skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
wow, I'm amazed by your responses. Kudos to HN & I wish all of you "Happy New Year and a Merry Christmas" (⌐■_■)-♉
You could not be more wrong. Technological "solutions" can only punt the issue down the road a few months or years, after which your "solution" will also be outlawed, and never mind the collateral damage.

The problem lies in folk lacking understanding and being scared. That's what needs fixing.

Your problem, on the other hand, is perhaps in lacking understanding and being scared of politics... unfortunately politics is all-pervasive. You cannot make that fact go away by burying your head in the sand and trying to work around the roadblocks that it throws up. While you're busy trying to avoid politics, those who are playing the game are winning.

Just remember that every time you are tempted to put your head back in the sand - while you are trying hard to pretend politics doesn't exist, the fundamentalists, spooks, industrialists, bankers etc. are playing hard & to win at all costs. The easiest targets for them are the ones who don't push back because they aren't playing. Which means you.

Avoiding politics == getting shafted.
Firefox OS isn't aimed at Android, as the article implies. I don't think it's even meant to be aimed at something, not even at dumbphones.

The intent is to provide a fallback digital-freedom option, should any of the mobile players ever start to exhibit monopolistic tendencies.

Firefox OS is a hedge that Mozilla is building for us.
FirefoxOS consumer phones upgrade over the air just like Android and iOS devices. The developer preview phones are unlocked so the developer can opt to update by hand from his own copy of Firefox OS.
True/sad story. So at Sun when I was building crypto tools for Java I wanted to be able to use the RSA public key algorithm in the class loader (part of a capabilities based security system). We negotiated with RSA for a right to use their patent in Java, which proceeded right up until the final contract came back (which our lawyer signed but I did not get a chance to review) where the wording was changed to be a license to BSAFE rather than the patent. Clearly I wasn't going to put BSAFE into the JVM, I l already had an implementation of their algorithm in Java. There was never a good explanation for how the lawyer got so "confused" at the last minute and "forgot" to have these changes reveiwed by the engineer leading the project.

Given the sort of shenanigans we've been reading about I would not be surprised to hear that someone who was neither a Sun or RSADSI employee said "spike this deal".

[edit: clarity]
Payroll, like most companies, is a huge chunk of our revenue. The thing with consulting that is different than product companies is that we are profitable from day one. But our long term profit potential is flat unless we raise our rates or pay people less. We need to pay well to retain talent as consulting companies are always ripe for poaching.

I've also made some dumb financial moves and we've had lulls in our pipeline. We think (hope) that we've corrected these. So we'll see how the next year pans out.
It depends on what you are talking about, sometimes you want a slow protocol, since it makes bruteforcing the original value more complicated.

I can't wrap my head around why that would matter for a PRNG, but it sometimes does have value.
Nor need it be for my point to stand; unpremeditated murder of the sort you describe is precisely the sort in which the nature of the weapon employed is of least significance, and the difference between a firearm and, say, an improvised bludgeon, has only to do with the amount of effort required on the part of the murderer to satisfy the urge which drives him.
Do these kerning problems have anything to do with the design of Computer Modern or with TeX? I don't think so; whatever you're seeing on that page results from the interaction of your browser, the markup, and the MathJax scripts.
Remember that the apps being written for Firefox OS are the first of their kind. They had to write IMAP libraries from bits and pieces of Node libraries because no one had ever tried to write an IMAP library for the browser before (of course you couldn't in the past) whereas Java has many mature libraries to choose from.

A lot of the complaints surrounding Firefox OS are stuff like this, the Mozilla guys are doing a lot of from-scratch implementations of complicated protocols
For a different take, read Steve Albini's "The Problem with Music" (http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=17) in which he does a financial breakdown of what he considered a representative scenario (back whenever it was written):

"The band [...] has made the music industry more than 3 million dollars richer, but is in the hole $14,000 on royalties. The band members have each earned about 1/3 as much as they would working at a 7-11, but they got to ride in a tour bus for a month."

