skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have been inside "commercial" chicken housing myself. They look very similar to this video. That was kind of disappointing. I guess I was hoping to see full spectrum light permeating the entire place. Sort of like Joel's set up

http://polyfacehenhouse.com/2014/03/chore-time-layers/
It really is a particularly pathological special case of "correlation does not imply causation." Often the key is the presence of a confounding variable.
Here's my question. I don't know if the documentary follows this vein or answers it, but I'd like to know. Does Carmen Ortiz (or her bosses) feel sincere remorse? Or does she feel like she's a victim of who-knows-what?

Like Richard Fernandez [1], I can say the appropriateness of her behavior is beyond my competence to comment on, but the context of her actions is pretty interesting.

Carmen was being groomed for a potential run for Governor. Before her witch hunt blew up in her face, she was getting glowing media exposure [2], describing her as the protege of high Democratic Party officials, helping cement her story in the minds of voters.

Sadly, in American politics it's all about the story you can tell. Oh, your parents were born in Puerto Rico, and you grew up in poor areas of NYC? Well, dear, with your rags-to-riches story and our headlines, we'll sell plenty of birdcage liner, we'll sell your story to the masses, and good luck on your election.

The story is what matters ... and the story of a US Attorney who grew up in a housing project while Hispanic and female makes a formidable political opponent. The "narrative" plays such an important part in public life these days that people can hardly go anywhere without it. From Lance Armstrong to Manti Te'o everybody seems to need an angle.

It seems to me like Carmen just needed a good scalp to hang on her wall, and if that meant charging Aaron to the moon and back (hoping for a plea deal to a tiny fraction of the charges) well you know what they say about eggs and omelets.

But ... Aaron was a human being. You can only push someone so far, before they behave in a way you don't expect. And how the mighty Carmen fell [3]:

Just days ago, speculation was rampant. Gov. Carmen Ortiz? U.S. Sen. Carmen Ortiz? Well, that’s all over now. U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz is done. Finished. Forever linked to bringing the full and frightening weight of the federal government down upon a 26-year-old computer genius — and a suicide risk.

So like I said, how does she feel? Another article in the Boston herald [4] mentioned she was terribly upset at Aaron's death ... but if you read carefully, the article says she was terribly upset at being blamed for Aaron's death. Now that's something different.

I know where I stand. I suspect for legal reasons the film doesn't even touch this question, which is maybe even reasonable, I guess ... give her the benefit of the doubt ... but at the same time it's rather sad, since she certainly didn't give that to Aaron.

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[1] http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/01/17/crime-story/

[2] http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/12/07/patrick-reported...

[3] http://bostonherald.com/comments/1062230411

[4] http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/01/...

[also] http://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2013/01/17/ortiz-is-done...
"old"?, there are hundreds of ACTIVE numbers stations today: http://priyom.org/
Android graphics system-level architecture
Not completely dissimilar, recently there was a Help Me Out/Help You Out thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7573172

It sparked several interesting conversations, so the results were good for me, at least.
ROFL I just glanced @ your blog. I see you've made the most of the situation
How does an operator reliably, repeatedly and securely use "asymmetric public-key cryptography" in an environment where the possession of a laptop is cause for suspicion?
I propose the term "spurious neuronal excitation."
No mention of corporation and power at all? This is pure apologism.
I'm the creator of the app. Feel free to contact me by http://www.dennyzhang.com

Thanks.
Not sure what it's like now, but a fair few of the frontend people I've worked with were complaining about it a few months ago because the mixins it provides were unreliable.
> As soon as you bring on other people to help, it's hard to call it "stupid"

only if they have egos you have to worry about offending. egos can be a really horrid thing.
Yeah - let's further concentrate power in the hands of the wealthy.

/s
I find it has more to do with clarity of thought, and in my experience the top founders all have it.
HTTPS Everywhere for your Security
New World Cup song (England)
Agreed. Echoing primitivesuave's warning, I would give the partnership a test drive first with a small project.
Ha, why of course there is, I should have figured.
Thanks; cool list of goodies. I assume the Zap bookmarklets were what you were prescribing for this particular problem.

