skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Paul is not influential in African Politics. Paul is influential in tech.

2. Paul runs a press that specializes in topics in tech

3. Paul and his mods goes out of their way to kill threads that discuss this topic when it deals with other people, people who are almost entirely powerless to defend themselves and so rely on the crowdsourced power of others to defend them and discuss the topic

4. Paul then uses the same press to complain how he was treated.

Draw your own conclusions regarding Paul's relative complicity in what happened to others and himself.

And there are of course far more incidents than the three I mention.
The signature is generated using public key cryptography [1] meaning, to generate a valid signature, you have to have the private key.

Because the signature only has to be generated when a new version of the file is released, you can use the most bothersome (and effective) manual methods of security, like keeping the private key on an air gapped [2] computer.

So if an attacker manages to switch the downloaded file for a malicious one, they may still not have got access to the private key used for release signing.

Of course, the attacker could still remove all links to the signature file and all mention of it in the public documentation, so downloaders wouldn't know there was a signature to check. So it's better if the site isn't compromised in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_%28networking%29
Yep. I just redid the app for iOS 7. I guess that should have made it into the year in review post.
There is obviously a huge amount of energy around this. I think it would be great if YC sponsored a conference around this topic (perhaps Women & Minorities in tech startups).
It makes sense to get rid of most "ums" and "you knows?". For the most part they don't require judgment; most cases are just useless artifacts of speech.

Removing "these" from the a middle of a sentence is not nearly so easy. "These" generally refers to something and it can't be removed so easily just because an editor thinks that it can be. In this case, removing "these" changed the sentence to be a general statement about women from a statement amount a subset of women. This obviously should not be removed, regardless of the lack of a specific reference from "these". Leave the judgment to the reader.
>Having produced everything people want should be the goal.

In socialism, if that thing existed, maybe.

In capitalism you don't produce what "people want".

You produce what you can SELL.

When you cannot sell what you have produced (e.g because people cannot afford to buy it anymore), and you have tons of investments in factories, production capacity and materials being underutilized, you have "overproduction".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overproduction
Are you suggesting that we abolish defensive armies because nuclear weapons exist?
My post is mistaken -- thank you for correcting it.
Awesome. I love the idea of wagr. It's like an informal LongBets. Kudos on learnx also. My list is not so impressive, but here goes:

-I made a wilderness survival game for 7DRL 2013. http://humbit.com/rogue/ It's not for everyone, but it did make a "Best of 2013" list for roguelikes.

-I made my own static site generator in PHP that uses S3/cloudfront. Because why not. The result is a fast blog I think looks great. http://jere.in

-I made Autumn.js, a library for hashing keys to colors. https://github.com/nluqo/autumn

-I just finished up (and am desperately looking for feedback on) http://letspaste.com/ a gaming screenshot site. I think this is a really neat idea, but I'm not sure if anyone gets it yet. It did teach me about a few JS libraries though: packery and hopscotch

My goal for 2014 is to start writing things people actually need/want and to get off of Dreamhost ASAP (yea I know).
What was described isn't tax avoidance, it's tax evasion. The form of the substance may appear kosher, but the nature of the transaction is evasion, since it ultimately has the effect of a salary and not a management fee.

Tax is one of those areas of law where the "spirit of the law" actually has meaning. For example, in nearly all of the convictions for the loss-harvesting tax shelters, the form of the underlying structures was legally sound under tax law--but the nature of the transactions was not and resembled tax evasion schemes. SCOTUS upheld these convictions. The same is generally true of various other similar tax shelter convictions in England and France.
Thanks! I wonder how long it would take for someone to scrub their VM manually using dd before terminating it? Maybe the same length of time? 12 minutes seems a pretty reasonable amount of time, but since it's an SSD the writes could take >3x longer than the reads.
The editing made the whole context much more sensationalist and generalized.

This simply removes all credibility for this woman in my eyes.

"Hey, just by removing the word "these" we can make this quote look as though it refers to half the population!"

Yeah - how about this:

Original:

Just by this manipulation of a quote, a journalist has ruined trust in her journalistic integrity

Vs:

Just by this manipulation of a quote, a journalist has ruined trust in journalistic integrity
No, you misunderstand. It's not enough to satisfy the "form" required of tax law--you must also satisfy a test of "substance." France would pierce through the transaction and treat the "management fee" as a French salary (which, in substance, it is) and haul the taxpayer off to jail for evading taxes.
>I had a 4S with iOS 7 for several months and what you're saying is complete BS. I can upload a video if you don't believe me.

You do understand that "had a 4S with iOS 7 for several months" and "totally unusable" are contradictory, right?

I'll have the video, please.

>Try non-hostility as an initial response in the future.

Well, sorry, I guess.

