skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would we choose not to believe in Race? Isn't that promoting ignorance?

Not believing in things that aren't real isn't promoting ignorance.

> Where the author suggests race is 'learned' and that people are 'put into boxes', ignores that fact that chilren, having never seen people of other races, recognize the differences instantly, and ask questions as to why one person looks different than the next.

They ask that about visual differences between people who are ascribed the same "race" by the society, too. The division of certain differences as defining "races" and others as not racial is arbitrary.

> Rather than ignoring Races, we need to learn to celebrate race and diversity.

Celebrating diversity of cultural heritage does not requiring believing that races are real.
That looks pretty close (although I can't tell if the camera is at a height of 3 feet), but it was uploaded in 2011. This patent has a priority date of 27 Aug 2010, so to invalidate this patent, any videos like this from before that date would be needed.
I stand corrected! Fair point. While I wish the original author had not sidestepped the data integrity issue, I can see why he'd want to address the index issue independently.
I could see this for a small team _in the right circumstances_ but for a whole company? That seems difficult if you are larger than 20. Imagine the headache trying to get a tool approved for even a 100 person office. And who would approve it, the manager? I see the logic that says everyone should use the best, the problem is now you take the power from the individual who best knows his job and give it to some central person who might not understand people's needs as well.
'grellas comments are (justifiably) routinely stapled to the top of the threads on which they appear.
Not even Norton can protect you from those tools. I think you need to re-evaluate what you think you know about hacking.
That feature was released on iOS a week (or so?) ago already. I haven't had a chance to play with it myself, though, so I'm not sure how it works.
Asknative
- SnapChat.
You know what makes it a lot easier to learn how to make a million dollars?

Already having a million dollars.

Not having to keep a steady job or worry about housing or food for a while amounts to a lot of study time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqk4ItPjU5g&t=6h30m30s
Bit of a nitpick before I've even read the article: Qantas is an acronym and doesn't actually have a U after the Q.
Uh, but this end-to-end encrypted stuff is exactly what happens: We use https to upload stuff to our amazon servers, and crunch the data, and bring it back to us using https.

Should there not be 4th amendment protection in that case? And if so, and if the NSA accessed such data, how could their access possibly have been legal? The Patriot Act is not allowed to contradict the Constitution, and if it does, the Constitution takes precedence.
Were using the Xv6 kernel for the OS class here at the university of Utah, for the first time. In my opinion an OS class that makes you hack on low level code is significantly more beneficial tha just a theroy class.
Would you mind to add http://NoteHub.org to your list (free & OSS hosting for MD pages)?
Link to github.io page for the lazy: http://anvaka.github.io/atree/
I don't know about code "quality", which is a rather nebulous notion that no one seems able to accurately define, but in terms of functionality there may be a tendency to underestimate what well-financed teams in industry can accomplish.

Consider 4 examples.

1) The first is the only one of which I have personal knowledge. I used to work for a large corporation which developed address reading software for the US Postal Service. The project had generated about $1B for the company at the time I was there and comparable costs savings for the customer. I don't believe OCR software that is widely commercially available approaches the performance of that system.

2) IBM Watson. Here we have an example of a well educated, well financed corporate team producing a software system capable of beating the best human players at Jeopardy. I think prior to this demonstration few would have believed such a thing possible.

3) Google Self Driving Car. Again look at how much progress on an extremely difficult problem has been made by a company team in a short amount of time.

4) Recent NSA revelations: The technical capabilities revealed by Edward Snowden exceed even the somewhat mythical beliefs about the NSA's capabilities that were prevalent in the tech community prior to these revelations.
Another Ex-Clinkle Employee Trashes Nightmare Boss
xv6 is a pleasure to hack on and learn from! It's got everything you'd expect from a unix-like OS (multi-processor support, simple scheduler, unix-like FS, many of the standard syscalls, fork/exec based shell, etc).

Linux and *BSD may be the modern standard for unix-like OSes, but they're often too complex and opaque for beginners to learn from. It's super easy to read and toy with xv6's code if you want to learn more about OS internals, though. For example, I was able to implement a simple log structured file system: https://github.com/Jonanin/xv6-lfs

Note: if you're looking for companion reading material, check out this OS book: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ (IMO it's super approachable and understandable for undergrad-level learning)
TL;DR: they hire an "agile consultant" to help them...
iOS in the plans?
Rails migrations do not support creating foreign keys in the database, but you can do it with this library: https://github.com/matthuhiggins/foreigner
I didn't watch any films in 2013.
I believe the grandparent's comment was a bit misleading if not wrong. (http://xkcd.com/386/ ..)

In most dialects of English (notably British English), the short form of the subject is "maths". In North American English, it is "math". In all dialects, the full form is "mathematics". In all dialects, both the short and full forms are singular and accept singular verbs. For example, "mathematics IS the study of numbers and patterns".

