skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Secret jail time"? Do your loved ones get to know where you are?

No. You have to lie to your family.

and:

"The most likely punishment for defying the secret order would be a hefty fine, although the defendant might have a difficult time explaining the massive payment in the company’s public financial statements, especially if the contempt trial is conducted under seal."

I find it curiously persistent how truth weaves through even `legal' obstacles to be free.
Thank you very much. I'm the author of subvim (https://github.com/fatih/subvim) . And if this works fine I will promote this as the go-to editor to use subvim.
Kill my wife ZOMBIE joke -- that was funny
> massive caffeine addiction (think 2 large cans of redbull a day)

Son, that is not a massive caffeine addiction.
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Don't forget to sacrifice at least one goat, if you want cross-platform, standards-compliant code.
Centrifuge - Redis for presence/history data, Bootstrap 3.0 for web ui and more
Hello, friends!

Several months ago I released first version of Centrifuge on Github (https://github.com/FZambia/centrifuge).

This is a platform for real-time message broadcasting in web applications. Like Faye (http://faye.jcoglan.com/) or Pusher.com/Pubnub.com services.

It isn’t so powerful and mature like projects above. But it works. And we all know that making software to work is the first important step.

It's built on Python using Tornado, ZeroMQ and Redis. Clients from browsers can communicate with Centrifuge using pure Websockets or SockJS library.

During last months I was working on presence and history support for channels. Today I've merged that branch in master. There are lots of other changes which made Centrifuge better.

Here I encourage you to take a look at this project. Some criticism and advices are very welcome.
Neither.

I use an IDE for code, FocusWriter for just about everything else involving text and nano for server work (I'm can use vim if needed but I prefer nano for quick config file edits and after using it for a decade muscle memory isn't worth fighting).
The simplest market-based solution for killing troll patents I can think of involves anti-troll entities effectively using the troll's tactics against them: mass mailing people whose product might be accused of violating a dubious patent with a no-win no-fee offer to strike down the patent. Contributing to a pool to fight a patent is potentially even cheaper than settling it, especially if the quality of the patent and the NPE's incentive to defend it is low.

(of course the less good side of this solution is that the entity best placed to play the role of white knight is one actually linked to the troll who knows exactly who has received the litigation threats. That's probably where trusted bodies like the EFF should get involved)
I played with this a few days ago. It is a nice wrapper for NLTK. You probably want to, at some point, read the free NLTK book online.

Edit: and it also uses pattern.
Multivitamins and Piracetam for you, my friend. No headaches, only a bit of dullness/tiredness.
I wouldn't go so far as to say a tangible step has been made in literally breaking RSA.
Blink is just a fork of WebCore, not WebKit. There's more to WebKit than WebCore.
If you follow Wikipedia's source for that, here is what it actually says:

In France, meanwhile, Voltaire was reputedly downing between 50 and 72 cups of coffee a day

Encyclopedia authors shouldn't cut numbers in half. In any case, the reported number varies wildly and I've never been able to track down a source for it. They're probably all made up.
I'd like an actual Lisper to work on LaClojure. Also, I'd like anybody to work on LaClojure.

This is a desolate wasteland and it's very obvious nobody cares enough to make it work well.

https://github.com/JetBrains/la-clojure/issues

There are issues from TWO years ago with no comments, no explanation, and no fix.

Why would I use your product if I can't trust you to fix anything? With Emacs and nRepl or Slime/Swank I can fix things myself if I need to. Although in practice I don't need to.
Not trying to justify Bradley's treatment in any way, but to put the other side...

Is it not possible that wget was not authorized specifically because if would make copying lots of file easier and quicker? I mean, if I were in charge of sensitive data like that, it would be the sort of thing I want to consider. If legit use is no say a file by file basis, then only a select few would need some sort of batching tool. So, why make it easier? That fact that you can do it other ways, I see no reason to then just allow anything. We all still have locks on our doors, despite knowing a determined thief will defeat or circumvent them.
Racketeer on and off since 2010. It's a really great language; I encourage everyone to at least give it a try.

The racket docs (http://docs.racket-lang.org/) have a list of tutorials at the top. There's a visual art/programming tutorial for those new to lisp (http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/) and a webapp one (http://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/) that demonstrates Racket's built-in web framework.
The Oatmeal has you covered. You can even buy the poster!

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
Yay #1: a nice wrapper around NLTK. NLTK is great but its API is not very Pythonic or comfortable. Pleasant facades over it are a great help for Python NLP.

Yay #2: an actually interesting programming-related article on HN. These get rarer every day, losing their place to gossips about what Snowden remarked following some or another NSA official's remarks about Snowden's even earlier remarks.
There's no direct evidence to suggest that such a thing will happen

Isn't this another way of saying there's no evidence that the future has been predicted?
This looks great! NLTK is incredible but definitely can be a bit intimidating. Very cool to have a wrapper around it.

