skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome! May have written the script for this just around the same time as Buffer. :) Nonetheless, glad this exists somewhere now.
Which one makes the other a good idea?
Open multiple links at once just with a single click
Have you and your employer thought about making this project open source?
GC, indentation-significant syntax?
Major kudos to Google for re-aligning its income source with users! RedTube confusion be damned, this is a great win for users!
This should be required reading for aspiring cyberpunks.

Assange is an archetypical agent of 5th-generation warfare, and Wikileaks is a perfect example of a Robbian superempowered group: http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/02...

And he's winning. He might die, in horrible agony, in an Argentinian embassy, but he'll take the CIA down with him.

What a time to be alive indeed.
Interesting. It's an android, and the cpu/gpu specs seem close to the 4s, with most 3D openGL apps being fast and smooth. I wonder why you're getting 100x better performance? Could be JS performance, but I'm using the latest FF, which is usually good.
Thanks for posting; found many sections interesting especially 3.2;

>3.2. Does NSA have an $n^{1/3}$-algorithm for finding elliptic curve discrete logs? ...

In 2013 Bernstein and Lange described such an algorithm albeit with intractable pre-computation costs.
[https://www.iacr.org/conferences/asiacrypt2013/slides/44.pdf]

In the paper Koblitz and Menezes say "it is conceivable that the NSA has found (or believes that there might exist) a similar algorithm that requires far less precomputation."

This made we wonder; are there any historic example(s) of an algorithm we have improved over time which lead to the side stepping of a previously unavoidable and large pre-computation?
"However, that doesn't preclude these businesses from being incredibly valuable to larger, more established corporations with sizable cash reserves"

A business that's burning 100's of millions a year and has valuations in billions of dollars is rarely going to be "incredibly valuable" to a bigger company.
What's wrong with `nim i`? That's a repl, and it's hardly possible to get more official than that
This is a great win for users, major kudos to Google for re-aligning its income source with users!
Because DoS's email system was crazy ancient at time (maybe still?), and the rules allowed the boss some leeway. In terms of security and government IT, 2008 was a long time ago.
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While true, it shouldn't be. It's only this way because our laws are broken such that companies with a lot of money can intimidate upstarts by threatening to sue over their extraction of public, non-copyrightable data. It's even worse than the already-draconian copyright restrictions that are also used to shore up entrenched players at the expense of innovators, since the law is often interpreted to mean that you can't download any data at all, regardless of its copyright status (even if the data is owned by the user, and they're asking you to extract that data on their behalf), without the prior written consent of the company that runs the server. If a company decides they don't want you to access their server anymore, they claim trademark infringement, copyright infringement, tortious interference, and trespass to chattels, and unless you have tens of millions just sitting around that you wanted to spend on lawyers this year, you're SOL. It obviously shouldn't be that way, and the world would be a joke if the same rules were applied to non-digital resources.

If anyone has a real answer to this legal problem, please let me know. The EFF hasn't been taking it on.
"I see about six walking around."
Well, except for IEDs.
If some videos don't go ad-free, then it just makes it really unclear what you're buying, when you are paying money to get rid of ads. It is much less confusing if paying money to get rid of ads, actually gets rid of ads.
> Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing

Where does positioning for political power, consolidating that power, then eliminating enemies, then managing upwards and finally leaving behind a husk of a group as you move up fall in this analysis?

Is my cynicism showing? I feel like my cynicism is showing.
Who are AirBnB's "constituents"? AirBnB hosts and their guests. Almost all AirBnB customers in SF are from out of town, not voters. There are more people looking for places to live in SF than there are AirBnB hosts. What does AirBnB have to influence what voters think? "Its not fair because we're AirBnB"?

AirBnB has two choices: Say nothing, or lie.
you 100% right. I was thinking of Orthogonal lines :) 90 degrees to each other.
The example of this I've been benefiting from lately, is Jet.com. They keep handing out $x or 20% type discounts, to go with free shipping on items already priced for low margins.

