skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a more appropriate analogy is open source software which got described by the incumbents as an "un-american cancer" and is still being successfully fought off by many who are ripping off our governments and providing appalling service at a shockingly high price.

Is any random open source project perfect? No. Is open source the answer to everything? No. Is it obviously a better way to do things than the status quo? Yes. Are there people benefitting immensely from even the buggy projects? Yes.
PRs being issues is an issue in an of itself: it tempts one into not opening an issue for the bug the PR is fixing. Then, if the PR is closed, there is no open issue for the underlying bug it was attempting to fix.
I don't know where you got New York being the safest big city in the US. San Diego and San Antonio have lower levels of violent crime.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_cities_by_crime_r...
That last part about openssh suggests that the problem with SSL's cipher choices is not that there are choices; rather it's that the choices are mostly bad, and that they're hardcoded combinations rather than free choice of primitives. MD5/SHA1 lingering for years, and RC4 crippled but limping along and even preferred in some cases because of BEAST, all because there are insufficient, or insufficiently deployed, newer options. Camellia is crippled by not supporting the same ciphersuite variety as AES does in most implementations (openssl ciphers -v 'CAMELLIA', vs openssl ciphers -v 'AES'). That's right, there's no ECDHE+Camellia when talking to any server that's using openssl, it's slow DHE or no PFS at all. What's the point of even having Camellia in a SSL implementation if it's not going to be maintained with current ciphersuites? That's a great example of why hardcoding combinations of primitives is scary.
Emailing the file or emailing a link to the file is just as useful. As long as you have an encrypted document sharing capability you should be able to say sure to just about anything.

PS: Granted that's assuming fast networks. For 80+ Gig VM's sending a removable drive is often faster.
Thanks. As of now, the cache seems to contain the update. It begins with:

Edit: In the last section, it is now sketched what the reasons for the issue may be, on the basis of several emails I got.
Can't really tell, it is not very mobile friendly, text and navigation is all over the place.
>"This is a weird outlier where a few people are taking it to be a statement of fact."

I actually agree with you in general, but I don't agree with that bit.

I'd say that kind of interpretation is par for the course, particularly on the Internet. I expect it probably has about the same interpretation spread as sarcasm. Some get it, some don't, many learn to simply avoid it.

It would be nice everyone could understand and respect what all is inherently subjective, both in statement and response. Imagine many wars of politics, religion, culture and choice of smartphone would disappear overnight.

Until that happens, a simple "IMO" goes a long way.
I believe he's made a couple of obvious (maybe naive) mistakes, but he has the right mindset, has shown that he is willing to sacrifice a lot. He definitely deserves our support.

IMO, he should just not be left alone at the top of WikiLeaks, it should be a little bit more "democratic". I am of course fully aware that collaboration always means a certain risk of being infiltrated.
You seem to have researched this, do you have a sense of what is the industry norm for licensing costs for these, or similar, CDMA patents?
Emacs tapas
I believe it's just a different story for big companies. If you heard that Apple was creating "iShoes," you wouldn't be surprised that people were already making branded "iShoes Laces." If, however, I told you I was about to revolutionize the shoe industry, you would ask me how and be generally helpful in the discussion.
How is blizzard cleanup public and diabetes treatment private?
Taking over? You should probably realize by now that what you see in the media about classified government ops is just the tip of the iceberg.
Considering the inherently insecure nature of computer systems, and the heavy reliance of security mechanisms on trusted authorities, you need to realized that, in fact, you've lost any privacy online a long time ago.
He'd never be able to use the parking space. What a waste.
The author is an entrepreneur and vc...presumably drawing on a wealth of experience. The article is specifically about small, not big, companies.

The whole meme of "evidence please" is annoying. A blog post is not a research paper.
If it were me, I'd have looked for a way to sneak it into a popup that shows the first time you run the updated client. Something like

In the interest of your safety and
the prosperity of the Chinese, all
your chat messages are henceforth
constantly monitored by government
officials. Have a nice day.
[OK]

It may ultimately turn out to be impossible to do, but I would like to at least try.
I'm sorry but this sounded like it just came out of r/circlejerk.

