skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are these the actions of a company that intends to stay in business? I would hazard a guess that the answer to that question is "No." Who would be foolish enough to keep their money with mtgox after 3 weeks of silence, and now with them seemingly erasing their footprint off the Internet? Even the worst businessperson would know their actions are jeopardizing their viability as a business.

So, based on that assumption that they know they will no longer be in business, you need to decide, are they going to make their users whole before shutting down, or not? Again, I would hazard a guess that the high-probability answer is that they will not make their users whole. If they had enough money, it would seem that knowing they are going to go out of business, the best thing to do is make their customers whole and close up shop.

The fact they aren't do this, to me, suggests they are attempting to protect themselves. If my guess is correct, then it suggests that they don't have enough money and are trying to figure out how best to save themselves from being sued or worse.
I hate to break it to you, but this is not going to keep you safe from a state-level adversary.

I could drone on about this for pages and pages, but the sad fact is that if you are a target, it doesn't matter that you are using a "secure phone", "secure OS", or "encryption".

Time and time again, these systems have been broken or breached with simple tradecraft and subtle sabotage.

The Pentagon has a concerted (and expensive) effort to validate or verify the absence of "backdoors" or evidence of "additional circuitry" on ASICs or subsystems of it's major weapons systems and associated gadgetry. Do you?

I tell people that their simplest way to avoid having their communications intercepted is to NOT. USE. AN. ELECTRONIC. COMMUNICATIONS. DEVICE.

UBL used couriers, flash drives, and cutouts. If you need that level of protection, SO SHOULD YOU.

When I need to communicate secretly I BUY SOMEONE A BEER.
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Tested on two 10.9 machines. No problems and both now pass the test at: https://gotofail.com/
Awesome story! I always wonder how safe for your eardrums it is when they rapidly inject water into your ear like that. Also, if you have mild tinnitus from going to concerts and such, not having your ears blocked helps a ton with not hearing it.
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Thank you for this answer. I will look into all these things but in particular the algorithms.

Do you think it's worth learning esoteric algorithms or just the fundamental ones in order to get a job?

Also, what do you think about design patterns? Do you use it in practice (often)?
Insults is definitely a bad idea but think that dummy content is unwise in general. In my experience, actual content almost always makes the design look different from dummy content.
Happstack's tutorials [0][1] are probably the most complete and easy to read. Yesod's book [2] is nice too but I tend to find that it always seems a bit out of date.

[0] http://happstack.com/page/view-page-slug/9/happstack-lite
[1] http://happstack.com/docs/crashcourse/index.html
[2] http://www.yesodweb.com/book
sorry, it was the return itself that was making it too long already. Basically assigning it locally took just exactly the number of characters, return was sticking out by one or two.
"A $700 high-powered tracking device that protects your privacy!"
What a scam.
Nope, it's still there.
To most people a phone is a phone. Yes they know iPhones are made with apples. Everything else is largely noise. Downloading apps is a form of entertainment - which store is not critical to enjoyment.

App stores are not the future. The future of mobile is that I can show you an app. If you like it, I 'send' you a copy and you complete the transaction via the app developer's mechanism which might be facilitated by some processing infrastructure. The future resolves to PayPal and Visa and Amazon not iTunes.

These are the early days when IBM's business was selling punchards on leased equipment.
For $629 you could by quite a few one-time or short-time use trac phones that you buy with cash. Wouldn't that be more secure/private than this?
Does it protect against this http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2006/12/can_you_hear_m... ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_X
It's very difficult to understand, especially considering that Windows Phone 8 runs pretty well on comparable low-end hardware (e.g. Lumia 520)

Unless these models persist under Microsoft, I can only assume that it's some last rogue action of the independent Nokia.

It's still a shame that they didn't put something with the quality of the 920 or 925 out with Android :/.
If it made it harder for non-state adversaries to create profiles about you, it would still be a good thing. I don't want the Gov. to know about my private life. But neither do I want any search engine, online store or ISP to have that data.

So even though you are right, it's still better to choose a safer technology.
If you're talking about getting it to compile...

If foo is giving you problems, write it as

foo :: (the type you think it should have)
foo = undefined

If it compiles you at least know your type is right. Then, leaving the type annotation in place, replace undefined with a more useful expression. (Soon we will all be using Type Holes instead of this trick.)

I like hdevtools for mark-errors-on-save. I don't know if there's an emacs hook for it, but it's emacs so probably.

If you're talking about debugging after it compiles... I'm still working on that. I spent part of this past weekend digging into QuickCheck.
A prerequisite for security is free software. Critical applications like the Silent Circle ones are proprietary, afaict. I have zero trust in the Blackphone and would not purchase one.
>would have deserved what you get

What do you imagine this would have been? What would a "fair" reaction of the protestors have been?

