skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With the pilots getting away with it.
No, in the past, only if you were a tin-foil hat wearing paranoid.

We expected our government to uphold the law, specifically the 4th Amendment, which protects us from unlawful searches.
If they do not comply we will be forced to rebase all your mails, they belong to us.
This reminds me a lot of a webapp I built called Whisper:

http://zyu.me:5000/
https://github.com/tlhunter/whisper

You aren't limited to just one mile though, you can change the loudness, which affects the duration, and it's anonymous.
Every President is supposed to be that kind of moral leader.
#Westgate Mall #Attack Suspect is still tweeting - Samantha Lewthwaite #KOT
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Some people are fairly content in their jobs, but would like to just test the waters - they may contact a recruiter do their legwork.

And some companies like to go the contract-to-perm route, rather than do a direct hire; they can't/don't want to do the screening themselves or the hiring company is willing to pay a premium to let the recruiter assume the risk during the "probationary period" or. . .
The confidence economy
You actually need to test your app on the lower deployment target.

There are quite a few crash bugs that are specific to, say iOS 6.0.1, but work fine in 6.0 and 6.0.2. And there are definite style and layout issues when using UIAppearanceProxy stuff on iOS 6 and iOS 5 (iOS 5 having a larger number of bugs related to this API).

Supporting both iOS 6 and iOS 5 is actually hard work and days, if not weeks of additional testing and bug reports.

Supporting iOS 7 and iOS 6 is much harder, since you have to have two different designs — you'll need separate code paths to style the app nicely on both versions.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Like, your whole post is false
Its to prevent "Grandma Sally" from investing her retirement savings in high risk start-up because she isn't "financially sophisticated" to understand the risks.
I remember this being elegantly demonstrated here:
http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/3869/what-is-the-int...
This is more of a problem with the English language and its lack of a gender-neutral alternative.
PGP is the best option, but makes it harder for the recipient. Perhaps added security = added hassle, and there's no way around that.

Here's how to protect GDrive files:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6644888
> It turns out Stallman was just (far) ahead of his time -- as usual.

Indeed, maybe moreso then we think. I remember hearing he didn't have a cell phone either.
This is how we introduce it to our undergrads. Using the faces is a great way to demonstrate model reduction and snapshot method as well as a glimpse into one of the algorithms used in face recognition software.
Ah, but paper letters are delivered by the USPS, and thus not secure against NSA spying ether.
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Creating a new programming language is MUCH easier than creating a novel video codec that beats H.264.
Here's an argument that it's protectionism for the wealthy:

http://undergroundeconomist.com/post/22847068021
ECHELON was an open secret, with EU parliament reports. We knew how the 5 members avoided the legal problems of spying on their own citizens - A just hands B, C, D and E a list of names to spy on.

Here's a report from 2000 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/820758.stm)

Here's a report from 2001 (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/may/29/qanda.janeperro...)

Risk assessment has always been part of cryptography.
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I said I don't have issues downloading video and playing with another player in low bandwith scenarios.
An effective editor for collaboratively creating well organized documents?
normalizing to an arbitrary value still makes it arbitrary.
I'm logged in as root to a headless server that doesn't even run a GUI. I pretty much only install software from the Ubuntu repository. The server is only used by me.

I think it's okay if I log in as root if I want.
It sounds like Microsoft is trying to market him as the next Jonathan Ive. Which is not to say he isn't.
What do you think? This app seems to be a quite effective one! I'm not affiliated with them unfortunately ;)
this looks fantastic. thanks for releasing it.

the UI is quite polished
You can always encrypt on the client, so the Google data centers are just pushing encrypted blobs around.

It makes like a bit more complex, but PGP can be used for mail and here's how to protect GDrive files: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6644888

Remember these revelations date from a year or two ago, who knows what they're up to now?
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The site http://www.darkmail.info/ is served over http and not https. If someone has access to the pipe, it would be easy get the email addresses of people who submit their email addresses at that site.
Sure.

No one is taking Rails away from you. I don't think it's bullshit. There are use cases for each. I think Meteor offers up a good debate about "how we do development these days", and attempts to answer them, albeit early. Meteor is still new, and it's path is currently bumpy. But it tries, and innovation is a wonderful thing, that's what Rails gave us early on. The sad thing about Rails is it largely stagnated for some time while JS M.V.-whatevers sprouted. It couldn't solve realtime application building problems and provided no means for a client side implementation. And for the most part still does (although 4 supports SSEs). You just have to do so much glueing. One more: what about the inherently non-threadsafe nature of rubygems? How will Rails overcome being a threadsafe framework when it's dependancy mechanism has no safety check? I digress. These are solved problems on node, and it's something Rails still stagnates with. My point here is: Rails has issues too, big ones.

