skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the NSA has not admitted certain of Greenwald's accusations[1]. Greenwald's journalistic integrity has also been questioned before[2]. So, as I stated, makes you wonder what else he can be exaggerating or (intentionally?) not fact checking. I honestly can not see how someone could not be skeptical Greenwald.

[1] http://thedailybanter.com/2013/06/nsa-story-falling-apart-un...

[2] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/08/1192256/-The-Final-...
Hey HN,

So I'm a music lover. I regularly have binges where I'll play the same song over and over for hours - especially when I'm in a coding groove and just hammering through work. There are also times that I find a song that relates to a friend's situation, whether it be a break up or some sort of success that they may have had in their life. If I ever want to share any of this music, I have a bit of a dilemma on my hands. How can I even do this? For the last while, I've resorted to finding the song on YouTube and texting a link to the song, or tweeting a link to it. This approach gets tedious though. Transferring a YouTube link to my phone is also incredibly tough to do. From what I've found, there's no actual good way of sharing music with others.

This is why I built Musi.

When looking at music networks and the state of music, generally you think of big players such as Spotify or Pandora. However, these networks have song limitations and if you're like me and live in Canada, it's extremely tough to access them at all. YouTube, on the other hand, is available nearly everywhere and has arguably the largest library of music available. If you're an artist, you or someone else has probably uploaded your music to YouTube.

Musi takes advantage of this and uses YouTube as the basis for its music streaming. Integrated within Musi is also a friend finder, inbox, and friends list to manage the music that is sent to you. Musi even lets you share playlists with others. Since all of the music is online, playlist and song sharing takes milliseconds. When receiving anything as well, previewing and adding songs to your library are just one tap actions.

It's simple, social, music. A concept and service that I've never seen before until now.

http://feelthemusi.com

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/musi/id591560124
See also:

Kruger, Henrik. The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence, and International Fascism. Boston: South End Press, 1980. 240 pages.
http://trogholm.panshin.net/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheGreatHer...

Alfred W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Politics_of_Heroin_in_Sout...
I don't know how one would do 1mil LOC in python. At 40K I'm having enough annoyance refactoring things.

The python heads say you need to write code to be readable.. ok so how do I read all the call sites of this method or function? An unforgivable contradiction on large code bases, I'm afraid.
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Finding someone else makes it much harder to start working. Stealing assets is the tried and true method of getting something to show off, and get going quite quickly.

There are enough issues with writing your own games, you have just made it that much harder.

Of course there are also lots of free assets out there for use, but designers are more hesitant than developers to give stuff out for free.
Certainly "I'm right but I don't have the time to prove I'm right" comments are just as bad, if not worse because, at least the "you're wrong" comments give us a healthy dose of scepticism?
> And even those that do often have to contend with issues like name changes from marriage, or just forgetting to renew them (you usually get reminders in the mail, but we're talking about people who may not even have a fixed address).

Don't we all have to contend with those things? Do minorities and the poor get some sort of free pass on these sorts of obligations?

EDIT: added the parent's parenthetical comment since they felt it was important. I don't want to come off as misquoting or quoting out of context.
I don't think these two incidents are comparable.

Jamie's diary page (src: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html ) says at the top that the excerpts might serve as a cautionary tale about working in a startup (and Arrington also says in his infamous article (src: http://uncrunched.com/2011/11/27/startups-are-hard-so-work-m... ) that people who think they are working too hard or sacrificing too much should quit their startup), but aside from that it's a just a bunch of entries from a personal diary, not a rant with an overarching message or thesis statement. Arrington used the diary entries as evidence that the startup experience was hard in 1994, but (correct me if I'm wrong) he never modified jwz's quotes or tried to make it appear that jwz had an opinion that he didn't have.
Relevant section of the talk (about all sorts of seals, not just nail polish):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6tdq603z20&t=1h45m31s
http://www.in.gov/bmv/2766.htm

California is not the US.
SSN weren't designed as unique identifying numbers - in fact, until 1972 the cards explicitly said it should not be used as such. It is also way too short to be unique ID within imaginable timeframe. The fact that it is used as such is because americans have no choice - no other common ID to use. Some use name + birthdate instead, but that's even worse.
HN hides the reply button on some comments that it deems might start flame wars (or similar). If you click the link link, that will let you reply from there.
First things first: USB sticks were not infected. They were just a tool used to infect.. It's like saying that the needle was infected.
Before the end of 2014.
Finally, a job for LISP.
The book is "When Genius Failed", and though it's been a a while since I've read it, I don't recall either of the Nobel Prize winners (nor Merriwhether, for that matter) participating in any "frat-like" behaviour.

