skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well your point F nullifies your point about A-D does it not?

As for a second point F, the identity can be derived from the unencrypted headers in PGP.

Before PGP:

From: bob@alqaeda.org
To: bill@gmail.com
Subject: The snow this year is better at Innsbrook.
But not at St. Moritz.

After PGP:

From: bob@alqaeda.org
To: bill@gmail.com
Mime-shit....
DEFKJiwfou3hoqwdnhoqiwfhoqifowqihwqoidhqwod==

PGP is an encapsulation and the MTA still needs the recipient and sender to work properly.

Hmm.
I think nil.to_s == "nil" is pretty reasonable. At least, it gives .to_s an elegant definition that does not need to case-analyze the nil-ness of the elements of an array.

In any case, this just reinforces my point that Ruby emphasizes ease of use, not simplicity.
> generally, 1000 V is the threshold for 'high-voltage'

DCV? Not an expert, but my understanding was ~1000V for AC, but much lower for DC
Here is a simple idea. Make it known that our top election issue is removing the NSA's (and others) tentacles from our daily lives. In addition we, the tech elite, will freely help candidates who share point of view and refuse to work with those that don't.

The last election showed how important IT systems are. And while it may take a few election cycles we can certainly use that to our advantage.

Thoughts?
The author completely overlooks complementary upgrades for frequent flyers. Frequent flyers are the lifeblood of the industry but not because they pay for a higher class level. They earn the higher class level for free by making many lower class level flights. On domestic flights very few first class passengers are paying extra. International is different but still has a large number of free upgrades (depending on the airline).
Sometimes when you look at similar graphics to this one, you go: "Wow, that's big."

Somehow, this wasn't one of those times. This one was: http://demonocracy.info/infographics/eu/debt_greek/debt_gree...
Calcium seems no longer to be the best nutrition for strong bones: eat fresh herbs instead (see video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuiKYe_HrAc IIRC at 01:55 minutes [german language])
He's in a different time zone.
I had missed that. Thanks for clarifying.
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"Just as 2013 is the year where "ordinary people" have begun to understand that "the cloud" is a scam."

Disagree. So-called "ordinary people" don't really know or care about this issue. They care that "hey, my phone calendar syncs with my Google calendar!". They care that "hey, I can listen to my music on my computer, my phone AND my tablet". They care that they don't have to worry about backing up some things (Google Docs / Microsoft Office 365). They care that their pictures can be accessed by their friends without having to attach them to email. No average person is running away from the cloud for this reason--they're running towards it because overall, they still feel it makes their lives easier.
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I am no programmer, nor do I know everything about transmitting protocols or encryption. But I am quite passionate about my privacy, and the privacy of those activists and journalists that need the secure communication provided by such protocols.<p>This being said all of the recent happenings with the gov on both sides of the oceans has had my ticker in overtime on a solution, or the start of one. Where would be a good place to present this sort of idea for creative and constructive criticism? (Note that I am not looking to make money from my idea, Id rather everyone just be able to communicate safely, if my solution has any validity at all that is.)<p>Thanks.
The notion that little Johnny needs to sit at the back of the bus on a hard seat while little Sally is upfront ensconced in a tufted, leather wrapped throne is beyond ludicrous. I wasn't sure if the author was was being serious or making some kind of Swiftian satire. There's nothing like reinforcing a centuries old class system to grease the wheels of social cohesion.
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Really? Could you provide a source for this? I was under the impression that the 30-pin connector was (yet another) proprietary Apple hardware standard.
I wouldn't say, though, these activities are mutually exclusive.
It's really unfair to compare offset and frontal crash tests. You can't draw any conclusions by comparing the two. For years, auto manufacturers were able to perform competently in the frontal crash test, but when the offset test was introduced, the failure rate went through the roof.

I don't mean to diminish the performance of the Tesla Model S. It is, without qualification, an incredible car. I just don't think comparing it to the offset video of a BMW are relevant.
I don't think the article is stating that athletes are smarter....but that exercise is good for the brain. From what I have noticed after exercising, especially cardio-related exercise, I tend feel better and am able to concentrate better than usual.
The article is deeply confused as you point out. And you're right, since the effect of price discrimination is for producers to capture consumer surplus, you don't want that mind reading machine.
Thank you for your better title.

Still no official word from Twitter yet. Hopefully there will be something soon.
Carmack's aside about his 7 year old son learning to program brings up an interesting idea: What would happen if you taught a 7 year old to program with Haskell. I don't have any children, but I started programming at 7 so at the very least I can conduct a thought experiment about what it would mean if Haskell was the tool I had at my disposal instead of opaque C manuals and a hex editor I used to hack the Mech Warrior 2 binary when I couldn't beat a scenario.

