skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Its advantage". You (not ig1) can get away with this if you're a typical HN reader but ignoring the rules of grammar is not advised for those alluded to in the article. Mistakes like that are likely to merely compound your problems.

Sadly the rather smart folk who evidently inhabit these columns (and are meticulous when instructing their computers) sometimes don't set good examples for you. They really should, should they not?
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I know he's in favor of it now, but was it something he was thinking of when he designed these protocols?
GNU Make 4.0 Released
I don't agree with his point "SQRL:// is a bad idea" because custom scheme is only for launching the SQRL app nothing else and the data that is passed through URL will be a random value
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I love Railo. And I love the CFML language, which is what it uses. Railo is free (as opposed to Adobe ColdFusion - the other CFML platform), open source, has a great community, and does everything I need. I'm a speed demon in it. And the pages load super fast.
I'm sorry, but what is this article doing on HN?
The baby->kid thing was unintentional, but I like it! :)
I can absolutely guarantee that this is not the case in France. Try comparing Île-de-France and similarly sized Limousin for example.

I spend a lot of time both in the EU and the US, and find the US remarkably culturally homogeneous compared to Europe. In a country the size of a continent, from coast to coast, you find the same dominant language, traditions, politics, religion, holidays, sports, restaurant chains and stores.

What is the case I imagine, is that one is trained from birth to differentiate the tiny differences within one's own culture and values those so highly, that they look like remarkable diversity, while one doesn't recognize the differences between strangers, and automatically doesn't value them very highly. Can you tell a significant difference between a Slovene and a Hungarian, for example?

This is how 'latin americans' seem like one uniform group, or even 'sub saharan africans' or 'asians', while objectively Amhara from Ethiopia, Hausa from Nigeria and San from South Africa differ far more from each other than say Americans, Italians and Danes differ from each other.
This stinks a little bit.

A web developer for 14 years? And you havent backed up your code in months?

I am not saying the story is false. I'm just saying that if your income depends on your code, back it up frequently.

Also, how do you know the startup is going to be profitable in the long run? Because the CEO who's getting you to work for him for free says so? What have you been doing for cash the past year?
Let's keep in mind that entrepreneurs are dreamers, delusional even. We take incredible risks and are willing to suffer to create something we can be proud of.

To wit: I once worked so obsessively on a project I forgot about making money for rent. That's right, my mind was in a constant deep flow state for weeks on end, and rent (among other things like exercise and socializing) slipped my mind.

I ended up losing my apartment and being forced to sleep in a friend's basement for a month.
Yes, I think it's OK.

The problem here is that Levison set up a Rube Goldberg machine. If the (in my opinion reasonable) law says you have to be able to provide access to anyone's data when you are given a warrant, you can't get out of that requirement by making your technology require you give everyone else's data, or kill a kitten, or any other requirement.

Edit: Changed 'levinson', UK report about the media, to 'levison', owner of lavabit.
"Social democracy" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_democracy) is a more correct term, though on Wikipedia there seems to be an even more specific article on the "Nordic model" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_model)

"Socialism" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism) isn't really applicable.
I am good at what I do...The laptop also has a lot of code that I didn't back up.

I wish you the best of luck but these two sentences aren't really compatible.

Other than advertising your yoga class what are you trying to get by posting here? These types of hard luck posts come up on reddit hundreds of times per day and are often exposed as scams to get donations.
I lived up there for a year and half, how are things going in the city? Still no people on the street after 8pm?

If you are a EU citizen, it is easy, just get one of those manual jobs with the temp agency. It's paid 10 EUR/hr, it is enough to live a comfortable life there and you only need to work 2 or 3 days per week.
Yes and I think most people researching alternative fusion methods would agree. The LPP guys certainly do.

It's arguably unfortunate that we picked tokamaks as the winner quite a while ago. LPP is trying to get scientists to sign a letter supporting a broad range of research, from other approaches to tokamaks (like the recently-cancelled Alcator C-Mod) to completely different devices. Several promising projects were cancelled in 2011, like MIT's levitated dipole, and non-tokamak approaches have struggled to get funding for decades.

http://www.lawrencevilleplasmaphysics.com/index.php?option=c...
If you are in the US, I would consider moving on to a small company or start-up where you can simultaneously have more impact and learn more. Security is not where you work, it's what you know.
I've often thought the smart thing to do these days is to have mostly everything open, except for the very tip of the pyramid, the crown jewels, which are the (relatively) small bits that make your offering unique.

Infrastructure should be open by default.
Why are sovereign states immune? Why are politicians immune?

Because they can be. Power is its own justification.
Because of its unusual legal status. The UN is not a state, but its not an NGO either. It has "international personality" and "is a subject of international law and capable of possessing international rights and duties" [1]. The only way to take legal action against it seems to be through the International Court of Justice, which is accessible only to states, not individuals. And this is problematic because the ICJ is itself a branch of the UN.