I can see Meteor either evolving nicely, or fading away. Keep in mind that it already has a growing community and development is backed with solid dollars & a passionate team.

I think the author is attempting to elude to the cargo-cult that hit Rails will migrate to Meteor. In time I believe many will. I think both communities will stay strong, and after enough time will begin to look like each other. Rails could learn a thing or two from Meteor. And conversely Meteor the same.
Exactly. He can always promise to pardon every individuals that steps forward and provides the evidence necessary to shutdown Guantanamo.

Right now, it's continued operation relies entirely on state secrecy laws. If Obama or some future president realizes that it is that one provision that is protecting illegal actions, he can promise to pardon anyone of the laws they have to break to expose those illegal actions.

One of the biggest problems with our whistleblowing laws is that if you have to break laws to make things right, you may be seen as righteous, but you'll still be prosecuted for the laws you had to break to accomplish that. We're still a nation of laws and the only laws that can overturn that is the constitutional power to pardon. The only crime the president cannot pardon is impeachment. Any individual that isn't in an impeachable position could expose wrongdoing if the president had their back.
His abhorrent project. This is not something to be proud of. Being a professional means answering to a set of ethics before acting like a kindergartner who's proud of his macaroni picture.
I like how they think the problem is that it smells like cat piss.

The problem is that it smells like cat piss.
Yeah. Back then we could have used a credit line of about $2M. That would have helped. They were telling me how grateful I should be for a $50K credit line. At the same time I was consulting at a $8K/day rate doing perf work for web sites. Thanks for the "help" SVB. Bank of America, for all their crap, was actually more reasonable. No love for BofA but SVB was useless in my opinion.
What is the point? If they can tap the cables it seems like owning your own just causes a false sense of security.
Power over USB
Not to the users who sit around watching swirlies and beachballs. They don't care what rad, flavor of the month framework you used to build your software. Websites and desktop apps were more responsive in 1998 than they are today*

*In general and not supported by facts of any kind other than my own anecdotia.
IIRC, Poland was the EU country that was the focus of attention.

Skimming Wikipedia's most definitely totally truthy article on the subject [1] (actually, it has a lot of citations, so it should be easy to verify), the UK's only alleged black site was the US base on Diego Garcia, which is "UK", but not "basement in London".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_site#Suspected_black_sit...

Edit (T+18 minutes): Wikipedia lists numerous other European countries as possibly being involved. Information is really sketchy -- they are called "black" sites. Another question is which officials in the lucky host countries even knew about it.
I always like the ideas of these beautifully made single purpose applications.

Inevitably I try them out, and within minutes go back to terminal, fire up emacs knowing that I can run a shell command, debug, grep/sed my output, write my documentation all in the one place. My MBA is just an emacs terminal and browser when working.

christ. I sound like an emacs fanboy. I promise I am not. I think.
How long ago did you guys try it? Do you think there's any chance habits have changed in the meantime?
I definitely remember Twinkle! I used it daily.
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I must be very inexperienced - what's the problem with driving on the interstate with the windows down?
Great to hear you say this Daniel. A while ago I did find an issue in your code, sent a pull request, but the pull request was closed without merging and a note saying that 'it had been corrected in the tutorial', which it subsequently was.

Not the greatest way to encourage submissions I thought.

That said, it's great you're doing this project - keep up the good work.
Your claim of "IPv6 support" is inaccurate:

- There are no AAAA records on {www,ns1,ns2,smtp}.misk.com
- It cannot query other name servers using IPv6:
https://www.misk.com/tools/#dns/ipv6-only.tlund.se
In that case, the link in joelgrus' comment raises an interesting point. If protecting people is the end goal, why are we allowing people to file their own taxes when they could face jail time as a result?
Did you do this through the PNI Media API?

http://developer.pnimedia.com/
Your welcome! We did a second feature release of our Ruby version today that has even more UI goodness. Basically we've added the ability to group categories of monitors under one dashboard. You can then switch between categories using carousel controls or direct from drop down. We're hoping to open source this version soon and crossing our fingers that the Ruby version will see more collaboration from outside developers.
This sucks.
We don't need some new "exciting" personal helper shit, what we need on hacker news is exciting object recognition algorithms, better nature language processing module, high accuracy text detection and recognition in natural scenes.
Why are there so many people building crappy stupid things that no one really need?
I'm sure most reasonable people would agree that (simple) unicode characters are fine, but what possible use is there for having control characters in a filename, like newline or carriage return? (Or if you're really evil, beep). If you remove "special" characters from the filesystem, you also remove a lot of complexity from other parts of the system for dealing with pathological corner cases. It's a win for everyone.
I like this. I would imagine this takes some of the stress out of Rob's daily life and will allow him to focus on creating new videos. He could be the next Jon Galloway! (Who Wants To Be a Pluralsight Millionaire?!)
Indeed. I'm simply asking that we call a spade a spade.
He's cool with it. Thanks for digging that up.
Perhaps if you didn't have such a selfish definition of 'our'?

