skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All the coverage of the government shutdown issue seems to ignore the fact that the ease of obstructionism in the US system was by design. There are valid arguments about the wisdom of that design, as well as that design's utility in the modern world, but it's sad that most of the coverage I have seen doesn't even address this.

This article, in particular, doesn't address the point of view that actively limiting the government might be a net positive (although his cabbie might bring it up if the answer to his question about lawmakers knowing what they are doing is "No.)
While I completely agree that this problem is the responsibility of the government you have to understand the frustration of the people whose houses are being broken in to on a regular basis. Ok, not the same house (usually), but the same neighborhoods over and over and over, week after week.

My neighborhood is considering hiring private security. The initial estimate is $15 a household per month given N neighbors sign up. I forget what N is, but it wasn't that many. So yes, it would be a real monetary sacrifice to a lot of the residents around me, but the alternative, given that the police can't really help right now, is to be at a very high risk of being burglarized with basically no chance of the perpetrators being caught.

Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands. I think oakland is making strides to hire and train more officers, but that's going to take a few years to get back to the 2010 level and we probably need more officers than we had then. Until then...what do we do? Keep getting robbed/burgled?
There was no malice I assure you. AFAICT my edit was entirely in line with what he said, as for example "as Jesus Christ taught it" already means "free of all subsequent additions" that part (for example) is just emphasis.

I read the quote as applying equally to either Judaism or Christianity but I can see how it can be intended to include both sets of teaching taken together. The only point of the quote was to show that he wasn't "simply an agnostic" in the same way that Russell was "simply an agnostic". That's it.

Can you demonstrate to me what malice I performed? Perhaps your massive axe got in the way while you were grinding it and you misread my comment.

Now you're paragraph beginning "Completely different context" absolutely does put words in to Einstein's mouth beyond that shown in the quote. Presumably you have an additional source you didn't mention that enlarges on the point made in that minute quote? A corollary of what you state is that none of the Gospels nor Epistles represent Christianity - how then did Einstein know what Jesus taught. Your interpretation makes the quote in question nonsensical.

I await your source with interest.
I nabbed Hype 2 off the mac app store only a few weeks ago or so. I haven't had much time behind it but it seems promising. I'll have to compare the two utilities....
The going rate for an email address
I used to get terrible dreams at night for a while, and it significantly hindered my productivity and energy during the day because I was not getting good sleep at night. For me, I needed more aerobic exercise during the week and I now take a melatonin most nights, about 30 minutes before I want to fall asleep.

As far as dealing with you pains as they kick in, try listening to a meditative podcast. I get migraines sometimes, and over-the-counter pain meds can't really help. This one meditation podcast I listen to helps me focus past the feelings of pain I'm experience at that moment and get some sleep. Here's a good, iTunes downloadable resource: http://www.meditationoasis.com/

However, I'm a firm believer that everybody's body is different. What worked for me might not work for you. It's really important that you talk to a doctor you trust, and you should experiment with a few of their suggestions. If this counselor you are seeing doesn't make you feel like he understands and wants to help you, then find someone who does. Even if they are giving the right advice, clearly you don't feel comfortable with them or how they are communicating with you. Don't feel like you don't have options, and don't spend any more time suffering than you have to.

Hope this helps; best of luck!
Bait bikes seem like the solution to bike theft.
http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net/

"Brain Workshop is a free open-source version of the dual n-back brain training exercise."
You may enjoy using http://typeto.me/ (when it's behaving, which it doesn't seem to be right now)
I don't think you need an app for this at all.

What I've started doing is just printing a calendar and writing down whatever I've accomplished that day - sort of a reverse to-do list.

Looking at whatever I did yesterday reminds me of how I felt after finishing those tasks, and looking at blank spots does make me feel guilty (but not quite as overwhelmed as looking at a long to-do list).
the most difficult task in the whole world.
and they have to be excited... but where I live, nobody gives a sh.t what NSA does with all the private data.
You are right. I see a lot of companies that do well with the support model though. What's their business model with this as it is today anyway?
Reminds me of "It's Toasted" on Mad Men (based on a real campaign) https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=E0...
Hat tip. A good read.
We can never completely escape the echos of the past.
Good 3d visualization is tricky, this is a good example of a 3d fail.
The 3d here adds more trouble than goods. It makes it harder to see the whole set of data and it is also harder to compare.
> but valuable NSA-type traffic is text and voice...I doubt they care 'bout youtube and netflix streaming traffic.

