skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite. First, it was a ton of work to do so. Second, in the end he in fact only managed to match most of the released binary. Then, for most of the unmatched parts he came up with some solid arguments why they would be different (timestamps, pathnames and such). However, in the end there were still a couple of chunks of unmatched data that he couldn't explain why it has the value it does. Finally he argues that these chunks probably can't contain any hidden backdoors. This last bit I have a bit of a problem with because it's just speculation, all the rest of the research is very solid and without guesswork, and the conclusion of the article IMO incorrectly states he "has matched the binaries".

I'm chalking this up to, after all that work, having come so far, kind of wanting to say you did it, and providing a few (IMO) hand-wavy arguments why those last impossible chunks of bits probably don't matter, instead of having to admit defeat after being able to account for 99.9% of all bytes.

I can understand that, I've been wanting to type "but it's probably not backdoored" three times already typing this post, and catching myself because really I have nothing to go on to make or back that statement.
duplicate of:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7815134
You can't 'check it out' though unless you pay £123.47 for the privilege.
that's alright, was actually thinking of 2002 when they did the same (lost 2 and drew 1). Anyway, they did badly
Rationally yes, it's probably easy to argue that point, but his point, as a huge believer in AI applications, was that emotionally the 'killer robot cars' sentiment would break a fragile trust, as against the implicit common humanity of human drivers.
> "believes in America, he should trust the American system of justice".

OK. :)
How about we start by impeaching the people who started, drove and covered up the gross violations of the Constitution that Snowden provided proof for then.
George Bush, Dick Cheney, Barack Obama, most likely John Kerry as well, along with a well considered selection of other high officials from the Bush and Obama administrations. (Don't forget the bigwigs from the police state estate, Michael Hayden, Keith Alexander, James Clapper, and so on )
The outcome of that ought to give some indication of whether "the American system of justice" still punishes wrongdoing regardless of how powerful the wrongdoer.

As for the flip side, punishing proportionately and acquitting the innocent.. Well, to pick one salient example, in the words of Bill Binney:
http://youtu.be/qBp-1Br_OEs?t=2h1m18s

But even if you could, hypothetically, expect a fair trial, apparently the new way is to wait for it would be a couple of years lying naked and restricted in solitary confinement, interpunctuated by the occasional professional visit from a bunch of CIA torturers.

I'm not surprised at all a piece of slime like John Kerry is sent to the front to make taunts like that on Obama's account, but it pisses me off that there is still a sizeable share of people in the US that will believe him.

You want trials, John? Start with the real criminals. Then we can do the whistleblowers.
Beautifully written, informative and witty. I did not know about the cascade of gasses method before now.
This is not a practical solution for many people. If I lived nearer to where I work, I'd be living on the streets.
https://github.com/FakeItEasy/FakeItEasy
Also:

"A chunk of helium ice would behave as a single, solid, oversized, and stupefyingly slippery atom, which may be capable of passing ghost-like through certain materials. But that's another matter altogether."
Just a nitpick, but Spain/Portugal don't fit together - the Portuguese are not Hispanic. My ancestors from my father's side fought the ones from my mother's to prevent it :)
Drugs are still pretty expensive though :(
I'm not sure why people need this stuff either. Put debian on the machine, get access to everything from the debian repos. What more do you actually need?
I've been doing something similar as a gem to add J commands to Ruby: https://github.com/michaelfeathers/jop

The fluent interface is likely to win because I don't want to implement hook and fork.
Blooki.st goes BETA in a few hours
Young Global Leaders, who should be nominated? (World Economic Forum)
"BitlLocker, the proprietary disk encryption program that ships with every Windows version since Vista."

This is misleading - Windows 7 product line has Bitlocker only for Ultimate and Enterprise. Even Windows 7 Professional users cannot use Bitlocker without upgrading to Ultimate. Very unfortunate.
Past members from the tech world include Marissa Mayer, Sheryl Sandberg, Sergey Brin, Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, and Larry Page. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Young_Global_Leaders
Ah. I get it. Brain did not parse "render" as the output side, but rather the input, so I was trying to figure out why they used phantom.js as an elaborate image format converter.
And

Onnes hastened to make observations with the small container of -271°C fluid before it all evaporated away. He found it had a lower surface tension than any previously observed liquid, and just 1/8th the density of water. The modest amount of the stuff he had been able to collect behaved very curiously in general, flowing with strange characteristics and evading easy observation as if enveloped in an SEP field.
Uber app taxi row referred to London's High Court
Yet somehow, they all end up in bed together.
The first rule of defensive bash programming should be: quote everything. Incredibly, the article doesn't mention quoting at all, doesn't even use it silently in examples.
My maternal grandfather was in the Japanese Army, and while I do not know the details, spent six years in the mines in Russia.

