skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've always wondered how governments approach Google/Bing/etc. asking for "small favors" like these. Is there a special number they need to call. Do they have to use threats "We'll block you at the firewall if you don't blur it!" or just ask nicely.
By this time I know better than to waste my effort trying to make Americans see why guns really are a problem, and one that can be identified, analyzed and solved far easily than trying to address the "motivations" that turn people into mass killers. Because guns are freedom; guns don't kill people; we need our guns to protect against criminal's guns; blah blah.

I've realized many Americans will never see high-caliber/high-capacity assault rifles as an easier problem to solve than mental health or psychopathic triggers. It is also not an XOR, because you can try to solve both in parallel.

The rest of us non-Americans are just glad our psychopaths and murderers are nowhere near as effective as American ones. And that our children can go to school without having to practice hiding under their desks to avoid being slaughtered mercilessly by some random guy. With a gun.
When one of my daughters was 3 someone handed an iphone with one of those apps with an animal that repeats things back. She said something with the word "color" in it, but it came out "cala."

It repeated it back (incorrectly) and then she got stuck in a loop of saying "not cala, cala!" and it repeating it back, getting more frustrated each time.
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New York City luxury fashion brand called The Aristocratic Society.

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The troubling thing is it's incredibly cheap to spy on someone now. The resources necessary are not acting as a natural balancing point to prevent overreaching government.

In the past, you used to have to have physical access to the location to install the device. You also needed a listening post close by and a power source to hook the device into, if you wanted long term monitoring.

After you install the listening device, you needed to pay someone to listen to the conversations for hours and take note of anything that needed closer analysis.

All of that is incredibly expensive and difficult to scale.

Now, the device is already installed in the home or carried around on the person (via smartphone). The target takes care of charging the device for you and the information is transmitted across the country via internet connection. Massive computer networks process the data and flag the important parts of conversations.

The cheaper and more automated spying gets, the easier and more indiscriminately it can be done. Criteria for snooping drops because it's so dramatically cheap, the resources are no longer a bottleneck.
I do think that there's a number of things the CEO shouldn't be doing though. Who was it, Dan Kennedy or someone put it quite aptly "Your job as a CEO is to make sure money keeps coming. Not making sure the printer works or whether the office is clean or any number of things that don't relate to your main goal". Going to a f.ounders event might be part of that, or overhauling the sales funnel or making sure that the next version of the product just kicks ass. Cleaning your own office proably isn't.
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Or...

> That's a double positive.

Indeed!
I wish I had the balls to write this post. Mine would certainly not be so honest and raw. It's also sad that it comes to this. I get home for dinner but work till midnight. I'm in town for birthdays but leave at 6am the next morning. I still talk to my very best friends but no one else. I hope to heaven that the startup never ruins my marriage but it's not impossible to see it could happen.

Maybe these "compromises" mean I will never quite get to that level - but regardless I'm not willing to do compromise them. At any expense.
If anyone's interested in a presentation introduction to Manta (presumably similar to the one you saw), you may want to check out my FutureStack presentation from last year.[1] And if you have 90 minutes to kill and are in the mood for the true origin story of Manta, see my video from NYC DevOps in January.[2]

[1] http://www.slideshare.net/bcantrill/future-stack

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fvDDPaIoY
Except it isnt just ICBMs--assault rifles, tanks, armed armored vehicles, and armor piercing rounds (and in most states teflon-coated rounds) are all illegal too. Might as well have sticks and arrows against an government with assault rifles and armored personnel/vehicles, which would be effective against small bands of individuals.

assault rifles have always have been illegal, assault-style weapons are different from assault weapons, and are the only thing that has ever been under popular political debate
Developed by undergrad - check.
Author inspired by angular - check.
Not ready for production - check.

Yes, this will be an extremely popular framework. I can feel it. This is the node.js way.
Thanks! How I'd say that:

"Good job! I sought to say what I thought about your post in a similar fashion, but I found it wasn't as straightforward in actuality as it was in my anticipation."

This constraint is not what you could call most hard of all constraints that folks can comply with in writing. Many moons ago, I had many chats with a smart woman (an IT industry analyst, nowadays a VC!) using only four-symbol words (words just as long, or just as short, as "full" and "with"). All right, it wasn't always an option for us to comply fully with standard grammar; a substantial fraction of our writing did consist of partial phrasings (lacking a noun, or lacking an additional pars orationis, as folks would say in Latin -- say, "good work" and not "that's a good job"). Still, that woman and I could chat for a fairly long duration in this fashion, about a surprisingly broad array of topics.

