skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really a bubble (other than in the sense given to it in the article) and it's definitely not above the eventual equilibrium. The video explains it very well.
I only use Chrome to access Google apps/docs/gmail, since it seems to work better than other browsers for this. Looking like it might be worth setting up a VM appliance for this now.
yes, please don't upvote news like this one. it's pure garbadge
Opera if I remember correctly.
A cry for help from a worrier?
You can also create a Conspiracy theorist persona. Keep asking questions online with a semi anonymous account about the government excess, about the moon, the aliens, the freemasons etc.

Then if in court you can try to argue that for a tin foil hat like you, the actual tin foil cell phone protection isn't an indication of anything. And much less suspicious.

:-).
> That said, I think the drupal community is the single worst offender in the "our software can do anything and everything and is perfect and you never need to use another one and you can't tell me otherwise"

The original post is a direct criticism of Drupal from someone in the Drupal community.
I've known people who have piled up debts that they cannot pay. Being hounded by debt collectors (and avoiding them) just becomes a way of life. Re-possessing assets? I am assuming you mean the asset that was purchased with the credit that resulted in the debt. This wouldn't have to change under the proposed system. There would still be secured loans.

Garnishment and levies? In practice these are pretty rare and costly for the kinds of debt here. You see this more for taxes and child support, not unsecured consumer debt.

Instead, credit dings (chargeoffs, etc.) are the most common result, and that wouldn't have to change under the proposed system. So, there's your deterrent. Those "deadbeats" you mentioned would then not be able to obtain credit. In fact, credit requirements may become more stringent if lenders really perceive risk from "deadbeats" under the new system.

>...the "I want it now and I will pay for it later" attitude.

If anyone needs deterrent, it's the reckless lenders. Marketing works and for years, the mesage from creditors and retail outlets has been "you can have it now and pay later". In fact, some "retail" outfits were nothing but credit providers using (often cheap) products as a vehicle to sell credit. Think Rooms To Go.

And some people are just not as sophisticated as others. So, when selling easy credit in abundance, you are more likely to attract and empower those who are least able to afford it. OTOH, we have an entire industry set up to determine creditworthiness and businesses that sell credit are far more sophisticated than the average consumer, yet somehow it's the consumer who gets in over his head who is the morally bankrupt deadbeat. The creditor is merely a victim, though they still manage to make a profit. And, oh yeah, if the largest of these do get into trouble, because the outsized risk they took for outsized profits finally backfired, then we bail them out and restore their saintly CEOs' compensation to its rightful place in the stratosphere.

On balance, the current system smells an awful lot like a racket.
Opera (the browser maker) acquired them, but then Fastmail bought themselves back. You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastmail
Does anybody know why (variations on copies of) leokun's comment are automatically marked as dead?

The comment seems perfectly valid so I can't figure out why that would happen...
It's just more or less pointless to worry about dividing a penny during a transaction.

Private parties can certainly agree to prices that are a fraction of a penny (but they instead tend to deal in lots at those price points).
> I'm sitting here still trying to think of a way to prevent MITM attacks if you have no idea who the guy is on the other side... Maybe I need to drink more tea this early in the morning?

It's not that you don't know who the guy is, you just don't rely on a 3rd party to tell you that. See how SSH fingerprinting works.
Into a tech-savvy place like HN the title is misleading.

You just configuring what comes bundled with an OpenSUSE ISO file and minor other stuff. That's not what we here would call 'making an os'.
A first look at 'The Internet’s Own Boy,' the Aaron Swartz documentary
MIT's shapeshifting display lets you reach out and touch someone
`go vet` (checks correctness) and golint (https://github.com/golang/lint) are also extremely useful.

As a whole the toolchain makes working with Go code very convenient.
Its not a theme template but more of a SaaS template that has User , Billing and Invoicing management.
Because lots of people are narrow minded apparently
As far as I know, self-signed certs have to be approved on a case-by-case basis in most browsers. Thus if a site is hit by MITM, the cert will change and the browser will warn. Of course, that's assuming you've visited the site before and care to pay attention to the warning.
There's some "law" that says news headlines become more difficult to distinguish from satire.

