skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Care to explain further?

In my experience of using protothreads, only the functions using the protothread macros need to be written in a special way:

- passing a context object
- being careful of variable initialization/blocks
in order not to work on unitialized memory.

while all the other ones can stay plain C functions.
So because Windows 8 has support for trusted boot and friends that might (it's pure speculation) contain a backdoor, it's less secure than previous versions that did not support trusted boot at all?

I agree that the NSA spying is a real threat, but so is traditional malware. The article is basically saying that, because the malware protection is not good enough (i.e. not securing against NSA malware), it's worse than no protection at all.

FUD.

I do agree that locking down the OS so that it runs only MS-signed applications is a dick move in general and we'll probably see really bad changes in the market overall, but I see no relation to the NSA spying issue. The NSA can install malware as well on XP machines as it can on Windows 8 machines, so in that regard, Win8 is no better nor worse than previous versions.

(also: I really don't intend to be trolling and my argument seems reasonable. As such I wonder what the reason for the downvotes is. Is it possible that you guys are getting an english article with a different content? If I click the link I get to see a german article)
I'm curious, what about this article makes it a propaganda piece? Who is it propaganda for?
Ha! Almost like "Trust, but verify" :)
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Link to source article: http://www.technologyreview.com/view/518426/how-to-save-the-...
Isn't that a good thing? Iddea validation etc
I think it is wrong to say a plugin is not bad, just because you could add the necessary features yourself. You could also write a better plugin, but "ain't nobody got time for dat"!
'and they aren't subject to misinterpretation or wishful thinking.' ... right, and we have no way of knowing whether they are.

This is exactly why we have science: people have prior beliefs that affect how they perceive the thing they're trying to measure. People cannot objectively judge their own health in response to a variable. There are thousands of placebo studies that demonstrate this.
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> Riding a bike vs driving actually causes more pollution (because farms make lots of pollution) [unless you replace exercise you anyway do with bike riding].

Can you explain or provide a reference? Are you suggesting that because you consume more calories if you exercise, and your food comes from farms, the extra farm pollution is worse than what your car would have produced?
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Very true, I do have an Atom feed, not sure how well it works though as it's generated by Jekyll.

http://bbrks.me/blog/feed.xml
> This is why I love security so much.

This is why I hate humanity so much.
Revolutionized the film industry, yet lets internet comments get to him.

Really. I feel for the guy. But this stuff is nothing new, that's how it works when you do revolutionary stuff. Look at what RCA did to FM inventor Edwin Armstrong, and to TV inventor Philo Farnsworth. It's Not a Business for Old Men.
My interpretation of the rights granted by the Constitutions of various countries is that you have those rights primarily against the government, and only secondarily against other people or institutions. In other words, the government cannot force you to have certain beliefs, or silence you, or throw you in jail arbitrarily. I say this thinking of the US Constitution, which was written in a time when kings actually did many of these things.

Applied to modern times, the police first have an obligation to not attack you for your beliefs. That doesn't make them your slaves. After that, they'll defend your beliefs if there's a law forcing them to (which is a positive law).
Fertile ground for David Suarez' Daemon...
I assume the author means to say that you should use Vim instead of plugins in other tools?
Though I somewhat agree with you, I'm not convinced anything is wrong with me, and from my experience with the medical profession, 'to a hammer, everything looks like a nail'.
http://www.golem.de/news/trusted-computing-bundesregierung-w...
You can almost see the scene.

A CEO of an important contractor in a room with two NSA henchmen. "Larry, it has come to our attention that you don't really feel good about the way in which we make America safer." - "We have heard that you have some important concerns that you feel you should voice to the public." - "Now, of course we understand that and respect your concerns. It's just... we would just like to remind you that Josy Nacchio also had very important details to share." - "Yeah, what a shame that he had to go behind bars for that fraud thing before we could have a proper and open public discussion." - "Oooh, yeah, hmm, that was bad" - "Phew, 6 years, that's a long time. Locked in a cell, see your wife every other week." - "Well, it was pretty serious stuff with that insider trading." - "Oh yeah, well he was under a lot of pressure at the time, but that doesn't excuse being a criminal!" - "Poor guy." - "Poor guy."
Absolutely. I have friends like this.
> If Microsoft wanted to backdoor your system ...

