skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, this would defeat traffic analysis, but it only works if everyone is using the same shared channel, or if each user maintains a channel with every other user they might ever wish to communicate with. Every user must also check each packet to see if it is encrypted with their public key (requiring an extensive PKI) and is a valid message for them, which is expensive. The bandwidth required is also enormous for anything other than a very limited number of participants.

Sure, Tor achieves some of these goals, and if everyone used Tor all of the time then it would make the NSAs job much more difficult, but it isn't ever going to happen, for obvious operational and practical reasons.
whom, or what, will be summoned if it's a bot?
It doesn't go well on spaghetti.
The fact that minimum wage increases unemployment is clearly demonstrated at a micro economic level. Reading the link I previously posted an actual case study of small business owners who, in their own microeconomic sphere, will have to fire workers due to increases in minimum wage.

>Looking at your other comments, you don’t really seem to be interested in understanding anything, however, so I’ll let you resume your regularly scheduled trolling now.

In other words, "My logic cannot counter, so I will resort to insults."
Yeah, I paid The $9 pricetag thinking it would be something other than a toy. And while it looks nice, and is fun to play with for a while; I haven't really found much utility for it where day-to-day work is concerned.

It is really slick looking though!
>The question that should be asked is if not using IMAP gives for this app any edge over not using it? It seems that the answer is no.

This isn't true and it seems you have never used the app, so you don't know if an IMAP implementation doesn't actually have an edge over it.

IIRC, Mailbox actually had the ability to read your emails - some of the features they provided meant their servers had to have access to your inbox. Now, for this to work on IMAP, that meant giving Mailbox your email and password, and for Mailbox to store that in more-or-less plaintext.

Now as an enduser using Gmail, would you prefer that Mailbox stored your password somewhere in us-east-1, or an easily revokable oauth token?
Does this tie display speed to a selectable baud rate?
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No I don't think that's quite right. He very clearly is saying that the entrepreneur alone is not responsible for the success and growth of a company because they also need customers and employees and etc etc.

As for your plane crash analogy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_of_events_(aeronautics).
www.whatthecommit.com alternative to this:

git commit -m "$(curl -s http://whatthecommit.com | grep -o '<p>.*' | sed 's|<[^>]*>||g')"
It seems like the moral basis for forcing payment of police and fire services via taxes is to prevent thugs and fire from being disastrous. It wouldn't work to let a housefire burn just because the owner couldn't afford a fireman, because the fire could spread to the whole neighborhood. Similarly, if police required payment on demand, then thugs would prey off those who can't afford this protection.
That's a really good point. Thanks.
They can't because there are huge factories in China that can produce widgets cheaper than they can, because there are farmers with million dollar combine harvesters that can produce food cheaper than they can, et cetera.

We live in an industrial economy. Most people can create more value for the economy by working for somebody else and/or don't have the safety net that allows them to take the risks necessary to start their own business.
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Another one:

Use dcfldd instead of dd if you want to see how far your dd operation is progressing...

dcfldd if=[infile] of=[outfile] sizeprobe=if

So. Much. Better.

dcfldd also has many other useful options - read the man pages - and note that you'll have to install it from your linux distro's package repo beforehand.
Your scenario is very possible and was my initial thought as well. The call dropping could be carrier/phone/region specific due to invalid or error causing commands breaking something when the call logging or recording is activated. (tower connection, phone software, phone radio firmware, or anything else along the connection)

It's probably been fixed by now if it was a bug such as that. I'm sure bugs like this go unnoticed every day by people interacting with computer systems and just brush it off as a "glitch" or "service issue".
Yeah, well, I wasn't precisely laughing when I saw it on my Formal Languages and Computability course...

Check Church numerals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_encoding
Ask HN: Who started something in 2013/14 which is already profitable?
I think that can be inspiring and interesting to learn about the early journey of already profitable businesses.

I enjoyed the 2012 edition : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4088538

Impatient to learn about the accomplishments of the community.
If that's the idea, then I guess the members of working class should start calling themselves "wealth creators", "return creators", or "investment opertunity creators."
Because there is no pay-out. You'd be fighting an uphill battle just to see someone get a slap on the wrist.

In the legal profession you have to do someone extremely egregious to see any action taken against you. Just look at examples like Jack Thomas, or Prenda Law. It took extreme actions for Bar Associations and Courts to even consider the idea that a lawyer might not be acting in good faith.
Who said anything about minimum wage? The contention is just that "higher wages cause unemployment", which you characterized as "higher prices cause lower demand".

A supply/demand curve diagram says nothing about what happens if you move the price, it says what happens to the price if supply or demand move. To argue that "higher wages cause unemployment" you have to find a way to move the equilibrium point for labor up the P axis and to the left on the Q axis - which you do by moving the supply curve to the left and leaving the demand curve still. So higher wages and unemployment are a consequence of decreased labor supply, not of higher wages.

