skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>“They may want to come after the US government, but frankly, you know, the dot-mil stuff is about the hardest target in the United States,” Hayden said

Is he trying to get .mil sites targeted? Does he understand psychology at all?
I thought that they were going to ignore the anti-LGBT laws for the Olympics [0]

[0] http://rt.com/news/russia-olympics-gay-law-948/
John Carmack joins Oculus as CTO
I thought it might be perceived as minimizing the Gay rights issue in Russia when I said it doesn't seem to be the same scale as the Holocaust, to put it more bluntly. But you're right, I guess I didn't need it :)

I agree it's higher profile, but it also makes it more scary than it has to be I think. The issue of Gay rights is strong enough to stand on its own without making it seem as though Russia blames them for its problems.
Simple explanation about SOAP and REST
> There's no reason, for example, that the logged-in portion of a banking site should need to use JS.

Said no one who has ever had to develop a decent web ui.
Look at this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.nichtlustig...
It shows comics from the German nichtlustig.de
In the appstore you can see some screenshots, also of the included 4 panel instructions: It visualizes the 4 operations to be done with the app: forward/backward, mark as favourite, random cartoon and destruction.

When I saw it I laughed for a long time :-)
That's not a good idea, delegating, and when the OS gets compromised, the browser is to blame.
The full title actually ends with "Let's hope so."
> "If the NSA wants to track you,"

It's not about when the NSA wants to explicitly track you. It's about things like their "3 step" policy, where they search this bulk data for anyone within 3 degrees of separation of an alleged "person of interest".

What happens if they start working in your location data to (attempt to) infer degrees of separation? And now you're getting searched/visited/explicitly tracked/placed on the 'more-thorough screening' list at the TSA, because you happened to take some MMA classes at the 'wrong' gym in Boston and your web history had some keyword hits.
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What it really amounts to is that surreptitious entry isn't much of a problem.
I think he told me this so I would get into the habit of doing it. I was so used to just clicking on an executable file and just installing the program without ever thinking it may contain malicious code.

I can tell you I don't do this every time. Now if I'm installing a 3rd party extension or plugin, I usually do it in a sandboxed environment, run some pen tests on it to check how secure it is and see if there's any malicious code before I install it on my machine or server.

And yes, even then, it is still possible to install malware on your machine.
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The only time I've heard it used in English recently is at Chinese restaurants, where the popular dish is still called "Peking Duck".

Beijing is much closer to the Mandarin pronouciation, bei3 jing1, meaning "north capital." (there is also a Nanjing, "south capital.")
I deleted the "Let's hope so" because I thought it was editorializing. :-)
Do you have a source for that? I agree there is not a nice atmosphere (as there wasn't for Owens), but your suggestion that athletes will be arrested on arrival is simply not evident.

Minister Vitaly Mutko... "No one is forbidding an athlete with non-traditional sexual orientation from coming to Sochi, but if he goes onto the street and starts propagandizing it, then of course he will be held accountable"

In any case, arresting athletes is sure to provoke immediate international outrage.
This method of breaking loops from the inside reminds me of the code obfuscation referenced in the HDD Hacking article [1]. Making code hard to read definitely seems like one use of this technique.

So I suppose the converse is true -- if you want your code to be easily readable, refactoring is a better way of solving the problem than label-loop-terminating.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148347
Pythonic Sensibilities
Who did you vote for in the 2008 and 2012 primaries?

Your complaint here is a false dichotomy. We have many more choices than vote for candidate R or vote for candidate D, especially when you consider that each party had at least one fairly close primary in the last eight years.
Why would they? It's not a crime to be gay. The crime is "gay propaganda" (that is, anything that publicly references gays basically).

You're not helping anyone by spreading FUD.
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How'd you squeeze 2 SSDs in there?
Changing the password is a fair point that I hadn't considered
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If I believe that someone, somewhere, will be murdered tomorrow, does that necessarily follow that I both condone and justify it?
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Ask HN: How to stop requests to ajax.Googleapis.com and load jQuery locally?
I use RequestPolicy and I noticed tons of websites make requests to ajax.googleapis.com to fetch jQuery. With the recent revelations about Google handing over information to the NSA, I've become slightly worried about making so many requests to Google even when not visiting Google.

It looks like the file is being cached, but it's still making a request. Is there a way to load jQuery locally or force the browser to use the cached jQuery file instead of requiring to make a request to Google?
Doesn't appear to be the case: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57583843-38/apple-deluged-...

