skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True but not relevant. This isn't a privacy thing, its just purely about accessing pirate bay and other blocked sites. So open source and so on is irrelevant in that goal.

Edit:
Quote added.
"“This browser is just to circumvent censorship, to remove limits on accessing sites governments don’t want you to know about,” The Pirate Bay notes."
And that stops UK users accessing TPB how?
But isn't a big, fat frankfurter, with the mustard, one of life's best rewards?

> "I haven't had a frankfurter in, I would say, forty-five years. I don't eat enjoyable foods. I eat for my health."

I admire woody allen, but reading this comment makes me a little sad.
Bush was probably worse but Obama being almost as bad gives the impression that the situation is hopeless, that it does not matter who you elect.
I don't think he can hear you over his Nobel Peace Prize.
Most of what you say is...false or half-truths. Rigged evidence for war? Everyone thought the evidence was there, Dems, Pubs, and foreign nations. Obama isn't just continuing the surveillance programs, he has EXPANDED them. I didn't like Bush and I hate Obama. To say "if the right was in charge" is a) speculation and b) probably 100% wrong.

Your perspective, is skewed.
Reminds me of operating system errors from the 90s. :)
Wrong by choice is still wrong.
Absolutely. Some company paying Bloomberg to list is quite different from Bloomberg just adding it.

(Also: the word you want is "volition" - "violation" is quite different :-P)
Arch Linux 2013 Installation
The idea of bundling Package Control with Sublime Text has been proposed many times, and more than once directly to Jon. If I recall correctly, I don't think he replied directly to the suggestion.

My guess is that he would prefer to keep them separate for support purposes. If they are bundled then users may have the expectation that Sublime HQ Pty Ltd will support it.
My email address is in my HN bio. Never received a thing.
What do you know about social policies of the biggest empires from a few centuries ago?

Such stuff is lost in noise after a few centuries, only people from the country where it happened learn about it, often not even that.
Hey spindritf, good point. That was terrible copy. We've updated it to hopefully make more sense. We'd like your Twitter handle. This seeds us with our first few data points!
Come on, that's a gross generalization.
Sky's Court Ordered Piracy Filter Blocks TorrentFreak
"can has" -- And here I thought I proofread it. #fail
There is a fair bit of irony at play huh? All content being observed. Punishment dishes out arbitrarily and without explanation. Liberty (speech) curtailed. And this is one of the favorite platforms for pro Snowden discussions!
Which part is crazy?
requiring a rich husband? or not caring where you live? ...
or not reading resumes? ...
US citizens have the ability to express their opinion on him through votes. That said, I am not sure the alternative would be much better. I believe the American people would benefit greatly from having more than two viable alternatives when they vote, as the two current alternatives have similar opinions in many questions.
I don't see the big deal with coming up with an incredibly simple ascending arpeggio with a percussive kind of timbre. It's not like you need any kind of technique or technology in particular. I'd think it is "iconic" only because it is heard so often and that it has an instrumentation that stands out enough. The melody doesn't sound so iconic anymore when it is featured thousands of guitar arpeggios.

Or was the point that actually making a specific sound with computers alone used to be hard?

What's more interesting to me is the iconic ring tones - the mellow Nokia ringtone taken from Francisco Tárrega - Gran Vals, and the incredibly annoying-sounding Sony Ericsson ringtone.

I guess the lesson is that a lot of roads leads to the same place, even if the road is over a big mountain with a glacier instead of driving around it (using Lisp to permute three notes...).
> “I don’t think Mr. Snowden was a patriot,” the president said

was?
No offense to Soon-Yi Preven, but she's no Muriel Hemmingway!
It is a simple Hungarian name and translates very roughly to Solt Wheeler.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zsolt
Does USA have a way to change president mid-term if enough people sign for that?
Does the Opera license allow to distribute modified versions setup to automatically use Tor for .onion URLs, without getting special permissions from Opera Software?

