skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Three points:

1. I do not lock my computer when my friend comes along to debug code on it. I do not lock my computer when I pass it to a friend at home so he can look something up. With Safari's password storage, I have a reasonable expectation that my passwords will not be viewed in the 30 seconds or so that I let people use my computer.

2. Keychain is not broken. Safari requires your Keychain password every time you wish to unmask a password. Chrome could easily do this too.

3. Chrome lowers the barrier-to-access for passwords. It reduces the amount of intent required. I would feel less bad going up to a friend's computer and browsing their Chrome passwords than, say, allowing Chrome to auto-fill a password on their computer and running a script to modify the DOM elements to reveal it. The latter is a more serious breach of trust, implies stronger malicious intent, and is more traceable.

Chrome would be better if it implemented this. I have yet to hear how this will make Chrome worse in any way. Why do you not want Chrome to be better?
" as heart-warming an event as taking Old Yeller out back and putting a bullet through his brain."

Minus the rabies.
So how does this compare to yeoman?
So now the blink tag will appear in some browsers but not in others? Fear not, the blink tag lives on. If not in Firefox, then in the irony.
List of fellows here: http://hackny.org/a/2013/06/hackny-announces-the-class-of-20...
Windows Phone App Studio
>>The democratic solution is to get people to care about your issue. If the anti-abortionists can do it, so can privacy advocates.

Not quite the same thing. Abortion is an inherently sensitive topic that is susceptible to emotion. Saying something as simple as "they are killing helpless babies!" is enough to get a ton of people on the anti-abortion side.

What's the equivalent of privacy? How do we make the 4th amendment an emotional issue? Because there lies our victory.
I would generalize this to "treat people well all the time".

TL;DR: Don't be a dick.
Ex-Valve employee exposes ‘high school clique’ management structure
I don't believe there's any evidence at all for what you're claiming regarding "corporate interests." In fact, I think it's obvious that it's wrong.

As far as I know, Otto von Bismarck started modern education so that he could indoctrinate the German youth, but I'm less certain on the details of that.
Should I still use Golang? Would making crypto-software in Golang make it less secure? Would the irony be worth it? Is it a worthy language?
Yes, that's what I meant, thanks. Cycles become transparent and integral parts of daily life.
Yeah, it's his rules, remember? ;)
while technically correct, not really an answer to the question posed.
Will WalMart fail but be replaced by manufacturers selling direct to end-users and disintermediate Amazon? I have no idea, but it's no less plausible than Amazon driving absolutely everyone out of business.

Seems unlikely, because the main reason to go to Walmart or Best Buy is to get the product the same day you want it, and also to see it in person before buying it. Amazon won't drive everyone else out of business until they offer both of those.
I live outside the USA and there's two messages to be heard out of the USA:
- "We'll catch this guy and kill him"
and
- "Give him up, or else..."

The US administration sounds like a foaming-at-the-mouth psychopath to the rest of the world, a psychopath who's still holding the Obama agenda to "protect whistleblowers" in their hands even while they make threats and act crazy.

Meanwhile inside the USA the highly predictable campaign to discredit the source is underway, with all the media happily participating, and nobody asking any questions.

We expect these things from a country like Russia or China. We don't expect them from the beacon of democracy, the USA. It means the USA pretty much _is_ Russia right now. Maybe a little less bad - fewer dissidents get killed (Hastings, anyone?). But overall, same thing.

Putin knows this and they play exactly that angle. Idiotic behavior on the side of the US administration makes that just soooo easy.
Part 2: Surface RT v/s iPad?
Don't worry, we can replace that with CSS too: http://html5advent2011.digitpaint.nl/14/
No, and that is because there is a significant difference between a user unmasking the password through DOM manipulation and browsing a settings page. Please realise that the former behaviour requires more malicious intent.

I expect some level of security to stop people browsing my passwords casually, which Chrome allows in its current design.

I am not talking about fending off determined attackers, I am talking about levels of trust that you place in friends and coworkers. Chrome lowers the barrier-to-access by design.

