skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is truly sad.

India is an amazing country, with some amazingly warm people. Unfortunately everything in the story is also very plausible, so as an Indian who is deeply ashamed that visitors to his country can face such an experience - my apologies.

It is Indian tradition to say that "The guest is akin to God". Hopefully every visitor to the country gets treated with the respect that people give their deities one day.
I've got a buildpack working for running ASP.NET apps (including MVC, and also straight-up .NET apps) on Heroku, running on Mono and Linux: http://friism.com/running-net-on-heroku

You can even experiment with the new OWIN/Katana stuff if you like: http://friism.com/running-owin-katana-apps-on-heroku
All traditions have their spectrum, good and bad. India's a really old civilization and studying a lot of old civilizations, brings to light some unfortunate similarities. I make absolutely no concessions or explanations for barbaric behaviour anywhere, at anytime, but instead of taking a minute to turn a stranger into a person that you can relate to, you too, may be dehumanizing a group that requires effort to learn about.

"All traditions were new once", as we heard in Fiddler on the Roof.
That fallacy is debunked by every sports car ever.
How can I buy one of these? Is there a huge wait time?

And how does the performance compare to a regular consumer-level luxury 'sports car' like an audi?
For those that are curious how the autocorrect does its magic, here is the code https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/help.c#L293.

The most important part of the algorithm is the line "levenshtein(cmd, candidate, 0, 2, 1, 3) + 1;". This calculates the levenshtein distance between what you typed and valid commands, using different weights for different types of manipulations. In this case, 0 for swaps, 2 for substitutions, 1 for adds and 3 for deletes.
Ask HN: What do you think of MyKolab? Secure email based in Switzerland
Website: https://mykolab.com/ Is it actually that secure?
This should get you started:

Assume nothing.

Never go against your gut.

Everyone is potentially under opposition control.

Don't look back; you are never completely alone.

Go with the flow, blend in.

Vary your pattern and stay within your cover.

Lull them into a sense of complacency.

Don't harass the opposition.

Pick the time and place for action.

Keep your options open.
And install a theocracy?
Even with the new dedicated Azure SQL Always-On instances?
Is there not plenty of misogyny in non "traditional values"? What does media sell, show 24/7? Valuing? or objectification?
As always, relevant XKCD:
http://xkcd.com/538/
Can we not get into this again? There are plenty of threads on the validity of this as a bug report.
Your post has no substance, other than to say some people on the mailing list don't like it. But other people on the mailing list do like it. So your post is meaningless and useless.

If you actually have problems with Go's packaging, and care about it enough to write as much as you have, why didn't you simply point out the flaws?
Why are you talking about "most users"?

The article, and the court case it references, are about 3Taps. 3Taps had a static IP which was banned, and additionally received a Cease and Desist letter. The court case is very clear that the combination of these factors demonstrate that 3Taps' access had been revoked, and that therefore their continued access (through proxies) constituted an intentional, unauthorized access of a protected system.

If the article "seems to suggest" something other than that, either the article is wrong, or you're reading it wrong. This is only a threat to "ordinary" internet users if they're given clear indication that they are no longer allowed to use a site (something like a C&D letter to go along with an account or IP ban.)
Sort of, unfortunately.

Drugs laws, and the Court's interpretation of handling drug crimes gives officers a lot of latitude. I forget the name of the Court case that allows officers to intuit that ANY drug-related offender can be presumed to have a weapon, but the data was actually fairly compelling (without knowing how the data was derived, the outcome was pretty clear—statistical significance that people with drugs are likely to have weapons.

There's also a lot of law about "the person was a SUSPECTED drug offender" because they drove erratically, or were in the wrong neighborhood, or threw something out of the car..... basically anything, and those people can be treated much like folks found to have drugs on them in the first place.

But, if there is no reason to truly arrest someone, the search / seizure shouldn't take place. You usually don't get arrested for minor ordinances... (tickets, lane violations, etc.)

My example was more or less just a common example.

To my mind, if someone was arrested for selling pirated software on jump-drives, the officer would likely be able to check out the call log to look for other conspirators.
Here's the video of the Tesla pole test: http://youtu.be/_Al3IUHt9Wc?t=32s

Honda Accord for comparison: http://youtu.be/ycntFFUfGkU?t=30s
To be fair, Khalil mentioned this several times in his blog post.
Engineers usually have a college degree in engineering.
Show HN: Fun Dit - Crowdfunding For The Mobile Food Industry
Hey everyone. I'm a huge fan of this site. So much great advice and information here. Been viewing for a while now without ever posting. I figured I would go ahead and post about my newest project, Fun Dit. I know the hurdles are huge for going up against the big guys, but I really wanted to give this a shot. I've had an amazing amount of feedback and buzz from food truck fans and owners so far. The biggest challenge is getting the word out about it.
There are alloys like Invar (64FeNi) that are designed for low thermal expansion. [1] It's used in common products like shadow masks in cathode ray tubes.

