skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it increasingly hard to relate with the "We should dampen our judgement of these people, because they are poor and their families are starving" argument.

Are you referring to Somali pirates or pirates in general?
Would like to see payment processing + welcome emails addons

And please don't add launching soon page, its unnecessary. It's a user management service, not an swiss army knife
Real-time Applications and will Django adapt to it?
I'm really interested in seeing some of those examples. If you don't remember the links, can you point me in the general direction?
That would make a dramatic difference to all kinds of criminal trial. Will it be legal for the police to question you while you're under an MRI? I don't think the answer for the special case of a decryption key will be any different from the general case (did you kill X, or whatever).
Dwight Merriman of MongoDB on Leading by Enthusiasm
> Perhaps if you didn't have such a selfish definition of 'our'?

I believe the rather selfish definition of 'times' was rather the issue I was pointing out.
> I don't understand the whole 'don't host in US'-thing. It doesn't make sense.

By hosting in the US (or with something that the US claims jurisdiction over) you leave yourself open to other US agencies getting access, sometimes with valid legal documentation, or by just seizing the servers.

There's nothing you can do to stop the NSA having access, so you may as well assume that they've got it anyway. If you're worries about a targeted attack from NSA you're toast anyway, and if you're worries about them slurping the data - well, they're going to do it, so you can try to use encryption and hope everyone communicating with you is also encrypting. Obviously, this leaves you with metadata, which the NSA is also slurping.

But I agree that people saying "don't host in the US" seem to have it backwards quite often.
I would like to see Casablanca in the next rounds as a good C++ contender:

http://casablanca.codeplex.com/
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s New NSA Bill Will Codify and Extend Mass Surveillance
That's a problem with the HDMI standard, not with the monitor specifically. The cheaper random manufacturer monitors do things like run the electronics out of spec to get away with things like higher resolution support or 120hz on IPS. Yes, just use DisplayPort, it's just better.
You described my own situation almost perfectly: Late 20s, self taught programmer, good amount of professional experience, right down to building a compiler in my spare time. My motivation towards programming has always been mathematical abstraction, rather than engineering. Some time ago, I decided that I need to either a) get payed to work on whatever I want, whenever I want, or b) get a job that isn't mentally taxing, and keep programming on the side.

I've picked b.

I'm about to leave my job to take a 12 month volunteering role in SE Asia, with some small web-development contracts to keep me going. It will give me time to think seriously about the future of some side-projects, and generally, about what I want to come back to.

I'm certainly not saying that this is what you should do, but just that it is an option.
This is a video of the founder of Watsi speaking at startup school.

It was the best speech IMHO. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlT3UhC7NwQ
I always enjoy the self-referential sequences.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Line_Encyclopedia_of_Integer...
EFF is indeed not alone in needing support. For development, The Truecrypt audit is a good example, as well is the tor project. Freedom box is a good third.

ACLU and EFF has joined their forces on several issues. EFF legal support is about Internet civil liberties cases, while ACLU has the broader scope of "the Constitution and laws of the United States". For example, ACLU domain covers anti-war protesters. When one is considering where to send donation money, a larger or small scope has both benefits and drawbacks.

tptacek, if you want to read more about EFF and their involvement around encryption and security researchers, I do want to point you to Wikipedia for more information. An example is the EFF DES cracker article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFF_DES_cracker. There is also https://www.eff.org/issues/coders as linked on their website. A lawsuit that might be interesting to read could be https://w2.eff.org/IP/DMCA/Felten_v_RIAA/20010813_eff_felten... .

EFF had also a role during the Export of cryptography events. There is numerous good books/articles on the subject, include a somewhat sparse Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_.... Eff has more details about their role on their own website at https://www.eff.org/issues/export-controls .

One could argue that that was the past and do not reflect today. Hotz might disagree a bit on that subject, as well as each time someone has had "anti-drm circumvention laws" being thrown at them for doing security research. I personally have not forgotten ACTA as a recent example where today's government still want to create laws that hinders security researcher in their job.
Hong Kong's Startup Office Spaces
Politics and the English Language [with annotations from a rational thinker]
http://pastebin.com/mSzbX5Hd
Why I dumped my smartphone for a 7-year-old Motorola Razr
I feel like an idiot... I thought the phone ringing was the notification that my phone was ringing... wow...

Now where did I put my "stupid" button...
God this makes me want to cry, it's so beautiful, and I'm not being sarcastic. Seems like snark and chuckling and inside jokes is all we ever see. You made something that could turn someone's day around, or more. Wonderful.
Because corporations are not citizens. Corporations consolidate many orders of magnitude more financial power, skill at executing political leverage, and focus compared to individuals. They use that power to manipulate government in ways that are biased towards corporate need, but which don't balance other concerns. This is bad because it puts corporate power and influence very out of balance with personal power.

