skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try adding 'news' to the query: https://next.duckduckgo.com/?q=amazon+news
It's Facebook, not FaceBook. Spelling it like that makes reading it jarring.
I'm a big fan of TextSecure and recommended it to all my friends, both those in IT and 'normal' people. Usually, I managed to convince them that the open source nature of TextSecure and the crypto experts behind it (e.g. Moxie) make it more secure than Threema/... . However, the more sceptical ones among my friends always asked two questions, which I didn't have a good answer for:

1. What is TextSecure's business model? Who pays for the server infrastructure?

2. Doesn't WhisperSystems belong to Twitter? Twitter is a US-company (and also part of the NSA stuff), so why should I use that kind of software? [Edit for clarification: I'm from Germany, where the US/Twitter affiliation is seen as a downside by some people].

It would be great if TextSecure/Open Whispersystems publicly addressed these points. I have seen that there's a reply from Moxie here: http://support.whispersystems.org/customer/portal/questions/...

but these two questions are so central that they deserve more attention than a reply in the support forum. From a technological point of view, TextSecure wins hands down. Now it's time to convince those who are still skeptical because of other reasons.

Just to be clear: I want TextSecure to become successful. I'm a big fan. That's why I'm mentioning this: in order to help spread the word.
I'm not attacking you personally. I object to the fact that you didn't lead with the fact that you compete with TextSecure. As for your tone regarding the TextSecure project, here are all your messages regarding TextSecure:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=author%3Akaeporan#!/comment/foreve...

I am, however, happy to attack your project, Cryptocat, which I believe to be incompetently interviewed, debugged into existence, and dangerous to its users.

Finally, you still haven't responded to my comment upthread.
Five out-there energy projects that are moving closer to reality
Word of advice: When they give you the option to use an IDE instead of a whiteboard or screenshare, do it.

When they say, oh you can write in psuedocode or you don't have to "really" create the hashmap or array, don't fall for it.

ALWAYS WRITE THE CODE FOR REAL.

That way, when you hit a roadblock, you can run the program and usually figure out exactly what is wrong very quickly.
>As I knocked on the door, two officers came up from behind me out of the bushes, guns drawn, and shouted at me to freeze. It turns out they thought I was trying to rob them. That wouldn’t have happened if I was white.

Bullshit. What was this guy dress like? Black, white, or whatever, you're judged primarily by the way you dress.

A white guy dressed like a hoodrat doesn't fair much better with the police.

Hell, I'm white and I've had a pine pig (our special term for National Seashore park rangers) un-holster his gun because I approached him and asked how much money a parking ticket was going to cost the pretty girl he was writing it for. I was 16 and weighed in at 145lbs, wearing board shorts and a t-shirt.
Not really sure what kind of bikes this would be useful on. The most basic form of shock absorption is the tyre, and you can run with higher volume tyres and lower pressure to make it more comfortable. Of course on the road this will slow you down so people don't tend to do it. For the kind of urban obstructions in the video you could ride perfectly well (and with more fun) on a fully rigid frame (like a BMX). For more serious mountain style riding you need rims that will not be deformed by rocks etc and just keep rolling over obstructions.
I don't think this is a solution. We should work to defragment the technology world. A better option is for Arabic speakers to learn English as a second Language. And for English speakers to learn Arabic as a second language but ultimately program in English. There is a similar problem with Chinese and the Chinese web, they might have some great resources tutorials and libraries but we don't know about them. I'll trade someone English and Ruby if you teach me Arabic.
There are even alternatives to PoW for obtaining consensus such as Proof of Stake which doesn't consume much CPU power in theory.
Those databases are quite often out of date and incomplete.
"Most of my friends who looked at it asked for new features."

Users ask for features, but as makers we need to dig deeper and understand the underlying need that's not being met.
Yes:

EPERM mode requested creation of something other than a regular
file, FIFO (named pipe), or UNIX domain socket, and the caller
is not privileged (Linux: does not have the CAP_MKNOD
capability); also returned if the filesystem containing
pathname does not support the type of node requested.

Of course there is still the theoretical problem that you could be running in a chroot where some unprivileged user has write access to the root and/or /dev so that she can create symlinks or move files around there. I don't think that should be the responsibility of the library to defend against though; but the responsibility of whoever created that chroot dir...
As soon as it is on your device, it is no longer the developer's program, but your copy.

Ownership (as opposed to renting) enables distributed rights instead of centrally-granted privileges. Hoping that competition between centralized privilege-granters will compensate for a lack of true rights is an error based in the fallacy of efficient markets.

