skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bridge_failures
Swiftweekly.email
I feel compelled to defend the honor of the New York Times here: that misleading graph attributed to it is from the New York Post, a completely different (and nowadays much less reputable) paper.
Mayday Pac now taking Bitcoin
The question means all of our Bitcoin at Coinbase. He's not making a conspiracy theory out of it - he's asking a legitimate question about whether or not Coinbase has all deposits accounted for or not.
> If you want to help people in heavily censored (or monitored, but what would be every single one of them, as of now) countries you get punished and your life gets completely ruined.

I know that's the dream of everyone running a Tor node but let's face it, you're mostly helping drug dealers and child pornographers operate. Not saying that's your intention, but that's what's happening. That's why it's absolutely crazy to operate a node. Find some other way to help if you value your freedom.
I'm always interested in the wording of the apologies themselves as well. In the most recent one: "My co-authors and I are very sorry for the way the paper described our research and any anxiety it caused."
Specifically "the way the paper described our research". Not for actually doing the experiment, just that it came off wrong to the public...
Yes however this was in Europe.

Romania to be specific.

It wasn't mandatory or anything just encouraged.
I would typically find escorts at the last minute, so I can't speak for what it's like to plan ahead. I'd first search the classifieds for women offering incall (I go to their place, usually a hotel) in San Francisco. Next, I scroll through the ads, only reading ads that have reviews & pictures, looking for the right escort at the right price. When I find an ad the looms promising, I double check the reviews to make sure they aren't horrible, and I also use Google to search for fake images. If everything looks good, I try to contact the escort to book an appointment.

I never wrote reviews on myredbook.

When I visited Australia a few years ago, I visited a legal brothel. All of my of purchases for sexual services were started online. Purchasing sex in Australia was pretty interesting, but I that was the novelty of the legality of the purchase.

I am pretty sure most sex workers were independent, but I have no way of verifying this.

I did not participate in discussions on myredbook.

You are welcome!
For my dad he had enough investments just doing the corporate grind to "retire" around 50. Before medical insurance cost $50K/yr for a family or whatever it is now, obviously, and back before the housing bubble crisis so a house thats like $300K now only cost him $80K. Salaries were about the same, maybe only 50% higher now. The middle class used to be a lot more wealthy...

The problem is you gradually build up investments until you can live a relatively poor lifestyle forever, but he wants the new SUV to make it easier to tow the RV (old people like SUVs, what can I say) so its a 3 month contract during the rainy spring, and then full time RV all summer. Then its too cold to RV in the winter up north, and the house could use a new kitchen remodel anyway and it looks like an interesting project so...

The point I'm making is "if you don't want to" isn't a constant $ value and isn't really easy to define anyway.
"The biggest challenge with microservices is testing. With a regular web application, an end-to-end test is easy: just click somewhere on the website, and see what changes in the database."

I find this surprising. I would've thought having a more modular system would lend itself to easier testing. Have others had this same experience?
>The Russian government has moved one step closer towards a “China-like” approach towards Internet services.
Bad news for Russian. In China sometimes you want to use google to search something is deny. We use some software to cross the "Great Fire Wall" to see the whole world.
It's easy to look at a graph and draw conclusions, but there are a lot of examples out there of disingenuous graphs which take some concentration to discern their issues, and the graphs usually aren't displayed on TV screens long enough for there to be an issue. As an example, this one from Fox News:

http://foxnewsgraphs.tumblr.com/day/2012/08/04

The graph seems pretty straightforward; government spending as a percentage of GDP has gone up under Obama from 20% to about 25%, while FDR kept it roughly the same, hovering around 10%.

The graph, of course, ends at 1938. I'm sure if we extended it for the rest of FDR's term, we'd see a different picture of government spending, and probably a more accurate comparison given the huge increase in military spending thanks to a constant, unending war on whoever is available.
You're still missing the point that I actually rebutted: that Android's open source bits were mediocre and there exist FOSS components which are better.

Regardless, nobody ships AOSP because everyone wants to differentiate their platform by adding their own functionality on top. There are tons of AOSP-based ROMs on XDA, just go look. But with the abundant number of projects to tweak and modify Android, very few people build purely AOSP ROMs. They all add xposed or xprivacy or whatever because that's what they want to use.

Besides, saying nobody ships AOSP only phones doesn't mean they aren't usable, it just means that are better alternatives.
Common law is only being used in the United Kingdom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#mediaviewer/File:Leg...
>The feds located freedom hosting by using an exploit in Firefox

That doesn't even make sense. Firefox is client software. How would I locate a hidden service, a server, via an exploit in Firefox? Servers don't generate websites with Firefox.
>>Tempering influence? Are you serious? Is it tempering to overthrow governments

"Tempering influence" was specifically about Gaza.