In addition: Why Opera? I don't see any significant advantages over Firefox. There are probably more users who are familiar with Firefox than with Opera.
> How does "federation" benefit anyone.

Improved Privacy. Only the author will have information regarding who visit, how many times, and for how long is-

Future proofing. Youtube and flickr will only exist as long those services are profitable. People who thinks they own their media, can only hope that it will stay online for as long as possible.

Improved API/features. Media hosting companies will limit features to match their business model. With federated services, there is no such limit.

Secure API. Media hosting companies will remove features if competitors are using the API in a threatening style. with federated services, there is no central company that can feel threatened.

> why wasn't that done first?

Just being federal, but with no meaningful usages, it would not be useful. I don't know if there is a technical reason why it couldn't be done at the same time.
I think user namespaces allow that without root. Haven't tried yet though...
If that's the case it seems your profile got blanked when you got shadowbanned. Here's a screenshot I took of it: http://i.imgur.com/KbS3heF.png

---

It's just occurred to me that you're probably referring to the email field, not the about field. Anything in the email field isn't public, and I'm under the impression you don't get notified when you're hellbanned, which is pretty much how it gets its name! If, on the other hand you put your email address or other contact details in the about field, and they're no longer there, then that's a different matter. For example, my email address is in the email field of my profile but it's not public. The only public information that's there right now is my Twitter name.
I believe once you create a user namespace (https://lwn.net/Articles/528078/) you can then create the other kinds of namespaces (mount, process, etc.) without requiring privileges outside of your user namespace.

LWN ran a great series on namespaces recently: part 5 (https://lwn.net/Articles/532593/) covers user namespaces.
Exactly, it's like mentioning Gerald Ford of Jimmy Carter outside of the States. Of course that people have heard their names and sort of know who they are, but not as much as they know about Nixon or Reagan.
As you can see from the news the safer alternatives are getting shut down.
Maybe they just wanted to use Firefox.

Why not explain why they should use Opera?
Multiprocessors weren't commonplace until users of the Windows 9x kernel were dragged screaming and kicking to the XP kernel. 64-bit processors were not commonplace until AMD came out with a clever way to make them look like 32-bit ones that could run 32-bit Windows.

In the meantime, Unix users were using 64-bit multi-processor boxes since ages. Yet, there was no mainstream consumer 64-bit multi-processor architecture before there was no 64-bit multi-processor mainstream consumer OS.

The same applies here - most current improvement is directed towards making current x86 and ARM computer architectures faster because there is no popular corpus of software that could take advantage of different architectures. Sony, IBM and Toshiba tried with the Cell and failed. The Xeon Phi may prove to be an interesting stepping stone in that direction but it too uses a shared memory model.

I'd love to see some radical ideas tried, but, right now, I think I won't.

It's a bit tragic that the most popular OSs of today are the bastard descendants of the most popular mini-computer OSs of the 70's.
And then there was the saving of the US auto industry - but, you know, nothing of note.
There are lots of stupid musicians, just not any I want to hear. But be careful comparing writing to performing. Yes, you can be a mindless automaton and still sound pretty good. But composers are generally intellectual, and in my experience the set of good composers who are not blindingly intelligent is very small.
No. We foreign nations thought the evidence was bullshit too. Our leaders in the uk were entirely transparent and the population didn't believe a word. We were ignored.
the link is dead.. do I need certain level of karma to see it?
Actually it's a compressed image of a bootable SD card containing a full Plan 9 distribution, including all source code for ARM, x86, powerpc and MIPS.
US Citizens have some (reasonable) expectation they won't be spied on without some cause. They may even get back to that situation eventually through legal challenges against the supra-legal shit going on.

The rest of us, well, we were always subject to this oversight and it won't change. We just didn't have our noses rubbed in it very often and US media don't give a damn. I expect Chinese companies are just as paranoid about data flowing through the US as the US are about their data being in China.

It's a timely reminder for us all. Remember that putting your data elsewhere doesn't mean anything if (a) it transits the US unencrypted or (b) the parent company is US owned.
Well bin Laden is not a big deal. Nice publicity stunt, surely and nice display of power.

