skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me at least it would not be useless, because soylent wold be 10x better food than what I eat now.
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EFF: "Parallel construction" is really intelligence laundering
For what? Witchunters?
Great. That makes more sense. I must have misunderstood what you were saying.
I understood the quote as an insult to nerds who are afraid to talk to women and not as homophobia.
Links? That sounds very interesting if theres a real pattern to it.
Please tell me you guys are actually singing the signature to a particular tune in your head like people sing the ABC song when they recite the alphabet. Because that is adorable.

Rapping arbitrary chunks of code could be a fun after-hours conference game.
Are you threatening me? ;-) Kidding aside, I almost never downvote (power = responsibility)
Actually a handful of essential extensions (in my case those essential one for web dev) are enough to bring it down on my under-powered laptop.
You're partially correct. I do sing them, not necessarily in my head.
Weird thing is: "Terrorism" originally referred to acts committed by a government. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism
I found BLINK and MARQUEE so infuriating irritant that I used to binary patch them out in the browser executable. This was before the era of signed executables.
Are you fscking kidding me?!
Looks like it just registers touch events at some points, and then you check to see if they're the points the user should have. It should work everywhere where multi-touch is supported.
I tried to play along...
There was a blues dude in the mid '40s who originally played an acoustic but on his live shows he had to play electric to be heard over the band. He did a lot of the same material as T-Bone Walker. I cannot for the life of me find or remember his name.

Along with Robert Johnson (and Bix Biederbeck, a jazz trumpet player form the 20s/30s) this gentleman helped make the blue guitar single note repertoire what it is.

Wish I could remember his name... :)
I don't know if you guys proceed the same as me, but I merely open a tenth of links on home or new page.

Actually, when doing so, you can consider any opened link deserves an upvote, provided that at first glance, it is what the link title promised : it attracted your attention so may attract other people.

Nevermind if the point made in the linked article you upvoted is valid or not after a detailed review, the subject is interesting and may lead to interesting discussions - and top comments will instantly warn if the point is not valid.
> represents as in "they are the image of what those who elected them want"

I don't vote for who I want, I look at who has a chance of winning and vote for the lesser evil, because any other vote is practically meaningless.

(Our voting system is stupid)
I'm not sure how secure this is. It looks like any site you authenticate with once can then spoof you to any other site you use this with.
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Oh, I didn't realise anyone didn't remember it that way! I remember being taught it, but just assumed everyone else was, I guess.
I found this http://superuser.com/questions/209437/how-do-i-scroll-in-tmu... (take a look at second answer). But it has its drawbacks like not respecting panes etc... After some time I had this in my config I found myself using copy mode anyway.
Microsoft has released Windows Phone App Studio
I think you might do well with the "100 Adventures To Take Your Wife and Child On". There are many adventure type books out there (none as good as your's will be, of course!), but most of us married-with-kids types will pass them up as we'll automatically decide its not relevant to us (and the lucky few without kids may already have bought the other books!).

Selling "the dream" to people with kids is something few try, and it's a very large market.
The big win is Group Policy. You can centrally control every single option, including many applications, for every single Windows system on the domain. It's like puppet on steroids and HGH.
Huh? Except this is Python...
What possible Keychain setting could make Chrome copy a users password into a new keychain item, with a DIFFERENT NAME and give itself full access?

I can just as easily claim you have a weird keychain/chrome setting: no one else has disputed my claim about what it does, others have even acknowledged seeing the same behaviour.
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I think he means that he visualizes the pair "< >" relative to a line of numbers. Similar to how he placed it above a line of numbers in his ASCII art. < points down (left) the row of numbers to numbers that are less than the other ones and > points up (right) to numbers that are greater than. Makes perfect sense if you are a visual thinker.
Mobile Strategy Choices. Unraveled
https://github.com/benhoskings/babushka

Looks like the repo has moved to a new Github account.
> the point is that the government regulations that affect businesses like Uber and AirBnB are not voluntary contracts.

In the AirBnB case, I don't think of it as much different. Homeowner's associations are the way you'd arrange land-use regulations for a large area through contract law, and are becoming the more common way of doing it in places like Texas. In other areas it's done by municipal governments, the more traditional method. But the impact on freedom is more or less than same: by buying property in the jurisdiction of one of these entities, you agree to use the property in accordance with [long list of rules], plus any future rules that may be made in accordance with [procedure]. And the way to avoid it if you don't like the rules, is to buy property not within the homeowner's association or municipality whose land-use regulations you don't like. This happens through both private-sector and public-sector mechanisms pretty similarly, just the private-sector ones are developing more recently.

