skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see today was your 15th birthday and your parents finally let you onto the Internet. Congratulations.

That said, there are a number of externalities that you're not thinking of. The simplest is: without a government, what's to stop someone from walking into your house and killing you? Every incentive says they should: free money, no consequences.

Another is: if we privatize everything, then only the wealthy get the benefits of having a society. Privatized workplace safety enforcement, for example, would ensure that only those rich enough to afford a lawsuit could get justice if injured in an unsafe environment. That's just stupid.
With a generous helping of FUD, any bar owner who doesn't buy one of these will be assumed to be a creeper.

-OR-

Clubs catering to really, really rich people. (at least, until the price comes down)
I use the feudal security of blockchain.info wallets w/2FA on android since phones tend to get lost, stolen or fubard
I'm 30. All my friends use facebook and it's been very hard for me to leave. I have left though and literally have lost contact with people merely because they always forget to invite me to things, and we've gone our separate ways. When I joined The Facebook, it was just a fun place for college kids. When I left it was a mega evil empire where you could lose your job, be put in prison, get lectures from concerned parents, and upset people. That's not fun, so I've logged off forever now.
STEM, by nature, makes people more productive.
Wheel, Bicycle, Train, Car, Airplane.

The more productive people are, the more wealth can be generated.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R42530.pdf

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2012-H1B-Visa-Category.asp...
im working at the "same" problem space but with a very different perspective..

end-to-end encryption? yes. distributed p2p? yes. anonimity? sometimes.. and just in very specific cases

i think we all need digital identities badly.. is just then we can play more with the concept of digital property, value of work, trading, currency.. and our society and everything we have conquer until now can breed a fresh new air in a new vibrant and digital society..

if this movement of complete anonymity gets real traction.. we are doomed to a economic apocalipse..

intelectual work will have no value, people will stop to pursue it cause it leads to poverty..(even if you do it for fun)

the people who provide food and material things will be "the sucessfull ones".. everybody will follow.. no science and knowledge society for us.. this is not the future that i want..

we should fight to have the right to use our identities our faces in a free world.. not just fight back using the same weapons as the enemy.. otherwise, we have already lost!
that is kind of scary. i had a look over the code and the problem seems not obvious. the only issue i saw was multiple instances of SecureRandom share the same state which could cause some problems if you do [1]:

x = new SecureRandom();

y = new SecureRandom();

y.setSeed(predictable);

x.generateBytes(zz);

and also i think the seed is thread local so you can have:

x = new SecureRandom();

x.setSeed(xxx);

then on another thread
x.generateBytes()

won't do what you think it will do. i don't think this would cause dupes because i assume apps are isolated from each other and these apps aren't calling setSeed...

[1] this is assuming android people haven't patched openssl to have different behaviour and also setSeed might be safe in openssl because it uses the value to augment and not replace the state.
Wish you to get well soon!
Focussing attention on something scary but rare leads people into danger when they ignore the much more common risk.

We know that people make mistakes when drunk, and we know that some people use alcohol as a rape-drug. In England it's much more common for people to make bad choices about sex when they're drunk than for a predator to deliberately spike a drink with a drug.

Having a shot glass with whiskey in it and the label "safe" is just weird.
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Both children and the elderly, curiously enough. For a country with a generally weak social safety net, the U.S. actually has a quite generous old-age safety net, via Social Security and Medicare: a quasi-universal pension and close to single-payer health coverage. So if you live long enough you're set!

I've found that a bit curious, since I don't see any obvious reason that a 70-year-old with cancer should have a stronger guaranteed right to free health treatment than a 30-year-old or a 50-year-old with cancer.
Unfortunately, I've known a few great people, people I was very close to, to lose a few of what could have been some really productive years due to these sorts of things. Brain tumours are reasonably rare but they are also unpredictable and turn up at any moment.

Anyway, at least in Australia we have Medicare for everyone, which should soon cover trips to the dentist, as well as the DisabilityCare scheme that's rolling out for people who have acquired or were born with a disability. Oh, and madatory superannnuation.

Ya'll welcome to move here. You'll probably like it here.
You can prevent a lot of uncommon things by never stepping foot outside of your house, but then again there are always trees that fall on houses, tornadoes that rip up houses, hurricanes that flood houses, earthquakes which break apart houses - and those are just natural causes, then there's the poisons in your household cleaners, knives, etc...
On my iMac, switching between renderers definitely caused a "hiccup", and SVG was very slow on Chrome, but it looked great in all 3.
You at 16 didn't need the kind of advice that I did. Congratulations, seriously.
I'll give the benefit of the doubt, and assume "low cost labor" is something close to "first year employee wages".