I could never get myself to ask what his time was like. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer and I knew that he didn't have much more time to live, I still felt that I could not do him the cruelty of digging up those memories from him.

:(
I don't think that the manager's actual reason for support for lock-modify-write. I think he was just opposed to changing anything in the realm of source control and this was just a convenient rationalization.
I liked the puzzles. I've mostly been looking at the date category. Could you mention that a slot is 30 minutes somewhere in the question at http://pgexercises.com/questions/date/endtimes.html?
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The important features for a programming language main page to me are:

* Clean

* Code samples

* browser shell / try it editor (good in Getting started page, best in the main page)

* Useful links (installation, documentation, syntax reference above all)

Some thoughts about the sites mentioned in the article:

* F# http://fsharp.org/ : Good a clean and useful list of links Bad hard to find code samples; Try F# is not available for my system (Linux) and it's not clear why

* Ruby http://ruby-lang.org/ : I like it, nothing to add

* Python https://www.python.org/ : Good code examples are runnable inside an interactive shell... Bad they are not, their Interactive Shell link opens a shell which doesn't belong to the example

* Rust http://www.rust-lang.org/ : Good maybe my preferred site since it is the cleanest one Bad no browser shell

* OCaml http://ocaml.org/ : I like it, nothing to add

* Go http://golang.org/ : I like it, very pragmatic

* Perl http://www.perl.org/ : Good useful links Bad no code samples, no browser shell, a bit messy

* Scala http://scala-lang.org/ : Good good looking Bad no code samples, no browser shell

* Clojure http://clojure.org/ : Good clean Bad no code samples
This is a call to look at BitLocker very closely.
He also advocated negative income tax, which is essentially communism to the right.
Repost from 4chan, there's a silly coincidence in the warning.

>WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues
That's worded awkwardly.
>Not Secure As
Emphasis on the NSA in "not secure as"
>WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is NSA it may contain unfixed security issues.
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Well, my simplified definition is a gambler on the financial markets - one who bets on price fluctuations. Although I'm not a financial expert, after some thinking, maybe speculators help market liquidity (at times), but I still think that they are parasitic market participants. In Bitcoin, they drive price volatility, and this way hurt its adoption, and make it less suitable as a transactional currency.
You can use HN like colors by typing cloud password "hackernews".
i'm a big fan of world cuisine and i really would love a web site (some might like an app) to browse recipes categorized by region / country. if all the recipes would go through someone who's good at cooking (or eating) and visitors knew that their meal will taste exactly the same -or the closest it can be- many people -including me- would pay for it. do one thing different than the others. almost every god damn recipe site on world cuisine made me upset.

another suggestion is there is not a single point on what snapalicious does. you gotta make a better landing page.

good luck with it.
My great grandmother spent some time in a work camp. I don't know which one, I don't know how long, all I know is that she gave birth to one of my dad's aunts inside the camp. According to her it "wasn't that bad". Apparently the guards would even play and joke around with the baby.

Her feelings about the war might be colored by having found the family farm burned down to the ground by the partisans (communist version) upon her return.

Such a shame she died before I was old enough to truly appreciate having a sit down with her and listening to the experience she'd have to share. All I know are scattered bits and pieces, mostly from second-hand retellings. Unfortunately as a kid I never liked talking to her - her voice was feeble, she had a thick accent and local dialect, both of which made her very difficult to understand and kind of scary to talk to.
I think it depends who they are:

Mark Wahlberg, beat up a korean store owner - never mentioned

Sean Penn, beat up his wife, Madonna - never mentioned.

Julian Assange - rapist (allegedly)

Harry Reid - made remarks about Obama only being successful due to being "light skinned"

Bjork - beat up a female reporter
Oracle Introduces MySQL Fabric
It would be better if the NFL (and the NBA) would work on changing the diversity of their owners to match the diversity of their players.
You can't run Android apps on iOS so there is no healthy competition there.
I've heard the name lots of times in a Simon & Garfunkel song but I didn't know who he was.
Potato potato... Negative temperature means that entropy decreases when you add energy to a system, typically because you're approaching a local maxima for the energy state it's in. Bose Einstein Condensates are a nice example of this behaviour.... and it's as "real" a negative temperature as you can have.
I am probably not the best person to judge this, but I don't see that much of an improvement.

The current haskell.org home page is quite dense, with lots of links, but I quite like that. There are individual links to various Haskell community resources, including Reddit, IRC, mailing lists and RSS feeds. There's a visually prominent Download link. There are links to useful tools, broken down into categories. Most importantly, the page begins with a concise explanation of what Haskell is, with terms such as "purely functional" linking to wiki definitions.

