skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What Leica are continuing to do well is binoculars. They cost a huge amount more, but the difference between their products and others is usually gasp-inducing.
Thank you for not reading my post: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/hotsec08/tech/full_paper...
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Well, fish use their tails as propellers.
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ok, will try
Was the percentage of rides available within an ETA not a reference to quality in some "way, shape, or form?"
Four out of the top six are in California. Also, the difference between San Francisco (1) and San Juan (2) is ~6 BILLION dollars. It really is good to be king.
> There is substantial evidence that [the CIA works with cartels abroad].

Would you be able to point out some references?
Many American's aren't fairing much better in the war on drugs.

http://www.dnainfo.com/chicago/2014-chicago-murders
Indeed, I see Facebook's "recommendations" and content filtering (which they innocuously refer to as "personalisation") as being nothing more than instruments of persuasion and control. Facebook is just one example but they are not alone - Google is the other big one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
Even if a system can fail in many ways you still should make every failure mode as difficult as possible. What you're saying makes as much sense as not improving seat belts in cars because the airbags might fail and you would still die.
>Prohibition is the only reason those cartels have customers.

Well, strictly speaking, there are more elements to the causal relationship. If no one wanted to purchase drugs, this would also preclude the cartels from having customers. In this sense, irresponsible drug consumers are at fault as well. Indeed, many conscientious drug users have turned to various dark markets for "fair trade" drug suppliers.
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You may be getting hung up on this concept a little too much.

Of course, using a password manager increases the attack surface in that if the encrypted passwords are stored on a server and the encryption wasn't good enough you're in trouble. But what you're talking about, where the plaintext password must be inserted into the web form, doesn't strike me as a vulnerability that would not exist without the password manager. If you simply memorized it you would still have to type it in. Moreover, keeping the password secret is not an end in itself, it's a tool to keep your actual secrets secret. If you login to some sort of account, and then access those secrets on your computer there's the analog hole again.

If you don't have a computer on which it's safe to type in a password you don't have one on which it is safe to read or view your secrets.
The two things that could hurt Google
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/hotsec08/tech/full_paper...

3.1 Security Assumptions

Our threat model is based on four pragmatic assumptions.

Kerckhoffs' principle: The details of the authentication system that is in place is public information and known to all participants, including Oscar. Alice and Bob retain a shared secret (e.g., a password or set of passwords) that is both private and the foundation upon which the security of the system rests.

Observational principle: Alice communicates with Bob over a semi-private channel that can be observed by Oscar prior to the password being secured (i.e., encrypted or hashed). Namely, Oscar can observe the password(s) used by Alice and could even enter in Alice's password himself, after coercing her into revealing it.

Iteration principle: Unless explicitly prevented by the underlying system, Oscar is not bound to a single instance of coercion against Alice. He may force Alice to authenticate multiple times. Combined with the observational principle (Assumption 2), Oscar can force Alice to use a different password each time.

Forced-randomization principle: Oscar can choose to eliminate any strategy Alice may employ through the order in which she reveals the passwords she knows. For example, Oscar may force Alice into writing down a set of passwords so that he can randomly choose the order in which to iterate through them. The assumption is that this option is available to Oscar, not that he will necessarily employ it.
Beautiful analogy. I couldn't agree more.
It would be cool to see a video demonstrating this using the same snippet of code! If you decide to make one, let me know, and I'll link it on the Plover blog.
Reduced fraud, I believe.
Same place we were five years ago: nobody cares what API you're programming to as long as your apps are good.

No, seriously. The iPhone SDK came out in 2008. Google Maps came out in 2005, ushering in the modern era of web apps. Mac OS X came out in 2001 and .NET came out in 2002, representing the major desktop platforms we know today.

The web as a platform is no different than any other platform in that it's just another platform with its own strengths and weaknesses. It just moves a whole lot slower than the rest, which is why we're still asking this question after this many years.

APIs and platforms come and go. Developers always have had and always will have choices about which ones to pick for developing their apps against. These choices have some impact on how easy it is to build various types of apps, but at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is how well your app serves the needs of those using it.
Why are you still operating on the principle of charity with tokenadult? He has refused to engage with a stable of similar arguments for years, from. He varies between arguing like he was trained for getting his J.D. (arguments as soldiers, argument from authority, argumentum ad hominem) and arguing as he would have during his math degree, by exclusion and contradiction, as convenient for his ideology.

