skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting society argument. For sake of argument I'll just talk about Mozilla employees. Does being a CEO require you to take political actions to support (or at least, not hurt) your employees in their outside lives, over other local political concerns? As a citizen, is that ethical?

I don't know. All I said was, "society" can't be reduced to people living in a geographical area. The person who made a societal argument wasn't me, it was you.

People who oppose gay marriage typically believe it would hurt "society" at large -- do you really want to say he should have taken an action (or inaction) he believed would generally hurt everyone in his political jurisdiction (which the vote was in), so that he could help his Mozillian sub-society?

I don't know. All I meant was what I said - his vote can't be explained away just by saying "well, it's a product of the society he lived in". Nothing more.

So Eich could have been aware there was a threat of oppression to his employees etc., to "strip them of their rights" (quasi-quote), and done absolutely nothing to help them, because you know, there's TV to watch and frivolities to buy instead, and that's totally OK? Come on -- it's either such a righteous cause/travesty of justice that even inaction is intolerable; or it's just a societal rift that will take a few decades to achieve consensus on, and shouldn't be punished any more than being discovered to be a card-carrying Republican or Democrat.

People here seem to have their mind so formatted in a us-vs-them mentality that they automatically assume everyone who disagrees with a particular argument is a strong supporter of the opposite position. This is not the case.

I never said he should or not be tolerated. I didn't say I agree with what happened.

All I said was that factually, people who are simply inactive on the issue don't get called out, so it's incorrect to assume Eich was being demanded to act in support of gay marriage.

EDIT: Damn my poor English :|
I wonder if there are enough privacy advocates to convince stores to stop carrying invasive products by buying the product and then returning it, citing the privacy policy. Question is whether the store would actually stop selling the products or just change the return policy.
I agree with everything you say in this comment, however, I could well be in the minority soon. Freedom of religion and freedom of speech were initially given to the masses by people of faith who didn't see value in imposing their faith on others even though, at the time, they held the political upper hand and could have if they wanted to.

My concern is that, when people of non-faith hold the political upper hand (in some places they already do) will they have the moral objectivity to say that all people are of value and their opinions worthy of respect?

This was not the case under previous faithless systems. Soviet Russia and Maoist China saw people as expendable for what was perceived to be the advancement of their greater ideals. The Christian west may have acted like dicks and used God to justify their selfish atrocities, but at least they could be pulled up on a moral objective standpoint (the bible) and be told; "this is not OK because your bible says so". Most have since stopped listening to this kind of questioning however.

Nice talking with you super_mario, would like to hear your thoughts on the discussion I linked to above but we should probably talk somewhere else rather than steal a thread meant for Tim Cook.
That would be a little thing called wishful thinking.

Personally, I think the reason people aren't up in arms is pretty clear. People get up in arms about things that harm them -- oppressive governments (Arab Spring), desperate economic conditions (Ukraine), etc. Real stuff.

People don't get up in arms about tracking because it does not hurt them. Not: does not hurt them except in subtle ways they don't even notice. It doesn't hurt them at all, with very few exceptions. That's all there is to it.
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Coastermelt Part I – a silly reverse engineering project about laser robots
Product and Marketing needs to ally. Why?
Stupid web spider
If you listen to James Comey talk https://www.noagendaplayer.com/listen/656/44-52 he sounds like a crazy person. "Dount of smart thinking"
Your point about a smartphone's capabilities is well taken. But the TV straight-up says that your personal information will be captured and transmitted to a third party.

I value my privacy, and trust (hope?) that my phone isn't transmitting that sort of stuff. If it did, I think it would be discovered and made public very quickly, and I would switch phones! But since the TV straight out says that it transmits my personal information, and I have no reason to doubt it, I'll be sure to not use that TV, or at least not connect it to the Internet.

