skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did the government somehow manage to predict 746 days ago that they would need to have a PR flackey describing the workday of an NSA analyst to clean up for Snowden? I mean, that's some pretty special prognostication, right there.
That advantage is running out. You can only have a new revolutionary product every 30 years (this 64 bit chip's effect is quite oversold in this article). See Mac vs PC in the 90s. Apple is still playing the same game (Expensive, Closed and non expandable Hardware, limited hardware choices, Lone Wolf, act alone mentality, not reacting to consumer's requests because they smugly always know best) Android has filled in the role of PC. The difference now is that there is no Steve Jobs leadership and cult following to bring Apple to prominence after this era fades.
Seems like you can't delete the built-in search providers since the new home screen landed.

Goes off to file a bug...
KCNA in North Korea: http://www.kcna.kp/

Archive on Japanese site still seems to be up: http://www.kcna.co.jp/index-e.htm

Original report at http://www.nknews.org/2013/12/in-1984-moment-n-korea-deletes..., but it appears to have buckled under the load.
> For a criminal trial, a specific law must be broken.

Perjury. I don't understand the subtleties of this law, but my ordinary man interpretation is telling me that if you are a government official, you are allowed to lie under oath in a court, with no repercussions.

Quoting Wikipedia,

Wyden then asked Director Clapper, "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" He responded, "No, sir." Wyden asked "It does not."[31] and Clapper said "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertantly perhaps collect, but not wittingly."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Clapper
I obviously think it's a hyperbolic statement, but there is something genuinely new in Bitcoin that basic economic classes wouldn't talk about (namely, the ability to maintain a secure transaction log without trusted intermediaries) that can certainly perform a fundamental part of what financial services provide.
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The story of gOrge
I am a volunteer for AFS, a no profit organization that lets kids from all over the world to live a year as exchange students.

AFS Italy is great, we always try to give the best to our host, so when I saw that a lot of kids where going to miss a nice experience only because there weren't any volunteer I stand up and finally proposed myself.

Initially my job was easy, get one girl at the station, chaperone her to Brescia, let her see the city and have her fun, bring her back to Milan.

We organized that via Facebook chat, easy.

Then other 1, 2, 3, no 4... Ahhh 5 kids join too.

It took me a lot of time and effort only to make sure that everybody knows what was going to happen, it was even more difficult because we used different media, somebody on facebook, somebody via sms, someone else via email, it was really hard to manage everything.

It is impossible that we don't have any better tool to keep easily and without much effort everybody update and ready.

So I create gOrge.
http://gorgeapp.appspot.com/

gOrge is basically midway between a pastebin for markdown and a forum, everybody can post, everybody can see what is been posted and everybody can reply to the post.

All by markdown to keep everything simple...

Give it a spin, you will like...
Also possibly harming animals such as dolphins:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=dolphin-dev...
(From link at bottom) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_comparison_...
This is the same reason I find disclosure of geolocation data collected outside a call without a warrant to be an unreasonable search.
I still don't see the "fundamental flaw". Non-reachable commits are automatically deleted by the garbage collection system, which can be also be run manually. Accidental commits with large files or private content can be "modified" (technically copied and rewritten, since individual commits are immutable) with rebase, amend, filter-branch, etc. Those operations make the original commits unreachable, so garbage collection takes care of deleting them.

And like I already said above, data loss can occur when you're working with uncommitted changes, just like in most other version control systems. If the content is not under version control (in this case, not in a git commit), it's not safe.

Honestly, you guys should go watch Linus Torvalds' presentation at Google about Git. The entire point, the massive problem he was trying to solve, was preservation and verification of data integrity.
Only with proper pragmas and loop constructs.

(1) it's enabled by default at -O3; (2) the loop constructs needed are fairly simple; (3) arguing that unoptimized code will be slow is still a poor argument.

ARM64 does NOT grant you the vectorized instruction advantage.

32-bit ARM NEON does not support vectorized doubles. 64-bit ARM NEON does. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_NEON#Advanced_SIMD_.28NEON....

So many people are arguing here, but clearly few of you people have even worked with ARM chips at the assembly level.

Yep. Thankfully I can back up my arguments with quoted facts.

EDIT: and I already granted that vectorized and floating-point operations don't necessarily benefit from larger register widths, so I don't know why you're even arguing. Let alone the OP wasn't even asking specifically about ARM!
Well it would be the USPS, not the NSA, and the USPS does indeed scan today every single mail item they process for "metadata" about the contents of the envelope [1] (note how the linked article reinforces my point about Fourth Amendment protection).

