skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only person who thinks that things like this are totally unnecessary? Is learning/reading regular expressions really that difficult for most people?

No, you're not the only one. I have a feeling that things like that massive regular expression that is meant to match RFC822 email addresses is part of the reason for the focus on this kind of "easy to use, human" regular expression interfaces. The problem is that that email matching regular expression is an extreme case that matches a whole bunch of things that MTAs/MUAs need to know about, but that most people, who are accepting email addresses in web forms, don't need to know about, like "email comments", the real name fields, bang paths, etc. 99.999% of email addresses are going to match something simple like ^\S+@[\w-.]+\.[\w-]+$, and you're going to pass that off to the MTA to parse and validate and bounce anyway. For example, most people should be more concerned with having decent bounce processing support rather than trying to make email address matching regular expressions.
OP here, I was fed up wasting my time fetching hundreds of invoices during tax season. Collectively we could create a pretty powerful scraping application that lets us download all of our invoices in minutes.

I plan on adding many more providers, next one being AWS.

I'm open to any pull request!
#1 Pretty much guarantees a non-poverty lifestyle too :)
It'd be great if botnets would help the tor network and turn some nodes into relays (including exit) to help anonymity and capacity, at least they wouldn't parasite off the network completely.
> being gay is a biological phenomenon rather than a social one

I would expect it to be a little of both. We are very complex animals and not all our social aspects are purely social rather than biological. Think bonobos and chimpanzees.
I suspect that a big limitation in shift speed is often the angular mass of the crankshaft and flywheel - that energy has to go somewhere in an upshift, and doing that quickly on a typical car with wide gearing and a heavy flywheel puts an incredible amount of stress on things. Gear ratios cancel out in the real world, since with close ratios you're also shifting more often.

I would expect something like the GT-R to have much less crank/flywheel angular mass than the average car, as well as beefed up transmission components. Even so, IIRC they had to dial things back a bit because transmissions were blowing up.

DCTs get rid of the delay from matching the input and output shafts of a conventional manual. Very helpful, but not a cure-all. My car (automated manual, non-DCT) spends much more time matching the engine to the input shaft than the input to the output shaft.
I really hope they change the name..
None of those are works that should be speed-read. Thomas Aquinas, Plato, Epictetus, the Qur'an, and (above all) the Bible should be rolled around the mouth, tasted deeply, and either made a part of you or thoroughly spit out if they are found indigestible. If your mechanical reading speed is the limiting factor in reading these works, you're doing it wrong.
Just started this...

https://gist.github.com/6458569

Feel free to fork and feedback.... Adversarial FTW.
The first thing to understand is that the NSA hasn't (or hasn't proved to have) undermined fundamental security technology. There is no indication of a magic attack that breaks AES, just like no magic attack existed for DES before it. What has been disclosed is the massive scale upon which 2 things have happened:

1) The NSA's comprehensive subversion of information technology vendors into making it easy for the NSA to gain access to data.
2) The scale to which the NSA has been allowed to siphon that data from the most optimal places for an attacker.

One of the first things I point my developers at when they ask about crypto is http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-rig.... Nothing in there has changed. However, you probably want to assume that if you're using, say, the Microsoft CrypoAPI or Java JCE that you cannot be assured that a mechanism to access your data isn't present.
Autism is labeled as a "neurological disorder", do you like to apply these opinions to autistic people who want to keep their selves that have thus far developed? You "cure autism" and you remove all of the interactions that person's brain had with the world around them and the perspectives their neurology causes [?].
U.S. gives up on U.N. Security Council in Syria crisis, blames Russia
Candy Crush - When Games Pretend to Be Games They Aren’t
>Server side is already too crowded, there is nothing that Dart brings to the table.

People could have said the same thing about Go, and yet it's catching up quite nicely.

It doesn't have to bring something "new", just a coherent offer, and that it does.
Whoa. That's really cool. What do you use that for?

