skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The link shown in the screenshot is http://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.onion/ but I thought TPB's "TOR hidden service" link was http://jntlesnev5o7zysa.onion/ . I wonder what's going on.
The only way this could happen is if US voting system for presidency changed to a direct, 2-turn election.

This way, someone could vote for a third option knowing that it won't help the opposing party.
And for developers not used to Emacs, Eclipse and Counterclockwise is the preferred development environment. Even Emacs pros might find it easier to just start out with counterclockwise at first.
Does not make sense to me. Lavabit claims that it cannot decrypt customer's data, but if someone else could read what goes through Lavabit server and a client it could decrypt the data?? So, how come Lavabit can't do tha same thing?
From what I've read I'm under the impression that his paying customers have their mailboxes encrypted. The mailboxes themselves probably aren't deleted, but login has been disabled to protect his customers. There's a point where the password is in an unencrypted state on the web server, and he's probably been ordered to stream these unencrypted passwords off NSA HQ. By shutting down, LL is protecting against passwords being compromised.
Completely agree, their next iteration looks better but I just don't see most people wearing them. I honestly don't think this technology is going to become ubiquitous until and if somebody manages to get past the issues of getting it onto a contact lens.

I'd even go as far as saying the current efforts might be a bad thing for that possibility, if it is even possible, since we might just end up with a patent encumbered wasteland by the time the technology's there.
Found the problem, I tried installing it when it was alpha but didn't work out, so I reverted back to ST2. Now when I installed it again, it was suing the previous install folder. Once I deleted the install directory and the directory in user folder for windows and reinstalled from scratch, it worked. Not necessarily a bug so won't be reporting it. Thanks!
I don't think he's saying that this sound is at all special outside of the context in which it's found. He's simply amazed that his work has become so incredibly widespread, and talks about how he created it. Nothing about this story implies the work itself was something particularly special.
..if microsoft's or google's services were down for this long hell would freeze...

just saying that apple seems to be getting treated better for no reason
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You can use tor2web to (slowly) browse .onion sites. https://uj3wazyk5u4hnvtk.tor2web.org/ looks like TPB to me.
Crypto experts blast German e-mail providers’ “secure data storage” claim
I was under the impression it was given to Obama for being the first non-white male president of the US, something many consider Nobel-worthy in and of itself.

That said, he could have done a better job living up to it.
I think he will be mentioned on the same page as Warren Harding.

And also again in the chapter about notable African Americans. Let's not forget that getting elected president as the first African American is an achievement in itself, and one which I believe benefits the African American community, even if Obama's performance as a president doesn't live up to our initial hopes.
Scala has 1, 5, and 6.

It lacks 7, and about 2/3, which are basically the same, where scala at least supports mixin constructions (which you can also get from class-parameter ised functors, though maybe not in Ocamel).
Leashes diminish those at either end of them..

there's an emerging field of research that suggests powerful people who begin to forget their subordinates can be coached back toward their former kindness

I know one way that ought to work, and has the added benefit of being just: stripping them of their power (over others). If there is another way, I'm curious.
Isn't that grounds to impeach the president? Getting in the way of a congressional investigation?
Computer generated music wasn't that hard at the time the author's writing about. To be honest the process the author describes is just about the simplest there is in computer music: choose a sampler instrument, pick a sequence of notes.

Consider that Aphex's Windowlicker was a created at around the same time as the sound the author made, and it was an entirely computer sequenced track (with lots of effects programmed in the SuperCollider audio programming language):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ8sZXFN6jc

That should give you some idea of the audio effects possible on computers at the time. The Tri-Tone is child's play by comparison.
>Honestly, not a single thing of world class importance stands out.

First non-white male US president in history? Interesting how quickly such a thing becomes non-notable.
I would normally agree, but specific usability claims are being made continuously about the benefits of purity, while many programmers think of Haskell has being anything but.
Ask HN: DigitalOcean API from Android
Greetings! I'm trying to make DigitalOcean API calls from my Android phone, in particular using Better Terminal Emulator Pro... but this wget does not work with HTTPS. How do you guys go about it? My phone is not rooted, and I prefer to leave it like that.

Thanks!

PS: Things like this make me really curious about Ubuntu Phone...
I agreed with the people saying that a confirmation before uploading would be helpful, so I went to file an issue.

It turns out there is one there already. You can weigh in here: https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm/issues/12.

EDIT: A follow up: It turns out that there is a slightly hidden and indirect way to abort uploads. Start the program as `showterm -e`, and it will offer you a chance to edit timings before uploading. (This is intended to give you a chance to trim out long pauses.) At that point, if you can cause your editor to abort with a non-zero status, the upload aborts. For Vim users, the gem's author points to exiting with `:cq`.

