skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there a git tool which syncs remotes? I could set up a second remote for the times github is down, but how do i share it with my team members? Does everybody need to add it manually? That could become tedious with larger teams or more remotes.

Plus: There are a bunch of decentralized issue trackers, can any of them sync with github? Is that possible with their api?
And even if you don't want to use a dedicate git hosting service, good site hosting platforms (Webfaction) make it incredibly easy to install a git server.
Perhaps. Fraud tends to require an extensive discovery process to establish the facts, but small claims court is optimized for cases where the facts are agreed upon but the application of law is in dispute.
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Seeing how many people (ab)use github as a free file/web hosting service for various crap, it is strange we don't see such attacks more often.
Don't do this. If it's a clean print-out it's trivial to OCR at a five nines accuracy rate.
i do not want to change my facebook pass every time i want to get some work..there needs to be a better solution for breaking from facebook
> you can't really say anything sensible about it

See #4 of the 12 timeless networking truths:

(4) Some things in life can never be fully appreciated nor
understood unless experienced firsthand. Some things in
networking can never be fully understood by someone who neither
builds commercial networking equipment nor runs an operational
network.

-- http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/10/2/rfc-1925-the-twelv...
Very little server know-how, to be exact. All you need is an ssh account with each team members key added to `.ssh`
I don't think either of those two links refute the idea that "delayed gratification when measured in children, is correlated with all sorts of positive things".

From The Daily Beast article: "Eigsti does not feel her data disproves Mischel—he was actually a co-author on her paper, and she thinks her work is consistent."

The Priconomics article says: "The original marshmallow experiment concluded that the children's ability to wait for a second treat indicated an innate ability to exhibit self control". But nothing I've read indicates that Mischel believed the ability to delay gratification was innate. In fact, most of his previous research indicated that such an ability was strongly influenced by environmental factors.
"At approximately 1:30p.m. eDT on August 2, 2013, Mr. Levison gave the FBI a printout of what he represented to be the encryption keys needed to operate the penregister. This printout, in what appears to be 4-point type, consists of 11 pages of largely illegible characters.

Moreover, each of the five encryption keys contains 512 individual characters - or a total of 2560 characters. To make use of these keys, the FBI would have to manually input all 2560 characters, and one incorrect keystroke in this laborious process would render the FBI collection system incapable of collecting decrypted data."
FBI shuts alleged online drug marketplace, Silk Road
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> Plus: There are a bunch of decentralized issue trackers, can any of them sync with github? Is that possible with their api?

Last time I looked, their issues are not stored in git itself. This is something that has kept me from using their issue tracker for my projects as it encourages lockin.
Absolutely agree. All I'm trying to say is that I find the lack of transparency about the real 'goal' for rally.org and real total (which now we have transparency about) doesn't make me feel great about donating.
Ask HN: Applying to YC as foreigners. Visa advice
If you apply to YC as a foreigner and get accepted what are the best ways to handle Visa. What kind of Visa do you need to stay for at least 3 months (YC duration).
Civil disobedience can be a wonderful thing. If the Civil Rights movement followed every judge's instruction they would not have achieved what they did.
I'd seen the paypal links, I just assumed that it would be a drop in the bucket compared to what is visible at rally.org, not 2 times what you see there.

Perhaps I'm just nitpicking. I agree the cause is worth supporting.
To clarify: I have no problem donating to fight for civil rights in the US. I know they affect me and there is not much else I can do as a European to change US policy.
I do have a problem though with framing the debate as "privacy for the American people", that may be a good cause, but it is a domestic cause. I'd much prefer if this were framed as a global one. (And I'm sure Lavabit had international customers.)
oh come on. when it's not confirmed we have threads with people saying "but there's no evidence, you're only assuming".

then when it is confirmed we have "but we already knew this".

neither adds anything. but people seem to vote up world-weary comments. yay for internet points.
"There is a serious risk you will say what your interrogator wants to hear rather than the truth."

This statement seems entirely plausible to me, but it was in no way implied by the evidence provided. I hate terrible experiments!
There is no split in the community. You (and I) are perfectly free to use Wayland or Mir, or neither, or both. They can "steal" ideas from each other. The same developer can work on both at the same time.

