skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took you up on that, took about 15 minutes for circle to tell me they're USA-only.
Uber Optics
I've noticed the increase in availability for secure phones (as in, there were zero before and now there is one), but even working in information security, I've never heard of anyone outside of Ars Technica or the like actually buying one, let alone using it. I wouldn't really call that a sharp increase in popularity except, of course, the sharp increase of going from zero to one.
Well, a good portion of meaningful additions touch at least one of config/routes and config/models, which means rebuilding a whole bunch. There probably is some way to better isolate things, but I'm not immediately sure what it looks like while still getting the DRY and static checks (which are certainly valuable!).
These are transaction fees inherent to the Bitcoin Blockchain.

But also 2 cents to transfer ownership is a lot cheaper than existing trading fees.
Reddit Raises $50M, Plans to Share Stock with Community Members
Windows 8.1 was 9. Or not?
Yeah, I let out an audible WTF when I read that. I wish this argument would stop.
You act like it is our choice whether the earth remains habitable or not. That remains to be seen (rather unlikely in my opinion). Sure we can affect it but I think in the end it really isn't up to us.
If links to Documents and Control Panel can be added via those tiles, I think we'd have a win-win
Building an earthquake map with RethinkDB and GeoJSON
Firstly, this is not an instance of a company being pillaged by an activist investor. Icahn is not assuming control of the company, he's trying to make them change direction.

Secondly, Icahn has been completely right about eBay. Andreessen functionally stole billions from eBay via a deal with one of the most egregious conflicts of interest we've seen in all of corporate America. Which, fine, it was a fuckup. Sometimes companies fuck up. But then, eBay keeps the same board of directors with the same crooks running the show. eBay needs an activist investor or else these are the guys who are going to pillage the company (even further). Not Icahn.
What is wrong with Windows 9? Why don't Microsoft win by merit instead of silly marketing naming game?
A lot because quality assurance testing. There is little to zero automation available and supporting three platforms (more, if you want to support distros other that Ubuntu) means tripling your already time consuming and expensive testing effort.

I'd love to see more games in Mac, bit understand why that is rarely the case since I also want a quality product and would complain if I got a poorly tested port.
> Why tell everyone "we need to bomb" in order for Japan to surrender when you knew it wouldn't stop the war?

For various political reasons (I'm not justifying this, only explaining it). The Manhattan Project began in response to the perceived threat that Germany might create an atomic weapon. In 1945, with Germany out of the picture, and with no alternative, people began to talk about using it against Japan. It was realized that, if we didn't force Japan to surrender to us, they would surrender to the Russians, with unimaginable postwar consequences.

Again, I'm only explaining the thinking of the time, not justifying it.

After the war, it was discovered that Germany was nowhere near creating an atomic bomb, but it came out that Japan was actively pursuing this class of weapon and was technically farther ahead, lacking only the raw materials. In the closing days of the war, a German submarine was intercepted trying to deliver uranium to Japan for use in a nuclear weapon they planned to build and use against the U.S. :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-234
They can just break down a door, though. They can't break proper encryption with a good passphrase.

Not that many people will choose a good passphrase...
This is like arguing that brand x's USB cables are softer and prettier than brand y's. Its still a commodity.
Just for the curious, Mars' gravity is about 38% of Earth's, which is about twice the gravity of the moon.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=mars+gravity+vs+earth+g...
"Let's spend trillions and throw it into space"

The technical issue is not the matter. It's the sheer amount of resources for which the overwhelming majority of the human race will never see a benefit from in their lifetimes.
capitulated on all the major complaints

Or you could call it listened to
> I'd say this about as close as you can get to a ringing endorsement

Or they just want criminals to think that all they have to do is buy an Apple or Google phone, and they can't be caught.
I think he's mainly trying to weed out people with one-off transactional sales, like online stores. Josh has mentioned a few times that occasionally they'll sign up and end up churning out because the model just doesn't work for them. But yeah, it could definitely work if you ran like a membership site off of Stripe. Not exactly a SaaS, but same sorta rules apply.
New Boston Go Meetup Group
Do you have a non-Washington Times link? W.T. is often dubious. When not dubious it is inflammatory.
Put in some text ads under the curl progress bar.
Hilarious and on point, but to their credit consultants look at what you are currently doing which isn't working, and suggest you do the other thing on the theory that worst case that won't work either but at least you will have tried something new.

