skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The government stated that they have filters which will make it so that no one would see any information other than what is requested. The judge stated that that was reasonable.

Using your analogy, the government wanted to "grep '^target_name$' phone_book.txt", so while software did see all 400k phone numbers, the government did not.

I happen to disagree with the court on this, but I think your analogy isn't useful as to understand why. Instead, there should be a balancing of cost vs. impact.

Levinson/Lavasoft stated that they would provide that pen register information for a development fee of some $2,000-$3,500. (Note: Verizon's price list says they charge about $700 for access to that data.)

The government refused to pay, saying that they were not aware of paying anyone else for pen trap data.

So the first question is, how much non-revenue generating work can a company be forced to do in order to respond to a pen register request? Obviously the answer has to be non-zero in order for the law to be meaningful, but it can't drive a company out of business.

The government points out that a cheap solution, which bypasses the internal architecture, is for the company to provide access to all of the data, and use filters to remove all non-relevant data.

The secondary question is, where does the boundary sit? Is it at the company/filter layer, where the company is force to release all records to the filter, or with the filter/human investigator layer, where the humans only see the relevant data?

Personally, I put it on the company/filter layer. The government and the court disagree with me. Their view is that you can trust the filter to do what it says it does. (When Levinson asked for oversight or audit of the filter, the judge denied the request.)

However, in the case of a "grep ... phonebook", where the filter program can be audited, and run with oversight from both sides, then I find the request to be more reasonable.
It's been a long time since I've been ass-deep in new tech. Most days I'm recalling on that thing I did that time in order to help a teammate or a group of teammates work through a task. I would suggest you look at what you can give, not what you can get. Mentorship (both giving and receiving) has been a practice that I've found very rewarding. Generally, I mentor other people in an area that I have a lot of experience (technology) and I look to be mentored by those who have experience in areas that I don't have a lot of experience (management, finance, etc.). I think it contributes to my end goal which is also to run my own business. Hope that helps.
I'm pretty new to Ruby and I'm already sick of people equating Ruby and Rails though I understand how it happens.
DOA. This service will not get of the ground because of its name. I suggest you change it. There are so many other names that you can pick that do not have such a strong double meaning. You are unnecessarily hurting your startup, it is a challenge you do not need.
10 Kosovar startups to watch in 2014
There is not much news going around the southern part of Eastern Europe. 2013 was an interesting year for the startup scene of Kosovo, and to sum it up here is a collection of the most notable startups that are a must watch in 2014 and are thriving for success. Some of them may get acquired, some of the may die during 2014, but all of them are worth mentioning.
Did it improve your pitch? And did you find any regulatory problems when attempting to use intercourse to attract paying clients?
These restrictions are only done with the customers informed consent. The only blocks without consent is for child porn and other specific court mandated content - such as pirate bay
Certainly not infinite. There is and always will be a finite amount of computational power; considering thermodynamics alone, we can't continue to increase power usage exponentially or the surface of the earth will be uninhabitable in 200 years.
Show HN : A simple summarizer button for websites
trygist.com is a fast and accurate summarizer for the web. It provides a simple floating/custom button that you can add to your site. There are tons of summarizers out there, I built this one since I couldn't find a simple embeddable one. I haven't done much js/UI before , so would love to hear some feedback.
Anyone know of a good strace tutorial or how-to to start getting the best out of it?
Yes and no. Well mainly no. Crime can leech too much, do too much damage that it actually holds back development (pretty much any dictatorship, many Mafias)

It's pretty likely that the major reaction to crypto locker will not be "darn it, let's breakout a can of OpenBSD on our systems." It will be let's buy more norton, let's disconnect from the Internet except Wednesdays, let's print out our important emails.

Anyway I still really really struggle with how anyone can get stolen / hot money off the block chain and into their hands, cleanly. There is a limited supply of fools who will accept 10M from a Nigerian in return for laundering it.
Great article! There's a slight typo--"stdout" should be "stderr", as 2 is the file descriptor instead of 1.
I would totally pay for intercourse
I'm still trying to figure out what's wrong.
This is always, always a bad idea, and has been so for decades: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2003/07/28/54583...

It raises support costs, and frustrates the vast majority of customers.
Independent. There are, oh, I think I once saw a lost of about fifteen major known causes of ageing.

Some are worse than others; this is one of the really serious ones, but not #1. Others of note are...
- Intracellular debris
- Intercellular debris
- Gradual macroscopic degeneration from incomplete healing/scarring
- Progressive DNA damage, with any number of consequences (e.g. cancer)
- Asymptotic loss of some brain functions (e.g. learning)

I could go on. For evolutionary reasons all of these hit at roughly the same time, which means uploading remains the most promising approach for completely eliminating ageing.

