skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Threats against women are garden-variety Internet trolling and not motivated particularly by their gender."

I am not saying this. Of course sexist trolling is motivated by the gender of the victim, that's exactly how trolls operate, they deliberately attack pain points that are specific to their target and it is damaging whether they actually believe what they say or not. However, none of this is the fault of the comic authors.

You seem to also be saying, "People only perceive sexism; it doesn't objectively exist."

I am not saying this. You clearly didn't read my entire post. Sexism is a real problem as I clearly stated in my OP. Stated another way: if reasonable individuals can agree that the comic is not sexist, then it follows that the perception of the comic as sexist is merely a perception that the authors don't have an ethical obligation to recognize.

I'm not sure what you're saying.

I'm saying that PA authors shouldn't be held responsible for trolls harassing individuals they disagree with because there is a flavor of troll for every controversial topic and they will always spout the most disgusting hateful thing imaginable for the target audience.

I blame them for profiting off of it

Why? Do you blame the author of this post or any of other dozens of blogs that have profited off this controversy? If the comic wasn't sexist, I don't see the problem with selling merch based on the comic. Will some perceive "Dickwolf" merchandise as an attack on women? Yes, but that doesn't make it true.

they were saying, "We don't think enough of their complaints to treat it seriously."

I don't think they are wrong for this. As I stated in my OP, the comic does not invoke imagery of violence against women unless you believe that the literary use of the word 'rape' is inherently sexist. If you don't believe that use of the term rape is inherently sexist, it follows that you might not take accusations of sexism seriously. You can't evaluate these two components of the story in a vacuum. Your argument boils down to "well, there isn't anything actually sexist about the comic, but dismissing accusations of the comic as sexist is sexist".

Sexism well and truly exists

You're fighting against a straw-man.
Actually, its going to be like developing the app from scratch in RoR but obviously you can reuse the code if you built a separate app already.

So no layering. But since the concept is all about very simple apps, I guess that should not be too much of a hassle. I am open to suggestions.

Edit: Thanks for liking the notes app :)
There's still a lot of bullshit licensing, like ebooks that can only be checked out a finite number of times, in order to reflect the average shelf life of physical books.
Also "yo dawg...".

Now that the obligatory comments have been covered, we can move on. Yay!
Pick Go if: your only other option is C

Pick Scala if: all other things
Penny Arcade, Geek Culture, and Hegel’s “Beautiful Soul”
(typo: "San Francisco Hack News" group)
Having used a pen while doing general purpose computing i would have to agree with the OP that you do in fact miss itwhen having to use a trackpad or a mouse. Mice are not as precise at some things as a good stylus.
If you want to get some of the benefits mentioned in the article with Node, check out my Common Node projects which uses fibers to emulate threads and a synchronous environment: https://github.com/olegp/common-node

Here's a slightly more advanced version of a Telnet server written for Common Node: https://github.com/olegp/common-node/blob/master/examples/ch... - it should be pretty straightforward to add the logic necessary to throttle the rate at which new connections are accepted.
This is almost definitely not "one of the vulnerabilities" implicated in the story today, because nobody uses CSPRNGs based on Elliptic Curve.
Yeah, folks will have to try what works best for them- Just wanted to let people know that there is something potentially useful they might miss out on.
> the PC version should come with a giant red warning that says "DO NOT ATTEMPT TO PLAY THIS WITHOUT A CONTROLLER".

But... It does come with a giant red warning... From the Steam page itself:

Notice:
Microsoft Xbox 360® Controller for Windows® (or equivalent) is strongly recommended.
The Internet Connectome project: Attempting to predict latency between IPs
I found my eyes 'jumping' from word to word. I didn't miss any, and I went to the correct lines, but I did seem to be reading at a much slower clip. But that's from spending 30 seconds reading the webpage, so not very scientific.
I really wish these guys would understand how they're impacting Internet-based commerce. What good is controlling the Internet if people stop using it because of privacy concerns? They seem completely unconcerned about how IT drives the US economy and how a lack of confidence in that sector leads to bad things.
Heh, read it (it's in my Instapaper for some future referenc since it appeared first heree) But when I did the redesign I just went with the flow and what I saw nice on my screen. After all, what I write in my blog works as future reference for me, too :)
One-page http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet...
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Windows, Mac OS, Android, iOS, Symbian, and any Linux distribution you haven't culled together and compiled yourself.
> Speaking of which, I'm really quite frustrated how many of these recent reports about the NSA elide the technical details.

Are you? Well please sign up to work for the NSA, learn the technical details, then go public with them. The reason that the NYTimes isn't publishing the technical details is because they DON'T KNOW THEM. (They might not publish them if they did.) They don't know them because Edward Snowden was a system administrator not a cryptography expert and he's releasing memos about the process.
You can buy a gently used Kindle Touch for $40, and new for only $70. It will more than pay for itself in terms of free books in under a year.
> The American people have betrayed the internet. We need to take it back.

