skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I vote Reno. The real estate market is cheap. It is just a few hours down the 80 from the bay. Tahoe is our neighbor. The city is motivated to attract tech.
I'm in finance...
Python also does this.
Sure, in the old days someone had to be the first to invent stuff. But today when we already have well-reviewed protocols you shouldn't deploy something until after it has survived review.
The root question in the 4th amendment is whether the belief that certain information is private is objectively reasonable. The premise of the third party doctrine is that it's not objectively reasonable to consider information private when you've given up control of that information to a third party. How can something be private when it's at the total discretion of someone else to disseminate that information?

Whether you agree with this or not, you have to admit: your gmail/gdocs isn't exactly "papers and effects" in the same way as the "papers and effects" in your desk drawer. Not because they are digital, but because the contents of your desk drawer aren't routinely rummaged through by other people, or data mined for targeted advertising, or anything like that. When the question is: is it reasonable to expect these documents to remain private, those things must certainly factor into the equation.

It's very relevant that "single companies [hold] large swaths of information about our lives" but that doesn't mean it's automatically protected by the 4th amendment, or that how that information is handled today justifies expecting a privacy interest to exist in that data. The 4th amendment must accommodate the transition from paper to digital, sure, but you can't erase the word "private" from "reasonable expectation of privacy."

There are certainly ways Google could make a clearer case for extending 4th amendment protection to gmail/gdocs. Essentially, make it more reasonable to expect that information to be private. Stop data-mining it for targeted advertising, encrypt it client-side, institute rigorous procedures for who has access to that information, perhaps lobby for laws to create enforceable penalties for cloud companies who allow employees to access the data without absolute need. These are essentially the analogues of what protects bank safe deposit boxes despite the third party doctrine: banks don't routinely look in safe deposit boxes, they don't ask what's inside, they have extensive protocols to prevent employee access, etc. They are "private" both legally and factually.

In order to make a convincing case that information in the cloud is "private" for the purposes of the 4th amendment, cloud companies have to move in a direction of ensuring that the information is actually "private" as a matter of fact.
Here is the statute under which he is being charged.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1038

Looks like he has a really heavy fine and up to 5 years in jail coming his way. It's a shame, really. Just take your lumps on the exam, it's certainly better than this.
UbiSlate is the commercial version[0] of Akash tablet[1]. Akash was developed for enabling e-learning in schools and colleges, and promoted by government of India.

[0]http://www.flipkart.com/tablets/tablets-with-call-facility/d...

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aakash_(tablet)
I got a C and two B- in college. Currently in grad school at Harvard. One or two bad grades shouldn't hold you back. Given the recent grade inflation scandal (http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/12/3/grade-inflation-...), it seems like even very poor work at Harvard is graded at C or better (this was certainly the case for my C; I probably deserved to fail).
>If you can't afford to pay them a living wage, society would be better off if resources were allocated elsewhere.

Since hiring a person can only increase that person's income, and decrease the amount of welfare they can claim, this is wrong. If there were a better allocation of that person's labor (e.g. a higher paying job) that person would surely take it.
Yep. FYI economists use the term "labor force participation rate" for this concept.
> I hear natural more often used to mean "not caused or created by humans". Isn't that the definition people usually have in mind?

I find the common definition misleading, because it implies that humanity is not part of nature. It is technically false, and causes confusion in the mind of most people.

The "natural good, artificial bad" meme needs to die.

We're currently facing ecological problems of immense scale, and not having a proper basic mental model of the situation is detrimental.
> Removed deprecated threadsafe! from Rails Config.

What are the consequences of this change?
Bitcoin developers offer $10,000 virtual bounty to fix mystery Mac bug
http://tenderlovemaking.com/2012/06/18/removing-config-threa...
> If he were motivated only by the desire to do good would that change anything?

Sure. It would change my mind completely if I knew Bush genuinely was deceived by those around him and thought there were WMDs, rather than if I thought he knowingly lied to pursue an agenda for other reasons (e.g. boosting Haliburton's stock, settling a score, etc). I only bring that up because it's something I feel strongly about, yet I feel the motivation could change everything in my mind.
Give me a cross street and I will burn some donuts in ur lawn.
Yeah, that will work, if everything is hot in cache there won't be a big difference between a radix style tree and a hash table. Obviously python doesn't fit that description usually.
which version of go is used?
I guess you might be right. I may be too used to the Icelandic mentality where if they'd notice something like that they'd think "Let's just allow for a sub-subscriber plan and charge them an extra 10% for a 'related plan' but with the same rates but different billing. They get there separation of concerns and we get a 10% extra."
37signals actually has a gem called mail_view that I've been using to preview mailers: https://github.com/37signals/mail_view

Glad this made it into Rails itself.

