skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I've been toying with the idea of developing a "real food soylent" -- an easy-to-prepare-in-bulk stew or chili, with a base of real-food ingredient options that can be interchanged based on season, availability, and taste. The idea would be to develop a real food framework that could (in theory) constitute once's entire diet. I think of this idea as Soylent minus the hubris.

This is not only sensible, strength trainers already do this. My favorite is a cabbage+(beef/venison/lamb) curried stew. You could probably just sell this as microwaveable packets, but then it doesn't have the mystique of Soylent :)
"I'm referring to the right to not self-incriminate."

Also not in the constitution.
Cite otherwise.
The right the article is talking about is the fifth amendment, which only says "nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself".

Not the same as a general right against self-incrimination (and no court case has ever held otherwise ...)

"What you said is untrue twice over. "

Again, in what way? You are the one who refuses to actually back up your statement that this right appears in the constitution, or was understood to be primary constitutional right.

(Spoiler alert: It hasn't been. There are plenty of state and other supreme court cases where silence was allowed to be used against people, and until the time of Miranda, nobody believed this was part of the fifth)

" It's central to this issue and it does "need" to be invoked."

I'm still not sure what you are talking about. I know what the article is talking about. The article is talking about an implicit right to silence created by the Miranda decision that the court found to be necessary to protect people, and its gradual erosion.

" and the gist ever since is that one must invoke the Fifth in order to be perceived as protected by the Fifth at that time. That's what the article is about."

See above

It is only in the past 50 years that any court has ever held the fifth amendment gave you the right to remain silent, and in fact, precedent was the exact opposite for centuries.

You are of course, welcome to look up the caselaw history if you don't believe me.

It simply was not understood to be a primary constitutional right, contrary to your assertion. There was not even anything you could invoke. Prosecutors were free to use your silence against you

Talking about it as if it has always been an understood part of the fifth amendment does nobody any favors.
It hasn't. Again, you won't find any serious legal academic who argues otherwise.

Here's an unbiased view by a preeminent con-law scholar:
http://www.volokh.com/2013/06/17/do-you-have-a-right-to-rema...

Note the section on pre-1965.

The truth is this is the problem with rights whose plain text does not appear in the constitution, like privacy, like the exclusionary rule, like a lot of things -
they tend to erode over time.

But the solution to that is not to pretend they are written into the constitution and then lament a changing ideology of the supreme court, but instead actually put them there.
CppDepend now support C++14 and became pluggable
Looks like they are submitting it to Swiftly, and then a human does it.
"Offending" and "verbally abusing" are not the same thing.
This is essentially highway robbery -- by the police. Excellent piece by John Oliver last night based on a detailed reporting done by Washington Post earlier.
You're not wrong, per se, but be aware that the sweet spot for tape storage has skewed to 100's of TB through PB range. Last time I checked, the smallest tape drive you could buy as new production is 1.6TB and costs more than $1k. So...tape is definitely not dead, it's just not something that makes a lot of sense for installing an OS any more, relative to a US$10 USB stick, $.25 DVD or $50 external 500GB hard drive. And, anecdotally, the number of "hobbyist" tape users for other than bulk backups seems to have dropped from "some" 20 years ago to "LOL you use tape LOL" today.

Insert standard disclaimer about it being open source and if someone wanted to resurrect tape install more power to them, etc.
Great read.

An aside: when Nathan started work on Storm, there was a competing streaming platform being worked on inside Yahoo, called "S4". It had many similarities to Storm, and some key differences.

It is still in the incubator: http://incubator.apache.org/s4/
(I have no connection with S4, just know some people who worked on it)
Celery just needs more of a root-focus.
Right - for example, we didn't even know about phtyo-nutrients until recently.

Still, if it only replaces the mexican tortilla chips I eat regularly, I'll probably still come out ahead.
I've had the same thought -- the history of the last 100 years of processed foods definitely supports the "don't know what we don't know" suspicion.

One hidden assumption behind Soylent immediately jumps out at me: the assumption that it is healthy to ingest the same level of every nutrient constantly over time. In reality it's possible that our bodies are actually adapted to -- and benefit from -- variation in nutrient intake. We are not engineered industrial artifacts designed to run on constant engineered inputs. We are the product of a varied, highly textured environment and an evolutionary design process whose "reasoning" is quite alien from our own.
Stop Nesting Animation Blocks
The Delaware of the world.
Maybe some of them as a tribute to Francis Bacon?

Yeah, who'm I kidding...
Right, that falls into the very specific case which is the level/map making for 3d worlds, which usually isn't programming but more design and scripting.