I wish I had logs of our chats now, inasmuch as that constraint is fairly hard... I do think I said "Good Airs" in such a chat as a way of naming a capital city of a country south of Brazil. But much that I said is hard to think of now.
Is there still a reason to choose a 10,000RPM HDD over SSD?
Sounds like they're copying Rocket. Delicious irony. Nom nom nom.
> Look at Syria and ISIS. What weapons are they using against the established government of the area? (Not making moral judgments here by saying "established", just using them as an example.) They are using small arms, not fighter jets.

In that case I want to demand legislation to have rocket launchers, AA-manpads, propane tank cannons, Shilkas (ZSU-23-4, they work very well for the ground, especially in urban areas, never know where that armored police trunk will roll by) and so on. Semiautomatics and pistols would be a joke there.

Is there any recent example of any of these millitia groups successfully opposing the US government and winning?

- Waco Seige?

- MOVE standoff, where Uncle Sam bombed a whole city block.

I wouldn't call those successes exactly.
Telecom firms keep on being disrupted, so will they disrupt banks?
Six months is not much for a product head to do if they company itself has no clue what it really wants to do or become.
> if you know (or reasonably should know) that a crime is
> being committed and then don't report it, now you're an
> accomplice to the crime.

It seems as though this depends on the state you're living in and the seriousness of the crime.

I'd like to know what the relevant laws are (if any) in Ohio and New York.
If you are an American, and if your country becomes comparable to Syria and ISIS, then you are not fighting for your freedom; you have failed in defending your freedom (and your country as you know it).

All but the most oppressive government doesn't lightly kill its citizens. It instead sets up a propaganda campaign, paints an image of dangerous dissidents, and tell the common people to fear them and join the good (that is, the government's) side. And you know what: rifles works "perfectly" in that framework. If I were a covert agent in a dictatorship and if I had no conscience, I'd propose letting a few individuals get away with their rifles, and the government can go a merry chase to protect "public safety" while associating everyone who wants a better government with those "terrorists".
A website for posting small snippets of text that makes $1/year and yet still isn't able to generate profits out of that billion is a bit of a different story.
It was a really great essay on the absurdity of the drill, all up until the last two paragraphs. Next they'll be ducking and covering, and the teacher can conclude by quoting the model numbers of some Russian ICBMs. You know, the cold war seems to be amping up again after all...

My daughter was in JK ("Pre-K") last year. If the school pulled a stunt like this, she wouldn't be attending it anymore. It's offensive and pathetic... I really thought I was fully jaded enough with the public school system that nothing could surprise me anymore, but well I guess I was wrong.

Is this is some sort of Orwellian conditioning process to prepare these young minds for the friendly Homeland Security Officers that will be riding armored tanks around town in the not-to-distant future?

Do people think these drills are reasonable, proportionate, and beneficial? It's sounds completely toxic to me. There are innumerable ways you could help increase K-12 students likelihood of surviving a multitude of common disasters, or fatal accidents. Let's talk about what to do if you see a downed electric wire. Or how to recognize a stroke. Or teach them the the Heimlich maneuver. Or how to find people to talk to if you're feeling depressed. Or not to drink the shit under the kitchen sink, or eat anything in the medicine cabinet. Or how to safely cut with a kitchen knife. Or how to make a disaster readiness plan with your family. You know, shit that actually maims or kills more than 1 in 10,000,000.

Practicing hiding in the closet because a killer is roaming the halls with an assualt rifle... Either this is an "agenda" or someone needs to get a fucking clue. I guess in that sense, the last two paragraphs of the article clarified it for me.
> I lived the first 2 decades of my life under communist dictatorship, so I think I know from first hand experience what freedom, or lack thereof, truly mean.

So you experienced a regime where government became too powerful and oppressive in the name of protecting the interests of the people, and you conclude that the biggest threat to freedom is not enough government to protect the interests of the people?
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I sort of agree with you but I think you're overdoing it. There are reasonable restrictionists, and reasonable restrictions. Like even most gun fans agree fully automatic weapons and RPGs shouldn't be privately owned. High-capacity magazines are more debatable and there's no clear line--but 50 or 100-round magazines, I think there's a reasonable argument for banning them.

