skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh look another engineer whining because he didn't have the vision or business chops to create something great on his own. Woz was an idiot who would have given Apple's original technology away and NOTHING would have come from it as a result. If you enjoy Apple's products at all you should thank Steve. Woz was replaceable as Apple's history has shown; they have grown immensely without his involvement.
Dangers of traveling while female
Uncomfortable User Experience
I thought that was the article itself for a moment... it was full screen and article shaped!
The KH-11 (aka Keyhole) is dead
I find this viewpoint very confusing, assuming you see YC as a good experience... unless you are trying to tactfully say that YC was a bad experience and I'm just being dense.

"never once has anything good happened from paying for access" ... "We did YCombinator"

YC is the prototypical model for this.
This is certainly a place where Apple's review process could add value if it wanted to. Too bad they haven't stepped up to that yet. I would guess that the same icon would be an immediate flag but I guess not.
It doesn't work like that. The information being hashed is the hash of the merkle tree root of all the transaction in a block, and a nonce. They are hashing data in a very specific format, not every possible bytes sequence.

Also, the proof-of-work is completed when you find a hash that begins with a specified number of zeros, and not when you reach a specific hash.
From the Wired story this morning:

"Clapper briefly notes some programs the intelligence agencies are closing or scaling back, as well as those they’re pouring additional funds into. Overhead imagery captured by spy satellites was slated for reduction, for example, while SIGINT, the electronic spying that’s been the focus of the Snowden leaks, got a fresh infusion."
You should be able to build this as a bash function I think.
Apple wouldn't permit this in the AppStore
It's more of a very simple website that you are going to use before you have your actual website built, to gauge interest from potential users.

Usually a 'landing page' consists of a big title / catchphrase, a few points of information about your upcoming product, and a box where you can fill in your email address if you want to subscribe to the mailing list to have more info later. Kind of like what http://launchrock.co/, but less minimalistic I guess.
I spent some time looking at this. I cant find the source but things appear to point to the pirate browser from the pirate bay. As mentioned on the tor-talk mailinglist the pirate bay website is a high ranking site and on the 10th of august the linked from one of the 10 or so links under the search to the pirate browser. archive.org cache shows this clearly. So why didnt the uptick happen until the 19th. I cant explain. Twitter conversations increased around the 16th. News articles seem constant from the 10th onward.

initially i assumed a conspiracy to flood the network or conduct research when I read about abnormal spikes for india and brazil but actually looking at the graphs the huge spikes are across most nations.

for reference i checked the source code for the graphs page and how the data is compiled and the only data available for user count is country so at the moment there is no way to do pattern analysis for tor version or the like to definitively point to the pirate browser.
Technocrat in the sense that I want to abolish democracy and have the government run by smart science people in the interest of smart science people?

No, I'm not. Bad Things start happening when you take self-governance away from people.

EDIT: But that dodges the point! How can people have the balls to complain about too little science being done while making life a miserable shlep for those of us who actually choose to do science?
Instabug: Instant bug reporting tool for mobile apps
The people who have supplied the war on drugs stop getting paid.
IIRC DDG was vocally against personalization and "filter bubbling".

Even if they collected these stats, they wouldn't be able to refine their results unless they've changed their position.
Looks like a poorly designed method to avoid SQL injections.
Feds won't sue to stop marijuana use in 2 states
Remember, Microsoft is trying to become a "Devices and services" company.
This is Hilarious LOL
I wonder how different would it be if the main character was male instead of female. There is a certain frailness that you can't get with male characters
maybe a noob question but usually, the agreement to do an accelerator program is usually overseen by an attorney? or is it just a handshake between accelerator and acceleratees?
They purchased 100,000+ acres of Humboldt county in the early nineties. Not sure if the kept it, considering that premium cannibis is now grown indoors.
Sure. Just shoot us an email at colm@modulz.co when you're ready to upgrade.
Most text copies you find are transcripts of what he actually said, not the script he was reading. It's easy to tell the difference, because the phrase "I have a dream" isn't in the script he was reading!
> ...you're using the wrong toolkit. You need...

Ouch. Do you really feel so well acquainted with their internal design that you can use such strong language?
It comes across as dogmatic.
Obama strike plans in disarray after Britain rejects use of force in Syria
Doubt it - if I remember correctly, News uses its own storage engine (written on top of the file system) rather than a SQL database. Source at http://arclanguage.org/install
No offense taken. Just remember that I'm still the little guy here, as are many others who feel they have to share anonymously. I don't have a large fund. I don't have lots of great connections. And I still need to do business, maybe with companies who have existing relationships with these people.

I wish it weren't so.
It's one thing to leak documents about the NSA being in a grey area in regards to US citizens rights. But this last month or so all the articles I see here are about Snowden trying to actively 1) attempt to hurt the USA and 2) attempt to embarrass the USA.