The replacement version doesn't feature the explanation of what Haskell is ("Advanced purely functional programming language" is there, but the link to explain what "purely functional" means is gone). There is a code sample, but I'm not sure how useful that is (I guess is shows some basics of the syntax, but it feels mostly decorative and I'm not sure that code works well as decoration). The "News" link at the top might be useful, but if the News page just contains the headlines that are already on the haskell.org homepage, it doesn't seem like there's much value in moving that to another page.

The new version certainly looks better, in that Bootstrapy blurred-picture-of-a-bunch-of-people way. A responsive page design is an unambiguous win. But I can't get past the fact that the new page contains considerably less information than the older one, and I'm not sure that the main problem for potential Haskell users is their inability to handle information.

If all of this is a little harsh then I apologise, as it's always good to see people trying to improve stuff. However, the OP makes some criticisms of the current haskell.org page and I thought it might be worth trying to make a case for that design still being superior in some ways.
LYAH and RWH, then its just to lurk the web for good blog posts making sense of the academic papers. ;)

Seriously though, there's tons of resources for beginners in Haskell. School of Haskell, above mentioned books, tons of good SO answers, #haskell at freenode is super friendly and helpful, Haskell for All by Tekmo is a good blog making sense of some more advanced Haskell stuff, there's probably more that I've missed to mention.

The best way to learn Haskell is to write a lot of Haskell and being interested in learning interesting stuff (that might be quite abstract for some time before you get a good intuition and can apply it to real world code).
Don't live in gentrified, high-rent neighborhoods in the city.

I rent in San Jose, have private health insurance, and am sole provider for a family of four. Our necessary expenses to maintain our standard of living for last year totaled around $40k. That year I had been offered (and turned down for unrelated reasons) a $115k job on the peninsula. Even assuming a worst-case tax situation, I still could have been saving $40k/year.

That's approximately the going rate in Quebec for the work I do.
Broke and Broken? The Psychological Effects of Poverty [infographic]
Way to thank someone for doing work on your behalf.
"Discontent is currently unavailable"

Oh, this is brilliant.

The videos aren't accessible from here and the way NBC handles that is they have one of those clear, clinically emotionless synthetic voices announce "this content is currently unavailable".
Only, it sounds a lot like "Discontent is currently unavailable", for a total effect that's weird, dystopian and incredibly fitting for droning propaganda from the loudspeakers of a somewhat futuristic totalitarian state.
Unintentional, I'm sure, but hilariously fitting as a backdrop.

Thankfully I think the dispassionate lady computer is mistaken. There seems to be plenty of discontent available, now that many people are starting to see what's going on, and in no small part thanks to Edward Snowden.
I've complained about changing titles in the past, but here's a case where the submitted title ("Absolute Zero") doesn't hold a candle to the original title:

ABSOLUTE ZERO IS 0K

Much, much better. 0K?
What is your best chance if you lack a personal network or your personal network is in no place to help? Assuming there are no local events or they are out of reach (geographically or time-based)
Somebody who has been following TrueCrypt closely seem to think the project lost momentum and they just decided to call it quit.Their comment is on slashdot and the link is: http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=5212985&cid=47115785
I don't get this "it makes things easier for a select few, so everyone else just has to suffer an over complicated system" thing. We should make the few suffer instead of the masses; optimize to lower global suffering. It should be possible to build a system that exposes different interfaces to different users, shouldn't it?
> Apple hates committing to something unless it's absolutely perfect.

Hilarious
Sabu, the FBI and me: how his light sentence affects the hacking landscape
Even if they don't lobby for them, insurance will very quickly make them the only option. Eventually, insurance cost for manual cars will be many times greater than the one for self-driving cars, making all manual cars prohibitively expensive to drive - and then after another decade or two of that, the percentage of manual cars left on the market will be so tiny,that they will be banned altogether, restricted to race tracks and private property.
What's so secret about the value of the bounty that it has to be spoilered?
Lying about a change of heart is obviously not ok. So, yeah, in a sense it is refreshing to not see someone lie about that. However, there is nothing wrong about stating that you had a genuine change of heart if you actually had one. My personal policy is to always believe that but also look at future actions.

Sticking to your beliefs is definitely not admirable, though. I’m not sure why you are claiming that. Sticking to your beliefs in itself is worthless.

If your beliefs are worthwhile then sticking to them is obviously the right thing to do, if they are not then not. You can’t just say that sticking to your beliefs is worthwhile, no matter what.
Have a look at DCPP (http://www.securstar.com/products_drivecryptpp.php , 125 US$), they do offer that for years.
As a Europe based company (HQ in Germany AFAIK) chances of backdoored/compromised software are a bit lower than with US based companies.

