skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know a lot about Lavabit's arch.

But my guess is he's referring to replacing the login page's Javascript code with a malicious one that phones back the plaintext password. Kinda like a keylogger.
Seth Godin has some advice on what you could do:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/06/graduate-sch...

I think the other thing that can help is to understand that the world has changed. There's now two paths to a sure job: be world-class excellent at one thing, or be pretty good at 2-3 things. The first one almost certainly isn't going to happen; by definition, you're more likely to be in the 99.99% than the 0.01% of graphic designers. But what if you're a better-than-average graphic designer, can speak fluent German, and are pretty good at online marketing? Now you're some company's ideal employee.
What guarantees do you have that the real one doesn't log?
It sounds like someone read Russ Cox's work on regexp.

Russ Cox? You know that regular expressions have existed since Kleene's first proposals, and everyone with a CS degrees knows that you can compile them to deterministic finite state automata. Right?
Is my account alive?
Microsoft Takes On Google With A New Ad On Gmail Spamming Its Own Users
How about me?
The same concept is currently being used by the Hex3 JAJA stylus to communicate pressure information - it is really quite elegant. http://www.hex3.co/products/jaja
The reason is that some apps use different functionality which can expose deadlocks in the OS. If the OS hits a deadlock, than the watchdog service will reboot the phone to prevent it being locked in a certain state.

I'm aware of an example of a reboot exacerbated dramatically by using sticky intents / broadcasts on 4.1.1 - see https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=46806
Let's see if I'm dead.
Yes this happened to me, despite being polite and courteous. Was very fucking annoyed.

It's unethical. Surely locking a thread is ok, but allowing people to toil away without any remark is just plain wrong regardless of who it is or what they say.

I mean even 4chan manages to reach a higher ethical plateau than HN on the moderation front.
Edit:
You have to create a new account to see at what point you have been hellbanned. E.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=phillijw
with showdead you can see that all his recent comments are dead, without login it will only show the comments he has made when still alive.

Also you can't get downvoted when you are dead so if you stop receiving downvotes, you either have been writing excellent comments or you've been murdered by HN assasins.
I really hope that one day we will have progressed far enough that the skin color or ethnic heritage of our presidents is ignored by the history books--ideally diminishing to a factoid on the same class with "so and so hated broccoli".
True, but it's wrapped in some bizarre site that seems to have taken over my Chrome right click, for no good reason. Blog spam is better than this.
the only critical thing is physical size. some (mainly ultralight) laptops take drives that are thinner than normal laptop drives (this is also an issue if you're buying a new spinning disk drive, of course).

apart from that, assuming you buy a popular, current model, it will just work (and be reliable). this article is bikeshedding for hardware and enterprise geeks. so, just like anything else, get something reasonably priced from a reputable make (longevity of support, availability). currently samsung seem pretty good.

and finally, if you don't already use one, get one. it's by far the best way to improve "perceived speed" of your computer (well, assuming you already have enough memory).
We don't have a business model right now. At this stage we're just trying to build a service with the best possible experience for the users. Monetization will come later, we can afford to pay server and bandwidth bills for now.

Our only source of income is donations and the advertisements that we show exclusively on the home page. You can check all of our accountability at https://mediacru.sh/transparency, by the way.
How so? There's more to a browser than a rendering engine you know.
With these kinds of things, I'm always unsure what the proper way to handle them is. A lot of smart people say to under no circumstances talk to law enforcement, ever. I'm sure a lot of you have seen links to that effect on HN. The main argument seems to be that anything you say to an officer of the law might be misremembered later and there is nothing you can do against that.

On the other hand, in cases like this, it would seem rude and disproportionate to not even meet these fine fellows from the FBI.

A related question I always had is: How often is law enforcement confronted with people that don't talk to them on general principle? Does that really make you suspicious or is it quite common?
I'm not a programmer so this might be a stupid question and I apologize in advance but, why not open source the service?
The OP must've come during Rodeo season - which is about the only time the city generally has a "cowboy" feel to it. =) Unless, of course, they were located some many miles to the northwest of the city, out in Waller county or something.

BTW, you left out flooding every other week or two, when we're not in a drought (and once a month when we are!). The running joke around here is that no one feels the heat of the summer for more than a few seconds, as that's how long it takes them to get from their house/office to their car.

To the original point of the post, we haven't been able to find any value in getting a Nest, outside of having a "fun toy." Considering that we are able to regularly negotiate 0.08-0.10/kWh rates for 100% renewable, our highest electricity bill out of the year tends to be in Aug/Sept at about $58 on average. That is for a 1400 sqft. 1940's bungalow that only has a radiant barrier in its efficiency profile, along with large oaks that cover the canopy of the house. Our elec management is a simple process: set the thermostat to 80 when we leave, and back to 77 when we return. It's three clicks of a button that we've ingrained into our daily routine.