See here: https://github.com/ConradIrwin/showterm/blob/master/bin/show...
It's no use to care about Bush, he himself is not in power anymore.

What does it give us to say 'yeah, Bush was a bad guy'?

If anything Bush did is still having adverse effects, Obama and his successors are the ones who we should look at.

I think the most important thing in your comment is 'and continued by Obama', that's the pain point, that's what's matters to us now.
Here's how it works. As a user I want to connect to a web resource, I am redirected to my idp (SecureAuth) where we ask you your name, then I look at your account and ask you to enroll, then I ask you your password. Now before I generate a claim/token or what ever I take your fingerprint so for the next day/30 days/90 days or what ever your fingerprint is checked between your username/password and the strong authentication is transparent to the user.
The variables can all be weighted differently and the fingerprints can easily be revoked but it is very cool technology.
You mean, if Microsoft's or Google's developer services were down for this long. I honestly don't think people would raise any more stink than they did with Apple.
The profiles center has been a online for quite a while now.
Your anxiety at the tritone is not just a culturally learned response - as the Wikipedia article you linked explains, the harmonic ratios in a tritone really are mathematically 'dissonant' when compared to, say, a perfect fifth or major third.
Yep. And thanks. And to be honest, I think that asking random people for IDs was the smallest thing. People from always-free countries do not realize how much authoritarian regimes damage society. It's not just that some people became victims of the regime. Maybe the worst thing (at least in my opinion) is that society in an authoritarian regime is set in such ways that the system rewards dishonesty and cowardice and the most unscrupulous people get to the top... and stay there even after the regime falls.
It's interesting because the constraint on the project wasn't "I want an incredibly simple ascending arpeggio with a percussive kind of timbre." It was, "something simple that would grab the user's attention... cut through the clutter of noise in a home or office." Sifting through all possible sounds to find one that does the best job is not that easy.
Yeah but he hasn't done fuck all for all those people who are persecuted because they are black in America. Look at the prison system and the way drug cases are prosecuted. In fact just watch this TED talk - this black president is for the 65 year old white corporate executive more than anyone:

http://www.ted.com/talks/bryan_stevenson_we_need_to_talk_abo...
agreed. This is a dangerous utility akin to a key logger.
> The latest developments around PRISM and the NSA dragnet operations uncovered by Edward Snowden, in my view, severely damage the fragile fabric of the new global ecosystem, which we so sorely rely on in order to collectively tackle truly urgent global issues such as energy, pollution, food, climate change, (cyber-)terrorism and inequality.

This seems really central to me.

A system that's corrupted by the use of mass surveillance will ultimately lead to bad/wrong policy decisions (decisions which favor a few ultra-rich people). And everybody knows the weight of the impact of US policy decisions on the rest of the world (= humanity).
that may not always be practical though - how would you go about stripping the power of the employer over the employee? without an employer's power to say, decide whether an employee gets fired or a raise, the relationship would no longer be there.
:help version7.4 has all the details, but the two most significant ones cited are "New regexp engine" and "A more pythonic Python interface."

Of the former, the help file says:

What is now called the "old" regexp engine uses a backtracking algorithm. It tries to match the pattern with the text in one way, and when that fails it goes back and tries another way. This works fine for simple patterns, but complex patterns can be very slow on longer text.

The new engine uses a state machine. It tries all possible alternatives at the current character and stores the possible states of the pattern. This is a bit slower for simple patterns, but much faster for complex patterns and long text.

Most notably, syntax highlighting for Javascript and XML files with long lines is now working fine. Previously Vim could get stuck.
As long as they start doing Ubuntu Tablets and Phones, it's all fine by me.
My first web framework (for newLISP) did this and had a nice visual aid from the Ruby on Rails site that showed why it's a good idea: Simplicity:

http://rundragonfly.com/dragonfly_routes

Search for: "Q: Where are the HTTP verbs GET/POST/PUT?"
> Another good site for testing your settings security is grc.org.

http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/
This has been out for awhile now. For a complete list of bootable OS images for the RaspberryPi see:

