skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dont dream of that. The data get transfered to the card companies and that are 90% US or US controlled companies.
Smartest socks in the world
Because I'm Irish.
Who are the "early adopter" Venture Capitalists in India
No payments to banks in europe :(
You can certainly build concurrent systems on top of Node, what it doesn't have is preemptive multi-threading, which sucks IMHO, but speaking of Go I also don't like that it does M:N multi-threading instead of 1:1 like the JVM, as the scheduling done is suboptimal.
I wonder what do you do when the electronics in the socks break. Do they support carry-in service? Next business day?
Petition to MS regarding old PowerPoint translators
Airbnb allows hosts to enhance their property listing with local recommendations for dinner, shopping or drinks. A real treasure trove which is now only accessable on Airbnb.com by browsing every single listing in a city.

I build a crawler that grabs every host's listing, filter and group these recommendations together. That results in lists of the top recommended places.
40K Updates per second on a map using HBase/Hadoop and CartoDB
Single page link for those who prefer to read the article whole, instead of chopped up into four pieces:

http://www.anandtech.com/print/7245/ergodox-review-an-ergono...
Managing Startups - Best Blog Posts
In Germany, mine and most of my friends' favorite is Sofort Überweisung[1]

[1]: https://www.sofort.com/eng-DE/
I really liked Siberia.

I did a homestay in a little village on Lake Baikal (maybe half an hour from Irkutsk, but I can't remember which one) and it was quite pleasant. It'd meet a lot of your needs, with no internet access, plenty of cold, and tons of outdoor stuff to do (and wolves, which might be considered a downside).

It was easy enough to arrange the homestay. I booked it in Beijing as part of a trans-siberian trip, from one of the local outfits who arrange such things for English speakers. I expect that if you did the same, you could probably arrange to be left in Irkutsk for a year and negotiate a long-term stay from there.

While we're in the area, Mongolia is also really cool and would remove power and cell coverage from your list of unpleasant western things. You could probably just outright buy a ger in Kharkhorin, and a horse to go with it, for a few thousand bucks. Drop it in any convenient patch of grass and set up shop for the duration.

Good luck!
Thanks guys, you made my day x)
Advertising is not the only source of revenue of cable channels and that is especially true for HBO and AMC. Channels get paid a certain rate by cable companies for each subscriber they have. Certain popular or premium channels get paid more. HBO and AMC get paid substantially more than other channels. Popular shows put channels in a position that allows them to negotiate higher rates.
Angellist startup valuations
Kudos for this choice. Internet businesses are often naturally international.
It would be hard to prove with the existing leaks, but there are certainly forms of information that could be considered very valuable to and likely to incite known terrorist groups, no? I'm thinking things like detailed floor plans for embassies, personal info about members of the special forces, confirmations of extralegal executions and details of the people who carried them out, etc.

So far it seems no-one who has leaked information has had the clearance to get to the truly painful stuff, but the psychological screening to get to those levels is specifically designed to keep potential Snowdens and Mannings out.
The Startup Learning Curve
Downvoting you for a hollow false aphorism [second sentence], is that bad?
Guys seriously. There's nothing going against PAYMILL just because theyre a 'clone' company. Theyre working with 2 big acquirer banks which probably wouldnt do so if the company wasnt trustworthy. Might wanna think about that. Plus being available in 39 countries across Europe is more than beneficial for so many small business owners who previously did not have the chance to onboard with any other payment provider. But PAYMILL is there for them! Im a happy customer of theirs and have not experienced any kind of slight problem. In contrast, their support is very helpful, answeri ng all kinds of questions no matter how much youre asking. They even helped me generate my contract, adjusting it and sending it over to the bank for activation. So if you ask me - go for PAYMILL.
This actually happened to me; I blogged about it here.

http://www.databasesandlife.com/windows-path-length-limit/
Incremental means adding, iterative means reworking
I can't tell if this is an "exercise" we, the community, are playing at, or whether this is your real life and you are actually trying to get ideas. I don't really have the time to participate in the exercise but, in the event that this is really your life, here's my response:

That sounds miserable - I agree w/ @onion2k about fixing your situation before you work on other things. Life is not short, it's quite long and you have a lot of years left. "No family, pets or friends" for the next 50+ years sounds like you would be getting the least out of life itself. Read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" and work from there towards a few more ideas about how you can improve your life and health.
How did it fail? I just learned about Diaspora and created diaspora account. It seems to work fine and there seems to bet 20+ diaspora domains running there.
If you are worried about leakers, you probably are doing somehing "bad" and you are aware of it.

Why would anybody even consider giving such tips to `people which can be summed up as evil' is beyond me.
I just signed up and was offered to hook up my Facebook account to my Diaspora account. Is this what you mean?

