skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! This is Brian, part of the team working on this project.

Here are the original API Docs that we built the project for:
http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/docs/tbrianjones/cortex-...

Here's a link to the project's homepage:
http://www.onlinemarkdowneditor.com/
and if someone cracks into the cloudfront account and modifies the js... not good...
Perhaps not, but it does get a point across that I don't imagine anyone had trouble interpreting.

Minutiae aside (it was a short post for a reason), the fact this idea is not considered crazy and has a bit of traction is extremely relevant to the discussion as a whole.
>It seems possible that torturing animals for days on end could be fatal to the victim.

yes, all the things we humans call science...
> That depends very much on your definition of God

Well, sure, but for any of the usual definitions, the point (with the note below) holds.

> on whether you require the empiricism to be [universally] objective or, for example, would consider that a personal experience of your own with God to be evidence on which to base your own belief.

True, I should have referred to scientific empiricism which includes objectivity (for which "universally" is superfluous).

> Again that depends entirely on the definition of Creationism.

Yes, any claim depends on the definition of the words used in it. Creationism, however, like God, has a fairly well-established meaning for which the statement holds (with the note above.)

> As an aside I find it interesting to speculate as to what might become falsifiable [to some extent or other] in the future. Imagine we make contact with an alien race and they have photos of the Earth showing it was/wasn't ever in any significant flood in the region of the Eastern Mediterranean.

1. We know of significant floods near the region of the Eastern Mediterranean,
2. In terms of Biblical literalism, the claim is of a global flood, not a flood in the region of the Eastern Mediterranean,
3. I will note again that any evidence can be rationalized in the context of an interpretive framework that includes an all-powerful supernatural being (of course, "Aliens have an equivalent of Photoshop" doesn't even require invoking an all-powerful or supernatural being.)
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Yammer mafia, indeed
lol it's funny I'm getting downmoded as if I am responsible for the answers to these questions.
yeah this was far bigger news to me than the iOS version
The Four Secrets To HubSpot's Scalability
Please, please use bar charts. Line charts are suitable only for data series where the X axis is scalar, not separate categories.

Also, the article has absolutely nothing about testing methodology. I'm guessing you're using Go's built-in benchmarking, but it still needs to be clarified; are the timings the mean, 95th percentile, or what? What about variance -- better CPU cache usage would lead to less variance, I would guess?

Interesting article, though. Thanks for writing it.
Are the Facebook and G+ buttons some form of satire?

EDIT: Mass surveillance by any government is bad. Surveillance by NSA or GCHQ is bad. But the abuse of privacy coming from spammers and marketers and the walled garden of whatever social network are all far more harmful to the Internet than whatever GCHQ or NSA are doing.
What sort of IT infrastructure do they usually have?
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My gut reaction was that they wouldn't have a need for a server in the first place, but I guess that depends on how small it is.
A simple file-share though, would be rather vulnerable to this.
http://iobm.net/forum/dos/index.php/topic,17.msg113.html#msg...

This is evidently some of the code that was leaked. It's some pretty ugly PHP.
I've got a couple of quite well-known and very busy people (whom I didn't previously know) to help me, simply by asking. The article is a great reminder to do it more often.

Also, "help" doesn't have to be a one-way street. Maybe the person you want to meet is coming to your town and needs a ride from the airport.
I clearly remember how all that WMD stuff was obvious propaganda at the time. Some of it ("we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud") was even laughable.

Nor did the US or other Western intelligence agencies believe it. Analysts tried to submit good reports, but they were overridden. People have often spoken of an "intelligence failure", but there wasn't such a failure; what there was was a success in politicizing intelligence on the part of political leaders. That of course did not stop them from blaming the analysts later for "failure".

Careful observers have noted signs of significant pushback from the intelligence community in response to political pressure since then.
[The researchers] went on to say there's no technical measure stopping Apple employees, working under a secret court order or otherwise, from performing the same kind of attack and making it completely transparent to the parties exchanging iMessages.

Since Apple controls the entire infrastructure, there's nothing preventing company employees from swapping out the proper keys with ones controlled by Apple or other parties.

We have evidence of a secret court order for Verizon to hand over the meta-data associated with phone calls. IANAL, but this seems quite different from ordering Apple to perform a MITM attack against a user.

Under what kind of court order would Apple have to remove or compromise end-to-end encryption from a target's device?
Luckily, he was able to come up with a workaround.

Here's a soul-crushing situation that doesn't have a workaround, as far as I can tell.

