skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it - How does the decision process of what leaks are OK go? Ultimately that's a paternalistic "I know better what's right" type approach. It also has a lot of "security by obscurity" type of arguments builtin.

I think a better approach would be to get a minimal set of "we agree this should be secret" approach and have everything else be open or leak-able. Support for what a group is doing should not depend on it being unknown, such support seems weak and abusable.
Or not:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+belt+sander+and+the+battle+fo...
Did you mean this just as a discussion? I'm not seeing an article link...
I do that not because I would prefer to be patted down, but because it's a lot more obvious that I'm being subjected to an unreasonable search.
Luckily for you then, since you already have AdBlock installed, you won't see the adverts.

Or is their rationale that advertising serves the legitimate purpose of informing users about choices they may not realize they have?

Exactly. Believe or not, most people on HN are computer savvy. There are some users who are not aware of AdBlock. Personally I have installed it on a number of friends and family computers, and guess what, it has reduced the amount of adware and malware they install.
Reductio at Evilerum will be the new Reductio at Hitlerum
Yeah, the message shouldn't be "don't use bcrypt". It should be "use bcrypt in preference to any small fixed number of iterations of SHA-n or MD5, and in preference to PBKDF unless you need to comply with some particular standard, and use scrypt in preference to bcrypt if it's available in your environment."

I don't know of any distros (BSD or Linux) which have PBKDF or scrypt available as crypt(3) hashes, but there are distros which have bcrypt available. So, for many use cases, bcrypt is the most secure hash that's easily available without adding extra dependencies.
This is another good case of having a second passport as an American (or any place for that matter) for travel and (shtf) insurance purposes.

"Distributed Nationality" if you will.
The OP developed an app that allowed you to stream raw media files directly to the chromecast. This is not possible by default, instead you're limited to youtube, netflix and mirroring a tab in your browser.

OP's application doesn't use SDK but instead works at a lower level. This new update broke his application and he is making the argument that it was a directed update. They specifically removed a part of their code that allowed for this functionality.
Open always wins!
ah, my mistake, I didn't check.

mm, It's still (slightly) more effort, and more prone to breaking than pacman.
- Oh sorry about that Matt. I meant it as a discussion.
So you're telling me that you have never downloaded an MP3? A DivX or streamed a tv series from somewhere? Or skipped those adverts at the beginning of the DVDs? How about recorded something on a PVR and then fast-forwarded when it comes to commercial breaks?

Believe it or not, not everybody in the world gets to enjoy super fast internet connection speeds, cos they live in countries that are not so well developed or they are in very rural places. Why should they have to sit through waiting for irrelevant content to load? And the adverts are not relevant to them cos Google has no advertisers in their region? And they are on bandwidth capped plan so they are paying to see these adverts?
The issue isn't "stupid employees" as you seem to think but an overreaching policy that is trying to cover all situations at once but doesn't really cover any. Add to that the reactionary measures that seem to be a staple of DHS since its inception and you just have a recipe for disaster.
I have been a huge fan of e-books and spent hundreds of dollars on these. Now we have our own place, so we are buying actual physical books, mostly for decorations. Kind of funny, I think.
It's close enough to a solved problem and I want the web history. My machine fingerprint is hugely generic -- Chrome on OSX with a couple plugins coming from NYC. Advertisers/jerks could use the visited link color hack with first-party/same-origin JS, but nothing's perfect.
Not really though. I regularly travel 1000 - 1500 km on US domestic flights for business on Embraers and CRJs. It's way too long a trip to do by car and high speed passenger rail isn't really a thing that exists here in the US.
It can mirror a tab in your browser? Doesn't that mean you could just open a video file in your browser and watch it that way?

