skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you. The amount of pro-Monsanto sock-puppets [1] in this HN thread just goes to show that Monsanto's evil extends far beyond what the general public should be 'allowed' to discuss freely. I really recommend watching the documentary about Monsanto's evil [2].

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/libertycentral/2010...
[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6_DbVdVo-k
Army uses Thrift Savings Plan in fake e-mail to test cybersecurity awareness
Production AWS keys on GitHub
That's my impression too. The most basic air force can defend against drones, let alone Russia's. Even this supposedly stealth drone is very obvious, from behind. Any IRST system would detect it immediately.
Old news. MIT administration has responded in a pretty reasonable manner.

http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N7/tidbit.html
I don't know of any university that would stand up for their students. My old school doesn't even do tenure anymore so they can muzzle the staff, and is run by successive former political hacks who all chaired some partisan fundraising society and were parachuted into the dean's office through cronyism. The associate and vice presidents are real estate speculators and lobbyists or did party fundraising who've been busy building large private condos on endowment land to sell to foreign investors in order to personally profit.

Defending a student from feds means risking their careers since they only got these positions through political connections. All of them go on to the Dept of Foreign Affairs or some other government appointed position. This is just a stepping stone for them, who cares about students.
Why should I vet my system before buying it? I've seen Linux advertised as "it runs on everything" plenty of times, and for well over a decade. It's rare to see someone who evangelizes Linux to say that hardware support on Linux is inadequate for a non-technical user to just make the switch.

If that is indeed the case I think it would be tremendously important to fix that.
> Murder doesn't commit itself, copyright violation doesn't commit itself. Plants to seed and grow by themselves, without any outside help.

Plants may grow, but fields of plants don't spray Roundup all over themselves either.
Whitehall was not looking at overall heath. It studied cardiovascular disease prevalence and mortality rates of British male civil servants aged 35 to 55 and as such is hardly representative over overall heath for the total population. Whitehall II was slightly broader in scope but was not looking at overall heath.

The primary health risks under investigation in the Whitehall studies include cardiovascular function, smoking, car ownership, angina, leisure and hobbies, ECG measurements, and diabetes.

Also, A Finnish study conducted a cohort study similar to Whitehall, but with greater analysis of the worker's stress. The study determined that decision autonomy was not a significant contributing factor to coronary heart disease, but that lack of predictability in the workplace was a significant factor. In the Finnish study, "predictability" was defined as high stability of work and lack of unexpected changes, and was found to correlate closely to employment grade.
See, the problem is that the people who complain about this are also the ones who say it's valuable to add women to a group of men (or indeed the reverse), because it results in more balanced decision making.

It can't be both. Either men or women are (as groups, i.e. averages) innately differ on the social vs analytical axis, and diversity is a net plus, or gender is entirely socially constructed, and adding women to a group shouldn't do anything in aggregate.

Studies point to the former rather than the latter.
How did we get ahead of the waves? Or did they wrap around a curved universe and come back to us?
Show HN: AlwaySyncd.com – A dedicated and encrypted BTSync endpoint
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Issuing shares to the public (that is to say, not to a restricted group of sophisticated investors) is far more difficult and expensive than just taking donations.

Here in Australia a proprietary company can't take investment from (or even offer the opportunity to) more than 20 people in a 12 month period, can't have more than 50 non-employee shareholders, and the people you make the offer to have to be classified as "sophisticated" investors (which is a specific term that basically boils down to having a lot of money and thus probably not being naive to the way investments work.)

If you exceed those thresholds then you have to register a prospectus with the Australian Securities and Investment Commission and there are mountains of guidelines, laws, and red tape to wade through to meet all the criteria in the Corporations Act.

It would be far better for OS projects to sell upgrades to their software (to avoid having the complications surrounding donations) for a nominal fee, even if the upgrade is open source as well. The motivation to pay for the upgrade would be to keep the project alive rather than get the benefit of the upgrade.

It's like reddit gold, it doesn't do anything I can't already do with reddit enhancement suite for free, but I renew my gold subscription every year because I appreciate reddit and want to see it continue (Eternal September aside.)
More accurately, it rests on the assumption that the patent system actually available now is the best way to structure this market activity. But I don't see GMO opponents offering better incentive structures, I see them making up non-scientific arguments that make no sense.
There are very few laptops that don't come with Windows or OSX preinstalled. They are out there (like Chromebooks) but there's not a huge selection of them, and you have to hunt to find them.
Definitely! What's pretty cool is that this is exactly the response of MIT administration as well http://tech.mit.edu/V134/N7/tidbit.html
How we scale MongoDB
Metamucil
> But the app seems to be focused on streaming very popular torrents, which means that generally all pieces will be available enough.

