jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I always wonder how people come up with the designs for various ciphers. When I took crypto class in uni, it all seems like different math/bit/word operations get randomly mashed up and repeated for several rounds. Is there a good resource for learning how to design ciphers?

Edit: typo
> But even then, I (or most American progressives) wouldn't consider it a major red flag or blocker for hiring.

The fact that it’s a minor red flag at all is the issue.

Telling a group of Spanish-speaking people to speak English to include everyone is a major no-no right now. Do you realize how colonial that is?
There is only a near-infinite amount housing in the desirable west coast cities that could be built.

Make enough high rise towers like Chicago or NY and the price will go down. But people’s (voters) tax sheltered investments (homes) would also go down in value.
There are large and successful companies with very modern enterprise apps communicating with old stuff like AS400 mainframe systems.

These and many other companies also have generations of (not quite as old) Windows applications that aren't going anywhere anytime soon either.

These companies want to manage it all in a modern way. Sometimes, it's part of the migration strategy.
That's valid. I'm adding it, not moving. That sounded weird for a title, though.
The most potentially war-causing bits are the sensitive bits about Iran.

Having various other countries in the Middle East on the record as saying nasty things about Iran might severely damage intra-middle-east relations, perhaps making war less avoidable in the future. (It might, of course, have completely the opposite effect, but it's still analogous to firing bullets into a crowd at random and hoping they only hit bad guys.)
Only 219 cables released so far. It is mind-boggling to think how much there still is left, although WikiLeaks presumably started off with some of the most juicy bits to get press coverage.
Which of these Haskell examples do you prefer, then?

filter even xs

filter (\x -> even x) xs
The point is: when I'm writing a script (or better yet, doing this interactively), I don't want error checking. I see an error, and I fix it. This article centers around agile scripting for science, not building enterprise applications or libraries.

The point is not that the two samples are exactly equivalent. The points is that you can go no simpler with Java's standard libraries.
Skiing is my thing - usually a week or two in the Alps and another 10-15 days in Scotland per year.

Skiing in Scotland can be fantastic, but it is a marginal enterprise - all the skiing is well above the treeline and suffers from the very changeable British weather.

Some links giving a flavor of what it can be like here (easily drivable there and back from where I live in Edinburgh):

http://vimeo.com/10797924

http://www.haggistrap.co.uk/photostrs/easyspikes.shtml
There are a few, but I haven't seen one that has a decent interface for voting and commenting. Granted, this isn't that big a deal on the iPad as it is on the iPhone, but it would still be nice to have a nice HN app.
It's like some kind of karmic justice.
> it is far easier to persuade a business to pay you for your services (a concept they readily understand) than it is to persuade them to buy a totally new product concept and pay for that product.

That's contracting/consulting, not "a service business". A real service business is where you have people working for you who are working for clients a high percentage of their time. Creating and managing that is, IMO, a very different skillset than simply selling your own services.

If you can hack that kind of thing, more power to you, but in some ways, I think a product business is more hacker friendly, in that the service business requires more management and sales skills early on.
Whats the 3x+1 problem?
Some great thinking on that video!
depends, are you going to be a part of a social experiment with nash-equilibrium somewhere ?
Yeah, that looks more like a datacenter: http://goo.gl/maps/bYcG

Dead giveaway: the huge row of generators on the south side of the building. I'm having trouble identifying the other stuff because the photo is so overexposed.

Compare this to Microsoft's huge Chicago datacenter: http://goo.gl/maps/jVHw
> You sound almost like you are associated with this site

Your comment was borderline to begin with, but turning it into an attack against another user is a clear breach of civility. Please don't do this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Indeed.
What struck me as I was ogling at the Macbook Air 11" in an Apple store in my neighborhood was how Steve Jobs still holds true to his artist vision of a beautiful product - one that is both externally (visually, viscerally) and internally (experience-wise) a joy to use.
> Is Ron Paul just capitalising on yet another libertarian crackpot
> movement and actually hurting the very legitimate cause of telling
> the TSA to keep their grubby paws and scanners away from travellers'
> bodies?

He's probably not hurting it. People aren't going to all of the sudden
enjoy being groped because Ron Paul said that groping was bad.
Here's an overview of the bill - called the "American Traveler Dignity Act"

http://paul.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=...

And re: Ron Paul's credibility, I continue to meet a lot of people who admit (in hushed tones) that they would have voted for him in 2008 if he had made it through the primaries...

I, too, am doubtful our political system is capable of solving the problem unless enough of us as individuals are willing to stand up (and be groped) rather than meekly letting them strip us of our rights.

The duty of the government is to PROTECT our rights, not VIOLATE them!
As a reference book, I would much rather have a physical copy than have to piss around with the electronic version. An ebook might be nice as a backup for travel, but I would mostly be referencing this in my office anyway.
I also had no idea what it was meant to do from the tagline - at least say social network or something. It was not at all obvious that you could roll over those pictures - they need to look more clickable. Like others on this thread, I didn't spot the Sample Network link at all until it was pointed out.

