skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is absolutely awful, or doesn't apply. Especially in the context of communicating with a cynical userbase, but in many other contexts as well.

It does not mention the ONE thing that makes an apology worth anything.

The ONE thing you have to include is evidence of a positive action you have taken that will actually prevent this from happening again. Not some kind of 'promise.'

For example, here is an Obama non-apology for the NSA spying on Americans (illustrative example, not a quote): "I am dismayed, as all of you are, at what I've recently learned of data collection of innocent Americans by a government agency. It was done under my watch, and I take responsibility. I promise you, the people who overstepped their boundaries will be removed from their positions and punished. Anyone who's suffered personally as a result of these violations will have freedom of information act possibilities to learn how their information was misused. They can petition the courts for redress, in line with our Constitution. Finally, I want you to know that I have let you all down. I can only ask for your forgiveness."

That pretty much follows steps 1-5. It's also absolutely useless.

here is a good apology: it can repeat any of the language above, for fluff. The main point is this "this morning I signed an executive order ordering the sealing, for 150 years, of all innocent American's personal information that has been collected. The sealing is to be done by means of military-grade encryption. The keys will be held in the supreme court of the United States, by its chief justice John G. Roberts, Jr. Every morning between he will come in half an hour early and sign off on warrants requesting any decryption, only upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the records to be decrypted, and the persons or things to be seized."

That's "funny", but it's 10000000x better than the apology above. The only way to apologize is to list a step you've actually taken to actually prevent it happening again.

Fuck promises.
There was not much of a fuss made when large national chain book stores killed off numerous local, community offerings. Why should I care about the death of another invasive species?

All kidding aside I really do miss the local shops that did not survive. I just don't feel the same about big national bookstores.
I agree with the shared responsibilities, but you make it sound as if you are voluntarily subsidizing other peoples' children when in fact you are forced to. If you would contribute to the education and the health costs of others, why do you need to be forced to do it? And if people agree with you, they will do so without a gang of people coercing them to. So cut out the middleman.

> Similarly a society that has free, universal healthcare is better than one that doesn't.

That's a pretty broad, unsubstantiated statement. And how is it free? Nothing is free; that's just propaganda.
Old school answering machine. Typically used those little 1" dictation cassettes - or the REALLY old school ones which used fullsized audio cassettes.
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Rapid economic growth in India benefits the wealthy, not the poor
I think the best idea would be STOP refusing to sell! Yay!

You know, I am fan of a certain niche sci-fi series. Buying physical books is hell expensive (shipping get outrageous), so I buy e-books!

Except, this niche sci-fi series was only available at Fictionwise to me (it was in B&N, I tried to buy there, it made me fill lots of forms, and then install a local Nook software, and do some other annoying things, and THEN finally it told me they don't sell it outside the US... why the hell it allowed me to register as Brazillian then? fuck you B&N).

Fictionwise was great, it allowed me to get the book in multiple formats, make backups without DRM, and lots of other nifty stuff!

Then comes again B&N to ruin my party, they buy Fictionwise, and send a message stating that all Fictionwise books will only be available in Nook format, and you must download them from the US...

I even went into their FAQ site to be sure...

"Q: If I have a Fictionwise book and a Nook, and I want download it but I live outside the US, what can I do?

A: You can go to the US, then connect in a network there, download your book, and go back home."

OMG FUCK YOU AGAIN B&N!!!!!

By the way, if someone know someone that replaces Fictionwise I would be REALLY HAPPY to know (you know, I still want those books, and I won't visit US only to buy those books...)
>These ideas are all contradictory.

Yes.

>What a pointless article.

No, you missed the point.
Stop. Never compare health market with anything else. This is the error that the country has to fix.
Cool, has anyone put up those glib/chrome bindings anywhere? I would really like to use those. Are they gobject bindings? Does this mean that the glib event loop was combined with the v8 event loop? I see some search results indicate that Chrome OS uses this too? Way schway.
I disagree. Re-scaffolding is a pain in the arse, and if I'm not using something like Bootstrap, I'm using textexpander to re-use snippets, which in effect, is the same thing.

Even if you don't like boostrap, I'd recommend building your own skeleton framework that you can re-purpose without having to spend those first 10-20 hours re-building from scratch every time you start a new project.
Maybe I am old school and blunt but IMHO:

>As a student (and now an engineer in industry) in the CS and applied math fields, I can't count how many times during research where I see a useful article behind an IEEE/ACM paywall.

I have never heard of a college that doesn't pay for this access for their students...

>Are you aware of any efforts/campaigns to demand more open access from these two behemoths, who pretend to be on our side?

If you are a computer science related professional you should be an ACM or IEEE member and thus have access to their digital libraries. If you want to have access to guild resources, join the guild.
There are many examples of employers (corporations) that are subsidized.

