skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You certainly have a strong point, Democrats have been trying to accomplish this since Harry Truman right after WWII, and e.g. Hillary! infamously botched it.

On the other hand, that chicken is not yet hatched, e.g. while it's been airbrushed out of Wikipedia, look at the single thing Dan Rostenkowski is most remebered for: https://www.google.com/search?q=dan+rostenkowski+angry+senio...

And e.g. if Obama's "trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see" cause a fiscal collapse of the Federal government including Obamacare, Obamacare will be a footnote aside from explaining why he focused on it as opposed to the fiscal health of the government like Clinton did.
If you are willing to leave your security in the hands of some third party like that -- and do not think for a moment that you are doing anything else when you use Lavabit/Hushmail/etc. -- it is probably because you do not want your email to vanish like that (and security comes second to convenience for you). Think of the alternatives:

* Keeping your secret keys on your disc. Now you crash it, format it, etc. and lose all access.

* Smartcards -- better not lose it!

The reason people use Lavabit is that they want to maintain access regardless of the system they connect from. Of course that also means that other people can gain access (your security is now reduced to the strength of your passphrase, a classic bad strategy), but Lavabit users do not really care. Hushmail and Lavabit both had headline-making stories about how they handed plaintexts over to the government and did not lose their customer base over it.
For the umpteenth time, moderation is not censorship. HN is akin to a private club not a country that you are born into forced to live in. And furthermore, the chaos is anything but unknown. It is mob/troll rule ala slashdot/reddit/4chan and every other online community that grows beyond a critical mass.
How many JS frameworks do you need to make a landing page?
Arming rebels and thus escalating the Syrian civil war.
Hacker News tl;dr extension for Chrome
Oh I'm not apologising for them, they still messed up (and I still actively discourage people from buying Apple products). I don't use any Apple products / services, so their downtime didn't bother me. Their lack of communication is bad but I'd prefer poor communication over poor security.

We know they didn't push a quick hacky fix live. I think it's quite likely (due to the resources they have) that they deployed a proper fix, not sacrificing security for a faster response. I could be wrong.
1. That's not really relevant.

2. It's really questionable whether censoring search results is a search engine's place. It's even more questionable whether they should be doing so unilaterally.

3. You can send Google a DMCA notice. They take stuff down all the time in response to those.

4. Those things are probably not killing your software sales, and if they are, you have no way of knowing that.
I've always been kind of confused about that... after a few comments, if you see they never get a single upvote, and never get a single reply... wouldn't it quickly become pretty obvious?
A key problem with table based design is accessibility: while table based designs aren't automatically a problem for screen readers and such, a great many are.

It also makes it far harder for other user agents to make the design fit in small spaces: many table based designs are completely unusable on mobile devices for instance. While the alternative might still not look nice in such an environment, it is more likely to not be completely impractical to use.

Of course if you are presenting something that naturally fits in a tabular structure, tables are the thing to use as that is what they are designed for.
I don't see a link to Rob Pike's other contribution, "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant"

http://herpolhode.com/rob/utah2000.pdf

It's really a very good piece, which I'd summarize as a catch-22. To be important you must be different. To be successful you must be the same. Linux solves that by being the same. (And indeed Apple, acquiring NeXT did as well.)
Couldn't you also just occasionally check to see if your comments show when you are logged out?
Courant and Robbins is really great. I'd recommend checking it out after the Lockhart book (or together with it), as it's more textbookish; there's more danger of bouncing off.
Interesting. Probably the effect differs from person to person.
Maybe what we need is a new email standard that is incompatible with the old one deliberately. One designed by people who understand all the issues. Sure it's a pain in the butt to change everything and require all new apps but it seems like email has reached the end of its lifetime.
Glen Greenwald - With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

http://www.amazon.com/With-Liberty-Justice-Some-Equality/dp/...

Discusses the era from Watergate to early Obama shielding Bush officials and telecoms.
I agree that it's a disaster, but: Is there any better language? I feel that very few of the "native" variants have APIs that are simpler to deal with. (Of course Sass is much better than vanilla CSS, but it's basically the same if you strip away the sugar)
That's not necessarily true. Yes, the FBI probably creates a file on everyone who purchases uranium in the US. FBI agents visit people regularly just to feel out their intentions and add to their file. If they see that you are a small start-up that is interested in energy generation, programming, and enjoys living life without any intentions of harming people, then they will note that in their file and leave you alone.

Yes, the FBI has a file on any activist, anyone who visits a country unfriendly to the US, anyone has a written a hateful email/letter to a public official, everyone who has committed a violent crime, anyone who owns a gun, and anyone who has the potential or motive to harm citizens. It's their JOB. It's what the organization was created to do.

Lookup how many major terrorist events are prevented by the FBI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States#...

