skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a fan of using client-side encryption so that the database only ever stores encrypted content, and therefore can be treated as out-of-scope for PCI compliance purposes.

Take a look at https://github.com/braintree/braintree.js which is a nice library for encrypting data with a public key before being uploaded.

This is a specific exception to the generally correct concept that Javascript cryptography is bad and should be avoided. http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/ Of course, it's essential that the whole transaction take place over SSL.

And even then, you still need to have a set of machines that can read from the database and access the private key, and those machines must be highly secured, as well as supporting requirements like key revocation and key rotation.
Thank you, that answers my question
No you're right, not all binaries can be statically linked easily, it's very tedious in these cases.

Oh, no I hoped that something performance related is happening when you said cache, like tuning the binary, predictive read-ahead streaming of the binary to memory, or something like that. I didn't know that it's a copy operation.
That website wouldn't display much for me. I eventually found out in order to see the text, you must have Flash.

In-case others don't want to install/activate flash, here's the content:

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The UI designer in me loves these. The UX designer in me says that replacing native UI elements is bad practice. Am I wrong?
or BitBucket.
That's a nice idea, but in reality a B&H branch has more overhead than an online bookstore. Rent, electricity, local taxes, cleaning, and even transport costs (e.g. moving books in and out of stores).

So while I'm sure B&H could 1:1 match Amazon in prices, with Amazon's economies of scale, and the tax loopholes online retailers get, I highly doubt a B&H store could do it and still be profitable.

So, yes, lower prices. Just give the books away. It will get people through the doors, no doubt, but they'll still go bankrupt.
Absolutely, but just make sure the minimum wage is actually viable. I resent that a chunk of the tax I pay is effectively given to the likes of G4S to bolster their profit.
This is a very defeatist attitude! There's always strategies and tactics that work within legal frameworks to defeat censorship. Look at what happened with SOPA in the US. It started with outraged nerds and became embraced by regular people as something sexy to vocally and publicly oppose.

Beginning a media campaign in the UK is a good first step. When people understand that The Great Firewall of Ol' Blighty does nothing to stop kiddie porn but instead stops you looking at any site that the current ruling party frowns upon, it falls apart.

The "think of the children" and "teh terrorists" arguments need to be universally rejected. Trouble is, this requires one hell of a paradigm shift from the voting public. That begins with soundbite education, and arguments that are easily digestible and repeatable. Look at how evangelicals equip their congregations with soundbite ideas and faulty logic, and then use these strategies for good. (For example, the best I came across was "It's hot today, but hell's hotter!")

Perhaps we also need to begin our own political parties, ones unlike the Pirate Party that are not only capable of upholding privacy rights, but are also competent enough to run a democratic government. A less inflammatory or whimsical name would be nice too. Joe Average isn't going to take politicians that call themselves pirates seriously, any more than they'd take a Hacker Party seriously because of its more widespread and incorrect definition! A Snowden Party, perhaps? The logo could be a purple mountain much like the Welsh mountain, Snowdon!
That's just basic rationalization at work.

What I find more interesting are the folks who would take offense to the latter option as well. Choosing not to buy a game based on an opinion of the creator will quickly draw the ire of its fans.

The gaming community, more than any other I've been a part of has a tendency to confuse self-worth and identity with the products they buy.
Yes, I know, poor design, but the campaign has made some impact in the UK. Thanks for posting content.
there is http://www.clever-cloud.com/ and the http://nodejs-cloud.com/ services :-) no PRISM issue on it & auto scaling
There's a big difference between government and corporations. Corporations are, at bottom, simply groups of ordinary people with whom you deal with on a voluntary basis. A corporation cannot rob (tax, fine), kidnap (arrest), imprison, or drone you. A corporation has to be very bad indeed before it sinks to the level of even an ordinary government.
So true ... I don't really appreciate her current music (I mean like Brahms or Mozart), but she was so bluesy in the NYU talent show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM). I could listen to music like that all day.
Taxes are already included. Prices are never given without taxes in Europe except in B2B where your customers don't pay VAT anyway.
Why You Exist in This Life
Absolutely. Recently there was a book I wanted that a local Barnes & Noble actually had in stock. I was happy to go there to buy it, but not for a $15 premium verses Amazon (or bn.com!) That book was only $35 list price too.