But you know that.

>>100,000 casualties in Iraq

First, let me note I am not defending the Iraq invasion. Not because I cares about the rights of evil juntas, but because it was so badly managed it even increased the suffering.

Second, those in Iraq were mainly killed in a civil war by people also trying to kill Americans. It is not trivial to blame Americans for that...

I think you know that, too.

About drone strikes -- both the Pakistani and Yemeni governments accepted them. In Pakistan unofficially, because the extremists targets polticians/media/etc with the "wrong" opinions.

I think you know that, third...

Etc.

Edit: I might add that I'm not American. Please keep personal attacks relevant at least, propagandist.
Hear, hear. I had exactly the same reaction. Maybe the author is pitching the article toward novice programmers and is genuinely trying to reassure. OTOH, such phrasing is far more often used as a pure rhetorical ploy.

Personally, since I work in storage which is where we have to store all the "state" that the FP folks have defined into Somebody Else's Problem, I have little tolerance for that particular flavor of the month.
Sad to see that The Best Page In The Universe (http://maddox.xmission.com) seems to be blocked by a non-zero number of larger ISPs.

Obviously all those children need to be protected from harsh reviews of their artwork.
How different is it from mllib ( https://spark.apache.org/mllib/ )

I understand that mllib is strictly for use as a batch data library.
Review: Clojure for Machine Learning (Ch 1-3)
Code challenges in Go and Brainfuck
Small Library to simulate the Codingame challenges offline on your computer, written in Go, supporting Go and Brainfuck. Based on the original challenges @ http://www.codingame.com/cg/ . This way you can develop with your own tools, and test them straight in the console.
The requirement for knowing about criminal activities is intentional very high. If it wasn't, almost every internet based service would be deemed illegal. ISP and online market places like Amazon can not claim they aren't aware of fraudsters, but they still a necessary tool in the crime.

During the Pirate Bay trial, the requirement was set to "primary usage". They took a screenshot of the top 100, and sad "obviously, the site founders know that the primary usage was illegal" which the court then accepted. Arguing that same for tor is sketchy at best, and there is government organizations, researchers and developers who would argue that the primary usage for tor is as a privacy tool for non-criminal activities. I also suspect that they would have plenty of evidence to back it up.
Network Monitoring made in the UK
Curious, have we seen similar data in Washington/Seattle -- another place where it was legalized?
Gradle is a build and dependency management tool for Java projects. It's been gaining popularity over alternatives like Ant. In my opinion, it has way to many features coupled into one product, but it's slowly becoming the standard.
It's really a shame how the current system of law enforcement is designed to destroy completely destroy people.

No one is innocent: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/06/no-... .
Go Support for Android is Coming
Lighthouse: Dominant Assurance Contracts on Bitcoin's Blockchain
You ought to post this as a new submission.
A Minimal Viable Product that works
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Every little piece is easy/easier to test, but testing end-to-end over multiple micro-apps is hard in my experience.
I know rust is pre-1.0 but wow that's a lot more breaking changes than I expected...
There's a fundamental dichotomy here between the logical machine (the logic needed to do our job as programmers), and the emotional aspects. Some companies archive at their level a connection between both (thinking of Apple here), but this is done more by chrome than anything else.

Would the creation of an emotional computer system help? Would users be happy when interacting with their computers to get answers like: "Sorry, I'm not in the mood today!".

Or should hardware company make things more interesting by making computers explode like Hollywood cars when you open the wrong file?

"Halt and Catch Fire" indeed.

A cartel or a guilde...
Design Follies – ‘It’s all about the technology’
That font has terrible numbers, 3 to 9 are totally weird [1]. The @ symbol is also mentally taxing on smaller sizes.

[1] http://imgur.com/87sEqIW
So you refuse to criticize the Putin junta for being non democratic? Thanks, that is all I need for an opinion about you.

