skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I usually respect your comments tptacek, but the fact is that Google have acted and continue to act to strongly effect a centralization of much personal information on the internet in an unencrypted form accessible to parts of the company and its host governments. That's just not cool, versus the traditional decentralized model.

All of their mitigation efforts are only lipstick on the fundamental pig here. Yes, they're not the only ones. Yes, ease of use. But that doesn't change the model.
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How would that be a 'meta-pidgin'? A 'meta-pidgin' would be a pidgin formed by combining two separate pidgins.

What you are describing in [1] is a language change due to user error, not the creation of a pidgin.
The politically viable argument is that it will create jobs, and is indeed false.

The serious, economic argument is that companies shouldn't have to keep profits abroad simply because of a screwy, distortive tax system at the international level. And it is a valid concern.

(Before anyone says it, yes, I'm aware that some taxes, by design, distort behavior in a socially desirable direction. Differential corporate taxes at the international level ain't one of them.)
Facebook Ads are a real shakedown scam, & getting worse.

After reading up on other's experience, I ran an experiment last week:

I started a stupid comic blog (http://omgcmon.com). I made a facebook "page" for it too.

I posted an link from my stupid comic blog to the facebook "page". I posted the same link to my personal status.

The posting didn't even show up in my OWN news feed, unless I changed it from "top stories" to "most recent". (All other posts from me, show up in my "top stories" at least.) My friends & family didn't see it either.

But, when I took the same image in the blog post, & put it in facebook as a "Photo", then people saw it, commented, liked, etc.

So, it sure does look like Facebook knows that the link was on a "page", & then used it's secret algorithm to suppress it, as it knows that will, over a large population, cause more ad dollars to be spent to boost "pages".

So, the money/profit will flow well, but not forever.

Run your own experiments if you doubt it. It's not hard to get this data yourself.
Appointing cronies seems to make it easier to get reelected or prepare a nice landing for after you political career is over.

What incentives can be applied to promote appointing the competent and unbiassed?
I think the details matter here. The bait and switch being referred to is in regards to engaging with followers, not the ad platform directly.

I can see where you're coming from. We've always assumed that Likes had no inherent value -- they are worth exactly the amount of extra revenue they ultimately generate through better reach and/or conversion rates -- so we never ran campaigns whose only goal was something that happens on Facebook. However, I accept that others might have had different expectations. In any case, nerfing posts so you have to pay to boost them if you want the same coverage you had before was clearly a hostile move on Facebook's part.
Don't for get to call your ISP and demand your cut of the money they're now earning for pimping you out to the content providers
In that case I am curious what makes cwe think it's bad PR rather than good PR, and also curious if there is some unstated reasoning, other than pure speculation, that makes cwe believe it to be timed intentionally.
End-to-end encryption is a pretty reasonable threshold. Skype proved it could be convenient enough for grandma

Err .. are you are aware they give out keys to certain governments and send different code to certain clients (eg. within China)? In privacy terms they are basically the same as Google now with its centralized model and SSL, just using some obfuscated vaguaries of P2P slash centralized communications paths (which they refuse to document openly) instead of centralized store and forward.
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Hi theflyingkiwi42. I'm a co-founder of Balanced. Happy to answer whatever questions you have about our product and hear how we can make Balanced's ACH products better, but don't want to derail this thread. Would you mind commenting on one, or more, of our ACH related GitHub issues [1]? Or you can email support@balancedpayments.com to expand on your thoughts here. Cheers!

-jkw

[1] https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/search?q=ach&ref=cm...
After I finally understood monads I thought about writing a tutorial. My thought process was "Well I understand it now, why couldn't someone have just explained it this way". Then I reevaluated and realized everyone has those thoughts. It's just a hard concept to grasp on the first try. One really just has to grind away and force themselves to use monads for a long enough time to really grok them.
That's more of a combination of what the press is writing about, plus the fact that he's much more open and forthcoming about that stuff than his predecessor, than it is an actual observation about what he's spending his time on.
Not FTP - Secure FTP - SFTP.

When I was involved with this it was SFTP for the transfer, to a write-only folder (you couldn't list contents) and the file uploaded had to be PGP encrypted with a key the bank gave us and we verified over the phone before starting the process.

Even if it had been email, or plain FTP, the file was encrypted and only the bank had the key... even we couldn't decrypt it, due to the nature of Public Key encryption.

Plain old FTP is not considered secure by any means, and is largely disappearing - SFTP is standard now.
> functional programming.

