skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
another project to replace firmware on various keyboards, including the ability "run small compiled programs written in a C-like language" (compiled with haskell) with a "Built-in virtual machine interpreter for running up to six concurrent independent tasks" https://github.com/chrisandreae/keyboard-firmware
I think there is a difference between what is supported and what is possible.

https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1532
Maybe https://github.com/bliker/cmder could be that alternative? Not sure on the traceability status, but I used to use PuTTY a ton for work, and not because I liked it, just....there was nothing else which worked as well, even though it sucked (no tabs etc).
Also, see https://github.com/venomous0x/WhatsAPI/tree/16a6349a1fbc9e9a...

He didn't actually even wipe the history.
A lot of the SEO spam I get says "This is not spam" in the footer. I'm this close to just setting up a filtering rule that moves all such mail straight to the trash.

Serious question: are you going to stop this or just change it? Some of your other messages are unclear on this point.
So we still have little progress in the interpretation problem, but the planned experiments are going to shed light?
A “Leap Second” will be added to the atomic clock on June 30, 2015
Plug: my post about designing and building a keyboard from scratch (it was at the front of HN about a year ago). http://yager.io/keyboard/keyboard.html
Meet Zoox, the Robo-Taxi Start-Up Taking on Google and Uber
Growth is Not a Hack
We were middle and lower middle class, a majority non black with a few blacks who acted like other middle class kids in the burbs. So in our case it was "underage drinking teenagers" in places we "should not be".
I like to break my code up into little functions that are easy to test, so that flow works well for me.

Even more powerful, though, is autocomplete from the running environment. It means that (just like in the Chrome Dev Tools) when you start typing something, the autocomplete suggestions include all of the valid names that are defined. It really helps in navigating complex APIs like Torch: https://www.dropbox.com/s/e6hriw5quwct65a/Screenshot%202015-...
If testosterone has nothing to do with incarceration rates, what mechanism do you propose for why men are in jail at much higher rates than women?

(Structural) sexism? Poverty? Poor fashion sensibilities?
I quite honestly look forward to Maciej's posts more than Christmas.
Ummm.. ok.... a comment with inner drive? :)
This American Life: Canvassers study in Episode #555 has been retracted
First, this shouldn't get to a court any longer than it takes to be tossed out.

Second, arbitration among entities with vast differences in power is not fair because the more powerful entity will tend to have greater control over who they pick, thus corrupting the process.
> I'd love to see his reaction if Google suddenly stopped serving requests to clients with ad blockers.

I personally wouldn't react at all other than simply laugh, seeing as how I switched to DuckDuckGo years ago, and how there are at least four other search engines out there that I could use (Bing, Yahoo, Yandex, Baidu; in order of preference).

Google not serving requests to those who use ad-blockers (like myself) would just give me yet another reason to not use Google, and would do absolutely nothing to win me over or stop using ad-blockers.

> Not everyone has the ability or desire to pay for information.

He addressed this by mentioning Wikipedia, which is arguably one of the largest websites and yet is able to survive perfectly fine on donations and (maybe) merchandise sales alone.
> These are highly unpopular positions among the republican base.

There's a number of states with open primaries now, so its not implausible that Paul's Presidential tactics involve trying to bring non-Republicans (particularly libertarian non-Republicans) in to vote for him in the Republican primaries.

Or to secure support outside the Republican base and then be able to make an electability argument to the primary electorate.
The articles touches on this second being added is a problem for systems not designed to handle it. They cite Amazon, Yelp, etc.

Why is this an obstacle for systems?

I get that it would mean that your system is one second off the atomic clock, but if you sync with a time server wont't this remedy itself if the time server was updated, if it fell behind?
Serious question: What's the point of safely downloading any binary to run on your closed-source operating system? None of that code can be verified. Do people actually believe Windows is secure?
List of GPS jamming exercises in the UK
Elon Musk seems like a sympathetic guy, but when I'm reminded that he made his money from PayPal, I sort of hope he gets hurt, just a little, in an electric-propelled rocket accident.
Would be great to see a search and/or filter function.
Considering how often ad networks are vectors for malware... that sounds like a pretty unilateral introduction of risk.

If a site can prove itself to be a good Internet citizen and prove its value, I have no problems whitelisting it. (Or preferably, tossing a buck a month into their Patreon or so)
It would be phenomenal to be able to change the keyboard... This tool would make learning dvorak a whole lot easier.
That is not true. If a user asks a question about the rules or the validity of a post/flagging, it's fine to discuss.