In reality, competition/enforcement is not perfect and defaults matter. To expand on the example I just gave, Honda could indeed require me to sign a contract saying I will not use the car to drive to a Toyota dealer. But with no way of stopping me, their only recourse is to exert resources bringing me to court. To be motivated to do so, they must be actually suffering real harm rather than a mere general desire of trying to prevent competition. So ridiculous ideas like that end up laughable non-starters rather than ever present niggling restrictions that are too numerous to fight.
"Level 3 is ONLY sending the traffic to Comcast that Comcast is requesting; it is THEIR customers who are creating this demand for Level 3's customer's content."

This still misses the mark.

Netflix creates a service on Level3 that Comcast customers want. So Netflix/Level3 are responsible for making a product that people want to use, and Comcast customers are responsible for wanting to use that product and increasing bandwidth use. Neither Level3 nor Comcast want to pay more money just because Netflix and Comcast customers want to use more tubes, so both Level3 and Comcast wash their hands of any responsibility for the networks they both run.

In a very real sense, both Level3 and Comcast are equally responsible for the increase in traffic [in this case]. Yet neither seem to accept their share in the cost. If it's because it's hard for Level3 to prove, they should put up some money to shore up the connection, and then write a public letter to Comcast customers telling them how Comcast is shorting them and to get angry.

(Sadly, many customers have no alternative provider, so their only option would be to quit the internet, and nobody's going to do that)
Why does it matter? Visitors should never hit WP anyway if you are smart. Set up caching.
Not really. If you have a statute of limitations and mandatory data retention requirements, data deletion sounds perfectly reasonable.
I was a Wikipedia campus ambassador for two courses - one at Boston College the other at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. The students were assigned to contribute to articles and my role was to help them navigate Wikipedia. I thought both courses went well - the BC class in particular had a professor who was very involved in selecting articles, having the students write drafts and reflect on their work. The students wrote a lot of good content and I had four or five of their articles featured on the Wikipedia home page's Did You Know section for new articles (More would have been featured but Wikipedia's rules for what qualifies are pretty arbitrary). There were three cases out of fifteen that were problematic - in two cases someone expanded the article while the students were working on their drafts, pre-empting their work, in the third case after the class had concluded some editors felt that the student's work misrepresented the topic and rewrote it. Overall the students wrote well-sourced, well-written content and I think they had a good experience.
You should rant about runkeeper too, as they do the same thing by hiding the OSM contributor information.
A commenter on the article stated, "Putting the wheel's axle off center through a system of articulated links is bound to increase effective rolling resistance." and another said "This is going to feel like you're riding on sand."
F# moves 38 positions to 14th most popular this year
I'm sorry, but I don't think your approach to this discussion is constructive. I hope TextSecure developers address my initial concern, and that's all for me.
If I understand correctly, the "Talk" page on Wikipedia also has an archived edit history.

I'm looking at the most recent version [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Super-spreader] and the revisions [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Super-spreade...], and I'm having a hard time seeing the bullying---it looks like an individual defending an edit, another individual defending the revert with explanation of what is missing, and the first individual adding additional data to clarify that the original edit isn't "original research."

Can someone help highlight the bullying for me? Is there a subsection of the Talk history that I'm missing / can Talk history be deleted?
Not, it's not ceremonial. But, I don't think anyone used that term, except you. The parent said it was nonsense, which is true.

Sure, it's part of the CEO's job to inspire confidence, but what's nonsense is that virtually any CEO would be responsible for any single tech-vulnerability down the line.

So, it may well be that investors expect that, which would mean that the nonsense is on their part. And, perhaps Target is simply responding to that nonsense, but it's still nonsense.

Said another way, it's not ceremonial if it matters. But, it is nonsense that it would matter.
Netflix hasn't done this (and likely won't) because would make it difficult/impossible to control the quality of their service. P2P connections are a bit of a crap-shoot based on things like router configuration, device type and resources. For example, P2P wouldn't work as well on an iPad where you're only caching a few hundred megs of video (and not the whole video) at any given time.
My life as a Sword Swallower
I think many of you are misunderstanding my point. I'm not saying math education is good or that students are well prepared. I'm saying that most students who succeed in HS will continue to succeed in college in spite of everything else. I definitely agree most freshmen students don't understand calculus in any deep way but most good students will by the time the are done with their freshman series. So again, I'm not defending the system, I'm nitpicking the argument :)
Sony unveils cassette tape that can hold 64,750,000 songs
I'm wondering if the release of atom.io started a fire...nothing like a healthy dose of competition?
The big trouble is that we need settlement-free peering, or we'll have a very different sort of internet, or maybe none at all. Though it's hard for some to remember (or to believe), there were big consumer networks prior to the advent of consumer-oriented Internet. Compuserve and AOL were their own networks. And they were abysmal. Peering not only ruined that business model, it managed to co-opt those networks and assimilate them into the Internet proper.

If peering is untenable because it leads to outcomes like the one we have now (Netflix) where it is fundamentally unfair to one party (assuming that is the case) or the other, then we're all screwed. There might not be a fair solution that still manages to resemble the Internet.

