skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are there any countries that do not take punitive actions when citizens decide they do not feel like paying their taxes?

Probably not, or very few at least, since there is no pure libertarian country example in the world so far. Even though, you may decide where you pay your taxes - depending on how much you agree with the policies of the country where you pay them.

You can't keep feeding the Dragon and then complain the day it burns another village with its inhabitants. Don't feed the Dragon in the first place.
That's orthogonal. Private networks can be made up from any technology, privacy is another axis.
Or an antenna could just listen in on the signals.....
How many are using their technology as well, then ?
My point is that if you are opposed to cables because they can be tapped, wireless poses more problems....
I found a mention online that the average household size in Hong Kong is 3 people (in 2006).

So that's 20,000 people over 60 floors, 3 per apartment. That's 100 apartments on a floor! They must be incredibly compact if those numbers are correct.
Several hundred roofnet devices were distributed to low-income housing in the South End and Roxbury neighborhoods of Boston. The networks are still limping along with some volunteer maintenance. There are some really dedicated people working to provide for some of the technology needs of the communities, such as free computer repair and training. Check out http://cstoboston.org/ http://www.tech-center-enlightentcity.tv/
Even pacific northwest houses? Houses around there in my experience do keep out the bad weather and are far better made than most californian houses.
I watched Dredd on Netflix a few days ago, and I'm struck by how similar these apartments and the blocks in the movie look.
As of today I think not. Given the fact that MAN (metropolitan area networks - which is what these networks are) are way easier to monitor, because they are really small and into local police's reach (why call the feds anyway?).

The only decent point here, related to privacy is that it's way better for people to control the network instead of a police state, but you can't really be anonymous in such small MANs.
I'm just fascinated by the myth-making that surrounds Apple.

How could anyone read an Apple pundit claim that profit is the only metric that matters and not nearly die of cognitive dissonance after so many years of excuses/reasons why beleaguered Apple's Mac OS 9 and X was better. And yet it's par for the course.

And now here's an article which claims to be about Ballmer (a figure of fun for the Apple crowd) but is really about how Apple is morally superior for not being capitalist!?

It's hilarious, fascinating and a bit sad. And strange to be at the inflexion point where they go back to all the stories from the Windows vs Mac OS days e.g. they've already cast both Google and Samsung, to play Microsoft's role as the evil villain who copied all their good ideas and didn't deserve success.

And have you read the Appleinsider piece that gets trotted out to defend Apple's profit share lead? It's a very, very odd read. But you mention that Apple have not got the profit lead anymore and you get several links to it, and several repetitions of the "Samsung numbers are dodgy" talking point. It's a very organised media bubble.
(I know nothing about this.)

I interpreted tjoff's argument to be that the average Tor exit node is more malicious than any of the other average ways for proxies to be dangerous. In other words, yes coffee shops could be dangerous, but they are most often safe, whereas if you're getting routed through a bunch of exit nodes over a period of time (is that even how it works?) you stand a much greater chance of running into malice.

Would love to hear someone address that claim as I understood it.
It is always an interesting AI problem to solve.

Could you come up with an algorithm for a computer to detect irony? It seems like an interesting and hard problem.

There is statistical sentiment analysis and that seems relatively easy. But one would need to understand the presented situation and see if it is plausible or realistic, then maybe if it diverges from reality beyond some kind of a measurable threshold then it is understood to be irony.
You don't mean 40 square meters?
Macaw | The code-savvy web design tool.
Has anyone every tried to visualize lisp with a treemap? Maybe that would take care of the massive indentation problem that makes lisp so hard to read (for me).
I always wondered that as well. It seems like an interesting standard.

More info here, FWIW:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEEP

http://beepcore.org/
Learn git through comic - Part one
Hiking is fun there.
I agree, nature is not silent either. Total silence is eerie. Open plan offices on the other hand are a total killer of though process, as the constant chatter around distracts you beyond hope of any focused work ever.
>What is the argument for utf-8 that doesn't also apply to utf-16

The comment you're replying to says right there, "implementations are routinely broken because the corner cases are rarer" utf-16 misleads people into using fixed-width code where it won't work right.