If you like to tailor to your audience, you may consider using "maths" for a British audience and "math" for an American audience.
It's trivially easy to be a hacker, but luckily it's also trivially easy to defeat would-be hackers by keeping your computer up-to-date...

Right.
Post could use a better title:

"Archive.org now lets you play pre-Nintendo video games from your browser"

... at least, I assume that's what's new here.
Because Netflix knows we're not genre watchers. Just because I enjoy "Game of Thrones" sure as hell doesn't mean I'll enjoy "Harry Potter" just b/c they're in the same "fantasy" genre.
Alternatively, historical codebases of various unices at http://www.tuhs.org/archive_sites.html
No, it would not be anything close.
This is flame between two man with HUGE egos, not a debate.
The basic scenario wasn't really outlandish. The general idea was featured in a bestselling novel about a decade prior, and an actual real-life terrorist hijacking (thwarted) that same year. And of course the concept of destroying valuable stuff by crashing airplanes into it on purpose dates back much farther.

Yes, despite all that it was unexpected. However, I have no sympathy for your "what ridiculous fantasy will be true in 10 years time?" argument. It's a complete non sequitur. There was a failure of imagination before in which terrorists were more capable than we thought, therefore we're doing the same thing now? I would argue that currently the exact opposite is happening. 9/11 seems to be the peak of their capabilities. Now, while we're imagining apocalyptic scenarios in which terrorists destroy entire cities, their actual capabilities seem to be limited to badly-constructed IEDs.

The point is that there was precedent for 9/11, even if people didn't realize it. There is no precedent for the sort of vastly worse attack you posit, nor is there any other reason to think that such a thing could be carried out in a way that makes it vastly worse than previous attacks. (The Aum Shinrikyo nerve gas attack does provide precedent for terrorist attacks involving chemical weapons, but it also demonstrates that such attacks aren't really all that severe. Again, they are worse because we react to them more strongly, and we react to them more strongly because they are worse.)

I'm not saying that all reaction would be stupid, only that it should be proportional. A normal human body does react to a bee sting, but it does so appropriately, by eliminating the poison and handling foreign substances. Likewise, a sane reaction to 9/11 involving tracking down those responsible and bringing them to justice would have been wise. What's stupid is not any reaction, but a massive overreaction, and then justifying the overreaction by pointing to the massive damage done, when that damage was mostly done by the overreaction.
Oh my God! The secret is out. We're no longer safe!
The government's monopoly on legal violence delegated to police and military (which are starting to blur together)

+

ubiquitous spying capabilities only bounded by technology limits, finding clearance-passable bodies to wade through mountain ranges of data, keeping the lies plausibly deniable in front of Congress and containing waste of a sprawling bureacracy

+

modern, horrible pattern of exceptionalism: disregarding any sense of morality, decency and/or due-process

+

USG executive branch's de-facto dominant power position

=

I'd agree at least until a single corporation has a market cap > 100% USG FY budget and/or the USG runs out of credit. Both seem essentially inevitable. (beware when private edifices and "defensive" capabilities rival the state's)
> it won't be another 10 years before they come down in price

I wager we'll see 4k tablets under $1k within 2 years, and TVs will have to follow suit (drop in price, increase in quality).
Negating my initial comment, this is a good read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_classification)
They're already sent cease and desist papers out, which is a pre-cursor to suing.
> Dr. Collier is a psychology professor at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, S.C.

I don't mean to sound elitist, but it's not like he's teaching math at Courant or CS at MIT. What does he expect from students with the "default" major at a school which accepts 91% of applicants [1]?

[1] http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/...
US judge rules NSA phone surveillance program is legal
US judge Richard Leon rules the National Security Agency’s controversial bulk phone data collection program doesn't violate the law.
Major Recording Labels Prepare to Sue Russia’s Facebook
???[0][1]

I really don't mean to be rude, but how are we not on the same page about this?

"at least that we know of"?

They're not storing [terabytes of metadata]. They're storing [terabytes of content and metadata]. They're being accused of domestic widespread spying (seizing), not domestic widespread profiling (only search).

Perhaps I'm completely just not following, but is there something I'm missing?

[0]: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-spying-fla...

[1]: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/29/greenwald-nsa-can...
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I am indeed a huge proponent of the alternative routes method. My criticisms of higher education could go on for a long time, and I'm not even going to try and list them all here. My experience has also been that professors who also do research are not nearly as good teachers as the ones who don't. The best teachers I had were in community college, despite probably not being as "qualified" or well-versed in the subjects as the ones publishing papers, a good number of them actually cared about the students and went out of their way to help you get through the class. Counterintuitively, it seems the more prestigious the school the more self-centered and hostile the professors.
New Mac Pro Confirmed to Have Removable CPU
I wonder if they're moderating for comments on their blog - or adding fake ones; I think those kinds of behaviour are in line with patenting and trying to control an environment.
Tough talk from someone who can't even be bothered to use PGP. There are lots of people doing real good out there, like Moxie Marlinspike with BitHub, the kickstarter audit of TrueCrypt, and work in the CAB forum and the W3C on SSL and browser security. Glenn is just a talking head at this point, someone who ferried a few hard drives from point A to point B. He shouldn't be respected as someone who knows squat about the subject matter.
There was a time when studying at university was about more than simply preparing young people for employment. It was about studying something in depth, at a high level.

