skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, it's coffee with milk in it.

I am a coffee-snob. In some ways this is a curse - I hate nearly all the coffee available to me locally. Latte art or no, there are particular tastes I can't stand anymore, where when I first started drinking coffee I wouldn't have cared if the coffee was Nescafe or single-origin.
Agree. someone who would have 100 years of experience in any matter would be invaluable. theres a lot to gain rather than to lose.
There's at least some truth to that, but that's the point that I was trying to get to. GP claims that "Computer science solved this problem decades ago" in reference to capability-based security. Android is the only OS that I'm aware of implementing anything like that on a mass scale, and while security there has proven to be at least decent, I'd hardly call it a solved problem.

Capability-based security is ultimately just another buzzword, no more of a perfect solution than any of the others. I don't think you can call any type of security problem solved by your pet technology until it is deployed at scale in the real world and proven to work. Until you have had tens of millions of users and hundreds of thousands of developers bashing away at it for years, you just don't know if you've really solved the problem.

Android's capability-based security is good, but IMHO the more important security innovation is secure app-specific data stores. You might request more permissions than you should, and some clueless users might install it anyways, but you still can't ever get access to the data or credentials stored by the banking app, the social media app, etc.
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I will acknowledge that the article about him on Wikipedia has a talk page

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Aubrey_de_Grey

like few other biography of living person (BLP) articles I have seen in years of editing Wikipedia. Wow.
I believe what you are discussing about is very similar to CCLoop

- http://techcrunch.com/2011/05/24/can-ccloop-rid-us-of-our-co...

- http://www.quora.com/ccLoop/Why-did-ccLoop-pivot

If I am correct, the challenge of CCLoop or mailing lists is that it only works if everyone is part of it.

The hashtag concept works starting off as "Evernote for your Emails" - helping you organize first. With the inclusion of other teammates picking it up, then the added effect is that it becomes a "Sharepoint for Emails".
> 1. How might they ever know to avoid a massive radiation plume they weren't expecting? Particularly if the plume is very large and expanding faster than they can move the ship?

The crucial assumption here is that the crew supposedly wasn't expecting a radioactive fallout plume. From personal experience I can vouch that the crew is trained to deal with radioactive fallout. Given the Fukushima circumstances, I truly cannot imagine that the ship wasn't on alert for a radioactive plume, and would have either navigated around it or taken appropriate precautions such as setting Material Condition Zebra (closing hatches, buttoning down the ventilation system, and so on); activating the water-wash-down system; etc.

2. How much of the crew would be informed of such a situation?

The down-in-the-weeds details likely would have disseminated to the people who would deal with specific issues.

As to the big picture, I'm confident the CO would have told the entire crew the basics of what was going on -- not least so that they would be able to spot apparent anomalies and report them up the chain of command. Sailors at sea are keenly aware that they're "all in the same boat."

Would there be a risk of panic or mutiny, if all of the crew were permitted to fully understand such circumstances?

No.

(OK, I've been out for a long time, and I didn't know every single person in the Navy even then, so I can't say for certain, but ... no.)

3. Given that this is a military vessel, if they are ordered into harm's way (or perhaps ordered to assist since they've already unwittingly suffered irreparable harm), would they say no?

That's a very imaginative hypothetical question, with no indication that it bears any relationship to the facts. The U.S. Navy has a tradition of doing the needful (as our British friends sometimes say). See, e.g., the self-sacrificing heroism of the USS Johnston, USS Hoel, USS Samuel B. Roberts, and USS Heerman at the Battle off Samar on Oct. 25, 1944 [1].

Would careers be protected and defended if orders were obeyed?

Yes.

4. Would it be possible to fake 70 cases of thyroid polyps, leukemia, testicular cancer and uterine bleeding so bad it requires transfusions?

Probably not -- but that assumes facts not in evidence, namely that there actually were 70 such cases attributable to radiation. One thing I learned in years of doing litigation was not to believe everything you hear or read. For all I know, among a crew of around 5,000, the 70 cases mentioned might conceivably be within the bounds of statistical probability.

...and as an aside, given that we're introducing the idea that everything might be a hoax, one more question: Given what we've learned about the NSA and Facebook over the past year, how probable is it that a Navy-nuke Facebook group might be astroturfed into an echo chamber aligned with a particular agenda?