The real big bill around here, which I'm sure other states can appreciate, is the water bill. Since the drought and the implementation of drainage fees, our water bill has shot up over 10x in the past three years. Not joking at all - we went from an average of $6/month to and average of $60/month in just three years, with our consumption remaining static. If only water consumption were able to be regulated more effectively, but in this environment, daily showers are a must =)
So we should prefer self-censorship that strengthens the position of the totalitarian elements in the US government and leads to further erosion of constitutional rights?

There's no progress and no remedy for the current situation if people continue to act "reasonably" (Snowden didn't and we made progress).
I am currently trying to get some of this working in a library I call 'libalgae' in which I'm encoding algebraic data types and their eliminators (similar to how Epigram works, like an induction principle for each datatype: This allows us to rule out non-terminating programs and ensure coverage of all constructors.)
I'm not very much concerned with optimization, as I'd like to use this "DSL" as a bootstrapping language for a self-hosting programming language which provides the same in a more natural way.

The way I've done it so far is seems to be working, and I've implemented standard types (their introduction and elimination rules) and few functions on them. The two main problems I've run into is memory leaking and portability.

Since the constructors of an algebraic data type should return const data, it's a bit difficult to free them without violating the type system. I haven't decided yet if I'll end up violating the type system or just drop that const. I think the latter makes more sense, since we're trusting C as little as possible in the first palce. Everything actually might as well be done in void pointers but I think there's some value in using types where possible for documentation's sake.

About portability. The main thing here that I ran into was that there's no real standard and portable way of doing closures or anonymous functions in C yet. Right now, what I'm doing is using nested functions, which works in GCC and clang, but I have no idea if they'd work in MSVC or any of the other compilers out there like pcc and lcc. OS X has blocks, but I figure if they're using gcc too, why not stick with nested functions. As far as I can tell, I won't have the problem of having nested functions returning before their parent does because of the eliminator model.

The libCello (http://libcello.org/) author has been able to successfully model typeclasses in C, so I will be picking that up as soon as I get around to it.

I pushed some of the code to GitHub just now for this post:
https://github.com/guerrilla/libalgae

I'm glad to hear other people had the same idea. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know, as I wouldn't mind some collaboration on this.
That's one reason skepticism for the employer-employee relationship ends up recurring in a lot of liberty-oriented philosophies. You can find it anywhere from more on the left (e.g. Emma Goldman), to more on the right (e.g. Lysander Spooner), and even in a form in Thomas Jefferson's "yeoman farmer" ideal (though he didn't follow it himself), since he thought industrial-style mass employment fit poorly with democracy.

An alternative is to constrain the power, as is done in more consensus-oriented labor systems like Scandinavia's, treating the company as a kind of partnership of multiple stakeholders, and having many decisions made by committees with both employer and employee representatives. A kind of weak importing of a few ideas from worker's cooperatives, without actually moving all the way there.
"History books tend to remember things of note. Obama is more of a footnote."

You can't be serious.
Make the function from LowercaseLetter to UppercaseLetter type-safe, too.

It might not make much sense in this scenario (there is no one-to-one mapping between upper- and lowercase letters anyway), but it is certainly possible to write code where you can have high confidence that it is correct after passing the type checker.

This doesn't mean tests are useless of course: It's not "either types or tests", it's more "use manual techniques (tests) where automated approaches (types) are not expressive enough/too cumbersome to use in this special case".

Even those the "manual" approach can be automated a bit: By using types to generate appropriate test cases!

... and that's probably my main point: Use computers for things humans are notoriously bad at.
Nah, see the reply I made in this subthread. The people who run the NYPD are cheap, stupid about guns, and don't give a damn about any civilians who aren't politically powerful or the like, e.g. they run one of the most restrictive concealed carry permitting systems in the nation. Plus there's a lot of pro-criminal sentiment in the city's movers and shakers.

Ah, I now remember there's a recent RAND report on how badly this is done.

But you're generally right about the required amount of training, and that explains the various Federal unit cartridge procurements that have raised so many eyebrows (mostly because people don't know they're indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity ones, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDIQ). I only looked closely at the one for the fish police as I like to call them (NOAA armed officers who police things like sea fishing, see http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/ole/), it attracted attention due to a clerical error listing it under weather forecasting, and running the numbers resulting in appropriate quantities for training, obviously a lot more than the NYPD's 150/year.
You're right - I meant the email field. Sorry about that; I didn't know it wasn't publicly viewable until I checked.
SpiderOak: Petition to open source all your code
Sometimes. I've had a couple of files deleted which I was not happy about. For that alone, they can get screwed.
his stead.

