skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You didn't answer my question. What exactly do you think it is NSA wants firms like Matasano to do? Stop being evasive. Say something specific, so we can actually address the innuendo.

It seems much more likely that NSA would lean on your consulting practice: you build telephony and communications software. Obviously, I don't think NSA leans on companies like yours either.
Actually if you had followed the link, there are over 165 other studies asserting issues with mercury in vaccines.

If you go to sciencedaily you can find plenty of studies that raise many questions about the nature of climate change.

An intellectual debate requires one to not simply dismiss the other side outright. If your goal is to piss people off and to have your base cheer on, then by all means go ahead. If you want someone to listen to you and your goal is to educate, then you will not get very far with your approach.
> I never, ever want to write any OS-specific code

With Go, you never, ever have to write any OS-specific code. From a single source, you can build executables compiled for different operating systems.

In any case, you're right that it can be nice to simply "run" a JavaScript application directly from its source code without worrying about compilation.

> You need to compile to code for every single platform, making code distribution costly. With Node.js you can simply distribute the code as it is and it probably works in any platform.

You're missing the point about distribution. Let's say you write a non-trivial command line application, and want to distribute it to your clients. With Go, you can distribute your program as a self-contained executable file. Yes, you may generate a few versions (Windows, OS X, etc.) depending on the needs of your clients, but the cost is a few seconds of compile time, and a few seconds posting links to the Windows, OS X, etc. executables. The cost is negligible.

Compare that to Node. How are you going to distribute your Node app to clients? Is every client going to install Node on their personal computer? Will they be able to figure out NPM? Yes, it's easy, but they'll mess it up anyway. What happens when the network has a hiccup and npm doesn't download your dependencies correctly, or they try to upgrade your dependencies and everything breaks?

If you plan on distributing your Node code, you're pretty much limited to distributing it to other Node developers. That's not going to work for everybody.
A little off-topic, but does anyone have any good resources on how ELF does TLS? The spec is pretty hard to read, but I need to implement it in a system I'm building. Thanks!
How does this avoid the exponential-time worst-case complexity of backtracking approaches to walking NFAs?
A relevant quote from this pdf: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ03.pdf

"Furthermore, in the event that a work is infringed, if the work carries a proper notice, the court will not give any weight to a defendant's use of an innocent infringement defense--that is, to a claim that the defendant did not realize that the work was protected. An innocent infringement defense can result in a reduction in damages that the copyright owner would otherwise receive."

As each file is likely considered a separate "work" by the courts, removing all the copyright notice is not a good idea.

What they should do is put the lengthy license text in a license file, and then in each work (file) put a two line notice, line one claiming copyright, line two referring to the license file in the distribution package.

Note that the above .pdf also describes "collective works". It is unclear whether a court would consider a tar file a "collective work" to invoke the single notice for collective works option.
I was sleeping 20hrs a day on psych drugs.Had to get off them to heal
No?

Where did you read that? They're still alive and kicking.

'tptacek left it to start a new company. As far as I can tell, Matasano is quite successful and many of its employees are highly regarded hackers and engineers.

Some of what they do:

* cryptopals.com
* microcorruption.com
* cryptoservices.github.io

See also: the 'whoishiring threads every month.

EDIT: You should probably respond to his post instead of mine.
And Nokia Here, presumably.
All great information. I'd have no idea where to start with a contract so thank you for that. And for my rate, I really appreciate that as well. There's no way I'd ever start as "high" as $100 before I read what was said here so that's really good to know.
That does sound fun. Let me know if you find it.
Hopefully not blow them out of orbit like they have demonstrated in the past! Or extort SpaceX into disabling them for that entire region...
Introducing Lavaboom 2.0, redesigned and rebuilt using Golang (prev. in Scala)
Architect/Dev/Sysadmin/.../Coffee Boy for a startup. By now they know not to call the police after "just" 24H but 48 :) Haha.
I sort of feel like is a middle class/upper class problem or lesson to be learned. When you grow up poor none of this is really a mystery. You understand very early on the value of a penny, where it goes, and why it's spent. Still a valuable lesson.
As a subscriber, I can confirm that it does auto-renew.

