skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a long tradition of disallowing encrypted communication on channels that can be (are meant to be) public and snooped by the public.

See licensed Ham radio use. There's no technical restriction or necessity against (well, necessity is up for debate), but there is a legal prohibition on commercial or encrypted transmissions; I read recently that it was being discussed to change this. I guess it would have been reported on HN frontpage if this had gone through.

The argument as I understand it is that Ham bands are a shared, public resource (commons) and that their use is strongly regulated by the FCC (and presumably some international body I haven't heard of); if your communications were encrypted, you would be free to violate the rules and engage in commercial activity, which would likely make the band a lot more popular, polluted, and less available as a limited resource for amateur licensed users. It's called broadcast for a reason.

This is obviously far from the situation on the internet, but it's a fun thought experiment to imagine the global internet with similar structure of mandatory licenses for use, and without any encryption or commerce.
Google Chromebooks Are Deadlier to PCs Than iPads
I posted above; and someone else said you were on a mac. Check out Kaleidoscope.
What's the battery life like when using loqui? When not implemented well, XMPP clients can be a real drain on battery because of the polling and other frequent protocol messages.
Is there a good place to begin to learn about this stuff from the ground up? Maybe a user friendly compiler written for the purpose of education?
IOS 6 vs iOS 7 - is there a balance?
> if so, is that a reasonable risk i see (filesystem corruption at times)?

It is not a reasonable risk on a normal system, but TFA uses a readonly filesystem (squashfs) so it's not an issue: there's no data to be written.
The Healthy Programmer: a Book Review
I think you're missing the point. This is a half-hearted "A Modest Proposal", the point being that our current prison system is so insanely inhumane that honest-to-god corporal punishment is actually significantly less inhumane.
So it's like Bitmessage, but without an implementation?
Speaking of the need for a more secure email, I just want to share an anecdote that blew my mind recently. I was trying to pay for something with a major tech company but they were having problems with my card, so they emailed me my card details to check they were correct!

I'd be tempted to name and shame them, but it's not really their fault as much as it is the specific person, because I find it hard to believe people aren't trained not to do that. Makes me think that all customer support emails should be regex'd for credit card numbers and if they're found their mail servers shouldn't allow them to be sent...

In any case, the whole institution of email is a security nightmare. I doubt this is the solution, but there certainly needs to be one, and as much for "normal" people as anyone else. We all have information that needs to be kept secure.
I don't understand the criticism. I've done a lot of work in real time image processing with FPGA's. This work, as I like to put it, takes "cubic hours". It is complex, expensive, requires real expertise and non-trivial development time. To have someone with twenty years in the field launch a project that will result in open sourcing the relevant technologies is nothing less than fantastic. Yes, it takes as long as the project originator requires, even longer.

This isn't web development. Sorry.

I really don't get the criticism about the lack of a board as part of the KS rewards. If you are doing FPGA development at this level, the cost of fabricating a board is a rounding error when compared to R&D costs.
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> Stick your head out of your shell, and you'll realise there's a world out there, beyond America. I know it's hard to believe, but it does exist.

Actually, I live in Italy, where some of your "in Europe" lines do not hold true at all.
There are more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile#Programs_using_Guile

But GNU Make seems to be the first major one.
> And chemical castration does little permanent harm.

Turing.

> but a few months of the drug, and the offenders might change their mind about whether rape is worth the trouble or not.

Or they may just turn to using bottles or broom handles.
I've got an outstanding issue on that. Will probably be fixed within a couple of weeks. I'm hoping to do it in a somewhat backwards compatible way, which makes it a little difficult.
Ancient confession found: ‘We Invented Jesus Christ’
This is what Gary Bernhardt would call 'atom' level unix programming. I encourage people to watch this talk : http://www.confreaks.com/videos/615-cascadiaruby2011-the-uni...

First it's quite funny, second it shows very pragmatic yet abstract usage of unix way of life, like quickly gathering data about your code base by combining other these atoms into new abstractions (as in SICP).

