skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because "if it could happen in Germany, it could happen here".

22:35 <&scythe> Do you understand why the Americans all had a problem with democracy?

22:35 <&scythe> And the Australians and Canadians were on board?

22:36 <&KinGAleX> Because you're mostly Germans?

A belief in American idealism -- up to about 1933 or so -- was that democracy was naturally, thermodynamically, the end-game stable state of human civilization. Sure, other democracies had failed in the past, but there was always an excuse. It was easy to believe until 1930 that the replacement of a democratic system with a despot could never happen in a modern democracy. After all, Italy had always been poor, and France had become a stable republic post-1871. Weimar Germany, at the time, was the world's second-largest economy, and had a largely fair and free electoral system.

Imagine tomorrow that Japan, modern Japan, becomes a Nazi-like dictatorship, and you start to see some of what the appearance of the Nazis in Germany looked like to Americans in the 1930s. We're obsessed with the Nazis because Naziism is an idea we can be afraid of; we don't have to worry about Americans trying to form a caliphate or having a Marxist revolution. We're totally unafraid of, say, Japanese-style imperialism, because Americans could never adopt a early-20th-century Japan-like imperial culture, obviously.
That seems like a rather specialized worry since your average hotel isn't going to do any of this? It seems like you might as well go for a walk in a park to have any real conversation.
If by "underclass" you mean people that work on low value jobs - yes, these people exist and will always exist, unless you figure out how to make everyone be born with equal skills and immediately be ready to take any job and do it equally well. Then, of course, you could pay everybody the same and be content that nobody is paid below average. Fortunately, this particular nightmare society would never happen.

In real world, people have different skills, and they start with low to no skills and then develop them. In the process, they progress from low wages to high wages. When I was young and uneducated, I worked low-wage jobs like cleaning the floors in local supermarket or looking after the conveyor in local bakery. If these job were forced to have wage anywhere close to what I ask for now, these jobs wouldn't exist. And I, as a poor student, would not have a possibility to study, since I would literally have no money to buy food with, let alone pay other bills. Yes, that's how capitalism works and I'm not sure how could it work differently and remain capitalism. If you prefer the other option - taking the money to central authority and then let it provide for the food to the students, the education, the wages and so on - that's not capitalism and the experience shows that idea doesn't really work out.
You might enjoy watching a few episodes of Emacs Rocks! The guy who does them is pretty cool to watch as far as knowing your tools well. Even if you're a vim user, you'll probably appreciate how well he uses emacs.

http://emacsrocks.com/
http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/NowSecure-Reviews-E753560.h...
Thanks, we updated the title to be less misleading. The article states, "... generated 4,050 bitcoins a month, equivalent to a monthly gross of $1.5 million".
>In fact, it's a great deal more difficult, because now the attacker has to have an equally sophisticated voice recognition system at their disposal in order to interpret the intercepted data.

Or you just pass the data to Siri or Cortana (or whatever microsoft is calling it). Protecting against hacking is defense in depth. If the database is well protected and monitored, attack the target that is not well protected and monitored.
now they're being printed and read without anything like a press being involved at all
This is exactly it. It's as if Hitler was uniquely vile. There is no other person's name so well known, while the person himself so unknown. I think historians are scared that if he was better known, that he might have sympathizers. But this is ridiculous. Even in the biblical narrative, Lucifer was once God's favorite. Yet that doesn't take anything away from him being the Devil.

It's important to know about the atrocities committed. But even more so to understand that he was not the only, and furthermore will not be the only. There are people like him hellbent on similar outcomes. We can't avoid repeating history if we examine them at the superficial level, rather than on an abstract, psychological, human level.
True. There's also survivorship bias at work - the only things left from earlier times are the good items, as the junk was discarded years ago.
As opposed to "closed source electronic voting"?
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Matchstick is not a Mozilla project. The Matchstick company has been (deliberately?) fast and loose with its marketing around Mozilla's and content providers' brand names.

http://www.matchstick.tv/about/
sometimes I actually format it "10$" and it weirds people out. makes sense to me though.
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This has nothing to do with e2e encryption, this is only the metadata of your profile, status and when you are online. I thought it was pretty well known by now that WA shares that info of you with everyone who has your phone number. The content may be encrypted, but it is anything but private.
> I'm not cocky enough to assume I won't get hacked.

And I'm not going to my faith in the state to guarantee my assets because between my bank and bitcoin, I can (and have) read the source, the implementation, and the algorithms behind the security, whereas with my bank, I have no access to the software they use, to the procedures they use to secure my funds, or have any reason to trust the people in positions of power in the bank regarding my money. I'd much rather put faith in the mathematics I can observe and reason about than the behavior of an entity who wont' tell me squat about how they operate.