I don't get it? What is he thinking he is doing?
Some people [1] get involved in crypto without specific training.

[1] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/crypt.html
Aren't they also obligated by tons of treaties not to spy on UN countries?
There is currently no internal way to import your own color scheme. You can always override the CSS with your own colors.

We have lots of extra features planned for the future including extra color schemes, custom color schemes, extra Modulz, web fonts, more customization options etc.

If lots of people start using it, we will add new customization options very soon.
Even if it's not SQL oriented, it could still be to mitigate some kind of injection attack. This is an interesting question; I hope someone with more specific knowledge takes the time to answer it.
Python Gets High Marks for Open Source Software Security
Beautiful design, and with the pricing change it is a great buy. One quick note -- when you click the eye buttons to see details, the old prices still show up.
Did you have to serve, though?
Sequestration has been a particularly blunt trauma. Because of the sudden-ness of it, it hurt some areas particularly badly. Also, it was a particularly stupid action, like a tantrum on the part of the Congress. Sorry about what happened to you.
And for a lot of people the rich don't like (the blacks, latinos, the underclasses) there's one less way to put them in jail and/or pressure them.
I don't think that's quite right, if I understand correctly you could have the interpreter so long as there was no download and run of external code.

I'm sure I've seen a Lua environment like this.
Research allocations by discipline are politically motivated.
Try urlencoding. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_robot
Yep, I left them behind after this incident years ago, and good riddance. Have had plenty reasons to not regret that decision since. Have a dedicated server with LiquidWeb now and am really pleased with their service.
Everything is based on stored bits. It's how those bits are interpreted that matters. No banker should care that they store bits instead of physical cash. It simply doesn't matter. I've only ever seen inept programmers think that everyone should know the underlying technology, which I guess you could say is hypocritical, as I doubt many of them truly understand what's happening in the lower levels of programming, physics, or math. Abstraction - it's important.
I agree, but I'm not sure I'm in a position to do much were I to disclose the name. A comment or a story on HN! We'll all guffaw and shake our heads; then we'll move on. Your buddies a year from now probably won't know any difference. And if I'm remembered, at best, I'll just be perceived as a disaffected applicant.

I don't know that there's a good solution to this. I wish pud's fuckedcompany still existed, and there were a place for investors, too.
Kind of, but was this new activity on Snowden's part, or on the part of people he had already given materials to?
Good spot. Thanks for pointing it out. It's fixed.
I also wish HN respected the RFC3986 recommendation that angle-brackets be usable for delimiting a URI in context. See <http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt>.
PG on Building Companies for Fast Growth
they're not using it for privacy; they're using it to avoid dns holes.
Yes, because this is not how quantum computers work. That is, they don't perform all computation paths non deterministically and then give you the 'right' answer. The answer that you get is a composition of all paths; it is not known how to use this to solve NP-complete problems.

On the other hand, most modern encryption systems are based on the assumption that factoring is a difficult problem. Famously, quantum computers can factor numbers efficiently. So a large scale quantum computer could break current cryptosystems, but there are in fact cryptosystems (such as lattice cryptography) that are secure against quantum computers.
I can see why you're confused. I am actually objecting to the idea that HN and software in general is just 'a room full of men'.
Not as satisfying as http://instantfart.com/
You're not an American leaving the US, so your comment is irrelevant. And if the graduate school opportunity was at UMass, I assure you, it was not a very good department.
Yep, numeronyms.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
Shouldn't be too hard, if it really supports all of GHC...
On inventing public-key crypto, GCHQ was 3 or 4 years ahead of the public: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography#History

That source says nothing about the NSA. Is it believed the NSA invented it earlier and didn't share with GCHQ?
usually when i hear "barely covers the rent" i think of two cities

NY, and SF.
Elsewhere is this thread, you said:

> The exact type of rhetoric from a Black Panther that doesn't help his cause one iota. This is why MLK gets a national holiday and Carmichael is a footnote.

BPP and MLK are fundamentally about the advancement of black people from being considered 2nd class and subhuman. Of this cause you say BPP do not help their cause because of use of violence, this is a way of saying that the actions of BPP and the behavior of its members, who are predominantly black, are responsible for keeping their status in society from not improving. The realty is racism in the US has a long and violent history, that racism is what keeps black people and communities from improving their lives and status. Resistance to that violence is NOT responsible.

> And, yes, nonviolent protesters can and do face a very large amount of violence. But being violent back tends to solve nothing and MLK knew that. He also knew that with enough favorable support he could affect change.

That is true, but MLK was also keenly aware of the need for self defense and that not all forms of violence are unjustified[1][2][3]. Obviously this is a big split of ideology between MLK and BPP, but both MLK and BPP affected some kinds of change.