Unfortunately satire and reality mix here.
Live Stream: http://youtu.be/vbMf9sc1NL0
Yup! It sounds quite a bit like your mediator: make a stream, send events in the stream, certain things respond to the stream.

Check out this talk: http://vimeo.com/68987289
Your post does nothing but put down and ridicule an entire philosophical and political branch of thought without any rationale at all. It's a shame that this type of comment can receive so many upvotes in a community that alleges to care about quality discussion.
That could easily be filtered by timing analysis. You're the first to search.
You are running production servers on Arch Linux, and then pulling updates which change the default Python to 3 without review?

Sounds like you were asking for it.
The first picture shows Amazon Germany. The working conditions and payment at Amazon are shit, but lol about the Union:

15.05 Leipzig - 600 of 2000 on strike

29.06 Bad Hersfeld - 300 of 3300 on strike

17.06 Leipzig - 250 of 2000 on strike

21.07 Bad Hersfeld - 300 of 3300 on strike

....

Amazon claims that the strikes wont harm them - And I believe them - German Unions sucks!

PS: Not all German unions suck - I'm an FAU (Free workers union - anarchists union) member, and founded a Betriebsrat (workers council) in 2001 that had over 95% in election against Ver.di. Ver.di is the Gleichschaltung (see wikipedia)of 5 former better unions.
> The JavaScript zero-day exploit that creates a unique cookie and sends a request to a random server that basically fingerprints your browser in some way, which is probably then correlated somewhere else since the cookie doesn't get deleted. Presumably it reports the victim's IP back to the FBI.

"in some way", "probably", "presumably" = I have no idea what's going on.
The point wasn't to convince anyone of anything. The point was just to state, "I read what you wrote and I agree you fucked up seriously".

The Internet is not a confessional and speaking your sins out loud here doesn't automatically absolve you. But that might be an impression one could get if the only responses were in the tone of "thank you for telling us, you're a brave and good man". So we need comments, like mr_spothawk's, that basically say "you're not a bad guy, but you fucked up; here's why and how exactly; let's hope we can all learn from this".
I don't define my life based on some digital records. But law enforcement (or the executive branch of the US Federal Government, including the NSA) does. And therein lies the problem.

Someone will be convicted (perhaps even without the intervention of a court) based on unimpeachable but falsified digital records.
If you don't want your employees to unionize, don't treat them like shit.
Wow, how terrifically and fundamentally negligent. Let's hope nobody dies — the potential hazards seem almost endless.
Well first of all you didn't point any fundamental flaw in reasoning; you engaged in it yourself. Second of all this is just pure ad hominem. On top of that you've failed to respond to the point at hand, i.e. my underscoring of your fallacious mode of reasoning, namely that you can't rationally reject a general method on the grounds that the method didn't spell out all applications for you.
And possibly in Firefox (!), with some sort of JavaScript exploit. This is the most worrying part for me--does anyone have any info on what the payload does?
Europeans point of view: European bureaucrats are not any better, think about David Cameron idea of Porngate
Maybe we could misreport a few more deaths? Sounds like an excellent way to get people to realize they're jerks.
It's not just that they're stealing everyone's privacy. They're acting like "it's foreigners, so we don't have to care" - even the latests attempts to rein in NSA make no effort to cut back its international misbehavior.

Basically, I think most civilized people have been operating on the premise that democratic western states are behaving in a vaguely civilized way towards people in other such states. But it's clear that America at least is behaving like the purest sociopath, where "friends" just means "easier to manipulate". They are breaking the unspoken international social contract, and it is going to have worse repercussions than they yet understand.
There are 20 rallies today, not just one in SF.
That is a poor way to quantify the quality of an educational product. While quality can and sometimes does drive demand for a product it's frequently possible for demand to be driven instead by fads, trends, and hype.

