skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that there is no consensus on the correct way to regulate these kinds of interactions yet. When we try to work out what a reasonable way to regulate something new is, we usually do so by analogy to other things that we already know how to regulate. That way we can make a whole bunch of analogies with various current situations and try to work out which one is the best analogy in the relevant aspects so we can come up with a good starting point for regulation.

This doesn't always work (particularly not for truly disruptive technical or social changes), but it's a pretty good way of doing it.
Islamic terrorists is not a defined enemy; many people are Islamic, and any of them could be terrorists. The list of who is considered a terrorist is secret and we are not privy to which people or even organisations are considered enemies in this war on terror. The US is also frequently attacked by Christian terrorists.

Terror aims to scare a population, but more importantly to drive a wedge between a government and its people by pushing the government into ever more repressive measures in an attempt to winnow out the terrorists, who can melt back into the population. The aim is precisely to force the government into ever more draconian measures which alienate the population and build support for the terrorists - to force the government to try to fight a war on the terrorists' terms. A great illustration of this from another era is the film The Battle of Algiers - torture, repression, removal of civil rights, and extra-judicial killing by the government in response are exactly what terrorism aims to achieve. Killing innocents in cafés is not the goal of terrorism, it's a means to an end, and that end is to force the government to adopt terror in response.

The correct response to terror attacks is careful police work to track down the killers and bring them to justice, so that they can't continue to plant bombs. This can be done within our existing legal frameworks.

The wrong response is to declare war on the the terrorists' terms, oppress your citizens, and kill yet more innocents in the cross fire as you target people on suspicion. Extra-judicial killing outside of war is as wrong as terror attacks, and as damaging for the parties involved, and eventually it comes to resemble terror itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlv6BrrxD_4 ;)
Gov. Jerry Brown signs bill increasing online privacy for minors in California
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I just hope nvidia builds wayland support into their proprietary drivers. I mean if nvidia chooses not to support nouveau as their main DRI drivers, thats fine. However the least they can do is make sure they do as much as they can to invest in Linux moving forward and not force users (and app developers) to make painful decisions regarding whether they should use the proprietary drivers or nouveau.

For example if nvidia decides to focus and invest all their effort solely into mir and unity support for their closed drivers, thus giving everybody who backs wayland the shaft in the process, its going to end up being a major problem for developers like myself. Philosophically and pragmatically.
If the enemy refuses to wear a uniform? Do we just let them go?
"I think MDN has an advantage in that they've only really been around since HTML5 has become standardized"
=> HTML5 is not a standard. Nowhere near so. Whatever you mean by that, MDN is as old as Firefox anyway.

"...whereas w3schools has had to deal with the changing standards of html4/xhtml/html5."
=> These differences are 99.99% additions, so don't impact documentation that much. In any case, documentations is more relevant is it documents implementations, not standards (which come after implementation most of the time, not the other way around until recently)
"or do you prefer to move from this country to another (where some other agency will fuck you the same way)?"

Im sorry, but that won't happen to you in a lot of other countries. Even with data retention in the european union there's still no such thing as NSL in most european countries.
There's a big difference between killing someone suspected of being a terrorist, and indiscriminately gunning down a bunch of people. The latter is undeniably "murder", but the former, not so much. It's not ideal, but IMO it's not an atrocity.

I guess it all comes down which version of justice you favor: the one prescribed by law or the general consensus for what is acceptable.
Why this year's students are just part of a failed experiment
But the issue is, that I don't know what exactly are they doing, and don't have means to find out. For example, I don't know whether they provided backdoor, how wide that backdoor is, i.e. at how many places are my Dropbox files, for example.
Some context: I don't actually know how useful this will be. Most foreign companies already use VPNs to Hong Kong or the US. Almost all the expatriates I know have personal VPNs set up as well. Astrill (https://www.astrill.com/) is the name I've been hearing nowadays.

I also discovered recently that more tech-savvy locals can also buy ways to jump the "Great Firewall" ridiculously easily - even right off of Taobao, which is the Chinese version ebay. (If you're interested, just search for "IP代理." I think it's about 8-15 RMB a month?)

This free-trade zone is tiny, and in the middle of nowhere. [Edit: things may be different if it's by Shanghai's port; I wasn't aware of that.] The most potentially exciting part about this news is that the government is thinking about extending this relaxation to all of Pudong, which is home to Shanghai's new financial and business district. Pudong effectively the CBD of Shanghai, but otherwise essentially is like the south side of London's Thames: most people live on the other side of the river, where the culture, excitement and history is. In other words, the vast majority of Shanghai's 20 million residents still won't be able to access Facebook... which is why this isn't half as big of a deal as it appears. Then again, I suppose it is exciting that there will now be a portion of mainland China where the government is actively letting people access Facebook.
Spain's new piracy penalty: Six years in jail
Ask HN: What's a reasonable salary at a Berlin startup?
I'm preparing for some interviews. Being a freelancer I don't have many data points. If you ask people directly no one tells you anything. Glassdoor doesn't have enough information about startup companies.