I can't imagine how much money they must be burning right now. With Jet recently abandoning their business model, they're either somehow making enough on what they're selling as is, or they're in bad shape and desperate to bring in customers.
Simply filing state income taxes as a resident is enough to get you in the (potential) jury pool for your locality, at least in NY.
Because if somebody has an opinion, and they express it on Twitter, it can apparently be newsworthy. (For example, when 3 trolls created a news story about their "boycott" of Star Wars).

"On Twitter" is apparently to news organizations what "on the internet" is to the patent office.

That said, at least TC has asked the company for a response (putting them on the more mature and responsible end of the scale).
There are many other ways to "support content creators", like... ask them if they have Paypal or similar and donate to them directly that way.
Do you think this is due tonthe low interest rates? People with money in the bank are not getting anything for it. Therefore it's better to buy a house at current low rates and make it back month by month?
You could use equity, which would be really interesting, because the market would revalue Twitter based on the probability of them reneging and diluting the existing shares.
Wikileaks has been doing this for a while. They have never truly been concerned with the public interest

Snowden too. Some of the stuff he leaked was not in the public interest
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AXFR and/or IXFR? RFC 2136 / TSIG compatible updates?

Those would be my personal wish list items ie better interoperability/compatibility with published standards.

Those things may have been added recently though (I haven't checked in a while), but I doubt it.
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The website isn't the least bit mobile friendly. The text is small, non-scalable, and content is cut off.
Ah, thanks! As someone unfamiliar with how taxes are used in SF this ad seemed completely fine to me but after hearing how the taxes are really provisioned this is obviously really misleading.
Some female Wikipedia editors have been targets of harassment by male colleagues
Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project
> Their business model is wholly and fundamentally based on the inability of non-creditworthy people to keep their obligations. If their customers paid back everything on time, they would go out of business instantly. That is what I call unethical. At best.

The exact same criticism can be leveled at the credit card industry. Or any business based on unsecured credit, really.

Payday lending just takes a well-entrenched business model to its extremes.
The future of agricultural pest control is biopesticides, IoT insect monitoring
[lack of] trust is just a measure of likelihood of them violating promises. It's not naivete.

"Morally bankrupt" is just an insulting way of saying the company is much more likely to abandon agreements, and will do so with weaker justification.

And plenty of companies won't ditch you in tough times. Imagine if insurance tried to just walk away when you filed a claim.
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It's convenient for people who have to open multiple links/URLs at work every day
Always enjoyed your previous projects. This one doesn't disappoint. Do you live in a tty ?
Why would we do that?

If I'm running a successful company and need to build a new plant, why shouldn't I seek out the best deal I can get?
How about ally? Or is it so bad now that the CIA is an adversary, rather than an ally? I am sad that's actually a question.
At least in the US, the federal gov't provides plenty of breaks for small companies. Are those unfair as well?
"They solve two different problems."

Well-known fact. And truthfully the most sensible approach would be to use both. Yet I never see anyone doing that.

Given the choice between the two problems, I know which one I consider more serious.

The results might be "accurate" when stored on the nameserver but if they get tampered with in transit went sent over the wire then they are not "accurate" when they are received. In that case DNSSEC does not give me accurate results.

Moreover I am not keen on the widepread sniffing of DNS traffic. Name lookups and other DNS requests and responses are just as important as HTTP traffic. Why encrypt one and not the other?

Finally, I could be wrong but I think getting redirected to a bogus nameserver run by a "bad actor" seems (easier for the bad actor and) more likely than accessing the correct nameserver without the knowledge it has secretly been compromised.
I don't think the ad is that bad in the world of smear campaigns. But it is a smear campaign, which is very unlike Airbnb. All I hope is that they return to their higher standards of respect for the community - it's a principal that enables a business like theirs in the first place.
I would assume that "no longer active YouTube partner" is an oxymoron.

The Hacker News summary is slightly misleading (as is the TechCrunch headline it's sourced from). YouTube will be marking private the content of YouTube partners who don't sign on to the new YouTube Red TOS. Since being a YouTube Partner is an active interaction with YouTube, I'm pretty sure the set of dead YouTube partners is a set of size 0.
Any suggestions for other ways in which I can help? I've always envisioned that access to technology and the internet was going to help a lot of the developing countries catch up, but I feel like we're still so far away from that actually happening.
Sometimes it's more than lexical minification though, you also learn a bit about the grammar and how to express something in fewer bits. Even tiny design tricks, like encoding binary as chars to express data.
Does Apple get a pass? Or do developers avoid writing apps for iOS just as they do for Twitter?