And if you've ever wanted to put inline CSS into emails, roadie will help with that: https://github.com/Mange/roadie
The tax payers who have to supplement the sub-living wages?
Does the hairy ball theorem imply that there is always some place on the earth's surface where wind speed is zero?
If you think they should make less profit and "give back" more to the tax payers - thats called TAXATION.

Change the laws and you can take their profit down to zero.

Horray!
How do you propose they really "push back"?

What is it that you want Google to do to turn the tides completely?
Why should it have "proper support for php 5.4"? It's a quite recent version, and it's not really needed anyway at this moment.

99% of projects out there, from Symphony to Wordpress, are still PHP 5.3 compatible. I don't know any major project requiring traits for example.
Was this a genuinely dumb oversight on the student's part? Harvard WiFi requires students to log in with unique IDs to gain access (http://www.fas-it.fas.harvard.edu/node/189), so Harvard can monitor and log all of your traffic.

Does this mean Harvard could in theory have this transmission recorded as it goes in to the TOR network? Would something as simple as going across the street to Panera Bread have thwarted this kind of investigation?

I'm really curious if the flaw in this kid's plan was that obvious.
How is it unfair? It's essentially factual. They make tons of strange decisions, using things known to be broken, then hand wave over it with "you don't understand" and "ACM champions".

Things aren't fair. Hard work does not automatically grant your result any status.

You know what's also unfair? Pitching a product that's supposed to do something but doesn't.
This cuts to the core of the ethics of the free market.

It is more ethical for McDonalds to make a higher profit, and pay lower wages, if they can.

This is because they have an agreement (and I don't care about the precise legal nature of this agreement) with the shareholders to maximize the profit of the company.

The employees on the other hand, they never made any promises to. Employees have a relationship with the company as long as they are willing to take the wages/conditions on offer.

You might think that it is ethical for McDonalds to redistribute money from their shareholders to their workers (and their workers are surely poorer on average). But this is solely the role of the government, and private charity. I can't prove this properly in a single post, but it is closely related to the First and Second Welfare Theorems.
Spring mvc with spring 4 is decent, with the java configuration, the amount of boilerplate is reduced at an acceptable level in my opinion (best case is few annotation) (and you are not forced to use hibernate).

But in general I agree that at the moment there aren't a lot of web framework that fit your description in the java world.
because PHP is "slow" and c is "fast", just about anything thats written in PHP such as FastCGI parser would be daftly slow compared to a counterpart written in c or c++. Most people will not be prepared to sacrifice perfomance just for the sake having everything in PHP
Making Hard Decisions
Did anyone really think this was anything other than a kid not wanting to take a final? Seriously, this was happening at my high school. Ffs.
The Raft paper [1] is very well written and easy to understand.

You should check out Google's research papers [2] - they have some good papers on various topics and are very practical.

[1]: https://ramcloud.stanford.edu/wiki/download/attachments/1137...

[2]: http://research.google.com/
Help us build a better marketplace - Listia (YC S09) is hiring developers
There may have been a way. We don't know what evidence the FBI had. It might just have been a list from Harvard of which network nodes appeared to have connected to Tor at certain times.

For all we know, they might have just talked to everyone that had used Tor that day. They might not have had any solid evidence about him until he confessed.
Wickr seems like a good goto, though I haven't had the need for it yet, so I haven't done all the research I could.
The only other place where I could have possibly screwed up the results is compilation. I had to build PHP from source, since I wanted to have the "latest greatest" and CentOS has dated packages at times. Though again, I remember just following the official instructions.

If you would like to have the test re-run, you'll have to harass some real FB engineers, since the test was performed on a devbox that I don't have access too anymore. You're also more then welcome to try it yourself and post some alternate benchmarks.

I think I can promise to link to your results from the blog post.
To answer your initial question, people talk highly of Tor because if used properly it can move the weakest link from the technological into the interrogation room. Had he not used tor and had just signed into his email normally, they really wouldn't have needed a confession.

Nobody but a fool thinks that Tor (or any other piece of technology) is a silver bullet. It is just a tool, and like any tool, has intended uses and numerous shortcomings when you use it without knowing what it is for.

Trying to use Tor to protect you against interrogators who are convinced of your guilt and willing to torture you to death is like trying to toast your bread with a hammer. Completely nonsensical, though that does not mean a hammer is a bizarrely useless contraption invented and touted by fools. Asking what the point of Tor is if it cannot protect you from that is like asking what the point of body armor is if stepping on a landmine still blows your leg off.
Joke, right?
Or, you know, people who aren't trained in science but are interested in it when it's presented in a language they can understand.

