skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, I'll bite.

I can turn around and say that treating 99% of fat people as lazy slobs is the same kind of generalization that leads to security theater when we assume everyone is a threat to our national security.

What's the difference between your and my asinine analogies? Yours pushes to look at people in a more judgmental and critical way because you're almost certain they sit towards the meaty middle of the "bell curve" (bell curve of what exactly?). Mine pushes to treat everyone with a higher level of empathy and acceptance. Could an overweight person just be lazy? Sure! Could it be due to more than that? Certainly!

In fact, the type of shitty and ignorant comments this article talks about are most certainly fueled by the idea that most fat people are lazy victim-card playing slobs. Turns out it was a little more complicated for her.
Breaking TOR
I recently read an article about the NSA trying to break TOR. They seem to have a lot of problem with this. If you really wanted to look at all the TOR traffic in your country as a government, this should be possible.
You should be able to do this with a type of MITM attack. You could advertise all the TOR relay agents IPs inside your ISPs to point at your own Servers.
You could either try to setup 3500 TOR relay agents or a more practical way would be to get one server to act as a Relay server for all.
Either way you should be able to read the transmission both ways unencrypted without problem if people don’t use pre shared keys.
Any thoughts?
Why exactly do you hope those two go broke in favour of Google? Or is that not the intent of your writing?
Cheap linux notebook => chromebook
I just tore one off my ceiling and threw it into the garage at 3am just last week. I was excited about this one until I saw the price. $129! Yikes! I got a few lithium battery detectors at Home Depot for $20 that are supposed to last for 10 years.
You realise she has a thyroid problem also? That can cause weight gain. Diet doesn't help much in this case.
> For everyone.

> Buy now

> US or UK?
Looks like a glossy screen :-(
> Giving an authority class an unchecked license to beat, harass, rape, and assault persons that may or may have not been intending to commit a crime is a recipe for brutality in a community.

So, other than the rape it's about the same as American law enforcement. ;) I'm sorry, I'm just joking.... _kinda_.

To be serious though, I think a community has more power over a hired private security group than the community has power over first-world law enforcement. If the people of Oakland felt there was more negative than positive with the security group being around, they can just stop paying them[1]. To stop the Oakland PD, is a bit more complicated.
I also believe the Oakland community would get to know the security-enforcers a bit more if they directly hire them. Perhaps even become friends; then maybe members of the community would join in at which point the line between the defenders & defendees would blur. The community would feel stronger. That feeling, even if not really true, of enpowerment I think counters feelings of hopelessness and could be the beginning of real change in troubled parts of Oakland. Or, I could be very wrong. The private-security-group could try to enforce, get completely gunned down and quit and the whole experiment fails....

1. They really need to make sure they find the right people though. Hiring the wrong people, then firing them can make things worse than when it started. I think it's important that whoever they hire work closely with community members and befriended.
The Dark Science Of Naming Your Post
A website post, "Saint Chesterton?" commenting on recent discussion of proposals for canonization of G.K. Chesterton (declaring him to be a saint):

http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/saint-che...
So in theory during a fire they should heat up and start working again! Phew...
Communicating about it would defeat the entire purpose of the idea.

The way he did it allowed him to validate the idea in the exact same situation he would end up after building it, so it's a great way to take the (huge!) risk out of building a product.

Personally I wouldn't mind as a customer as you did know all the facts before you were actually spending the money.
Silk Road: four suspected sellers of illegal drugs arrested in Britain
The UK link is possibly even worse!

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/chromebook-1460-commercial.htm...
It's the reaction afterward that most people (including myself) object to.
The speed of light.
(299,792,458 metres per second)
Relevant fantasy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l1_8wefR7c
This is interesting timing, as I am really considering purchasing a chromebook. There are a few things that I am still curious about:

1. does netflix work ? I know that there was some chromebooks that it did not work on.
2. Any one have any experience with playing flash videos?
3. If linux is put onto it using crouton or similar, is it a severly limit set of packages due to the architecture or does it run quiet well.