As he says, it's often half-assed, but it's the right half of the ass.
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The clearnet version of Sheep has already been closely linked to them. Being in Czechslovakia may impede the investigation, but I still would not want to be using it...
This seems very similar to bitmessage, which has a functioning client and 1000's of active nodes. Why would I wait for this instead of using bitmessage?
You can have mandatory voting with a "none of the above" option on the ballot.
In representative democracy, probably yes. But D-K effect is commonly used as an argument against (semi)direct democracy.
Cultivate habits and rituals to become a maker
Better Out Than In - Banksy NY
The jellyfish are taking over
Reading that in British English: coffee, meet keyboard.
Not necessarily. If your solution is solving a real pain point or is creating something really valuable for your potential customers, you can ask them to pay upfront even before the MVP is ready. Treat them as your extended team taking their inputs while you build the product. Easier said than done but its the best validation you can get. You may have to grandfather them on pricing though.

Have a look at this mixergy interview for some ideas/inspiration - http://mixergy.com/sam-ovens-snapinspect-interview/
For people like me who were aware that this magic exists, but not how it is done: You might want to look at:

http://www.normalesup.org/~george/comp/libancillary/ [code]

http://www.lst.de/~okir/blackhats/node121.html [description]
Wow some companies are really shark eat shark worlds!

Dorsey comes off as particularly machiavellian. First betraying Glass and then managing to oust Evans.
Schneier and the Math T-Shirt
I was invited last time and I don't know on what basis I got the invitation. I was just curious if anyone got the invitation for that reception party as of yet
"I see it as mission critical because it would be too easy for landlords to take that information and use it against people."

Well they could've done themselves a favor by not illegally subletting their rental. I don't mind the concept of Airbnb but it's laughable that proponents glaze over the fact that rental agreements often prohibit subletting yet Airbnb users still rent their space anyway.
It's funny how things like this only look like another object once someone mentions it. For example, when my step kids were little, they used to constantly ask about the "underwear" signs posted all over the place. Couldn't figure out what they were talking about, until I had them point it out sitting at a red light.

The traffic lights have stop signs that are folded down, and get unfolded when there are problems with the signals. So the bottom half of a white octagon does look like a pair of briefs.
And the point of such a system is? To spend more money and time of everyone?
Can Cameo make two-minute movies as addictive as Vines?
A post mortem would be so helpful. I wonder what the odds of that are?
"Why do Phase III Trials of Promising Heart Failure Drugs Often Fail?"
It's not sync() which is the problem. A correctly implemented `sync` should flush all writes to permanent storage before returning.

The issue here is storage devices may lie about it[0]. The 2s sleep is problematic, but IIRC devices don't (and have no way to, and would not anyway) report when the data is actually written to permanent storage, so you can't do much besides waiting a bit and hoping for the best.

[0] http://www.sqlite.org/howtocorrupt.html
I like when you say "bits are bits"
It still ran slowly on my machine. Typed characters were noticeable more sluggish to appear on screen. Just a bit, but noticeable and it was too much. Maybe it didn't work for some reason.
If I run a tor node on my home network would that raise viable defense of claim that the traffic originating from network was/could possibly not be my own?
I use apps. They may not always be used for their intended purpose but my use of them provides my desired result either more efficiently, conveniently or cheaply than other methods available to me.

I think all of us do so daily without even knowing about it.
Anyone giving a technical talk, take note. SPJ does such a fantastic job. Perhaps it helped in this particular case, too, that he didn't write the library, but is explaining it as a user who only just learned how it worked.
Touch-screens in cars still feels like an impressively bad idea.
Change the channel directly from Twitter
> Especially in an environment where "hackers are no longer the apex predator."

and especially in an environment where your peers sing like canaries because they usually lack the (violence-driven) codex regarding the treatment of snitches. and yeah, I remember the case of that tortured guy from that cc forums, but from what I read about all those arrests, it's an exception that proves the rule.
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No. You can presell at a lower price though. The objective is to take cash even if smaller than what you would charge if the product was already built. If people can pay and wait for the product, it means it really solves a problem for them and your chances of succeeding are much higher.
The game is candy crush so I assume it refers to AdTrack.king which is strange because googling that library shows that people knew it was malicious even while it wasn't flagged as such by mobile AV. http://malwarefixes.com/remove-adtrack-king-com-redirect/
> If meta data is concealed, how would the crackers which email is valuable?