Edit: In light of tptacek's third paragraph, perhaps it's more like a variation on the same take.
I use both KeePass and KeePassX (and KeePassDroid on my phone) -- I should make some donations tonight.

I'll be really, really, REALLY happy when KeePassX works with browser plugins like regular KeePass does, so you don't have to always copy and paste things.
I got hit by a price modifier during my last trip using Uber, but I didn't (and still don't) think gouging is the right word. I figure it's supply and demand modifier. They can't change supply, but demand has gone up for some reason (storms, in your scenario and mine, actually). Some people aren't willing to pay more, so it curbs demand, while incentivizing drivers who may not wish to drive in inclement weather to stay out. Of course, it's really just taking advantage of a situation to Uber's benefit, but I still think "gouging" is too strong of a word for it.
That's a lot of guts. I respect you for keeping in that direction.

It's hard for a consulting company to be selective on the clients (especially during tough time).
Yikes. Black Hat SEO!
The original KeePass was only for windows. Someone forked it and made KeepassL for linux. It was then rewritten for cross compatibility and came to be known as KeePassX. Now that the Keepass itself is cross compatible, it kind of makes KeepassX redundant.
Updating is OTA.

Updating the developer phone? Harder.
What are you working on besides looking for a job?
Known exploit detection
Although I haven't tried getting a nontechnical user to try it, I spent some time doing just that for my personal site (editing an Octopress blog on Github, with a continuous deployment server compiling it), and I didn't like it. The whole setup felt very fragile, it was impossible to write drafts (I would compose drafts as text files on my local machine), and in the end the Github editor simply leaves somethin to be desired when it comes to UX for blog-post-writing.

A better solution would be to have a raw Jekyll blog on github that you can edit directly, no special setup necessary.

An even better solution (imo) is to have a blog set-up with continuous deployment, and let the user edit the content in a nice local text editor via SFTP.
That sounds like an amazing experience you had. I can feel the pain! Had to write a custom compiler and backend and vm for it in school. And none of us had experience in C or Assembler. The compiler created a custom bytecode assembly that the VM had to run. Then another group made an FGPA and CPU that runs the code natively. Our prof's hobby was to write an OS for that board. But somehow we managed to do it. I still wow, when I look at the code. It makes me think.. how did I write that?
yea this is a well known not so nice way to up your google ranking.
More on Uber and D.C.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/05/why-you-...
Turing is being pardoned, which is short of being exonerated.
When signing up for fixed line broadband with any of the biggest ISPs you have to make a choice between filtered and unfiltered. As the GP said, mobile broadband has filtering enabled by default and has done for years.

Source: Am in the UK & have opted out of filtering.
All fixed line ISPs allow toggling the filter bias their online control panel, or by clicking a button when signing up online. Mobile ISPs vary - O2 mobile require you give your card details.
Does the word "hack" mean anything at all anymore? For that matter, is this really any sort of "Genius"? grumble grumble
Kwikset is already the norm, but the burglars in my area almost exclusively hit open garages, break windows, or pry open doors.

Picking and bumping these locks requires cheap, dumb hardware and minimal skill. Your attack requires two operatives and some tradecraft - choose a target that uses August and has auto-unlock turned on, shadow him, get within Bluetooth range at an opportune time, etc. It requires planning, skill, and coordination. That's a bit harder than bumping a Kwikset or breaking a window.

Also, some possible electronic countermeasures (in software):

1) Confirm proximity to the door with a GPS fix before sending an unlock signal. Require confirmation if location is unavailable. Yes, civilian GPS can be spoofed, but that's a pretty sophisticated hack for a burglar. We're now at a difficulty level on par with defeating even the most expensive mechanical locks.

2) Always ping the user when an automatic unlock signal is sent. If your phone tells you it's just opened your door while you're at Starbucks, you know there is an intrusion in progress and you can call the police.
I can see it now, Kitton. The future of fabric.