I want a very casual system that I can occasionally use for some writing/coding. I also have a VPS which I would ssh into for most (if not all) coding.
Is the difference between this and the $250 Samsung chromebook basically just the case? Same resolution, same amount of RAM, same tiny SSD.
why would you hope for something like that? what do you gain if Windows/iOS/OSX go broke?
Looks very similar to the old plastic MacBook. And 60% Color Gamut? 60% of what? NTSC? sRGB? Adobe RGB?
Privilege?

People of "privilege" are often in the class doing the destroying.

Our opinions may be diametrically opposite. The only people "squandering" anything are the ones who enjoy parts of liberation, and agree with it, yet aren't even willing to at least stand in vocal solidarity with those who actually fight for it. The only ones who "squander" anything squeeze as much opportunity as they can out of freedoms and stand silent, from complacency or from fear, while civil liberties are destroyed. People rejecting oppression and acting upon what they know is right are doing the opposite of squandering.

One of the great lessons to nurture a skeptical mind is to learn to question everything. Question everything. Question everything especially when it's in the face of those who stake a claim to authority. Often the people who seize authority are people most eager to dominate and objectify others, and to blindly follow abusive orders. The DoJ and state entities, as it happens, are motivated by political victory, increased funding, and indirect monetary backing from corporate entities with ulterior motives. Impartiality doesn't exist, and is near nonexistent without a lot of money. "Truth" is rarely a motivating factor unless it's convenient. The US justice system is rotten in countless aspects. This especially includes the FBI. We can agree that it's good to not become a useless pawn or useless martyr to them when wise options exist. However, a voluntary market is a peaceful, wise option for many people. Yes, the system is still primed to threaten, cage, and destroy people who engage in it. It is that system and appeasers who should be vilified, not peaceful people. They are not "squandering." They are merely trying to live their lives.

You assume that DPR "put a hit on someone." Very little of what was chatted about makes sense whether or not the transcripts are accurate and attributable to him (and not someone else). To my distant vantage, the transcript suggests the person thought he was talking to a fake and was essentially toying with the fake; on the internet, we're all super heroes and can say anything extreme, facetiously. Who knows...

Wise is the one who continually perceives and questions. Ignorant and careless is the one who swiftly reaches judgment.
I wonder though, if circumventing such protections would still violate the DMCA or trade secret law? (The value of such protections varying with the nature of the VBA content of course.)
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsweek/Why-people-become-ove...

In particular these two paragraphs:

Illnesses that affect weight

A few illnesses that are characterized by an imbalance or an abnormality in your endocrine glands can also affect your weight. These include hypothyroidism (an underactive thyroid), polycystic ovarian syndrome, and certain unusual tumors of the pituitary gland, adrenal glands, or the pancreas. However, in the vast majority of people, these illnesses are not responsible for weight gain. Most are extremely rare. Hypothyroidism, which is the most common, is seldom the main reason for overweight or obesity. Treatment with thyroid hormone, while medically necessary, does not usually cause a significant weight reduction.

Genetic disorders

Obesity is also a symptom of some rare and complex disorders caused by genetic defects. These obesity syndromes usually appear in early childhood and are tied to several additional medical problems. One such disorder is Prader-Willi syndrome, a form of obesity associated with mild mental retardation that occurs in about 1 in 25,000 people and has been traced to abnormalities in a group of genes on chromosome 15. People with this disorder are unusually short and have primarily upper-body obesity. A less common disorder, Bardet-Biedl syndrome, is similar to Prader-Willi syndrome, but is caused by abnormalities in different genes. Several other rare genetic syndromes cause obesity, but account for only a tiny fraction of all weight disorders.
No agenda. But you're right, I have made a few too many comments here. Something must have struck a nerve. Possibly the sheer mean-spiritedness of the comments made (not here) about a stranger.

