skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there a legal mechanism, authority, or track record for such a thing?

The problem is, as a layman, I cannot know. I wouldn't have thought that something like FISA court orders was possible, where you get a secret order from a semi-secret court and you are not even allowed to talk about it.

Who knows, maybe there is a secret FOOBAR law that says agents can force any certificate agency to sign random certificates for them. Maybe some wierd agency you never heard of forced every major manufacturer to include hardware backdoors, and lie about it.

A few years ago I wouldn't have thought that was possible. But my trust that the legal system is democratic and transparent has been thoroughly undermined.

Now, if you run a business and some people in suits come and order you to install a backdoor, and threaten you, and tell you you can't talk about the incident to anybody besides your laywer, you can't do anything about it - and you better hope that that lawyer is good, since otherwise you have no way of telling whether that order is legitimate or not. Those people might as well be criminals, and you have almost no way to find out. Back in the pre-9/11 world, if you didn't recognize the IDs of the, say, FCK agency, you would have phoned around a bit and then told them to f'ck off after hearing their outlandish demands. Because there is no way something like that would happen in our democratic country. You can't assume that anymore nowadays.
Nice, thanks for the suggestions!

I definitely must find some time to make a lot of planned features/fixes. See a list of them at https://github.com/potomak/drawbang/issues.
I'm sorry I stepped in your rhetoric.

My point was not that it's a great argument, devastating to The Gay Agenda. My point was that it is an argument that does not equally apply to interracial marriage. The fact that someone could stack additional assumptions on top of that argument to get an argument that does apply to interracial marriage is irrelevant - you've built a different argument.

And it's absolutely an argument I have heard. Handwavy denial of its existence to serve your rhetoric is poor form. Addressing the argument directly should be easy enough; I touched on why I think it's a poor argument. I agree that those who make it don't consistently apply it - I raised that point explicitly.

Edited to add: To elaborate on why the argument you mentioned against interracial marriage is a different argument in the sense that is important here, one could easily believe that marriage is about biological reproduction, but believe that interracial "hybrids" are not a bad thing, and thus not be inconsistent in accepting interracial marriage but rejecting gay marriage on these grounds.
Your service, on the other hand, operates in one of the Five Eyes countries by their own citizens. Thats risky to many. Further, it's a web service (easier to attack) with a ToS that's immunizes you from about any negative event. I did like the privacy policy but above things add up to plenty risk some competing solutions don't have.

Personally, I'd like to see a thorough look at existing and new providers to do a point-by-point analysis of such strengths and weaknesses of each. It's work worth a government grant or something.
You want "them" to use files more safely so that you can implement a less safe means of mounting and unmounting devices? I'm grateful Microsoft (and others) do not think that way.
Well, you should focus on getting on your feet first (i.e. get a development job), making sure you can survive and make a decent living.

But you can open a UK company and run it from Indonesia.
Modularity in the Design of Complex Engineering Systems (2006) [pdf]
I understand your point of view. This, as you well know, is not a isolated incident. Let's take say: Italian Bicycles (since you wrote about Italian Food). Flamboyant owners[0], Italian names[1], and a history of inventive technologies[2], in a bicycle-crazy country.

These days, they're almost all made in Asia[3]. we'd like to think there's a small workshop where there cranked out by hand by craftsman, but that's rare these days - almost mythological [4].

The marketing then yes, is trying to sell you on the dream, or "legacy". But it's all smoke and mirrors. We're all pretty intelligent to understand this, but we want to believe, and we allow ourselves that suspension of belief. That's what the marketing is selling you, and that's what you're buying. You can't scale up Icelandic yogurt from Iceland, to sell to the masses of a country that's many times larger.

[0] http://www.prologuecycling.com/interview-mario-cipollini-cip...

[1] http://cinelli.it

[2] http://www.campyonly.com/history.html

[3] http://italiancyclingjournal.blogspot.com/2010/03/making-of-...

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hjCwav452s
Possibly diet. Obviously it's anecdotal but all of the Dutch people I know consume far more dairy products than those from the UK.

Edit: Turns out the Dutch are the third biggest consumers of milk per capita in the world[0], looking at the list of "tallest" countries on wikipedia[1], there seems to be a great deal of overlap at the top of the two lists. I wonder if a secondary factor could also be related to vitamin D exposure, but I couldn't find a data source for that.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_milk_cons...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Average_height_around...
By making some seconds longer than others? Kind of the opposite of precision timekeeping. Changing the size of the unit of measure is a bad idea compared to changing the number of things measured.
I would argue that it's not because the volume of the social debate is louder in Japan than the states. It's because of a tendency to see another country's problems from outside the country allows journalism articles like this.

