skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know the details, but you do still mine coins into a wallet and all that stuff, there are just special types of transactions where you post a bit of data to the blockchain and that data is the domain name you want registered.
"We got a National Security Letter. End of explanation."
MemoryCoin Blockchain is hiring people at $362.88/day
Humorously, now that RapGenius is dead in SERP it is not a hugely popular website.
Yes, but that's due to specific effort of the Gmail team.

Links from other (non-Google) apps still open in Safari.
That would be a more compelling point if the gender imbalance was confined to company founders. But it isn't: the whole industry is rife with it, both in startups and on dev teams at bigcos. Go to an F-500 bank sometime and compare the IT team with a dev team: the IT team will have many more women than the dev team will.

It's something about software development in general; it's not the fault of VCs (which I'm not a fan of either).
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If You Are *Reading* This, You Are Not Blind
Hacker culture doesn't give a shit whether you're male, female, 86 or 15

STRONG DISAGREE.
On another note—what do you think of The Information? I'm considering subscribing.
Does they play Megadrive games? If so I know a really cool nerdy trick:

Sonic & Knuckles was a pretty awesome Sonic installment for the Megadrive that had a really weird cartridge. On top, it had a flip-open cartridge slot... You could plug in Sonic 2 or Sonic 3 to play through those previously existing games with the Knuckles character. Awesome!

So how do you play the games like that on your emulator? Turns out it's really simple:

> cat snk.bin sonic3.bin > sonic3nk.bin

Or on Windows, as I first learnt it (I had no idea what the command actually did back then, it was magic to me):

> copy /b snk.bin + sonic3.bin sonic3nk.bin

Suddenly I have a brand new game to play!

How it works: When you plug another cartridge into the top of Sonic & Knuckles the console sees both games combined as a contiguous block of memory, which is equivalent to concatenating together the binary dumps of the cartridges.

More details about this are available on this slightly horrific but very thorough webpage: http://www.emulationzone.org/projects/s&k/thesis.htm
But Tulsa Codes would exist for logistical and practical reasons (it makes sense to organize people who already live in an area).

Girls Code is associated (fairly or not) with an ideological movement to correct for oppression and privilege that exists in our society. People who disagree with this movement will of course post about it when they see these articles.
I wouldn't go to Krugman for technology insights. This is the same guy who basically said the Internet has no future, and now he's repeating it for Bitcoin.
Every six months or so I come across Erik Demaine's biography and am instantly cured of any intellectual hubris that may have accumulated since last reading it.
Haven't you watched any prison movies? Everyone wants to take down the new barn boss. (Sean Penn in "Bad Boys"[1])?

I'm joking of course (about the barn boss) but the truth is it's a good sign when you get to the point where people analyze and give a shit about every word that comes out of your mouth. You can then move the needle. I say ignore the controversy and use it to your advantage.

[1] Remember the dweeb that built the radio and took down the goon with an explosion?
Unless of course the support provided by a (Western) outsider had caused other tensions (warlords uniting or what have you), thus increasing the body count, which is one possible outcome out of many.

Genocide tipping in exactly the opposite direction is another (obviously unintended) possibility. Oh yeah... The rest of the wiki you link talks about that... Oops!

You can't predict a future that didn't happen. (Again unless you're The Doctor).
I get the rhetorical strategy you're using here, but the truth might be pretty close to what you're actually saying. If reputation is potential energy, then Paul Graham has a lot of energy bound up in what he writes about startups. He also has a lot of the habits and proclivities of a Usenet nerd (takes one to know &c &c). It's a risky combination and may have blown up on him here.
It isn't.

Nobody (or at least me) is saying that. But static blogs have other benefits, like being lighter on your host or allowing you to create a new post by just editing a text file in your favorite markup language.
I dunno, I thought it worked pretty well. Prim posturing, however, I find bland.
Nurture that. It's how a lot of developers get started: by tinkering and tooling.
Ummm. If Rap Genius had traffic of it's own where people were going to them directly, and google were somehow taking that away from them it might be possible to be sympathetic. But, Rap Genius made a calculated business decision to focus their efforts on getting search traffic and not on building a stable organic foundation to which extra traffic would have been a nice bonus but not the controlling factor in their success.

And really, what value does Rap Genius add to lyrics?
Paul's done more good for people of all human subgroups - "protected" or unprotected - than any of the commentariat. But we live in a culture that gives power to Social Justice Warriors who haven't done a damn thing. Why do we privilege the talkers over the doers? We're moving into a time where right ideology matters above all else.

Something ugly is happening in America. If Paul Graham worked for someone else, he'd be fired by now[1]. That's sad, as everything he's said has been thoughtful and in good faith. None of it should be out of bounds for adult discussion.

We live in a time when it's best to shut up if you know what's good for you. And that's sad.

