skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> roughly equivalent to making a statement that people should be in the dark about the government's spying programs, and that the government should be free to spy on its people, unchecked.

That's been the clear attitude of both the Bush and Obama administrations, illustrated through many actions completely unrelated to Snowden.
He's not presuming the PIN is ON the card, but that the transaction was the point of compromise (i.e. you punching in your PIN and the software running a verification of if that PIN is correct).
There already are a bunch of far worse companies, including illegal ones. You see, the illegal ones operate anonymously and completely disregard the laws.

The only ones the laws are keeping out are honest businesses who do pay attention to the laws, and who would provide strong competition to Coinbase.
The issue in schools is that older kids are smarter that the teachers and can fool them to do what they want on the iPad Or simply they can the hack the device to do what they want - there was a big story in LA schools about this - but I believe it is learning as well no ? I remember I learnt a lot about security and Unix when I was hacking the network of my university 20 years ago :-)
Manning was in the military, and the operating interpretation of Article I is that Congress and the President have the power to regulate the Armed forces, the rest of the US Constitution and civilian law largely notwithstanding. Draconian punishment and treatment, while concerning, is nothing new for those subject to the UCMJ, even if the code itself appears to prohibit it[1].

The scary scenario would be the classification of Snowden as an enemy combatant, who would then be subject to military justice. I hope that all three branches of the US government consider that to be a ridiculous stretch of the imagination.

[1] http://uscodebeta.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-pre...
That's exactly what it is, and that's the beauty of it.
Reimagining music notation publishing using the web
Myself and a team of developers have been hard at work to deploy our take on digital music notation. Starting off with signal processing for automatic chord detection and an HTML5 we are working on building a tool that can be used by the community and artists to upgrade the musical experience by including chords and lyrics as a default for music players. Currently we support simple text chords and lyrics and hard at work on the next feature set.

This is our first try and I'm happy to share it with you.
It's a device and app:

http://www.esurance.com/drive-safe

That page doesn't say much, but it does say that various things can be blocked while still allowing phone calls (which can be restricted to certain numbers).
You don't fear that one day you might be denied entry to the UK for this tweet? https://twitter.com/bovermyer/status/398163555742396416
Isn't the incentive to show them that you're still willing to work with them in the future so long as they get their crap together? I'm honestly not impressed with this stuff happening to people, even as a mistake, but at the same time I don't see people writing off entire companies that have otherwise acted in good faith.

Of course, if it happens to many more people, you can only do so much with so little.
Gotcha. Hm, seems kind of risky for when it fails and your kid can't call 911 when they need to. Hope they built something in for that but if it doesn't interface with the OS, that's a slim chance. Seems like a risky device to use.
The problem isn't 'sending a file', it's 'peer to peer communication', which is hard without an intermediary and/or shennanigans due to ubiquitous NAT. I image in the everyone-has-an-IP universe of ip6, this will no longer be an issue.
Does anyone know why he is associated with Monsanto?

http://www.infowars.com/bill-gates-dodges-questions-on-why-h...
Yep. People are "shocked" at Manning's treatment, when Jose Padilla suffered something similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_%28prisoner%2...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=webrtc+transfer+files
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I'm not the owner, but I know the owner of the site. It's mostly C# / SQL because he is a .NET developer and so its only really been shared among other .NET devs.

It's not meant to be specific to any language. It's just funny shit people have written.

I submitted a few from old code I wrote like 5 years ago. Its all good fun :)
Quick and easy file sharing is hard to do not only from a technical standpoint, but also from a legal standpoint. It only takes one DMCA lawsuit to shut down a file sharing startup. The likelihood of a lawsuit increases as the file sharing becomes easier, quicker, and more anonymous (as the chances that someone will use it for illegal purposes increases the easier and quicker and more anonymous it becomes).

You have to set some restrictions on who can share what with how many people and how often. Even torrent trackers that do not store any files other than the tracker become targets. I really would love it if there was a way to type "scp /home/freehunter/your-granddaughter-laughing.mpg //grandma/home/grandma/videos" with UPnP to get around grandma's dial-up NAT. Unfortunately, the closest we have is Dropbox (requires an account) or BitTorrent (requires dodging law enforcement and porn popups).
Those were the people who already had no ultimate control over the restrictions on their connection. Hasn't the billpayer always had the ability to restrict their connection and set terms of use on people using it?
The fact that you can write bad unit tests is orthogonal to the notion that writing unit tests is, in general, a good thing to do.
Anyone familiar with the orbital engine design they're using? The wikipedia article about it is pretty sparse and I didn't find anything better in a quick web search.
One could always resort to childish antics such as cell phone crashing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA1J-raGinQ
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The Australian press? Try all press.
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yes it is still an open question for me. There are many big brands that don't do this - why ? I think everybody is experimenting in kids'app world - it's not clear as in games where (consumable) IAP are very profitable.
How I see it, the most important exchanges increasingly from now onward are those between cryptocoins. Btc is just an onramp and offramp into the cryptocurrency ecosystem.