Either way if the failure of the Fourth Amendment to be protective enough is that bad then the solution is either to pass a law adding the needed protection (what Congress did for landline wiretaps) or to wait for an activist judge to quote James Madison in a ruling that expands the permit of the Fourth Amendment (e.g. the ruling today).

But simply wishing that the Fourth Amendment says something other than what it does, doesn't turn the Fourth Amendment into what you wish.

[1] http://gizmodo.com/5994922/how-the-post-office-sniffs-out-an...
It's true and important that these problems apply to democratic decision making. It is not given (without evidence and/or argument) that it is "at least as susceptible". In general, I'd think it less susceptible, because poor decisions from my lack-of-involvement are more likely to disadvantage me than to disadvantage any other specific individual; this is not the case when neglecting to contribute fungible resources toward welfare or defense.

Even so, voted up for introducing an important point to the discussion.
I know someone who it affected and they were going to buy their kindle from somewhere other than Amazon.

So I guess it does impact their brand but unfortunately sometimes there is no where else to go.
Ah. In case anyone else was wondering why this works, it's because IGE has the property that if you corrupt the ciphertext, the plaintext is corrupted all the way from that point forwards. Therefore, appending the SHA1 of the message body is enough to check the integrity. (Appending a block of zeroes would be enough, too.)
thanks! what would you like to see in the second post?
Found out today that WebSockets now work on Heroku. Wrote a little quick app that uses them: http://colorchats.herokuapp.com/

Need to clean up a few things, but it was a neat 45 minutes.
Analogy:

You buy a pipe capable of pushing 50 gallons per second of water, but only 20 gallons per second of water comes out. Do you blame the guy you bought the pipe from?
Except that IGE mode is broken.

How broken is it here? Who knows. Professional cryptographers would use an AEAD mode with a security proof, or the generic composition of a cipher (w/proof) with ciphertext encrypted by a MAC (w/proof). Instead, this system uses a '70s block mode (that nobody else uses) and a hash function from the '90s.
The average life expectancy for those times factors in infant mortality and severe injury. If you survived your first few years and never got mortally wounded, you could still expect to live to 60-70.
I am working on a protocol-agnostic, federated push messaging layer for ChatSecure-iOS but it will be interesting to see if anything else pops up in the meantime.
No mention of Fira? This is a great font! Thanks Mozilla! https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
> It is the express lack of correlation that makes up a superstition, so the opposite of what you're saying is true.

Superstitions are generally formed when two things are correlated, but the causative variable fails to be correctly isolated, resulting in the mistaken impression that one event causes another despite being either independent or actually dependent on a third variable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_and_dependence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_correlation

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation_does_not_imply_caus...
I have submitted similar pull requests to open source projects with no financial incentive. I don't really see the problem, as long as it's judged to be a "legitimate" correction.
This strategy is not in itself necessarily irrational - and maybe the opposite.

Being able to implement mixed strategies is actually a game theoretic requirement for rationality.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategy_%28game_theory%29#Pur...
> make the same amount of money as any other day while fighting traffic and dangerous road conditions.

Isn't traffic already built into the metering model, as well as delays from dangerous road conditions?

And presumably, insurance prices in risk...
As for KDF, going for slower provable algorithms used for each incoming\outgoing packet may be a preferred solution for projects aimed at the relatively small security crowd. But we don't really compete in this area, our competition is WhatsApp and other mass market messengers.

What's this mean? You've created your own KDF, and the questions were: why is it secure, and why didn't you use an already-proven KDF? Unless I'm misreading something, it sounds like you've responded, "It's not that important, because our target market isn't people who care about their security." Is that correct?

EDIT: Judging by the upvotes, at least 5 other people are interested to hear your thoughts on this. Considering this submission is almost off the frontpage, that's a lot. As a security product, you should consider clarifying your position on this, because your statement currently sounds like, "We don't think security is a big deal since it's not a big deal to our target market."
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I've been using mongo for about a year.

The only pain points are that the API documentation is somewhat confusing. But they still haven't really launched so I expect that the documentation will be updated with better examples soon.
I didn't question the fairness or value of that commission and frankly, its irrelevant to the point at hand. If they officially allowed bitcoin on the AppleMarket, there's no telling how many vendors would offer it for an absurdly bigger profit margin.