Also, twitch recently added the option to share the fact that you have paid for another month (by not cancelling) [0]. Taking note of these notifications is possible and would capture some of the resubscription data.

[0] - http://blog.twitch.tv/2015/01/subscription-announcements/
javascript requires you install Node on your target platform alongside your Javascript program, where as Go doesn't. So the extra step you described gets equalled out.

as I said, it's very naive to blanket claim that node is better for cross platform development.

If I'm completely honest, i find people who say languages are definitively better at boardly defined subjects are usually lacking objectivity. Programming can seldom be summarise so easily without losing all precision.
Supporting BSD rump kernels compiled against the NT api could be a good alternative.
What does filing patents have to do with productivity? Might as well title it "the smartest people in the entire world" and stack it next to lists of people who have filed the most patents. It does however follow that the older you are, the more time you have to file patents.
It's Not Luck, It's You
Hello,

* I've set an ad-block rate of 76% for viewers of a stream.

* that's a very good point, and it is not account. It was assumed that everyone gets to see an ad at the same time.

* This was estimated fairly well I think, I used the Riot Games API to figure out when a streamer's game has started. Almost every streamer run a 3 minute ad right before the game starts. So I've found how many viewers there were at that moment and then calculated the ad revenue.

Hope that made it clearer :)
How is observing lines of Chipotle customers private information? Anyone can do it.

Anyone CANNOT query Capital One's transaction databases, which is the entire problem here. Make the transaction databases public (Bitcoin does) and open the casino to everyone else.
And what about the Alien Fundamentalists?

There is this assumption that Aliens would be atheist, but that's actually pretty unlikely considering religion is one of the human universals.
HN is famously... not neutral in regard to Google. Not necessarily because anyone's doing anything nefarious, but because early users came from certain places and formed a certain culture. You won't get a neutral perspective on Facebook's effectiveness here.

Facebook advertising has been very effective and profitable for at least some clients. I think Google+ shows that Google is terrified of Facebook. I have no knowledge of how Google's advertising revenue is doing, and wouldn't be at all surprised if they still dwarfed Facebook.
I've personally helped TV Raman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._V._Raman) re-setup his screenreader and Emacs stuff multiple times when his local PC required re-installation. He hacks on emacs code pretty effectively when he's not doing other things. IIRC different emacs fonts/faces are rendered via the reader as slightly different tones to the voice.

(I also helped introduce him to stumpwm when he absolutely had to have a GUI to do some specific testing; he was shocked and pleased that such a thing existed)
Hardware reverse engineering has gotten so much easier since everyone is obligated to deliver some useless Android (preferred) or iPhone app with their consumer junk. No one seems to bother with obfuscation.
Yeah, it has type classes, although the syntax is a little different than how Haskell does it.

Agreed to all of that. I've tried to get into it several times, but I have almost no interest in web development. I'd really like to use it just as a language. It seems like it should be possible to decouple it, but it seems like the only way that will happen is if Adam gets more people in on it. And that's not likely to happen with the scanty documentation and completely impenetrable compiler code. :(
Why is it that you immediately associate avoiding public school with identity politics?

I think you'd be well served reading the works of Ivan Illich (in particular Deschooling Society), John Taylor Gatto and John Holt that all just about debunk the fundamental idea of schooling as inherently inefficient and originating in a rather peculiar turn of events during the 19th century which had little to do with actually educating the masses.

That said, I don't think most private schooling is a proper solution either, but rather free/democratic/Sudbury schools, unschooling, apprenticeships and a general rise in people associating education with autodidacticism rather than formal institutions.
Freedom of speech also protects those who speak nonsense.