If I really care about the content, I fire up Safari and use the Reader button (works well for "you've exceeded your free views" overlays, too). In this case I didn't care that much (I fired up two other browsers and a mobile device only out of idle curiosity about whether it was specific to one browser or just plain broke).
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Paper: Can Programming Be Liberated From The Von Neumann Style?
OTPs and number stations can't be cracked mathematically and the channel is secure as long as the receiving end doesn't let the pad get into bad hands (this is achieved by compartmental communications and code words on top).

I would have thought that recent OpenSSL, SecureTransport and GnuTLS news would disprove your point. Not only that, we don't know what bad actors with unlimited resources can do with our communications if tapped.

So number stations and OTP are still viable and always will be.

With respect to numbers stations the transmission is centralised as well which means it's hard to break the channel infrastructure without crossing a border physically.
Ok, I'll put myself out there.

Since I sold my company to LinkedIn (2011), I've been looking for something interesting to do. I found it with cryptocurrencies. I've been playing with Bitcoin and Dogecoin for a while, and written a few little utilities in Clojure and Java. See:

https://github.com/dbasch?tab=repositories

I hacked https://cointipping.com/ a few weeks ago, but I don't want to work on it by myself. I'd be open to joining a cryptocurrency startup as a cofounder, or to brainstorm with others who want to start a cryptocurrency business.
- pyhs2

- https://github.com/bradruderman/pyhs2

- Python library to programmatically query hive. Skills needed (python, java, thrift, c)

- https://github.com/bradruderman/pyhs2/issues?page=1&state=op...

- I would like a contributor who understands thrift, and how to optimize it. I would like to remove the dependent libraries (sasl + thrift) by building them into the library itself. I would also like to have a resource that can help improve underlying thrift code to improve the library.
You're welcome to try posting the thread. I think it would be interesting. For best results, it should probably be a separate post from the current discussion.

Having it recur monthly, though, is another matter. Since there have been a lot of proposals for recurring threads lately, maybe I should share our thinking on this.

The bar for recurring threads on HN is high. People often suggest new ones, but I'm doubtful that most would improve the quality of the site. When in doubt, we will err on the side of not promoting discussions (even vibrant and interesting discussions) to regular features, because once ensconced, they will be hard to remove—and because predictable things inevitably get less interesting.

Tho whoishiring threads are a special case, because they compensate for the injunction against general job posts on HN.

I understand the feeling of "wouldn't it be cool if..." and the danger of being a party-pooper, so I'm not shutting the door on these ideas. But it's helpful to remember what HN is: a site for intellectual curiosity, i.e. interesting articles and discussions. Optimizing for that is pretty much our sole concern. From that you can derive a lot about what to say "yes" and "no" to.

People have always used HN for unofficial and informal purposes—that's wonderful! I'm not talking about any of that here—only about the core. For example, many of us have friends whom we somehow met because of HN—but that doesn't make HN a friend-matching service. (I originally wrote "friend-finder". We're not that either.)

So the default answer to "can we make a regular thread for ‘foo’" is "no", because a regular thread is a feature, and the default answer to new features is "no" unless ‘foo’ serves the core.

Edit: I'm going to demote this thread now since it isn't really on topic.
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I start from my friends. If the POC is done, I broadcast in SNS. And mostly I examine ideas times and times again by myself. Feel free to contact me by dennyzhang.com
Generators are the solution.

I use promises and like them, but generators are a LOT nicer. I've been playing around with KoaJS and I'm amazed with it. I find that overall it makes code a lot easier to read, write, and understand.

On top of that, it give you sane stack-traces!

I'm not certain if this is correct, but from what I can gather, you can yield on a promise and if you resolve it successfully you get the value directly and if you resolve it as a failure, it will throw an error.