This lacks a lot of foresight.

> Also, all Popcorntime clients want the same blocks first, meaning they will both need and seed the first blocks more. So they do not cause an imbalance, as long as there are always some peers that have the full movie.

And this is just plain wrong.
Called Betteridge's Law of Headlines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
Common practice programming languages like Go are getting into the 1980s or so, research-wise. The Haskell community is into the 90s, along with some genuinely new stuff. Both have a long way to go before they're accepted common practice.

For as fast and as furious a pace as the world of computer programming likes to think it runs at, there is an unbelievably long line to get something from research to common practice. It's literally decades long.

Though there are some reasons for this; there's a difference between doing a research compiler and doing something that can actually be deployed in the harsh environment of the real world. Still, the world of computer programming does not advance anywhere near as quickly as it fancies itself doing.
There is some work being done on having an option to continuously seed the movie even after watching it, but nothing is crystal clear so far.
Is there any content in the popcorn catalog that is known to be license-friendly with popcorn's distribution mechanism?

I want to see the mechanism of popcorn work without violating copyright. I'd like to see a category for 'Creative Commons' or 'Public Domain'.
"To the People of New Jersey".. I can picture a Marsian saying this. Oh wait, it's Elon Musk :)
The disease that turns you to stone.
My apologies, I clearly didn't search well enough, and in retrospect it probably wasn't even worth saying anyway.
I can't believe how potentially disruptive Twister is! Haha and I love its system of mining for promoted tweets.

As I have always said, bitcoin (the invention) means the end of FB, Twitter, and all similar centralized corporate entities.
This is the follow-up to the U-2 as long as you ignore the beast of Kandahar and the sentence stating as much in the article:

"It’s the successor to the Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel, known as the 'Beast of Kandahar'”

BTW, the best and the brightest tried to call you on AUTOVON, they want their cold war threat model back.
http://What.CD for music

http://BroadcasThe.Net for TV

http://PassThePopcorn.me for movies

http://WhatBox.ca for seedbox

My in was What.CD (open interviews). If you want quick access to the other ones then you should get a seedbox on WhatBox. Upload 25GB with your seedbox, and then upload 5 torrents. Now you will be a Power User and have access to the invite forum which has unlimited invites for pretty much every other private tracker (including BTN and PTP).
If you buy most stuff with a bitcoin VISA, what's the point of bitcoin?
FALSE FLAG ABOUT TO HAPPEN?
How obscure is the stuff you download? Just last week I got interested in listening to Kaoru Abe, who was a Japanese avant-garde sax player who I'm pretty sure most people never heard of, and I not only found the album, as it downloaded in just a couple of hours. I frankly never felt that public trackers were lacking in that regard.
I needed approval from the landlord to start subletting, but no specific approval of the particular subletter.
Show HN: I created a scavenger hunt iOS app using Bluetooth LE devices.
> Nobody wants to work on hobby projects that have no chance of ever running on real hardware.

I never said hobbyist OS projects won't run on real hardware; I said running on real hardware is a "1.0 feature." Which is to say, around the 0.9, you start taking some real test machines, disabling their boot protections, and putting your OS on them. You get it polished.

And then, only after that, you go and apply for a boot-signing certificate from the hardware makers. Which, because you now have a real, polished OS instead of a hobbyist project, they will give you. It's sensible enough: if they gave a cert to every hobbyist developer, one of them might just be a virus-writer; but there are only so many groups who actually end up with real, working, polished Operating Systems that Users will want to run. And it's easy enough to tell when a group has made one of those, and to sign their bootloader.

This is, if you'll note, pretty much the same logic behind the iOS development workflow. First, you deploy to test devices that are specifically configured with an "I am an Administrator, obey me" flag. Then, once you've proven out your software on those devices, you get it signed with a "this is allowed to run on regular User PCs" cert.