I generally think that it is a symptom that the management isn't able to manage the business. Not everyone has the skill set to mix a tech and commerce company into a living / breathing entity.
Would it be possible to use this to identify people running Tor relays?
Even shorter/easier to remember version of the command (you don't have to specify the filename twice if you don't want):

curl -T ./filename transfer.sh
> Their requests to the companies may include letters, personal appeals or congressional legislation, said a federal law official who requested anonymity to discuss the sensitive issue.

I love that, in an article arguing against secure privacy, the official requested anonymity.
Just as a heads up your documentation doesn't work with the newest version of the Android Gradle plugin (0.13.0), see here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/25939518/472021

the `android-apt` dependency needs to be switched to 1.4 else you get:

A problem occurred configuring project ':cachetest'.
> No such property: projectDependencies for class: com.android.build.gradle.internal.api.ApplicationVariantImpl_Decorated

Edit #1: Is there any way to instantiate my RealmObject from JSON? I'm currently using GSON to take API calls <--> POJOs, I can't figure out any way to do this using Realm since models "must be instantiated from the Realm using the realm.createObject() instance method".

Edit #2: Okay I have no idea how to use this. Given a list of `Object`, how do I make a `RealmList` of it? Do I have to use Realm.createObject? Is there not any way of just taking a couple already instantiated versions of an object and jamming them into a `RealmList`?

I was really excited about trying this out (the Stack Exchange app currently has a 37ms delay on a cold start to get the list of all of our sites back into active memory) but this does not look like it's going to be easy to use.
Fundraising for reddit
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Thank you. I just found that that title is included in O'Reilly's Safari.
Scriptable Operating Systems with Lua [pdf]
Okay the TSA argument is brought up all the time, and the overall consensus as that you are voluntarily giving up your fourth amendment rights by consenting to the search.
They probably would have used that if it weren't for the x windowing system.
SHARQ – A Flexible, Open Source, Rate Limited Queuing System
If you do any terminal work whatsoever on Windows (be it cmd/powershell/cygwin) I highly recommend ConEmu which has that and all other goodies you find on other OS's decent terminal apps
What percentage of your friends want to live on Mars? If it's more than a ten of one percent then that sounds like there are plenty of people who want to live there.
Maybe I'm crazy, but in my judgement, the risk of occurrence for the ultra-bad (somebody dies) is low enough that its outweighed by the good (the world gets to see dramatic and illustrative views of how big a protest this is). Even the minor-bad (somebody gets cut or bruised) is still pretty low occurrence risk (its so slow and low that the crowd see, and is waving at the drone)

We used to be chased by wild cats, twice our weight, in tall grass, and now we limit use of anything that might even scratch someone else. Society's great and all, it provides a good support net and enables a lot, but its trend towards conservatism is frustrating sometimes.
I see the opposite problem on the horizon. With the Braintree acquisition, Paypal is a lot less likely to integrate with Stripe. Braintree is going to be a worse version of Stripe, but we will use it because it will give us PayPal out of the box. It is a good time to work at Braintree.
I can't see how you'll see a backlash against the companies on the move, if only because there's no real competition and no value in being "the phone the authorities can easily monitor"

The worst case scenario is that they get large amounts of press (not all positive), fight for the rights of their users to have private data, and lose to a government they never expected to defeat. That's still a win.
From the people who brought you the Xbox 360 (2nd Xbox) and the Xbox One (3rd Xbox)...
The Chicago Chief of Police genuinely said this:

>"Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile. The average pedophile at this point is probably thinking, I’ve got to get an Apple phone."
Why “Computational Literacy” Is Ruining Coding Education
> For example I'm used to typing 'hist -l 100' to see the recent history, now I need to use the magic ipython variant '%hist -l 100'.

