skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wish they would open source it. I would have preferred if they would have contributed to PowerDNS instead of reinventing the wheel.
Was PowerDNS so awful it required a compete rewrite if so fair enough.
"Nomophobia"? Who invents these words? How about lexiphobia, the fear of not having an erudite-sounding but meaningless polysyllable on the tip of one's tongue at the perfect moment?
Perhaps it's analogous to CPUs? Perhaps it's better to power down your brain when you're not really using it rather than keeping it running hot at full frequency? The idle mind being the devils workshop and all...

Perhaps (and again speculating) it allows currently active pathways to cool down, allowing different ones to activate. This is especially useful if you're trying to solve a difficult problem and seem to be going in circles along the same line of thought. Your inability to break out of the line of thought might at times be more neurological than cognitive.
Is there an API for extracting data from infoboxes?
Flight schedules should be secret. Also, dates of sporting events should be secret. Actually, keeping current time secret would help a lot.

Seriously, the fact that information can be used by terrorists doesn't imply that it should be secret.
Well, as for the bad guys, most of the public perception of them seems to be based on Holywood movies. In real life their sophistication seems to be absolute BS -- crude stuff that only works (sporadically at that) because a) it's simple to the point that nobody can prevent such stuff anyway, b) the agencies let it happen, c) the agencies are incompetent.

I don't believe they blocked any large scale stuff we don't know about. If they did, they would be shouting it on the rooftops, to show how effective and necessary they are.
+1 for open sourcing
Have there been many examples of GNOME devs removing or substantially changing a feature, then reversing the decision based on community outcry?

This seemed to be a trend 10 years ago or so - I haven't used GNOME on a daily basis since then - and it seemed the GNOME team has almost always had a "this is how it will be, no arguments" attitude. It's probably a perception more than anything else, but perception is reality, don't they say? Trying to make radical changes then hiding behind "Human Interface Guidelines" - even when the new behaviour is demonstrably bad - seemed to be their MO all those years ago, but my memory may be a bit hazy now.

So... we'll have a thread here of people saying "no, don't do it!" or "give me an option to toggle!" but I suspect the damage is done and this is how it will be. What decisions have been overturned by community feedback?
That's the argument isn't it, 'we need this to protect you, but we can't tell because it's super classified'.
Instagram began as a photosharing app when Facebook already dominated photosharing.
Yes. Unfortunately given that the government gets to decide which laws to enforce....
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I agree, in a similar vein I still call my debit card my "switch" out of habit.
What's the problem with debit cards? I like to have the money for all purchases withdrawn from my account as soon as possible, it gives me a nice overview of how much I actually have.
Take a guess where 8 Mile Road is in Detroit:

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Correction: Every time you see or hear "terrorists" replace it with "citizens".

> Lord Blair told BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme: "The state has to have secrets – that's how it operates against citizens.
I'll miss this feature, but I realize that for the "average user" which only uses ctrl-x/c/v it is probably a good thing.

Personally, I've long been planning to switch back to a tiling wm anyway.
'The dead past'.

Isaac Asimov, 1956.
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What you discuss sounds like the sort of information Stratfor sell to the highest bidder.

Snowden and greenwald had damaging information, but chose not to release it. I think instead of dealing with hypotheticals, which can be twisted to frame absolutely anyone for 'potentially aiding the enemy' when the enemy is a fluid and vague terrorist label, and aid is exposing gov wrongdoing by releasing information, we should deal in specifics.

If snowden's revelations are damaging enough to endanger lives, the onus is on the prosecution to demonstrate that in front of an impartial judge. If they can't, or hide behind state secrets, their actions are not fully accountable to the public.

Is US support for the mujahideen, contra and Syrian terrorists more damaging than snowden's revelations and more likely to lead to terror attacks worldwide? I'd argue yes.

Is this war on whistleblowers and principled leakers more damaging to our democracy than any revelations which have yet come out? I'd argue yes.
What? Those definitions are simply false. Incremental steps are small increases or decreases in a quantity, iterative steps are cyclical repetitions of a pattern.

Iterative certainly does not mean "reworking". That's fiction.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incremental

Quote: "of, relating to, being, or occurring in especially small increments <incremental additions> <incremental change>"

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iteration

Quote: "a procedure in which repetition of a sequence of operations yields results successively closer to a desired result."

> This is my 5th or 8th attempt to describe the difference between incremental and iterative development.

Have you considered simply looking up the generally accepted meaning of the terms?
Every time I end up using windows, I end up frustratedly middle-clicking, expecting text to come out.

