skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have removed the FCC rate limit
The login password is the primary backup password isn't it? That's what would enable them to offer downloads of backed-up files. While they have a zero-knowledge option (encrypt using secret key only known to the client), it can't realistically be enabled by default in a backup service that's intended to be easy to use. Same with crashplan and every other service that isn't zero-knowledge-mode only.

The fact that the actual backups may (don't know) be transferred over a channel with higher security is irrelevant if the passphrase for decrypting the backup (or decrypting the decryption key, depending on how it works) is transmitted over SSL to the website in question.

You don't need lowsecurity.site.com and highsecurity.site.com. You can support any even marginally secure and up-to-date client with one website ssl configuration. The big websites do it just fine. The other problem is that clients that don't support TLS 1.2 and good ciphersuites are pretty much by definition no longer maintained very well.
Assuming this is not rhetorical; yes there is: http://www.paralleluniverse.co/quasar/
programs, in the limit, look like this:

1. consume input
2. do work
3. print output

find a small but interesting piece of work to do and code that. repeat several times. there are sites that provide you problems to solve if you don't have any ideas of your own (like project euler).
Just wait until the drone bumps into someone...

https://www.google.com/search?q=quadcopter+injuries&num=50&e...
From sklearn import svm

Done
Dealing meth and other hard drugs can seriously damage people, physically.

Edit: Methamphetamine is a neurotoxin. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine#Neurotoxicity
Also, in 95% of cases, nobody's life depends on your software.
Spacing major releases out by five years doesn't guarantee that the bug fixes and driver updates you want will make it into the stable release. It's completely plausible that volunteers will instead develop on HEAD and commit their work there, and the changes won't be merged to the stable branch at all.

I started as a FreeBSD developer in the 4.x era. It was somewhat of an anomaly. The SMP work that went into (and delayed) 5-CURRENT was absolutely necessary, but it introduced significant instability and ongoing breakage. That was a strong disincentive to using it as a day-to-day development platform. I needed a stable development and build machine, so it ran 4.x.

Since then as a project we've done increasingly well at keeping -CURRENT in a working state. It is completely feasible for a volunteer developer to run only -CURRENT.
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I don't see how strict typing couldn't fit at the end of your list as well.
> I can agree that you get a certain degree of flexibility that you don't get with class-based languages

That's not even the case. Not in Javascript anyway. The only thing you get is not having a separate hierarchy of class objects.
Brian from Backblaze here. We are aware of the sslabs flagged issues and we're working to keep on top of it. Sometimes these issues apply to Backblaze and we are vulnerable for a short time (like when HeartBleed came out we had to scramble to plug it as fast as humanly possible). But most of the time when we are slightly slow it is because it doesn't REALLY affect our customers or us.

Keep checking back, I swear you will see improvement over the next week.
From the Karma in Buddhism wiki, Complex Process:

Karma is also not the same as "fate" or "destiny". Karmic results are not a "judgement" imposed by a God or other all-powerful being, but rather the results of a natural process. Certain experiences in life are the results of previous actions, but our responses to those experiences are not predetermined, although they bear their own fruit in the future. Unjust behaviour may lead to unfavorable circumstances which make it easier to commit more unjust behavior, but nevertheless the freedom not to commit unjust behavior remains.

Within the Pali suttas: In the Anguttara Nikaya, it is stated that karmic results are experienced either in this life (P. diṭṭadhammika) or in a future lives (P. samparāyika). The former may involve a readily observable connection between action and karmic consequence, such as when a thief is captured and tortured by the authorities...

I'm not seeing anything to convince me I was wrong in thinking of karma as an impartial system of justice, both good and bad.
I totally get you. I'm at the same place myself. I just decided the only way forward was to do 'hack nights' at my house and invite any programmers I knew who find it fun. Keeps me focused on actually building out a project, we all get/give feedback, and I feel like I was productive.

Also, learning in a vacuum can make it hard to really benchmark how knowledgable or 'good' you are. So getting some feedback in groups may help out.
I thought their convention for arbitrary project names was always using two words with no intentional revelance to the actual scope of the project (with projects like Prism being the exception).

Then again, some of their names are so blatantly fitting (and offensive) that that claim doesn't seem very believable in the first place.
I obviously feel for the guy, I'd be angry and sad too if my wife was taken by a wild animal.

You might think that these sort of "revenge attacks" only happen in the underdevelopment parts of this world, think again;

Western Australian shark cull: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australian_shark_cull

We basically get people who are stupid enough to swim or surf in waters in which sharks lives. Shark kills dumb-ass, government kills sharks. Go figure..
>Wheeler actually points to the success of title II on "mobile" while ignoring the fact that it only applied to voice. Meanwhile, all the relevant growth and innovation occurred in data.