Any suggestions for actual programming? You know, like; classes, boring code, loops, i/o, algorithms?
That would imply OP had malicious intentions, which he apparently did not.
And then be sure to read this: https://estoniaevoting.org/

E-future cannot be built if we don't fix serious issues with software engineering. There is no guarantee of security. There is no assurance. We basically don't know how to build secure systems yet. As daily events show (from #fappening, #shellshock to Snowden's revelations), this is one of those "hard", unresolved problems...and not just from algorithmic (non-repudiation) perspective, but also from a practical engineering perspective (we are still dealing with buffer overflows).

“The software security industry today is at about the same stage as the auto industry was in 1930" ... "it looks fast, goes nice but in an accident you die.” ... "The major shortfall is absence of assurance (or safety) mechanisms in software. If my car crashed as often as my computer does, I would be dead by now.” -- Brian Snow, Former Technical Director of the NSA, We Need Assurance http://www.research.att.com/talks_and_events/2008_distinguis....
True, but FWIW that site is somewhat admirable for at least trying to cut implementation out & focus on language.

For example, see the documentation for the binary-trees test: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php...

There are a bunch of notes trying to make it very explicit that this test is supposed to isolate the garbage collector's performance. So they discourage lazy evaluation on the grounds that it might not produce the kind of allocation pattern the test is supposed to generate, and there's that bold admonition against memory management hacks, and all of that.

I'm sure there's still plenty room for gaming the system, but looking at the actual C# & Java implementations for the test reveal that by-and-large they really are roughly equivalent. In particular, the C# doesn't resort to any obvious dirty trick like declaring the tree node datatype as a struct rather than a class. The upshot being, what that particularly test suggests is something that probably shouldn't come as much surprise: Mono's gc, while good, isn't quite as performant as HotSpot's.
They saw it on HackerNews about a week ago, and it took this long for their lawyers to research, make a case, and do the paperwork.

Even if you become aware of something today, you can always use historical tweets as evidence.
> Quite a number of backdoors from the baseband to the actual processor of the phone have been discovered over the last few years

Every single one is a security vulnerability, not an intentional blessed mechanism by which the OS can be updated. And every single one is patched as soon as Apple learns of it.

> it's hardly unreasonable to think they could compel both Apple and your carrier to assist them, in the form of Apple generating a custom wiretap update and your carrier silently pushing it.

Except a) any known mechanisms by which this could be done would have already been patched, and b) I find it highly implausible that the government could compel Apple into deliberately breaking the fundamental security architecture of their product. If Apple already had the keys to decrypt the message, they could be compelled to hand them over, but that's very different than compelling them to actually modify their end-user software.

If the government did have the power to compel Apple to do something to aid wiretapping, it would be to compel them to add the ability to suppress the popup into a future OS update. It would certainly not be to compel them into creating and installing an OS update on the fly to a specific phone. Security implications aside, installing custom OS updates to specific phones would also have tremendous consequences on a lot of other stuff, including future OS updates (installing an OS update certainly can't brick the phone even if it's running an unknown custom OS), customer support (what if the target brings their phone in to an apple store?), even their internal build process.

That said, I don't believe the government can compel Apple to deliberately violate the advertised security guarantees of their product. Especially when such tampering is potentially visible to the target (which this would be; people have reverse-engineered the iMessage protocol, which means it's possible to intercept and analyze the traffic, which means it would be possible to write a tool to dump out the keys that your message is going to, which can be used to detect when new keys are added even if the OS doesn't alert you).

> Again, we're talking about responding to a sealed court order to aid in tapping a telephone

No we're not. iMessage isn't a telephone. The fact that the device you're using iMessage on almost certainly also has phone capabilities is irrelevant (and of course you can use iMessage without a telephone, by using a Mac or an iPod Touch).
Before anything else, I should mention that I haven't worked help desk in over 5 years.

Back when I worked help desk, the most common reason for a completely FUBAR and need a re-install was that the user ran CCleaner on it.
I have noticed over the last ten or so years that FreeBSD in particular is ridiculously stable -- far more so than any Linux distro I have tried, including Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian.

I have stable Linux machines running Debian and I have FreeBSD test machines running the same software. FreeBSD uses less resources (exact same HW), tends to be slightly faster, and is arguably easier to admin on a daily basis. Let's not even mention ZFS, which is remarkable in its own right. I'm impressed. I once ran an OpenBSD pf firewall that supported almost 200 users on some seruously underpowered HW. This thing's load average was always ridiculously low. Ditto FreeBSD now. What will cause the Debain machines to peak out sometimes, FreeBSD doesn't seem to notice. Interesting and a bit impressive.
We Should Be Protesting, Too
I agree. I think anyone who lives on an all (or nearly all) Soylent diet is very likely setting themselves up for some sort of long-term health problems.