He's obviously well acquainted with the literature, witness his perennial work sample test bit but he places radically different burdens of proof on ideologically convenient and inconvenient arguments.
Make a timeline for the next 10 years. Where are you trying to go? What are you doing to get there? Try to be specific about your plans and actions and how they will realize your goals. This is not an easy exercise. Making a timeline of your past can be helpful for getting perspective. I'm relatively planful, but I have trouble planning more than about 3-5 years out, although a few times I've had pretty clear 8 year plans (some of which actually came to pass). A friend with ADHD got this exercise from his therapist. I think this is a great exercise for anyone.
CurrentC is doomed. The premise is that retailers will leverage the ACH rails to bypass the fees charged by the card brands (MC, Visa, Amex and Discover).

This is making the huge assumption that these same retailers who couldn't keep their customers' credit card numbers secure can somehow do a better job with their bank accounts. And for what? So we can get a free cup of Starbucks or a couple percent off a fill up?

The more retailers that get breached (Staples was the latest this week) the harder a sell that is going to be for the MCX cartel members.

A consumer who signs over their bank accounts to MCX is giving up all the protections that they currently have with their credit cards.
Fluxus has been unmaintained for a very long time. The last time I worked on it (years ago), I remember it compiled only with a really old version of Racket (I think Racket v4).

Here's an old video of what Fluxus looks like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O5DJTOy6EA. The video quality is bad. But the 3D stuff is clearly visible. The user in the video is typing into Fluxus from the beginning of the video. The documentation for Fluxus as I remember was some large PDF file.

Anyone else know of similar live-coding environments for 3D?

P.S: I do love using Three.js.
The movement to legalize drugs works to eradicate making this type of organized violence so profitable.
I agree.

Not sure what type of event it would take to finally push people over the edge to favor an end to drug prohibition but I imagine it is so drastic that the vested interests in the cartels wouldn't be stupid enough to do it.
>So the problem with revolutions...

No one is calling for revolution.

>In the end, the people at the NSA still have a job to do... It's part of the social contract that we have with the government.

What they've done seems to be the opposite of our social contract with our government. I'm pretty sure that's the reason people are upset.

As Snowden said in the interview, people would not be ok with, for example, the government making a list of everything in your home and in your papers just in case it could be useful for a later investigation. The unwarranted seizure aspect of "collect everything" appears to contradict the citizenry's expectations.

I don't question the intelligence community's intentions. I'm sure it's full of good people, just like the rest of the country. But practices seem to have evolved to be plainly unconstitutional, and it's very concerning that thoughtful IC insiders like yourself don't appear to appreciate that the situation is untenable. Immediate change to these practices is exactly what's called for.
The other thing is that if retailers disable the NFC reader then contactless cards won't work...

I'm not sure what adoption is like in the US, but in Australia pretty much every single plastic credit card (and Visa/MasterCard debit) supports contactless payments, which is an awesome user experience. You literally just pull out the card and touch it to the machine, and some places it's approved in less than a second.

It only works for payments under $100 (for security reasons) - otherwise you chip and pin.

I don't see CurrenC being able to compete with that, chip and pin, or Apple pay...
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>Why are the majority of the comments here blaming the victim?

I am tired of this sentiment. It is not necessarily incorrect to ascribe partial blame to someone just because they got the short end of the stick in some situation.

Being a victim does not automatically preclude one from being at fault. For example, if I jump off a cliff without a parachute, it is clearly reasonable to blame me despite the fact that I am definitively a victim of the situation.

In this case, it would be reasonable to ascribe some level of blame to both parties; we ascribe blame to the cartel for murdering people (and clearly most of the blame falls on them), and we also ascribe some measure of blame to the victim for failing to take proper precautions. This is not an affront to the victim's character or a trivialization of their death; it is a recognition of the fact that, with some more preparation, the situation could have turned out much better for the victim. It is important to address these failures so that we might learn from them in the future.

Edit: Downvoters, please comment. I am curious what you think about this. In particular, I am curious why it is never appropriate to ascribe blame to a victim of any sort.
>For example on modern Windows systems bitlocker keys are automatically uploaded to the (automatically created for you) Onedrive account associated with the Microsoft Account created during your install and Onedrive is on PRISM.

Please.

http://cdn8.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bitlock...
Should we invest serious funds (billions) into creating a 1) legal drug which is 2) not addictive, and 3) far more superior than weed, cocaine, heroine, and all the other drugs.
A couple years ago when standing desks were first starting to take off the Ikea Jerker was the go-to. It's not adjustable, and ran ~$100 at the time. Craigslist/Ikea should turn one up for $100-~150 now. I've been using one for nearly 3 years (not always 8 hours/day) and it suits me very well. Get a good mat to stand on and a nice monitor mount and you're set.

(that said, $500 for an adustable one is very very reasonable. that price was unimaginable 2 years ago.)
I appreciate the answers.