Not everyone who works at a hedge fund comes from the cast of Boiler Room. Talk about painting people with the same brush...
You don't have idea about what is a "witch hunt" and using that metaphor to describe some tweets is very insensitive and softens the absolute horror of people killed in real witch hunting.

Do you know that witch hunt still being a thing in some countries of the world?: http://www.eltiempo.com/colombia/medellin/ARTICULO-WEB-NEW_N... (title translated: Woman accused of being a witch in a town in Antioquia was burned)

This is a witch hunt: a woman was accused of being witch and _burned alive_, do you think that is even comparable with the tweets of Jacob Kaplan Moss?
Reading Bitmessage broadcasts requires following the user, so you can't see replies if you're not subscribed to the replying user. Twister feels more like Twitter, including searching, hashtags, etc.

Though I guess you could leverage BM's protocol and infrastructure to do that too (broadcasts are public you'd just have to filter the noise).
A word about credibility. It comes from the Latin word credo, meaning "I trust." Its value exceeds that of money because it marks you as a person - as someone who is respected, who is trustworthy, and whom you would want to count as a friend. It marks you not as perfect but as special. It makes others ponder not so much that they did the last deal with you but that they would want to do the next deal too. Just as we build credit through many transactions, so we build credibility by the very pattern of our lives. Credit and credibility derive from the same root and signify the same thing: when in doubt, we can trust the one who has either trait. Not blind trust, just a benefit-of-the-doubt level of trust.

Well, pg has earned our trust and deserved the benefit of the doubt when something so off kilter as this is attributed to him. He did not get it here, and that is a sad testament to how crowd-inspired frenzies can bend our perceptions in such faulty ways. Let us only hope that we can learn some good lessons from this.

pg's response is actually priceless: it is like a soft-spoken witness upending a bullying lawyer who had just viciously attacked him, leaving the attacker reeling for all to see. Indeed, the mob looks pretty much like an ass at this point and kudos to pg for his more-than-able defense. Very lawyer-like, in a way, but far more classy.
The orignal post accuses The Information of publishing a false quote. The article you linked to looks like two authors having a factual and philosophical disagreement, carried out in the normal way. They're on opposite sides of a bright line.
Forget data preservation. Let's blow &*(&()& up.
"We believe that hackers are building the future. They are the ones that are building new technology everyday."

Nice trending finding. When people are talking about bitcoin, very often they are focusing on the currency value. They sometimes forget that it is also an open platform. An open platform that brings financial transaction into hands of millions of developers. Making future more interesting. :)
You need those 20€ only every four to eight years IIRC, and as said you can always apply for assistance if you're earning minimum wage.
I consider the claims of fraud on George W. Bush's elections made by Michael Moore to be pretty sufficient...
Add another few digits and we're good, kinda like ipv6.
Also, I hate mentioning my age. However, I can't deny that it's catchy.
Perhaps you would prefer that I say something like this:

"You assert that these studies exist, but you don't bother to identify them for those of us who are not au courant with the journals in which they presumably appear. Would you care to link at least a representative example of the studies to which you refer, so that those of us who are unimpressed by argument from authority may examine them for ourselves?"

The semantic value of these two rather long sentences being identical with that of the two words I actually posted, the only apparent reason to choose the former over the latter would be an interest in pandering to your prejudices. I harbor no such interest, and therefore feel no urge to replace what I did post with what you seem to prefer I post.

All that aside, the request stands. Do you intend to cite a representative sample, &c., or do you prefer to settle for the bare-faced argument from authority you've made so far, without even bothering, as I gather is customary in the use of that fallacy, to name the authority from whom you are arguing? "Studies suggest," after all, is rather weak tea.

Finally, there's probably a name for the fallacy inherent in tossing out an unsupported assertion followed by " -- now prove me wrong!", the way you're also doing; I can't be bothered to look it up, though. Between trying to find the studies to which you cannot possibly have referred more vaguely, and trying to do the impossible by proving a negative, I've got too much on my plate already; you'll just have to find the name for that fallacy yourself, I'm afraid.
Clever, cutting off the parenthetical. Also clever attempting to derail. Actually, no, pretty pathetic attempt at derailing.