Also: Places where plausible deniability is of use are reducing over time (in GB they can put you to jail until /you/ proove your drive is /not/ encrypted, other countries will follow). PD does not help here bc 'they' know about PD and (see above). If your disk is not empty (zeroed) but wiped with RND you may have already bad luck. I doubt they do cryptanalysis to see if your RND is true RND or an encrypted disk (I used to use a raw disk editor and to overwrite the boot loader with random data, using the boot loader from CD or UDB stick).
> Not "backdoors" but it seems Microsoft stores the BitLocker decryption key, based on this leaked slide (just found on twitter): https://twitter.com/TheBlogPirate/status/471759810644283392/....

That looks dubious to me - if you were creating a slide, would you use 90-degree-rotated text?

> edit: Confirmed Microsoft stores your recovery key on their servers if you're not connected to a domain: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows-8/bitlocker-recov....

"There are several locations in which your BitLocker recovery key might have been saved" - emphasis mine - doesn't this mean they'll store the key if you log into "Your Microsoft account"? I have to admit I don't use Windows 8 so I don't know if this is mandatory or not? What about Windows 7?
This makes me really sad as my grandpa passed away last year and i just realized i could have saved his life's story for everyone that cares.
Good stuff, we should all do something like this, maybe even build a database to share these kind of live stories ?
I doubt that's the reason - Greene says that the audit is going ahead. The other fact that makes this unlikely is that Green's team has the source, so his team can poke around all it likes anyway. Ergo quitting is no guarantee that something won't be found.
Not with 1st gen :(
I believe phantom type should help with your example. At it's most naive, you need a type for the points in window space, and a second type for the points in drawing space. If you give the sprite a window_point, it will complain about only accepting drawing_points. Now such errors are confined to a conversion function.

With phantom types, a the Point "type" would be a function of types to types. It helps when some operation work on all kinds of points: they can be polymorphic with respect to the additional type.

data Point a = Point Int Int

draw_sprite :: Point Drawing -> sprite -> Io ()
draw_button :: Point Window -> sprite -> Io ()

translate_point :: Point a -> Point b -> Point a
translate_point (Point x y) (Point xt yt) =
Point (x + xt) (y + yt)
Git v2.0.0, what changed, and why should you care
http://web.archive.org/web/*/truecrypt.org

"Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine." :-)
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I have plenty of success interacting with different sorts of people outside the workplace. But I spend 40-50 hours a week at my workplace, so...
I have never seen a reference to this. Can you link a source?
PLEASE DELETE THIS POST!

Dear mod,
as you seem to moderate posts (of new user accounts??) I post here despite mailing:
Please update http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html to reflect that posts are moderated before being published (and in which cases) and the actual meaning of "You're submitting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks." (i.e. which frequency is 'OK' etc.).
It made your site easier to handle and so more attractive to users willing to abide the rules.

Thank you.
Related to Edward Norton the actor?
TL;DR

The technological description of a taximeter is out of date and technically TFL cannot find fault with Uber regarding the letter of the law. They are deferring to the High Court to gain a binding ruling based on the spirit of the law.

The case hinges on whether the Uber app constitutes being a taximeter despite not being fixed to the vehicle.
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There was a satirical article in the Onion that exposed a similar truth. I wish I could find it now but it was along the lines of "Learning Disabled Man is Only Decent Employee in Local Burger Bar". He was the only diligent employee and the rest were teenagers that couldn't give a shit.
On consideration, this was interesting.

You are called troll because of stupid statements on basic points.

You refuse to talk about WHY you are stamped a troll in multiple comments -- instead you complain in big blocks of text about impoliteness!

This is a common troll strategy, but does it really work?

Do a causal reader miss that you refuse to talk about why you are called troll -- and just see two people complaining about each others?

Edit: So your smoke screen of complaints will change my behavior. :-) The next troll with your strategy will just get a note that he refuses to touch why he is called troll + link.
I can see occulus rift being more suited to this than glass.
Appears to be mirrored here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOCmqZzXrdI
Which in fairness, it should. It calculates a fare depending on time and distance travelled. At the moment you could get around the rules by having the driver count out loud.
Maybe the developers were Americans and they decided to bail before they get caught for exporting cryptographic software.
Yeah, the error is on my part. Meant to say 'ARC is like a super primitive GC'. It gives a very small amount of automatism over manually freeing memory, but must be done by hand.

It's a super primitive in a same way an abacus is a super primitive computer.
Drive a Mercedes in 'Mario Kart 8'