skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Attacking them just makes them more defensive, and it slows up their journey towards us."

Although this is true for mindless, nationalistic attacks, we need to attack, or any other country, where the ad-hoc censorship and manipulation of news is larger than a threshold (note that I'm not saying where they exist, since they exist in some form in all countries). Viewed in this sense your assertion is clearly wrong. As a single counterexample, consider the case of Tombstone (and related books about the Great Chinese Famine). In the NYTBR review (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2012/nov/22/china-w...) it says

"But just as China is undergoing a spiritual revival today, its people are also beginning to revive history. Xinyang is now home to two tiny memorials to the famine.6 More striking, earlier this year a national newspaper ran a multipage supplement on the famine—an unprecedented recognition of this disaster.7 When I asked an editor at a leading Party newspaper why this was, he had a one-word answer: “Tombstone.” "

Conclusion: Well-intentioned and -placed and continuous push can bring about change of attitude. Even in China.
Only until the partial pressure of CO2 was in equilibrium between the volume of air in the lungs and the the body tissues. It's like bailing out a boat -- it only works if you empty the bucket periodically.
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I'm trying an extreme version of "skate where the puck is headed, not where it's at" with respect to taxes. In my free time I've started designing a tax system which has the potential to be radically simpler, more fair and automated than the current kinds of systems in place. It's fairly obvious than the existing systems are overly complex, unfair, burdensome compliance-wise, confusing and rife for abuse.
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If http://secushare.org/end2end means we'll never be able to entirely rely on HTML5 app platforms, FirefoxOS won't be able to offer secure communication after all. Guess we'll have to go with Ubuntu, then.
Heh, I'm a 3rd degree contact.
barack.obama@whitehouse.gov I think
interesting! I was basing my knowledge here on having paid "German VAT" on a smartphone from amazon.de (they had it slightly cheaper and much earlier than anyone in the UK.) Maybe I got confused, but I was sure at the time it was a different %age. Maybe I was above the threshold.
no doubt. lots of other folks have raised questions about how to deal with the metabolic acidosis that would result.

I remember reading that they'd kept mice alive and supposedly healthy on the liquid oxygen, but haven't heard much about it beyond that.
I am using the elementary theme on my pi.
You can build most of the applications.(I tried building pantheon terminal, successfully)
> Imagine having consciousness having an evolutionary advantage.

Because consciousness exists among apparently successful species, it's a reasonable working hypothesis that it has survival value. In evolutionary studies, the burden of evidence is properly borne by those who would argue that an existing, seemingly adaptive trait doesn't have survival value.

> First step is to find some creature with nerves but provably lacking consciousness.

As to "provably", that can't be done. To prove a lack of consciousness, we would first have to create an objective positive test for consciousness. To do that, we would have to fully define and objectively quantify consciousness. We're nowhere near that stage.
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That's not really true. You can avoid most if not all government services and still have to pay the same amount as everyone else. They also have a monopoly on most things. It's not like you can go to a competing service.
A moving background makes it easy to read! Thumbs up!
Iä! Digital Signature Algorithm! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Crypto Bugs!

I don't know the Bitcoin software involved at all, but I can sketch out an attack that might shed some light on it, and, more importantly, instill an appropriate fear of DSA into you:

To generate a DSA key, you come up with primes p and q and a generator g, which process is a paralytic non-Euclidian brain injury I will not attempt to describe. Then you do like Diffie Hellman: generate a random private key x and from it a public value y = g^x % p. The pubkey that validates signatures is the tuple (p, q, g, y).

To sign, you generate a random k value, which must never be reused, Iä! Iä! never, and:

r = g^k % p % q
s = k^-1 (H(m) + x•r) % q

The signature is (r, s).

If ever you should fail to heed these words and generate two signatures with the same k value, Iä Cthulhu Ftaghn! then simple high school algebra can be used to beat DSA. The attacker doesn't even need to know what the k was, and the attack is so fast you can just try it to see if k was repeated (I skipped the algebra and just dumped the formulas for the attack here):

H(m1) - H(m2)
k = -------------
S1 - S2

x = ((S1•k) – H(m1))• r^-1 % q

This bug (also in an ECDSA implementation) is what broke the Playstation 3, too.

You see that comment on the Bitcoin thread about the repeated r-values; a repeated r-value (r as in the r parameter of a DSA signature) just tells you that someone repeated a k. Iä! Iä!
>never had to download "random codecs" from "random codec packs"

Second that. I have had videos which couldn't be played on VLC (codecs or missing frames) play nicely with mplayer. Easily the best versatile player, especially if you are conversant with the command line options ( or take a quick look at man page).
Indeed! Glad you like it.