Record profits, declining real wages over the last ten years for average employees, and massive increase in pay for management over the last 30 years suggest that employers aren't being obligated to pay too much for labor. Do you have any data that suggests that labor is costing too much as a result of government programs that pay people not to work?

The distribution of resources (wealth) is grossly unfair and anyone working ought to make a living wage. It is immoral to do otherwise.
I disagree. Some of the ideas in TFA are fairly novel. Hiring people who are actually knowledgable? What a concept! Imagine walking into a Barnes and Noble and getting suggestions on a boom to read? Or there being a real actual community of readers congregating in B&Ns? These are huge holes in the market, where people are willing to pay more for an "experience".
The extreme demographic subset you described doesn't even include the audience at HN. Surely you realize that the issue of internet privacy is talked about by more people.

And why mustn't acabal be a "born-here American" to suggest that Americans have never lived under a totalitarian state? That's an off topic remark designed to call acabal's expertise into question as a means of discrediting them without directly addressing the points they bring up.

I think acabal brings up a valid point. It's hard to whip people into action when they're not yet having direct negative consequences, even if we can clearly see the writing on the wall. People are resistant to change.
"By holding down the single button, while powering the device, the Chromecast boots into USB boot mode. USB boot mode looks for a signed image at 0×1000 on the USB drive. When found, the image is passed to the internal crypto hardware to be verified, but after this process the return code is never checked! Therefore, we can execute any code at will."
If that was the case, I'd expect the 'buggy-whip' bookstores to be money-losers and the Nook division to be doing well.

However, it's exactly the other way around.
The capability to engage in PRISM was not shrouded in secrecy either. As I have to keep reminding people, PRISM wasn't even the scary system; do you know what the FBI calls their automated system to track their other (normal) warrants? Or you scared of that system?

Metadata collection on massive scale is scarier IMO, but that's been in the law and case law for years as well (as 'pen traps' or whatever they call it).

AFAICS the only real 'innovative' parts are a) collecting data about a crime before the government knows the crime has happened, without so much as a specific suspicion of wrongdoing, and b) collecting all data and then grepping for the data they're legally allowed to have.

Even b) above has precedent in law enforcement though; just not at this scale.
Puffy piece?

Almost all fruits have problems, but solution is limiting non native plagues. Even if it's almost impossible. Like with bananas.
Pretty comical video, one quick tip. If you typed a command on the terminal and you get the "Operation not permitted." You can run the last command prepending sudo like this:

sudo !!
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Reading what i type on the phone afterwards is painful
Regarding #2,

I read Boolos' paper and found that the way the solution was explained wasn't quite to my taste (it did not have discussion on how one would go about thinking of a solution and step-by-step, logically proceed toward a solution). Add to that, the concepts of abstraction, putting away the complexity into a neat-separate function and then forgetting about the internal details, could be applied nicely to the solution in a number of places and I thought it would make the solution much easier to understand. I took an approach where I keep on reducing the problem to a simpler one by abstracting away some details and complications.

Do have a look at my attempt at explaining the solution, especially the process of arriving at the solution (for "The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever"): http://blog.sujeet.me/2013/07/solving-the-hardest-logic-puzz...

Feedback's welcome!
There's a lot more where that came from if you go around looking to be offended.
Ah, yes, I can see that now, "[m]ore narrowly targeted immune system boosting" is definitely an option. Although ... do we want everyone in the country/world taking the same "ImmuneBoost(TM)"...? (Not a particularly useful criticism, but still something to also think about.)

Especially if we can find ways sufficiently weighted towards bacteria. The major thing that saves us with them is that their significant low level differences from eukaryotic cells, e.g. those smaller and different ribosomes that provide a handy target for various antibiotic families (they're the organelles that synthesize proteins). Or their plant style cell walls.

(I stopped paying attention to the details of immune system in the late '70s when I noted how fast we were learning about it, i.e. for me it's something to learn/review "on demand", so I can't make any really specific suggestions as to what to do or judge the feasibility.)
Rightly said. If citizens don't raise such issues soon enough, politicians and other bad guys will make India fall.
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ah so it is... was below the fold and I didn't see it :-/
Not just oral agreement, but also payment is binding. By giving cc number and taking the keys he showed clear intention to use the storage.
My anecdote refutes yours, since the Obamacare vote, my employer provided insurance went from costing me ~$200/mo on a regular PPO for me and my wife to $150/mo for both of us on a high deductible plan (with employer provided $3k per year in an HSA account), to no cost for me at all and $70/mo for my wife on her employer's plan.

Coverage is about the same for me and much better on my wife's plan.