You can play the original Deus Ex on OnLive. By default, it sets the fov to a very low number. It's only possible to change it in the console (there is no UI for it). But the console is disabled. However, you can get around that by pressing T, which creates a mini console with "say " prepoulated. Press delete to erase say, and type "fov 90". So close...

But they disabled the Enter key from working.

So you can get full access to the console, type the command that would fix the FOV, but you're unable to execute it because Enter key does not get sent to the game. You're completely helpless.
Don't get me wrong, I agree that the overall experience is important - the best language in the world would be shit if you had to use notepad.exe to develop in it.

You like your IDEs and static typing and tooling, and it works for you (and for many others). I like my CoffeeScript, my AMD/CJS modules, and testing, and it works for me (and for many others).

Your experiences and assertions are wildly different than mine. I've never found AMD modules a problem. I have found overwrought and verbose code to be a problem. File headers? Interfaces? Java-style OOP in my JS? No thanks.

I think we're both just stating subjective opinions without substantiation, so I'm done here.
I feel like the people who would want to go to this rally would already have loc services disabled..
Or, attack some softer target. And I just love how my post was modded down, no rebuttal because everyone hates the TSA. My assertion still stands, it's far more reasonable to conclude that terrorists have moved on to other targets, as we saw in Kenya, because they have no security and rarely have any armed capability even near by to respond.

No doubt attacking the security line at the airport is a soft target, but no mo where near as soft as a mall. An airport may detect the attacker on the way to the line, you still have to buy a ticket. A mall, no chance. Are the lines a security risk? You bet, it's why I'm glad my GOES account keeps me out of them and thru the quick TSA-Pre line.

But hey, this is all blasphemy anyway, the TSA sucks, Al Qaeda was defeated, and the government desperately wants to keep lying to you so they can look at the outline of someone's body.
> the fact this idea is not considered crazy and has a bit of traction is extremely relevant to the discussion as a whole.

Does it? As I see, the idea is choosing a location to take maximum advantage of the benefits of Silicon Valley including those provided by government while avoiding particular restrictions, particularly related to immigration, related to government.

Insofar as hacking government -- which this is -- being considered a potentially-viable startup proposition is relevant to the discussion, its relevant as evidence that government has utility to Silicon Valley even though it poses constraints, not evidence that Silicon Valley doesn't need government.

(And, while I think that it is a fact that the idea "has some traction", I'm less convinced that it is a fact that it is "not considered crazy". An idea can be considered crazy and have some traction.)
What else is there to say? Swung for downtown and knocked it into the ocean.
So what? These aren't criticisms of today's release at all.

Mir isn't even used in 13.10

BUT they are spending resources on Mir WHEN they could have just gone with Wayland.
Nice article, but copying an xkcd image without copying the image's tooltip text is criminal.
Two dozen Embedded Linux talk videos released
The fundamental problem as I see it: science can either produce a high rate of unreliable results or a low rate of reliable results, but the market demands a high rate of reliable results.

The market produces the current situation because the rate of results is much easier to observe than their reliability.

No one wants to fund a study only to get no result out of it. So they end up getting an unreliable result instead.
Kudos. I've thought some of these ideas, but I've never strung them together in my mind such a complete manner.

Now to nit-pick:

-Is talking about "marginal" innovators as the only people with safe work really accurate? I think many jobs which rely on people interaction and soft skills will not be killed off by technological advancement.

-I think telling people to get education is absolutely a fine thing.... if we replace the word "education" with "value adding skills". There are still going to be plethora of non-innovating positions that require skills. The problem is that the majority of students go to college to learn stuff that is mentally comfortable and are sustained on student debt that might well never be paid back. Yes, historically an education has always paid back over one's lifetime earnings, but I'm not sure that will continue in the future described.
Read Improv Wisdom. Take an improv class. Practice makes perfect.
That's Microsoft all right. Remote desktop server is disabled on those SKUs for no apparent reason. One of reasons to hate Windows.
> A "toxin" is something which is toxic to a system. But our knowledge of the brain is so primitive that we can't reasonably claim to know which chemicals are toxic at tiny, long-term dosage levels, unless it leads to death.