You don't like the fact that I'm criticizing this thread, which is fine, but stop trying to cherry-pick silly reasons to discredit what I'm saying. It's having the opposite effect of what you intended anyways.
> should they not gain something in return?

That's an completely separate argument from whether what they're actually trying to get is proportional, reasonable, and safe.

I don't care how good your TV show is, if you insert commercials that advertise fraudulent products, try to hack my DVR with malformed data, or are even just ridiculously loud... you've already broken the "implicit contract" and I don't have to feel any guilt about defending myself.

> You were "unilaterally introduced" to dangers from the site

No I wasn't. Why? Because I disabled javascript, plugins, etc. before visiting.

> This is all pretty dramatic - they're ads.

First, it's no more dramatic than people talking about ad-blockers being immoral or "theft".

Second, ad-networks are exploited to serve malware all the time.
Dart has async/await. I'm not sure if it counts as mainstream, but it's well-known and it's an imperative scripting language.

Still, nice that Python will have it.
By definition in the law children are not in the position to make such a decision, therefore the world voluntarily does not have any meaning in this context. Pedophilia is always classified as rape regardless if you think it is ok because the victim said so.

I am just pointing out the status quo by the law that is supposed to be the written, clear representation of the moral behind it.

If you want to challenge that, first you have to recognize children in the law as individuals who can make decisions including about their sex life. This is not going to fly. Without this the entire argument is invalid and making such statements like RMS about this topic is just stupid.
It's not really intended for politicians to use it, but rather for people to communicate with politicians using it, and having these communications available publicly.
Windows is definitely still a closed source operating system, but the code for putty is definitely available on the same page as the downloads. I assume it has the same security concerns, but at least you can look at the code.
Sean Carroll does a fantastic job here: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/eternitytohere/quantum/
FBI Dir. Comey: Encryption Letter Authors Uninformed; Need “Ordered Liberty”
Best Way to Solve a Unique Networking Issue?
I suppose you think the same thing about the other senators who are participating in the filibuster?
Protons set to collide at 13 TeV to prepare for physics
Being used with that API when there is permission to do such and being an example to help someone who is building a similar access to the API (with permission).

Also, TOR was funded with illegal uses in mind. Beneficial to the US government, perhaps even legal with the US, but illegal in their intended application.
Noted! When there is enough usage, I'll add an ElasticSearch backend.

There is a 'tag' feature: https://pubmail.io/mail/tag/police/

Do you think it would be useful to be able to 'follow' users?
Or if you want to flow delegated credentials, or use cross-system transactions. The enterprise stuff actually does something that can be useful inside a company.

Also, the major advantage of SOAP is that at least it has a service description. So generating clients is an easy one step process (and, having shipped such a service, when works on many platforms and languages reasonably well). All these new HTTP/JSON APIs require custom clients each time. Until they invent WSDL for such services... And full circle. Except JSON instead of XML, so it's totally OK.
What amazes me is that out of state students would have to pay out of state while someone in the state without a visa could get in state tuition.

I'm not against in state tuition for visa offenders, but at the same time there seems to be an unfairness with regard to out of state students who would have to pay the "full price".
Signing verifies identity, nothing more. That keylogger was yours. In this case, signing putty tells us that it comes from the putty maintainer. The content, what it actually does, whether its not malware inside, etc doesn't matter.

Putty should be signed, imo.
That should be

x.f().sin().log()

and that is exactly what they type on their calculators:

[3] [1/x] [sin] [log]

(either that, or I am getting old. Modern graphing calculators may have different input modes)
This dad built an online code school on nights after his day job
Fortunately his wikipedia page confirms what I said.

He's against our interventionist foreign policy:

- "He says he would have voted against the invasion of Iraq"

- "Paul also spoke against U.S. overseas military bases"

- "During his 2010 Senate campaign Paul questioned the idea that U.S. Middle East policy is 'killing more terrorists than it creates'"

- "Paul believes that when the United States goes to war, Congress must declare war as mandated by the United States Constitution"

More examples confirming what I said:

"Paul believes the issue of medical marijuana is a states' rights issue and that the federal government should not interfere"

"Paul was one of three U.S. senators in 2015 to introduce a bipartisan bill, CARERS, that would legalize medical marijuana under federal law"

- "Paul has expressed doubt about the fairness of mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines"

- "He believes that these laws are applied disproportionately to African Americans, arguing that non-violent drug offenses have contributed to a third of African American males being unable to vote"

"Paul supported a Kentucky bill that would restore voting rights to felons after a five-year waiting period"