Such exchanges can be totally anonymous, including who runs them. They don't deal with people or fiat currency. Just usernames and blockchains. People trust them based on their history, like an ebay seller, and admins realize there's no need to rip off users because it's not worth it to them in the long run (let alone what might happen to them if they are personally outed for doing so.) People can go in and out of them for very short periods of time to lower the risk it should disappear during that time, ie to lower their "exchange risk." They could also have a set lifespan... "we will operate from 2015-2018" this might lower risks as well.. imagine if Silk Road had a fixed shelf life that expired before it was caught.
Tried to create a profile out of curiosity and it 404s. http://hiremyfriend.io/profiles
Private networks will always have a place for security and safety of all systems which will still make this a problem.
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cowsay "get back to work"|tail +2|sed 's/<\(.*\)>/\1/' >commit.msg && git commit -t commit.msg
The same thing is possible on OS X with kextload/unload and kextutil. Moving the extension to a "disabled" folder and so on, and you have a camera without a driver.

I would say that it's still notable even if it relies on root access, since it's been previously believed that this was not possible with software at all.
It would have been important if it had been correct. In the verdict it is made clear that the damages are only awarded for "Beck, Levande begravd". So it is 650k per movie. Punitive damages are also illegal in Sweden so the fact that he shared multiple movies does not matter here.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/9023...

EDIT: My theory for why they only targeted one movie is to make the trial simpler, and they would not be able to get more money than this anyway. They will charge you with enough movies to reach what you reasonably can pay off.
I recently had to sign up with Dropbox just to download a file somebody was sharing with me.

The way UbuntuOne (and maybe other providers) just give you a link anybody can use is much better imho.
Are you sure that's the case, or could it have been ACH or reporting weirdness?
I use the tab button, but what actually goes into the file is up to Sublime :)
Well if you send "Mark Pincus would like to play Presidential Advisor with you!" to enough people, someone will click it :)
Would you put money on the fact that they wouldn't do that?
Easier to change your name.
I ran into a "trying to share files" thing recently, and I ran into the "pipe things over netcat" solution (http://superuser.com/questions/98089/sending-file-via-netcat). For techies it's pretty fun.

With things like google docs, I've found that file sharing has become a lot less necessary. We're sort of moving into a very file-less space, and I'm kinda fine with it.
> But a young child who get's texted or messaged or facebooked a link, perhaps obsfuscated by an url shortener, is gonna be taken unawares.

They'll be taken unaware, take one look, go "ewww", and close the window. My four year old is already doing that when he sees someone kissing. It grosses kids out, there's no indication anywhere as far as I am aware, that the occasional exposure to sexual imagery causes harm.

> It's just about reducing the prevelence and "de-normalising" it.

What you will achieve, in my experience, is to reduce the normality of what they find. Back when BBS's was our source of porn, because it even "normal" porn of a single man and woman having normal sex was illegal where I grew up, the BBSs were overflowing with bestiality, child porn and every nasty kink known to man, because as an illicit source there was no reason for them to put limits on what was being uploaded. As a result, avoiding the really horrible stuff was made harder by lumping all the porn together.

> So you support free access cos you don't want to admit you're into porn?

If you can not see the difference between voluntarily admitting to enjoying porn and being forced to disclose something that parts of society see as deeply shameful (or we wouldn't even have this debate) to your ISP where it is made easily available in a single dataset that does not require anyone to do additional logging, then I am questioning whether it is worth even debating you further.

> It's not like your ISP isn't logging your requests and doesn't know you're visiting pron sites.

If you can't see the difference between specifically specifying a preference, and their ability to log traffic from someone in the household, then I don't know what to say.

> And they should be prohibited because much hard core is absolsutely unsuitable for young eyes. Boobs fine. But girls getting bukkaked or inserting crap up their behinds is not on.

Do you have any evidence that any of this is harmful? Why this specifically? What about specific political opinions? I mean, personally I find conservative politics extremely harmful (yet, before you ask, no, I am not going to shield my son from coming across conservative websites); what about specific religious views? Violence? Where do you draw the line, and on what basis? And why exactly are things you want to allow better/less harmful to kids than the porn you want blocked?
I'm a really nice person especially around xmas time, but nobody hardly notices.

