skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure - "strong passwords" mostly "just work", but ~25% of passwords in published hash dumps still fall to the RockYou wordlist, and another 10 or 15% with the best64 rules in hashcat.

When given the option between "laziness" and "security", it's abundantly clear which most people choose.

I strongly believe that as well as "easy to use technology", we very much need to educate our friends/family/coworkers on the need for encryption and the risks of not using it.
You should probably buy some MSFT at the open tomorrow and fund it with a short position in AMZN. For posterity's sake, the closing price of both companies today was:

8/8/2013
AMZN: $295.74 @ $135.12 billion market cap
MSFT: $32.89 @ $273.97 billion market cap
If you pool everything, the GC never runs and tracing is irrelevant. However, getting to there is very difficult. Better is to just make sure you throw almost everything away before the next GC, have a small permanent runtime set of objects and accept 10-20ms stop the world young gen collections.
Show HN: LeapFM - A new way to find music (updated)
That's the way it's supposed to work.

The police can and should be able to get warrants to aid in the prosecution of crime, with the oversight of an impartial judge interpreting the validity of the request.
Why does it need to be about Snowden? We haven't even verified that he actually owned an account.
Yep.

Does this submission intend to discredit Lavabit's decision to shutdown? Looks a bit.. disinfo-ish, but I'd rather give the submitter benefit of the doubt.
in the reedit am a the Ubuntu team did they said they were seeking full funding via indiegogo
Chaitin's work is genius, but one thing bugs me: he uses a Cantor space in exchange for Gödel's countable numbering. I haven't found any commentary on that, but I find it suspicious.

The problem with Cantor space is you simply can't even begin to approximate Chaitin's constant, but it seems like you could by using a countable numbering (all else being equal.) Of course that would blow everything up, so the takeaway is there is something very important which I'm not convinced we've learned yet.
You're damn right I'm bitter. Did you know there are actual people languishing in actual prison due to the incurious mindset he supported for years? You're inhuman if you don't see a problem with that without speculating that I'm affected personally by this jackass.

On the contrary, I stay the hell away from people like him, and he has a lot more to answer for than is satisfied by his upper-crust PR-driven atonement assigned to him by the church of TV for the purpose of lining his wallet. Same goes for Obama and AG Eric Holder.

How's this for Dylan?

Let me ask you one question
Is your money that good?
Will it buy you forgiveness
Do you think that it could?
I think you will find
When your death takes its toll
All the money you made
Will never buy back your soul.
maybe not forever - sounds like he wants to relaunch it eventually. Good luck to you.
I think what he meant to say about you is that you are probably anyone of the following:

Nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twenty-somethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in five or six years.

Now lets wait for DHS to drop 90% of its tech support.
Giving up the private details of a pedophile is not "to become complicit in crimes against the American people", which is what the Lavabits letter stated. So it's natural for us to infer something relating to the Snowden revelations.
I'd be happy to say more, but probably the most important thing people can do is read the article. Lack of adequate services for the mentally ill is a huge issue. In the absence of services, they often end up behaving oddly enough for someone to call the police, leading to arrest. More and more often we see families who are relieved that their loved ones are arrested just to get access to treatment.

That seems like a real shame, and often their needs are a bad fit for the correctional system. I work in a forensic hospital, and most of our patients come from jails. They often do not get very good care there. Private hospitals are largely closing their psychiatric units, because they don't make money. More and more, state or county funded hospitals and clinics are the last stop, and those (as mentioned in the article) are popular targets for defunding when the budget gets rough. It's a bad situation.

At any rate, I'll check in again in the morning if anyone else has more questions.
You can say that about anyone engaging in war.

Let's say the US were at war with Mexico and you were an American but fighting for the Mexican Army, you would not get special treatment from the American side for being an American --at that point you're just a foe. That's how they view that.
The fundamental problem with Github profiles is that they are easily gamed. Once it becomes common practice, everyone will have a Github account with lots of code -- and I suspect a lot they didn't write.

As much as Fizzbuzz (or equivalents) are despised, I think it is still probably a more useful first-level filters. But not much more.
He most likely did:

>> Snowden invited rights workers to a July meeting from the address "edsnowden@lavabit.com," according to a human rights specialist who attended the meeting

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/8/4602966/email-service-used-...
Personally I hear "someday it will turn into a project" all the time. More times than not it never does.

Nonetheless,

I'm actually ok if someone doesn't have an extensive github (or any for that matter) on an interview, because I will spend the time and talk with them. I totally understand however that more or less many firms try to filter out some of the mass piles of resumes by using github. But most people aren't like me who want to dig in and _work_ with `you`.