I have trouble with stories from The Onion all the time.

Please tell me this is one where I'm just having trouble, and it's not actually real.
Thats a set-up that not even the military deploys, or banks for that matter. Its arguable also in the same league of PFS, as the government could easy just issue general warrants or alternative create laws that does the same.
And then there's also TrustZone[0] so don't be surprised if there's an additional hypervisor or RTOS running on the main application processor.

[0] http://www.arm.com/products/processors/technologies/trustzon...
There is a serious point in relation to this which is that it is widely assumed that the solution to certain global problems is to build a friendly AGI. It will then cheerfully digest the web before instantly designing a safe power supply, space transport, solution to all remaining military conflicts, etc. Yet an AGI would be, after all, a person, and it might not enjoy reading billions of web pages, let alone doing my housework, much as I wish it would
iPads, not tablets. Good luck.
I'll watch the video, but I'd rather make up my own mind and look at source material, scholarly research and history as much as possible.
There is already some praise here for them (I'm a happy enhanced user as well) so I'll add two more negative points:

1. No "always load images for x@y.tld", minor annoyance for certain newsletters that I always want to see fully

2. No reply and archive which requires me to press 2 buttons / keys instead of one to keep my inbox clean.

If you switch you'll be impressed how true the "fast" in their name is ;)
First, to narrow my claims: I am not claiming that BTC has always been supply-constrained on miners. I think this is a recent phenomenon, tied to the rise of ASIC miners. Nor am I claiming that miners will always be able to demand any price from the market (nor do I know the point at which the market will reject the higher prices).

The question you raise about the direction for the arrow of causation in the correlation between price and mining difficulty is interesting. While it seems intuitively obvious to me that difficulty is leading price, "intuitively obvious" is not evidence.

One test might be the upcoming increase in mining difficulty, which is currently only projected to be +11% (compared to the previous difficulty increases of 30-50%): http://bitcoindifficulty.com/ . I would predict that the price of BTC should increase ~11% after that increase (the price following the difficulty).
376,000 Credit Cards across Europe Compromised in Data Breach
Researchers should just be forced to append ", probably." to their paper's title and any conclusions reached.
Aaron Swartz documentary under development
Yes, and it's excellent.

I took their 60-day trial and switched from Gmail. I was initially cautious because I didn't think anyone had improved spam filtering and search as much as the Gmail team, but – for me – Fastmail is better at both. They have a pretty powerful search system like Gmail's: https://www.fastmail.fm/help/mailbox_searching.html and their spam filter is excellent.

The whole experience is faster than Gmail, you have much more space to write and read email, and there's no nagging feeling that, by using the service, a company is slowly building a profile on you.

Migration-wise, they have an IMAP importer which works great. You can tell it which labels/folders to import; their defaults for Gmail worked fine for me.

Their new mobile web app is very impressive too – it feels native (minus the notifications, which I've set up by forwarding mail headers only to an IFTTT recipe that sends notifications via Pushover on iOS). I now use Fastmail's mobile app instead of iOS Mail. http://blog.fastmail.fm/2013/10/21/faster-than-native-introd...

The only things I missed from Gmail were the "Undo Send" feature, which I've learned to live without, and the automatic "Promotions" inbox filter; Fastmail has automatic filters for "Personal", "Notifications", and "Mailing lists", but not one for marketing HTML email. I've unsubscribed from most lists and resubscribed using plus addressing – just create a folder named 'News' and subscribe to any lists using you+news@example.com. Newsletters then skip your inbox and fill the news folder. This works with your custom domains too – not just the Fastmail-assigned domain.

Additional domains (they call them "virtual domains") are easy to set up, and they provide DKIM and SPF entries for each domain you add for you to copy into your DNS records. https://www.fastmail.fm/help/quick_tours_setting_up_domain.h...

