skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, basically. Having your computer actually at risk of physical attack is very unlikely for most people (given that most people aren't worth the bother), but if you are in a situation where an attacker could gain physical access to your computer, and that physical access could lead to significant loss (whether of property, money or valuable information) then the hassle involved in full disk encryption is minimal compared to the potential for loss.
OpenVz is something that requires "hacked kernels" only because the changes were not accepted upstream. I don't think your analogy is any better. We could tack on an " = OpenVz" on there - all three of them are pretty similar.
aghillo, thank you for this. Seems that the exercises are comprehensive enough to cover beginner SQL. As someone also starting out SQL, I appreciate all the hard work you put into this project.
While I'm sure it had worthwhile content, their header was so distracting that I never read what it had to say.
Excellent work :)

I created a network card for my MSX computer a year ago; it has less than half the cpu speed of this Plus. I really like working on that machine; adding hardware, writing bits of software. I said it before, but it's like a Bonzai tree. Because it's not really possible to do something commercial on it anymore, unlike on anything modern, my brain stops thinking commercially and that's a good feeling which I don't seem to have when touching any modern computer/board. Using the latter I always get business ideas and then it suddenly went from playing to work. Which is not bad because I like that, but sometimes I want to just play.
First, this is the kind of thing that had us moving there in the first place ... I'm displeased with the adversarial/entitled tack that my country's government sometimes takes with its people, and I'm still hopeful that this is different elsewhere.

FWIW, my wife and I were in the middle of a move to California to work for Google, and we decided we didn't want to do that and that we'd rather live in NZ instead (I'm a kiwi but had lived overseas for 13 years, she's foreign produce). I've been very disappointed with some of what I've seen from a legal/political point of view since I came back but NZ is still streaks ahead of most other places I've lived from a quality of life standpoint (with some exceptions, primarily cost of living will shock you coming from the States). We're really happy with the decision we made and I feel like we have a much better life here than we would have had there. Where will you be living?

I hope that the bad isn't dwarfing the good to the extent where the term "Americanism" becomes synonymous with "McCarthyism."

Sadly, between the NSA and the TPP, as a foreigner it's getting harder and harder to see the good of the US. I'm afraid that in my experience your whole government and system of governance, at least, is getting tarred with your foreign policy brush. That said, I don't know any Americans who have experienced any sort of personal issue with the people they meet here because of this, but the country itself is not seen as an agent of good IMO.
I'm not sure what is a "large brownstone-type SFR", but in Montreal I had a mailbox next to my door even on second floor, like you can see here for example:

http://goo.gl/maps/CfdjY

I also had another apartment in a building with all (just four) apartment mailboxes in the entry hall (like is common in France) about in the same area.
> I hope that the bad isn't dwarfing the good to the extent where the term "Americanism" becomes synonymous with "McCarthyism."

McCarthy has been dead for a while, and this stuff seems to have support from both major political parties in the US. And the US really is trying to make these sort of invasive policies into a new global standard. (And not just here; look at all those new trade treaties, at the blind loyalty to corporations, etc.)

I'm afraid that "Americanism" really is turning into a negative thing.
As an employee I say it depends. What if they just wait after the competitor dies or just loses the contracts and fire the employees afterwards?

Even if I know that the company making the offer has such plans I'm still in a nasty tragedy of the commons with my coworkers.
You can import privkeys. It's kind of hard to find though - you have to go to account -> integrations and look for the paper wallet import.
We write things down for a number of reasons. Are you really arguing that a person "is asking for it" just for writing it down?
That sound the way to ask them to take it away seeing how they are treating companies that encrypt their data(lavabit)
Very nice! Bookmarked.

A little suggestion: The "home" link in the menu points to index.html rather than the bare domain. Thankfully, I'm no SEO expert, but I'm fairly sure this is duplicate content in google's eyes and will penalise you in result rankings. Looking forward to the github repo.
You must be in the U.S., because you have no clue what kind of shenanigans UPS plays. For example, if a package crosses international borders, certain brokerage forms need to be filled out. You can do this yourself, but most carriers include this in the price of postage. UPS only includes it in their most expensive level of shipping. If you use UPS ground, for example, they'll tack on brokerage fees unless you do the brokerage yourself, and the fees are disproportionate! $50 on a $200 package is typical. You either have to resign yourself to wasting time on forms or buy the expensive UPS shipping, because the cheap shipping will actually be more expensive after brokerage! UPS is also very sneaky when it comes to letting you know you can do the forms yourself. Several times, UPS reps have told me I couldn't do it unless I went in person to the port the package entered the country through! This is not true, but they keep telling customers that.