http://elinux.org/RPi_Distributions
I wouldn't call this a call to boycott. On my part, I have quit dropbox for Norwegian company Jottacloud, Google Search for DuckDuckGo and I will pretty soon quit Chrome (for Opera, I think) and Android (for Firefox OS or Ubuntu Mobile)...
You are very generous with your praise.
Making Trigonometry Interesting
Client side changes are handled in a weighted model. If the heuristics match between 85 and 95% we might update the stored fingerprint.
While we can use this for SSO it's usually tied to another factor of authentication. Something like a user/pass, social id or maybe saml assertion from another claim provider.
We are just scratching the surface of what this type of technology can be used for.
If you've ever used iTunes Match, you'd know it's a stretch to say that it "just works".
Ask HN: Final Year Project Suggestions for Forensic (Security) Computing Student
I'm preparing to go into my final year of a Forensic Computing & Security Degree and looking for ideas for a final year project.<p>The project involves writing a piece of software. Although this can apparently be 'proof of concept' as long as it has the basic functionality.<p>I'm also reading the 'Tangled Web'[1] and have 'The Web Application Hackers Handbook'[2] but haven't started the latter yet. Also participating in 'Matasano's Crypto Challenges[3] based on recommendations from other HN comments. I also subscribe to a couple of podcasts such as 'Security Now'[4] etc etc.<p>The obvious choices are things like GUI wrappers for CLI tools. ack, nmap, snort etc etc.<p>At the other end would be something like a new secure email protocol. Whilst far more interesting (imo) than a wrapper or fuzzer this maybe be more than I can achieve in the time available.<p>Ideally it needs to be somewhere in between. Interesting, useful but also achievable in the time allowance of 6-7 months a long side a well documented report and other modules.<p>If the idea can adapt i.e. features can be added/dropped depending on how the project is progressing that would be extremely useful as it provides some breathing room on either side.<p>I would really like to hear from Forensic/Security/Network professionals especially about tools they would actually find useful in their fields and any suggestions would be appreciated.<p>Also just general useful suggestions, links to web resources/podcasts/books etc that could be useful for inspiration are welcome.<p>[1] http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/tangled/
[2] http://mdsec.net/wahh/
[3] http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/
[4] http://twit.tv/sn
Has he been asked about this statement by a journalist? It seems like his position on Snowden is the complete opposite of what his Protect Whistleblowers promise was.
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Filing Bankruptcy is a Painful End to Your Startup
http://browserspy.dk/ has a good list
Homes for Hackers gets a visit from the FBI
Formulas for Everything: Complex Analysis, Political Cartoons, Album Covers ...
The American dream? Come on, that's a joke and has been for a long time now. I'm talking about realism.

Besides, I'm not saying sacrifice anything... if they wish to have the family, home and car they should seriously think if they can afford it.
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.
FYI, your writing would be more legible if you inserted spaces between all words.
> I can't imagine all of it would be subject to a lawsuit.

Where have you been all this time? Have you not read the news recently? Basically every US IT company is being NDA'd and backdoored/taped. Lavabit is the first one in choosing a different option: closing the business.
Vim 7.4 released
But that was my point; both sites look like TPB. Which is the real one and which is a potentially logging proxy?
iOS vs Android vs Blackberry mapped in detail
Pardon my ignorance, but is'nt webpage preloading + rendering a HTML5 specific feature? [1]

[1]: http://www.igvita.com/2011/06/25/html5-visibility-api-page-p...
Indeed. Incredible to ignore a world shouting NO!!! and then sharing the blame
That's an impossibility here in the South. No amount of fans or windows will combat 100+ degree heat outside.
Bad form to require someone to install your program just to see your changelog, though. Please put up a page, or put the latest help docs online (the current set is still for 7.3) and link to the relevant section, instead of "see :help version7.4".
especially considering it was him popularizing the famous line that "everything good in life is illegal, immoral, or makes you fat" (from"Annie Hall" iirc).
Reading a book and joining a startup would give you a very different opportunities and knowledge compared to a MBA in a top business school. In any case, if you have a technical background isn't easy to change into a Business role in a startup. I compare it as a self learn developer, it can achieve a great level but in my opinion won't match in average someone with a similar profile and with a theoretical background.
Indeed. And I would add one more: WHY?
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He spent 2 hours and created a sound that causes entire rooms of people to pat their pockets; I'm pretty sure it would have actually taken longer to try out samples by hand (and evaluate each one as you go).
> Everyone thought the evidence was there, Dems, Pubs, and foreign nations.

Eh, no: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k_QbpFl7RM

And if you were reading foreign newspapers at the time, you would have noticed that Colin Powell's presentation at the UN was met with much skepticism. Even in newspapers who thought that getting rid of Saddam Hussein was a good idea in principle.

And yes, the evidence was rigged. We know now that Curveball had lied and that George Tenet in particular had been told that Curveball wasn't trustworthy. But the CIA gave his testimony to Powell, anyway.
So I need to have the level of skill needed to pilot a plane just to look at my old family photos, drawings and poetry? And you make products with the expectation from your customers, perhaps?

"Trust me with your data, I am a technologist. It's okay, I'll take care of it. Though I will expect you to fire up a VM if you still care about it 10 years from now."
The reasons cited by the committee was his "promotion of nuclear nonproliferation" and reaching out to the Muslim world.