Their documentation is _really_ thorough, so I haven't needed to bother their support team; hopefully I can keep it that way – at $40 a year for the Enhanced personal email service (which gives you multi-domain support and now 15GB of space), I would hate to be a burden on them.
I don't get it... actually my dream would be to work in Singapore and to be able to get to Bali or Kuala Lumpur or Thailand or Australia in such a short time is just perfect.
You have a great work place but the possibility to experience very different countries.
Never Stop Marketing to Your Startup Customers
Code has to be reviewed and _VERIFIED_. How can an article pass peer review, if nobody even checked code for basic mistakes?
An Adventure in Open Design: Blimp 2.0
Future site of Intel's 10nm chip manufacturing plant likely to be in Israel
I don't know why people keep asking this question, other than to try to sound smart or experienced without much effort. Yes, it's pretty damn different this time. Else tell me: when was the last time you saw a decentralized distributed crypto-currency be born and take over the world?
Spiked in China? (A who's who of China experts criticize Bloomberg News.)
Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/26788492/aaron-swartz-do...
I'm an American who has lived in Singapore for almost nine years, in two very different jobs, in two very different parts of the city-state. Singapore has a lot of challenges, but the oversimplifications and generalisations in this glib article don't do Singapore or Singaporeans any favours. (I've been here long enough that my spell-check is set to British English).

Let's take National Service (NS). Dover writes: "after graduating, every citizen is required to do active service in the military." This is wrong on at least three points, which is impressive for a sentence that short: 1) NS is not required of all citizens, only men; 2) NS is also required of male permanent residents who turn 18 in Singapore, and 3) it's an age requirement, not a graduation requirement.

He goes on to write that "pride is the result" of the NS requirement, in that part of the article that seems devoted to unqualified praise of Singapore's success. Really? Pride alone? Yes, male Singaporeans are proud of their service in NS, but plenty — especially younger Singaporeans — also resent it, resent the foreigners and women who don't have to do it and who they believe get an upper leg in society as a result. I've had Singaporean men explain away sexual harassment of women — harassment they witnessed first hand — on the grounds of the hazing they received during NS. If "sense of pride" is the only thing Dover has to say about NS in Singapore, even after months of living here, I'm not surprised he never had deep conversations with any Singaporeans.

Pro tip, Dover: there are better ways to investigate peoples' heritage than walking around asking people about their heritage. And if you do ask, and the answer you get is "what heritage?" and a laugh? Well, that may not mean what you think it means.

There's a lot happening in Singapore. It's an evolving place, with a growing civil society, increasing activism, growing nationalism and anti-foreigner sentiment, brutal competitiveness (the Singlish word is "kiasu", which is a Hokkien term that translates as "afraid to lose"), a terrible Gini coefficient, complex underlying racial tensions, and some absurd historical hard-edged nanny-state reflexes. There are a lot of things Singapore needs, but the dynamics are complex, not ripe for banal oversimplification.
I think this challenge, like any other in this space, is to know your product and your customers. In the case of a post on HN, the customer is HN readers and the product is a post. It's good to know that the good old principles of market research apply to this as well.
I thought a lot of this stuff was already running on OKL4.

E.g. https://code.google.com/p/docl4amss/wiki/OkL4
Nothing is impossible, it works like you described. In very simple terms, following Git philosophy rewriting history is a feature, according to HG it's a bug (technically, it is somehow possible AFAIK, but not sure if it's used around for anything except critical fix scenarios). It's just that. Hence the term 'branch' in HG refers to something permanent and 'bookmarks' provide the lightweight functionality. At its roots they have a different approach to managing history (back when I used HG more I didn't understand all the noise around rewriting Git history, obsession with keeping it clean and linear, etc.).
You must admit it would make there quite a bit more "exciting" though.
yeah, whenever I see a stat like 'such-and-such has risen by x%!' and it does not give the absolute figures, I always assume the author is trying to exaggerate and mislead (not that I'm saying this one is).
Netflix's New Look Is a Glimpse at the Future of TV
You can even use gofmt to export variables that you want exported throughout the project. I wrote about it on this coderwall: https://coderwall.com/p/ds3iuw

edit: aha, the article did mention "gofmt -r"
SSH keys work exactly like self-signed certificates. On first connection you get the "whoah, this isn't trusted, do you want to proceed" warning, and if you accept, you are not warned in the future unless the key changes.