Well, almost completely. Upload someone, and you eliminate degeneration below the firmware/software layer, but you still need to cope with a brain that didn't evolve to last for centuries.
There will probably be three more submissions just like mine before I hit submit, but you should very likely consider a transition to a management / liaison role.

There are a variety of fields that benefit from code-savvy people that are able to communicate effectively and that have just a little bit of initiative, namely:

- project manager -- there are a lot of definitions for project managers, but the simplest I think is the guy who sits between upper management and the engineers to ensure that project deadlines are met by removing obstacles for the engineer. As a developer, your unique insight here is in the ability to anticipate roadblocks and be able to remove them, as well as not having to have things explained to you three times before you can act. As a project manager, you'll be privvy to upper management's goals and directives earlier, be in a position to shape the project, and tangibly demonstrate how your contributions streamline the development process. Often-times, as engineers, we only hear "We need feature X", without an explanation for why we need feature X, and a lot of times, project managers don't communicate that downstream. Being able to understand the woes of engineering and the plaints of management simultaneously gives you an advantage to communicate effectively and deliver more efficiently.

- product manager -- Similar to but different than project manager, a product manager sits between the project manager or engineers and the customer or potential customers. The product manager evaluates customer concerns and helps shape the product or products by ensuring that the features you're working on will actually help improve the product's market position. What features are people asking for? What features are people asking for that are negatively impacting the ability of sales to sell the product? What features are people not asking for that they should be? What could make the product better? Those are the questions that the product manager seeks the answers to, and provides those answers to the rest of the team, then puts in a request for the proverbial "Feature X".

Etc., etc. There are positions that benefit from having a developer's mindset that aren't development. By your post here, I can see that you communicate effectively, so you have at least the minimal qualifications necessary that a transition could probably be easily managed.
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tl;dr: Huge number of fine restaurants serve Nespresso-capsule coffee. They are more consistent than barista-made coffee; the whole process is controlled, and even came out ahead in blind tests. Author however still argues that there is a place for the artisan and the handmade. Author didn't give the win to Nespresso on the blind test -- yet author actually saw which coffee was in each cup. Author actually rendered rendered his score in said blind test useless.
My bank issues chip and PIN readers for login and signing purposes. They are also used for 3-D Secure transactions.
Quite possible. I am not well versed in Chinese holidays, but from an American perspective the timing implies they wanted to meet Christmas demand before adding in such a large market. Thanks for your perspective though, I guess I have a little learning to do.
Not knowing the passwords, and keeping them in a locked database you copy/paste from creates plausible deniability if in a situation where one is beaten with a $5 wrench.

For some people, the risk of disclosure by violence is more a worry than the risk of disclosure by the clipboard.
Aw, geez, and here I tried to avoid these debates. I used "open" to try and imply that GNU's license will keep the source code "in the open", as "open" implies something different from "free". I'm not going to argue that one is better than another, or that one gives more rights to derivative users or not. That way lies politics and madness :)
I like the idea. Recently, I've thought about two similar concepts:

a.) Ad-Hoc mailing lists / discussion groups you can subscribe to or drop out of at any time.
b.) Discussions and status updates you can merely follow (and save for later) instead of participate in without those updates clogging your inbox.

The use case for both would be situations where - especially in larger companies - lots of people get CCed or BCCed because the just need to be in the loop but don't actually have to contribute anything.

I very much like you hashtag approach. It seems like the right solution to this problem. However, I don't quite understand why you took a mobile-first approach. At least in settings I have in mind a web or desktop app would make a lot more sense.

If you'd like to discuss this in more detail I'm looking forward to an eMail from you (contact form / contact details under http://wilmsmann.fullmontymedia.com/ ).
PyRuby - Some Ruby for your Python
Webdis has more features right now. It has authentication, and it supports things like websockets. It's also written in C.

Lark is written in python and I would argue that Lark does a better job of meeting the expectations of what an API should be like supporting POSTs, and DELETEs.

It would also fit in well with an existing flask project. It has a blueprint that you can mount.

oAuth integration is planned, I am working on it right now. I also plan on making websockets work in the same manner as flask-sockets.
Certainly the FBI could have used some simple OCR to import the key...
I wish they got away from such tight regulation of the technology, and let the teams really experiment. I'd like to see the F1 engine rules shortened to two rules.

1. Competitors have a total of XX GGE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline_gallon_equivalent) of fuel per 100km of race distance.
2. Competitors may not use a device that prevents unusual risks to other drivers, spectators, or race officials.

Done. End of rule book.