You don't think they monitor YouTube for terrorist video?

You don't think they monitor other video sharing sites for video of terrorist organisations releasing propaganda? That seems like useful intelligence, and they'd be foolish to ignore it.
Does the shutdown mean the government won't be able to print money and give it to banks?

Does it mean US troops will be withdrawn from foreign lands?

Will flights grind to a halt as no one can pass through TSA?

Will America be surveillance free as the NSA shuts down?

Or is the extent of the shutdown that tours of the whitehouse won't be given?
Ex-Microsoft privacy adviser: I don't trust company after NSA revelations
Especially since he (presumably) didn't actually die in a sharknado.
Cheers to Orbital Sciences, Cheers to SpaceX
This reminds me the slow but steady grow of Chrome a few years ago over IE. I don't think MS would dominate those markets but it is healthy to have a firm third alternative.
Pathway to the Global Brain (part 4/5)
Efficient Load Balancing and SSL Termination for WebSockets and Node.js
Of course, my point was that he is not different from those in Oakland perpetrating these crimes in kind, but only a matter of degrees; there is a point where he too would commit unethical acts if he became desperate enough.

And that is the ultimate point here, we are all capable of committing crimes if we became desperate enough. This is a property of humanity, not just of a group of morally depraved oaklanders. Thus it makes sense to address the issue in a systemic fashion, i.e. jobs and opportunity.
If, in fact, the government was framing him as a form of retaliation, then of course it would look bad from the outside: if it didn't, they'd find some other, more-effective way to retaliate.

Also, the WSJ article provides some other insight into his personality. It sounds like he treats convicted drug offenders like actual human beings or something. :)
THis takes care of half of the problem - seeing the ads.

It does not, unfortunately, prevent the ads from seeing you. (Very nearly literally these days.)
Not sure if you're still interested in the project. But there's an update:

1. Export was implemented. You get a nice ZIP archive with all your .md documents.

2. Regarding preview/drafts — there's one draft which is saved locally on the user machine. You start writing and it's saved automatically.

3. There's a new modern design and profile activity.
Years ago, when Facebook was new and Orkut was taking its first steps, I decided to, once more, look up a good friend of my early computing career.

He was one of my first BBS-friends, helped me set-up my first PC compatible, lent me an external hard-drive and taught me a lot about programming. By the time I finally found him, I realized he died six months before.

We take our friends for granted. They are not.
San Mateo is sort of ok, for the Bay Area. You need "heightened good cause", but the standard isn't absurdly high.
I don't consider running a "Nessus scan" such a huge misdeed. Expelled for running a nessus scan? No, way.
I'm really happy someone else feels the same way about "beautiful". It's lost all meaning in this space, it might as well be "EXTREME" or some other marketing bullshit term.
Petapixel is all blogspam, they appropriate a lot from their sources, including rehosting photographs they don't have the rights to. The amount of content they take from their sources seems to go well beyond the typical "quote and link" blog format.
A MITM would relay your chats, MITM isn't impersonation.
Keep up the good work! From first glance your product seems to have superior functionality and usability. So I'd gladly pay for ease of use alone.
Because (a) it sucks to be sending messages to an old friend online, wondering why he won't respond and not knowing that he's dead; (b) it sucks to get birthday messages and "reconnect" notices and spam from someone that you know is dead. Just like the article said and all the other comments mentioned, y'know?
1 Second Everyday
I'm sure that people who knew him (either personally or by enjoying his acting work) remember him differently. People who just followed him on Twitter, meh.
And yet, where would we be without it? And it's not entirely passive. I hate Facebook in many ways but am thankful I get to see pics of my friend's babies and share sports news with friends I just dont have time to talk on the phone with often.
If you can make it to DC on October 26th (anniversary of the Patriot Act), join the ACLU, EFF and 100+ other groups at the Rally Against Mass Surveillance:
https://rally.stopwatching.us