Privacy protects those not currently in favor with the rulers or the mob, without a doubt. But that is not the only thing it is good for.

I am not exactly certain how keeping your own business secret is a tool for oppression, other than the sort of anonymity desired by criminals as a means of evading retribution under the law. But you cannot pull the hood from the Klansman without also outing closeted homosexuals.

Public information can be used for good or ill, but private information cannot be used against those who keep it secret. Thus the default expectation of those who infringe upon your privacy is that they wish to use your information against you. Even when your private information is used for your benefit, it usually comes off as creepy.

Privacy is an essential part of how we control our public image and reputations. Stripping away privacy removes our essential ability to be who we say we are. So it does protect to a greater extent those who are more dependent upon good reputation, such as politicians. Or owners of professional basketball franchises. Or celebrity chefs. It enables the prosecution of thoughtcrimes in the court of public opinion.
Not knowing that what you have is a privilege is the definition of spoiled. If they know it's a privilege, they can be thankful for it and (perhaps) perform better in school. What you said is beneficial for children to learn, too, but it's irrelevant here.
YouTube Defaults to HTML5 for Video Streaming: Will HTML5 Adoption Continue?
How low does it go in terms of Android version? I'm on 2.3.x, sony xperia ...
> let alone those more distantly related (dolphins, crows)

Our inability to communicate with them is not because we don't know how to do it, but because they don't communicate much.

The stuff they do communicate we understood.

So I see no problems in communicating with an Alien that does actually communicate.
Bing Maps was very good the last time I used it.
By the way, Adam is apparently going to be a lecturer at OPLSS this summer. That kind of event seems right up your alley; have you ever gone? Any plans to go this summer? I'm hoping to attend.
Clearly those people don't count. If you can't afford to protect yourself with a few hundred pounds of extra steel, then no loss.
Not only that, there was a buzzing community around it. I'm never quite sure whether geNToo was a joke, but if it was then I wanted to do it for real. But then MS killed the whole API.
Hopefully, that won't be a problem with code written for a paper. You can freeze it then(for that version), unless errata is required.
"Foot traffic at high-end stores"
I always saw it as the classical: why do you want a screwdriver to put the screw in place? The hammer should be good enough!

Well, sure, I guess you can pound a screw into things with a hammer but you're missing the point.
This really made me cringe. Specifically why should you admit to your kids that what they have is a privilege.

I think it's important for people to be aware of the privileges they can and do take advantage of. Even (especially?) kids can benefit from learning this early on.

Your kids should know that is not really that good for them to be away from the poor/slow/racially inferior/wrong religion kids (or whatever your reason is), but it's actually really harmful for the public school kids not to have the kids who can afford private school in the same class.

So you're saying that parents should intentionally give their kids a (presumably) inferior education, just because others aren't quite so privileged?

My opinion is that recognizing and doing something about your own privilege shouldn't be about handicapping yourself, but should be about helping to elevate those without the same privilege.

Now, you can argue that putting the more-well-off kids in a regular public school would do that, but the problem is it's another one of those solutions that only works if everyone does it simultaneously. And that's just not something someone is going to be able to make happen. So, instead, you have to compromise: you give your own kids an advantage that some people may not have access to. If you have the ability, you might also try to help out the less-advantaged kids by donating time or money (or something) to improving their education in other ways. Certainly not a perfect situation, but many families don't have that much wiggle room in what their finances will allow.

Of course, this is all assuming as fact your assertion that private school = rich, smart kids and public school = poor, dumb, disadvantaged kids, which... I don't really buy as a blanket statement.
Here's a visualization summary of entire movies in a "barcode" timeline format from the start of the film to the end.

[0] http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/movie-index

[1] 2001: A Space Odyssey http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3432026155/2001-a-space-...

[2] Aladdin http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/5766889425/aladdin-1992-...

[3] Beyond the Black Rainbow http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/39051819960/beyond-the-b...