The simple fact is: there are people I would trust using my computer who would never actively try to circumvent my security to read my passwords, but I would not trust them not to take a peek at my Chrome settings page passwords.
You're projecting.

The point being argued here is that the words "make up" often mean "prepare". That means the phrase "just make up X" is equivalent to "just prepare X". The latter is obviously innocuous. If you want to demonstrate evidence of fradulent behaviour, the burden of proof is much higher.

It's really disgusting what's happening here. This guy and his student are being shamed and castigated without any solid evidence of wrongdoing.
No, I think it's about right.
My favorite use of <BLINK> http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/login.html
The speed limit sign before the camera area also has a yellow sign beneath it saying Photo Enforced, I've found it very easy to avoid getting a ticket.
Grandpa! Grandpa! Tells us the story of the Great Neckbeard War of 2013, when Arch-Duke Blinkentag was murdered!
http://www.biblestudytools.com/matthew/19-21-compare.html

Motherfucker jinxed me. I gave everything away in 1996 and was furious.

You try to be perfect and give everything away and someone saves your shit and you throw it away and they dig it up. Motherfucker.

God says...
relax pwned kick_back how_about_those_yankees could_it_be___Satan
don't_have_a_cow Greece kick_back that's_for_me_to_know
well_I_never hit you_know_a_better_God I'll_think_about_it
it'd_take_a_miracle far_out_man downer end didn't_I_say_that
jobs wont_you_be_my_neighbor it's_hopeless outrageous
wanna_bet programming
And your own army to defend it when whatever government has jurisdiction in the location of your servers demands access to it.
I tried to give Rust a try to build some stuff but my project required HTTP and there's no easy SSL solution in place right now. Hope it comes along. I don't have time to contribute much otherwise I would.
> What sort of hacker are you if you aren't seeking out more efficient solutions to existing problems?

Well right now the top story is how blink has been removed from Firefox, so...
FBI Special Agent visit Thursday August 8th
Sweden, the country that is said to be such a US lapdog that they have invented charges against Assange out of thin air. You can try it though...
Earning enough experience and savings (just shy of a decade in quant finance). I claim those years do make a difference. I further claim this time off sounds like lost time rather than experience building.

Everybody gets bored and frustrated with work. Up & quit after a year and sell it as wisdom on HN? Fuck that.
Multiple return values is possible with n-tuples.

fn addsub(a: int, b: int) -> (int, int) {
(a + b, a - b)
}

...

let (a, b) = addsub(32, 44);
You should look closer at what this type of orders actually compel a service to do. In the lavabit case, my theory is that it went as follows:

- The FBI compels lavabit through a FISA warrant/NSA to produce Snowden's emails/data/etc.

- This data is encrypted, so lavabit cannot comply immediately. However, on logging in, Snowden provides lavabit with his password so that they can decrypt the emails.

- Since lavabit then has the password and access to the emails, they are now required to hand that over to the government. They may need to add some code to store the password, but that is not a fundamental change to the system; it is merely a way of intercepting the data they are sent and required to hand over to the government.

So [I think that] the government does not order lavabit to make changes, it orders it to produce evidence. Such an order would not make much sense when aimed at the GPG authors.
By cropping every photo, DC hearing adjudicators should now throw out every alleged traffic violation (regardless of what the photographs purport to show).

It is simple why:
1. "DC hearing adjudicators have been throwing out citations whenever another vehicle was visible, creating the possibility of a spurious radar reading"
2. The accused to do not need to prove their innocence; rather the court has to prove the guilt of the accused
3. It now becomes impossible adjudicators to know if the another vehicle interfered with the radar
4. There is now __always__ reasonable doubt that the accused is guilty (since the camera system always crops photos)
5. The accused should always be found not guilty

It is really a detestable perversion of justice for prosecution to systematically hide evidence.