If you want to measure the quality of something there are far more reliable metrics to use than demand.

With that said I like Kahn Academy. This is a single issue in a large body of educational materials. This one problem doesn't mean the qualify of the full product is bad just that is has room for improvement.
Interesting. It being the KGB it's also post-Stalin, as in the period after which the nomenklatura agreed they wouldn't use Leninist/Stalinist terror against each other. Yet per her Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luba_Brezhneva) she was a member of it, e.g. she describes the two-tier system of shops which kept the people extra busy (the counterrevolutionary devil finds work for idle hands) and the nomenklatura in tall cotton.
Presenting material in a way that impresses upon students that 0.35 is bigger than 0.4 is not "small stuff".
Obviously blizzard cleanup affects everyone and so is public. Diabetes treatment is private because if you get diabetes it doesn't affect me. You just have bad genes or ate too much sugar, not my fault and I'm not suffering for it. Really though it doesn't affect me because I basically don't care about anyone that isn't friends or family. Why should I help take care of your problems? Use your own bootstraps. I'd rather save my money for me and my own.
The other part is big companies are likely pursuing sustaining or incremental improvements that are perhaps perceived as key to beating out well known incumbents. Startups are likely (read hopefully) pursuing disruptive improvements and might expect incumbents to make classic Innovator's Dilemma errors in assessing risk.

I heard CDixon on PandoMonthly say his key founder questions would surround 'what's your secret?' I think his post provides more context to that line of questioning.
> I disagree as Manning's action prompted the Arab Spring, which continues on in many Middle Eastern countries. More democratic Middle Eastern countries is better for the US and for citizens of those countries.

It may eventually be good, but right now Syria and to a lesser-extent Egypt are still mired in military conflict. You might as well have given the Nobel Peace Prize to President George W. Bush if "bringing democracy to a Middle East state" were the only qualification. As far as I'm concerned Manning would be disqualified for the Arab Spring alone.
What if you could generates messages with real meaning but are in fact spam? That way lot of people could maybe make a difference.

Btw not sure how/where they sniff traffic, but creating alter egos that are consistent -> also interesting concept. You goto jail because of multiple virtual personality disorder :-)

Or planting bots that are not just talking gibberish?
Or creating predefined scenario and play it over time? Just to fuck them up?
Especially considering that faxes, copies, and scans of documents are legally the same as the originals, at least for ordinary business purposes.
I made something similar for Philadelphia

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.staticfish...
For a lot of end users, if it's not a proper attachment no end of grief is caused.

And encryption and file hosting causes more hassle in enterprise environments with unforgiving compliance policies.
There's a full framework for doing generic service syncs in org-mode, called org-sync.

http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/gsoc2012/student-project...

It was a GSOC project last year, ended up with a github (and maybe redmine? Dunno if that got finished) backend, unfortunately never really got traction with the community.
I'm using GitHub more and more — ultimately because so many more developers are willing to submit patches there than elsewhere (presumably — at least — because they already have a clue what they're doing, rather than having to work out how to submit something).

In the end, what I've ended up doing is using Travis CI with its GitHub hook, which gives the whole suite of tests against each and every patch, as well as using external code review (mostly using Critic (https://github.com/jensl/critic), which supports explicitly rebasing branches, collapsing reviews into all pending commits, and so on, all gracefully — unlike GitHub's code review).

While I'd like something better, the issues it throws up (not using the default code review system most obviously) as well as — as you say — the complexity of submitting a PR, are, in my opinion, outweighed by the extra contributions that are got by using something other developers are already comfortable with.
I have no hard facts and figures, just some anecdotal evidence, but this reads like pure politics to me as well.

I have never struggled with mathematics, in fact I pursued it to college, then got infatuated with computer science - but my areas of focus (optimization and algorithm design) tend to overlap - and I find myself reading quite a lot of graduate level texts.

