skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, "basically" I'm saying the first and am silent on the transferring of power since in this particular case I disagree with the power regardless of which level of government is involved in exercising it.
The Shape of Data: Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Structure
The vast, vast majority of Civil Forfeiture law seems to be local governments abusing their power. The story almost always starts with "We were driving across the country when...".

This has been a known problem in a number of small towns scattered across America. We must distinguish between "evil feds" and the "evil locals". In this case, it is clear that state and local laws need to be reformed.

Many states, facing fiscal crises, have expanded the reach of their forfeiture statutes, and made it easier for law enforcement to use the revenue however they see fit. In some Texas counties, nearly forty per cent of police budgets comes from forfeiture. (Only one state, North Carolina, bans the practice, requiring a criminal conviction before a person’s property can be seized.)

This is a state-by-state, county-by-county issue. This can of course be solved by national legislation... but only if we have the political will to pass a national law on the issue. Blaming the issue on 'them feds' is ignorant at best, and harmful to the cause at worst.

There will always be some dumb redneck town that will prey on travelers. America is too large, too vast. And that is where the Federal Government needs to step in and issue a smack-down.
I'm not saying there will never be any tie-in, but it's perfectly reasonable to expect that AMZN <> WAPO will be similar to Apple <> Pixar when Steve Jobs owned both. Some tie-ins for those who know, but not some massive concerted effort as you implied.
I thought that was a pretty poor article - no real argument and essentially a mixed metaphor between the title (chess) and the body of the article (cards/poker). The bit about "negative cash cycles" seems hopelessly outdated - comparing Amazon to bricks and mortar companies seems appropriate to 2002, not 2013.
From the U.K. to Vietnam, Internet censorship on the rise globally
What would be the advantages of using a custom built load balancer vs. something off the shelf like Nginx?
Mindstorms EV3 means giant robots, powerful computers
I just came across this. It looks like they have guidlines for contributing, but they are only acttivated when you open a pull request. https://github.com/blog/1184-contributing-guidelines
For the brain, practice makes efficiency not perfection
Not tangential at all and I while I hate being wrong, I like learning new things. Graphs are very expressive. But most of the time, when you try to express the domain model as a tree (inheritance) it leads to muddiness because most domain models are not truly tree-like. Then we try to express it as graphs (composition), but that gives up the advantages of hierarchy.

If you instead express things as sets and subsets, you can enjoy the advantages of both inheritance (DRY logic) and composition (numerous). Some languages kinda sorta have this through mixins or modules. But not quite.
For those, like myself, who weren't familiar with the terms "rake" and "trail": http://www.seegercycle.com/Rake-and-Trail.aspx
No, it is almost 2Mb per connection.

Why so-called performance of a wrapper around OS syscalls is more important than resource costs of having a pending connection?)
Startup Myths: Product Market Fit Is Everything
I think the "quick" does not refer to time since foundation, but the fact the success was a spike instead.
Play Framework Security Advisory
Author here, all the code is available on Github if you want to play around with the visualization or have ideas to improve it: https://github.com/whichlight/reddit-network-vis.

Also, you can see a sort of meta discussion here on the /r/dataisbeautiful subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1jqz3f/redd... It's kind of hilarious because people leave threads of comments to create new branches.

What I find most interesting is that you can quickly get an idea of how much conversation is in one of these discussions by the number of nodes that are colored (signifying users who have posted more than once).
I don't know about "don't understand" but did you know that there is a lot more to why a wing creates lift than the "pressure differential" explanation commonly put forward: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lift_(force). In particular, the typical assertion that the air at the top has to speed up so it arrives at the trailing edge at the same time as the air from the bottom is false.
That's fair, and unquestionably a conflict of interest. However, it's not an irrevocable quality of a prison run by a private company (and therefore evil "by definition").

