skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Delete.im is only really meant to stop things from sitting in your email / chat history. Passwords, codes and things like that. You usually send those to people you know.
It was never definitively proven but poorly designed software was considered to be at the heart of a helicopter crash that killed 25 people including almost all of the UK's top North Ireland intelligence experts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994_Scotland_RAF_Chinook_crash...

Software controls everything from nuclear power stations to missles to dams to radiation therapy machines (where, again, software killed 3 people - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25)

Proper software engineering is increasingly more important and, I'd posit, likely to become even more important than civil engineering for public safety as time goes on.
The problem is that most courses are graded on a curve, so these students just degrade everyone's standards. My 400 level university classes are absurdly easy. I can get a B just by attending class and spending less than an hour per week.
Set aside a few strange things you find on this website (e.g. testimonies sound fake...), CodeKit is an excellent program, I've been using for a few years.

GruntJS and Gulp essentially do the same thing of course, but CodeKit I guess 'interfaces' all those text-based configurations and once it's configured, well, it's pretty much done and you can just let it run in the background and forget about it.

Highly recommend it!
I tried to sign up recently with yahoo to access a yahoo group and they demanded a phone number which I didn't want to give them, so I gave up.
Annoying but I've just noticed there are icons to 'quick scroll'
What's the point of that? I just tried it, and I can take a screenshot fine with one finger on the screen.
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I've always felt that way, thanks to the voyagers (37 years and the two little unmanned projectiles have managed to move 16 light hours). My dad always tried to tell me we're just waiting for the next scientific breakthrough. Either way, I think we desperately need to take care of earth; I can't think of an analogy but the earlier we move to take care of earth, the greater the extension to the time we have.
By my count there's approximately half as much content on the new responsive site. It feels lazily designed.
Look, I understand that you are referring to that guy in apartment 4c who brings some pot for his buddies from Colorado to finance his daily bong. That is quite different from, say, a Pablo Escobar who sells in tonnes leading an organisation the size of a large multinational, including a private army.

I'm as pro-legalisation as they come, but any reasonable person would have to admit that the damages caused by the actions of the leaders of big drug cartels are, in the aggregate, causing at least as much suffering as, let's say, a single rape. I know I'm threading on thin ice here because this might make it seem like I'm trivializing rape, which I'm decidedly not, but regardless of what side of the debate one is one, it's wholly unreasonable to assert that drug dealers do not cause any suffering and that they are in no way responsible for that suffering (i.e. the 'users make their own choices' and 'if I didn't sell it, somebody else would have' arguments).
This is awesome, always happy to see continued work on Knockout.

We use it in our production single-page app at sendwithus, and while AngularJS is tempting, Knockout is so lightweight and nimble that it lets us move really quickly on front-end features.
Newly released Cryptocat for iPhone leaves text behind in keyboard cache
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_access_principle

In short, it doesn't matter which it is - a method or an attribute - as long as it's consistent.

What fundamental changes to the language you see when using methods instead of plain attributes? Aside from the fact that setter and getter methods in JS are bindable while attribute access is not.
EV owners will get an extra road usage charge. It's the model already seen in some US states.

What is funny is that much of the benefit of an EV is effectively they are a rolling tax-avoidance scheme - in many cases you actually get subsidised for the purchase. The cost-to-run figures rely heavily on the lack of taxation to work out better - and this is even more so in highly-taxing regions like most European countries.

This is obviously not sustainable once larger volumes of vehicles start to appear on the road.

Of course it would make me happy if EVs became popular and avoided getting loaded down with all the other taxes that vehicles currently attract. Because then it would raise the question why all transportation is taxed so heavily.

I know I am dreaming, though. EVs will end up just as taxed as every other vehicle on the road.
GNU C style is by far my least favorite style out there, but at least it's a style, and can be automatically checked.

IMHO, any style can be adjusted to once one gets over the initial aesthetic revulsion. I haven't yet found a formatting style that is truly better or worse than others, once one has learned it and its quirks.
We do our best. Once read - it's gone.
Direct link:

http://info.typesafe.com/acton/attachment/3608/f-004a/0/-/-/...
How would one solve this? One solution seems to be to generate key for each user and store the public keys on the server. If there is need to access the images on the server, encrypt them with a server key and then re-encrypt with the recipients' public key. Are there some problems with this approach (like some functionality of snapchat wouldn't work with this)?
I can see zero difference in the information density between the existing non-responsive design of that page [0], and the beta version of the responsive design [1].

While your point that mobile first design inevitably causes a lack of information density at desktop resolutions has some merit, it does not apply in this case.