If you can't make it, help us raise money for buses and transportation to bring as many people to the rally as possible:
http://igg.me/at/stopwatchingus
As a consumer product, BitLock is targeting a niche market (like any other keyless locks). It is way more convenient than a regular lock. You don't have to carry a key with you plus the interaction is seamless. Also we never have to deal with lost bike keys. However an important side application for this lock is bike sharing. For example, You can setup a bike share system among your friends on college campus. This you can't do with regular locks.
The assertions in the article are not "speculative horseshit". In 2011, Netflix+Youtube+BitTorrent alone were over 50% of internet traffic [1], and all three have likely grown since then. The NSA has no interest in the vast majority of this traffic.

The exact numbers are speculative because nobody has data accurate enough to determine them with any real certainty, but the point is that the NSA is misleading the public about the extent of its surveilance by orders of magnitude.

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/17/netflix-largest-internet-tr...
I think this has something to do with the word "cheap" being placed in front of "plastic" so often that it stopped modifying "plastic" and just became part of it. When that happens, you need a pretty strong adjective to reset the connotation. "Unapologetically" seems to fit the bill.

It works with buns, too. "Go grab some hamburger buns" sounds Forth of July Rainbo Bread to me. "Pick up some artisan buns" resets that.

Well, that's how it works in my mind at least; your mind may vary.
Encryption isn't hashing. The same block would encrypt to a very large number of ciphertexts.
can't an observer possibly encrypt many possible and likely short messages (like, "hey!" or "lol") with the public keys of some users of value and sniff the network for matches?

no. the same message does "never" encrypt to the same cypher:

$ echo lol | gpg -e -r F8669BB7 --armor
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)

hQEMA2gTLr1USDZGAQf/YbbnzHvNfdqbs6hmdmIaaiZOSfW9P6Bc8tdF4MG/JbP+
RTxbLpi4W+vXs+WrD9jdik8KuDdZV54O1mb6Ido3xrYeEPBo0Vje2eVpgUy01VUa
2RM76NvsX1VN9rap6KvHuO/h7IFwDuAtvUUcDyFH+qK2UEHordFi+mWKqICocQt0
WWgpCk5BVgM/1q2c2ruWxVuZs/IMh9LQGZ1i7hpkJHAYqovhghROmGarUuJYXGDi
s6rSMpjxbXDhPMYbbhbBI4pRhgKtN2FMlKyI3XoH+LCFHsOyBmazroVYWFu+gafH
6LU2Z65OQyJWqX5CLdwab4qpUQdht6lqkUHRJB9xdtI/AfTFF7BbRP8PR+q9GVAe
r4I812VmBn3hwBHJzNiFDEGVkt/IDpd6M/X2Vi0xJx0LUaICL+swPVudenPuvlnt
=zeUd
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----

$ echo lol | gpg -e -r F8669BB7 --armor
-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux)

hQEMA2gTLr1USDZGAQgAo4ZEHGWKSgwVmbC7crACvTXVtlgP4n8J/3oSohct9zrM
SqPd4L5TWsjOh+2LlG7WQbPnpn4Tcv9c4RyPNb+1C/fWRmGhV+a3QhuC+rrus5c6
/FPwsHTjO30N0AnCMzoXAaqDRRGw859BKazEZyxIHherU+o7wNRKrW6U1ikRd/Pu
BwHChUZHBRmZhomrtYPbQ5cNAJQtPMj94Z8OuZeCEzPNBr3opevoMs2j+9ysOtkF
7Cam3jTKLM3GwHSm4c7WzhdJJsXbnOn8ODYRBf++4oJChPIqeT2EssigAQuuhHlk
pDhM40zB7hAd6MJM52cZpM3UqTe/iI4vHSrQ+pw/otI/AWY6s4aIlF5AAzoM0wAR
FzobJ5Vbp7fBgA1SiOhEhSAdT/U2yy2jQcQN53yyX9Vqtunh3dNmCGaNNavszK8+
=YDLc
-----END PGP MESSAGE-----
$
For immediate release: TinyTorch launches private beta
Interesting. For setting up a "random" trigger you could:

- You could use the RSS trigger and pick a feed which is relatively random. E.g. Reddit front page post matching "cats".

