skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Orwellian surveillance was a degree worse because you could never escape it. Even in your most private spaces you had to act as if everything was ok, and the body lead the mind into thinking everything was ok.

Not that I'm defending current practices, but if we ever get to mandatory mass surveillance it will definitely be worse than covert mass surveillance that the most informed citizens can still choose to avoid.
Before I make a comment I wanted to say I think Ghost is an awesome initiative and hope that it furthers what's already been accomplished by Wordpress.

That being said, I was a bit bummed to see it as a pay only option. I get it, you have to pay bills. Seriously, I get it - we just ditched our consumer product due to this fact.

$5/month is more than I'm willing to pay to try it out. And in reality, it's too much for me to pay even if I like it. That keeps me from trying it out and falling in love with it.

You know what I would pay $5/month for? A blog for my business. But I'll end up installing or signing up on Wordpress because I'm familiar with it. Because I was able to use it for free.

This mentality sucks, I know. Welcome to the consumer Internet.

Edit: I'm not suggesting that they offer a free plan. I wouldn't. I hope they focus sooner than later off the consumer market.
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Precisely. I could have thought the wording through a bit better in my reply. Thank you!
> may or may not work

That's not accurate. It does work, as in, it does kill bacteria.

The question is if this killing has any value. i.e. does it actually prevent illness. It's pretty clear that in a hospital or nursing home setting triclosan is worth it. It's not so clear if it's worth it in the home.

Then there is a secondary question of does it cause resistance in the bacteria, which then causes it to be less effective where it's needed, i.e. medical settings. For that, it might work, but not be worth it for society as a whole.
As a fellow Maxima user, thanks for showing me "expr, numer". I've always used "float(expr)" for that, but I like yours better.
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I am not too sure about that. A market economy? Yes. But what I know as Capitalism depends on a completely different organization of labor, namely "free" workers to create a market for labor itself. That was true for non-enslaved/white workers at that time but I don't think it makes sense to say it about a whole society when its not true for such a big percentage of the economy.
There are rapidly diminishing returns for picking up new languages for the sake of having multiple languages.

There are accelerating returns for knowing one or two languages so well that you can build nearly anything in them.

There aren't diminishing returns for learning new concepts, new algorithms, new distributed systems protocols, new problem domains. You can keep implementing things from papers indefinitely and you will keep getting better and, potentially, more valuable.
sigh human memory is so short. It was only a few hundred years ago we last managed to wipe out several advanced civilizations due to inadvertent organic contamination.

While Mars likely doesn't host sentient life, we ought at least show restraint exploring this new frontier until we are able to investigate and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there is no such life existing in these regions of Mars.
The law in question: The 4th Amendment of the US Constitution.
For one, you don't need to sign in with Twitter or Facebook... that's a huge advantage right away! Its also open source, which is a giant win.
Sometimes the natural-seeming title of a document includes a date, but it isn't the creation date (simple example, scanning a letter or invoice). Would you suggest frobbing the metadata?
Arm and Hammer's baking soda toothpaste is also known to contain triclosan. The ones they sell where I live, at least.
It cannot be a "Plain Old Telephone Service" (or analog) issue, because it is working with "VoIP"-- and it's digital since the audio enter at the computer.
You really should use a local caching resolver, even if you set your upstream to google's resolvers.

Just install pdns-recursor and you're good to go.
I highly doubt that colonization of other planets will result in significant numbers of monkeys being moved from earth to somewhere else, and even if that were the case, how long before we now have two planets crawling with monkeys who still haven't figured out how to control themselves?
Still very strange. Shouldn't the calls be encrypted? If the other call was started before, and the OP's client wasn't there for the handshake, how could it decrypt the call content?
Are you sure about this? Based on everything I've read, Google caches it the first time it was opened.
Call detail records generally don't require a warrant.

I posted this article the other day:

http://www.crypto.com/blog/celltapping/
like this: Checkout my side project https://github.com/digitalmaster/MongoCMS

It's a MongoDb client :)
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Social networking needs to be a specification. Imagine if email worked the same way social networks worked, it would be ridiculous. You could only communicate with other gmail users, or whatever users were on the platform you adopted. I understand from a business standpoint why social networks have evolved the way they have, but from a utility standpoint it is a lose/lose to have these walled gardens.

What would be much better, is to let users use whatever platform they wish and implement some common protocol for following, status updates and private messaging.
Counterfeiting laws in the US seem to be unreasonably harsh, the reasoning is, that it is such an insidious crime due to the fact it can undermine the fundamental trust in our economy and government. The NSA scandal has done at least one of those things.
A blob is generally restricted to 10MB. We haven't published performance data thus far as we're still working on improving performance. If you try Rethink and run into problems, please let us know -- we'd love to fix them!
Like jaryd said, it's open source, which makes the biggest difference: Ghost can be hosted on your own server where Medium can only be used on Medium's servers.