Having said that I very much still like to see a github link. Here is why (and they are biased toward synergy in a coop manner, which is how I culturally work; you may be different):

- You spent the time to do something you thought was cool (dedication)
- You did the above regardless of how it looked which amongst many things to me means you have thick skin and are willing to learn (it's a two way street mind you).
- you've learned to communicate with other developers => _on their terms_
- you are not living in a cave and open source doesn't come to you from only one foss org or your one fav info site.
- you are willing to dive into code (forking) and making the changes necessary even if it means doing it yourself
- good ole adding to the knowledge of society (you just don't do it for the money, you have more than one dimension which drives you)

At least these are my opinions and I hope that at least you might be able to see one take of many on why some might want to see a github link.

Btw, If anyone else feels the same way, feel free to ping me! Always nice to meet other devs that share some of my views!
This is true, though I do believe it is a lot more stable than about 12 months ago(?)

It reminds me of Go a couple of years ago, but that had "go fix" which would mostly update your source files to the newest revisions. That made early adoption a lot nicer. I'd love to see a "rust fix"
This is not what lavabit is shutting down over:

>Court records show that, in June, Lavabit complied with a routine search warrant targeting a child pornography suspect in a federal case in Maryland. That suggests that Levison isn’t a privacy absolutist. Whatever compelled him to shut down now must have been exceptional.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/08/lavabit-snowden/
Greenwald verified it:
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/365560955746267137
And then drivers would be required for each OS creating an additional porting burden.
> "No one has willfully or knowingly disobeyed the law or tried to invade your civil liberties or privacies," he said. "There were no mistakes like that at all."

"Not at all" is such a strong statement. Like Iraq had no WMD at all, right? The US is really bad at admitting its own mistakes.
I believe Clean also uses linear types.
That was not my intention. I just came across it and thought it was an interesting find.

Despite being completed on 10 June, it was just uploaded earlier today.
I'm going to have to call bullshit on this. Many companies that we all shop from regularly have huge, ridiculous markups that can be justified in only one way: we are willing to pay the price asked. By doing the good deed of donating just one measly pair of $2 marginal cost shoes to a child in need they are somehow misleading you with clever marketing? Don't get me wrong, I totally agree it is a marketing play, otherwise it would be operated as a non-profit.

Had they never offered up free shoes, this article wouldn't have been written and you wouldn't be vilifying them. Nike has huge profit margins, as does Apple and just about every cosmetic brand you know of, and yet where is the disdain for their greedy tactics? Oh wait, they never offered to give anything away so let's give them a pass.
NYC has released data for every tax lot in the city. Here is my first look
An amusing fact about Karl Popper is that he also rejected quantum mechanics as a valid scientific theory because no probabilistic theory can be falsified.

The irony is that the standard methods of hypothesis testing which are often used to test statistical theories, including quantum mechanics, is based on reasoning with strong parallels to Popper's theory of falsifiability.

It is worth noting that Popper's theory is itself false. Real scientists do not simply throw away a theory because it is proven false. Good theories are hard to find. And a false theory may still be a useful approximation!
Hayao Miyazaki upsets some fans and angers conservatives with his latest film
Gamedev Weekly — Issue 7
It depends on which city you live. The malls in urban area are really crowded. I'm talking about bay area. Malls need to adapt to change. by the way, amazon is not the only online business. There are 100s or may be 1000s of online stores today. ALL of them compete with Amazon. That is why we don't see a profit for amazon.
My guess at the scenario:

This Joey006 warrant was "turn over everything you have for this email". Okey dokey, it's all encrypted, here you go. The thing they shut down over was a request to build in a backdoor that bypasses encryption altogether.
>I like to think of myself as open-minded but I'm not ready for that just yet

But...why? Is there any good reason, or is it just puritanism?
Your point, and this article, reminds me of this story I read on HN couple days ago. http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2013/07/want_to_raise_prices_tell_a_...
While we're shooting down this article, I'd like to jump in to say that this article doesn't match what I consider to be hn material. I don't really see what it has to do with technology, coding, or even social change related to tech.

It's a demonstration of precisely what Rob Malda described to the Washington Post on Aug. 7 when he said that HN was getting too big.
They are a Catalan tradition, spread then to South America
out of curiosity, which js interpreter developer(s) is/are inexplicably homophobic? this is news to me.
It's not so much that I'm popular as that I've had this conversation numerous times before, and I sometimes get lazy about laying out my arguments over again, like now. In brief, I direct you to the second graph at this link as an explanation of why I link Reagan's name with prohibition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rat...

