skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that they obeyed the law as much as possible, it wasn't simply an anti-authority movement (as they would need the authority of the state after the laws they wanted were passed!).

E.g. when MLK Jr. was arrested in Birmingham for marching without a permit, it wasn't because he just up and marched. He tried to get a permit like a good citizen, and it was denied. And even there he could easily argue he was taking advantage of his First Amendment right and not really breaking the law (as the way that law had been applied would be obviously Unconstitutional). But I know of no Constitutional or common law that would allow people to hack into computer systems, copy out other people's private emails, or steal credit card numbers.

On that note, I guess privacy is only important when it's people we like, eh?
Twistor. Minesweeper 3D android game.
TWISTOR Taking Minesweeper to a brand-new dimension (3D)
Not just ideas, it's a way to express the computation formally in an abstract way. Being executable by a machine comes as a direct consequence of that.

You are right that knowing several languages expand ones abilities to express computation as it brings new abstractions on the table.
It's a pity that his most popular book (Altered Carbon) hasn't been made into a movie. Now that one's a clear winner (sex, drugs, lots of bullets).
thoughtcrime, maybe.
He does seem to be quite the leader, but there are very strong correlations between aircraft development and production (where Mulally came from) and car development and production. For Ford, Mulally is a person with deep background in design and physical manufacturing in addition to having great leadership qualities. Is it enough to just have leadership capabilities and weak roots in the core skills of the company?

Even if you say that Microsoft wants a strong future presence in hardware manufacture - building phones and tablets is a very different game than building planes and cars.
These kinds of people need to be in prison, not the people exposing what they're doing.
Welcome to the world of the banks.

I worked at a currency exchange for years, and this was a constant problem. I wrote software that would allow us to easily switch banks and accounts, because it happened at times once per week.

At one point, we had spent 6 months negotiating with a bank to get a solid account that would supposedly never go away. They spent that time auditing us and assessing all risks. They gave the green light, then mysteriously one week in, they closed our account. They wouldn't tell us why immediately, but we found out later through back channels that 'someone from the government called us, and we were at risk of losing (some license, certification, whatever), so we can't do business with you'. We just accepted that we'd have banking problems indefinitely, and kept going.

The gov't and the bank don't like the competition with USD. They're under pressure from the Treasury, the Fed, and FinCEN to make difficult transactions for exotic currencies (we bought and sold the Iraqi Dinar).

I'm not surprised BTC consumers and traders are seeing this. I'm hoping that it'll help put pressure on the government to change its policies.
Thats great! I need to read the paper but if that is the life time of the physical qubit then it is much larger then what is typically considered needed for using quantum error correction to make logical qubits.

Logical qubits are made up of many physical qubits, with relatively short life times, to make one logical qubits with an infinite life time. The longer life time of logical qubits makes it considerably easier to perform long calculations and store information.

If anyone knows how easily quantum error correction can be applied to this system I would be interested in finding out.
I wish they published the raw data for this - it would be a lot easier to do analysis and visualization on it.
Imparting that kind of wisdom is what inspires new users of HN to sign up.
yeah, works now
it would be nice to have some text and photos rather than videos you can only watch if you're in Kansas City or outside the US
Not that I disagree with what you wrote, I just want to point out that silicon dioxide is probably the most important reason silicon has reached such ubiquity in electronics. No other material has a native oxide as good as SiO2, even though the semiconductors themselves have superior properties than silicon.
Interesting.

I wonder if disabling uploading is any defense.
Also, having to hire a lawyer to defend themselves against criminal fraud charges will cost them a lot more than $3500.
The BLUNDERBUSSness Class is by far the best:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsem22DkIjw

TL;DR: AXE body spray is super combustable!
Apparently "Kilroy" is specifically an American thing, but I don't think it is too obscure. For the curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilroy_was_here

I thought it was a good comparison because of the "graffiti/website defacement" angle.
Hence "the crime he is being prosecuted for", he was only charged for Stratfor, and being disingenuous isn't a federal crime.
I don't entirely understand this:

> We add the sensitive environments to .gitignore; for us this is production.txt, qa.txt and staging.txt. These are never committed.