... they already have Windows Update. It cannot be null-routed (respective entries in /etc/hosts are simply ignored), it is virtually always on and it can be trivially used to deliver custom patches to specific boxes. What more can you ask for?
Actually I read the article but never noticed that scroll locator at the top. Anyways it is kind of useless if you are on windows where the scroll bar is always in the view. Anyways nice article!
George Carlin had it right yet again...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxsQ7jJJcEA
Controversial GCSB law passes by two votes
What's the best resource for what we do / don't know about NSA surveillance / Snowden affair?
>We don’t need page numbers on the web

There are some very good use cases for pagination. Granted, you shouldn't be using it on an article but if you're browsing 500+ records its a lot easier to paginate them than it is to have the user come back later and have to scroll to where they were before.
I like your app, it's very cool. One thing though, make sure you add some validation on the fields. Right now when I click on "Make a gif" without anything populated, it loads to some point and throws an error.
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Oh my, the miniature safe analogy was one of the methods I used to try to explain to my wife why messaging privacy was an issue. :-) "OK, I don't know the combination, I just have a bunch of safes with your name on them, and only you know the combination..."

I'm not so concerned about the "timeliness" issue on a sub-yearly scale. It was a throwaway possible benefit of using multiple keys, cryptosystems, and decentralized transmission. As one of the elements is compromised by advancements in the art, they can be deprecated in favor of a stronger one.

By timely, I meant that it would be less economical to slurp up everything with the goal of SNA on a cohort of college friends or whatever.

I'd like an increase in the reasonable expectation of privacy with email. I would of course comply with a legal demand, authorized by a judge in my country, to surrender cleartext emails that are on my systems or in my accounts. I would expect my partners in conversation to do the same.

What I do not like, and I think we agree, is the convenient slurping of all the traffic, storing that, and then mining it for correlations with "un-American" conduct.

What I've found to be a more useful explanation trying to explain "security" as we usually mean it is to get to the reason why I think people should have privacy from their government or the agencies to whom they willingly transmit information about individuals. We've come a long way in securing rights for people who are not white, christian (of accepted denominations), straight, men. We have a lot longer to go.

I am really quite uncomfortable with a HUAC-style group having access to all electronic communications. It was communism fifty years ago, it's obviously terrorism now, but it will always be some threat to "national security" that is used as an excuse to be proactive about looking for suspicious characters because of what crimes they may be inclined to commit.

(And I kept using my own boot-root installation on my first Linux box (which could now legally buy alcohol in the USA) until 2000 or 2001, when I tried this "Redhat" thing. :-))
I want to be able to back-pack for a week with only a 4-pound food supply.

That's doable already. 4-pounds of dehydrated food will last you a week, and has the advantage that you get to eat something different for every meal.
If you look carefully most of these big companies have one thing in common. They have one major source of money, and everything else is either acquired or something trying hard but failing to be the mainstream revenue part.

Agreed there have been few home grown innovation from Google, those are all from early days.

Current achievements are all leveraging on their existing user base, and are not necessarily due to the merit of their products.
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Guys, nacchio was a more run-of-the-mill-crook, tho.

Not a spy , etc. so was the guy that ran worldcom. they were (in bed) with the NSA because of their role as backbone providers (ie, only incidentally). they both went to jail because they took on too much debt in the telecom boom laying fiber, not because the NSA framed them. the stupid stuff they did predates (in nacchio's case) the involvement with the uswest. the poor economics of qwest--which was trying to hide--was the reason he bought uswest. us west was a cash cow and able to service his debts.

The NSA dispute post-dates the stock market/telco imposion, and also both his acquisition of uswest and the start his insider selling, and cirucmstantially seems like a desperate bid to gain leverage in his criminal case (ie, his credibility is lacking, as the allegations are self-serving).

In 1996, reports appearing in The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News revealed that CLECs had lodged complaints with the FCC against US West, including multiple complaints from Qwest Communications International, Inc. The complaints alleged US West neglected or seriously delayed release of "bundled loops" as required by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, making it difficult for competitors to provide local telephone service to their customers. Other competitors began following suit, and charged US West with monopoly-like or anti-trust type behavior.[citation needed]

During the winter of 1999–2000, US West announced that it had received an unsolicited purchase offer from Qwest Communications International, Inc. At the time, US West had been attempting to merge with Global Crossing, but for months this deal had been stalled through the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). US West management publicly refused Qwest's offer. Qwest eventually purchased enough US West stock to enable Qwest to take control of the Board of Directors in March 2000.

On June 30, 2000, US West, Inc. and Qwest Communications International, Inc. combined via merger. US West, Inc. was merged into Qwest Communications International, Inc. with all of US West's direct subsidiaries becoming direct subsidiaries of Qwest.

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If he's looking to hire someone, it would help if he included the name of his company or link from his post.

I ended up finding it in small letters under his profile picture.