I think the main achievement is keeping the economy afloat during 2009 ...
Source code of showterm: client[1], server[2]

[1] https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm
[2] https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm.io
try script(1) and scriptreplay(1)
Because some people don't use un-free software.
But if the composer would use a more geeky language, and talk about e.g. E7#9 chords, mixolydian modes and chromatic passages? How long would a layperson bother to listen.

(Well I used rock/jazz terms, since I am not familiar with classical music.)
A call to boycott U.S. tech platforms over the NSA's PRISM surveillance
Second this. Internationals might think this sounds like some case of german quality engineering. Not. "All encrption done by the providers." says it all. It's a farce.

And I have to agree to some people in this thread, that germany IT engineering lacks behind a lot. Either our tech education is as bad as I think it is, or I don't know what. But this whole de-mail thing started as an initiative by the postal service to develop a "e-post-brief" aiming to be an official/secure/non-deniable electronic postal service. Which is ridiculous.

I think the technical right thing to do (safe, anonymous communication) is just not what any state would want. It doesn't help consumerism and it doesn't protect the ruling social norms so why would a state fund it?
What is the Non-U.S. alternative to Rackspace?
A bit like sausages - they are only delicious if you have not been to the factory.
turn showdead on in your profile. then whenever you see other people who've been banned unreasonably, tell them!
If that's the case it would be fine with me too.
I was using "totalitarian" as an actual property of the state, not as a derogatory term. The fact that a lot of people were okay with the regime is irrelevant here.

As for non-totalitarian Soviet Union. I think only the last few years of Gorbachev rule can be described as non-totalitarian. The control was being relaxed on many fronts: freedom of speech and press (glasnost), freedom to be elected, steps to legalize business activities (cooperatives), freedom to leave the country (May 1991), cultural freedom. Many even say that speech during glasnost was more free than today.
Congress has been investigating, but has been denied access to evidence because it is classified.
Hi, I hope you take my comment well. This need to avoid some theoretical logical contradiction far down the road is similar to explaining the perils of split infinitives before teaching a child to say "I want food."

99.9% of calculus students are there to expand their mind. They will never design a quantum mechanical reactor and think "Wow, I'm getting all these weird results, my calculus education must have held me back."

It's generally preferable to give students a first order approximation at first, the successively refine with additional terms down the road. The fact that most calculus students will have no idea I'm referring to a Taylor series explanatory strategy highlights the problems with an overly rigorous introduction. Math at this high level should primarily expand your thinking, and secondarily your storehouse of previously proven rigorous statements.
10 Great Ways to Find an Email Address of Anyone
Every single one, except for those ending up with parties below 5%: Those poor fellows aren't considered at all, which means that they're handled like non-voters, even though they certainly expressed their intent.

A ranking vote mechanism would help matters (if your primary vote doesn't end up with a party >=5%, your secondary vote is considered instead, etc.), but that would make the system favor smaller parties: not going to happen.
My co-worker's office phone is a real tritone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tritone). Considering that her desk is right next to mine, I find it incredibly jarring to hear that interval blaring in my ear whenever she gets a call.

...but in the end, I think you're right. I've been trained by Western music to think of the tritone as anxious or dissonant.
YouTube Easter egg lets you play Missile Command
There are already some existing Bitmessage gateways such as http://bitmsg.cc/. Looks like using something like this would be a better solution for a Lavabit-successor: Use a secure messaging protocol and then only use gateways to send messages between the traditional email world and your own secure protocol.

Of course, the gateway could still log your messages, but the same security issue applied to Lavabit. The main advantage is that once the gateway has forwarded your message, no one can force the operator to retroactively decrypt the message.

Bitmessage sounds like one potential solution for this, but it has some scalability issues. Using RetroShare would be another approach.
I may have sorta kinda broke it completely.