Why doesn't the prosecution just make their lives easier by throwing out all cases where there are other vehicles in the photo?
If you want end-to-end, true E2E, you're gonna need client-side software of some kind. It's just the way it works. It's not a bad thing. It's a great thing. It means to get the private keys, the gubment has to gain access to each target's machine individually. Right now they just force the server-side stuff to roll with a single NSL and a phone call.

If you make them have to work for each constitutional violation then they might at least consider not breaking the law.

All this cloud shit has made it far too easy for NSA, etc.
Wow, that's actually awesome. I take back my previous comment!
Amazon currently plays a dual role; both a traditional retailer and a 3rd party logistics business, and they'll probably be quite good at both of those, see the kiva purchase for example.

I think they could probably beat ebay in this kind of game if they'll be interested.
it uses pgp so presumably it is compatible with everyone else that uses pgp. but yeah your recipients and people that send you email need to use pgp.
How comes this is the first response to mention python and php? Is the choice really only between ruby and node.js?

- earnest question.
I doubt they truly have much choice in the matter. It sounds more like a pull-the-plug-and-run sort of situation than one that leaves any actual planning. As their servers now just flat out don't have an SMTP service running, it seems like a fairly reasonable guess.
Adium and Jabber both support OTR for IM, which is end-to-end encryption.
We can thank the European Commission for that. They made GSM 900/1800 a mandatory standard early on.
I prefer Debian based OS, e.g Ubuntu, Mint, et al.

Then all the windows managers are a mere apt-get install ... away.

The only thing that irks me is the driver support for laptop peripherals. Still can't get MBP to run as cool and for as long on battery with Linux as with OS X. I've given up on VmWare as it seems to churn the CPU even doing very little.
Check these two ideas out:

1) Bezos said: "Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It's the absolute dollar-free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that. So if you could take the free cash flow, that's something that investors can spend. Investors can't spend percentage margins" (http://blogs.hbr.org/ideacast/2013/01/jeff-bezos-on-leading-...)

2) Listen to Ruby on Rails' DHH break it all down here @ 44min30sec (he also knocks salesforce) quoting Bezos' line "your margin is my opportunity": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzERXJgi5vQ&t=44m30s
> Wouldn't all of your recipients also need to be using countermail?

You only get end-to-end encryption if both ends do PGP. They offer some security perks like encrypting the mail on the server and running diskless servers if you're communicating with non-PGP people though.
*was a fellow
I disagree that another person's full-time commitment is the greatest validation your idea can have.

Sure, it's one data point. It's one validation. But both of you may be "delusional" in the sense of thinking you have a valuable idea when you really don't (yet). Generally speaking. This happens a lot when things change, and startups pivot, but the team remains the same.

I was curious why your post didn't include anything about reaching out to users, user testing, doing customer development, etc. I would say THAT is your starting point to see if your idea is validated for product/launch fit, and then go for product/market fit.

The greatest validation is product/market fit. You have growing number of users, traction, money flowing in... and so forth. that is the greatest validation.

You can sell yourself and your vision pretty well to someone else to become your cofounder, but I am not convinced it's the "greatest validation" your idea can have. Especially since your "idea" most likely will go through iterations and change.

I do agree, though, that having a cofounder really helps. But not for the reasons you said.
Supposedly even more of a lap dog than the British. Who, despite the fact that we literally payed then 100 million dollars for intelligence, could not be persuaded to do anything to Assange including extraditing him to the US to face the secret espionage charges that our lap dogs in Sweden wanted to extradite him to. Next time we should give Sweden the doggy treats
Bitmessage is fairly atrocious to use in practise. It's slow (by design) and extremely difficult to use properly. Moreover, I'd bet my hat that it's not secure.
It was a mix of conference attendees' iPhones & iPads. I didn't instruct anyone to use Chrome on their laptops.
Current HoR reps who voted against Patriot act + all renewals + for Amash Amend
Yes, seriously. People like to think that computer hackers have some perfect sense of morality, I have real-life experience that they don't.