[1] http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/documen...
[2] http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/09/the-secr...
[3] http://www.philosophy.uncc.edu/mleldrid/SAAP/CLT/DP02.htm
Which leads me to suspect that if there were a demand for "a big file to source in your bashrc to alias 'cp' to 'copy'", it would exist. It is not exactly a difficult thing to do, but nobody actually cares enough to do it (probably because it is not actually a problem).
Talk to any ColdFusion developers.
I've made the exact same switch. I'm loving the combination of FF & DDG. I've also set DDG as the default search engine in Chrome and use it on iOS from the app and Mercury browser. DuckDuckGo deserves all the great publicity it's receiving.
No, the INCB claims they are obligated to keep cannabis illegal, but they're not necessarily competent to decide on that issue. In particular, according to the 1988 Convention, the parties are only required to do so "in conformity with the fundamental provisions of their respective domestic legislative systems", which it might be argued a federal prohibition isn't.
I had an awful experience years ago that reminds me of some of these stories. I'd have to tone it down to make it believable.

Short short version: a guy with no money pretended to be a deep-pocketed investor, talked me into leaving my day job. At least that's how the story begins. Then it gets progressively more insane.
And this was worth submitting to hackernews? Really? Only clicked to see what FOMO might mean (and I'm still none the wiser), maybe I should write a post about using confusing acronyms.
10 secrets pilots won't tell you
Good point. There's probably a better way to do it than downvotes (also, now that I think about it, who's ever going to downvote someone else on LinkedIn?).
What is contravariance and why would you want it?
Strawman. Electronic communications don't need to be fully untouchable like attorney-client privilege, they just need to be untouchable without probable cause.

Conspiracies are routinely prosecuted using the results of warranted wiretaps based on probable cause.
Sanjay Jha For Microsoft CEO
Does someone really believe that can Bill Gates back to be Microsoft CEO?
For me it was using pentadactyl for a while beforehand that made switching easier. Obviously there are different concepts and some different default keybindings but pentadactyl is much easier to incrementally get used to imo.
You mean in Tzahal? I haven't been drafted yet, but I will be. It's really not that much trouble.
Startups looking for accelerators remind me of authors looking for agents and publishers - we don't realize how much power we have in the relationship, and also how much we can do for ourselves without someone to "help" us for a chunk of our equity.

Of course the right accelerator/VC/agent/publisher, at the right time, can help. It works best if you see them as a piece of YOUR plan, rather than see yourself as a supplicant to their network/deep pockets.
Correct. Both python and lisp (Lisping) already have interpreters available as well.
They even said as much in the announcement:

> The size and profitability of marijuana businesses will still be a factor prosecutors can consider, but there also must be additional illegal activities for prosecutors to take action.

With enough scrutiny (which we know the Feds have the capacity for), it's trivial to find some regulation that a particular business is violating. And as soon as they have their justification, they'll come down on suppliers and vendors like a ton of bricks, using both the official violation and the federal Controlled Substances Act in the prosecution.

Overall, this announcement is a good sign that they're losing the war on public opinion, and I don't suspect they'll crack down unilaterally. I think they're going after a strategy of containment; disincentivizing the experiment from spreading, as well as preventing bales of cannabis from flowing across state lines (which, in fairness, will certainly happen).
> What we learned about Columbus, MLK, and all the founding fathers were stripped of everything controversial

"Inconsistent with the preferred simple narrative" is probably more accurate than "controversial" here.
How do you know they didn't leave?
Here's one that includes the "death sounds" played in the event of a crash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTVmrX6Lee0
Can you elaborate on this? I also use XMonad in connections with a simple xterm (although I used screen some years ago, but then I did not know about XMonad) but I do not get the idea of detaching/reattaching. Is the idea to save the state of the session?
Sure they would.

http://omz-software.com/pythonista/

http://omz-software.com/editorial/

http://twolivesleft.com/Codea/

You just can't have an app that downloads external code and then runs it; if all of the code that gets run is prepackaged in the app bundle or user-generated then it's absolutely fine.
> Choose between phlat or skeuo design styles.

Both are skeumorphic and relatively flat. This is incorrect to suggest that the terms are mutually opposed.
I think it's an excellent question.

The "intelligence community" sponsors a lot of math and fundamental physics work in academia and the national labs. The grants are laundered through an intermediary, so you don't know who and in what agency is interested in the work. I think of that visible side as one way for them to keep their foot in the door, to check the pace of advances on the unclassified side.

But you're really asking about the classified "shadow" of that open work, which by definition is hard to measure. I think one easy yardstick is "how much a mathematician makes" versus the intelligence budget. This leads me to think that they can hire a lot of mathematicians.

And let's face it, the subject matter is really cool. There's a reason that mathematicians throughout history have been interested in coding. Now imagine someone paying them to do it.