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Also: if a "toy shell in Javascript" can both connect to the network, and use the browser's Javascript data-storage APIs to store data, then what makes it incapable of getting Real Work done? It's basically a (really slow) VM.
I'm in Melbourne, and our office's sole win8 machine shows the same thing. I think it's just homage to the home of MS.
That was brilliant. Now, how about "My Life as a Haskell Interpreter"?
No, cash does not. There is no equivalent to issuing one command to a botnet and collecting a hundred thousand people's wallets. Cash has other problems, which is why bank and Visa exist, but there's no zero-day exploit equivalent.

It's one of the reasons computer security is so hard. What in the real world would be a minor weakness that really is unlikely to ever be exploited is in the computer world an invitation for a bad actor to "SELECT * FROM private_customer_data" and be walking away with everything you own before the alerting system you probably don't have and probably aren't paying attention to can even go off.
Ask HN: How to immigrate considering my "circumstances"?
Developer/programmer here.

By circumstances I mean: wife and kids, age, skills.

I live in Brazil and I really would like to leave this country and definitely live in another place. I don't have any preferences for the place right now and I accept suggestions.

My main issue on immigrating is to be accepted given my age (37) and family. AFAIK, having an effective job proposal and employer sponsorship is the only way for many countries. Do you know anywhere where people can go on business or as tourist and apply for jobs?
To some extent it's true though. If you want to do things the paranoid way, then Linux does offer you many more possibilities of protection.

For example setting up different profiles for social networks / banking / random browsing / ... and protecting them externally to the browser using selinux/tomoyo/apparmor/whatever-you-prefer (or even go full virt with qubes!) will give you much more security - no breakout on a random page will be able to touch your sensitive data. And it doesn't even matter what the browser exploit does.
Or, just maybe, you're happiest living in a way that's really no one else's business.
The world in which Jobs and Gates grew up was very different, one in which computers didn't play as vital a role in everyday life, and compromising a computer system could cause less in the way of damage, simply because people did not rely on them as heavily. In our modern world, saying that young people should be free to break and exploit systems has very different implications.

We do not tolerate young people "learning" how to pick locks by breaking into peoples' homes, and we certainly don't argue that universities have a moral obligation to support such "learning." So why should it be different in the digital world? There was a time maybe when we tolerated that because you could do a lot less damage breaking into a computer than breaking into a house, but that time is long gone.
wouldn't arrival of the same event at four or more points (at different times) determine the original sphere center of the wavefront?
>This is why affirmative action and other "let treat women specially" crap is bad.

This does not follow from your premise.

The founder's wife's relationship to the company is inappropriate. That is also not what affirmative action is about.
Interesting idea, would recommend actually putting the price directly on https://alwaysyncd.com vs. only under "services" or on step 3 of 3 of the sign up process.
If you have a record of Monsanto suing someone who didn't productively use the Roundup system, I'd like to see it.

I doubt such a case exists, but that doubt is based on my belief that Monsanto isn't as aggressive as they're often characterized, not on the necessity of that component in the case.
How is a private tracker going to help if anyone can register an account there?
his frustration stems from the fact that even after at least 50 years of software development the handling of number formatting (and add in dates for fun) is still something where time and time again software developers fuck up.

it is amazing, all those CS and other courses and still every new generation of (predominantly) US developers discover the fact that there is a world outside the US.

the most dominant data point to prove that software creation is still far away form being called a form of engineering. it's hacking, children throwing shit together then calling it "working".
Wedding card printing – dont forget the enveloppes
Great post about printing and designing your own custom wedding invitation cards with some good tips and information on how the process works and where to get the best deals.
> Someone contaminated his property with Roundup-Ready canola. He chose to take advantage of that, isolate it, and replant it. He never agreed with anybody to not do this, or signed contracts to control what he does with what ends up on his property.

An analogous situation is someone tosses a movie DVD on your yard. You take that DVD, make thousands of copies, and then profit from them.
> So you think people will prefer to use worthless plastic/paper currencies that are continuously deflated by governments to fund war and oppression?

The currencies are continuously inflated, not deflated.

But either way, do you seriously think that governments won't simply use cryptocurrencies to fund both war and oppression if those cryptocurrencies ever become popular? Can you possibly be that naïve?

At best you'd decouple currency from government to make the concepts orthogonal, but Bitcoin won't get rid of oppression or war, let alone crime like theft and murder-for-hire.
What is a distributed system (in 2014)?
I saw that, actually. It is precisely the vague wording used in that phrase that prompted my comment. Saying it is "easy" in the context of HN could make it seem like you can write a script to do it from the command line or a bookmarklet or something. I figured I would share this trivial "hack" I learned about recently...