I'm curious to see exactly how it works and so I'll certainly check out the source when I have a bit more time. Thanks for posting this.
same "completion" sound in the installer, for the sound that happens when an install completes

Yeah, damn them for that. I remember checking my phone on several occasions when background installs had finished. Eventually I had the installer up when the sound went off and I had a nice WTF? :)
If that were true they wouldn't need the large data centres they're building.

My understanding, from when the references to Azure and Amazon CloudFront (not EC2) were first discovered in iCloud traffic, was that Apple was using Microsoft and Amazon's CDN services, amongst others, to serve static content.

I've seen no indication that the core guts of iMessage et al live anywhere but inside Apple's own data centres.
I've had much success with http://resume.amccloud.com
I'm still deciding whether emacs is worth all the time and learning. I've seen people use it and it looks wickedly intricate. I was going get into tmux when I saw the HN post. I'm only using sublime, but I know that's for script kiddies ;).
Government officials find something popular, promise unlimited amounts of it to get votes, then create a program to deliver it with total disregard for economic consequences.

Last decade they bought votes with easy mortgages. After all, even an idiot could see that home ownership was a sound investment. They won two or three rounds of elections with mortgage policy.

This decade it is health care for all! Even an idiot can see that health care for everyone is a sound investment. Just look at these scary charts of runaway growth of medical costs. And the votes roll in.

In reality, most health care consists of vaccines, blood pressure pills, diabetes pills, and the occassional antibiotics. That gives most of the benefits and costs almost nothing.

Most of the costs come from ludicrous end-of-life procedures on old people, most of the rest comes from ludicrous $500k courses of treatments for this like multiple sclerosis and stage 29 recurrent cancer. These are lifestyle choices for well-off people who would rather pay a doctor than leave an inheritance.

Trying to extend this lifestyle to every waitress will destroy the economy. It's no different than last decade's plan to put every hairdresser in a $700k mansion.
Los Doggies is an awesome band. Buy their music: http://losdoggies.bandcamp.com, and come see them if you're ever in the Hudson Valley!
The NodeBox linguistics module is another nice wrapper around NLTK (and other natural language processing libraries). I used it for extracting actions and details from sentences, but it's also great for spelling correction, pluralization, part-of-speech tagging and other common NLP tasks.

http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Linguistics
I meant that as a compliment! I literally think it's a pretty sweet name. Sorry!
The invention of the CT scanner — with a little help from The Beatles
I don't think the advantage over MTA SSL justifies implementing a new approach. You're trusting the mailserver administrator either way.
I'm not a web developer. I just wanted to add a bit of web development skills to my set of abilities so I've been learning the Django framework and the nuances of HTML/CSS/JS.
So if I previously compiled from source in ubuntu (which I did for YouCompleteMe) can I just recompile and install?
How to build a web crawler
his customers most probably had a copy of the emails on their computers

Based on the fact that a number of them are talking about having lost data, I suspect that at least a significant number of customers only used webmail to access their accounts, so they never had a local copy of their data.
What's troubling here in the article is the implicit assumption that the TSA has any business knowing who is traveling on what planes.

Why don't we allow anybody with a ticket to show up and buy a ticket to anywhere else if they can afford it? Freedom of movement is very important, as is privacy--it seems we've lost sight of this fact.
What if they're not using IMAP?
Seems to me that installing a basic toolchain is not the hard part of functional programming for most folks.
Tutorial: Deploy a coffeescript node app to heroku
Come on now, Security Theater is for your own good.
Works fine, thank you very much for the work!
Aren't patents that issue assumed to be "valid" no matter how kafkaesque that might be?
A problem I see is that companies would have to spend time defending legitimate patents just because consumers want the technology to become widely available. The scheme could cause business to waste money litigating defensible patents just because there's enough stir / money behind advocacy for opening up the idea.
That would be grand. I've been using this for a few months now, and everything works OK - it was only this build that included Lua support (since I enabled it locally for myself a while back), but I've already tested the fixed binary on another Mac with no ill effects. Just grab a fresh DMG from the same place.
Indeed. Based on current mortality statistics[1], only 2% of us would manage to live 10,000 years without succumbing to accidental death of some kind, and the number that would make it 100,000 years is just vanishingly small.

EDIT: This is more a consideration with respect to "cure for ageing"-type advances, not so much the mind-uploading scenario.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/acc-inj.htm
'Do better, TSA'?