- You could use the NY Times trigger to search for a common news term e.g. "obama"

- You could use soundcloud to trigger on "new public track by someone you follow"

- If you wanted to go crazy, you could get a wemo motion and point it out your window
V8 makes JS error logging very simple, as we see in Node.js. I've also implemented remote JS error logging for Titanium Mobile on Android (also V8) using TestFlight. JavaScriptCore has similar error handling, but only in the past year [1].

As with most past frontend JS issues, browser fragmentation is the cause. Luckily for JS, standards move much quicker these days. With the plethora of mobile and server logging SaaS companies popping up, the browser won't get left far behind.

However, as I've found with mobile, implementing even a half-working service with currently available technology is far better than debugging otherwise.

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40118
I have the same experience as you and the author. Chrome extensions with timers such as StayFocusd have not worked for me. I just disable it or use firefox or something.

What if the user had to enter a predetermined answer to the question prompt in order to continue? By making the user actually type something that they themselves chose the prompt becomes more powerful.
Vince Gilligan proved television isn’t dead
The point of the original experiment was to have the charges be near-zero but tiered with respect to the other items available. It could easily be adapted to another country and currency. And it wasn't a buy as many as you want thing, it was a one-time-only deal offered in the checkout line. So, it's not about multiplying zero. It's about a single instance. Free breaks the logic of most people.
Such a humbling post. There's not many people giving this advice: "So you want to create an app that helps a customer? Why not work for that customer at minimum wage first?"
Really scared of this one ... http://xkcd.com/686/
Seems like a complaint anyone could make about any job given theoretical vs. practical.
Social consciousness is simply being aware of the problems that people face. It doesn't mean you're "making a difference" at all. Most people in cybersecurity don't, because most of the jobs are focused on improving a public or private entity's bottom line, not helping people with their day to day struggles.

Want a socially conscious job that helps people? Don't pick a career where you track down holes in the dyke and report back their location to your corporate or government master. Pick a career where you build a better dyke (and don't hold people for ransom to use it)

Aside: i'd love to see these blatant advertisements-as-news-articles banished from the front page for good.
This is completely unsupported intuition, but I won't be surprised if programming especially benefits from working memory more than other aspects of intelligence. That is, it seems possible improved working memory improves programming, without improving grades or exam scores.
Nothing happens until you interact with the lock. So it won't automatically lock and unlock. You have to press a button on the lock to lock/unlock.
I still haven't seen one windows phone, only windows tablet.
Do you have a minimum amount of time you promise to yourself to spend gazing at ads in print publications too, to give the publishers what you owe them as a consumer?
The common advice I've always gotten is that it should be two. Many incubators/accelerators won't take solo entrepreneurs, and get suspicious if there is more than two. Personally though, as long as the necessary skill areas are covered I don't think it should matter.
In the context of phones in particular, Apple had a lot to do with "plastic" being conflated with "cheap" when they launched glass-back phones.
A wise user judges each Internet usage scenario carefully
One month on the UP: Learnings from the Jawbone fitness band
I've seen this happen before as well. I wonder if it would help to have a mechanism that basically removes the user's ability to log in but preserves their data.
Can we have an automatic code formatting tool for Python?
like unix "indent" (for C code) or like gofmt for golang ?

oh... never mind ;0

seriously though, this is one of the main reasons I dislike Python ... I find it difficult to quickly visually parse code blocks based on just spacing
Graph Search Now Includes Posts and Status Updates
YC Company Creative Market Helps with Colorado Flood Relief
Microsoft needs to cut the crap and really streamline the process for developers. If its developer onramp were as easy and painless as, say, Android's, the floodgates would be wide open because it could use the installed base of Windows developers and the superiority of Visual Studio as a dev environment to its advantage. If it does that it has a chance at second place. But as of now it won't climb past a distant third.
I've had phones that were apologetically plastic. They had a metallic finish that wore off to reveal the bone-colored ABS underneath.