Edit: looks like it's limited to 5 Mbps at 720p. http://www.anandtech.com/show/7186/google-chromecast-review-...
Sometimes titles are improved by moderator intervention--other times it's the opposite. Sometimes titles lose bias, but sometimes they become inaccurate or generic-to-the-point-of-madness.
By that I'd mean the way more and more complexity has been layered on over the years.
Not trying to criticize but your logo looks similar to Buffer: http://bufferapp.com
I'd love to hear about an open alternative for $35.
Maybe something RPi-based?
I was surprised that just recently on an in-state flight from Spokane to Sea-tac and back, I did not get scanned at all, I only got the metal detector treatment. I had thought that the gawk-at-you-naked scanners were the default everywhere no matter where you were traveling.

I was surprised to find that leaving Tegel in Berlin was easy as can be, short lines, quick trip through the metal detector. The entry process at Sea-Tac was another story though. It took forever. You got grilled, you got the German Shepherd dog sniffing your crotch, and you had to wait for all your bags to be x-rayed. Some of the agents seemed to be behaving in a very rude way, in particular I remember one agent seemingly being a real jerk to some poor old guy who didn't speak English well. I remember thinking how bad an impression of the US that the foreign visitors in line must be forming. I was at that moment embarrassed to be a citizen.

[edit: %s/x-ray/metal detector/]
https://plus.google.com/+Linux/posts/f96weYxzEu1
Top 3D Printing News Last Week: MakerBot Digitizer, Deltaprintr, M&A
I don't understand your comment, can you expand?
To be free, you must first act free.
This is like what Caesar's bellum gallicum was to historians...
One of the most enjoyable things about reading this that even in the first 3 usenet messages, Linus states engineering tradeoffs cleanly, simply and un-apologetically.

All qualities that Linus was to become famous (and infamous) for, before Linux was even fully formed.
Rack this up in the weird coincidence category. Saturday night me and an old buddy of mine were talking about EXACTLY this. The incarnation of LINUX.
Ah I get it. Yeah I will redo them.
“Politics and the English Language,” By George Orwell
Looks like a clear case of the Scunthorpe problem:

http://hashpix.herokuapp.com/s/scunthorpe (thanks @DjangoReinhardt!)

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

(EDIT: still can't format comments correctly)
Disabling javascript would probably add about the same amount of fingerprintability. Panopticlick says that 1 in 24000 browsers have the same fingerprint as TorBrowser.
Totaly OT, but I feel obligated:

"FOR SCIENCE"
You monster.
(Portal 2 reference. You should all play this game.)
The Printing Press & The Entrepreneurial Spirit
I've tried to move all of my CDs to an mpd server, and even that has been only partially successful. It's just so much easier to browse in a physical space. It might help if tagging wasn't such a pain for non-pop music.
Have you called their fraud line ?
I am guessing he was referring to the GNU OS, hurd. In retrospect this is quite funny considering hurd has yet to see a (production) release to this day. http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html
"African American" and "White". This is grotesque. Either say black & white, or african american & caucasian american. Pick one.
A mentor explained this to me as, "If you want someone to do something, you have to let them save face. If someone screws something up and you want them to fix it, you can't humiliate them in the process."

I used to get very frustrated with shoddy work from subcontractors. I found that the more I directly documented the quality of the work, the worse they'd harden their position. I learned there are better ways to operate. (And if they still don't fix things when presented softly, it's better to fire than to try and convince someone who can't learn.)
The only thing that bothers be about LaTeX (or PDF readers?) is that I can't copy and paste cleanly from the document. Many glyphs get tied together, white space is lost, code doesn't come out cleanly, etc.
That leaves another "vast" amount of cameras that are public -- in thousands of public spaces. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Money has no country.
I guess google wants to control the platform. What is the surprise here.
Very fascinating. I wish you could link to specific map views. I'd love to send direct links to different areas.
I have no words. They won't even stop at looking through your files on a groundless suspicion - they'll clone your harddrive? With your naked pictures of your girlfriend, diary, company secrets and everything?