My girlfriend on the other hand has always struggled with mathematics, but wishes to pursue a career in computer science also. I watched her for several weeks struggling and worry about a college entrance exam, reading the obscurely written criteria and trying to read through the suggested resources.

It was only when someone else mentioned Khan Academy that we both went to look at it - I found the content accessible, very well presented (for the most part - a couple of the older videos could have done with an update!) and the accompanied exercises were excellent in reenforcing content - the added gamificaiton really adds to it as well.

My girlfriend passed her exam (> 90%) and was even told she should think about taking the extra level exam later on if she wished to skip a few pre courses.

To see her go from "I have no idea what to do" to "I know I can do this" was a joy - so thank you Khan Academy.
Strict Posix Nonconformance
A coworker and I recently discussed how Github ought to invest some time into templated workflows. Conventions like "make a branch per pull request" can be mandated by a repo owner, as could "rebase all your commits". At minimum, providing a TODO list for pull request submissions would be good.
I said "crushing mountain" mostly for shock value, only because when I was 17 and applying for college I really didn't grasp the burden of "future me" having to wheelbarrow $700+ a month away from the School-Loans quarry for 7+ years. It wasn't six-figs like some unfortunate souls, though... those are the brave warriors trying to summit Mt. Debtverest.

It's not all bad either, I learned a few good lessons about the time/energy/freedom value of money and have also been rewarded with a strong aversion towards impulsively taking on debt.
Looks beautiful. I look forward to the book. :)
Not according to TFA:

"In this paper we expose flaws both in the design and implementation of Tor’s hidden services that allow an attacker to measure the popularity of arbitrary hidden services, take down hidden services and deanonymize hidden services
Trawling for Tor Hidden Services: Detection, Measurement, Deanonymization"

http://www.ieee-security.org/TC/SP2013/papers/4977a080.pdf
Java? Really? The JVM is kind of cool but Java as language not at all. There are other languages much more simple and beautiful. That's at least my opinion.
Transfinite Cardinal Arithmetic with Wolfram Alpha
Ordered a 16G to replace my 2G (old price).

Had the confirmation emails and I'm 6 days into their 10 day delivery limit but nothing in my panel as of yet.
Well, he increased international tensions between the U.S. and E.U., the E.U. and Latin America, Latin America and the U.S., Russia and the U.S., and finally the U.S. and China.

If we say that increasing international tensions is a way to make peace between nations more likely then I say why not, might as well go for it.
They make note that the vulnerability used is only in Firefox 17--the current ESR (extended support release).
What they do not mention is that the Tor Browser Bundle[1]--created so users can simply download one executable and feel protected by Tor--is based on this very release.

Among all internet users, Firefox 17 is probably rare, but among Tor users? My bet is that it owns a significantly higher chunk of the market.

[1] Tor Browser Bundle: https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
> I disagree as Manning's action prompted the Arab Spring

You mean like David Hasselhoff brought down the Berlin Wall?
It shouldn't be an unpopular opinion, as Snowden was careful to note in his very first interview how his actions were different from Manning's.
Visual Basic! Haha .. just kidding! My favourite is Ruby. It is simple enough that you don't need a 500 MB tool to edit your code ;-)
A preliminar analysis of the 0day used:

http://pastebin.mozilla.org/2777139

edit: Maybe is a good idea to submit this link (or another related) to discuss about it in a new HN thread.
Ouch, imagine this happens in a hospital with a prescription or something. It could really have some serious implications.
A good view of people on the platform starts at about 4:20.
Qualifications that are easy to obtain are often in higher demand than those that are harder. And yet the harder qualification may be of more benefit, more highly valued by potential employers, and bestow greater learning.

Demand is not an indicator of quality or value.

If you think popularity is an indicator of quality, this is an interesting read:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/everybody-is-stupid-exce...
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Are you saying that all of the videos on Khan Academy are wrong?
Yes, and? It can mean many things,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization

The word was therefore opposed to barbarism or rudeness, but the thinking behind the new word was connected to modernism's active pursuit of progress and enlightenment.