My thoughts:

I probably would have intuitively grasped algebraic datatypes. It often frustrated me that I could not define new things like True and False to suit the game worlds I wanted to create.

I would have had little to know interest in math or recursion for its own sake. I'm pretty sure I would not have done well with those.

I would have probably written almost all of my code in the IO monad, with game rules defined outside.

Graphics programming in Haskell would have been no better than with any of the other languages.

Overall, I don't think Haskell would have stuck. I think I would have been easily frustrated, despite being able to structure programs better than I was able to in Basic. For proof of this, I look to my early abandonment of C/C++ for game development (even if the manuals were pretty much terrible). On the other hand, if I was presented a game written in Haskell (with source), maybe the outcome would have been different. I certainly managed to use a hex editor at that age, so if I had some goal I wanted to accomplish (like modifying the AI of a game), I think maybe anything would have been possible.
In actual fact, it's pure tribalism. When you are born into one tribe, you adopt the cultural aspects of that tribe. Those include the religious denomination and political beliefs, including hating the other tribe.

In Northern Ireland, religion is correlated to political belief because the two major tribes are divided along those lines. Nobody who believes Northern Ireland should be part of the UK does it because of their interpretation of the Eucharist.

And you could say exactly the same about Islamic terrorists too.
Student athletes have less time and energy to devote to school work. Speaking from personal experience, it's pretty hard to do homework when you have 2-3 hours of practice after school everyday. First, you lose 2-3 hours of time every day and second you get home exhausted.
This seems like a legitimate use case for an FPGA in every PC. Implement a set of expensive algorithms in Verilog, put it up on Github and set up some slick distribution mechanism that updates the logic when needed without bothering non-technical users with it. This would prevent the crypto from using up too much general purpose processing resources, cause it to be acceptably fast and provide a mechanism for updating the algorithms when flaws are found or new algorithms are introduced.
Downside is that it would probably take up to a decade to actually be adopted by the majority of PC users, but then again, the majority of PC users will probably not care too much.
For comparison have a look at Strongloop's starter project (production ready)

http://strongloop.com/products
> What the hell were they thinking?

Here's a clue. The primary demographic for the SUV market hasn't been Mountain Dew-chugging bungie jumpers for a long time. The primary demographic is moms.

This is what's created the crossover market seemingly out of thin air; and it's why Tesla said "minivan". And why the X includes a third row. That's my theory anyway.

I also had thought the X was going to be a failure because of its lack of roof racks. But I don't think so any more. I'm guessing the X is aimed straight at the wealthy eco-mom segment.
DNSSEC+DANE is fine and all that, but that's another layer of hack job on top of another lacker of hackjob. It's turtles (or turds in this case) all the way down.

The fact that a simple delivery stack turns into a mish-mash of SpamAssassin, virus scanning, DKIM, DNSSEC, DANE, SPF, PGP, certificates, CA's, numerous ports open, severla products and many more TLA's is the problem.

Complexity does not breed security.
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Spot on but you can generalize it a little more. Anytime you have more than 2 people with their own goals and limited resources, you're going to have politics. It's built into our species.
If you succeed in your endeavor, they probably would want to hire you.
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Not if you care for performance.
> the best of an SUV with the benefits of a minivan

How do you fit a family of 5 in this thing like you can in a minivan? Honestly, it seems more of a station wagon minus the storage.
I wasn't advocating a revolution, I think we can fix this inside the system we have. But I think that because we do have the means to allow us to fix it, like freedom of the press.

This episode bothers me in a different way than most violations of basic human rights. Because the violation is around privacy/secrecy, the violating entities have to attack the very means we have set up to correct violations. It's like a virus that attacks the immune system, something to be taken more seriously than the actual damage done, because it destroys the ecosystem's ability to correct other violations.

In any case, I was simply encouraging you to actually say something, rather than just say what sorts of things we should say, and then demonstrating what I meant.
You have big part of why in your statement. "super light" Mass * Velocity. Less mass, means less energy to dissipate.
The idea of masking real content with gibberish always seems hacky to me, and in security hacky is not a good idea. While I suspect you might be able to make it work, I think a better solution is to go to more of a bitcoin approach.

Essentially, set up a new block-chain that allows transactions to contain 'large' messages (IE. large enough for long plaintext, but probably not enough to embed videos). Then, when you want to send a message, encrypt it using the intended recipients public key, then publish the cipher-text to the blockchain.
Amtrak's more similar to planes than the London Underground, though, since it falls into the category of long-distance transportation rather than daily travel. Why first-class is acceptable for the former but not the latter is an interesting question, though.
There are crazy people and crazy organizations in every country. An extremely small percentage are sufficiently motivated to carry out violent attacks.