Please, God, no. Don't do better.
awesome. I tried a while ago with terminalcast.com. hopefully this gets more traction. integration with native terminal emulators would be great, so you can start recording at any point in time.
I've noticed similar but more subdued effects when going on and off coffee. I don't feel any physical effects from coffee (as long as I stay below about 3 cups), so I often take long breaks from it when it simply isn't convenient for me to drink it. I've noticed that when I don't drink coffee, not only do I have trouble focusing, but I'm less likely to exert the effort to try new things or put the effort into understanding difficult subjects. I also feel the same trouble even staying awake that you noted. I get significantly more done when I incorporate coffee into my day.

Another thing that works for me is formulating a plan of action before I have any coffee, and then drinking it when I start. The caffeine and the ritual put me in the right mindset to get real work done.
Do you really think that people can afford to crowdfund multi-year complex research into illnesses and diseases?

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1551949/

> It often takes more than 10 years to deliver a final, licensed vaccine,5 and requires not only excellence during research and product development but also managerial and funding commitment throughout the endeavor. The cost of developing a vaccine—from research and discovery to product registration—is estimated to be between US $200 million and US $500 million per vaccine.6 This figure includes vaccines that are abandoned during the development process. In short, vaccine research and product development is lengthy, complex, and loaded with binary outcome risks.

just because the complexity of a process is abstracted away doesn't mean it's ceased to exist.
Check carefully what you push to git
Especially https://github.com/pinggit/backup/tree/master/.ssh
> Calling for changes to patent law is where I don't understand what you're hoping to accomplish. If there was going to be any change, it would already have happened.

If true, that's a pretty depressing statement, however, it sounds like fallacious reasoning to me. Just because the law hasn't changed yet doesn't mean that things are doomed to stay this way forever.
There is still more freedom of movement in the US than there is in any comparably large area of the world; one of the most jarring things about traveling in Europe to me was the extent to which my identity was routinely challenged.
you're in luck! that's absolutely what I'm trying to do.

I do have secondary audience, people who want to learn Lisp, not necessarily elisp. Emacs is the best way to do that imo.

I expect those people to have at least looked a bit at Emacs before they start though.
Do you seriously think they wouldn't have arrested you and thrown you in jail for at least 4 hours if you'd refused to speak to them?

They are not your friends, but if you deny them the fishing trip they're even more likely to snag you with the trawl net.
The surprising takeaway for me is that PGP is so astoundingly crappy to use that even Phil Zimmerman asks people to send him plain text mail. We've got to do something to improve the state of things here.
wait. there are more than 3!

http://www.emacsbites.com/series/done-so-far
CSS requires you to do that in plenty of other places (e.g. if you make your border 1px wider you have to make the element it's on 2px narrower.)
Not true, I've seen requests for granted patents.
This sounds like a really stupid thing to do, so it intrigues me. Do you have any funny examples?
Changing Attitudes on Labor Color Bay Area Transit Dispute
That is still at least a rediction by an order of magnitude. For normal consumers thats good enough
Bitmessage: Open Source Decentralized and Trustless Email Protocol
No, he isn't totally incorrect. Had you not written that totally unnecessary barb at the beginning of your comment, you'd both be correct. The strike that killed the younger al-Awlaki was in fact targeting someone else, who was uncontroversially considered a terrorist.
Try qt/smoke if you can. An API that actually makes sense and just does what you expect - or you can use QML, which is what HTML for applications ought to look like.
My point is that there is a large constituent in the NRA that is very receptive to the idea that government databases of private citizen actions represent a slippery. I'd also argue that courts finding it lawful (or tolerably unlawful or whatever euphemism we'll be fed) would directly impinge on the NRA's mission as much as McCain-Feingold. A lot of card carrying NRA members still remember being grouped in with "domestic terrorists" for owning guns back in the early Napolitano tenure.
They don't hire for the "id checker" position based on intelligence.
Forces of the Federal government have been on the march and increasing power for the last 140 years. They show no signs of slowing down, let alone stopping.

The irony is that the original impetus for the Federal government to assert supremacy was to give freedom to the slaves -- the right thing to do, but it's unlikely that we'll recover from that power shift any time soon.
You have cause and effect backwards here. What research has demonstrated is that success creates lack of empathy. And not that lack of empathy creates better leadership.

Indeed the sociology research that I've seen on the latter question says that leaders who act in an entitled amoral fashion lead fundamentally less effective organizations than leaders who encourage empathy and cooperation.
This sounds spot on for what I'm after. Looking forward to seeing how this progresses.

Thanks for the link to the other vids, will check them out.
Basically, Diffie Hellman is a key exchange algorithm, without authentication. So using just this algorithm would not protect from MITM.

But the OTR protocol can be effectively adapted to email. It would need a few emails to establish the original key exchange, but that's not too hard to do. In fact, TextSecure, an Android app (soon on iOS) already does OTR like that for SMS.