Only voice and SMS mattered until 2007(iPhone launch). Title II seemed to work pretty well until then.

>Look at mobile data (exempt from title II) versus "broadband"/cable speeds.

The difference in infrastructure costs makes those two incomparable.

Look, you just suffer under a reality distortion field.
I think when we were doing the work it was largely philosophical for us to. The project was pretty simple practically.
Very interesting approach. I've read that people have the feeling that the web UI of Inbox is slow in comparison to the Android and iOS app. Maybe GWT is not that good?! Does somebody else have this experiences or can say that is not true? Thanks
What you said really resonated with me. Especially your professed sources of motivation and how programming for its own sake was never enough.
Why do you think it's not true?

Remember that until the trial began, his defenders kept on saying he wasn't DPR and had nothing to do with Silk Road (including his mother), and then the defense admitted it in the beginning of the trial.
It would be trivial for the government to keep a 24/7 watch on any given individual. If you're talking about someone who has already been convicted at trial, there's no technical or legal barrier to monitoring Ulbricht both physically and digitally for the rest of his life.

Practically speaking, of course, that's what's going to happen anyway.
>political for the lack of political will for those other nations who will not act to correct it.

I think we have had quite enough adventurism, people have to stand up for themselves and what type of future their kids will have.
We are doing things more dense now, especially w/ a new project w/ OK Go; but it would be a 2x gain in density, which isn't that big of a deal.
Maybe this is a good hint that we should clarify this in the footer. :)
This is similar to Kirin framework (http://github.com/futureplatforms/kirin)

Cross platform development in Java is compiled to JS via GWT and can be deployed anywhere Java or JS is available.

It powers apps with hundreds of thousands of users on iOS, Android, Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox One.
Working fine in my Ubuntu 14.10 VM (Firefox 35). It's inheriting font-weight: 300 from <body> and rendering as expected.

The use of <br></br><br></br> instead of <p> does feel distinctly mid-90s though. Especially since <br> isn't even supposed to have an end tag. If you're doing XHTML it's <br />, but for HTML all you need is <br>.
When did flight control go all English? A large amount of it is conducted in English.

Likely the condition the article is about will remain for some time. Many harp on the need for one language, if not one government. The language likely will be a mashup of english, spanish, and others, with heavy emphasis on the first. Words that don't translate easily but convey great meaning will remain in native form. Then again perhaps I watched Blade Runner too many times.
The wikipedia page about bézier curves has a similar gif. This is actually how I first understood the concept and drew my first bézier curve (seeing the picture was enough to implement it), years ago. Great visualization, very easy to understand.
I thought a conviction was sentenced based on the most severe available for a set of charges, not all charges cumulatively. There were a lot of articles recently about how the media often used some common misunderstanding to say someone faced "centuries" behind bars for something that probably would've maxed out around 20 years.
If you rely on your compiler to tell you that your code is correct, there are whole classes of bugs that are waiting to surprise you in production.

I think that many years of developing large applications in Perl were really good for me. Perl is compiled when you run it, so you get the basic-syntax check that you get with other languages. But it's also very lenient, so you learn through experience to get your logic right, test return values, and do all of the things that help make sure that a program which executes is executing correctly.
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Robbery at SomaCentral workspace
Hi there everyone, recently there was a robbery at SomaCentral and I wanted to share the images of the thief in case it helps anyone else deter some theft.

http://i.imgur.com/3jFtWCS.png
http://i.imgur.com/bcH83A0.png

This happened this past Friday (1/30/2015).
Well, he is charged with soliciting murder. It just wasn't this trial.

> "Ulbricht is charged with a murder-for-hire scheme in a separate case in federal court in Baltimore."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-09/us-says-s...
Put him away for the things that are an easy conviction, rather than the more nebulous details of that attempt. Why cloud things?
Yeah, the article isn't great. We go through how we calculated densities; we didn't use hard drive enclosures, but did include thickness for HD platters in calculating density. In general, magnetic tape mostly wins as they are so thin.
I guess I don't understand what people who object to this outcome are supposed to do then. It's inappropriate to object to someone facing decades in prison for facilitating consensual transactions between adults?

That's all I'm doing.
Most of those other professions require ongoing learning, too. Doctors and lawyers have continuing education requirements for licensing, scientists have to constantly be reading journal articles, attending conferences and keeping up with the latest developments in their field.