My mother, who couldn't get insurance for less than about $2300/mo because of preexisting conditions now has insurance that runs about $300/mo with decent coverage.
The issue I have there is that Fish crossed the line between opinion and statement. Instead of clarifying it was an opinion, he responded as if it were a matter of fact.
Docker runs on linux only because it uses LXC/cgroups/AUFS, all of which are unique to Linux. FreeBSD Jails and Solaris Zones have the same core concepts that docker uses.
The "politically incorrect", as you put it, get free license

No they don't. If they phrase factually correct statements the wrong way, society condemns and penalizes them. Larry Summers is a perfect illustration of this.

That someone's tears and fears of being called out on a being a sexist is considered more of a problem then their sexist words and behavior is a key part of having privilege.

It's not considered "more of a problem" by pretty much anyone.

Accusing someone of sexism is just a rhetorical weapon used by the privileged to make dissenters stop speaking truth to power. A person who's beliefs align them with modern liberalism has an extraordinary privilege - they do not suffer the presumption that they are bad people with evil beliefs. They can make content-free assertions, make ad-hominem attacks against those who disagree, while in contrast those who disagree must present mountains of evidence for their position.

(Oh yes I am being the jerk who uses the language of political correctness against itself.)

As for the statement you describe as "drips with mysogyny, homophobia and transphobia", it's a statement I heard made by a lesbian who was taking ownership of the word "dyke". If you wish to ridicule lesbians who claim "dyke" for their own (or blacks who claim "nigger" for their own) be my guest.
Similar in this respect to several Chumby devices (esp. the Chumby 8) which used SoCs with hardware signing, but chose to either disable it or use it in as minimal a fashion as possible.
They'll need to do something. I typically go to B&N to beef up my Amazon wishlist. So they're paying all of that overhead to send customers to another marketplace.
Yes! No doubt about it (with Android 4.3).
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My hell as a 911 operator
As many commenters have pointed out, there are theoretical problems with what you're asking for (if you can decrypt the data, then your attacker can too). But, there are some practical things you can do to make the attacker's life harder:

- Don't write your own cryptographic code or design your own crypto systems; use existing libraries as much as possible.

- Separate your reads from your writes. Using a public/private key pair, you can give one set of systems the ability to write encrypted data but not read it, and a different set of systems the ability to read the data. The systems that can decrypt / read data should be isolated as much as possible - don't expose them to public networks, limit which operators have access to them, etc. The separation also forces you to encapsulate your secure data and define an API over it; rather than arbitrary reads, hosts that don't have the decryption keys will have to ask the hosts that do to perform specific operations. If you're writing a Rails app, the Strongbox gem [1] enforces this pattern for you.

- Rotate your encryption keys.

- Don't store keys in code. Follow the Heroku pattern [2] of storing any sensitive data (i.e. private keys) in the environment, where it is bound at runtime to your code and encrypted data.

- Store as little sensitive data as possible. Make sure data you don't need any more is periodically purged.

- Human processes are just as important as code; keep track of who has access to sensitive data, make that access opt-in, and remove it when those people change jobs or are terminated. Do everything in your power to keep those operators from being phished (user education, two-factor auth, etc).

- Don't store credit cards if at all possible. Find a payment processor [3] to do it for you. It's not worth the headache, it makes you a more attractive target, and it may come with additional legal overhead (depending on your jurisdiction).

[1] https://github.com/spikex/strongbox

[2] http://12factor.net/config

[3] https://stripe.com/
Thx for info, I need to look at SuperCollider and chuck some day, I've heard a lot about both.

Also, I didn't know there was any way to systemically describe just intonation. I'm one of those bubble children that hears wolf intervals all the time and can never get a guitar tuned. I got that from having piano and woodwind lessons simultaneously as a kid
You just gave me 2 more years back.
Ask HN: Low budget/alerty "russian manicure"
Is there is a low budget and low alert option to remove fingerprints permanently ?
A small suggestion: add a proper <title> to the home page.
Well, I must still be misunderstanding you because I spent 30 minutes writing a whole comment explaining why Math is important then got to the bottom of your comment and realized we both believe the same thing (that these subjects are important).

What I will contend is that pity parties about scary topics are unhelpful and rigor is important - more so for self-taught people. Like you, I advocate humane teaching. Humane teaching, to me however, is more about adapting to learning styles while maintaining the rigor and difficulty of the material (without watering it down) - this article watered it down.

Clear and humane explanations are out there; this article was not one of them. The intention was noble and I respect them for that but I agree with the top commenter in that the pity party needs to end and more self-educated individuals need to be role models for those that do find it scary so that we can all (as in self-educated people) strive to understand difficult concepts instead of "being okay" with not fully understanding it or the language it was meant to be understood in.