The government, though occasionally surreal, has not once been a serious impediment to anything I've wanted to do, and in fact has occasionally been an exceptional aid in what I've wanted to do.
I think most people, whether they like marijuana recreationally or not, are outraged that the federal government can prosecute a patient that is suffering from excruciating pain for using marijuana for relief. I find this application of the law immoral in the strongest terms and any DEA agent that executes this law morally culpable in its negative effects.
The expansion into same day shipping is happening. In terms if people who want to physically see the product, I don't think that is Amazons game. They are are better off giving up that market segment and the overheads associated with it. Same day shipping and no hassle returns is probably close enough for a lot of people.
I too prefer the desktop and a decent keyboard. Recently upgraded to SSD and it just flies. When on the road, I use a ChromeBook, light and great battery life. Instead of installing Crouton, I just ssh into VPS servers.
Bill Gates's barbed comments pop Google's broadband balloons
I don't even have any subset of browser java enabled. The risk is just too high. The only reason I have it installed is that Adobe's nasty software requires it.
To quote Brian Anderson (the OP), one of the next steps in the I/O rewrite is "Implementing a new HTTP client on top of rt::io, possibly using Chris Morgan's HTTP code, for use in Servo". So hopefully within the year we'll see the beginnings of a robust HTTP lib that's worthy of a Mozilla-brand browser engine.
Boycotting a company?
Someone give them a fucking medal.
The best use of this I've seen was someone wrapping the entire Wikipedia article on the blink tag, in the blink tag.
They cite three possible explanations:

1. Possible undesirable discrimination (no objective reason)

2. Self-employment might be a valid signal they would not “fit” in the organization

3. Entrepreneurs may lack skills that can only be gained in employment

It is good to note that this was done through online job boards, and only accounts for an invitation for an interview. They applied to 100 positions (2 CVs each) over two years, and had a 11% total positive response rate. They also note that 70% of the positions were advertised by recruiters.

While the sample size is low, online job boards have always had a low response rate. And, recruiters might feel they can't sell/profit-from a self-employed person as well as a traditional wage earner.
Oh yes, I certainly advocate donating anyway. I just don't think it is wise to continue assuming that legal actions are without consequence.
And the servers are often happy with this arrangement, because unlike a higher wage, the cash tips are rarely correctly reported as income and thus perceived as tax-free. Other than the damage to rule-of-law and personal integrity, everyone wins!
Similarly?

"Developers have had no chance to test and update these apps. Reviews/ratings are very important to sales and products.”

No chance? How so? These are Apple-registered developers. They’ve had no chance to test their app against iOS 7?

Yes, they have.
The perils of sitting down: Standing orders
I only have one upvote to give... it's not enough. It's just... it's not enough.
I'm definitely not advising you to memorize everyone you meet.

Most companies tend to hold real allegiance to a small handful of customers. Get to know your key stakeholders. If you have a component supplier that makes up 30% of your business, you should have dinner with their key stakeholder on at least a bi-annual basis. If you have a set of clients that make up 40% of your revenue, invite their stakeholders to dinner.

You'll notice that I never say CEO, only stakeholders, because those relationships are the valuable ones. As you move further up the food chain I think you'll find, as I have, that CEOs are often figureheads with a big hammer. You need their permission, but the real leverage comes from elsewhere within the organization (usually not the techies, unfortunately).

We're all always selling things. It's an unfortunate consequence of the human condition.
I'd say we've generally transitioned from "better grads" to "more grads"

Academic institutions are for profit after all. This anecdotally jives with my Uni experiences and observations as well for what its worth.
What is the font used for the webapp icon here? http://hn.premii.com/a/icon/ios/Icon-72@2x.png
Yes, employees are getting paid. It isn't even investor returns, because amazon's stock price has stayed pretty independent of profits. The only consequence of not turning a profit is that their cash reserves do not grow. Profit is really a pretty meaningless number.
Now, the only "valid use of the blink tag"[1] will work again.

[1] http://blink.tylian.net/
"They never die because of lack of cash. They always get murdered by more able competitor or innovation in their field."

