skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you don't. You participate almost exclusively in political discussions on HN, and when you do, you routinely attack the people you're talking to, for instance when you told this commenter to "use their brain instead of their TV for once":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6062466

... or you deliberately reduce arguments to inflammatory absurdities to try to win them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6064531

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6006933

... or you just get mad and yell:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6062497

In ~75 days of comments I didn't see you once acknowledge a point anyone else here made, even one that agreed with you. It appears that in the past ~quarter or so, you haven't observed a single argument that you managed to simultaneously disagree with and "respect".

We should be able to presume that you know your own comments better than I could know them in 5 minutes of skimming, so I invite you to prove me wrong and show me the place in the last 2 months where you demonstrated this appreciation of well-formed comments you disagree with.
Is 1Password also now suspect? I let my keychain be saved over Dropbox. At a guess that is a weak link right?
That mainly pertains to Telecommunications and Wiretapping, of which the police have tried to twist and try to charge people with when recording them.

However I do not know of any state that prohibits recording your own property. If that were the case then there would be zero security camera's anywhere.
Here, the predictable impassioned defense of hyperbole.
This is crazy. If he had used IE "Save as a file", he wouldn't have been convicted of fraud?
The Factoring Cryptopocalypse
> Highly less, I would say.

Not really. Its not like majority-runoff isn't a commonly used (in the US, even), highly studied election method, known to have very similar effects in terms of reinforcing duopoly to plurality.
Nothing bad; I was just routinely forced to hand over my passport. And, on a train from Zurich to Prague, my bags were taken off the overhead rack and searched.

Remember, when we Americans want to make the point that we're different from Europe, we say "papers, please!" to make fun of it. The idea is supposed to be that we don't do "papers, please!" here. Unfortunately, we've lost a bit of that in the last 15 years, but we're still only approaching Europe.
Surely you don't believe that everyone who busted their ass to fix the problem was also responsible for causing it?
Wpf is fantastic, it is everything html could ever wish to be.
Randomuser.me, an API that generates random users for prototyping
Really? I find that surprising (re: Europe) - I'm quite surprised the airlines still require ID here, the borders don't. I've taken trains from Hungary to France with less ID requirements than Amtrak.
Zimmermann advocating Hushmail. That's curious. Also imho deleting user data without warning is kinda non-pleasant even in todays climate. Of course you should have had everything backed up, but I'd guess many people didn't.
The problem is that everyone with enough economic or political power to do something about the patent situation has a strong incentive to preserve the status quo, because they benefit from the competitive barrier large patent arsenals create just as much.

So no one wants to touch on meaningful reform, because that would blow up just as many of their own patents. Even companies that claim to amass patents purely for defensive purposes have this incentive.

There's also an agency problem. To fight patents you need patent lawyers, but patent lawyers have a strong incentive to expand the volume of patent litigation. It's like asking why the NYSE doesn't implement one of the simple solutions that would stop HFT: they're getting a cut on the volume of trades, so they don't care at all how decoupled from economic reality trading becomes.
You can use AppleScript to accomplish that. See for example https://github.com/mharju/vim-fiddle/blob/master/template/fi... for hints on how to do it.
NSA Dragnet Surveillance Explainer (ACLU)
So I made an iPhone App
still think its low,
Can someone explain what this does in layman's terms? I'm a biz guy, not a coder, but I'm interested in the use cases. thanks
That's cryptography at its frontiers: you look at progress and try to get a sense of where it's going to take you. It's why Schneier keeps pounding on "attacks only get better".

Also, as layperson, you should be wary of the lesson the last two decades have taught people like you on responding to far-out attacks on algorithms. RC4 was known to be broken almost immediately after it was published, but it wasn't until a few months ago(!) that someone bothered to refine the attack to the point where it could break TLS.

The industry's intuition about how likely it is that a "theoretical" flaw will be weaponized is probably wrong. Crypto as a discipline only came into its own within the last ~10 years, and it's safe to assume offensive crypto research has lagged behind it.
It's God, you fucken retard niggers.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

hose that follow
after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

3:25 Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which
God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall
all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.

3:26 Unto you first God, having raised up his Son Jesus, sent him to
bless you, in turning away every one of you from his iniquities.

4:1 And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of
the temple, and the Sadduc
How to Flunk Philosophy: or Here we go Again
You mean like sex with his step daughter Soon-Yi? That exercise had to be great for his health!

(And now I'm going to get depressed wondering how many on the website don't know what I am talking about because it happened before they were born.)
Winners And Losers: Games The Mind Plays
E-Mail has a moderately crappy experience on phones even without the security issues, so there's plenty of reason to build something new (with a new client) even if you're not worried about security.