The poster wasn't 'using' the protests, they were using a public park. It is hypocrisy of this movement to take over a public space and claim it for their own exclusive use, while not acknowledging that the fact that the police let them get away with this is a sign of their own privilege.
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It is right, example:

US$100 "company", with one investor owning 20% (US$20)
New round of US$50 and the investor uses pro-rata right of 20% . He takes US$50 * 0.2 = US$10 out of the round. Now owns US$30 worth of equity in the US$150 valued company = 20%

Obviously valuations, various investors, various rounds, convertibles, etc. can complicate matters.

Lastly an investor could also only take part of his 20% right and would then get partially diluted.
"Avoiding" the doctor is one thing. Some people are even afraid of doing any sort of tests for fear they might discover something.

However, there is a different phenomenon. Sometimes, going to the doctor is not so straightforward. You have to go to a clinic, wait an unspecified amount of time to see the doctor. Once there, he'll prescribe several inconvenient things. And you know, we got stuff to do.

I went to a doctor a few months ago. I then had to do two tests, an abdominal ultrasound (which was fine, and I did), and several stool tests. These, I took my time. When I finally got around to doing them, I found out there is a time limit and the lab won't do them. I now have to go back to the doctor so that he can order them again. It's been months now.

I'll go back there... someday.
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Is Estonia the next Silicon Valley?
500 rs?? Good thing you don't live in the states, would have been a 5000 dollar operation!
It's great to see new asynchronous NoSQL drivers popping up regularly now. I guess the Play framework team started something when they made ReactiveMongo.
Nope. I took that photo and tweeted it. I subsequently phoned the vineyard. They had no idea about the mistake.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/14082734075741798...
> When I need to communicate secretly I BUY SOMEONE A BEER.

Hi Richard, it has come to our attention that you have been secretively discussing leaking government information to our enemy in a pub in central London.

What's that you say? You didn't discuss private information? Then why did you try to conceal your handwriting on the napkin from our CCTV security cameras?

We'd like to take you in for questioning. If you resist this may end badly for you.

On a sidenote, if they at least have 2 separate SoC's on board, and a self rolled hardware firewall to make sure the baseband can't access things it shouldn't access, that may still be a great improvement to what we have right now. It still won't protect you from unknown hardware level exploits, but it's better than nothing.
- and the instant ones aren't interruptible I guess?

People, I don't even get what you're discussing here. That TCP should be fine for any game's network code because it works for WoW?
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Masses of humans, whether it be the Internet or IRL, have a disgusting fetish for hyperbole.
Actually, I'd be surprised if CNN, MSNBC, etc. reported any real news. "Breaking Stories" seem to be reserved for politics and Hollywood antics.
Also, it’s not important. Stuff like that happens, but it happens rarely. Most of time it works and if it doesn’t it usually isn’t a problem. So sometimes there’s silly placeholder text. Who cares?

This is not a fundamental problem that needs to be solved. Sure, it’s easy to develop some better guidelines on how to handle this (e.g. guidelines that make sure potentially insulting language is never used and make all placeholders easier to find in an automated way) but that’s about it. There is no need to fundamentally change how production works to solve this.
I think it is fairly obvious that they all wanted a fairer more just system. That there are so many so many elements of the current system that they complained about is not a reason to ignore them.
Another way to do file syncing without a particular cloud provider is Camlistore: http://camlistore.org/

Brad Fitzpatrick is one of the creators (LiveJournal, memcache, etc.) and it's rapidly getting better and better. That said, it can still be a bit tricky to get everything set up.
Ask HN: Companies – how do you keep up to date with Government regulation?
HN, as someone who works in Government:

(1) I wanted to get a sense of /how/ you keep up to date with regulatory changes that affect your industry?

(2) And how you try to /change/ the policies themselves, if you do?

I want to get a general sense of the start-up tech. community's engagement with politics and the establishment.

Do you just ignore the Government? Do your have an outside agency that does all your Government stuff for you? Have you ever tried to get your message across about some-or-other piece of legislation, did you succeed or fail?
Some more annotated resources:

1. http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Web/Comparison_of_Happsta...

A relatively complete listing of resources comparing the three major framework/libraries. A lot of this information is outdated, sadly.

2. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5645168/comparing-haskell...

A SO question about comparing Snap and Yesod where both maintainers chime in. The major point of talking here is the Yesod style "Template Haskell" configuration.

3. http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/l0fne/what_should_i...