It has a coefficent of expansion of 0.8 [2], so if you run the numbers again it gives a total expansion of the tube of 127', or 63' per end.

I don't know the costs or if it would be suitable for this purpose, but it seems to be about 3x as expensive as steel for raw stock.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invar
[2] http://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/linear-expansion-coefficie...
I agree, 110-150k is the normal good range.
The folks I know who are above that range are some of the best engineers I have the pleasure of knowing on the planet.

When I say really really good, think "epic, world class level threat" amazing. :)
That's not surprising considering the small amount of RAM. Amazon doesn't have instances that small.
> most personal blogs make you look like an idiot

That depends on what kind of blog we're talking about. If it's someone's Tumblr where they're posting selfies, concert photos, and "deep thoughts", that's one thing. But it's certainly possible to have your front-facing, top-level-domain, professional blog showing off your work and getting you jobs.
Nmap 6.40 Released – New scripts, new signatures, better performance
There was a story on Reddit recently of a policeman accessing a woman's phone during a traffic stop (I think), finding raunchy photos of her on there and forwarding them to himself. Anyone remember it?

Removing barriers to access seems unfairly risky to me.
after years of java coding, i started following the scala "trend" but had no chance of actually using it where i used to work. nonetheless, i did coursera's odersky course and started using it here and there for (very little) personal projects. with that in my toolbelt i was able to find the job i now have. they were using scala/akka/play (but also scalding and other stuff) and they were okay with somebody with little experience but willing to commit to it. i accepted and now have spent 4 months away from java and diving into scala and i just love every bit of it (even SBT that at first looked very little interesting).
Nintendo shares more details on Wii U Web Framework dev tools
Criminals say, "After careful examination, nothing we did was criminal. Thanks for asking though."
Attorney here.

DannyBee is absolutely correct. To my knowledge, data on a computer would be handled like an offender's diary, and that is certainly admissible in court, assuming authentication that the diary was actually written by the offender.

Data is interesting because authentication can arguable be harder to prove. (handwriting is pretty easy to attribute)

The truth is, the founding fathers likely could not have imagined in their wildest dreams that we could have all of human history on a flash drive with us at all times. Trying to apply "how they would have thought" or "WWFFD" to every new technology is kind of insane.
I'm just glad they kept table.table and label.label

The department of redundancy department can sleep peacefully tonight.
> "legally and procedurally sound"

These claims were also made by the Church and the State during the Inquisition, except with the "in defense of the Faith" bit added for flair.
Email isn't designed to be secure. Even using public-key encryption (which I'm sure very few of your contacts use), message metadata (such as from and to addresses) is not encrypted. You're forced to trust your email provider. Here in the US, that's very difficult due to gag orders and secret warrants. I'm not familiar with Swiss law, so I can't comment on the safety data stored on Swedish servers.
Sequencing John Lennon‘s DNA. Dentist dreams of cloning the musician
You can use whichever one you like better...

I'm using Font Awesome on one of my Bootstrap 3 based sites because it has more icons.
Finally, A Hackathon That Doesn’t Destroy Your Brain And Body
I can't believe how painful it is to order business cards
Maybe move into academia, finance or found your own startup.
"I think many of the founders would have agreed with you."

Based on what?

The fifth amendment exists mainly to prevent torturing people for extracting information, a practice that was not uncommon in parts of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Extending this to "personal assistants" doesn't seem like anything the founders would have supported, so i'd love to see evidence.

Again, the fourth amendment, i agree, but the fifth?
I don't see it.
It's a bit hypocritical to point at another country and say how bad it is over there, when the typical teenage boy in America watches his first porno clip at around 10 or 11 years old.

Granted we do not necessarily have as much of the kind of behavior the girl describes out in the open but it does exist behind closed doors, at frat parties, at high school parties, at office parties...

It's even worse in the fact that it is so hidden in America. The puritanism that this country exhibits publicly (abstinence only sex education strikes me as a prime example) is dramatically offset by the tremendous amount of sexual depravity and lewdness that occurs behind closed doors.

I'm not saying there aren't problems in India, but please don't be quick to draw the conclusion that we are so much more civilized. We are just better at hiding our own problems.
Because I don't see it as torture. I find Objective-C to be a perfectly pleasant tool, and it allows me to do things that would be A) implausible or B) impossible were I to make webapps (or PhoneGap apps) instead.
Craigslist asked 3taps not to use their data. 3taps continued to use CL's data, even going so far as to circumvent a security measure (the IP block -- weak, but still technically a security measure).