If it leads to harm or death of individual neurons, we have lots of knowledge about such things. For example, we know that glutamate is toxic in large doses to neurons,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity
Different people have different philosophies. Some people have stopped using FB and G+ because they know their actions will be monitored. I choose to share these links because I don't want to censor myself out of fear of surveillance. Both approaches are totally valid, and everyone can choose to share on social media, or not.
I agree that multiple approaches towards learning will facilitate entrepreneurship and innovation, but I think this article missed something important; the Self-Learner. College Education and Supplemental Education have something very basic in common; the information is provided to you. Conceptually speaking, this implies that there is a limitation to the amount that you learn. Because the person learning is reliant on being provided with information to learn, they will only learn what is provided. Conceptually speaking, this seems like a somewhat controlled (in-the-box) approach towards learning, and does not really remind me of entrepreneurship and innovation. In real world practice, this does not hold true because people are always looking for more to learn. People are not limited, especially in today’s Information Age. Being able to find new information to learn with no limitations is an extremely powerful concept. And I think this is what was missing from the article. I call it the Self-Learner, but I'm sure there are many different names for it; The Tinkerer, the Enthusiast, the Hacker, etc. This is someone that finds so much enjoyment in learning about a specific topic or craft that they pursue it as their Passion. Depending on their level of enjoyment and/or drive to learn, I believe that the Self-Learner approach provides an unlimited potential with regards to learning. So where College Education and Supplemental Education might eventually run out of material to provide to you, the Self-Learner never runs out of material because they are always driven to learn more. And the longer they pursue their Passion, the more they learn, and the better they become at their craft. I think this is an extremely important aspect of entrepreneurship and innovation. I think you'll find that most successful innovators practice self-learning in one form or another throughout their life. They may have been participating in College Education and Supplemental Education, but it was the stuff they learned on their own that really gave them the skills to do something amazing.
This says that, yes, Apple can read your iMessages, but it seems to me that the protocol is pretty much designed to be as secure as one can make it while still being usable. Would you really expect people who used iMessage to call their friends and have them read hex fingerprints over the phone?

As anti-Apple as I am, I think we have to give them this one, especially when the alternative (i.e. making iMessage completely unencrypted) would have been much, much easier.
> that's about a certain IDE not the language itself

This stuff is only possible if you can analyze the code statically.

With JS, which is running in a browser, you don't know anything. You don't know what other kinds of scripts are running on that page. You don't know which globals these introduce or which built-ins they modify.

E.g.:

Math.round(5).length

You don't know if Number has a length property. You don't know if "round" takes a Number as argument. You don't know what this "round" function returns. You don't know if the "round" function exists. You don't know if a "Math" global exists.

For tools, this is a big problem.

In Dart, the analyzer knows about all these things. If the function is annotated, I'll get all the tooling and checks.

> Care to back that up?

No. You can't even imagine what good tooling is like. Naturally, you're blind to the friction which is caused by a lack of good tooling.
> Lots of the comments here point out that airplanes tend to be the target because we're not talking about "killing lots of people" as we are about terror.

The difference being? I'm sorry. Wasn't the Boston terrorist attack not on a plane? Didn't that kill people. In my opinion terror is an emotion, and people can feel that in a variety of situations depending on who they are. Killing a bunch of people, as an event, rarely happens.

So why do you want to force and coerce me? This isn't a libertarian v. socialist argument. It's a libertarian v. authoritarian argument. Are you telling me I'm a threat until proven otherwise, or that we should have policies that treat everyone or a select few that way?

No offense, but that's no way to live IMO. I'd much rather take the risk. I only mentioned the free market because if they were to take this over, solutions would be available for both of us. But for now there's only one solution: That of political theatre.

Please don't get offended as I'm not attacking you, just bad policy. If I were you I'd reflect on how others feel here. You can definitely make a point in that most people don't care either way, but I'd like to think that a majority of people who are interested in terrorism (lol NSA) from a philosophical see policy like this authoritarian at best, and evil and conspiratorial at worst.

> Airplanes have been determined to be a greater catalyst to "terror" than other venues.

Source? Again, terror is a vague definition of an emotion which is dependent on internal characteristics and machinations of each individual who knows the word and feels emotion. I'd love to see their parameters for that word.

That said, I'm sorry if we disagree that air travel needs to be so tightly regulated. I'd love for you to point me to people who are happy about laws like these from a sociological or philosophical perspective. I can definitely do the same for my end, by directing you to this: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/06/fa_planehijackings/

Regulation can be a little bad for history. While 1970's regs sound pretty scary (I'll have to check that stat out myself), 2000 sounds better than now...
This is all deplorable, but the solution to incompetence isn't to stop doing something altogether if it could be better. The solution is to get better people, methods and equipment. There's a big difference between what may work but isn't being done well, and what can't possibly work.
There is no evidence that it's possible to die directly from sleep deprivation.

Perhaps not directly, as the actual cause of death in FFI is unknown, but:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia
Since Apple controls the entire infrastructure, there's nothing preventing company employees from swapping out the proper keys with ones controlled by Apple or other parties.