And, not every smart kid is cut out for starting a business. I wasn't. Too risk averse. I like to build software, I'm pretty good at it, but much prefer the comfort of a salary.
Every SIM sold in my country has an app for tracking you that responds silently to type 0 SMS spamming which law enforcement uses
I recommend reading http://www.amazon.com/Measuring-Managing-Performance-Organiz... for an analysis of how motivation systems based on measurements often become dysfunctional.

Dysfunction may arise when you are unable to measure all the relevant dimensions of the work being performed. People will often shift their effort to the dimensions that are being measured and ignore the remaining tasks, no matter how important they are. This results in less value being delivered compared to a scenario with no measurement based incentives.

The author mentions software development as an area that is specially prone to dysfunction.
I know several people who had this happen to them — and those are just the ones who've opened up about it, which obviously not everybody would do, so I may or may not know even more than I think.
A phone that doesn't do YouTube - is that even legal?
Have you heard much about the Disability Care scheme being rolled out here in Australia?
He wrote a really good article about using static code analysis with Visual Studio here: http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/12/24/static-code-analysi... I imagine this was on the same train of thought that led him to investigate statically typed languages.
Imagine that Seinfeld was still being produced to this day.

Or the Simpsons! That would have stopped being funny in the nineties and now it'd be wheeled out each week just begging to be put of its misery.
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I think we can go with words A.P.G. (same analogy as PNG, and JPG)

APG sounds more catchy.. just giving my nickels on the name, use it if you want.

This project is something I have been waiting for, like forever, the idea is very good, I hope the execution of this idea is good as well. Somehow I have high expectations (which is unusual for me for such works)
I like the video, reminds me of a porn scene with a really hot mom and hunky delivery guy, even the soundtrack sounds like a 70's porn tune. She is bored and unsatisfied with the domestic chores, but the Washio-man is coming over to deliver and put her at ease! With the innuendo of the deed in progress and completion in the form of a iPhone Washio in-progress and completion indicator. Very well done, I think it appeals a lot to the unconscious mind.
I thought minors were disallowed by the TOS? But then, I am hopelessly out of touch.
Do they know you're 30?
No, let's assume that the average perpetrator commits four felonies before being charged or otherwise removed. That's still 100,000 active felons at any given instant.
This is anecdotal... not necessarily indicating a trend.
There may have been a TL;DR part of this I'm missing, but it's hard to argue against a thalamic or brainstem stroke wiping out consciousness...
Generally the demarcation line of age is 13 in the US due to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act[1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children's_Online_Privacy_Prote...
Clojure has worked wondrously for myself and my colleagues in terms of clean, nice idiomatic code that doesn't require a bunch of marshalling code standards together.
Is this going to be like the Hurd? Because ideology and functionality seem pretty orthogonal to me.

http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
And yet I know a 13 year old that does.

So by our combined data set I believe we can safely extrapolate that 50% of all 13-year olds across the world use Facebook.
There's a meta conversation to be had here about how this 13-year old girl had a well written op-ed piece posted on Mashable. Her bio there links to hellogiggles[1] where she is apparently a regular contributer. Arguably not the most prestigious publications nor the best writing, but I am still super impressed with her work.

[1]: http://hellogiggles.com/author/ruby-karp
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I wonder (other than the features requiring kernel 3.5) what dependencies dmesg has - could I just carry a static binary around in my ~/bin for systems that don't have a new util-linux?
Get on Tor, send a random number of requests between 1 and 3, wait a few seconds, regenerate the tor circuit, do it again.
GruntJS/Grunt-S3: using new sync feature for easy uploading of web assets
totally lost interest after the 2nd page refresh.
13 and already over facebook. I'm glad I at least got to have a childhood largely free of the internet and social media.
Fair enough.

My interests in trying to work with data like this came from my difficulty in finding data I could mine "easily" on municipal/city bonds as apposed to equity funds portfolio companies.

Part of me thinks that if some people were given a set of tools or a place they could go where they could make an more informed decision (with clicks of buttons and simple displays) about their 401k's, Roth IRAs, 403 B's or whatever investments they make if they don't trust typical fund managers, that they would be able to see there are tradeoffs to be made for their own fiscal stability. There seems to be a lot of interest with this surrounding micro finance /loans, but that is just one part of the equation.
Another one:

fibs = map fst (iterate (\(cur,next)->(next,cur+next)) (0,1))
Eyeballing that figure tells me that the true number for this sort of thing is actually higher still (US population 313 million). Although in the vast majority of cases, no formal charges will be made, and little will be done about those carrying these sorts of things out, and it is likely that those carrying these sorts of things out do this much more than four times
This isn't something new. When I was a teenager there was a whole load of pre-social-network blogging platforms, then along came Myspace, then Bebo, then Facebook. Everybody spent hours every night on MSN messenger.