OTOH, purchase of shares is at least an above-board, traceable interaction. Government officials have always gotten perks and kickbacks from private companies, rich individuals, NGOs, and their own budgets that are either off the books or disguised as something else, and therefore less transparent.

I haven't seen (or yet hunted for) a study of publicly run vs. privately run prisons, in terms of treatment, costs, etc.; but I'd be curious, to say the least.
Well ssh is a fairly complex daemon with quite a few features. For example with OpenSSH you can authenticate with a preshared key and challenge response or with PAM integration, or with a regular unix password. It also supports several types of encryption. All these things are useful but requires more code.

Some people would argue that a very simple daemon with fewer features might be more secure because it has less attack area. For example Colin Percival of Tarsnap created spiped which essentially replaces 'ssh -L'. It only supports shared key authentication and AES-256 and consists of only about 4000 lines. He connects to ssh through a spipe tunnel.

https://www.tarsnap.com/spiped.html
I wonder what the Artsy (http://artsy.net/) folks think of this?

Probably not much. After a certain amount, selling art is a relationship business and the seller's reputation is paramount. Artsy is very well connected and do a great job in their presentation.
Well, there's a common incorrect explanation: Those who believe the "popular" explanation are wrongly insisting that any parcels of air divided by the wing's leading edge must meet again at the trailing edge. This is incorrect. It doesn't occur: experiments easily show that the air above a wing far outraces the air below, and parcels never meet again. But the real answer is known: http://amasci.com/wing/airfoil.html
I was thinking about this when I heard the announcement, and I thought, what a disruptor!
Here are some ways that a newspaper (with "internet content") would be superior than digital media:

* Much larger viewing area than an iPad
* It's more compact than an iPad
* It's cheaper than an iPad
* It's disposable
* It's recyclable
* You can use it in places digital media aren't allowed
(security buildings, airplane takeoff/landing, subway, etc)
* You don't have to know how to use it
* You don't need a data plan or need to use a computer
* You don't have to recharge it

All you have to do is create targeted content and sell to places that digital media doesn't work as well. Fill with context-specific in-line ads and make it more interesting to the target market audience. (And probably figure out a new way to print it so that makes monetary sense)
Wow, it's like Ed Wood has been reincarnated as an HNer. :)
Well given both C and Go are native compiled languages, I would think C is a realistic (if distant) goal for Go performance, at least for algorithmic stuff where you're not bouncing in and out of the runtime. I was commenting on how far it has to go.
If anything, I think this really allows me to see how much art costs. For example, I find it amazing that I can search through Salvador Dali's works and buy one of his sketches. I probably won't but I can think of a lot of people who would.
Chaitin, The Limits of Mathematics (1999)
very nice - now that sketch has been completely ruined as an app by being turned into a platform/feature/tie in, I've been looking for an easy way to annotate and share images.

One suggestion for workflow purposes - how about allowing clipboard paste for the image? It's easier to screenshot to clipboard and drop directly to annotation

edit - stupid autocorrect, meant to say skitch
Any idea how to approach / sell on here?
I'd love to try to get my works up.
The FBI can remotely activate the microphone on your Android phone
>The profits from the lab-made diamonds flow into the holding company owning all those mines.

I considered this too, but then I thought of buying a stone from another company, but realized that paying the same inflated prices for an essentially worthless (worth less anyway) rock would still contribute to keeping the margins and profits up for DeBeers and/or any company that might engage in questionable practices, then I thought about buying a non-diamond, but found that most semi-precious stones for sale were still offered by companies that also traded in diamonds.

To be honest, it was a bit exhausting (especially combined with the planning of a wedding). I just chose to draw the line at buying a stone that was created in a laboratory and not pulled from the Earth by a slave.

I would not be honest if I didn't admit that cultural expectations also came to bear on the decision not to just do something completely different.