Edit: I don't fully agree that the UN is "immune to everything". There are problems with accountability, but I think it does a lot of good in the world.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations#Legal_basis_of_e...
I'm very sure you're right. But that's what I meant when I said that physical reality does not bend to our everyday intuitions. Physics doesn't care whether people think something should be prohibited from working. ;)

> If I get "duplicated" then there are 2 consciousnesses of me.

They're both based on you. There is nothing in principle preventing multiple instances of yourself from existing at the same time. Of course, as already said, those instances diverge over time in the same way that you're not the same person as today when you wake up tomorrow.

>They maybe an illusion, which gets created every moment in time, but it still feels like they exist.

Consciousness doesn't have to be an illusion. It's just the sensation of existing, of being alive, of processing information. It is in a very real sense the feeling of being yourself. There is no contradiction here with the ability to fork it.
The societal pressures involved here is why I now prefer having two daughters. Now I get to see lots of kids on a regular basis, being a girl seems to be easier these days than being a boy if you deviate from society's notions of gender norms.

My eldest daughter flip flops between playing with dolls to wearing a knight's costume and 'defending' her friend who's dressed as a prince. My daughters oten wear boys clothes and have "boys" toys but can also pull off hot pink, dresses, "girlie" shoes and all the rest. Could a 6 year old boy pull off wearing a pink Barbie top to school in the same way?

Intriguingly, there's not a single boy in my daughter's street dancing or gymnastics clubs and they're not gender limited or oriented. The odd one or two have turned up but never lasted more than a single session.. Nor are there any men at my daughter's nursery. Or likely to be at her first school. This is rather sad because it surely must lead to kids becoming even more convinced of gender norms and expectations.
> Actually free shipping, and cash on delivery are two things that helped Indian e-commerce scene gain some customers.

Exactly. they "helped". It's like you handout freebies when you launch a new product so that people can get a "taste" before they commit to buy the whole package. All these incentives are there to get people hooked on to buying online. There's nothing wrong with this approach.

You need to step out of that rock if you feel that Indians aren't buying online. Brick & Mortar mobile stores could be one of the earliest casualty of e-commerce.
4 weeks * 2-3 days * 8 h * 10€/h = 640-960€ is enough to live comfortably in Denmark? With rent and everything?
I find the idea of "urban sprawl" in Norway hilarious.... I'm from Oslo, but live in a London suburb that is larger than the "urban sprawl" around Oslo. Norwegians for the most part has no idea what proper congestion looks like.
I completely can understand that. We entrepreneurs have such an irrational and excessive belief in our own future prospects that we tend to discount the present, often to our own detriment. I know I've gone down this path before myself which is why I'm giving the advice I'm giving.

OP must take care of today, as unsexy as it is, for the long-term to be a possibility. It's a case of one career paying for the other until the second is all that's required.
But that's a blanket argument, it could apply to any organization that offers help. It is unclear to me why it would be in the interest of anyone but the UN for the UN to have immunity.
But like someone else already said; it doesn't solve the dumping of the brain and the feeling of self. Copy the brain onto a different substrate (I have no problem seeing that as a real possibility) but after you did that the two 'you's (one human, one something else) look at each other and only 1 is you. There is no magic 'soul' or whatever flying over during the transfer taking the self with it. The clone you won't believe it's you as he/she is aware of the procedure. And the original you will die as every human always did before.

Maybe someone has some good articles about this, but I have a feeling they mean to slowly (for the definition of slow applicable here) replace tissue in the brain so you gradually turn 'silicon' (or whatever it may be) and 'hope' that it mimics every cell close enough and slow enough so that you will remain you after the transition? In which there will never be 2 'you's in this process, however it will be possible to clone/backup your brain after the process? I'm concerned with the 'hope' of it being like this and it would be very optimistic to think we can reach this kind of understanding of the brain within 40 years imho.
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this is not argument - spl_autoload very fast its allow only one call to load module - all developers use spl_autoload

APC its legacy and crappy as opcache. I think its smell from Zend. They stop (in old time) because their close ware Zend Studio must sell. And other get pain from that legacy. Im sorry.

check here for start:
http://talks.php.net/show/w2e09
Agreed. Good music is 100% subjective, good apps are at least partially objective.
Even one jury member (Anders Barany) publicly stated his own doubts on the subject: http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=d...
Yes

Then what happens: no UN to save anything.
Flipkart is awesome but you can't say that they are incomparable. Innovation in e-commerce in India is happening in logistics. And everyone is vying for shipping as fast as possible and delivering on Sundays too.