In short, UPS can suck it. Horrible, horrible company. They're fine if you're shipping from the U.S. to the U.S., or perhaps even from China to the U.S, but from the U.S. to Canada they are horrendous. Avoid at all costs!
You definitely can have democracy in a transparent state - what happens to MLK type figures is not related to what potential oppressors know about MLK (they already knew all they needed to) but instead what they're allowed to do to restrict MLK.
Extend Prestashop customization fields (longer input and html)
Unfortunately, few Caltech classes have lectures that are actually worth it to be posted online (unlike the MIT ones, who are IMO far superior in teaching quality, for the most part)
All things considered it's only a different kind of effort. You have to learn how to distribute smoothly the tension in all limbs, it's abstract at first, but that's how musicians can play anything. Also maybe chorded keyboard would fit or need a better set of commands. More abstract ones thus less many.
What kind of visa do you hold right now jorde? I would really like to hear more about the path from J1 visa intern to startup founder.
On the hook
Pintrest front page is just vertical columns. This is more of a horizontally and vertically justified view. Much harder to achieve than columns.

In fact, from easiest to hardest...

* Vertical columns
* Horizontal rows
* Vertical and Horizontal grid
Issa Charges Sebelius With “Criminal Obstruction” of Obamacare Investigation
Technology is politics by other means
Looks like we're a little closer to implement that automated dating experience I read about a while back :)

(sorry, too lazy to find the link)
Not sure what to make of the alt-coin thing. Is there an algorithm that favors FPGAs?
http://www.hizook.com/blog/2010/09/30/willow-garages-texai-t...
I've tweeted and blogged against the surveillance state many times, so I guess I must also be on whatever list this guy is on.
How to hack Facebook password
Perhaps in a couple of years somebody will write the opposite article: what it feels like to attend a conference in a human body.
Getting into Zen Of Python
"Keeping it a secret" is a non-solution that killed Alan Turing.

Telling the intolerants to suck it up, in particular by openly leaving the closet, was the solution that worked to solve the problem.
I'm not aware of every paper in the field, but I know the high points. We're still a long way off from the day when niche groups can generate novel viruses with specific infective properties. We're still basically just tinkering with the existing viruses in labs to figure out what the parts do.

Depending on how you define "novel", it could indeed be a "grad student project", or it could be a paper that deserves a Nobel. But it still falls firmly in the "improbable as a weapon" category of threats. I'm still far more scared of XDR TB than hypothetical synthetic viruses.
Feminism and Programming Languages
Digital currencies are a classical winner-takes-it-all market. There is not much room for alternatives besides Bitcoin. Also, Bitcoin has a huge lead - an altcoin would have to be fundamentally better than Bitcoin in order to take over. Similarily, TCP and SMTP have both never been replaced by newer protocols. I suspect the same to be the case for Bitcoin.

Also, revising the core of Bitcoin in any significant way will be prove at least as hard as replacing IPv4 with IPv6.
Why a. go to all that trouble and b. even expose anyone to the knowledge that you have encrypted data?

All this requires is a TrueCrypt file volume uploaded to your favourite cloud storage service. When you've cleared customs go find a Starbucks or something and download it.

Border officials won't have a clue. If they confiscate your laptop, buy a new one.
A stock split is not irrelevant as it "lowers" the unit price - it has a strong psychological effect. Not sure if you've noticed, but some sites started to use mBTC instead of BTC when it broke $1,000! Volatility is decreasing as people aren't as hyped up as they were and don't rush to buy at any price anymore. What you see is people waiting and meanwhile doing decent day trading profits from the small movements up and down. BTC couldn't break 1,000 USD and 6,000 CNY, so, naturally, it's falling again.
Would it be possible to defend to these kinds of attacks by creating (and spreading) less lethal forms of the killer virus (assuming general capability to design viruses but not the immune system) and bring overall lethality down (similarly how MRSA spreads less when there are natural competitors present)? This would solve the offensive biotech / defensive biotech dilemma to a degree.
Tagoodies
I would be interested to learn more about these things. What companies are in the business, what is the best choice and so on? Is there a common name for this kind of robot?
Global economy’s recovery is a sheep in wolf’s clothing
There can never be something such as truly open society, not in the foreseeable future.

As truth becomes the norm, the value of lies becomes greater. If you lie constantly your lies have less value, than if you tell truth but lie about important facts.

IMO Truly open society can only be established if faking a signal is impossible. Which I doubt it will ever be.
That's a really bad idea, especially if you're not a US citizen. If they want to access your computer, they _will_ call your superior back home and might tell him that they will either get the password or deny you entry.
They do, but not for humans.

http://lesswrong.com/lw/uv/ends_dont_justify_means_among_hum...
Jokes aside, it's quite interesting to think about how close to an in-person experience this (or similar) can get you. For example body-language. I get quite animated when getting in to a technical discussion - how would that feel in this case?
Ever wondered why sorting is an option at all? Search requires you to know something explicit about what you're looking for (without a search term you have nothing).