That's not functional programming.
I prefer the classical paperback, which you can easily highlight/write notes. However, I just carry a programming book to learn low-level details during my daily commute. Most of my learning is done during practice referring to online resources.
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For the lazy, I'm no fun:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/usrbinnc/netcat-cpi-kernel-module/master/tracks/trk3data.h | perl -ne 'print chr hex' | mplayer -
I'm not a game programmer, but the movement around ECS is very interesting to me.
Concur. Worst UI ever. (Well, probably not ever, I've heard terrible things about the Halliburton/Schlumberger stuff used in the oil industry, but worst I've come across.)
Because there are a lot of followers. Being a superstar model, only a few people are pulling in the big bucks. A lot of people are hoping to follow them. They are currently keeping up and spending a lot of marketing dollars is the only solid way of getting new users, but they will run out of money before they get their "hit". Then we will see a massive consolidation in the mobile gaming space and a subsequent collapse in the current mobile marketing boondoggle.

[I got a downvote too, just for fun I guess :D]
Analysis: Why politicians don't just say what they mean
If you curl those tracks and like what you hear, you might want to check out our bandcamp page at http://netcat.bandcamp.com too
As stated elsewhere, it allows small investors to buy in -- and the stock advance of their AppleTV release it could mean that they are expecting a ton of attention from the lay investor.

The dates are significant: The split happens the evening of WWDC launch.
I'd go so far is to buy the time (through money or barter) of an existing senior web developer in your target language for 4-8 hours. There is nothing like pairing with someone who has already done this to get over so many of the introductory hurdles.
Likely it's not SFTP as in the secure file transfer protocol related to SSH, but is actually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS
Not bringing this cash back home means it might eventually got spent oversees. We don't want it, or do we?
I have no doubt this is true of many organisations.

As the client, though - we uploaded via SFTP, the connections were IP restricted and the files were PGP encrypted.

I know that doesn't address what happens after we send the bank the file - but that's not our concern, right?
Question:

The split for existing shareholders is June 2nd.
The stock starts trading with split values June 9th.

What happens to trading from June 2nd-June 9th, during WWDC+ and after they announce their TV?
I remember that. ARM was doing great with Newton until Intel bought and killed Strong ARM.
It's a problem not limited to politicians. Startups often use a lot of jargon to sound further along than they currently are. So, I thought this would be a helpful reminder to focus on clarity in our writing.
> Also, a large codebase can be very easily maintainable with tightly coupled components

Agreed, but having worked on large codebases it's usually easier to plan ahead and decouple from the start - it can be hard to decouple components later when you didn't plan for it. It's also much easier to properly unit test when you can trivially inject a mock.

Of course this is only relevant if you're building a large project. The typical web app just doesn't need it.
It's not a law. It's an "administrative regulation" and there's nothing anybody other than the FCC commissioners can do to stop it.
Bitcoin doesn't let me withdraw US $ from one US bank account and deposit it in another US bank account in bulk.

Bitcoin lets me transfer bitcoin around - which is fantastic and wonderful - but it doesn't address the problem at hand.
I guess it begs the question (FIPS mode seems to fail the "talk to a cryptographer rule"): why don't/aren't sec folks more involved to assure standards are meaningful? Was this a NIST-driven process or was it open to public comments?
also (I think OP linked the #cabal anchor to highlight sandboxes and other cabal hygiene) take note of the 1.20 release, Dependency freezing and no relinking by default

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/23i6ih/announcing_c...
It creates instant millionaires that want to buy houses, cars and start new companies.

It basically converts an illiquid business asset for a person(s) and concerts it to a liquid asset.
I'm moving back to the states in a couple of months, what the actual fuck. Is this true or are you exaggerating for effect?

Are they really double dipping with their customers? Which ISP does _not_ do this? I'm moving to Boston. I want to pay an ISP $X and download at X speed - they shouldn't care what I use it for.
The monad tutorials the author is suggesting to avoid are those that make monad analogies. "Monad are like ..." because the analogies are always leaky and pretty much always gives some wrong impressions to beginners.

The presentation here however just gives laws and usage examples. This approach makes it harder to give incorrect impressions to beginners.
Computer operating systems are increasingly closed to "uncertified" apps, so how long before "uncertified" internet sites are also closed?
> Each election is won, 75 - 90% of the time, by the candidate who spends the most.

Source? Tell that to Meg Whitman.

The biggest problem I have with the argument about limiting the amount of money that can be spent in elections is that it essentially implies that the electorate is uneducated and easily swayed. So shouldn't the solution be a more informed (however you want to do accomplish that) electorate?
This is pretty awesome. I'm surprised that you can get such a detailed and responsive image with just different characters. Very cool.
I certainly hope so, I'm getting their service in June.
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>Honestly the assumption that we want to stream everything is a really good assumption.

It's really more for the providers and cintent owners: keeps customers tethered and paying for the privilege of suckling from server teats whenever they consume content.

Because, really, storage could be made just as easy for consumers as streaming if providers had the will.