Ultimately, Indian consumer is winning !
> It’s easy to find news of boys suspended and expelled for growing their hair

Huh? This one is not just scandalous to me, it's… alien.
This story is setting off some alarm bells for me so I'd be wary of forking over anything more than advice right now.
Cars are taxed based on price, engine size and environmental factors. The end result is that mid to high end gas cars with a big engine can easily cost 3 times as much in Norway as elsewhere, and some models are modified to be delivered with smaller engines in Norway to reduce the tax.
This case is similar to one where a doctor with hepatitis accidentally cuts himself while operating on a person to save his or her life. That person's life is saved, but now he has hepatitis. The doctor should not be held responsible for an accident and should be given credit for saving a life, but he should be responsible for reporting the accident and ensuring that the patient is tested so that he can be treated and doesn't spread the disease to others. Accidents happen, but if UN staff covered it up when they could have taken steps to control the spread of disease... Well, that's not good. Still, it should be individuals on trial here, not an international organization. I sincerely doubt it is official UN policy to spread cholera in disaster areas and then cover it up.
But it's not a false alarm. Smoke detectors detect smoke; toast burns; smoke detector triggers. That's a real alarm.

There are two solutions: 1) make it easier to temporarily dismiss the alarm. 2) read the instructions and place the device properly
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There is a difference between mistakes happening and then being culpably negligent. If the UN lied about having tested peacekeepers free of cholera, and they then went on to cause an outbreak, then it's not at all comparable to knocking over a vase while saving someones life.
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It is absolutely wrong, ignorant and probably fascist to include Belgium and the Netherlands in the same geographic subdivision. The line between Northern and Southern Europe is somewhere between Rotterdam and Antwerp. Belgium is on the northern outskirts of the Mediterranean region.
Yes, its confused.

Scrypt can be held up as a very good choice for key stretching.
This story interests me because I'm a Filipino
Any plans for mercurial integration?
Isn't any software with a goal of eliminating security holes essentially "specifically designed to disallow lawful intercepts of individuals"? Should all software providers be forced by law to implement backdoors so that the FBI can intercept its communications, just in case Snowden uses the software?
Stories like this seem to get worse as the years go by post 9/11.

If I could give one piece of advice to foreigners for the next 20 or 30 years as it relates to America: stay out, we are not free here, the walls - both digital and physical - are going up to control us. The police state is becoming more aggressive, violent, and omnipresent. Save yourselves, pursue freedom and happiness, you won't find such here any longer. There are better countries for that future.

I think this should be etched into the Statue of Liberty as a warning. Since it doesn't represent a beacon of liberty any longer, it might as well serve a purpose.
Yes, it seems being contacted by a lot of recruiters has really gone to this guys head.

This is incredibly unprofessional, a simple polite, "Im not currently looking" would be suffice.

The recruiter doesnt need his life story.
I don't think the memory waste is the problem in this case, a websocket is a long lived connection. If you mix it with regular requests and don't think about the concurrency consequences you'll be able to serve 1 request and then allow for 1 websocket connection and your done. All other connections will be pending until the websocket is closed.
Why wouldn't it? It wouldn't be exactly the same, but the important information is there. Does it matter if it's slightly off?

Consider that your real brain is influenced by tons of random factors and meaningless information. If a protein drifts to a slightly different location maybe it could slightly affect the output of that neuron. But if just assume that it is where it is supposed to be for the purposes of the simulation, it should be fine.

It's not like something like that encodes any important information or has anything to do with the algorithm that your brain is running.
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Ho hum. Just another day in the War on Dignity.

This sort of thing is the inevitable result of giving people responsibility without accountability.
Yea, I was going to post that the initial No Breakout view conveys absolutely no information. The colors haven't yet been explained, the circles are all the same size, and... there are 100 of them (but we already know that). Hovering over dots to find more information is really low bandwith.

Another point: the top category on the Industry Breakout view is obscured by the drop down. It wouldn't be such a big deal, but that category is probably the most important.

Also, selecting options from the drop down can leave you hovering over a different company, which creates a new hover tooltip. That's pretty confusing.

And a typo in the title: itsself
I've been looking at OAuth a bit lately.

I'm amazed there is no open-source, drop-in HTTP proxy to authorise access to REST APIs. The closest I've found is PingFederate, which is kind of expensive, and DoorMan[1], which seems incomplete and unmaintained.

Am I the only person who'd find this useful? What are other people doing - building it into their APIs?

[1] https://github.com/movableink/doorman
self-taught. I was a Physics student in college when a friend showed me how you could simply combine a few commands in a linux shell to make more complicated commands. I think he probably showed me grep something | wc -l. And that piqued my curiosity. I went from playing with bash to learning Perl and eventually a job as a webdev guy.
Okay, so let's say that the UN didn't go in to help. What would be the response then? Outrage from Haitians that the UN didn't come to their aid? Why not the outrage at their own government for not being able to handle a national disaster?