I'll take that any day over list (the type) vs list (the ipython command) confusion and not being able to use various single letter variables
"Beyond lobbying the companies, there is little law enforcement can do without congressional action. " Wait, what? Even with the privacy Apple and Google are offering there are huge amounts of ways to access data useful to law enforcement and the law enforcement seems to have the tools to force the companies to give it.
So..

its revealed that the NSA is abusing our privacy, and people react accordingly, and now legitimate law enforcement efforts are being thwarted.

Don't blame the tech sector, let them blame the NSA's over-reaching charter
> Why does the reason matter? It's the ability to speak it that matters.

Yes, I basically agree. I think there's a difference between a native speaker and someone who can order food in a French restaurant -- I mean, without getting snails when what he really wanted was escargot. But I agree, it's not a very important distinction.
By default it is backed up to iCloud through your keychain...

This is why I enabled encryption with the fdesetup command manually so the GUI can't "have a bug" that backs it up to iCloud/keychain anyway.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin...

edit: you want to ensure you don't use the -keychain option, and then you want to write down the recovery key it prints out and store that somewhere safe.
I don't think they care so much about preventing encryption --after all, you can already encrypt your iPhone or Android device, if you really want to.

What they're much more concerned about, IMO, is that this could now be the _default_. No longer would there be a presumption that someone has "something to hide" if they're encrypted when everyone else is, too.
Sam Altman investing in Reddit
A big, crucial shift.
> Or they just want criminals to think that all they have to do is buy an Apple or Google phone, and they can't be caught.

There is a greater incentive to let Apple or Google do that kind of marketing and quietly exploit the vulnerabilities (ie, what's been happening with the NSA for some time now). If it had the appearance of working but actually didn't you wouldn't hear a peep from any government.
Sexism is something that is rampant in the whole tech industry. I feel bad about it, but I don't see how YC or HN is responsible for policing the posts.
Sure, you could have a report button and couple of mods to look at them and approve or reject. That model however is not scalable and downright silly.
The bigger issue is with the society and people's mindset and it is up to the people to not be sexist.
Having said that, I don't think any business has to do anything special for being inclusive to sex/race/gender etc. Businesses run on profits, talent generates profits. Sure, capable people should not be denied opportunity, but incapable people should not get preferential treatment and held against a lower standard.
>It's been dominated by the same gimmicky IAP games for a long time, is full of hacky junk apps, and noticeably devoid of serious productivity apps.

These things are a turn off for us, but that doesn't mean that the market is failing.
Government has forced the issue before. I think BlackBerry, for example, had to allow Middle East governments access to their secure messages previously.
So this does actually pose an interesting conundrum, I think.

Setting aside the specifics of this matter, I think that most people would accept that in some circumstances, covert surveillance of suspected criminals is an acceptable law enforcement tool. Of course, it must be subject to suitable (not rubber-stamped) judicial approval, rigorous guidelines, limitations etc.

From that perspective, secure and encrypted communication channels that are now becoming more generally available and usable by the public reduce the ability of law enforcement to gather evidence using traditional surveillance tools. It's no wonder that they would react negatively to them, even assuming there were no malicious intentions.

I wonder what the balance will be? Does law enforcement have to simply accept that surveillance of this sort will no longer be possible? I can't see any logical way of simultaneously retaining useful control and allowing regulated legal access to communications.
Well, if I was trying to break the law then, yeah, I would absolutely go an get an Apple phone if I didn't already have one.
That's fair. I don't know how SML deals with this, but Haskell handles it with type classes and (in your UI example) existential data types.

You don't know everything about the children's types, but you know enough to constrain them into being type safe.