Their 'physical analyzer' doesn't work from the iPhone4S or iPad 2 onwards (under Click here to view all supported iOS devices).
Maybe their re-brand should include a change of name rather than just the logo. For me Yahoo! equates to damaged goods and bad history.
BTW, it asks specifically if you want to share the information with Apple to improve maps data before activating that feature.
I'm being pedantic, but 500 * 4 != 20000
Thanks for your inside assessment. You said the same majority votes Putin into power...do you have anything you could cite for this, or is it your observation?
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Ugh.

Those reviews would have been cute 10 years ago, but I really wish Amazon would screen reviews or only allow people who have purchased that particular item.
If Bruce Schneier ran the NSA, he’d ask a basic question: “Does it do any good?”
Your parent is not disputing that; they're saying that the _reason_ that being 'incapable of having anything other than an awkward conversation' is negative is due to attitudes relating to masculinity.

You're talking about the symptom, they're talking about the cause.
I wonder how this app works: Obviously it must transmit the highscore quickly enough before the phone shatters. I hope it opens and warms up a connection before you throw it. Maybe it can constantly transmit the height and falling time/speed up until the last second of life of the phone
There's an old joke from Communist times. It goes like this -- and old communist argues:

- What do you mean, we don't respect human rights? Of course we respect human rights! Why, I can provide the name of that human right now!

Same goes for 'celebrating human achievements' you've mentioned. No such thing will happen. There's only one achievement allowed into the celebration - the achievement of United Russia Party and its leader. Whatever the emotional positive externalities these Game might produce, all will be harvested by state propaganda.
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i hacked few bits of ugly code. this patch allows tmux to pass through to terminal 24bit colours (Konsole supports): https://gist.github.com/ArnisL/6156593

combine with: http://usevim.com/2013/05/31/24bit/
This may be an issue of giving people too much choice. Should users have the freedom to make terrible mistakes? Maybe in Linux, but not Windows. Similarly, you don't want an inexperienced secretary to get your company in legal trouble. Blaming the users can kill Xerox.
"Putin is a very well-established and popular leader if I recall correctly, so I also don't see why he'd need such a polarizing campaign"

He got 52% where I live, it's good for an American president but like a failure for a Popular Dictator.

And polarizing is what he does every day since fall 2011. He's no longer the president of all russians, he's a president of all russians minus a long and detailed list of people he accuses of various wrongdoings or wrongthinkings.
Let's hope so ;-)
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I usually introduce CoffeeScript as "shorthand for best-practice Javascript".

The big weakness of CoffeeScript IMHO currently is the weak organizational structure of the community. I don't see a clear path where the project is going, and already there are forks/parallels like livescript and IcedCoffeeScript, both with their own strengths.

The output is usually more readable than a lot of JQuery plugins I've seen ;-)

I regard CoffeeScript and its cousins as tools rather than frameworks or languages.
Alternative URL: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1523379957/oculus-rift-s...
McCarthy again.

Here's the thing about McCarthy, Communists were fucking everywhere. I don't mean ideological communists, I mean Soviet secret agents. They were in every level of government. They helped funnel the most secret of information to the USSR.

And that's not all, the Soviets were erecting a police state to control hundreds of millions of people in Eastern Europe. They had a tremendous military force with millions of soldiers. They were cranking out more tanks than had ever been in any war in history. And bombers. And they had nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to US cities in short order.

But none of that justified Senator McCarthy's abuses of power and violations of the rights of American citizens.

Here we are now faced with the threat of terrorism. Or to be more broad about it, the threat of jihadist radical Islamist fundamentalists (both in al qaeda and elsewhere). We know that these forces pose a serious threat to the US, just as the Soviets did. But is this danger on the same scale as the Cold War? Not even close. Does it justify abrogation of our cherished liberty and privacy? Never.
Some other cool features of Elixir:
...
* List comprehensions

I'd just like to point out that Erlang has list comprehensions as well.
One of the nice bonuses of targeting lowest-common-denominator JavaScript is that it makes things extremely compatible, and durable.

Even if all of the world's copies of the CoffeeScript compiler disappeared tomorrow afternoon, in between sips of tea, your compiled code would still run on every JS runtime (back to IE6), and would still be compatible with all other JavaScript libraries, and future versions of CoffeeScript as well.
I have yet to run in to anyone who actually likes the new version of yahoo sports. It's pretty, but impossible to find a lot of basic info that was prevusly easy.
I love this idea. The 1968 Power Salute for the LGBT community.
>"twentysomethings who haven’t talked to the opposite sex in >five or six years"

Has he SEEN Snowden's former girlfriend? This trope should be retired based on that point alone.
Wow. this is a big win for the team. Carmack can go deep and can also look at the controls on an instinctive level since he made Doom and Quake.
I can't believe no one is talking about how this all relates to revelations from the US state department cable leaks. The cables showed that the US State Department is actively involved in advancing anti-traditionalist groups in many countries. One of the cables went on quite a bit about how greater efforts are needed in France to promote multiculturalism and homosexual acceptance because so much of the nation remains traditionalist.