Game.score = [];
for (var i = 0; i < 10000; ++i) {
Game.score.push(String.fromCharCode(Math.floor(Math.random() * 65536)));
}
Game.score = Game.score.join('');

One of those random characters needs to be escaped in the javascript returned by firebase, but isn't.
Show HN: The Startup Legitimizer lets you quickly embed a press module.
As someone who ate a bunch of hellbans, even subtracting my personal learning process, I would say posting on HN is kind of like turtle eggs hatching and trying to crawl across the beach into the ocean before the birds snatch them up. It seems as if oldtimers can sometimes post things newbies would never get away with, and newbies get treated extremely harshly for making a slightly wrong move too early on.

edit: sorry, I didn't realize we're talking about an acount that's over 5 years old... so none of what I said applies here, and I'm just as puzzled as the next guy.
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As a Norwegian I am not very happy about that one. We messed up big time.

It was silly enough to give the Nobel Peace Prize to somebody who hadn't really done anything worthwhile yet (but showed promise), but then to have that person act in such an extreme opposite to what the prize is supposed to stand for is just unreal.
This is such an incredible idea. I can already see tons of use cases for it. CLI apps can easily demo themselves through this. It even recognizes backspaces!

I'm using a patched font with a git branch symbol in my prompt[0]. As expected, it only displays on devices that have that font installed. Colors don't match my actual terminal either, but that's just a minor problem.

[0] http://showterm.io/e49d0900602104ae4850f
All of this misses the author's point.

How many students make it through calculus without learning that it is the mathematics of motion at all? I'd wager that it's more than half.
Apple Turns Tables Seeking U.S. Samsung Phone Sales Ban
Quite possibly. Then again, you can probably find a modicum of truth in just about any situation.
Google Dart looks very promising.
Wow. I'm trying to think of something more to justify this comment, but "wow" is all I can come up with. There's moderating, and there' being kinda inhumane :(
But they are typically a factor of 5-10 times faster than current generation SSDs, and not just in raw read/write, but also in access time.
He's term limited. He can't run again.
If you have RAM free, Windows shouldn't be using your page file. If you have so little RAM free that Windows is paging, then using even more RAM to host the pagefile will make things worse. You might as well just turn off the pagefile entirely.
Read Personal MBA, then join/start a startup.
Clojure is most definitely a Lisp. The biggest difference from more traditional lisps is that it has literals for a wider variety of data structure types. Apart from that, it has every single characteristic that defines a lisp.

> After proper Scheme training (CS61A) Clojure looks awkward and messy but very useful, as it supposed to be due to its "productivity beats clarity/conciseness" philosophy of scripting languages, such as Ruby.

As someone with "proper Scheme training" (CS61A), I've found that Clojure is actually much more clear than Scheme in most cases. The code is less beautiful from a purely visual perspective because there is more syntax, but a lot of complexity gets removed when you add literals for sets, vectors, and maps.
Also, being open source, one can evaluate the source code and check the "secure browser" isn't leaking secrets.
For scalar types I agree, but now that I think of it, I'm not sure it's even possible to write array code using them, unless I'm missing something. If you can't modify the array in-place or write to a provided "output" parameter, and you can't malloc a fresh array to return (because that's a side effect), how do you write a pure function of type int[] -> int[] at all?

The nice thing about Haskell is that it conceptually mallocs a fresh array to return, but then optimizes away the intermediate array in a lot of cases.
I run the code, and it downloads the Package Control.sublime-package file alright. But the sublime won't recognize package control even when I restart it. ctrl + shift + p won't give package install or any other command.
Git: Using Different User Emails For Different Repositories
The blog Music Thing once did a short series of posts called "Tiny Music Makers" that gave some background to the creation process of famous small sounds.

My favorite quote from it, about the Intel Inside chimes:

In less than three seconds, they wanted "tones that evoked
innovation, trouble-shooting skills and the inside of a
computer, while also sounding corporate and inviting".

http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/05/all-this-week-tiny-mu...
call them out in the thread, at least it highlights the issue to other people, even if the person in question doesn't see your post.
I am willing to do that but I can'f find any instructions to where to get the repo from and where to put it.
> What about an alternate messaging system addressIng these issues ?