"In a 2014 op-ed in Time magazine, Paul criticized the increased militarization of law enforcement"

"Paul's staffers say he believes [on gay marriage] the issue should be left to the states to decide"

"He has said he thought that the Supreme Court's ruling in Windsor v. United States, which struck down the portion of the Defense of Marriage Act that defined marriage at a federal level (as between a man and a woman), was appropriate"
i think the biggest deficiency is it's not being backed by many trustworthy people
Practical quantum field experience -> Meditation, no cat needed.
com'n, man! I never even disclosed the top secret Russian program of special ops and combat crane training in response to western drone programs : http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/sep/06/vladimir-putin-...
> As of two days ago, there is a hostile version of PuTTY

A small correction -- from the symantec blog post:

"this file has been in the wild since late 2013 and it was first seen in Virus Total around the same time. However, we have only seen this sample broadly distributed recently. Distribution in 2013 was minimal, and we saw a gap of a year and a half before it reappeared again."
The reliance on PuTTY exists because Microsoft does not ship basic SSH capabilities as part of Windows. Similarly Microsoft does not provide read write capability for Linux file systems. In this way Microsoft creates impedence for Linux and other *nix adoption in places running Windows desktops. It's just that little bit extra friction that makes using Linux a bit more of a PITA than it needs to be.
Chimera (genetics)
> The rest is history: AC scaled where DC did not, and the polyphase AC electrical system continues to be the primary means of distributing electrical power over long distances.

Interestingly, this may become incorrect, [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
You can change the keyboard in the settings panel. Apparently both colemak and dvorak are supported.
Great analytics and interesting approach overall--what's the deal with that 9px font-size everywhere though?

I might learn how to touch-type but I'm afraid I'll lose my eyesight in the process.
It depends what and how you're typing.

It works for most of the traditional forms of typing (audio typing, typing from shorthand, etc) where you have a body of stuff that needs to be typed and not so well for stuff that programmers type where you're creating as you type.

You must check the text for errors when you've finished typing it so it makes sense to do all the error checking then. Some people find the cognitive focus switching of correcting errors as you type tricky.
Docker Swarm and Mesos [Mesosphere HackWeek]
Thanks a lot for taking the time to answer.

You are right, a lot of the keys I have in my public keyring are actually 1024D/<whatever>g, made many years ago. Hm.
Multiplayer Typing Races
"The recommendations in this guide provide configurations that are not impacted by this."
High-Paying College Majors and Degrees by School
True, but they're popular outside the republican base, and Paul has rightly calculated that the base consists of too many older white social conservatives for the party's long-term health.

I don't think he expects to get the nomination for President on his first attempt, and I'm not sure he wants a cabinet post either. Rather, he wants to position himself as a national figure for a more serious run in a future election cycle by laying out a more libertarian-themed party platform now. For example, he's also taking efforts to distance himself from attempts to set abortion policy at a federal level, which he rightly perceives as a liability for the national party.

Although it's an unlikely prospect, I wonder if the internal conflicts in the GOP might manifest as an actual split. Ironically enough the passionate, fire-breathing Tea Party types, who you would expect to be primarily concenred with shrinking government, are actually most likely to support more aggressive foreign policy, expansion and intensification of domestic law enforcement, and hold a hardline attitude on social conservative issues like gay marriage or abortion (these are my anecdotal observations FWIW).
A lot of big problems, like copyright and patent disputes, could be resolved more quickly via an arbitration method (where the possibility of getting an arbiter who actually understands the technology issues at hand is a possibility.)

I seem to remember that some 250 years ago there was a revolution where part of the discontent was about proper access to the justice system. The insurgent party won and they wrote such things as right to jury trial into the constitution.

Time to have another revolution, isn't it?
For a vim version(ish) of this, be sure to check out vim-ipython: https://github.com/ivanov/vim-ipython
Feynman noticed things similar to this. It's shows a really interesting picture of how different people think things differently. He discusses it here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y&feature=youtu.be...
A major complaint about bitcoin is the wastefulness of mining. But that is precisely what makes bitcoin a commodity. If it were easy to generate bitcoins then people would start printing forgeries. I don't see a way around it.
I don't think the goal of this project is to allow public officials to respond in public, but rather to avoid having to copy-paste email chains with public officials when they stonewall or downright circumvent laws in what they believe is a private channel (traditional email).

POP, SMTP and IMAP would seem contrary the whole idea of a public stream of email communication. The idea here is that reporters, investigators or concerned citizens can use a pubmail.io address to simply maintain public communication with a public official.
I just created an account, using the same account for email confirmation.. and it worked ;)

now that the link is publicly visible, can I lose control of my account?