Being able to go and get something you want immediately – and happen to not want in eBook form – is worth some small premium, but not at nearly 100% markup vs your own online store.
Status and Stress: long-term health effects of social status
No, I color you ignorant. There's nothing horrible or difficult to learn about any programming language. Maybe you had a bad teacher or, if you are a self taught programmer, you skipped fundamentals.

My kid has not has difficulty learning. I never said that. The challenges are in maintaining interest because there are other attractors that lure kids away. There are a lot of things that are vastly more fun than programming. For example, I'd rather go sailing, kayaking, fishing, scuba diving or mess around in the garage than sit in front of the computer programming for ten hours.

Perspective is important.
Just anecdotal, but we tried that for a while. Our signups and conversions are much higher with a trial. I work on a SaaS product.
Lyin Cheatin Bastards; A dictionary of politician scandals.
Funny, I looked on the Wikipedia page for tu quoque (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque), and I didn't see anything about it being a foreign relations tactic.
Cawen - The faster than C Data Processing Language
Conversely, if you had a preexisting condition, you may have just seen your health bills plumet.
They could certainly inspect 6in4 traffic, but at the moment major UK ISPs aren't even offering native IPv6, so doing so would be fairly tenuous.
I'm guessing this will also help with hardcoded paths for config files and so on.
tl;dr

"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."

That's a pretty big screw-up on someone's part - it seems strange that no one tested "does this unsigned image boot".
Sure, then SSH is blocked. SSH is very necessary in the day to day work for a ton of people, and it would shut down businesses.
Entrepreneurs Learn Best From Business Networking
I'll avoid judgement for a big "screw-up" that lets someone who run what they want on a device they purchased.
> Coffee is to JavaScript as Scala is to Java.

Considering how incredibly wrong and broken CoffeeScript's scoping is (at least the JavaScript designers realized that they messed up badly), I'd consider that an insult for Scala. :-)
Yes, so long as the hard-coded path for the the config file is within the output directory, the program will find the right config file for that particular installation. You still won't be able to put the config file in an arbitrary location, but at least you can have isolated instances of the program with isolated config files.
He could, but then you'd be infected.

/ducks and runs
Reddit has its place, but the level of poker discussion there will never approach that of twoplustwo which is a resource any aspiring player should use
I just wish that making an error in the debugging context didn't destroy my state. If it weren't for that, I might have used Lush again after Professor LeCun's Machine Learning class.
The real solution is single-payer, a public option may have eased transition into single-payer sometime in the future, whereas a sudden transition into single-payer would have shocked the economy and been nigh impossible (it wasn't even suggested). In my country we have single-payer. Despite this, I take care of myself, perhaps not as well as you do, but I'm close. I don't expect some sort of reward for taking proper care of myself, nor do I expect others to take the same kind of care because people are often careless. Health care is a right, whether you smoke, go to the gym, eat donuts or eat broccoli.
Why is it that the article subscribes to the idea that working at a McDonald's for ten years means you should be paid more? Is the worker better or more efficient or more resourceful than somebody who has worked at McDonald's for 2 years?
Australia Bars Huawei From Broadband Project
But with renting you are 100% guaranteed to have a 100% loss
It's not a choice between living wage and minimum wage, it's a choice between minimum wage and unemployment. Some people do not produce more value in an hour than the living wage, so if the wage goes up they will lose their job.
Once people start to die in droves the obstacles to a cure will vanish. Hopefully the people who can discover and manufacture the cure won't vanish first.
What else could it return other than the content of healthcare.gov (that you apparently designate an advertisement)? That the government recognizes the value of an interchange format like JSON is quite a good sign. They even have CORS setup so that you can include stuff client-side.
USPTO's final (but not really final) rejection of Apple's pinch-to-zoom patent
Thanks. I think this is the best comment in this discussion. If you hadn't written it, I would have sat down and done it.
Can anyone share a non-scribd link?
Algorithms in Everyday Life
I think there is future in the showroom model, and not just for bookstores. To make it work, showrooms should rotate stock aggressively, to the point of moving in and out a tractor trailer a day. And, there should be dates on the displays to indicate how long they will be in the showroom. The stock would have to be compelling enough that you would tell your friends about it and they would visit. The showroom itself would have to be a spectacle.

