skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's cool, for those interested, here's the link to the original ascii Star Wars at Simon's website: http://asciimation.co.nz
For sure, but in the case of google this probably doesn't apply.

From what was published recently we know NSA has proven methods for bypassing encryption, namely getting the keys used for encryption (so they can decrypt everything) or getting access to the content before encryption or after decryption.

To me this last move by google is a PR attempt at regaining people's trust
Depending on the decease this side-effect IS the better alternative. It's better to have 1 autism then 100 dead people.
Unless you can know in advance who will develop side-effect, they should take their changes with dead.
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Of coures useless to those using 1Password with Windows and Android.
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory

But be warned, a lot of applications also lie on how much memory they need.
Yes, you can. You might have heard of C++.
Could this have saved nokia from it's debacle ?
If your view on relationships is one-dimensional and you don't actually respect the people around you, then yes, by all means replace them with a doll. Maybe you could have some doll children while you're at it. And if you really want to go all out, a theme park sized place to live equipped with nothing but dolls.

Synthetic love is one-way, you can't really advocate for it without saying a lot about yourself, about how you value relationships with other people and about the total lack of respect and futility of your life.

I prefer the people around me to be hot-blooded, real life, complex and interesting human beings. If you're reading this article and you're thinking 'wow, that's just the ticket for me', please take my advice, shut down your computer for a couple of months and spend all the money that you have travelling. Being around people and interacting with them is the best cure for this kind of funk.
This should probably be tagged [1997]; also here's a link to the original author: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/asciimation/ascii_faq.html
Knowing some of the details on vaccination, I can't agree. There is profit to be made in vaccines, sure. But it's hardly the same as in patented drugs. Competition is usually harder.

I wouldn't call the bird/pig flu story hype. There was a wide consensus that these viruses were a threat and might have the potential for a pandemic. It killed a lot of people, and as far as I remember it had a higher mortality rate than most flus. So the threat was real.

Now we know the virus probably didn't have the potential. In hindsight. I hope the next time there is a preventable pandemic threat people don't trump up the anti-pharma rhetoric and say "last time it wasn't so bad, was it?"
[citation needed]

Edit: I was doing academic influenza drug discovery research at the height of the H5N1 threat. 59% morality rate [1] is no "hype". Your generalization of viruses mutating "too fast" is a false clause. Vaccination against influenza isn't "useless", it's actually effective [2].

[1]: http://www.who.int/influenza/human_animal_interface/EN_GIP_2...

[2]: https://www.landesbioscience.com/article/19917/full_text/#lo...
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That's the crystal for the slow clock, which runs at about 32kHz. You still can't clock the main clock off it.
> So if you can purchase 300 VPS accounts at $5 each then you can set up 1% of the TOR network and statistically, over a month

I'd love to see this kind of evidence end up in court. It would be hilarious to see them try and prove anything beyond reasonable doubt with millions of random logs.
I'm a huge fan of this command-line password manager: http://zx2c4.com/projects/password-store/

It's just a simple wrapper around gpg and (optionally) git. Makes it real easy to sync passwords between machines and you can be as confident as possible about the security.
GNU's core tools were built with non-GNU stuff like Vim and valgrind, but you don't see them getting special mention either. And much of the modern userland requires, say, Python to function! No mention there, either. The idea that part of the userland deserves a special mention (but no, not the rest, just GNU) is over-privileged attention-seeking.

The convention has generally become that Linux-kernel operating systems are called "Linux". But you have options if this offends you so. If you don't like that, Debian's over there and willing to play along, and if you really don't like it, I hear that GNU has a kernel of their own rattling somewhere around gnu.org.
Not sure if "Tell HN" really fits here; blinkenlights.nl has hosted this since at least 2001:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011123045625/http://www.blinken...

and it has been widely covered:

http://google.com/search?q=towel.blinkenlights.nl
How do you know that bird/pig flu wouldn't have had more severe impact if it wasn't for the vaccinations?
> You can create whole web app in one PHP file from scratch and it will have everything including API and DB management layer and be secure and fully functioning.

> Millions are made by average developers developing themes and plugins for wordpress.

Yep, and thanks to people actually believing in that, php is also keeping the security industry alive and well.
That's exactly how Tor got created -- it was originally funded by the Navy. The DoD version of Tor _is_ Tor.

Also, it's entirely possible that the government is using the same software (or a slight fork) on a different network, but using the public deployment of Tor as a way to easily get public review of the cryptosystem.
That's not how OS naming works.