The aspects that I use facebook for most - keeping in touch with fairly widely spread social groups - are not really relevant to a 13 year old. I don't think I'd have needed anything as complex as Facebook when I was 13. 13 year olds like to message each other, be it via SMS, IM or some social networking platform du-jour. Their messages are disposable nonsense that don't really need anything like the complexity of Facebook.
The documentation ("Architecture") is a bit on the thin side. How does this compare to RetroShare? Can anyone who has taken a closer look at attack vectors etc. comment on this?
Ironically, Haskell is gaining traction while your comment is fading away :-)
Indeed. Most common thing to spike drinks with? More alcohol.
I suppose we're splitting hairs here about what he's aiming for, but consider his comments, first, about what he learned on the job:

>"My first six months, what did the consulting firm teach me? They didn't teach me the basics of how they do business. They taught me how to think. I didn't know how to check my work. I didn't think about order of magnitude.

and then his goals for Minerva:

>"We want to teach you how to think," Mr. Nelson says. A course on "multimodal communications" works on practical writing and debating skills. A "formal systems class" goes over "everything from logic to advanced stats, Big Data, to formal reasoning, to behavioral econ."

Both these comments suggest that he's looking to improve the core critical thinking skills of his students. Indeed, he explicitly says as much. Thinking, reading, writing...these are historically fundamental goals of education.

They are not, however, merely "useful things" which can be pointed out. You cannot simply sit down and "learn" how to read/write/think, anymore than you be can taught a foreign language without actually speaking or writing it, or programming without coding.

They are "basic" in the sense that they form a foundation for other skills. What he seems to be aiming for is not "basic" in the sense that you use, which seems to cover tasks like "how to perform this financial function" or "how to use this technology." (But maybe that's not the sense you're using "basic in).
1: Citation, please.

2: Stop blaming victims.
The 400,000 figure does not seem to exist anywhere else online. Searching "400,000" and "rape" returns no results regarding date rape, the closest results I can find relate to the number of rape survivors in the Congo (400,000). This wikipedia article on date rape suggests that roughly 2% of date rape victims have been drugged, so if the 400,000 figure is to be believed that means there are 20,000,000 date rape victims every year? That seems... unbelievable! This figure seems to be pulled out of nowhere. Also worth mentioining that the #1 date rape drug is... alcohol! This article smells a lot like FUD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_rape_drug#Frequency_of_occ...

edit: and in the video the project creator claims over a million people are victims every year, again no citation.

edit edit: found a study that claims 4% of rape victims had been drugged[1] and according to RAINN there are ~200,000 rape victims every year[2]

[1] https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/212000.pdf

[2] http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/frequency-of...

So assuming the RAINN figure is accurate and the study figure is accurate that means there is ~10,000 drug involved date rapes per year.
I assume nieces/nephews/younger cousins?
On WebGL, we can reinvent presentation and styling entirely without sacrificing performance.

Doing layout and capturing input events on elements in Javascript instead of native code, without performance loss? Nah. Maybe you can do it in shaders, but that still sounds like the bad old days of flash, of binary blob websites without accessibility. I'd be glad to be proved wrong, but it just sounds horrible.

Oh, but WebGL games need good UI toolkits either way, so at worst, any such stuff would still be useful for that, even if not for general websites.
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> The only valid balance is 100% privacy. A government that violates its citizens' privacy is not acting legitimately.

What do you mean by "100% privacy"? For instance, are wiretaps authorized by a warrant from a district court OK, or do those violation your 100% privacy condition?
What would keep your interest?
If you are indeed 30 then you should know that Facebook isn't to blame because your country has screwed up privacy laws or because you don't know how to send posts to specific people.
if they are using SecureRandom backed by openssl then i think any instance is a problem. However, the 'seed' is used to augment the state and not override it. I'm not sure if it is possible or how much data would be required to get predictable output from SecureRandom by calling setSeed.

http://www.openssl.org/docs/crypto/RAND_add.html
If you're interested in consciousness, I recommend reading some of Antonio Damasio's books. I really enjoyed "The Feeling of What Happens".

He has some fascinating theories on the machinery of (brain-originated) consciousness, embodiment and the primacy of emotion, and he tends to explain them in the context of his various clinical cases (eg lesions to certain brain areas such as the central gray will irrevocably destroy consciousness, while others can have much more subtle effects).

I think his concept of "core consciousness" seems close to what meditation practitioners are trying to explore.
I read those lists & they seem like a "throw everything and the kitchen sink" strategy to defend his behavior.