Then they also prevent bank robberies, ID theft, public official corruption, and more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation
using translate() you can center variable width/height stuff too (without the table stuff): http://css-tricks.com/centering-percentage-widthheight-eleme...
...like you said...all that cruft...
It could be that our brain takes every chance to reduce its energy consumption. You could save on empathy/theory of mind big time, it seems.
It happened with Kissinger before. If one were cynical, one might assume that the closed Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize committee, entirely different to the Swedish Nobel Prize committee (started by Alfred Nobel), may have been used as a PR mechanism by outside parties for quite some time.
Kind of like how pharma companies change a tiny little thing about a drug at the end of its patent term, and then have an entirely "new" patented drug to sell.
It's a shame that we need to hack layouts to work with language designed for changing fonts and colors.
It doesn't appear as though MacVim for 10.7 and 10.8 is released yet though the 10.6 is:

http://code.google.com/p/macvim/downloads/list
I wouldn't say he's a great "orator" as that's been classically defined. He's quite good at reciting a speech with teleprompters, and if he removes enough mental censors he speaks very well, but tellingly on the subjects. In-between he's pretty famously a disaster.

A lot of people who looked at his record and background were not in the least surprised that he "so enthusiastically continue[d] and expand[ed] the Bush era policies" As you posit, it has to do with power.
how about create a option in the compiler to ditch the standard runtime, or even to put another runtime in place..

suppose you create a kernel kit library/runtime.. instead the one in go.. who assume you are in userspace.. its possible..

i think if only they allowed to create a binary with no runtime in it... and with the binary encoding for the boot (dont remember what it is right now) it would just be feasible.. people could start hacking it
Related question: I don't have a lawyer, because, you know, not everyone just has one.

If the FBI came to my house to ask questions and I said, "Friends, I'd rather not speak with you without a lawyer present - you know how it is", how do I go about getting said lawyer without going bankrupt?
Dear Opera: Please fork Blink. ..or better not.
If you read my previous posts, the page file is far from the only reason I have a ram drive. Since I use it for lots of other things and I rarely use all of it, I might as well put my page file there as well. I also have 24 GB of RAM so not overly worried about storage.

I regret mentioning the page file, because it always starts some sort of silly debate on any forum it's discussed (Google yields tons of results).
Google helping FB steal ad revenue from Yahoo
Upvoted you even so it doesn't bring a solution. They clearly state
For the moment, there is no protection from fingerprinting.

This seems just a wrong statement. If Firefox and Chrome are open source there must be a way to modify the fingerprint. Even if it comes in form of some "pre-loader" that blocks the sending of one fingerprint and overwrites it with another.

My suspicion is that sites coming across as super sneaky (e.g. LinkedIn) are actually using browser identification / fingerprinting to make their otherwise impossible suggestions.
What if I don't want fixed dimensions? Maybe media queries could help a bit, but Javascript usage seems to be inevitable.

ps. I didn't mean pure javascript solution anyway:)
And when they do immediately lawyer up, it's because they've been portrayed as the Bad Guy© up to that point.
After reading that Noisebridge has regular German classes I made a mental note to build my next hardware project there. Somehow, strangely, having the FBI show up there doesn't make me want to hang out there even though I don't have anything to hide (tm). In light of the recent revelations re Prism et al, LEOs, especially federal, make me uncomfortable...
Whoever down voted me obviously does not sell software online. I lose about 1,000 potential sales a month from entities linking license keys. I personally "feel" like Google could do "something" about it and spend a little less time worrying about known PR sites.
There are many implementations the standard operations on finite state automata (determinization, minimization, intersection, concatenation, etc.) and nearly as many implementations of regular expressions[1]. Anyone who is in the trade (of text processing), including Bram Molenaar, will be aware that regular languages can be represented as finite state automata.

However, the problem is that not all regular expressions 'dialects' (most notably Perl regexes) are not regular languages and cannot be represented as a finite state automata. For instance, the introduction of back-references makes regular expressions non-regular.

So, it's not so much being enlightened by Russ Cox, but a trade-off between the convenience of some of the Perl extensions and the ability to apply matching in linear time. Also, for complex expressions, constructing the automaton can be slow.