There are other important differences between homeowners' associations and municipalities, such as general police power. But this particular one, whether you can turn your home into a hotel in a particular area, is one where municipal governments are basically equivalent to a standardized bundle of contract law, as evidenced by the fact that in some areas the same regulations are literally being implemented as a standardized bundle of contract law.
This post could well have been written by me as I am also in the same boat as you :-)

Anyways, I have chosen to stick to Django for backend( and Ember for frontend). My reasons mainly are the relative unsuitability and incompleteness of Node when compared to Django.
If you are onto learning stuff, and not doing some serious (shippable) stuff, I'd say relish the beauty of JavaScript from both ends.
Really good idea, but needs more consumer & business ideas on. Too many geek tools at the moment.
Something a bit different, but worth mentioning: http://barada.sourceforge.net/
well, without solid scientific support I am loath to enact major lifestyle changes with an uncertain gain long into the future. especially when there are so many competing mutually exclusive theories of which lifestyle change is 'correct', so I'd have to decide on what was the best theory at the time. and then I might go through years of misery and _still_ not get any gain. I make some effort to favor variety of fruit & veg, favor drinking water before eating, don't binge eat. Other than that, I'm just not willing to make that lifestyle change unless you can show me this isn't the modern equivalent of witchcraft superstition. and even then, the research would just give me a more informed opinion and I decide to eat baconators and accept a 10% increase in heart disease.
Oh I thought it was removed completly. I understood that but this 500 points-rule souds like an invitation to karma whoring...

I'll return to my silent existence now.
Agreed - it is interesting that the phrasing in the article was deliberately gender agnostic. What is the relevance of political correctness in the context of a boorish and petty insult?
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"dollar hat, dollar at" in Makefiles:

$(CC) -c $^ -o $@
I don't know exactly who Hayden was talking about, but various people on the Internet have done a lot more than "express support". Calls for "revolution" and "rioting in the streets" seem to pop up in comments on these stories on a pretty regular basis on various sites. But there have also been suggestions of more specific action, including shooting FISA court judges and others and one guy on Reddit speculating about blowing up parts of the power grid.

Now I'm sure most of that is pointless Internet talk. But it certainly goes way beyond expressions of support or discussion of changing policy or laws through democratic means.
Perhaps because "foreign" countries (i.e. most of the rest of us in the world outside the US and a few other select countries) and much of their populations (me included) see arms as something to be tightly regulated, and so it would fly in the face of what you are trying to achieve for "hacker tools". Internet issues tend towards being global, with notable exceptions.
> A scientist isn't committed to believing in natural selection in the same way a bibilical literalist is committed to rejecting it. All he's committed to is following the evidence wherever it leads.

At the risk of responding out of identity, but also with the hope of contributing constructively despite having some identity at stake:

A literal interpretation of the bible doesn't preclude accepting natural selection as an ongoing, observable process. It may reject that process as the explanation of our species' origins. Those two are often conflated, contributing to the identity-driven, emotion-filled discussion that PG describes.

Regarding the main premise of the article, I think it's possible to have rational, logical discussions about topics in which identity is involved. They are more challenging than, say, discussing Javascript. But I don't think those discussions work well on the internet. They require trust (that both parties will be heard in good faith) careful check of emotions, motivations, and reasoning. Those are even more challenging without high-bandwidth communication aids like facial expressions and tone of voice.
Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet
"an open source implementation of Authy"

Something like

http://www.norlin.se/blog/pam-module-for-sending-one-time-pa...

An alternative not exactly what you asked for, but does meet the "free and uses a (android) phone" criteria:

http://barada.sourceforge.net/

I've never messed around with PAM other than the usual kerberos / ldap / afs_session stuff, and some researching.

I did have the interesting idea that I could use one of the uncountable zillions of OTP implementations to generate a massive list of OTP tokens for a user (me). Then the server emails / sms or whatever precisely one OTP per hour. That solves the "I'll spend any time and money to avoid having to carry a paper printout of OTP keys". Although in a cost benefit analysis, for $100/month I think I could justify carrying around a piece of paper...

You could short circuit the OTP paper printout by simply (automatically?) shoving the whole list into your dropbox/evernote/email/whatever as a text file.

One obvious problem with sending a SMS every time user tries to log in, is if a swarm of 10000 zombie windows machines in China all decide to brute force your root (assuming you even allow direct root, or allow password auth as opposed to key auth) then even if you use some rate limiting to block each IP at 3 attempts, that still going to try to send 30000 SMS messages to the poor admin.

So its hardly unique in the world of security to say "be careful", but... "be careful".
There was a very good article on that subject in Chronicle two years ago. (http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127...)