I have been using MATE to remain productive (gnome 3 and Unity really don't fit my workflow), so this won't really affect me, but it puts another nail in the coffin of the idea that I might transition to gnome 3 in the future.
Isn't that exactly what Kudos said?
He warned there was a "new threat which is not of somebody personally intending to aid terrorism, but of conduct which is likely to or capable of facilitating terrorism".

== What. The. Fuck.
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This feature always seemed weird anyway. Misclicks could be very destructive
This is probably an attempt to move the 'overtone window' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_Window
How about being an ethical organization that people would feel morally compelled to support versus harm? How about not creating secrets around ills committed but actually being candid about such issues when eventually discovered and reforming openly? It seems organizational psychology is partly to blame.
The other day CloudFlare's CEO stated the plan is to open source RRDNS: http://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-new-waf-compiling-to-...

"We're planning on open sourcing RRDNS, the authoritative DNS server we built, when it gets to a state where it could be used by others."
> I eat raw Salmon all the time. It's safe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sashimi#Safety
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Looks interesting. The docs make it sound like a temporal triple store which you can (lazily) make replicas of.

How is consistency handling performed? Does it rely on knowing my snapshot version and checking for write conflicts (a la oracle SERIALIZED level), or is it based on explicit locking?
Lets all just agree to ignore Gnome. They can go sit in their cell, and draw unusable user interfaces on the walls in wax crayon, and mumble about how, with all the features removed except one big bright button that you can't click because it recognises neither mouse nor keyboard, Gnome is finally complete.
Defenders of the State on this issue tend to answer the question they want to be asked - "should the state have secrets".

No-one (except maybe Julian Assange) is arguing that the State shouldn't have secrets - the recent leaks occurred not as a blow against secrecy but to expose State wrongdoing. That's why it's whistleblowing, and not just vandalism.

Guys like Blair like to pretend that they're fighting for the government's right to keep secrets, which no-one is seriously challenging; they run shy of addressing the specific secrets exposed - be it military misbehaviour against civilians, civil servants deceiving lawmakers and so on.
Cleveland isn't terrible. You could buy plenty of houses for $70-$90k which is about the yearly salary for a great developer here. It seems like the tech scene is coming up, but the salaries are lagging. Right out of school it's hard to expect more than $40-$50k. Otherwise, the food scene is great and cost of living is pretty low from my experiences.
I agree that it's better not to use an app, since you don't want to be dependent on a specific voice to get you going, among other things.

The technique you describe (which I also use) is explained more fully by Roger Wells in "Happy to Burn"[1] which I found out about from the "Mind Perfomance Hacks" book[2] originally.

[1] http://www.sankhara.com.au/shop/products/detailFree.html?Pro...

[2] http://www.worldcat.org/title/mind-performance-hacks/oclc/64...
Did I say there's something wrong? I like Debit Cards as well.
Until you find out the service you use silently drops everything after the 8th character...
That's a strange but very interesting observation. Add a little anecdotal evidence, the religious people that I know on balance seem more predisposed to the line 'if you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear' than the non-believers. Before you wrote your comment I would not have ascribed any significance to that correlation, now I'm not so sure.
Then maybe governments should stop doing things that require people of principle to have to make the difficult decision to leak state secrets.
I also don't believe that's how it works, for SMS at least. Authentication can also fail due to a broken device or to a poor connection. Does that mean SMS messages can get lost? Doesn't make sense.

Also, since this is a race condition, it means that the exploit can't block all incoming calls.
You can still argue your assertion further: you seem to be declaring that race (and not class) is the driver for crime. Race and class (in America) are strongly linked that when a person declares one thing (and not the other) as the cause, it tells you a lot about the person.
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Technically, you can. In practice, it's a different story.

The reservation won't be guaranteed, that is, you have to be there before a certain hour for your guarantee to work. After that, if a customer walked in and asked for a room, sorry.

Now try renting a car in the US without a credit card.
I think hn's definitely doing its part on the "extreme outrage" front. Thank goodness.
Jacek, right :).

Let me continue this conversation via e-mail then.
I hope this is from an Onion article, otherwise I fear for the safety of GNOME developers world wide.
Don't let the door hit them on their way out. Even their names lack originality...
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The advantage of using a credit card is that you get a 30-day free loan, paid for by people who can't keep up with their credit card payments.

If you feel guilty about being on the winning side of today's predatory, exploitative credit card system, by all means use a debit card instead.