[1] http://handleshaus.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/bullied-and-badg...
Don't forget that rap genius didn't / doesn't want to just be a lyrics site, they also do the whole "what do these lyrics mean" deal. I'd have no idea what 2 Chainz was going on about half the time were it not for RG.
It amazes me how many of us are willing to endure non-poka-yoke, that is, processes that are inherently mistake-ready. My current fave is timesheet rekeying by our admin. We're small, so it isn't too bad, but it cannot scale, and as the admin becomes more harried as we grow, mistakes will be made. Guaranteed.

Poka yoke. My new favourite process term. The other two are important, vital even, but poka yoke has to be paramount.

(If you jidoka without poka yoke, how long before a worker is hurt by a machine?)
The title of this article is a bit misleading - I was expecting some fresh facts about the drone program. What I got instead was some heavy pathos and not much substance.
Glad to see someone else bringing up the "cultural fit" bullshit.
There have been some bad comments here for sure but the waste majority has been civilized and reasonable because ultimately black hat seo tears the fabric of web trust apart. Personally, I have nothing against RG but I do expect more from a YC startup.
The parallel that was drawn in the article is that the U.S. is playing the part of Britain (a waning super power), China plays the part of Germany (a country with an emerging powerful economy and national pride) and Japan plays the part of France. It is an eerie comparison. At that time, many thought that the close trade ties of those countries would prevent war. The comparisons are not perfect of course. It does seem like there is an approximate 50 year cycle of large conflagration, perhaps because that is the approximate human generation, just enough time for people to forget the futility of war. Hopefully history will not repeat itself, but it often does.
Yes. Exactly my point. The problem people have with "Girls Code" is that accepting it requires them to accept that women have been at some point treated unfairly.
>How can we assure users of the web that their data and identities are safe online?

Don't collect data related to their identities, or collect as little as possible. Don't require a social media login, or even an email address for signup. Avoid Google analytics and Facebook likes and anything which enables tracking user identities. In other words, treat your users like black boxes. You don't know them, you don't want to know them. You can't steal what you can't access, after all.

>How can we get social content back into the hands of its creators?

Don't use social features, or else allow users to backup and delete anything they've added to the site at will.

>How do we include everyone?

Allow anonymous accounts or don't require logins at all. Code as regressively as possible, and have relevant content accessible without javascript.

In a way, though, the 'open web' is still there. You can choose not to use social media, and you can choose not to read primarily corporate-owned sites. It's probably even easier to put up a personal site now than it was in the ancient days of Geocities. Even usenet and I think Fidonet are still around in some form or another. People just choose to ignore all but the low-hanging fruit perhaps, both in terms of consumption and designing their services.
I meant in the general case for war.

Obviously not much happens in the short term if we don't interfere in the affairs of Pakistan and neighbours. In the long term they might rebuild their terrorist training camps, but .. meh so what. Only a few people have been killed by terrorists, it's not a big deal and not a fundamental threat to civilisation.

You couldn't say that there would be no consequences for not engaging in the 1930s. Many more countries could have been overrun by fascism for decades.
The question is whether these exploits are accidents or the result of companies giving in to pressure from the NSA.

If the Snowden revelations are to be believed, at least some of the exploits were the result of giving into NSA pressure.

But the problem with this is that it breaks the chain of trust that a company has with it's customers. Once you know the NSA is applying pressure secretly to force some vulnerabilities to remain open, how can you know they aren't doing that with any given vulnerability.
It's this bizarre twitter/social justice generation. After seeing the phenomenon where merely saying the word 'female' is considered sexist, nothing surprises me anymore. It's better to never speak about gender differences.
Because when you google for "rapgenius" the best result is unquestionably rapgenius.
Sorry, but we'll have to agree to disagree here. It's like saying the version on Windows is not a full port because there are some plugins missing compared to the Linux version. And vice-versa.

Very little features not possible (mostly because of the OS) can hardly be considered as "not fully ported" as meant by salient.
> Communicating with terrorists on a typical basis isn't enough for the U. S. government to do so

For the time being. Do you think how the surveillance apparatus currently works is how it will always work in perpetuity?
I cut some of that off because Adsense terms might prohibit disclosing it, I'm not sure. 480k page views, 4.6k clicks.
Is it really wrong to say that women could be better or worse (in general) at one thing or another? Is it sexist to even point out that men and women are different?

I think my wife is pretty awesome and capable of things I would not be able to do. Am I sexist for talking about it?