>Applications that use Asian languages take a big hit from utf-8.

Not really. It's a moderate hit for pure text, but how often do you see bulk pure text, without any markup, and that can't be compressed?
What is wrong with the Indian Accelerator Ecosystem?
The answer to all of your questions is: money.

Those at the bottom are making enough to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table.

Those at the top are making tons and tons of it off power: oil deals, stocks, lobbying/corruption, etc.

Those at the bottom don't make a fuss because they don't want to become homeless.

Those at the top don't make a fuss because they don't want to die: if the powers that be are powerful enough to invade foreign countries, grab the president, hang him on live TV and then lie to the rest of the world about how he was keeping the country back while at the same time the country regresses back into the stone age (Libya, Egypt, Iran, Iraq) - what chance have you to keep your own head if you were to start blabbing about how things are unfair?

It's all about money.
I saw the 'also' in the ggp as referring to both wireless and cable networks. So he's aware of that.
OpenSSL PRNG Is Not Really Fork-safe
Loeb made more than a billion dollar (over 100% return) in 2 years.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanvardi/2013/07/22/billionai...

This whole episode seems like another hedge-fund driven money making plan - take some equity, get control of board, hire a high profile CEO, take seemingly big bets, jack up the stock price and silently exit. This yahoo stock buy-back seems to be a way to avoid the insider trading charges.

A good read on this
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732478320457862...
Is it okay to link directly the github source? It's a public github repository sure however jeena hasn't taken the initiative to publish the github URL maybe he doesn't want this to be public yet. He may just not have the money to make the repository private.
My last experience with Tor was somewhat painful due to the sluggish nature of it. If Firefox added Tor as a feature, making Tor "mainstream", could the existing Tor network handle the extra load?
Are there any countries that do not take punitive actions when citizens decide they do not feel like paying their taxes?

Countries without taxes. They tend to have other problems with loyalty though.
A closed Bitcoin economy, are we there yet?
Never got it either. Always reeked of a power trip.
Just tried to do this, and found that the cover image size doesn't seem accurate anymore. What did you do for the cover?
Came here to say the same thing, I thought he explained things well and in different ways then I had learned them in the past.
> Apple grew from being a strictly hardware company into a "platform" company.

Apple always was a platform company.

Microsoft -> software

Dell -> hardware

Apple -> platform (Hardware + OS)
I aren't particularly familiar with Brazilian history, but I am reasonably familiar with WW2 history.

Brazil declared war (on Germany & Italy only - not Japan) in late August 1942. That was a few months before Churchill's famous "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." speech.

This was well after Pearl Harbour and at a point where it was becoming clearer that the Axis wasn't going to win.

I've never looked into allegations of US sabotage on Brazilian merchant shipping. It's possible, but at the same time it would be very surprising if German U-boats weren't responsible for the majority of the sinkings. There's reasonable evidence that U-507 sunk at least 7 Brazilian ships (the German's were pretty good at keeping records of these things)[1].

It sounds to me like Brazil jumped in on the winning side after being on a wrong side of some bad decisions by some German U-boat commanders.

As an aside, it's fine to criticise the US, but I think it's reasonable to expect some evidence to backup some pretty big allegations. Additionally it's hard to make a moral argument that any country should have joined the Axis Powers during WW2 (with the exception of Finland, who made the best of a bad situation but were pretty much screwed no matter what they did).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-507#3rd_patrol
I just stumbled over the way D handles this. The forum holds the discussion and reasoning, how D does it:

http://forum.dlang.org/thread/uuevnvallcardcdjwikz@forum.dla...
Modern two stroke engines are a lot cleaner than the old ones.
Swisher consistently called a lot of industry moves right ahead of time. She's like the wikileaks of the tech world.