And to those who constantly run a balance on their credit cards and never seem to get them paid off, you can always prove your intelligence by cutting the cards into little pieces and flushing them down the toilet. More here:

http://arachnoid.com/wrong/#Economics
I'm interested in why you'd like to see an option to disable it, considering that you could just as well not click the button. Is there something in your daily workflow that leads to lots of accidental presses?
Yeah; this is about the only thing I think X11 does better than MacOS.
Snowden did not leak the information he did because he felt that states should not have secrets. I think any reasonable person would agree that there is information states legitimately need or want to keep secret. What Snowden did was in response to abusive overreach in secret domestic surveillance, which (to me anyway) is quite different.
As an Australian that has tried both, it was a lot easier to sound English than it is for me to sound French. I can almost pull off a decent English accent these days - enough so that I'm not identified as Australian in a short conversation. In French, after 10 years of living in the country, my accent is picked after oh, around about one syllable I think. Maybe two syllables... And yet I'm perfectly fluent, and can write better idiomatic French than a good percentage of the French population. Accents are hard if you don't have the ear for them.
The other reasons is that cash always works. I once found out during checkout in the supermarket that my card was blocked by my bank (probably because I once used an ATM which was hacked). It's not fun to stand around blocking the whole checkout process because you can't pay. Since that day I'm always keeping enough cash in my wallet to be able to pay without any cards.
>This is negative marketing. Anyone that does $1M+ a year in online sales doesn't want their payment vendor losing money.

Forgive me but won't they make money by selling the Bitcoins they receive?
Did Facebook have filters? Or appeal to 16 year olds and hipsters?
Here's a work around for the "flaw."

Reduce the need for secret information.
The coup in Portugal in 1974 another example that gave up power soon afterwards.
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Sorry, which known terrorist groups? If you say Al Qaeda, you're forgetting that there's still not a single attack in the west which has, in a court of law, been shown to be their doing.

"The Terrorists" are "The Reds" are "The Jews". It's not "us and them" because there is no "us" and "them". There's just "us".
However, it's not vanilla photosharing that was Instagram's killer/distinguishing feature.
Ducts. We need more ducts.
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.

Ian Blair is a Life Peer, not a politician. The UK's House of Lords is not a democratic institution even in pretense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lords
I think what is being said is more, one of the things computers are best at, much better than humans, is simulation--following rigidly and repeatedly the consequences of a set of rules, through cause and effect, to see the eventual behaviors of a set of rules.

When constructing a set of rules in the first place (or when first formalizing an existing, but implicit, set of rules), the human can do the requirements gathering, design, bug-finding, etc. But humans are terrible at simulation--they can't foresee what each and every consequence a particular rule might have. When constructing a rule-set, a human's productivity is enhanced by the computer taking over the "simulation" part, to explore the consequences for them, where the human can then change the rules in response.

Type systems of all kinds, though, basically assume that the rules defining the code are invariant. They don't help with simulation at all.
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> How did it fail? I just learned about Diaspora

there
Good point, but still, one still needs to just laugh at this guy. The idea tha any idea (data, knowledge) can be mis-used for terrorism is non-falsifiable hypothesis. It makes a mockery of the adverserial justice system.

Many pieces of data can be used for such purposes. Its precisely the innocence of the victims and the innocuous and everyday nature of the means, that is the purposes of this new bloody sport.

THE TERRORISTS WENT TO FRIGGIN FLIGHT SCHOOL.

We taught them how to fly a guided missile into a FRIGGIN SKYSCRAPER.

We gave the STUDENT VISAS.
For me: a touchpad as the primary pointer input device. I use two fingers for scrolling and a two-finger tap as middle mouse button clicks. I really like that setup for web browsing, but it frequently messes up code in the editor.
I use PopClip (http://pilotmoon.com/popclip/) on my Macs. It's not quite as seamless as having everything you select automatically available for middle-click pasting, but it's pretty close.
Yes, and then, with storage getting cheaper, Facebook compresses its jpegs less, and there goes that startup down the drain...
When I moved from Windows to Linux, the addition of the 'selection' clipboard was the easiest change, and quickest to pick up. It's really not hard. You have the same ctrl-c-v clipboard as always. In addition to that, there is another clipboard for the last selected item, deliverable with a middle click. It's a good feature, not a wart.
Open source is to proprietary as socialists are to capitalism. Also, it's more social. Hence, Sourcialists.
Yeah, I get the logic: 'terrorism' is knowing what the government is doing. Perhaps there's another logic: a government which hides in the shadows terrorizes everyone.
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They better hope they're not insured with Allianz Insurance, aka Unclean Nazi Liars, or they won't see a cent.
* > I think any reasonable person would agree that there is information states legitimately need or want to keep secret. *

Such as? Why should the state have a higher expectation of privacy than its citizens, if it's representative of them?
Some nitpicking: the passphrase is not as good as it seems. It consists of two parts ("horse in a box" and "riding a fish") both of which can be found in e.g. Google's n-gram corpus [1]. The Google's corpus has on the order of 2^32 n-grams so even assuming you chose these two at random, you get only 64 bits of entropy. There is also some punctuation (let's be generous and say it gives 10 bits), so the entire passphrase is about 74 bits of entropy. While very good, this is probably not enough to protect your bitcoin life savings or a truecrypt container that can implicate you in a serious crime (the reason being that Moore's law may well make 74-bit passwords easily crackable in 10 years or so)

For comparison, the first password you provided (16 random alphanumeric characters) has 95 bits of entropy.