Being practical, this means that theres space for a solution to charge intermediary commission and let apple have its piece of the pie.
I have it installed, but not really looked at it. My last "burst" use of xmpp was via facebook -- as most of my contacts don't use "plain" jabber right now. Before that I used it a bit for work -- but then rarely on my phone.

Now that google is killing talk in favour of proprietary hangouts, I predict it'll be a while before I'm a serious xmpp user again.

Sadly it's very hard to push process changes when one are in the minority in a group... Thanks for the reminder though, it does look like it full-fills most of my needs (and fixes annoyances I've encountered with other android clients).
Inheritance in the Base Class of Evil
> It seems to me to only stumbling block are regulatory and security restrictions.

That's correct, but those are humongous only's.

> If that is the case, wouldn't future bitcoin regulation put an end to this type of use case?

Short of large-scale Internet traffic examination, the only thing regulations can hope to do is restrict the exit points: the exchanges between Bitcoin and some government-controlled currency.
Lots of good options in the space of 'friendly' wrappers around Selenium.

For .NET users, FluentAutomation (http://fluent.stirno.com/) is a good option. Works in regular tests or with scriptcs .csx files. Can automate any of the Se supported browsers, including PhantomJS very easily with short, readable commands.
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Totally agree and that's why I open sourced the scheduler library and not a UI for it :) Schedule UIs should always be created specific to their usage domain otherwise they get out of control pretty quickly. Love PagerDuty by the way, but I'm not even a developer so I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want me mucking around in your code base.
Congratulations, you have proved the tautology that hardware-accelerated frequency-domain codecs use hardware-accelerated frequency-domain transforms.

Unfortunately you entirely missed my point about everything other than video decoding. Bandwidth between the CPU and GPU quickly becomes the bottleneck, unless you're able to move most of your processing onto the GPU, which I granted you was the right thing to do. But also as I stated, none of the popular software I use actually does this. It is all optimized for CPU processing.

DxVA suffers from this same issue, i.e. you have to be very careful around moving data to & from the GPU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXVA#DXVA2_implementations:_nat...

EDIT: And in case you think I'm talking out of my ass, I work on a high-performance embedded product. We recently switched from a 32-bit to a 64-bit version of the (ARM-like) processor we use. Nearly every single one of our major algorithms benefited from the increased register width (although we did have to slightly modify some of them to do so). And we don't even use multimedia operations. A lot of the gains come from simply moving less stuff around, which, when you have to process a packet every 40 cycles, really adds up.
I agree with you, but the article is about Wales
Like my sibling commenter said, I prefer names that are more descriptive. I prefer "schemaless" databases, but it depends on what you do. Redis is called NoSQL but it's not a document database, it's more a key-value store with lots of slicing and dicing features.
Most religions frown on bottomless greed and exploiting and persecuting the poor instead of helping them, but look at how Rush Limbaugh, leader of the Republican Party, hates the Pope for spreading the word of Jesus.
The Reality of Code
Ouch, there's a few display errors in Chrome on Windows. Not good given the objectives of the service.
There should be better ways to report call quality issues than calling up to wait on hold for an hour to tell someone "fix it for me". Problem reporting should be mostly if not entirely automated. Google Voice, for example, has a "report bad call quality" option in its list of recent calls. Reporting other kinds of issues like failed calls could happen the same way.

For situations where phone support is still required, automated systems can still enforce that a technician can only access data relevant to the user who is calling, and that access can be logged, audited, and reported to the user on their next bill.

The important thing is that users should give limited consent to access data for troubleshooting, and that access should be enforced by automated systems, not NDAs. Technicians do not need and should not have blanket access to user data.

Really, a lot of the problems you describe have been created by the telecoms for themselves. Telecoms rely on antiquated and terrible old equipment, and that causes the call quality issues. If they invested in updating their infrastructure, they could have consistent better quality calls and automated monitoring. But they have no incentive to update their infrastructure when they already have oligopolies or monopolies. My phone has a 10 Mbps connection to the internet and yet phone calls still sound like they're happening underwater; it's a joke! Billing complexity is an even more obvious example of a problem the telecoms have created for themselves.
>c - After lots of thinking I agree with Apple. Current form factor is just right for communication device [1].

All that thinking got you one vote - unfortunately for apple, most votes want a bigger phone (the numbers don't lie).

>If you need bigger screen, chances are you do not want a phone - you want a tablet.

So now people buying larger phones don't really know what they want? This is typical, flawed Apple superiority complex thinking.