[1]
A small selection:

http://www.brics.dk/automaton/

http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/Fsa/

http://www.complang.org/ragel/

http://open.xerox.com/Services/fst-nlp-tools

Some of the packages can also be used to construct transducers, weighted automata, etc.
Everyone who says using tables is wrong, is wrong. The only issue as far as I'm concerned is it is tedious to style tables, and you have to have <table><tr><td> all the time which is tedious to work with. All the other arguments are perfectionism. Even the accessibility argument is nonsense nowadays, it amazes me people are claiming screen-readers haven't advanced in 10 years. TEN YEARS AGO screen readers sucked with tables.
Looks good to me...
Spider Tank kit Kickstarter nearing end
The president is not wrong. The president is lying. Big difference.
what base do you compute the logs when you do this attack? i assume in (mod n) rsa group there is no generator b that generates all of the numbers (mod n). and you could only recover the message M if you have M = b^x (mod n). so how do you choose b? or is this not a problem.
Laughably bad headline and premise. I don't think this linkbait is worth your time. Headline writing like this should be discouraged.
No, quite the opposite. Allow people to vote on stuff they are interested in, and only on those subjects. Do not interpose a proxy between citizens' opinions and the deciding vote. In essence: give the common man more power.
It's not as big a deal anymore, but table-cell is not supported in IE6-7.

http://caniuse.com/css-table
Privacy and the Internet: is Facebook evil?
Does this run on elnode, the web dev based on elisp?
If you put it in those terms, yes. But you are the one who put it in those terms. No one said a black president has lower standards for the job, they said it was notable that a person from a community who has been historically marginalized by American society reached the highest office in the country by winning a majority vote.
He wasn't refuting that. He was refuting the air quotes around "suspected terrorists". He did not refute the fact that drones killed civilians or the teenager.
Software developers should create a group which would fight for this cause. We can name it Software Industry Association of America or Software Programmers Association of America. This free searching system is killing us.
The author of this article does not seem to understand what good PR agencies do. He thinks PR means 'web spam'. A good PR agency is about human connections: they will get press interested in doing a story, they will get you live interviews, they will provide very helpful advice on how a message will be received.

Article is alarmist and weird. Not recommended.
The NSA gives pretty good reasons for using ECC, and they are not alone in supporting it. The cryptography research community is also very supportive of ECC.

If that does not convince you or if you would prefer systems with security reductions to worst-case NP-hard problems, you should look here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_with_errors

There is a lot of theoretical excitement about LWE right now, not only for public key encryption and signing systems but also for exotic things like fully homomorphic encryption and attribute based encryption. Unfortunately, there is are costs that hamper practical deployment. There keys will be larger. There are even more parameters to set, and bad choices can be fatal to security. The security of LWE-based systems is not as well-understood as ECC (making parameter choices even more difficult). Widely used standards like TLS and PGP do not have support for lattice / hidden codes systems. High-performance implementations are still under development.
If its Internet freedom related, call the EFF. Either they will help you for free, or help you find a affordable lawyer. The state might also be forced to provide one, but I think that's only if you are being official charged with something.
IANAL but I don't think you need to worry about this too much as an application or open source developer USING Clojure the language and Clojure's standard libs. This question and its answers on Stack Overflow points to an interpretation that makes sense intuitively to me, but again, not a lawyer, pretty ignorant of this stuff, etc...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/168254/can-you-write-gpl-...

It would be nice if someone from the Clojure team would add a FAQ page or something about the license to clojure.org as it pertains to users of the language... Since this seems to come up a lot.
NO! Absolutely appalling advice. And dangerous.

Perhaps excusable given your age and your "polite and respectful" experience, but please please be aware that following this advice could end in tragedy.
I like the approach (two birds with one stone) but the first bitecast has left me the impression that I've learnt some emacs lisp and very little emacs. Since total newbies are supposed to be the audience of this first bitecast, I'll give my opinion as a total newbie...

From the video, here are the features of emacs that I've learnt by just watching:

1. Emacs will read your environment variables. You can override them as you'd expect.

2. You can override your HOME directory by setting the environment variable to any path. From my point of view, it seems like too much work - will emacs use your current working directory? Seems like it doesn't.

3. C-x C-e evaluates.

Here's what I would have liked to learn, that I didn't:

1. What shortcuts is the author using throughout the video?

2. Basic emacs functionality: moving around, opening / closing files, saving files... Granted I know some movement shortcuts because they're commonly used in other contexts (C-a / C-e for begin/end of line, C-f, C-b to move cursor forward/back, etc), there are many other tips we could use as newbies.

3. Does emacs only evaluate lisp? Will it evaluate Python? Javascript?

4. Although I know I can extend functionality, I'd love to learn about the ecosystem (plugins or modules, what tools, if any, exist for plugin management, etc).
This has got to be one of the most impressive uses of "My time is worth too much to do X" I've ever seen.

It took me like 10 minutes to program my schedule into my cheap honeywell programmable thermostat. A leisurely 10 minutes. I can't speak to my ROI on the endeavor, but since the thermostat was ~$25 I can only assume I'm rocketing toward breaking even.
They are generally there on someone's orders (e.g. a Federal Judge) and will be arresting someone. It might be a different experience for others, but that's pretty much all I've ever seen them do.
Going to wait for the update to come via chocolatey:

http://chocolatey.org/packages/vim
Yes. The github is here: http://github.com/nicferrier/emacsbites
I've never really understood people who say CSS is horribly designed. In some ways, we are trying to apply desktop application design paradigms to something that started document or content oriented.