Also, saying "hiring a co-founder" is basically like saying "hiring a wife". You don't hire either one of those if you're looking for a partner. If you're not looking for a partner, you hire a contractor that will get the job done.
I love this idea. Have emailed you.
New Zealand govt passes NSA-style snooping bill
I'd optimise that a bit:

1 - try not to use greylisting (it can be quite annoying some time when you are waiting for an important email)

2 - RBLs should be used from within SpamAssassin in such a way that it raises the spam score, not directly in the MTA. There are loads of "good" addresses listed in RBLs due to carelessness and/or incompetence of the operators.
TPM combined with the recent revelations may become Windows' final nail in the coffin.
Nice usability article on a site, where I can't find any button to go to the main blog.
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What kind of silly propaganda made you read where biking causes more pollution than driving?! btw, if you look at CO2 emission and greenhouse gas emission, you'll find that USA and CHINA are pretty much tete a tete:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_greenhouse...

Obviously, emission pro-capita is quite different. So, yes, the low hanging fruit it in your living room pretty much.
> I can guarantee it doesn't take me 2 seconds for my top 20 keyboard shortcuts,

From observing developers I've worked with over the years, I doubt most developers know more keyboard shortcuts than "normal people".

In fact, I've come to realise just how appallingly bad most of us are at using our tools.
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> Imagine if there was a new drug that gave the mental benefits the guy reported after two weeks of use and saved you money too. It would be front page news.

Benefits are not self-assessed for drugs.
>Basically Tesla deserves props for making an extremely strong car. That's what was tested here. But the spin is they're claiming "safest car" while completely side-stepping the high voltage safety issue.

That's not a side-step. IIHS doesn't test for this, and Tesla is not beholden to do so.
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it's one of the reasons why i don't play Blizzard games anymore. it gets old when every time i want to play a game, i need to go through endless webpages to reactivate my account that has been blocked because of 'suspicious activities'.
What I don't get about all the criticism of Soylent is that people seem to be comparing it to a perfect diet of conventional food -- the most likely alternative for most of the users is far worse than that, and probably worse than even the most naive form of Soylent.

I'd love to try something like Soylent when away from my kitchen for weeks at a time. I'm going to be in the Nevada desert for two weeks doing something I enjoy (NOT Burning Man! A bunch of shotgun/pistol classes at Frontsight next month!), and not having to deal with food when waking up at 0430 and going to bed at 2230 every day would be really nice. It looks a bit too heavy on carbs and too light on protein for my taste, but it wouldn't be hard to cut it with protein powder or something.

The biggest practical problem I see is "tastes best at <42F". Powders, especially with fat and protein, mix poorly in cold water, and cold water isn't always available. Something which worked better at 60-80F would be ideal.

(As it is, the most practical thing for me is probably beef jerky, fiber and vitamin pills, lots of water, and a few trips to steakhouses. Maybe some Capriotti's sandwiches in a cooler.)
Nice ad hominem.

It looks like there is not a "main blog" page to go to.
Pre-cooked bacon (ideally, that you cook yourself and just throw into the fridge). Eggs, if you want to bother cooking at all. Pre-cooked bacon can be eaten alone, or put on a salad, or whatever.
Common Sense[1] might disagree with you on that one.

If we are talking about truly "disseminating information" I think we need to consider any form of broadcast or public proclamation and so as we approach the 50th anniversary of a certain speech[2] I would say the dissemination of information by an average person is absolutely fundamental to the checks and balances required to construct and maintain a free society. But therein lies the rub - just swamp the channels with noise and you raise the bar for actually transmitting a meaningful signal. This is what I was alluding to in my other comment about the way the internet has effected this age old pattern.

It's not clear what your second point is saying - it's okay to have only experts informing the public, but they cannot be afforded "special... protected status"? Like parliamentary privilege? "The fourth estate"? Freedom of speech? The right to protect their sources? I'm genuinely curious about what you mean, sorry if I've misunderstood completely.

[1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Sense_%28pamphlet%29]
[2: MLK - August 28th 1963]
Going from the comment in the config file, "debug" data is only collected if the application crashes.

Google Analytics is hooked up by default though, which is unusual. (Actually I'm not sure how that's going to work, since everyone's going to be on a different domain name.)

https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit/pull/91/files#L0L16
she's a consultancy, her customers are banks and other types of financial institutions (I presume)
it's a little bit more subtle than that. Generally speaking a 'human right' is the acknowledgement that someone or some agent can do something to you, but is relinquishing the power/promising not to use their power.

For example, 'the right to free speech': The government could use its vast power, military, authority to muzzle you, but it promises not to.

'the right to a trial by jury': The government could use its array of police forces to lock you up with no recourse, but it promises not to, without some level of due process.

They are not synonymous - a government certainly has the POWER to levy war, but that is generally not considered a 'right'.