The example I like to show people is this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/06zy52m8x0lllzn/Screenshot%202014-...
It's the controller for a user's registration, where the thrown error is an object of invalid fields submitted.
Good article.

This bugged me, though:

> The way people in the West have started to look down on walking is detectable in the language. "When people say something is pedestrian they mean flat, limited in scope," says Solnit.

...Seeing as how "pedestrian" comes from Latin pedester, which had the same two meanings ("on foot" or "dull and ordinary"). The Romans contrasted it with the more exciting equester ("on horseback").
well I'm not jesus... not anymore...
That is an absolutist view. It's strictly true, but doesn't mean we can't change the incentives using laws.

We can worry less about the information we reveal if corporations are restrained from using it.
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I would argue that Zen buddhism is not a religion, and vipassana/samatha meditation practice isn't in any way religious, as in there's nothing you're being asked to believe outside of what you can absolutely confirm for yourself in your moment to moment experience.
Interesting one guy pointed me a similar thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7682769
I think this is an overly broad generalization. People in suburbia walk all the time. For exercise. For fun. Sometimes just to walk the dog. They may not be walking with a purpose, but isn't that the point of the article?
It's a triple-edged sword: You give a huge chunk of your company away, take on a huge wild-card risk and to top it off, investors will now be wary of you... because they know co-founding is like a marriage and can go wrong in a multitude of ways.

You wouldn't marry someone you just met, would you?
Facebook is only entitled to use data on us however it sees fit because we allow it to. There is no reason that a culture should not restrict such activities by law if they are detrimental.
I've bought exactly one thing, a laptop computer internal fan that had died in a cheap laptop I had. I had the choice of ebay or alibaba and I don't trust ebay merchants these days.

Not much to say. Shipping overseas is slow. I would have preferred amazon if it was an option.
> The author's point was you can't opt out and not seem like a criminal.

But why is that? Let's face it, if you care very deeply about INFOSEC then you're probably someone who actually has something to hide from people (criminals, military, etc.), or someone who cares about the principle of the matter.

If you're the latter then you'll correlate yourself with the former whether you like it or not, and while we all agree that correlation is not causation, it is something that might get you examined at the very least.

Remember, police can't psychically predict who among the population has actually committed a crime or not when it happens, so they have to do "good old fashioned police work" (as I've seen it described in NSA threads) to investigate suspicious activity and verify it's innocuous, to determine who in a possible set of people actually committed a given crime, etc.

By behaving in almost the same fashion as actual criminals you make it that much harder to be discriminated out of the "possibly criminal" set early in the course of an investigation.

In this case the only thing she mentioned that seemed criminal was converting cash to gift cards to shop anonymously on Amazon — exactly the kind of thing a criminal would actually need to do to procure materials for a crime, if they wished.

Is this unfortunate? Absolutely! But so are many other tradeoffs society makes, even down to waiting at a red light even when the intersection is actually clear. If it were easy to separate criminal activity from other activity we would hardly need police or forensics.
The current lingo is "hallucination".
The story about Target outing the pregnant high-schooler has circulated for some time now, but has it ever been verified? I don't doubt Target's capability to discover if a woman is pregnant, but the citation given [1] sounds a bit too anecdotal (and isolated) for my taste. Are there more cases of this happening? Any other sources?

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...
Have you tried any of this out ?
The web we want
Sorry, I don't quite understand your point.

If it's very trivial, I shall wait for later release. Appstore display "customer review" for current version first, then all version. This means updating will flush out the customers review and rating for current version.
First 2 upvotes then 2 downvotes. I'm getting mixed signals up here.
Was living in NYC and absolutely loved being able to walk everywhere and not own a car. The last few months I've been in US suburbia though (Texas/Utah) and it seems actively hostile towards walkers in many places.

Sometimes there's sidewalks, but often they're not continuous and just end for no apparent reason. You then have to walk in the road next to the cars for a ways and hope the sidewalk starts up again.

Even if there are sidewalks, there seems to be a unspoken "don't walk at night" rule even in safe neighborhoods. If I do walk at night, I get suspicious looks. Am I frightening the neighborhood by going on a walk after dark? It sure feels like it.