Absolutely no one should be subject to these requirements, poor, minority, white, or rich. The fact that they disenfranchise some people is one of the reasons why.
> There's no evidence of widespread terror campaign in US airport and yet TSA grabs my balls each time I fly, and NSA collects my phone calls.

[...]

> If you really want to go into "show me the data before you make the law", you're waking up way too late.

Campaigns for voter ID laws -- and the opposition to them -- are older than the NSA warrantless surveillance programs or the TSA. Not to mention that the opponents of all three of those things have substantial overlap, so saying that people who oppose one of them have categorically "woken up to late" because the other ones exist (no matter which one you pick) doesn't make a lot of sense, since its not unlikely that the people you are criticizing as late to wake up are also already opponents of whichever the "earlier" outrage is that you are pointing to to make that claim.
My next post is on class design in Node. Keep on the lookout, would love to get your feedback on it.
The point is not that the $8 million system did not work. The point is that it was overly expensive for what it accomplished, and it slowed down the production line significantly enough that some worker went out of his way to implement his own solution. Without his solution, product quality may still have gone up, but production numbers would have gone down since the production line would stop every time there was an empty box on the belt. In contrast, the fan not only increased product quality, but it also had no impact on number of units produced and it cost $20 to boot. Sure, it's not a perfect solution, but in this case it's "perfect enough." (And making it more perfect would still have been several orders of magnitude cheaper than the $8 million system.)
Don't Set Goals, Make New Habits Instead
You have shipped 30 times more then me, so all I can say is congrats :) have lovely new year.
> there are consequences both psychologically, financially, and physically being an outcast

I think nerds and geeks are acutely aware of the costs of being outcasts. The period of their life when they typically turn to computers and programming is the same as the period in which they are socially marginalized (middle school / high school).
It's a bit soon to say that, eh? This law just passed. And, as the other commentator says, connections to friends and family also weigh into the decision. And since people are not actually totally rational, utility-maximizing, spock-like agents, sometimes they choose things based on those "soft" factors. Which is totally fine.

But if the State pushes far enough, and hard enough, people will eventually lash out and strike back in one form or another. I think the historical record shows that quite clearly. No "objectivist fantasy" (whatever that is) needed.
>Just because we're in pg's house, it doesn't mean we have to treat him like a god

I'll be the first to agree with this, but I don't believe the guy owes anything to anyone. This idea that he should go out of his way to up-end an interview process to appease the writers of a hack-job and other whiners might be PC, but it's ludicrous.

My advice to PG: Leave it for the next person. If there is systematic sexism in tech incubators, that means there's economic profit to be made by targeting female founders. Someone else should hop to it!
Paul Graham: 'What I Didn't Say'
I seem to remember hearing that the final score in Salem being nineteen women and one man. Given this data, trivial statistical analysis tells us that the use of "witch hunt" in this context is 95% sexist, a value well within the margin of error.
Potemkin is a collection of clojure facades and workarounds
Revenue-Sharing “Knowledge Community” Teckler Launches Its First Mobile App
I think it's important to regularly point these issues out, because even though many of "us" intellectually know about them, it's still hard to emotionally grasp for "us", how ID cards could be a slippery slope, why freedom of speech should trump everything else, no matter what, or why home schooling should be allowed at all.

Cultures differ wildly, and it's hard to really accept that the other guy might have a valid point of view.
I see a LOT more drama surrounding the things that men have said/done. If I were a man I would absolutely be more concerned about my interactions with female coworkers over male ones.

Don't take this to mean that I think I can say/do whatever I want in this industry on account of being female -- no one is bulletproof. It just seems men are vilified more than women when it comes to these sorts of things. Maybe that's just my world view.
Poll: Do you primarily use Mosh instead of SSH?
So, Mosh [1] has been out for almost two years now, and has become one of the first packages I install, even if my connection is not "mobile". I wonder how many people feel this way, and weather it con be expected to become as ubiquitous as SSH itself.

(My understanding is that Mosh itself uses SSH, but I believe the title of the poll is simple and not misleading, if strictly incorrect.)

[1] http://mosh.mit.edu
No, I don't see a need for it
No, I hadn't heard of Mosh
I am and have been an opponent of the TSA, NSA wiretaps, drug prohibition, the DMCA, SOPA, copyright extensions, and the criminalization of everyday life from their inception and/or for my entire adult life. I disagree fundamentally on the lack of evidence for gun bans.

