skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When 'tptacek is wrong, he's obnoxiously wrong, especially in his inability to believe in government misbehavior, and his willingness to denigrate "message board nerds" on that sort of matter. (See also his attacks on Greenwald when the Snowden story started.) So personally I was looking forward to seeing somebody comment about him.
That's a really good resource. Clean and well-written. Thanks!
The tech community in the bay area is keenly aware of the issues. The idea of protests aren't the issue; the destruction of property is the issue. That said...

We have plenty of ideas on how to solve it, but they involve the buyin of people entrenched in power who have other power bases. The solution is more housing, more dense housing, and more cultural activities closer to the places of employment. However, nobody's digging up Mountain view for skyscrapers anytime soon. Subways aren't being built in San Mateo county that link to BART anytime soon, outside of Milbrae.

I've said that if Colma would just move the cemetaries and and build skyscrapers, a few museums, another symphony hall, and an entertainment district, our problems would be solved. (We'd probably also have to give the residents there a good deal, all 1700 of them. The big shopping center might need a buyout too, we could rebuild that union square-style.)

It's quick to SF, well connected by car, we could probably bring a bunch of industry in with mixed-use, we could do it well. Of course, it would probably hasten the gentrification of Daly City, but a 2 square mile city could be done, and the land would be a fraction of the cost of almost anywhere else.
I've talked to dozens of companies, and the participation of employees varies wildly. Getting a repeatable recruiting channel through referrals requires tools and effort.

Essentially no one exhausts their contacts too. They stop making referrals for other reasons.

So maybe for your first top-of-mind referral, you'll submit it without even being prompted. The stats show this typically doesn't continue, and recruiting teams need to work to get more.
I think that Microsoft associated bloggers should try and resist the urge to "puntificate" on Google related matters and announcements in any professional capacity, it always comes off as though they are trying to take advantage of the situation and somehow spin it to the benefit of those who have them 'not quite on their payroll'.

Avoid the spin, here's the original post: http://blog.chromium.org/2013/12/keeping-chrome-extensions-s...
For me, there's a "[-]" that appeared after the "link" link about an hour ago. Clicking it collapses the comment and all its children. Wonder if I just happen to be on the right side of an A/B test?

Edit: d'oh...nevermind. Seems I had an old extension installed that recently self-updated to work again. Carry on.
This is a nice structure, It also suggests something like closures where you inverse stacked the functions and did something like:

int do_command(sdio_command_chain *cmd) {
int err = 0;
if (cmd->next) {
err = do_command(cmd->next);
}
return (err) ? err : call_command(cmd->parms);
}

Thanks for that!
Can you buy BTC without giving your card details to exchange?
Just a side note, "Tschüß!" = bye/cheers/etc; "Tshuß!" = I can't spell German.

I hate being that guy but … wait, I'm lying, I love it, but I normally try to restrain myself.
Well, nothing wrong with trusting theories with more/clearer/better evidence more, of course. Now, apparently, I interpreted your previous post incorrectly as to how you go about distinguishing better evidence from worse evidence, but my main point that I was trying to make still stands: Your distinction is somewhat arbitrary and I have the strong impression that you aren't really aware of it.

For example, you are constantly referring to the here-and-now as some kind of special category of evidence. You do realize that there isn't really any "here and now"? There is no "sun here now" - there is only a brain here and now that processes signals that we hypothesize come from photo receptors in the eyes, which we further hypothesize were stimulated by waves of electromagnetic radiation, which in turn we hypothesize has previously been traveling for around eight minutes from what we hypothesize to be a star, about which we further hypothesize how it works internally, which is part of why we hypothesize that it is still creating those electromagnetic waves, even though we wouldn't know for another eight minutes if it had disappeared (or so we hypothesize). That's a whole lot of hypotheses and indirect evidence and quite a bit of looking into the past involved to call that "present knowledge from the here and now", don't you think?

And no, we can not observe the cause - you only can observe the effects, ever. In the case of the sun, that is the electromagnetic radiation that we hypothesize to be created by a star in our neighbourhood.

And essentially the same thing is true for the big bang: We see its effects, among those the microwave background, which is electromagnetic radiation which we hypothesize to be coming from the horizon of when the universe became transparent, which we hypothesize to be 13.7 billion light-years away, ... - and if you have a radio telescope, it can easily be confirmed by the senses daily.

So, if you were to apply your standards consistently, you probably would have to consider belief in the existence of the sun right now or belief in the existence of bacteria and viruses (you can not observe those with your senses, in case you mean that a little bit too literally) as a matter of faith.

I would think that that's silly, and it's much saner to say that the empirical evidence for the sun and the big bang and bacteria is all pretty strong, possibly varying a bit in strength, but without any of the qualitative differences that you seem to be implying.
I am sure Khodorkovsky did not make his fortune by legal means. Simply because legality was a murky concept during the time when he built his empire. On the other hand, Putin is a warlord, there is no doubt and if Khodorkovsky supported Putin instead of opposed him things would be very different for him.