I understand the point you're highlighting, but there are very few interesting jobs where you get to say "Ok, now I'm done learning and I know everything I'll ever need to know to do this job perfectly."
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Ars Technica has consistently had the best coverage throughout the trial. Every other news source seems to be glossing over small details.

(For example, this Bloomberg article still uses the FBI estimate of $1.2 billion in transactions even though the analysis by the prosecution's witness found $213.8 million after examining Silk Road records.)
The f-droid store provides exactly what you described:

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdfilter=aosp&fdid=or...
i'm not saying this kind of company cannot work, but i would like to see people doing it explicitly address the points in "the tyranny of structurelessness"

http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
It's interesting someone who studied Software Engineering didn't get a solid math education at university.

I studied Software Engineering, and am a certified engineer. I sat next to the Aerospace, Chemical and Mechanical engineers for all 4 years of "Engineering Math". (They did crazy physics and chem that I didn't)

How can you call yourself a "Software Engineer" without having studied a huge amount of math?
The prosecution said that they believe this conversation was actually someone scamming him, and that there were in fact no murders carried out.

It clearly shows that DPR tried to have people killed, though (unless you think there's wholesale fabrication of evidence going on, which is getting into conspiracy theory land).
That and "governments make mistakes" are the two arguments you can use pretty effectively against the death penalty on people who are not morally opposed to it.
He seems like a smart guy and a good guy overall...(yes, I know he allegedly attempted to hire a hit-man and we can't tolerate crime etc. etc.).

It's a shame to see his entire life wasted for an (admittedly rather large) youthful indiscretion. I keep thinking there has to be a more efficient, a more just way of discouraging criminal activity.

As an aside... Sometimes it apparently doesn't pay to be overly smart. Or rather, smart enough to get into trouble, but not smart enough to avoid the dangers.
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TRT is a problem if you keep going for too long, because your body just doesn't produce testosterone as it used to, because it expects it from the outside, so below 35 or rather below 40 year olds: don't sign up for this too quickly.

This is the reason why my doctor wouldn't prescribe it for me (38 year-old male, hoping to have a kid with my wife in the next year or two). When on testosterone supplements, the body can start to rely on the outside testosterone and gradually stops producing its own. He said it can result in a situation where you're essentially locked into taking testosterone forever.

Strangely, I didn't see that risk mentioned in the linked article. Did I simply miss it?
Inbox is a showcase for Material design, which makes heavy use of animations. If you don't need the animations, you can just use the gmail.com page anyway.
Replacing testosterone is just covering up for the fact that the cells that originally created it in the first place are slowly losing function due to aging. You want to keep those cells healthy if you want to live forever and that's what all the telomere hubbub is about.
Depends on how you store it, but if it's dry it's much much longer. e.g., see here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201411378/ab...
> The FCC allows companies to throttle whatever they want, but requires all the data to be provided publicly, and they make press releases every so often specifying which companies throttle and which don't. That would solve your not knowing problem.

Ok, so we're back to regulating again? Do you want a free market or not? I don't understand how forcing companies to provide transparency data is not regulation. How is this any better in your eyes than forcing them to treat all data the same?

> In addition, in any location where a company is the sole provider, net neutrality applies, which would solve the problem of choices.

So regulation in some instances, but not in others. A known, well-established regulation is now much more complicated to a) understand and b) enforce.

> You also rule out the obvious loophole of having multiple related companies operating under different brands to get around this.

Much harder than it sounds, I believe.

Your solutions are band-aid fixes for the fact the the free market is not equipped to handle this problem. Not only that, but you are attempting to work around regulation by creating even more complicated regulations on top of the original.

When you have to jump through a tangled mess of hoops to get to a solution that has an obvious, simple answer then you are doing something wrong.

I just don't see what the big deal with regulation is. The only ones who get hurt by this are telecoms.
Ignoring files are easy but ignoring selective lines? Wouldn't that conflict with the file's hash in Git's database?
I agree with gambiter, this is the phase where practice comes into play. Also, studying the code of really competant and efficient programmers. I was in the of desert of despair for years until I learned to stop being overly self-critical and had internalize the patterns of much better programmers. I still made a living in this phase. Then I found that I was a good programmer and entered the upswing of awesome and it is awesome. I have the self-confidence now to know when to cut corners (sometimes you just brute force it) and when to spend extra time (sometimes an elegant algorithm is called for.)
The Circles approach they describe in this article feels pretty structured. It includes clear responsibilities and authorities. It's less clear who defines those responsibilities and authorities, but I'll assume it's "collaborative" – and specifically it's supposed to be well documented and internally public, so there is some implicit peer review.
I think you're both right. A person should be aware of the potential consequences for breaking what they perceive to be an unjust law, but if others also believe the law to be unjust they should have the right to be outraged regardless.
The murder-for-hire was brought up in this trial since they are sentence modifiers for the charges he was facing. The base charges he faced would lead to X years in jail (IIRC; 15-25 if served concurrently) but many of the charges can be modified leading to X+Y years in jail where Y depends on things like attempts at violence.