This. When I was in high school, and college, I assumed this was the reason they taught math as heavily as they did. Kids would whine "but I won't ever need to know calculus" (or, worse, algebra) ... but I figured being able to learn something that deeply, consistently, from many different professors over many years is proof (to future employers, for example) that you can learn something you will need.
As new film meccas flourish, artists become nomads
Well, we can and have made the idea of a computable number precise: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number

It's not clear whether the universe is computable, however, in the sense that we only find computable numbers in nature. This is kind of an epistemological catch-22, though. How would we know whether this were the case or not?
The Long Slow SaaS Ramp of Death
Captain philips
Security is More than Just Good Crypto
I feel like it would be easy to make money with workout videos if you can get Netflix to stream it. Currently there's no streaming Netflix workout videos. Yeah, none. On my Roku box I have a few options for yoga and workout channels including YogaGlo channel. However I don't see how $18/mo just for streaming yoga videos is an option when I only pay $8/mo for Netflix streaming videos.
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6965157

Target hackers stole encrypted bank PINs, according to source
[video] (chicagotribune.com)

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Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971964

Target Confirms Encrypted PIN Numbers Stolen In Data Breach
(forbes.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6962139

Target hackers stole encrypted bank PINs
(reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6962814

Target hackers stole encrypted bank PINs
(reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6963289

Target hackers stole encrypted bank PINs - source
(reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6963515

Target hackers stole encrypted bank PINs
(yahoo.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971525

Target Confirms Encrypted PIN Data Was Stolen in Breach
(securityweek.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971864

Target confirms encrypted PINs were stolen in recent data breach
(nbcnews.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971917

Target confirms encrypted debit PIN data was stolen during hack
(theverge.com)
Remotely control a Raspberry Pi using PC Monitor
why didn't it catch fire? brakes at 900C and a lake of jet fuel...
Russian Spacewalk Live
Haskell is a far cry from just lazy ML. Oddly enough, your summary of go would be far more appropriate for haskell, which makes go's concurrency handling look primitive.
IIRC it usually takes until early next year for all the CCC videos to be online.
Sherlock Holmes Is in the Public Domain, American Judge Rules
Funny that you mention that, since my Nexus 4 was upgraded to KitKat as soon as it was released, my first generation Galaxy S is on Android 4.3 (thanks to Cyanogenmod), while my home desktop is still on Windows XP (OEM), because Windows upgrades have been very expensive. The situation is much better with Windows 8, but coupled with taxes, I still would have to pay about 150-200 EUR in my country.

Microsoft's entire business model has always been OEM prebundling, in which updates happened by buying a new computer. That is why many companies are STILL on Windows XP.

Anything else is bullshit coming from young people that haven't felt how the industry evolved during the nineties. And Android is very unlike Windows because Android is open source, Android can be ported by third-parties and Android can be forked.
Re: #4. I'm a consultant for a company. I bill at like $300 an hour and make something like $40 an hour.

As far as cutting expenses goes that's something I need to work on. I basically can't take a pay cut because I live paycheck to paycheck. I already live in one of the lowest cost areas in the country and make 2x average pay in the area.
How viable is it to legalize your stay after staying in the US illegally for a while?
I was going to do the same type of project, but use a MIPS chip, however determined that ARM chips are much more available. Could also use FPGA, but that's a little too much abstraction.
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I think he meant stories. I have seen a few by grellas that fell by the wayside.
People used to argue about how Linux is not Unix[1]. It seems things have devolved to the point where we need to argue that Ubuntu is not Linux. Sad.

[1] http://kernelbook.sourceforge.net/pdf/ch-intro.pdf
Show HN: First Bitcoin Wallet app for Windows 8
The solution of course is for Google to charge a small fee, say $50k/yr to each OEM who wants to use Android on their devices (if the OEM can't handle that fee, then they have no hope of handling the huge manufacturing, support, carrier fees and other costs involved with launching a product).

This fee will guarantee them a warm body with a heartbeat on the other end of a dedicated number who will be their "relationship manager" who can run things down internally and manage bringing new OEMs on.

In reality, the RM would probably service 4-5 "accounts" at a time and these 4 accounts or OEMs would completely cover the cost of this employee or

Of course having 20 or 30 RMs banging against the Android team to get info and support OEMs doesn't scale, so for every 3 or 4 RMs you hire additional staff on the Android dev side to handle that relationship. And that does scale.