[0] http://cl.ly/UFuw

[1] http://cl.ly/UFzs
FYI, the OTA limit was increased to 100MB back in September.

We're managing to squeeze our apps into this at the moment, but will likely need a similar solution using S3/CloudFront in the near future.

[1] http://www.macrumors.com/2013/09/18/apple-increases-over-the...
> In the US, a pint's a pound the world around

Having been born and raised in the US, I have never heard this before.

Presumably you are referring to a pint of water?

(Then again we never learned pints anyway, so meh)
I'll bite. What makes WordPress too heavy in your regard (I'm a huge fan of WordPress my self, so quite biased), is it the way you use it, or the themes you use?

At it's base, WordPress is quite simple, and it's the themes that define what it looks like and feels like to your users. If you are looking for something very simple then there's the simple twenty twelve theme which is very clean. The theme directory on wordpress.org is also full of themes, there's even a plugin that transforms your WordPress into "Ghost" (The same feel and layout).

But I would love to hear back on my original question as well regarding it being heavy.
Councils already have a 'nice little earner' in charging for parking permits for residents. And then there is the fines for people parking in a residential area without a permit. They are already making a ton of money from parking without having to install a single wire.
Another thought occurs to me. It isn't clear to me how much reading the source actually helps with finding most security vulnerabilities. It does seem like some of these recent ones in SSL have been found by detailed code review (after years of providing bypasses), but I mean in general.

It's remarkably hard to find a security problem reading the code unless that security problem is blatantly obvious. Part of the problem is that code also communicates intent, and security is in part counteracting that intent.

Most (more than 90%) of the security problems I found (almost all of which were in open source prjects) started off by observing misbehavior or wondering if I could induce misbehavior. This works because I would start off attacking an API, not the underlying implementation. Only after showing the problem would I look at the code. I think on one case, I was looking at code and thought "maybe that's a weak point." But in every other case, my testing was fully black-box to start (things later lead to a code audit in several cases).
I think you could have up with this explanation had you tried, or had you done an objective evaluation of the situation before posting, but for the sake of other posters who might be less entrenched in their ideological predispositions: the difference is clearly that Google doesn't do any filtering or doesn't willingly lead people to certain material. Google presents an uncurated (within limits, like DMCA takedown notices, court-mandated filtering, ...) overview of all links out there. To go along with the (strained) analogy above of giving driving directions to somebody's house and telling them how to get in: what Google does is provide an atlas, and maybe a way to search therein.
M62 engine FTW!
i don't know, earlier you were the only one who "praised" Iconic - that's why i asked

good to know though, that there are people like you willing to spend
I could not agree more.

BBC.co.uk used to be one of my daily check-ins, before the redesign some months back which brought with it that horrible slideshow with unintelligible pictures and a ridiculous lack of text.

I can't actually find what I'm looking for anymore, and I never even bothered making an effort to.

Awful.
Ask HNK: What's happening with cryptocurrencies?
In a very short period of time, MtGox in Japan collapsed with a hole of $400M, FlexCoin in Canada hacked which also means its ruin, and Autumn Radtke, CEO of Singapore's First Meta Bitcoin exchange commited suicide (or was killed). Also "Japan may tax Bitcoin deals, stop banks, brokerages from handling". A few months ago China also announced it would forbid banks to handle bitcoin transactions.

Is it all coincidental or do you think all these events are somehow related?

Also, as a side note, although I think it's probably not related with the cryptocurrency incidents, there's the deaths or "suicides" of several top world bankers and financial executives in a very short period of time. 3 of them of JP Morgan.
The point of it is to reassure unsophisticated users.
Here is the place where the troll began.
A million dollars in community grants to push forward a $45 billion merger? Did they miss some zeroes somewhere?
This isn't about hackers or even the NSA. The NSA is like the final boss. This isn't even passing level one.

The point is that you don't actually offer me any more privacy than if I just used the 'Off The Record' feature of many chat programs or deleting my logs.

Are 'off the record' conversations deleted the second they fall off your chat history? I doubt it. Are delete.io messages deleted once the server started returning 'this message is unavailable'? I doubt that too. More importantly I can't verify if you delete them then or even at all.

Now my sensitive data is not lying around in my chat history or emails, it is lying around on your server. If my logs are only stored locally I can delete them. Likewise if I control my email server I can delete them.

How can I prevent sensitive data lying around on your server? Are you more trustworthy than my email? Why?

The comparison to Snapchat and friends comes from the 'limited number of views' or 'viewable only for a time' feature. These features are trivially broken at best and misleading to non-technical people. These are marketed as privacy features and they're a lie.