> We get a history of changes in git (though it’s way more of a pain to use as you have to decrypt different versions)

So you have a history of changes, but only for the dev environment? Seems like that wouldn't be terribly useful, but maybe I'm missing something.
"Why does education/intelligence/morality not cull the inner devil of some?"

IMO education and intelligence may sometimes fuel the "inner devil". "Greed has poisoned men's souls." I really think it is power and or authority that may be the culprit in these kinds of situations. Some people are completely disconnected from our fellow humans.
> Nobody should ever go to jail for non violent crimes. The whole point of containing someone in a cell is because they are a menace to society, and somewhere along the line we blurred it.

You seem to think that the only possible way to be a menace to society is with actual violence. What a positively uncreative viewpoint! Surely you can think of some way to absolutely ruin a person's life without so much as a hint of violence? Likewise, perhaps punching someone in the shoulder isn't as vicious a crime as, say, cleaning out all of their bank accounts via computer hacking?
Dwolla is not comparable to the others you mention. To use Dwolla, BOTH the buyer and the seller have to be signed up with Dwolla, and signup is bitch (involves Bank ACH etc).
People who died in these five star hotels and their conference rooms were top notch entrepreneurs, executives AND ordinary people of India [1]. So 164 people who died is not just a drop in the ocean as you would like to believe here.

Death of innocents is a tragedy whether they were an entrepreneur, an executive, or a janitor.
> "Hackers" 3rd on the list

nothingtodohere.jpg
It is actually not against their TOS to accept payments or run additional ads alongside their content.
The binaries are indeed encrypted, as evidenced by running "otool -l <binary>|grep cryptid". Why do you think otherwise?
Developer Day #11 : Chrome plugin and OAuth.io
"Oh cock, it's the cyber-rozzers..."
I've often thought how interesting it would be to see a TV series about something like this.
"Why is Ballmer presented as an idiot and Page and Cook not?"

Maybe because Page has not defined his company's success in terms of how many Nexus devices it sells; nor does Apple define its success in terms of how many licenses it sells to enterprises. Ballmer, on the other hand, not only has entered foreign market spaces such as Web search, hardware, and phones. He has also thumped his chest about how Microsoft is going to wallop the competition in those spaces. Google and Apple typically do not talk about how they are going to beat everybody else; instead, they talk about how good their products are. Ballmer laughs at other companies' products and enters the market late and says he will beat everybody else.

Thus, Ballmer has failed on the terms that he defined for himself. He said he would wallop other companies. He did not. Not only did he not wallop other companies, but while trying to do so, he destroyed good products and hurt Microsoft in its strong markets. See for instance Windows 8, which is useless for Microsoft's big corporate customers and gets it nowhere in the tablet space it has so desperately tried to make headway in.

So, maybe if Ballmer spent less time chasing markets that Microsoft is no good in, and more time reinforcing the company's strengths, he would not be presented as an idiot.
Winter Applympics 2014
Penetrating Google’s Kevlar Vest- by the author of three Google monographs
Well if you are unconstrained from reality you could argue that Apple could have made MacOS available for any x86 laptop and sold it from $50/copy and completely STOLEN what was left of the technical Windows market. But no, their stupid reliance on only putting it on some over priced hardware left BILLIONs on the table.