The court decision, which is linked elsewhere in this discussion, consistently connects the IP ban to the C&D letter. They don't seem particularly concerned with the details of how 3Taps accessed the data, only that 3Taps intentionally accessed data whose owners had clearly revoked access.
Not surprising since this is about a celebratory post. There's plenty of time to criticize things on the internet, why the rush?
I find it lacking. I can't imagine doing serious development without a profiler available.
>Attorney here.

So am I, though not a criminal one :)

>The truth is, the founding fathers likely could not have imagined in their wildest dreams that we could have all of human history on a flash drive with us at all times. Trying to apply "how they would have thought" or "WWFFD" to every new technology is kind of insane.

While entirely true, i think, given the history around the fifth amendment, it would be quite a stretch anyway.
> My troop was filled with bigoted shitheads. I got a "get eagle scout or we cut you off and kick you out at 18" ultimatum, and got eagle scout a few months before I turned 18.

You age out at 18, and become ineligible to rank up on your birthday. That has nothing to do with your troop... Even if they wanted to make an exception for you, they couldn't. It's the same rule for everyone.
Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket
I'm sorry, but as a car enthusiast who spent much of his younger years devouring every ounce of Road&Track/Car&Driver mags, the phrase "any car ever tested" is a bit over the top... I'm almost positive the McLaren F1 (a car 20 years older) fared better than the Tesla in safety testing and was capable of being driven away after the testing finished...

F1 @ 30mph: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v482/Peloton25/McLaren%20F...

F1 @ 40mph: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUPq760LC00

I'm more than willing to acknowledge Tesla has fantastic results, especially for the price... but that top spot still belongs to my childhood automotive idol. ;)
There are several other options, some more practical than others.

If only we required a hard majority of Americans to vote for somebody for them to win, then abstaining from voting could become an option with teeth. Then candidates would have to convince the public that they should vote for them, rather than just convincing the public not to vote for the other guy. Abstaining is, in my opinion, a respectable choice. Any vote is a vote of confidence in the system; if everybody who didn't like any of the candidates just stayed home instead of "voting for the lesser evil", then the farce that is our democracy would be made plain.

Abstaining isn't the only interesting option though. Another option is enfranchisement where instead of voting on the behalf of yourself you instead vote on the behalf of one of the billions of disenfranchised. National elections in developed countries don't just affect the nation in question but rather the world. The lives of many in other countries literally hangs in the balance during American elections but they are not permitted to participate. Perhaps worse, many Americans are not permitted to vote just because they are not recognized as 'citizens'. Next election, perhaps instead of abstaining, vote on the behalf of somebody who is not represented. An individual doing this is not going to change anything but a national enfranchisement campaign has the potential to be subversive.

We need a discussion on what being a democracy actually means.
I am blown away by how the doors open. I've never seen someone tackle the "oops. I'll be bumping/almost scratching into the 7-series next to me when I open my door" problem so elegantly.

Edit: typo.
Indeed. I read the article, and immediately sent it to my not particularly technically inclined, but very safety conscious sister.
Why wouldn't there be some low-skill labor involved? Someone has to physically place the server blades into the racks, install operating systems and necessary libraries, manage raid setups, configure the network, etc. Sure these government orgs have special needs as well, but they don't magically do away with the mundane needs. They are, after all, building a huge data center - someone (or something) is going to have to manage the space.

Sure, Ed Snowden wasn't a low-skill labor IT worker, but I bet when they did an internal audit, they discovered a bunch of low-skill IT workers with more access than they needed, and it was at that point they realized not everyone is doing a job a human has to.

But again, I bet this is going to be more reclassification than it is going to be actually having less warm bodies on the project.
It sounds like it's a special band running around the car, made of multiple layers of aluminum with space in between each layer. The layers crumple and transfer impact across the side of the car like a ski resting on soft snow.
It most definitely has. I'm so over arguing over this.

Previous discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229858 +383

and about 10 other single digit posts of various blogspam sites

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=facebo...

and reddit

http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1kkvfr/user_report... +329

http://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/1kkvei/user_reports_... +532

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1ko71v/researche... +831

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1kkoux/hacker_po... +3005

Can we wrap this one up perhaps?
I made lots of micro-edits while thinking about this, let me try and combine to something more cohesive... Also of note is that I use Twisted in my day to day.

In common Twisted programming a deferred can not fire before you add the callback since the only way a deferred can fire (for typical async work!) is through the proactor (which Twisted calls the reactor) and you haven't yet returned control to the proactor. The bug comment seems to imply a more fundamental issue but if Twisted had such a fundamental bug it just wouldn't work.

I think Guido's point is that you can still potentially add callbacks to a Deferred that has fired which opens an opportunity for bugs. He has a point there but you don't usually use Deferred that way. Generally when you add callbacks you know the Deferred hasn't fired yet.

I think Twisted isn't that bad but there are a few things I dislike about it: It's harder than I'm used to to combine synchronous and asynchronous. Twisted is "contagious".