I donate much more than 0.01% of my earnings to charities and nobody calls me a hero.

Who the heck does this Bill Gates guy think he is?
Android development is a pain in the ass.

App Store app management (approval, updates, etc.) is a pain in the ass.

If you're building a social app then nowadays you almost MUST have both iOS & Android out of the box otherwise you're hurting any potential network effect.
I believe he's connecting to a SSH server, and the server is proxying the request back to a local HTTP server. So there's no need to mess with port-forwards.
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I'm the author of the blog post, and just saw this resubmission on HN. Just wanted to quickly touch upon some of these points:

* "It lies." Mongo lied at the time I wrote the post, and while the default has been changed, the "this entire point is no longer a concern" seems overly optimistic. See here for further details where successful writes are lost: http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

* "It's slow." We have indeed benchmarked Mongo's behavior, and, even though developers give up on consistency and fault-tolerance by using MongoDB, they don't get high performance in return for their tradeoff:
http://hyperdex.org/performance/

* "It doesn't work pipelined / it doesn't work multithreaded." I don't quite see a correctness argument here. I read through the sources of the Java driver at the time I wrote the blog post. If you follow the pattern described in the link you provided (java-concurrency), you will find that thread A can issue getLastError and receive results for thread B's operations. That is broken. The word "thread-safe" does not mean what you think it means. "People use it without ill effects" isn't as strong an argument as "I read through the code and it looks broken." Further, when 10gen responded to this blog post, they were unable to refute the technical point:
http://hackingdistributed.com/2013/02/07/10gen-response/

* "WriteConcerns are broken." Check out the Jepsen test, the last subsection: http://aphyr.com/posts/284-call-me-maybe-mongodb

Agreed that Mongo's simplicity is a big draw for many developers new to NoSQL. Sadly, the system provides very weak properties, and applications built on top end up having even weaker properties still.
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If this:

function nop()
{
if (Math.random() == 0.1234567890)
{
for (var i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++)
{
console.log(arguments[i]);
}
}
}

wouldn't have been written in JavaScript, my guess would be that this is an attempt to create an empty function (no-op) and prevent it from being optimized away by the compiler. Still unclear who may need to call it.
Anybody have any idea if there is a way to tell if your card was part of the breach? I have a family member who shopped at target during the dates mentioned.

I'm wondering what percentage of transactions were affected. Is 40 million 90%? 50%? There's no way to tell. It'd be nice if we knew whether or not to report it to the bank.
In all fairness, Coinbase doesn't accept credit cards because that same consumer protection can be abused into defrauding them. Which, seems reasonable :)
Hey Pierre,

Thank you for this post. First, because I use your apps with my kids and they love them. Almost certainly one of the reasons your applications sell is because they are very good. It was recommended to me by a relative who is a teacher and I know she recommends it to others. These types of applications are the reason I purchased a tablet device: I am a very stingy person, but if a tool will engage my children in learning, I am happy to separate with my cash. (we use the app with our kids together)

Second of all, it is just good to have this perspective on the market potential for a well made app. I'm disappointed about the Android market, I hope it improves.
I guess it could be reporting weirdness? Never seen anything like it before, though, and I've made withdrawals and deposits to my account from many different sources.

One $7k deposit soon after I made my sale. Another distinct $7k deposit a couple days later, reflected in my account balance which was now up $14k. And then a $7k withdrawal a few days after that. Both deposits and the withdrawal still show up in my transaction history.
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There is Dancer2 as well
https://metacpan.org/pod/Dancer2
it really works: http://www.bittorrent.com/sync
Instead of all of them! Why weren't they unanimous?
ipv6 will still have this issue, because _no fucking way_ will i put a directly-accessible-from-anywhere computer on a network.

the "how do i serve a directory" problem is _so_ solved:

`python -m SimpleHTTPServer`

or:

dropbox (it's not hard to install, as much as xkcd whinges about it)
google drive
email

This is a solved problem.
It's not a company, it's a teaching method/movement. The word Montessori is the name of it's originator (died 1952,) and it is used freely by anyone who uses the method:

In 1967, the US Patent Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ruled that "the term 'Montessori' has a generic and/or descriptive significance."[24] Therefore, in the United States and elsewhere, the term can be used freely without giving any guarantee of how closely, if at all, a program applies Montessori's work. The ruling has led to "tremendous variation in schools claiming to use Maria Montessori’s methods."[25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_method#Use_of_Monte...
I love that an email address is required to download a book about anonymity online!
Now, I wonder what Bill received. Bill should make a similar post about his gift, would be cool.
Now let's see it turn around and go up the hill.
I'm pretty sure they did it wrong then. You can share a link to any file inside of your dropbox, and anyone can download it regardless of whether they have an account.
Do this in javascript all the time.
Adding a `+ ""` forces the object to become a string.