36:34 And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani reigned in his
stead.

36:35 And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in
the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was
Avith.

36:36 And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah reigned in his stead.

36:37 And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth by the river reigned in
his stead.

36:38 And Saul died, and Baalhanan the son of Achbor reigned in his
stead.

36:39 And Baalhanan the son of Achbor died, and Hadar reigned in his
stead: and the name of his city was Pau; and his wife's name was
Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

36:40 And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau,
according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke
Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth, 36:41 Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah,
duke Pinon, 36:42 Duke Kenaz, duke Teman, duke Mibzar, 36:43 Duke
Magdiel, duke Iram: these be the dukes of Edom, according to their
habitations in the land of their possession: he is Esau the father of
the Edomites.

-----

God says...

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Maybe you should've voted for Ron Paul.

You know, somebody who has clearly stated goals, consistent platforms, and who actually is engaging in some of the political issues surrounding federalism.

Or, you know, screw it, let's vote for a guy because he got a bogus Peace Prize and is the first dude of some skin color in office--that's some solid bona fides there.

EDIT: And to be fair, I'm equally sick of the smug Republicans saying you get what you deserved; they laid a lot of the groundwork for this tomfoolery.
They might have lost roughly a day's worth, depends how often they connect via IMAP.
Does LaClojure have a blog or some kind of "news" page where we can find out what the latest developments have been? All I've found is the github page.
Difference of about 50→100 years there.
Sorry but when you base your businesses on walled gardens you are forever at the mercy of others.

There is nothing to complain about here; you've just got to suck it up.
You have to look at your profit margins and costs to decide what's the right choice.
If you have very low margins and hosting constitutes a big chunk of cost it's very reasonable to get your own servers.
If that's not the case aim for flexibility and comfort.
AWS is very expensive. Many startups simply have high margins and wasting time on optimizing hosting costs makes little sense.

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/ is a nice board about hosting.
>The main argument seems to be that anything you say to an officer of the law might be misremembered later and there is nothing you can do against that.

There are far more reasons than just that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Only the second one is known publicly, there's no results anywhere for the one in the screenshot. I'm very curious why there's two.
They did nothing good here. They fucked up and took forever to fix it. Please stop apologising for them.
Sure if your time is worthless.

But given that the average contract developer is charging themselves out at $100/hour investing the time to "program a thermostat" will rarely result in a ROI.
Six feared dead after former Microsoft executive crashes plane into houses
It would be interesting to hear if the Nobel Committee members had revised their thoughts in light of subsequent events
So if you can work out how to add a red ● to your prompt, this'd be a really good way to indicate recording.
>> A related question I always had is: How often is law enforcement confronted with people that don't talk to them on general principle? Does that really make you suspicious or is it quite common?

I think if you answered politely and explained why you're unwilling to talk to them about their issue it wouldn't be as easy to misconstrue as suspicious. Something like "I'm sure that you have respectable intent but unfortunately the US government has demonstrated in the recent past that they will prosecute people for things they say when they speak to the authorities. If you have a business card, I would be happy to email you links to several articles detailing these prosecutions further, I hope you understand this is nothing personal."

If you just say "no" and abruptly close the door, sure that might look a little bit suspicious. Also, educating them about the issues could help (send them links to media sites, never your own content).

Edit: Also, "No, you can't use my bathroom." ;)
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." -- Guess Who
Civil War.
> It was, "something simple that would grab the user's attention... cut through the clutter of noise in a home or office."

Sounds like a good job for a percussive instrument... I guess I don't see the big deal, outside of being a cute back-story on what was probably more about being at the right place at the right time.
For fucks sake. If they'd done a half decent job to start with, they wouldn't be there.

They fucked up, now they're paying for it.
Can you PM me what brand it is?
Are they already out?

Some of the people here saying Meta Glasses look geeky are missing the point. They can be used at work in a myriad different ways

* previewing 3d printings can be one of them, with Tony Stark-type visualizations more generally

* collaborative games in offices around the world after work, where you can do things like fire projectiles or see the same objects or stats only if you have the glasses on

* metainformation overlaid for visitors to museums etc.
Health reform alone will land him in a nice place in the history books. Even against the immutable recalcitrance of congressional republicans he has managed to accomplish a lot.

I think most people don't recognize how accomplished Obama is because 1) the rapid news cycle and 2) Obama himself doesn't run around telling everybody what he's done.