[4] Blade Runner http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/4438993828/blade-runner-...

[5] Star Wars Episode IV http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/13255664875/star-wars-ep...

[6] The Wizard of Oz http://moviebarcode.tumblr.com/post/3512965847/the-wizard-of...
I thought, "holy, why is that imgur link already grayed out for me" and then I realized, oh yes, forsen...
Stuff like this:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/15/google-blocks-windows-pho...

http://www.windowscentral.com/new-policy-google-voice-means-...

I used to be a big Google fan (before and after becoming a Microsoft employee), but seeing Google continue to block WP apps actually made me decide to move to WP and off Google services as much as possible.
Every startup that stored all your photos has sold or died. Here’s what to do
While that parallel is genuine, it's hard to compare Coq and TLA+ since the mechanism and style of proof they embody is very different. TLA+ tries to ensure that you can exhaustively check implied models as its basis of proof (I believe) while Coq recognizes that types syntactically represent logics and we can thus construct programs in those logics to represent proofs.

So, one layer deeper they're dramatically different beasts.
That you started late?
> Maybe young founders are preferred because they are cheap and they fail fast.

... and they're easier to take advantage of.
Don't Learn C the Wrong Way
Yet I did. The link to pubmed.

I mean I'm not here to try to convince you of their argument. However, the 1 pubmed article I referenced mentioned there are over 165 studies supporting issues with mercury in vaccines. Is this not interesting data? The researches behind the article seem to think so as their objective is to undercover why there are discrepancies with these results vs those that have said there are no issues.

I mean it takes time to follow all this stuff. Certainly more than I have, yet with a little effort it seems easy enough to see the source of information is not all coming from some personal blogs as I just pointed out.
ACCA F4 past paper 2012
Opposite of others' stories, my mother always put a very low number on the FAFSA form. It always annoyed me because I thought she was lying just so I can get more financial aid, and I'd argue about it because it felt like fraud.

Some years later, as I got good at personal finance and started helping family with budgeting, debt reductin, taxes, etc -- I saw all her financial info and realized she wasn't lying. She really did have very little. I was lucky to have been able to attend college.

(Everything's fine now, but I still carry some of that guilt for not believing her.)
I like the first party libraries personally, because I find them to be very full featured.
On iOS I'd imagine this uses the underlying Webkit JavascriptCore engine. How about Android? Do I need to embed a V8 in my app if I want to use React Native?
Gunman of 'hacker collective' storms Dutch TV station
Cool! This is pretty nice. Are you able to edit gradients? I can't seem to get that functionality to work.
A lot of that would presumably have already been read by students taking this class, especially the Shakespearian tragedies and Moby Dick and perhaps Dante's Inferno.
Remote work is easily attainable. Build something of your own, throw it up on Github, and make it nice. That, combined with your 15 years of experience in other technologies, should easily qualify you for a pretty nice position.

Sidenote: it's insanely stupid for hiring managers to disregard people because they have 15 years of experience in the wrong technology. Someone with that much experience ought to be able to learn pretty much anything relatively quickly. If it's a sticking point during the hiring process, I'd bring that up.
The Tastes That Make the City: New York Edition
Visualising Chicago’s Ageing Infrastructure
Ask HN: How can I delete my HN account?
I would like to delete my HN account, is that possible? I mean a way to delete the user in such a way that the link with user?id=me display not found or deleted.
For Pell Grants isn't not that high, but you still have to fill one out if you want federal student loans which have no limit at all.
The guy in the first picture, Forsen, is one of the top 5 or 10 Hearthstone streamers in terms of viewers. Depending on his 'competition', I've generally seen his numbers between 5,000 and 10,000 concurrent viewers.
Hi, as a PM on this Nokia project, I want to point out that it's not a fork. We use vanilla Android Lollipop and our Z Launcher addition is entirely optional.
Is Go FotM? I'd be lying if I said no.