I mean no offense, but I assume you're not a native English speaker based on that FAQ. I've taken the liberty of rewording them to sound more natural: http://pastebin.com/Kxti3KP0

Whether or not you take any of my suggestions or not, I at least recommend throwing it through a spellchecker.
If the Cartels have such a hole on media down there, then how did such a detailed account of this story get out?
In the epilogue one of his books (maybe "the drowned and the saved"?), Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi describes giving a talk to a group of schoolchildren. One boy asked him to describe the layout of the camp, and then described how he would have escaped if he had been in Auschwitz. Nothing Primo Levi could say would convince the boy that escape was impossible.

Now I'm not saying that it was impossible for this citizen journalist to hide her identity, but the comments strike me as having a similar tone. People are simply assuming that her capture and death was preventable, because it is psychologically difficult to face the alternative. Namely, that only by accepting personal risk, was this woman able to stand up to the cartels. Even if the technology to protect her identity existed, maybe a person in this woman's situation would be very unlikely to know about it.

Of constructive suggestions are great, although I'm not qualified to judge their technical merit.
Victim-blaming is bad, but there is also a need for discussion of precautions that might have prevented victims from becoming victims in the first place. I think the answer lies in the tone that is used, as well as acknowledgement that sometimes precautions only become clear after the fact, and that victims who don't choose to take all precautions they could (for whatever reason) are still victims who should not be victims.

For example, this lady made what (I think is) a reasonable assumption that a pseudonym was a good enough way of protecting her identity. It wasn't a bad assumption, but because of what happened to her, we should discuss additional precautions so that people like her might fare better in future.

Another thing to consider in this discussion is that sometimes people like this lady know that they are taking a big risk, may end up murdered, but bravely proceed to take their actions anyway.
I need a good shot with a laptop screen in the main focus taking up the majority of the shot to animate with a demo, but with an interesting and clean background.
Desktop software dead. Software exists only on the internet. Browsers evolve into application runners.

Thin fucking clients.
Actually, it's quite different from OpenTTD. OpenTTD's source is based on a disassembly of TTD. So far as I can tell, OpenAge is being coded from scratch.
More voice control

No I don't like yapping at my phone or PC, but my 6yo kid loves FireTV's voice search feature and uses google voice search all the time on her iPad, even if she knows how to spell the words. As precision improves, I see my wife is using it more too, for searches and dictation.

More support for device-/screen-hopping (state-in-the-cloud, continued-commerce)

Stick-computers

Affordable devices optimized for streaming screens/desktops/apps hosted in the cloud.
Hardware upgrades only in data centers.
Consumers investing instead in high bandwidth/low latency connections.

Web 3.0 == forgetting (ignoring/hiding)

More apps featuring some form of 'forgetting' (hiding older, unused, unimportant, noisy data).

More apps assisting in the reverse: new mechanisms to improve recall/precision of 'forgotten' information by 'priming' our searches with user input (sounds, locations, colors, images) and/or interactive feedback (hot/cold, before/after, similar/different, binary search)
Very fair point. Thanks for replying.
Zero knowledge platforms are a fairly simple solution to this... You just have to be willing to fork over a little money instead of letting them monetize your data.
For $100k/year workers (the main HN audience), it's cheap. Especially considering it, along with a chair and a computer, is by far the most important tools for said audience.
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what kind of people will this landing page target? pro photographers, students, teenagers?
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Contactless was a thing here in the US, but at least in my experience, it's going away. I've had a few credit cards replaced over the past couple of months (one Chase, one Amex) and while they've gained an EMV chip, they've also lost contactless functionality (which went by Blink and ExpressPay respectively).
Yes and no. For the first 45 days it'd suck. But after that, assuming you're working regularly, your income stream is about as steady as you'd expect - just delayed from the original date.
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how in the hell would a password have helped? The sort of people who kidnap folks and shoot them in the head won't hesitate to cut a finger off or use 120v to ask your password.
I don't need a photo, but it would be awesome if you posted these on Flickr with a Creative Commons license!
I'm working on a modern divorce site that helps couples work together with professionals to quickly and safely reach an equitable resolution for this incredibly difficult event. There are lots of creative symbols in marriage and divorce that could make for an interesting photography project.
It's still quite naive to think that if this were common practice that the torturers would not torture you until they were convinced that you gave them the _real_ password. Or they might give you the option of giving the real password the first time and make whatever final decision the "quick" or "painless" version rather than the long, drawn-out, most painful version.
> The article is silly, and so is your response.

Guilty as charged, though I fear the original article doesn't realize it's silly too.

> Functional programming most usually, the vast amount of time, refers to a declarative style of programming which involves using functions in the more mathematical sense, which means that one tries to avoid state and side effects.