I'm sure there are plenty of articles in other countries talking about how Americans are having an elderly crisis that no one is talking about, as well. Certain things like leaving your elderly in a retirement home away from the family are downright unthinkable. My parents (Chinese, I'm a 1st gen Chinese American) have told me they don't want me to treat them like the Americans treat their parents (e.g. putting your grandma in a nursing home to rot alone). I'm sure they get this from their own Chinese media sources.
Any server-side language is fine because the problem isn't about learning the language. The problem is the framework (and convention) that is being run on top of the language.

For instance, I know Java enough to read the code and write something useful. But say you jump around projects that make use of different web servers or different server-side frameworks, that's what causes the overhead.

Anyways, if you're aiming for a mid to high level company, I suggest Java (Spring), C# or PHP (Laravel, Drupal) as the enterprise will look for stable, long-term frameworks. If you're aiming at start-ups where things are hype-driven and fast-moving, go Ruby (Rails), Node (express) or Python (Django).

Same goes for the front-end. If you want stable and long-term, go for Ember or Angular or Backbone. If you want hype-driven and fast-moving, go for React and it's clones.
Genetic drift? Sexual selection? Excess height as a spandrel that comes with improved nutrition?
How many dwarf planets are there in the outer solar system?
Github may be a commercial provider, but at least it's a commercial provider based on an open protocol. If things do start going wrong at Github, escape is a "git clone" and a "git push" away.
I've always wondered what the remaining opportunities for techniques like these are on modern processors. I'd guess if you took a long look at the x86-64 instruction set you might be able to figure some nifty things out.

The reverse question is if all the silicon needed to implement these advanced instructions is holding back clock speeds significantly, in which case we might be better off moving to something RISC and pushing core count and clock speed.
Forge golang configuration parser
As a congenital curmudgeon, I'm still chuckling over the existence of smartphones, even though I own a Moto X and like it as a natural evolution of phone. I mostly use it for phone and text, and I occasionally run the battery down, not because I overuse it, but because the battery lasts so long in my usage pattern that I occasionally forget that I have to charge it.
I was speaking of racial disparities in incarceration rates for marijuana possession, despite no similar disparity in usage rates.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/04/t...
The One-Second War (Leap Seconds Explained) [2011]
The Hidden Patterns of Life
Mager-Quark is the answer.
I agree it's challenging to create small molecule treatments for oncology. That said, there have been some recent, massive successes recently. Look at Imbruvica which is a massive jump forward in treating MCL and CLL.

Even if you drop small molecules and focus on antibodies, it's not like it's all that easier.
> to anybody besides your laywer

I think that Snowden's email provider was not even allow to talk about things with their lawyers at some point in time...
As always it's supply and demand. Translating Mangas/Animes is considered so coool that way too many are willing to do way too much work for way too little pay. As a result the work sucks, considering it as a normal job.
A few reasons:

1. The benefit of a larger talent pool to recruit from is easy to measure, and the drawbacks (having to fire a large number of them and increased contraband in the prison from said compromised COs) are harder to measure.

2. It's politically unpalatable to segregate by gender.

The vast majority of female COs wash out within their first year; either they can't take the pressure, or they start showing favoritism toward the more charismatic inmates. The reason is pretty simple - women are fucked with more than men. For whatever reason, when a male CO gigs an inmate, the inmate knows that it's The Man keeping him down and not the man. In contrast, when a female CO gigs an inmate, the inmate tries harder to get out of it because he perceives weakness. As a result, more female COs crack.

This actually happens with all staff, not just guards. Nurses, instructors, whatever - all of them get routinely compromised. It's a very, very difficult problem to hire people for relatively low wages, stick them with people who have nothing better to do, and expect everyone to remain professional.

The optimal male CO is an unthinking robot. "Sorry, you violated Rule 131. I have to write you up. No exceptions." In contrast, the optimal female CO is a "crazy dyke psycho bitch" who takes pleasure (or appears to take pleasure) in making prisoners' lives hell. They won't respect a woman who acts otherwise. Again, this is because inmates respect The Man but take it personally when a woman tells them No. So, the woman has to show that she will not ever let them off because she enjoys making them suffer.

Source: Girlfriend worked corrections for a while. Her "prison attitude" is hilarious.

"I prefer corrections to bartending. When customers at the bar sexually harass / assault you, you have to smile and take it. When inmates sexually harass you, you put them in solitary and forget to refill their pain med prescription. Whoops."
Log functions can be called heavily in the machine learning algorithms used for making recommendations and automatically categorizing items. I'd presume this is Ebay's use case.
So how do you define the word "turnoff"? Or the phrase "mood killer".

There are things that I'm not repulsed by in anything but a sexual context. So I disagree with you on that merit alone.