Much as autodidactic scholars hold themselves up to very high standards when reading about an author, they read the author's works in the original language they were written in - not in its translations (this is slight speculation because I don't know any autodidactic scholars personally, but I have read some of their articles).
I like them too. I packaged them for the rails asset pipeline here: https://github.com/cubus/icheck-rails
Nor does the murderer with his bloodstained knife, or the terrorist with his IED, see any point for walking himself down to the P.D. to confess.

If your idea for law enforcement is just to wait for the crooks to turn themselves in then it's not a great idea. If your idea for law enforcement involves the possibility of the state being able to investigate crimes then you have to be ready for the idea that such investigations could, theoretically, be used under due process against anyone, not just criminals.

This isn't to say that NSA surveillance is good, but I think the justification for why it's bad needs to be different, as all you've really said is that the state should disband the police, military, and all other parts of the national security apparatus that can be used without prior individual consent.
I don't suppose you'd care to tell me what point I supposedly missed? Because just telling me I missed the point without explaining is, well, pointless.
At some point a decade or so ago, they could have been relevant to me by increasing the size of their science & engineering book selection. Instead, they increased the "holistic healing" and "better dieting through fantasy" sections while shrinking science & engineering books to a few tiny feet of shelf space. They made their bed.
Efficiency and overhead aren't good measures of a charity's effectiveness.

Trying to evaluate the success and impact of a program is very important, for instance. But many charity's don't do it, because it adds "overhead" costs when you could be using that money to inflate a meaningless metric that looks good to donors who like to think of themselves as savvy.
It is demanding, you have to know/learn a lot of stuff: music composition, probability distributions, generative models (MCMC), DSP, MIDI, haskell. For haskell alone, I like Hutton's little green/yellow book, and the Stanford course notes

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/book.html

http://www.scs.stanford.edu/11au-cs240h/
Greenwald: Low-Level NSA Analysts Have Powerful and Invasive Search Tool [video]
How are sites that store your CC data for later purchases able to charge your card without storing the CVV? Amazon, for example, and pretty much every subscription/SaaS product.
There's a slight misunderstanding here. It's not that we need to forbid the government from using drones when they are super cheap. Checks and balances are already at work here and are likely to arrive at a reasonable solution. Based on on the opinions of a few of the current Supreme Court, it seems highly likely that the government has to get a warrant to use a drone to follow someone around 24/7.

In my opinion the only thing to be concerned about is Ginsberg being replaced by Thomas/Scalia. If that happens, the way the Supreme Court will come down on this issue is not so clear. It's definitely something to worry about. According to a certain block in Congress, winning two presidential elections still doesn't entitle you to make appointments.
This is a proxy and as such it will be blocked, too. What's even more suspicious is they provide this service free of charge.

By the way, does anyone here know if VPN providers will also be on the UK blacklist?
I think one of the other real concerns is that it's not even as if the government had to be careful when embarking on this journey of increased surveillance.

The public has made it very clear how little they care about their privacy on the Internet when they started adopting things like GMail, Facebook, iCloud, etc. and not just as a convenience, but to actually run and manage their personal lives.

People, businesses, everyone didn't just not resist the New World of digital surveillance, they explicitly begged and pleaded for these new capabilities to be pushed to the fore as a matter of convenience to them.

So who do we blame for this 'new norm'?
We all know that nothing, ultimately is free. However, the colloquial usage of the term means free means that the person receiving a free service means they don't fork over money specifically for that service. Free healthcare means, in essence, a person receiving it is not in danger of going bankrupt or of having significantly less money as a result of the care.

I did not make it seem like I pay for k-12 education voluntarily. the opposite is true. It was an essential part of my point that it isn't done voluntarily. It should be forced because some greedy self-centered person will refuse to pay for it. It's called the free rider problem.

Societies that don't have free, universal healthcare overwhelmingly have worse health outcomes, and are crappier places to live.
It's done intelligently, so you don't use tables, then you leave out tables.less. If you don't want tabs, then you leave out tabs.js.
This is a cool project but isn't that kind of what containerization is trying solve? (ex: docker or FreeBSD's zfs+ezjails)
Bash/csh have a wonderful history expansion feature[0]. I can never remember all of the modifiers, but I am learning them slowly.

[0]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Event-...
I have cronical hate against Microsoft products due to my software and web development past with them. Even though Metro is nice, I would not consider buying anything having Microsoft label on them anymore. But if it run Android I would buy it: Nokia still makes the best long lasting hardware and interesting form factors.
I think this is talking about what actually works on most people, not how to make your apology truly sincere. The sort of apology you listed is the sort of thing people eat up by and large, even if it is ineffective on some.
I agree. I also played professionally for 3 years, and I found that when applying for devloper positions, my poker experience has been lauded as related.