skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that vesting direct power in him would likely lead to personality-driven polarization, where people who can't stomach him would be inclined to give their vote to whoever sticks it to him most forcefully. Or other sensationalistic and dramatic storylines, amplified by the media.
The SMH article I shared explained this was because the MPAA funded a lawyer to hang around in Thailand. Neij had been in and out of Thailand 30 times (he lives in Laos with his wife and young family) and the Thai's never cared .. until the MPAA funded a change in official perspective.
Yeah it sounds a bit exaggerated to me, but it's still nice work. It definitely abuses the system and spoofs things that should not be possible to spoof, but it's not as big as I was first afraid it might be after reading just a few lines. It won't silently worm through your social network if you don't execute things that randomly start downloading. However if someone targets you, sends you a link to a .exe or .bat from your own company's website with a good story... yeah that is tempting to click.
How to Change Careers into Technology
For the past 10 years I've been working in government and public relations, but my passion is in technology. I'm 32yo and I've built a consultancy in my spare time that is very tech heavy, but it's still just a one-man-show. I would like to get a full time job in the tech industry, but I'm not sure how to do that as someone whose resume only shows non-tech achievements, jobs, etc. What should I do?

Possible suggestions from others:

1. Get an adult internship; Find a company willing to take me on for free or low pay to get my foot in the door.
2. Get certifications.
3. Lie and stretch what I already do into something more tech-centric.

I can't afford option 1. Option 2 I could do. Option 3 I think has more pitfalls than positives so I'm avoiding that one for now.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
There isn't a public release of it AFAIK. He is just blogging about the continued development.
When I read "direct" I was not expecting head-mounted circuitry. This is indeed interesting, but it is not brain-to-brain communication. It is [brain] to [mesh] to [computer processing] to [mesh] to [brain] communication. Awesome, yes, but not telepathy. :)

That said, it is a "direct brain interface" in that the mesh interfaces directly with the brain.
Never heard of zsh-syntax-highlighting before, pretty cool feature! Apparently it's in zprezto, if you want to enable it, just add

'syntax-highlighting' \

to your .zpreztorc (below "zstyle ':prezto:load' pmodule \" line)

and uncomment

zstyle ':prezto:module:syntax-highlighting' highlighters \
'main' \
'brackets' \
'pattern' \
'cursor' \
'root'
Very nice, not only because it shows you a playback of Google Docs documents but also because the author takes the time to note his inspiration, first drafts of the project and eventual evolution of it.
Why Intel is adding instructions to speed up non-volatile memory
S3cmd S3 sync memory usage solution?
I'm sure I'm not the only one to encounter OOM (MemoryError) issues using `s3cmd` to sync files to AWS S3. I believe that the culprit is that the local/remote file lists are stored in memory.

Has anyone got any novel solutions to this? As for fixing s3cmd itself, I've suggested the use of sqlite3 as a replacement for in-memory lists: https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd/issues/408

A bad path? Any better options?
No problem. Just to clarify, only the small / medium sized images are inlined in this way. The large images are done as their own http request, so the browser doesn't slow down with rendering them.
I was just reading Twitter and watching a bunch of people who are otherwise intelligent and civilized get in a 160-byte pissing match over bullshit, and it occurred to me that civil internet communities are a rare and valuable thing. So much so that I don't want to engage in any community without strong moderation and a civil culture. Psychologically as a human being I think it's the only way to make the internet a net positive for myself rather than a negative.
One counterobjection to #1: Most ballot initiatives and referenda these days are done by secret ballot, and it doesn't seem to be a big deal; what matters is the result, right? Transparency with elected officials is key, because you want to make sure the guy you voted for is actually voting the way you want him to vote (so you can vote him out if he goes rogue), but maybe transparency isn't so big an issue with direct democracy, since each of us knows what our own vote is.
Isn't this more or less how the current system works? At least in the UK, it is allowed to nominate someone to vote on your behalf in a general election. The only difference is that candidates have to choose to stand for election under the current system and it seems unfair to vote someone into a political office if they don't want it!
> Except that image isn't accessible to anyone except the owner

Good point, it's true that cloud servers containing personal information are never hacked, this is probably because most companies take security very seriously.

> But I'm pretty sure the NSA doesn't care about looking at some random guy's ass.

Exactly! It's not as if NSA employees have ever been known to abuse their power for personal or purely entertainment purposes!

> they aren't going to disseminate the picture to the world, similar to how they don't disseminate intelligence data.

Agreed, rest assured that your private photos and correspondences are safe in the hands of professionals who would never be interested in leaking personal or embarrassing data about innocent law abiding citizens.
I've done all of the above, and I've blinged out my prompt. They're not mutually exclusive :)
As the other poster indicated this sense of being detached can occur in other settings where drugs are not present.