I can tell you that I'd much rather use CSS than Android XML layouts, or WPF, or adding layout containers a la Swing or AWT. It's simple, easily understood across disciplines, and very powerful. Elements of a pretty well designed system.
Wow, that's awesome. As soon as I get to drop IE8 support, I'll think about using that.

I had no idea you could use % within transforms that referred to the size of the element itself (since all other % in CSS refer to the size of a parent element).

Thanks!
> Anyway, I ended up telling them all about the Homes for Hackers program and the KC Startup Village. I hope they understood that I give free rent to entrepreneurs, not black-hat hackers, but one can never be too sure.

The fact that there are questions as to whether the FBI understands this distinction is terrifying.
Aye, aware of LWE, and it's interesting stuff, and understand the theory as to why ECC is secure, and why DH key exchanges are increasingly not so.

I'm just inherently suspicious of anything the NSA are in favour of, as their focus seems to be on breaking crypto, rather than recommending strong crypto - to recommend a key exchange mechanism that they can't snoop on seems to be a counterintuitive step.
You don't think the Peace Prize he got for "helping to establish a ceasefire and U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam" (Wikipedia) wasn't earned?

For those of us who are hawks, it was followed by a 150,000 man armored invasion of South Vietnam, employing more tanks than used in any WWII battle. Which the South crushed with the help of US ammo and air support, only 40,000 managed to make it back home sans their equipment.

That worked the 2nd time they tried it due to Watergate denying the South ammo, which I don't believe he had anything to do with. But no matter how grim the outcome in Southeast Asia, including the Cambodian genocide, outfitting the North with three complete armored armies (the first was used up piecemeal) was critical in bankrupting the USSR and the peaceful end of the Cold War, which otherwise could have ended in even more megadeaths. And I think he gets some credit for keeping us alive when the Democrats turned dovish after one of their's was no longer in the Oval Office.
> Hillary herself had tried to push for health care reform in 1994 and been utterly and completely stonewalled.

Health care reform has been a struggle since a lot earlier than 1994. This subpoint actually understates the significance of Obama's achievement.
Their talking points are: are you X? if yes, you are under arrest else go to next person. They have a mission not an investigation.
It wasn't anything even remotely requiring a lawyer's presence.

I want to agree with you, but how do you know that (I'm making the assumption here that you're not a lawyer, which may be incorrect)? This seems like the main issue - we (as in the common, non lawyery-types) don't necessarily know what things may or may not be incriminating. I'm not trying to instill a sense of fear, and I would always cooperate with law enforcement to the best of my abilities, but not at the risk of doing or saying something which could subsequently implicate me in something which is technically illegal and could get me arrested, convicted or deported.
Sure, but I just can't understand why they would be recommending to the general public that they improve their crypto, as it goes directly against the NSA's interests.
>being whiter inside than white old men

>Someone threatening like Jesse Jackson

Be careful of this kind of talk. I understand and probably agree with what you probably mean to say, but reifying whiteness as some sort of meaningful quality of the soul, and by contrast characterizing blackness as "threatening" is not a good way to think about it.

You're using "white" and "black" here as stand-ins for something else. It's easier for everyone if you just refer to the actual qualities that you intend to refer to, rather than implying that there's a proper ways for people to behave or be that are appropriate or inappropriate in relation to their skin colors.

sorry:)
Snowden unveiled a horrifying truth about our government: widespread surveillance has been combined with a class of officials who do not face consequences for breaking the law. I don't think it's hyperbolic to say that the Constitution is facing an existential threat. Normally I would be sympathetic to the view that politics should stay off HN. But this feels different. I would hope that people wouldn't self-censor their counter-arguments, however. The possibility that things aren't quite as bad as I suspect helps me sleep at night. And the truth is, there is reason for hope.
That's exactly why I'm building it, and why I'll be focusing on the easiest and fastest possible user experience. Things like reverse geocoding to pre-fill addresses, the least amount of inputs, etc.

Now, do you think the time savings would be worth x amount of money to you? In other words, would you be willing to pay for the convenience?
If you don't care about older browsers [1], you can use Flexbox to do all sorts of dynamic, fluid positioning.

[1] http://caniuse.com/flexbox - it's in the current version of all browsers (some still prefixed).
See my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6191737

In short, the Vietnam ceasefire and American withdrawal wasn't a small thing, it's not his fault it eventually ended badly, and it bankrupted the USSR.
Why are we still here?
With everything we know now concerning Edward Snowden, Bradley Manning, Aaron Swartz, Michael Hastings, and Barrett Brown, why are we still online, using American products?
I don't like coffee, but when I need a kick I use caffeine pills. I only use them sparingly, they're very useful, and I don't find any drawback!