Some random thoughts on political situation in Russia:

Dictatorships are more efficient in handling some issues, and less efficient in handling others (lower to mid level official corruption). Are his methods correct in terms of Russian mentality? History will tell.

One thing is certain, empires of warlords often were in turmoil when they passed on [1]. I think Russia is in for interesting times when Putin will be stepping away (And taking rest of the world along with them for a ride due to Russia's status as a nuclear superpower).

[1] It could be argued that fall of USSR was catalyzed by a string of weak leaders after some of more prominent warlords passed away.
> No, that is not. You are making the same mistake that "because I work for someone evil it means I must be evil too." You are assuming every single person who have or is currently working for NSA must be evil.

No, I'm not at all. I'm assuming that some of the people working at the NSA are evil (that is, that there isn't some "The NSA" entity that is evil while the people employed there are not), and that the rest of the well-intentioned people working there now know about it, and have a choice to make about whether they are going to work with and enable these evil people to do their jobs or not.

A housekeeper with mob ties would be looked up with distrust. A person who supplied material aid to the Nazis would be rightfully branded a "Nazi supporter". Doing something to make a living isn't an excuse.

Let's put this into a more Valley-friendly context: You can't really work for a porn company in some non-porny capacity (sysops, let's say) and not expect that stigma to follow you around. You know exactly who you're working for, what they represent, and how other people would perceive that line of employment. Would you expect to be exempt from people making any kind of judgement about the kind of people you choose to work for since you're just making a living?

That's a super softball variant on what we're talking about here. Porn is something that doesn't bother some people and deeply bothers others, but "I contributed to your government spying on you and systematically eradicating your privacy (but just a little bit)" isn't going to play well anywhere, as well it shouldn't.
Al Jazeera has bureaus around the world. Pretty much all of the American content originates from the U.S. Many of the news people at Al Jazeera were formerly from CBS, ABC and CBC.
After the hellban several years ago all his submissions were automatically killed instantly after posting. So you can't blame the community for not responding, the system made it impossible to respond/upvote at all.

This is one of the reasons why hellbanning is such a bad idea, leaving the poster to believe that everybody is actively ignoring him instead of just not being able to see him/interact with him.

Making regular healthy people waste a lot of their time posting content and feeling totally ignored is bad enough, subjecting people with mental health issues to that is even more unethical.
NY and CA may be the least free but they are a dream compared to europe.
For #1, I think the Mylyn plugin for Eclipse does something vaguely similar:

"Task context management in Mylyn is based on the idea that your interaction with a system can be transformed into a degree-of-interest model, where each element in the system is weighted according to its relevance to the task at hand. This degree-of-interest weighting forms the context of all the elements relevant to the task. The task context can then be used to focus the UI by highlighting the most important elements, filtering the unimportant ones, and allowing you to perform operations on elements of interest "

I use IntelliJ (or pycharm) myself but some people swear by Mylyn. Not having used Eclipse myself, the screenshot does't really tell much: http://www.eclipse.org/mylyn/images/mylyn-3.1-screenshot.png
I think he means for developers. There's no way to distribute extensions for free now, where before they could be self-hosted.
Obama throws the NSA under the bus
Launched - A launchd.plist generator
Those are libraries?
From now on it will never again not matter if you evaluate that expression from left to right or right to left :)
If it's important that your extension not be hosted on the Web Store, Windows users can still install it as an unpacked extension and perform updates manually. But it's definitely designed to be much more of a pain.
Uber CEO's open-letter to frustrated customer about surge pricing
Unfortunately, I think there's still a pretty large market of people who just don't give a crap about being NSA'd. Nothing to hide, and all of that.

That said it's likely individual consumers who are likely to have this attitude rather than businesses.
On your first point, I find it's a vastly underrated concept. People who aren't poor generally handwave away the costs of moving. In addition to the ones you state, there's also things like connection costs for utility bills. I moved about once a year in my 20s. We'd generally hire a trailer for $50 and move with sweat equity, but all these little "you're now 'initialising' in a new place" costs really add up.
I like lurking around SO as there is a lot of good knowledge flying around, and I've seen my share of closed questions.

Honestly, I hate the abuse of power you see on many forums, but I've never seen a topic closed without appropriate justification.

SO is meant to be a place to ask for a solution to a specific problem you've narrowed down as best as you could, not copy-paste a bunch of stuff you don't understand for people to analyze. I think it's awesome, because it keeps the quality very high, and makes it an extremely useful resource to quickly find solutions to not-so-obvious problematics.