Jokes aside, if you hate it, you can turn it off at the bottom right. Maybe some day I'll disable it by default. But for now, I kind of enjoy these responses. Edit: very well, it's disabled by default. :)
I always wonder if some people are watching announcements to try to grab unsecured bitcoins before other people implement fixes?
I don't think it's a very big deal.

For the most part, people who use bitcoin now are still very early adopters and are techies.

Also, IMHO, it would be idiotic to have significant bitcoin value stored on an Android phone, and very few people (if anyone) would do that.
it's called curse of war

https://github.com/a-nikolaev/curseofwar/wiki
Co-Founder.

Wikipedia was formally launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, using the concept and technology of a wiki pioneered in 1995 by Ward Cunningham.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Wikipedia
I can't remember the name of that portuguese brand of water, 10 years ago, maybe some HNers would know. You would buy it on a hot day on the street, believing it was ice-cold... while its bottle was in fact made of a curious, deceiving translucent material and the liquid not especially cool.
Yes but users still need to install new software and make basic changes. The complaint, as I understand it, is that when breakage occurs, for whatever reason that may be, you pretty much get locked out of your system. Either you have a lot of work to do to repair the issue or you may just need to do a re-install.

I am far from a Linux/Unix expert, but I think this has to do with updates and dependencies. Using an Ubuntu LTS release along with not messing with any of the system settings seems to be fairly fool proof. Windows has its share of problems but the only complete failures I have experienced in two decades of use were hardware or malware related.
Ask HN: What do you want to see in Rails 4.1?
We've started planning out Rails 4.1: https://twitter.com/rails/status/366620806064783361

What can Rails add or change that will help your startup be even more great? How can we make Rails development more productive?
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Thanks for compiling the Web Framework Benchmarks! http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r6

I discovered some interesting and speedy platforms like OpenResty. And PHP performance for multiple queries isn't too bad either - top five.

For round #7, I suggest an addition of the HipHop-PHP (hhvm) Facebook's speedy open source PHP implementation. https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki
I'm in a similar place. I drink 1-2 cups of coffee a day, one in the morning and one in the early afternoon. I find it very valuable for increasing my attention and focus during those periods of the day when I'm generally unfocused or tired. If I miss coffee for the day I will get very groggy and likely have a headache by the mid-afternoon the next day.

So definitely one more for variance.

One thing that's always frustrated me is that I have friends who will drink a coffee after dessert to stay awake for the drive home, then get to sleep two hours later. If I drink a cup of coffee I am effectively guaranteed to be up for the next six hours, even if I'm tired and unproductive for all of them.
The OS is Linux. That's not new. Appears they're offering yet another consumer desktop GUI experience to choose from, however. But OS is not new.
True but that was a year after the IPOed, they were pretty wealthy at the least.
Browser equivalence is another thing entirely. Most browsers will accept http://www。google。com (because in Japanese '。' is '.'). But if you tried to request that actual resource it doesn't lead anywhere.

But yeah HN should just use browser equivalence.
Long before before that it will become suspicious.
We can try to figure out how to create consciousness in something that didn't have it or remove consciousness from some living being, but we can't prove that we have a success before we understand what consciousness is.

By the way, if we were find why consciousness has evolutionary advantage we'll have a subset of what consciousness is. A set of traits for which we can test.
Agreed! I'd like to see hhvm added. I just created the following issue:

https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/41...
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Very good, this is news to me. Truecrypt+Dropbox provided an example I thought everyone would understand, but it certainly is less than ideal.
Is there a GUI frontend like SMPlayer?
It's inspiring to hear how he struggles learning a new language and having trouble doing things not related to his work.
That or xmms2.
Thus the caveat I added in the original comment: unless your country is complicit.
This is a Bitcoin software implementation bug, and an illustration of why you should use your OS's CSPRNG (here, /dev/random) to the exclusion of any other RNG.
But if the under-lying OS is pwned, then it doesn't really matter, even if encryption is end-to-end.
Actually a democracy will fall slower apart than most other systems, and that's why they last longer because they might recover while they fall. And on another note, the reason why we have a democracy is because it is harder to assassinate a parliament than a single ruler ..
That is not our dock, and that is not Luna. We didn't make that video. Apparently it was made by a fan who had built his own version of Luna using some of our software. I can assure you that genie animation is nowhere in any code elementary ships with.
Yes, it was in the news and I saw it on TV a few times. That was the work of Dr. Leland Clark : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_Clark

The reason we haven't heard much about it since is, unfortunately, he passed away in 2005. I don't know how far the current research has progressed without him, but I hope we can see more activity in the future carried on by his successors.