For all the non-violence fans in the room; Should a heroin dealer who tells his lackies to beat up the competition face a longer sentence than a heroin dealer who initiates no violence? The Federal Sentencing Guidelines think so.

They work on a system of Levels to categorize how bad his crime was:

Narcotics Trafficking over 5kg of Cocaine: Level 30

Narcotics Trafficking by someone who directs violence: +2 Levels

Narcotics Trafficking by someone who promotes their enterprise via mass media: +2 Levels

Narcotics Trafficking by someone who maintains a property to produce drugs: +2 Levels

Etc. etc. So instead of the ~15 year minimum a Level 30 charge would face, Ross is looking at more like a 24 year minimum sentence that corresponds with Level 38 charges.
"...but requires all the data to be provided publicly."

Looks like regulation to me.

"In addition, in any location where a company is the sole provider, net neutrality applies..."

More regulation.
I mean in a way, we kind of have been innovating "new food systems" for a pretty long time. By using genetic modifications we've found the ability to make plants immune to pesticides, reducing crops lost to bugs, and we've modified plants to have higher yields, or to travel better. We've also innovated ways to store crops, and to use them differently. The fact that we're even able to have this movement about organic crops is a testament to how far we've come.

Of course there's still a very large part of the world that doesn't have the same food security we have. Now most of that could probably be solved by simply taking the things that work here, and using them "over there". But its possible that as the world keeps growing we'll have to keep finding better ways.

Of course, even if quantity isn't an issue... we still need to innovate ways to improve quality, or to maintain sustainability.

My point is, food is already pretty industrialized, and we probably need to maintain some research to keep it going.
Read and write were a couple of days each. Would be faster now. That said, we did 650kB; the article is misleading as they are talking about copies of the same information.
Obviously we need an intermediate representation language, which we could hypothetically call "Language and Lexicon for Vernacular Metatranslation". From this language, we could generate automatic translators to and from various target languages, including English, French, and so on. What would be useful is that we could then write reusable prose tightening tools in the Language and Lexicon for Vernacular Metatranslation that could be shared across all the target languages.

Scientists could write their science in any of the higher level representation languages, or even Esperanto or Lojban, or whatever they culturally prefer for their particular brand of science. As a bonus, you could even use the Vernacular Metatranslator optimizers to tighten up prose even if it was originally written in your preferred output language!
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Probably not. It would be an exceptional deviation from existing understanding of the First Amendment, to put it lightly. The cases where blocking speech is permitted in the US involve distributing material that is illegal to possess or distribute (stuff distributed in violation of copyright, for instance).

In the case of Uber, what might be illegal is purchasing service from them (or them selling it to you). Them telling you about their service, even if it's illegal in your jurisdiction, is protected speech.

Cannabis is currently illegal to possess or purchase in my state (although not for long). It's still legal for me to read High Times or websites selling commercial products that are legal in Colorado. It'd be illegal for me to place an order.

(And if it's permitted under the proposed regulatory environment, it's probably permitted now, too.)
this is exactly why most programming tutorials are terrible. they show you how to do calculator exercises and spend hours and hours on data types and syntax. it's like driving around in circles in the parking lot over and over again.

after struggling for years to 'get it' in my friends cars, i learned how to drive a stick in a single afternoon after saying 'fuck it' and buying a car with a manual transmission.
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Public utilities are a big reason the American Society of Civil Engineers estimates we have a multi-trillion backlog of infrastructure capital expenditures.

That's an interesting notion, given that market pressure would be to invest as little as one possible can while extracting as much cash as possible. I certainly have the impression that, in Sweden, the public utilities, which were making sure the power grid had adequate excess capacity and good reliability because this infrastructure is in the "national interest" did a much better job in that respect than the market-based solution. There is simply no comparison between power reliability in the U.S. and in Sweden.
Is it me or is it impossible to navigate the documentation on an iPad?
Code examples should be in public domain.
ridiculously expensive, slow, not random access, not re-writable.
If you're deficient you'll have lower test levels. That doesn't mean you can megadose vitamin D to get high test levels, just that if you don't have adequate supply you'll have lower than normal levels.