skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To recap, people think search of physical devices is stupid because we now have internet. And (other?) people are also thinking that connecting things to the internet is not a good idea because of NSA/backdoors/security problems. And by the way standard 'just push the button' encryption softwares might have been built in weaknesses.

It seems the only way now to keep secret data is :

- to be a top expert in security, be able to assess provenly secure software, have a whole chain of them and constantly keep track of what might have been compromised

- keep the data in a safe, never fly it, never come near a border, never connect to the internet

What would be the next step to make it worse now ?
I'm not sure that the technology exists to make the iBand in the way you describe in 2014. Bear in mind that they would have to already be pretty heavily into development if they're releasing it this year. Curved displays are only just being worked out, and getting all of those features (and a large enough battery) into a device small enough to not be another Galaxy Gear watch looks tricky.

Just to heap on a little more negativity, I really don't think the Democrats are a lock for the midterms. Gerrymandered districts alone will that difficult, let alone the general objections to Obama that will stick around. Many will continue to hate Obamacare irrespective of any actual results.
Thanks. That's an important link to know where it came from.
Site seems sluggish, here's a mirror — http://archive.is/On8jE
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I agree with the OP's point that it is mostly the easy questions which get many answers on Stack Exchange. But I don't see that as a negative. Those working in dense communities can get a lot more done because they have the option to quickly ask a knowledgeable neighbour's opinion. Assured of this support everyone gains by specializing more. The Stack Exchange sites bring the same benefits to more isolated workers.
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we are kind of the media.. and reddit is too.. I also believe that they made a fatal error by not selling everything for $3bn then jumping aboard. To not have anything to do with the "soon to come security issues". I mean they could have mentioned it and downplay it as they did just recently. I don't think that the new owner would take security more serious than them.

For us it was really really good that he rejected the offer! Because otherwise we would see the trade market crash $3bn, guess who would have to pay loss.. we..

well, if he saw that coming, which I doubt, he would be a hero.
Can you say "cheers" in Utah? You must be referring to non-alcoholic Red Punch, and not what "cheers" really implies! :)
Congrats Russell.
A quote from the ruling that bugs me: "[The detention of David Miranda] is enough to suggest that it would be foolish, if not irresponsible, for plaintiffs to store truly private or confidential information on electronic devices that are carried and used overseas"

(p23, https://www.nyed.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions/1...)

This is in the middle of a discussion of carrying lawyer-client privileged documents over the border; the judge says you should have no expectation of privacy because other countries may conduct invasive searches too. As advice, it's hard to disagree, that's where we are now; but surely two wrongs don't make a right?

It would be obviously wrong for police to confiscate your money because you were walking towards a rough part of town where you might be robbed. Yet that is the kind of logic the judge applies here; he relaxes the responsibilities of the US govt by invoking hypothetical actions by others. The example he cites was not even a normal border shakedown, but a specific action that was signed off by a government minister; do unusual acts like this change expectations of privacy in the normal course of events?
Without the link from his own site we can't tell who even claims to have done the typing. Someone who isn't PG may have all sorts of reasons to fake it. Gentle suggestion - if you think the answer to someone's comment is obvious then it's a good sign there's a miscommunication and you should consider other interpretations.
indeed. rmc is right.
Yes, MOOCs solve an educational infrastructural problem at best: getting "education" to more people. The problem, however, is that education is a societal problem/solution that has almost nothing to do with providing the best learning experience for some particular individual. The idea that one educational sequence is effective for thousands or even millions of people to best learn a topic sounds absurd to me. That does not mean that MOOCs cannot be great resources to support the learning of a topic, but the same goes for resources like text books, wikipedia, educational software, and so on.
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ehrm in sweden, yes.. those people are so mad that they allow a reverse search!!! I made payment gateways for companies there and was surprised by that.

What's really sad is that, if all those phone numbers were already public, I guess nobody would have cared to create something like SnapChat in the first place..
> C89 programs could use K&R libraries

That's probably the key. If I could use Py2 libraries as-is in Py3, moving to Py3 would be a minor issue.
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I thought you had to have a paid account to put up commercial videos like this on Vimeo ?
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What impacts industry 10 years later is more a measure of marketing and brand association than academic excellence.

Google could fart now and the internet will still cry roses.