Yet cash allows them to respond to those competitors as necessary. I see Facebook's acquisition of Instagram as both a strategic and defensive move. Strategic because they see photos as the primary focus of what gets shared on their social network. Defensive to prevent Google or Apple or someone else from jump-starting their own social platform. Cash affords a company the ability to be agile when necessary.
The Number One Goal of Your Website
Firefox was the last browser that still supported it.
Blink is a visual annoyance, but it's nothing compared to the retina bleaching caused by jwz's site.
The meme of sleeping with our waitress is important to Americans.

I didn't get that either. Could it be a generational or regional thing? Of course I can think of a few occasions where a waiter or waitress is so unusually attractive as to be worthy of comment, but I've never known anyone that had a thing about hooking up with waitresses in general.

...oh, Sex at Dawn. Should have seen that coming.
> A person has the right to asylum from political persecution.

Except it's not political persecution. He's not being charged with being a Communist, or anarchist, or libertarian here.

I'm assuming you disagree with the law (though even figures like Schneier agree that there is a legitimate need for government to protect secrets), but disagreement with the law doesn't make it a political prosecution.

For that matter, the laws against theft and misappropriation of public property have a long and proud history. I'm assuming you don't intend to introduce a loophole in those laws that would permit the politicians to abuse the Treasury even worse than they already manage?
I think the problem here is that you are trying to decouple money from the government. If you have a definition of money and an economic theory that allows for such a system, that is fine. Do you have such a definition or theory, and are you willing to share it?

"most of the definitions you want for don't globally exist because we've given up the assumption of global consistency"

You might have, but for currency to work there needs to be consistency across the entire market (not necessarily all markets, of course; currency exchanges exist mainly to allow people to move between markets). One of the most important functions of money is as a medium of exchange, which requires an agreement across the entire market about what constitutes valid money.

"More importantly, stop talking about "cryptography"."

Why should I? Digital cash is a cryptography problem. Secure multiparty computation is a major field of study in cryptography; Silvio Micali and Shafi Goldwasser, the pair who recently won a Turing award for their work on defining public key cryptography, also happen to have done extensive SMC work over their respective careers. Cryptographic solutions to the Byzantine Generals problem have been presented many times over the past 20 years. No matter how you try to describe Bitcoin, it absolutely is a cryptosystem and cryptography absolutely is relevant to the conversation.

Furthermore it is dead wrong to think that the security of a signature system or a hash function is the whole story. Unless you can rigorously prove that the security of ECDSA and SHA256 imply the security of Bitcoin (whatever the rigorous definition of security would be for Bitcoin), there is no point in saying that ECDSA and SHA256 are secure. Nobody is calling their security into question here. Bitcoin can be insecure in the cryptographic sense even if ECDSA and SHA256 are secure, unless you think that Bitcoin is a signature system or a hash function.

"you keep blowing right past it"

What I keep doing is asking for definitions. You have ignored or avoided the question over and over again here. To be clear, I am asking you to give a rigorous definition of the security property you want to achieve. That can and should be given as a corollary to a definition of money, since you are not using the definitions economists are familiar with. If Bitcoin is nothing more than a solution to the Byzantine agreement problem, then I see no reason to continue talking about money -- unless you can define money in terms of Byzantine agreement.
Dear Canadians: We Americans are afraid of dragons because we are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Show HN: The Adventure Playbook - email signup conversion results
Earlier this week I spent an hour putting together a landing page for an ebook I'm writing about adventure (and giving it away for free).

Before going to bed on Tuesday night (Sydney time) I posted the link (http://www.adventureplaybook.com) on HN.

Here's the result...

It's Friday morning and any traffic generated by the HN post has all but died.

I've not done much else with the link and I the site now has 3576 unique visitors with 667 subscribers. That's an 18.65% conversion rate.

I'm not sure if this is a good conversion rate or if it's a lot of visitors, but thought others might like to know what sort of traffic a simple post on HN got me.