You might think my correction of the title is inflammatory but we shouldn't forget: America is a constitutional democracy. If the Americans don't like the situation then they can vote for someone who will enact legislation that reflects that, meanwhile foreigners cannot influence anything (should they?). They got the government they deserve, and they alone carry the blame.

Of course, we can also close our borders and fracture the internet, but is it really necessary? Do we really care about our security and our privacy that much? We got here too, by tying all of our communications infrastructure into America, so we have only ourselves to blame.
Actually, we don't know if there's a good chance or not. All the best cryptographers in the world, who aren't already working for intelligence agencies, are reliant on government funding (i.e. they're in academia). The fact that these have gone undiscovered so long suggests that finding them will not be trivial.
Humorously, the United States Army lost both Battles of Bull Run to the Confederates.
How VHX rocked their fundraising annoucement
How does this work on normal new borns? Super humans?
I did find it easier to read faster, however I do believe the JFK portion was chunked with a lot of bigger words/data like years, cities, full names whereas the SBA paragraphs were simpler (IMHO).
So, we all knew that this was probably going to be announced at some point or another, but I find myself amazingly dissatisfied by this article.

I was expecting more detailed evidence. How did they break SSL? Do they just have root certificate copies, or just the certs used for the certain specific sites that they're monitoring data transfer on passively?

The article claims that many VPN technologies are broken, but which ones? Are they talking about specific products here, or actual technologies in use?
Recall how Huawei got raked over the coals in the US congress, and now realize that every US networking hardware company is going to get the same treatment in pretty much every country in the world they try to sell to.
Hi, I'm one of the researchers involved in that project, I'll do my best to answer your questions. A few preliminary points:

- Using the Java technology, with its inconveniences, was necessary to have access to ICMP ping from the browser.

- The applet is digitally signed by the University of Montreal, and its source is available at https://github.com/lisa-lab/pings/.

- The data collected from the applet will be made publicly and freely available to all.

- This research project is part of the Ubisoft / NSERC industrial chair on Artificial Intelligence at the DIRO, Université de Montréal.
Thanks a ton. :)
Said another way, "Truth is treason in the empire of lies."
I like Dart, it's the most productive language/environment I've ever used and if it's unable to gain any traction on its core objective building of client-side complex web apps, it will still have a compelling server-side story ala (node.js) after v1.0 is released and the ecosystem catches up with it.
'I killed a man'
Did you actually read this document, or did you stop at the term "NSA" in the title? It's a straightforward set of network operations security requirements. Can you pinpoint something in it that weakens security? It looks to me like it's about disabling the insecure defaults.
Whole Food, not Whole Foods, lest one confuse this for the hip organic grocery store.
ability to spot algorithmic vulnerabilities on that level? and doing it for free? the chances are nill
Ask HN: Researcher seeking app developers
I'm a PhD student and I'm researching how smartphone app developers make decisions and tradeoffs they face. I'm looking for smartphone app developers to take a 20-30 minute survey.
It's here:
http://cups.hnews.sgizmo.com/s3/
You have to be 18+ years (due to university rules; there is nothing adult rated). You will receive a $5 Amazon gift card in return. Many thanks in advance.
How to See Full Cookie Details in Safari 6
Windows supports VPN natively.

* Set the firewall to only allow telnet access on a private subnet

* Set the vpn connection to use that subnet

* login from any computer that supports telnet and PPTP.
Don't forget, "We are Legion. We do not Forgive. We do not Forget"
I love cooking (it's beyond a normal passion for me) and I love eating wholesome foods every chance I get. I actually spend more money and time to eat a properly balanced diet. When I'm lazy or lack time to cook properly I'd love to have some alternative that I know would not hurt me in any way. Right now it's pizza or some other god awful take out. Soylent is not what I want to eat every day but I could definitely see it as useful at times.
Chrome/Android.. What about Chrome/Windows. Notice that every new advancement in Chrome squeezes out the need for Windows.

They need to improve the APIs for developers though, a Visual Studio 6 for Chrome platform development, probably the high point in softees history. Really tie together web with more traditional native api development. No-one has cracked that yet.
so what was the vulnerability found by ms in 2007 that they are referring to? (search for 2007 in single page version at http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/06/us/nsa-foils-much-internet...)

edit: reading in more detail around there, i am pretty sure that section of the article is referring to the CSPRNG vulnerability above. the article covers a lot of ground and not all of it is about problems with ssl. that particular section seems to be arguing that the nsa is trying to put backdoors into standards wherever it can.
Perhaps they could arrest you with the old "interfering with a government agent in the performance of his duties" bit.
Clever. hehe That aside, has anyone saw any recent works on detecting sarcasm? There's not much advancement in this that I've seen.
These seem like good places for them to start:

http://www.blogworld.com/2012/09/14/23-brilliant-bloggers-ta...

http://jontusmedia.com/best-podcasting-equipment-great-sound...

http://hivelogic.com/articles/podcasting-equipment-software-...
There should be a name for the fallacy of drawing a specific, practical conclusion from an abstract or metaphysical premise. "Vitalism is false, therefore Soylent is a good idea" is such a fallacious argument. Clearly, the premise doesn't follow from the conclusion at all.