Historically, naming rights for an OS go to whoever actually puts together and distributes the complete system. For instance, if a workstation company licensed Unix from AT&T and ported it to their workstation, they got to name that OS whatever they wanted. A couple examples of this were Uniplus+, which was UniSoft's Unix, and 386/ix, which was Interactive System Corporation's Unix. Both were Unix systems--they used a Unix kernel and Unix utilities--but that wasn't their names. Half the fun working at a Unix workstation company in the early '80s was thinking of a neat name for your Unix port. :-)

For the complete systems distributed by Canonical, Red Hat, and the like, they are the ones who get to name the operating systems that they distribute. Ubuntu calls their OS the "Ubuntu operating system". Red Hat calls their OS "Red Hat Enterprise Linux".

Yes, they are also GNU systems, but if we want to be historically accurate, the most correct way to view this would be to view "GNU system" and "GNU/Linux" as specifications for a specific Unix-like userspace and for an OS that runs the GNU system on a Linux kernel, respectively. The Ubuntu operating system complies with the GNU system specification and is a GNU/Linux system, but it is named Ubuntu operating system.
Runs same code, has less memory, storage, and I/O
64GB SSDs aren't large enough to take full advantage of the wide data paths offered by modern SSD controllers that stripe accesses across many flash chips. Going up to at least 256GB is usually necessary to get the full speed possible from having every channel populated.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/752?vs=750
There's no contradiction in his/her statement. You are just being obtuse
I used Keypass for a couple of months. It was very unstable, regularly crashed my browser, and I lost all of my passwords at one point.

I switched over to 1Password and never ran into these issues.
It's not. AFAICT, they were promoting XUL as a way to build desktop apps. I even have a copy of the O'Reilly book about XUL... somewhere.

(3) was talking about making apps with mozilla. Not specifically xul.
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Oh, those are "big" (as in, serious, though rare; or serious, but doesn't fucking happen...) but do you know what is bigger? Somebody who could not get immunized dying because you refused to get immunized.

That is why it is selfish. Incredibly selfish.
Can you give more detail on what you are missing in the osm map and link to examples? That style is open, unlike.the others.
(1) Churchill's Coventry quandary is a myth.

See:

http://theweek.com/article/index/237427/history-detective-di...

And lots of other places.

(2) The NSA is way out of line in this respect and no matter how much they do/did it that stands and you should not apologize for it. If you do you are essentially advocating for broadening the official reach of the NSA's powers rather than to rein them in because they clearly can not stick to their mandate.

The balance here is not to get to perfect security without privacy, the balance point is to get to an optimal level of security with a maximum of privacy. Anything less won't do, lest we all end telling another generation how terribly sorry we were.

Power corrupts, it's never been any different historically.
Pine has had conversation threading since 2002.
Mutt has had conversation threading since at least 2003.

I'm just saying, the original Gmail UI guys were inspired by good email clients. :)
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Indeed, Facebook is already using their own fork of PHP.
> When used properly, it doesn't have to be a bad language

> That, and if you are just starting to get into web development

These two things don't square well, and is a major reason why I discourage PHP. It's pedagogically suboptimal to be encouraging the sorts of behavior that culturally accepted PHP often does.

You can write good PHP. After many years I got to the point where I could say confidently that I can. But it took me most of a decade to get to that point of confidence.
Hey, I use Busybox/Linux you insensitive clod!
Not architecturally, but Federico Faggin and Masatoshi Shima were the key people on the 4004 and 8080 before leaving to form Zilog and build the Z-80. The Z-80 had to have DAA (decimal adjust) to be compatible with the 8080. Possibly the 8080 had DAA to compare well against the 6800. If that's the case, then we must ask where the 6800 got the idea. Could be from minicomputers or even mainframes, but from what I've read the early microcomputer designers had no pretense of making processors to compete anywhere near the high end. Instead their sights were set more along the line of embedded systems. Desktop calculators fit into that and Shima himself designed desktop calculators and helped specify the 4004 before he came to Intel. Thus my speculation that the impetus could have come from that direction.
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Open source ain't enough if the standard itself is vulnerable:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_strange_s...
Related: FindTheBest's case study on TechCrunch: http://www.findthebest.com/partner-with-us

Odd that AOL chose to partner with FindTheBest, considering that AOL already has a business partnership to gdgt through Engadget.
That's ridiculous.

As everybody knows: It has been revealed that Google is one of the NSA partner companies (which should have been obvious to begin with, given the fact that Google is probably the biggest data hoover ever built).

This fact terminates even the last tiny little bit of "trust" we could have had in Google.

And that's really all there is to say.
I really appreciate this article. Searls has put to words a concept that has long bothered me on an intuitive level. Namely that all of these bullshit marketing techniques create a cognitive load that is not in proportion to any value that I as a customer receive from them.