That, and the fact they are using terribly implemented mass produced web sites and apps to access critical bank details do not give me any faith in their actions. Individual bank entities are mingling in software intimately on the consumer facing front in ways they have been for decades on the backend but never have they been software companies and from my engagements with banks (I've talked to several local credit unions and regional banks about security and potentially working on contract to fix their broken web portals when I find loopholes) the decision makers are not computer literate or competent in the slightest. They deal in effectively informational data without any desire to invest or put effort into actually knowing what they are doing, and it is incredibly dangerous.
Communist countries inevitably end up in tyranny because expecting a ruling caste (party members) not to abuse that power is naive.
American vs. British Startup Culture (Part 1)
Anytime I see a stock surge in price with no explanation behind it, generally I get the feeling it's big investors with alot of money in a stock who want to exit. With a surge generally that's when "dumb money" enters, and precisely when "smart money" is exiting.

Another explanation could be that the market is interpreting the move as "more regulation == less competition".
The 0.1s wait time is less important than interaction error that happen due to latency in a dynamic UI.
Also, surely some network round trips are not due directly to user input, but are still important to coordinate with other events.
OT slightly: Why do some YouTube embeds (including the one on this site) not contain a full screen button? It drives me nuts. Especially here as to actually see what's happening full screen is essential. The only way to get full screen is to click the YouTube button to actually go to YouTube and full screen it from there.
This is a ground loop. Small part of the current returning from CPU to PSU goes through "common ground" connection to the DAC, then through the analog DAC-amp ground conductor, causing some voltage to develop across this connection, and then back to your computer through grounding cables in the walls.

The voltage across DAC-amp ground causes a DC offset seen by the amp (likely less than 1mV). The exact amount of voltage varies in time with CPU power consumption, producing AC that you hear.

You need to eliminate the ground connection between computer and DAC (toslink, USB optoisolator, etc.).
To expand more, from the Economist:

> Mr Green has stared at it longer than most. For three years he has been crafting a digital reproduction of the famous face—the first fully usable Doves font since the original metal pieces were swallowed by the Thames. In search of perfect curves and precise serifs, he reckons he has redrawn it at least 120 times. “I’m not really sure why I started. In the end it took over my life.”

> Mr Green has added to the original type. It had only 100-or-so characters; his digital revival boasts 350. That includes foreign oddities such as the Icelandic thorn and German esset, and modern essentials such as the euro sign and @ symbol. Whereas Doves existed in only one size, near to what is now called 16 point, its digital descendant scales as required. Is the type’s former owner now turning in his grave? “I think he’d admire my tenacity,” suggests Mr Green, hopefully. “Just so long as he doesn’t haunt me.”
That's so NASA PR. About 80% of the stuff in that video was not done by NASA. The F-16 auto-GCAS was a USAF/Swedish Air Force/Lockheed project. The NASA people are just reusing that technology on a model aircraft.
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My point is that Joey is not in general a bonehead. That's part of what makes this all the more disappointing.

He's no longer the package maintainer, which should make the split more viable.
I wonder if this can be exploited somehow to do something cool with those TVs
jq is fucking amazing. I think it counts as my Most Awesome Shell Tool Discovery of 2014.
> They were dying for most uses, but not for DRM-based video streaming.

It is a tautology that DRM-based video streaming is going to use some kind of DRM. The point is that if several major platforms provide no support for any form of DRM then DRM will be removed from video streaming. The idea that video providers are going to give up a majority of their customers because their devices support no DRM is not reasonable.

> Also, Flash did not die, just because Apple said so although that certainly had an impact. It also died, because the web was getting better and better; because it was a proprietary tool not available to everyone; because it integrates poorly with the whole architecture of the web - e.g. dynamic generation on the server; because it had a bad reputation due to security and performance issues; and because a plugin, even if widespread, is still a dependency that you want to avoid.

I'm not sure what point you're making... that Flash sucks and died for multiple reasons? Granted. But it was still dying before EME existed and DRM wasn't enough to save it.
Microsoft wants its DRM to be supported on all platforms, otherwise it would irrelevant on mobile. PlayReady is available on Android, iOS, smart TVs, and set-top boxes (which most likely run Linux instead of Windows CE these days :)

http://www.microsoft.com/playready/features/
The US Supreme Court has also cited EU court cases.
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What I meant was that most people assume it is secure. I mean only a few % at most has any clue how email works. I suspect most of my colleagues who has been working as developers for decades don't know that email may pass through dozens of hands. Of course if you know how it works you know its not secure, but very few people knows how it works.
I don't think that's correct. I was going off of WhisperSystem's announcement[0] where they say:

"Your messages may already be encrypted. The most recent WhatsApp Android client release includes support for the TextSecure encryption protocol, and billions of encrypted messages are being exchanged daily."

