skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I notice that you avoided the implicit question in the above post: can you provide proof of your accusation?
> Other user might get a choice to whether they want to participate, and you might not like that

Well, you can hardly ask the corrupt official whether he wants his payments to be traceable, or the fraudster whether he wants his assets to be seizable. Like any other law which does not impede a human right, these things are decided through democratic processes, and applied to everyone.
Oh come on, calling it a modulator/demodulator totally gives it away :)
I used to know a mechanic in the Australian air force back in the 90s, and he said that Dassault lost out on bids for us because they were big on lock-in. I don't know if it's still true, but back then, my mate said that you had to have a custom toolkit to work on a Dassault plane - so anywhere you might conceivably ever want to work on a plane, you'd have to supply it with their custom kit. We're talking things as simple as screwdrivers.
That makes no sense. It is self-regulation. Balancing the books is in their best interest.
Lightroom and some other programs. LR runs on both Windows and Mac, so I'm tied to these.

For why I'm weary, see Cygwin comments in OP. And, this[1] (while I don't run Windows 8 at home, I do at work). Microsoft could have bought Cygwin before Red Hat. They could have embraced the differences between UNIX and Windows and made me love Windows as a better UNIX. PowerShell? No thanks. Even if I didn't hate it, it's Windows only. Give me Bash.

Windows is an inferior OS. When I start a Cygwin Bash process, there is a non-zero chance that I won't get some memory I need. The fix is to shutdown all Cygwin processes and to rebase ALL of the dlls used by Cygwin to different addresses. Seriously, true virtual memory has been around for what, more than 30 years? Still today you can run/load a device driver that puts crap in the middle of every program's address space. How is this tolerated??

I have two CentOS boxes at home, where I do lots of my work. Every night they are updated with the latest rpms to fix problems. I only have to reboot when I install a new kernel. Windows, on the other hand, needs to reboot for almost every single Windows Update.

These are the reasons I'm weary of using this shit OS.

[1] http://envoy510.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/windows-8-worst-win...
It seems you don't know the first thing about the topic you are talking about. Side-channel attacks are very real. I'm working in a lab which focuses precisely on cryptosystems' implementation security, and I for instance saw someone extract the secret key of an AES running on a last gen smartphone (with multiple cores etc. as you describe).
The attack was using an antenna (which listened to electromagnetic emanations rather than sound, but that's a detail, it is also possible to do that with power consumption, timing…) which was simply put near the screen of the phone. That was not supposed to be very impressive, it was during an exhibition just as a fun demo to attract people to the stand which did it.

And moreover, about what you say in your criticism, cryptographic computations often take place on embedded systems like a credit card where you have less noise and slower computations, which makes it even easier to perform this kind of attacks.
"Why Linux Sucks" - 2013
Senate Report Opens a Window Into Hidden World of Data Aggregators
Is their sense of orientation really that great? In your simulation, when a wandering ant finds food, it heads right back to the anthill in a straight line. All I know from this is from reading about Feynman's experiments, but what he says seems to be more realistic:

One question that I wondered about was why the ant trails look so straight and nice. The ants look as if they know what they're doing, as if they have a good sense of geometry. Yet the experiments that I did to try to demonstrate their sense of geom­etry didn't work. Many years later, when I was at Caltech … some ants came out around the bath­tub… I put some sugar on the other end of the bathtub… The moment the ant found the sugar, I picked up a colored pencil … and behind where the ant went I drew a line so I could tell where his trail was. The ant wandered a little bit wrong to get back to the hole, so the line was quite wiggly, unlike a typical ant trail.

When the next ant to find the sugar began to go back, I marked his trail with another color… he followed the first ant's return trail back, rather than his own incoming trail. (My theory is that when an ant has found some food, he leaves a much stronger trail than when he's just wandering around.) This second ant was in a great hurry and followed, pretty much, the original trail. But because he was going so fast he would go straight out, as if he were coasting, when the trail was wiggly. Often, as the ant was "coasting," he would find the trail again. Already it was apparent that the second ant's return was slightly straighter. With successive ants the same "improvement" of the trail by hurriedly and carelessly "following" it occurred. I followed eight or ten ants with my pencil until their trails became a neat line right along the bathtub.
Yup, it wasn't as much, but I magically had 10k show up after I made a deposit through a bank teller that stayed there for 2 weeks before finally disappearing.
Sounds like Brazil went with the low price leader (French comments were interesting) and didn't miss a chance to stick it in the eye of the US with a couple of anonymous quotes. If you follow the other logic it's pretty depressing "Yes, you had the better technology and were the preferred choice but we went with an inferior product because of spying and no that wouldn't make us feel really stupid if we get into a war with a neighbor who outguns us in the skies because they have better product at least we stuck it to the US in 2013!"
In fact, I'd like these switches to be above the F-keys and to have tiny LEDs that glowed when the switch (not the device, just the power switch) was allowing power to reach the device. I still want indicators showing when the devices themselves are operating, but for security purposes, I would treat the power switch LED as a warning that the devices have power and, therefore, could be on whether they claimed to be or not.
It's commonly used as shorthand, yes, but jrockway is commenting in response to a startup program that does include Buffalo, saying not to start your business in New York. I think pragone, responding in turn, was just pointing out that "don't start your business in New York [the city]" is not advice that's incompatible with taking advantage of the Start-Up NY program.
Improving Angular Performance with React
Ask HN: What tech do you want to learn?
What one tech skill or tool would you want to learn if you had a choice?
Depends on the kind of company you want to build.