"(Cholera) has now spread to Venezuela, Cuba and the Dominican Republic, and has now killed more than 8,500 people."

If we're thinking about this pragmatically, the world attention paid to Haiti during the flood saved far more than that number of people, even those not directly hit by the earthquake and instead were living with diseases that are prevalent in the third world.

We can split hairs over the effectiveness of the UN or international intervention, but before we start the ranting to the tone of hackernews isolationist/libertarian politics, keep in mind that Haiti is such a mess that we're still talking in terms of the broad good. Anyone that criticizes the role of the UN in this instance is a vulture looking to profit off of a natural disaster in a corrupt nation.
I live in a tiny apartment. I have two detectors in my flat. I have another just outside the door. They're all tested twice yearly by contractors (and the fire extinguisher is checked).

I've never set them off by cooking, even with occasional accidents of food burning.
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You might have to work pretty hard to write a grep that's as good as grep. It pulls a lot of swift moves in the name of speed.
Yes thats different.
Thank you mh_10 for this great article.

It reminds me of the presentation that Sequoia Capital gave to its portfolio company CEO’s back in Oct 2008 with the title "RIP Good Times" found here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/73886447/R-I-P-Good-Times-10-7-08-...

At the time the slides were shocking to me and completely altered how I think about building my start-up.

For starters the economic analysis at the start of the presentation made me aware that 'best practice', aka what Sequoia Capital does, is to track and analyse the wider macro and micro global economic forces. Since then I've learnt a lot more about economics and I track key economic indicators.

The other takeaway was the the two slides titled "Survival" and "Survival of the Quickest".

The "Survival" slide had the following bullet points:

* Must-Have Product
* Established Revenue Model
* Understanding of Market Uptake
* Customer's Abilities to Pay
* Assessment vs. Competitors
* Cash is King
* Need for Profitability

...which is pretty much the criteria I'm constantly assessing myself on.

And lastly the "Survival of the Quickest" side was making the point that unless a massive cut in costs was made right at the beginning of the recession your company would die in a Death Spiral. I can't stress how freaked out I was when I saw that Death Spiral diagram.

I know those slides are 5 years old but even now for my own start-up I keep those slides in the back of my mind as I pursue growth from my balance sheet and keep my burn rate as low as I can.
A decent test for problem solving will measure creativity and critical thinking. Synthesis isn't always particularly aesthetic, but it does generally involve quite some creativity.
Why on earth would you discourage others from helping because you are suspicious. Like I said earlier, I believe this person because similar experiences have happened to me.

Never, never try and stop people from trying to do good. I would rather be scammed than be complacent.
For the sake of arguments, let's just assume Windows is perfectly secure. Then if child pornographers or ponzi scammers use direct, encrypted links instead of emails to exchange information, what will the FBI do? Is it reasonable for it to hack into the computer of a suspect to gather evidence? Is it reasonable for it to force Microsoft to implement a hole in their OS so that they can do that? Is it Microsoft's fault for implementing their OS in such a way that it's difficult for the FBI to (lawfully) intercept its users?

Maybe we all blamed Microsoft unjustly, maybe they were forced by law to create all those holes, and maybe they were forced by law to not disclose the fact that they were forced by law to create all those holes.
(An European myself) I have met highly educated Europeans who believed that Mexico is in Southern America. Or that Kazakhstan - one of the largest countries in the world, mind you - is in Europe :)
Because there are many people who simply don't. They may require lossless audio or local storage instead of streaming. I know I do - and none of those services offers these options. That said, bandcamp, boomkat or qobuz are indispensable lossless audio stores for me.
<insert some comment about how this relates to hacking the status quo of gender roles in our society>
I have jumped in to this thread, so forgive me if I have missed something, but do not understand the reference to 'Levinson'.

I am from the UK, claim no expertise in the field, but the following might help.

'Levinson' is the name of a report on the media (a very long topic in itself), which has no bearing on giving up data.

The law which covers that,I believe, is known by its abbreviation as RIPPA and,amongst other things, sets out the powers that the UK government have to ask for data from companies. In particular, I understand that it makes it an offence to refuse to provide the key to encrypted material.
As a dane, no 1000 € is nowhere close to being alive "comfortably" ...

It is slightly higher than "kontanthjælpen", a last-ditch governmental grant to keep you alive (where you are also entitled to a lot of rebates (childcare, and stuff)) and special purpose grants to make ends meet

An unskilled worker earns about 2300€/month and that is not even close to comfortably.. Median income (still not comfortable) is 3500€/month

A confortable one is probably bigger than 5000€/month..

Denmark is one of the most expensive countries in the world to live in... (especially in the four major Citites (Copenhagen, Aarhus, Odense, Aalborg)