The thing that terrifies me about trusting Silent Circle for anything real is that if you're only on mobile, there is a huge amount of evil either of two US companies (or anyone who can put pressure on them) can do to you, and it's essentially a black box. Basically every security guarantee a mobile app makes can be subverted by Apple, Google, potentially some of their suppliers, and anyone who either puts legal or technical pressure on them. It can be done to individuals, rather than some pervasive backdoor which could be uncovered. To some extent, mobile carriers, who are essentially an arm of government in many places, could also attack users.

Ubuntu Phone, Firefox mobile OS, etc. help in that they add more platforms, but don't seem to fundamentally improve security. The only thing which would really be viable, IMO, is a totally open hardware design and OS, where users get to pick their own update sources, and all the baseband crap essentially firewalled off into a little FCC-approved area which can't attack the rest of the device. And potentially with the entire baseband removable so you could have just a PDA, PDA+wifi/bt, or maybe in a future world, some novel radio protocols designed for protection from monitoring.
Anyone know if DLP for a group generated by a primitive polynomial over GF(2) has had any advances in the last few years?

I haven't seen it referenced anywhere in the last 10 years, but it's a version of DH that is much easier to implement in hardware than over integers, and the DLP was (last I checked) believed to be at least as hard, and probably harder, then the equivalent integer problem.
The worst bit about this is attempting to sensibly devil's advocate another viewpoint, then find out you're pitted 10 to one and have completely unrelated comments downvoted to oblivion just so they can prove a point. That, or all-caps comments responding to one single sentence, or people making false rebuttals that seem as though they didn't read your comment...the list goes on and on...
If they don't even know how to use proxies, I somehow doubt they'd even consider fiddling about in their BitTorrent client's proxy settings. How would they even know what to put in there?
yes, but everybody bootstraps when they're first starting out. You should try to figure out how to gain traction with a limited product first. It doesn't make sense to me to bring on another founder just to deploy on android.
It's not terminology, it's basic ignorance about what the government is doing and how. You can't fight NSA snooping on any level if you think that they're sticking a vacuum hose into your server and siphoning out all the bits. These details are important.
Totally random and probably useless fact depending on your views:

CMU was the top school in the North American region at the 2013 ACM ICPC World Finals

http://icpc2013.ru/competition/live.xml
Agreed entirely that this is the problem today.

However we did have that (Java applets), and they didn't take off. I think the web did hit a bit of a sweet spot at the time, but it's time for us to build new technology on top of it. Personally, it's looking like asmjs, inline styles and translate3d divs to me :)
It looks like Vim 7.4 has been compiled without MzScheme support.
I disagree. From my experience trying to argue logically against the impassioned HN mob, the real reason to take politics off of HN is because of the sheer volume. There's too many people who haven't done any research, who just see headlines with buzzwords and believe them, then regurgitate their contents in arguments. Then they fallaciously argue those points and get increasingly bitter until it's pointless to continue.
I see from your linkedIn profile you are a defense contractor in Oklahoma. As is typical of defense contractors I encounter, you yourself make your money from a large, taxpayer supported industry while criticizing other nation's taxpayer supported industries that actually fucking do something, instead of supporting a standing army that is 5 times bigger than it needs to be.

I have nothing against defense contractors, but I do hate ones that have hypocritical small government, conservative political views. Please feel free to put your money where your mouth is and go work in a free market industry. The taxpayers pay your company, and therefore your salary and health insurance.
Good point. I should have qualified what I wrote previously by saying some CSS properties (like padding) could be simplified with just one way of writing the syntax. I say simplified (but not necessarily shortened) because it means you no longer need to explain that property x can be written this way. Or it can be written that way. Or it can also be written yet another way.
The Refining Fire of the Outside World
Safari is just a re-skinned Konqueror, anyway.
Sounds like he's talking about Groupon when he mentions the guy that took a company to $1 billion in record time.
Canada is bigger than the US and has as at least as much freedom of movement as the US.
Do you have any email that I can contact you? There is no in your github profile
Help Thy Neighbor and Go Straight to Prison
I wonder what would be a good big company CEO that is close to general purpose as possible. (I know there are these legacy MBAs that cut costs by treating the company if it was a widget factory, which I know is bad.)
You don't need a lawyer present, you just need to record the interview, although it's unlikely the FBI will agree to this.

Very relevant:
http://jonathanturley.org/2013/05/11/why-the-fbi-doesnt-reco...
PRZ has advocated hushmail for a long time (at least 2002 or so), which is nuts.