Raising the minimum wage changes the shape of the supply curve, and yes, if the demand curve crosses the supply curve at the minimum wage line, then raising it will decrease the amount of labor exchanged - increasing unemployment.

But higher average wages (forget about minimum wage) increase consumption which increases demand across the board, which decreases unemployment, and... increases wages. This is what happens during an economic boom.
yes: http://www.secretgeometry.com/media/screenshot14.jpg
The Declaration of Independence isn't a binding legal document.
Or you can use it in your post-commit hook:

https://gist.github.com/stevelaz/daecc32e0a8f2758b649
This is an orthogonal issue from the one you brought in originally, and in this case I am 100% with you.

In Programming 101, you require all assignments to be turned in by pushing to <insert your favorite control version here> repository.

In Data Structures, you require each assignment to turn at least 5 versions which show the evolution of your work (not just 4 empty skeletons and one final push with the completed assignment at the end). Then was you asses the quality of versions you introduce this other soft technology called "peer review".

In later courses, like Compilers, you can have the whole group work on a single code base, each branching and merging back their own part of the work. You teach how to work in teams.

etc, etc...

What the choking point is here is that instructors themselves are, more often than not, not familiar with this kind of techniques and technologies. And they are unlikely to learn if there is not some serious institutional support for this. Of course the odd extraordinary professor will be a regular contributor to open source projects and the like, but all the others will not know what to do.

I think if you are interested to pursue this beyond a simple online discussion, you should start from here. Try to talk your local head of CS department into this kind of stuff, see where can you get from there.
Nice, reminds me of a Brian Regan sketch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ8BoYEgy1I&t=4m11s
GuitHub repo is an interesting way to structure a government, will be curious to see how this plays out.
I understand the concept that a business such as Wal-Mart can easily afford a sudden rise in minimum wage as that's almost always the example used. That, or another similarly large and successful company.

But what about that mom and pop store on the corner? Am I to understand that they could afford the new employment costs if suddenly it were to be doubled, or close to it? How long does it take for the new economic benefits of the store paying out more money per week to employees to offset the new costs? Can they last that long? Some places are on tough times and on tight margins. Any increase in expenses is potential disaster. Do they raise prices at first because that new positive economic impact doesn't happen immediately, which may actually prevent the positive impact if other local stores have to do the same? Will the customers with more money to spend in their store offset the new higher costs of employing people or will it be a wash?

(If anyone has a source of the economic impact on small businesses, and not the large chains, of doubling the minimum wage I would be highly interested in reading it.)

Because this isn't just about increasing minimum wage, it would increase wages for a great number of people who are not making minimum wage. Would the manager of a pizza shop be happy that his drivers suddenly make more per hour then he does? Of course not, that would mean all wages at the place would need to be adjusted according to seniority and responsibilities. Many wages are structured based on the current minimum wage level.

Plus, it would seem that it would be in the best interest of Wal-Mart to push for doubling the minimum wage. As been shown numerous times, they can afford it. Much of their competition could not.

Not that I disagree with the sentiment, something definitely needs to be done because the current mantra clearly doesn't work. But the issue is far more complicated, as the original essay mentioned points out, then just simply raising the minimum wage. I think raising the minimum wage would, in the end, be a good thing; but I believe there would be a wave of negative consequences, and there are many, that would have to be survived. Many people who are against raising the minimum wage point out those negative consequences, but cannot see beyond them. That doesn't mean they should be ignored.
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The analogy the original article used was that of entrepreneurs and investors to seeds: a seed is a vital component to the growing of trees, but far from sufficient.
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That definitely takes more work. What threw me off the most in higher latitudes is how much my appetite depending on the light level.

My first trip that "far" north was to Dublin in midsummer, and I wasn't really in the mood for dinner until after 10pm which wasn't a good thing as we discovered most kitchens close far earlier than that.
Here's the DMCA takedown notice:

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2014-07-02-Qualco...

As you can see there's a lot of stuff that is unlikely to be copyrighted by Qualcomm in there, like .conf config files.
Yes. The software we use will actually log when you perform any sort of read on files matching certain strings (ie sensitive source codes).

One of our infosec guys encoded some sensitive source code and played it through the speaker to his phone and reconstructed it. The DLP software detected that and it was in a dashboard buried amongst other things.
It does not even matter that "the majority of Tor users are using it for nefarious purposes". Any attempt at intimidation will work out exactly the other way around.

Doing anything that the NSA do not like, is "cool"; even more so in the global scene.