Also, are you less than 15 years old? Because most of the social changes brought about by the internet have happened in the last 20 years or so. The first web browser has only just hit 20.
Thank you Snowden.
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IMHO Mozilla should build it from source and give it to Cisco for distribution.
You can up vote once.

That's enough.
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PCA's are cool but I find it maddening when people convert sparse data (like counts of how many words are shared between documents) into dense distance data to use it.

You can shortcut the whole process by finding the smallest non zero eigenvalue/eigenvector pairs of the graph laplacian (Fiedler vectors). You need to use a sparse solver that can find the smallest values/vectors instead of the larges (like LOBCPG) but that is faster anyways.
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The marketing system they're using is Mailchimp which I'm sure is also easy to access for anyone who might've been able to snoop emails off the HTTPS version of DarkMail.info
Yeah, in more civilized countries the government calculates it for you.
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I have a problem with this explanation, because on my grandmother's ancient electromechanical clock (with radium painted hands), the snooze alarm interval was user-defined between a few minutes to almost an hour. I'm leaning towards someone cleverly using the numeric rollover to trigger the interval, and then every subsequent digital clock cargo culting the design.
There's an obvious reason for Einstein to have gotten stuck: the subject of his later research, a quantum theory of gravity, really was too hard. The problem remains open today.
I always wish iOS allows me to set the snooze interval...
Some municipalities mandate the addition of sodium fluoride in their public water systems. Sodium fluoride is a poison, so it's not necessarily accurate to claim they have 'regulated away' poisoned tap water.
I thought it was to disorient you a bit. If you typically snooze three times you know you have to be out of the bed at 8:00 sharp (with 7:30 original). Easy for your brain to latch on to that. Now with 9 mins…
In any negotiation, the party that first throws out a number gets to "frame" the value in their favor. I.e. you should take advantage of the opportunity.
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I was responding particularly to:

"Additionally, users aren't required to install scary-looking computer hardware into PCI slots."
I think it is quite rational to be cynical about it, but before you completely write it off, consider what the cynics said about email when it was small. Basically email was characterized as a way for nerds to exchange jokes that either everyone had already heard, or nobody understood.

I recall that in 1979 exactly nobody in my family (except me) had a network email account (on USC-ECLC no less) and they didn't care. What my family had worked for them and it was just sillyness on my part to think that email added anything to the mix.

What mattered though was that enough people had email accounts that they could get more done, more efficiently, than people without email. Every year that converted more and more people to the idea that email was something they should have, by 1999 everyone thought they should have one even if they weren't sure why.

I see similar thinks with a reconstructed email system that is free from surveillance. People being able to joke about things or discuss things and not find themselves unable to board a flight because they joked about something the TSA considered suspicious. You and I may not have had that experience yet but folks have, and it is getting more common not less common. We just had a law enforcement officer drive up and shoot a kid dead because he was carrying a toy gun. He thought the gun might be real. I say that "Clubs in NYC are the bomb!" I don't want someone detaining me for four hours asking me what exactly I meant by that.

As few as 3 years ago I would not have considered a system like this something that "regular" people would want to use, and that would inhibit adoption and use. But now I am not so sure about that.

I agree that the 'outrage' is a minority, but it is coming from more people than it ever has before. At some point the minority is large enough to be a 'useful subset' and once it becomes self supporting I've seen otherwise "useless" products become part of everyday life. It is that change, that I wonder about here.
Even more insane - using pattern jump commands to create animations :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeCP6LteWJo
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I don't use Meteor, but If I recall correctly, when we added client-side composition to our blog [1], I had to capture the scroll position when I pushed a new entry into the history stack. When that entry is popped back off, I manually move the scroll position since the browser doesn't know to do that itself.

I think it more or less works. If you scroll down and click one of the older entries and then press back, it should remember where you were in the bigger page.

Kind of a pain in the rear, frankly. It was sort of fun doing the client-side composition, and I like the immediacy of it, but I'm left a little apprehensive.

[1] http://www.techempower.com/blog/
The recruiter who places unsuitable people is not going to get repeat business.

A recruiter develops a sustainable business by making placements that please both the job seeker and the employer.