Competing projects are a good thing. Forks are a good thing.
So where is it written that rally.org is supposed to publish the totals of funds collected via other channels? Based on what actually have you expected that?
some people can always find an excuse not to help.
Yep, I need to fix that! Did you check out the twistvolt? What do you think?
My side project is a Course Scheduling application (http://sourceforge.net/projects/coursescheduler/ & https://github.com/CourseScheduler/coursescheduler) that allows students to retrieve course information from their university and then build a schedule of classes based off of that information. It currently only works for Kettering University (Flint, MI), but I'm currently working on abstracting the application to work for other universities.
> To make use of these keys, the FBI would have to manually input all 2560 characters

They would probably have to OCR the thing.
Presumably they could quite easily OCR it.
Fibs don't like competition...
Without knowing the specific problems they experienced, this is all speculation.
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Silk Road Is Dead, But The Dark Web Lives On.
I'm just pointing out that it's not a surprise to anyone who has been following his comments surrounding the issue.
McAfee building a $100 NSA blocking gadget
No one remembers cars exploding just like the movies because cars don't explode just like the movies.
He should have delivered the digital versions in punchcards.
and i'm just pointing out that you're being tedious.
> Presumably in a loser-pays system you would be required to post a bond to sue if there was some question of your ability/willingness to pay.

Ah, so would the policy will be that those too poor to post a bond would not be allowed access to the courts?
You will be surprised how many hours can be logged by lawyers. They live and breath billing hours.
If you do invite somebody to join then vest the shares to them over 4 years. This minimizes issues of trust or things not working out.
Why capitalize git?
It isn't. I think based on the giant bar saying X out of Y pledged that it represented the largest chuck of what had been pledged.
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As a side note: Pretty ironic how he uses Facebook, a NSA partner company, to publish such a statement.
Make A Diff's home:

https://makeadiff.org
Should have given the next lot with 1 char per page in a huge font (so it's legible), but then "accidentally" drop it and change the order of pages.
My 2 cents....

I suggest that there is much more value in the experience, expertise, and networking than in the money. That being said, the money is necessary for some startups based on their (potential) business model or the circumstances of their founders.

Even if the money is not needed, it's a trivial amount for the YC folks to guarantee across the board for the access they get to the ground floor of some of the best startups.
Yea, this response is expected. You can see below I'm grappling with myself, am I just nitpicking as an excuse or do I have actual concerns. It can be hard to tell sometimes.
Upvoted for 1900s. That really makes me feel old.
>terrorism seems to have accelerated totalitarianism

How do you figure? I weakly dispute that totalitarianism is accelerating (there are some worrying trends at various stages of development in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, but accelerating is a strong word - we may just be more aware of power abuses because of the internet), but I strongly dispute that, if true, "terrorism" is the cause. There has always been terrorism. There will always be terrorism. Terrorism is merely the enemy du jour. The idea that terrorism represents a new and uniquely dangerous threat is pure propaganda. Indeed, when you look at some the shit that went down in the latter half of the 20th century, we are living in a comparatively terrorist-free time. Possibly governing politicians are more afraid of terrorism after 9/11 (not because of its lethality as such but because of the unpredictable political aftershocks), but equally (more likely?) they may be consciously aware of its utility at pushing through power grabs. Either way, it's not right to call it a cause.

Have a look at this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_in_the_United_States

It's rather interesting how much longer the 2000s section is - rather misleadingly, as each entry is 2-3 lines of text while the earlier entries are generally a single line. Also, there's a lot of fluff in the 2000s entries. Search for where the word "bomb" appears and you'll see what I mean. I wonder if this is the result of terrorism hype, or one of those instances of subtle Wiki bias we've all been hearing about?
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You should probably watch Gattaca - the answer to your question is pretty much the whole point of that film. Or if you don't want to watch, at least to read the first two paragraphs of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gattaca.
You would 100% accuracy though. One char difference would render the key useless.
Yeah. Really disappointing article, kind of just stops right when it gets interesting.
I wonder if MDMA has been studied as a "suggestibility drug" or "truth serum". From what I have read of the effects, it seems like it would be at least as effective, and fairly safe (maybe 250mg + 125mg 1hr later; spend the first period building rapport, and interrogate later).
So he did surrender the keys -- this makes his business shutdown move substantially less heroic that everyone thought.
is it possible to add 'mirror' remotes to git so every action takes place on two places in case one goes down?
Which, incidentally, is fair enough.
Depending on font he used, I believe for OCR some characters might be difficult:

o01|IO

And even one wrong character makes SSL key wrong.
Where are you coming from ?
lol... remember this?: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2012/aug/29/apple...
Being open to abuse and being something that is commercially viable and desirable are totally different things. Yes, you can do all manner of nefarious things with native web technologies — as I understand it, this was one of the reasons it took so long for a native JS fullscreen API to be implemented, as it would open the door to spoofing the operating system's interface chrome.

But where these technologies differ is that Flash was marketed as a one-size-fits-all solution, that allowed designers and developers to work inside of a single framework. The barrier to entry is also very low: you can achieve a lot (relatively speaking) without much technical expertise — certainly when compared to how much effort it might be to do things the right way with native tech.