Instead, it's "put everything in the cloud, then pay us over and over again to access it".
I'd like to buy it in physical form, if that is in the works. I've had a hard time using mobile versions of non-trivial texts and tend to bookmark without ever revisiting.
Or not pay the HBO tax and either buy the shows on disc or go without watching them. I refuse to sign on to this entitlement mentality that says I have an automatic right to watch popular shows by hook or by crook.

This isn't an endorsement of the status quo for consumers, but I do think that publishers such as HBO have the right to sell their content in whatever way makes them the most money - they're running a business after all.
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The hashbang was a stop gap solution for helping search engines see ajax content. The companies that had turned to hashbangs, have just as quickly turned away from using that technique because it's a poor hack, not a well thought-out solution with a roadmap forward. pushState is the, apparently, likely path forward (Google for example has put its weight behind that approach over their previous support for hashbangs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiAF9VdvRPw).

The # is still very widely used in urls, for direct linking to a part of a page for example.
None of the current generation of the "band" devices are in the finished category. I have tried the Basis B1, Jawbone up and my current device the Fitbit Flex.

The Basis was the most sensor packed bundle of the lot and that is a device with lot of promise - two major issues for me:

- I never got used to the fact that it needs to be in Snug contact with your skin 24/7 for all the sensors to work this can get tricky when you sleep (for example) and the device is on on too tight

- No vibrational alarm A device that senses when you go to sleep does not have a simple mechanism to wake you up smartly - just stupid.

The Jawbone up was an unmitigated disaster - should never have been released.

My current device is the Fitbit which seems to have gotten most of the stuff right, but I still have to tell it when I fall asleep and when I am woken up.
I also have the Aria Scale from fitbit.

As other commenters have echoed, the first device that will make it "totally frictionless" to record all the data will be a blockbuster.

My Ideal fitness device will also have a powerful camera that can take a fast snapshot of any food I eat, use magic algorithms to find a match to stuff known foodstuff (by using Image matching against a database of known foods) and automatically give me the calories and micro-nutirents of everything that I Eat/Drink.

Then we combine all this data with services such as WellnessFX & their Blood Markers...

Then we integrate implantable "micro-labs" that sample your blood 24/7...

Then we add in genetic data from 23andMe...
Sounds good because it suggests sec industry disengagement. Probably simpler to do that and maintain it as a set of minimal patches to LibreSSL, because not many people need it. Either way, it should be secure by default.
First, my earlier comments on a "competing" approach from Facebook may help give relevant context for how to think about these numbers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7393378

Briefly skimming through this paper, it appears that these numbers are not a fair comparison, as this paper uses the unrestricted protocol of LFW[1], whereas the other methods in the ROC curve shown in the paper are using the restricted protocol. As you might imagine, the latter is more restrictive -- specifically in terms of amount of training data allowed. And as I mentioned in my previous comment, training data is king in these kind of systems -- more is always better.

To go slightly out on a limb, I think more significant than the new theoretical model proposed in this paper is probably the use of lots of different types of datasets for training. (Significantly more data >> more complicated models, most of the time.) But I'd have to read the paper much more carefully to be sure about this.

[1] http://vis-www.cs.umass.edu/lfw/results.html
Streaming is waiting until the point of consumption to download. Buffering entire movies/shows would make a lot of use cases viable that currently aren't.
I feel like being stuck between the second and the third type of burnout. Honestly, even though coding was my passion since being 13 years old, I had serious troubles at every single programming job I took. My productivity always seems to be at 10% of what I expect from myself; every time I have to think about something I start feeling sleepy (and I need to sleep 8h/day just to be able to get anytthing done), and I procrastinate like you wouldn't believe.

For the last two years I thought that maybe, just maybe, it was because I suck at coding and my work troubles are a symptom of me not being really into programming. And then, few months ago, I stared a completely pointless side project. Back came to me the passion and productivity. I can get more done in 1h for my side project that in 8h at my job. Through the last few months I gradually regained the faith in my own programming skills. I realized that I do indeed know how to code; it's that I just can't force myself to work on stuff I don't give a fuck about.

I'd love to know what to do about this. I understand that it's easier to work on your own idea than on someone else's. But having like order of magnitude differences in productivity between my job and hobby project... this just feels wrong.

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It wasn't really directed at you (except maybe the cynical part).
OMIGOSH!

This story was in a sci-fi compendium that my Dad had. It made a huge impression on me what I was about 12 years old. I must have read it at least 3 times.

At that time, the name of the author (E. M. Forster) meant nothing to me, and I had no idea just how early (1909) the story was in the history of science fiction.