It's not a money maker for Google, but it covers support costs without turning support to OEMs into a cost center.
That assumes people are working together to fight them, and that the court systems and judges aren't unreasonable. You could spend $ millions in court fees, and they could uphold it.
TLDR:

Between 2007 and 2011, the lawsuit claimed, Willms defrauded consumers of some $467 million by enticing them to sign up for “risk free” product trials and then billing their cards recurring fees for a litany of automatically enrolled services they hadn’t noticed in the fine print. In just a few months, Willms’s companies could charge a consumer hundreds of dollars like this, and making the flurry of debits stop was such a convoluted process for those ensnared by one of his schemes that some customers just canceled their credit cards and opened new ones.

ie. this guy basically used the brokenness of credit card recurring charge management systems to steal small amounts of money from many dumber consumers on a recurring basis, and became filthy rich in the process. Apparently without actually breaking any laws... but In the end, Willms’s arguments won little sympathy in court.
The mil
I'm seeing two apologies mentioned: Gordan Brown's, and the failed legislative apology.

Gordon Brown's, while somewhat ambiguous, reads as though Gordan Brown is apologizing only to Turing. He does acknowledge the injustices suffered by others, but states, "So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely thanks to Alan's work, I am very proud to say: we're sorry. You deserved so much better." [1]

The legislative apology starts off, "A Bill to give a statutory pardon to Alan Mathison Turing for offences under section 11 of the Criminal Amendment Act 1885 of which he was convicted on 31 March 1952.", which strikes me as extremely specific to Turing, and wasn't even approved. [2]

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/gordon-brown/617011...

[2] http://www.theguardian.com/uk/the-northerner/2012/jul/25/ala...
Judge rules NSA phone surveillance lawful
Combine with content aware fill and you get http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i3NWKbBaaU
Another amazing talk from CCC (2011):

"Cory Doctorow: The coming war on general computation" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYqkU1y0AYc

That one really opened my eyes.
Ghostery counts 19 or 20 trackers depending on what you want included. It's getting out of control!
OP mentioned Burpsuite.

You're just being unnecessarily deflationist and reductionist. You're missing the article for its words (missing the forest for its trees).
Inspiring comment from Bane early this year, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5624912

If you need a yacht that can carry many people on the high seas through bad weather at speed, unix is solid. But there hasn't been a great racing dinghy since the 80s.

Maybe there is an demoscene/hacking tradition out there, waiting for to be discovered.

Consider the debates that we don't have:

* Hardware abstraction. Casual audio programming is harder now than it was twenty years ago. Also - why doesn't hardware self-describe?

* High-level languages. Chuck Moore's ideas of code bloat are on a totally different level to the mainstream. He's onto something.

* Protected memory. Does it matter on a machine designed for fun? How much more hackable could your OS be if you got rid of stuff like this?

Stability doesn't matter so much in fun systems. If you're in a dinghy and not capsizing, you're not sailing hard enough.
I'm necessarily talking about aggregates here. Bottom 1/3 on the SAT is around 900/1600 on the SAT scale used between 1995 and 2005. Generally people who score in that range go to a college that does not offer a great prospect of making more than your average college graduate, even with a very good (but not extraordinary) performance in college.

Starting salary for a teacher in Chicago with just a BA is almost $50k/year with very good benefits. There are jobs for non-STEM majors that pay that or substantially higher, but the college options available with that kind of SAT score put you at a great handicap for those jobs.

Again, we're talking about aggregates here, not individuals. Lots of people do poorly on the SAT and end up wealthy. But if we're talking about a group where 47% perform in the bottom 1/3 of the SAT, I don't think it's unreasonable to say that this group's expected salary outside of teaching is substantially lower than for the average college graduate, regardless of the fact that individuals may outperform their entrance exams.
Archive.org has only 5 days to go to make their $1m donation goal.
This guy is a criminal. Why does The Atlantic paint him as some kind of marketing genius? If people knew how they were going to be charged for his products and services, they never would've hit the Buy button. He tricks people, which is not a talent IMO. I'm Canadian and from Edmonton, and I'm embarrassed that this fool lives on this side of the 49th.
That's the game attack logic, not the rendering logic. You want this instead:

https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-2/blob/master/client/cl...
>Van Jacobsen

Van Jacobson

He is probably most famous for his work on early congestion control algorithms in 1988 (http://ee.lbl.gov/papers/congavoid.pdf)
I'm going to put up 7 firewalls and buy a dog.
non-native. They have a chrome app where you can have a desktop shortcut and looks and pretty much works like a desktop native app (almost). I guess its not truly a OS agnostic in that sense, since if you don't use chrome/chromium on linux the only other way would be to user their online version (which is not bad at all).
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