However that being as it may, Go is see legitimately strong growth in China and reasonable growth in the US.

It also fills a market gap: A native machine compiler which isn't insecure by design (e.g. C/C++). Rust is also competing in that space and has a very strong design (even if Go appears to have gained more market share at the moment).

If you listen to TIOBE then Golang isn't doing very well, if you read almost any other popularity metric it is looking a lot better e.g.
http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2014/06/13/language-rankings-6-14...

Plus most of these ignore China which is dumb.
You know, any user can probably use those tools in adsense (or is it adwords) to monitor how popular search terms are and make similar predictions.

If searches for X brand is way up one month then you might be able to predict that x band will have a good quarter.
This is all very well when finances are good. But a friend of mine grew up poor, and their mother held back nothing in telling them exactly how broke the family was. To this day they are extremely jittery about all things financial - I think there is such a thing as too young to be worrying about money. But when you're a young adult, absolutely.
I also imagine sponsorships are big earners too. You can see them on the overlays and bellow the stream.
The Intercept’s Invitation to Criminality – And to Intelligence Agencies
The Rat Park experiment provides a lot of insight here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

If you prefer the graphic novel:

http://www.stuartmcmillen.com/comics_en/rat-park/
Hi I'm a Nokia PM on this project. It's not an Android fork. Z Launcher is running on top of vanilla Android on the N1.
SF Bitcoin Devs: Andreas Antonopoulos Q and A
this brings to mind the justification behind the SciPy distribution. I wonder if nix or something based on it has the potential to be used as a more generalized replacement for thinks like virtualenv? Just roll up a new user for your project with all the dependencies defined, instead of the kinda-sorta isolation of a venv and without the overhead of a vm?
Have you tried the support link in the footer? There is no such feature and thus still a manual process.
Most languages have an equivalent of go fmt.

They are just third party tools that aren't integrated into the language. Which for me is perfectly acceptable. There are sometimes legitimate reasons for formatting code different to what the language creators believe.
probably a legacy from stardivision, the german makers of the original staroffice, which became openoffice.org, which in turn became libreoffice. it's origins go back to when the z80 was a 'current' processor :)
This doesn't seem that excessive for a non-intro English course. For my Shakespeare course (I believe it was 2 semesters, and it was a long time ago) we read:

1. Over 30 of Shakespeare's plays

2. The Sonnets

3. Several plays by related playwrights (Marlowe, Ben Jonson, some others). Essentially the bulk of 3 separate collections of 6-8 plays.
I think the whole Cyanogen thing is that they make these services optional. If this means Cortana can be an optional service in CM (and not to the exclusion of others), I see zero downside.
Gomain – A Go command line tool to check domain name availability
Instead of not communicating it. What if you block people from viewing something else as a consequence of receiving a request.

Eg there is a public mailbox folder that can be checked by anyone online and there is an email filter that directs all mail with keywords typically found in requests to that folder. When a request is received you would of course be forced to block access to the mailbox as soon as you were aware of the takedown, but losing the ability to check that the mailbox is clean is the warrant canary. There would always be a small window between when the email arrived and was visible and when the company saw the request and blocked access.
That is not obvious (no offense). When I think of "the world", I also think about things beyond "social human behavior". For instance, you could ask how contact with alien life could affect how we use this planet Earth (e.g. usage of natural resources, pollution, etc.). Conceivably, it could also change how we think about (non-human) life on this planet. One can talk about "the world" and talk about humans without necessarily being anthropocentric.
Is there any lash back from integrating with Epic within the Hospitals?
I recently had the chance to view the exhibit on the light bulb in the Smithsonian, and learned something I hadn't known before: the big advance Edison made in light bulbs was a less bright light bulb. Previous electric lights were too blinding to use in most applications. Edison's light bulbs were easy on the eyes. When he helped wire up the Library of Congress, he insisted that all of the bulbs be left bare, so you could marvel in their non-blinding beauty.