How about sorting by subject, email size or whether an attachment exists or not? Search is great, but only brings you to the item you want. After that you might want to explore related items (such as a mail from x that contained attachment y you can't remember the name of).

Outlook has a different philosophy of working with data (sort instead of search) and I've noticed more than once that some people refuse to make that mental switch.

What's happening here is consistency - our nearly obsessive desire to be (and appear to be) consistent with what we have already done. Once we've made a choice, we encounter personal and interpersonal pressures to behave consistently with that commitment. Usura sung a great song once. It was called "Open your mind".
According to that article, the fastest widely-supported RS232 speed that chip can communicate at is 19.2 kbit/s - the onboard clock generator simply doesn't support any of the standard speeds above that.
> A better service is one which does not enable surveillance.

That's one criterion. For many people, ease of use, spam filtering, and so on are others, that may be more important than absolute guarantees about NSA (or other governments') spying.
In the case of nukes, the key technology, gas centrifuges, was essentially invented by civilians and then made very public by being sold all over the world. The US tried to keep it a secret on its end but that achieved nothing but the stagnation of that particular technology in the US. "Proactive" international control is literally the only thing keeping every nation from getting nuclear arms.
Ask HN: Why do so many companies get basic language detection wrong
I am Australian, but for the last 14 months I have lived in Thailand.

I am now frequently presented with webpages in Thai, for two reasons:

* The local companies default to Thai (for obvious, understandable reasons), but 99% have a "TH | EN" toggle on every page - I can accept and deal with this.

* "Global" sites/companies, like Google, EA, etc have an annoying habit that some of their pages will GeoIP detect my location as Thailand, and then present me with a page full of Thai, ignoring the Accept-Language header and not even presenting a manual "change language" option.

If a company like Google or EA thinks enough to offer different languages, which idiot engineer made the logical conclusion that everyone in country X speaks the same language!? Have these people never left their home country?

[Update: re-phrased title, fixed typo]
Example test: https://github.com/dhamidi/shtuc/blob/master/t/shtuc-get-shp...

Here is an excerpt:

describe 'the requested file exists'
it 'outputs the contents of a non-executable'
expect "$(shtuc-get shtuc-find-test)" to = success
end
end
UX: That Square menu
You're probably thinking of the hilarious "High Frequency Dating": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6773841
Just found out about coin base. I couldn't find a way to deposit BitCoin directly to my account, is there a reason for this?
shockingly, regulation and free market aren't binaries, nor are they a one dimensional sliding scale.
With respect to ideas in start-up phase , I think if it's your idea , you will pursue it more passionately as compared to others . Idea can struck to anyone , wonder out of billions of people around how many are pursuing similar ideas ? It's the one who do it in right way and right time makes it big.
Coinbase is cruising at escape velocity. I signed up for an account around the time they launched. I had some questions about button creation so I emailed them. In response, Brian (the founder) coded up a button API to make it possible to generate payment buttons on the fly. Needless to say, the show of dedication was impressive. Congratulations to the Coinbase team.
I don't think they should offer alt-coins, it sends a fragmented message in a time that most consumers are already overwhelmed.
A functional definition of 'the economy' to me is the interaction between people trading goods and services. To try and separate it out as some type of entity seems like faulty thinking, like saying the chess game should serve the players.
Do you expect litecoin to be coming anytime soon? That is the question on everyones mind and I dont see any mention of it. Would love if you could comment on this :)
Here's a better plan. If you believe that there is a reasonable chance (e.g. 10%) that Bitcoin will raise in value 100-fold again in the next few years, do the following: think about how much wealth you'd need to live your dream life (i.e. spend all your time on your pet projects). Say that's 3 million. Then try to put 30k into Bitcoin. If you win, it will change your life. Otherwise, you continue as you did before. Also: do not diversify. If you put 15k into two altcoins each, and only one of them is successful, you are still stuck with your old life.

This plan is based on the idea that there is an amount of money X that allows you to significantly change your life, while amounts below X merely give you incremental improvements. If that's not the case, the plan is obviously not for you. :)
Uncovering the pieces of User Experience Puzzle - YourStory.com
They're becoming more common. The entire University of California system already has a similar policy, of institutional open-access archival by default, but with a waiver process for a handful of cases where the author thinks it's needed: http://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-policy/
This would be a good time to spend some of that money on building up the customer support.

I gave them a try and for my first purchase I received BTC at a significantly higher rate than they quoted and confirmed. To make things worse, I still have no reply on the support ticket 10 days later. Not exactly what I'd expect from a company handling significant amounts of money in a market that's struggling to gain recognition and trust.
As someone who interned on a J1, you don't need an SSN to be paid. You do need an SSN to file a tax return at the end of the year however.
I do not know about a FAQ, but this document describes what I mentioned: https://gitweb.torproject.org/torspec.git?a=blob_plain;hb=HE... (read the section "1. Outline").

