skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Typical strawman from tptacek; I am not disputing that pot, alcohol, television, or plain laziness sometimes cause people to become burntout bums. The myth is that all, or even most, people who smoke pot become burnout hippy bums and that it is a phenomenon uniquely caused by pot.

You are both absolute lunatics if you think government run propaganda campaigns have nothing to do with that perception.

Let's review:

1) rayiner describes the 'status quo' as stereotyping pot users, calls out media campaigns as one cause of this, and calls out his mother specifically as an example of this.[1]

2) I agree with rayiner.[2]

3) rayiner does not like it when people agree with him, and backpedals.[3]

4) I call him out for backpedaling.[4]

5) You "jump into the fray" damn near a day after rayiner's comment with a red herring large enough to make a professional fisherman blush.

Try reading the goddamn conversation before tagging in for your buddy.

[1] "The votes come from everyone who bought into Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign. People like my mom, who thinks pot causes young men to give up on life and not get jobs or girlfriends and just play video games all day, and supports keeping it illegal because she thinks that's bad for the country."

[2] "The government runs propaganda campaigns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Youth_Anti-Drug_Media_...) to convince people like your mother that drugs are the worse thing imaginable. Those people then turn around and support the government in its opposition to drugs."

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6233377

[4] "So your mom didn't lap up Nancy Reagan's "Just say no."?"
Jobs review.
Apple doesn't care about design. If they did they would have created something original. Here they stole their entire windowing interface from Xerox and their kernel from FreeBSD and Mach. OS X is designed by other people, Apple only cares about metallic textures. They're receiving bad critics because ... oh wait, they're not b/c Steve's said "great artists steal" and made it all ok.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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I hate the Pumping Lemma
Anger over WikiLeaks Party "accidentally" preferencing far-right
Imagine if high ranking FA official or English politicians were turned away at the border. It would be hilarious.
A list? What are you talking about?

Demo-day is application/invite-only, AFAIK.
I haven't observed anything like that here in the RTP (NC) area, but I don't do that much socializing with other "startup people" these days. I stay too busy actually working on our startup to spend a lot of time hanging out at "startup events" and what-not. But even when I did spend a lot of time in that scene, I don't remember hearing about anything remotely like the stuff described here. shrug
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I don't claim to be an expect on Irving, but a cursory glance at Wikipedia shows that he is an active Holocaust denier that an English court found "persistently and deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence." I'm sure there is more to his story, but to say that he "certainly deserves" to be called a historian is pretty simplistic.
Anyone else find it funny they bring up terms of service and claim this wasnt responsible disclosure? He made it clear which posts he made using the exploit. He informed them before "going public". Its not really his fault their security team couldnt follow up and request more "technical details". I do not mean to downplay that he should have gone the correct route to report this bug but they shouldnt just lash out and ban a user trying to help.
well, if you think this is bad, don't turn on CNBC, or Fox.
Me too. I've always thought male/female is a better fit (English not being my first language).
This is actually the 2nd salvo. Glenn Greenwald basically made his opening statement in the negotiation for how this is going to go down in the NYT's profile of Laura Poitras:

Read the middle of the last page: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/magazine/laura-poitras-sno...

> Their discussion turned to the question of coming back to the United States. Greenwald said, half-jokingly, that if he was arrested, WikiLeaks would become the new traffic cop for publishing N.S.A. documents. “I would just say: ‘O.K., let me introduce you to my friend Julian Assange, who’s going to take my place. Have fun dealing with him.’ ”

> Poitras prodded him: “So you’re going back to the States?”

> He laughed and pointed out that unfortunately, the government does not always take the smartest course of action. “If they were smart,” he said, “I would do it.”
This is really, really misplaced advice. As a programmer, he knows how to program, he does not know how to profitably trade, nor is it easy to learn. An analogy would be telling a chef to open a restaurant because they are a good cook. While common advice, it isnt that simple. The analogy also fails because it is much easier to learn to run a restaurant than it is to trade profitably, let alone on the forex markets.

He has valuable skills that should easily command him more than what he "needs" to make, he should use those skills instead of attempting to learn an unrelated, saturated, and difficult field.
Kutcher is actually a smart guy he just got typecasted as an idiot character for most of his career
>you can bet that some UK companies are violating the US's insane IP laws. Should American companies be able to sue them for doing things that are legal in their own home country?

Yes. That's how it works if the UK company operates in the US. Like the other comments said, if there was no Google.co.uk & no Google UK offices then maybe they'd have some ground. But both of those exist, so... Just like China can't open this[1] store on American soil, Google can't have UK offices & Google.co.uk and somehow be immune to UK law, right? If companies can just enter other countries and do whatever is legal back home, I'm sure we can all think of a few examples where that would cause some significant issues.