The fuel mileage limit will encourage teams to optimize for effciency...beyond that let them have at it.
That's right, but I don't think opportunistic squatters are that big a deal. The problem is people who own portfolios of names that don't get used, and there's no way these players can put unique pages up for an entire portfolio. Killing portfolio squatters is possible... not sure there's any feasible way to hit the long tail though.
I think the innovation is going to come from the Sports Car Racing side. The engines are more or less unrestricted, the only limit on them is fuel consumption per lap. I've always liked the Prototypes more than F1 though. It seems like all the F1 teams more or less converge on how to design a car and they all look more or less alike. Whereas with LMPs there are multiple answers to the question of how to build a car and make it go fast and be efficient and last for 24 hours.
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You would like the Le Mans Prototype Rules. they are using something similar, except they are limited to how much fuel can be used over one lap.
Feedback? Sure. You're doing the "appeal to surface appearance" argument. Not sure, but I don't recall that argument from Critical Thinking 101.
Enabling SSL OCSP stapling with nginx
Yes, essentially...even Le Mans is a bit too restricted for my tastes.
yes, REST is same as web scale a.k.a mongodb. Developer community has also appropriated functional programming to mean angular.js. or was that underscore or something.
I found your username ironic given the discussion of cloud seeding.
Good to see F1 fulfilling some real purpose, rather than just entertainment.
Professional athletes will love this.
Feeling of being "in the moment" & having maximal individual control (Perl 5) versus long-haul maintainability + potential to be widely collaborative, if perhaps at a slight loss in expressiveness (Python).

Perl 6 being an entirely different beast from either of these two languages, of course.
Couldn't you just wire up resistance heater wire between the panels? It might take a little while to melt all of them but that would be a pretty simple solution.
Ok picture this. Susan is in her cube. Nick, the office's resident smarmy dickhead walks up.

"Hey Susan, want to try Intercourse with me?"

Now Susan is extremely uncomfortable and Nick the dickhead gets to claim he was just talking about software.

It's cute what you're trying to do with the name but it won't work. Just look at the joke threads already in the comments here. It's all the proof you need.
I think it is more that the regulations are so tight that the differences in designs between teams aren't immediately noticeable unless they are explained in depth.
Sad state of affairs in gaming. My memories of a number of high profile "pro-gaming" organisations is almost entirely tainted by broken promises of paying out prize money to the winners of their competitions (delays, partial payouts, not paying out at all). With the GGL buying ClanBase in 2004 it was - unfortunately - only a matter of time before something like this happened.

I've often wondered why so many big name organizers have gone bust - why they end up with such bad reputations - why it's so hard to build a sustainable business out it. Of course with so many naive kids participating it must be very tempting for even remotely crooked people to take the money and run.

Two organisations which have been running for a while and which I still have respect for are ESWC and WCG. Would be interesting to hear from someone in the know about the economics about these operations.

So many good memories, gone. RIP CB.

-- Source: ex Quake3 player
F1 is going the wrong direction.
I'm confused as to why some people in the community believe a party was "backstabbed". Each team/group operated with its own intentions and goals; there's no reason why there had to be cooperation amongst them.

I feel like the reaction to this is more due to a general mistrust of Chinese software and a worship of MobileSubstrate.
Cool! We're catching up to Enterprise Object Framework from NeXT in 1994.[1]

Skip to 23:00 for the demo of Steve Jobs building a database app in a few minutes. Yes, this is stuff we should have.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gveTy4EmNyk
Christmas has been adopted in China as one of the country's largest retail holidays (obviously with no religious affiliation), so I'm sure demand for the iPhone is very strong during Christmas in China as well. It seems likely that the timing is designed around CNY but w/ the new Chinese consumerism, demand is likely very strong throughout the year.
Gulp.js - A high performance build system
There is a list of sample apps available on the website which can give some other ideas how this might be useful: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/dn494958
Yes, I was writing about the proposal the OP was about, not Namecoin as it exists today.
Sure, the coffee is fine. The question is one of control for me, not of quality. I like old-school "analog" coffee like my simple pourover or stovetop espresso machine because they are simple devices and, properly maintained, will make coffee forever. A capsule coffee machine is complex, the capsules can't be made by you (and some are triple-packaged, leading to lots of waste), they require power and microprocessors, and so on.

I choose the simpler method not because the coffee is better (though I'm sure it can be, and many factors are at play here), but because, in a way, it's the FOSS alternative to the bloated, proprietary capsule systems.
Umm, most electricians, I imagine, know how to ground a pump. Also, it wasn't isolated (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/05/28/soldier.electrocutions/inde...). There were 12 electrocutions. After the first one, you would think there'd be an inquiry.
Good point indeed, that said, even physical health can be a toll on your mind. Freed from that you can spend more time thinking instead of aching.
Ordering coffee or tea in a restaurant is most of the time disappointing anyway. Doesnt matter how fine or average the place is, they seen to use some bulk coffee usually prepared with an industrial coffee maker (drip coffee, not espresso drinks).