If anyone ever cracks same day delivery, it would align very well with this. Onsite fabrication would align well too.
Programming the Vintage Intel MCS-48 Microcontrollers
This is an ideal use case for homomorphic encryption, whenever it becomes useable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption
> people who wake up and eat donuts

Unlucky people, in addition. Some people I know currently excluded by the preexisting condition issue: a person with MS, and a person with a congenital heart condition. They can get coverage only via employer group plans and cannot work for themselves, i.e. they are mandated to work for either a government or a corporation. That's a bizarre intrusion on personal liberty, much more severe than some taxes, and the fact that it's somehow a "natural" one doesn't make an ethical difference. See F.A. Hayek for a more extensive argument on a mechanism to cover "risks common to all" as a prerequisite for an individualist society, because the alternative is forcing people into nonconsensual collectivist arrangements (like having to work for a company to get a group health plan, or having to stay affiliated with the Mormon church or family clan to receive safety nets via such groups).

But hey, continue to rationalize your greed by despising everyone less fortunate than yourself as your lesser. People with MS should've gone to the gym more; poor people should've worked harder; you are John Galt.
interesting. are there any hello-world-ish examples around? struggling to find any on the page/wiki.
Group plans were/are always forced to cover pre-existing conditions.

It's only if you have a pre-existing condition and no group insurance that you will see your prices drop.

This is also exactly what is going to eventually bring down the existing US privatized health system, btw.

The accounting doesn't add up when you force a cap on premiums and allow unlimited ~10M treatments.

People will pay the yearly fine until they have a major health problem, and then join up after the fact.

Imagine if you only had to buy car insurance after you had an accident. Absolute disaster for insurance companies - monthly incoming way down while claims go thru the roof.
I think it's a realistic attitude. The legal system that you place so much faith in has already shown that it no longer respects logic and freedom and is basically backed by government and corporate interest. We have secret courts, we have courts issuing orders in support of the censorship regime and we have people thrown in prison with unfair sentences en masse without fair trial after the London riots.

The moment you start a campaign, you are a state target. The press will dig out dirt on you to start a smear campaign so they can push their corporate backers' agendas and the government will mark you as a trouble maker. at that point your life ends. One parking ticket and they will descend.

I've watched two people "end" this way. One of them is now the "crazy guy" who lives on the A4/A205 roundabout. He was one of the most credible and logical individuals I've ever met. Now people throw rubbish at him because they think it's funny.

The voting public are lost. They are too polarised to supporting the main two parties and the system is broken enough that a majority on either side is inevitable. The result is that the conservatives or labour will always win. Their agenda, despite words either way, is the same. We didn't vote them in - we watched the election theater at work.

You strike me as an idealist and I really wish this was possible but i don't think the system supports fair resolution.

To be honest, it's not a democracy any more. This is not what the majority want but they are unaware of the consequences of voting or don't care. Whoever holds their coloured flag will do and won't make them "outside the club" when it comes to social matters.
It's there. Don't click on [scribd]
that page seemed to load in a microsecond, wow!
Step 1 - Exclude the .less and .js files that you will not be using.

Step 2 - Edit or override the variable.less file.

Done
Censoring will stop what ? This is just an attempt to restore obscurantism. If education doesn't work then consider the possibility that that something might be wrong with your assumptions.
I actually find that eyes burning and watering is more of a problem with prolonged exposure to stereograms, although I get that with 3D movies using glasses too.

A while back, I watched Captain America in side by side mode on my computer. Only problem was that in SBS they put the left eye on the left and the right on the right. To view that as a stereogram would require "wall-eyed" vergence, which is basically impossible to do beyond a certain angular distance - I'd have had to watch it all tiny. So as an experiment in perceptual adaptation, I watched the whole movie cross-eyed, so that I perceived the depth as inverted.

It wasn't really enough time for full perceptual adaptation, although by the end of it, I basically found that my brain had stopped paying attention to dept whatsoever unless I consciously thought about it.

Anyway the point is that at the end, I let my eyes slide back into their normal state, and they burned for a while after like they were dry, but they didn't ache at all.