You could also try not generalising from your outlier example.
Customs is not the TSA.
Show HN: The NSA Product Generator
US Republicans' belief in evolution plummets, poll reveals
Totally agree with this sentiment. One of the best things enlisting ever taught me is not to quibble. Own up and drive on.
> "..., but then what are you supposed to do about it?"

Maybe run the laptop off a bootable USB 3.0 stick, which you keep in your pocket? The file system actually on the laptop could serve as a honeypot.
In an attempt to edit for clarity the intended meaning was completely changed. There's only one possible response that is appropriate. Admit that a mistake was made, apologize without reservation, and make sure it never happens again. Anything short of that is simply unethical.
My sentiment exactly.

If journalists want to help people through their craft with integrity, these kinds of modifications should be transparently pointed out to the reader.

Oh, wait! There's MLA formatting for that:

"We can't make . . . women look at the world through hacker eyes and start Facebook because they haven't been hacking for the past 10 years."
You know, in most cases the refusal to 'fess up just makes someone look stubborn.

The interesting thing in this case is that it makes them look incompetent.
>I would probably be disincentivized from joining said "club".

What if you felt that you might be killed irrespective of whether you joined the club? Further, what if you believed that joining the club was your only hope (no matter how slim) of preventing yourself and others from being killed?
Always important because our beloved websockets are fragile!

socket.io has it built in, but in various projects I had to hoist my own reconnect functionality on top because reconnects kept failing.

engine.io aims to be more reliable than socket.io, mainly due to connecting via the fallback methods first, then establishing a websocket connection. I have not used e.io yet but intend to soon.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9610951/how-is-engine-io-...
The Reuters Handbook of Journalism on quoting:

"Quotes are sacrosanct. They must never be altered other than to delete a redundant word or clause, and then only if the deletion does not alter the sense of the quote in any way. Selective use of quotes can be unbalanced. Be sure that quotes you use are representative of what the speaker is saying and that you describe body language (a smile or a wink) that may affect the sense of what is being reported. When quoting an individual always give the context or circumstances of the quote.

It is not our job to make people look good by cleaning up inelegant turns of phrase, nor is it our job to expose them to ridicule by running such quotes. In most cases, this dilemma can be resolved by paraphrase and reported speech. Where it cannot, reporters should consult a more senior journalist to discuss whether the quote can be run verbatim. Correcting a grammatical error in a quote may be valid, but rewording an entire phrase is not. When translating quotes from one language into another, we should do so in an idiomatic way rather than with pedantic literalness. Care must be taken to ensure that the tone of the translation is equivalent to the tone of the original. Beware of translating quotes in newspaper pickups back into the original language of the source. If a French politician gives an interview to an American newspaper, it is almost certain that the translation back into French will be wrong and in some cases the quote could be very different. In such cases, the fewer quotes and the more reported speech, the better."

http://handbook.reuters.com/?title=Accuracy#Quotes

Basically minimal editing is acceptable, so long as you remain very faithful to the original quote. If the original quote is too broken to be published, then don't quote it; instead paraphrase it in your own words.
It still seems like you only vaguely know what you're talking about.
"No, the problem is these women are not by the time get to 23… Like Mark Zuckerberg starts programming, starts messing about with computers when he’s like 10 or whatever"

Let's concentrate on the slight against twenty-something women, because of course there's no such thing as hackers in their 30s, 40s or 50s, of either sex.
Well, there might be global conflict, but global war is a little disingious - at least when the casualities and effects are so extremely polarized. I've never felt afraid of retaliation even if Norwegian forces have shot up some kids or guided a missile down on an illegal target somewhere. Even with the few attacks on the US it would be hard to say that it would be rational to live in fear of attack orchestrated by foreign nations when on US soil?

As for declared war zones (vs declared wars), that was an unfortunate slip in editing on my part (text fields and smart phones don't mix well imo).
Having read this post and pg's essay (and comments), I think the pitch forks have been raised and we should calm down. Yes, removing "these" was a bad judgement call, and I believe the true intentions were hidden in the post. It was an editorial mistake that caught pg off guard and went viral, making it a "disaster".

In hindsight, things could have been better communicated and better organized; but everything is better with hindsight. In the end, the mistake was corrected and we hopefully all learned something from this debacle.
Assuming you were carrying secret information on a business or government trip, wouldn't you carry the data on your person in an encrypted USB drive, with a blank/vanilla OS install on your laptop? That seems more efficient (and effective) than all this glitter spraying and photography.
Samsung’s LPDDR4 packages usher in era of 4GB phones and tablets
"Weaseling out of things is important to learn. Its what separates us from the animal. Except the weasel." - Homer J. Simpson
As a beginner, not a professional developer, python 3 always made more sense to me. Print is a function, 1/2 is not 0.