I think I'm gonna sign off for a while :-)
The comments here have covered all the shady/illegal aspects of the post, but the most dangerous part (and you may not experience it in person outside of major tech areas): people get really excited about manipulating and abusing others for their own gain (especially small numbers of technically competent people abusing large numbers of "normals").

People are just anonymous hits online, right? Drive up the hits. How? Just manipulate people. Oh, we got money? Chest bumps and high fives all around. We did it!

When you start thinking about "right" or "wrong" when doing work like this, your world falls apart, so you don't think that way. You run the hustle. You run the borderline-illegal practices all in the name of growth. When you're successful it'll all be forgiven by rich people who want to leech of your success anyway.

If we keep telling ourselves it's bad/wrong/illegal, all the people willing to do this shady work will end up ruling the world while we still sit on our poor sanctimonious asses.
The site you linked to explains why "past" is correct IMO:

"To pass often means to move past, and this is where confusion can arise. Of note, to pass can also mean to sail past, to fly past, to run past, to hop past, etc. - the method of moving is irrelevant. This is worth bearing in mind, because if you have used a verb indicating motion already, then it will be partnered with past and not passed."

The verb here would be "get". See the examples at the bottom for use as a preposition.

Or did I now fuck it up again? ;)
The point is not to do it blind.

"I don't know why this is here and I've tried to find out but hit a dead end so I'm getting rid anyway" is better than "I don't know why this is here so I'm just getting rid".
Its probably just me but both of Nest's products are not necessities. I mean they are nice to look at but I don't care much about the problem they solve for me to go and switch. And they are usually twice the price of a regular one so there is that.
It's also not like this is new in the US, it's just becoming more affordable and easier to arrange. Private railroad police have been here since the time of Lincoln. Office buildings, hotels, and apartment/condo buildings have had door men and security since forever. High end gated neighborhoods have had private security patrols, "armed response" services, even hiring their own dedicated sheriff/police patrols for a long time. More recently there are plenty of middle class "gated" neighborhoods with their own security.

For over a hundred years ranchers in Texas have had an industry association with it's own private deputized investigators for cow theft. Look how many downtown areas now have "Ambassadors" that are just private security patrolling. In many states there are some form of "Improvement Districts" that allows a neighborhood to self-tax and pay for private security or extra police patrols. Where I live, in Atlanta, almost every neighborhood you'd want to live in employs off-duty police to patrol.

And of course, every government agency from federal to local you can think of has their own police force to protect their property. FBI Police, CIA Police, National Zoo Police, Mint Police, Federal Reserve Police, (insert state here) Capitol Police, University Police, School District Police, Park Police, Hospital Police, Convention Center Police... It goes on.

The US is a huge country without a nationalized police force. Since the beginning those that could afford (or legislate) more security/policing have done so. The more directly a security force works for their clients, the more responsive they can be. This is why many cities were and are incorporated, to provide a higher level of police than counties/states were providing. It's why the FBI has it's own police vs relying on local PD. As the standard of living for everyone in the US rises, so will the amount of people hiring private security and police, it's no longer the domain of just the rich and powerful.
There's a sharing feature (multiple vaults) in the new 1Password 4 for Mac—but it hasn’t yet migrated to any of the other versions (including 1Password 4 for iOS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycystic_ovary_syndrome

Where PCOS is associated with overweight or obesity, successful weight loss is the most effective method of restoring normal ovulation/menstruation, but many women find it very difficult to achieve and sustain significant weight loss. A scientific review in 2013 found similar decreases in weight and body composition and improvements in pregnancy rate, menstrual regularity, ovulation, hyperandrogenism, insulin resistance, lipids and quality of life to occur with weight loss independent of diet composition.[41] Still, a low GI diet, in which a significant part of total carbohydrates are obtained from fruit, vegetables and whole grain sources, has resulted in increased menstrual regularity than a macronutrient-matched healthy diet.[41] Vitamin D deficiency may play some role in the development of the metabolic syndrome, so treatment of any such deficiency is indicated.[42]

..... In other words, eat your veggies and don't be a pig. Medically speaking, of course.