People sometimes do this safely in Go, but all too often they use interface{}.
I don't understand this argument. Wouldn't law enforcement still be allowed to access phone records unecrypted if they have an actual suspect and court order?
If they're skipping why not just fast forward to Windows 2014 (or 15).

That would keep up with SQL Server 2014 and Visual Studio, etc.
I'm surprised they even admit it's mostly used in the war on drugs. As if we want the US government to help [1] the Sinaloa cartel dominate even more - sorry, I meant to "win the war on drugs" (ha ha!).

[1] - http://www.businessinsider.com.au/the-us-government-and-the-...
This!
just search youtube for "iphone 6" and the vast majority of videos will be "unboxing"... Who cares ! I know what will be in the box. A cable, earphone, and paper manual.
Let's move on ! The only reason I'm on youtube it's to see how the plus feels since I din't have the opportunity yet.

Who cares about the box.

I'm just curious if the new size will be a good fit for me or not.
True, but an alternative system can be built outside of the Bitcoin Blockchain to feasibly do the same thing. (such as https://www.ethereum.org/)
Consumer Debt Hits an All-Time High
Announcing Windows 10
Fixing the Internet for confidentiality and security
The presenter said that Windows 1 had been done already, and showed a photo of Bill with a floppy disk.

Not sure what would be better - WinX? Windows One? WindOne? W1ndows?
If you support this sort of system, you are saying that individuals should be able to place themselves above democracy. Like it or not, we have a legal system that entitles the government to execute lawfully obtained warrants. Tech companies seeking to make this harder are acting against democracy.

It's time for Silicon Valley to decide what side it's on: Democracy, or the alternative.
I use cmder, it's beautiful and it has pipeline, emacs shortcuts, less, grep, cat, ls, ssh, and more.
Totally agree with you. I would just use Linux if I could run Illustrator with out any special setup on Linux. Instead I have a MacBook Pro.
Pebble Prepares for the Apple Watch with Price Cut
I don't know the math offhand, but the return trip from Mars would take far less fuel than the initial trip. The atmosphere is almost non-existent and Mars' gravity is about 2/5 of Earth's. Similar to our experience on the moon, it took a Saturn V to get to the moon, but the Lunar Lander + CSM were enough to get back to earth from there.
I'm not sure why you need to tell me I'm having a hard time. I don't feel like having a hard time with this issue. Also I'm not overcomplicating anything.

You said it yourself: you're not sure how "it" is special. I'm sorry, I cannot help you any further. Maybe others in this thread can.
Exactly. The world has had some time to react to last year's revelations, and this is just getting started!
Laos Joins Southeast Asian Neighbors in Imposing Stricter Internet Controls
You can never trust any "encryption" that you don't handle entirely yourself.

This seems to be some more theater, aiming to deceive the general public with regards to the "safety" of this "encryption".
Sorry if this is obvious but how does this work if Conde Nast/Advanced Publications is the primary shareholder?
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Was 7 really called 7 because it was the 7th version of the NT kernel? If so, then 7, 8, 8.1(9), 10 makes sense sorta kinda.
If the government had proven itself trustworthy enough to follow it's own processes for accessing information only after obtaining a warrant, I could agree with the argument. However, things escalate when one side can't trust the other. Encryption is needed.
> 1. Humans have existed as a distinct species for about 200,000 years.

No, that's wrong. Humans, genus Homo, have existed for about 2.5 million years; the subspecies H. sapiens sapiens for about 200,000. The species H. sapiens is a little less clear, there's debate over whether it starts around 200,000 years ago (and includes just a few subspecies, notably H. sapiens sapiens and H. sapiens idaltu) or whether it starts around 500,000 years ago and includes several others.

> 2. Given the process of natural selection, in another 200,000 years we will have been replaced by something different than us -- not necessarily bigger or smaller, smarter or dumber, just different.