In a way, the fact that it's so early means this work has aged better than more recent works. An author in, say, the 1970s, would look at the technology around him, and base his version of The Machine on that. But in E.M. Forster's time it just didn't exist (apart from the airships) so he had to use his imagination.
> Would now be a good time to buy? No, yesterday was a good time to buy (that's okay, I didn't either) because it's up 8% in afterhours. Earnings are tomorrow, and never ever never buy AAPL the day before earnings (it almost always go down the next day). WWDC is coming up, so it could be "AAPL announcement means they'll soon own the $WHATEVER market. Buy!" or it could be "AAPL announcement shows that a post-Jobs Apple is doomed. Doomed!"

That's wrong. This announcement came as part of the earnings announcement - it is already out and they did have a great quarter (hence the 8% pop).

To another point, I would expect a slight appreciation from the stock split. Apple is one of the most traded retail stocks and affordability could certainly provide a bump to the stock.
Why would anyone call an Uber for 6 blocks? Honest question. That's about 1/3 to 1/2 a mile!!
Even if you'd paid half or a quarter of that, wouldn't you say that's a bit much for six blocks?
This is a dupe because it's already synced to git mirrors of openbsd sources.

http://anoncvs.estpak.ee/cgi-bin/cgit/openbsd-src/tree/lib/l...

"When I grow up..." Tandem multiplication commit is hilarious.
Kind of ironic that you're making this statement on this thread. The Net was indeed supposed to democratize the world, including, presumably, politics. A candidate would then be able to run a bootstrapped, grassroots campaign.

But, that didn't happen, and for reasons very similar to the subject: entrenched interests use their money to continue advancing their own agenda through the media, other corporate gatekeepers, and regulatory capture.

It will soon take $1B to run for the presidency, and about as much to pay ISPs in order to launch a competitive streaming company.

So, you might just have it backwards: the current rules have to change in order to allow for a viable bootstrapped candidate. This, instead of such a candidate miraculously making her way to success, then changing the rules.
Android isn't one platform. Most of the growth is in AOSP forks that are non-Google.
This is one of my principal reasons for being a singularity-skeptic. While runaway technological innovation might be possible, I think it's likely that economics and politics will stop it.

Physics won't stop Moore's law. Industry consolidation, slowing innovation, and a lack of demand will. I would not be terribly surprised if we never see computers more than 2X as fast/powerful as today's, since without corresponding software and networking innovation to drive demand why would they be built? That's a tad shy if what would be required for strong AI, "mind uploading," or any of that stuff.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/215642587/Finance-and-the-Future-B...
Not actually true: see article 22 of our tax treaty with China, which has been in place since 1984: http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-trty/china.pdf

The US has similar tax treaties with a lot of countries. Double taxing is not a significant problem in the real world.
Of course this had to be done rolls eyes
Not sure such an approach is needed. The same key used to encrypt email could be used to encrypt a search catalog. The user decrypts the entire catalog when a search needs to be done. The risk of the catalog getting too big could be mitigated by making the indexer constrain the catalog to emails from the last 30 days or so, and making the complete catalog available offline. It can be tuned by letting users add important older emails to the catalog, and so on.

It's an approach I've used with a store/forward database and worked well for me with that.
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I'm surprised the opinion is controversial.

Every complaint I've seen against the 5c was that it looked unprofessional, was too colorful, or looked cheap.

People didn't buy the 5s over the 5c because it was expensive or offered more features or power. They bought it because it was the only option that looked like a phone and didn't attempt to call attention to itself as a fashion statement.

Apple banked on the lower price offering requiring further differentiation and uniqueness to sell well. In fact, it requires less differentiation and more generic appeal to be acceptable to the larger market.

They designed themselves into a tight niche, instead of opening themselves to a real market. Big mistake.
> potentially a legal requirement for them

We've learned more than enough real facts from Snowden's disclosures that we don't need to make up hypotheticals.

There is plenty of evidence that security services are out of control, and that corporations are collaborating with them.

There is no evidence that Google allowed any government agency to embed monitoring devices in their network.
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Haskell's a good language, but I would add to this list the use cases as to where Haskell is the right tool for the job. I think this would help a lot beginners get a better grasp of Haskell.

For example, I wouldn't tell someone to write a web server backend in Haskell if it's going to be in production. Sure, you can do it, but there are more adequate tools for the job. On the other hand, if you were looking to create a DSL or write a parser, Haskell would be great. This is how Galois and Facebook are taking advantage of Haskell.
> Every morning my app servers go from zero to a million miles an hour

Sounds pretty predictable to me.
Here is the kickstarter page if you want more information than simply the video.

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Ask HN: Interview Question
On Monday I have an interview at a firm that does websites. In the email, he sent me two sites and asked me if I was capable of building similar ones. The sites he showed me are pretty bad. But that's beside the point. Would it be a good idea to take one of the sites, redo it my way, and show that to him on the interview?
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