We can trust others to safeguard our privacy, as a sort of calculated risk. But this TV is just saying out loud that it won't do that, so I'll avoid that model.
Destruction of Wisdom in USA - healthy, wealthy and wise.

similar pattern to destrution of HEALTH by the health care system.
How so?
BIG PHARMA and the BIG HOSPITAL Chains make kill all
anti-biotics. This wiipes out ALL bacteria including the friendly ones
and it lead to SUIPER bacteria like MRSA, superbugs, etc.

Most of the doctors are cowards and go with the herd, so
for any small illness, the patient gets a KILL DOSAGE OF Anti-biiotics.

allegedly most of the law enforcemtn are 'somewhat cowards'
and go with the herd, so for nonviolent weed usage, etc,
the CRIMINAL THAT IS THE USA CITIZEN gets a KILL DOSAGE
of Anti-Terror indictments via the BIG Pharma factory of the
Patriot Act.

Since our political leaders in Congress have almost NO programming
skills and flunked out of statistics class and it appears thtey are
too LAZY TO EVEN READ THE BILLS of potential law,

this comes as no surprise.

summary conclusion: the housing bubble destroyed the
wealth and the tax structure that sends manufacturers to China.
wealth destroyed - check.

the provisional rush through of dangerous pills destroyed the
health

health destroyed - check

the 'patriot act' and other civil forfeiture acts is destroying the
WISDOM.

wisdom destroying in progress - aided and abetted by the
Comcast 'Net Neutrality'. Tracking direct usage by 'electric meters'
will DESTROY reddit.com, Hacker news, and other

OPEN PUBLIC COMMONS.

The Drug WARS continue as
1.) we learned nothing from Prohibition and the rise of organized crime
2.) Vietnam War spread drugs using the military

3.)Iran-Contragate Scandal

4.)destruction of the Colombia Drug Cartel in order to promote the
power of the Mexican Drug Cartel and the rise of human smuggling

aka illegal aliens.

5.) small import export business is a bystander CASUALTY OF THE
DRUG WAR. Any anonymous tip and your goods are seized via the
power of snooping on your communications.

6.) HERE IS THE LOOPHOLE OF THE :PATRIOT ACT.
Mexican Leader El Chapo Guzman is a 3rd grade dropout.

He also knows that the great USA has supercomputers and mnay
fine cryptographers on Hacker news.

So, maybe the carrier pigeons and birds are used to carry messages?

thus, anti-aircraft gun batteries should be set up at the border.

GOOD BY Canadian geese flying south. This will also provide
plenty FREE food meals for the law enforcement after proper legal
procedures.

Please, bird and animal lovers (especially FEMALES) do not flame me!
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the rocket equation with fusion engine expelling alpha-particles at 0.05c doesn't look that bad, and at least it is good enough for Solar system colonization and for sending a probe to the closest star.
> As announced by Germany, TPM 2.0 was backdoored. China will not import TPM 2.0 (in fact any TPM from America) or Window 8.1 as a result.

I'm curious (since I care about TPMs and am looking forward to TPM 2.0 being more widely available) what this is, since this is the first I've heard of it. A quick Google search brings up this article:
http://www.zdnet.com/german-government-refutes-windows-backd...
which seems to say that the entirety of the German government's claims is that TPMs, as a technology, can be used to implement back doors (which is true of older versions of the standard, too), and the same article claims that the chips are often manufactured in China and _exported_ from there (which matches my previous understanding), not imported. So I assume there's something more up-to-date here; do you have a link to more details?
So you could support an hypothetical local pedo party[1] and be CEO of a company? Sorry, but I don't believe it.

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_for_Neighbourly_Love,_F...
I'm not saying the C isn't in functional style.

I'm saying that it being in functional style has nothing to do with the absence of whitespace/newlines. Both the use of the functional style and the absence of whitespace no doubt reflect Whitney's language-independent programming preferences, but they are distinctly different things.
The press release is much clearer.

http://www.osa.org/en-us/about_osa/newsroom/news_releases/20...