I will often watch a screencasts on the front page of an unfamiliar website if I can't figure out what it does - maybe that is worth trying?
What, honestly, is the value of market share in a case like this?
This might work fine for contractors, but it's nonsense for permanent employees.

5 years covers a range from my first graduate job to my current reasonably good mid-level salary. If I gave that range to a recruiter I'd end up at a bunch of interviews with companies all trying to offer me close to a graduate salary.
In a perfect world, yes. But maybe once the feds and their outsourced hands get painted with the same broad brush as the populace, maybe we'll see some of these way-too-broad think-of-the-children laws be tossed out and rewritten to something resembling sane policy.
Haven't spoken with him in a while, but his biggest concern the last time we spoke was that Hillary might beat Rudy and abandon Afghanistan. He drew analogies to Bill abandoning Somalia and Rwanda.

His general perspective was that you have war/tyranny regardless of US involvement, but at least with US involvement there is hope for the future. He was also pretty critical of western anti-war types - he thought they cared more not seeing war on TV than actually about the actual victims of war/tyranny.

(Note: his perspective was a little unusual by Afghani standards. He wasn't Muslim and only part of his family escaped to US (in 1996) on refugee visas, fleeing persecution. )
If you've ever spent any time on reddit/r/politics, it's pretty hard to call them anything else... but, fair enough, less sideswipes in the future.
I've seen it before in other markets and was dissuaded because of the lack of quantity in prospective customers.

After looking into the non-veterinary pet services market I was really impressed by the consistent growth, number of businesses, and lack of offerings in the market. And I was only researching the US at the time. UK, Australia, and New Zealand also have booming pet services market.
I am a graduate of a code/bootcamp school. I will say that the instruction was good but definitely were areas that were lacking. I think the short timeline is the biggest factor in that. Most of these schools are ~12 weeks but I think an additional month would be better suitable.

Where this school did lack however, is the staff. The people behind the scenes that are supposed to be helping us find jobs and get us ready for interviews. I had no support in this area. In fact I was really surprised by the fact that my former class mates were more helpful in reviewing my resume and my portfolio and interview tips than the staff. After we finished our class they moved on to the next one interviewing new students and didn't give 2 fucks about us. For that reason I could not recommend the school I attended.

I know most if not all of the instructors and staff read HN so hopefully they read this and reevaluate how they handle graduates.

These schools are popping up everywhere and growing at a rapid pace, so I hope they don't succumb to the University of Phoenix reputation however unless there is some type of standard by which they must operate I don't see a good future in the long run from these places. There is too much discrepancy between cost, curriculum and standards of acceptance right now.
I'm a graduate of App Academy in SF coming from a background in mechanical engineering. Before going to App Academy, I was doing some of the free online tutorials, but without a real curriculum or direction, I was trying bits and pieces of information and never really progressed into knowing much of anything. Most of this self studying was done in about 6 months.

Not really knowing App Academy's name because I was outside the area, I only read reviews that said it was a good program, so I applied. Bootcamps are only emerging in Los Angeles at the moment with General Assembly being the only one there last time I did reaearch.

Day 1 of App academy covered more than I had covered in the previous 6 months. Covering the fundamentals of Ruby/rails and javascript/backbone. Also, App Academy is very rigorous and if you fail more than 1 test of about 7 or 8, you will be dismissed from the program.

I am now working as a backend Engineer in SF starting at over 100k.
When did "start up" become a verb?
Wow, I just installed it and tested it out - pgcli is remarkable! This is going to be revolutionary for my psql command-line forays! The auto-complete is fantastic.

The source code is available on GH: https://github.com/amjith/pgcli

OP: why no "Fork Me" banner? ;)
Then please, suggest a briefer, more succinct version. Explicitness has always been more important than being brief.
I've never even heard of these guys. Alexa says they're significantly outranked by Digg (#165 vs #125), which is absolutely nowhere near a billion users and would be really lucky to be 5% of that.

Unless they run a huge spam botnet, I can't see how they can have touched a billion people.
Few months ago I was where you were, just a bit less confused. I liked different names for different things (flet vs. labels, for example), the language comes built-in with useful data-structures and functions (e.g., hash-tables; which one do you use in Scheme), documentation about stuff (hyperspec) is 3 keystrokes away in SLIME, and most of the book on macros (which are said to be LISP's main strength) are written for CL. Few days ago, I've seen a monads package written for common lisp using macros. Like, WOW!

I have also tried Racket, and I was kinda disappointed. Nothing that I could particularly point my finger on, but.. it had that feeling of being a "toy".