I believe they intended for people to use Silent Mail as POP3-style "download all messages locally", although people may not have done that. I set up silentmail on my devices in the "leave on server" form and lost both of the test messages I ever used it for; will probably survive.

I really don't think it had much user takeup, which they'd know since it was opt-in. It wasn't part of their original suite of tools, but got added after a few users requested it. It wasn't even the best secure mail tool one could have built, just the easiest for them to deploy with minimal effort.
This is an extension to the Python programming language that makes it easier to analyze and manipulate text.

For example, an analyst might use sentiment analysis to see whether Facebook posts about a product are "positive" or "negative" in tone.

As another example, I hacked together this online sentiment analyzer using TextBlob: https://textfeel.herokuapp.com/

See also:
NLP (Wikipedia): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_language_processing
NLTK (a python library for NLP): http://nltk.org/
Twitter opinion mining using pattern: http://www.clips.ua.ac.be/pages/pattern-examples-elections
It seems to me that the measurement here comes into question. What is a cup now vs what is a cup then? At what brew strength? etc.
Interesting that Forbes interview him and the Lavabit founder. Honestly I expected far less from this rag regarding computer and privacy issues given other links here and elsewhere, but there is always time to be surprised.
Well, yeah, except that the starving patients bit never actually happened. That's the bit you're missing.

I know that they had some problems with some NHS trusts as they went more "efficient private sector", mainly with cleanliness, but this was not pervasive throughout the NHS and suggesting it was commonplace is a flat out lie.
This idea translates to other businesses beyond technology as well. My brother is a vp at a movie theater company and does a fantastic job leading his employees because he has worked every job at the theater, from usher and ticket taker on up through management.

Having that experience gives him a much better rapport with employees because they know he has been in their position, but also helps him make better decisions that affect those employees.
Do they have the right to do that? What would happen if they just found the bugs? Can they keep it? It's in their house...
Preferred pricing for large employers, vs small employers, vs individuals never made sense to me except for private insurers to divide up groups to maximize profits. If insurers were simply trying to provide best-value, then every customer should be in the same risk pool and excess administration costs to create and apply different rules for different groups could be eliminated. Instead, all the private insurers create many groups with complex rules, different coverage levels, then have to administer all these slightly different rule sets. That complexity then has to be dealt with by everybody, the customer, the health provider, as well as the insurer themselves.

Profits are possibly maximized but value provided to customers and society is destroyed. I think this is pretty much reflected in the roughly 2x per capita costs for private healthcare in the US vs costs for universal care in many other first world nations.
Having a text box for pasting addresses is a great idea. I also wanted to use location services to pre-fill the sender's address and show the closest drop off locations or mailboxes.

Thanks for the feedback! I'd like to get as much of it as I can, so I'd appreciate any word spreading about ezsend.it :)
https://github.com/search?q=path%3A%2F.ssh%2Fid_rsa&type=Cod...
Don't they need to read the miranda right before?
And that's why this ‘Pirate Browser’ only runs on Windows...
Interestingly, I've found that a significant part of my own addiction is behavioural. If (for whatever reason), I know I'm not going to be able to drink tea for a few days, as long as I have something to replace it with that has an appropriate amount of ceremony to it I don't really exhibit the withdrawal symptoms the article mentions.

On the other hand, if I just try and stop I feel useless for about a week (possibly longer, I've only stopped for that long once).
So is the Moto X, and it seems to me there's a small price delta compared to Samsung's S4 and HTC's One, but not that much. Given that its only final assembly in the USA, and not 100% made in the USA, not sure if being made in the USA would affect costs by that large a factor.
They still need to sell about 32,000 more smartphones.

The problem is that they are selling a PROMISE to eventually send you a smartphone, and not enough people either know about the offer or are willing to pay $700 up front.

That said, this phone looks fantastic, so I hope that they are able to pull it off.
The Digital Imprimatur: How big brother can defeat the Internet [2003]
That may just have been disposal of obsolete Xeons (Nehalem?) Intel does not traiditonally give big OEM discounts; their whole business model is based on vast margins.
I used to have the same opinion you did until I started doing some really filesystem intense stuff (not even big, just lots of creating and deleting of files) and suddenly my entire system ground to a halt. Huge delays (top showed state "D"—waiting for device).

I moved that stuff to its own disk and my system became smooth as butter again.

I'm still not down with the traditional unix '"/usr" must be its own partition!' thing, but it does help to separate your tasks onto separate disks.
I'm having deja vu, do you post this in every NLP-related topic?