When I walked the Camino de Santiago, I felt a major difference in interaction with other people and detached from the rest of the world. At least for me the experience gave me a megadose of a kind of empathy for other people I hadn't often experienced before. This combined with the fact of taking off each day not knowing where you would stay or what your sleeping conditions would be created a powerful sense of detachment from the cares of the "real" world.
I have one more that I like. I call it 'rex' and it basically allows me to do a regex substitution on command line text (not stdin, but actual command line args). It mostly comes in handy when looping over files in a directory where I want to do some kind of processing based on information in the file name. For example, I can tag all of the episodes of a podcast with their track numbers (several podcasts I listen to don't do id3tags) with this command:

for f in *.mp3;
do id3v2 -T `rex 's/^[^0-9]*([0-9]+).*\.mp3$/\1/` $f;
done

The script itself is really simple, but I can post the source if anybody's interested.
True enough in free fall in a vacuum. (if one could find such a perfect vacuum)

Apples don't usually leap off the ground into trees, though. Of course, that would be more of a heat to kinetic energy conversion to start that process, but I think that's more along the lines of what the original question really meant: why don't things spontaneously launch, rather than having a one way tendency to convert potential energy to kinetic energy to heat energy.

It's hard to see gravity act in isolation: trace particles eventually slow an orbit in the same way that air friction deforms an idealized parabola/elipse by dragging on a ballistic projectile; tidal forces between earth and moon alter the moon's orbit.
Something tells me they are going to get a lot bigger. Space hotels are coming and they will get to cruise liner standards pretty quickly. They will be the most exclusive of clubs and they will eventually have golf courses, though with some interesting dynamics due to the Coriolis effect.
That's interesting. I had been working something similar years ago. I eventually open sourced it, but discontinued work on it. Http://github.com/baus/swithflow

I'm surprised more systems don't take this approach of doing more work in L7 proxies.
> I think that vesting direct power in him would likely lead to personality-driven polarization

That sounds exactly like the current system. A lot of people voted for/against Obama/Bush for similar reasons.
I wonder if it says something about how brittle software and their interactions tend to be: many very experienced computer users tend to promote a certain minimalism. Not for minimalism's sake, but apparently because their computers are in such a delicate and brittle state that any superfluous may brake it, and they have to expend a lot of effort to get it back to that same state. And also the fact that they aren't able to customize whatever other machine they have to use for any considerable time, probably because the administrator won't let you tweak anything (again, because it might break/introduce vulnerabilities etc. Again, it's in a brittle state).
It was awesome to read about that as it happened. Amazing stories like that really heightened my frustration at learning that MeFi was being punished by Google's ranking algorithms because it was too old-looking. The new look is great but on Google's end there are so many search results where there should be an AskMeFi link at the very top but you still get a bunch of ad-bloated, low-quality sites coming up.
Thank you for the quick response!

Have you thought about teaming up with eBay or some other giant like that? I know they ask me to round up/add a £1 extra to give to charity. Although i think the monthly subscription is hassle free, you'd get much more pocket change like that, which would compound. I'm not sure how you'd get listed there though.

Edit: i see the tip option while subscribing which is better than nothing
"X's that try to be too smart or do too much always break, leaving you debugging your X" is, based on my observations, a true statement for values of X equal to ANY core system component: package manager, init system, build system, etc.
StubHub President Chris Tsakalakis Leaves Months After Company Reorg
Have you ever consider Betalize to Test your idea?
Ultimately though, what are the negative consequences of some random stranger, or even the general public, seeing your naked ass? Pretty much nothing.
clicky-link: https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd/issues/408
Some version of this idea pops up every few months on HN. It's a recurring trope of techno-utopianism.

Here's what I said previously. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2936365

I'd say something approximately as arrogantly today.
I wonder if the receiving participants really felt "compelled" to move their hand or if instead they learned to recognise the "fire" signal over time and deliberately acted upon it. It could have felt like a more distinct buzz than other random signals received in between two firings. Not sure if I'm making sense...
Gmail Checker Lite 0.2.6 is out, support for Google Inbox
The press release kindly submitted here describes the experimental apparatus and protocol in reasonable detail, but acknowledges, "Researchers found that accuracy varied among the pairs, ranging from 25 to 83 percent." That means the method still needs a lot of work. The lab has strong external funding, it appears, and we should keep an eye on what further results it announces that are examined by independent science journalists.

But this is a press release, so it will tend to have favorable spin to keep the funding flowing. Many, many submissions to HN are based at bottom on press releases, and press releases are well known for spinning preliminary research findings beyond all recognition. This has been commented on in the PhD comic "The Science News Cycle,"[1] which only exaggerates the process a very little. Not all press releases spin their statements as badly as the worst examples, but all of them should be compared to independent sources for a second opinion.