I didn't mention Nixon because for all his rhetoric his policies were pretty pragmatic, and he considered drug abuse at least partly a public health issue (as evidenced by his decisions). Reagan ran as a straight-up moralist and while I agree he'd probably be appalled at the militarization of police and abuses of power like this 'parallel construction' the DEA has been engaging in, this doesn't seem to have filtered through to his supporters. On the one hand he's portrayed as a selfless individual of almost god-like sagacity (I know this because I have ended up on the mailing lists of various conservative organizations, and this time of year I am the perplexed recipient of various Reagan calendars and suchlike), on the other he's almost invariably invoked in political debates in order to terminate discussion rather than broaden it.
This is an old warrant from April of this year. It's highly probably that this is not the reason for the shutdown. We can't know for sure since Lavabit's founder is, according to him, under gag order.
Unusual speed boost: size matters
Here's another one:

There's a couple of posts on meta.discourse.org asking how to integrate Discourse with an existing Single Sign On (assume all users have email addresses)

With Persona on a LAN-side server, you could even have emails like janesmith@intranet.local and it'd still be seamless.
If you notice this does have a gag order attached to it, specifically item 31 in the link you provided. Gag orders aren't just for NSLs.
I don't think you understand what 'invoking' means. It's not the same thing as mentioning something.
I have about 6-7 repos in GitHub...all private. I will never give that out in a link. I don't mind you looking at it in front of me, but I'm not giving anyone access to it. And since all that code is sitting on my laptop, it's easier to let me plug my laptop to your widescreen and let's talk code.
Now I understand your point of view, which I share. Much of this nation's drug war is an outrageous assault on civil liberties, from "we'll drop the charges if you forfeit assets" to swat teams breaking down the wrong door and shooting the family dog. People are still in prison for convictions long ago on outdated marijuana laws. Gupta is not hugely guilty here, but "choom gang" Obama and Holder are for continuing this madness, and now we're finding out the NSA data is being shared with local law enforcement.[1]

[1] http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7a7_1375808882
For the record, I (the commenter you're referring to) do flag a lot of what's on the front page. In the vein of introspective disclosure, I recently found myself flagging an article PG submitted and other that tptacek did, so it's likely I am missing some of the nuance in the guidelines.

I can't say I contribute much to the site in the way of links though. Usually, by the time I find something I think would be valuable here it's already fallen off the top end of the new page and doesn't get much discussion. Either I don't have the infrastructure in place to find stuff interesting enough to submit, or thus far have just had some unlucky timing. Honestly though, you're right. I just don't submit very much.
More open source Google lends 79 patents to the community
Github - definitely

LinkedIn - never. Circle jerking recommendations and filling your profile up with buzzwords.
This doesn't negate the fact that Toms makes a shitty product that fall apart easily, especially in the 3rd world.

Have they never offered free shoes we wouldn't be talking about them. They make it seem like they are giving away a pair of shoes worth $50, when they are really just spending a couple of dollars on a marketing expense. I bet they pass the cost of giving away a "free" pair of shoes onto their customer.

I can't speak for OP, but I have no disdain for Apple or Nike in terms of their markup because they are not masquerading as some sort of quasi-charity that is supposedly helping people in need. Also, they make good products.
Except so many bottles don't have corks now, and it seems users are trying to remember events based around which wine they were drinking? Is that the most memorable part of the evening?
Donate to the ACLU to fight government spying
Yeah it took me about 7 months to finish it, and you are right, every time I just felt beat and my mind was racing, what a great book.
> Some states actually have claims that you must identify yourself when stopped if the police officer asks. Failure to do so can lead to arrest under laws of the state:

This is false. You are misstating or misreading the article. You only must identify yourself (this does not mean you have to carry ID) if you are under a Terry stop and are in a state which has specifically enacted legislation requiring identification during a Terry stop. A Terry stop requires reasonable suspicion a crime has been committed. This is why I specifically and carefully said "you are not required to identify yourself to any police officer just because he asks, and if he asks without reasonable suspicion or probable cause (it depends on the state which one is the threshold), and you refuse to state your name, then he can not arrest you for that sole reason." In states with stop and identify laws that allow for it, he can require you identify yourself given reasonable suspicion of a crime. In other states, he needs probable cause.
That's likely to be more costly than prison since it requires round the clock medical care, and is no better than a prison since they are locked up.

Some people need round the clock medical care. Making the problem go away by just legalizing everything, including petty theft, is a silly solution.
Looks neat! I'm wondering how big is the market for this kind of service? Seems very valuable for early startups/products imho.
> A SOMBRE exploration of love, responsibility and death, “Kaze Tachinu” (“The Wind Rises”) is being described as Hayao Miyazaki’s first animated film for adults.

I have been a fan of Miyazaki since childhood and am looking forward to what he can do with more adult themes.
In the wake of the recent revelations about the NSA's unprecedented mass surveillance of phone calls, the ACLU filed a lawsuit charging that the program violates Americans' constitutional rights of free speech, association, and privacy.