And I'm a "rights-free person" (a foreigner). If they do this stuff to citizens, I can't even imagine what sort of authority they have over foreigners. You guys really need to rein in your government, this is getting insane.
Once you've put it out there though, you can't really take it back.
discovery:

https://last.fm

https://rateyourmusic.com/customchart

http://kexp.org/

http://www.youtube.com/user/kexpradio

http://www.4chan.org/mu/

http://mthrfnkr.fm

http://bandcamp.com

http://reddit.com/r/listentothis

various blogs

acquisition:

mp3 blogs, bandcamp, amazon

consumption:

mp3 player, media player, spotify, grooveshark
Just say you had shoulder surgery and cannot lift your arm(s) and they'll move away from the magnetometer and let you through.
Disclaimer: there's a lot of generalization here.

You've only got half of the domino effect. Sure, it might become easy from a paperwork standpoint, but supply/demand will kick in and wages will drop.

In most countries recruiting immigrants is a royal pain in the ass. The main redeeming factor is that in the case where the immigrant's primary motivation is entry into the country (aka a work visa), the recruiter has an excellent negotiating position, especially when the visa in question keeps the immigrant bound to the sponsoring company.

Emigrating Americans are a little different, however. We're pretty highly paid in comparison to the rest of the world, and we're usually quite happy to stay in, or return to, our home country if we can't find something that suits us. Couple this with a good education and success in American industry, and this gives us a pretty powerful negotiating position in comparison with other immigrants. We still might not get anything comparable to an American salary, but at least we're able to negotiate rather than just having to accept whatever is handed to us.

This changes as soon as you remove the safety net. If there isn't a huge outflow of Americans, those who are emigrating because they truly want to leave America can just bluff their way through it. If there's a huge outflow however, this negotiating position will quickly be lost, at least in the countries to which most Americans would wish to be immigrants.
"Anybody who needs more than 64Mb/task - tough cookies"

The beginning of his verbal abuse seemed so innocent.
Note that password hashes are used for more than just password database; they are also used for key derivation functions, for example for deriving a key for encrypting a hard drive or document from a password that someone types in. Any full-disk encryption system needs to use a password based key derivation function for security, and your security if the disk is stolen is solely based on the strength of your password and the strength of your key derivation function (unless you have tamper-proof hardware that is able to store your key and only allows interactive authentication, rather than reading the key out and brute-forcing the password out of it).

In fact, encrypting files using a key derivation function was the original use for scrypt, not storing password databased.

> In general, strong password encryption is only useful to prevent bad public relations from too many users getting hacked at one time.

It's also good for lowering the value of cracking your system. If everyone (or a large fraction of developers) does it, it lowers the expected value of breaking into a random system that has low-value accounts. Since people frequently reuse passwords, stealing the password database for a low-value system and cracking them can be used for breaking into higher value systems, as you can try reusing the username or email and password pairs for logging into other systems.
Not forgetting a vast amount of web servers..
A mechanical heart valve can be loud enough to mistake for a nearby clock. Increased blood pressure makes it louder. Strange, yes, but some things ya just have to get used to.
I noticed this too and I agree with you.
Thanks for the tip! I added it to my list of films to watch, it looks quite neat from the description.
Yes you're on to something. It's kind of a two part story to me:

i) Was it reasonable to suspect this person of being worthy of a closer look? It seems like the answer is a yes based on his locations and pattern
ii) Is the form that that 'closer look' takes reasonable? Causing someone to miss their connecting flight seems unfortunate.
Or take the train.
Not that anyone wants pictures of me... but having someone take nude pictures of me without my permission and spreading them around to whomever they want without my knowledge is more of a violation of my privacy than to have a yahoo briefly invade my physical space in a controlled environment. At least, that's the way I feel about it.
I stand corrected.