[I guess it is time for you to use another account to lower the HN quality? :-( A quick browsing through your comment hostory is mostly USA criticism and pro-dictators, mainly Russia. Very little to none of programming or development. ]

How is the weather in Moscow, by the way? (St Petersburg? Some military base somewhere?)
A better analogy is that a rental-car company owner being prosecuted because someone rented a car and committed a bank robbery.
Are we beginning to over-indulge, over-romanticise and over-glamorise failure?
Entomic beta – build responsive websites and see them update live on any device
Me neither (I'm 35 too). But the pursuit is still there and I'm more aware of the journey than ever before.
Is the reason you (assuming this is the author) use only +BTC for donation because you only want BTC or bc you think you'll only get BTC or because you think only BTC is appropriate to donate to online work?
The keys are stored offline, but the BTC are always online. They are relatively safe against someone compromising your computers remotely. Against physical intrusions or insider attacks, not as much.
Washington has not opened it's first shops yet, the official start date is July 8th.
"One more step Please complete the security check to access benmccormick.org ... Why do I have to complete a CAPTCHA?"

What language is that? Oh, I see, thats "customers please go away" written in techie-language.

Well, I didn't learn a lot about Vim from that, but I know not to go back. Too bad, I like Vim.
Most (if not all) other Google properties have no trouble supporting better encryption. This is probably an oversight.
Here in Seattle, things are moving slowly. The first stores haven't even opened up yet.
No but I've been able to live off of a big passion-project(s) of mine for almost a year+ now. It helps that I am frugal and live in southeast asia (although the first 4 months was in Australia).

I still work on it because it was things I purely made for myself, but also put on a store -- and it appears others liked it too so it became a win-win.
tldr: AES-NI is faster than RC4 on Intel processors > 2009. 170% faster actually [5]

"The RC4 is fast" meme is true, because RC4 uses simple math operations like modulo and bitwise AND. [1]. CPUs have always done these operations fast. Other crypto algorithms used by SSL, like 3DES, were deliberately designed to be slow in software. [2].

However, modern Intel chips have dedicated instructions for perform AES, called AES-NI [3]. For these chips, an AES operation is not broken down into a series of opcodes the CPU executes. The CPU just does it. AES-NI is actually faster than RC4. [4]

We need to kill the RC4 is fast, everything else is slow myth. "TLS has exactly one performance problem: it is not used widely enough." [5]

1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4#Implementation

2- DES was designed around bit swapping, not byte swapping, which is super easy to do in hardware and much slower to do in software.

3- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_instruction_set

4- http://zombe.es/post/4078724716/openssl-cipher-selection

5- https://istlsfastyet.com/
Or use a 3rd party framework until you see it's problems and more fully understand it's actual use. Then you can write your own
Yes

> How did you do it?

By not wanting to own anything, living in cheap countries, and finding things that I absolutely love doing that also happen to make some money :)

> What did it feel like when you first realised it was going to be true that you would never have to work again if you didn't want to?

The realization happened a couple of weeks ago and it was incredible. Seriously. It felt like pure, absolute freedom.

> How old were you?

29

> What was it specifically that made the cash that ended up in your pocket?

Nothing, I just realized that if you're young, healthy, and single, you really don't need much cash to be extremely happy, if you choose the right location.

> Do you feel happy in your life?

See above.

Edit: so obviously this is kind of a hack, but I think it's a good one. I'm slowly travelling around the world, spending at least one month in each location (currently in Cape Verde). When I arrive somewhere, I find a place to rent for a month, and then I spend my days hacking on my Mac and visiting.

I'm working on "Of Dust and Dreams", my first indie game, a 3D exploration game with an innovative AI-based dialogue system. I own almost nothing, all my belongings fit in a 30-liter backpack, I'm completely free, and it feels AMAZING. I'm living off my savings, but I have no doubt I could sustain this lifestyle easily by doing some fun small projects on the side.
Very helpful guide for the entrepreneurial community.
Too late, Erik Meijer already declared the term reactive was washed out.
Preparing for UWaterloo Co-op, Part One
Using Redis as session store for ExpressJS + PassportJS settings
Great work. This is exactly what I had been idly wondering about yesterday as I was setting up a new project that uses PM2. Does this obviate the need for pm2-interface, or will that project still be developed with a focus on the RPC angle?
Quantum state may be a real thing
It could also be a combination of the two--they're not exactly mutually exclusive.
I work at a satellite campus for a large tech firm, and I've come to the conclusion "cost of living adjustments" are just HR BS for the company's belief that talent markets are local, not national or global, and they are using that belief to exploit satellite/remote workers.
It's easier to test individual items, for sure. Testing small code bases is the best thing ever. However, some actions require stuff to happen in multiple services.