I doubt it -- U.S. Navy sailors are loyal but independent-minded, with very-sensitive and finely-calibrated bullshit detectors, coupled with a willingness to call bullshit when they encounter it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Leyte_Gulf#The_battle
Apparently it depends on which dictionary/thesaurus you check, but "common" seems to be a reasonably well accepted synonym of "prevalent".
I made a screencast showing a practical example of how to use strace to debug PHP/Apache issues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF-p--AH37E
Non-looping tracks would probably be easier because you could generate the track as you go. Roll a dice and see if the next piece of track will go left right or straight. You don't have to worry about ending up at a predefined point.
With sufficient level of access, it should be possible to erase trails and to create false ones.
I'd read it was bout 600 years with current safety standards, and car accident was right above die in the shower.
"The problem is there is no food media. An actual dish can't be recorded, transmitted, and reproduced,..."

Sure there is. There are likely plenty of copies of various dishes in the freezer section of your local grocery mart. Some are, objectively, pretty good; others are likely just much better than you could do yourself.
so, in other words, the world's largest 4G expansion opportunity?
Wow, why didn't they bother specifying? It's as simple as:

<meta charset=utf-8>
The game is already over, RSA just doesn't know it yet.
see my edit above, I did more than just skim, I did a pretty thorough initial reading as you can see from my comments here
I stopped reading the article after he admitted that part. What a waste of a setup to ruin the experiment with a completely pointless test.
Long answer: In the future, Mobile / Tablet would be more prominent in our professional setting. The requirement of a device centric experience becomes a must have.

Short answer: It would double up as a web version. Just didn't show it in the demo.
I would love to see your website and how the information you provide for this particular resort compares to what Trip Advisor offers. Any chance to share the url?
Prevalence does not imply majority.
I don't know what today's Navy ships have by way of always-on ambient radiation detectors, and to be honest I don't remember exactly what we had in my day; I'm sure I learned it while qualifying, but my day-to-day duties were in other areas.

I can say that even in my day we were constantly monitoring ambient conditions -- and one of the things we constantly drummed into each other was to look for trends, not just instantaneous readings (life isn't a snapshot, it's a movie).
I believe spiking the fuel rate is not permitted - the 100 kg/h flow restriction is well above the overall consumption limit (100 kg of fuel for a 1.5-2 hr race).
This is true, of course. The dominant power never legislates against its own self interest. And so many of the darkest parts of human history were done legally. The real issue here goes deeper than the law.

The thing is, not many people believe a word the government says any-more. This is the government that doesn't "collect" any information on their citizens, doesn't "torture" anyone and so on. The government can make any promises it wants, with no intention of fulfilling them, then claim that the meanings of the words are not what you think they are, but the real meanings are secret, and why they're secret, is secret, and no one can ever know the true meaning lest we all be killed by terrorists.

And isn't it funny that the government can't seem to bring itself to find this pen-register information development fee, but there seems to be an infinite line of deficit spending for all kinds of corporate subsidies, bank bailouts, spying equipment and wedding killing drones.

The lawyers may argue and the courts may rule, but at the end of the day the core of this apple is rotten. And there's worms in it. Take a bite. It tastes like "freedom".
Why NodeJS? I'm not being pedantic, just really interested as to why choose something new over proven options.
I remember being so excited by E17 back when development was first started on the EFL. Prior to all the Xgl/AIGLX jazz, it seemed like Enlightenment may have had a bright future ahead of it, where it would outshine all the current offerings in terms of eye candy and customization.

As much as I respect the project in general, to me it always seemed like the developers ended up down a rabbit hole where they lost touch with what should have been their ultimate goal; build an awesome desktop environment.

It seemed like the platform libraries were in a constant state of rewrites, with each backend library being reworked and renamed every few months. This surely would confuse outside developers looking to build something based on EFL, unless they kept up with mailing lists and VCS commits. Imagine replacing Clutter or GTK every six months under a new name.

Every time I checked in on their progress, or tested a new development release, not much had changed with the desktop shell itself.

Outside of Samsung reportedly using parts of the EFL in some embedded and/or mobile devices, it seems like Enlightenment in general just missed the boat.
I'm confused by your statement. They're not entitled to the contents of the communications b/c Congress hasn't/may no be able to authorize it.
The dead comment below seems unusually relevant.
A chinese safety company named 360(http://360.cn)pay $1000000 cash to evasi0n team buying cydia replace to taiji in china.
If you are trying to convince me of anything then you are assuming that I have the free will to change my mind.
Plus the blackmail opportunities spying affords.
Related question: In China, how annoying is it to switch numbers?

In America, nearly everything I have is linked to my email address, not phone number. I recently had to change phone numbers and it was a quick task -- just emailed all my friends & family I had a new number and that was that.
(changing emails, on the other-hand, would be extremely time-consuming)

Are things not so email-linked in China? (I've noticed that a lot of services there, (even free wifi!!) are connected to mobile numbers, not email address).
Interesting. I did not know of him. I was always certain that Lonsdale did not come up with it totally on his own, but I do think that Palantir is a company that has done this very well.