Though not sure why it was required for this particular comparison.
The wrong turn was "Perl 6", and despite what you may think, the problem was more in the "6" than the "Perl". There's nothing wrong with Perl 6, except that it should have been called something else so it didn't convince people it was the next Perl version. The Perl community has now recovered from that, Perl 5 and Perl 6 are officially understood to be distinct languages that merely love each other very much, and Perl 5 development has resumed at full speed, but it lost a lot of time and mindshare before finally getting there. (Probably not a heck of a lot of use share, though. It's still there in a lot of places, working away, quietly.)
Yes. My resume is under version control. I have six versions I've evolved over time to address very specific job categories.
Just curious: Why does printing it on paper helps you to understand code better than reading it on screen?
"Barry" was Mr. Obama's chosen nickname, and he didn't give it up until college: http://www.newsweek.com/when-barry-became-barack-84255

I think you're reaching looking for an insult here.

I'm seeing a lot of grandstanding and assumed affront in this post (Pincas above as well). It's not becoming.

People can be asses and still do the right thing on occasion. And sometimes a nickname is just a nickname.
Tell them, yes. But actively filtering have been substantially more effort. None of the routers I've been given from my various broadband providers in the UK have had filtering options that would have allowed this, which means said person would either have to explicitly go out of his way to lock down the provided router and put a filtering firewall in between, or lock down each computer in the household with filters.

That it has been technically possible for a very small portion of the population to oppress their family members further does not strike me as a good reason for making it a one click option.
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People are more complex than 'bad guy' or 'good guy' despite our attempts to canonize them one way or the other (Jobs, Churchill, Lincoln, JFK.) Sometimes the bad guy does the right thing, sometimes even for the right reason. That doesn't mean you have to let go of your criticisms.
"dispatching out to functions to handle each opcode carries unnecessary overhead in what should be the tightest loop in the project"

How about inline functions or macros?
> Restricting certain (legal, normal, non-violent, even educational) materials

I am not advocating that at all. The fact that the current filter technology may be badly implemented doesn't change anything with respect the basic premise.

> For a sect of the government to force this unilaterally, without any kind of democratic process, is a real problem in my eyes.

Every law in the land is made this way. It's not possible to have public voting on every piece of legislation. What you can do tho is vote in general elections. If a government passes unpopular laws they'll be voted out. My guess is tho, that like it or not, this legislation will have a lot of support.
How does this get on here?

Why is it acceptable to use HN as a platform for shameless self-promotion? And if it absolutely has to be why can't it at least be worthwhile?

HN's filter needs to be overhauled. Particularly any post from a site with the same name as the poster. Those are rarely good.
Marcus, thanks for the answer! It sounds like a useful tactic... We are trying to push for a similar system so it is good to know how others cope with it. Thanks again!
I'd imagine 911 would be whitelisted.
I always feel happiest writing unit tests for functions that contain non-trivial logic. But I always feel sad when testing methods that mostly just introduce side effects. It seems like when I'm running into more of the latter, it is often worthwhile to find ways to refactor toward having more of the former, but sometimes not.
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I see the 'Android fragmentation problem' meme to be similar to the 'iPads are for consumption, not creation' meme.

Possibly overblown but also has a bit of truth to it.
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of sane persons in the UK who are holding out hope that the entire Cameron administration is a giant "April fools" joke.
I just bought Mastering Web Application Development with AngularJS which is also for sale on Amazon and has pretty decent reviews there: http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Web-Application-Development-...

Turns out, you get a discount for print books if you own the e-book, I got 50% off after going back to the site once I bought the e-book: €17,50 instead of €34,99

So... €21,88 for both instead of €34,99 (you always get the e-book free if you buy the print version it seems).
He can try to take credit all he wants, it's up to the rest of us if it means anything.
Now wait and see how top tech execs will be gaining cheap karma points during this "call for reform" campaign.
Touche, sir
So, you want to start a software company?
>There is a lot of correlatory evidence.

[Citation needed]

> am sure you know how to use Google.

I am, and yet in 20+ years of asking people objecting to porn to provide evidence of harm, I've yet to come across anyone that have been able to provide anything remotely believable, so forgive me for not being convinced by a request to Google it.
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Does anyone else see the issue of how easy it would be to lean down, unplug this thing from the ODBC port, and toss it to the ground? That would kill any tracking or blocking.
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If payments could be initiated from a smartphone, the attack surface would be the phone, the bank. Not every shop or website where you enter your credit card details.