Well internal controls could prevent that but since we don't know we'll assume they don't exist, print the headline:

Tim Cook is reading your iMessages right now!
It's geoip, so you don't need to have location services enabled to take part. And it's disabled on mobile.
The same kind of court order that told Lavabit to hand over their SSL key, one where the person of interest was communicating over iMessage. It would probably be accompanied by an NSL which would then prevent Apple from talking about it.
What're you getting at? The full quote is "It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury
Signifying nothing."
And the site uses https://github.com/tfrce/share-server so no user information/IP address/browser headers are shared with any third parties unless you click the buttons.
I wish you had linked the actual interview [0] because it took me way, way too long to find it in the linked article, which only offers two select quotes from said interview, and spends way too long praising the guy that got it for how rare a privilege it is.

[0] - http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2010/02/bill_watte...

Edit: I'm slightly mistaken -- one of the quotes is actually from his previous interview, here:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53216/mental-floss-exclusive-...
A subpoena?

I'm not aware of the protocol, but it may be that Apple could only do this the first time someone sent a message, when keys were established. It might not, I'm just speculating, but it sounds reasonable.

If Apple wanted the protocol to be insecure, they'd have just sent messages in plaintext over TLS and be done with it. The fact that Apple actively designed a reasonably secure, encrypted protocol is evidence that they wanted to protect users against themselves too (to the point where it didn't impact usability).
TypeScript appears to compile even in the face of undefined variables.

Just went to the playground and dropped a random jQuery sample in: http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground/#src=%24(%20documen...

You get squiggles yes, but you also get valid javascript. So it looks like you can paste random javascript into TypeScript and get it to compile. I went and tried with the actual compiler (to make sure it's not some artifact of the playground website), and confirmed you get a proper .js file out (and 2 messages, about $ being undefined).

Quick google makes it sound like getting rid of the squiggles / messages is pretty easy: http://stackoverflow.com/a/12755602/80572

I'm not sold on TypeScript yet (or any of the transpiled javascript languages, honestly), but this:

> False. Typescript will choke on most JavaScript files from the web.

Seems to be the actual false statement in this thread.
The actual interview:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53216/mental-floss-exclusive-...

It was submitted earlier today but never got to the front page.
No robots were killed in the making of this trailer.
Prove your claim. Cite something other than a picture you found on a blog.
Hasn't there been some discussion that law enforcement sends phones to apple to decrypt messages and the whole thing takes forever because Apple needs to apply some amount of brute force to it?
Same applies anytime you use external javascript, no? Or in fact, anytime you use AWS to host your site?
Actually, I think this is the new interview:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/53216/mental-floss-exclusive-...
Opting Out
I clicked through in a hurry to download it, as I am sure it will be a high-quality RDP client implementation, but then I remembered I have no PCs running Windows any more (and neither does my immediate family).
It was interesting how much he talked about coachability and providing training. He put more emphasis on that then every other speaker today
Ted Talks Are Lying to You
I'm assuming something akin to what I posted some months ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5921688
I'm sorry, there's no real threat? Lack of intelligence supporting a specific threat is very different from a general threat. Is the supposition here that because we don't know if anyone is currently targeting aviation that we shouldn't defend against those threats? Even if those threats existed in the near past?

I guess I'm not tracking the conclusion that there is no real threat. So there's no current intelligence showing any specific plots exist. That's good. Have there been plots in the past? Yes. Why did they stop? Does this mean there won't be any in the future?

Perhaps because airliners are a pITa to target? Is the threat actor really gone? Are they targeting something else?

I guess I find it hard to believe that the kind of wackjob so we've seen out there are suddenly kicking back and have retired from the terrorist scene. If the threat actor is still there, and previously target aviation, why did they stop?
That is circular reasoning.
If you are set up to take an occasional trip south, Vancouver is not far from Seattle or Bellingham, both of which have active developer communities. (I live in Bellingham).
Thanks for the down vote without a shred of evidence supporting your claim. Very typical of how Liberals argue.
@g3 this is super-mega awesome. 3 questions:

1. I know it is already available via the page, but would you please open-source it so others could contribute?

2. Thought I appreciate the apps being shown in the canvas in the resolution they are supposed to use, a full-screen option would be incredible. That way I could play space invaders the way it was meant to be played, in FreeDOS, in a JS emulator, in Firefox, on a mac. (That's just so wrong, it's right.)

3. Is that your real hair? (Sorry, just had to throw in a Real Genius quote.)
Does that mean they can view private pictures sent via iMessage?

I've wondered the same thing about Dropbox. If I were to open my dropbox at work, could my employer view private things in the dropbox? Even if I don't open the file, an icon will still load in the browser view.