Which is a huge deal for some people (myself included). I don't really trust other services to remain around, especially when doing so might put my content at risk. I'd much rather be in control of where my content's hosted, even if it means I need do some of the more fidly management and setup things.
I broke things down by priority. I notice that I jump around in documents by searching through them, rather than by navigation keys. Spacebar is the biggest key on the keyboard, so, spacebar is mapped to "?" in normal mode. I also find that I need to search through a project regularly, so ctrl-spacebar is mapped to the ack/ag command.

Control is mapped to caps lock at the os level for me. There are also too many useful commands in vim that use control (visual block mode is huge). I tried mapping jj to escape as well, but ctrl-c is just as easy.

Leader is mapped to comma. Most of my leader commands are comma + "some letter I can type with my left hand".
Much easier to set up? What can be much easier than unpacking an archive and running a script to start a node?

IMHO the main difference is data model. RethinkDB is a document store, Cassandra is a wide-table store. As of the query language I agree, but this is caused by Cassandra never including anything that would not scale out.
>> A year or two of super-long hours to free yourself from the dayjob, or just working 40 hours a week for someone else until you're too old to do it anymore?

False dichotomy, there are other life choices. I'm a freelancer and I maintain a good income and a healthy work/life balance.

I also don't believe it to be 'a year or two'.

>> I'm in the same boat, doing a spare-time startup while holding a day job. And I"m not young - my kids are grown.

Then you're in a different situation than the OP, IIRC.

>> Getting rich is a nice side effect, but the heart of it for me, and for a lot of others, is personal freedom.

This is why I like freelancing/contracting/consultancy. The money is good and the freedom is unparalleled.
related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6896378
You could still pay that $5/month; just get a cheap VPS or other host that supports Node.js, and run Ghost yourself.

I think Digital Ocean (which has a $5/month plan) has a really simple Ghost installer.
> If the contract is voluntary it is advantageous to both or else it wouldn't be entered into.

If your grandfather gave all of his money willingly and right away to his physician, don't you feel the physician acted unethically? And don't you feel your grandfather might be impacted negatively by that decision?
That's a good start! I guess I wonder how much the uptake will be for a broader audience who can get WP for free and may not care as much about the customization experience.
I don't know about Germany, but in the U.S. it's common that only the union leaders and negotiators get paid their normal salaries during strikes and lockouts. The rank-and-file members get a reduced amount or nothing from the union. (Or sometimes just health benefits.) For example, the recently locked-out American Crystal Sugar workers got a stipend of $100/week and no other benefits. Their normal salaries averaged about $750/week.
How old is your graphics chip?

About a year or two ago I gave up trying to make two machines (one with i810G, one with i865G) work with Ubuntu because the drivers seemed to regularly regress.
IT is about the technology. IS (information systems) is about the system as a whole, which includes the people. IT is focused on making technology work, IS is focused on using technology to improve a process.

IT is a part of IS, but IS is bigger than IT. If your job focuses on fixing technology (such as computer repair), you're working IT. If your job focuses on processes and people (such as software development, information security, business enablement, etc), you're working in IS.

For your website, the IT portion is the server it runs on. The IS portion is the IDE you use, your development environment, the server, your language/framework, the browser, your developers, and your customers. That's the information system as a whole that allows your website to work.

But yeah, when I hear "IT guy", I think desktop support. People in IS outside of support tends to refer to themselves as something more specific than general IT: I'm a programmer/developer/software engineer. I'm a network administrator. I'm a systems architect. I'm a security engineer. That's just my experience, and that's what I interpreted the comment "stay out of IT" to mean. Desktop support doesn't tend to have much room for growth compared to careers in IS.
Easiest acceptance testing framework I've used is Splinter. It's an abstraction layer over Selenium that practically makes writing tests similar to plain English: http://splinter.cobrateam.info/
Send and receive money with Gmail and Google Wallet
Two questions from a none Python developer.

- If there are no Python bindings, could one invoke native bindings from with Python?
- Is it normal to add a base class for utility rather than use a field level instance?

Yours, curiously.
http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201311/drone-uav-...