In that sense, there are traces of civilization everywhere. But to call any country "civilized, period" would strike me as a mixture of hybris and aiming rather low. Even just the way "we" produce and process most of our meat means we're far from civilized. Not only do we not have civilized countries, I doubt we even have nominees.
*args and **kwargs in python explained
I don't actually know what "hacking code" means, either.
I can't really give you a fair comparison, I've only used Xcode enough to know that I don't like it.

I don't even think the full switch can ever be made. Because it's Apple development, everything is in an "Xcode project" (instead of, say, "iOS project"). So even using AppCode I'm still dropping back to Xcode some of the time.
But on the other hand, the most far-reaching and extensive leak of classified material in the nation's history is not exactly jaywalking.

If the government was ever again going to charge anybody with espionage or improperly handling classified material they had to charge Manning.
there's also pytyp, which is pure-python (inefficient) but integrates with ABCs as well as annotations. no-one uses it, as far as i know, but i thought i'd throw it out there in case you were interested - http://www.acooke.org/pytyp/

i also have a vague memory of there being discussions on the python ideas list (which i don't read regularly). you might look there.
I don't understand. Can you link me to a thing that will teach me to understand, please?
It looks like it was shot from another train that was following the pictured one. There may have been additional lighting, but the train could have just been illuminated by the headlights of the train behind it.
Last week I switched my project to customized Bootstrap 3. It has lots of useful features compared to previous version and it has a flat UI look and feel.
In your example, I would use a larger side margin around the text. Otherwise, it lacks a bit of spacing.
Doesn't have to do much. Once you execute pretty much any (non-sandboxed) code on a machine, you can bypass something like TOR easily. From this point, any network packet sent by the payload to the feds effectively de-anonymizes the user completely.
Also, by including a tracking cookie in the JS, they can cross reference all user activity on the compromised websites with the newly discovered IP address.
Just to make it clear, I'm not an engineer (I'd like to be good enough to be considered one, but that's a long way off). I'm more of an enthusiastic amateur who knows enough to badly break things. And the people who ask most frequently ask are ortho surgeons with a patient asleep on the table. Anyone who waits until that late in the piece then asked for a 1.5gig email becuase they weren't organised enough to sort out access to images in the 3 month lead up to an operation is not a normal person.
He gave planet Earth an important wake-up call: Democracy is about to be shot in the head.

(And personally, I don't think we should expect more whistle blowers in the coming years, because the NSA sure as hell will make sure it will never happen again, so this makes this moment even more important.)

He did all this showing us that he's ready to be tortured and die for this cause.

EDIT: This is history being written. What happens now and what does not will define the future we and our children will have. I thought this was 100% obvious.
Blizzards are also localized. Why should I help take care of your blizzard if it didn't hit my location?

Everything is as private or public as you make it.
Blizzard cleanup is non-rivalrous (we can both simultaneously enjoy a snow free street) and non-excludible (if I pay to have the street cleaned, I can't tell you not to walk on it).

Diabetes treatment is rivalrous (insulin goes into your vein or mine, not both) and excludible (if you don't pay for insulin, you don't get any).
It's so true... It's sad we've wasted so much effort putting square pegs in round holes.
AFAIK, the European parliament is so far reasonable regarding the Internet and privacy.

However, the Commission (the executive branch, and especially the Trade Commisioner, Karel De Gucht) has been pushing hard for ACTA, going as far as lying, several times, to the Parliament. When the Parliament rejected ACTA, De Gucht said he would look for other means to bypass the decision.
Microsoft's Social network Yammer vulnerable to OAuth Bypass hack
Oh, I see what you meant. I was a bit uncertain about whether all 4 arguments were in the reported context or statements of opinion.
She's a bad writer who tells bad stories with unrealistic and poorly written characters. The politics are the only reason the book is read by anyone rather than forgotten as bad writing as they should have been.