skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people don't pay taxes because they are forced to do so by force, people pay taxes for a wide variety of reasons

Easy to test. Ask people if they would keep paying taxes if they weren't afraid of IRS (or equivalent). My experience: the answer is NO with most.

> A test case for you

The question is where this legitimacy of owning a land by the Queen comes from. The royal family simply declared certain territories their own, then used government forces (sponsored by taxation) to enforce this. So I'd argue it's the people who paid taxes who own the land, not the Queen. What you have, though, is a perverted situation in which people pay taxes to have their land taken away from them and then leased back. That's insane.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/02Letter-from-Apple-...

> "We have discovered the cause of this dramatic drop in bars, and it is both simple and surprising."

> "Upon investigation, we were stunned to find that the formula we use to calculate how many bars of signal strength to display is totally wrong. Our formula, in many instances, mistakenly displays 2 more bars than it should for a given signal strength. For example, we sometimes display 4 bars when we should be displaying as few as 2 bars."

People were actually meant to believe that Apple had a software bug for how they calculate signal strength all the way up to the 4th iPhone and instead not scratching AT&T's back making their network look better than it was.

You know, this Apple with the futuristic wireless testing facility: http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/16/inside-apples-black-lab-w...
Advanced Reflection in Pharo
TeX should be part of the HTML spec too.

Why not <tex>E = mc^2</tex>?
This is good and smart.
MathML is a valid compile target for TeX equations, it doesn't matter how easy it is to write by hand nor does it matter how verbose it is. It is intended to be an interchange format seldom seen by human eyes or written by human authors.
Senate Confirms Tom Wheeler As New FCC Chairman
"I'm not a bug, I'm a feature" is brilliant.
The iPad community is starting to give the amateur cyclist "weight weenies" a run for their money when it comes to inane banter about the weight of an object.

Here's an experiment. Divide 100 people into 4 groups: one group gets to compare the weight of a 1 pound block of lead and a 1.4 pound block of lead, the second gets 1.4 pounds and 1 pound, the third 1 and 1, the fourth 1.4 and 1.4.

See if anyone can actually tell which one weighs more.
In Epsilon's case those end users had direct consequences - their names and emails were compromised.

The end users of sites/apps/services using MongoHQ are probably unaffected in many cases since "a database" doesn't imply credit cards or even credentials or emails. The average database is probably just holding content for a site or app.

In probably close to all cases the end users would have no clue how they may be affected since they won't know what's in the databases, or what a database is.
Interestingly in Norwegian and Swedish "solsystem" can mean any planetary system, but if you say "solsystemet" i.e. "_the_ Solar system" you typically refer to our own. http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solsystem
It is possible to withdraw at this ATM. Well to be honest I don't know if Robocoin enabled the withdrawal option on this one installation, but the one they demo'ed at the Bitcoin 2013 conference in San Jose was definitely able to process withdrawals. As a matter of fact, I saw an attendee selling well above $1000 of Bitcoins and completely emptying the machine of its cash... It was definitely working :)
Well, actually I used to develop UI intensive MFC applications for quite some years, and absolutely loved it! Not that different from developing for Android, and as I remember it the Visual Studio was (may be still is? haven't used it for years) a far better development environment back then than the Android Studio is today. But may be I just remember being 10 years younger :) Disclaimer - I'm still a Windows user.
The time I spoke with the inmates at San Quentin State Prison
As a hibernating vine reviewer, I guess I also disagree.

I was offered mostly books to review. You sometimes get an early print full of spelling errors, which was quite a pain to read, especially if the book was not to your liking (most weren't to my liking). So, although I didn't pay for the book, I have spent a few hours fighting the urge to use it as compost. No way I will think more favourably about the book. However, I did spend some time thinking about the books I read and did try to write useful and balanced reviews because I felt as if I was paid to do so, and that it wouldn't be fair not to. This is despite not having to review every item you receive.