A senior academic I knew (in the information theory area) consulted at the NSA for several summers. His work was done in a Faraday cage, and that's all he would say about it. He was top-notch in his field, and he wouldn't waste his summers with fools. I think that there are lots of similar stories.

My working belief is that, in certain areas, they are way, way ahead of the open state of the art. Like with Keyhole, or tapping fiber optic cables, etc. Not everywhere, but they don't have to be ahead everywhere, just in a few places.
The general term for this (although a different concept to TFA) is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Eck_phreaking (as popularized in Cryptonomicon)
And didn't even get superpowers out of it. :/
I created a sample app using Puma and Celluloid to work through similar troubles I was having with Sinatra's streams and Puma. If it helps, it's here: https://github.com/sdeming/cellfun. This does not use EventMachine, depending instead on Celluloid. I work primarily in JRuby and EventMachine has always tripped me up.
For espresso roasts have you tried the Dapper from Handsome Coffee? Probably my favorite espresso at the moment.
Regarding the dark roasts, a large part of my service is the curation angle. I'm promising people that I will find them a great coffee. I really only have my taste buds to rely on for the curation, so I'll end up recommending coffees that I like.
Discovered or rediscovered by someone, and seemingly new to some on here or still appreciated by enough others to upvote.

FWIW, it was the first time I'd seen it. Very comprehensive.
I wonder how much of a picture of the outsourced parts of the black budget could be assembled by going through EDGAR filings.

http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?CIK=BAH&Find=Search&...

I'm not that familiar with deciphering EDGAR filings, but if you correlated it to http://www.usaspending.gov/ and other sources...

Who knows what you might find out.

It would make a neat data-journalism project for someone; would that I had the time.
Meet a New York TechStar: Alexandre Winter, Founder of Placemeter
> I wouldn't.

Neither would I. We studied the book of Ruth in an ancient literature course in high school, along with Gilgamesh, et al. It was very interesting to read them in that context.

The effect of religion is inseparable from the course of history. It's possible to approach it from a non-theistic context.
Thanks for the feedback thus far (especially the media query inputs), let me know if there is anything else you think should be updated/corrected! (Context: I wrote the applicable post)
Reminds me of the openpilot controller:

http://www.openpilot.org
CS 161 – Computer Security – Syllabus and important notes [pdf]
I thought this was a joke, but apparently it isn't.

Summary:
Late to a class? You get an F and need to leave.

Late to section? You get an F and leave. By the way, four sections have been dropped. If you have a schedule conflict, report it by September 2nd, or get an F and need to leave.

Unanticipated absence due to family emergency or medical reasons? Full documentation must be submitted on the same day, or get an F.

Religious absence? Submit it by September 2nd, or get an F.

Cell phone beeps? Get an F and need to leave.

Use any non-medical electronic device at all? Get an F and need to leave.

Don't have a book yet? Pay $50 and also pay out the nose extra to get it overnighted; there's an exam on Monday. Oh, and the second textbook hasn't been published yet. Too poor? Too bad.

Requesting a re-grade? All of your exams will be re-graded.

Need to use the bathroom during a quiz? No.

Need to use the bathroom during an exam? Your test will be taken from you and photographed, and you will be escorted to the restroom.

Suspect someone is looking at your exam sheet? Stand up and report it immediately during the exam or get an F.
Are any of these projects aiming to interface well with MS Word or OpenOffice?
Why I want Google Now on my wrist: Context is king
Like gay marriage, history is on the side of legalization and normalization. Once the issue has a non-threatening human face, opinions change. Medical marijuana is a great vehicle for this, because only a real jerk is going to deny someone undergoing chemotherapy or suffering from glaucoma something that alleviates their pain.

As someone who lives in Seattle, it's fairly common at this point to walk past people downtown openly smoking pot on the street, without fear of arrest. I mean, the city even has a festival called Hempfest. Tourists may notice this and be shocked at the openness, but Seattle is not overrun by rampaging marijuana addicts, so what conclusion must they draw from it?

I noticed that alcohol is not listed in the controlled substance schedules. That seems like it would be a schedule I or II based on the definition and other drugs that are also on the list. Worse, you can die from an alcohol overdose, unlike cannabis. Why is this dangerous drug legal? Because people are conditioned to believe it is socially acceptable, and know that prohibition doesn't work. The same is now happening for cannabis.
> I made a few abortive switches to Vim that didn't last a week because my productivity was too hampered and the environment too extreme & foreign.

I started vim by using cream[1], which behaves like a normal editor with menus to configure everything. Once you get used to the different concepts, you can start editing the `.creamrc` file. After a few years, I was comfortable enough to drop cream completely and use hand written vimrc file for the configuration that I liked.

[1]: http://cream.sourceforge.net/
Playing music using monitor emissions: http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
How about this. Works on zsh and bash (at least for basic commands).

https://gist.github.com/axelson/6384869