To a certain degree here Putin is in fact combating a propaganda arm of the US government that operates in his country. Remember Pussy Riot and the bizarre media reactions to their stunt? That shit was obviously western orchestrated when you looked at the reactions and the people involved.

I can think of no surer way to impair the cause of tolerance social acceptance than the stuff the USG is doing. Of course it's going to provoke a backlash.
Wow, what a coup!

Instant and absolute legitimacy. They are in for the long haul. This is going to be real stuff.

As a fanatic of 360 photography and video, this is simply fantastic to see. The oculus has the potential to challenge what we have known as TV for half a century.
Wow, amazing! I wish I had thought of this.

Think of it as the heart of a 2-part high-school physics project:

1. Develop a rocket that will carry your smartphone as its payload.

2. Develop a case that will allow your smartphone to survive the landing.

...and a 2-part college project:

3. Find investors for your high school project, then market it.

4. Profit!
> I hope that some day the ETW code in Windows that provides the CPU frequency will be fixed to detect thermal throttling – and a temperature provider would also be nice. Chapter 14 in the Intel Software Developer’s Manual, Volume 3A:, System Programming Guide, Part 1 would be a good starting point…

He mentioned that in the article ...
Incredible! Virtual reality just got that much more serious.
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I think some people become very indignant about this issue only because it's Russia. I don't see that much indignation at other nations that treat non heterosexual people worst. Other nations whose treatment of women and religious minorities can't not but be called barbarous. Some of whom are close allies of the USA. I personally see no problem with how other nations manage their internal affairs, as long as they keep to themselves.
Similar to Beijing, Nanjing was once pronounced as "Nanking" in the West. Some historical events, such as the Nanking Incident[1], still reference that pronunciation to avoid confusion.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Incident
A recent comment was 'best-of'ed on reddit and has some insight into why things are the way they are. It's worth reading the comment and the first reply.

http://www.reddit.com/r/russia/comments/1jpagi/whats_up_with...
I was wondering how fast someone would hook this up to a rocket and see if it can actually record a few thousand feet.
All you have to do is give the people a common enemy to unite against.
> You've simplified this way too much, as if each voter only has one issue that they care about. Political strategists are experts at game theory. They build political platforms based on how to get the most people off their couches per dollar. It is a multi-dimensional problem.

I don't think I have. Blatant breaches of something that voters perceive to be a fundamental right of theirs should be a dealbreaker; I am fairly sure that a candidate whose otherwise great agenda would include items like stoping state financing of any educational institution, explicitly forbidding any kind of health care for patients over fifty (you can pick any criteria here), explicitly introducing media censorship or punishing adherence to Catholicism with jail wouldn't get too many votes from mentally-sane voters.

It sounds fairly logical to assume that most American citizens are ignorant enough about their dignity, the meaning of being human or about who they are voting for that they don't perceive acts of support for such breaches of their rights to be a dealbreaker.

I'm not saying this is good or bad -- Americans seem to be happy enough not to do much about it, so if it floats their boat, it's awesome -- I'm just arguing that it is representative for them.
I think that the fact that people have been looking for meaning to their existence in God, Gods or other higher beings for years even when separated by oceans shows that this is a fundamental human issue.

While the execution of this is different in many ways, monothiestic - polythiestic it does show that human beings strive for a knowledge about things that are beyond our understanding. And it isn't like there haven't been Athiests all along http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_atheism. I think that this shows that the curiosity of "where do we come from" is fundamentally built into the human psyche.
Err, I think that's a bit of a strawman fallacy.

If you leave your computer unlocked in a public area, that's asking for trouble - which is the example I was referring to.

However, in your example, you cited giving your machine to a friend to debug code - in that case, you either trust your friend, or you don't.

If you don't trust your friend, why are you giving them your machine then.

It's like asking your friend to collect your letterbox mail - do you trust them enough to not open and read your mail? If you don't, then why are you entrusting them to collect your mail?
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I think it has gone beyond that - if Obama stood up and said "I've made that phone call, Gen. Alexander is turning off PRISM as we speak" would anyone believe it?

Its verifiability that counts.
> We should be able to trust the government to do things like run courts

> We should never trust the government when it comes to criminal prosecutions

And now I'm confused again. Do all cases simply become civil cases? Murder is now OK again?
Spam harder!

http://i.imgur.com/p5L7gWG.png
How open of a platform is that keychain, and can Apple reserve the right to lock any aplication out?
China doesn't have civil rights laws to protect homosexuals, but it has made it explicitly legal (1997), and removed it from lists of "mental illnesses" (2001)[1].