That said, I can see a strong argument for replacing one meal a day with Soylent. It's unlikely to be worse than what most people eat, and as part of an overall varied diet I'd be much less concerned about the unknown missing ingredients.
Seconding this... Forever War is probably some of the most readable, non-America-Fuck-Yeah military sci-fi I've read--another good one is Armor.

If you want more military sci-fi, check out the Hammer's Slammers series by David Drake (tank company in spaaaaaace, but not the stupid Bolo stuff); he also had one anthology that was very nearly solid cyberpunk surveillance dystopia, Lacy and His Friends.
Unless any method or procedure (parsing of natural language configuration files or something) is patented.
Investigators still have no answers after boy's electrocution at Lincoln school
Those look really interesting. How do they taste?

How about feeling of fullness? (Most breads or other carb-based foods leave me feeling hungry again shortly thereafter, which sucks.)
I can't imagine using shame as my primary motivator for improving my work.
I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to say.

It sounds like you are implying that keeping mum is legally equivalent to agreeing to anything that a police officer says. That simply isn't true.

If you have something useful to contribute, please make it more clear and include a citation somewhat more precise than "somewhere within the 2052 pages of Black's Law Dictionary".
$48million is a few cents per person.

The US private R&D spending is over $100billion. Spending $3000 per person on what would be mostly foreign aid (7bn vs 300mn people) would be controversial.
> and we're not going to spend any time explaining to you why."

"any more time", please. The context should imply this, but some situations require high clarity.
Free Spending by Startups Stir Memories of Dot-Com Era Excesses
How Clay.io built their 10x architecture with AWS, Docker, HAProxy and lots more
I've always said "... I thought I was going the limit... was I?" and I get off with a warning most of the time. I always answer any follow up some utterance like "oh...", but I never explicitly admit fault.

I get off with a warning for most offenses but I think it's more about being very polite and cooperative.

Source: I get stopped once or twice a year for various reasons. (Have been driving for 20 years, 20-40 stops)
HP300 and MVME68K are 68K. I occasionally crank up the latter for shits and grins, but support is far more a labor of love than for any utility these platforms might have left. See also: VAX.
> If there is a conspiracy to promote women in tech, it is doing very poorly.

Sad but true.
There Is No Maker Movement in China
Crunch CSVs with APSW – Or Pivot Tables on Crack
Aw man. This is totally gonna get taken down by YC management/altman...
Look for Macmillan's Best of Soviet Science Fiction series, published in the early 1980s. It's a mix of novels and short story collections. For shorts, I particularly recommend World's Spring, New Soviet Science Fiction, and Ballad of the Stars.

A long time ago, I read that Asimov's short story 'Nightfall' was considered the finest short SF of all time, but I respectfully disagree. Nine Minutes, by Genrikh Altov, is that story for me. Link: http://www.altshuller.ru/world/eng/science-fiction4.asp

Also - a truly awesome novel - 'Self Discovery', by Vladimir Savchenko (also in the Macmillan series). (Link: http://lib.ru/RUFANT/SAWCHENKO/savchenko_selfdiscovery_ok-en...) It has one of the most compelling, and fascinating, descriptions of AI I've ever come across. As Theodore Sturgeon writes in the introduction, 'described with such realism that one is tempted to apply for a grant, build it, and check it out.'
sigh, not this again.

only found this not-very-good response in english to those "experts":
http://www.vvk.ee/valimiste-korraldamine/vvk-uudised/vabarii...

but saying "terribly insecure" is more than wrong. yeah, thare are many procedural things which could be better, but technologically estonian e-voting is secure. only serious threat is propaganda.
* Will and testament

* Voting

* Facebook (or whatever)

* Spam

* Banking

* Contracts

* Jury duty (Don't think boring.. think sci-fi!)

* Taxes

* Whistleblowing

* Bar tabs

* Power of Attorney (This one has new meaning in this context. It's a technical thing, a provable act of delegation.)

* Police reports

Basically the same use cases as PKI, but if it were government issued, the common person would know what it means.

A conversation about a fender bender might include "Then, he drove off without e-signing the standard insurance form!".

I dunno. Like I said, daydreaming.
Could I accomplish multi-page form automation doing something like:

.goto(page1)
// page 1
.type('selector', 'value')
.click('selector')
.wait()

// page 2
.type('selector', 'value')
.click('selector')
.wait()

etc. ?