If you want to bill your service as a pastebin style service that removes files after a time then go right ahead, I will not have issues with that.

If you want to claim that those features are to protect sensitive data? Then I have a problem. Services built around working with sensitive data need to be held to a higher standard.
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I think happy families are a good thing for society to have. Divorce is not ipso facto bad. Unscientifically, so far in my life I have seen far more children damaged by a toxic family life than by divorce. It's hardly surprising that if you've been with the same person your entire life, you're going to be very afraid of change even if your home environment is terrible.

Of course, it's preferable to choose the right person to marry and settle down with in the first place, so that divorce isn't even on the table. This takes careful introspection and maturity. How does forcing people to get married before they even find out if they are sexually compatible help? How does tying an important life decision to irrational biological instincts help people choose sensibly, so they can have a happy life?

>Maybe if all those damaged children of divorce had a say in the matter we'd return to traditional morality and shaming of sex outside of marriage

Traditional morality? How traditional? Which era do you think had superior morals? 50 years ago, when racism and sexism were common? A hundred years ago, when women couldn't vote? 150 years ago, when brother fought brother over the right to keep slaves?
> uncurated
Say what? When DDG said they didn't personalize searched based on your individual interests, much came crying foul, because they wanted their personalized searches, for some reason.

What gives? Can't have it both ways.
MongoDB web swiss-knife
I wanted to share this flexible, secured and real-time storage web tool, that I still find useful for many things.
Mr Flap makes Flappy Bird look like a sissy
How could I possibly verify that though?

Case 1: You delete my message once I read it
Case 2: You simply report it as deleted once I read it(but keep it stored)

Is there any way for us to distinguish the two?

The more important part of my post was "What stops Delete.im from saving your messages?". What if you get an order from your government's legal apparatus to save my messages?
Microsoft unveils project Oslo
You sir are a Gentleman and a Scholar
Global timezone watchface for Pebble SmartWatch
I primarily use "Java" on Android. I'm very excited to see the language progressing. Recently, I read Gosling gave Oracle a B+ on stewardship of the language:

http://www.javaworld.com/article/2087444/open-source-tools/j...

However, I'm getting pretty nervous with the lack of conformance Android Java has to the real Java stack. The two are diverging, and I don't see how Google can remedy this.

My guess is that Java 6 & 7 were modest enough that many developers of open source libraries thought it easy to support a profile that worked on Android.

If Java 8 adoption is as brisk as this poll suggests, with all the features many have been waiting for, I'm worried a lot of the libraries I use may become incompatible with Android.

Already, its hit and miss if a open source java library works on android. I just tried lmax disruptor and it didn't work. Things that depend on NIO.2 won't work either.
In many of these cases politicians are engaging in unlawful activities that a non-politician would be prosecuted for. If we had a way to challenge these unlawful activities in court that might help. Also if convictions result then all the costs would be paid by the convicted and the state, that way a lawyer could make a good living by putting politicians who are guilty in the dock and at the same time cleaning up the government.
They still have developers in London
These guys do it really well. I recommend them--looks awesome on mobile too! We made this one, just so you can see: https://rebellabs.typeform.com/to/BTGaVf
Granted, but I think I'm safe in saying the comparison was mosquito-to-human vs butterfly-to-flower, not mosquito-to-flower vs butterfly-to-flower.
Study shows High Protein diets may increase risk of cancer
Absolutely, this is a transparency thing.

Compared to npm asking for $300,000 in donations to keep the thing running. I'm glad RubyGems can run for relatively so little, and be transparent in doing so.
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The sole advantages of imperial units over metric units is that they are easier and faster to say.

50 miles is a ton less syllables than 50 'kilometers'
an inch is much easier to say than '2 centimetres'

What would immensely improve the metric system would be recognised, single-syllable slang words for every measurement unit. A lot of native-metric-english speakers try, they say 'mil' for millilitres, they say 'kays' for kilometres, but you're still left with either awkward decimal points or excessive syllables.

I am 'one point eight three metres' tall, or 'one hundred and eighty three centimetres'. Or I am 'six feet'. Guess which gets used most?

The curse of the metric is the endless tongue-twisters.
You are trying to make it harder to communicate for no benefit. The distinction you're advocating is not useful, to anyone. But the idea "the purpose of eyes is seeing" is quite productive, and faultlessly grounded in reality.
The abstract for the study is here: http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/abstract/S1550-4131%2814...