The aims of corporations are often dead-set against the wishes of affected citizenry, the company's employees, sometimes even the corporate executives (wearing their "private citizen" hats).
Really? I tried an Apple Cinema Display for a week when I did a short stint at one company and I was really annoyed by how reflective it was. Also was dumb that I couldn't set the brightness on Linux without finding a random third party program, but I guess that's what you expect with that level of integration (it would have been nice if I had a Mac, of course).
or Haskell :)
My guess is checks. Very large checks.
List shipping restrictions up front?
Creating a GridView with Auto Resized Images on Android
Shameless plug: My app "HN" has slightly better ratings, but also a reduced feature set: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly...
The real problem is I'm not quite sure what you're offering that hasn't been done a million times before.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, I'm being curt. What differentiates dmtri? It looks like just another site to post stuff anonymously. Why would I use it over 4chan or reddit etc etc.

These are things to think about if you want it to take off.
Unlimited Detail - Geoverse Interviews 2013
It's not for protection from root kits and submarines hacking into fiber, it's for the National Security letters that require companies to spy on their customers and prohibit admitting it.
Twitter Has An Image Problem
> there are good reasons why you'd see no evidence of the system's effectiveness: the government doesn't like to get the public riled up by terrorist threats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lDZjiPok3w

Yes, it's a pointed example ("TERRIFIC ACTS OF ATROCITY!!!!1111"), but if you're going to tell me that "terrorism is entirely about riling-up", and therefore politics and powermongering aren't, I think pretty much all of known, including recent, history utterly destroys that argument.
Again with the Modules
I am not particularly aware of modern non-Somalian pirates.
Writing a Particle System on the Raspberry Pi
Would someone be so kind as to explain the following:

sub morph {
my ($number) = @_;
return ((((($number % 7) * 13) % 17) * 19) % 23);
}

It appears to be some sort of quick authorization check (there is a later `$code == &morph($user)` comparison).
I've been using 140% dpi on a vista laptop since 2007, and it's worked just fine for everything.
I see several potential products that are ready for an agile, Silicon Valley start-up with a forward-thinking MVP. I think the people who track the Qat consumption during a raid would pay a monthly subscription for a Qatulator (Qat Calculator).

Any other ideas?
I don't think you understand how feudalism works. If you are based in the US, you have to tolerate NSA spying. But it's very likely that the NSA and FBI will be able to effectively root out foreign spies from the DGSE, PLA, etc, so that ONLY the NSA can spy on you.

If you are based in, say, Russia, you have the FSS spying on you instead of the NSA, but the NSA is still spying on you, perhaps even harder, and you have less protection from them and third parties.
The example was a little clunky, but I don't find it misleading. A biplot of two normalized variables is elliptical, if the variables are correlated. This particular hand-drawn example does indeed look a bit weird, but that doesn't detract from the main point. It clearly shows the relationship between the original data and the ordination; it's a rigid rotation.

This is easily grasped with a 2d example, despite the fact that PCA makes no sense with only two variables.
4 steps to work life balance (in a startup)
And ...

Do you "offen" as in frequently or "offen" as in one having no parents?
Neurons dedicated to detecting snakes found in human brain
If you post something in the chat with the '&' character it's not displayed right.
I love w3schools. It's extremely beginner friendly informative and great.

The information is clearly presented and easy to scan/parse.
Smells like cat piss.
I assume you're referring to CondoInternet. Just got em, and all thumbs up from me. They're all over seattle and have a few new spots in downtown Bellevue.

I assume the problem is that either your building or much of the housing around you is relatively old. CondoInternet only has offerings in places that have been fully wired with ethernet already, as far as I can tell.
Congrats on the success! I'm curious: the condition of <1 mile proximity isn't transitive, so wouldn't users be seeing only one half of a lot of conversations? Like if A was close to B, B was close to C, but A wasn't close to C, then A would only see what B says to C but not what C says back. Or have you divided up space into fixed cells roughly one mile wide to prevent this?
Senate Gives Green Light to NSA to Continue Bulk Data Collection
Check out the piracy heat-map posted elsewhere in this thread.

Lots of piracy around Singapore/Malaysia, Ecuador/Colombia and Nigeria. The hits around Somalia probably account for about 10-15% of hits worldwide.
Well I appreciate your perspective, and will think about as I move about the city and decide where I'm going to five years from now. I do very much disagree on the value of relative comparisons though.

