liability), the adoption of many specific controversial security measures (that involved purchasing goods and services from security firms), and the programs which allow the "right kind" of people to pay and bypass certain security procedures illustrate the falsity of your political vs. financial dichotomy?
A self-running business seems cool and magical - like creating a living thing... life! But, I think, for truly passive income (meaning it runs itself), he's right that it does have to be some kind of arbitrage opportunity, that will tend to stay around. By definition, it isn't intrinsically interesting or satisfying. But, in itself, there's nothing wrong with that.

OTOH, I'm not saying startup guying is the only solution - just that satisfaction requires ongoing work. Once you complete your startup (for example), you have to find something else to do - another startup, create YC... something.
Why not just do what you find satisfying in the first place? It could be a startup. It could be just to make money (e.g. Warren Buffett loves making money). Or it might be something else.

Here's a twee story about a hand-to-mouth fisherman http://www.rinkworks.com/peasoup/richman.shtml
If you use autopilot to assist you flying the model, a delay is not a big problem. However, most people fly models in full manual, with the FPV setup giving them an "in-cockpit" experience. Even for fairly slow multicopters, a latency of >100ms is really bad for anything except slow hovering over open terrain (which gets incredibly boring very quickly).
Well, to be fair, Russia does actually have to deal with them from time to time unlike the US who nearly never does.
Well, I've been continously reassured that learning the theory is unneccessary if all you want is to use Haskell effectively.
>Intel state they do different optimisations for different chips,

The documentation says more highly optimized for Intel® microprocessors than for non-Intel microprocessors. again and again. Not just different, inferior.

Also the optimization notice mentioned in the Wikipedia article I linked, the one Intel was mandated to add by the courts is still there. Maybe I should quote the current version in full:

Intel's compilers may or may not optimize to the same degree for non-Intel microprocessors for optimizations that are not unique to Intel microprocessors. These optimizations include SSE2, SSE3, and SSSE3 instruction sets and other optimizations. Intel does not guarantee the availability, functionality, or effectiveness of any optimization on microprocessors not manufactured by Intel. Microprocessor-dependent optimizations in this product are intended for use with Intel microprocessors. Certain optimizations not specific to Intel microarchitecture are reserved for Intel microprocessors. Please refer to the applicable product User and Reference Guides for more information regarding the specific instruction sets covered by this notice.

>You can't expect Intel to optimise very thoroughly their compiler for all the processor models of their competitors.

As I said I don't, I expect it to generate bad code for the products of the competition. And that's what it did and does. AMD dragged Intel to court over this and won. That's why the compiler documentation is now full of these "non-Intel" disclaimers.

ICC exists to sell Intel processors, one should always remember that. Intel isn't trying to make money selling compilers..
They probably get paid more than him ;)
Non standard way of using call and bind in JavaScript
Oh, like Anwar_al-Awlaki's son?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki#Abdulrahm...
Show HN: use webscript.io and curl to alert yourself from a long script
Git-html5.js, a pure javascript git client library
It's somewhat larger than that now. They have quite a few employees.
This is a real leap of logic. How can you diagnose the president without knowing his motivations?

For all we know, the wiretaps on State Senator Barack Obama uncovered some incriminating information that political elites have used to make the president their puppet. No one has to be a sociopath to contradict oneself. For all we know, he really planned to run an accountable administration and was met with either resistance or blackmail.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/20/russ-tice-nsa-obama...
1. The "unethical or lazy" is what the counterparty says to feel better about their own lives when they're failing. It's human nature to want to believe you're pursuing the best path.

2. I don't understand why people like to draw such a hard distinction. It doesn't upset me that some people prefer sushi to steak. People are entitled to their own lifestyle choices without judgment of those who make alternate choices. This isn't just a software/business/career choice issue. Paleo people love telling everyone else that their diet is the best. Many vegetarians often evangelize to others and imply there are serious moral imperatives at stake. Just because someone isn't doing what you're doing doesn't make them "lazy" or "unethical". On a side note -- I think "pursuing narrow arbitrage opportunities" is often something someone would say with disdain, but that's my flavor.

3. Most startup people aren't particularly making the world a better place anyways.

I'm sure a lot of that is written tongue in cheek, I loved it until the "narrow arbitrage opportunities" and "lazy/unethical" ending.
Well, they don't need if they're willing to simply kill prisoners.
Rest assured it doesn't take 5 years to get there :)
Russia doesn't need death penalty. It's a lot more efficient to make someone disappear without the circus of judicial process.
Sorry, I missed your initial comment.