I was a lard-ass like you, until I took a doughnut to the knee.
Ah. I agree it would be more informative but also more depressing: a countdown gives you a (inaccurate of course) number of days left to 'make the most of'; showing the number of days done gives you an (accurate) count of days you (perhaps) haven't made the most of.

But to be honest the App was something I quickly put together in a few hours and I didn't really consider alternatives to a countdown.
We recently just launched a very early dev preview of our markdown editor. It integrates directly with github. I would love some feedback https://alpha.banyan.co/
What sort of casual work would be better on a tablet than on the chromebook? Answering emails would be better with a dedicated keyboard, as would navigating in a web browser.

For casual use otherwise (movies, books, angrybirds/candy crush style games), then a tablet is probably a better tool.
The link doesn't work for me. It's in the "For a closer look" section, last "button"
Thank you. I appreciate the link.
I think it's one of the best selling point for that Chromebook so far! It's so annoying to have to carry an extra power supply for a tiny portable laptop like the previous generation Chromebooks.
No, the Higgs boson has nothing to do with gravitational force - only mass. There's not yet an accepted theory on how the gravitational force exist, but researchers are looking for a spin-2-boson called a Graviton to explain it. More reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton
Gameduino 2: this time it's personal
I just found out that in the UK you can get the fire department to come and install free alarms http://www.london-fire.gov.uk/smokealarms.asp

Lets home they have the budget to stretch to these :p
I don't need "an integer bigger than 52 bits". I need a way to represent (fixed-precision) decimals exactly, and do arithmetic with them, preferably without performance being too terrible or the code looking too horrible. And I'd like it to be a standard implementation, or conform to a standard interface, so that a library ecosystem can build up with support for this type.
That is awesome (though may make charging slow). I hate carrying multiple different chargers around.
A (humble) request: Vacuum cleaner sound.
"It’s time to love your smoke and carbon monoxide alarm."

lol what?
Exynos 5250 GAIA Application Processor

Isn't this the same dual-core ARM Cortex-A15 that was in Samsung's Chromebook last year?
Lavabit had no such guarantees. First, the court order was for meta-data which wasn't encrypted. Second, encryption was done server side, so they did have access to the data the government requested.

The judge wasn't talking about end-to-end encryption. They were talking about Lavabit's assertion that it was difficult to get the data they admitted to having.
Both. Let's call it re-synthesis ;-)
Yahoo unveils total email redesign inspired by Flickr and Tumblr
I took it as a reference to Products.Five, the package that adds Zope 3 functionality to Zope 2...

Great python minds think alike?
I can't do anything more than 'consume content' with a tablet; not without adding an external keyboard, at which point you're basically creating your own chromebook type thing anyway. Recently I got the Dell XPS 13 with Ubuntu, and that actually reduces my tablet usage a lot: when reading with a tablet, on, say, a site such as this one, I invariably end up wanting to reply but loathing/dreading the thought of typing stuff in on the screen which is S....L....O...........W. With the new computer, which is more comfortable and portable than what I had before, I can just use a real computer rather than the tablet.
Show HN: Designed a 3D printed sprayer-to-vodka adapter to make a flamethrower
I spent 8 years as a car salesman, and I almost had to laugh at the things in here. I did mostly email and telephone based sales and this single blog post seems to sum up the years of training I had at various dealerships. In retrospect, much of it is obvious, but it's really awkward to say things like "I'll be in town the week of X and would like to set up time either Tuesday morning or Wednesday afternoon, which works for you?".

There's a ton more in there that is really great advice, but as someone who was a relatively successful salesman, if you're not a salesman and you're criticizing this or think this is cheesy, please understand this is how you "sell".