Ultimately, I just don't see nearly the extent of "urban fuckup" as you do even in normative terms, which is perhaps why the voters you admonish haven't responded as you think they should. I won't forget your comments though, and perhaps a in a year's time I'll be singing a different tune.
Not really directly related to the article but it is filled with spelling mistakes. I couldn't read past the fifth one
If you look at that map, Nigeria seems far more active 2013 then Somalia. Too bad it's only for 2013.
No I think in this case: Fuck Spammers.
Of all the things in the article, the guy's reaction to @EnjoyTheFilm is the thing making me chuckle. As much as I support this idea, I really can't help but laugh at someone's petty misfortune.
Are there potentially reasons why "terrorism" might in fact be a greater threat to our ideals and way of life then government power? Sure! Anything's possible. But such threats would need to be justified publicly, they can not be justified behind closed doors with classified documents.

This is, to me, the core point. Government exists to serve US, the People, not the other way around. And to maintain that order of things, government must be held accountable by the People. And we can't do that if our government operates in the shadows, behind a veil of secrecy - regardless of how they justify it.
Did you try: http://www.icc-ccs.org/piracy-reporting-centre/live-piracy-m...

As you can see, there is a cluster off Nigeria related to the unrest in the Delta, and another around Singapore, which is a choke-point.
This was probably my most embarrassing oversight. Your first point is the way it's working. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to make that work without segmenting the map into fixed cells... any thoughts?
Google needs to fight back. The first thing Google should do is encourage HTTPS everywhere.

Google should change the algorithm to prefer sites that support HTTPS everywhere. Matt Cutts should make some video like: "Google uses over 200 different signals to determine page relevancy. Our users value privacy, so one of the signals we use is whether the site uses HTTPS. We tend to prefer to send search users to secure sites... blah blah blah ... Enabling HTTPS with PFS will increase your search rank. HTTPS will slow page load times, but the privacy boost exceeds the speed penalty for 99% of sites."

The only reason I don't use HTTPS always is because it slows down page loads, and page speed is huge for PPC performance, and big for SEO. Google needs to hardcode a "privacy" boost into the rankings and make that public.

Within a year, 80% of the web would be HTTPS.
People will do almost anything for money, just right people and enough money
SEO Is Dead. Here's What Is Taking Its Place
yea that would be a good post... ill see what i can do!
I don't work for the NSA, obviously, but I agree on the point of the fourth amendment's obsolescence. A world where information is universally available and infinitely reproducible with minimal cost is necessarily a world without privacy. We need to get used to it as a society. People who grew up under the old system will be resistant to change like on every other social issue in history, and will die out to make room for the new generation.

My only objection to the NSA stuff is not the collection of information, but the asymmetry. Snooping on all my emails isn't wrong because email should be private, it's wrong because you have power over me by knowing my email without me knowing yours. Fortunately, things like facebook and twitter acclimatizing people to publishing everything about their lives which will eventually eliminate this asymmetry.
Well, then I guess the article is indeed for you.

The point is exactly to make coding the new literacy. Not coding as in "we should train every kid to become a software developer one day", but coding as in understanding how machines work, how you can break a bigger complex problem into smaller chunks, and how you can think analytically and use technology to solve problems and make new things.

The learn to code part is just the journey, the instrument that will (hopefully) lead the newer generations to a better future. In that sense, it's just like literacy. It's not just about the words; it's about unlocking new worlds through reading.
I don't think that's strictly true. Most unix filesystems "allow" UTF-8 characters, specifically because they treat the filename only as an array of bytes and don't interpret that array at all. Perhaps NTFS does do some work to present it as UTF-16 codepoints, I don't know, but it's far from the only file system that allows this to happen.
You can't monitor people via water or electricity. It can make sense for a city to run those things. For example, Seattle was not caught up in the WPPS (pronounced "woops") nuclear power debacle, because they run (or ran, I haven't lived there in 20 years) their own electric utility.
Maybe some sort of strange hash function? It looks like it spreads the values fairly evenly from 0-23, while keeping nearby numbers separate. Here's what it looks like from 0-5:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+%28%28%28%28x+mod+...

If the input is only integers, the same pattern still appears:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+%28%28%28%28floor%...
I understand that there are pirates elsewhere, let me rephrase: The only stories I regularly see about pirates are Somalian pirates, and the only times I have heard the "you should have some sympathy, they are poor and starving" line is in the context of stories about Somalian pirates. This story is about Somalian pirates. So yes, I am talking about Somalian pirates.
" The best thing has been 2560x1600 that are still priced higher [1] than the price I paid for this one 8 years ago (~$800)."