So what is a reasonable salary for a backend engineer with 5+ years experience at a Berlin startup? Minimum, maximum, median?
I would be quite surprised if Steam{OS,Box} wouldn't strongly prefer proprietary nVidia drivers, considering the history of co-operation between Valve and nVidia on this front.
This happened to my work email tab, but not my personal email tab, so now I can finally tell them apart!
In the meantime, in Australia our permanent residence will be blocked because we have a child with autism... Same if we try Canada.
I'll be honest, I never saw finger print scanning as the next security measure, it was always about convenience to me. It's the same with PIN numbers, all someone has to do is stand next to you to see your PIN number and they are good to go.

True security comes from multiple layers of security, where the question changes randomly but you still know what the end result will be, much like a bank does when signing in.

When things become easier, it only remains easy to get in to it. The reason it isn't so easy right now is because it hasn't had to be so widely available. When TouchID becomes more popular, you will read more stories on how people have found easier ways of cracking it.

It's all about convenience. If you want security then it's TouchID from 5 fingers + 8 digit pin + your first dogs girlfriend's name.
I'm in the same situation, and I hope this never gets a fix from Google, as like you I like being able to tell the difference when the tabs are too small to show the email address.
I'm still not wrong. :)

Pkgng itself seems like it's working, but bootstrapped fresh on a FreeBSD 9.1 it provided a non-existing repo:

[root@freebsd91 ~]# cat /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
packagesite: http://pkgbeta.FreeBSD.org/freebsd:9:x86:64/latest

And that URL is actually a 404 page.

Additionally the existing binary repos (the one pkg_add uses) cannot be used with pkgng.

So essentially - unless you want to start building packages and maintaining repos - pkgng is at this moment _useless_.

I do wonder if they'll manage to come up with decent[1] repos in time for the final release.

[1] - providing many packages and updates like in the linux distros world, not just "set it and leave it" as they do with the current repos.
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I'd like to fix up the analogy a bit. The problem isn't that you're asking for a random ISBN numbers; it's that you don't have a library card. The library's electronic catalog won't let you log in without the card, so you just start asking the librarian for random ISBNs and accepting the books he gives you. He doesn't check on your card because no one trained him to do that, but you know that checking out books is meant for card-carrying library members. I sense deceit there.
I think it is generally understood that such articles are about averages. Your existence has no bearing on the proportions of boys vs girls who display certain behaviors. If there are on average gender differences in behavior, it makes sense to look into that. And if the typical behavior of one gender is taken as a desirable baseline, then it can be a problem for the other gender.

I agree that it would be a problem if the same kind of behavior would be categorized as "she has ADHD or autism" in girls and "it's just boys being boys" in boys.

Just curious, how did the ADHD diagnosis make your life better?
For a given task, at a given time, there are for sure engineers that are 10x, or even 100x, compared to some other engineers. But that doesn't make them absolute "10x engineers", it's always relative to the task and the other engineers.
This occurs when I'm an admin of the Google Apps account, anyone wanna test with a non-admin account?
If the enemy refuses to wear a uniform, and blends in with the civilian population, are we at war at all?

Terrorism is very difficult to counter, but I'd argue the way to do so is not to accept battle on the terrorists' terms - war amongst the people does not tend to end well for the government responsible.
>>This post captures very accurately ................

It also captures very accurately the following.

The definition of a start up in India.
No start up wants to create value for society.
Their immediate concern is making money /monetizing.
The start up founder is someone who has some money and wants to make more money from that money.
Then he wants some engineers/coders/designers to do the job.

The so called start up founder also wants it do in minimum amount of money.
Hence the start up founder chooses people who are not costly.
He finds the not costly people to have lack of skills.
And then he blogs and blames the Indian Education System.

THE INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE SMALL NUMBER OF GOOD ENGINEERS . IF YOU WANT TO BUILD SOMETHING WHICH HAS SOME VALUE FOR SOCIETY , THEN HIRE THE GOOD PEOPLE.

BUT BLAME YOURSELF IF YOU CANNOT HIRE GOOD PEOPLE, DO NOT BLAME THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.
you want profit , everyone wants profit, why would anyone work for 25k rupees per month while you charge your clients something 90k rupees per month.
Stop this body shopping attitude.
Just because you know linux kernel and some open source ROR does not gives you any power to blame people whose parents did not purchase them a Desktop when they were 13.