(and besides, most of the best ideas of Clojure are certainly due to Rich's insights)
Open Sourcers Pitch Secure Email in Dark Age of PRISM
thanks for this, made me lookup this :
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=afghanistan+birth+rate
A perfectly absurd, onanistic study, and typical of psychology, but you know what? I wish they would stop calling this "science". It's embarrassing to real science and scientists.

Next they'll claim that walking to the corner drugstore produces an out-of-relationship experience.
They say great science is built on the shoulders of giants - not here. At Rice University we do all our science from scratch; no hand holding.
I would argue that this title could be improved, quite a bit.

edit: The original title was "22 years 16 hours 48 minutes 25 seconds ago". It has now been improved (IMO).
DDoCS Attacks in The Cloud
https://developers.google.com/cast/release-notes

> Warning: The current Google Cast SDK is a preview SDK intended for development and testing purposes only, not for production apps. Google may change this SDK significantly prior to the official release of the Google Cast SDK. We strongly recommend that you do not publicly distribute any application using this preview SDK, as this preview SDK will no longer be supported after the official SDK is released (which will cause applications based only on the preview SDK to break).
Hollow icons
It funds the surveillance state, and gives them a slippery slope statement. Why not put these as sporting events, a other government buildings, in schools? Or on street corners and then randomly or not so randomly ask citizens to go in them.

If you don't think it's possible New York has been racially profiling people and searching them without cause, in a program called 'Stop and Frisk'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_stop-and-frisk_pr...

This isn't about Air Ports, this is about citizens and constitutional rights, rights that our government has taken an oath to uphold before anything else.

Before he enter on the Execution of his Office,
he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation:
— “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will
faithfully execute the Office of President of the
United States, and will to the best of my Ability,
preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of
the United States.”
It's a utility I don't have a need for. Sensitive information I don't want to disclose is hidden with SSL encryption. Maybe you have need for tor, I don't.
> This is due to political correctness - something that the US seems to have been spared from. So far.

The reasons for such a move are mixed. Some part is certainly PC, some other part is that the segregation along "race boundaries" is actually misleading. Income class and eduction is usually a way better boundary when segregating crime statistics. However, for a long list of reasons, africans and arabs (or people moving into the country in general) are over-represented in the poorer classes and underrepresented in the richer class which in turn makes them appear stronger in crime statistics.

Another reason is that statistics are often read the wrong way, a problem that occurs very often with the official german crime stats: The most often cited statistic is the "Polizeibericht [1]", but that lists reported crimes - so everything that ever gets reported to the police. Some of those reports never get prosecuted, some get acquitted at trial, ... The police report in Berlin used to list all reports where the perpetrators nationality was unknown as "foreign", an error that seriously skewed the stats for any cursory reader. Statistics like that are a very weak datapoint - useful if you know how to read them, useless or even dangerous for most cases where they're cited. This misrepresentation of public data leads to a certain caution in publishing stats by the persons in charge.

Back to the Topic: I don't think that maps of that kind would get you shot, hanged or made outcast in Europe. Quite to the contrary, such maps exist and do provide valuable insight - though the same caveats that apply for the statistics apply here as well. As an example here's a map of how many non-germans live in berlin by quarter: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/7/7d/Bev%C3%B6lkeru... (top left). It's not as fine-grained as the one discussed here, but that's probably more due to unavailability of finer data. More maps of germany in the official report by the "Statistisches Bundesamt" https://www.destatis.de/DE/Publikationen/Thematisch/Bevoelke...

[1] The official name is Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik (PKS) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polizeiliche_Kriminalstatistik...
I managed to completely avoid flying for the whole time when rapiscan scanners were around, despite flying a relatively commonly before that. And I heard many horror stories from people during that time, even people who didn't think the TSA was so bad.

I've been flying more in the past few months, and the TSA has always been courteous and professional in those instances.