Also, hard science isn't all that comes out of TED (see the "E" and "D" in "TED")
In most US jurisdictions misdemeanors are punishable by up to a year in jail and/or $1,000 fine. Some states are worse. Considering how many things are crimes in the US, most of us commit enough to theoretically get life in prison every year.
Sure it's better than this. But most likely, he didn't think they'd correlate his Tor activity so it may have been "better" for him personally if he had gotten away with it.
The Internet is Star Wars
this is great. they should preload it with offline version of Khan academy.

Half gig single core this year, next year they will do 1gb dual core for the same price, etc. Still out of reach for those surviving on $2/day, but will put self-improvement and education opportunities in the hands of millions more. Won't be long until almost everyone on the planet has access to a computer
I have a bias against Java. I realize I may be deluded, but my experience the vast majority of things written in Java are garbage. Here, 'garbage' is an intentionally vague term coming from my personal opinion of using a piece of software in a consumer and DevOps role. It may be that the Java language is conducive to writing bad code, that the JVM has problems, or that the 'global talent base' is so broad and Java is so 'easy' that talent is difficult to come by, or I might be plain wrong.

I realize that Java is incredibly useful for some things and that my reasons for labeling software garbage aren't always of primary concern; criticizing anyone for choosing Java is beyond me.

However, I would be very reluctant to ever choose Java for a project given the opportunity.
Who the fuck was interviewing him? There's much more to academic success that just grades. Like becoming a professor.
Nope, you are pretty much the only person I've seen that uses the term income tax to mean income tax and benefits.
Quite. I think part of the reason for the misconceptions is that many people expect contracts to be equitable, and (IMHO) equity is the poor cousin in US law because of excess proceduralism.
This. It sounds like he folded as soon as he was interviewed by law enforcement. Don't underestimate the power of the $5 wrench. http://xkcd.com/538/
"Had he not used tor and had just signed into his email normally, they really wouldn't have needed a confession."

Had he not used Tor, he would never have sent an email: he wouldn't have felt secure.

"Trying to use Tor to protect you against interrogators who are convinced of your guilt and willing to torture you to death is like trying to toast your bread with a hammer."

It's Tor [traffic analysis] that led integrators to him in the first place.

Also, Tor is frequently advertised for use against repressive governments.
There's a line with this sort of stuff, and the crossing of it is what I have an issue with.

If they presented it as an attempt and asked for critique, then this would have been a fine thing to publish. They would have got chewed out by a professional, fixed it or removed it, and everyone would go away learning something new.

The issues comes when they don't accept critique, and make claims that don't stack up in actuality. Doing that is how people get hurt.
I was about to post this. Incredibly annoying interface if you are using a mouse. Original "proof": https://www.google.com/intl//en-US_us/zeitgeist/2013/images/...

I guess having pretty pictures to click on keeps users around longer instead of just reading a list 100 items long?
Hat-tip to roadie. I am absolutely amazed at how well it works, and how much work it removes in producing HTML emails.
>pretty easy currently

The use "currently" itself should set of a number of alarms in a sane person.

Then, to top it, you add: "showcases a number of techniques".

Centering should be an built-in, simple, capability. As simple as making some div red or adding a 2px border.

Not a "technique" or a "workaround" and surely not "many of them" (incompatible and each with different tradebacks).

You don't see "techniques" for making divs have a certain background color -- that's because there's a single instruction for that, and it bloody works all the time.
You must have missed the second part of his sentence. It begins with "if".
The source code to all of the benchmarks they do is available on Github. You can look at/submit patches for any improvements that are needed.
They're called an ignition interlock [1]. And now all 50 states allow them for a DUII penalty in some form.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignition_interlock_device
RightInbox Email Tracking Discontinued
We're finally there! Everyone in the whole world can have a computer now. Now the whole OLPC thing is a software problem.
Why I resist what I do
Not on trivial points. It's just annoying and content free.
I disagree, economics is well suited to addressing normative questions.

For example, what positive questions do the the first and second welfare theorems address?

The most fundamental values (how much do we value individual liberty? total wellbeing? the wellbeing of the least-well off?) are not necessarily for economists to define. But by describing the tradeoff between, for example, equality and efficiency, economists are able to practically answer normative questions, because almost everyone values equality and efficiency.
Another perspective - what if they just followed cars leaving those bars and clubs for 1 mi., then returning and starting over after observing the driver's behavior?

I'm actually not opposed to breathalyzers inside of the car - it seems far less invasive than cops doing it for you, with the authority to ruin your life. If the car won't let you drive, call a friend or a taxi.

In any event, I'd prefer to avoid the hassle and feeling of being a suspected criminal that accompanies being stopped on the way home at a checkpoint. Papers please? (jk...?)
>Really, what's the harm, is kind of my thinking.

Yeah, the word that comes to mind is masturbation.

>It strikes me that a TED talk about TED talks being 'all talk' isn't incredibly substantive either.