1. http://www.tealeafnation.com/2013/06/chinas-copycat-phenomen...
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This appears to be for a classroom full of Chromebooks. You could restrict students to one website during a test, for example.
They should keep 'OS' in the name if for no other reason than to piss off annoying pedants on the internet.
Congrats on Mattermark making it into the list!
If you think Morse code is cool, and it is, what is say is cooler, in my very humble and probably worthless opinion is this; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu,The Inca, over 500 years ago, encoded information in binary format using knots on a rope. Think about that. Cool, I think. What do you think?
> One of the things I'm proud of my grandfather for was that he learned 22 different dialects of Chinese for the purposes of doing business on a fairly wide scale.

While that's impressive, this only shows how much better it would have been for trade & business if Chinese people at the point spoke a single language. A businessman wouldn't have to learn 22 languages (quite a significant time investment), to have the same level of reach your grandfather did.
Lets hope that OP doesn't have anymore security vulnerabilities in hand because if he do, FB will pay the price of not paying him for the first time :)
I totally agree that Firefox extensions are a massive pain. I tried the review process and after the waits, and rejections, I gave up and hosted it myself. You can host Firefox extensions and have them auto-update, but it's not well documented on what magic settings you need to enable to do so. This tutorial was helpful: http://www.borngeek.com/firefox/automatic-firefox-extension-...
"I should range my salary expectations in a range of 130K-150K just to be safe in the zone and not miss out on the job. Is this fair? ... Assuming my rental will be around 2k"

130K would be a bit too much. I know developers who get paid around 100K for a normal development gig at an investment bank. And 2K is also a bit too much for rent. Try to live in Chinatown, or at least Queens - they're definitely less than other parts of the city.
It is not pushed with especial sense of urgency, there were the crypto wars in the nineties for example[1]. On the other hand, if there is a special sense of urgency then it is probably more future shock than anything concrete. From the perspective of the old mans with pencils, suddenly you get all these leaks and you get all this computer stuff they do not really understand. So they err on the side of heavy handed security, because they do no longer trust their model of the world.

[1] http://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Crypto_Wars
I admit I wasn't thinking of search warrants. I was thinking of the times where I've had police in my domicile, all of which were in response to calls for assistance.
so are you saying that running Oracle in a VM will kill its performance? By what factor would you expect?
If it worked in Chrome, that is.
Tried the language recently. Wanted a in-memory data structure that could represent a filesystem-like graph. Ran away when I understood (please correct me if I got that wrong, but I wasted a whole weekend and found nothing) that it's either totally type-unsafe void*^H^W interface{} all the way or I have to write my own separate implementation for every and each type of graph I'll use, without any significant way to reuse code.
Why not a desktop dock with multiple inductive coils (the kind used for smartphones)? Proven to work, cheap to make, (much) higher efficiency. Using acoustics seems weird, even lasers would be better :-)...
I'm looking at the google-appengine group and there are three messages with the word "appscale" in them since June. Am I looking into the wrong list?
Does it really matter how you label it after the fact. Affordance is all that matters. In my opinion familiarity isnt intuitiveness its a subset of it.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
History is history, and I don't see how the fact that this article is nearly 20 years old changes anything.

The very fact that Unix began as a multi-user, networked system, illustrates the collaborative nature of Unix, where other systems took an ad hoc approach to security by virtue of their origins as single user, non networked, systems, Unix started with these concepts as the foundation of the system - resulting in security being a primary concern rather than an afterthought.

This approach to security had the effect of encouraging collaborative development, which, I believe, is the basis of the article.
You can create your own customized project template. Even the Express version of Visual Studio lets you create project/item templates.
> If you talk with any of your non-tech friends about this topic, does a single one of them care?

From what I've seen so far, many people care, but not in the way we'd like. A surprising amount of people think along the lines of "If Greenwald/Snowden/etc are doing something wrong, maybe they shouldn't be doing it" or "If this makes me safe from terrorists, then I support it".

Don't underestimate the stupidity of the general populace. People are dumb and selfish and generally won't stand up against injustices unless it somehow directly affects them.
Yeah, I am not disputing that... read my above comment again.
All the best to you!
>Holocaust denial is not racism.

You are welcome to read, as an example, the very first article of Mr Toben's most recent newsletter [1] in which he makes the case that jews do not value the lives of gentiles and are involved in ethnic cleansing of whites in america.

>Getting arrested for defamation might be a freedom of speech violation.

I agree, but the operative word is 'might', it might also not be and that's why refusing to defend him does not call into question Amnesty's commitment to promoting free speech, but only their clear judgement.

Defamation is not protected speech because it unjustly harms the person or people being defamed, and fabricating blood libel about holocaust victims would be very hard for amnesty to honestly justify.

>A state can define 'incitement for racism' as expressing one's opinion.