I don't know if something changed or it's all luck of the draw, but things seem much better these days.
Usually people of interest get whisked aside to a secondary screening area. They don't tend to hold up the queue that much, except for the fact the border agent has to temporarily close their desk for a few minutes while they escort that person to another room. In total you might face an extra 60-120 seconds in the line.
My biggest problem with numbeo & expatistan is that they do not reflect the true cost of living. They are heavily biased towards data from travellers & expats. In particular these expats don't seem to speak the local language and refuse to live like a local - they seem to insist on western values of living.

Example, http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/city_result.jsp?country...

Says "Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre" ranges from 15,000 to 25,000. I had a fairly westernized place for 8,000 baht. If I had gone for a more thai place, I could have had a place for between 3,000-5,000.
I've been using www.goread.io

It's not perfect, but it's certainly better than Feedly.
Skills Matter Event Series Coming to NYC in September
FreeBSD 9.2-RC3 now available
The title is a great reminder that you don't have to wait for something to happen, just get out there are start cranking out stuff.
If I were somebody with a Chromebook that still had ChromeOS installed, I would be very very concerned right now.

If you don't control your device's software updates, then the device is not yours. It is as simple as that.
Yes you can do that. The problem is that currently tab projection is limited to 720p.

If anyone knows how to get around this, please reply to this with the solution. Googling for anything Chromecast related gets mostly pop-tech articles.
What would [not] happen if Minix was free...
Seems like a defeatist attitude.

Person 1 - "point out problem that should be fixed".
Person 2 - "give up".
Good resource on refactorings:

http://martinfowler.com/refactoring/catalog/
The Steve Ballmer Product Pipeline
That's not true. Starcraft is a game of perfect knowledge. For instance, good scouting and/or good observer placement can reveal what units are built, what is being produced, and what technology has been researched. There is nothing that a player can hide from well-executed scouting. Unlike poker, where you can never see the opponents hand, in Starcraft you can see everything your opponent is doing if you scout well.
Yes, it still can, but the app allowed to stream without using the browser, for example from the phone's gallery.
You can file my response in the "Everyone is different bin", but here is my situation:

> Note, distraction specifically refers to a thing that 'divides your attention' in other words a 'distraction catches your attention'.

Almost everything catches my attention.

> If you surround yourself with 100 people doing things no way connected to you- and are pretty busy and loud, you are essentially isolating yourself!

No, I will have 100 extra things to try and pay attention to. That what everyone else is not connected to me is irrelevant. Think of it as subconscious people watching on steroids.

> Have you ever had that 'I feel lonely in the crowd' feeling?

No, actually I find crowds to be disorienting. The louder and denser the crowd, the more severe my disorientation. I can also get tense, dizzy, and nauseous.

> Walk into a hall full of accountants and tax consultants, and then try to code. Tax laws will seem so alien to you, and those guys will be so busy talking and chatting aloud. You will essentially be isolated and that will help you focus. On the other hand, walking into a room full of programmers or some topic in which you like. You will never be able to give your full, and will always have a tendency to eavesdrop on some ones conversation and that will tapping into your mental bandwidth.

I cannot selectively ignore conversation based on the subject. Any signal I can separate from the background takes bandwidth, because I can't resist paying attention. Additionally, "uncooperative" sounds make me tense, if for no other reason than I have no control over them.
> What other games REQUIRE you to have 300APM

sort of tangential point here, but this usage of 'require' is exactly why I dropped starcraft 2 and possibly will never come back. When a game stops being a game and starts being a... work, it loses all the fun.

Back in the days of WoL I toyed with the idea of playing with less APM and winning with more strategy, like pincer-attacks or enclosure; it worked up till Diamonds but when I found myself training for some micro, I knew it was time to give it up.

I'm still looking forward for the LoV, but probably will only play the single campaign and quit.

EDIT: I still fancy a competitive games against my friends, but that's a completely different story.
I was expecting (incorrectly, I see now) that GP was referring to the other people in the thread -- why weren't they asking him why he was wasting his time on such a fucking stupid thing that no one ever needs?