The real problem with a system like this is deciding how you would authenticate the person with whom you're communicating. Pre shared key? PGP-signed message?
You know that's not what's happening on HN, Jacques. What's happening is that the majority of HN politics commenters support a single analysis of what's actually happening in the world, and go out of their way to demonize and insult anyone who questions that's analysis, even when it's evident that the people they're insulting roughly agree with them. On HN in 2013 we can't even agree to mostly agree.
There's something to be said for that, which is why charities and philanthropic organisations exist. the question is whether money is being funnelled efficiently in the right direction and used efficiently. Who's to say that laymen with no grounding in a subject make a good judge of that.
Bingo! This

Great talk!

Slight left turn on the topic, but I think people can lose some elasticity in their thinking when they try to be politically correct. Accessibility implies impairment, but that can give you a mental model of "blind people are people too so we should be careful not to exclude them". But that's bottom up thinking you should be thinking what is possible, or top down thinking.

The mental model is completely different if you take political correctness out of the equation. What if we are talking about a person driving a car using a web interface? Now the user can't see because of a situational limitation not a physical one. There is no need for the implication of sympathy.

It's inspiring to me to design for any IO method I can think of. Aiding accessibility is useful to everyone, but I call that user experience and usability. This is why I get bent on some of the thinking behind HTML. Design, to me, isn't a second class citizen when communicating with your user/audience. New devices show the same information but did we just use the same html and css no we reformatted for the devices. What about when we are all using google glass and web enabled watches?

Granted many web pages that where redesigned for 'mobile' would have done better to leave well enough alone, but that's just bad design.
The story was covered extensively by bloggers over 5 years ago, and appeared in the press periodically since. Basically, the local NHS trusts fired a lot of hospital staff to save money. They replaced them with service contractors.

So instead of a trained nurse feeding helpless patients, a gormless food deliverer drops a tray off at the patient and leaves. On paper they are still being fed, but in reality patients were starving during the trickiest few hours of recovery. But look at the costs drop!

Similar cost cutting was done for the building caretakers and similar staff. On paper everything is the same just more efficient, but in reality the floors are not getting cleaned, nobody is bringing round tea for the surgeon in the middle of a 12 hour procedure. But look at the costs go down! Look at the readmission rate drop!
Not authorizing wget and classifying that as computer fraud may have its justification, but giving someone 10 years for what amounts to a form of trespassing is absurd.
> Show me a presentation language that is as flexible and powerful as CSS. Try styling something in a native gui language, or something like xaml, and I guarantee there will be many more curse words.

You're on. I pick QML.
Phil knew PGP was less usable than it could be because it was an add-on to SMTP. It was always hard to use. That said, I'm encouraged by some of the folks looking at building new systems for message store systems that are secure. They will need new clients of course but that seems to be reasonable.
That's not what happened. There's a question, it isn't the sort of question the stack overflow wants to have, so it's closed.

For a change it's actually a close decision that was a good one.
A startup creating more transparency on what consumers think about businesses
Interesting!

Granted patents aren't re-reviewed, so someone would have to cough up a few tens of thousands of dollars to do anything with submissions on granted patents.

Is the concept that people are contributing evidence to be used should someone challenge the patent?
>one of the most jarring things about traveling in Europe to me was the extent to which my identity was routinely challenged.

Could you elaborate on that? There are a lot of countries where no passport control at all is taking place if you're coming in from another EU country.

Granted, as a EU citizen I might have an easier time moving around overall, but in my experience the EU feels more like one big country than a patchwork of smaller ones - and I move around here a lot. Going on a cross-country flight within the US is usually significantly more hassle than hopping from Frankfurt to Oslo. Once you're in the EU you should be able to move freely.

What happened to you?
Look at what happened with Dart. No-one's going to try writing a better replacement for a web technology in a hurry after that.
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Lisp was the discovery of a set of a few simple concepts so elegant they give us a transcendental way of thinking about programs. But then people built religions around their own embodiments of the concepts. Eventually the infighting started and it is still driving most folks away.

Occasionally, a pragmatist like Hickey comes along and says "hey look how useful this can be". Another generation of programmers takes a look at Lisp. Where will it go this time?Can Lisp be saved from the Lispers?
That is why I always travel with caffeine pills. Yes, I feel like an addict, but it beats the alternative of withdrawal.
Hang on until Jan, that's when guaranteed issuance kicks in. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/2012/06/update-on-health-...
Doesn't work with NoScript. Bad example.
About Naked Security
I like the use / active-pursue requirement except it seems nearly impossible to enforce. A patent troll could easily spend money to look like they're trying to use a patent.