IIRC Bruce Schneier has made an excellent point too: "nothing to hide" becomes destructive the moment those in power get to decide what is the current definition of "illegal" or "dangerous". Just find all occurrences and shows of support of the $new_threat in the available personal histories and persecute at will.

In other words, it's never the right approach.
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> Quickstart

> Run the bootstrap script:

bash -c "`curl https://raw.github.com/larsyencken/marelle/master/bootstrap.sh`"

PFHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

no
Instagram was presumably worth $1 billion when Facebook bought it 16 months ago.

That doesn't tell you what it would be worth today.
That's how the iOS core location API works (and it has been this way since iOS 5 atleast, if not earlier).

In particular, there is a |startMonitoringSignificantLocationChanges| method (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/CoreLo...), which "callbacks" into apps that have registered with the Core Location framework for significant change updates. The update is provided generally only when cell towers change, so it is not a battery drain (or not a significant one). Hence, your mobile operator definitely has this data, and is most likely already tracking it and/or piping it to the NSA etc.

Significant change monitoring is used by Google Now among other apps (I believe Facebook also does this, I find that more sneaky since they have no obvious need for it). Google Maps navigation does not use this, since it needs more granular and accurate data hence it uses the more battery-intensive location APIs.

If the complaint is that it's okay for Apple to collect this data for apps to use, but there is no need to log it, especially since the user might choose to not allow any apps to access their location data, then that's a fair point. I don't know if iOS shows these logs only on the beta versions, or whether they are stored persistently on release versions as well.

Source: I am a iOS dev, and have built location based apps.
Another failure for getting my point across on my part.

I don't see that we disagree that it is a feeble attempt at best. But consider this, who are we to judge the merits of that particular thing without more than a cursory examination? His project may as well be just a seed round away from becoming the next buzzword which people would wax poetic in the next few years. Also, logic programming is well positioned to be the next big thing discovered by the web developers because of its relative obscurity and functional programming losing its mystery.

Give them a break. It is just one of the hundreds of hopeful toy projects posted here, of which only a handful that haven't been shot down within ten seconds.
Your comment didn't provide any support for the notion that property rights evolve in response to innovation. Ending slavery is more of a moral awakening. In fact, Wikipedia claims that the cotton gin, invented in 1793, actually led to more slavery in the South.
< and > are pretty easy. The big side (the mouth) points to the larger number because that it what it wants to eat.
Fortunately there was a browser plugin available almost immediately to remove it.
The year's best new research in computational linguistics (from ACL 2013)
It's actually not the same with every other browser.

As far as I'm aware, Safari pulls the passwords from the keychain when necessary and does not provide plaintext access to them from inside the app.
I was surprised to see that this was built using a web app.

How does Tomodo exist in the same world as IPR lawyers?
I'm pretty sure that's Ubuntu Mono: http://font.ubuntu.com/#charset-mono-regular
Thank you! I'm glad someone finally agrees with me. I keep getting overruled on this point, but I wanted to put an interactive product demo on the landing page.

Algorithmic.ly is a simple service for certain kinds of algorithms without needing to manage the infrastructure. So if you're building, say, an e-commerce site, and you want to add a feature that adds a "people who bought this item also bought these" presentation box onto each page, you can use Algorithmic.ly to build a data model, choose the "item similarity" algorithm to continuously run on your model, and then use Algorithmic.ly's REST API to push data into the model and query results from the algorithm.

I hope that help explain it, and I hope someday I'll get to build a cool interactive demo into the landing page :). For now, the conversion statistics are not helping my case for putting more on the landing page.
Weird, I was just browsing for property around there
That's true for almost all side channel attacks using user controlled input (eg. padding oracle attack).
I'm surprised. I've always thought of labels as something to be used with goto. What is the purpose of labels in javascript, since it does not implement goto ?

Do you have any idea if it was intended to be used as you describe ?
I don't feel the need to add anything to a discussion on an old article, except to say that it was very elegantly and succinctly written.
I'm with you on Candy Crush (my family has numerous addicts) but I'm not sure it's worth so much more than Angry Birds.

Angry Birds also makes money offline (soft toys etc) but presumably that's not covered in your table....
Are you suggesting making a separate user account for each person who uses Chrome, and then switching user accounts before allowing a new person to touch Chrome on your computer?

I often browse for things on my coworkers computers (their laptops), and they do on mine. An application shouldn't be pulling passwords out of the keychain and then making the plaintext available.
Interesting, but I'd probably need 10 seconds more to understand code that uses this than code that doesn't use it. I'm wondering if there is a real benefit to this.
> The fact you can view the passwords means they are stored in reversible form which means that the dark coders out there will be writing a Trojan to steal that password store as we speak.