Also: does openVPN drive your "mesh network VPN"? i thought it was only client<-->server!
The ignorant often confuse direct honesty and factual statements with rudeness, often to their detriment.
The distinction is that reconnaissance/espionage can be done quietly without destroying any hardware or disrupting data integrity, and it's far more difficult to pinpoint who is responsible for offensive/exploitative network operations. The number of organizations across the world that have nuclear capabilities is quite small, however the number of those with offensive security operations capabilities is quite high. The anonymity provided by the depth of the internet is a double-edged sword.

Furthermore the splash damage from Stuxnet/Flame is a testament to the distinct lack of surgical precision normally afforded by missiles.

Also, zero-day exploits can retain their usefulness even after it's been deployed, meanwhile a missile is gone when deployed.
http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...
In a panic, they try to pull the plug. PokerBot fights back. It goes all in on the flop in an early hand against Doyle Brunson during a televized World Series of Poker event, winning the hand by bluffing with a pair of 2's. (... why Brunson? Was he even champion?) Because PokerBot knows that the stunning defeat of a well-recognized celebrity player will cause many other strong players to choke in subsequent games. (Jesus!)
Are all neurological disorders like cancer? How do you apply this to autistics? Is our perspective on the world and our specific neurology a feared disease, should it be? DS people ask very similar questions.
>Most of your points were already covered by Smaltalk, and we all know where it is nowadays.

And less points were covered by Java, and still it got to the top of the language pile.
J.P. Morgan to End Student-Loan Business
Windows 8.1 to freeze out small business apps
I've just learned something about how my own vision works.

Apparently, when I'm reading on screen, somewhere towards the middle of the line, I switch my focus from my left eye to my right. This makes it obvious, because with the color at the end of the line, I switch too soon, and miss the third of the line in the middle.

Possibly this is a consequence of wearing glasses.
Last I checked, using Docker on Arch required a custom kernel with the AUFS patch. Is that still true?

Edit: yes, docker on arch still requires a custom kernel. See http://docs.docker.io/en/latest/installation/archlinux/
Hi,

Thanks for the link, I'll try right now. Please, could you please tell me what doesn't work? The game or touch?
People with Down's Syndrome don't live very long. It's more than just a mental disability.
Use fishing line or something to tether your cord to the bag or the laptop.
You can crack into any system with 30 billion dollars at your disposal. People are always the weak link. Most of the revelations of late suggest a "paid backdoor" rather than a mathematical backdoor or a technical backdoor. The old adage of "follow the money" probably leads to many backdoors here that were paid for with cold hard cash.
Controlling Multiple Drones with Clojure and Goals and Beliefs
Contact Braintree if you're concerned. There are processes in place where they can transfer payment information (including credit cards stored for recurring billing purposes) to another payment gateway.
I'm not a doctor, but I could probably influence someone's political beliefs through medication, at least for the duration of treatment, and probably with aftereffects lasting far longer. $20 per treatment, several treatments per month. ((RS)-1-(benzo[d][1,3]dioxol-5-yl)-N-methylpropan-2-amine)
SpaceX 3D manipulation and printing
Would each container run on something like coLinux?

(coLinux is a port of the Linux kernel to run as an ordinary Windows program, so you can run the Linux kernel as a Windows userland program by double-clicking on "linux.exe"; then you can SSH in and mess around, etc)
> A RNG that is reducible to a different believed-hard problem has possible features

I think you got it backwards... shouldn't you reduce hard problems down to the problem whose difficulty you're trying to understand?
"XBox Mobile" as a brand would be brilliant. Tie it into an XBox Live account... push services to your XBox (kind of like android + chromecast), and keep the "development" name Windows 8.x or whatever... sell it as the gamer teen/twenty something device to own.. get EA etc in on it for device specific games.. and throw in free X months of XBox Live sub when you sign in on your phone.
It would have happened anyway. It was already happening. The Church Committee was a speed bump.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_committee

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nsa+black+chamber&t=canonical
For large blobs of text, I wrap around to the wrong line often enough to be annoying. However, I found that highlighting my spot and re-highlighting every 5 lines or so solves this problem.