I've heard the counterargument about backwards compatibility.[1] That hasn't ever been just a 2 vs. 3 thing though. pyOpenSSL works with 32-bit 3.2, but dies with errors out of the box on Win-64 py 3.3. Last I checked, the PaiMei debugger works on 2.4, breaks on 2.7.

There are several projects that work with a specific deprecated subversion... it'd be weird if that were a common argument to keep everyone on 3.2, or 2.4 or something.

[1] http://help.codecademy.com/customer/portal/articles/887853-w...
The results seem strange. Intel HD 4000 is not a great card, but it's completely capable of running new-ish games on low/mid settings. I wonder if there's something even worse going on (falling back to software rendering?) if it seems to score 10x worse than a mobile phone.
Yeah, totes there are no people like this, and the attack on PG was not agenda fueled.

http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction
> But clearly other forms of terrorism do not cause nearly as much death as plane hijackings do, which for each one numbers in the hundreds

[citation needed]

Some hijackings have caused deaths in the hundreds, namely 9/11 style suicide hijackings. However this is the exception. Even post-9/11.

According to the list of hijackings on Wikipedia, of the 21 notable hijackinged since 2000, all the non-9/11 hijackings resulted in 5 victims killed (one accidentally when storming the plane).

Note that post-9/11 there appears to have been a substantial increase in instances where the passengers have overpowered the hijackers, presumably out of fear of terrorists planning on killing them all.

But overall, even including the WTC deaths, plane hijackings does not appear to have caused more than a few tens of victims on average; exclude the WTC dead, and the number is small - most hijackings in fact appears to have ended without any deaths.

And few of the deaths that do happen appears to have been intended by the hijackers (many of the deaths have occurred due to crashes as a result of struggles, or when the planes get stormed by security forces).
Plastic made from pollution hits U.S. market
And I'm here to tell you it's not silly, it's very appropriate to do cheap but possibly flawed research first, before diving into an expensive "science" experiment that would cost some multiple of 1/2 a year of many people's lives.
IIRC his claims were not about individuals committing voter fraud, but fraud in the procedure of processing the votes. Which voter ID laws do nothing to help with.
I don't see any of the problems described above or in the current responses to you when I try it with Chrome. One click of back brings me back to HN, and I only get one item in the history list.

With Safari, one click brings me back, but I do see one entry per "page" added to my history menu.

Firefox behave the same as Safari

I have no add-ins or extensions on Safari other than 1Password. On Chrome I have 1Password and a viewer for chess games in PGN. I have 1Password and Firebug and a PGN chess viewer in Firefox.

I wonder if you have some kind of extension or something that the site does not get alone with?

I'm on a Mac.
The problem with morality is that it's a lot more subject to disputes and individualized viewpoints than law. For example, I think it's ridiculous to say that prison is a form of torture. If you come at me with that as the basis for your argument, we'd just argue past each other and never reach a satisfactory resolution. We'd waste all day with philosophical disagreement. But if we follow a policy of resolving issues by reference first to the law, well then we may well find ourselves satisfactorily resolving the issue without ever bringing up our divergent personal views of morality.

Of course morality always remains in the background. But it's a backstop, an argument for changing the law.
I don't know much about flying airplanes, but does a pilot really need to lock the copilot out of the cockpit for an extended period of time to crash the plane? It seems to me that it's probably not worth spending resources on securing airlines against terrorist pilots (other than doing research on the pilots, obviously).
Instead of installing apache2 you might consider just using scp.
If ya ain't codin' in Vim, I don't wanna hear it.

[Sasscasm.]
Exactly. Its not going to refer to "anything" when <it was taken out of context>. Had it been there, the lack of context would have been implied... Of course, then it is no longer a sound-bite. Which kills the PR value of the whole enterprise.
For an alternative view, you should watch John Oliver's 3 part Daily Show special on gun control.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pOiOhxujsE&feature=sharecont...
I will definitely find a reason to use Autumn.js in 2014, what a fun idea.
I would strongly, strongly recommend learning Rails first. The Rails MVC paradigm will transfer over to Python and PHP frameworks, and the backend experience will push you into the full-stack developer territory. Angular has a lot of idioms that are very specific to it, and won't necessarily translate over to another JS or non-JS framework.

In terms of what's most attractive to an employer, it really depends on the company. What should matter more is where you see yourself in five years.. if you have no interest in backend coding, by all means focus on Angular, but if you want to branch out from front-end development, Rails will get you quite a bit farther.
C language and the linux keyword - proof that linux is always Number 1
You're going to need more than wild speculation and a link to a subreddit.
I figured SCP would be slower and but now that I think about it your probably right.
And security only stops the 5oz+ liquids that people willingly disclose, or in the rare case they catch it in your bags. I regularly find I've forgotten to take out 0.5l (17oz) bottles from the bags I've passed through the x-ray machine. Nobody has ever caught it.