I think it is self-evident that when it comes to matters of taste there is no really "right" answer, but these middle-men are all about muddying the waters for the (short term) benefit of their clients at my personal expense. That is really in contradiction to the premise of a market-based economy - that every transaction benefits both sides. These techniques are all about shifting as much of the benefit to the seller rather than improving the outcomes for both participants.
Is this in addition to those silly "Elsewhere on the Web" "You may also be interested in" garbage units every half-assed news site and blog runs?
So good, thanks!.
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I'm guessing the octopus released ink at the very least. Moreover, octopi are renowned for being able to squeeze through very small holes and doing so quickly, so maybe it found a quick route out of the worm's mouth at a fortuitous moment.
Polio existed in the US within the memories of many people still alive.
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I may be overthinking it, but I read Davecat as someone who was, in some way, damaged early on and has built up a framework that allows him to function and survive pretty well. His life isn't normal, by usual standards, but it seems to work OK for him.

The thing that worries me is that there are a lot more people out there that are more like him, than there are people who've been able to make that special connection with someone else.
That's usually either 1) a stupid Wordpress plugin that everyone uses since no publisher cares about UX or 2) Disqus, which opts into displaying ads with comments, for fortunately is easy to opt out of.
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Here is a (IMHO) haunting and heart-breaking video by a couple of joss whedon adjacent people that is somewhat relevant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNtORr6RsJ4
Not a bad idea, actually.

I question whether many cash-strapped startups could afford to actually implement a 10th-man strategy (as opposed to merely putting one on paper). Still, I agree with the premise that there are potentially great benefits to having a culture where it's not only accepted but expected that objections are raised, ideas are fully vetted, and Devil's Advocate is played.
No, someone else asked the question. (on Quora, you can tell who asked the question by seeing who is the first follower.)

Case in point: http://www.quora.com/Online-Commenting/Whats-the-deal-with-M...
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> There is profit to be made in vaccines, sure. But it's hardly the same as in patented drugs.

But there is also good chance to convince government to buy huge quantities.

Flu kills and becomes pandemic nearly every year. Bird/pig flu was just a bad year.

There are more effective measures to fight flu. For example closing schools for couple of weeks. Also employers should allow tele-commuting during flu seasons.
I think it's still rational to distrust Google. Until there is more proof I will act as if I am watched at all times when using Google services.
Since iOS6 and iOS7 have different looks and feels, it is apparent that rigidly adhering to the one true native look and feel isn't mandatory. I'll bet HTML5 can get closer to either iOS version than they are to each other and so close that I, an iPhone user, wouldn't notice the difference for the kind of app that doesn't require native hardware access. I'll bet that someone will produce an HTML5 mobile UI that I'll like more than I'll like iOS7. I'll bet that this won't be the last iOS UI overhaul, and that some future Apple TV will have yet another "native look and feel" and that iPhone owners will use their TVs and Kindles and smart refrigerators and countless Web apps and eventually lose track of what "the native look and feel of an iPhone" looks and feels like.
Great article. It can expand further than Linux and turn into a piece of it's own. Bullshitting is the disease of the decade.
Yes, I think we should all be vaccinated, as the powers that be confidently tell us.

And as a consumer of medicine, I observe that doctors are equally confident when they really don't know what they're talking about, and when their opinions aren't substantiated by science. (The command to wear padded running shoes, for instance.)

And I know that the CIA organized a fake "vaccination drive" to get Osama bin Laden.

So I understand why people who might not have a scientific education choose not to believe the vaccination story they're given by their government.

Saying it louder and more often won't help.
I also cannot stand their forum UI. Things seem to be of almost arbitrary size and color. For example, deleted messages in the listing view are centered, bold and colored. [1] This draws your attention to the deleted message first, which is nearly useless information.

Their hierarchy of boards & topics is confusing, too. There are two different types of hierarchy, but why? They are all clickable and filterable, yet they are almost visual opposites of each other [2].

These are just two, to me, glaring things. The UI is also crazy busy for something I would have though Google would have distilled and simplified.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/wwvyv3W.png

[2] http://i.imgur.com/RPFTLPP.png
clicky: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/
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There's nothing inherent about the industry that means it has to be that way. We deserve a little credit for not putting artificial barriers in place like other industries have.
Large part of population was not vaccinated. Also some countries did not provide vaccination at all. Dead were mostly related to overall fitness rather than some magic virus.
Y'all are totally overlooking that there is a broad swath of the population that is intelligently selecting vaccinations based on current research indicating which vaccines pass the cost/benefit test. Not all vaccines are created equal--including some that are intended to solve for the same thing. And all too many who blab their opinion on pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine do so with a minimum of research and evidence to support their opinion.

Here I hear a lot of pro-vaccine chest pounding. Sure there are anti-vaccine myths just as their are pro-vaccine myths. Some vaccines provide almost no benefit and entail fairly significant risks.

As in most things, vaccination is not an all or nothing proposition and it's a fallacy to suggest it is.
Thank god for theverge and Ars...
Seems like something we don't want to be doing, we wish it never even came to it, promised we would do, and now some big boys are lining up against it.