Regarding your scanning approach. An idea I've had is to format each word based on how common it is.
Show HN: Automatic Massive Google Analytics
Sort of. I've automated synchronizing it with the GitHub repo, so my local repo may be behind the cached repo. I'm also protected if a repository is deleted/moved/DMCAed.
No, not really -- that would be a much, much more serious problem for Tor. (As I understand it,) Tor relies on the assumption that relays are controlled by a diverse group of people. If one person suddenly adds 3 million Tor relays, then it doesn't help anonymity at all, since that one person can now monitor a significant portion of Tor traffic.

If I own every relay on your circuit, I can monitor your traffic; if I own three million relays, it's almost certain that a significant portion of the traffic will be running through circuits composed of relays I own.
The Future of Design (SpaceX Designing a Rocket Part with Hand Gestures)
As you may well know, the NSA has its own ciphers (Suite A) it uses for top secret classified traffic, which to me is positive proof you can't trust anything they recommend (AES) - when they don't even use it themselves.
Unfortunately such a claim is false. The event loop and callback oriented asynchrony model is baked into the ES spec itself; future ES features rely on it explicitly.
I was actually surprised at how good it was for linear reading - i.e. reading everything without skipping or missing any line. I'd use it for things like contracts and important tutorials/ebooks, where every word counts.

But I agree that it sucks for quick scans - the different colors just add another layer of complexity for our brain to process...
Tried the start button on the game. Didnt work.
Thanks, that's good info and relieves some of my discouragement. How would you suggest I go about learning ML?
Propublica: Revealed: The NSA’s Secret Campaign...
does anyone know what technologies were censored out of the article?
Snowden, NSA, and counterintelligence
Here's Why You Should Get Drunk at Work
does anyone know what technologies got censored out of the article?
Balanced, Stripe, Braintree, and a host of other companies are trying to build a great payments platform. What makes Balanced any different from the others in this case? Isn't Balanced also based on the premise that "well paypal sucks"?
I sometimes play this game: Imagine Obama (or whoever) is running again [EDIT: by "again" I mean their original campaign, in the past], and they make campaign promises to do exactly what they end up doing in their actual administrations. Would they be nominated and elected? I like to think not, but Americans are so partisan I have my doubts.

"And if elected, I will arrest and prosecute more whistleblowers than all administrations before me combined, I will record the metadata for every call that every American makes, and much of the actual contents, and all emails. I will kill innocent women and children as collateral damage in CIA drone strikes, and blame them for not having better parents. And I'll buy a puppy for my daughters."
If you are talking about anything caused by our genes someday we could all be just a few approved clones of what the people in power think is "best". Over-correction of natural variation can be dangerous for a species' survival. At least this author thinks so: http://www.amazon.com/Children-Of-Prometheus-Accelerating-Ev...
I suggest avoiding bright blue in your default colour scheme for beelinereader.

The reason is because it matches the default colour for links. I wouldn't be surprised if many people tend to read linked text a bit differently.

Have you thought about using colours like orange, green, purple?
Yeah, the real solution is not vigilante activism, but tougher financial regulation with actual penalties under the law for screwing people around (and over). It's much much harder for a bank to freeze assets.
I don't see a posting for financial analyst.
Haha it seems a lot of people here did... Validating in an odd sort of way.
> It's much much harder for a bank to freeze assets.

Not really. Banks establish reserve holds (i.e. you keep processing credit cards but the money is not reaching your bank account) all the time. They also freeze accounts and keep that held money for 180 days, all the time. None of it requires any exceptional circumstance nor is there any way for you to dispute the decision to establish a reserve or to close your account and hold the funds. Don't confuse savings accounts with merchant accounts; they are not treated the same even at banks.