If so, that seems super easy and more straightforward than vanilla Shadow or even Casper.
Hiring Manager Survey Is Bullish on Job Growth for Q4 2014
There are too many similarities between the code that suggest the source for Monit was indeed looked at, contrary to what Mike has stated on Twitter.

For instance some of the file names are the same, ie, Inspector's events.go and Monit's Event.c

Further, the code is very similar in places. Mind you it's not a direct copy, but this can't be coincidence.

Monit: https://bitbucket.org/tildeslash/monit/src/1686ffd4baa16b16d...

Inspeqtor: https://github.com/evanphx/inspeqtor/blob/master/events.go#L...
Thought provoking quote from Lessig's article:

There isn’t a single political analyst in America today who
doesn’t look first to whether a candidate for Congress has
the necessary financial support of the relevant funders.
That money isn’t enough, and it certainly doesn’t guarantee
victory. (Only 94 percent of candidates with more money
win.) But no candidate ignores the money, or is ignorant of
the views of the tiny fraction of the 1 percent that
provides it. That’s not perfect control, but it turns out
to be control enough to weaken the ability of ordinary
Americans to have something other than a “non-significant
impact upon public policy.”

That's an incredible statistic: 19 times out of 20 the candidate who has raised more money wins the election.
Announcing TypeScript 1.1 CTP
I actually see that language as creative and funny, don't say because I'm not the target audience. I forgot the comedian who said that he likes to cross the line then come back to bring some people with him.

I appreciate the work that is being done in open source community, the language part I don't really care much as long as it's to make a point. If you don't like that community, why don't you just fork the kernel and call it whatever you like. Nobody prevents you from doing that then you become the jail keeper and show what you can do to the world.
How Facebook’s Shifting ‘Real Names’ Policy Threatens Free Expression
DIVx0 (yes, that is his/her natural name) is my neighbor and I wondered the same thing so I began a period of systematic surveillance. Basically I just tapped into the NSA's feed so I can't really take any credit for that.

DIVx0 spends a lot of time reading about Soylent, posting on /r/Soylent, Facebooking and Twitting his experiences, and otherwise communicating and mentoring other Soylent users or prospects. The conclusion he and all his Soylent colleagues have come to is that they really do save a lot of time. Occasionally DIVx0 stays up till 1:00am or later writing poetry and odes to Soylent.

I thought all of this was really ironic until I checked the NSA's archives and found that in fact DIVx0 used to spend about twice that amount of time preparing, eating, and discussing salsa dip.
(Sorry about posting that twice. Hacker News was reporting gateway timeouts.)
Congrats for launching. Baremetrics just received funding, but I'm sure Stripe doesn't mind competition in this area - it just makes ppl use Stripe more. Looking forward to further developments.
I'm glad I read this - I expected some cheesy story about how a bit of contrived content and some founders/employees gamed HN.

This is a good template for how to identify, reach and get the most out of your ideal audience.
Why would it? Seems like a perfectly reasonable and professional response by yishan, shows investors that he isn't going to take crap from ex-employees trying to bad mouth the company.
* Whenever I hear complaints about Political Correctness, I'm reminded of this:*

I really hope you aren't. Posts that recast and interpret someone else's opinions like this are toxic to any political discussion. The framing makes the topic into an caricature you can easily oppose all while whispering in your ear "this is what's _REALLY_ going on."

Maybe you don't think this interpretation is wrong. Maybe you think I (like they) just can't realize or admit it's right. Maybe you don't think it's such a bad thing if this armchair psychologist is just a bit wrong. But have you ever seen someone post about how stupid social justice is when the thing they're trash talking isn't social justice at all? Have you never had someone disagree with you assert that you believe something you don't? Posts like that are exactly how it happens.
Building a Today Widget in iOS 8
Ask HN: Idiomatic english for startup success
I came across a TC article (http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/01/an-immigrant-experience/) that linked to PG's comment back in 2009 about YCs selection criteria and PG noted:

"One quality that's a really bad indication is a CEO with a strong foreign accent. I'm not sure why. It could be that there are a bunch of subtle things entrepreneurs have to communicate and can't if you have a strong accent. Or, it could be that anyone with half a brain would realize you're going to be more successful if you speak idiomatic English, so they must just be clueless if they haven't gotten rid of their strong accent. I just know it's a strong pattern we've seen."

It makes me worried because I've applied to YC and I'm not a native speaker. My english is less than perfect, and my accent is terrible.

Ofcourse this was in 2009, so I wonder if his views may have changed now. Did YC accept any non-english speaking founder(s) lately? Do you believe speaking idiomatic english is a necessity to run a successful business?