skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much of it is shady due to unreasonable laws? Does LE have a backdoor to view Backpage information? Does Backpage refuse to respond to subpoenas?

Are sex buyers just gonna say "darn, I googled but didn't find anyone, oh well"? Especially the ones that are looking to find underaged workers?
The WKWebView is buggy/breaking enough that the Cordova team has still not integrated it: https://shazronatadobe.wordpress.com/2014/09/18/cordova-ios-...
> “It’s hard for me to imagine that there are a lot of technology executives that are out there that are in a position of saying that they hope that people who wish harm to this country will be able to use their technology to do so,”

What horseshit!

Calling out the government for blatantly overreaching the constitutional authority it claims grants its power isn't even a little bit the same as hoping terrorists choose _your_ technology to harm people. That claim is not only intellectually dishonest, but it distorts the discourse to utter nonsense (which is precisely why they frame it like they do).
What makes it harder to understand is not the vocabulary, but the grammar, as well as Shakespeare's sometimes idiosyncratic use of word meaning. For example, "strain" here means a portion of music, which while not its most common meaning, is certainly within the abilities of most educated native speakers of English to understand, at least from context.
"Civilization" implies something more than basic survival.

No doubt this will be downvoted, but I would go with some basic legal texts. The law has been part of civilization from the beginning (Hammurabi). Something like Blacks Law Dictionary would be vitally important in setting up a reliable system post-zombie.
It's a lemon... Apple is somewhat better quality-wise, but not perfect. Personally, if you have the funds, I'd get another one and bring in the old one for diagnosis. System logs (accessible via the Console app) often show kernel panics and other stuff.
How does this compare to tahoe-lafs?

I googled and found my answers, this question has been asked quite a bit.
I wonder how long until they stop their DVD shipping side business.
You wrote: '>tldr; there were once only commercial implementations of Common Lisp that cost far too much and delivered little. Because money.
Which is complete bullshit.'

that's bullshit. Complete bullshit.

Lisp Machines were programmed in ZetaLisp (aka Lisp Machine Lisp) and Interlisp. Not Common Lisp. Common Lisp appeared later on Lisp Machines as an additional Lisp dialect and software was than gradually moved to Common Lisp.

The first version of Common Lisp was initially designed between 1982 and 1984. The defining book was published in 1984.

CMUCL, a free Common Lisp, appeared early. CMUCL was many years forked into SBCL, but CMUCL is still available today. KCL, which then was patched into AKCL, ... Which today is ECl, MKCL, GCL! ... appeared early. CLISP, a free implementation in C, appeared early.

A bunch of mid-priced Common Lisps was available for Windows and Macs.

The commercial ones for Unix were Allegro CL, Lucid CL and LispWorks. They were slightly more expensive and great.

There was always a choice of various Common Lisp implementations...

'Unix mainframes?' What is a Unix mainframe? Unix ran on various types of machines, but there was no rise of a Unix mainframes.

Common Lisp was early available with Lisp. Every major university had a site license for a commercial Common Lisp. I used CL on a SUN cluster. Steve Jobs shipped his first NeXT machine with Allegro CL included.

Common Lisp was never bound to Lisp Machines or only on Lisp Machines. Far from it. The whole idea of Common Lisp was to have the language available on a wide variety of machines: personal workstations, PCs, Unix systems, IBM Mainframes and supercomputers like the Cray.
rustfix now please!
I would have to argue against the thought that only people on the right can be 'patriots' Maybe it seems like they are more facile with the word, but people on the regular left aren't any less patriotic, at least in their minds, than people on the regular right. The far right, and perhaps far left, might misappropriate the word, but who cares, it does not take away from other people's patriotism.

In my mind, the only viable defense for Snowden is a constitutional defense, else, it would enter treacherous territory, ie. he'd not then be defending citizen's rights, etc. but rather be exposing state secrets, as it were.
I totally agree. Things like life jackets for sailors, ropes for climbers, and helmets for motorcyclists have made those sports impotent for the real men/women of this world who scorn safety. If you are not willing to risk it, just stay at home so the rest of us can unflinchingly face danger head on.
"A second Chawly Changer will double your coin capacity."
Probably changed their name because "vice" obviously sounds like enforcing a questionable moral code (while having fun), whereas "counter-exploitation unit" sounds more important and serious.

Underage sex work and human trafficking was already illegal in Canada, but they recently shut a lot legitimate sex workers down.

How are you actually auditing LE to make sure they're only targeting trafficking/minors or other real offenses?

Edit: To be clear, how do we know this isn't a sham like drug laws? No drug user I've ever known, even the ones that OD'd and died, ever benefitted at all from drug laws. Quite the opposite in fact. So forgive us for being skeptical about another morality law enforcement system that might have a similar damage ratio.