The data proves that the kinds of companies that need a great engineering talent pool and venture capital will tend to hail just a couple of locations.

I'm not saying there aren't exceptions. There are. But in an endeavor where the failure risk is so high in the most optimal of circumstances, I wouldn't add another risk factor like location into the mix.

Just my thoughts.
"the Agency is indispensable"

Stopped reading right there. Someone else can come along and tell everyone the rest of the story, but that's the only indication that this is a failed attempt to save face by a failed administration.

There is no "deadly terror threat."

There is no "cyberwarfare" that requires "advanced intelligence and overseas surveillance."

There are no "new threats found every day."

Tell me, brilliant White House, where are these threats? During a judicial court summary, why was there no evidence presented of any deadly threat that required this sort of intrusion? Why did a federal judge condemn the surveillance as baseless?

There might be sweeping changes in this document. I don't care. The problem isn't with the NSA – it IS the NSA. The oppressive establishment must be dismantled board by board. That's the only way we can guarantee our rights, because if there are any sort of changes to the NSA, they'll just be reversed in 10 years when nobody's looking.

Besides, these are just blanket "recommendations." The NSA doesn't have to listen to these.
(3) is how I ended up building a solid base of subcontracting opportunities. I built a good relationship with two recruiters. When I don't have any work lined up, these recruiters usually have plenty of options. I'm happy for work during dry periods, recruiters are happy because they get a %, clients are happy to have work done.
All of this may be true, or not true, but as far as geography is concerned, the #1 thing is to be near your customers. Do you know why Microsoft was first based in Albuquerque, NM of all places? Because that's where their biggest customer, MITS, was based.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft
Nginx 1.5.8 adds TCP Fast Open
Why duck? Apple is a reasonable example.
One experience I find amazing and frustrating at the same time: While on vacation or otherwise traveling and doing something fairly novel, each day feels long. The minute I am on the plane to fly back home the whole thing feels like it zipped by.
Good catch, thanks! Of course, this still doesn't cover capital gains, dividends, or other income...
I like to give the benefit of the doubt but in general I just don't trust comments on HN anymore.

Plus doing it with light is just way cooler.
Realtime Audiophile: How Computers Produce Audio
This seems like definitely the right decision. If the C# compiler had been written in C# from nearly the beginning I think it would have heavily influenced language and infrastructure development going forward.

It's much better to be in the position now, when the language is barely used, than to have to support it later.
I think there's more here than what can be fixed with tape. Your computer has computers in it that can be re-programmed in ways that the OS doesn't tell you about. From the pdf:

The same technique that allows us to disable the LED, namely
reprogramming the ﬁrmware that runs on the iSight, enables
a virtual machine escape whereby malware running inside a
virtual machine reprograms the camera to act as a USB Human
Interface Device (HID) keyboard which executes code in the host
operating system.
From the FAQ:

Employees hired for and whose jobs are certified as net new jobs in a tax-free area will pay no state or local income taxes for the first five years. For the second five years, employees will pay no taxes on income up to $200,000 for individuals, $250,000 for a head of household and $300,000 for taxpayers filing a joint return. There is an annual cap per business on the number of employees that qualify for this exemption and an annual cap statewide of 10,000 net new jobs (i.e., there will be a maximum of 10,000 tax-free jobs after year one, 20,000 tax-free jobs after year two, etc.)
Seems like a good idea. Don't live in SF though.
> that you use the word "love" in a bizarre way.

Is it really that bizarre? I obviously didn't intend to invoke the romantic or familial definition of the word, which leaves the more general definition. As I clarified, I mean that most people attribute most things that are good about the world (on all scales larger than the individual or family), and thus are extremely thankful for government. I don't think it's bizarre to describe this as "love."

> That's exactly what I said -- people believe that some government functions are desirable, and that taxation is necessary to those functions. That's very different than loving taxation, by any normal use of language.

No, I don't think it is. Would you agree that people would use the opposite word, "hate," to describe the act of removing taxes and thus (in their minds) removing the possibility of having all these nice things like welfare and infrastructure?