From the protocol doc: "When an email is sent then the email’s hash is added to the DHT in the key that matches the recipient’s address; the mail is then transferred in a BitTorrent like fashion."

How does that conceal metadata? If you dont have plaintext From: and To: fields, it doesnt mean the metadata is concealed. Metadata is not whats IN the communication, it is the data that you collect OBSERVING the communication.

Without special measures to provide anonymity, it is no different than an OTR-encrypted chat or PGP email.
> (musing)- Apple's OS people now only have to worry about one kernel code base when writing non-assembly, non performance critical code.

iOS and Mac OS X have shared most of the kernel code for years. I doubt this makes any difference.
Avoiding a Lost Generation: Young Entrepreneurs Need Support
What is your need of support? Agree with:

"Expand the choice of funding alternatives
Increase mentoring and broader support
Change the culture to tolerate failure
Target and speed up incentives
Reduce red tape and excessive taxation"
Microsoft Now Recommends You Use a Third-Party Antivirus
Fair enough - and agreed. Berlusconi has done an admirable job of adopting American political mores, in terms of bribery, "special interests", and all the rest. It's going to take years for his chaos to be unwrought.

Frankly, things aren't that much better in the UK, but I stand by the fact that it's a damned sight more straightforward to operate a business here than in the US. I have done both, and have lived in UK, US, HK, ZH, DE, FR, BE, SA, so have a fairly broad (but of course still limited) gamut of experience.
Describe your desired setup. For a simple xorg / xmonad / emacs / chromium[1] it's a few traditional commands and a few arch specific commands[2].

[1] single GPT partition, no lvm, no encryption, no fancy devices.

[2] simple unix tools : disk, mkfs., *chroot. arch : netctl (network setup), pacman and a bit of systemd (not traditional yet ;)
With our technologies for stress monitoring, I've been amazed at how much naps seem to reduce stress. You go from being pretty high to pretty low within twenty minutes.
Marketing 101: How to make your app stand out.
Computer modellers secure Chemistry Nobels
Pity no-one thought to comment this little piece of reboot/halt magic - 'twould have saved a bit of digging.
I would guess it's likely to be produced internally, but much less likely to be public. That said, if there's demand and there's enough good reporting, it seems reasonable to expect something worth reading.
Most definitely. If you were building a new environment from scratch, there's no reason you couldn't do the same basic stuff in a 32-bit world. Apple just couldn't do it without the architecture transition because it would break everything.
So, you're saying we're at a default risk not a debt crisis. OK, I used the wrong term above. Please substitute it as needed; my argument remains the same.
The Bonus Employees Really Want, Even If They Don't Know It Yet
I'd probably say the status view (ala magit). Last time I tried kemayo's plugin it was all happening in ST's quick bars. However, that was a year ago so things might have changed.

Also, I try my best to keep up with user requests, which leads to about 1-2 releases a month. While there are occasionally bugfixes going into kemayo's plugin, I'm not sure if it's receiving any significant development (not trying to call anyone out here, it's just my observation from occasionally looking at the repo).
Show HN: WearScript - JS with Batteries Included for Google Glass
If you aren't willing to "lose" 20 bucks a year then I doubt you are really serious about it.
You can't have a smartphone without the support from carrier. Mozilla has to deal with carriers issue and this is why they really can't make FFOS available in North America yet (beside the fact that FFOS is still in early stage...)