See the unauthorized bio of Marissa Mayer the other day for some nice samples of how she gets her info.
There was an actual battle?
You can be a "pure libertarian" and recognize market failures for things like national defense or the need for a system of codification and protection of property rights.
hannibal5 might be referring to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivided_flat
Because JSON won.
A Convicted Murderer's case for Gun Control
Lenovo shipping Pokki Start Menu with Windows 8
It's 2013, and the top comment on a story about Lisp (on HN, a site written in Lisp) is complaining about syntax? Seriously, how much time did you actually spend learning/using Lisp before giving up because it had a "massive indentation problem"?
Will we ever want to have sex with robots?
Microsoft tells parents “Google is corrupting yours kids”
Hitler Uses Git [Video]
This experiment sounds interesting. Do you have a link to the source?
And even more so, if the current 20.1-bit format turns out to be insufficient, UTF-8 is happy to expand to at least 31 bits, where UTF-16 would be forced to undergo very awkward redesign, such as dedicating an entire plane to double-surrogates.
Please don't submit stories when sites go down. They're not interesting.
From 2003 to 2005 I worked in Windows Mobile.

In a mad dash to achieve checklist-style feature parity with RIM, features were bolted-on with little thought given towards achieving real cohesion amongst what was being built.

The culture was stifling because the strategy was to fast-follow rather than to take risks innovating.

EDIT: Apple and Google simply changed who Microsoft was following, rather than the overall execution strategy.
Yes, that occurred to me, but the outcomes are different. The Chrome printing route produces better results.
First, I would ask what your home country is, so that we can dig into its history.

Second, if you had extrapolated out your premise, you'd quickly come to the conclusion that almost nobody could continue to live in their countries. See: Germany, Britain, Italy, Russia, France, Spain, Japan, China, and on it goes. There isn't a single major country on earth without a sordid history. Whether we're talking various European states that massively supported the slave trade or used military expeditions to conquer territory, or the Communist era in Russia or the Fascism era under Putin, or the tens of millions Mao murdered through famine and gulags, well, you get the point.

Third, America has 300 million people. What do you think they're all going to do exactly, immigrate to Canada? If they did that, Canada would become America. It's about the culture of the people: the American people elected this mess, and continue to allow it to happen / support it.

Overall your questions don't really make any sense. Your intent seems to be nothing more than to drive guilt and passive aggressively bash the US. What's the point of that on HN?
Zinio and other magazine apps already do this. They're either encrypted SWFs or PDFs on the backend.
GitHub Begins Marketing to Non-Programmers
This wouldn't work at all for mainline Firefox, or at least wouldn't be 'secure' as users might be thinking.

One at least needs to have JavaScript disabled when on Tor or you'll easily be compromised and Firefox 23 now ships with JavaScript always-on.

http://boingboing.net/2013/08/04/anonymous-web-host-shut-dow...
What is it with all these leaks? Are people following Snowden or is the US gov following the British Gov and leaking info about itself?
Yahoo has been buying back lots of stock which is one reason it is as high as it is.

It goes something like this:

- Loeb & co buy 5% of the company

- gain board seats

- force the CEO to step down

- headhunt Mayer

- Yahoo uses cash it got with selling a chunk of Alibaba to buy its own stock

- Loeb & Co unload at a huge profit

- and give up their board seats again
You can always start. My grand mother who lives there talks to everyone on the elevator.
Would love to know which white noise generator you use. I use "nature sounds" from spotify (usually beach sounds, lakes, birds chirping etc...)
Yes and some nice beaches too.
> market failures for things like national defense

Care to elaborate?
+1: I thought the same thing... Maybe the problem would be finding the entry to a "rabbit hole" (as he puts it). If there are no weak passwords it might be more difficult to find the patterns in use... but then again, the patterns from other corporations would still help.
It's actually usually a set of half a dozen same shaped buildings. See the first image in the article.
Or that password strength meters can't do a good job.
I don't diagree with what you are saying (check my comment history and you'll see some similar sentiments).