Seriously, if you want to get people to use Tor, all you have to say is that the NSA do not like it.
Creativity often requires capital. Capital is often lacking for people who want to create value.
Blue screen of death 404!
Python works the same way, so I just assumed ES6 did as well and tested it in Firefox. :)
That's a bit cynical, no? Everything else is payola?

Who knows why certain publications are banned. Maybe it's not their content but that they spammed the site and with sockpuppets?

That said, I'd like to fewer filters on which publications are banned. I submitted something from CNET that went to auto-dead. Seems like something I'm sure Dan and team are on top of. Why not send them note?
Understood. Saying "old" is an invalid argument, even among people who are supposed to understand the context. But comparing IMAP to Earth is very valid. It's a marvel of rational thought. You must be very popular.

Everyone who uses IMAP knows its weaknesses. I'm not going to write a book here. It's very, very slow; it has bizarre choices - I still don't understand why I need to delete my message, and then delete the deleted message; it doesn't support now commonplace modern features like tags; its push extension is so naive and resource taxing, companies just implement their own, even when otherwise trying to use IMAP.

But just being slow is an argument enough. I use a few email clients, only one client uses IMAP, and my stomach curls into a ball every time I open it, because I know it'll be synching forever. Even if IMAP being old is a poor argument, me getting old while waiting for it synching, sure is.
Has no one suggested privatizing all the surface streets?

After all, if you don't like the toll on the road in front of your property, you can sell it and move to a street owned by a company that charges less.

Paradise rapidly ensues!
> This story... is neither a story for the faint of heart nor for the critical of mouth. If you're easily offended, or prone to being a disagreeable knave in blog comments, please stop reading now.

That's a neat trick, limiting your blog post to people who won't be critical of it.
I don't think it's worded very clearly, but at the end of the day there's only one reasonable interpretation. He's saying that (numbers made up and not realistic) 10% of nefarious types use Tor, while 1% of regular folk use Tor. If nefarious folk make up 1% of the general population, they'll make up about 10% of Tor users, and thus focusing on Tor users will get you a larger proportion of the nefarious.
I'd be interested in an open source solution for displaying our own streetview-type imagery. The county I live in is quite rural so Google hasn't yet driven our streets. In 2011 the County's public works department paid a consultant to drive the public roads in a streetview-type car. The county has all collected imagery and point clouds, but only outdated software to view it in. I've hacked together a proof-of-concept that loads the panoramic images into a web browser (using three.js) to pan around and zoom. But I haven't figured out how to overlay the road centerlines yet to be more Google-like.
This is kinda devils-advocate-y, but it's worth remembering that if the world is a certain way, there's probably a reason for it. The fact that pretty much all of the livable land is either controlled by relatively powerful states, or occupied by tribal people with beliefs entirely incompatible with libertarianism, tells us something about how the world works.

If you want to form a country, or some entity with sovereignty over a decent-size plot of land, then you're going to need a military. That military will have to actually be loyal to the government/leadership and the population of that place. If you don't have that, then some other more established country will come take over, or at least have such strong influence that they are de facto in charge.

That's why I don't think pure libertarianism is tenable - if you don't have some sort of powerful state, then some other powerful state will come take over your society. There's still plenty of room for debate on exactly what the role of that state is, and how the leadership is chosen and laws are made, but I don't think you can ever get around that. It's kinda like claiming that total pacifism is the best philosophy, but it never had a chance because all of these other big meanies keep squashing it. Like it or not, those big meanies are part of the world too, and if your philosophy can't handle them, then it's no good.
The point about the shipping container creating jobs in factories is an interesting one. The effect on jobs is complicated. Even Uber eliminates the jobs for dispatcher at cab companies.

I prefer clear goals. I want to create value and I am agnostic to the effect it has on jobs.

+1 for Mo
Me, I'm a wage slave, but I do have a friend who put up his savings, borrowed money from a bank and built and opened a car wash. He hired a dozen or so young men and women who staff it, while he is an owner/manager.

He has been successful -- he judged the demand for a car wash correctly. Probably not a %1'er, but as a local small business owner is able to live a comfortable middle class life.

Certainly without customers and without the bank he could not have succeeded, but I think it's ludicrous to say the 'economy' created the jobs. There are some agents within the economy who 1) recognize opportunities for profitable activity and 2) direct resources these opportunities. I think it's reasonable to describe these people as job creators.
My best guess is that someone wrote their comment in a scratch buffer in an external editor and copy-pasted one line too many. :)
I was replying to your question on how to sign transactions. Multisig is the real and the best solution for this task. Maybe I don't understand the problem with "multisig forces you to use the blockchain". If you sign a bitcoin tx, then sure you need to get it on the blockchain. Or am I missing something?
Regarding your mom and pop store example: some businesses should fail. If they cannot afford to keep full time workers out of poverty, they cannot afford to run a business that hires workers.
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This put such a huge smile on my face.