There are "contracts" on how to talk to other services. You can test if you follow that contract, but it's hard to verify automatically that these contracts are in sync between apps.
Don't most people in the JVM ecosystem know about groovy by now? I first heard about it when Maven 2 betas were coming out and it was the preferred way to write a plugin.
In our benchmarks our raw TCP performance has generally been best-of-breed. I suspect the issue is rust-http, which is not an official package.
"New York becomes a wasteland of empty apartments held by overseas billionaires"

Don't worry, they'll take only the good ones. Surely there will be plenty of space left for the rest of you! Who's gonna do the non-billionaire stuff otherwise?
The Disruption Debate – What's Missing?
I hope everything that manipulates people gets hunted down with the same vim & vigor.

But you don't see people so outraged during election cycles, or wondering why they bought that widget they didn't really need, etc...

It's naive to think Facebook is the only one who has done something like this. I respect that complacency is bad, but my point is: so is singling one company out when a lot of others are getting away with it.
After some checking with Google I don't get the impression this case was "serious" enough to have a jury involved. E.g. from the statement of the convicted it's implied the maximum jail term would have been 3 months.

Those of us in common law based legal regimes count ourselves lucky to have that check in all but the most trifling of cases.
It is 2014 and the main point of the page ("Varnish is a web application accelerator") is inside a PNG with no alt.

If you use lynx or w3m to read that page you will not see a single description of what Varnish is.

Accessibility aside, isn't this very bad for the rankings of that page in search engines?
Attacks on RC4 are publically theoretical but people have come forward to say that the NSA[1], and likely other intelligence agencies, can break RC4 in real time. Given what we know about the theoretical attacks, this does not stretch the imagination.

[1]: https://twitter.com/ioerror/status/398059565947699200
Nice presentation.
Show HN: GRADQUEST, a 16-bit graduate school simulation
Do you tuck away some retirement savings, or at least rainy-day money?
Didn't do it (get rich). I have, however, developed panic attacks thanks to open-plan offices (noise isn't an issue, but being visible from behind for 8 hours per day is extremely unhealthy) and been pushed onto a second-tier career track due to the "job hopper" image that comes from a typical tech career. (I leave companies that don't invest in talent, and have no shame about it; but that makes going back to the hedge funds a non-option because they still have dinosaurs in HR who think sub-2-year jobs are a negative.) I feel like those outcomes are more common than "fuck you money" and deserve a voice.

In the long run, the hellish experiences of my 20s are an advantage. I've become stronger. After enough panic attacks (the first sends you to the ER because you don't know what it is, the 101st is irritating and takes 15 minutes out of your day) you stop fretting the petty anxieties that dominate most people. Through adversity, I've traveled from being a socially awkward 22-year-old to someone who can actually fucking lead. It took a lot of pain to get me there.

Age? I'm 31. Everywhere but the Valley, that means I'm still in the game.

No, I'm not happy, but it's not for a lack of money. I make enough. Programmers are underpaid for what we suffer (including subordination to the whims of parasitic, talentless executives 20-75 IQ points below us) but it's the subordinacy and low status and the sheer fucking pointlessness of most of the work that makes it so awful. The money is not great but more than adequate, and I'm not worried about long-term income issues either.
I use Scrivener & it works well for me. If you have an image-heavy book you may find formatting images a little difficult in some of the e-reader formats. PDF files work well.
I know what I am suggesting is wrong on some levels, and creates a myriad of other problems, but bear with me.

If I run a Tor exit node, can I block outgoing packets to known illegal servers/addresses?

Would some kind of update mechanism of this list (of course, the question is controlled by whom?) warrant that known illegal servers are not available, and thus show/prove my intent that no ill use was endorsed by me?
I was sick of Object Oriented programming the first moment I had to deal with an API built with OO that replaced a previous API without it.

It was the WordPerfect 6 something language, replacing the WP5.1 macro language.

I had built a perfectly reasonable autocorrection engine, it handled typos, misplaced commas and periods, adding accents, and a few things more.

The Object Oriented macro language in WP6 removed any possibility to make my macros work, in exchange for adding silly graphic buttons.

Now I like C++ and D, but they are not 'pure OO'. Therefore I hate Java.
So, what were you referencing?
The article didn't make this very clear, but the book presents the idea of having a goal, but making the system your day-to-day focus. Otherwise, yeah, you'll just go in circles. I didn't realize the article glossed over this. In that context, your comment makes more sense.
// DNS Header

// raw[0:1] ID of the query

// raw[2]

// bit 0 - QR

// bit 1:4 - OPCODE

etc

Easier to write and possibly to read.
You're right, Startuptab definietely reveals how you should not create a landing page. After using it for months, "load speed" as google mentioned is one of the most important aspect.
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