However...

I don't think you should try and combine this incident into the narrative surrounding the erosion of rights in the US.

There is very little in common here, except perhaps something like "powerful countries do some shitty things".

If you do want to combine them, then I think you need to explain how things are worse now than when the US did things like the deliberate infection of native Americans with smallpox etc.

I think the truth is that things are different now. It is much more difficult for the US to let a dictator get away with things like using chemical weapons because of the rapid dissemination of information from people on the ground. At the same time the volume of bad news make it difficult to create action on the US on any single issue.
"In Hong Kong, Rich Live In Mountain Mansions And Poor Live In Cages"

http://www.businessinsider.com/hong-kong-rich-live-in-mansio...

I think it wouldn't be too far out to guess that the eventual end of planet earth is to be covered with structures like in the article posted and people living in it along the lines of the one linked here.

How many people could you cram in like that?

Hope you like to eat fish.
Or use Wechat's "look around" feature. I don't recall if it is widely used in Hong Kong but in China I have met a few neighbors this way.
What country is so great that they can say their government never engages is things like this, even though they have the capacity to?
> Can you describe an opt-out mechanism that doesn't provide a spammer with exactly that same piece of "working email address" information?

An opt-out link carries only the email address, not the entire email header, so it conveys the absolute minimum information (and it can be visited independently of the email, by copying the link out of the email). Also, visiting an opt-out page is different than replying to an email for some complex legal reasons.

If a spammer ignores an opt-out request delivered to a Web page, he is in a very different position than if he replies to an e-mail sent by someone who doesn't know to avoid replying to a spam mailing.

The bottom line is that a spammer can say, "they emailed me, then I replied to what I thought was a customer's email." And this has been tried countless times. With an opt-out link, this dodge is removed.
Visual C++ Team Blog: C++ IDE Improvements in Visual Studio 2013
By the way: A very interesting article for those interested in a bit of context around unicode and how it doesn't solve everything (especially from an asian perspective) is this one:

http://web.archive.org/web/20090627072117/http://www.jbrowse...
> Where do we find these candidates?

Why not you? Sure, you don't have the money. Go and get it. Tell HNers to put their money where their mouth is, get yourself elected, and do right.
My understanding is that its the vast majority.
I had been a member of the AWMN for some years. You can see a map of the nodes here: http://wind.awmn.net/?page=gmap

I remember AWMN had experienced a boost when the ADSL's were out but very expensive, so many people used to buy one and share it alltogether.

It has come a long way since.
I don't understand how this can be accurate. Have you ever heard nature? It tends to be quite loud.
It's under the MIT license and in a public github repo - shouldn't that be enough? If you don't want your code public, don't put it in a public repo (if you can't afford a private one, just use git locally) and certainly don't stick an open-source license on it.
I prefer Pascal-style type declaration as well, but playing Devil's advocate for a moment: There's nothing that says you can't have a left-to-right type declaration syntax and have the variable name appear on the right. So something like this:

var ptr_to_array_of_ptr_to_int : *[](*int)

would become something like this:

*[](*int) ptr_to_array_of_ptr_to_int

The former syntax is slightly easier for a program to parse, makes it easier to see variable names, and is more consistent with typical syntax for type inference during variable assignment:

var something := some_function(whatever)
auto something = some_function(whatever)

However, the latter does, as xaa said, eliminate some keystrokes. I also happen to find

byte foo = 10

to read more nicely than any of these:

var foo : byte = 10
var foo := (u8)10
var foo := 10'u8
If it only works with secure connections, and there's a general improvement in bandwidth and it prompts some big non-profits-with-profits like Mozilla to actually run exit nodes in countries that don't cooperate with other exit-node countries, then ... yes, it could be a little bit better.
What do you mean by indentation problem?

In practice, everyone just uses emacs to indent, no problem.
If you care about your security (or as a service provider, the security of your users) and if you can't establish a chain of trust, then you can't call a solution secure.