In suburbia, I'll even get suspicious looks walking during the day - as if I'm scoping out houses to rob or something. And I'm a pretty boring safe looking type of guy (so I'm told, haha).

The exception to this I've found is if I'm walking a dog or walking with another person (preferably female) to legitimize me as a walker.

The longer I'm in these parts of suburbia, the more I realize that these attitudes are somewhat justified. Sadly, I don't think I've ever seen a man walking around the neighborhoods by himself unless he was a vagrant.

Apparently the vast majority of men in these neighborhoods just don't ever go on walks unaccompanied. Otherwise it would turn into a 'normal' activity and the suspiciousness of it would subside.

I realize there are probably great neighborhoods in the US for walking, but from my limited experience (living in ~10 states), they seem pretty rare outside of urban centers.

I spent a lot of time in Germany (US military communities) growing up and it was a totally different experience. Much of Europe that I've seen is likewise a vastly better experience for walking.

In 6 days I'm moving to Berlin. Why? Well, I'm bootstrapping a small systems-training business and want to live somewhere low cost and without a car. While cheap walkable places surely must exist in the US, they're rare and I haven't been able to find many that are also safe and not run-down. If I'm missing some, please let me know!

After being in US suburbia for the last few months, I'm really looking forward to being a first-class citizen as a walker again.
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371176

For sites like Gravatar[1] that generate an image from a given URL:

> In addition to allowing you to use your own image, Gravatar has a number of built in options which you can also use as defaults .... Most of these work by taking the requested email hash and using it to generate a themed image that is unique to that email address.

Not only would it such an attack function as a network DDOS, but could also cause CPU thrashing as thousands of images are generated simultaneously.

There may also a danger of an amplification attack using Gravatar (or a similar site). For instance, from the Gravatar docs:

> If you'd prefer to use your own default image (perhaps your logo, a funny face, whatever), then you can easily do so by supplying the URL to an image in the d= or default= parameter.

Which will cause a Gravatar server to fetch the image in question.

So - in the Google spreadsheet an attacker could also add an additional Gravatar line for each image, doubling the number of requesting servers with little extra effort.

[1] https://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/
Here are two Internet of Things startups Cisco will now help fund
Perhaps we should just adapt the Who's Hiring thread to the format of the "Freelancer? Seeking freelancer?" thread and encourage folks to post replies if they're looking for employment.
Sign a petition to promote net neutrality.
After this week, yep!
I need this as a library for Python, Java, and Racket; it'd be perfect for testing web services that return Java. I should probably fork the Javascript...
My personal interpretation of religion fits that description for the most part, but I think that is different from most.
I would love to see this on the Playstation Vita. Just the kind of game that would play nice on a portable gaming device.
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I'd take your point farther, in a few ways.

Small towns are small, so a) the number of people who track you is also small; and b) you can go somewhere else. Big data is global. There is no escape.

In small towns, observation is symmetrical. You know who's doing what. But you also know who the gossiping busybodies are, and you know who talks to whom. Big Data is deeply hidden, with complex technical and financial relationships.

In small towns, relationships are, by dint of matching our evolutionary context, reasonably human. Big Data is by its nature depersonalized and abstracted. In person, people being creepy can get feedback that they are creepy. With Big Data, though, the only direct feedback they get may be increased profits.
Anything open-source or articles about this approach that I could go take a look at?
Samuel L. Jackson is on Reddit waging war against cancer
I buy stuff semi-regularly from aliexpress.com which is their consumer-facing site. alibaba.com's their business-to-business site - useful if you're in the business of stocking and selling physical goods, but I doubt many people people on HN are.
I can not believe xerox didn't register these domains up front. Such negligence.
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This seems like it would make a really great unix command line utility. You could make it look something like:

randjson <input template>

and it would fill in the template for you and spit it to stdout. That way you can include it in things like Makefiles or build scripts for testing various parts of your code.