What follows from vitalism being false is that something like Soylent, that is, an entirely synthesized meal replacement, isn't metaphysically impossible. But I haven't seen anyone making metaphysical objections to Soylent; all the objections I've seen have been practical: nutrition is a much, much more complicated field than the makers of and advocates for Soylent seem prepared to accept.
And Firefox doesn't?
Some organizations have IT security departments that attempt to foil encryption already. They use devices to terminate SSL before it leaves their network and forge certs back to clients and basically act as a MITM for the clients making the TLS/SSL request. They do this to inspect the traffic before it leaves the network.

I predict that in the next 5 to 10 years, many organizations across all industry sectors will drop/reject encrypted packets (SSL, SSH, SFTP, etc) that they cannot decrypt. And the reason they'll give is that it makes them more secure.

The concern I have (as a security technologist) is that most people who use encryption are not bad, however everyone is punished and every packet must now be inspected because a few people use encryption to do bad things. So one day soon, I'm afraid that anyone who uses encryption will be suspect simply because they do and the stronger the encryption, then the more suspect they'll be.

Will it become illegal to do encryption research or use OpenPGP unless you agree to escrow your private key or will everyone be forced to use very weak ciphers? In today's climate (encryption is evil), I see all of these things as very real possibilities.
Yeah in heads up play using a Nash equilibrium to "balance your range" and play a more unbeatable strategy while also using it to calculate probable hands your opponent holds might be helpful, but it's far from a solution to the problem of devising a winning strategy that always works. I think that's why he calls it academic. Because it won't work in the real world.
I wholly agree with what you're saying. It seems too many people think of Soylet as a "total food replacement" which is pretty extreme. Your "taking a road trip versus driving to work" comparison is right on!
>I do not understand the negativity surrounding Soylent.

Someone gives free publicity to you and you compare their healthy skepticism to Vitalism. Seriously?

No one is upset that you're trying to make something new. No one. More power to you. But here is what pisses people off: The neverending strawmen. The constant jabs at other diets and other approaches. The smugness in every blog post. The assumption that you've mastered in a matter of months what you think others have failed at for years. And the certainty you'll have revolutionized the world in no more than a decade.

People don't like that kind of arrogance.
Photography of Burning Man - the Extreme edge of Human Creativity
Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food" is an excellent, well thought out counter-argument to this position:

http://michaelpollan.com/books/in-defense-of-food/

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/books/03masl.html
Installed, tested with a couple of articles. It does the job it claims to do.

A few things: it would be nice to be able to configure the plugin to limit the color variations. I'd like to try with only 2 colors and with less drastic contrasts. I suspect that only a slight transition between two close colors would already be helpful enough for me.

Now, I'm afraid to get used to the crutch and find it harder to read books after. After using vim to edit almost anything, I have developed the bad habit of pressing ctrl-[ to go in normal mode any time I'm in some text editor, be it in the browser, email client, word processor, whatever.
DMCA doesn't apply in Europe?
Ask HN: Need help with chronic stress
I'll keep it short, I need real help with my situation

1. Big stress that has been going on for around 2 years.

2. Around 6 months of generalized inflammation (particularly in the eyelids).

3. Due to some personal reasons I can't see a psychologist right now.

4. My location adds a big part of my stress but I can't change my location for the next 6-10 months.

Any help?
This thread reminds me of an xkcd comic which is a good description of what might be happening: http://xkcd.com/538/
My guess would be they want to continue using a Lisp-style language.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4916627
Who Was J. D. Salinger?
Why do this title reminds me Magnotta

http://digitaljournal.com/blog/2957
"We engineers built the internet" says Schneier, but here is the elephant in the corner of the room: we built it badly. Why? Because it was easy! Take email for example. Everyone knows there is an email protocol with security designed in (X.400). But it was too much effort and we were lazy and SMTP was easy. There are operating systems with security designed in (e.g. VMS). But Unix was easy and hey we can always bolt on err the wheel group afterwards.

The Internet was betrayed alright, but long before this.
Government and industry can't betray the Internet, because they never had an obligation to it. You were naive if you ever thought you could trust them to be "ethical internet stewards".

Yes, we should be angry. But we should also check the assumptions that led us to misplace our trust.
One tiny bug: in the survey after the reading challenge, I was unable to change the number of hours I read per day. I tried to enter 1.5, but it won't take the decimal and I was unable to backspace to delete the 5.