Thanks for pointing this out. Very interesting!
It probably did at one point. Oxford has "predominant" (which would imply majority) as an archaic meaning: http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_eng...
> Do they think the lawyers are just making that part up? Do they have some alternate explanation for the illnesses, something that doesn't involve all that radiation?

See the Telephone Game, a.k.a. Chinese Whispers. [1]

It's amazing how stories get distorted in the retelling. I collected lots of examples on my blog. [2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers

[2] http://www.questioningchristian.com/distortions/
Not only is your statement sillier but it misunderstands the point he was trying to make.

When you go up against the govt, you're going up against govt players as arbitrator, as opponents, in the govt's house, with rules the govt controls more easily than a citizen. Not even close to a "like any other organized group" comparison.
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Happens to the best of us!

And I see you've fixed it already - fast work, thanks! :-)
> I would have thought the carrier would be equipped with dosimeters for the crew? Would it have been standard operating procedure for them to don the dosimeters given the understanding of the events unfolding in the area?

I can't say for sure how things are now, but back in the day the answers would have been Yes and Yes.
>Do whatever you can to reduce your overheads. A few years of sacrificing to cut your overheads can be hugely beneficial to your overall happiness. I know this is easier said than done but, if you have any debts, get rid of them as soon as you are able to.

I read this in the context of his children being his overheads, and I chuckled.
Oh boy, Yet Another "Secure" Web-Based Encrypted Communication Application(TM)!

Initial thoughts after a quick look:

I see mention of code/libraries that are being used, but no link to the source code.

I don't normally bother pointing them out (such as here in the comments), but the numerous spelling and grammatical errors don't exactly instill confidence.

Liam -- what are your (or your "co-programmers") qualifications? Why should the "community" trust/have faith in your cryptographic and/or programming skills?

Ironically enough, "the hammer that breaks PRISM" apparently doesn't even use SSL/TLS (click link above to the web site then click on "App").

> Privacy - because it matters

> Anonymity - because you are worth it

> Security - because you need it

I fail to see where TribalContact provides any of these.

sigh
Ah, so instead of asking the user for permission to access something, an app also would need another app's permission to access that data. Of course, this has already been pioneered by companies implementing DRM, but still, I wonder how this can be implemented in a general sense.
1440×900 (logical) on a 15″ screen, so quite low.
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There aren't enough professionals. Also, fear of civil suits from the potentially suicidal is rarely a particularly noble reason to refuse to talk to them.
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I often feel the same way. The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know. It's like one of those dreams where you are running as hard as you can but every time you look up you're farther from where you want to be. It's depressing.
For anyone interested, the deaded comment below isn't a random attempt to prove that mentally ill people abound on the internet: he's a regular who posts similar things all the time. It's a pity, because in his moments of lucidity he seems pretty smart.
Well, the NSA has a track record of making public encryption algorithms stronger. They proposed changes to DES which puzzled researchers at the time, but years later were shown to significantly harden the algorithm against some attacks.
Start into the habit of creating things instead of programming.
I despise programming, yet I love creating things.
I've created a ton of open source tools and libraries that wil l be used for programming (Creating) really cool software and games.

I despise programming, but I love creating things and which is why I see myself not as a programmer, but as a product developer...

Now to find a job that pays for design + code + product development....
You should make an iOS or Android app that does something quirky :-)

It'll be also a good way to learn a new language or framework if you don't know Java, Objective C, or Cocoa.
You make it sound so easy.
For what it's worth, I found out that you can inform BofA about your travel plans via online banking. A lot faster than calling the fraud prevention line.
They finally have Fuel Injection.
>Sure there is. There are likely plenty of copies of various dishes in the freezer section of your local grocery mart. Some are, objectively, pretty good; others are likely just much better than you could do yourself.

Huh. See? I am a /terrible/ cook. Like one out of three times I try to cook something it is objectively inedible.

However... frozen foods? seriously?

Please link me to some that are "pretty good" - I mean, I want to believe you, but I have tried many, and so far have been quite disappointed, both by the cheap and the expensive.

Edit:
When I say "frozen foods" I mean TV-dinner style fully-cooked food. I practically live off of frozen chicken... the uncooked kind that you throw in the oven.
As someone who knows little about encryption or who this gwern guy is, this was still a fascinating read.

It's like hearing a joke or seeing a 'funny' picture that someone finds absolutely hilarious but just doesn't affect you in any way. (In that, someone could have such a different state of mind that it seems almost incomprehensible)
In order to pack coffee into air-tight pods like Nespresso does, the coffee must first completely degas and become stale. What fine restaurant would serve a stale dish? Regardless of consistency, taste, automation, etc?
Nobility or honor has little to do with it. I am not convinced the fear of a lawsuit is grounded, but either way that is a pragmatic concern, not some argument about what is honorable.