I haven't read the paper, but it appears they're proposing to use the ablative lasers only to shape the flow of supersonic gas through a thruster nozzle.
I'm no attorney, but here are some stories you should look into:

* MegaUpload

* Kazaa

* Limewire

* Napster

* PirateBay
Is this a replica of Reddit AMA?
You'll Never Guess the Most Affordable City for Young People
How doing my own startup feels like after 6 months
A browser addon could work. I've toyed around in firefox. You can access the rendered dom in addons and do whatever you want with it, including logging it to file. Here's an example of writing to file: https://github.com/prekageo/http-request-logger/blob/master/...

And you can observe all the requests/responses and wait for an http 200 for the entire page (excluding intermediate 200's for things such as images). Example: https://github.com/MachinePublishers/ScreenSlicer/blob/maste...

The best approach for this would probably be to tie into a page unload event or some hybrid approach.

Getting started: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK
Sundar is heir apparent and everyone else gets a pet project or gets out of his way. Just how it feels right now-- not exactly earth shattering news.
Criticism? Don't flatter yourself. A prerequisite for criticism is being informed, and you not only have little clue to what I or Tim Cook believe, but you have mischaracterized Christianity, Islam and all monotheism - 3.6 billion people and their views stereotyped broadly.

I don't have answers for myself, so i'm not going to pretend to have answers for 50% of the world population. I'm certainly not going to assess their beliefs on the basis that what I might believe is somehow more correct than what anyone else believes.

Intelectual or theological superiority combined with moral authority is what leads to intolerance and hate. I'd rather somebody believe in the easter bunny or pray to Kim Kardashian 5 times a day and be tolerant of others than be closer to my own agnostic view and attempt force it on others because they are more correct.
The market would produce privacy TVs if people would not buy spy TVs. I would think there is enough of a market to produce such TVs and advertise them that way.

But what matters is if someone that is in a position to actually provide such TVs (and do a decent enough job producing and marketing them) to let the market decide. I know the HackerNews community has much more awareness of this issue than most people but it is something a fairly large number of people care about.
yeah, but there are answers for a laptop to nearly every one of your bullets.

I can't modify the hardware on a television reasonably, I can't change the operating system reasonably, nor can I modify the loaded software. I can't choose to run the server that it phones home to.

I can remove my laptop's webcam, or order one without. Same for a mic (lenovo/dell/hp have 'government specials' -- laptops without mics/cams/antennas), I can review the software I install, I can change it, etc. I can run my own email server.

One system enables the user to have power over the system itself, one doesn't. We need to stress the importance of users' power and ensure it for the future.

Don't buy such walled systems until the walls are removed so as to enable them to be functioning members of our user-centric society, rather than their profit-centric walled garden.
> every category but price

Don't forget convenience. That is not a little thing.
What are some historical examples of "waking" people up to a "fact?"

I'm not so sure lack of belief is enough to dissipate authority. As the old saying goes, you may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you. Within my lifetime, the surest way to invite a tiny war into your life is act as if political and/or legal authority doesn't exist. Hell, just implying that authority should change was enough to get projectiles and tear gas loosed in Ferguson MO.
What Went Wrong in the Antares Rocket Explosion?
> And rockets tend to explode sometimes.

Chemical rockets -- the only ones we've ever actually used -- explode because that's what they're intended to do. The only difference between a successful rocket firing and a catastrophic rocket failure is the speed at which the explosion happens. A nuclear rocket engine has basically no risk of explosion; tearing itself apart at speed maybe, if the aerodynamics aren't done properly or there's a structural weakness. But that's about it.
Interesting idea. Any recommendations?
>But taking away someone's job over a political donation is preposterous and disturbing.

>Eich's forced resignation was an offense against everything America allegedly stands for.