Each Kitton t-shirt is guaranteed to contain as a minimum, the fluff of 30 of the fluffiest kittens and we at Kitton are dedicated to acting sustainably, with full regard for the environment, all while keeping a close eye on the bottom line, at our unstaffed combined kitty processing plant and owl sanctuary.
Ruger actually set up a site where you could put in your zip code and get back your representatives all the way up the tree to the President. Then, if you wanted, they provided a form for entering your information and any personal comments, and would send an email to all your representatives on your behalf.
Too bad there's no trial.
Suspect in Iron River Homicide Now in Jail
Yes of course.

It is basically a variation of:

"Excessive link exchanges ("Link to me and I'll link to you") or partner pages exclusively for the sake of cross-linking"

plus

"Large-scale article marketing or guest posting campaigns with keyword-rich anchor text links"

Source: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66356?hl=en
Wow, they write emails the same way they dress up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAzQPll7Lo
Your comments on this subject are less than worthless. Anyone who has been paying attention knows that Feinstein is a cancer on our democracy who needs to go. ANYTHING that raises awareness of her shadiness is better than nothing. Trying to tear down the hard work of activists when you yourself have brought nothing to the table is just pathetic.

Shame on Feinstein and shame on you.
Typically you wouldn't use lgamma to compute exact values of factorials at all. For a real world example of this function in action, look at John D. Cook's blog:

[1]: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/07/14/log-gamma-differenc...

[2]: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2010/08/16/how-to-compute-log-...

[3]: http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/04/24/how-to-calculate-bi...
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6955141
> Granted Gmail helps with the quick links, but that's only one provider.

An open-source project to heuristically extract structured information from emails that's useful to present at a glance could be interesting and useful.
"It's not true. It's not true. It's not true.

"...

"It's old news."

Anyone older than 22 or so who doesn't recognized that as a time-worn and common tactic hasn't been thinking critically.
I did say the fine was lient, 2x is awfully small. However comparing it to the total profits of the company is silly.

Personal things are different, laws have an easier time sticking hard penalties to people. You can't throw a company in jail, for a number of reasons. And since it is hard to pin anybody for it, you have to go back to an "appropriate" fine.
Alan Turing granted Royal pardon
Why do people stop with this assertion? Why not ask why the experience isn't as good? Who controls the web experience on mobile? (Overwhelmingly) the same companies that control the OS. The web experience simply isn't as important to those companies. There isn't much competition driving the experience to get dramatically better.

This is exactly why Firefox OS exists. Because the web had become stagnant on mobile due to a lack of competition.
Yeah, I'm not too knowledgeable about the whole situtation, but I wish Snowden had leaked the documents to the public. It sucks having to trust the press. Assumedly if Snowden didn't like how they were handling it he'd step in in some way, though.
I know that 2x wasn't enough, I am just saying the interesting number is the profit from the illegal activity, not their total profit.
Building a PC equivalent to the new Mac Pro
Some ISPs (talk talk) already offered it for free butit was opt in. Strong arming other ISPs into it and making it opt in was done because politics.
Violating Google's ToS doesn't sound like a good way of getting to and/or staying at the top of the SERPs over the long-term.
So far people have been saying that consultant should focus on solving business problems and not the technology aspect of the work so I'm quite surprised that DockYard made a bet on EmberJS (and Rails before that).

Can anyone explain why people would hire a shop with specific but general tech like EmberJS or Rails? (Rails make more sense a bit since it encompass the whole web-app but EmberJS is just for front-end). I can understand if the company specialized in Enterprise software like SAP, Oracle, SharePoint but less on Rails/Django/front-end-framework.
checking out the rfc. cool, thanks!
It's not "obfuscation", it's idiomatic English. It's simply how people say things.