I take your point. I feel like this is one of those areas where my purchase decisions could change drastically the more educated I become on the subject of the precious stones trade. Just in the span of buying the engagement ring to the wedding band, we decided to have zero stones of any sort on the wedding band itself.
Who talks about news? It is an asset purchase.)
While Java may not be sexy nowadays, it's still tons better suited for the task at hand than Tor's choice of unsafe C.
How's that? My phone isn't 6", isn't geared towards holding with one hand while the other hand shovels Rice Krispies into my mouth, isn't terribly comfortable to read on compared to a Kindle, and requires touching the screen while I might be eating breakfast.

While some of the things might not be fit for the Kindle, the Kindle version should have a price to reflect that (and also reflect the lack of printing and delivery costs). Instead it's damn close to the price of the print edition, if not more.
Apple: Bring us your weird, 3rd-party and counterfeit chargers
I attended a talk by Richard Stallman about two years ago, and it revolved around the same ideas. While some of his ideas are a bit too extreme for my taste, e.g., when a guy asked how to make money by building Open Source software he replied something like "get another job", I think that many of them are inspiring. Such as the ones about proprietary formats and owning your own data.
What an awesome answer to my facetious question :-) I know nothing about ham radios or frequencies but it sounds interesting nonetheless.
Heres an idea: remove karma total - its just an epenis and nothing else. Keep points for posts so you can see if your post was good and for burying trolls but dont show the total in profile or news page. Done.
People can get upset by words for a variety of reasons. Should they make an effort to handle their emotions better? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't also make an effort avoid language which might upset people.

And perhaps I'm being hypocritical by insulting people, but I get angry when I see people with this ignorant "Not my problem" attitude to offensive language, and communication in general.

Communication is a two way street. If your messages are not being received as you'd like, is it so absurd to suggest that you consider changing what you say before criticising how others listen?
V8 has no internal bytecode.
Cops & Cronuts Cartoon
You're right about the Go client, I'm also scratching my head as to why it's doing the extra lookup instead of just using a dial function directly:

tcpAddr, _ := net.ResolveTCPAddr("tcp4", "localhost:1201")
conn, _ := net.DialTCP("tcp", nil, tcpAddr)

Vs.

val socket = new Socket("localhost", 1201)

Edit: Go has e.g. net.Dial("tcp", "localhost:1201") and as someone pointed out elsewhere for a more accurate bench in both clients why not use the numerical address instead?
Making Digi-Key much, much prettier
DevOps Blues
Indeed - Apple seems to be about quick exploitation of big ideas. Amazon seems to be pushing through long trends.
> I was a gambler I'd short them hard in response to this

And you'd be pretty late to the party:) The short interest ratio on them is already .8. Thought its less than it was a couple of months ago.
V8 snapshot is nothing like bytecode, it a serialized native heap with architecture dependent native code (sic!) embedded into it.

And it still contains all source code for all functions.
I'm sure it will come, but I'd appreciate a layman's terms explanation of this. What is the threat, and how do you go about fixing things in Django?
We do know, here is the paper that the journalist refers to:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6027/339

And here is a great video by the author:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdtE3aIUhbU

Short answer: "a bicycle should turn into a fall."
I see...

The speed explanation is not incorrect, except the REASON for it is.

I learned on school that the air on top of the wing move faster to catch up with the one in the bottom (this never made sense to me...), the air on top indeed move faster, we only don't know why.

Damnit, I should be a physicist, not a programmer :P
A consistent problem I've seen with e-books and streaming video is lack of live content, in particular breaking & current news. Apple provides some live sports, and just added SkyNews, but that's all third-party encapsulated content limited to AppleTV. Google scrapes the Web for news, but just gives pointers to content instead of packaging it. Bezos isn't buying a newspaper, he's buying a content-gathering service - it might not be big, but the core infrastructure is in place to get the content and curate it without negotiating with a fiercely protective third party.