But what if the cause someone donates for, curtails the rights of someone else?
Would you say the same thing if he had donated to a terrorist organisation?
Can someone enlighten us non-Django, non-Python folks?
Let's not forget that if you're a hacker news reader who works for a consumer electronics manufacturer, you have an opportunity to come up with creative technological solutions that are privacy preserving, opt-in, respectful of home boundaries and good for business. There is no technical reason why good for business must mean bad for consumer.
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Why not take it a step further and only buy monitors ?

None of my tvs have anything but video inputs.

I use dell monitors, and for my large screens, NEC commercial displays. They are as dumb as dumb can be.
Maybe I'm bad at math, but wouldn't the set of (female, none), (male, female), and (male, male) ultimately lead to more females than males?
I agree. Also, youtube.
Twitter is an incredible medium for citizen journalism and news broadcasting in general. There is no doubt about that. It does have issues with tackling bots and fake profiles - something that it finds harder than other social networks like Facebook which have a better system in place for authenticating accounts. By subscribing to the right people on Twitter, my feed is highly curated to suit my interests. Their machine learning would only get better and I only wish they use the AI it to classify bots and other fake accounts to enhance user experience.
I'm fairly certain that Nintendo is simply scared to release their IP on a platform that they do not control. The last (and only) time they did was the Phillips CDI which they now entirely cease to acknowledge. That and the fact that their IP drives the sales of their hardware.
I think the readers of this website vastly underestimate how much the average person understands, and vastly overestimate how much the average person values their privacy.

It's starting to get annoying, the folks who want to start a "privacy revolution" even when no one's asking them to.
Maybe it's just me, but I feel like people are increasingly using phrases that put wikipedia in the 'source' category.
Auto mechanic
Who cares what I personally have a problem with? Who I am doesn't matter.
I can't help it, but my eyes are filtering out the contents of the pdf like my eyes do with online ads and spam emails. It looks too much like a poorly designed manifesto filled with out of context quotes, just after your money.
> the popular opinion decides who's in power.

Nope: a bunch of marginal (and mostly rural) constituencies "decide" who's "in power" (which is not actual power but rather arbitrating positions between lobbies, anyway). Everybody else is just an extra.
umm... it's because the date 31st isn't in those months... Simply, they're switching to February <current day right now> 2006, because you did not specify a day.
Scaling Gilt: Monolithic Ruby Application to Micro-Service Architecture
AES(Rijndael) was the weakest out of the final three contenders for the advanced encryption standard. Serpent and Twofish were clearly more secure but Rijndael was chosen because of its speed. There are attacks that have broken 11 of out the 14 AES-256 rounds (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/another_new_a...). Using a combination of RNG weaknesses, CPU attacks, software vulnerabilities I don't think its crazy to conclude that the FBI can "crack" AES implementations in targeted investigations.
"Stop listening"

Or some other key phrase to turn off and on voice control with a visible notification light could help solve some of the problem.
I think they can keep the prices for their old games up by keeping them on their own platforms. On iOS, Super Metroid would look expensive at 8 bucks. On the 3DS, that's just what games cost.
Language author here. I feel pretty stupid for what I wrote in the documentation. Commenters here are entirely right to bash it for claims of terseness on the syntax level because that's not an advantage, just a questionable tradeoff.

I'm doing a complete rewrite with 0.4, overhauling the compiler's architecture (the current version is fairly embarrassing) and dropping some dead-end ideas and Ruby influences. Mostly done, but moving slowly. If anyone's interested, you're welcome to PRs. :)
"Forcing a definition of the name NDEBUG, either from the compiler command line or with the preprocessor control statement #define NDEBUG ahead of the #include <assert.h> statement, shall stop assertions from being compiled into the program"
Galactic Cats
Many gay people have marched in pride parades. Many of whom are likely smarter than you.

To run with the logic you present here, since Tim Cook has been a part of a pride parade, are you suggesting him an idiot and you yourself smarter?
Congrats!

This product is amazing, had something like this in mind for a long and couldn't find a proper implementation.

I would be glad to pay reasonable price for such service.