I don't ever see this happening with the likes of asm.js or WebGL because they're much more narrow in focus, plus they require very different (and non-trivial) skillsets to those of designers. As soon as an endeavour like this requires multiple developers and designers, it no longer appeals to your common or garden ‘chuck it over the wall’ marketing agency; the only ones that can afford to invest in this are the ones using the tools appropriately (or at least, most of them will be).
Have you ever tried Eiffel? I've always found the approach taken by Eiffel as OOP done right (compared to C++). I wonder how Eiffel and Smalltalk compare together.
Two hours ago, they were down constantly, but now they seem to be up. Github seems to be getting increasingly reliable!

You can always pick an appropriate window of time, point to it, and say "See, there's a trend!". That doesn't make it so.

Github used to go down much more often than they do now - calling them 'increasing unreliable' really just shows that you have begun depending on it more heavily.
The US gov produced a document a while back about assassinating people - though for the life of my I can't find my copy so it's possible there wasn't anything novel enough in there to be worth keeping it. I believe they recommended causing someone to fall from a high place. I'd imagine by grasping their ankles and then tipping them over the edge; though the precise methodology for the tripping was redacted in the version I saw.
Well, with a 4pt font, accuracy would probably suffer greatly.
Even at 4 point font (as mentioned else where) ?
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yes, cloud foundry has been using warden for PaaS isolation between hosted apps for awhile. it was originally authored by redis and cloud foundry contributor pieter noorduis currently working for vmware [1]. the ongoing work has been continued by the cloud foundry team at pivotal.

warden has a c server core [2] wrapping cgroups and other features currently on the lmctfy roadmap like network and file system isolation [3]. the current file system isolation uses either aufs or overlayfs depending on the distro/linux version you are using [4]. the network uses namespaces and additional features.

warden also has early/experimental support for centos in addition to ubuntu, although some of the capabilities are degraded. for example, disk isolation uses a less efficient, but still workable copy file system approach.

the client orchestration of warden is currently written in ruby, but there was also a branch started to move that to go [5] that has not been hardened and moved into master.

recently cloudfoundry started using bosh-lite [2] leveraging warden to do full dev environments using linux containers instead of separate linux hosts on many virtual machines from an IaaS provider, which has dramatically reduced the resources and time required to create, develop and use the full system.

[1] https://twitter.com/pnoordhuis
[2] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/tree/master/warden/sr...
[3] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/blob/master/warden/RE...
[4] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/blob/master/warden/RE...
[5] https://github.com/cloudfoundry/warden/tree/go
Too kind. Baudot punchtape, screwed up into a ball and tied in knots.

Perfectly compliant.
I'd be careful if I were you. Cryptography and cryptographers are an odd bunch. "Never" literally means never, while in your comment "never" means not in our life times, or a thousand, or billions of years. In case of infinite time, 512-bit RNG'ed numbers have to repeat at some point in time.

You may consider this pedantism, but it's this pedantism and conservativeness that calls AES broken today.
No personal experience but someone blogged (in German, unfortunately) recently about a bug in 23andMe's analysis algorithm that resulted in him being told that he was terminally ill. He spent a lot of time learning everything about the purported gene malfunction, found the bug in 23andMe's assumptions and got it fixed upstream.
Certainly not a nice experience.

[1] http://www.ctrl-verlust.net/23andme-wie-ich-fur-todkrank-erk...
What are interns for ?

Or are they "non-essential" employees ?
There's plenty of examples of governments forced to comply with open data/FOIA doing precisely this. You can definitely hack the legal system, you just need to understand it fully and properly first, which tends to be where people, particularly hackers with high opinions of their own abilities fall down.
Yes, and while we are at it, let's compare the effects of pharmaceutical methamphetamine and pharmaceutical opiates. The unregulated production process surrounding black market drugs causes quite a lot of damage, and that damage could be eliminated by legalization and regulation.
Hey _mulder_

I have an account - for me it was worth it. It confirmed some "suspicions" I had about some of my families genetic predisposition.

It can show inherited conditions, and what genes you have (maybe 1 of the 4 markers for a condition).

They do show % certainty, and then they also show your chance of certain health risks vs the national average.

I'd be happy to explain more - I'll admit I haven't looked into all the results (or try to understand them), but I was happy with the $99 cost.
shoulda put it on floppy disks, or minidisks
Should have printed it out as images via ReCaptcha
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Hacking your brain with e-cigarettes, part 1: gear field report
+1 for you, sir. I was indeed disturbed by the link coming from facebook.
I've done something like this before with github/bitbucket and it worked as expected. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/849308/pull-push-from-mul...
I read this excellent answer on Quora by Harjeet Tagar on whether or not YC would fund a startup that competes with one of its portfolio companies: https://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/Is-it-worth-applying-to-Y...