You see how that works? In lots and lots of ways MacOS is much better than Windows 8, and yet Apple won't sell it to Dell or Lenovo to pre-install on their laptops, they won't even talk to them about it. But it would be cool (and we know its possible with all the Hackintoshes out there). Everyone agrees that Microsoft fumbled on the phone business and Apple executed very well. Apple so far has totally fumbled their network products offering, social music network? icloud? not stellar.
WebRTC Broken Telephone for Node Knockout
Actually, Stratfor tends to have a unique perspective on the news. I've been signed up for their free email thread for a while, and while I've never been blown away, they do have a better-than-most longform approach to news. It definitely beats CNN.
Is delivery to the stores and restaurants after the TSA related and our enforced?
I'm about to throw up. Here's what that message was a reply to:

-----Original Message-----

From: eisenstein@stratfor.com [mailto:eisenstein@stratfor.com]

Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2008 10:02 AM

To: Fred Burton

Cc: <allstratfor@stratfor.com>

Subject: Re: Reva rocks

Will be glad to supply weapons to both sides if India and Pakistan want a
cage match. India gets the net and trident and the pakistanis get the shield
and short sword. Kamran can instruct in Klingon

Sent from my iPhone
GPG is fine, if you don't decrypt and then encrypt unless you're doing an update. So, why would it matter?
They reported her refusal to pay the $3,500 "fine" to the credit bureaus. A common way of dealing with such a thing is to file a small claims suit for the maximum amount in your jurisdiction for defamation. For example, in my jurisdiction the maximum is $8,000. The fact they are saying negative things about her is undisputed since it is in black and white on her credit report. So the next thing is for them to prove that the negative things they are saying are true. They won't be able to prove their one-sided contract that never offered consideration is valid. Then they'll move on to damages and she states in the article she was repeatedly denied credit and offered credit at less favorable terms.

This little stunt of theirs should cost them a lot of money.
Loving all the WebRTC posts lately.
FWIW, the rules about pointers are actually pretty simple. Once you've worked out what you're attempting to do with a given function, the following basically covers it:

- I need ownership (e.g. because I want to push the value onto a vector): take either directly by value (i.e. `x: Type`), or (very rarely) via an ~ (i.e. x: ~Type).

- I don't need ownership, but wish to mutate, `x: &mut Type`

- I don't need ownership and don't need to mutate: `x: &Type` (the most common case)

That is, once you've understood which values need to be owned by what, it all just falls out from there. (Note that this "ownership" concept happens in other languages (e.g. which function should free this pointer in C, which function should close this file handle in any language), it's just not explicit; Rust is just forcing the programmer into making the relationships explicit, which reduces mistakes.)

In general the most common pointer is &, then &mut, and then, if you're writing a data-structure, ~, but otherwise ~ is very rare. (Dynamically sized vectors and strings are written as ~[T] and ~str respectively, and aren't included when I say "~ is very rare" since there's no way to put them on the stack.) I've ignored @, because it's (1) rare in idiomatic code, and (2) isn't implemented fully (it's currently behind a flag, to make it clear that it's not ready for prime-time). The "Boxes" and "Move semantics" parts[1] of the main tutorial are more modern, and may help.

TL;DR; the borrowed pointer tutorial overcomplicates things.

[1]: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/tutorial.html#boxes
If there are LiIon batteries available, why bother will all this stuff?

Just short them out and throw them somewhere strategic. Takes all of a minute.
Compass Sass vs Sassc for Zurb Foundation 4
Young and Educated in Europe, but Desperate for Jobs
We have the history of changes, but not diff-able. private/env/production.txt is not in git, however private/env/production.txt.asc is. It would be a pain to go through the diffs, but possible. Our production config has only been updated 35 times (this includes non-config updates like adding new keys).
Just like 'The Guardian's journalists working out of their New York office reporting on the NSA have all been sent to Gitmo, amirite?
What do you mean by "these kinds of people"? Greedy people? People who say things that are tasteless and mean? I'm pretty sure there's no law against any of that. Please enlighten me re: the law they've broken, otherwise I hope you can see the inherent irony in your statement... </unpopularOpinion>

edit: I'm not being ornery, I'm really actually curious what people think they should go to prison for. Tastelessness != criminality.
Pretty funny game, more like Russian roulette than broken telephone.
Agreed. I've been working on a new code base where I can work exclusively in C++11 and I've found it to be surprisingly pleasant and productive. I'm still keeping an eye on some of the alternatives in this thread but if I had to carry on with C++ now I'd be much happier than I would have been without all the new features.
Not really. The brand is, but it's a completely different service now.
Considering there was no successor ready to take his place at the time of the announcement I think it's more likely that he was pushed out.
Umm. I'm not the only one wondering where the elemental Lithium came from? Right?
Turning off the other monitor isn't too hard, although it did get me thinking about HTML5's lack of multi-monitor support.
I find Amazon works pretty well. When you have tens of thousands of customers of a product not everyone is going to grok, some are going to call you a poopy head.