We've been observing the demise of news outlets. The demise continues so long as the owners fight to retain total control of their distribution to eyeballs; having given up, WP has finally given total control to someone who does control distribution of content to a whole lotta readers & viewers. Expect the rebranding of WP as Amazon News, and watch it explode onto the news scene giving CNN, Fox, etc a desperate run for their money.
I totally agree. Paste is currently supported on Chrome and its been super useful. I'll see if I can get it supported elsewhere. Thanks.
> I miss that guy so much

And Bill Hicks.
If you like printed digital art, you can buy them from [Curioos](http://www.curioos.com/) at a relatively cheap price.
It is color thermal printing. The chemicals in the paper have a phase transition that reveals the colors. That means you can heat them at different temperatures and durations to make the phase transitions happen selectively. Much easier said than done.
All of the things you listed are things that would be much better on a mobile delivery platform. No wonder WaPo can't make any money.

Classified ad syndication is begging to be disrupted. Crossword puzzles too. Letters to the Editor needs to be a heavily moderated forum. Sports scores with realtime updates?
>Decreasing rake angle is the primary way of making a motorcycle turn faster, with the known risk that it makes it more likely to head shake or even tank-slap.

This must be what non-programmers feel like when they hear programmers talk about code.
Thank you. We do know how they work, and that it's nothing to do with gyroscopes and everything to do with (what parent said, but simplifying a bit) front fork geometry.

Pretty much anyone can see this for themselves. Walk a bike with your hand holding the back of the seat, not the handlebars. Steer the front wheel by leaning the bike. Lean father to correct faster. If it's a cheap bike, let go and watch this happen on its own till it wobbles too far to counteract.

This is one of those idiotic tropes like bumblebees not being able to fly.
My guess is "soon" we'll have a 500 dpi full color e-ink kindle to admire rentable art. And perhaps a giant e-ink kindle to hang on the wall for exactly that purpose.

One of my long term "in my infinite spare time" projects has been to build a nice small (well, what passes for small now...) HDTV size digital picture frame and rotate artwork on it. I figure if I can keep the capital cost under a couple hundred bucks (no problemo) and power consumption under a hundred watts (aka about $100/yr, also Probably no problem) then I'll do it. This is all well within my ability to do it, other than spare time.

I don't want a COTS digital pix frame because the API (if any) sucks and you can't buy one bigger than roughly a postcard whereas I want "big artwork" sized. Also I want high res.

Another interesting idea about "real art" is most TV user interfaces have the lamest most uncool backgrounds and "artwork" I've ever seen. I'd like a nice piece of real art instead. A big digital clearinghouse would help.
Passion as a metric - gauging a new startup.
In Sabina, just north-east of Rome. I guess the climate's not too different to Umbria's...?
There is a local git repo for local env. But I don't see why it's wrong to use git to deploy to staging/prod using different branches. Surely there is a more perfect solution but who said anything had to be perfect, we're hackers.
Not that I think that geopolitical happenstance is affected by solar magnetism, but I'm getting a bit fed up with the 'correlation is not causation' police.

No it's not, but nor is it a blanket reason not to investigate apparent parallels.

Just because the 'correlation = causation' is used to dis-infrom through findings that are bolstered by correlations, doesn't mean there's no reason to try and explore a reasonable case as to why the correlation reflects actual causation.

Correlation can infer causation in many instances.
Switch off all GZIP..? That feels very extreme, I'm sure there are better workarounds than that one.

EDIT: The following workarounds should be very simple to implement and seem like more viable alternatives for production?

Length hiding (by adding random amount of bytes
to the responses)
Rate-limiting the requests

Mitigations 6 and 7 taken from http://breachattack.com/
Here's a simple explanation: http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/gone-in-30-seconds-n...

It's not Django, but us over at Rails have been discussing various parts of BREACH and how we'll handle it: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/11729

The important two comments are here: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/11729/#issuecomment-2206... and https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/11729/#issuecomment-2208...