Restaurants take great care of lot other food and beverage details by for some reason they cant use decent fresh coffee or tea.
here ya go - "Tracking Radioactive Fallout from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Accident in Arctic Snow"

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2011AGUFM.C33A0632O
If that's true, the remaining 20% is about as large as half the US population.
Computer science solved this problem (the "Confused Deputy" [1]) decades ago [2] [3] with capability-based security [4].

I don't have the time to find the exact reference I'm thinking of right now, but consider taking a look at one of the papers that give a background to CapDesk [5]:

> Which addresses, among other things:

> "All Windows and Unix operating systems (referred to as “Winix” hereafter) utterly disregard the concept of POLA [Principle of Least Authority]. When you launch any application—be it a $5000 version of AutoCAD fresh from the box or the Elf Bowling game downloaded from an unknown site on the Web—that application is immediately and automatically endowed with all the authority you yourself hold. Such applications can plant Trojans as part of your startup profile, read all your email, transmit themselves to everyone in your address book using your name, and can connect via TCP/IP to their remote masters for further instruction. This is, candidly, madness." [6]

Since then, things have changed slightly - UAC under Windows, for instance, means applications now only have the ability to steal and hold your highly valuable and personal documents for ransom, but hey at least these sneaky trojans don't have admin rights! Which is of course the exact scenario that Cryptolocker happily exploits.

There's really no reason a piece of junk attached to your email application should execute any more authority than you explicitly grant it. (And no that doesn't require clicking a bunch of buttons to "Allow" access -- intelligent UI design can make much of this completely transparent, provided the host platform is capability-based.)

It's not that companies like Microsoft aren't well aware of capability-based security [7], it just seems to be that the appetite isn't there to really solve user's problems (breaking stuff like the Start Menu appears to be more important), despite the valiant efforts of some really smart people [8]. To be fair, shifting to a capability-based system would be a significant engineering effort, but definitely well within the realms of Microsoft or Apple's capabilities.

(Interestingly, some of the ideas on erights.org were influenced by Nick Szabo, who created "Bit gold" and who a few people think might be Nakamoto himself [though he denies it] [9])

[1a] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/ConfusedDeputy.html

[1b] http://erights.org/elib/capability/deputy.html

[2] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/Gnosis/Gnosis.html

[3] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~KeyKOS/Key370/Key370.html

[4a] http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/capabilityIntro/index.html

[4b] http://erights.org/elib/capability/3parts.html

[5] http://www.combex.com/papers/index.html

[6] http://www.combex.com/tech/edesk.html

[7] http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/

[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security

[9a] http://erights.org/related.html
[9b] http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2011/05/bitcoin-what-took-y...
Even if Nespresso was significantly worse than it is, I wouldn't be surprised by an otherwise good restaurant using it, simply because I don't expect good food to correlate to good coffee. Getting coffee or tea that's any better than merely drinkable is quite uncommon in my experience regardless of the quality of the food. I assume it's different in countries where some espresso after (or before) a meal is more common, though.
That's great, thanks.

I was really surprized when I copy/pasted one of the links into AmaroK and it just started playing :)
It's called formula 1 for a reason. No rules would lead to dull competitions and bankruptcies. There has been times with less rules and it does not work.

1. Cars would be clued to the road with massive downforce and it would look like they are on track in turns. Very boring races without overtakes. Races would be determined in time trials.

2. Building competitive car would be even more expensive than it is now. There would be only few competitive teams, some years maybe only one.

3. Several teams would eventually drop out because racing would be too expensive.
Wonder what the structure of that deal is? China mobile held out this long so they wanted something or we're not willing to give up what Apple asked for.
The main problem with that is building something that is sustainable. They tried a formula similar to yours back in late 80s called Group C. It was incredible cars and incredible racing but became so absurdly expensive no one could afford it.

I would like the rules to be more open as well. The Hybrid Systems for LMPs have to be homologated at the start of the year which prevents development of them during the year. Also the Hybrid systems are limited to only being able to collect certain amount of energy.

The problem is the people paying the bills on LMP projects are the ones that have the say on the rules. And the people paying the bills dont want the costs to get out of hand. Which admittedly if they went to a more unlimited rules package could happen.
Actually, it worked even better than I expected - it still chimes, but almost inaudibly, which means it won't wake anyone up but I can still tell I've hit the power switch - so $10 duly donated. Thanks v. much.
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sure ya can, e=mc²
I should put up a repo for my "QBASIC Gone Quixotic" project.
I have a problem with your landing page. When I try to view the full text on "Monetize Your Blog" on my 11" screen, it jumps to the "Traffic Matchmaking" section. Need to be able to scroll the text, without fully changing the pages content.