Just because you know
void * (x)(int,char)[66]
does not entitle you to exploit people at so 10k per month who do not know C.
Stop blaming the Education system.
Start hiring good people or go to hell.
Fuck your luck on scaling a body shop.
Measuring heart rate with a smartphone camera
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"Home" is not so great for a mobile device...
Or you can just use this awesome userscript (screenhost are dead btw ..) http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/24430
James Lyne: Everyday cybercrime -- and what you can do about it
Your description doesn't account for a President who doesn't care about getting re-elected. Imagine how much a unitary executive could get away with if they really wanted to.

Electoral processes are certainly an issue, but it's distinct from the problem of separation of powers that has enabled Presidents to carve out immense impunities for themselves and their favored.

As in nationalized health care, the US should be following those countries with higher standards of living and incorporate a Parliamentary system (or whatever) and eliminate much Presidential power, particularly where the military is concerned.
Seems like a lot of extra work rather than just clicking a checkbox.
I've been seeing it on my non-admin account at work for a few days now.
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Jazz Manouche
Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing or hot club jazz) is a style of jazz music often said to have been started by guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in the 1930s.[1] Because its origins are largely in France it is often called by the French name, "jazz manouche", or alternatively, "manouche jazz", even in English language sources
It seems I misread the original post and thought you were 'correcting' an already correct usage. On reading it again, it seems that I was wrong and I apologize.

Given that HN does not show any historical revisions, it can be hard to tell the order (or even existence) of edits. FWIW, if you had quoted the line you were commenting on it would have been unambiguously clear to me that the OP had taken your advice and corrected whatever he original wrote.
Unix was supposedly created to make it easier to develop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Travel_(video_game)
But they do fear politicians kicking their ass and ruining their lives if that information cost them elections. Also, strained metaphor is strained.

Fact is, that's not a Transparency Report, it's PR Report, to make you feel better and not run away screaming. I've decided that Dropbox/Google Sync shouldn't be trusted for anything of any importance.
Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing or hot club jazz) is a style of jazz music often said to have been started by guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt in the 1930s.[1] Because its origins are largely in France it is often called by the French name, "jazz manouche", or alternatively, "manouche jazz", even in English language sources.
The 'offline' one I agree with, but don't think that's precluded (they have the chef recipes, so why not); but it's an option not the common case. And the last one too - we've got a similar setup, and there are times when there were issues with our xen vms that we explored outside of the shared cluster. One more justification would be overflow - this has happened here, we don't have room for all the VMs on the cluster so some of us run them locally.

So yes, don't rule it out, but still seems to make economic sense to share hardware.
> If you use your thumb to unlock it, the way Apple designed it, then you are looking for the finger which is least likely to leave a decent print on the iPhone.

This is my main takeaway. I suspect the vast majority of iPhone users either do not secure their phone at all, or use a 4-digit PIN, and therefore are not protected against targeted attacks anyway. Touch ID can improve security for these users.

My main reason for protecting my phone is to prevent a scenario where it gets stolen, and the thief can access my data with reasonable effort. My secondary reason is to protect against snoopy acquaintances. A 4-digit PIN marginally achieves these goals: a typical thief is locked out, but a more sophisticated one can easily brute-force my code using commercially available tools.

What if I use Touch ID instead? It is very likely that a thief will not know who I am, and therefore will not be able to go around lifting my fingerprints. They might, however, try to lift prints off my phone. The way to protect against this is to only unlock the phone using my thumbs, because (per TFA) there are typically no good thumb prints on the phone itself. If I do this, then I will in fact be more protected than I would be using a 4-digit PIN.

A couple of caveats. After 5 rejected attempts the iPhone will fall back to asking for a PIN. It is therefore advisable to set a strong (longer than 4 digits) PIN here. Second, this of course may change if the 'secure enclave' that stores the fingerprint hashes gets hacked.

TL;DR: If you only use your thumbs to unlock your iPhone, Touch ID currently provides better security against typical threats than a 4-digit PIN.
You think the BBC invented this?
Low click through rate or little app users?
Or use an extension to change the favicon, such as https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-hate-your-favico...
(change favicon on url google.com/mail/u/0/ or /1/ etc..)
... or keep a local copy in a different town.
Stephen Fry joins demand to end NSA and GCHQ mass surveillance
I thought raison d'etat was about a state deciding its dealings with other states solely on the basis of national self interest rather than moral or legal principles. It's that doctrine's failure in Europe and subsequent laws that lead to the idea of 'international law', right?

As far as I know it does not apply to a government violating its own laws.

Edit: subsequent WARS, not laws.
There are bigger problems in the world than this
What's unbelievable about it?

Why get so outraged?
Question: how many 10x engineers want to work on a bug tracking tool? Is it likely Joel has met many of these guys, or is he just telling the audience what it wants to hear for some more page views?
I think the reality is that most software engineers are starting to get tired of Windows and OSX, and the kind of people nVidia wants to hire don't want to contribute proprietary blobs to Linux when they can just work for the competition on open-source stuff. Thus, nVidia is kind of forced by the market to let the engineers make at least token contributions to Linux.