Maybe it's just me, but I've never found most functional code I've seen to be particularly declarative. I certainly like purity and immutability, but much of it still reads imperatively to me, just in a slightly more abstract style.

But, then, that's true of OOP code that I like too. I find method calls (in good APIs) just as declarative because there I'm describing what I want the object to do and not how to do it.

> Are those languages just gonna be banned by the almighty FP wizards? :)

I think they prefer the term "smug Lisp weenies", but they probably wouldn't turn down that title either. :)

I think arguments like this are silly because I don't really like any single-paradigm languages. I think functional, object-oriented, imperative, declarative, etc. are all styles and each of those styles has its place, often all within the same program.

People (like the author of this post I suspect) like FP because it rejects OOP, but I like OOP because it doesn't reject other styles. Mainstream OOP languages have no qualms about adopting higher-order functions, closures, immutability, and all sorts of different concurrency models. I like simplicity, of course, but I also like having a lot of tools at my disposal and not rejecting some for religious reasons.
Golang is so much easier than C and almost as light... :)
I use what I like to call "environmental discipline". (I think there is a technical term for this in psychology, but I can't find it off hand. Any psychologists know?) Suppose I need to study, but I don't really feel like it. I can will myself to go to a library or coffee shop with just the books I need to study and no distractions. Once I'm there, there is little choice but to work. However, had I stayed home, where there are myriad distractions, I might have gotten little or nothing done. Packing up and walking to another location is easy compared to sitting down tody study, but once I'm at the new location, sitting down and studying is now surprisingly easy.
This also comes back to hands free for driving, etc. I don't understand why a tesla d can drive itself but we're still using blinkers and manual actions to change lanes...
Cognitive dissonance, just-world fallacy and hammers and nails.

It's difficult to read a story a soul-crushingly horrible as this and just wallow in the hopeless unjustness of it all. Coping mechanisms kick in. To preserve the comforting world view that people are in charge of their destiny, tragedy is avoidable and the world makes some sense it becomes necessary to demonstrate that the outcome was predictable and avoidable. That the victim failed themselves.

With HNs user base that manifests as a critique of information security practices.
read about dark alliance -- the cia was running cocaine and fueled the crack epidemic to help kill women and children in south america. Yay 'murica!

edit: maybe start here [1]. Reagan's administration was complicit after congress cut off funding for their war crimes in south america.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_and_Contras_cocaine_traffic...
The mob in the US didn't even reach its height until the Commission was formed and that was 2 years before the end of Prohibition. The Commission lasted for more than 50 years after the end of Prohibition. What really needs to happen in Mexico is a concerted effort between Mexican and American authorities to crack down on the cartels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commission_(mafia)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apalachin_Meeting
Or just check out http://toplap.org/ and find almost everything to do with live coding.
That was my first guess, charging for use of a hacked botnet.
Cash has close to zero fraud, why does someone paying cash has to pay the merchant the credit card fees %?
Hey Sergey,

Would love a high resolution photo of the inside of a record store.
^^this^^
I'm using a non-motorized adjustable standing desk at work, and love it for the quick adjustablility.

All motorized standing desk seems to be frustratingly slow, and I imagine this is by design to offer better safety.

Does anyone know of a good non motorized standing desk at a similar or lower price?
Again thank you for not reading my post and the links therein:

Kerckhoffs' principle: The details of the authentication system that is in place is public information and known to all participants, including Oscar. Alice and Bob retain a shared secret (e.g., a password or set of passwords) that is both private and the foundation upon which the security of the system rests.

Observational principle: Alice communicates with Bob over a semi-private channel that can be observed by Oscar prior to the password being secured (i.e., encrypted or hashed). Namely, Oscar can observe the password(s) used by Alice and could even enter in Alice's password himself, after coercing her into revealing it.

Iteration principle: Unless explicitly prevented by the underlying system, Oscar is not bound to a single instance of coercion against Alice. He may force Alice to authenticate multiple times. Combined with the observational principle (Assumption 2), Oscar can force Alice to use a different password each time.

Forced-randomization principle: Oscar can choose to eliminate any strategy Alice may employ through the order in which she reveals the passwords she knows. For example, Oscar may force Alice into writing down a set of passwords so that he can randomly choose the order in which to iterate through them. The assumption is that this option is available to Oscar, not that he will necessarily employ it.
Hey I am making a web site where you can meet up with other people who have ebola. It's like a cross between Match.com and Meetup, but for people who actively have ebola.

A good cover image could be key. Maybe a picture of an ebola or some kid playing with an ebola stuffed animal. Something that promotes togetherness.

TIA.
Thank you. You are right. Your rewording is so much better and professional. All suggestions taken. Thank you very much.