The very fact that it's called TED talks and not TED action or TED works is testament to its nature. What else would we get but people pontificating about the world, future, etc.? The audience is essentially encouraged to be sort of passively "talked to" and await the heralding of the new world, to be ushered in by the big thinkers who are, of course, busy talking.
I definitely genuinely enjoy pair programming as long as it's with the right person. In the end it's all about who you are working with.
> As an Italian, I don't agree. But that's for Italy, we're corrupt and we always bend rules.

Hah, that made me chuckle. I realize you're being serious, but it seems funny. (disclaimer: I'm Romanian, things are similar for us).
Indeed...it's quite comforting in a world full of every JS/Python/Lua/Ruby/.NET/etc/etc framework imaginable, leaving C behind has solved web application security problems. Where is my sarcasm tag.

I've gone back to writing most things in C. Including web apps. If you're a crappy programmer, the "new hip" languages might protect you from some classes of issues, but the idea that you're "safer" is deeply, deeply misguided.
> "Had he not used Tor, he would never have sent an email: he wouldn't have felt secure."

That is unknowable, certainly not certain. Plenty of people called in bomb threats before Tor was invented. Hell, he may have just pulled the fire alarm instead.

> "It's Tor [traffic analysis] that led integrators to him in the first place."

Tor is not safe from traffic analysis; it is pretty trivial to figure out if someone is using Tor. This is a well known limitation of Tor that must be understood by anybody using it, particularly if they are living under a repressive government.

If you are using Tor with the expectation that nobody will be able to tell that you are using Tor, then you are trying to hammer bread into toast. That is simply not what the tool is for.

It is certainly possible that the Tor project needs to work harder at making sure people understand this.
"throw the book at you" should be applied to non-victimless crimes, not things that you just don't like or agree with. Misdemeanor? Ridiculous. Moving violation with a fine? That's fine, I accept the consequences of my actions when they are proportionate to the action.
When you pay less than a living wage you are not reducing the cost to produce whatever you are producing, you are using taxes as an input. If you literally cannot afford to pay your employees a living wage, that means it's real cost (including the taxpayer's assistance) is greater than what people are willing to pay for it and we'd all be better off if our taxes just supported that person instead of supported that person and lined your pockets.
Yes, assuming that the wind vectors are orthogonal to the Earth (and that the Earth is spherical).

Also, by the Borsak-Ulam Theorem ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borsuk%E2%80%93Ulam_theorem ), there are two points on the Earth directly opposite one another that have the same wind speed.
Interesting to know, thanks for sharing that. The question was coming from my personal experience when my previous company was going down and the main investor insisted on selling it for 110% of his investment. He returned his money and the rest 10% went to the founder.
And more importantly, don't know how to deal with one when they do occur. And they always do.
What do you think made C such an amazing language compared to say Pascal and Fortrant?

I like C and how it handles pointers and arrays but was it really such a departure from what was available then?
"When you finally get at that's point of acceptance, there is nothing more beautiful"

Showing a woman with a scarf...

Come on google, just go already.
>My perspective is that the complexity is actually in the flexibility in CSS and the number of options provided to you

Not really, most of the complexity is of the ill-thought design they started with, and the LACK of options for certain things.

Initially the envisioned CSS as a styling technology, so layout was an afterthought. Even the messy floats hacks (those one that replaced tables) wasn't something that was though of specifically as a complete layout solution.

We had to wait 10+ years, to have actual layout solutions catering to the needs of web designers: Flexbox, Regions, Multi-Column layout and Grid Layout -- and of course those are still not implemented totally by browser vendors, give a few years wait for that too.
I don't think Tor is suspicious as such, it's just that it's sufficiently unusual as to be worth following up for statistical reasons. By consumer standards it's pretty obscure; the same would be true of PasteBin or many other sites where someone might conceivably make a hoax claim.
I have used a rideshare few times before.
can you guys just opensource all your source code.So that the community can build something out of it.
> Also: everyone should be required to fail a couple classes sometime in their life. It's not nearly as bad as you'd imagine. (Hint: after high school, nobody cares about your grades anymore.)

At least for prestigious schools (like Harvard), this is completely true, even outside engineering disciplines.

A friend of mine who went to Columbia got a D on one of her language classes. At Columbia, a D isn't even a passing grade - you don't receive credit for the course, and have to retake it.

That didn't stop her from receiving the highly-competitive Fulbright scholarship[0] to study at the graduate level in that very language.

If she had done badly in three or four of those language classes, that'd have been a problem. But students almost always overestimate the importance of a single course grade as opposed to a pattern of grades. (And even the latter can be accounted for otherwise, though it is admittedly an uphill battle).

I wholeheartedly agree that everyone should fail a class or two at some point in their lives. It teaches you a very good lesson: don't sweat the small stuff, even when that small stuff seems like really big stuff.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulbright_Program