The most sure and certain finding of any preliminary study will be that more research is needed. All too often, preliminary findings don't lead to further useful discoveries in science, because the preliminary findings are flawed. The obligatory link for any discussion of a report on a research result like the one kindly submitted here is the article "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation"[2] by Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, on how to interpret scientific research. Check each news story you read for how many of the important issues in interpreting research are NOT discussed in the story.

[1] "The Science News Cycle" http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1174

[2] "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

AFTER EDIT: Feel free to let me know what you disagree about here (assuming that an early downvote was made to indicate disagreement). I don't have a direct brain-to-brain connection with anyone else on Hacker News, so I can't always be sure what people mean by how they click on posts.
I'm the author. If there are any questions, please let me know :)
A reactive HTTP proxy in Play
Looks cool ! Any video ?
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People are generous with tips, which is awesome and helps a ton. At this stage, we're 100% focused on raising money for patients. But down the line we'll likely start optimizing more for tips as well, in hopes of becoming self sustaining (https://watsi.org/faq#how-do-tips-work).
Looking really good! I like it.
With 20Mbits you would get only 1bit resolution, and since we're talking about analog data that's not enough. If we went to 12bit ADC we would need 320Mbits/sec.
In the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRsx5egJoYk) at 1:22, when they demonstrate it, the receiver is pressing a keyboard and not a touch pad like the speaker voice says earlier in the video.

The fact that they say "touch pad" made me believe that they actually were able to transfer coordinates.
The Best Tools for Safe Encrypted Communications
I wonder what percentage of real world deployments could be resolved through judicious use of rsync and possibly filesystem-level snapshots in combination with sqlite? I suspect a great many, depending upon ACID requirements and complexity of write loads.
I use split panes all the time. Never got on with terminal multiplexers myself. Other stuff I like about iTerm2:

- configurable word boundaries for word selection by mouse

- X-style copy/paste (middle click to paste current selection)

- dabbrev-style word completion from current buffer, though I've not ended up finding this as useful as it seems it should be

But if you don't value any of this, then maybe you don't want it? Let me edit my post to fix this.
Drone takeoff from quadcopter aircraft carrier
How My Printer Caused Excessive Syscalls and UDP Traffic
Didn't Google Docs used to have this "playback" feature built in? I clearly remember there being a slider at the top of the page that you could scrub back and forth through a document's revision history.
The bandwidth of TMS is extremely low and limited by physics. To get high bandwidth, you'd need implantable devices for stimulating small groups of neurons, which is possible today, but not ethical with human subjects.
Somepeople
You could craft an url that makes your browser download a file named 'chromesetup.exe' that comes from a google URL, but is a worm.
Things aren't as pretty, a lot of unnecessary <Tab>'s are pressed, and you sometimes have to Google things other people may instinctively know. I don't mind the Googling so much -- if it's important enough, I'll eventually learn it.
You've taken this too literally.
I saw an article about that idea a few years ago, and wondered if it might be possible to combine it with a rotary engine. I ended up creating this rather odd-looking model:

http://sandbox.mikepurvis.com/design/engine.svg

Completely impractical, but an interesting experiment. There's some more general info on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-stroke_engine
Search Warrants Should Not Overcome Biometric Protections
Bug volume in crypto is extremely high. How many developers reuse IVs in stream ciphers? How many blindly use AES or somesuch other symmetric library and then build in no authentication whatsoever? How many antequated implementations of RSA are used in practice today (see recent Bleichenbacher flaw in NSS)? How many times are poor chaining modes for block ciphers chosen? How many implementations of [anything] fail on side cases (elliptic curves) or massively leak through side channels? How many DH-family protocols miss checks for identity inputs?

The answer is a lot.
The information being sent seems completely normal for an online word processor with a revision history

When most people hear "revision history", they think of the versions of the document that exist between explicit saves or periodic autosaves, and not extremely fine-grained per-keystroke activity logging.
He's still really active today and I can't find any reference to his real name. Bungie, hire him!
WireLurker: A New Era in OS X and iOS Malware
Ask HN: How do you capture and manage ideas?
Currently I use a Google Spreadsheet and share ideas with friends via email or over coffee. I'm wondering what tools others use to manage this process.
The article is about not having control of your data, not being worried about a censored photo.

Now that the data is in someone else's control there are no guarantees whatsoever as far as who has it and if it's been deleted.
If we could get "NoX" by Westwood servers back online with clan matches and rankings I just may die a happy man
Just signed up.

I was wondering how you select which patient will receive the donation each month ? Optimise impact ? Try and top up a maximum number of patient funds ?
>I can't understand the desire to go back to the bad old days.