"Unapologetic" here corresponds to the notion that materials shouldn't imitate other materials, a practice that gained steam during the industrial revolution and irked the Modernists something awful.
I was also thinking much older. Growing up I would often hear something like "this is just a cheap plastic toy, it's not a real <whatever>".
Constant stream of money coming in with the occasional large chunk of money going out? Your description applies to almost every business on the planet.
> that 99 out of 100 times you are told - explicitly or by work schedule "do not do it in an interesting, performant or elegant way, just get it working somehow and move on"

Sure, we're in businesses (well, most of us), and there's little room for gilding the lilly or perfectionists who can't deliver.

That said, I've always found that elegant code is easier to maintain, thus reducing technical debt. If your employer doesn't want to reduce technical debt, you're either working for a start-up that's in a mad rush to 1.0, or you're working for someone who doesn't understand or care about the interest you pay on technical debt, and it may be time to move on.
I really don't see that happening on a campus. If I'm going to setup a bike share, I'm not going to leave the bikes outside locked in a public place.

Second, keys are pretty fucking convenient. What exactly is the downside of keys?

Finally, you should disclose that this is your project when commenting on it.
Programming got me and my family out of poverty.
This is such a shortsighted and cruel thing to say.
Well I only eat Artisan Tostitos because I like to support small businesses like FritoLay.
I'd say half of my "non-technical" friends have old crappy androids (and generally dislike them) and the rest have iPhones or windows phones (and like them). Apart from one hold-out on a Nokia feature phone.

I've not asked but I wonder if early android has put people off going with modern android when upgrade time comes around.
Apparently people voicing their concerns through representatives is an act of rebellion. The media sure can't get enough of this story. With inflated language, talking about collapse, teetering on the edge, rebellion, etc. This is government in action. They don't always agree and that's called democracy. I don't get all doomsday-prune-canner just because non-essential workers are gonna stay home for a few days.
> I don't think I ever caught myself writing code for my employer and thinking "hey, I really enjoy this"

Poor guy. I write stuff I enjoy for my employer all the time.
Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll
Still a far greater improvement to knowing the content of your conversations! If your design removes performance in exchange for removing metadata, and nobody uses it, it might as well not exist then.
No we are not use a one time password. The key changes every time interact with the lock to stop man-in-the-middle attacks. We use AES-128 encryption that is the access control industry standard (and we think it is enough).

As a side note, I have PhD in embedded system security, although most of these things are crypto 101.
This was also true a decade ago. The fact is OpenOffice and Libreoffice in 2013 still suck compared to Excel. By most standards they even suck compared to Excel 2003. I'm not even sure they are closing the gap at all. And the outlook isn't very good because Google pays top people top dollar and Docs/Sheets/Drive has the exact same problem.
that would be great, good luck
My site went down back in May(?) when TextDrive mishandled what was apparently the final switchover from Joyent. I thought I was going to get it back up quickly, but I've left it down, realizing that while occasionally my site came in handy when I wanted to look something up, overall it was work. Also, my blog had been up for nearly 15 years and I felt I didn't need to keep a permanent record for the world of everything I've ever written. I've come to embrace the temporariness of things.
Rich, Black, Flunking (2003)
I'm familiar with this feeling.

It was around Christmas 2009, back in my middle-of-nowhere hometown. We got the old high school posse back together for the first time in 7 or 8 years. Everyone was doing pretty well on their own terms, from my one friend running his repair shop, to my other friend finishing up at an elite law school, to my own international adventures.

All of us, except one.

Despite getting an MBA, this dude was totally stuck in a rut, unemployed and somehow marooned back in our shitty hometown. I already had plans to return later in January and told him I'd give him a call. By the middle of January, he was gone.

I've always wondered if my failure to set up plans to meet with him contributed to his depression and ultimate demise—if there's anything I could've noticed or done to stop it. Probably not, because he had lots of other problems. But I think the thought is always going to follow me.
BitTorrent was never designed with downloader privacy in mind (and not just because of the trackers, the DHT, PEX and the core protocol are all leaky as hell). Just because something is decentralised, it doesn't follow that privacy is somehow intrinsic.

Why do we have any reason to trust BitTorrent, Inc. over any other organisation? At best all these self-centered attempts are going to fragment the messaging market and make make even more unlikely we'll see an open, federated chat protocol reach popular use.