> Let's let this stew for a while with security researchers doing their
> analysis on various approaches and wait and see what the security community
> as a whole recommends.
>
> My only concern to rushing out a release is that we do something equally
> dumb and end up creating a different problem for our users.
>
> We can roll out fixes as it becomes clear what the consensus is as to the
> best solution for a generalised framework like Rails.

As http://breachattack.com/ says:

* Be served from a server that uses HTTP-level compression
* Reflect user-input in HTTP response bodies
* Reflect a secret (such as a CSRF token) in HTTP response bodies

These things are easy to tell about your application, but are much harder for frameworks to detect generally, which is why projects like Django and Rails will take some time to evaluate exactly how to best handle this at the framework level.
Almost as easily as I can imagine Kindle Newspapers being improved by this, I can imagine Prime Instant Streaming having a live news channel. I'd be down for it.
This is 100% easier and more usable than screen shot into paint, crop, and mark up using terrible tools. Well done, and thank you :)
I'm surprised nothing is covered under amazon prime shipping.
Still no one is explaining a workflow that requires github to be up.

This was a genuine question. I have no doubt that my usage is different from yours, and I appreciate the opportunity to learn. Perhaps I can do things better, and you can be the one to teach me.

I don't care about the downvote(s), but I do care about missing an opportunity to do things better, or more effectively, or more efficiently, or something. Clearly people here use github differently from me, and I'd appreciate the opportunity to learn.
FYI: s/peaked/piqued/
There's other charities with a narrower focus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_Marry
There are many simple media players/streamers out there, in much the same size unit and some with noticeably higher spec (though most probably with noticeably lower build quality) for more-or-less the same price. Most are basic Android devices I think.
DON’T REPEAT YOURSELF… WITH SETTING UP
The link is like 5 sentences long and 2 of them are recommendations for stopping the attack.
"Check mate, scientists" :))
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Urban legend. Bicycle physics is well-understood. My old job, we even made a fuzzy logic model of motorcycles/riders for Harley Davidson. No mystery here, move on.
Android security flaw allows any app to access all your Google Accounts
This advisory is pretty understandable, I think.

The big bold text ("BREACH may be used to compromise Django's CSRF protection") is a strong warning of the threat (becoming vulnerable to XSS). They list two steps that they recommend taking; disable the gzip middleware in your settings.py, and disable gzip for responses from your web server.
I'm not all that familiar with BREACH, so please correct me on the parts I'm wrong about, but it seems that it's an attack that allows one to recover some data sent over TLS if compression on TLS and the protocol level is enabled.

In Django, this means that attackers could recover the CSRF token that's used to prevent cross site requests. This means anyone between you and a client could later have that client automatically make authenticated requests to your app, simply by visiting a site they control, without the knowledge of the user.

To protect yourself, the Django team recommends turning off compression either at the TLS level and at the HTTP level.
You're comparing HN to the Washington Post?

We happen to be a thoughtful community and a decent newsreader without (a lot of) hierarchy. If it migrates elsewhere, I will as well. I find many of Graham's old essays amusing in the abstract sense (they're Austrian Economics rehashed in the language of computer science), but question his intentions.
I thought the answer to this question was, "sell services around the product."
The Voice of the Customer Series (2/4): Gathering Customer Needs
"Richard Stallman, revered by some as a genius (after all, he won a McArthur “genius” grant in 1990) and by others as a crackpot"

When I first heard him speak many years ago, I thought he was a real crank. My negative thoughts centered around:

1 - How can we build the next Microsoft without true ownership?

2 - Does his model of thinking demand that 100% of the population be technical enough to troubleshoot their computers?

3 - I can see people writing software for love, but who writes all the documentation?

As the years go by, he's one of the few people who sounds less like a crackpot, even though he hasn't softened his extremism. With the current state of patent trolling, it's getting harder to create the next Microsoft. Improvements in GUIs is taking some of the issue away for #2. But I still haven't figured out #3.

Edited for formatting