Only once I managed to get some earphones for reviewing . they were terrible compared to what I would normally buy, and so would have never bought them otherwise. And that was that I wrote in my review. Would I be more negative if I had to buy the earphones? I don't think so. I'd return them to Amazon and probably not write a review at all.

I stopped reviewing for Vine after a short while. Since I couldn't give or throw the stuff they sent me, I imagined me drowning in a pile of terrible, misspelt books after going deaf by rubbish earphones. I actually don't know how I got to be a Vine reviewer in the first place. I didn't have that many reviews (less than 10 when I started, if I remember correctly). Anyway, to begin with it felt like a honour (and a chance to bag free goodies) and at the end it was a chore (and discussions with myself whether it's moral to throw the stuff away) and I stopped.
If you write good and positive reviews, you can expect free stuff and its been going on for a long time.

I remember reviewing Java & XML book in 2000. Author of the book mailed me a free copy of the book when next version of the book is released and asked if I can review the new version.
Apologies, I didn't read the spec before hand. I thought you were suggesting that the format have fixed sized fields rather then fields with tagged lengths. In that case I'd agree with you.
I love the semantics heroes here on HN.
Ummm, no. It is part of the html5 spec, under embedded content.

http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/embedded-conten...
They are probably totally pissed.
Patrick White: Within a Budding Grove by J. M. Coetzee
This might explain why some of the reviews make absolutely no sense at all.
So why not just say we would like to do this but don't have time ?

The impression I got was that they would never implement it.
Customers: stripe, Red Bull, Kickstarter.. and MongoHQ. How meta. This hack could get a lot more interesting depending on how much code they could have obtained from those companies.
Cheer up, kid. That Justin probably didn't even know what you were talking about. Calculus is not for everybody. :-j
Extra mass makes itself more known the longer you hold it (e.g. bags of groceries). As the NYT reviewer said: 'My hand didn’t cramp up while grasping the iPad Air for an hour while watching movies or playing games'.
I'm curious why they mention uploaded SSH keys. I presume they mean cases where SSH keypairs have been uploaded? The public key is public, and in fact anyone can use the github API to pull the verified public keys for any user in the system, http://developer.github.com/v3/users/keys/. If there is code uploaded with private keys in it, then it's likely there are other security problems in the organization.
The engine obviously does support javascript, so an alternative is ensure extensions can "plug in" these custom elements and implement them in JS in a separate sandbox regardless of whether JS is enabled or disabled for the page itself.

Less code with direct OS access sounds good to me.
"This is pretty cool and all but I don't really see the use case for a btc ATM"

Every HN thread about Bitcoin is flooded by critics complaining it is hard to quickly and easily purchase bitcoins. Well that's probably the major use case that an ATM fulfills perfectly!
Not sure why is it the most demanded, but i know quite a lot of people who started learning programming with Python. It is the second most recommended language after JS to start programming, this view is also reinforced by many MOOC as well.
I can't see why they don't just restart the cursor at the beginning when the collection goes up a size in the middle of an iteration.

Encode the size of the collection in the first 8 bits of the cursor value, and when the client gives you an cursor value with the first 8 bits set to a smaller size than the current size of the collection, start it over from scratch with the new size as the top 8 bits.

If the collection has shrunk, no big deal, just keep going from where the client was because of the mentioned properties of using a reversed bit set.
There's no official mention, but a few jailbreak developers have specifically talking about its existence. (MuscleNerd and Steffan Esser if my memory serves)
larger pointers mean more ram is taken up by programs, its something that's a given with a transition from a 32bit to a 64bit architecture.
Is that a meaningful distinction? <img>, <video>, <audio> and <math> are all on this page: http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/CR/embedded-content-0....
What Are You The World's Foremost Authority Of?
Yeah, I don't know why they don't just use Khamenei's quote when trying to establish the Iranian government's antagonistic standpoint with regards to Israel. Especially considering that the Ayatollah is the real power in Iran and the cancer analogy is much more visceral.