Also I was referring to the Kinsey Scale. You can be "leaning towards homosexuality" without actually desiring to have sex with the same sex.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale
A green HN account, whee! Just for others looking on who don't share your animus and weak grasp of the truth:

No marriage was dissolved by Prop 8 -- _ex post facto_ law is unconstitutional. Domestic Partnership remained the option for anyone seeking the positive rights enumerated by law.

No campaign to which I donated demonized gay people as a threat to children. You perhaps heard an echo (possibly from M. Signorile) of the first version of a revised Slate piece by Mark Joseph Stern:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/04/04/brendan_eich_s...

This piece had to be updated with a correction at the bottom:

"Update, April 23, 2014: This post has been updated to clarify that the organization to which Brendan Eich donated money produced only the first of these ads. The other three were produced by other organizations within the same pro-Prop 8 coalition."

Of course, many people did not read the update. Some still insist that the original was right, facts be damned.

I just watched all of those videos (including the three I did not fund), and none of them demonized gays as a threat to children. Nope -- parental rights to education of their grade-school-age children does not equal demonizing gays as threats. Let's have a stand-up argument about education rights if that's what you meant, not a cheap lie to preempt debate by painting opponents as demonizers.

Repeating easily-refuted falsehoods to defame me from green HN accounts simply isn't going to work. But a green HN account is itself continuing "to evade" a straight-up, real-name-to-real-name debate. Do better, or do something else.
Everything you Need to Know about HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP): http://blog.rlove.org/2015/01/public-key-pinning-hpkp.html

> A flaw in this system is that any compromised root certificate can in turn subvert the entire identity model. If I steal the Crap Authority's private key and your browser trusts their certificate, I can forge valid certificates for any website. In fact, I could execute this on a large scale, performing a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack against every website that every user on my network visits. Indeed, this happens.

> HPKP is a draft IETF standard that implements a public key pinning mechanism via HTTP header, instructing browsers to require a whitelisted certificate for all subsequent connections to that website. This can greatly reduce the surface area for an MITM attack: Down from any root certificate to requiring a specific root, intermediate certificate, or even your exact public key.

related previous articles:

Firefox 32 Supports Public Key Pinning (188 points by jonchang 304 days ago | 100 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8230690

About Public Key Pinning (72 points by tptacek 43 days ago | 5 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9548602

Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP (70 points by hepha1979 242 days ago | 28 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8520812
It's a social taboo and imbreeding are the only given reasons of why it is "bad".

Some could argue a failed relationship can lead to issues in a family household but I don't think that has any real merit. Dating a family member's best friend and it going sour can have similar consequences.
Yah even I was thinking to re-write the application but again I will definitely affect my release time.
Behavioral differences manifest themselves in the culture over long term. That’s why it is so interesting.
Ask HN: Software distribution and payment processing platform suggestions?
I'm wondering if anyone has any knowledge of software distribution / payment processing platforms that they could recommend. In my case, I am dealing with downloadable Windows software, and I am hoping to find a service that provides homepage hosting & downloads as well as payment processing so I can (at least in the short run) forego the whole merchant account process & online payment acceptance (I've done it before and it's not that bad, but for now I'd really rather just pay a percentage of sales fee and be done with it).

According to this article:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/08/03/getting-paid-from-the-windows-store.aspx
....the Windows store takes a 30% cut, which is the same as Apple I believe. So I guess that is comparatively "fair", but it is a little steep, and whereas the Apple store has a literal monopoly and you have no other options, for Windows software you have much more freedom.

Is there anything like this out there?
When government creates a power imbalance, and then government tries to correct that power imbalance, it usually winds up making things even worse.
Certainly there are success stories when so much effort is put forward. But look at all the things even Imbruvica does in addition to helping treat cancer [1].

If you want to fix MCL you figure out how to engineer a genetic payload that targets B-cells IFF they express particular genes, and reengineer those cells' genomes to either no longer reproduce abnormally, or shut them down. You do NOT covalently turn off an entire class of kinases in the ENTIRE body...

And that's the success story. Antibodies are just the tip of the protein-iceberg. They're the 'same things as a small molecule' but in protein form - baby steps into a whole new world. Sure, they can bind to stuff tightly, but if that (alone) is what you're aiming for, then they're not being used to try to fix the problem or engineer a way to the solution. There's lots more that we could do if we started actually engineering the proteins and their interactions, and delivering them in directed ways. We have access to those primitive engineering tools, but instead of focusing on those nascent tools, we're polishing up the old hammer.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrutinib#Adverse_effects
Some accelerators do provide housing as part of the program.
That is exactly how it was done during the 1960'ies: The duration of atomic seconds varied from year to year and it proved utterly unworkable for everybody.
How so? It uses wheels.
The last part of this was my favorite:

"Calculations on where Voyager was headed were plotted each day on graph paper posted on the wall at JPL. Soon the dots left the centre of the paper and began to wander onto the wall and then overhead. “There were dots on the ceiling for years afterward,” Owen says."
Not necessarily. There are plenty of Muslims who could help an atheist non profit by maintaining their professionalism. Likewise for your other examples. By assuming that they will let their beliefs sabotage their work, you're judging a whole group by the potential actions of zero or more people. That's just discrimination against people with these various beliefs without proof. By this line of reasoning you could say that Catholics should never be hired at planned parenthood because they will sabotage it. Total load of bull shit and exactly the reason "cultural fit" should be illegal. It's just plain discrimination.
In my opinion "cultural fit" is important, but it has to be about work culture. For instance: are you comfortable with code reviews (or lack of thereof), coding standards, how are you positioning yourself with respect to pressure, etc.
I overlooked this when joining my current team and I'm already thinking about finding a new place to land!
...at least for now.

I suspect that when everything is robots, and the judge and jury just press a button and forget about the rest, prisons will be even more horrific than they are now, only it will be 10% of the population in them rather than 1%.
The only skills a "Hacker" needs is to be able to learn new things quickly and curiosity.
At the time, it was extremely cheap to fly between the two cities (~40USD roundtrip). I just checked the same airline, same airports and the cheapest, midweek flights are about 200USD roundtrip.
It is important to note that there is a security flaw in this scheme that makes it strictly less secure than using a password manager with randomly generated passwords. All an adversary needs in order to generate all of your passwords is your master password. Let's walk through the steps of how an adversary can brute force your master password.

First, they will need access to a hash of one of the passwords you have generated. Say you use this application for every site you visit, and you have somewhere between 20-30 accounts. If only one of these companies suffers from a password leak, then the adversary will have enough information necessary to brute force your master password and generate your password for all other sites. This means that the sketchy site you created an account on to buy a phone case can result in an adversary gaining your well-protected bank password.

Once they have a password hash, they can brute force your master password in the regular way. All other inputs to password generation function are easily obtainable through minimal social engineering or guessing (your name, the site name, number of re-generations). I will note here that they did use scrypt, which makes brute-forcing more difficult (but not impossible). So, if you use a weak master password, not only is your password for the vulnerable site brute forceable, but all other sites you use in the present and the future will be compromised.

This scheme is not more secure than existing password management schemes (provided the password manager uses a good hashing algorithm for the master password like PBKDF2). It is strictly less secure because the security of all your passwords relies on the minimum security of all sites you use. It is also less secure because after a leak, an adversary can generate future passwords.

This tool should be used with caution and with these facts in mind.
Zoning - in most places this is simply illegal.

Facebook is currently attempting to get some land re-zoned so they can do exactly this. Local NIMBYs are opposed.

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_27717752/facebook-flo...
This "+1" spam is one of the things that really dislike about the GitHub community. That and the reaction faces/gifs/image macros that constantly get posted on popular issues.
I have long, luxurious hair. Hair only stays long and luxurious if you don't wash it daily. My showers go from 5 minutes to 10-15 minutes on hair wash days.
Skyr is everywhere in Denmark now. Every supermarket is selling skyr, and you can even buy it in 7 Eleven. It's quite remarkable how fast this product has established itself.
> At the time, most Whole Foods stores already stocked one other skyr yogurt, Siggi's, which had launched a few years prior to Smári Organics.

Shouldn't this story be about Siggi's, then?
That's interesting, an advertisement in the form of a Quora post...

Anyway, relevant response:

https://xkcd.com/927/
You shouldn't be relying on physical stature to secure people.
Agreed, that was my reaction as well. I suppose that's the tradeoff of a descriptive name for your project.
For all the supposed incompetence of government, the Marshalls don't fuck around. Look at Wikipedia's list of prison escapes - far as I can tell, no one who escaped in the 21st century is still at large (other than Matt). Ususlly it's hours, sometimes weeks, but they'll get you, even if it's 40 years later in Mexico.

That is one of the most terrifying pieces of information I know. If you believe the movies, breaking out of prison is most of the accomplishment. But dozens of people manage to do that. It appars that no one makes it to the end of their natural life before recapture.
Spinoza is hard to distil, but I'll give it a try:

He basically said that there was a human soul, but that it wasn't made up of things that couldn't be measured. He thought that the soul was just as profound, or even more profound, if it obeyed laws of physics. My amusement was that a thread on something like the altering of mental state due to artificially introducing lithium into ones diet is amusing, since a philosopher that was very concerned with the philosophy of mind and soul (Spinoza) would have been fascinated by this type of intentional soul alteration.
Growing Pains for Deep Learning