It's important news. Not really hacker news, I think. Although, you would have to be a hacker to find the right way out of this one...
Your startup will die (I reckon 1 in 10 do in the first year itself), if you...

- don't build something you want first (dogfooding, has some exceptions)

- don't 'release early, release often'

- don't iterate on feedback (talk to the users, everyday)

- focus too much on perfection and scalability from day 1 (pre-mature optimization)

- don't focus on sales from day 1 (charge users, free is not a business model)

- don't start marketing early on (mainly content marketing, SEO, social networking etc.)

- don't delegate (outsource or hire) your workload when things pick-up

- don't stay frugal and don't reinvest

- don't have (or lose out) the vision and passion to organically grow the business into something big (in terms of reach, not necessarily size)

- your main purpose is getting rich (early exit, acquisition etc.), in which case get a job

[back to my trench]
Any good cross multi-device alternatives?
Furthermore, if only the DoD/whatever used Tor, "someone with Tor traffic going from/to them" would be a good-enough metric to locate DoD emplyees / government spies / etc. The idea is, that's why Tor continued to be developed not as part of a Naval Research lab project, but rather as a civilian project.
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Believe it or not, this is a fairly hard request to satisfy. And that's mainly because it's SO general and vague. There are 10 bazillion different OSS projects, and there is almost no way on heaven or earth for somebody who doesn't know you, to tell you which one(s) to start with. It depends on what you're interested in, what your skills are, how motivated you are, how much of a self-starter you are, etc.

And, truth be told, it's a darkside of the OSS community that we aren't very good at "hand holding" beginners - much to the detriment of everybody involved, IMO. The reasons for that are legion, but for whatever reason, a lot of projects aren't all that interested in helping a newbie move up the learning curve.

Anyway, for somebody from HN to help you very much, it would almost take somebody who runs a project to step in and make a specific offer to work with you. Otherwise, all somebody can really do is offer platitudes like "look for a project that really interests you" and "look for projects that publish a list of 'low hanging fruit' bugs for beginners" (there are projects that do that, and that is good advice, BTW). But as far as generic advice goes, you can get plenty of that by Googling:

https://www.google.com/search?q=contributing+open+source

If it were the right season for it, I'd suggest you look into the Google Summer of Code program, but you'd have to wait until next summer now.

Or, am I starting to early; must I learn more about data structures and software design before looking towards OS?

Nah... if you know Git (or SVN or CVS or whatever) and can use the build tools commonly used in the language of the project you're interested in, there are almost always bugs to be fixed that amount to not much more than typos. Hell, just going in and removing commented out "dead code" could be useful to some projects.

One angle you could look into is pick a project, download it, and run a code analysis tool against it (if you were a Java guy, I'd say PMD or FindBugs, but you'll have to find the equivalent for your chosen platform) and then examine some of the supposed "bugs" it find (quoted because a lot of the "bugs" they find are false positives or subjective issues of style), decide if it really matters or not, and possibly submit a patch.

Anyway... wish I could help more, but that's about everything that jumps to mind at the moment. Good luck!
Wave 7 - 327950, no deaths, got bored and quit first try. It's too easy! You should add difficulty levels. (I played a lot of Touhou recently so my sense of "difficult" is in a non-standard location.) Also, more enemies that shoot things that can't be destroyed, and enemies/asteroids that need multiple hits to die (maybe enemy health increases for higher difficulty / later waves).

Bugs I noticed: All the bullets in the world sometimes disappear at once. There's no pause button.

Mostly I love the controls, except friction on your ship is a little aggressive -- I think there should be no friction if you're below a certain speed, but maybe it's just my expectations from Star Control 2 (check out the FOSS version, Ur-quan Masters, with sudo apt-get install uqm if you're on an Ubuntu-like system). Also, the game desperately needs a hold-to-fire, or even toggle fire, button. Single-shot fire in a game like this is why there was a thriving turbo controller cottage industry in the '80s - '90s.
Q8: Is a vaccine available to prevent human infection with H5N1avian influenza?

Candidate vaccines to prevent H5N1 infection have been developed, but they are not ready for widespread use.

http://www.who.int/influenza/human_animal_interface/avian_in...
Sure, but polio was virtually eliminated in America by 1980, and how old were today's non-vaccinating parents in 1980? Or 1953, for that matter- the year of the last polio outbreak?
There are people still alive today that lived through the Spanish Flu. They are pretty damn old today and they were young then, but there are many more people alive today that lost immediate family members to it and many more that lost extended family members to it. That shit wiped out something like 5% of the world.

Yet even in this thread we see people who seem to think that flus are a laughing matter.
It's buggy too. I get this nice error message in an alert dialog "ERROR: Possible problem with your *.gwt.xml module file. The compile time user.agent value (gecko1_8) dos not match the runtime user.agent value (unknown). Expect more errors."