Focusing on cosmetics is silly, and some advocates of restrictions would just as soon see all guns gone, but I think most people just want to see common sense applied.
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I feel it's slightly concerning that the same text contains:

"There’s no room for error."

and

"Someone on the product team will usually play with the feature on our staging environment trying their best to break things."

The first sentence seems to imply that they try to maintain the highest quality possible. Yet the second sentence does not really fit that idea. The article pretty much only lists the tools they use.

But on a scale from Random PHP site to NASA space shuttle software, where is zenpayroll located?
Love the idea. The gluten free/ dairy free/ nut free filter could be easier to find.
I would enjoy the hands-free unit conversions and timers when cooking.
Perhaps there could be something in between a startup and a job as an employee.

Startups are rewarding because you are not simply an employee but also part owner and they are hard because you have to undertake a lot of extra work and responsibility and risk.

Maybe there could be a third way were you are part owner but undertake less risk and less responsibility and less work. Imagine a startup where instead of the typical 2/3 founders 3/15 employees you have a 15 employees who all share an equal amount of ownership and responsibility.

The point of such a startup would be to provide better working terms and better pay than one would get when working as an employee or contractor but at the same time lessen exposure to risk and responsibility.

I don't know how doable it is but I always thought that it was strange that most startups were trying to emulate the same corporate structure the, founders themselves probably wanted to avoid because it didn't suit them very well as employees.

Sorry for going of tangent but it's just random idea that crept into my head and wanted to share.
Well, isn't it the point, that the user can confirm, with help from the browser, that DigiCert has verified that this .onion address is actually Facebook? Maybe you meant something different by "right."

Also, Facebook made a "vanity address" that is pretty memorable, facebookcorewwwi.onion [0]. So, someone else could brute-force a similar address and lure people to it, but presumably they wouldn't be able to get a trusted CA to issue a cert authenticating that they're "the same entity as the one operating facebook.com" (from the article -- I presume facebook.com is also named in the cert, which shouldn't happen unless the CA vetted it.)

[0] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October...
Nothing special. It is just normal workflow when you use common sense, no? Except the development branch because master is new development branch.
My view is that it's probably not wise to automate copy-pasting code from the internet. It easily leads to just that: copy-pasting and not thinking. I'm sure that this view is not that extreme really.
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> when the researchers passed a mild current through the electrodes, stimulating a small region at the intersection of the temporal and parietal lobes of her brain, she experienced what she described as a shadowy presence lurking nearby, mimicking her own posture.

Those kind of things feel very existentialist to me. This shows that human perception, sentience, and consciousness are deeply and essentially tied to our biology, and that we're all a few micrograms of chemicals or electrical impulses in the wrong part of our brain from complete schizophrenia.

This seems like a very strong argument against any kind of transhumanist rhetoric, and that no matter how much our understanding of the universe and manipulation of the physical word progress, the very concept of being human is forever tied to our physical body.
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Well, I'm sure you used "will be" advisedly -- until the improvements you mention come about, TLS to hidden services is valuable even though Tor already provides transport encryption. The keys in question aren't really appropriate for modern cryptographic practice, as the Tor developers have been acknowledging. I wrote a little more about this at

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-October...

I didn't mention the part about how the public keys are 1024-bit RSA, but it adds to the sense that native hidden service transport encryption is using dated crypto.
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I don't understand how my personal non-consumption affects my imagination?
> There are lots of people who work 40-50 hours a week and have incredibly successful startups/companies/whatever. There are people who work 80 hours a week and their startup is a complete piece of garbage.

There are lots of people who work 80 hours a week and their startup is garbage. But there are very few (if any at all) people who got their startup off the ground with 50 hours of work per week. Working long hours is necessary but not sufficient. (There are lots of people who claim it isn't necessary, but none of them actually had a successful startup)
> Let's talk about what to do if you see a downed electric wire [etc]

Absolutely! Isn't that taught?

> If the school pulled a stunt like this, she wouldn't be attending it anymore.

That's kind of throwing the baby out with the bathwater? Would you really make such a binary choice about such a small part of the school? And what school would you choose instead?

> Either this is an "agenda" or someone needs to get a fucking clue.

Surely its a combination of small factors such as people being genuinely scared that their school will be next or that its dictated from above the school level?
The demo didn't work so well that I could have verified this, and I might be mistaken, but it seems it just copies code from somewhere to the current file.

How does this help learning when one does not see the commentary from StackOverflow? That's my point exactly: if the tool automates the copy-paste, the comments are not visible.