They did, however, catch the circuitry of the blinking lights in my 4 year olds old shoes, which caused nervous looks for a few moments until one of the screeners who knew what they are looked over at the screens.
Thanks for demonstrating her point for her!
Samsung 110-inch UHDTV is the world's largest TV
Don’t drown in email: How to use Gmail more efficiently
So, this is going to overwrite lots of data on the block device you're trying to recover data from, resulting in a lot of repeated information and erasure of recoverable stuff. The correct answer is to redirect the output, and make find.sh output the gzipped data so you can pipe that to your local disk never touching the remote end.

Edit: Here's the code. https://github.com/gregimba/DigitalHax/pull/1
The other thing you could do instead of trusting Digital Ocean you could use shred on your sensitive files before you destroy the droplet.
Talking of bankruptcy in that context is a nonsense introduced by politicians intent on doing away with it for ideological reasons.

And that comment is a perfect example why we still have people on HN saying things like "free" healthcare. But at the end of the day it all costs money. It's just this make-believe world that some people want to live in...amazing.
Editing sentences in interviews is not unusual. Most people don't talk like they write, so cleaning up what they said can be the fair thing to do. But it doesn't cover changing the meaning of a sentence like in this case.
Utilities, and communications which rely on scarce distribution channels as you mention are not, and will not be truly free markets and should be regulated.. how tightly they should be regulated is up to interpretation. IMHO such utilities should not be allowed to be owned by companies that have inherent market verticals and/or conflicts of interest that do not serve the public good. Time-Warner is a prime example.

As far as outside utilities, and similar services... I feel the government's role should be to limit monopolies, not eliminate, but only so much as to allow for competition to happen. The rediculous extent of IP protectionism, specifically patents on design, algorithms and business processes are counter to that. Corporate personhood as a legal concept is against that. For that matter, corporations should probably instead have limits on unutilized/underutilized assets for a given length of time, and enforce distribution back to investors in those cases.

A free market is a market is one where upstart competition can generally succeed, and entrenched incumbents are regularly surpassed, or continually growing.
The Architecture of the Burroughs B5000 (1982)
But according to Cialidini's "Influence", there is a ten times higher chance of dying in a plane crash if you fly in the months immediately after a highly publicized suicide, so securing the plane against a suicidal pilot (as opposed to anyone wanting to carry out a terrorist attack) might very well be more worthwhile than securing it against terrorists.

(Cialdini cites research, which I'm too lazy to look up right now, that claims something as high as 40-50 excess deaths from car and plane crashes in the US per highly publicized suicide)
Don't women pick up concepts faster than men?

I mean, it's pretty clear that women excel at language acquisition over men, and these are just computer languages.

Let's say, ceteris paribus, 10,000 hours for adolescent boys, 8,000 hours for adolescent girls. Supposing this is the case, given the history of computer science, I doubt really any one of us is in a position to define credibility on solely that metric of time spent.

Clearly environment plays a very significant role here, and it goes without saying, given the larger cultural context of the West, that women have been excluded. I mean, Women's Suffrage was, like, a century ago.

I'm just going to assert that I'm quite postive more than half of you are talking jive, and that's not good.
Good thing that's entirely irrelevant.
> Not about the subjects they research. That is the purpose of research.

The purpose of research is to farm grant money and citations. Any actual learning that happens during the process is beside the point.
> Any artist with half a brain cell can get round that conundrum, just sell the collector an empty canvas and then sell them a bullshit story that it is art.

Evidently you have never tried to do this before.
3D printing and WiFi enabled LED lights.
I got to the bottom and thought: "Wow this looks like an interesting service. I would like to go to their home page and check it out"

Then I clicked on the logo.... nothing.

No link anywhere. Like I am meant to go up to the URL and edit it like an animal!
2 watts is a very, very high power laser and quite dangerous if you don't take proper (lab grade) precautions. Even reflections are potentially dangerous at these power levels.
I don't know, with the recent slowdown in cellular data speeds as the networks have gotten overloaded, there might not be much point in streaming HD video to your mobile device when you don't have wifi. For someone who's on the road a lot, I can definitely see value in an SD only plan.
I'm left wondering what the advantage of using haiku would be over fedora, ubuntu, mint, or debian?
The author of the article is "IBM".

I've never been to scientificcomputing.com computing before, but now now have a pretty solid view of their trustworthiness.
Ok. I really only know enough to be dangerous im 17. Looks like I have some changes to make though.
That's true, but if you've already rm'd a bunch of sensitive files, their data unfortunately can't be shredded. So you'll have to make sure you've always used shred for everything since the beginning, which is good practice but probably rare.