If me and my co-authors cultivate a critical mass of reviewers, respond to the bad reviews that genuinely misunderstood something, and have enough traffic on the pages to generate enough "useful" scores on reviews, it all works out in the end.
Good advice and thanks! When I was a lot younger, I definitely overtraded and didn't really do enough homework.
Haha true! On mobile so no WebRTC I verified and submitted a tweet though and now to play the waiting game.
Logically sound but significantly negligible. I'd say P(CIA|~good) is very small, but P(CIA) is also quite small. P(CIA|good) >= 50% iff the CIA produces at least 50% of the good security-related code in the world. I don't see it.
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/11/this-is-how-the-interne...

Apparently there are malicious servers that do active attacks against Internet users (with forged injected traffic). I've seen no indication that the servers that carry out these attacks are directly related to the splitters.
No one online to play with, maybe I'll check back later.
While this guy may be an obnoxious asshole/blowhard, I haven't seen you present anything to convince me this guy is a menace worthy of 10 years jail time. Making threats is one thing, carrying them out is another.
I need an idea for the revenue model.

Just tell your investors that you had a business plan written out, but you saved it in SnapBox...
> Do you consider any company who has a hackathon to also have a laissez-faire attitude towards business? Since obviously the stuff built there isn't directly contributing to their bottom line.

Out of sheer curiosity, can you show me examples of hackathons held that don't directly contribute to a company's bottom line?

More importantly though: You're making the mistake of thinking that me saying "they don't take business seriously" means "they're bad at making money". This is not the case, and github is exceptionally good at making money, which is why they don't actually need to take business seriously.
> But a lawsuit isn't at the heart of KlearGear's despicable tactic. Ruining the credit of its critics is. ...If that fine is not paid, the delinquency will be reported to the nation's credit bureaus.

Question: what ability do most companies have to report something to credit bureaus? I mean, selling my stuff with just Stripe and a DBA, I certainly can't, as far as I know. Credit-card companies themselves certainly can, on the other hand.

Is there a way for "normal" small businesses to affect your credit score based on any kind of non-payment of bill? How do businesses "acquire" this ability? Can anybody just tell a credit score company, "X didn't pay me money, knock their score down"?

I'm just wondering if this is a bluff, which it probably is.

[Edit: Googling it a bit reveals that there are two methods. One is to hand the debt over to a collections agency -- you'll receive less of it, but they'll automatically report to a credit bureau if it's not paid. The other is to become a member of the three main credit organizations, but that involves membership fees etc., so presumably only makes sense if you deal with a lot of consumer billing already where this is a regular occurrence.]
I haven't read the book, but I don't see how anyone who's done their research into Stratfor would think this. AFAIK they don't fund any conflicts or play an active role in any political events. Their business is information. They're discussing this as a profitable event because they expect people will want to know more about the event and will therefore subscribe. Tasteless? Absolutely. But that's about the extent of it.
Do they have the ability to "report" her to a credit agency? Seems like an empty threat to me.
Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, at least it's an ethos!
"It's just business."

Oh, it's ok then.
Cool story, and I can see the appeal. But as a (long ago) competitive CS player, I hate(d) your kind.
Personally, I'd happily deploy an extra server or two (redundancy) to keep from having credentials laying around unencrypted on production machines.
The disingenuousness being described here applies to his statement on the interview, not his actions years ago.
You're right. But when conflict is extremely profitable for some then the value of those who died and are going to die is already under material consideration within that justification.