His product is still available though: http://www.oxycyte.com
Whether David Chalmers believes that consciousness doesn't come from the brain depends on what you mean by "comes from." He believes that physics can completely describe the physical world; he does not believe in souls and interactionist/Cartesian dualism. Instead, he suggests that information may have both physical and mental manifestations.

While I once found this line of reasoning convincing, I'm no longer so sure it matters. While consciousness itself may be non-physical, under the assumption that physical effects have only physical causes, we should be able to explain why we say we are conscious in physical terms. I'm not sure that an explanation of the latter will also explain the former, but in the end, I don't think we will care. I think we will find that the everyday concept of "consciousness" mixes together many different ideas, each of which are simpler to solve on their own than they are when we consider them together.

Roughly a century ago we went through a similar process with the concept of life. People wanted to know what makes a thing alive, and many intelligent scientists were drawn to the idea that there is something innate to a living organism that makes it alive. After decades of biological research, we're still not sure what makes an organism alive, in the sense that the line between living organisms and inert biological material is not well-defined, but we know how living organisms reproduce and grow, and that's really what matters.
Yes that is the exact reason you can't fully use the method on humans. You could partially flood the lungs and that would help in some cased but not for diving.
People are saying it's a problem with Android's SecureRandom implementation. That would be a pretty big problem if it returns repeated random numbers.

But it seems strange that such a large obvious problem would make it into Android. The other explanation is that Android bitcoin developers are all implementing it incorrectly and either don't realize it or are trying to push the blame somewhere else.
RC4 is so broken. It's comically broken. It's amazing that it made it to 2013.
I am simultaneously intrigued by the possibilities of functional programming, and horrified by the ways it can take people off into the weeds.

Were I to use Haskell in a real-world project with teammates, I'd have to keep an iron grip on the complexity of the code the team writes. Maintainability (mainly readability/comprehensibility as far as I'm concerned) is far more important for the kind of work I do than theoretical purity and hypothetical applicability to classes of problems the team isn't facing.

I could easily keep things on the rails on my own, but I suppose it's simply unsettling thinking about using Haskell for something sizable; probably due to my own lack of experience with it. I'd love to hear about sizable real-world Haskell projects, since I think FP is the future of software engineering.
> Likewise, serving for a reward is better than no service - but it misses the point of actually becoming a happier, more loving person.

My point of contention is the belief that tricking people into doing good as an end that justifies the means is acceptable. I don't believe people should be tricked into doing good. I don't believe they are even doing good when they don't fundamentally understand why they should be doing good. What results from this process is just a bunch of bad and evil people trying to forgive themselves of their sins. They'll invade the religion, corrupt it, and pretty soon over time organized religion will just be filled with these types of people. THAT'S the reason why it's bad to just trick people into doing good. Your religion will just start attracting these false worshippers, and you end up with religions filled with hypocrites. Religion is not objective. It is subjective, so it is very prone to be distorted and bent and shaped to satisfy the needs of both good and evil people. If you start making compromises and just get people who want to "serve for a reward," you'll end up slowly corrupting the religion and letting those evil people infiltrate, shape, and dominate it. This obviously hasn't just started happening, it's been happening over centuries. And yes, there ARE actual good Christians, but it's harder to tell them apart from the corrupted ones. The corrupted ones are the ones the liberals and the atheists hate, because they are at the forefront of intolerance, outdated traditionalism, and hypocrisy. They give the GOOD Christians a bad name. Unfortunately, this easy corruption of religion is fundamental to the way it operates. If you indiscriminately acquire new religion members, your religion is prone to infection, like an open wound. This is why religions who don't go out with a sales force, adding whoever and whenever they can, are less prone to infection and corruption.

This is why religion that lacks a sales team has more credence because honestly, a religion that sells itself is more believable as divine and correct.
Have been a vi user for a long time. For c/c++ it is awesome and good enough. Sublime is fine too. Surprised no one mentioned Source Insight though ( unfortunately only windows ), was used in pretty big projects I was involved in. Speedy with auto-completion, caller/callee functions, beautiful syntax highlighting etc..

For large web programs ( html/js etc), once you use Sublime, no going back to VI. The plugin ecosystem for js fwks are awesome.
That second link doesn't seem to be the current problem. The current problem is that the same random number is being returned more than once.
> this concept that we should leave everyone to fend for themselves and should simply ignore those who are less fortunate borders on sociopathy.

Actually, it borders on something we call "nature." Whatever position we take about nature, what we can't do is ignore it.

The antipode of nature would be a society in which there really is a social safety net that isn't temporary and discretionary, absolutely reliable, and not means-tested. Such a thing would collide with reality, the collision would be spectacular, and reality would prevail.