> This is not equivalent to "loving dieting".

There is a subtle difference, because the act of dieting is a purely personal decision that essentially only affects the dieter. It's more analogous to one's personal amount of taxation, which I already conceded is not widely loved. But even so, if dieting is the only effective way of acquiring a healthy weight, then it's not unreasonable to love that fact. It would certainly be vastly preferable to having no way of acquiring a healthy weight.

> People aren't "thankful for government" in some generalized sense, they are thankful for particular governments taking particular actions (and, quite often, the same people are also resentful of the same government taking different actions, and often broadly disapproving of even the existence of many other governments.)

I have already addressed this. I never said that people are thankful for any and all government actions. I said that people are thankful for government, because government does things they believe are overwhelming good and that could not be done without government.

> This is essentially (among other errors) the fallacy of composition -- taking something that is true of some component (some particular action by some particular government) of a larger category (government in general) and treating it as if it was true of the larger category as such.

Absolutely not. The key here is that people believe that only government can do the things that they are thankful for. They think that no government means a bad society. It would be a fallacy of composition if I said "people like social welfare programs, therefore people like governments since governments provide social welfare programs." But it's no longer a fallacy of composition if I assume that only governments can possible provide social welfare programs.
ODesk and Elance merge
As the article clearly says, this was an off-and-on deal rolling for years.

"Fan fact" the Brazilian government has been seating on this project to renew the aging Air Force's fleet since 1994.

And in 2001/2002 the contenters were (in no specific order):

- Sukhoi Su-35
- Eurofighter Typhoon
- General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin F-16
- Mikoyan MiG-29
- Saab JAS 39 Gripen
- McDonnell Douglas/Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet
- Dassault Rafale
There are some great visualisations here. Coming up with good visualisations is tricky. I can't help but mention my own attempt at a more general framework for algorithm visualisation: http://will.thimbleby.net/algorithms/
Have you met many people from the United States?
Yes, it is theoretically possible to calculate a Gini coefficient for Bitcoin (it's actually a simple calculation). However, we have no actual idea what the Gini coefficient is, or if it's getting worse, or better. Ask anyone who is saying different for a source.
The Gripen jet fighter was already the Air Force favorite amongst the contenders. In 2009 the President had settled for the Rafale and it caused an uproar in the Air Force as they had not been consulted and had previously expressed that their fighter of choice would be the Gripen. The government had said multiple times that the F-18 was a too costly option, so this statement about the NSA is probably just a way to gain some leverage over the situation.
You appear to have references to Zenpathy, which I assume is a name which didn't make the cut. Might want to standardize on Gemba, if you're going with that name.

Also, while I think 現場 does have some sheer genius as a product name, I question the wisdom of using it in an English-speaking market. It would take me five minutes to explain why it's a really good name and, in that time, I should have been selling the actual product rather than the naming decision. Gemba isn't one of the few dozen Japanese words you can reasonably expect college-educated Americans to know. I can guarantee you that even as a Japanese speaker I will botch your romanization the next time I try to talk about this company. Additionally, expect to be "That jewelry thingamagig" if non-Japanese speakers remember the name at all.

Great idea for a service. You might consider eventually creating some resources on how to conduct one of these interviews for the maximum benefit of the company.
The web cam on the inferior computer I use doesn't work if I don't plug it in.
Federal precedent dictates that evidence (and a search warrant) can be introduced if it was first confirmed by an independent source.
> "Until earlier this year, Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet had been considered the front runner..

That simply isn't true. The Brazilian government was very clearly pointing towards the Rafale while the air force was somewhat leaning towards the Gripen NG. There was enormous pressure not to drop the F/A-18 altogether, despite the clear shortcomings of Boeing's proposal.
Secret Service investigating alleged credit card breach at Target
Read through the regulations, here's the gist:

-- New initiative to establish tax-free zones near and on university campuses

-- Businesses in those zones will operate 100% tax free for 10 years – no income, business, corporate, state, local, sales, property taxes nor franchise fees

-- Employees can be eligible to pay no income taxes as well

-- Business have to be either new startups OR expansion of existing businesses that will bring new jobs to New York state

-- Some industries are prohibited from participating

-- Types of companies targeted are in high-tech – generally engaged in the “design, development, and introduction of new biotech, IT, advanced materials, process engineering, electronic technology, and/or innovative manufacturing process”
Anyone have a non-Google Docs link? It isn't loading on my end.
That is the same thing that shocked me when I run into a bunch of different entrepreneurs in the last few weeks, creating local exchanges here, bitcoin ATM, thinking about colored coins and interesting transactions enabled by bitcoin.... and when I talk with them about the technical side, they never even know how a transaction is verified, what are bitcoin scripts, how the network works in general.... I know that I know quite little about bitcoin and it confounds me that people honestly believe they can get away with not knowing how things work. Due diligence, man!
Styl(us) can. My point is that calling it a 'post-processor' is a misnomer.
I'm Brazilian. Here's my opinion:

The reason they mention it was the NSA is because the government wants to capitalize on the anti-american commotion (and it's working).