I don't like this NSA crap either, but overall Obama is an amazing president.
The sound of a name does play some of a role, likewise a sound itself would play a fairly important role in ones' association with a brand.
Ask HN: Want a feature where users with showdead could revive hellbanned users?
Just a thought. Upvoting by users who have showdead on could help to revive a "hellbanned" user. Like, having a set limit of upvotes required to bring the user back.
Here, I'll take it one step further.

In this day and age, especially with such a strong emphasis on advertising and consumerism, the people governed on the whole do not deserve a say in how things are done. We had a thread not a day ago where mass numbers of HN folks earnestly pleaded that we couldn't reasonably expect normal people to learn to use computers beyond knowing how to app store a thing, how to socializeauth their twitterscapes--people who routinely bemoan how bad politicians are on tech policy issues.

Fuck it. If we want to progress as a race, we need to stop pretending that the 'common man' ought to have a say in long-term priorities, or in how we should govern their fellow citizens.
New account, but old comment because I have been shadow-banned a few minutes ago:

Scala has 1., 2., 3., 4., 5.

6. seems to be a fix for an OCaml-specific issue.

7. is obsolete (imho), because with macros the most important benefit of decidable type systems (knowing that compilation will terminate) is gone anyway.
Test.it - js testing lib (opensource) - multi-level nesting and console output.
Nah, you can assume at least one of them had a slumbering conscience that was awakened, and/or they weren't willing to kill the 12 year old witness and knew his testimony plus perhaps forensics would reveal, or at least put into sufficient question, their planting of evidence.
New account, but old comment because I have been shadow-banned a few minutes ago:

You need to pick a decent runtime which supports proper tail calls and everything just works fine.

I consider the sad fact that scalac tries to do TCO too an ugly hack necessary to reduce the pain of poor VM implementations.

Regarding 5.: null is a legacy feature for Java interop. It's not commonly used in Scala. If you decide to use null in Scala anyway, you will need to have a really good reason. Otherwise people will feel that you just spit in their face.
I'd have expected that after the Rabin-Arafat pre-emptive prizes, they would have learned. I suppose they at least "held & promoted peace congresses" even if they did ultimately fail.
This is silly. Even if this was true, then most people would want to choose the school where they can also focus on making connections, enjoying college life, and forming memories that will last a lifetime. Emerging stronger in terms of academics is just one factor, but by far not the only one.
He probably wants to see how the case works out in court first. if all else fails, and he cannot reopen his business, he could do that as a big FU.
Why not?

Give me some examples of stuff that you believe Obama will be remembered for that he did during his time as the most powerful man in the world in 100 years or more from now.
Locate Vs. Find in Unix
Indeed, the usual suspects would be up in arms if printing presses (e.g. "high capacity" "assault" fast laser printers) were being seized.
Just to confirm, you are spot on - the link has nothing to do with hellbanning. But I guess the most common cause is if you restore a browser session with lots of HN pages.
I don't know what foreign nations you're talking about, but the UN was against it because their inspections found nothing. Going further I remember both Germany and France speaking against it. The only real allies you had was the UK, but the UK is always happy to agree with your bullshit and it is regrettable because if only you'd have pulled your head out of your ass for just a moment you would have realized that everything is a big fat lie, that the whole world was seeing, except you.
> On the flip side, Apple took a security issue very, very seriously, and for that they should be commended.

Though they were warned before the breach occurred, right? They didn't take it seriously until well after they knew they needed to fix it.
It's not a stupid question, but often times open sourcing something involves one or more of the following:

1. Documenting everything so it's actually usable. At a minimum, "here is how to install the dumb thing" should probably be documented.

2. Often times there are hard-coded values that would need to be extracted out for security reasons or to simply allow someone to install it on a system not quite like yours.

3. Often times there are other dependences that would also have to be open sources such as modifications to libraries, internal libraries released, shell scrips, cron jobs, messaging queues, delayed job worker tasks, etc that the system may rely on. These all need to be packaged up, documented and/or released.

In short it is a ton of work to take something that is running in our way on our hardware and generalize it enough that anyone else can run it.

On the other hand, you wouldn't need their service to give you the protections they offered. Essentially, encrypted email storage. You can get that mostly off the shelf using any linux distro if you run your own mail service.
I like that . . .

However, I think there may be some truth to it. There are plenty of good ideas that aren't in anyway new, but for some reason have been forgotten or ignored. Sometimes, it is because the technology wasn't ready, but there can be a myriad of reasons. It is often worth perusing old magazines and journals for new insights.
Rigged evidence for war?

Yes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries

Everyone thought the evidence was there

Not the weapons inspectors, whose conclusions are far more relevant than those of politicians.
That's easy enough:

PS1=`printf "\033[1;31m\342\227\217\033[0m\\$ "` sh