Read this. Follow orders or get court marshalled. Its no surprise that after objections from pilots that they started singling out people who didn't give a shit about things like ethical objectives other than shooting their target accurately.
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Ah, I see. So even though you could still technically sell your rights and then never ask for them back, the law has made this effectively impossible because the buyer can't prevent you from doing so. Interesting.
This. I enjoy working here in Germany for this exact reason, unions and workers rights. It feels so damn great to work in a country where I feel that I am being treated fair and where I know that I can count on my colleagues (not just at my work place but my whole sector) to have my back. The fact is that it is not a lack of income that does not allow bigger wages for the workers at Amazon but an abundance of greed. When your union sees that you could be better off without hurting the place you work at it is going to step in. It is also going to step in when any of your basic rights as a worker is are not met (vacation time, compensated overtime, insurance, workplace safety etc.)
Pft. Which part of "manifest destiny" was unclear about Mars?
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While much of the debate here on HN is around why authors continue to write pieces about "the end of X" or "the demise of Y", I couldn't help but ask the question: "Why do we continue to read them/link to them?

Possible answers:

1. Many of us (or our employers) rely on these audiences for revenue, so knowing where they are and what they're interested in enables us to have success

2. We're interested in what drives success/failure, despite logic indicating that -- in both scenarios -- random chance plays one of the largest parts

3. It's like good old-fashioned gossip, where everyone who doesn't actually have anything to say can still speak up

4. We hope to learn from history as it happens to us; if we can accurately predict why people are leaving Facebook and where they're going, we can be part of -- or the driver of -- the next wave.
Just imagine if they gave 23andMe the same head start.

I'm also reminded of another FDA shenanigan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia#Controversy
Correct. I largely hold position (a). I believe in position (b) as well, but there is a bar there, if something is above a certain level of invasion in invokes my belief in position (b) otherwise I consider it to be generally acceptable. Geolocation data is one of those things that invokes position (b) because I consider it to be an unreasonable invasion of privacy.
Regarding IGE: Gligor and Donescu, 1999; a summary on a mailing list of the attack:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/sci.crypt/4bkzm_n7UG...

Long story short: you get integrity protection from IGE by relying on the fact that a bit error anywhere in the stream will irrevocably corrupt the rest of the stream, so you create an authentication code by sticking an all-zeroes block or (like I think Telegram does) a message digest to the end of the stream.

But it's possible with carefully chosen errors to first corrupt an IGE stream and then recover it, so that the remainder of the message after the corruption (including the "MAC" tag) will remain intact.

IGE is an extremely weird, and, at this point I'll venture: bad choice for a 2013-2014 cryptosystem.
You realize that you are using a meta version of a meme instead of an actual argument?

The bad thing about "[literally] Hitler!" is that, most of the time, trivializes the Holocaust. In my "labour dispute version" of it that would have meant a trivialization of slavery which I tried to avoid in the sentence prefixed with "EDIT:". If you think I still did it please write it and add some argumentation.
The downfall of Facebook is what was the crux of its initial success: the comprehensive largeness of one's social network. On Facebook, most people accept all acquaintances and friends they have in real life (should they get a friend request)-- it would be rude not to-- and as a result, one's Friends List is usually a pretty good indication of one's entire social network. This allowed Facebook to gain its initial network effects, but this is also now paralyzing the activity of its individual users. I feel uncomfortable posting extensively online because there are many people in my friends list who I feel uncomfortable seeing my things (and I don't care enough to create Private lists).

As far as addressing the teen exodus, and related to the above impact, Facebook's NewsFeed is just not interesting anymore. Back when Facebook started, I was friends largely with 100-300 people whose lives I actually was interested in. I am not interested in the minutiae of my current 1000+ friends' lives, and their endless and meaningless statuses bore me to no end. Facebook wanted its NewsFeed to break out of the echo chamber effect, and therefore made the NewsFeed algorithm more random, putting the onus of creating relevant NewsFeeds on the individual user (through the creation of individual lists of friends). But USERS WANT THE ECHO CHAMBER EFFECT! I don't want to know what's happening in the "town square,"-- I want to know what's happening with my 20 closest friends. Because teens joined on when this new paradigm was already in place, there's nothing to draw them in. It's just not interesting-- and apps like Instagram and Snapchat are more engaging as a result because they're more personal.

Lastly, Facebook is way too cluttered. It has an atrocious UI, so many buttons all over the place. Mark Zuckerberg's utilitarian aesthetic lives to today, only it's way worse because Facebook has so much more (useless) functionality. Instagram and Snapchat are clean and elegant-- it's not jarring to open those apps like it is to navigate Facebook.
Google and everyone who has tested this says the opposite.
What a sorry piece of news! A federal judge thinks that mass surveillance is LIKELY unconstitutional? The only thing the constitution is good for these days is wiping you ass. Even if these practices are officially ruled as illegal, what will change? How will the oversight be conducted to prevent such practices from continuing. In my opinion, the NSA will simply begin hiding their operations from oversight. The biggest question is whether it is possible at all to implement practical and systematic methods that correctly oversee such government organizations. Is there a solution that guarantees that it will be impossible for the NSA and the like to hide their actions considering the almost system-wide corruption of government bodies? The solution to this problem is difficult to imagine for this reason.
Not in the US it isn't. Not sure about elsewhere. Crest even uses "triclosan free" in some of its advertising.