Because the Twisted application "wants" to be single threaded, everything goes through the reactor and therefore everything has to be pure async. You can deviate from that but it has some amount of built in inflexibility. If I compare with C++ Boost::Asio there's much better multi-threading support in Asio with its worker threads (which is important for scaling across cores) and you can do more interesting combinations of async/sync IMO.

Twisted's @inlinecallbacks decorator allows you to write linear looking code you it also encourages a too-serialized way of doing things. The power of asynchronous is to do things in parallel but in Twisted you often either end up with very hard to follow "pure" asynch code or less efficient "chained" asynch code. At least that's my experience.

I personally prefer having callbacks to the Deferred returns because very often the only thing you do with a Deferred is add callbacks and it makes your code messier, more clutter/boilerplate. Returning Deferred allows for the "generator" style @inlinecallbacks which actually can be an anti-pattern from a performance perspective and also many people find it confusing to read... Explicitly chaining callbacks is what I prefer. To elaborate on callback vs. Deferred you can relatively easily build more complex structures of any kind you wish over the callback when you need it. In a sense it's the most basic way of doing things. I like basic :-)

Related to combining async and sync styles you end up seeing things like isinstance(ret, Deferred). There's also maybedeferred for dealing with async vs. sync. Still not great.
The article notes that the testing standards were changed substantially in 2011, in ways that makes them much harder to pass.

The McLaren F1 might still be much safer, but it did not go through the same testing procedures.
Just like with the NSA, CIA & FBI, the fact that it's legal is a problem.
Hypothetical question:

What if the founder of Lavabit took the documents that the US government sent him and gagged him with and put them somewhere where they could be stolen or illegally accessed? For example, what if he put them on a computer with a public facing ip address, or even left them on his desk in his office? If he could have plausible deniability couldn't they get stolen and leaked without him really getting in trouble?

This may seem like a stretch, but when you consider the government is using secret interpretations of laws how is it any different than what they are doing?
You're exactly missing my point.

Your comment is written from the perspective of someone who feels like the inferior party in the relationship. You're not. You always have the ability to say 'no' and walk away from a situation. Are you confused by your compensation? Request full explanation until you're no longer confused and understand your risks. (Understanding risk and reward and making judgments in the face of uncertainy is an art, not a science. Nothing is without risk.) If you don't get that explanation or your spidey sense tingles, saying they might be bullshitting: walk. If you're not sure what you're selling your time for, don't. You're selling tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of your time. Would you sell a house or car if you weren't absolutely sure what you were getting return?

Don't be a dick, just be a peer. And confident. If you're a good person doing quality work, you're valuable. Very few companies run with no employees. Don't mistreat. Don't be mistreated.
Sports cars have always made sacrifices in this regard. The first being simply that real sports cars are half the size of a modern saloon, which gives much less room for crumpling.
there's this https://github.com/n8han/giter8 project that's supposed to create scala project templates for you from the command line, but never really got into it so i can't really comment.
Their site isn't responding for me right now, but does this org take donations? Is there any way people can help fight this?
You have misunderstood, the ultimatum was from my parents. The troop was bigoted because the troop leaders openly hated atheists and gay people.

I wanted nothing to do with them but was emotionally/financially blackmailed into completing the program. In retrospect I had more capacity for independence than I gave myself credit for at the time, but it was a shitty thing for my parents to do (we have since come to terms about this though).
That seems like such a shit way of doing the pole test and introduces too much randomness to be uniform across all cars. The much better way is to keep the car stationary on a moving platform like ANCAP does http://www.ancap.com.au/crashtesting
Announcing Iris, a totally ready-to-fly UAV quadcopter
Seems to me that the litmus test for the authorities to hold anyone under this law should involve either:

(1) A known terror plot.
or
(2) Affiliation with an organization that has committed or is planning a known terror plot.

where "terror plot" represents a some act that causes direct physical harm to the citizens of a country.

If they cannot point to a specific, known terror plot or affiliation with an organization involved in one, then they should not have detained Miranda under this law.

If they consider bona fide journalism an act of terror, then they should be forced to come out and say so, so that the people can judge how the authorities are using or abusing their power and adjust the laws to correct them.

The citizens of the UK deserve to know what act of terror the UK government was protecting them from when they detained Miranda.
The only downside is paying for those services after BizSpark ends :)
Voting should be a minor part of political advocacy. Make noise. Vote for the parties that will listen to you and try to make policy in favor of what you demand. If they disappoint, kick them out of office by voting for the other guys or at least issuing a protest vote.

What voting does is it gives bite to all the rest of the political action one does during a term of elected office. It is what makes political speech effective. It does not replace it.
How does (2) fill an entire page outside of someone applying for an academic post who has to list all the conferences they've been to, etc.?