> I, for one, take comfort in knowing that even if everything in my life falls apart, there are some basic social safety nets in place to keep me from starving to death of the streets.

But there is no such thing, not in the way you seem to think. If such a net existed as more than a limited approximation, it would be destroyed by overexploitation.

Human societies live in nature, and nature is in charge. Nature doesn't waste anything. The human reproductive capacity is limited only by available resources and premature death.

> The number of essential government services that you use everyday, even without leaving your house is surprisingly high.

Yes -- and the number of ways that government can misuse or waste tax revenues is surprisingly high.

I recommend a skeptical attitude toward government and hypothetically perfect social safety nets.

You're young -- you'll figure it out. “Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.” ― Winston Churchill
> How to prove: First step is to find some creature with nerves but provably lacking consciousness.

This doesn't seem entirely workable, since it's impossible to prove that anything is/isn't conscious without making auxiliary assumptions (Chalmers calls these "bridging principles"), and these auxiliary assumptions typically fall outside of scientific consensus. No one has conclusively proven that anything lacks consciousness, living or otherwise.
I'm sorry but when I can't scroll without horrible lag because someone decided to make a distracting background, it's a serious usability problem.
It is a major national security issue to any country to have foreign countries spying on them. The only controversy in the US is that the NSA is spying on American citizens in America. Any and all communication by foreigners at home and abroad is fair game. There is a reason why Google & Facebook are not market leaders in either China & Russia -- vkontakte, baidu, yandex, etc.

Likewise, this is also very bad news if you are a Chinese or Russian internet company and expect to become a dominant player in the US consumer web/digital/mobile market place.
If you don't like being tracked then don't practically scream your hardware's identity around. This is what you do when you use 802.11. Trying to legally regulate such things is like pronouncing your and peer's name in clear (even if you use cryptic language), in every sentence you say out loud, then telling others no not notice nor remember that.

Want the privacy the sane way? Go make vendors to introduce security features (like short-lived euphemeral MACs), so communicating party names won't be meaningful to others.
I thought the three people on the homepage were meant to signify "lol lol lol".
;) I did not see the "normal background" link on my first visit. I already instapaper'd the article. Let's see if I can add a more serious comment after I read it.
I cautiously agree. The government watching people is a very bad thing. It should be the other way around.

However, I want to emphasize that if you invoke the slippery slope argument, you better realize that the slope is very very slight. Instead, I think it makes sense to talk about things on a case by case basis. For example "NSA does more harm than good" is a more rational and direct argument than "NSA is the coming of Stalin to America".

On top of this, there is the big picture: the US's largest export is weapons. This leads to a lot of people hating the US, which leads to terrorism. That leads to counterterrorism in the form of drones and spy agencies. Even if the US made nice with the various governments around the world that do not like us, we would be stifling our main export, so there is no incentive to do that.
What is the purpose of the word "mansplaining" in the opening paragraph? It sounds like the author is claiming sexist dismissiveness while offering no evidence of such.
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>>> Even the engineers still failed to use it regularly.

I used to work at a very large, publicly held company. When I got my new laptop, I realized the PGP whole disc encryption was blocking one of my video cards so I could only run one monitor with my laptop.

After asking around, I soon realized exactly none of the engineers had PGP installed on their PC's. I was pretty surprised when I was told they simply asked for a clean install with nothing on their laptops and the IT people gave them what they wanted - a completely unsecured laptop with which they could customize to their own specifications.

As shocking as it seemed, I was told by several of the team members that the IT support staff allowed it because they "trusted" the software engineers not to install sketchy stuff and thought they could keep their stuff more secure than say a PM.

I think back now and wonder why they would take such a huge security risk.
AFAIK hhvm doesn't have namespace support yet. So Symfony2, laravel, ZF2 can not be run in it. But basic PHP performance would skyrocket I assume.
You are free to go off-grid and live in the woods, free from the shackles of taxed services like roads, police protection and tap water. If you still make enough money to pay tax, you'll still technically be breaking the law - but I doubt anyone is going to come into the forest to put you in jail. So in practice you'll be free and clear.

You could also go to a nation in sub-Saharan Africa where there is in effect no government. No taxes! Except for the armed bandits which will take away all your stuff. But surely you can pay out of pocket for a professional defense force to take care of that problem.
Agreed, and the singular 'they' sounds sufficiently natural to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
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I agree. It is quite charming to hear him point quite precisely to the qualities that makes him fond of Haskell, but then struggle to put words to the strengths of Scheme.
Not really, storing a wallet on a general use device like a smartphone seems like a colossally bad idea.