In one alternative, the Comcasts and the AT&Ts are smited and no longer exist, and Level 3 goes into the consumer internet business, connecting things end-to-end. That's not something we could trust them with. Same if Comcast replaces Level 3.

In another, Netflix continues to pay the extortion (if it is that) which we have little doubt that Comcast will continue to ratchet up the price for. Or Comcast has to shoulder that burden alone (and can't charge customers extra for doing so, without people screaming "net neutrality!").

Or maybe services like Netflix just can't exist in such an environment. Also a bad outcome.

Or god help us, internet infrastructure is nationalized, and the same people who manage our roads and traffic lights take over.

Am I blowing this out of proportion?
Coinbase is a YC company. One of the primary functions of YC is networking. In that light, it seems pretty reasonable to me for YC to put alumni in contact with each other. I don't know if this is the case, but there might even be a founders mailing list. That would not surprise me.
My reaction to more ST development these days is kind of "meh", given that Atom is undergoing actually-active development (what with changelogs longer than four items over whatever number of months), doesn't require mucking around with plist files for syntaxes, and actually allows for development of custom sidebars and other UI elements.
Depends on the WP plugins, I suppose (and Indexes created, and MySQL tuning, etc)
Would you find it creepy if an employee were doing this manually?
> I also see no reason that this has anything to do with net neutrality. It seems like Netflix is simply so big they have to act more like an ISP than they used to.

When Comcast let links to peers get saturated it is a network neutrality issue. Those services they provide will perform and competitors will not. Those who pay for access will also perform better than those who don't pay. It is by definition not neutral.
> What is needed is a smaller burden that is a good, strong signal. We think we've found one, but are not sure.

Even if you don't have the right answer, you at least found the right question.
Though 3 shocks per wheel hits a very different price-point than 2 shocks per vehicle.
360 degree 3d map of its surroundings.

http://i.imgur.com/hmSc9HJ.jpg
I may be an unpopular opinion, but Wikipedia doesn't work. It's ruled by people who don't have quality on their minds as much as power, politics, and maintaining their fiefdoms. It's not their "fault" either, because the system disproportionally rewards and empowers people who have these traits.

Encounters with Wikipedians are almost always toxic and unpleasant, be it to discuss changes to specific articles, discussions about policies, and even when it comes to throwing new ideas around on how the status quo could be improved. That's because they are generally very pleased with the status quo. People that weren't have been driven out long ago.

One of these days, I hope there will be a meaningful fork, and I hopefully article versions will simply be voted on.

Actually if anyone is interested in doing an experiment in this space, shoot me an email, I'd like to work on something like that.
I have to admit, that is some quality JS code.
Article makes it sound like the student was being shut out unfairly and that the entrenched editor was hostile or even sexist. This isn't borne out at all by the talk page. It looks like there was just an edit war and a call for citation, with further discussion pending.
>courts have already affirmatively confirmed that the police are not required to "pretend not to see" something in public view, or that they saw in plain sight in the course of a legal search.

This is the process, yes. They don't gain these abilities as some sort of natural right.

Neither of these are a dragnet over the general populace, or the creation of a record of every observation during that dragnet for computer-aided analysis, so they should expect to be in court for this too. The current court would probably be very friendly to their arguments, no matter what they are.
"While it’s unlikely the switches will become standard equipment for personal computers, Lukin said ..."

I find that a very odd statement. I can see uses for this in personal computing devices. Assuming there are easier ways to set up the circuit, etc.
Target removes CEO in wake of devastating cyber attack
John Bradburne, pretty far out look in his eyes back in the 70s, unkempt and going old school desert style asceticism no doubt. Would like to hear a recording of him reciting a poem (same-ish deal with Merton, there are some recordings from Gethsemani, the monastery that 7 Story Mountain leads to, but not much, few things on Youtube if you search for it).

Peace Pilgrim, if you've heard of her, while not technically Christian, lived a Godly life, pretty amazing faith to walk across the country in the name of peace, penniless, only taking food or shelter if offered -- her autobiography is astounding.

I'll put this one out there for contrast, Pure Heart, Enlightened Mind[1] I imagine you've prayed from time to time, no? Obviously, yes ;-) Ok, now, let's say your calling is such that rather than laying down to sleep at night, you are drawn to prayer instead of sleep, and you do that for 1,000 days sitting upright. Maura O'Halleran is the result of that. It's the best account of spiritual awakening I have come across as it's her diary, the living account of her transformation from wandering free spirit to canonized saint in Japan.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Pure-Heart-Enlightened-Mind-OHalloran/...
You are ascribing malice to an entity that has good intent. 45% of the world's market cap for public equities remains in the United States, and that's something that is a function of governance, rule of law, court systems, financial reporting, and measures against corruption. As a result, capital is more readily available in the United States.