A similar question posed to /r/haskell with a great comment by yogostoth demonstrating Yesod.

4. http://softwaresimply.blogspot.com/2012/04/hopefully-fair-an...

A relatively balanced view comparing the three feature by feature. Again a bit outdated, but well-informed.

5. http://softwaresimply.blogspot.com/2012/12/haskell-web-frame...

And finally my favorite summary of the whole thing: the Web Framework matrix which considers each as a web programming embedded DSL and talks about their relative merits in a 2x2 table.
The classic feature phones is an older Symbian variant and Asha Platform OS is S40 from what I can tell. Symbian is still king in a lot of countries so Nokia will have to support it for a long time.

Struggle to see how this helps Nokia. Nokia Xs are smart phones at a price of a feature phone. Great! Welcome to an already very crowded low-margin market of cheap Androids in India, Brazil, China and Africa, the same market MS will enter with cheap 8.1 devices and where Firefox OS devices are heading. Yet, Nokia Xs have little extra to offer to the consumers that would significantly differentiate themselves from the competition.
Passwords may only contain alpha-numerical characters. Too bad. I have my creditcard in hand.

It also does not allow this 64 character string:

t9fvwlh8x4IQbXyqegNxCHYYvSKAMEfgrnSI0dIoFLmNyPq31TVZifSWgORG80rT

Claiming it is 'too simple' or 'a dictionary word'....

This is not going well....

Edit: it DOES accept this as a password: aKMDN47Ifdpg

Nope.
What's the story behind this? Some common shopping cart software?
This Verge article [1] says “The company will open source the vast majority of its code for the phone in order for third parties to properly audit its techniques, find holes, and ultimately help to improve the product.”

1. http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/24/5441642/blackphone-silent-...
How is that relevant?

My point is that the police turning a blind eye to the occupy protests using public space in an illegal way, and effectively claiming that land for themselves, is evidence of the privilege of these protestors. If the poster had pitched his tent in other circumstances, the police would have made him take it down.
Yeah, me too.

Once my ear got clogged,as happened with the original poster. However, the auditory impairment was nowhere that much. It seems that, as long as there is a path to the outside, you can hear almost as well.

Once it happened, I now have to go to the doctor 2 - 4 times per year to get it cleaned. If I don't let it build up that much, then the cleaning is easy. And, as the doctor is a specialist, he will not use the syringe, unless as a last resort.
exactly, however, when you point this out, the "cool" community votes you down quickly :)
Yes, but some of those people are easier to spot than others.

We have all those people where I work and I have learned to know what questions to ask each of them to make sure they did the right things.

Quality cross group code reviews help identify this stuff fairly fast.
The irony is that bad crypto like this is worse than no crypto. It is probably more valuable to specifically target users of this phone because they "have something to hide".
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I was an editor of a small print publication and this happened to me once. The caption below a photo was something like "Please tell me this isn't a stupid picture of XYZ" (can't remember what it was) as a joke to the copy editor who would eventually see it an laugh at how hilarious I was. Of course it slipped by because it just looked like a normal caption.

I'm not sure these examples advance this article's point too far-- incidents like these could have been avoided by more clearly marking that the text was a placeholder.
Had a quick play around with the demo. Two suggestions:

1. Please, please make tabbing between fields work as I expect (i.e. after I've filled in Book Title, let me tab to the next field down).
2. Please make ctrl-A select all text in that field rather tha making me use the mouse.
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Free market! London housing!? The politicians are all getting second homes funded by the taxpayer. The banks went bust but got bailed out by the taxpayer. "Emergency" low interest rates for the last 5 years.

The UK / London housing market is anything BUT a free market.
A recent up roar occurred in the world of chemistry when a paper was published with the phrase:

"Emma, please insert NMR data here! where are they? and for this compound, just make up an elemental analysis…"

Here is a link the supplementary information where the quote is located on page 12.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/om4000067/suppl_file/o...
Very curious, how did you discover that his name was Richard?

Edit: nm, I should have just googled it :)
Ask HN: What can I ask potential employers?\
This question is specifically referring to startups, because startups generally have more risk involved.
How I regret not watermarking the Lorem Ipsum wine bottle image.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/14082734075741798...
Kinda neat; reminds me of Merb (pre-Rails 3).

The engineering sensibilities may not be appreciated by all, unfortunately.
It's more a matter of different design taste than it is an optimization.

(I don't think it is controversial that Python has a relatively simple language definition/grammar/etc; regex as language syntax would expand all of that quite a bit)
The OLPC story kind of makes me think that announcing and planning a disruptive change when the disruption is mostly price based is a tricky strategy.