It shouldn't be much of a surprise that there is occasional criminal (& horrific) misconduct from soldiers or that the military collects statistics on civilian casualties. The idea that "war is hell" has been around for a long time.

(Who doesn't like idle speculation?) Manning seems like someone who had some emotional issues & was overwhelmed w/ what he saw & made a reckless decision to "turn over the playbook." Snowden's revelations are things that probably even the most intrepid journalist couldn't figure out, Manning's put folks' dots together for them

Overall, it seems like it will be very unfortunate circumstances & tough going for Manning and his family for the next several decades
There's an old saying I don't hear much these days: never give a software engineer a soldering iron and never give a hardware engineer a compiler.
Umm, I'm not a techie, but these are my RAW thoughts:

- So you say, that APG (APNG) requires compatibility support from major browser and development support from a hard working organization, with relative financial support.

But what about, compatibility support in Photoshop, GIMP? I think the stretch goal amount should be spent on this, if anything. I don't want to try a new editor just for APG.

- One more suggestion I have is to make it as simple to use as Unfreez Program for creating GIF, which as simple as :
1. Drag and Drop
2. Type Delay time
3. Click "OK" to compile

http://www.whitsoftdev.com/unfreez/ (a very good program, damn simple to use for even a noob, only 19KB, I have used it for years to make animated GIF)

- Editing frames should be easy, but the whole program should not be as complex as animation software are supposed to be.
From what I heard it's actually mostly done by friends, minus the raping part. I know that's how it happened to me once with MDMA.

From what I understood it seemed that it was more about 'lightening up and having some more fun,' although I'm not sure how running around all night wondering whether I'm losing my mind would make me have more fun,
The PNG group's noninclusion of APNG support in libpng isn't entirely due to simplicity, but partly to philosophical disagreements: they consider single-image and multiple-image formats inherently different, and believe they should be supported separately rather than mashed together. Many of the same group officially developed and support MNG as the officially standardized multi-image format related to PNG. And they do have a reference implementation of that, libmng: http://libmng.com/

Alas, both have stalled: MNG was initially implemented by Mozilla but later dropped, and the PNG/MNG folks consider APNG a hackish substitute so are unlikely to standardize or support it.
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OT but: why not capitalizing "html5" and "javascript"?
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Security mindset time!

This invention is cool, but relies on either staff telling customers, or customers all being informed. In the former case, it is unrealistic to expect to staff to be able to carry this out at a busy bar, and weird stuff happening to uneducated customers would only either freak them out, or make them go "cool new glasses!".

In the case of customers being informed, I go and acquire a range of interesting drugs that might have the desired effect, and test them until I find one that isn't caught. Or, y'know, just go back to surprise extra alcohol and a bit of social coercion when that alone isn't enough (discounting here any extra kicks from the other effects of any drug on the victim).
Critical Android flaw leaves digital wallets vulnerable to theft
By default it's using a canvas to render, though you can also choose SVG or WebGL. Canvas is hardware accelerated in most browsers.
I believe, passwords, if required to be set to some default value, should be "changeme" or similar variants.
Synceer singing Bruno mars grenade
You're probably right, sadly. Maybe clubs serving alcohol should require some type of pat down/search for drugs as well as firearms. I don't have any good preventative answers for this one. Females have a very dangerous life to navigate; can never let their guard down.
no intent to do that. but now we know whats on your mind
People would pick it up over time. I think a more serious issue would be that once these glasses entered the public's mindspace, people might expect that their glassware has it when it doesn't, creating a false sense of security.
I've always felt that facebook was a better contacts management system than what came before, the "social" bit e.g. snooping on other peoples lives was just a really good way of keeping you engaged because it didn't exist before in such an accessible way.

I kind of wonder though whether we won't see a kind of craigslist aftermath effect, where craigslist comes along and provides a service which everyone wanted and then other startups choose particular niches and attempt to do them better.
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There was a javascript library called Testacular but they seen sense and changed the name to Karma.
I'm wondering how well it survives repeated steam-cleaning, and whether it somehow indicated when it's aged too much.
Tables have a well(ish) defined semantics that you're breaking. Those semantics give rise to real practice benefits like navigating via column and row with screen readers or hinting how best to split a table up into multiple pages when printing.

Practically, the way it's ended up, the semantics of a div is "some stuff". It's evolved into the go-to method to hide a multitude of styling sins. I don't think there's anything hugely hypocritical in limiting any ugly semanticless hacks to a single generic container like divs.

Put as much as you can into semantic markup, and then anything else you really can't fit into that, favour using div soup over breaking the semantics of another tag.
Because you're 13.
Fair enough, though as I understand the tractors try to avoid rocks, and so they may have to change their route whilst on the job.
Slick! I'm curious, how much time and money did you spend for making this video?