I think in the source PG even says that women are good (maybe better) than men at business focused startups. Or will the world not be balanced until just as many women are making hot or not for XYZ in the off hours
In general, a suit must be based on either a cause of action at common law (tort, contract, etc), a state or federal law, or in limited circumstances directly under the Constitution. Federal statutes must demonstrate some Congressional intent to create an avenue of recourse. In fact, Congress can make something illegal, yet not create a cause of action. For example, with the securities laws, there have been many disputed related to when Congress intended to create avenues of recourse for private parties and when Congress only intended the government to be able to enforce violations.
I do think that people are more reluctant to tackle important issues head on because of the approach of shaming expressions about things in culture that one doesn't like. The danger of your views being misconstrued and then being tarred and feathered by the uninformed online mob is just too high to be personally worth it for most people. I think that's a really important thing that not enough people discuss.
The scenario with a large number of people wanting to cash out already assumes Bitcoin lost as a currency, so I'd say it could be a result, not the cause of Bitcoin's failure. Bitcoin succeeds or fails on whether you can buy useful stuff with it, buying other currencies is secondary.
3. Rule that the plaintiff lacks standing to sue because the only evidence that the plaintiff has that they have been a target of this law is a result of whistleblowing, and if the evidence of a whistleblower, although both true and confirmed by the defendant, is accepted, this would encourage more whistleblowing, which is the worst possible outcome imaginable. Instead, the only parties who have standing are the ones who had been directly and secretly served with the order (to monitor all of the plaintiff's communications), and those parties only have standing to secretly challenge the order in a secret court.

You could rule that, too.
I will add to this that Safari 6 added a host of horrible (and bizarre) bugs which seem to have received no attention or even acknowledgement from Apple.
For whatever it's worth it to any of you to know this, TAO is one of the worst kept secrets in infosec. As I understand it, there are several active, well-regarded software security experts on Twitter that come from TAO. There are even conspiracy theories that some of them still work for TAO as industry sleepers. If you had asked a software security person 5 years ago to name an NSA hacking program, there's a decent chance some of them would have said "TAO".
Parts-of-speech tagging with Clojure
If you like Riak, there is a .net client library. There is a .net port of lessCSS. RabbitMQ works with .net. You can access postgres with .net. I didn't see any features of Neo4J that I can't do pretty easily with MSSQL and a custom DAL. You can talk to Hadoop from .net. I've been using jQuery with ASP.net since it was released. Elasticsearch runs on windows, and I don't see why you can't use it with a .net project. I don't really see the point of pygments, but it looks like it's pretty easy to use with IronPython.

So in those instances you have a choice. You can use those libraries/products as they stand, or you can roll your own.
That's not really a critique of the author's main point, I think. Of course you can't directly translate between semantically different features, but the OP's point was about semantically identical programs, and how different syntaxes distract from that.

That said, I think it's possible to invent a language in which all the things you mention can be expressed and at least compared. I'll do my best to do it myself if no one beats me to it. Any language with closures is close. Java inner classes and (AFAIK) C# lambdas practically are clsoures. If the only thing ruby blocks add is that returns and similar statements affect the block-creating function, that can be simulated with exceptions.
Being offended about anything is the weakest form of argument. You're upset this person does not subscribe to your binary world-view in that particular post.

Perhaps this person felt they didn't want to pick a side because they wanted to avoid the flame war.

It's just a stupid online forum, where the arguments are meaningless and the points don't matter; have little affect or influence in the real-world can have little to no value, other than the smug satisfaction one obtains from patronizing another person into the fetal position with their oh-so-superior logic an rational skills.

Congratulations, you now have 1000 internet points. Spend them wisely, son; don't let people see your real power levels.
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Huh? Where did you get your crack pipe? Windows has made a reasonable DAW for at least 10-15 years.

And hell I don't even use a PC. Some of us still use workstations (Korg: you rock).
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Throwing a tantrum isn't adding to the conversation. I stopped reading after the third 'fuck'.
The Chinese in general still feel humiliated by their treatment at the hands of the western powers and then their occupation by Japan in WW2. Furthermore they have an issue of not having enough resouces to feed their growth. Who ever owns the islands (more then one set - China is arguing with Japan, Korea, Vietnam and Philippines) has the rights to exploit the oil/gas fields in the ocean beds around them.

Now to the story. I can see the parallels to the run up to WW1 however there is one large difference. In WW1 there was no real dominate military power (i.e. has complete unmatched and overwhelming force). The fact is that the US military so overmatches everyone else that it would be a very short war. Blood and a mess but still very short.
Specifically, https://twitter.com/RapGenius/status/417354178189459456
wow, thanks for sharing this!
That's only the case because this company has built its model with Google as a primary player.

I understand the facts of the situation--a rap lyrics website HAS to build around Google to achieve optimal success. But if you aren't willing to give away that much control, build a less-successful version or just find another business.
So, this has potentially interesting value for implementing secure storage (assuming one can replace the whole firmware with something trusted).

I assume it would be possible to, for instance, make every "delete" operation a secure delete operation...wherein data gets overwritten a specified number of times. Shortening the useful life of the device, sure, but if security matters, that's a small price to pay.