If browsers would make it easier to "permanently accept" a self-signed certificate (right now it's usually a multi-step process with blood-red warning messages at every step) we'd have the same situation as SSH keys.
The shortened link seems to do it.
Reading between the lines it seems he had a hard time finding friends. Singaporeans don't drink as excessively as Americans, so if your only "fun" outlet is alcohol you're gonna have a tough time.
> See how SSH fingerprinting works.

It doesn't, as a MITM prevention technique, for a gullible population. It doesn't even work for non-gullible population that's been trained to always hit "Y" on first connection from a host to a new server... err... I mean first connection to a MITM who then talks to the new server for you.

There are ways to make the situation slightly harder like the extremely unpopular idea of putting SSH host keys in DNS and then securing DNS ... err .. probably securing DNS via a CA type backend.... Well even unsecured DNS holding SSH host keys is better than nothing, or at least it makes people more susceptible because they feel safer, or something like that.
We were required to use ROS/Gazebo during the first phase of Track B, but we mostly lean on a simulation environment that was developed by one of our PI's years ago and is maintained/improved in house.
So someone should go to university and study to become a programmer, and in several years into the future when the child has grown up, you might be able to reproduce the program? Could you provide a more straw'ish argument?

It is possible that you can spend money to buy a new copy, in the same way that the cab driver could "pay" his employer the drive the child home. However, anyone who sees the child could also spend the money for the cab. Is the argument here that they are all equally moral bankrupt when they child end up walking all those miles home? Does it matter that the cab driver was driving in that direction anyway?

Many people around the world can say that they are helping children to become the best they can be. Someone who refuse sharing can not. Which one are you?
This kind of cynicism is a strange thing. It sounds like a hardened realist talking, but in reality it's fairly naive.

Chemical, biological weapons use has been greatly curtailed by rules of war. So has "aggressive" war (war, because we want your territory). So have various civilian targeting tactics. They haven't been eliminated, but there is a lot less than otherwise. It's not perfect. Enforcement is erratic and case-by-case. Powerful countries are more exempt than weak ones.

Nuclear proliferation has been effectively slowed by the NPT. Again, not perfectly but better than nothing.
Building a Web App From the Ground Up
You are a blank slate and want to learn how to build a web app from the ground up.

1. What language(s) are you learning?
2. What Tools are you using?
3. What Infrastructure/Programs are you building it on? (ie What database, hosting, web/app server, etc)
I happened to be reverse engineering some firmware the other day, which has "AMSS" all over it; this was in new Sierra Wireless devices built on Qualcomm ARM926EJS baseband. It might not be in the latest and greatest, but it's still out there all over the place.
Agree! Market research is the key. We wanted to share our findings. Hope this comes handy to others planning a HN launch.
Where is the next generation of coders?
There was a brief discussion about this code on Twitter a few weeks back and I asked for extra clarification from engineering. Erik Kay explained on that bug ticket [3] a bit more:

"We don't enable NaCl on the web at large because we don't want to see a particular instruction set baked into the web. We enable it for apps that are in the Chrome Web Store (even hosted apps which are in the web) because it's a place where over time we can get developers to migrate to PNaCl. For this whitelist, we have similar controls to what we have on the Chrome Web Store, and our goal is to eventually remove the need for it altogether."
Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)
The same may be said to you. :)
Ask HN: Which Email Client Do You Use for Gmail?
I find the web interface to be fairly clunky now, and I really liked where Sparrow on OSX was going. Sadly, it's no longer being developed and the replacements I've tried, such as Airmail and Apple's own Mail client, just don't have the fluency I'd like.