When you bomb, shoot, torture, and aid in the oppression someone's family members, friends, and countrymen, that makes them hate you and want to hurt you. Aside from being common sense, this is well understood even within the US military establishment[1][2].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowback_(intelligence)

2: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/mcchrystal-admits-drones-i...
I want a good electric SUV. I don't really care who makes it.
I'd like to know what restrictions cause you not to be able to use RAII.

Even if that's the only C++ feature that a project were to use, I'd still consider it a net gain. Anything that makes your program less susceptible to manual resource management bugs in "goto cleanup"-style C is worth using. This doesn't just include memory leaks, but more insidious problems like unclear ownership of various system resources (sockets, file handles...). Things not even a GC would help you with in a long-running server process.
I would certainly expect it if Target already does, but then this just highlights how pervasive the problem is.

[http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012/02/16/how-targe...]
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One thing to remember is that Tesla is a battery company. Cars help them to fund their R&D, but Elon knows that if he can develop the batteries that will drive every single EV made, it doesn't matter whether it costs the consumer $12,000 or $200,000.
In a discussion, yes, you need to support them --either with citations and references or with your own argumentation.

Else it's just a random statement. I believe X. Why would anyone care about my belief?
I may be misunderstanding the basics, but the article implies that putting a post onto plus gives you a "perfect" page for SEO. Which means that any links to it will raise it's score more than any other page hosted anywhere else.

(They fail to follow through with posts on G+ are naturally likely to get more +1s than likes, thus presumably debunking the whole correlation issue like you say. But anyway)

So my takeaway (which I am not sure if you are challenging) is that posts on plus.google did better than a presumably control sample on facebook - and the article incorrectly ascribes this to +1s. You seem to be saying, yes it did do better but its not because of +1s, its just better. But is it better content or is it better SEO-ness of the page.

Thats the part I would like to see these studies show - how they manage the control portion. How they control for quality of the content? Because if posting the same content on G+ and on a.n.other site gets you significantly more pagerank, then its really hard to argue not to do that.

(I quite accept the "its not +1's goddammit" argument)
> I will bet that by this time next year, things will look very different.

I'll take you up on that bet, assuming you believe it's going to get better. I believe the only way you'll win it is if you mean looking very different to include worse instead of the implied better you wrote.

The majority don't care. Of the minority that even pay attention to it, most of them support it to catch the evil terrorists.
You can't just talk about religion without talking about geopolitical and demographic pressures. In poor Christian countries in Africa there is a lot of violence, too. Same goes for Hindus in the more destitute parts of India. Societies that are educated, where the population is not exploding, are generally more peaceful regardless of religion.

You can't forget the history of violence within the Christian world, too, where incidents like the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew's_Day_massacre) was extremely bloody.
Im not sure anything can or will.

IMHO, the plus for this is that if more and more people move to encrypted communication across the board, it will a) increase the work load of the likes of the NSA and GCHQ, and b) send a message to government.

Nothing, of course, will work as well as people actually voting for real change. Of course the tragedy of that is that after the scary Bush years, the US people thought they were voting for changes, and all they got was more of the same. I despised Bush, but like we Brits used to say about Thatcher, at least we all knew where we stood. (Blair was our Obama, we thought we were voting for change.)

Sooner or later, we will realize we need to break away from our traditional parties, and vote for something very different, instead of voting int he same thing over and over again because we are too scared of fundamental change, and frankly risk.

For now, we are all too spaced out with our retail and media narcotics to notice or want to change.
I wonder if these guys would be open to collaborating on a motorcycle.
I would start by reading Bruce Schneier's superb book Applied Cryptography, to see if you're already on a well-trodden path. Computer security and encryption as a technical matter is a very deeply analyzed problem with lots of real world experience.

So basically, don't assume your solution is novel. If it seems novel and you're not an expert, then odds are a: it's not actually novel, or b: it won't work.

Applied Cryptography is a pretty accessible book. It helps to have a lot of CS and math, but it's not absolutely necessary to get the gist of most of it.
The first link is not crap at all, it's very interesting.

> Try again with a less reductio-ad-absudum scenario?

How about Chomsky material, and various articles about geopolitics ala reddit?
That's great, there are a couple of sass ports for 2 and it was time consuming evaluating them so an officially blessed port would be great.

For those of us integrating it with web app where we use semantic class names that we want to map to template styles, it would help if there were sass versions that create no concrete styles, just mixins and placeholder styles, so that we can extend our classes with bootstrap ones without inheriting styles on elements where we don't want the bootstrap style. e.g. I wanted the .nav-tabs style but already had my own .nav styling.