Personally I chose not to; the reason I'm apathetic to Facebook and rarely use it these days is because of the constant privacy breaches and then the NSA news. Why sign up to an anonymous and decentralized site, only to connect it with your FB identity?
I used to think like you, until I realized every aspect of my life was being recorded permanently by corporations and the NSA. Back to cash and anonymity, thank you.
Yeah but it's good for your "I don't care cause I'm an awesome hacker" cred if you swear, and get angry at everything.

I'm going to upvote dodyg cause he's so fucking awesome!
Afraid not. He used to be less political than he is now. He used to be in the police, now he is a life peer and gets to actually vote on stuff.
What To Do When The Time To Retire Arrives
Except that enough nodes are controlled by government entities to eliminate most if not all of the benefits.
Social implications of a size limit can be quite large. Non tech saavy team forced to restart work (half of them will lose the file if saved in a temporary location) after waiting for someone to explain them this additional rule.
It seems like such statements by Lord Blair, insofar as they make people distrust the government, are "but of conduct which is likely to or capable of facilitating terrorism".

Or was it the journalists interviewing him? Or the guardian reposting it? Just arrest the lot and let the juries sort them out!
There is actually a major difference between the majority of German credit cards and, e.g., US credit cards, which fits nicely into your argument:

Most German credit cards are "not-revolving",i.e., at the end of the month the amount you spent with your credit card will be withdrawn automatically from your bank account. It is therefore much more like a debit card in concept than a credit card.

The only reason why credit cards are more used nowadays in Germany is because of their use in international online shopping (and when renting a car in the US, which is the reason why I had to get one).
Yosemite Fire from Space
Maybe a good place to mention the book that got me started on meditation: http://www.amazon.com/Minute-Meditation-Quiet-Mind-Change/dp...
> Take the first 16 characters of bcrypt(username,site domain)

Hey, that's the very definition of security through obscurity ;)

Here's a thought experiment I use when estimating security of similar password schemes: imagine you asked someone to come up with 1000 different mechanisms of generating passwords based on username and domain. Is your scheme is likely to be among them? If yes, this means it provides less than 10 bits of security.
“Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

George Orwell, 1984
If anything has ever been in need of a container like docker, it is Diaspora.
Pretty much every company has confidential information. When a company administrator sells the internal address book to a recruiter or when a salesperson makes a copy of the prospects database before joining a competitor - that's leaking too.
"The state has to have secrets – that's how it operates against terrorists"

Secrecy allows the state to do a lot of things.
Don't Fall in Love in Your Product
Agreed. silly downvotes.

Thanks for the summary! I do think that the Mossadeq affair should have been an integral part of the whole.
To add to this, one thing I found helpful was to count with every breath in or out, up to ten -- breathe in, one; breathe out, two -- All the way up to ten, then back to the beginning.

Having something so easy and menial, yet requiring constant attention helps immensely to keep the mind from wandering.
You're confusing authentication with identification.

Many (most?) web services and software only require the former, not the later. They don't need to know that you're Joe Bloggs, only that you're the unidentified person that created the account and are the one entitled to use it.

This is a more and more important distinction as privacy issues grow.
Nomophobia affects majority of UK
Maybe not all parts of the world have been so deeply 'californicated by Apple' ;-)
AMC does not have high subscription fees. They are somewhere near $0.27:

http://m.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/07/how-watchi...

That isn't very high relative to others.

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/141097593.html

What they do do is collect lots of fees from non-viewers.
Fedora 19 LXDE Spin Cleanup
That is the spirit, you will never change anything by just grumbling.

I think we all realize how difficult is to convince non-technical people that something is dangerous to use, but we shouldn't give up.
Oh well.. you have a blog to backup what your are saying... pro-meditation "quacks" have been told! Internet: 1 Meditation: 0

I think you have to pause and reflect for a minute when you say things like: "I can't believe so many intelligent people are fooled by it". Maybe they aren't the ones being foolish... ?
Of course, it's all fine and cool until health insurance starts increasing your monthly payments because you bought too much "unhealthy/non-bio" food. Or when you start getting longer TSA "treatments" because you purchased "wrong and dangerous" book. Or you "just" start getting super creepy targeted advertisement on your mailbox.

No thanks, anything that technically allows tracking will be tracked eventually, if not already. Why would I provide that information free of charge to anyone? I respect my privacy, and I'm glad that I live in a country where people are at least aware of the privacy issues.