In case he was talking about unencrypted email, it's obvious:

-> Only use encrypted email (with an email client).

In case he was talking about encrypted email, all the "metadata" is still open (sender/receiver address, time/frequency, message subject). Then you can cross-reference that data with other data to get a more precise picture of the users.

-> Only communicate using one of the "darknet" platforms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29
The official way to appeal is to ask info@ycombinator.com about it. I did that once and they said I got banned by accident.

[Edit: ignore this part, it's wrong] If anyone gets shadowbanned (which can happen for automated reasons), use this link with your IP. https://news.ycombinator.com/unban?ip=ipaddress PG made this link as an automated appeal, he says it only works once.
I was very happy Obama was re-elected.. So much for that. But at least now I've realized I need to start voting independent. Our two party system is a failure. We lose when your voting choices are "bad" or "worse".
thank you for reporting it, I just fixed it :)
Vim 7.4 is released
How were they able to edit the entry? Can anyone edit without overview?
That's what I did this time. I tried to Google some contact details for the guy (Twitter account, etc), but who knew there were bee costumes for dogs? His profile was blank too.
I recommend pasting the Sublime Text console output into a new issue at https://github.com/wbond/sublime_package_control/issues.
I understand what a monad and IO monad is and what the types of the expressions are. I am just showing that the current monad syntax is ugly. connectToDb $ readParams "conf" can be transformed by a compiler into what you wrote.
> He doesn’t have the technological capability to decrypt his customer’s data but if someone could intercept the communication between the Lavabit’s Dallas-based servers and a user, they could get the user’s password and then use that to decrypt their data.

Is it really what I understand from this or LL is trying to say something else.
Emailing is definitely the way to go. I've emailed PG about a post that got flagged to death and he was fairly quick about unbanning it.

I don't think that link is for un-hellbanning an account. I think that's if you have a bot that messes up, or doesn't respect the rate limiting expressed in the site's robots.txt, and the IP of the bot gets blocked. If it were for un-shadowbanning, the username would be asked for rather than the IP address. Having said that, I forgot about that unban link -- thanks!
Ya the H1B has pretty much been crossed off my list for those reasons. I think I looked into the Green card lotto, and if I recall right being from Canada, I'm at the back of the bus on that, but I'll have to look into it again.

As for family/friends, I get where your'e coming from on that. I learned it quickly when I lived out in Charlottetown, PEI for a few years. That being said, I have a decent base of friends in the US, mainly in the Philadelphia area which is where I've been mostly looking for work (most PA companies usually find my resume in their inbox soon after posting if I have the qualifications).
> 3. in general haskell is even terser then i like.

It's the same kind of terseness that languages like Perl have. It's write/only code.
When did we start trusting bad code?
By Robert Graham
Gate One has had this feature for ages. You can export your terminal logs to HTML payback files or as traditional flat logs. You can then share them however you like... Web, email, whatever.

It works with full screen apps like tmux, vim, htop, etc. It even plays back images (if the user output them to the terminal).
Your'e preaching to the choir on that one. The amount of companies I've seen posting the same job over and over again up here because they aren't in a major market and won't accept remote developers makes you wonder about their business processes....or if they're still thinking business computing is stuck in the 1980's.
Things Scala lacks which OCaml has:

1. Tail call elimination
2. A full-featured module system
3. Functors (functions at the module level)
4. First-class modules
5. GADTs
6. Polymorphic variants
7. A decidable type system
8. ... more?

Things OCaml lacks which Scala has:

1. Traits
2. Implicits
3. Trivial Java FFI
4. Seamless syntactic macros (c.f. camlp4)
5. ... more?
>Do you have some real examples of this happening with GHC extensions? I haven't run across one in the field.

I am not that advanced in how GHC types work. However, I understand, that in any language extensions there are tradeoffs between how expressive a language is and how much type inference we have.