Do you have any plans to make it possible to extend from bootstrap in this way?
`./lib` is for modules and components. There is no difference for us. You can share to client simple modules by adding a component.json file to that directory. And vice-versa by just exposing an index.js file. You can require('regexps') for example, from both server and client and work with same definitions without repeating code. So, `./lib` turns into a nice and sharable space. This is a construction from practices we've found on the way... component.io website is one of them.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the goal of the Mailpile project is to create a user-friendly client for an arbitrary (including self-hosted) email server.
Presumably that is an issue with bootswatch.com?
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On this ongoing battle between secret services and that journalist, I side with nobody, except OLJC.
Would it work well as a complete desktop monitor replacement? How well does it render 18pt text from a HD resolution HDMI source?
Edit: This is odd. The link currently leads to a different article than it initially did. Initially it was not Q & A with the author, but rather references to literature mostly behind paywalls and the gratuitous reference to female orgasms, none of which are in the current article. That being said, I still believe that the bulk of this research is bullshit, but it's a little unfair to switch the article, so my comment no longer makes sense

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While the presence "neuroscience" should be enough to set off your bullshit detector, the fact the the author couldn't go two paragraphs without undermining his own point indicates that the title should really be "Nothing to see here". Luckily the author throws in a gratuitous and creepy reference to female orgasms to make sure readers won't feel ripped off having wasted 15 seconds reading this crap.
I am a U.S. citizen. I still believe in freedom of speech, as well as my right to "Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of hapiness".

I am also a Libertarian, which means I don't believe in large government, due to the corruption that follows.

So long as my goals and beliefs are for freedom and privacy, the creation of secure anonymous messaging is of little interest to the NSA. Will they "like" if it is intentionally designed in a way that it could be used by criminals? No... But I should have no fear of that.

Just because guns can kill people doesn't mean you should use them for that. Just because atomic theory can be used to make large bombs doesn't mean nuclear energy is wrong. Just because pressure cookers contain heat well at pressure doesn't mean you should use them for anything besides cooking your food.
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:(. Here's me hoping you hid a joke in that base64.
Not understanding why I got downvoted other than a lack of explanation.

A lot of easy "tech" work honestly consists of using google to find answers for people who refuse to use google for themselves. It never fails to amaze me. I was born knowing how to change the battery in a 2nd gen Prius keychain remote? LOL no I merely use a google search because you're too lazy to do it for yourself (or learned hopelessness where they're intentionally outsourcing the labor to me and I'm being the sucker)

I would imagine someone who's annual review consists of how well they've SEO'd their page will be enormously more interested in how well they're doing SEO than a kid writing an essay or a possible future customer, or really anyone else at all. Money is a powerful motivator.
Yes gioele, I know. But we're not talking about flaws in the mailpile cryptosystem. Obviously their implementation of GPG will have to be professionally vetted. The other flaws (vulnerability to traffic analysis, reliance upon the recipient to store the message contents securely), are, to put it mildly, very hard to solve with email in its current incarnation. Taking the piss out of the mailpile folks because they don't solve these issues seems churlish at best.

With luck, they'll deliver a good, self-hosted gmail replacement with a secure mail store that's easy for folks to install on their own. That's surely a step forward.
Thanks, yes, he's clearer in the technical section, p.28. (I hadn't read the whole thing.)

4.2.3. Pylons and Tunnels

The tube will be supported by pillars which constrain the tube in the vertical
direction but allow longitudinal slip for thermal expansion as well as dampened
lateral slip to reduce the risk posed by earthquakes.

The "longitudinal slip" is what I assumed/guessed with "rollers or similar" (in my comment above).
I've spoken to one of the Mailpile guys on twitter, and his answer was that they're trying to improve adoption and implementation of existing standards, before they look at improving transports.

Giving their timescales are already measured in years, I don't think Mailpile will significantly change the game. Kudos to them, but they'll just be Yet Another Commercial Pseudo-Secure-Email Seller.

I agree that the problems are inherent in the protocol. Ideally I'd like messages to have exactly one cleartext field - "To" - and servers to be dumb async routers communicating over encrypted channels. Make it computationally expensive, I don't mind: it will send us back to '90s-style "wait for POP download" timeouts, but if it's the price for half-decent security, I'll pay it.
That is technically true, but also horribly unfair since there are a lot of connotations around people being fugitives that don't fit in this case.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst...
its actually easier! there's no block chain for paper money
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Take a look at the branches it has. Also look at component.io website code. ;)
get/setcontext do not copy stack, but use an allocated bit of memory space for the stack and swaps stack pointers just like this implementation. I don't see how that's a performance hit.

I do not pretend to know about Windows internals so I won't comment on Windows.