Posting links to some of those threads would help having a better look at what you've witnessed though, maybe as someone said it's specific to certain areas of the site?
Do you run xctool / Travis CI on OS X servers or have you found a way (or at least tried) to make it run on Linux?
> Interesting, so when you can't subject something to the empirical observation... such as the original creation of the sun, where exactly does one gain a sure confidence in the explanation for it's original cause?

Causality, as such, is not directly observable. Correlation is, and causation is inferred from patterns of correlation.

When done scientifically, the specific method to go from observed correlation to conclusions about causation is to form a hypothesis, predict future observations based on that hypothesis that could be falsified to disprove it, and then go and test those predictions.

Eventually, doing this enough, and you'll end up with falsifiable models that have been rigorously tested from which you can make inferences about what must have caused events where you cannot observe the correlated event that you would infer to be the cause that are as strong as the inferences of causation you can make with events where you observe both the putative cause and the effect for which you infer it is the cause.

> If you haven't observed the cause, you have no rational reason to establish 100% confidence about what it was.

If you have observed the supposed cause -- and its supposed effect -- you have no rational reason to assert a causal link with actual 100% certainty. OTOH, with sufficient related observations, prediction, and testing those predictions, you can construct a model of causality that lets you get arbitrarily close to 100% certainty in stating what the cause of an observed effect is, whether or not you can observe the event that is the inferred cause.

> This is really simple rational thinking

It is simply incorrect, and seems grounded in both a mistake about what science does and the mistaken belief that causality is directly observable.

> I don't get how science arrives at any level of confidence about causes that it can't (nor has ever) observed.

The same way it arrives at any level of confidence about causes that it can observe (observe the event, that is, not the fact that it is a "cause", which is never observable, only inferable.)

> I have no problem with confidence in what it can observe, I take issue when it can't observe and attempts to take what it can observe and confidently extrapolate that into the past.

The whole thing science does is produce and refine methods of inferring things that are not observed from things that are.
I'm curious as to your opinion of tptacek's deleted comment, and whether that was above or below the positive contribution threshold.
Makes Facebook photos into animated GIFs
I dunno. They can always become the next Google or Facebook and do something with THEIR money.

These mega-corps grew from nothing in only ~20 years. The new rich of America is NOT like the "old rich" of Wall Street. Basically any no-name nobody with 5 guys working in a basement can become the next Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook, Youtube, Pinterest, Groupon, Zynga or whatever.
It costs $5 to get a developer account for the Chrome Web Store.

Cheap compared to an iOS developer account, but still...
Northern Gateway pipeline recommended for federal approval, with conditions
Offer HN: free usability report for your iOS app
Hi, I'm Zain, founder of Watchsend (YC S13). We make software that helps iOS developers learn how their users interact with their apps by recording user videos.

I'll meet with you (in person if you're in the Bay Area, online otherwise), get you set up with Watchsend, watch hours of user videos for you, and help you improve your app's usability based on what I find.

You just need to email me at zain@watchsend.com to get started.
As I understand it, this rule primarily targets extensions that do sketchy things without their users' knowledge, like how HoverZoom recently started silently tracking their users. This feels like a good policy to me, and I'm not aware of any benevolent extensions that will suffer for it.
All the money that Google keeps offshore to avoid paying taxes on is money that was taken in over seas, and so would only be taxed by the federal government on repatriation. Even if they brought it all back to the US next year SF wouldn't see a cent of it.
"God Hates Techies" Shower Curtain To Go On Sale Soon
Skype has a noise gate - any play on the microphone below a certain level is cut off. Someone with direct access to your microphone can listen without the noise gate and might still hear.
It never claimed that those experts were working in the customer's best interest, though. ;)
They're walking a fine line, though, because Chrome extensions are the cousins of ChromeOS apps, which is an ecosystem they obviously want to promote.

While I've never released any of them, the extensions I've built on on the Chrome API have been a sheer pleasure, if somewhat limited in capability compared to Firefox plugins.
> There's no way to distribute extensions for free now, where before they could be self-hosted.

Unless I misunderstand the blocking of non-web-store extensions, you can distribute extension for free, just not to Windows users.
Well, no, the module is Free and ships with the kernel, but the user must download the microcode blob on their own.
As weird as it sounds, "or" ends up being kind of evil, and something to avoid, as well. Mix it with "and", and the result likely doesn't say what your tired brain thought it did. Also, how many "or" statements have you seen that should really be set membership tests? (it helps to have a language that makes it easy to make a literal of a set)
Interesting article on a clear psychopath:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013...
http://www.virtualapple.org/pinballconstructionsetdisk.html

...that cursor is actually really hard to use. I guess mice have spoiled us all.
> If we are striving for a better society, discrimination should be minimized.