Localhost/native version is a killer feature. Don't drop it! If you open source the code I'll be glad to contribute...
31 sources on this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisons_in_North_Korea

Though I don't see anything definite on prison rates. Hard to get precise info out of N Korea. This absolute dismal circumstances the prisoners suffer is clear though.
I'm the converse, I break other rules, but I really don't commit commented code (well I have some demo code commented somewhere, but it's runnable code).
I'm not familiar with gradual typing, but, SBCL with any safety level above 0 does both of those things. This isn't specified by the standard, of course.
Here is the original article that broke the story (you'll need to translate it) - still trying to source the leaked document from the German gov't.

http://www.zeit.de/digital/datenschutz/2013-08/trusted-compu...

Here's a press release from the BSI - not the original one but the announcement made _after_ the fallout of previous reporting:

"From the perspective of the BSI, the use of Windows 8 in combination with a TPM 2.0 goes hand in hand with a loss of control over the operating system and the hardware used." The paragraph goes on to describe a scenario where a fault somewhere causes the system to fail and put it into an irrecoverable mode. The article (not this announcement) mentions _other_ ways that it could manipulate the computer. Specifically, policy attestation can force software decision and installs and can set Machine Level policy - in the case of a compromise this would means forcing the machine to use weaker security settings.

"For certain user groups can use Windows 8 in combination with a TPM certainly improve safety. This includes users who may for various reasons not care about the security of their systems, or want, but trust the manufacturer of the system that this provides a secure solution and cares." The announcement goes on to say that this is a legitimate use case for some users, especially those who do trust Microsoft, manufacturers and their partners.

https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Presse/Pressemitteilungen/Presse2...

As the leak specifically centered around new features in Windows 8 and the new TPM capabilities, my best guess would be that the backdoor was in remote attestation, which allows the TPM to identify trusted entities for the Operating System.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=remote+attestation+tpm&t=canonical

Remote attestation also raises privacy concerns:

"The above protocol raises privacy concerns. The fear is that the attestation key and its certificate can be used to track activity and compromise privacy. Originally, a trusted third party was proposed that would provide anonymized identity services to users. The trusted third party would issue certified attestation keys that were not directly traceable to the device and could issue multiple attestation keys to a device in order to prevent correlation. Due to problems with this proposal, another protocol was developed that provides a anonymity without the need for a trusted third party."

http://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep590/06wi/finalp...

Then again the TPM spec does not specify where the chip must be placed and the most common location is the low pin count bus, which can request bus master and has DMA.
Given that earth is a ball, aren't you always pointed heavenward if you are between 0-180 degrees. So you might as well start of by pointing directly heavenward, i.e 90 degrees. Plus, turning requires acceleration you cannot just capitalise on the velocity you have built up otherwise you would violate the 1st law of thermodynamics.
Someone got android on golang running, Interesting
> I can't believe that people buy integrated media players with their TVs. They are usually multiple hundreds of dollars on top of the base TV model price, have terrible interfaces, and are crippleware, using apps with very few services.

While I agree that the "media" capabilities of so-called smart tv's suck, it isn't necessarily a conscious decision of the purchaser.

TV's typically fall into various tiers:

Basic
Advanced
Premium

The Media/App capabilities are usually bundled into the higher tiers, along with other feature upgrades (including size). Eventually as manufacturers find new things to charge money for, what were premium features become standard features on all sets.
Out of curiosity did you try basic-binary-ipc? I would expect it would lose out to cl-async, but have never benchmarked the two against each other.
Yeah, you can get the webkit source through the webkit repo.

however, since it's under lgpl, any source you write that uses webkit must also be shared. this is why some of EA's code is published: http://gpl.ea.com/
Overcoming Impostor Syndrome: What to Do When You Feel Like a Fraud
Minus the racism, it also has similarities to the way some in the US thought about the Vietnam War (would have won if it wasn't for an unsupportive public/government back home).
Open it, remove antenna?