Unfortunately it's not clear from the article what else was being ingested... is it just high protein with little fat and carbs? Is it high protein with high fat and carbs? Have the mice been fed a sludge made of meat and sugar? Without those details, it's hard to judge whether this is relevant to people who are, for example, eating a high-fat diet that also happens to be high-protein, but has very little sugar. That they link high-protein to diabetes is a bit odd, for example, unless they're also giving a lot of sugar to these mice...
Are we looking at the same thing? I've got the new site open side-by-side with the last, and the total amount of content looks the same.
This reads a bit weirdly to me.

> Immediate Java 8 Migration Plans: 65% of Java developers have plans to upgrade to Java 8 within the next 24 months.

Er; "within the next 2 years" = "immediate"? That's a long-enough time scale that a lot of the respondents may be thinking "well, all our enterprise stuff is still on version 6, but surely my plans to overhaul everything won't take more than two years, will they?"

Also, 2800 is not actually a very high number, is it? Is that enough to be representative of Java developer intentions, preferences, etc.?
Scalaz seems to have given up on Scala
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This is already happening in Ukraine with the far-right having a lot of power now-

http://www.channel4.com/news/svoboda-ministers-ukraine-new-g...
No, we're not going to embed typography in images

What are you saying here - that it's illegal to publish a .PNG with text generated from a commercial font you've purchaes?
A lot of valid points on the downsides to the design.

But from a progressive enhancement perspective it's an interesting approach. The users who benefit from this are the ones with a slow connection and old phone, with the desktop + broadband users paying the penalty.

As a desktop user, I don't like progressive enhancement especially as the content I'm trying to read bounces around the page as it gets built.

If the goal is to optimise the user experience, I would have thought a nicer way (for the user, not so for the developer) would be to create content bundles for the different responsive modes and get it served up server side based on interrogating the user agent and looking up which support html5 etc.
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For me, there is a lot of work setting it up, getting the themes where you want them, then finding one of 100 various plug-in's for SEO or twitter or whatever, and figuring out which is the best, and which has the least security holes.

You are right, at the core, it is simple, but it is time consuming to me. And it falls over under load unless you have a bit of time or money to throw at it, or both.

I like the idea or working in a text editor of my liking, knowing that quote marked in code aren't auto converted to smart quotes, knowing that the raw markdown is raw, and I can move it anywhere.

I am sure you can do all this in Wordpress, I am just looking to remove all that overheard, as starting a blog again is feeling more daunting than ever given my current medical issues. If I can just get it off the ground I will be happy.

But I feel I have to do something, so I want to do something that gets me to my end goal as quick as possible, but allows things to possibly grow without me thinking about what a Varnish, CDN, Cloudfront, etc all are.
Education definitely does severely inhibit fertility. I think both have independent effects, but I have no numbers to hand so I could be off.
Where did I bring religion into it? It's valuable to have community norms that prevent people from throwing away their family as soon as times get rough or life fails to be "fulfilling" or entertaining. At least, ours is the first society that's ever thought differently, so we'll get to see how this whole experiment plays out.

Single parent families are a big part of the increasing economic stratification between rich and poor, and I expect our amorality will bear even worse fruits as time goes on.
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At the last newspaper I worked at, which admittedly was in a state capital, the vast majority of our readers were during the work hours, at their office desktops. It's never made much sense to me the idea of treating that use case as archaic and ancillary...except that making things "responsive" is seen as a catchphrase of being forward thinking, something newspapers are desperate to jump on having missed the boat for far too long
Facebook looks to buy drone company for “atmospheric satellites”
Random question (I have no clue of mutt or Unix shells (the code there looks like one)): But isn't that a problem of the receiving application? You can't really ask every single application that outputs text to sprout arguments to support every possible escaping that might be needed eventually. And whatever comes out of the `foo` part shouldn't be interpreted or parsed anyway, right?
I've known a few programmers who can, but I most definitely can not.

I started out as a [web and print] designer in my late teens and was stoned all the time. It seemed like a dream to me - stoned and productive. As I moved into programming in my early twenties, I found myself completely unproductive when high. Very much akin to reading a book while very stoned, where I'd find myself reading the same page for a while, and then while trying to focus, read the same sentence 20 times and realize I haven't comprehended a thing. My attention span wanders far too much. And now, about 15 years into my profession as a programmer, any more than the smallest toke will make me completely incapable of coding effectively (though I can generally think programming problems through just fine).

As a comparison, I've programmed drunk plenty of times. These days, after a couple whiskeys, I'm fairly useless - although I think that's more a case of "I'd rather relax than work" over being incapacitated.
Yes there are. I'm one of them.
Why has the South Park: Stick of Truth game been censored in Europe?
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Which makes it nearly impossible to collaborate with other that don't think like that.

It seems like nobody I work with even knows what styles are.
Is there a tool to check if you're affected?
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