The same research/algorithms/software produced by an independent individual or lab would simply die in obscurity.
"I'm just saying, what works on planet Gelgamek isn't necessarily goin' ta work for the rest of us here, on Earth."
I'm still waiting for XEP-0301 to become ubiquitous (which transmits key delays with text, and would be closer to what the GP thought he saw) - I really miss this feature in chat systems.

http://www.xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0301.html

And the great demo:
http://www.realjabber.org/real_time_text_demo.html
But you're limited by the mach speed of the fluid pushing the object, not the mach speed of the fluid you're traveling through. A bullet out of a rifle is limited by the mach speed of the hot gases created during combustion. A compressed-air gun, however, is limited to the speed of sound in compressed air.
> He is a lawyer, and did not even get a science-related degree when he took his bachelor's (BA = Bachelor of Arts)

You cannot infer that a BA is not a science-related degree. Here is how Bachelor's degrees work in the US.

In the US, there is no inherent difference between BA and BS in math and science. What degree a given set of coursework earns is entirely up to the school. All of the following exist in the wild:

• BS is the only choice. (Caltech, for example. In fact, Caltech only offers BS for everything. Even English majors--and yes, there is an occasional English major at Caltech--end up with a BS).

• BA is the only choice. UC Berkeley is an example in this category for math and physics.

• Both are offered, with identical coursework and requirements. You can have whichever you want. Some will even for a small fee give you two diplomas, so you can use whichever seems appropriate for the situation.

• Both are offered, from the same department, with different in-major coursework and aims. One may be aimed toward students aiming to go into research, and one toward those aiming to go into teaching, for instance.

• Both are offered, from different departments. For example, UC Berkeley's College of Letters and Sciences offers a BA in chemistry, and the College of Chemistry offers a BS in chemistry. Computer science can be taken at Berkeley in the College of Letters and Science for a BA, or in the College of Engineering for a BS.

• Both are offered, with the same in-major coursework, but differ in out-of-major requirements. So, the BA and BS would require the exact same science and math courses, but the BA has specific breadth requirements to produce a well rounded education, whereas the BS lets you take pretty much what you want as long as you satisfy the math and science requirements and any general requirements of your school.

In the particular case of Stanford, most Bachelor's degrees in science are BS, but they have a Human Biology program that issues BA, not BS [1], so unless you checked his specific degree, your inference is unfounded.

[1] http://exploredegrees.stanford.edu/schoolofhumanitiesandscie...
It means the fake "checkpoints" that already exist in certain states like Texas that are a hundred miles inland, are completely legitimized.

There was a guy who was almost beaten to death at one of them for refusing to comply, there is a youtube video somewhere of it.

News like this is buried just like all the gun deaths every week in Chicago, it never makes national news for some reason I don't quite understand.
Quite, and Ben Jonson writes

'I remember the players
have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted; and to justify mine own candour, for I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as
much as any.'

(http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/5134/pg5134.txt)
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This is a fair argument. You would use a bitcoin service like bitrated.com in this case that also carries some cost.
I just want to make something clear:
In the EU, during the first 6 months, the seller/manufacturer has to prove that you did something wrong when there is a problem with the device. After the first 6 months the roles are reversed and YOU have the burden of prove. In most cases you cannot prove that it is the fault of the manufacturer. There are some cases however where it is clear that it is the manufacturer's fault: In the case of a serial fault.

So your protection is really only 6 months long.
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The incentive to 'mine' in this scheme is the possibility of winning the ability to send a sponsored message to all users.
These sponsored messages could easily be filtered by users, making them worthless.
Even if users collectively agree not to filter the sponsored messages, the average cost of winning the proof-of-work race must be less than the average value of the sponsored messages, which is unlikely.
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Separating byte strings from Unicode strings is as close to solving the Unicode problem without thinking about it as you'll get.
Google Now will grow to be scary!
Imagine an open-air like room on the terrace with such windows! Ah the bliss..!
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It's true that there is a rural/urban breakover point; I'd contend that is at far greater densities than most people think, especially if we made use of the entire spectrum rather than the drips and drabs meted out so far by the FCC. The portion of the population getting shafted right now, all the "rural" (and most suburban, and urban in Texas-style "sprawling" cities) folks, is definitely a majority. "Laws of physics" arguments aren't convincing at this point, since engineers have had their hands tied by FCC regs. Let a big market for this type of radio tech exist for a decade, and then we'll see what can be done.
This graph makes no sense. You can't compare these two time series on a single linear graph- notice the magnitude of the debt in is hundreds of billions. However, converting money into 2012 using exponential scaling, so magnitude variations between the two graphs aren't comparable.