I wonder if Firefox might find it easier to just pick up existing low end android models and see if they can get a better experience with Firefox OS.
I'm probably alone here but my view is to ignore the government until you actually start making decent money.
People are good at different things.

Some people are good at creating and utilizing social networks.

Other people are good at finding high paying jobs.
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Also, we talk about it because it does not need any brain power.
omg i'm the smartass, i'll admit that
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Uh HUH. Assuming Twitter has my real name that is. LOL.
I don't and obviously you don't but overwhelmingly everyone I talk to does percieve it, or at least auto-assumes it is because of everything mentioned above. Well at least in people who don't actually use Aldi (or Lidl for that matter) regularly
Generally, there are some trivial precautions that will frustrate all but the most concentrated effort. Things like TRESOR, grsecurity, /boot on an USB stick, etc.
Yes IPv4 on steroids. Providing artificial enhancement by placing the burden on edge routers. So if you've got to replace the edge routers you might as well replace them with IPv6 compatible kit and be done with it.

Oh look this EnIP breaks IPSec because its fudging the source and destination addresses.

This should be a research project and not billed as a solution.
Google ‘nrsolis’, top result. Total time, 2 seconds.
The GC was part of the kernel.

The whole operating system was implemented in Oberon, just with Assembly for the usual parts there is no way around it.

Both languages have value types and stack allocation as well. GC is only used for explicitly allocated heap data.

Modula-3 allows for declaration of untraced references as well.
You can download the google apps (including Play) by simply downloading them from http://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Google_Apps. From there just open play and install Maps, Earth, etc. as usual. Works like a charm!
You could be raking in the backlinks. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
Glad you like it. We were indeed inspired by ReactiveMongo and Foursquare Rogue.

Looking forward to more feedback!
Reuse of the same username across multiple social networks/forums, I would guess.
In India it's somehow considered a safty measure to just honk all the time. You'd see big trucks with stickers "please honk" on their rear-bumper, sepposedly they won't know you're there otherwise.
I was having flappy bird flashbacks when I read the title.

I wonder if any MtGox customers have filed a lawsuit yet?
This is kind of interesting since facebook is finding that getting all your features into a single app is not necessarily the best approach.
is the corrected final version uploaded at the same URL? I'd like to distribute to some colleagues.
Nitpick: Haskell IS statically typed.
It's written in Python, and seems to use SQLite under the hood.

I guess it just applies tokenization and throws the text into a temporary database.

Quite similar to the Go project https://github.com/dinedal/textql, at least superficially.
I haven't yet done enough research to argue for or against the phone's security, but your point about buying someone a beer is poignant.

By conversing over the phone or with a computer, we usually expose ourselves to a greater risk of eavesdropping. We should ask ourselves if the medium is worth the exposure to risk, considering, among other things, the privacy of the information we're sharing.

That preliminary question seems to be missing from conversations about online privacy.
They just killed the internet.
I used to think it was a 100% lock that this project would get squished like bug the moment the Microsoft acquisition closes. Microsoft probably has a SWAT team of HR drones and lawyers sitting in vans outside Nokia offices to ensure that they do not incur any Apache license patent obligations, and that this project team gets sent to the Siberia customer support office.

But now I think there are two other possibilities. Not high probability, but possible:

1. Satya Nadella thinks differently about Windows Phone, and Microsoft embraces an Android-based product, much in the way that Amazon has. Not because Windows Phone is a turkey, but because Windows Phone is actually quite similar to Android technologically, and it makes sense to create applications that run on both, equally well, with equal features, in order to help Microsoft products penetrate the mobile market faster. The Nokia product becomes the most efficient way for Windows users to get a Microsoft app suite on an Android device, but any Android user will have access to the same app suite. Maybe Windows Phone prospers. Maybe not. But Microsoft wins either way.

2. Microsoft backs out of the Nokia deal. Satya Nadella thinks Ballmer was high when he bought a troubled OEM, including factories that make Series 30 handsets, especially now that Google got rid of Motorola. So all the lawyers that are not worrying about those Apache license patent clause issues are worrying about how to back out of the deal while minimizing penalty obligations. This would be a momentary embarassment, with many years of serenity as a reward.
Some Gaurdian articles are well done. George Monbiot always provides references to his.

The Daily Mail just publishes carp. Here is an example compare the numbers to the headline

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337208/Speed-camera...
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The low price is crucial - it's about emerging markets. Think Africa, Asia, South America.
Should have released tomorrow to be 21 and 1 day old. Looking forward to many more years with Ruby as my primary language.
Good idea. If I were them (and if it was legal to do so) I would even call it the "Comcast tax".
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