In another reply to me elsewhere, you said that you have no political purposes here. Why, then, are you so convinced that this phrasing is used for the purposes of steering political opinion, and why are you so offended by that notion?
Heh. The second question makes me feel a lot better about my JS knowledge. I could probably answer what 'this' is when given some code (eg are we inside a class? or a jquery event handler?) but would be hard pressed to discuss it in the abstract... whereas setTimeout and setInterval have specific differences to point to.
Know Thy Congressman
EFF has a great action site on this issue.
https://action.eff.org/o/9042/p/dia/action3/common/public/?a...
To be honest, its probably hurt us as much as its helped us. There have been times that I have made bad business decisions because I didn't think the client was a good fit for us. Even at 2 years our sample size is probably not big enough to say if this is a sustainable direction. It would be great if it were, but I suspect at some point if we want real growth I'll have to get beyond this way of thinking
Still Unconvinced, Home Buyer? Check Out the View From the Drone
I know you can always backdoor it with the root key, and I decided to give up on this line because of that.

In theory you could guarantee the OTP going forward, but it would be impossible to protect going backward, which kind of kills the whole point.
In my former life as a freelance contractor, I found that reaching for a bottle at this point has much to recommend it; my usual regimen was roughly one ounce of Calvados, to one eight-ounce cup of strong black coffee, per hour. I found this to provide sufficient anesthesia to do what was necessary, without closely approaching the point of being too drunk to hack the sort of repulsively godawful PHP code which necessitates such anesthesia in the first place.
It picked 3 cities each about 50 miles apart that triangulated where I grew up. I guess some things follow us around in our life's travels.
Luke's Journey: An Examination Of The Hero's Journey Structure In Star Wars
I designed parts for the cluster-bombs that ultimately were dropped on Libyan beaches and when I saw them "staked" into the ground, my hope was that they'd prove their worth as a deterrent - and that the beaches would remain empty of humans until they had all "gone safe".
Given that this entire discussion is about the weapon, it hardly seems wrong to put the weapon in the foreground of the reader's mind.
OpenEmu: Multiple Video Game System
I met them at YC's Work For A Startup day and they do in fact talk like that.

Fun quote from one of the cofounders:

>Mr. Ohanian asked the panel, “One of the things I see time and time again is that we have companies who went to the West Coast and then come screaming back to New York. What was the driving force to come back to New York?”

Rap Genius’ Ilan Zechory took the question first. “It’s where we lived,” he said. “It’s where our friends were. There are no women in the Bay Area, genuinely. We never considered moving out there. We always felt like our West Coast trips were, like, all of us in a Nissan Xterra, in like a Weston, with some weed, trying to steal bags of money to bring back to the East Coast.”
Thinking that removing all guns would solve the problem of violence, or that outlawing guns would actually remove all guns, is a completely different notion from the question of whether people think guns are "evil" or they somehow kill absent someone holding them.
Orthogonal to my point, and I would guess that your assumption is incorrect. Well known cases are probably sociopaths, due to the combination making them more interesting.

But we are both just conjecturing :).
Ok, i'm arguing that trading conceptually more complex multiple inheritance for conceptually simple JOINs isn't a win because multiple inheritance won't protect you from stuff blowing up. You"re just against multiple inheritance because it's a conceptual mess (I agree) without allowing for the argument that it might work better in practice (which I have anticipated and dismissed).

Monopoly is concpetually more complex and less cleanly defined than Go, but not easier to play. I am saying that multiple inheritance is not Monopoly, but Go with extra, badly written rules.

This is a pretty minor disagreement. You ignore a possibility, I mention it in passing and dismiss it.

(Perhaps you're hung up on my stating that JOINs can be complex — conceptually complex is not the same as complex, just as universal algebra might breezily describe a realm of mathematics that has devoured the attention of geniuses for centuries.)
Paul Oyer: online dating an economics class
curious to hear what you found cringe worthy. was it the hiring/firing part, or was it how he described his client vetting process?
Check out this comment[0] on this post:

>Did you post it??? how about this: attach the HTML to THIS article and I'll tweet this out for you - that would be META!