Even the first question that comes to me: Is the sex market so bad that buyers are interested in coerced workers? Sure, some people might be into underaged (regardless of the cutoff), and I suppose some people might be into abusive stuff they couldn't buy from willing participants. But does that make up the majority even? Or is it really just a lot of bored, or ugly, or busy, or curious, etc. etc. buyers?

More pointedly, where are your morals? Are you pushing for better laws, despite that they might hurt business?
I've never understood buying a movie, though. Once I've seen it, I'm done. No need to ever see it again. One of the best things about Amazon's service is the hybrid model. Prime for tons of content and when that fails you can rent a la carte. While everyone is fighting the content purchasing wars this seems to give the consumer the most content albeit with inconsistent total pricing.
I wouldn't be saving in US Dollars, they conder all US dollars their proterty so if they ever had the chance to intercept your money and did take it, they would feel justified keeping it because it was theirs to begin with.

There was a case where a money transfer was seized between two european countries over Cuban cigars because at the time, the US had a trade embargo against Cuba.

Why shouldn't you invest in Bitcoin for savings? Look at a one month chart. Or look at a three month chart. Or look at a one year chart. Or look at a chart from the beginning of bitcoin and ask yourself: "is this what I want the value of every dollar in my savings to be worth?
One day, I can pay less than 50 dollar per month, be able to watch NFL, MLB, NBA and EPL. Then I will switch to netflix.
How increased automation could lead to a happier and more egalitarian society
Such limitations are of course possible. Perhaps you should look up what you can achieve by running secpol.msc.

(Myself, I find that model complex and unintuitive, being used to the Unix way, but everything has its learning curve.)
Do those sex trafficking numbers include consensual adults? What % of cases are on actual trafficking? (Honest question, no snide intended.)
> I think that the real problem is that most people will not pay for 5 different streaming services. Remember, the median family income in the US is only about 50k, which I'm guessing is less than most people here make by themselves.

Why won't they pay for 5 streaming services? They're already paying for 100 channels.

Remember, cable or satellite TV together have 80% penetration in the United States. That means that your median family with the $50k income is paying close to $80 per month for video entertainment. ($80 happens to be Comcast's video ARPU.)

If the end-game is the unbundling of video content from the delivery mechanism, then that $80 will buy a lot of streaming services. Probably more than five. Depends how they're bundled.
The books which won't eventually be recreated are things like religious texts, philosophical works, legal books (laws, constitutions, court cases), and fiction (including poetry). Therefore, unless we preserve those, they and everything they contain will be lost forever, even if we do eventually make it back to multi-core CPUs and string theory.
Discover and Scientific American
Have you seen how much of Edge of Tomorrow is not CGI?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYDmUR9PdUE#t=7m38s
Even if you use CoffeeScript, you will need to learn javascript, and for everything that you write in CoffeeScript, you should know exactly how it will look when is compiled.

So, if you learn CoffeeScript, you must also learn Babel, because it is ES6. If you write CoffeeScript, only people that use CoffeeScript will be able to read your code fluently.

If you learn Babel instead, people will organically learn ES6 overtime, and your code will become understandable to all javascript community.
> My fear is that these companies will use this Superfish debacle to attack and restrict the ability for users to download legitimate software which leverages these technologies.

They already have, with HTTP/2. Encryption is mandated for HTTP/2 so something like Privoxy (or even just a caching proxy) has to use a Superfish-like method to bypass the encryption. The only alternative is to modify the browser, which they are also locking down with unchangeable ChromeOS and limiting plugins to only officially sanctioned ones.

...and you won't really even be able to just not use HTTP/2 because the web will be much slower as pipelining is not even implemented in Chrome, and Firefox will no doubt drop it soon. Websites optimized for HTTP/2 could take minutes to load without pipelining.

The real irony is that neither Google nor Mozilla determined what software caused pipelining problems, so guess what, it was Superfish and its like. Instead they made a new protocol that requires Superfish-like MITM interception, to work around problems caused by Superfish-like MITM malware.
I was referring to their use of OpenDNS http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=128529

And hijacking Google search on Firefox, http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=142
I've tested the claim; it's true.
Pretty sure I remember PHK warning that (paraphrased) if you encrypt cat videos along with everything else it's just going to cause more effort to break and get around the encryption. Maybe httpbis should have actually listened to him.
Ask HN: Why are my links blocked on HN?
I have a site (https://limelight.link) where I update daily about some interesting topic.
And I post the Link on HN everyday.
But after few days my links are blocked and doesnt showup in public.
I am not spaming or posting junk content.

Anyone knows what can be the problem?
Procedures in Experimental Physics - http://www.amazon.com/dp/0917914562

While it sounds high tech, it covers the basics of manufacturing lab equipment, from iron casting, to making your own glassware, lenses, photographic plates, Geiger counters and so on.
Superfish has more severe practical implications.