(posting before I commentstalk you to confirm, this is just as much to test my memory as anything else)

edit: maybe not...damn, I swear I've seen this exact phrase in several NLP threads
Yup, changing jobs recently, trying to calculate pricing/coverage comparisons between health benefits took up more time than all the other negotiation/salary/vacation/etc aspects of the offer.
1. Agree
2. Though about this a long time.
3. Believe their should be three tiered fee system for patents.
4. Low income entities--first two patents free.
5. High income entities--pay 2x current fees.
6. Anyone abusing the patent system would be barred for
a certain amount if time, or life.
This is the same Marco Arment who has spent the last three or so years complaining about the state of the Mac Pro, yes?
This. Also, individuals react to and metabolize caffeine differently. YMMV.

On related note, 23andme users can see which kind of caffeine metabolizers they are from the Drug Response section.
The Constitution is not under any kind of "existential" threat. You should be more worried about citizens not knowing their own Constitution than you should be worried about the government breaking it.

Literally any valid view of American history would immediately demonstrate that we are moving forward in terms of overall liberty, not backward. With the possible exception of disenfranchised minority groups and lower classes, there has been increasing political transparency and quality of life in every respect, and the former are only still mistreated because of the power vacuum in their communities.

The only reason why this is so outrageous is because people have short memories - I doubt many people are as shocked at this who lived through the Nixon Watergate scandal. That kind of corruption wouldn't so easily take place today.
The DOM is a failed institution trying to grab on the the ledge before it falls into the abyss. W3C should be disbanded and HTML5 abandoned. JavaScript and it's ilk should be boycotted by users as well. This kind of complexity should exist on the server, not in the browser. I understand that people want to run complex apps in the browser. It's a bad idea in general but where it's needed, it should be PLATFORM DEPENDENT, implementing the tools that keep that platform safe. ie iOS, Windows, whatever. We are still in the browser wars, why are we so keen to adopt standards that aren't standard?

DOM Lvl 4 even features GC! Can we not see why this is a bad idea?!? Keyboard bindings also do not belong in a "standard". I wish this would get more attention by serious developers, but I think that most people who know better wouldn't care and aren't interested in understanding and digging into a lame standard. It's a land grab, only enterprises can and will ever be able to implement it correctly and completely, as the standard spreads to consume more of the user's space.

Here are some people who agree with me:

http://www.adamcrume.com/blog/archive/2009/12/23/the-java-do...

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/147451/whats-...
Awesome. Was looking for something like this. Switch from jQuery Mobile sucks on the phone.

Edit: nevermind, extremely laggy on mobile.
Intel rarely gives substantial discounts to OEMs on CPUs (except or things like the ultrabooks, where a substantial discount was given).
Yes, if insurance had nothing to do with your employer, the employer would be easier to leave.

Imagine if your house and car and food were all paid for by your employer. And with a tax subsidy that makes it seem cheaper to do it that way than pay for these things on your own. Yes, leaving an employer would be a complicated choice.

I'm also not convinced employer insurance is the deal people think it is. When I left my last full time job and continued the insurance using COBRA, it cost me $400 a month. I think you wind up subsidizing everyone having a baby or that do have major health problems.

I'm in my late forties and have a high deductible policy that only cost me $150 a month before Obamacare made it go up to $260. I don't see it as much of an impediment, even now. People can spend more on coffee.

Granted, if you have poor health or a family, this can cost quite a bit more. But these things by themselves can often be a greater barrier to entrepreneurship than the cost of insurance.
In the episode of the excellent podcast "99% Invisible", there is a story of how the iOS unlocking sound was created:

http://99percentinvisible.org/post/3230995265/episode-15-the...
If I want to go back on your site, it keeps me on your site. Absolutely infuriating, remove this.
Pretty cool, but unfortunately it does not work with my PS1 [0]. Looks like any PS1 with a shell call in it won't work.

[0]: http://github.com/impromptu/impromptu
I only drank the sugar free versions. It was very much so the caffeine (and possibly the 1000% of b vitamins they pack in.)
The cost of my prescription medication alone is more than your insurance premiums. I take all generic drugs.
Server CPU retail prices don't age very well at all, it's not uncommon to see server CPUs retain the same price even until two generations later. Newegg et al will keep the prices sky-high -- even in the face of plummeting sales -- and then discontinue the product line due to "lack of interest."

It's absolutely appalling.

So, to address your point, as another poster has mentioned you probably had previous-generation CPUs. OEMs get relatively generous discounts at the end of product lifecycles so as to encourage gargantuan purchase orders, and consumers don't see such discounts ever.
3D Platformer on top of Erlang Game Engine