On the parent comment 164 people sounded like a lame statistic, involuntarily generalizing everyone as "people who just died there" and this is usual business for others to profit from it.

I know what you're trying to say. Sure everyone innocent who died there was an equal human being and this tragedy should be left at that.
I suspect that "burger diversity" is just a proxy for wealth. The wealthier a county is, the greater the availability of healthy food. Plus you can probably afford a gym membership and/or can walk/jog/bike outside without worrying about being mugged.
Yeah there's been a lot lately, anyone know why?
I had exactly the same experience, using autohotkey, and blogged about it at the time http://teh.oarsum.com/posts/cheating_and_game_design.html.

(tl;dr: if it's easy to script your game and win, your game design is busted)
It's completely useless to me. All the important content discovery features are gone. The search is horrible, all the nice filtering options YT has aren't there.
It's more than just ego - if your value proposition to the client is that you know more about Sass than they do, admitting ignorance undermines your value to them and your credibility as an expert. This, in turn, could (at least in your mind) threaten your contract, and your chances at securing future contracts.
It's a weird feeling reading other people's email. I'm sad to see Wikileaks didn't at least do a quick regex pass to remove the credit cards (yup, found some) and the personal love notes. I'm generally a supporter of Wikileaks, but mass dumps like this aren't responsible and only give more ammunition to their detractors.
What is the difference between the algorithmic thinking and mathematical thinking?
After working with 0MQ for a while I felt that this sort of summary was misleading.

I came to think of 0MQ as a multi-point data link abstraction (i.e. layer 2). The API abstracts over sockets, IPC message queues, and in-process message queues as the virtual layer-1 transports.

I say it is a layer-2 abstraction because 0MQ doesn't provide any mechanism for addressing or transparently routing over an internet of connected 0MQ networks. You can do source-based routing by explicitly naming the intermediate hops but this is more like intellegent layer-2 bridging than traditional layer-3 routing. There is no concept of a layer-3 address or naming scheme of any kind and there any important layer-4 features (re-transmissions, flow-control, out-of-order resequencing).

The message structure and fan-in/fan-out features are very useful but they are operating at a layer-2 level, not a 3, 4, 5, etc. layer, from my perspective.

It has been about a year since I spent time with 0MQ so perhaps it has evolved beyond what I experienced.
Creative Examples of UI and Wireframe Sketches
Meh, not the best use of WebRTC and I definitely wouldn't trust anyone to tweet form my account.
It might be, depending on what else is on the page. Clause 4(d) of the Terms of Service[1] reads:

"You agree not to use the Service for any of the following commercial uses unless you obtain YouTube's prior written approval:

- the sale of access to the Service;

- the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions placed on or within the Service or Content; or

- the sale of advertising, sponsorships, or promotions on any page of an ad-enabled blog or website containing Content delivered via the Service, unless other material not obtained from YouTube appears on the same page and is of sufficient value to be the basis for such sales."

[1] http://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms
US Army experiments with crowdsourcing equipment design
These people aren't just a group of kids on xboxLive making idle threats. They are making real plans and use their influence to make money at the cost of killing people. Conspiracy to commit murder for financial gain sounds like a good fit here. Or at least intent to indirectly end lives for money.

EDIT: Ouch, game over for me... I thought these email leaks involved government officials 'n such. If these are like reading the emails of FOXNews, then nevermind. They're bad people(IMHO), but can't jail 'em anymore than we can jail the people of stormfront.org
At the same time, it is incredibly easy to fake being sorry. In addition to that, in the case of an innocent being held in jail they would have no real reason to be sorry for what they didn't do. (I could accept that this latter point doesn't hold, if the prisons simply assume that wrongful convictions don't occur and aren't their problem if they do.) (I recall this scenario from a study we did in school on wrongful convictions. One particular individual -- who served 30 years and later had his conviction overturned after he was released, explicitly refused to apologize; that would mean he was guilty.)