A state can, potentially, define anything as any other thing, so this is not a particularly convincing argument without a solid example.

[1] http://www.adelaideinstitute.org/newsletters/Newsletter%2071...
The comparison is LA/SF. It would also be cheaper for the Hyperloop to go to Death Valley, and would serve any nearby residents of Death Valley well.
That's how OS X is now, after ~10 years of closed development. When it first started it was open source FreeBSD and Mach. I even remember the FOSS community's disappointment when Apple close sourced the project.

Who knows how eOS will look in ten years, and the state of OS X now is certainly no basis for criticism of brand new OS.
I mostly just use Mint for aggregation between accounts, budgeting, and trend monitoring. We pay our bills via paper. I don't like logging into each bill's bill pay website. Paper seems easier because it reminds you right there, where as a bill pay website you have to actively go to. If banks provided an ability to aggregate between accounts like Mint, and integrated bill pay (like yours) into a single site, that would be pretty close to ideal for me.
I wonder how deep the game goes?

Imagine if the confiscated electronics contained as-yet unreleased documents describing abuses of "anti-terror laws" by UK authorities - in similar ways to the evidence-laundering revelations in the US?
You're missing the point. This technology could clearly be used for exactly the purpose that the BoingBoing article describes, whether or not that's Apple's specific goal. And since they're a highly proprietary vendor we have no idea to what extent they have opened or will open this to law enforcement etc.

Which is exactly why I said it's essential we don't depend on a single proprietary vendor for mobile tech.

And the fact that an existing patent covers similar technology is meaningless. The patent archives are overflowing with redundant and overlapping claims that have yet to be tested in court.
That might introduce the same overhead that maintaining state does in the first place. It sounds like they're sending out at least a million requests per second.
I don’t understand why this article so carefully avoids the word “spouse”. I had no idea what kind of partner David Miranda was – business, romantic, or marriage – for most of the article. The story only hinted at the meaning in the third-to-last paragraph, about “detaining the family members and loved ones of journalists”. Was this just bad editing, or does nobody talk about “business partners” any more?
If you believe that the security interests of the state should always take precedent, then this argument could be made. However, this is of course a totalitarian position.
I stopped reading when he implied that the US was behind it. GB is a sovereign country, and still a democracy. If you don't like the fascist laws people are voting for, stop voting for them. If you blame some outside party, you're just passing the buck and making excuses why you can't convince people to grow a spine and stop voting for the status quo -- "oh, my people would never put up with this, but the big bad USA is forcing us to". If your politicians have signed you up to be the enforcers for a little mafia protection racket, maybe they shouldn't be in office.
I cannot see in a world were we are trying to reduce energy use how wireless power is possible?

Even if it's got some sort of feedback that allows it to be a highly concentrated beam between devices it still seems to me it'll be very lossy.

Loss in the air. Loss in transforming the energy twice more than normal.
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They are also in the second half of the parliament and sooner or later will seek to find issues on which they can distinguish themselves from the Conservatives
"but I do see it as a guy waving his arms screaming to the public "HEY HEY, I AM STILL HERE! PAY ATTENTION TO ME!""

I bet ya dollars to doughnuts that Woz did not contact the media first. His phone probably didnt stop for days with media ringing him up trying to goad something out of him.
I was just saying on a post the other day how badly the government(s) are losing the PR battle. Quite amazing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6223584
I think the officials who do things like this should be prosecuted under the same terrorism laws they're supposed to be enforicing. This is clearly an act of terrorism on the part of the NSA and GCHQ.
It can't actually harm your hearing, by definition. Hearing damage caused by high intensity sound is the result of mechanical transduction of sound waves to hair cells in your inner ear. When the amplitude of a certain frequency is too high, the cells responsible for turning those mechanical vibrations into electrical signals are physically damaged.

Ultrasound is mechanically filtered, so it can't propagate into your cochlea and damage the hair cells. This is in contrast to something like photons, where UV or infrared light can absolutely damage your photoreceptors in your eye.
They do it because they can and they learned that the public will scream for a few days and move on with their daily problems soon after.

It's sad, very sad. I am pessimistic and I have an impression looking at how Obama and co. are lying without any consequences, what NSA has being doing and other recent examples, that we lost that war and we have no tools to fight against it.
Python has packages ("eggs", although the term has multiple meanings, I'm unaware of good unambiguous name to things you host on PyPI or alikes). You put your code under a certain conventional directory structure, write simple setup.py file and, well, that's about it.

(Although, as I happen to use mostly Debian-based systems, I prefer not using Python packages directly but build .deb out of them with stdeb and use system package manager to deploy. Just dput the built package to company's private apt repo, and Puppets pull the update.)
I was thinking more of the barge-down-the-door-without-a-warrant sort of search.