EDIT: some others did the same, bright minds think alike :)
But Moba isn't selling support. They're giving out crippleware and charging money for a professional version based on the core. How are the modifications that make the pro version not required to be open source?
I clicked the link and it's another senator talking... anyone know where I can view the opening part of this?
Right, but the languages that are looking at async/await weren't designed with that in mind. You could do a major overhaul of the language, or you could bolt on async/await. While Go/Erlang's way of doing things might be preferable to some, I'm not sure I see async/await as being bad enough to justify a major language overhaul.
> I'm just pointing out that this thread is definitely not supposed to be on HN, as is defined by the rules of the website.

The applicable "rules" (actually, they are labeled "guidelines" [0] for good reason) can be viewed as either supporting or opposing it.

Specifically, one could view it as on-topic as falling within "anything that good hackers would find interesting." (Section 215 surveillance clearly has a special interest within the "hacker" culture, which is more plugged into it than the general population), or as probably off-topic because "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

> I'm not positing an opinion, I'm arguing for a fact.

You are positing your interpretation of the application of rules which are fuzzy and inherently subjective as "fact", and where the only things in the rules that would support your conclusion are hedged with "most" or "probably". Your suggestion that the HN guidelines can reasonably be read in a way in which the topic here would be unequivocally, factually off-topic is an untenable argument.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html -- under "What to Submit".
Ugh...I can't stand this. Says Senator Lee, "we ask you, Mr. President." As though he bears full responsibility for all of this. Pathetic political grandstanding. As a reminder, which administration gave birth to the Patriot Act?
Looking for simple cause and effect in this field is akin to taking a large recurrent neural network and looking for cause and effect between two neurons firing while not knowing any of the weights or connections.
You start with a proper design and then hack it to squeeze performance out of it.

Low level code is not that difficult to optimize... especially not assembler.

Let's just say it's going to be a lot easier to get 200,000 req/sec from asm than from rails.
The e-book backup project
Bin Ladin's Bookshelf: technical books
One nitpick here, if you want a generator style function, you need a struct to hold the state, not a static local variable. Otherwise you're limited to one global function. I can't think of a valid use case for static local variables.
> i think the biggest deficiency is it's not being backed by many trustworthy people

Is the current global financial system backed by many trustworthy people?

Who qualifies as "trustworthy" in this case? Central Banks, commercial banks, corporate executives?

I'm not attempting to be snarky, though it probably could be read like I am. I'm really curious if it's true that digital currencies lack a "trust" factor (perception, no trust-less ledgers) or if it is that many people are turning a blind eye to the horrible things that go on in our legacy banking and financial systems.
Yes, disproportionately incarcerating the poor is probably universal.

But incarceration-fetish is uniquely American. No other country has ever done that in all of history.

When it is done in such huge numbers it really isn't "law enforcement" anymore, it's just some form of apartheid.

The rest of the world should subject the US to the same kind of shaming that was used against South Africa. But of course, the rest of the world doesn't have the balls to do that, so here we go.
Yes, the mining difficulty curve is a huge problem which prevents many interesting things you could otherwise do with a cryptocurrency.

As I've said before, I'm optimistic about cryptocurrencies in general, but Bitcoin is just the awkward start, not the ideal. There are too many problems without obvious solutions.
It’s not a kid’s fault that they live somewhere without a visa. People who move to California as young children – who grow up going to California schools, have parents working in California and paying taxes like every other resident, have all their friends in California and are just as likely to stick around and make their life/career in California as any other resident – should absolutely get to count for in-state tuition rates. Anything less would be cruelly punishing a group who did nothing wrong and get all kinds of other shit for it from society.
Why not run DD-WRT? It is frequently buggy (performance wise) but should be fixable.
How to Survive Being a Digital Nomad
For those who don't have Silverlight, you can play this link in mpv or VLC:

mms://207.7.154.95/G1075_002?wmcache=0
False. Your influence as a voter is much greater at the state and local level than the federal level. On an individual basis, you have much more freedom to make your own choices and have them honored if the vote is left to your state or local government.
With code signing there remains the problem that how do I figure out who to trust. I don't remember the exact details for the author of PuTTY.
Why Your Subway Is Delayed, Explained as an 8-Bit Video Game
>Also, I'm not too keen on requiring an email address to create an email address.

You can use a pubmail email address to sign up for pubmail, then check the public pubmail account to verify it.

(Or you could use Mailinator for the same purpose)
Buckminster Fuller's FBI File