Still don't see how this is evidence of propaganda in light of the myriad legitimate quotes are out there that are equal in meaning. Poor journalism, perhaps.
Is that the correct test, though? Ask the guy if he would take the job if he wasn't starving: He'll say 'No'. So in a system where he has no recourse to some safety net, he's not acting voluntarily in any case where the alternative is a type of negative consequence which he'd like to mitigate. I'd rather not be doing law, for example, I'd rather be reading on the beach, but the alternative could be living on social assistance (which is a definitely a thing to fear for me), still I wouldn't say that I'm involuntarily doing my job.

Maybe you should ask, instead: "Why do you pay taxes?" And allow the respondents to give you a wider set of reasons. Maybe some will say it is out of fear of the IRS, but some people might not say that, or say something different. It's still a 'test' of the matter, but it's a less leading test and it's the sort of test that follows from what I've said.

Sorry, the Queen test case was just for fun. Wanted to see what you'd say. Yeah, the Queen cannot legitimately own anything by that conception, since it is all ultimately tainted by a long historical process of beating out competitors on the British Isles.
In Praise of Haskell
XHTML _was_ right. People were just too lazy to close there tags and did not really understood what would the consequences of not having a robust and formal way to extend the language.

HTML went the same way other popular languages (e.g.: VB, PHP, Perl), they got broad adoption because the compiler/interpreter/renderer would be too kind in working hard to fix user mistake instead of reporting them.

And then, when they tried to fix it, the same user base complain (despite being bitten many times by the language) that it should stay like it is, because it has always been like that.

When bad habits became traditions, you are really in a bad position.
"In fact, I think I'm the noob chorus. And instead of trailblazing a path for you, I've become stuck in the first bramblebush."

You are not alone. :)
To be fair though, 40% isn't a trivial difference for something that you spend a lot of time holding up in the air.

I find that with phones and pads, it's more than there's sort of a threshold, and those over it feel "heavy" and just sort of unpleasant to hold. Below that threshold, lighter can be nice, but it isn't critical, and it can be a negative if it makes something feel cheap. [This is the sort of thing that makes me strongly avoid buying mail-order... "feel" matters a lot in many cases, and it's often very hard to judge from specs.]
Right there with you. I'm baffled how anyone could not smell that.
Your opinion predicts the following:

- No person would ever sell themselves into slavery (OK, this is only implied).

- No person would ever kill themselves for the life insurance.

Do you see any problems with that?

Allow me to suggest that if your health is worth an infinite amount of money to you, you must have terrible relationships with your family.
Wouldn't that happen anyway if they do that next year?
That would be a pretty good argument if MathML weren't in the HTML5 spec
NASA's quantum lab could be giant leap for computing
This particular invisible hand has been hamstrung by malignant forces.

Thanks for saying this, it's fits in well with my sense that Capitalism (and Communism, and so on), like all -isms, is faith-based. People say the same thing about religious texts, that televangelists are reading it wrong, or that screwy evangelicals are taking the wrong parts too seriously, or a serial killer on a mission from God didn't pay attention to some other part. The problem is that the framework can be so radically misinterpreted, and this is a fundamental design flaw. It just so happens that Capitalism is the Western world's state religion.

Now we see that Adam Smith actually has myriad of hands, and they all have to be working properly for the system to work as intended. Never anything about the hand itself, only its steerer, or that we are experiencing the fruit of a poisoned tree.
OK, thanks for answering!
> If the cost of maintaining that power is some hypocrisy...

Don't be stupid. The cost of maintaining "that power" is not hypocrisy, even though the article implies that it is. The cost is better represented by $700 billion per year in military spending (plus the $50 billion in foreign aid), and the only reason why this is sufficient is that the system is indeed "legitimated by liberal ideas" (if it was say Islamic law that had to be maintained, the costs would be much higher). Hypocrisy detracts from the acceptance of these ideas, and increases the cost of maintaining the system.