I was having a shit day, but now it's awesome. Thank you!

P.S. I will go build like 9 websites using this immediately.
cool!

one thing that kind of bugs me is that when you reload the config file, if there's something wrong with it, it just loads the fallback config. i don't see any error messages, so its hard to figure out what i did wrong in the config.
Terrible slideshow format and poorly formed conclusions that don't support the data. Too bad they didn't predict the decline in journalism.
Does anyone know where to find the full list of excuses?
According to this:

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9828&page=43

The UN 30 year projections for the US/Australia/Japan group is around 5% error.
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"That wasn't in the specification"

An excuse being an attempt to justify a fault, I don't consider that an excuse. That one is a fact, and it's not the programmers fault when it happens.
I'm not convinced that the US income tax is really designed at all. I think it mostly just grew out of what was politically feasible.
True, but we are talking about things like candy bars. Kids can pick up a candy bar and not realize that a candy bar that contains THC is any different than a regular candy bar. Not to mention that the candy bar may contain extreme dosages of THC.
Well said, thanks. It's galling because the commenter is both very certain, and wrong, to make such claims without taking the macro situation into account. It's not just one independent variable.
I think you'd do well as performance art reviewer if you can extract such a profound argument from Marlarkey73's single-line post. Bravo!

By the way, quoted person is not offering a "simple solution". (S)he's not offering any solution. (S)he's saying, income tax is equivalent to theft, and theft is not a justifiable action, even if we can point to its benefits.

This is not a different solution. This is not a difference of opinion on the best way to run the government. It's a moral principle.

Now, you can disagree whether the income tax is actually equivalent to theft, or defend that theft can actually be justifiable in special circumstances, but your criticism is completely off the mark.
It's pointless to create more jobs by lowering the minimum wage (or eliminating it) if no one could possibly live off of the wages of the jobs this created.

Not everybody who has a job has to live on the wages. When I worked temp jobs while I was in school, I didn't need the money to live on; ROTC was paying my tuition and my parents were paying my room & board. My wages were just extra spending money.

The big problem with raising the minimum wage across the board is that it doesn't differentiate between people who have to live on the wages they earn and people who don't, like me when I was in school. If there were an exception for people who were dependents on someone else's tax return, for example, I think it would make a big difference.
I realize that most US dollar transactions take place through the US, I have read that it is something like 95% of such transactions. My point was that it is not necessary for this to be the case, as in there is no law stating that it has to be done so.

Of course, attempting large oil transactions as in the BNP case, while avoiding using the US dollar and clearing houses would be difficult, to say the least.

And no, I am not a financier, but am aware of some basic principles of property ownership.

Since you appear to know about this topic, could you clarify is US dollar transactions settled through HSBC in HK are (in a legal sense) done in HK, or in the US?
Wow, a business article saying money sitting in a bank account does nothing? Are they that clueless? It is leveraged many times over and invested and used by the bank. Putting a dollar in the bank lets the bank pretend they have forty.
Right there in the 1st amendment.

Backed up by the supreme court in the right for group memberships not to be revealed.

You have the right to anonymously assemble and associate with a political group. I hope you don't lose it.
If you're watching this World Cup in Germany, you'll get regular notices on where to find further information (e.g. see Page 200 for current lineup)
Yup. One of the other commenters suggested checking into Greasemonkey, but it's only for Firefox. Something could be created with a build step that creates the plugins for multiple browsers.
I definitely agree. Furthermore, I think being multi-lingual in terms of spoken languages also helps understanding and being open to new paradigms and idioms. And this works both ways. After spending a semester programming in Scheme, I was much more open to the idioms and syntax of Chinese. I think this effect is super exciting and not discussed enough.
I have posted it before, but any time a healthcare thread pops up I like to mention a project I co-founded (before Obamacare/Affordable Healthcare Act).

Primary care coverage for $20/month $10 copay for ARNP/PA visits and $25 copay for Doctor visit. Even if someone is covered on the exchange this type of primary care plan can be far more cost effective than paying the copays under many of the plans. See: http://pfccmember.com/Membership_Plans.html

>So I went to my new Oscar-­approved doctor, who recommended routine blood work...On April 28th 2014, I received a first bill from the hospital detailing how Oscar covered none of the in­-hospital labs and I would need to pay $1640. A second round of labs before April 28th pushed the total bill to over $2000.

Even our little start-up was able to negotiate $99 for blood work labs, which is out of pocket to the patient. If the same patient uses insurance that rate skyrockets, usually requiring patients to pay out of pocket anyway because of giant deductibles.