I'm aware it isn't a democracy, but it doesn't appear to sanction official discrimination in the same way as Russia on this issue. If you look at the rest of [1], you'll see it also has a long history of (debatable) tolerance for homosexuality.

(I am aware that is has a significantly different attitude to race than the UK and US, and I'm not sure I'm happy with it, but again I haven't heard of examples of official persecution, or police turning blind eyes to attacks on such minority groups.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_China#People.2...
I would say it clearly violates the 6th amendment, but I am an uneducated bumpkin when it comes to legal matters.

to be confronted with the witnesses against him;
Witnesses in this passage supposedly applies to evidence, not just people witnesses. Therefore it should violate that part.
Don't fool people, there is no such thing, but there is something cooler called "the skipping movement". A real skipping app would be much more brilliant:
http://iskip.com/
If Congress had chartered, ordered, or knowingly funded the NSA's domestic spying, it would be a lot harder. But as things are, I'm inclined to agree with you.
So, let me say this much: Fuck. Yes.

Quake 3 had stereoscopic rendering in the source back before anybody really cared, and Carmack has had long involvement both in consumer 3D graphics as well as vendor relations.

Long-short is that if you look at the code the dude has shipped, he really cares about things being both technically correct and worth hacking on. This is a really good move, and if they end up picking Mike Abrash I'll be unsurprised.
Hollywood should stay true to the real story of Alan Turing
Looks like his first job as CTO should be to fix the website's scalability ;)
That's what I do professionally, and I can say with confidence that a banking website does not need to use JS. There is no functionality there that can't be done the old-fashioned way.

Online banking does not need to be a rich HTML5 experience, and online banking worked just as well as it does today before the modern trend of trying to make everything act like a desktop app.

Would developing the UI without using JS be harder? Yes, marginally. Is it worth opening up security vulnerabilities to make development slightly easier? No. Just in terms of how much each of those costs the bank, no. From the users' perspective, no.
These same guys had previously used WebGL to suck out text in the same way; unfortunately the demo is no longer at the same URL, but it is what's responsible for the fairly weird implementation of CSS Shaders: http://www.schemehostport.com/2011/12/timing-attacks-on-css-...

It's amazing that the same thing can be observed with the standard SVG software filters, though. I'd imagine that using X-Frame-Deny as they suggest is a much better solution than killing all JS (because you just know some incompetent ad network will manage to flip the switch and break millions of pages with that ability...).
This makes me want one. This is huge news for Oculus and I wish the team the best.

I had a first glimpse of an Oculus watching someone use one on a Twitch stream the other day. He was just watching a tech demo thing of a rollercoaster ride but it was clear the tech was at or around that tipping point of interesting vs actually fun.
I bought a Clojure book and started going through it, and I have some limited experience with ELisp and Racket. I really like lispy (is that even a word?) languages, so I tried to get into Clojure, also because I really like the ideas behind ClojureScript and the various libraries for it. So far, my experience has been mixed, I guess because I didn't read enough, or maybe it is my unfamiliarity with anything jvm-related (having never been a Java guy), as that's also something I constantly run into when I'm doing Scala.
I'll try to write a bit more in Clojure, but so far Julia felt easier to get into, and I really like the ability to use types so that stupid errors don't result in runtime issues.

There're way too many interesting languages these days :)
It's not just the TSA that will make this popular - I see the convenience as a big draw. As this expands to more regional airports, it will be even more practical. Being able to drive to a smaller, less crowded airport will be a selling point. You don't have to deal with the stresses of huge terminals and tons of people.
They clarified later that they are going to enforce that law.
Agreed. Julia seems like it could really become a competitor to MATLAB (unless you rely on fancy toolboxes). I think their blog has some nice posts:

http://julialang.org/blog/

especially these seem very interesting:

http://julialang.org/blog/2013/03/julia-tutorial-MIT/

It's also a huge plus that they can pretty much call any python inline:

http://nbviewer.ipython.org/url/jdj.mit.edu/~stevenj/IJulia%...

So we have the fall back python libraries and can do plotting etc..
It would do this each time it saved a password.

And that's the logic behind Clippy. "It looks like you're saving a password? Did you know that if you to chome://indecipherable/arcane/nonsnese/ all your passwords are visible? Click [OK] to agree"

What do you think about the recent EU/UK cookie law? You're basically suggesting that for password.
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People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.

As true today as ever... And unfortunately for us, at the moment, the balance is way to far in favor of "the people are scared of their government". People like Snowden and Manning risk moving the balance the other way, so of course high-ranking government official types will spazz out over this stuff. Transparency is anathema to corruption and abuse of power.
There is no such thing as perfect security.