Further, debt amount is a summed magnitude (extrinsic value) while the median wage is an aggregate denominated value (instrinsic) so again, comparisons are misleading. The debt should be listed per individual, or perhaps the functional relationship between individual wage and debt should be charted.﻿
I know but that is kinda my point...

There are countless things way less important that are raised and people's time is wasted on less important issues, like people fighting as to who in the "close police" is going to close first, say, anything looking remotely like a duplicate.

While all that energy could be used instead to detect things like voting rings where people already have hundreds of rep and are polluting both SO and Google with fake questions, fake answers, fake edits, etc.

If nothing is done and if voting rings flags get queued at position 1000 in the queue, then it's just a matter of time before voting rings reach 10 K rep and are able to create a real mess.
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The end of 30 goals for 2013
14 Goals for 2014
I used to hate Mac desktops, but the Magic TrackPad is a killer IMHO (both hardware and software).
Your English is exceptional, but I just wanted to point out (and I'm only being this picky because your English is so good) that the word you wanted was systematic, not systemic. Similar sounding but quite different meanings!
Your evaluation certainly have merits and a lot of it we confirmed when speaking to clients later. Just one thing to make clear: I have 5+ years of team management/leadership development and I used a similar tool I created and evolved (in paper form) to improve a loooot of teams. So the tool works - BUT you are correct, it is a pain to apply and you probably need consultancy to get out of the team management hole if you are not a skilled manager.
> I suspect the way it works is that the legislators tell their staffs what they want the bills to do

Many bills today (perhaps most) are not written by legislators and their staff, but rather by lobbyists. That might have been the case since forever (if the movie "The Aviator" is not too dramatized, this has been true in the 1930's as well)
Well, that's the default state in which Macs are shipped :) So I'm surprised that I'm unique to begin with.
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Οι Στόχοι της Ιστοσελίδας σας για το 2014
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The full title of the article is 'It reminded me of Guantanamo Bay. It was like torture': Inside America’s deadliest fraternity
I always think of it as Their Incredible Journey, after the website: http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ (previously on HN I think)
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So cool! You are describing me! :-)

I think there are only two things.

1.) You shouldn't feel bad about it, and now you are realizing that it's an overall upwards spiral after all, you probably don't feel so bad about it! :-)

2.) You forget to include a lot of other things. What about sporting activities, or social activities. There was another HN post on "investing time", that explains that concept. I can tell you my spiral is way bigger. And especially Wikipedia I see as a big corner stone of learning things. It's one of the fastest ways to get a feeling for what the Bellman equation is, or convex optimization, or the different notions of consciousness, or the axiom of choice in set theory, or a morphism in category theory, Feynman diagrams, or a renormalization group, just to list a few things I've checked in 2013. I bet you could follow my intellectual spiral by the specificity of topic terms I check on Wikipedia. :-)

The world is a wonderful place, there is so much to discover! You will never be done. It's great to not just accept that, but to appreciate it!
Or remove the SIM card before crossing the border. And maybe if you're rooted, make a nandroid backup and then install a completely stock, uncustomized Cyanogenmod that isn't connected to your accounts and doesn't have any wireless settings installed. Just install Angry Birds and tell them that's what you use it for.
A simple recipe for reaching your dreams in 2014
This is total misinformation: http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/02/does-a-constituti....
People tend to overestimate what can happen in a year, but underestimate what can happen in a decade....

That said -

* Current economic recoveries are too top-heavy and debt-focused; businesses and investors are taking for themselves without giving back enough to the workers to provide customers and make recovery sustainable. Real terms wages aren't recovering, household debt is rising. I don't see a track record of that sort of thing correcting naturally, so I'd suggest it'll be a brake on recovery through 2014 and possibly push one or more major economies back into recession.

* Apple's iOS market - the cash cow supporting the whole business - continues to decline. iOS lost market share leadership on phones (aside - one of these days we'll start calling them tablets too, accident of history that they're called phones now) some years ago, and by some measures has recently lost it on tablets too. I see no practical way back for a single company releasing 2-3 devices a year against an ecosystem releasing hundreds. Stocks will continue to decline, I doubt they'll be more than a niche player in 5 years time. (Links - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4431730, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3076576)

* Mark Zuckerberg has a track record for spotting the Next Big Thing, if possibly also for overpaying for it. Facebook.com will continue its move towards being a social hub for varied sources rather than just a single entity, while stories continue dismissing its relevance. Facebook, Inc. will continue growing through this expanding footprint, whatever the core property's traffic does.