That said, I have spent a ludicrous amount of time in my life setting my vergence to values outside of the manufacturer's recommended range. So my results may not be typical.
It appears to be an internal effort and is all open source which should make similar efforts easier. It's based on Jekyll and there's not a whole lot to it since it's informational and not interactive (like the actual marketplace will need to be). Other libraries/frameworks used include Bootstrap, Backbone and jQuery. Great work I'd say.
It's amusing, and perhaps a bit distressing, that all the work put into using hardware crypto was defeated by such a simple failure like that.
How to Almost Build an Engine With Only Parts From the Hardware Store [video]
Dont Worry Government, I Got This Porn Filter Sorted
You've got it backwards: fat people and smokers cost less to cover because their bodies tend to fail more quickly and the most costly health care centers around slightly prolonging the lives of healthy people.

Economically speaking, you should be penalized for your healthy habits. Of course, that doesn't fit in to the "we care about your health" line that insurers like to toss around, so they often just lie about what makes them money and use fat/smoker fines as a selling point aimed at healthy people. You've been had.

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/fat_people_smokers_have_low...
India has a very bad history in dealing with such issues esp when they involve technology. Remember when they asked Google, Facebook, Twitter et. al. to preemptively delete undesired messages?
I really want to have nothing to do with this article, but I think a little context is needed for readers living outside the U.S. Otherwise the subject matter and tone seems a bit odd.

Our president has decided to start concentrating on wage disparity, considering inequality to be immoral. (Cynics argue that with the NSA scandal and many others, anything to change the subject is a good move) The NYT here is picking up the ball and running with it. You'll note that the entirety of sources quoted are from one side of the American political spectrum.

So if the comments here seem bitter and contentious, and the commentary itself not helpful in covering both sides of the discussion, it's because it fits into a larger national political discussion (of which you may be unaware).

As for the subject itself, we've kicked this around a hundred times on HN. I selected this as flaggable, simply because I don't expect it to generate any new insights and simply cause a lot of useless and pointless nerd bickering.
Prepros: Less, Sass, stylus, Image Optimization, JS Minification&Browser Refresh
unless you get so angry that you throw it on the floor

Hey, just M-x doctor
I would encourage would-be Elisp hackers to read the info manual "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp" that is bundled with your Emacs (`C-h i` then select "Emacs Lisp Intro" from the Table of Contents) as it enables you to evaluate the example lisp forms in-line in addition to being a really great and pedagogical introduction to elisp.
It wouldn't change that and this is a good thing.

Part of being in a society is shared responsibilities. I subsidize the education of other peoples' children by paying taxes that fund k-12 education. I have no children of my own. But I'm not being cheated because a society that has universal, free k-12 education is better than one that doesn't. Similarly a society that has free, universal healthcare is better than one that doesn't.

In the current system the U.S. spends around 40% more GDP per year on healthcare than any universal healthcare system and has much lower outcomes than many. The evidence is that it would be cheaper and better to have a single payer system.

It's great that you workout and lead a healthy life. What are you doing to counter genetic defects you may possess? Perhaps you have a predisposition to cancer or some rare disease that is expensive to cover. The reward in a single payer system is that everyone gets covered regardless of genetic or life circumstances.

Every person for themself makes us all(almost all!) poorer.
I think the following amendments apply here: 1st (discourages free assembly), 4th (reasonable expectation of privacy on private property, and backed by many state laws regarding this for CCTV), 9th & 10th (the right to aerial surveillance of all land was never granted to the gov't).
A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA
So the "beacon of freedom" is going to be replaced by "less evil than Europe" as a marketing slogan?

I don't know if it will withstand the fact-checking. The UK obviously has gone surveillance-bonkers, but some other countries remain remarkably "clean" (sadly, mostly smaller ones and possibly Poland).
That was actually quite helpful. I've had the toughest time "thinking in Lisp" as I'm told I have to do to get my head around it (also because I work with the C++/C#/PHP family and switching between them and Lisp doesn't help).

I really appreciate the simple instructions in that regard.
That took about as long as I figured it would.
Just to list some of the most popular choices:

Heroku
Nodejitsu
VPS
Linode
Digital Ocean
Amazon AWS
dotCloud
OpenShift
CleverCloud
NodeJS Cloud (by CleverCloud)
Unfortunately, J's grammar isn't the cleanest. It uses juxtaposition to mean about a dozen different things depending on whether the tokens are data, first-order functions, or second-order functions and how many are juxtaposed. A variable could stand for any of these. If there are variables in the expression, you have to know which variables stand for which kinds of objects in order to parse the expression.
Can Concentric Circles Save Subway Sanity in New York?