I'm overly sensitive to it because I live in a college town with a 4th amendment violating county ordinance. If the police suspect underage drinking, they can enter the premises and arrest occupants for any other violations they see.
Great song cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAtLOG6Sx4Q

Love it, hope you do too!
Every time I see a Woz interview I'm struck by what a genuinely good guy he seems to be.
Without generics you'll need to use an alternative approach. As you said you can use interface{} everywhere. Another option is to create an interface that does what you need. Checkout "sort" for an example: http://golang.org/pkg/sort/#Interface.
> And you clearly don't know how medical statistics work.

Both false and unrelated to the present topic.

> Does the flu shot provide benefit 100% of the time? No: in some cases it's killed people.

And cure still means cure.

> So it goes with even the most advanced, futuristic cancer treatments.

And none of them offers a cure.

> And by the way, if cancer is not a disease, then what the heck is it?

You must first locate where I claimed that cancer is not a disease.
Ask HN: Where do you get technical books?
The library system I'm a part of doesn't seem to have any technical books (e.g. Code Complete or Don't Make Me Think). Buying them is usually really expensive for a one time read. So my question is where do you get your technical books?
I hate wires too, but sadly, I hate wireless technologies more. This one probably won't be an exception.
A WebView is just that - a web view. A WebView is just a fancy name for a browser window embedded inside an app.

So PhoneGap applications are technically "hybrid apps." The WebView portion of the app is native code - but that really is just a technical nuance with no implications for performance (in fact, the performance implications are negative), because it's like claiming that your website is "native" since it runs in a browser (say, Safari) and the browser is written in native code. But the non-native portion of the app is what goes inside the WebView (HTML/CSS/JS).
Alan Turing? Von Neumann?

The minds from the beginning of the century XX were the best.. even about computing.. invent things from virtually nothing is pretty hard
Bookmarked. Definitely could've used this post when I was just starting with PostgreSQL!
It doesn't even have to be nonlinearities, could also be sidelobes of the fundamental ultrasound frequency. There's no reason to filter those out if it's not harmful, which I'd like to think was carefully verified.
Modern computer use never integrated multiple accounts well. For example, you can't share an itunes library between multiple users. I don't know of any modern OS that even has a standard "public shared folder for all users" location. If I turn on itunes sharing on one account, I need to leave itunes open and "switch users" rather than logging out. That is, I must log in as that user every time I turn on the computer.

The problem isn't separation of powers. It's maintaining modern usage patterns with separation of powers.
Working link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu
I think that it is. There are limits to speech everywhere, whether it is the prototypical "fire in a theater" example, or making threats. It is simply another in that category.
The German constitution does not recognize freedom of speech; what it does recognize is freedom of political expression. There's a limit to this, though, when it is perceived to endanger public peace. Holocaust denial and suchlike has always been considered an assault on public peace. No public figure will be seen denying the holocaust or similar, the only purpose of that sort of statement can be to incite a mob. That's the background.

Now consider this: the German constitution was commissioned in 1948 by the Allied Powers, there was much experience in the Commission that developed it with constitutions of democratic nations, and the Nazi experience was fresh in everyone's mind. I think the fact that Germany does not have "freedom of speech" written in its constitution wants to tell you something.

TL;DR: Germany does not recognize freedom of speech. Germans consider this to be a Good Thing.
A small addition to point #3 (Limitations of Current A/B Testing Softwares): Manual Editing does not work. The only workaround with current softwares is creating a new page for every variation and then splitting the traffic.
It's interesting to me that this release refers to Miranda as Greenwald's husband, when everywhere else I'd seen the term "partner" used (including by Greenwald himself). What's different here? The emphasis on the legal relation being used as a means to underscore the abuse? How might this be different if he was just his boyfriend?
There is a really good long two part interview with Dino Dini on the Retry Asylum podcast.

retroasylum.com/ep-37-dino-dini-interview-part-1/

retroasylum.com/ep-39-dino-dini-interview-part-2/

Of particular interest is why Dini did not go on to make a successful soccer game after Goal. That might have dented the success of FIFA or PES and created a European alternative.
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Okay, Google, now how about making Chrome work correctly with OSX Parental Controls?
It's now the second-to-top story on the www.bbc.co.uk website
Big companies get a lot of flack from us startup geeks when in reality, they can provide the best learning and mentorship for continued growth. As with everything, it all depends on the company and your personal preference.
This article is from 1994, when the Unix Haters Handbook was published. A year and a half ago Michael Traven (news.yc username "mtraven") founder of the Unix Haters mailing list, wrote:

"...these days I like to say that Unix went
from being the worst available operating system to the
best available operating system without getting
significantly better. (and yes, in the spirit of the list
this is no doubt unfair, biased, mean, etc.)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3109033