Surely they have to be reversible, or the browser wouldn't be able to use them as passwords.
In this case I think it's OK because it's a parody. In general, I think it's for the good of the company if their service receives more usage because someone made it better, isn't it?
<p style="color: red">
<script>
var str="&bull;";
document.write(str.blink());
</script>
</p>

That would make a blinking red dot. It'd be good for status lights, I guess.
I'm upvoting this not for the cutesy joke but because of the introduction to tomodo.me. This is a fantastic app, I can already think of a variety of ways this can be used in non-trivial ways to help me, but here's a trivial example of modifying news.yc to include domain favicons: http://newsycombinator.tomodo.me/. The best thing (that I didn't catch at first) is that this isn't a static copy of the site, it's a proxy that serves modifications (in the form of userscripts) against the live website, it supports all interactions with the site. This comment is edited through the tomodo version of news.yc!
yesterday Muslims, today hackers, tomorrow 82 year old nuns will be called terrorists!
'Y to the sky!'
Great comment below the blog post...

Matias, this phenomenon is known as the “Eisenberg Uncertainty Principle.” A movie fan cannot know whether a character is played by Jesse Eisenberg or Michael Cera with any degree of confidence until he observes the whole movie. This is because the parts played by these two actors can only be accurately modeled by a complex wave-like function. Cinematic physicists are not sure, but it seems likely that, for any given movie, the part of the geeky outcast is played by both Jesse Eisenberg and Michael Cera simultaneously. Only when you watch the movie does the waveform collapse and you observe one or the other actor.
I can't load this in chrome or safari, I end up in an infinite reload cycle loading http://www.amazonpost.tomodo.me/regional or http://m.amazonpost.tomodo.me/regional
What is this post supposed to be? An junior high school Civics lesson? There was never any opportunity to "elect" anything to do with NSA. The NSA is a huge military-ish state security organization that was secretly and massively built up in the Cold War. It at least seems to outsiders that it served its purpose well[1]. But there is no more great enemy, and the whole lot are now struggling to remain relevant.

People have been boycotting elections for years. That only makes it easier for the radical fringes to their their crap on the agenda and for politicians to focus on those low-hanging fruits.

[1] I've been reading a lot about NSA lately and it seems they could've got us all killed with some very provocative missions pentesting Soviet air defenses. They did manage to get dozens of pilots and air-crew killed.
I wouldn't use the term IQ, it can be a bit misleading. High IQ individuals can squander their time arguing about frivolous nonsense (I went to school with a couple of guys like that). Average IQ folk can be thoughtful and engaging.

What's happening is a kind of evaporative-cooling effect- specifically, the very natural rise of cheap wit and sensationalism. These things trigger upvotes more easily. Pithy answers and responses get rewarded quicker by larger crowds, and this discourages the carefully-evaluated-and-reasoned answer.

We don't have to bring IQ into the picture when making sense of this phenomenon, so let's not do that.
I think the icons should go on the left to keep the visual consistent. But nice idea!
All over it has been established that per-se democracy does not exist anymore. Meaning that wealthy and powerful have more democracy allotted to them than to the rest.
Actually what is seems is that government is putting screws real tight on the lid because if whole FIAT dollar thing fails - there will be no more democracy and only Militarized police and thorough monitoring of the people will stop an extraordinary event such as Civil war or revolution from happening.
I would probably only use labels for breaking out of nested loops, for example: https://gist.github.com/badsyntax/5317545
One problem with minimizing exposure to marketing materials is that it lowers your resistance to them :)

I don't have TV, and when I go to somewhere that does have, it's very easy for me to become mesmerized.
Can we all please just take a deep breath and stop with the hyperbole.

The US government is not planning to commit genocide against gay people or whatever ridiculous premise you're insinuating.
LoVe HAte when ordering psudeo classes in css for anchors*

":link, :visited, :hover, :active"

*may not be particularly weird or novel
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”

H. L. Mencken
Ask.fm: is there a way to make it safe?
The best I can come up with is this:

ANIMAL: if (isAnimal) {
DOG: if (isDog) {
POODLE: if (isPoodle) {
if (color == green) {
break POODLE; // we don't want green poodles
}

if (age > 10) {
break DOG; // we don't want old dogs
}

if (weight > 20) {
break ANIMAL; // we don't want heavy animals
}

// more poodle conditions
}

// more dog conditions
}

// more animal conditions
}
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I'm not convinced programmers even need a mnemonic for < and >. After all, they'll read and write those glyphs millions of times in their lifetime.
I learned this in school. Still effective.

But I never know which one is "smaller than" or "bigger than", I have to think a little bit