[1] http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=horse+in+a+box%...
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And how are you signed into your email provider?
As a system administrator, he needed access to many of the agency's computer systems -- and he needed access to everything on those machines.

He certainly did NOT need this access to administer systems. It still boggles my mind that the sensitive data on those systems was not encrypted so administrators could not read it.

In any well-run IT organization, the DBAs cannot read the credit card numbers stored in the database and the systems administrators cannot read user passwords. But they can still administer the database and the the servers.
If I were to think about information valuable to terrorist, I'd consider things like reports about weak points of national power grid, etc. - big vulnerabilities that have been discovered, but didn't get fixed yet.
Teaching people how to fly can facilitate terrorist acts. Therefore we must arrest all flight instructors.
In times of basically zero interest a 30-day free loan doesn't sound like a very convincing argument since I have to keep the money in an easily accessible account anyway to pay the bill at the end of the month.
Music on an iPhone with headphones is probably better than what 90% of the people in the eighties/nineties ever heard.

CD systems' speakers (when not Hi-Fi) have worse sound than middle of the road headphones, and cassette had like 8 bit definition (and noise, wow, flutter and other nice stuff to degrade the sound).
That's what I'm wondering too. They require zero paperwork, though, and Paymill did tell me that the paperwork they sent me was mandatory for all money-processing companies.
First, like the others mentioned, I would work on getting friends. If you want an idea on where to start with that (assuming you don't want to be friends with anyone from work): From what I understand, Meetup.com is a great way to do this. Develop a hobby that has minimal costs, and then find a group that meets for the purpose of that hobby.

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To answer your question: Considering you want to achieve financial independence quickly, it's good that you don't own much stuff, otherwise your stuff would own you.

I recently discovered the blog Early Retirement Extreme. There is a post [0] which gives the simple equation which must be true if you want to become financially independent: "your annual expenses < 3% of your invested savings"

Assuming you keep the same living costs before and after becoming financially independent, you will need to solve this equation:

living costs = SWR * ( income - living costs ) * ( ( (1 + ROR) ^ number of working years ) - 1 ) / ROR

where SWR = Safe Withdraw Rate and ROR = Rate Of Return. SWR of 3% is taken from [0].

Assuming you can get 10% on your investments and can live on 25k a year, let's enter some numbers and solve for working years:

25k = 0.03 * (56k - 25k) * ( ( (1 + 0.10) ^ X ) - 1 ) / 0.10

X = 13.7 years

Assuming 10% again, and working for 15 years, let's see how much you could have to live on:

X = 0.03 * (56k - 25k) * ( ( (1 + 0.10) ^ 15 ) - 1 ) / 0.10

X = 29.5k

So if you worked for an extra 1.3 years, you could bump up your living expenses from 25k to 29.5k, a jump of $4500 a year.

EDIT: I forgot to include the 10k you have already saved up. I would probably leave that out of the investments and keep in an emergency fund (keep it in your savings, and future savings would go straight to your investment account).

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[0] http://earlyretirementextreme.com/can-i-retire-young.html
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Ah yes a little confusion has taken over on my part. Ireland is in the EU and the eurozone.
>and everybody seemingly buying a DSLR to start a "Johns Photography" page

As soon as they find they don't become Robert Cappa or Steve McCurry overnight, that fad will come to pass...
We already have thought crime. See the several groups of chaps who were all locked up for life for talking about making a bomb last year.
I assume he means specifically whistleblowers, not any traitor.
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Wow, a Godwin-hole-in-one.

Nice coincidence that I just today learned about a brilliant drinking game:

"Well, I've got to work tomorrow, which means that unfortunately I can't use this thread for my favorite lonely drinking game. (For those of you who are interested: Go to an article about Germany. Drink a shot >each time Hitler, WW2 or something similar comes up. Enjoy and prepare to call in sick the next day!)"

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He claims the release of information facilitates terrorism, without sharing any argumentation: no examples, not even hypothetical scenarios, nothing.

He's asking to restrict the sharing of information, supposedly information on how "the government fights terrorism". He glosses over the fact that once law enforcement can persecute people for sharing some information, it is incredibly easy to persecute people for the sharing of _any_ information if it choses to. Power creep is a scary and dangerous thing, and it is very hard (impossible?) to guard against it.