When this is being done to you, most people don't realize it, and even like the presentation. Even as someone trained in many of these techniques, you know they're being used, but if done properly it just makes for a pleasant experience and you don't even care.
I have a chromebook at home and it has replaced my "serious" laptop almost entirely. Everything I do at home other than games can be done on the chromebook and it's so light and fast to boot I don't bother even opening a browser on my big laptop. Everything done in the browser gets done on my chromebook and only when I want to play games / use windows-only software do I boot up my other laptop.
I think you might make the piece of software reviewed by a digital forensics and make it somehow sign the captured document. It might stand in court.
The question might be, why show consideration for anyone? You seem to have answered that question to your satisfaction, though.
http://support.nest.com/article/What-is-the-difference-betwe...

Looks like a couple of years with 6 AA batteries.
"Multiple years" on 6xAA (or there's a wired version with 3xAA as back up) according to http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/8/4790896/nest-protect-smoke...
Usually it's the other way around. By law normal investors have to be educated about all possible risks involved. Accredited investors don't need such information since they supposedly know those things already.
Funnily enough, I find HN to discourage "knowing" other posters -- with no avatars, signature blocks, etc., the only way to recognize posters is by a username which the interface deliberately deemphasizes. I almost never notice who posted a given comment.

There's maybe three HN usernames I "recognize" from posts, two of which are for consistently posting stupid comments. (Generally I read the comment, roll my eyes at it, then notice the username and say "oh yeah, that guy again".)
Moti Is A Smart Motor That Wants To Fire Up App-Controlled, DIY Robotics
In the Wired article[1], there is a graphic that states battery life is seven years, and the batteries can be replaced for $10-$15 off the shelf.

[1] http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/nest-smoke-detector/al...
This one is more like 4x the price, minimum. Looks great though.
I don't think that will be happening anytime soon.

Why do you feel this way?
Do you really think you're going to get freedom from Google?
That's an interesting take about past/passed. Granted, I'm not really in a position to make good judgement calls about the English language either, but in my opinion it goes like this:

"passed" is something that happens or happened to you, like on the freeway you can say you have been passed by another vehicle.

"past", on the other hand, in this context is a state that refers to your location. Like in, "I'm past the red line". When you have to get past something, your position in relation to that something is expressed by that word.

Intuitively, I'd say that if it's the answer to an imaginary question of "where", it needs to be "past". If it's the answer to another question, like "what happened", it's "passed".

> I appreciate that the which/that distinction is tricky, but one is a restrictive clause and the other is not, changing the meaning of the sentence.

You're right, but I think we have to take non-native speakers into account. Also, the implication that those were the exact same emails doesn't really change with that, it only gets weaker. In my experience, people use that in the same way express a definitive relation. As in "those are the cats that ate the cheeseburgers" I get the impression that a specific set of cats are involved in a specific cheeseburger incident. That doesn't really change if you say "those are the cats who ate the cheeseburgers".
My dad loves his Chromebook. TBH he's older and gets confused pretty easily and I don't think I'd trust him to keep even a Mac free of malware. It's basically only either a thin client or an iPad, and we already FaceTime on his iPhone, so dropping the Apple Tax on another iOS device (that doesn't come with a keyboard) doesn't make sense when Chromebooks are so cheap.
News outlets keep repeating "11 pages of 4-point type totaling 2560 characters", which just doesn't match up since that number of characters fits on one page in a fairly normal font size. Also, RSA keys just aren't that big, so the 11 pages must have either been many keys or some other data.

As I understand Lavabit's architecture, there is no "master" key. Instead, incoming mail is encrypted using an asymmetric per-user key. All the key pairs were created by Lavabit and stored on-site, but locked by a password to be provided over TLS. Since Levison probably didn't compromise his system to store users' passwords, presumably the keys that he was handing over in 4-point type were still locked with a password.
6 hours battery life? Where's the tradeoff happening? A restricted device should give me something in return for this restriction.