* I hope I'm wrong, but China seems to have been spoiling for a fight in various ways for some time. From its currency manipulation used to build up a balance of payment surplus which is then used to buy up real assets overseas, to its territorial stances - Taiwan, South China Sea, Senkaku / Diaoyu.... I suspect much of this is pre-emptive distraction from the fact that it needs to keep the economy growing at 7% annually to sustain their young population (and suggestions that they've been cooking the books to cover failures in this), but.... Too big a power, too much sabre rattling, too much nationalism being invoked. North Korea is clearly far from stable, Japan has a leader who wishes to paper over much of the 1931-1945 period. My hope is for China to collapse in on itself as with the former USSR; I'm not confident that we won't see war in that region in the next few years.

* Speaking of authoritarian regimes trying to use mineral wealth to paper over internal cracks and rattle sabres, Russia seems a matter of concern. Sochi 2014 is a pure vanity project; hosting a Winter Sports festival in a summer resort that's very near a region with a recent history of violent political instability (witness the recent bombings in Volgograd), building facilities in somewhat geologically unstable areas that then collapse and require rebuilding, large-scale corruption... I would be very surprised if the Sochi games go without interruption and I sincerely hope that they can prove the start of Russia freeing itself from Putin.
I feel good i didn't get into the Snapchat train before.
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has some coined the term for this trend yet?. where a site is hacked, and it's followed by a trend, to create websites to check if you are one of the sheep got slayed in a hacking attack.

what about SheepCheck? it does not sound right, then again, which other internet slang term does? ;)
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What did the world search for in 2013?
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MyBatis (formerly iBatis) might be a good option. It's been years since I used it but it's a lightweight alternative to Hibernate: http://blog.mybatis.org/
Significant Software Development Developments of 2013
I take your point but my switching to a Nexus was all about form factor and convenience than any specific issue with Windows. Now I am going to try out a Chromebook - pretty confident that it can support my day to day (non coding) requirements.

The security issues do have to be addressed and we do need to get the spies out of our lives but as far as I can see all the available platforms are currently corrupted by those agencies at the moment.
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I've had an idea floating around my head:

The site implements an api which describes what data it needs to perform the check, and the standard would be to accept hashes of the data.

There are then sites that provide a UI over the api. The user can point it to the api URL (they can also allow it to be specified in the URL so it can be linked to), it performs the hashing client side and makes requests to the API.

The worst the people providing the api can get is hashes, and people can check the source for the UI to verify it isn't siphoning off data.

Because the UI is decoupled from the data leak, there is less code to check.
I think the parent is objecting to where US courts have decided that their jurisdiction ends.

Which always makes me think of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXfWfJz59pk&t=1m33s
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That would be a quite interesting scenario. I have a certain amount of home-made kinky porn on my hard drive. I would love to see the border agents try to not get uncomfortable as they look on pictures of me and my sex partners in very compromising positions. It's obviously very disturbing that I would have to put up with that when entering the USA, but I'm quite sure that the "female agent" would be more freaked out than I would.

Still, this is a bad policy which you guys should try to get repealed. If they do this regularly, they must obviously stumble across home-made porn all the time. None of my sex partners have ever consented to have their naked bodies examined by some high-school dropout border guard somewhere.
chirp is a clever hack too and fun...
It's hosted with WordPress.com. Changing it involves configuration, not code.
I suspect that at places like Microsoft, and Google this is not all that uncommon.

I once interviewed at an insurance company and remember thinking that I would have outsourced the job I was interviewing for. I think though that instead of surfing the web, I would have lined up 2 jobs where I could work remotely and done those as well. That way I would look busy, and be able to earn even more money.
Verizon finds US developer outsourced his job to China so he could surf Reddit
>Because basically Walt/Kara seem to have borrowed Newscorp backing until they didn't need it anymore, after which they announce a new URL and continue on their own.

And how is that illegal a priori -- or who said they had signed a "non compete"?
Because most stock parts are slightly incompatible with OS X in very annoying ways.
I'm confused how this is valid, since he seems to be using the OpenSSL code without the patch[1] that actually makes Dual EC work and his patch doesn't (to my C-ignorant eyes) include the fix either. Does it fix it in another way?

[1] http://marc.info/?l=openssl-announce&m=138747119822324&w=2&x...

[2] Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6949652
Why snapchat?
How come this high volume post isn't penalized off the front page yet? :)