[0] https://whispersystems.org/blog/whatsapp/
So since this video was made, the price has gone down by approx 35% and the difficulty has gone up by approximately 17%, for a total adjustment in revenue of about 50%, unless they added more machines, or upgraded their current ones. That's pretty brutal.

Ultimately (and not long from now if these rates of adjustment continue), mining will be a commodity business with a very small profit margin. When you consider that there are uses for low grade heat (like home and office heating), once the ASICs catch up with Moore's law, it seems likely that the profitability will be slightly negative for someone trying to run this kind of business. (As another reason, there will probably be people who have access to basically free electricity that would have been wasted, and just need to amortize the cost of the ASICS).

However, because mining is a zero sum game, we can conclude that the profitability of mining was very high at the time of the making of this video, or else the margins wouldn't have been able to drop as much as they did. This says that a rational large investor would choose to put their money into mining rather than directly buying bitcoins, if they were interested in getting into this space. That's probably why the price has been falling since the peak early last year.
I work at a major media company, and while my job description doesn't include open source contribution, I contribute almost every day through normal work. Granted, we use open source software for what I work on. All of our bug fixes and new features are submitted upstream as patches. It's much easier to get management to commit to allowing time for this because it reduces our long-term maintenance burden.

Personally, I don't think it makes much sense for a position to be 100% open source contribution. It's difficult to make the business case for it, and eventually, you'll tire of it (maintainers that don't respond quickly, feature requests that don't match with their vision for the project, etc.)
> Racism is a consequence of their ideology, not the reason for it.

Can you explain that? It seems unlikely to me, given that racism is extremely widespread and is presumably just a consequence of the tribalist origins of human civilization. I suspect that specific parts of their formal ideology were chosen to explain or justify their much more deep-seated racism.
I'm confused about what is being leaked here.

The information which the writer says is somehow available unintentionally to my contacts is pretty much the information I provide freely to my contacts, e.g. my profile picture, status.

Okay my online/offline status, if I set that to hidden, fair enough, they should fix that, but I'm just a bit confused about the other bits.
Did you stop for a moment to think about the poor guys selling these cables?
Hell no.

I can hit 50 hr in a week and be pretty productive. After that i'm running at 50% efficiency and rapidly dropping after that. Once over 80 hr it's a struggle to get the most menial tasks done.
Plenty of companies hire people full time to work on open source projects - look at all the companies involved in things like the Linux kernel or OpenStack, they hire messes of developers who work on F/OSS projects.

I work at Red Hat. I've never written a single line of proprietary code in my entire career. And hope never to.
I downvoted you before you edited out the axe grinding.
Didn't launch a World War and the number of victims wasn't comparable even.

There is also something to be said about it being institutionalized and methodical. You know, tabulated, planned, as opposed to crazies going around raping and killing.

All genocides are terrible, I am just explaining why perhaps that one particular is so prominent.
It really makes no sense, every other unit follows the number but with money it goes before. The temperature outside is F10, that package weights lbs14, the football is at psi1.8.
Yeah the UI is clunky. They should make it easier to use.

Try setting up an alias in your bashrc? If you really want to point-and-click just add the appropriate entries to your launcher/menu?
>"put on that Wes Andersen movie where they ride on a train all the time"

starts playing 'Resident Evil'
This is an interesting reframing of Cory Doctorow's position in his EFF post about YouTube last week. I assume the conversations with Mozilla's Mitchell Baker and Andreas Gal were arranged in response to the EFF piece. Is he playing "bad cop" on the EFF's site and "good cop" on the The Guardian?
Tend to agree with you. A real hero is someone like Bill Gates where he puts his money into his philanthropic activities to better the world. Unfortunately, homeless is not yet on his radar.
Same thing happens in Russia. People in power, who were brought under Soviet regime, now soft-suppress research and education about Soviet wrongdoings. Honestly can't wait for them to retire / die out.
It's much safer to pontificate on the evils of the past than challenge present evil, especially given the sponsors of Islamism, such as Saudi Arabia, are very wealthy and influential.

There is also the association, in the West, of Muslim terrorists with immigration (as Islamist terror attacks in the West have largely been committed by immigrants). Many in the media sympathize with the ideal of open borders and focusing on Islamism is seen as potentially undermining this idea.
The regulation also doesn't do price fixing. It sets additional standards, or what I refer to as 'quality fixing'. The effect is that prices go up and competition go down, but quality will at least be something people will complain about less.
There are all kinds of OSS projects out there. Some companies build OSS as part of their product strategy (I run one of those companies: http://ionicframework.com/). Technically, we have several people on the team getting paid full time to work on OSS.