Named as the same guy as the email exchange, Mahbod.

[0] http://jmarbach.com/rapgenius-growth-hack-exposed#comment-11...
The scripting capabilities of Google Apps don't get enough love round here. I'm fascinated what's possible in terms of mashups and hacks when you allow stuff to be scripted. Web APIs get a lot of attention but not APIs on apps and app-like stuff.
I wonder if this is someone we might consider even worse than Thomas Midgley, Jr. [1]. (In retrospect, of course.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley,_Jr.
We can say that we offer true expertise if we specialize. I don't think that small shops should be tech agnostic, they should pick a tech area and really try to kick ass in it. After a certain amount of growth there begin to be a lot of opportunities outside of your tech niche that might get you to start thinking about adopting other competencies. For example, we have been getting a few contracts for iPhone development. This might be something we decide to add.
I can't believe I'm reading about Iron Maiden here, since... it's my favourite band ever!
Are the settings locked down or do they just not exist? Apple would have to create and test the interface, make sure it's not possible to disable your device with it, etc. Which is a small thing, but easy to miss when there's no obvious need for it (except, of course, a few edge cases).
All the Haskell hate I have heard isn't on the language but on developers, not trusting everybody to properly implement the paradigm shift and all that.
They're quite possibly one of the smartest bands. It's mind boggling how much money they saved on their tour in 2008 when Bruce was flying their chartered plane which was converted specifically for the band and its gear.

Brilliant move on his part.
Here's a direct link to the pardon: http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/997305/turing.pdf
Static generators are useful for quick, very low maintenance products with limited out-of-box features that are not very extensible. Most people probably want just that - they want to create content and don't give a damn to add fancy new geeky feature on their blogs or whatever. You would hit a wall sooner or later if you do try to do something more. For example, how do you generate pages that return posts per category or date range. How about automatic page of "Popular Posts"? Technically you can but it would be lot of duplication and bit of a mess.
Inpakt makes it almost easier to donate than to write a tweet
The season of Snapchats
I agree with your conclusion but not your argument.

What does it matter if making a living as a musician through record sales is a historical anomaly? And can you really call it an anomaly if previous generations didn't have the option of selling records as the technology didn't exist? That's like saying "cars are a historically anomalous mode of transport". Great. So?

And by the way, in the early 20th century Broadway made a lot of money from sheet music. A product.
Isn't that a mis-print in the third line? There's an extraneous "it" in the text.
To expand on that, PACER charges $0.10 per "page." A single pageview can count as multiple pages, depending on length. They charge for not just actual docs, but for search queries, viewing the docket sheet, etc.

The rate is clearly not commensurate with the cost to maintain the system.
in this case, however, RG is "linking to you" from twitter's domain, while receiving links from the blogger's domain.

To google, this is a one way (non-reciprocal; read: "more valuable") link in RG's favor.
For me, the site's latency is not the issue. I find myself pulling my hair out trying to make the Wordpress admin area work the way I want it to work. If I can just stay in vim, I am a happy camper. If you force me into some WYSIWYG editor inside of an admin panel, I am going to get frustrated.
I'm more disappointed RG considers Bieber "rock"
NWBHM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Wave_of_British_Heavy_Metal
You notice this in musical traditions too. For a long time, putting your own spin on someone else's tune was considered paying homage, not theft. (You were paying respects, not royalties)
A certain Q/A site has been breaking lots of Google's guidelines for years and they are up and running.

Google doesn't seem to care if you're big enough.
I just barfed a little watching that.
I don't understand your "spike this deal" idiom. I can't make sense of an analogy to a spiked drink (rufie) or spiked football (scoring a point). The closest I can find is "spike somebody's guns" meaning "to spoil someone's plans". Do you mean someone wanted to prevent you from using RSA's patent in the JVM?

(I initially assumed you meant "force this deal".)
The Lumia 510 was indeed a WP7 phone, and one the (few?) things WP got right was smooth performance on low end hardware.