If the connection is encrypted, then you have to trust the certificate authority, the browser and the service provider. If the connection is unencrypted, then in addition to the above, you have to trust that nobody is listening on that connection and that's a really tough pill to swallow, even if nothing bad happened to you in the past (just like with car accidents, it needs to happen only once to mess up your life).

If you don't think bad things happen all the time in the wild, see this story of Ashton Kutcher's Twitter account being hacked while attending TED: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/02/ashton-kutcher-twit...
#def, according to https://github.com/Araq/Nimrod/blob/master/doc/c2nim.txt, requires modification of the C header files. I don't think this is a practical option, for example, they might be system .h files.
Surely expressing personal issues with Lisp's syntax is valid, especially if a possible solution is offered. If you see at least some of the larger codebases written in Lisp, it is natural to be overwhelmed by the level of indentation, which will cause the code to wrap under many editor setups.
the question is are we more or less brutal than we used to be? Remember the good old days -- you know, when Reagan authorized crack sales in LA to finance war crimes after congress explicitly banned any money going to the contras?
You could have a look at the software below Hacker News. It's written in the Arc Lisp dialect (which itself is implemented on top of the Racket Lisp dialect).

Apart from Racket, Clojure is also a nice Lisp to get started with. It runs on the JVM.

I'd advice against learning Common Lisp as your first Lisp these days, even though Common Lisp is what On Lisp is about.
I have a little farm-house at the end of a dead end street.

No traffic, nearest neighbor 100 meters and he's doesn't own a leafblower. Clear view of the fields in three directions for the next 5 miles or so, 20,000 sq ft lot.

It's been up for sale for 2 years, if you're interested ;)

http://www.funda.nl/koop/oudezijl/huis-4510315-oudezijl-1/fo...

Ideal spot for quiet hacking and that new YC EU headquarters!
The Synchronizes-With Relation
What caught me was the localism - stunning
Honestly the Meyer hire alone sent the stock price up before she did a single thing as CEO, so this move can also easily be seen as what could have easily been a short term stock price inflation move.
Most earthquakes in Europe aren't all that strong. But when they are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Vrancea_earthquake
Not at all. Once you make your pick, I would expect the conversation to last quite some time.

Also, I don't think it should be viewed as just for dating, but rather to meet other people with different opinions or backgrounds. Or similar backgrounds. Perhaps it would work the best if it would be advertised as to avoid the dating entirely; to view this as a dating setting is a very narrow view of the human social experience.

I am in my mid-thirties, and I find older people lot more interesting for conversation. They usually have more experience in life, more funny stories, and so on. Which is quite the opposite of the young gals I would date. :-)
> Why would you want to continue to live in a country that seems to make things like this routine?

Because I know it best. If I'm going to contribute to fixing a system, it's going to be this one.
Have been there too, had the exact same feeling.

It is a running business, he pitched his company, that he has thousands of customers already.
I heard the guy did the same at other hackathons in Berlin.

The Technical guy was a professional who knew from the beginning what he had to do, we spent half the time developing a concept.
A lot of people actually like it - they like to have a well kept lawn, and if they want to use their time or money to do that, why not? But I don't like that you're expected, if not directly asked to, to keep it as society wants it to be. However, I can understand that the bank is concerned about the value of the house if they're financing it.

Personally I'm looking for a house well outside the city and any far from busy roads. Lots of land and I can have the wild nature I love and grew up with. I can't think of anything that'll calm me down and unwind like a walk in the nature does.
Yeah, clearly we want the dragon to eat the village, not burn it down. Do you have a less stupid analogy?

Or is your contention that we need to motivate the government to actively steal from the commons rather than persuade the commons to give it money?
Hacker News Tokyo Japan Meetup #26 – 11th of September, 2013
Why is JavaScript an issue? In private mode no traces (like cookies) are permanent, so how can JavaScript be used against anonymity?

Of course, it increases the surface area of attack for exploits, but is there something else I'm missing?