I speak from first-hand experience. I had to continue providing service to customers while their payments for that service were held for 6 months by the largest private bank in the country (FNBO, $17 bn in assets). That was an interesting time cashflow-wise when bootstrapping one of my earlier businesses. It was all triggered by a single incident of fraud where someone made 6 separate purchases through my website, which were all charged back at the same time. As a relatively low-volume merchant at the time, that made me look like a huge risk the bank wasn't willing to work with anymore. I've considered fraud screening from the start of everything I've worked on since.
Cool little project, seems like this would be a good starting point for anyone wanting to contribute to open source.
What, in practice, is the difference between creating an account and SSH key that gives passwordless sudo (or other authorization) and creating an account and password that gives appropriate authorization?
I would really like to know which technologies they are talking about. How about the Microsoft discovery from 2007, that's got to be public knowledge by now, right?
Interesting reading this. Particularly the language used. Shame in a way, because if it wasn't written in they way it is, it would sound plausible.
> when presented with evidence to the contrary, people will hold their original beliefs stronger

Actually Googling my phrase seems to give pretty good results -- descriptive powers FTW! :D

The name for it appears to be "the Backfire Effect", classed as a type of cognitive bias:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#Backfire_eff...

http://www.skepdic.com/backfireeffect.html
Correct. Tongue was planted firmly in cheek of the authour when he wrote this. It's great.
That entitled attitude of the complainer is so familiar. Hate that shit.
What benefits does this provide that a cron job running `git fetch` doesn't?
Doesn't matter too much. A short wait can throw you out of focus, and it's the time you spend getting back into focus that's important.
Though I have no first-hand knowledge, I was under the impression that organizations like the NSA have internal peer-reviewed journals that their mathematicians can "publish" in, while remaining classified and unavailable to the public.
They could offer it as a premium feature.
git fetch

git merge origin/master

A much preferred workflow.
Multiple SSH Keys for Different GitHub Accounts
That makes sense. I think it unlikely they've discovered an actual break through. They do have their own fab, how many chips do you need to build to Mae that worthwhile? It's the US government after all, a machine with 10million specialized RSA chips doesn't seem impossibly difficult, just expensive.
At first i was excited that finally I can cmd-tab into a chrome app. Turns out it doesn't. I don't really get how this is so useful.
Thanks! I'm totally open to pull requests!
A new survey finds that most internet users would like to be anonymous online
Nice! Really looking forward to the release!
Here's the Iron Man UI Elon Musk Wants to Use to Design Rockets
Oh, you might still want to share your commits with your coworkers, and for that you need to push and/or pull. (You could do that asynchronously, though.)
NSA trying to make a mess with TOR with all americans as their zombies?
It is funny to see what american government is doing with its citizens. And with rest of the world. First they create terrorism, and then they"solve" it.
>If you're going to a festival seeking a religious awakening, you're doing life wrong.

I think that attitude is something those who feel BM is important would deem "doing life wrong."

The world is not playgrounds to be attended for fun.
Why not? It's designed for indefinite output.
Since I don't find RSVP mentioned in the comments here:

That technique is called Rapid Serial Visual Presentation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_Serial_Visual_Presentatio...

(The Wikipedia article should mention saccades (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccade) but strangely it doesn't.)

I wrote an RSVP reader in the mid-to-late 90s in QuickBasic. I'll have to see if I can dig up that code. :)
"More than a century ago, A.-L. Sardou's New Dictionary of French Synonyms defined the nuances which must be grasped between fallacious, deceptive, impostrous, seductive, insidious, captious; and which taken together constitute today a kind of palette of colors with which to paint a portrait of the society of the spectacle. It was beyond the scope of his time, and his experience as a specialist, for Sardou to distinguish with equal clarity the related, but very different, perils normally expected to be faced by any group devoted to subversion, following, for example, this progression: misled, provoked, infiltrated, manipulated, usurped, inverted"

http://www.notbored.org/commentaires.html
I truly don't understand why the suggestion isn't encrypt it both ways (or, more generally, many different, layered encryption schemes).
I couldn't find any indication if this mailed physical books or is just eBooks. Disclaimer, I only skimmed article (its breathless hype style is too annoying/worthless to read in detail).