Curious if people here would still apply if they knew a competitor was accepted in a previous batch.
Thanks https://github.com/raganwald/javascript-allonge/issues/19
This Is How Star Trek Into Darkness Should Have Ended
reminds me of the company that promised, "Never to share your email with anyone. Ever."

Well, as it turns out there is not even a need to go bankrupt in order to share all your emails with impunity.
The github issue tracker and wiki is not distributed as far as I know, though.
It was ordered by a judge. What do you suggest he would do otherwise?
There's OCR systems which work on the basis of internal font consistency. They break the page into a series of single character images, and because the same character repeated is close to identical it's trivial to match them up, so you can easily build a map of characters.

You then just need a human to label each character once. With a pixel image comparison 0 looks completely different from o.

If they're using a standard font then a regular OCR (you'd only need four nines accuracy to get it 100% correct) would be fine, even with a weird font it still be easy to get that level of accuracy.
To quote Ian Wright (co-founder of Tesla) "There have been five laptop fires so far, and it's front-page news. There are 750 gas-car fires each day, but that's not news."

Here's a picture of a SUV on the top of a Tesla Roadster, and it didn't begin to burn

http://www.flickr.com/photos/16822508@N05/3995784846/sizes/l...
Accidents with new technology are reported disproportionately to accident with old technology. Probably a good opportunity for contrarian investors (although they may be a little burned from the 400% stock price increase this year...)
Ex-Amazon Engineer Builds Library for World's Software Code
As funny as that might be, there is such a thing as contempt of court which I guess he'd find less so.
I think it is reasonable to assume that the observable universe is an "emergent property" of some fairly simple and straightforward "rules". But therein lies a great difficulty - even if/when we get to the rules they will be very difficult to relate to the physics we observe.

The fact that the underlying "rules" might be simple and thus might be conceived of as some sort of program hardly leads one to the conclusion that reality is a computer simulation.
Yeah, as interesting as all these new Docker fads are, it's not ideal when you can't update your containers.
What exactly did they patent? Surely calculating the odds of inherited traits was not invented by 23andMe?
2560 characters isn't that many. You'd have to proofread the OCR'd version anyway, I'd say it'd be easier to just type it in.
ah, ok. so, you're right, but not as right as th eoriginal issue being discussed :o) i can explain if you're interested...

what i think you're saying is that they would hide the original negative study and publish a subsequent (new, separate, on different people) positive study.

[aside - that's not a perfect description because for one particular group the first study was positive; it's just that the group in question wasn't explicitly targetted].

and, in general, that's considered a bad thing. because (1) you can keep repeating studies until you get a positive, and then publish and (2) because the negatives aren't published, people have incomplete information.

but it's not a terribly bad thing, because if something isn't true then, if you repeat a study, it's likely going to show it isn't true. the standards are set high enough that you'd need to do hundreds of studies before you showed something to be true (when it really isn't).

and because hundreds of studies are expensive, it's unlikely to happen (but then you think of the industry as a whole, and it is doing hundreds, and so some of those are likely wrong...).

in contrast, what this guy was prosecuted for was hunting in the data. you can think of that like doing a new study, but without the cost. it's pretty easy to dream up hundreds of different questions you can ask existing data. and just by luck you're going to find the occasional surprising answer.

so hunting through data is like doing hundreds of studies until you find something, but it's cheap! and that's why it's "worse" than simply hiding negative results and repeating studies. because it's much more likely to happen in practice.
Chinese boy 'gives birth' to twin brother
Is the 20% failure that rate that YC attributes directly to fights between cofounders actually much higher than it should be? Is this simply because YC is forcing people to match up to cross the eligibility threshold?

I'm not sure they even have the information needed to determine this, given the massive incentive they've given people to misrepresent the closeness among their team members.
Ok I read it quickly, but it seems like the fire was in the Frunk and the batteries are under the cabin. That makes it seem like it's just a normal electrical fire - probably from something getting shorted after he drove over 'metal debris' - and not anything specific to the batteries. If that's correct this is unfortunate for Tesla as even gasoline cars (and certainly hybrids) can have an electrical fire after hitting something.

Either way it was bound to happen eventually.
'Pitch Me' is a brilliant example of innovation in the publishing field!
Chrome for iOS Has Serious Privacy Flaw in Incognito Mode [video]
Searches are leaked across from incognito mode to the normal browser. This is especially bad given that Chrome has a unified search bar.
Radioactive Wastewater From Fracking Found in Pennsylvania Stream
French lawmakers vote to curb Amazon free deliveries