Even with lowball estimates, my cost for washing is double yours - 30+c/kWh... sigh.
I'm 18 and I Like it
In my previous line of work, as a criminal lawyer, this is how this would be used:

Q: "Mr Smith, isn't it true that you willingly removed a filter on you Internet connection, places there for your safety, and the safety of your children, and now your connection allows you to watch hard core porn?"
A: "But... I did it because.."
Q: "Yes or no, Mr. Smith? Did you ask for the filters to be removed?"
A: "Yes, bu..."
Q: Thank you, Mr. Smitha
If you pick the right passive income thing it could provide the money you need to do the work that you find interesting, which might not have any money in it.

> Why not just do what you find satisfying in the first place?

The satisfying thing might not pay the bills.
It's always blown me away how willing people are to install remote JavaScript on their sites, including top sites that you would expect to be more cautious. A lot of internet retailers include dozens of third party JavaScript files on their pages for analytics, social widgets, retargeting, etc. The way they handle the risk is by using constant monitoring by security auditing firms to check for changes in any of the files (presumably from different locations, browsers, user-agents, etc).
Some people just have that attitude, if you don't dedicate yourself 100% to your work (read my company) then your just some lazy pos, because "surviving" and "thriving" is lazy. Where you know PTSD, and mental health issues for a salary is pulling yourself up by the bootstraps.
Holder Letter to Russian Justice Minister About Snowden
Never apologise for trying to make sense out of the world.
Apptivate Prompt Changes
Also has the best CAPTCHA ever. http://en.lichess.org/signup
<enter>~Ctrl-Z will suspend the ssh session, too.

I've also found it useful to do <enter>~C - then you can configure port forwarding without having to open a new ssh session.

(~C opens a command line, enter "help" for available commands.)
The Life-Sized Interactive Hologram Isn't Sci-Fi Anymore
I don't find this analogy meta-discussions valuable. The only stretch is whether or not the killing could happen inside USA. Of course it (perhaps) hasn't happened yet, but that's what we are discussing: if it could happen. Any evidence on the truth of "could it happen?" has to has some differences, otherwise it would have already happened and we wouldn't be debating this in the first place.
I've wondered in the past why there isn't something like:

<script src="https://elsewhere.example.com" digest="<SHA-$foo>" />

that refuses to load the referenced script unless it matches the specified digest/signature.

Using anything from sources you don't trust is a bad idea, but even trustworthy partners can be exploited to attack your site as well.

It would mean coordinating updates of the digest to all referencing sites though, which might make it practically impossible.
I think Apple is a little too big for Nuance to acqui-sue. Things might end very differently this time.
Learning category theory is about as important to programming in Haskell as denotational semantics are to programming in C. Which is to say, not very important unless you're interested in deeper computer science.
what fun is low level programming without segfaults?
saurik explains in his introduction why his article is different (and potentially worth reading even if you've read other articles):

> Later articles were written about this bug, each examining the same exploit technique, coming to the conclusion that this vulnerability offered less abilities than the Master Key exploit, due to very narrow and unlikely requirements that the original signed application package must satisfy.

> In this article, I document different exploit techniques for this bug that do not have these limits; in fact, the second exploit described here provides much more capability than the Master Key exploit, allowing arbitrarily complex packages to take on the signatures from arbitrary signed packages. Finally, I look at the history of this bug in Android, showing when it was introduced.
Thank you. This would seem to be the central question about this. If Chevron in fact has evidence that the "facts" presented in the Equidorian trial were false, then they have pretty good reason to go after somebody for fraud and extortion.

Otherwise, if the allegations in Equidor were undeniable, then their case is, what? That somebody "coerced" the judiciary there to look at what was actually happening, and this is somehow unfair to Chevron???

If the premises of the Equidorian case were in fact false, then they have basis to after the "liars". Otherwise, this would seem to be a fishing expedition, the point of which is to harass the whistle-blowers to make an example of them. "Dis is what happens when youz mess wid us, M.....F.....s!".

IF there is no evidence of falsehood, that is, if the case against Chevron in Equador is true, the irony of using RICO to harass the whistle-blowers is oh so rich.
I once worked on a document management/project management system, the devs were first port of call for the client IT teams.
Boring, right? Non-game changing?