> then I say: there is nothing wrong with hypocrisy.

Well at least you are not hypocritical.
Just to explain the joke: Math is special to us nerds.
No, I disagree that we should be asking "Why do you pay taxes?" because this is an open ended question which leaves a lot of room for speculation and asks for an opinion, not an action. Action is what matters. People might convince themselves it's actually a good idea to pay taxes if it's inevitable anyway. But if you ask them "Would you pay it?" then it's a question about an action - yes I would, or no I wouldn't. I don't see why would a person lie.
Heh. Try buying it:

"The resource you are trying to access cannot be read, due to the following reason:
No read operation available.
Please try the following:

Make sure you really want to access this file. I mean, is it really that important in the big scheme of things?"
What I've seen a lot of is drivers marking my ride as complete when they get within a few blocks of my destination. I originally wrote it off to the driver trying to earn a better rating in light of heavy traffic or navigation difficulties, but it seems to be becoming more routine. In a few cases they've accepted another fare before they even drop me off.

Recently I saw this for the first time on a trip to SFO, which actually makes a lot of sense - since its a fixed price, they're not giving anything up by marking my ride complete as soon as they hit the exit for SFO.
Russia Attempts to Spy on G20 Participants with Flash Drives and Phone Chargers
We get a list of the things he got right - the "true positives." But no list of the things he got wrong, whether they are false positives or false negatives.
From Wikipedia:

"Hypocrisy is the state of falsely claiming to possess virtuous characteristics that one lacks. Hypocrisy involves the deception of others and is thus a kind of lie."

And lies are basically bad.
So the Chrome team should implement this because...
I wonder if the wording is wonky, but the meaning is technically correct: Not the data itself, but rather key management. The first two methods, 4-digit or complex password, will store a password-encoded key on iCloud. The second "don't create a security code" will not store a password-encoded key on iCloud. The key will instead be transferred via LAN, thus why it needs approval from another local device that has it.

This is just a hypothesis, I wonder if it's true?
For me, this is a key question. Another one -- would the US population allow drone strikes to take out terrorists within its own borders?
A new privacy aware data storage platform (indiegogo)
Sad that you felt you had to explain the joke :(
Because CircleCI stores private keys for the sake of deploying to your servers when your build passes.

It's separate from your actual codebase having any private keys, which I agree would be a Really Bad Thing.
Disclaimer: I haven't used MongoHQ.

Yesterday, I decided to go with MongoHQ for my current project and this morning I saw they got hacked. Irony aside, couple of months back I decided to check AppFog (PaaS) and the next day they were acquired. :)

I believe this is a great time to become a new user of MongoHQ - security has been tightened, experience has been built. The "storm is over" and the chances of a new "storm" in near future (with the measures these guys have taken) have decreased substantially.

I think they reacted pretty impressively, once the breach was detected.

As much as I understood, the biggest flaw in their operations was the fact that many/all internal/support systems were exposed publicly and not within a VPN.

Still, they were around for just about 2 years, which isn't that much time, after all.
It would be impractical in a hospital. It's relatively heavy and where would you put it when you don't need it without risking theft? And how would you prevent unauthorized access to hospital records when stolen? I think the whole tablet at hospitals thing is a fantasy.
Nick's (first) book is hands down the best resource on job-hunting and interviewing I have ever found.
Bootstrap or VC
Yap Spotify uses Python. They had few talks at RocketSpace in SF on their use of Python and Big Data analysis. Big Data has definitely helped with Python uptake. There are many great packages for scientific computing with Python like SciPy, NumPy et al.
This is very likely. I'd guess that the likely target was a MongoHQ customer, and that MongoHQ getting hacked was collateral damage as part of an attempt on one of their users.
I've long been a fan of functional languages, though I've found them wanting in any sort of production environment. This is mostly due to the lack of the compositional semantics that are needed for a team of four to six developers to simultaneously build an application or product.