Because some of these negative rights seem to be positive (like the right to a trial jury, although in earlier times, jury duty was not mandatory - or the right to vote, which is better thought of as the government promising not have governors that are unelected) - in recent times, they have been conflated with other things that have been labelled 'rights' like 'the right to water' or 'the right to the internet', or 'the right to a living wage', which are certainly categorically different from the negative rights, unless the promise is much more limited than what most of these additional rights advocates are lobbying for.
What if you disable it? Doesn't it respect that setting?
"Software Engineer" and "Site Reliability Engineer" are generic roles.
You did not mention the placebo effect though. That's the largest weakness of such an experiment. Your brain may be convinced (without you being strictly conscious about it) that Soylent is good for you and trigger all kind of benefits that you assessed yourself.

That's why clinical trials are running in double-blind modes, to remove as much as possible the placebo effect. A self-assessed experiment is, and will always be, meaningless.
I think the staging area is a horrible idea. It greatly complicates the UI ("diff --cached"? Really?) without providing many benefits (if you want to commit just some files, you could simply specify the names at commit time.

I really love bzr's UI in this respect, and I understand Mercurial is similar too.
Clicking on the modulus logo takes me to your blog site instead of your main site
Converting a sealed MRE to food is actually more hassle than cooking ramen or opening a can/pouch of tuna or microwaving frozen food. The ration heaters are a huge pain if you're in a civilized environment; you don't really want to use them indoors due to H2 gas.

(I only ever ate MREs in transit, and at most for ~10 meals in a row. My preferred strategy was to eat the main antree "cold" (I only got them in 90F+ weather, so they were plenty warm), maybe the candy (if it was the carmels, or I think M&Ms), pocket the little bottle of tabasco for future bloody mary use, and give away or trash the rest. Otherwise, far too much hassle. Given the choice, the tuna pouches from the PX were 10x superior, even if I had to pay for them, especially if I had some packets of mustard and relish and salt and pepper).
> that might (it's pure speculation) contain a backdoor

Maybe, just maybe we have come to the point in time that unless a system has been shown to be secure, it should be assumed to be wiretaping the user. We can no longer assume secure until proven insecure.

> FUD.

Absolutely. This is what the reputational damage to american firms like Microsoft looks like. Why the hell should their systems be trusted now?
Bank of America intern's death puts banks' working culture in spotlight
Always wondered why a trivial library like this one couldn't be dependency-free (jQuery mostly)
Fraud of my friends company name and created a website pretending to be them
Someone has registered a .co.uk address of my friends UK limited company and is now hosting a website pretending to be them.

This has strangely occurred at the same time a number of fraudulent requests for 3G mobile internet contracts and other items have been raised against the company.

I would like to know what can be done to help him remove these offending articles.

The website is being hosted through 1and1.co.uk, and the website is registered through nominet.
You asked how they would enforce it. You did not ask for a likely outcome, you asked for possible outcomes. If you want specific answers, ask specific questions.
No, it looks like people can be scared by correlation.

Of course changes in diet can be dangerous (you just try switching to an all cyanide diet).

But "liquid protein products"? Like milk? Or protein shakes? There are certainly plenty of "liquid protein products" on the market, and heavily used, and tons more protein products sold as powders to be mixed with water, milk or juice by consumers.

Somehow we don't have weightlifters dropping like flies.
This is a repost. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4366283
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Where are you getting that?
Nacchio was convicted for insider trading in 2007. Unless I am mistaken, your italicised text has nothing to do with that.
Twisted (Python) and EventMachine (Ruby) don't all of these do the same thing?
Interesting. I'm surprised the categories listed are so vague. I partly expected it to be tech orientated.
I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck
Aardvark 2.0 ?
In that case, a couple of extensions of that which I use constantly:

cf" is change find "

But, since this is a grammar, there are other things than c we can use like d (delete find ") or y (yank find "). More than this we can swap out f. Instead of f, try i, which I think of as "inside".

So ci" deletes the text inside quotes and leaves you in insert mode. ci) deletes the text inside parentheses and leaves you in insert mode.

For example

foobar[somekeyvar] = "wooyay"

move to somekeyvar and ci] then type "anotherkey"

foobar[anotherkey] = "wooyay"

I use this constantly while programming.
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is the freedom of speech essential for human life? Because usually that's considered to be a right.
Sometime around the turn of the century, I worked on an enterprise webapp (of the kind I fear may have kept IE4 in production for a long time). We'd show a popup-window with a gif of spinning gears for operations that took more than a few seconds.

At one point, we had a call from a user that had been waiting for one of these operations to finish for a long time. We looked into it and realised that some backend process had crashed, so we restarted it and told him he'd have to reload the app. The user wouldn't hear it - it was still working, he could see the gears turning!
Great job, i have done some months ago something similar in a project (it's a portuguese project sorry :p ) : http://www.dizer.de/mografia/ , you can check the loading bar on the top, in form page. Start typing..
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/518426/how-to-save-the-...