There's nothing in the comment you're responding to that advocates for regressing back to a Regulated Taxi paradigm.
Nutty Plaintiff Nearly Derails Case Against NSA Bulk Collection
People take alt-tlds seriously? Even older TLDs like .info or .biz seem seedy and low-rent compared to .com
Seriously? lol
> are there examples where attackers gain a big advantage by having a downloaded file come from a trusted URL?

Yeah. I hope Adobe is all over this.

It's not hard for me to imagine a shady website that offers streaming videos prompting users that they need to update Flash, then redirecting the user to an adobe.com URL that downloads an installer. I bet even some savvy HNers could fall for that.

Or how about a similar attack on enterprise users by prompting them to update Adobe Reader.
There are some D advocates, users, and enthusiasts (I fall into the last category) at Facebook, and a slowly increasing amount of D code, but the vast majority of infrastructure projects are done in C++, and most people are still choosing it for new projects.
A lot of what can be said has already been said. However, I would like to share a piece of joy- I'm in one of the pictures in this article. It feels great.
Isn't this exactly what non-compete clauses were meant for?
At the same time, none of that prevents Metafilter from being an echo chamber. I suspended my membership a couple of years back because I found the political discussions there increasingly toxic. Stepping even slightly outside the group consensus can lead to aggressive and sbusive pile-ons, and obvious moderation biases are often handwaved away on the grounds of 'community preferences.' I'm pretty liberal but I got tired of getting crucified for even considering/ analyzing opposing points of view rather than condemning them.

Metafilter qua persistent community has quite different dynamics from Ask Metafilter.
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Read the complaint, it's pretty bad. Dude googles how to copy his work email from gmail, and also copies hot corporate documents to his private dropbox the day he quits for Uber. All the while emailing the Lyft founders saying "I still love you like brothers".

I try to avoid people and companies with poor ethics.
This is cool! Nitpick about examples 2 and 3 - the code should return something in the else case.
A similar technique used to build the payload, but the linked paper does have a more sophisticated technique for setting the target's filename arbitrarily, without having to somehow craft a link with a "download" attribute on a target website.
The audio for the oral arguments can be found here: http://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/recordings/recordings2015.nsf/B...

(It's about an hour and a half long)
Agreed with everything you list here. I do think it's valuable to learn how to pretty-up and polish the shell prompt. I've set mine up to display the time as well as the exit status of the previous command, along with the usual tidbits of user, host, and cwd.

In terms of languages to learn, the most important is your shell, generally bash for most people. 99% of the time, bash is Fast Enough, even though it can often be very slow. Bash is incredibly ugly, but using its features and the userland tools that are standard on most Unices, you can do a lot of amazing things relatively easily.

For speedy programs, Perl can't be beat. For text manipulation, even C programs sometimes run slower than Perl and generally require more code and are much harder to maintain. Perl is nearly as ugly as Bash and has even more annoyances, but for raw text-processing throughput there's no competition.
i have nuts therefore im nutty. slander me but i will still speak.
Sure but Rush Limbaugh is far more extreme and polarizing than Bush. He could never actually win a primary. But under the proposed system you don't need to.

There's also not the barrier of having to actually be a politician. Someone could make a YouTube video arguing why everyone else is an idiot and they are the only person you should trust with your vote, and the next day have incredible amounts of political power.

For example, if this system were in place right now, how many pro/anti-GamerGate ideologues would overnight go from nothing to having thousands or millions of votes?
What do you mean by "web accessible"? Did Google decide to publicly publish all dropcam's customer pictures?
For example, G+ photos are accessible to anyone who knows the URL, no matter what privacy settings say.

I bet, one don't need to work for any mighty TLA to steal URL from someone's browsing history. And one may be as security-conscious as possible, but still mis-paste the URL into a wrong window. Or something like this.
I'm actually not convinced by kitchen-sink approaches like oh-my-zsh. It has so much stuff in it... where do you even begin (except for passive discoverability stuff like completion -- that's always good to have).

I would be more tempted by adding a few things at a time, piece-wise. Plundering oh-my-zsh could be an approach: add some parts, see if they're useful, if they fit in your workflow, else ruthlessly discard them.
I think you greatly overestimate the degree to which non-technical people understand domain names and TLDs. There are a lot of people who think "www." goes on the front of their email address.
On the other hand, if you think of access to argument names as part of the Javascript language, then a "minifier" that threw out that information would by definition not be a Javascript minifier - it would be a minifier of a subset of the language.
Yeah, it's one thing for Jimmy John's to protect their company from sandwich assemblers stealing sandwich secrets, its another for a corporate officer to move to their main direct competitor.

At least have the common decency to spend a period as a government industry regulator in between.