But in the past I've done contract work on OSS when a company had the desire to build a reputation in a specific field, or was using a project that needed extra help.

All of those projects have a different type of work style. I'd say the former (OSS as a product) is more like working on product at a startup, so is more intense. Finding the former is easier as well, just look at all the OSS startups today: Docker, RethinkDB, etc.
I don't doubt you would.

But the challenge in these projects is generally not technical, which your post focused on. It's all management: management of scope, management of requirements gathering, management of expectations, management of deliverables. Management of having to work with people who, frankly, are dumb, and for whatever reason resent you, but they use the system and you have to figure out what they need anyway.

Oh, and the better question in all of this is why is Alaska building such a system? Are they such special snowflakes that not a single other state or country in the world has a similar system that they could buy and minimally to moderately adapt for local needs? Forty-nine other states, plus DC, plus puerto rico, plus the fbi's system, not to mention the provinces in Canada or states in Mexico. Surely someone has a system that could serve as a 90% starting point.
Awesome project, Malcx! If you're looking for someone to help you out on the front-end side, I'd like to talk to you about linking up!
That still doesn't make sense. If you have no one living in an investment unit you're losing money. Could an owner of manu units increase pricing by not renting/selling at market rates? Sure but they'd be losing money.
"the 400 bitcoin millionaires with at least BTC2,000 hold 40% of bitcoins" from https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=316297.0

This is the main reason I'm highly skeptical of bitcoin, not to mention wildly fluctuating value, little if any privacy gains (http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/07/14/how-privat...), and a host of other problems.
Emacs Rocks is great, almost got me converted ;) For a vim guys I can recommend watching 'Destroy All Software' by Gary. He's a master of his tools and pleasure to watch.
In Europe, it is acceptable to put the € symbol after the digits as in 10,67€. Just putting in a contrast here..
I cycle to work, 10 miles each way. Plus try to do 25 to 50mile rides one day at the weekend.

I wouldn't say I was that fit though, and though my thighs are pretty rock, I'm not muscled elsewhere. I'd love to also have the energy to swim at lunch, but I'm too busy and tired generally.

Cycling is good as it is actually a bit quicker than the tube, and is a great place to clear my head.
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DRM isn't preventing people from pirating the works, it just makes life harder for paying customers and potentially presenting a security hole to them as well.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign

I see no reason why make something up that would be quite easy to disprove by looking at old records.
[Slightly OT] Amazon just put out a pilot of The Man in the High Castle, an alternate history about the Axis powers having won WWII based on the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00RSGFRY8 (watch! since popularity and feedback determine which shows get picked up and I’m hoping this one does).
Infuriatingly, we write 10¢ in the "right" order.
I'm partial to the Elmer L. Anderson library and the Minnesota Library Access Center located at my alma mater, the University of Minnesota. It might not be quite as large as Harvard's store, but instead being located in an warehouse, it's located in two lime stone caverns carved into the bluffs above the river.

The Andersen Library has been characterized as "geology-friendly;" and indeed, the geology of the site is an integral part of the underground structure. Behind the concrete portal, two enormous caverns, each two stories high and the length of two football fields, lie below a 30 foot layer of limestone plus an additional 30 feet of topsoil, clay and gravel. The solid limestone serves both as the structural roof of the caverns and the foundation for the Andersen Library building above. [1]

[1] https://www.lib.umn.edu/andersen/about-building
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihLwcqSJzF4
Nope, you are wrong. Is a peso sign.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign
100ms of network latency wastes a lot more than 100ms of user time per click, because loading a web page involves multiple round trips to the server. In the case of HN's front page, it took about five.
Especially since in American you'd write 10c, and not c10.

There's a stack exchange comment saying it's harder to forge $20 to $320 than it is to forge 20$ to 320$.

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/11326/what-is-the...

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/34013/why-is-the-...

I'd like to know why we do it too. I mean, I know "just because" but I'd like to know how it started.
I'm not a BTC enthusiast... but it's no less wasteful than Fort Knox.
That's an interesting perspective. I mean, today, it seems impossible to imagine any use case for > 100Mb/s. After all, it can stream 4k HD video!

But I think the very way we use computers is restricted by what is possible on commodity infrastructure. The fact that 100Mb/s is overkill for many customers is simply because the average speed is much lower, so nobody has bothered to develop applications that make use of that additional bandwidth. If 100Mb/s became something everyone had, I'm sure we would start to see applications that require such speeds to be useable. I don't know what those applications would be, but I'm sure they would come to exist.

A 56k modem is overkill if you're browsing a text-only internet, but it would be pretty hard to use the internet of today with one :).
It's really satisfying to see the websites load and render faster after you get it all set up though