You have to compromise with carriers and manufacturers without compromising user's privacy (FFOS tries its best to protect user's privacy, but certainly you can't do everything right?) Sometimes you have to choose certain hardware and certain price.

Mozilla is a giant but it doesn't ahve the resource Google does. So when it comes to negation, it depends on how much users Mozilla FFOs has.

The source code itself is open. Well the master copy. In the future there will be forks and I think Mozilla will keep its best effort to make sure phones running forks meet the standard (they are making such process, validation process to ensure Mozilla's standard is met before the build is released).
hubris? They'll never catch me, the fools!
> He kept a record of a lot of things he claimed he didn't (PMs, transactions).

Did he? We have seen quotes from messages to government agents (which obviously don't require DPR to have saved them), we have quotes from 'cooperating witnesses' (likewise), we have addresses/PMs from within a month or two of the server imaging (consistent with DPR's publicly stated data retention policies)...
UK Police orders suspension of torrent domains
The Simplest Brand Health Question For Your Startup
Yes. I actually got into confrontations with the leaf blowers once (the manager, and the property owner). I also called the police because they are clearly violating the city's own noise ordinance. Nobody cares, the owner called me and told me that it doesn't matter because the work day starts at X a.m. What about people who work odd shifts, or students?

Resistance is futile. I just started using wax earplugs and find they make a huge difference and actually drown out a lot of noise.
To me it seems we have a culture that doesn't value well-being in general. People might say that they do, but the entire culture is set up against it. Sleep is just one more neglected aspect of well-being. We also have ridiculous working hours, insane commutes, pathetic diet and exercise habits, and a health record to show for it. Keeping busy at one's job is valued above most else.
That seems weird. My PC is rather slow for a dev machine (+ a few lowkey games): i3 @ 3.3GHz, 16GB DDR3 RAM, GTX 550 TI, Samsung SSD 830 for the OS. Windows 8.1 Professional. I just took some non-exact measurement (stopwatch) from pressing the power button:

26s to login screen, another 13s from pressing enter after login to having Chrome show me a useable Outlook Web Access.

And I haven't performance optimized anything. Steam, 2 VPN clients, Trillian and Directory Opus all load on login.
Unlikely Fireman: The Interview
Yes, there's an overlap of knowledge

So, Pauli's exclusion principle is Physics or Chemistry? I'd say it's "both".
`-MP` makes sense, but I don't see how Make could work out when to regenerate the dependency files themselves without the `-MT` value as in my rule, or the `sed` expression given in the GNU Make Manual. Maybe I'm missing something about `-MMD` - I don't understand everything said about it in the manpage of GCC.

Generally it's my style to prefer I/O redirection in the shell to programs taking output parameters and managing their own files. Thus, using `> $@` rather than `-MF` or `-MD`.
Wouldn't an association with pants be better than a mere geometric shape? If it stays in ones memory for longer, then why the hell not? It's all about being recognized by the customer!
totally agree, especially when they're not tilted towards the driver and badly polarized to interfere with sunglasses.

drove my buddy's 2013 Subaru WRX, the "Limited" edition that has this touchscreen as a standard feature (as in, it cannot be opted out of) - a truly terrible experience. Just seeking radios stations is an exercise in anger management. Since you cannot feel where anything is, i found myself much more distracted from driving with hitting the correct place on the screen. Having a large screen adds to the frustration since you cannot even have good reference points while you hunt for what you're looking for. Any visual buttons that are not on the very edges of the display are just worthless to use (and there are lots of them). There's no muscle memory, every time it's like driving a different car.
Well some months ago it was a separate landing page, but I guess they changed it. They still don't display the information unless you agree that you are in a legal jurisdiction to use the service.
I'm not sure how FFOS apps work, but the answer depends on how you define "SSH client in HTML5". [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3108453
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It still doesn't bear out from what I've seen.