If just eBooks, total complete meh.
How ironic that you mention WebCT, because that's what McGill in the article uses until very recently.
Yes. As an example, you'd be surprised by how few MDs that are experts in their respective fields have a detailed understanding of the pharmacokinetics of the drug they're prescribing. They just take the dose the drug company did trials at and go with it.

One reason is that it takes a lot of modeling to understand why to dose 1x twice a week vs 2x once a week, so everyone gets roughly the same dose.
So all the attack vectors the NSA has used to date are based upon backdoors (voluntary or otherwise) to existing vendors?

Something I've been confused and/or mislead about is that if root/CA ssl certificates are compromised, then all derivative ssl certificates are also compromised. Is this true? Are these some of the companies the NSA has 'backdoors' with?

Sorry, I'm not even sure about the terminology here -.-
Maybe I wasn't careful in my reading, but the linked articles don't really say anything other than "yeah the NSA is probably doing something really big". Which, is like, to be expected of the NSA.

If Schneier has inside information, it'd be nice to get a simple, straightforward, article describing what exactly is known about the NSA capabilities. Various people speculating doesn't provide a clear picture of anything.
AMEX statements would be amazing.
Yep, I misspoke. I simply meant 'is based on', and shouldn't have used big words so cavalierly.
What is not being said is "Which if any of the CAs have been compromised?"

That was yesterday. It's being said now.
Right now Surface refers to a model line. I suspect they'll go a step further and create a whole brand called Surface.

If they're smart, they'll consider spinning it out of Microsoft completely (while still holding a majority stake).
Dark Ecology - Paul Kingsnorth
No I won’t lean in because I stand up
It's worse than that; it's a weird attempt to exonerate the tech industry that I don't understand.

It reads very much to me like: "Leave me alone, I have mine."
Governments are big, dumb animals, so make whatever you're trying to protect very expensive ($20-50 Billion range) to brute-force within usability constraints.

Btw... apart from Scrypt paper, has anyone put together a practical guide on crypto parameter brute force costs? (say volume pricing of gear and asics in huge qty)
>The horrible PR we all collectively maintain for ourselves is a definite NEGATIVE in this industry, sometimes.

Doesn't occur to you that the tech industry deserves it, does it.
You doubt that a LaTeX version exists, or that one is made available for publication? It is my understanding that part of the reason for writing TeX in the first place, was for use in personal publications...?
BIG thanks for not lying to me after I didn't perform any better reading the colored text. I would definitely consider showing the colored text first for some others, and second for others. Once I knew that you were going to ask questions about the text, I became more attentive. Nonetheless, I tried to read as if I didn't know there would be questions afterwards in hopes of not skewing the results.

Once again, thanks for being honest in your test and not convincing me to use something that might not actually help me.
I believe I understand your point, but I most whole-heartedly disagree. Rarely is it advisable to avoid acknowledging/discussing a problem merely because doing so is uncomfortable.

MLK Jr. wrote an amazing letter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_from_Birmingham_Jail) that expressed a similar sentiment. In it, he asserted that overtly-racist whites were better for the civil rights movement than those who were against racism and yet remained silent because conflict made them too uncomfortable.

(Not that class divisions at Burning Man are as important as civil rights, by any means. But you get my point.)
I don't know the answer to your question, but it's worth noting that "auditing the binaries" no longer has to mean looking through every line of disassembled byte-code, as was originally thought:

http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust
Yes, but that discovery is also trivia; it was a design issue in a random number generator nobody uses.
When I looked more into the SHAs and SELinux a while ago, I had always wondered why the NSA would create/sponsor these things.
If the NSA really wanted to help improve security, it'd be nice if they'd publicly do some of that auditing...
Redundancy, public access and not having hundreds of unused repositories on my computer. I'm not trying to sell anyone on the idea, it just works for me and I like it so whatever.