(This is also why DRM never works; the type of person that could implement it correctly wouldn't want to implement it correctly.)
Termination of post-1977 +35 year old copyright assignments.
I should note that I am not affiliated with the law firm publishing this, but it gives a very good summary of the situation. Interestingly Space Invaders was published in 1978...
Libreoffice replaces MS office easily for me
It sounds like he's reasonable (skill wise ... totally unprofessional though). He also probably has a shit team, and shit management. Shit conditions make people behave less professionally (though he sounds worse than most).

Does he have any chance of being promoted, for not being a complete moron? Or do you promote morons into lead roles, so they can hire even bigger morons, and make moronic decisions?

If he's not going to get promoted, then he's got no reason to not just dick around, and behave like an asshole. Yes, he's probably hurting his chances of promotion (and might risk getting fired), but he probably had no hope anyway (since there's no way you could afford to lose him by kicking him upstairs). And what are you going to do? Fire the only guy who can actually solve problems?
"If you use your thumb to unlock it, the way Apple designed it, then you are looking for the finger which is least likely to leave a decent print on the iPhone."

If the issue is smudgy prints, I wonder if some image processing could improve results.
I believe the comment refers to NYC's Stop and Frisk program[0] which has been ruled unconstitutional by a US district judge, who found that the program unfairly targets African Americans and Latinos.

[0] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_stop-and-frisk_pr...
You're right, that's what I get for submitting via a mobile.
It's easy to obtain. You'd need lab gear to make more - the gear is pretty common in wet labs: a PCR machine, desk centrifuge and suitable supplies.

It's much less common than a consumer-grade scanner and some wood glue.
Hi Jason. thanks for replying. I was genuinely curious as to your opinion on the gmail UI since you are more experienced than me.

I don't have much issue with the spacing in compose. I have an issue with hiding the formatting and functionality of the email.

I was not suggesting ignoring personal use cases. Given the popularity of Gmail, a lot of people uses email to do work for personal use. However, SMS/whatsapp/fb chat is a much more effective medium for personal use cases. Picking up the phone to reply a text feels a lot more personal and less intimidating than email. The new redesign does not make it less intimidating to use email.

I agree that Gmail should "influence" users on their behaviors by changing the UI to some extent. However, you should facilitate the user's existing use cases. Most people would prefer to send an SMS for personal messages and send email for work. Forcing email to look more minimalistic like an SMS by removing formatting / forward button is not user friendly. Another example is the pop in compose button. I like to see other emails before I compose - naturally, you would think i would love the new pop in since I can see emails as I compose. However, I am used to having one tab open for composing and another for reading emails.

Out of curiosity:
How do you determine whether a redesign is successful or not? Are there particular metrics you pay attention to?
Over it's 200+ year history the US has killed more civilians than that in the average week. Does that make us 4x as bad as Islamic terrorists?
Interesting, although I wonder if "death by dehydration" would be the correct labeling of those cases.

Like if you are being stabbed through the heart, technically you die of heart failure.
Can you possibly share a little of the stat (impressions maybe) that generates the $1k+ ?
I'm with you - I thought this was actually a new enhancement and was pretty happy with it.
Agreed. This is a management problem. It is astonishing that here on HN someone could be castigated for spending more time thinking than typing.
Odd, I actually tried to open the link and it redirected me to the homepage of the Amazon MP3 Store, so I assumed the song had been taken offline. Sorry.
Islamic terrorists sent mail bombs to a bunch of scientists, bombed the Olympics in Atlanta, and destroyed that federal building in Oklahoma City, too, right?
> I'm also pretty sure that there aren't many regulations on flight numbers.

And generally there are so many flights airborne in UK airspace that the published flight number isn't the one given to ATC.

For example, EZY26FR currently overhead my location is published in the timetables as EZY602, but that number can be easily misheard, misquoted or subject to namespace collision on the radio so the airlines are encouraged to use alpha-num callsigns instead.

It really annoys me as someone who likes consistency. Why not just publish the actual callsign in the timetable instead of maintaining two systems and cross-referencing between them?
That's clearly true. But if you are like me and tend to have dozens of tabs open, the favicon change makes scanning for Gmail a lot harder which is annoying. That it is also ugly is adding insult to injury.
Android is Linux, but very clearly not "traditional Linux".

"Traditional Linux" suggests to me the traditional distributions like Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE, Debian, etc.

It'll be interesting to see how much SteamOS will look like a traditional Linux. Considering the many Linux offerings on Steam, I suspect they'd like to have executable compatibility on that level, which Android probably doesn't have. But will it be as wide open as a traditional Linux? I suspect not.