The Crossover 30Q5 with 2560x1600 is <700 USD.

http://www.amazon.com/Crossover-30Q5-Pro-Black-Resolution/dp...
Nice report. There has been so much growth in workspace in Hong Kong. From no choice to lots of choices just in the last year. I lived there 2012 - 2013 and used to run AcceleratorHK out of The Good Lab (great space, by the way).
Assert(int+100 &gt;  int) optimized away
So external threats are real. Granted. How does turning on your own population, and people who are not a threat and wish you no ill worldwide, help here? Being a better baddie is not the only way to deal with baddies, the bit in Team America about assholes, dicks and pussies is stupid bullshit, and the fact that so many people are eating it up doesn't make it less bullshit. Simply consider that everything you just said, "they" tell their people, too, and use it to keep them in line and under control. This kind of thinking is aiding the very things it claims to fight. E.g. War profiteers and mullahs sending people on suicide missions are of the same class, not opposing poles.
There seems to be a misunderstanding that a "debate" on the merits and disadvantages of authoritarian surveillance needs to be had. These inexistent pros and numerous cons were already weighed when the 4th Amendment was passed, so unless they want a constitutional amendment, there is no need to have a debate, they should simply respect the supreme law of the land.
I'm using BTSync with EncFS, but if you don't trust the BTSync binary – it's probably got access to the non-encrypted data as well unless you've jumped through a few more hoops than a "typical BTSync installation". I'd guess 99.9% of BTSync users have the binary installed with at least enough permissions to read anything the logged in user can read (which includes the cleartext-mounted stuff in your EncFS or TrueCrypt volumes).
And if you assume the worst, they don't (and shouldn't) care. This isn't a popularity contest for them, and the NSA operates as if there is a legitimate national security purpose to what they're doing.

I don't like the fact that they're doing it, but presuming that they should operate in total transparency just so that the silicon valley "proper thinkers" won't assume the worst is fairly naive, IMO. They believe they're fighting a critical intelligence war, and secrecy is an integral and necessary part of that battle.

I wouldn't work there, but I respect the people who do, both for their technical ability and for their patriotism. (I may not agree, but I can respect.) In particular, they're making significant individual sacrifices in order to do the work they do. It's not the same sacrifice as doing IED patrol in Afghanistan, but anyone doing high level crypto for NSA could likely make more money and have a cushier life in the private sector.
Does AeroFS support 32bit OSen yet? That was a showstopper for me back when it first became available - it _required_ 64 bit Java…
Dark Matter's Dark Horse
> poorly wound flyback transformers would drive them nuts

Those and marginal capacitors do drive us nuts. And that's one reason such communication wouldn't have to be completely out of human hearing range. Those of us who can hear it aren't going to be shocked by yet another high-pitched whine in a room full of electronics.
Reminds me of a demo at PyCon-AU this year - JKM (a Django Core-Contrib) showed a pip install (or perhaps an apt-get, I forget) on screen for a minute or so. I don't think he explicitly said "run this" but of course people did anyway.

Cut to a live display of computer-name/.passwd hash pairs.
Edit: I also can go for the Polish citizenship as a polish descendant and get into the EU that way as another option

That seems like the obvious choice. Do that. Then you can do this like any other EU citizen, and if it fails you're not worried about getting kicked out.
My one professor is a rather big fan of it. several students in my class have sequences on it, and some are even "sequence" administrators
I was a little surprised to see this getting traction on HN too. It would be like seeing a link to the Wayback Machine or Wolfram Alpha with no qualification.
No, it's not. The '11 models were the last to use the "heavy" anti-glare coating.
Basic functionality? You don't have a clue as to what my skill set is and what I offer and you accuse me of ripping off my clients?

Screw you buddy.
You can limit objects by size with the existing ACL's already. But you can't specify how many objects overall a user may upload in some time frame, or their accumlated size.

So you can have a token for: upload as many objects as you want of size less than 1MB in the next 1 hour.

You can't have a token for: upload no more than 1000 objects of size less than 1MB, in the next 1 hour and cut them off after 200MB Total.
has the ability to use high-frequency transmissions
passed between computer speakers and microphones to
bridge airgaps.

FUCK. FUUUUCK ME.

God fucking damn it. That shit right there just blows the fucking lid off damn near everything. It's worse than fucking laser interferometers as far as I'm concerned.

That, combined with a nasty firmware hack, pretty much fucks everything. Like, in addition to BIOS, consider the ramifications of hard drive firmware...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6148347

And now I have to think twice about that whole microphones inside random domestic appliances business:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6628627

I guess the audio attack vector isn't so outlandish after all, considering fax machines have piggybacked on audio channels for decades, but the whole bug-inside-the-iron thing is still pretty random.
This has the first bit of big changes Redhat did. I know Alex Larson (mentioned in this blog) is a very talented Redhat develooer
The idea behind bonding is to make it very expensive to post fake requirements. The natural result of forfeiting a bond is for your bonding costs to go way up. An H-1B is for jobs that can't be filled. If they go unfilled, the bond is lost.

Losing a bond of some tens of thousands of dollars is only justifiable for truly high-value positions, and that's what H1-B is supposed to be for, not phalaxes of warm bodies for contract shops.
Feinstein shows off NSA "reform" bill that's really about the status quo
This can be said of any soft power switch.