That being said - a few drone strikes is a lot more peaceful than starting two big wars like his predecessor did.

Personally, i think we should never underestimate how petty people in power can be: I think the committee handing out the prize were like star-struck teenage girls and wanted to meet Obama.
Could you elaborate on Scala's TCO support? I was under the impression that only self-tail calls are eliminated and only if the stack trace would be provably unused. Doesn't the JVM require stack traces? Can you use CPS in Scala?

I see now that Scala can encode GADTs in case classes. What mechanism is available to encode polymorphic variants? Particularly, I am interested in writing matches over unions of polymorphic variant types.

I disagree that 2 and 3 are the same (structural module subtyping, nesting, inclusion differs from applicative functors). I believe you can achieve mixins with OCaml through the object system but it's not clear to me that this addresses functor signature checking.

Another Scala bonus:
5. Objects can implicitly be null.
That's a lot different than (e.g.) tracking somebody's click patterns on your site to better serve them advertisements.

And there isn't such a thing as anonymous data in 2013: it's just data that hasn't been identified yet. Surely a small portion of "anonymous" analytic data can be used to match a user's two identities.
> Your browser fingerprint appears to be unique among the 3,242,704 tested so far.

I guess it is good choice to disable JS by default
Humanity threatening its own survival like it currently does is not practical either. Even going back into the ocean like the dolphins is more practical than that.

And more importantly, I think there is a difference between justified authority and power. Not that I'm automatically accepting employer and employee relationships as desirable, just like with "citizen vs. politician", but for example it's perfectly okay that parents can yank their kids at the arm when those are about to run into traffic, and otherwise curtail their autonomy, as long as it's justified. That's not power, that's authority, and even authority needs to be constantly re-evaluated and justified.

If you're on an expedition and the most experienced person leads it, one would expect that when they get sick, they would pass that job on without any fuss at all, since it's about the well-being of the expedition, not about their personal power, right? Notice how in many cases instead we have people asserting ownership, certainly when it comes to employers, and even in politics. When was the last time you strolled into a place and up to the manager/president, proved you're smarter in all ways, and successfully convinced them they should give you their job and work under you? Thought so :P
Windows likes to use it regardless of the amount of RAM you have free. Page File on Windows is unfortunately not as friendly as the swap area on Linux (where what you said is true).

Currently I have 8 GB free (out of 24 GB) and the page file is sitting at 944 MB (up from 96 MB) after rebooting about 12 hours ago. Windows has always been this way regardless of the version.

Turning it off is also not a good idea as Windows does use it regardless of free RAM.
Researchers speed up transistors by embedding tunneling field-effect transistor
Because Lavabit doesn't keep passwords in the clear, presumably.
wouldn't it be great if Google Glass had an app that
showed me information about the flora and fauna I'm
seeing? Oh wait, it can't yet

I think Glass could do this, but not as an overlay.
Campaign to make a really good Animated PNG converter/library
kickstarter to make a new APNG Assembler 'apngasm' library and companion GUI editor for Animated PNG so it can finally be easy to create and use APNG images and incorporate APNG functionality in your software. Help make APNG the accepted standard and stop suffering with GIF.
Banned HN: Post here to find if your account is dead
In response to this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=6190895&whence=item%3fid%3d6190620

I thought it might be good to start a tradition of a Banned HN thread (similar to "who's hiring") where we post and tell each other if our profiles are dead. Basically everyone who adds a comment should get an upvote. If you post and get no upvotes, you know you're gos'
No normal food for 2 months
Okay so what about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6191092
Is my account dead?
I'm doing some tests [1] with showterm's screencasts embedded in a web page and, argh, apparently you can't control the autorun feature, pretty annoying.

I think that if it had a set of "play"/"pause"/"rewind"/"forward" buttons, tons of websites would benefit (for docs, examples, tutorials, etc).

[1] https://googledrive.com/host/0B9lMEsFXwv0ZLVh5dkRfdmw1UnM/
Or ttyrec(1) and ttyplay(1)
I don't know if he was asked about this text, by any journalist. However, read the text from Obama's perspective, and you'll easily find the answer he'd give: Snowden did not use the official channels for whistleblowing. Snowden commited a crime, and should be handled as a criminal.

That text can be read as having the intention to neuter whistleblowers by providing a sanctioned escape valve as much as the interpretation you're giving it (that of general protection of whistleblowers).
That seems like an arbitrarily high standard for using a library. If someone wants to use jQuery so that they can use $() instead of document.getElement() is that really so bad? Libraries as a level of abstraction so that the user only has to know what a function _does_ not necessarily _how_ it does it.
I've seen mentions of of this but didn't realize that people weren't even being notified. That's fucked up and I really think this policy needs to be reevaluated.