I don't get your ego reference.
Many articles of the Bill of Rights have proven to be extremely prescient a few hundred years later. While we talk a lot more about the 4th and the 5th on HN, I'm equally confident in the importance of the 2nd.

It turns out the framers knew a lot about human nature, and the nature of government. Humans have done bad things with guns since long before 1789. This is something the framers considered extremely carefully and concluded the risks of an unarmed populace far exceed and outweigh the benefits of an unarmed populace. In my opinion, nothing has changed in this regard. If anything, the risks of disarming have seemed to increase dramatically.

IMO, fear of guns is highly irrational versus the fear of a government not beholden to its population.
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That was actually kind of helpful, thank you for posting it.
>Is there any recent example of any of these millitia groups >successfully opposing the US government and winning?

Afghanistan. Not just the American government, the USSR had to withdraw from there as well just about 20 years before.
Boring, posts unrelated to hacking/hackers(or programming)
Where does these terrible posts came from to hn? Is there any regulations to post here?
The "share alike" variant of the cc license that was used here does seem to have similar copy left clauses.
Unfortunately, no luck. His phone has been off since the night he disappeared.
I know a number of people who have diabetes and not vast financial resources (including the family of a teenaged nephew of mine). The current medical solution takes a significant and ever-present financial toll on them. Something like this would be absolutely life changing for those people who can't easily afford on-going, lifetime treatment.

I really hope it works.
Looks like a poor rewording of something from the paper, where it basically says that conservation of energy is a consequence of the laws of motion instead of an assumption:

> In the theory we present here, the status of information in physics is analogous to that of (say) energy: given the laws of motion of physical objects, neither the concept of energy nor the conservation law for the energy-momentum tensor are necessary for making any prediction from initial data, yet our understanding of the physical world would be radically incomplete without them. The conservation law explains some aspects of motion as consequences of a deeper regularity in nature – which is why we expect as-yet-undiscovered laws of motion to conserve the energy-momentum tensor too; but we don’t expect to derive new laws of motion from it. It is a principle – a law of physics that constrains other laws rather than the behaviour of physical objects directly.
> "By this time I know better than to waste my effort trying to make Americans see why guns really are a problem,"

> "assault rifles"

Maybe part of your problem is that you are not particularly informed when it comes to gun laws and crimes committed with guns in the US. Americans, who are familiar with both, immediately notice your ignorance and tune out whatever you are saying.

Assault rifles in the US are heavily regulated at the federal level (as are all other automatic weapons). Since 1934, there have only been two murders with legally owned automatic weapons. One was in 1988 (the murderer was a cop^), the other was in 1992. In neither case was the machine gun an assault rifle (both were machine pistols). To put this in perspective, there are hundreds of thousands of legally owned machine guns in the US.

Legally owned assault rifles simply are not a problem for America.

^ Worth noting since law enforcement are are still allowed to purchase new automatic weapons, while other American civilians are not.
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would love to see examples of other companies being built like this. This could be built as an incubator.
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Furthermore he says "Thus the conservation law, though not an a priori mathematical truth, provides [...]".

Imho "not [...] a priori" is not the same as a simple "not".
Pretty much gibberish. No operational definitions, lots of floating abstractions, with some falsehoods thrown in (starting with the description of Shannon as obscure!)

Deutsch is a very clever guy, but to say "no one but a fool would bet against the notion that something could become important" is vacuous as well as pompous. I could become Pope--you cant prove I won't--but that is hardly a bet worth taking.

Laws that govern laws are interesting, and symmetries that require information conservation would also be interesting, and in fact the paper in question (http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1405/1405.5563.pdf) looks interesting. The write-up unfortunately is not.
> Do you hate how easy it is for your computer to become slow and riddled with malware?

No, I can't say I do. If such crime is so rampant, one would think it was ripe for law enforcement to do more about it. I wonder if reporting it to the police every time one visits a relative and removes crap from their computer would start a disruption.
ok - worst dev job. I still feel pain looking at ugly VB syntax
Not much in terms of contribution to be found on Github:

https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/commits?author=steveklab...

He has contributed to a great deal of other open source projects though. Mostly Rust lately it seems:

https://github.com/steveklabnik?tab=activity
> There is no way that $70 is actually paying for capital costs.

Then why are AT&T, Grande and Google fiber are all priced at $65/mo for 1Gbps/1Gbps FTTx?
There seems to be things related to Angular that would not work without the annotations. That means the comments you suggest would have to be parsed, otherwise your Angular code would break.
Error 1008 for me.