Let's say that people's awareness of the privacy and need to protect private information is the only positive legacy from the memories of Gestapo and Stasi.
Smaller isn't necessarily worse (and vice-versa). Maybe its a refactoring process where some abstractions builds, rendering other sub-graphs unnecessary.
Every nation need secrets but not in that way it is currently handled. There must be a kind of balance like a committee which decides in every single case "should this information be classified or not". When this procedure would be consistently applied there might wont be a prism program. Leakers should get a chance to contact this committee and get exemption from punishment. I hope all of you know what I mean - I know my english is not the best.
Every successful RFC in the past started life as a description of an existing implementation. Starting wih an RFC is the wrong way around
Saying meditation is a scam is sort of like saying religion is a scam. It may be true objectively, but if it works, it works.
Having spent quite a bit of time in the last three years living in countries where there is no free press or protection for critics of the government at all, I feel I can pretty confidently say that a completely unanswerable government is far more of a threat to its people than any outside terrorist threat could ever be. Without checks on government power, corruption is absolute.

If people that have been carefully vetted for security clearance are willing to risk their freedom and perhaps even their lives to bring to light abuses of government power we should protect them.
Consider sports teams. They have strategies and plans which they don't want leaked to their opponents. You'd be hard pressed to call them evil.
Great, so the government would have laws that prevent us from ever knowing what they think is an acceptable level of surveillance of our daily lives. That has no potential for misuse.

I get that the leaks could potentially give an advantage to terrorists, but if they're so smart they're following the leaks with baited breath and reworking their tactics, the likelihood is they're probably already avoid using channels that they believe are compromised. If they're using channels that are compromised they're probably too ineffective to pull off a large scale terror attack.
This is getting very scary. Politicians who say something like this at any time, should be met with extreme outrage and make them lose whatever position they're holding immediately. Otherwise they'll get their way, rise to power, and attract more like him there.

What he's saying is unacceptable, but I fear many in the governments think like that right now, which why extreme outrage over this is so important.
Ireland is in the EU and uses the euro. UK is also in the EU but uses GBP.
People pick Ruby and Python without having unrealistic expectations for performance and throughput. We already know their implementations suck and being the high-level languages that they are, we know how difficult they are to optimize.

However, if performance is a concern, then picking Go seems to me like quite a step back from say Ruby.

There are other alternatives as well, that are higher level and that are much better at performance than Ruby/Python. E.g. Java, C#, Scala, Clojure, Ocaml, Haskell.

Personally I love Scala and the JVM, but the one thing I don't like is the GC. The JVM has the best GCs ever, but sometimes you just want to do without one at all.

This is why I don't like Go. While it's a tasteful language, it's too low level, but it still depends on a GC (that's not precise, compacting or generational).

Mozilla's Rust is much more promising for me.
That "alert" is from over 2 months ago.
Date: Jun 18 2013
The vi editor causes brain damage [2007]
What do you mean "The same could have been said about places" - are you referring to foursquare's dominance of the places market?
We're not in 1984. We're not in Brave New World. We're not even in Zamyatin's We. We're in bloody Brazil.

INTERVIEWER
Deputy minister, what do you believe
is behind this recent increase in
terrorist bombings?

HELPMANN
Bad sportsmanship. A ruthless
minority of people seems to have
forgotten certain good old fashioned
virtues. They just can't stand
seeing the other fellow win. If
these people would just play the
game, instead of standing on the
touch line heckling

INTERVIEWER
In fact, killing people

HELPMANN
In fact, killing people they'd
get a lot more out of life.

We PULL AWAY from the shop to concentrate on the shoppers.
Helpmann's voice carries over the rest of the scene.

INTERVIEWER
Mr. Helpmann, what would you say
to those critics who maintain that
the Ministry Of Information has
become too large and unwieldy... ?

HELPMANN
David... in a free society
information is the name of the
game. You can't win the game if
you're a man short.
I agree with you that that information must surely exist. And if it was true that in recent times people who stole and leaked that information for the terrorists to profit got away with it lightly, then I would agree that stricter laws were in order.

But in this case, he's referring to Miranda's case. Miranda was in _possession_ of the leaked documents, he did not steal them himself. Besides that he is clearly (in service of) a journalist.

Are we to prosecute journalists for possessing secret information no one knows of, that they haven't even leaked yet? Aren't the Snowdens and Mannings already punished enough to deter any selfish leaker?
Not disagreeing with you, just wanted to say in case you didn't know: shift-insert has the same effect and doesn't require reaching for the mouse.
A policeman joining the police state lobby. Well, I never.
You hypothesize that the American black population is suffering because their African culture has been taken away from them. I'm merely pointing out that African culture doesn't seem to have built many thriving populations anywhere.

American black culture wasn't nearly so dysfunctional before the rise of the welfare state and the War on Drugs. Illegitimacy was under 30% in 1960 (compared to about 80% today). That has a lot of knock-on effects for other social ills.
Oh, no! This is one of the most useful Linux/X features. People want the feature on OSX, even with quirks.

http://superuser.com/questions/87470/copy-on-select-paste-on...
> More surprising than Snowden's ability to get away with taking the information he downloaded is that there haven't been dozens more like him.

Is an assumption on Schneier's part. For all we know there were dozens or more. They may not have released the data or they may have sold it to some foreign agency instead.
Please don't.