There is a small set (say, around 5-10) of semi-trusted directory
authorities. A default list of authorities is shipped with the Tor
software. Users can change this list, but are encouraged not to do so,
in order to avoid partitioning attacks.

Every authority has a very-secret, long-term "Authority Identity Key".
This is stored encrypted and/or offline, and is used to sign "key
certificate" documents. Every key certificate contains a medium-term
(3-12 months) "authority signing key", that is used by the authority to
sign other directory information. (Note that the authority identity
key is distinct from the router identity key that the authority uses
in its role as an ordinary router.)

Routers periodically upload signed "routers descriptors" to the
directory authorities describing their keys, capabilities, and other
information. Routers may also upload signed "extra info documents"
containing information that is not required for the Tor protocol.
Directory authorities serve router descriptors indexed by router
identity, or by hash of the descriptor.

Routers may act as directory caches to reduce load on the directory
authorities. They announce this in their descriptors.

Periodically, each directory authority generates a view of
the current descriptors and status for known routers. They send a
signed summary of this view (a "status vote") to the other
authorities. The authorities compute the result of this vote, and sign
a "consensus status" document containing the result of the vote.

Directory caches download, cache, and re-serve consensus documents.

Clients, directory caches, and directory authorities all use consensus
documents to find out when their list of routers is out-of-date.
(Directory authorities also use vote statuses.) If it is, they download
any missing router descriptors. Clients download missing descriptors
from caches; caches and authorities download from authorities.
Descriptors are downloaded by the hash of the descriptor, not by the
relay's identity key: this prevents directory servers from attacking
clients by giving them descriptors nobody else uses.
A surveillance state worth its salt would immediately pass a law (or even just police instruction) requiring 1) all customers to register an ID, 2) the rental register to be open for inspection at any time, 3) all drives to be snapshotted before being reimaged.
Actually, what you should do is to carry laptops and phones without much data on them, and during the travel store your real data encrypted somewhere online.

The real risk here is losing your electronic equipment for an extended period of time.
what's going on here? just yesterday i had to inform someone here on hn about the fact that heroin isn't as harmless as milk.
opiates can be pretty damn dangerous. they can have quite bad side effects, and you build up a tolerance pretty quickly with regular use, which can easily lead to accidental overdosing.
Downloading Historical Futures Data From Quandl
One nice thing about even having the waiver process, even if it's granted to anyone who requests, is that it adds a slight bureaucratic roadblock that causes some authors to rethink a publication choice they might not have thought much about in the past. You go to publish with $big_journal, the journal sees you're from a university with an open-access mandate and asks you to get an open-access waiver before you can submit a manuscript, and in some percentage of the cases this might cause you to just redirect your manuscript elsewhere. In some cases that might be difficult; some sub-fields don't have as many respected journals as others, or your paper might be something unusual that's a perfect fit for a particular special issue and hard to publish otherwise. But those end up being minority cases.
"What is wrong with that? Just because an idea was ahead of time and too idealistic does not mean it's not useful or worthy"

Because human nature.

"Socialistic Sweden is doing better than capitalistic USA."

I guess it depends on what you define as "better". Innovation is very low (I don't see companies flocking there) and it's not easy to start your own business because of regulations and high taxes. Social mobility is also very low. So your choice is to move or work for a big company.

I've been traveling all around Europe and Asia for the past year and I haven't found a place better than the US. Of course it has its problems, but every country does.

"Look at Switzerland considering a quite generous guaranteed basic income."

It was shot down rather quickly. If you know the culture of the people that live in Switzerland, it was never even an option.
Perhaps they could make it lean towards people if you raise your voice? Or if you shake your head in disgust it could wiggle?

To be honest though, email is still pretty much the best communication method over distance. It allows you to think, revise and reference other information easier. Many a time I've torpedoed a face to face meeting with a single email.
https://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Objectivism-oriented_pro...

/edit:

Also, Java2K.

http://esolangs.org/wiki/Java2K
Design got a lot cleaner since the last time i checked. (y)
> terrible search interfaces

I'm not too unhappy with Google Scholar lately. It seems to have nearly complete coverage of anything that can be found in an online paper archive (both institutional archives and journals' own archives), and a better search interface than those archives do. Via extracting references it even indexes a large amount of older material that's not yet digitized; of course it can't link you PDFs in that case, but it still provides the citation and can return offline papers by title/author/date in search results.
Never declare anything, ever. And if they pull you out for a search anyway, play ignorant.
How is it way different? It's exactly analolous to providing a backdoor -- giving means to take advantage of the weaknesses. Whether the vulnerabilities are there by purpose or for by accident doesn't change the fact how exploits are provided and for what purpose.

It would be naive, if not outright dishonest to believe that exchanging 0days is not for offensive purposes, especially after knowing the extent NSA actions go, and of course remembering Stuxnet and Flame.