Yes, it might also be a personality preference. I'm the kind of person that prefers Perl over Python.
I am not sure whether you are parodying a common attitude or are being serious, but do you think that the US attitude toward the rest of the world has been symmetrical ? Morality, "fairness", plays little role - what matters is the power balance.

For example, the US (rightly) worry about Chinese military expenditures, especially for blue water navy (which is generally considered the biggest advantage of US army from a geopolitical POV). But right now, the US have more capacity than all the other "power" with blue water capability altogether (Russia, France, UK) and more. 40 % os all the money spent in defense by gvts is spent by the US. What's symmetrical about it ? Note that I am not making a judgement, but those are hard facts that nobody can argue with, whatever their opinion is on the matter.

Outside the US, analysts generally refer to a "rebalance" of powers. That China will reach US-level GDP and above is almost certain - but there is nothing that exceptional about is when you have 4 times more people. China with a GDP/habitant ~ western levels would be incredible, though. Although I am confident I will see China becoming the first power in term of GDP, I would be ready to bet that I won't see GDP/habitant rise at the same level as its western counterparts. Making projections in 40 years sounds dangerous anyway - I don't know what the future holds, but I am sure it won't be the people predict.
> Your entire chain of argument sounds religious in nature,

It's not. You make the mistake of equating or asssociating morality with religion. I'm an atheist, and I think that ethics is a science. Applying the same metaphysical and epistemological foundations that give rise to science to ethics (and politics and art by extension) is what I'm advocating.

> and at no point did it touch at all on why anything having to do with rights would affect economic output in any way.

Yes, and this was intentional. The principle that underlies individual rights is not that it gives rise to increased economic output! (Although it does, this is not essential.) There are plenty of voices out there that will tell you all about the economics of capitalism (AEI, Cato, etc.) But that can't work because economics is not a fundamental field because any economic statement, no matter how trivial, subsumes a great number of concepts.

Altruism (a pernicious legacy of Christianity, and before that, ancient Egypt) dominates ethics in the West. It is an awful, irrational and anti-life doctrine, but it will trump economics every time, because ethics is more fundamental in an individual's life than economics is. The only proper way to deal with altruism is to name it, and fight it on principle. You can't do that by talking primarily about economics.
That of course depends on the specific model of negative income tax and basic income. There are many, and sometimes they are functionally equivalent. More importantly, you are implying a specific quantification of the desirability of being in the workforce. I doubt very much that the utility or rather desirability of free but forever limited money is the same as that of earned money that comes with an option for much more money and personal recognition. I think the incentive structure of these models is very complex and neither proponents nor opponents can really understand it.
3:30am (EST): Some hosts were damaged by the power outage and we are working on moving these Linodes to hot standby equipment.
I think the carousel was the whole point: it gives us a three dimensional impression of the microwave intensity in the entire cube of the oven.
Allison Miller sends and receives 27,000 texts a month, carrying on multiple text conversations at a time.

Assuming that means she sends 27k/2 = 13,500 SMS per month, and she sleeps 8 hours a day, that means in a 30 day month (480 waking hours), she's sending 1 message every other minute while awake. 13,500/480 ~= 28.1 per hour.

I guess that counts as distraction.
The long term economic benefit from having more startup founders may even make up for any extra cost of the program.
oVirt can do this. Essentially, such policies belong to management applications, and oVirt or OpenStack are the places where you should look.
> Edit: ...

First, what evidence? Second, the USG has demonstrated the fact that it cannot be trusted to tell the truth. That has been the funniest thing about the whole Snowden story, the cycle of lies and spin when the lie is exposed by an additional leak the following day. Third, Obama publicly threatened retaliation - so a hasty cyberattack by the USG isn't far fetched at all.
The same was largely said about children watching television, a common generational gripe at the height of U.S. gang violence.

Having distractions alone is not sufficient. As a previous poster noted, connectivity and digital technology can actually lower the barrier in certain aspects.
I wore a spacesuit once. I wasn't an astronaut, just a drunk man in a spacesuit.
Isn’t there only one way? Walk through it looking for a repeat?
Isn't this a bit like saying "It's great we landed on the moon and all, but shouldn't we concentrate on stuff like curing cancer."?
Your point might have been correct if all you were querying was your recursive resolvers. But the ANY query is most useful with authoritative servers. So you’re wrong; ANY is very useful.
When I started out in science I used LaTeX with the a0poster package. Which gets the job done, but produced a bit boring posters.

At some point I used Scribus but wasn't entirely happy.