It's ennoying enough in the "normal" case when pasting doesn't work with the middle-click, but in the past I've had several cases with X-forwarded windows where Ctrl+Insert used the paste buffer of the remote machine, and middle click used the paste buffer of the local machine. Removing the middle-click paste means I have no convenient way to copy&paste into "remote" applications anymore.
But that's surely an argument for rewriting the command or the shell script?

Yes its freaking annoying, but I think having a path > 260 chars or a need to pass 5000+ bytes in as line arguments all count as "code smells".

If you are hitting these issues, something else is wrong and in my experience, fixing the other things is much much more productive.
There are good arguments against vi, its variations and descendants. This isn't one of them.
>"Did he omit to mention this obvious flaw in his proposal" //

Is it a "flaw". Surely it's impossible to have a system where the state retain information as secret that yet has third-party oversight and doesn't require the populous to trust a person in power (the third-party).

It seems more to be an outcome or corollary than a[n unexpected] error or "flaw".
Do you guys usually just use Stripe API directly or do you use some kind of middleman (e.g. spreedly.com)?
Before this thread starts to become a rant about Gnome developers again, I'd like to mention that I find middle-mouse pasting annoying and I would appreciate an option to disable it in X. What the Gnome devs did was just inverting the setting without providing an option for it, which is a pretty awful idea.
What fascinates me most about these data is a single data point: Thailand.

The relationship between Thailand and Europe, and say .. Australia and Europe, over the last 2 decades, to my naive thinking, really shows details of clear product demand/response according to world incidents.

It'd be interesting to be able to overlay War/Conflict Data on top, body-count stats, and a few other relevant data of the world, to see how all this is tied to a market reality.

Perhaps we, the people, need to do our own data-mining.
He's talking only about accents that are so strong that you struggle to understand what they are talking about. For a CEO this totally does not work. A CEO is a communicator.

I find it best when somebody has an accent that is enjoyable to listen to. I love a nice elegant German accent. Love listening to a good Indian English accent. But some people are struggling with the language and accent so much that it gets very distracting.

I worked a bit with a Pakistani guy and as much as I liked hanging out with him and talking, it was always a struggle for him when he had to stand up and present. It really blocked him. (actually I am guessing that he's also hard to understand in Urdu)

OTOH I know some Germans who have such a good American accent that its disconcerting. This is an uncanny valley effect. You spend a lot of time just listening to them and trying to spot any small errors. ("Yeah, we've been doing this since 4 years...")

If you took the time to learn English and you took the time to learn all the complexities of building a business (technical, legal, financial) and probably also learned how to pitch, use your hands, communicate, then you should take the time to fix an overly strong accent. Its not that hard.
What we actually need are laws that make it an offence for any government to cover up projects and operations that materially impact the lives and rights of their citizens. Whether a single citizen or all of them are affected it should be a punishable offence if higher ups cover up the actions of a government official.
Not anymore:

$ mkdir bar
$ cd bar
$ for i in {1..40000};do touch $i;done # create 40k files
$ rm *
$ # no warning

But it has nothing to do with `rm` itself, it was due to the fact that the glob expansion was done by Bash.
These are both really excellent points.

While DNS-hijacking Google.ps as a watering hole for HN seems like a bit of a long shot of a vector to get access to HN users, it would be a pretty logical vector for Palestinian Authority systems. And is likely a lot of other users would get unintentionally caught in the net.

Flash/Java vulnerabilities are also quite a bit cheaper (100k range), and well within the price range of most criminal APTs, let alone nation-states. But I imagine most, if not all, HN users have those extensions disabled by default.

So the only way to compromise the systems of most users here would be a 0-day javascript vulnerability in Chrome/Firefox. These are the 0-days to which I was referring, which are massively expensive.

But overall the point is valid. The risk, even if not that large that anyone here would be targeted, makes it a good idea not to post directly to compromised websites. I'm not exactly wild about a random workstation at any US company being compromised, even though they weren't explicitly targeted, by random Israeli hackers or even Unit 8200.
I did that last night and the client is still a little bit picky. I only managed to make it work with smtps, the regular smtp with STARTTLS didn't work.

Oh, well... now I have mail back in my phone. I guess the "0.1alpha" in the User-Agent is well deserved ;)
> Guys seriously. There's nothing going against PAYMILL just because theyre a 'clone' company.

Nobody ever said that.
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Though swearing is also being shown to reduce pain. Perhaps a vigorous bout of mid-meditation swearing will reduce back pain during a long session.
>They had a $200k head start
and significant media coverage
before they wrote one line of code.

Could it be that they concentrated too much on the product early on?

Let's not forget that they also lost a founder a year into the project.
It would be interesting to consider a world that is truly without secrets, even of obscurity. It's possible we might get there. I think the way companies and so forth do their work could end up being adjusted to cope.