Bullshit. Discrimination is the foundation of a sane society. Unjust discrimination with no bearing on one's ability to do a job (such as on the basis of one's genital configurations or preference of who you like to smooch) should be minimized, but you absolutely must be discriminating about you who choose to work with. After all, if we really wanted to minimize discrimination, we'd just hire people for any job without any consideration towards their capabilities, experience, or work history.

Being cautious about hiring potential employees because their work history demonstrates that they may be a threat to the security and reputation of your company is a damned good reason to discriminate.
Elsevier’s David Tempest explains subscription-contract confidentiality clauses
I'm imagining a techno-catbus now that runs over the rooftops of the city on robotic legs to avoid the cars and barricades on the road below.
I just want to point out that the pipeline operator (or, more accurately, the forward application operator), is not provided by many ML implementations, but it's trivial to define it yourself. Here it is in Standard ML:

infix |>;
fun x |> f = f x;

The definition is also similar in Haskell:

x |> f = f x

And in OCaml:

let (|>) x f = f x;;

F# and Elm provide this operator out of the box.
That first statement is false because English “and” is not the same thing as logical “and”.
I don't think this is a case of Apple employees smashing up Google buses. Maybe their peers from college who got the same degrees went off to find productive jobs, but I am struggling to believe that these particular people did.

If you cannot leverage your degree, then your degree is worthless (at least in your hands).
There's enough wrong with what the NSA has been doing, and enough reasons to encourage people to take an interest in how to curtail, or at least better police, their actions without resorting to tawdry conspiracy theories.

The NSA doesn't "protect" anyone. They are an intelligence agency. Their mandate is to collect information. The group you're thinking of, the one that's actually supposed to "protect" the network, is US Cyber Command: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Cyber_Command
The js app performance will be a "solved" problem in 4 years.

* WebCL will be widely deployed, better penetration than current WebGL

* Web workers will be able to share typed arrays by reference (see Mozilla's Transferable Objects)

* Other vectorization libraries will be available (Rivertrail)

http://blog.aventine.se/post/16318162396/simd
http://www.khronos.org/webcl/
https://github.com/RiverTrail/RiverTrail
I know that when I read the stuff about Greg Gopman, a startup CEO, and he was described as a "techie," I was not impressed. This article pretty well captures why.
TMobile has some really good plans. They are trying a lot of new things. An unlimited plan from them with a Nexus 5 is what I use and I'm very happy with it.
Yeh, that seems pretty reasonable especially when you consider the price of other dev programs (just had to renew my iOS membership today).
Personally I like Quora. It has a community feel to it. Has a ton of smart programmers who aren't arrogant with beginners. I really think that Quora is the future of knowledge sharing.
You guys are still failing to appreciate that your composition of cryptographic primitives is unproven, which means it is probably broken. Why is it probably broken? Because most compositions of crypto primitives are broken and your adversary is so formidable he will find the smallest problem.

In cryptography, you either prove it is safe or you consider it broken. Your choice should be considered broken until you prove otherwise.
From Mikko Hypponnen:

https://twitter.com/mikko/status/414147944984485889

"I'm ashamed on behalf of the whole industry."
Shame might be too hard, but I agree with OP. It's a general human interest piece that has little place in a dedicated technical news forum.

Mind you, I feel similarly about most NSA submissions and while I would very much like to have a dedicated mews aggregator \ Groklaw'esque blog-forum dedicated to the NSA\Snowden revelations, I don't try making HN into one.
Report: NSA paid RSA to make flawed crypto algorithm the default
Your story resonates with me and I notice we're both using throwaway accounts to share our stories (mine elsewhere on this thread.) Once you've had close relations with a full blown psychopath you'll never be the same again. There is absolutely no way to learn about the experience except to go through it. I still think about mine and want to pick up the phone sometimes and call him. Psychopaths can be everything you need from another person because they'll study those needs intensely to manipulate you to get what they want. It's hard to explain, like trying to explain a hit of crack to someone who has never tried it. Psychopathy explains con artists, pimps, cult leaders, and yes, even Steve Jobs to a certain extent.
I could see it as an option for sign up, but you won't get much action from people manually posting things.
This is a really bad and somewhat frustrating comment (if you're trolling, nicely done). He's absolutely correct about Telegram and this is not how you run crypto contests. This isn't even a tptacek opinion, it's a "everybody who has any reputation in the crypto field" opinion.

Edit: Oh, you're the Telegram employee who designed the contest. I encourage you to read moxie's blog post, and Schneiers rebuttals to crypto contests that are probably linked all over your other threads.
Other doctors did a widespread popular study that claim protein and fat are the root of all evils http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Study

Clinton lost 20lbs after reading this book.

Which one is right?
Meh I just finish writing a script that deals with deployment. This may actually solve my problem. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20331106/application-stru...
The activity would be called pandering (pimping).

Take a look at overview of the RICO statue (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru...).
I linked it.