Sadly, AirBnb doesn't have an API I can poke at to make it more scientific - but I went through a bunch of listings in NYC a few days ago, and nearly all of the "whole apartment" listings are professional operations that operate year-round, not ad hoc arrangements (i.e., "I'm out of town, take my place").

One easy way to tell is to take a peek at the property's calendar. I'm pretty sure regular bookings for months at a time suggests it's not exactly someone renting out their primary residence.
Read the Bitmessage white paper and you'll know why you should avoid Bitmessage: Every node will have a copy of every single message sent across the entire network. I believe the meme to use here is "Fail".
New Haptic Tech Promises Texture for Touchscreens and Gestures
I feel your pain. I'm also dayjobbing while working on creating a startup. The conclusion I've found is that working this way makes it much slower, but not impossible. The hard parts are a: not giving up (actually, that hasn't been hard), and b: using the time you have efficiently.

There are a number of paths available to you:
1. Give up.
2. Quit dayjobbing, go full-time on your savings in hopes it will succeed (part-time freelancing is a partial version of this).
3. Get funded and work off the funding.
4. Get a revenue-generating product out the door so it starts paying for you to work full-time.

I don't believe in #1. I can't do #2 because my marriage is more important than my startup. I looked into #3, but fundraising is a full-time job that takes your eye off the ball with no guarantee of success. This leaves #4.

So consider a way to build a subset of your product you can sell, or otherwise shorten your takeoff trajectory. That will get you going faster.

As for the freelancing idea... unless you think you can immediately get half-time freelance work and keep a steady flow of it, it's not a good path. It will start intruding on your startup time.
Actually the rpi case is fueling my desire. I know that the VideoCore part of the SoC is very potent but it's encapsulated beneath too many layers (especially considering the goal of the rpi, I would love to have simple access to all the gpu).
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New York state has all rights to protects its interest. But they should do it case by case, not by spamming everyone who happened to be on some list.
Kick the cat out of the bedroom. Best thing I did to improve sleep quality.
It has nothing to do with codex or creed or any of that, it's simply self-preservation. Most people aren't ideologues willing to go all the way (to death and destitution) for their ideals.
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There is a project [1] on opencores.org that probably should be in the "Video Controller" category, I haven't tried using it yet though.

[1] http://opencores.org/project,orsoc_graphics_accelerator
Does that exclude bios init time?
> . UK, where pants is pants and not trousers. ;)

I made this mistake once when I spent a summer in Ireland in high school. (I should add here that the people at this summer program were noticeably more homophobic than I was used to back home[0]) I had borrowed a pair of "trousers" from a friend for a costume for some event.

When asking permission from the RA later that night to go to a different dorm after lights-out, I told him, 'I need to give <friend> his pants back'.

I will never forget the look of horror that he gave me.

[0] Not sure if it's a cultural thing or just the program I happened to be at, but either way, it's relevant.
The UN was founded after the nuclear bombs were dropped.
I work in public health research and we collect similar data. We do it the hard way: surveys. Surveys dozens upon dozens of pages long. Because of the logistics involved and the time it requires to get the info from participants, the data is filthy. I can see the appeal of trying to get it direct from the insurance companies/government.
Yeah, it really has nothing to do with hacking. I guess it's news, but who cares? Just seems like idol worship.
Why crowdfunding isn't a threat to the VC world
why would they settle on a skewed 3d view of the dodecahedron as a replacement. it doesn't look like a logo at all now
Duolingo releases crowdsourced incubator for new languages
Here's some good journalism with the same outcome:

"Is there a time limit on how long someone can be detained? Do people have to unlock their phones, if asked? Do agents have to inform you why you're being detained? And I didn't even approach them as like an angry citizen. I approached them as a journalist, who had very straightforward questions just about the process and the protocol. And what I discovered, doing that, is that the lack of transparency that I saw during our detainment just continued up and up and up the ranks, all the way to DC, where nobody was getting back to me about anything."

http://www.onthemedia.org/story/my-detainment-story-or-how-i...