How does Haskell address this issue?
Sure, if you read all the doc and stumble on this page.. but for a newcomer it's damn surprising to see existing code not working. It's like adding jquery and having random links disappearing.
"We believe the needs of MathML can be sufficiently met by libraries like MathJax and doesn't need to be more directly supported by the platform. In areas where libraries like MathJax are not good enough, we'd love to hear feedback about what APIs we would need to expose so that MathJax, et al, can create an awesome MathML implementation."

This, coupled with the fact that WebKit MathML wasn't up to snuff, is a pretty good rationale IMO.

Standards-compliance is a means to an end (interoperability), doesn't mean browsers should implement every niche spec that someone comes up with. I want my VRML first, at least ;)
Absolutely, give it a go. It works for all Apple products. It works best in an Apple store...
This article is being hypocritical in itself.

The main reason that the US is losing face is not because it can't maintain the hypocritical position it had before. The main reason is that most of the revealed behaviour of the NSA is either illegal or entirely unethical. This goes far beyond hypocrisy.

> It may attempt, as the former head of U.S. counterintelligence Joel Brenner has urged, to draw distinctions between China’s allegedly unacceptable hacking, aimed at stealing commercial secrets, and its own perfectly legitimate hacking of military or other security-related targets.

How is hacking another country to steal military or security related secrets ever "perfectly legitimate"? It may appear to be so from the US side, but it is never going to be legitimate from the other side.

And I'm sure that the UN (which has been founded by many countries, not just the US) has something to say about this as well.
Because that's not possible to style with CSS.
Probably because they're creating their own mobile framework and want to stand out a bit and not be cookie-cutter.
A very fascinating story indeed! For people already working in the security industry it might look easy because they used very common attack vectors but the generic public have no idea of these things and they are the typical victims.
I believe the ad-hiding feature in this app is optional as well, so you can have it let ads through, to be managed by ABP as you like.
It depends on where the "different behavior" originates from, but in the case of traits like olfactory acuity that probably have a large genetic component, it's related to the general idea of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_diversity. I am also reminded of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_fundamental_theorem_....
Was Adobe one of their customers? :P
Please everyone, stop acting so holy about "the spec". The HTML spec isn't sacred. It's very reasonable to discuss it, even after a feature has been approved.

How else will we improve the existing features? If we don't change existing things, the browser will stay the stinking ball of backwards compatible code it is today.
I think this cannot be trully measured without top-secret data from other nations as well, not likely to be shared with the US. E.g. what if the US war with China was averted just by timely preparation? No-one knows for sure except some Chinese in power positions. Something in relation to USSR? some of people taking the decisions at the time are already dead taking some facts with them, thus impossible to evaluate
Even easier than checking the source code, you could use a program like Fiddler2 to watch the network traffic from your browser, to double-check that the extension isn't sending home any private data.
Adobe hack was way bigger than originally thought
> Actually, not really. If I have a quality of life issue and I can improve my quality of life for $500, I will weigh the pros and cons and probably go for it. If it costs $500,000, I'll suck it up until someone innovates the cost down to something I can afford.

Good luck sucking up "take the procedure or die." Somehow, the "free market is best! Free market is king! Free market loves you!"-crowd always seems to ignore this not so small part of healthcare. It is always just "I don't need this procedure, so I just wait until it gets cheaper and suck it up until then!" .. yeah, sure.
Dell littertude
How do you explain Google Scholar or the Research feature in Google Docs?
I don't particularly care that it's in the spec, personally. MathML is horrid. This page covers it well: http://aiju.de/rant/XML/MathML
Doubtless built from a massive array of Signetics 25120 WOM chips.
I will often instantly move on from items with no reviews, while stay on the page to carefully read reviews otherwise, and often the negative reviews will clearly point out downsides that won't affect me, or at least make me think the item is ok for the price, so I'm not that surprised.

Certain mediocrity is sometimes preferable to the uncertainty of no reviews.