Of course, this is true in general for business. Creating win-win agreements is a lot more profitable in the long run than ones where one party is the loser.
Compiling a list of website monitoring tools
What do you use to monitor your website uptime and performance? Pingdom or something else?
I think there is category (d)-people who see that this offers possibilities that are only now being glimpsed.

Low/no trust contracts, an inflation hedge that is instant, and spendable and transferrable like cash (hi Argentina), autonomous agents that can transact freely (reddit.com/r/bitcointip), brain wallets, the ability to transfer > 10k without paperwork, micro-payments are finally viable... Just to name what my limited mind can conjure. Not to mention the things it seems like you're dismissing as reasons to be extremely bullish--that the transfer fees of Western Union is on the order of 10% and paypal freezes funds.
We use Pingdom for some things but the UI is a bit awkward and drill-down analytics doesn't seem possible.
"0.5% for a retailer is an incredible amount of money."
It's not nothing, but Amazon makes pretty healthy margins on a lot of what it sells. It's $.50 on a $100 purchase, which is cheap for an Amazon leader.

It's just really smart. Surely less than the difference between Prime shipping costs and the annual subscription fee, and with the same purpose: chipping away at the reasons people would buy anything anywhere else ever.
> "Or maybe, since the clock is counting (typically) the power cycles from the wall socket, it's because [...]

> Engineer's comment: Nice try, bub, but clocks don't count that way.

What? Some clocks do count that way. That's why you can buy converters.

http://www.electric-clocks.co.uk/60hz50hzfrequenc.html

> Thiis module takes the 60Hz input and produces a 50Hz output to ensure the clock keeps the proper time. The module is supplied with 9vac via a UL listed power supply adapter. The clock has had it's coil rewound to work at 9vac.

> No changes to the movement - no altered wheelwork. If the clock is ever required to run in the UK it is as simple as providing 9vac from a UK 50Hz power supply and bypassing the convertor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_clock#Synchronous_ele...

> A synchronous electric clock does not contain a timekeeping oscillator like a pendulum, but instead counts the oscillations of the AC utility current from its wall plug to keep time.

Here's a nice page telling you how to build one. It has plans for both 50 Hz and 60 Hz. http://sound.westhost.com/clocks/sync.html
This still skips the reasoning for even an imprecise 9 or 10 minutes. What information guided that decision? Ignoring the precision is a separate practical issue.
I'd be interested to hear what a practitioner of this would do starting from a renowned piece with some actual complexity. It seems like there's a lot of potential for cool effects, but it's held back a bit by compositions that don't use it for much.

There's stuff out there that has a frenetic line paired with a sparse melody that might work well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK5wWD1k7T0
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> There is really no evidence so far that this massive surveillance apparatus is being used in a widespread way to abusively target Americans.

Widespread? Maybe not strictly widespread, but it is being abused. There was that guy recently, I forget the beef the government had with him, they couldn't justify a warrant to search his laptop, so they just waited for him to travel. They put a flag on him, and when he came up registered to fly out of the country they seized and searched his laptop when he crossed back in through the no rights zone, AKA the border.

Everything accelerates, and if it isn't yet "widespread," it will be. It's certainly being done more than zero times.
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All i can say to your heayed comment is that it is a good thing that you're not in a position of power to act in such a way that would sever the worlds ties with the US.
The most hilarious thing about this is how uncannily your claims mirror those that Rails had to deal with when it was new - people saw the easy-to-get-rolling-with scaffolds and assumed Rails couldn't make your app look like anything else.

It took the better part of two years for people to stop saying so. The "smart, sensible people" condescendingly repeating "you need more than a _scaffold._" It was just as amazing then.
They've provided us with services we've struggled to get elsewhere. E.g. not having to personally guarantee our company's credit cards and being able to give read-only account access to our accountant.
A shame you cannot get to the old link in the article.

https://web.archive.org/web/20021001101305/http://users.rcn....
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Definitely not from straw man land. I remember many people, both that I knew personally and people on the internet that would extol the virtues of the G4 and G5 processors. Especially as Intel started to widen the gap in terms of clock speed, they would explain how clock speed doesn't matter and that the Apple processors do so much more work per clock cycle. Then after the switch to Intel the same people would talk about how great the Intel processors are and refer to how fast the processors could be clocked. Its no longer relevant to anything, but they were a very real group of people.
"Right tools for the job"

Meteor is not (and rails probably isn't either) the right tool for a simple blog like that. jekyll or something like that is.

The fact that you used an inappropriate tool for a blog and then say on the blog how you use that tool for all your clients casts a shadow on your professionalism I feel.