Who wants to carry a phone AND a tablet around (one in each pocket?) How is this even portable or feasible in most cases? No one wants to carry a tablet around with them everywhere they go. A larger phone is a logical compromise. Besides, economics is often the biggest decider. If someone really wants a tablet, but really needs a phone are they going to buy an iPhone AND an iPad? Can they even afford that? or can they really justify spending $1,000 for it when they can spend less than half of that for a well polished Android phablet?
I agree 100% with the author. I log into Facebook once a day, maybe. I don't have fb messenger on my phone. I use mailing lists (set one up for your friends, great, simple way to share photos etc w/ a select group of people)/WhatsApp/Snapchat/IRC (IRCCloud on my phone, because SSH eats up battery).

I used to be a much heavier Facebook user. Now I get hassled by family for saying uncouth things, and generally see it as a chore. Everything you do on Facebook is chronicled on your timeline, and has a certain amount of permanency, and while I'm sure you can delete a lot of it its clearly not the intention, so it does require more "curation", as compared to transient chat apps. The privacy controls are opaque and its hard to be sure exactly who you're sharing with, which makes it hard to be comfortable really sharing a lot on Facebook.
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Teenagers become soccer Moms and sports watching Dads wondering what happened to their high school friends. There is no better place than Facebook to casually stay in touch. It's part of our life now, like it or not, even though it's not new or fresh anymore.
Of course they look down upon it, they're supposed to be the source for your signs.

"I'll pray on it" and "I'll talk to the Father" are really no different than what happened here.
Ask HN: Any proper way to reduce pain when I wake up in the morning?
I really hate wake up in the morning. It's cold and it is very painful to wake up, even if is not cold. I've searched on Google about ways to reduce pain, but I didn't found anyway. Can you give me any solution?
I wake up because I need to go to work.

Even if I go to sleep earlier the same happens every day.
A tiny bit of additional horizontal space would be a big improvement IMO. I'm not talking Galaxy Note size, just S4 / HTC One size.
Wow, what an insightful comment.
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Yep. No amnesty for Snowden while those who designed and executed an illegal, unconstitutional surveillance system walk around scott-free. That sounds about right.
You certainly are blind to how ridiculous your own superstitious religious beliefs are, even though you can clearly see that people who don't believe your religion are wrong. Has it ever occurred to you that your religion is just as foolish as all the rest? You should stop taking yourself and your superstitions so seriously. Just because your cult has a lot of members, doesn't mean it isn't a cult.
A cousin who is a professor once mentioned that the basketball coach was by far the highest-paid employee at her university. I understood the faculty's resentment, but said that the coach was also about the easiest one to fire based on results.
Agreed. I've always been a proponent of dual power reformation. We need to definitely move towards having more "commons" and less "Owned by PLC INC".

That said, we still can't really agree on cooperating unless you believe in private personal residences. You mentioned revolutionary socialists and we're talking about anarchy, and I think we have much common ground in taking back the means of production for the local communities through the institution alternatives you've mentioned.

But again my concern is my privacy of living. I am currently in an apartment alone. How I engage my society in regards to living doesn't really matter (currency exchange, work exchange, basic right) as long as I have some rights to lock my apartment door, protect myself from invaders (which you could argue might not exist with a different economic system), and have peace of mind regarding my property, which again, while I lean heavily to the left, do not agree with the idea that ownership of anything be not permitted. Works of art, Furniture, Important tools related to my craft, etc -are all something I believe shouldn't be so easily commonized, lest we all fight to the death for individual rights.
Is there? Tested pretty thoroughly here on Chrome - did we miss something? Thanks!
Really?

We'll probably have to agree to disagree, but I came into this thread specifically to comment on the styling of the article, and specifically, how distracting and irritating I found it. So imagine my surprise when I come in and find one of the only two comments being a comment about how GOOD the styling on the page is. I was going to comment that I've seen a few pages like this increasingly appearing, where a great deal of effort has obviously gone into the style/layout of the page, it looks very schmick in a "we paid for modern stylists" kind of way, but its overall effect on me has been negative.

The whole thing had this irritating "asymmetrical" feel to it that I just found disconcerting when i just want to read the article, and honestly just left me unable to read it, And for the love of god I will never accept the current trend of "Take sentence from text, blow it up, and insert in its own text box on same page" thing that is obviously taking the journalistic world by storm right now.
So do you actually think that climate change denial and the rejection of evolution is not correlated with religious believe, or membership in the Republican party?