The SIM heist confirms that few entities have capabilities that almost everyone assumed they have.

Superfish enable anyone to attack significant percent of internet users.
> Every new feature is add-on (not "upgrade" and not "migration").

Just to nit pick, but there were actually breaking changes introduced in the latest C++ standards. See http://stackoverflow.com/a/6402166/101999 for a decent list.
Cute idea. But as a beekeeper in the Bay Area, I have to agree with @tehchromic--there's some tricky stuff to consider to make this work:

- How will they prevent the bees from covering the internal mechanism with wax? Bees often cover plastic foundations with layer of wax as they build up the cells.

- More troubling, why won't the bees cover the mechanism with propolis (bee glue)? Bees tend to want to cover any crack with the stuff, which is really, really sticky stuff. Any time we've accidentally left an opening (that's not the entrance) somewhere in our hives, the bees have completely sealed it up with propolis, which is then extremely difficult to clean off.

- How will the honey flow freely? At bay area temperatures during Spring/early summer harvests, the temperature isn't high enough that the honey will flow freely when uncapped--it'd take on the order of at least 15 minutes, and more likely an hour or more if you want to do it cleanly, but leaving a jar of honey out for that long is going to attract all kinds of pests, and also bees, which kind of defeats the purpose of this.

- How do you clean this? As tehchromic mentions, this is going to have serious crystallization issues. During normal centrifuge or wax-scraping harvests, you end up having to wash all your equipment pretty thoroughly afterwards, or else the honey crystallizes and makes everything gunk up.

- Why would the bees uncap the harvested cells? I agree long-term that this would happen if you harvested a lot of honey, but I've rarely seen bees uncap the central stores of honey you're harvesting from, especially if you're careful about what you harvest to leave the bees enough for the winter.

- How will you deal with the additional pests and diseases? More nooks and crannies will encourage more pests to enter and roost. Having a spigot also encourages bad beekeeping, especially harvesting before the cells are capped. Honey is supersaturated sugars, which is why it doesn't go bad. But if you end up harvesting before it's capped, you're going to get nectar or sugar water that will actually go bad and additionally play host to a ton of pests and diseases.

Overall, I love that this is going viral--I honestly hope it attracts a bunch of new people to beekeeping, and I'm curious enough to support the Kickstarter and try one out, but I'm guessing those who stick with it will switch to normal Langstroth hives after a season or two.
They are not actually 'attacking' it. They's just using them as tools. Whether they're American, European or Asian technologies. It would appear that they are an equal opportunity tool user --whatever gets them in. So, in that respect, no technology purveyor can say, we're not American, so we're not affected --well, they might say that, but they'd be wrong.
No, the parks exist for humans.

The Universe simply exists. It's not guaranteed that any part of the Universe will be part of a park.
How to Get Maid Services Through Mobile App
> If I had to sum up his position on this topic, it might be "That's the point."

Yes, because only the able-bodied should be able to enjoy the richness of the region.
Right. Giving the less-able access to those experiences would degrade them for the ones who should have them: The fully-able.
I think showing the types of arms exported by country would be considerably more meaningful. I'd be interested to know if the reason the dollar amounts for certain countries is so high is that they're selling very expensive defense systems and not just a high volume of small arms. And from the source data, it looks like the value is expressed in constant 1990 dollars.
Original research cited by major news organizations puts you on a whole new level above just "software engineer" for salary purposes. It's resume-worthy if you have a section for academic-type accomplishments.
Except for those of us that learn by example. I taught myself sql the past month through stack exchange and PostgreSQL's manual. Typically, I'd find a stack overflow question that points me to the appropriate section of the manual to read.
Yep. Those people who live there are so much worse than those people who live here, by me. Those monsters.
With as popular as Glock is, you'd think Austria would be bigger than a basically insignificant sliver.

I suppose if it was scaled by units sold instead of dollar values that may swing it towards inexpensive small arms like Glock pistols. Actually, that may be why USA and Russia are so enormous as exporters: they make expensive heavy arms like tanks, artillery, warplanes, ships, machine guns, bombs, while lots of places "gun guys" (which I sort of am) would think may show up (like Austria) won't because they only make relatively cheap small arms.

All of my arms are made in Russia or USA, if that means anything.

EDIT: Some other commenters have mentioned the stats don't include firearms and crew-served machine guns. Again, it's all the big stuff.
Cheers for the long and thoughtful reply :-)

In fact of all the points I was raising, only the first was about the core language. It's more the ecosystem and some cultural aspects that bothered me. To take a symmetrical example, JavaScript has great tooling and community despite being a language with countless flaws.
Over the years, Python and Ruby ecosystem have gotten pretty OK. Go, Clojure and Elixir are younger and have learned from previous languages, their tooling is not as extensive but they're starting on firmer ground. I'm not sure how to define what makes a well polished software development environment, it's a good question really. I suppose one could write books about subject. But Haskell gave me a fuzzy feeling that things were cumbersome and sometimes buggy. Package management was the show stopper for me. I'm glad Haskell exists and people enjoy coding in it but for me after a while it wasn't that fun so I went to do other things. My arguments are shallow and are more like opinions, but if you care to spread Haskell usage, maybe you can hear them nonetheless.