The real reason is that Boeing is a competitor to Embraer, so transfer of technology would be limited. Boeing simply had a worse, more expensive offer.
Make a public stint about it if the issue isn't resolved accordingly. There is no reason to pay the price for a mistake by their company.
Thanks for the catch and feedback!
Interesting perspective, thanks. I suspect it depends on whether you're more used to langs like Ruby, Python, JavaScript (which are more like Clojure) or Java (which is more like Scala). Coming from Python and JavaScript, and with minimal Java experience, I find Clojure more approachable... but then, Java-style OO is utterly vexing to me.
> I would say it's perfectly logical to respond with "Government also does Y and Z, which are both good, so maybe it's worth trying to reform rather than demolish."

Certainly so. That's why the libertarian/anarchist/anarcho-capitalist (whatever you want to call it) arguments I am most attracted to are the ones that attempt to show why societies without governments can also do Y and Z, and perhaps do them more effectively than governments. I dislike the more prominent libertarian line of argument, which appeals to "natural rights" and morality, and basically says "I don't care if government is the only way to do Y and Z, government shouldn't do it because it violates my rights."
Judging by the phone numbers, I would say that this is likely to be some form of elliptic curve cryptography with domain parameters different from the NIST and GOST standards.

I don't personally have the depth of experience with elliptic curves to go about cracking this crypto, but others have cracked elliptic curve algorithms. Perhaps one of those people will find this tidbit useful in narrowing the field.

Also, I would expect that at least some of the plain text is Unicode, probably the plane from 0400-04FF.
I've been using a similar setup with Pomander and the Pomander-Wordpress plugin. It's got a similar setup, but is 100% PHP-based, so I don't need to have ruby on all my servers. Been using it in production on about 15 servers for well over a year, and I'm pretty happy with it.

http://ripeworks.com/pomander/wordpress.html
> That said, do features really matter in the arms trade?

I dunno. Will the next serious war use planes at all? Or something smaller (I bet on smaller, for air and water)?

Anyway, Brazilian fighters are modeled to beat a defensive war against Venezuela. I guess the F22 is not the best fighter to use over the Amazon florest (but I don't know muh).
I'd argue that all currencies are by some definition "fiat," in that no currency has ever had nor ever will have an objective value. A dollar -- or a bitcoin or a gold nugget -- is worth what we believe it is, and in every case that belief requires some level of trust, usually in one or more institutions. Believing in the Federal Reserve or the US Government isn't intrinsically more (or less) silly than believing in private banks issuing certificates that they assure us are redeemable for fixed amounts of gold, or for that matter believing that the gold itself is valuable. (There's no reason gold is a better backing for currency than silver, shells, or salt -- all of which have been used as legal tender.) Bitcoin's novelty is in attempting to take institutions out of the equation, but it ultimately hasn't taken away the requirement of trust -- and its wild volatility at least raises questions about whether institutions trying to actively manage the value of currency are actually such horrible things.

TL;DR: the phrase "fiat currency" annoys me. :)
Still, that only applies to NYS/NYC income taxes.

You're still on the hook for federal income tax, which is most of your income tax. (Obviously, the state can't do anything about that!)
I love how people keep acting like Brazil is being somewhat evil here by trying to gain leverage...to stop us from constant illegal spying...Yep, super objectionable.
Land is a fixed asset. The deflationary nature of it is not destructive to an economy (even though is it questionably desirable).

Deflationary currencies are destructive.

Two completely separate forms of wealth.
The F/A-18 had the higher cost of all three final options. Also, the lack of a full technology transfer program (only the Gripen NG proposal had it, including local production) and the possibility of backdoors in any of the multitude of unauditable software systems that fly the planes sealed its fate.

The Rafale was closer, but the high cost of maintenance did it.
Hey joey -

Overall that's the point I'm making. What I'd say, though, is that trying to deceive players is a bad strategy over the long run despite what might seem like short term benefit.
> and correct solution involves just making sure by means of physical security and/or shielding that attacker cannot access places where it's possible to implement such attacks

This is addressed in the linked page.
Function-level optnone is definitely something I would appreciate as well. Optimized code can often look nothing like the original code... and having the whole binary non-optimized is just too slow.
"the “computing” market in Q3 2008 was 92 million units of which Windows[3] was 90% whereas in Q3 2013 it was 269 million units of which Windows was 32%."

http://www.asymco.com/2013/10/10/the-five-year-plan/