One phone call I got just after it was installed at a 15-20 person business. I'd helped them out with something and asked how the roll-out was going:

Client: "Yeah, it's great, we're loving it. Bit of a problem though..."

Me: "Oh right, well maybe I can help you out, what is it?"

Client: "We don't know what to do with Sue and Bill now, they don't have any work to do. What can we get them doing?"

This boring, non-game changing software had automated roughly 10% of their workforce. Obviously not great for Sue and Bill, but when you put it in those terms the cost savings across all the clients we were serving must have been 10s of millions of pounds. That's millions of pounds to be spent on actually building things instead of just faffing around with admin stuff making sure the subcontractors got the right diagram, or finding out what the site foreman's phone number was.

Even the silliest auto-tweet tagging software means you can do more with less, that's why people buy them.

Almost all software is game changing. Never doubt we are all changing the world. It's just that the low-hanging fruit has already been picked. What Google did back in the 90s is almost laughably simple to what most of us do today. But obviously what they do now is much more complex.
They remove tax if you're outside of France. I paid 2.99€/month (but then Paypal added their conversion fees, I paid 12,58$ CAD for 3 months.
I'm just using CouchDB right now for my side project. Cloudant is offering really great service although they don't provide multi-tenant service in Japan. But I'll go for Cloudant unless latency between Japan and Singapore matters.

By the way, I posted another link three days ago.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6088443
There is absolutely nothing in the UK plan to shut down porn websites.
This number is really easy to pull of if you know how to sell yourself and be social/on the offensive.

If this was true then every startup would be a success. You need a lot more than that. Not to mention that finding a problem that costs a company $4k/mo and coming up with an elegant solution is a lot harder than it sounds.

Many first time founders think exactly like this. They're blindsided after the product is built and they realize the hard work has just begun.
Being a tenure-track faculty member by deliberately trying not to be one
Opera's Dragonfly is still one of the best for JS debugging.

It's sad it's going to die with Presto.
I know it's a hot topic, but the Snowden leak is hardly the genesis of distrust.
People do a much, much worse in social media marketing (a well-defined discipline within digital marketing).
matplotlib seems to be excellent for what I'm looking for. Thanks!
Yes, I addressed the "glue" thing with the note about authenticating the correct data (notably things like IVs and packet numbers).

But given that it uses ssh for the initial setup, I doubt there are any problems to be found with the initial key exchange, which is one of the trickiest parts of a "secure channel" protocol. And OCB, as an AEAD mode, is pretty hard to screw up, so long as (again) you make sure you're authenticating the proper data and generating IVs/nonces appropriately. Plus, they're using the (optimized) reference implementation for OCB, so that's probably pretty solid.

Now, I definitely agree that this isn't a proper security audit. But at a cursory glance, the general impression I get is that it's probably okay. Honestly, they've really removed most of the protocol complexity by using ssh to do all of the setup work.
This misses the point. The point is that if you pass a C program that uses "int" through a C-compiler that spits out LLVM IR, the resulting LLVM IR is not portable.

You might not be able to change the C program - it might be using "int" because the libraries it needs to interface to uses "int" in their signature (and handles it appropriately) on the platforms you care about.
"big and/or amazing things"? Raised confident, happy children while maintaining their own happiness you mean?

I really can't think of anything else.

Unless you're talking about fixing poverty, disease or violence on a large scale in which case I'm surprised you've got the time to procrastinate on here.
So lets assume I'm interested in deeper computer science :)
1 billion people would certainly disagree.
In SEO, the user makes an overt action (search) and the ranking of search then can affects what the user sees. We've grown to accept that.

In social-graph-optimisation the overt act is much higher granularity - its to follow / friend another person. So the game is to join as many graphs as possible, or to find the graph of the person you want, and join that.

I think this granularity problem will severely limit the acceptance of SEO-for-social-graphs. Seo right now works because it is possible to finesse at the right granularity level as a function of a users action. Geo-location work will also massively help - but social is effectively painting ads onto my friends T-Shirts in the hope I will read them.

I struggle to see the next fine grained action

(*) We need a better term than social media, because this is all just variations on an individual has their own webspace, and updates that space regularly, plus a central scraping service to let others know. The important bit is that Ts&Cs play less of a "real" part in this than might seem true - essentially the Ts&Cs cover FB/Twitter business model, and less the privacy of the user.