Triclosan also has to be declared as an active ingredient in toothpaste, so it's not exactly hidden. Just spend 5 minutes reading some labels at the store.
Yes, and google will throttle you if you make too many requests.
Ask HN: Remote access, are you using a VPN?
This is more related to startups and small business, curious how some of you are working around network access to common git/repos/etc.

Are you using a VPN to connect to your servers or work network?

If not how do you manage access?

I was skimming over https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6906979 and some of the answers made me question access to common work areas.

Thanks.
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Very cool - looks to be a huge step in the right direction of abstracting away the complexities. I'll give it a deeper look - thanks!
Still you encrypt the calls (the comunication line is encrypted)

The spy /monitoring software can be running at your computer --thing that is usual-- (so before encrypting...)

They don't need to broke any encryption ("NSA style"), only a "bug on windows"...
You don't have to be passionate at all to make money. Actually being passionate can blind you to the fact that a business idea sucks.
Bacteria are not completely removed from your skin when you wash.

Resistance is unlikely as these chemicals are a lot more harsh than antibiotics, because they don't have to go through your bloodstream and kill only bacteria without hurting the host's cells. These are also just everyday bacteria, so only a tiny, tiny fraction of the population will ever get on your hands and become exposed to the chemical, so there isn't significant selection pressure for resistance (though to be fair if we are talking about only bacteria which are dangerous to humans, there might be a larger selection pressure.) And so what if they do become resistant? There are other chemicals and we can always go back to just regular soap. Resistant bacteria are also generally weaker than non-resistant varieties.
I still haven't been able to download the judgement, so I don't know the full argument.

The judge cannot decide that pen taps are unconstitutional. As the referenced article points out, the 1979 Supreme Court ruling in Smith v. Maryland "found no search warrant was needed by police to install a device which recorded the numbers dialed on a particular phone line." Only the Supreme Court, or a new amendment, can overturn a Supreme Court decision.

Therefore, the judge can only decide that the NSA's actions are completely legal, or must give some logic as to judge where that boundary lies then decide if the NSA has overstepped those bounds.

You say "Constitution does not say it could be suspended, in parts or entirely, to fight terrorism". The question is in how to interpret "unreasonable" given that the Supreme Court has already said that a single pen tap is reasonable.

The judge is quoted as saying “I cannot possibly navigate these uncharted Fourth Amendment waters using as my North Star a case that predates the rise of cell phones.”

In my interpretation of POLITICO's summary, the judge's decision is that the 1979 Supreme Court decision, which is the legal justification of the NSA's wholesale pen tap system, cannot be used in that manner.
Read this article, installed and started messing w/it.. Got any stats or insight how this holds up in a real prod environment?

A very crude measurement - I just threw it on a box that I'm 70ms away from, I'm getting insert responses back in 90ms, on Mongo which I HATED (the "old" query language I was trying to understand.. a while back it was thought for just a moment we could get by without the relational algebra) - I was about 200ms - so far so good, but how much can I hammer a particular node?

Looks to be using ~20MB ram on the svr process, works for me..
> > may or may not work

> That's not accurate. It does work, as in, it does kill bacteria.

It's known to work in vitro, and it's known to work in toothpaste.

It sounds like there is no body of evidence to indicate that it works in things like hand soaps. Considering how often agents like this are found to work under one set of circumstances and not under another, I'd say that suggests that whether the agent works for this purpose is still an unknown.
Mobile has radically changed the social adoption cycle more than we've realized. Facebook is clearly the product of desktop world, where much of the information that made it valuable, particularly the social graph, needed to be contributed to the product to be effective.

The move to quickly-adopted "apps" has accelerated in mobile because the plumbing is already in place:

1. Contact list / address book
Implicit network already exists, does not need to be built in the new product.

2. Location
GPS takes apps beyond check-ins - adding context and information to posts. Even enabling new sorts of dating networks.

3. Media
Photos and video, combined with location, contacts and persistent connections on one device make it easier than ever to include photos and video.

This combination (not to mention building on the Facebook platform) will continue to enable faster developing and more narrow focused "networks".
Do they escape culpability if they do not ever choose to intentionally "strike otherwise-collateral civilian targets" but instead choose to take part in a process where there's a known error rate, and a certain amount of collateral damage will happen no matter what the intentions are?

A choice is being made in either case. Innocent people are being killed in either case.
Thanks for the pointer! This seems much more straightforward than websockets.
Thanks for the info, the jobfluent.com board seems quite promising, I wasn't aware of that site before.