Help us in our fight to end unconstitutional government spying and all civil liberties violations today.
This is possibly one of the coolest things I have seen all day. And I was procrastinating nearly all day so I have seen a //bunch// of things ;)

Makes for nice BG music and hasn't gotten annoying yet (10 mins in).
Yes, a GitHub profile is not perfect. It's way better than nothing - you get to see the developer's coding style, commenting approach and overall code organization. You say it's not your best work? then put something you're proud of on there before you send your resume. If you don't have one project that you think is representative of your current skill, you have to understand that is problematic for potential employers. Don't want to share it on GitHub? that's fine, send code examples instead of a GitHub link. But you can't hire a developer without reviewing some of his/her code first.

Personally, I find a Stack Overflow profile to be the best indicator of a developers skill, if he has a somewhat active profile (over 2-3k points). Being able to explain technical solutions, I think, is the best way to see if someone is both capable and can work in a team

Regarding resumes - another touchy matter. When I freelanced I haven't sent a resume as such as I had a portfolio site, but now that I'm on the other side of the table, going over resumes - most of them are completely terrible. Some people are completely clueless on what to put on a resume and others try to game it - putting stuff like "raised x metric by y% on project z" - giving me zero clue to what they actually did there. It's very rare I can get an actual glimpse to what the person was doing at his previous work. That's why you'll need to tell them your story when you interview... it's too easy to assume the interviewer was just lazy going over your resume because you think you "nailed" it, but in truth your resume probably sucks as an indicator of your actual experience and ability.
Erm, when was the last time you were in Australia? Cycling is huge here, especially in Brisbane. The local council has spent a great deal of money putting in bike lanes and paths all over the place, and they're very well used. Every workplace I've been in for the last 5 years has had a large group of riders who commute every day on a bike, and most of those also cycle for leisure on the weekends.

Additionally the council has put in a bunch of rental bike stations all over the place, although most people prefer to just use their own I think.

I ride to work 4-5 days a week, and it's fantastic. It's faster than the bus (by a factor of 2, IF the bus shows up on time, or shows up at all), good exercise, cheap, and environmentally friendly. Our workplace has an End Of Transit facility (fancy name for bike lockers, racks, and showers), which has a long waiting list of people trying to get in.
Reading these comments, you'd think that everyone on GitHub was only there to beef up his or her resume.

Personally, I've made far more open source contributions at my current (awesome) job than I ever did while on the job market. I use GitHub because it makes coding more fun, and because I get a huge thrill every time someone tells me they used one of my projects.

I also don't understand the OP's hostility to the open source movement. If you don't want to share your code, then don't share it! That's totally fine. But I'm very conscious of the fact that almost all the tools I use every day -- Linux, tmux, vim, Ruby, Python, etc, not to mention hundreds of libraries and plugins -- were all developed by people in the open source community. Often these people were working for free or for far below-market wages. Whether or not OP likes the OSS movement, modern software development is built on open source tools. Personally, I feel an obligation to try to give something back, even if it's something as small as a REST API wrapper.
I prefer the way this one preloads the story contents; I take the subway to work so I have a while without internet access. It would be nice to have comment links at least though, so there's the option to read them if it seems interesting. And the 'open all' button doesn't work for me, assuming that's what the '^' in the top right corner is supposed to do.
How does it differs from Crunchbase?
Well. There were some spoilers.
I was immensely disappointed to see his name there, and then heartened to see your reply. He was pretty much the person who most made me want to choose Manchester for CS.
The problem framed by JWZ is not a technical one. It is a social one, and centered upon values. Eliminating <blink> changes the existing content of the web. There's a reasonable argument that that is a bad thing - again one based on values not technology.

To put it another way, <blink> has meaning by virtue of its history. Its presence on a page says something to the viewer - not something technical but something cultural.

<blink>'s removal does not make the web richer or more meaningful. Instead, its removal does something quite the opposite.

I won't say that it is vandalism - but it does wantonly alter the expression of existing web content, and does so to the very content that is most in danger of being lost to history. It neuters what makes some web pages representative of their time and place.
Drinking Water out of Air
The problem with that, is that the depth of github is pretty hard to fake. Sure, you can have repos with code in them, but the time of day you commit, what your commits look like, how you work, is well documented.
DIY stalker boxes spy on Wi-Fi users cheaply and with maximum creep value
What legal action are we actually supporting?
Defending the rights of a mail provider to not be directly spied upon by the three letter agencies?
Transparency in regards to NSA letters?
I know they are limited in their speech regarding their legal issues, but is there any explanation on how the funds will be employed?
Video: Woz explains how cloud computing is turning us into Soviet Russia
little off topic. can someone of the Docker team comment on what its been like to work with GoLang on a big project like Docker?