Overall, a very cool idea, I was surprised to find that I read faster. It said only 3% faster, but I searched for an event mentioned in the first set of text which slowed me down.
The Tinkpad Yoga has a stylus [1]. It can have the resolution "only" up to 1920×1080 though. The other positive thing is that you have an additional precise pointing device: the trackpoint (I admit it takes more time to get productive with it than to a stylus, mouse or touchpad - but for ten-finger typists it pays really off)

1: http://m.heise.de/newsticker/bilderstrecke/bilderstrecke_195...
Yes, because that means the knock sensor is reducing compression because it senses lower octane gasoline.
Of course I read it, but there was no new information, it's simply a generic "call to arms"

> It's a straightforward set of network operations security requirements.

Oh, Is it?

> It looks to me like it's about disabling the insecure defaults.

Oh really? Mr. Snider has used is podium in The Guardian to tell us to set up a WiFi password? What article did you read exactly?
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This looks more like the "Emperor's New Clothes" startup.
the red thingy on the right side, visible on the third picture looks like a stylus.
MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) stack
What if they administer that to normal mice? Will they talk?
great idea, do you know anyone who would be willing to do it for a technical resume?
I can only explain the negativity surrounding Soylent with 2 causes:

1. Some people enjoy being righteously indignant. [0]

2. Some people see "food replacement" and are teleported to a fantasy movie-land where oranges & wheat are contraban and coffee is only marginally legal because it doesn't contain many calories. These people are using the same logic as those who protested gay marriage because they didn't want to be forced to divorce their heterosexual life partner.

[0] http://xkcd.com/546/
I think cutting out the agents and lawyers would be pretty dangerous if you were not able to solve the huge problems for consumers that make them necessary. I am about to close on a house next week and would be completely lost without a quality realtor. There is a ton of regulation and risk that make buying a home extremely difficult, especially for first time home buyers. A good realtor does a lot more than just drive you around and collect a check. The same goes for attorneys. Neither provide a whole lot of direct value, but they both mitigate loads of risk.
I don't know. I'm just saying, weakening a CSPRNG design that nobody uses or is ever likely to use (it's extremely expensive) is not a particularly meaningful action.
It is not unheard of for a senior engineer at say Netflix to earn 250k/year.

Assuming they live the same lifestyle as others working for a startup, they can easily bank 50k year after taxes. 15 years of that with even conservative growth and I would say you meet my definition of rich.
>If the Americans don't like the situation then they can vote for someone who will enact legislation that reflects that,

Like who? Red? Or Blue?
Search this thread for "Theo de Raadt" and read the link...
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I suspected it would have to be a system of that era.

I think I have a good idea of how businesses (at a high level) have failed to understand Moore's law from 2000-present. I'm curious what those failures of understanding were like from 1985-2000.

We all know that technology has been advancing rapidly, but these specific anecdotes of organizations paying a million dollars just for the backing storage of a system that you can essentially get for free from Google now...
The thing that bothers me about Soylent is the arrogance that the incredibly complex interplay of how the food we eat interacts with our body can be distilled down to a simple formula - X g protein/kg bodyweight, etc.

We still don't directly understand how certain vitamins may interact with each other, how much the ratios of Omega-3s to Omega-6s affect overall health, whether there might be other chemicals that affect overall longevity and health, and so on.

I understand convenience, but why should we think we've "cracked the code" of the totality of nutrition?
Please yes!

I did a little research and this derives from Verbal Expressions, as explained [1] and implemented [2]. In any case, I'm emphatically in favor. I'm the sort of programmer that needs to write maybe one regex per month, and I'm tired as hell of relearning the human-meaningless syntax for regexs, let alone all the little variations between languages. Not to mention, if it can vastly reduce the number of symbols I have to escape when matching special symbols, so much the better.

[1] http://thechangelog.com/stop-writing-regular-expressions-exp...
[2] http://verbalexpressions.github.io/
Can Matter Cycle through Shapes Eternally?
LOL, Constitutional Democracy by butt. When you have the ability, as an elected official, to receive money from "campaign sponsors" and do not have to disclose where it came from what you have is not a democracy but a puppet regime dressed up as the peoples choice.
As a corollary, that must look unnatural and dehumanizing. :)
I would not be at all surprised to learn that the major advance these disclosures refer to is an on-demand RSA-1024 factoring capability. RSA-1024 is already known to be unsafe (Eran Tromer estimates a 7 figure cost for a dedicated hardware cracker, which is approximately the threshold DES was at in the late '90s, when nobody believed DES was secure). On-demand offline RSA-1024 attacks would have major implications, would be a huge advance in the state of the art, but also seems feasible given an effectively unlimited budget.
If they wanted to flood the network at a particular time, why would they in advance create low-volume traffic that reveals the existence of the botnet?