Going further, what about a handler that serves out one set of data about what's on the device to any random person that plugs it in (like empty or with a few harmless photos or something), and another set of info to someone that has a key? Sure, for a high capability attacker, they might even know about this kind of firmware magic and know how to circumvent it, but it would make it very unlikely that some random person picking up your device would find anything that you want to keep secret.

Obviously, if your data is encrypted on the host system before writing to the card, that's reasonably safe...but for people in really dangerous situations, where torturing someone to obtain their key is not out of the question, making it seem like there's no data to obtain a key for is the best of all possible solutions.
Thankfully, I don't see WWIII starting anytime soon...

But I've always strongly thought the "globalisation will make war unthinkable" argument is naive. We're tribal creatures -Nationalism trumps economic interest at the end of the day. History shows this to be true.

As the author hinted at - Russia, Germany, Britain, Belgium, and France were each other's biggest trading partners - by far! Heck, a Belgium company built both the Belgium fortifications... and the German artillery that eventually breached them!

Nowadays, the entire world is trading... but Europe in 1914 was a good example of this principle applying continent-wide.

Convince society the other side is evil and a threat; dismiss and degenerate the peace-mongers as unpatriotic... and economic interest be damned.
I definitely read it differently. The author cited too many examples of how Austrian economic theory doesn't actually jive with empirical evidence.
I recently saw an interview between Eric Schmidt and Sheryl Sandberg on BookTV (www.booktv.org) and Sandberg made basically the same point but I think in a little bit more elegant way. She mentioned that she put her teenage daughter in computer camp and there were only 2 other girls in the camp, both of whom were Sandberg's nieces and she also put them in there. The take away for her was that most parents do not encourage girls to go to computer camp. So there is a self fulfilling prophecy so to speak going on. I think both PG and SS are saying pretty much the same thing, but SS is the better person to say it in my view, not that PG shouldn't comment, it's just that him saying distracts from the key point, it is socialization that needs to change. And they are both correct, to be really good in tech, you need to start them young !
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This is perhaps further argument to use azlyrics.
I think the stuff React is doing is impressively simple and non-magical. Although I haven't used React yet, I wouldn't be surprised if these ideas make for code that's relatively easy to reuse and reason about.

The format of the post is also quite nice; a few short points with illustrations and a clear takeaway.
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I'm considering crocheting my SSH private key into a blanket, so that I can safely and clandestinely transport it across borders. Holes representing 0s and stitches representing 1s, with strong parity to mitigate transcription errors.

I will call it my "security blanket".
RapGenius doesn't need to 'beat this thing'. They need to suck it up and deal with the punishment for getting caught cheating. Google has very clear guidelines. RapGenius decided to go blackhat SEO anyway (because 'everyone else does it'). They got caught (blatantly). And now they're dealing with the penalty.

If you don't want to have a 6 month penalty on Google, don't cheat.
It happened slightly differently to Facebook

http://readwrite.com/2010/02/11/how_google_failed_internet_m...
> "Is it really wrong to say that women could be better or worse (in general) at one thing or another? Is it sexist to even point out that men and women are different?"

Yes to both questions. On the other hand, it's science[1][2]! There's lots of proven differences in personality and ability between the sexes.

When the official ideology is against reality, you have to choose between being a "good person" and a good scientist. It's best for your career to choose the first.

[1] http://jaymans.wordpress.com/hbd-fundamentals/#sex

[2] http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/09/2012-sat-test-results-a-hug...
It’s as of yet unclear how many other manufacturers leave
their firmware updating sequences unsecured. Appotech is
a relatively minor player in the SD controller world;
there’s a handful of companies that you’ve probably never
heard of that produce SD controllers, including Alcor
Micro, Skymedi, Phison, SMI, and of course Sandisk and
Samsung.

Which begs the question: so why target Appotech rather than Sandisk or Samsung?
Hackers tried to sell access to BBC Server
How is being interested in something a privilege?
Democratic Peace theorists always run into the issue of "what is a democracy."

Consider WW1, in which most of the major belligerants, except for Tsarist Russia, have a plausible case for being called democratic. You might try to exclude one country or another, to save the Democratic Peace. But then you've got to be very careful about that: you can very easily add enough conditions until virtually no states until the 1970s were democratic, which gives you a small sample that coincides with an era when all states, democratic or not, have been relatively peaceful.

It also doesn't have a strong causal explanation for why it'd be the case. Democracies certainly aren't less violent in general: they don't have any issues fighting with autocracies. There's even evidence that weak or developing democracies, like Meiji Japan in the 1890s or the United States in the 2000s, actually are more violent than comparable states.

Most Democratic Peace theorists don't really offer anything more powerful than "the US/UK axis and its allies don't go to war with each other." Which is true, but uninteresting.