Founders, on the other hand, are from all over the world. They come to the United States to build their businesses. Some will return to their home markets. We want to make both of those things happen a lot more. It really is all aligned.
I bet on people intelligence rather than their ignorance. I will eventually have to scale my explanations only if I remain for a too long time on the first page of HN ;-)

Actually this is the very first time I hear a comment about being nicknamed "Uncle Tom". So far in Europe it did not even started a single spark of debate.

If I appear to become a fashionable talent in North America I might consider changing the username to avoid controversy. At that stage I understand it can offend people.
Now is a bit prematured in my opinion.

Thanks for raising the issue, I would have not figured that on my own :-)
Summary of situation

Comcast cripples customers internet services to extort money from companies connecting Comcast to the internet for free.
Somebody wasted their time and effort, had their feelings hurt, and was discouraged in their interests.

That's not an improvement over traditional encyclopedias.
Why We Can't Remember the Future
The speed of wordpress does not matter in the slightest.
1 is the real deal breaker here. People fill their tires to 140 PSI just to get rid of a little bit of the friction caused by the tire deforming as the wheel turns. That has to be nothing compared to actual shocks. It must feel like riding through dry sand.
Single review of app on appstore (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wut-semi-anonymous-chat./id7...)

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didnt use a password field

by spencer1248

everyone saw my facebook password"

Looks like you need to focus on such things before thinking about features at all.
It makes a big difference if your site isn't just for displaying static HTML content - for example, a WordPress-powered community where users log in to your site.
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8. Find someone to do the most boring part - IDE - for you (most OSS languages).
Before you frame this as a gender communication problem, I would consider actually talking to the Wikipedian you refer to in your article...
To be clear, we still don't collect or share personal information and auto-suggest does not impact that at all. I appreciate it may make you and others uncomfortable and we're sensitive to that, but it is not a change in terms of privacy. We simply do not associate queries with personal information (e.g. IP addresses) and in fact don't store any of it at all.
mpOTR sacrifices forward secrecy and provides transcript consistency with limited semantics, which has the side effect of making the "transcript integrity feature" trivial to implement, because the protocol supports only a silly version of it. mpOTR clients can't simply fix this with UI, because these are properties of the protocol.

The TextSecure protocol retains forward secrecy at the message layer and provides continuous transcript integrity. The TextSecure client hasn't worked out the UI for it, but the protocol supports it. TextSecure can provide continuous transcript integrity with a UI update --- something mpOTR clients can't do at all.

But here you are, sniping at TextSecure for lacking a UI feature that you've implemented a minimal and un-useful version of. Then, when called on it, you retreat to a position of "I'm inspired by TextSecure and am just trying to help". As if, after blogging about why transcript integrity is literally one of the reasons TextSecure doesn't use mpOTR, they were unaware of the importance of the feature.

mpOTR is a dead end. It's unfortunate you invested in it, but that is what it is.
I think the problem are the reverts without specific explanations. As far as I see, the student corrected all the specific errors that were pointed out. Reverting an article of someone who put a lot of effort into creating it without giving a clear and specific explanation is frustrating.
The $10,000 Bachelor's Degree Arrives
> Thing is, on Wikipedia it isn't really up to you to decide something like that. That is considered original research. You need to have an academic, peer-reviewed, medical journal article that makes the claim that they are one and the same. Also, I'm not aware of any "dispute as to whether or not asymptomatic carriers should be considered super-spreaders," so perhaps you could also provide a source for that.

It's kind of subtle, so if your English isn't too good, or maybe you aren't so hot at reading tone over the internet, I can see why you'd miss it, but that response reads as dismissive, snarky and a bit patronizing to me.
I understand a mailing list for alumni, but this is for applicants.

I have never applied to YC - but is there a checkbox that says "It's cool to share my email with the 500+ YC alum companies"?
Looking at this particular case, I'd say the experience would have been much better if the teacher had been an experienced Wikipedia editor or had contacted one of the projects that deals with this sort of thing ahead of time to put them in touch with a mentor editor. The article mentions that seniority is important (I've never found that to be the case), but what's actually important is understanding the kind of content that Wikipedia is looking for. In this case, the reversions were mostly because of "original research" violations, where the student synthesized new opinions out of the sources. This is something you'd do if you were writing a high school report on a topic, but on Wikipedia you're really only allowed to summarize what the sources say. Having someone who understands that around would have helped both student and teacher understand why the material is being removed, and how it could be improved if they still wanted to contribute to the article.
May want to make your Feedback process a bit more direct- like have a "next.duckduckgo.com beta" box similar to "Help" and "Forum".
I like your articles. Nice pace and voice, great examples. I'll be watching your website.