Unlikely; while speciation requires time, time alone is not generally enough, and even if it were, there is no reason to expect the time from the last speciation event to now (whether 500,000 years or 200,000)
to be the time from now to the next speciation event.

(Colonization of Mars -- if Earth-Mars interaction is limited once the colony is established -- might actually accelerate that, since the one thing that does contribute to speciation is geographical separation which prevents significant interbreeding between segments of the wider population.)

> 3. In a million years, there will be nothing remotely resembling human beings -- it will be as though we had never existed.

Human beings, genus Homo, have been around for two and half million years already, and H. sapiens (whether you take the narrower or broader view of the species) would be a flash-in-the-pan as species of its size, lifespan, and geographic range are concerned if it wasn't around for several million more (H. erectus -- with competing members of the genus Homo around on Earth for pretty much its whole time of existence -- lasted about 1.75 million years), and things "remotely resembling human beings" have been around significantly longer -- and can be expected to be around significantly longer than humans in the strict sense, unless humans are wiped out completely in a cataclysm rather than subjected to the kind of pressures that produce speciation.

> The sun will become a red giant and envelop the earth in somewhere north of five billion years, which is five thousand times longer than we can possibly exist as an identifiably distinct species, using the optimistic forecast of item (4) above.

The million year forecast isn't "optimistic"; while it may be unlikely that human beings would be around for 5 billion years, your particular argument for that point is, well, based on one controversial claim and a couple of unjustified claims that don't follow from that controversial claim.
There is a finite and nonzero probability that this could be signs of alien life. Cynicism is right ~99.99% of the time, but it is 0.01% that gets humans to build rocketships and reach for the stars.
Does anyone know of any precedent for granting equity to a community site's users? I'm curious to see what sort of dynamic this creates in the site.
It does not matter what kinds of children they make... a collection has a well-typed-usage. When you get an item out of a collection, you have two options:

(1) You inspect its type with reflection, and make a choice of what to do accordingly. This requires tagging the type at runtime, and is ugly no matter what.

(2) You will use the intersection of features provided by all the types. In other words, some interface representing what each object in the collection can do.

Either way is pretty straightforward to represent. In haskell, the first is a Dynamic type, and the second is a record containing the interface functions. I am pretty sure any other case is a runtime error, unless I missed something?
It's already possible to identify people running Tor relays. Tor relays are publicly listed in the Tor consensus. They need to be for clients to build paths through the network.

Some relays are used as entry points to the network, and are unlisted to prevent them from being blocked by censors like many American universities, Iran, and China. These are called bridges, and they are not listed in the consensus. Since they aren't listed in the consensus, OnionTip can't be used to donate to them.
Our democratic system has enacted laws that say encryption is legal. Why do you think following the law is somehow "acting against democracy" here?
[April Fool's 2013] Microsoft skips 'too good' Windows 9, jumps to Windows 10
Counterpoint: Right-Picking the First Project to Go DevOps On
Nobody's law enforcement efforts are being thwarted. They just want to convince demographic A that their devices are unhackable and completely NSA-proof, and convince demographic B that anyone who values their civil liberties is a terrorist pedophile that hates freedom.

These companies are documented data providers for the NSA.
They always pull the pedophile card.
Maybe they are just trying to convince all the "what I have is good enough" people that they are getting behind? Microsoft does have a huge legacy problem. XP has the second largest market share.
ArcGIS from ESRI? (It's for Windows only, you may not have heard of it ;)
Yea, after reading the article fully I wish I could edit my comment a bit. It isn't really amazing when 3 people died because of it (2 other scientists apparently later died as well).
Four key vectors for closing the DevOps feedback loop
Looks like that page was added after my comment, and before yours. Google Cache shows the link in the footer not present 3 days ago. [1]

Also, I notice you've only ever commented on 3 different HN topics all of which relate to this service, so I'm going to hazard a guess and say you're linked in some way to this project, and thought you'd add the terms link, and post this comment in an attempt to discredit my comment.

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1lkLIOR...