What are the popular HN choices - on both desktop and mobile - for accessing your Gmail?
Go fmt isn’t without it’s detractors. People complain that go fmt isn’t customizable and that it puts braces where they don’t want them. Fools.

How would you feel if I left a comment calling you a fool for writing such a remark? Now realize you're giving that same feeling to every reader you're trying to convince.

It's far more effective to point out why someone is mistaken and leave it at that, as 'pg has demonstrated over the years.
I somewhat wish this case was a simple secret order and immediate subsequent self shutdown of a service, to test in court whether shutting down a service would be legal when presented with such an order.
Is it ever NOT the time to up the statistical standard? Should science not be constantly seeking to improve itself?
It actually opens up the possibility of better-than-chroot Debian (or whatever) on Android. Very cool.
Just for fun, here are the profit numbers.

Gazprom 1410

Exxon Mobil 1302

I&C Bank of China 1021

Shell 980

Chevron 852

China Constr. Bank 830

Apple 822

BP 814

BHP Billiton 749

Microsoft 734

Two banks, two high tech, the rest oil/gas/mining. Kind of depressing. List and figures from

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2012/perfor...
also it be nice to compare how tech is doing against oil & gas and pharma (in profit)
The AppleTV app doesn't use webkit; it's the standard, very limited AppleTV UI kit. This is why it's less terrible than most Netflix clients; less rope to hang themselves.

They did manage to make it slightly awful within the constraints of the model, though; see the mechanism used for moving between seasons of a TV show.
How I Became the Editor of WIRED (for One Issue)
Draft text for the TPP Intellectual Property Rights Chapter leaked
Perhaps it's harder to see looking from the inside, but most other cultures are MUCH less Military obsessed than the US just about any way you measure it...
It is indeed quite lovely, I've even written a post on it recently - http://codetheory.in/parse-read-excel-files-xls-xlsx-javascr...
Standing desk? Try a treadmill desk -- E-mail and browsing at 2 mph
If you find this kind of tone off-putting, whatever you do, don't read the scsh acknowledgments ( http://www.scsh.net/docu/html/man.html )!
That would be the greatest present ever to the terrorists. Current government not backing your crazy interpretation of sharia law strongly enough? Don't bother launching some kind of arduous civil war to topple them. Simply launch the laziest possible terrorist attack against the US or maybe just a nearby US embassy if you don't feel like traveling (don't worry too much about it, it doesn't really matter if you succeed or fail), make sure to leave enough evidence about your country of origin and then just sit back, relax and wait for the US to do the hard work for you. Once they're gone, move in and take over.

You seem to be under some sort of delusion that most terrorist groups would see the toppling of the government of the country they are operating out of as a bad thing.
> forcing people to give up their software

Well, I never said anything about any such thing, so I’m not sure which strawman you are arguing with. If you think I implied it, please show it, and be more explicit in your reasoning.

> Then why should anything else be considered property?

Because those are rivalrous goods. There is a difference, and I would suggest you look it up before treating them all the same.
Modern army control systems are already a lot like starcraft, even up to the progress bars that get shorter and change color as tank crew members get killed.
Try this slight refinement...

The results were... Interesting.

http://www.thisplusthat.me/search/Dick%20Cheney%20-evil%20%2...
10.3 suicides per 100,000 people ..
The Clash of Civilizations: 20 years on
I can't say I agree with this. I am all for ubiquitous encryption, but this smacks of inappropriate mixing of layers. HTTP should not care about the underlying transport.

Someday, TLS will be replaced. I cannot imagine when this will happen, or what the replacement will be like; I am only certain that, given enough time, it will happen. When it does, HTTP should still work without modification. The proposed standard fails that test.
Oh, that is a fair point.

Though, not receiving any information back, draws the tracking practice significantly more difficult.