I would caution people against it if only because it will very often be a waste of time and quite possibly a source of unnecessary stress.
> DRBD

You mean DRBG [1], right? I hope DRBD [2] isn't backdoored.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Replicated_Block_De...
For more info on losethos, take a look at http://www.templeos.org/ - this is an OS he apparently wrote without assistance.
Ah, you're right. I read too fast.
Step 1: find the correct source code.

Reading code has its place and tracing code has its place. I have difficulty understanding nontrivial codebases without some amount of tracing. In this case you chose to present the source for a FreeBSD/OS X version of killall when OP is running Linux.
They don't need any engineering/UX, they just need to stop locking down all the settings. Android and every dumbphone I ever owned had no problems with this.
>Look Philos, I said to him, she got up on stage and did a little dance and that's really all there was to it.
The moral of this story is, serious philosophical issues have absolutely no bearing on real life.

You'd be surprised. A lot of pulp philosophy is indeed crap.

But most peoples lives, and the systems we structure our everyday and working lives on, are analysed, to a T, from various angles, and found lacking and wanting.

And when you find you are being crashed by those systems (as people eventually do), or that they don't work properly, there's a philosophical explanation of their workings written 100 or 2000 years ago that's perfectly logical.

To put it in another way, reading into (good) philosophy, is like reading the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers among Java people struggling with Java EE in early 2000, and understanding things from 10 levels higher and also that there are far better ways to go about it.

Oh, and no, good philosophy is not just about technicalities of reality and understanding, like Hume or Kant or Quine etc -- the only kind some geeks will accept. Regular moral, political, ontological, existencial etc philosophy, with seemingly "imprecise" language, is just as isnightful in other ways, if you spend the time to understand it.
I have seen occasional highly voted posts with write ups on effects of various drugs. They are generally pretty interesting.
Seems like a cool guy to have a conversation with/have a beer with, I would read through his site a bit more, you might like it.
For instance, I have a C5 Corvette with a 5.7L V8 engine. It gets 29-30MPG on the freeway, and I usually get combined rating for about 27MPG. My friend had an M3 with a much smaller engine but same HP. It was getting maybe 16MPG combined, on a good day. Large engine does not necessarily equal good efficiency.

Not to be rude, but this is only happening if your friend drives in a very different style to you.

I have an e90 BMW 3 Series (not an M3), and I get much better economy than those numbers - even in the city with stop/start driving.

The way to drive makes a huge difference. For example, the official economy figures for the Corvette[1] and the M3[2] are roughly the same.

[1] http://www.auto-data.net/en/?f=showCar&car_id=14520

[2] http://www.auto-data.net/en/?f=showCar&car_id=9865
Not sure if you'll see this now. Having looked over TeleHash 2, I have quite a few concerns about the complexity of the protocol. It's hard to tell what is being accomplished at each step and why. The way things are composed and layered definitely needs explanation. For instance, signatures are encrypted, and there's a mix of RSA and EC, why?
I had a six figure salary as a programmer before I decided to give carpentry a try. I love woodworking so I figured this would be a good vocation to take up. I enrolled in carpentry classes with my local community college. I did this for 6 months and stopped for two reason:

- Hard labour is hard labour. We (programmers) get paid a lot of money to sit on our ass. It may be mentally grueling but it doesn't hurt your back.

- I decided that $60,000 a year, which is good salary for a carpenter isn't a six figure salary.

So I had the option to go back as a programmer and make others money, or take a gamble and try to make myself a lot of money. I choose the latter and here, we are today.

What I've learned from my personal experience is we (programmers) have it kind of good. We get paid a lot to sit on our ass. If you think you are burning out, then take some time doing something else and I'm sure you'll find going back to programming won't be bad.

As long as you don't take programming seriously, then I really don't think you'll burn out. I like to believe I'm an above average programmer, and my salary has always reflected this, but if somebody said you couldn't program anymore, I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. I'm good at programming, but I'm not passionate about.

I would personally advise you to stick with programming but learn to disconnect from it. There are not a lot professions out there that pays as well as programming for the physical effort required.
In which specific area?
It's supported by all blackhat tools used for posting.
Or perhaps his comment is exactly the same, which is an even more insidious implication.
Sounds like a browser setting. Chrome browser remembers my name and password on Ebay and I never have to retype my name or email. In fact it's a little too easy; I'm wondering if I should tell it not to do that; my 9-year-old can just wander in and order all kinds of stuff!