If I'd still be in academia, I think I'd look into Inkscape, heard mostly positive experiences from people using it.
I find the exact opposite. Sure, in a very small town you'll constantly recognize people and be constantly recognized. But you don't have a choice. There's little chance you'll find anyone who shares your interests, and there will be little chance of spontaneity. Everyone either does know you or will think they know you when they don't. There's a lot of social cohesion and apprehension. I find this really suffocating. In an urban environment I find it easier to socialize because I know that whoever I talk to doesn't have a lot of preconceptions about me.
South Korea is in a unique situation in that their primary opponent is willing and able to starve their own people in order to build and maintain their war machine. Also, North Korea could level Seoul with artillery fire in a matter of minutes. Even if it is possible for South Korea to deter Northern aggression, it would be far costlier for them to do so alone than it is for them to do so with American help.

As for Japan, Japan and Germany are a false equivalence. Unlike Germany, Japan hasn't received the forgiveness of their neighbors yet. Relations between Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, and even every minor Asian power would be considerably less friendly if Japan was allowed to rearm. You might convince me that the nations of Europe have learned to stop hating each other, but the nations of East Asia are a far different story, and there is nothing in the region like the EU to encourage peaceful cooperation.
Are you suggesting someone can break PGP encryption? What evidence is there of this claim?
Studios take a sliding scale percentage. On some new releases, 100% of the ticket price for the first week is taken, sliding to 25% after six weeks. For a theater to make money from the actual movie, they need films like Titanic or Avatar that had extended runs, otherwise, most of the income is purely from concessions. Coke and Pepsi sell their product extremely cheaply to many theaters (and shopping malls if they can work exclusives) for the branding rather than the profit.
http://soundcloud.com
> include 60-ish style warnings of what to do when you see a mushroom?

Before the mushroom too. Like when the tide goes out before a tsunami.

I remember watching the 'Day After' a long time ago and in one scene is everyone on a highway - and all of their cars suddenly die/stall. I assume this is EMP blast related?
What's much worse is Year 2 of a startup that didn't do so hot on the technical challenges in Year 1 and is treading water.
Hi ekanes,
Thanks for the feedback and the advice.
The last thing I want to come off as is that of "begging".
I will come up with some way to use my skills to better benefit the persons helping me.

Tough love is great, I wouldn't want it any other way.

Cheers,
sudo !!
runs the previous line as root, in case you forgot to type sudo
I think that's the only browser that the cert doesn't like. Guess now I know why godaddy sells SSL certs for 10 dollars
> What is happening to the Economist?

Perhaps they are just out of their depth wrt technology articles. They should have probably just stuck to politics/economics.
He is in the soul stone.
The more we learn about Facebook, the worse the story gets. To consider what people get out of Facebook vs what it gets out of them... I actually cannot come up with a suitable analogy.

Are Facebook engineers willfully ignorant, or do they not care? At least we hear about a measurable percent of Googlers caring about the bad things G does.

I'm not suggesting Facebook engineers are bad, but I do wonder how they feel about what their great efforts ultimately result in.
yes, its commonly only recommended to offer first IF you expect their offer to be WAY off from yours or expect them to significantly lowball you. ie set the negotiations into a range, and make them the bad guys for revealing they had:

a. a lower opinion of what you're abilities are worth

b. lower expectations for what you'd be delivering

c. lower value of the position they need filled
Perhaps it's just my connection, but this link loaded the PDF for me: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-574.pdf
Oh wow. A door. That must be nice.
your blog post is incredibly verbose and could have easily been summarized as the thousands of other of commenters have done in this thread.
I live in the USA. I'd really like to see this tried.

First, if it were anything other than "The Internet", this would almost certainly be considered a price-fixing cartel. I'm guessing a unified paywall would trigger a lot of lawsuits from public interest groups, and maybe even "The Authorities".

Second, even though it's "The Internet", and even in the USA it might not be considered price-fixing for whatever unearthly reason a scaredy-cat judge might come up with, I'd like to see the response. This would be a huge incentive to create new, free or ad-supported sources of journalism, or at least journalism-like content. Anyone with a Droid could potentially become a reporter.
How many hits did they have to handle? Without this figure, it's a bit hard to put things in context.
Why not? IE9 mobile even has new default styling to make websites better match the WP aesthetic.
Hardest factor that keeps me away from the "zone" is: the task-at-hand being uninteresting and grungy, which is typically the case at regular jobs. Any tips on how folks overcome this factor? Other than to go built my own startup.
That's not the worst case scenario, that's the second best case scenario (the best being that your startup succeeds). The worst case is that you spend a lot of time floundering unsure if your startup will succeed or not. Meanwhile your debt is growing, your eating bologna sandwiches every night, your relationship with friends and/or family is strained because you're in a bad mood all the time or because you've borrowed money from them. Then you decide that your startup has failed and you try to move back into corporate jobs except it's harder to find one this time because you've got the experience of an entrepreneur not of a recent graduate or because the economy is down and demand is low, or a number of other reasons. You're going to find a job but it's taking longer and that debt number keeps growing. Your dream has turned into a nightmare that'll take 5-10 years to pay off.

That's the worst case scenario, and a good reason to take the decision very seriously.