Though you raise an interesting point about "fairness." These people are trying to make paywalls for content work. It's the business model that everyone is wondering about... It's interesting to watch the news companies' experiments. I wonder what their figures are... Does the nagware-popover technique work or will the average Internet user figure out how to circumvent this technology?
Point well taken. Thank you and fixed.
> Given that mindset, what do you gain by having Administration rights to your new-age VT-100 Personal Computer?

The freedom and power to control what's yours. A chance to explore, to learn more about the system you're using and possibly adapt it to fit your needs. IMHO giving users that chance is very important: how many experienced developers started out as power users - who also were originally only users? By taking away these chances, keeping regular users relatively oblivious, fewer of them will want to go through the increasing hassle of "becoming a developer"; it becomes an abrupt decision instead of the continuum of knowledge it once was. This divide between "users" and "developers/administrators" only makes it harder for users to cross that gap, and takes control away from them.

> If you want to fiddle with hardware yourself, you get a Raspberry Pi [...] These devices are open in ways Personal Computers never were, having everything from schematics to JTAG pins available.

Funny you mention the RPi, as it's nowhere close to being as open as the PC/AT was.
I wonder if you could exploit Lynx with an SSL bug, given that it is the most complex protocol it handles.
Your parents point is not that MIT has done no wrong, but that Swartz is not the right example.
I second this approach. My current side project, a data analytics web service, born out of similar process.

1. I was downloading data on regular basis and manually analyzing data using Excel.

2. My wife wanted to analyze the same data but she didn't like my manual approach. And, asked me to automate the process, so I did and setup a system at home.

3. Then, she wanted to be able to remotely access the system at home. So I setup a VPN to access home system.

4. Then, some of her colleagues and friends wanted to use same system. So I setup a website with same system and user authentication.

5. That's how my web service evolved and currently has 1,000+ registered users.
The original Popcorn Time team announced they were stopping the project and their feed of torrents stopped working. So having someone else continue the project fits the headline.
Non-commercial piracy should be a civil matter, not a criminal one.
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Man Unwittingly Rents Out Apartment on Airbnb For "XXX Freak Fest"
The idea of secure boot could theoretically be a no-tradeoff security positive, but the implementation would be quite different from what it is currently. For starters, any non-user-hostile solution is going to have something like a usb device header on the motherboard as the highest-privileged interface to the system (with something like mandatory time delays to prevent against evil maid attacks). But to large manufacturers run by business people, the attraction to a hardcoded manufacturer-administered signing certificate for the trust root (which obviously erodes the owner's control) is just too strong for us to see a proper implementation any time soon.
Be careful what you wish for. History has shown that countries which are free to think will eventually outthink those that aren't. And what you're arguing for is restriction of thought.
Skype is available on Linux. On Ubuntu, it's in the "partner" repo.
> Modula-2 was created in 1978! Just to cite one memory safe systems programming language.

If you opt into garbage collection for the whole program. That's not the same overhead as C++. (I know you believe that GC is faster than manual memory management, but let's sidestep that debate by defining "the same overhead" as "the same memory management practices that C++ uses, with the same tradeoffs".)
I had a tough time installing Ubuntu on my Vaio Pro 13, but got there in the end. I had to do a lot of messing around to get the shitty UEFI implementation to read Grub. Didn't have to disable SecureBoot or do anything much to Grub, besides a particular boot flat necessary for the SSD.

It took about a day to get it up and running, but I've had no issues at all since.
Central Scotland seems to be around 25-30k.
HN is in fact, full of idiots. Look at the comments below.
With emacs and haskell-mode, I just open a Haskell buffer, and C-c C-l (control-c control-l). This will reload that buffer into another buffer that runs GHCi, creating it if it doesn't exist and using the existing one if it does.
"Lossless compression requires identifying the pattern that produced an input as perfectly as possible": no, it requires identifying it absolutely perfectly. This includes all vacuous information as well. E.g., in the Wikipedia example, if there were a 2d scatter plot of a sample from a bivariate uniform distribution, lossless compression would require "memorizing" all of the plotted points.

Predicting perfectly is much, much different from predicting well. Machine learning is about the latter, while lossless compression is about the former.