You don't get to argue that we're wrong about this being bad just because there are other bad things out there!
Wasnt there a story on HN two weeks ago about the innacuracy of sniffer dogs?
Decided to start a blog. First blog post. Been playing around with Node.JS for a bit and after my Memo From Santa (memofromsanta.com) API turned out to return incorrect data, I decided to adopt a test-driven approach.

Any suggestions, improvements, criticism is always welcome.
That's good to know, thanks. I haven't used it myself. I have used the collaborative editing in Google Docs, and it's done well enough that I don't see a whole lot of room for improvement, but I certainly wouldn't deny the possibility that Office has reached parity in this area.
Your fallacy is: "Glazier's fallacy". See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window
I don't disagree that CA is not the US. But neither is Indiana. What is your point? That I was wrong about California's fees? Or that I was wrong about how easy it was to get an ID in California? Or that in Indiana it is harder and more expensive to get an ID than in California?
I guess I wasn't clear enough. My point is that, in a policy debate, whining about how government has not served the public interest in the past is counterproductive except insofar as it helps to prevent all the crap you enumerated. What we're both saying is that policy debates are about how to write policies that actually serve the public interest, instead of falling into some perverse incentive trap.
Things like this can ruin lives (this according to you), yet you seem to write about this as if it is a simple attitude problem, in need of a "change in mentality" like being more reflected and aware of one's biases, and not (also) a matter of self preservation on his part.
Is what he said wrong? Is his history relevant to the actual message he is communicating here? To me, it seems like the answers are "no" and "no".

Guy records a radio PSA saying "don't punch strangers in the nose". Later, it turns out that the guy has a history of punching strangers in the nose. Is the PSA wrong?

There's a way to write the comment that points out that Arrington's history here might be checkered. Unfortunately, the way you wrote your comment isn't that way, because it calls the message into question along with the messenger, and the message here seems valuable.
> If you're using a gun in self defense and you need more than 10 or 15 rounds, again, you're woefully under-equipped to be using a gun.

Unlike game and paper targets, people you are defending yourself from, can shoot back at you.
Fine, he was mischaracterized and he replied.

But jesus,

> pg's response is actually priceless: it is like a soft-spoken witness upending a bullying lawyer who had just viciously attacked him, leaving the attacker reeling for all to see.

What's with the almost cult-like reverence for this largely pseudo-intellectual entrepreneur?
A few things:

The box-filling machine was not working properly. This could be due to wear, poor quality boxes, a problem upstream with where the tubes came from.

Although a solution was found to the problem of shipping empty boxes, the process in the factory was not resolved in that the source of the problem was not identified.

The new scales made it possible to find the empty boxes and pause the conveyor belt so that the offending light box could be removed.

However, the operator went ahead and did his own thing with the fan, not asking for authorisation from the site electrician, his line manager, senior management or anyone else. Because of what he did it no longer became possible to have the line stop as soon as a problem was detected. Or to have the scales machine do the accounting for this. This information may be important for the engineering department to know they have to clean/fix/replace parts on the box filling machine.

If it was my factory I might not have sacked the operator for being a 'loose cannon' however I would not have rewarded him for his ingenuity. To be fair he did not know of the empty box problem until the scales came along, he was not 'wilfully ignorant' of the problem because he did not know about it. However, his fix did not solve the core problem and it only made it harder for the engineering team to remedy the situation. (The engineering team were not wilfully ignorant either).

So this is a silly story that might be a funny anecdote at an after dinner talk but it has no relevance to a real factory and the processes involved. If anything it tells a different story of how out of touch we are with manufacturing.
If you are interested in that sort of thing, I highly recommend the novel Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson - it is partly about the activities of a joint British/American counterintelligence unit whose mission is to make sure the Axis does not figure out that the Allies have broken their codes. It's also a great read in general.
However code coming from the server can be verified, so you can know if the cryto.js delivered to you was modified from a known good version. You can audit a particular version and say, "this works correctly", and then look at changes over time.

For instance you can have a greasemonkey script that tells you when the crypto code is different from last time.

The best solution realistically would be SSL plus encrypting data first in the browser (separately encrypt the data and the transmission of it).
It's not like you still couldn't plug in an old CD drive into your Mac. It will still work just fine. You can't plug in an old Python 2.x plugin into Python 3.x.
That's a great idea. Next time we put out a request for resumes we might just make something that allows for this. And put it on github..
The "reply" link is also hidden on comments posted less than some (0 < n < 9) number of minutes prior to page load, but the same trick works in that case as well.