>> I was disappointed because I was attracted by referential integrity, strong compiler checks, pattern matching and function composition
> Those are many of the reasons I was attracted to Haskell and still use it today, are you claiming Haskell doesn't have those things?

No sorry I phrased that bad. It think Haskell has those things.
Probably because just coming right out and claiming it's a "Zionist plot" doesn't fly very well around here.

/s
I have to look into this.
My understanding is that you're going to join as a full time [somewhat critical] employee? Take a stroll around angel.co jobs. 2-3% for an employee is pretty common at small startups that already have funding. Even 5% at times. And that is for engineers.

The 2M is not there yet. It would only make sense if they agree that your investment only goes through if the 2M does. VCs love doing that. If they agree, then yes, I wouldn't consider the 3% a super unfair deal. But you still need to ask for employee equity @3%-10% depending on how critical to them you'd be. And I'm not even considering the money they owe you.
Without the 2M guarantee I'd multiply everything by 1.5-2.

But still, I wouldn't do that deal, just no.

EDIT: just read the part about the CEO having a good track record. If that person is fully dedicated, you have trust in them and can verify their past then yea, the mainstream "market rules" don't really apply anymore. But still - negotiate. Or run :D
> By now it should be clear that too many users would choose a native app over a web app.

I, for one, don't.

Why install a 500MB Facebook app when I can get the same news feed with a 1kb bookmark?
> The public mood is not there for those to pass in many countries

It will be once the next European war is over.

America wasn't as unified as it is now until after the Civil War and the subsequent passage of Constitutional amendments to fully and finally not only abolish slavery, but to make sure freed blacks would be full citizens, despite what the states formerly in a state of rebellion thought about it.
Famous last words ;)
I really like this comment.

If you don't mind, can you expand more? What do you associate typewriters with? How do you feel about their passage?
OTOH, if you look at the iconic boulder scene [1], it's laughably obvious that the boulder is made from foam. CGI would be able to give the boulder weight and momentum and make that scene far more menacing.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db5rRtOExbA
Maybe. Seems to me that there's a bit of an issue with the general operating mode of an intelligence agency. I've said in the past that I wasn't generally overly concerned with stories such as the NSA's reported monitoring of German chancellor Angela Merkel -- which later reports suggest might _not_ have happened -- apparently they're not even totally up on which close national ally heads-of-state they're spying on. But keeping tabs on other countries -- even friendly ones -- yeah, that's part of the basic remit.

But an organize "we'll spy on yours if you spy on ours" arrangement, particularly with a "don't ask for it, we'll just give it to you" understanding. That's violating the intent of legal and constitutional protections every which way.

At the same time, if a talent scout in North Whateveristan gets handed a sheaf of goatskins exfiltrated from the local TCP-over-parchment connectivity provider, the legality of that data's acquisition shouldn't be a hinderence.

But if North Whateveristan happens to be a friend and we're concerned with that the goatskins reveal, then breaking that information to the government (or other friends in slow places) should be possible at some level.

If there's a resolution by law in this, it's likely going to have to require explicit controls over how and when data of a given nation's nationals or residents is provided to that nation. And bars on mass transfers.

Perhaps mandating them outside intelligence services through diplomatic channels?

At least that'll give Wikileaks a sporting chance.
Yeap! bitswap is currently pretty dumb, but I have a branch that will watch the network for popular blocks and cache them for a short period (until GC). When I get more time, Im going to implement some more interesting AI into it, its currently pretty dumb. (code: https://github.com/jbenet/go-ipfs/compare/feat/smartswap)
> "...there are opportunities for the private sector and the federal government to coordinate and to cooperate on these efforts, both to keep the country safe, but also to protect our civil liberties."

Sure. Corporations often cooperate with the hackers caught climbing around their systems. "I see you've already taken my keys. Perhaps we can come to some sort of key-sharing arrangement?"
In addition to breeding for bigger brains, we should also introduce the concept of cooking. Cooking may have led to our bigger brains.

http://news.sciencemag.org/evolution/2012/10/raw-food-not-en...

Also, a bonobo has been trained in the use of fire.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/5186701
Can I ask you a serious question? I don't condone the government hacking at all and find it atrocious but...How is this any different than China, Russia, Israel, UK, Germany, etc. who all try to breach tech companies to gain information? I agree that this is very illegal but at the same time I also question making the US the villain when every country is trying to do the same thing. Companies should invest in security to prevent these things from all actors whether they be hacked for profits or government backed.