Seems like the field is a lot larger for iOS products, and that Apple wins either way (30% haircut on the app store), so maybe incentives for Apple are a bit more aligned then they are for twitter.

Which points to the fundamental thing twitter needs to do to get developers back on board: provide opportunities for both parties to make money. If Twitter was making a 30 cents every time a developer made 70 cents from the API, you can bet that that API would be protected and the developer respected.
At the same time, it was recently announced that the Icelandic bankers that were jailed after the Kaupþing Bank collapse lost their appeal in Supreme Court:

http://icelandreview.com/news/2015/02/12/icelandic-bankers-s...
that means become a NetFlix
Is it wise to confess to it in a public forum?

There is safety in numbers. The more people do this, the less any particular one will be targeted.

Consider it was not so long ago that almost everyone talked about pirating something, usually with torrents or some other P2P, and nothing happened to the overwhelming majority of them.
Many where like minimally functioning PoC. When I thought about raytracing I always assumed large code base. Watching the bare principle in a snippet is pretty awesome.
One step at a time. Operate at scale, be prepared to be regulated at scale.
I've done the same thing before on a book in college, except my DRM wasn't nice enough to let me print 10 pages at a go. Instead, I spun up a virtual X server with Xdummy with a resolution of 1200x10000. That showed a few dozen pages at a time. Then I automated screenshots (scrot) and PageDown (xdotool). Finally, some PIL magic to look for the thin gray line between pages plus convert and ghostscript and I had a PDF!
Pretty good post. And you get the bonus of Drew Houston saying he got rejected the first time :)
How to Survive Your First Tech Job
Thanks! Absolutely awesome tool. Could do almost all of the charts & metrics I need. I couldn't figure out how to do a chart that shows me the SUMs of something per day and per category. Also number "questions" in the dashboard could benefit from better styling (maybe center horizontally/vertically).
Man Commits Suicide Over Star Wars Main Character Being Black
Fair enough, but I'm pretty sure you missed the implication that I intended, as in you're perfectly fine with coming to HN as a source to assist with coming up with material for your readership. It sure felt like fishing for help the way you phrased the OP. While this response may be construed as negative, I'd prefer the categorization as "functionally cynical" because there is a difference.
But YouTube is usable on WinPho using IE though, isn't it? Sure it's not a first class experience, but talking as someone with a fair bit of WinPho experience...

What on WinPho is a first class experience?

(Admittedly I've never actually tried YouTube in IE on WinPho, but the 3rd party MetroTube app is supposed to be good.)
Haha, but that's just what the dictionary says.

I've decided that "to release" means "aardvark" which is a noun. So no verb "loose."
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It's great your trying to improve yourself, but that also adds stress when you can't manage expectations well (which isn't easy anyways for many people).

You can leave and take a break. Or talk to your boss. I don't know what your responsibilities are but it's never worth it to go burnt out for a long time. You risk breaking yourself.

I experienced that and it sucks, big time. I'm becoming stronger because of it. However, I'd rather see people learn without going through that.

I suspect you're worried about the consequences of talking to your boss. If he's an asshole chances are that was already contributing to burnout. You'll win if you get canned. It doesn't reflect on your skills so don't let your ego get bruised because of a trifling matter. If your boss is semi-human, you also win.

What helped me a lot was therapy and yoga/meditation. In yoga, good instructors reinforce forgetting about worries of life for a "mere" hour and focusing on myself. Once I stopped resisting that concept, life started improving rapidly. It's a hard thing to go, dropping "everything". Finding someone to talk or a group of people who understand is really important and there are many people who have gone through these kind of things.

Many don't learn or understand the meaning of priorities until the experience something traumatic.

So talk to your boss and don't quit before finding a new job. Or quit and take a long break.
The National Geographic article (linked in the article) has much more information and makes this intelligible: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140827-quant...

> In the new experiment, the physicists entangled photons in two separate laser beams with different wavelengths, and hence color: one yellow and one red.

> The team passed the red light beam through etched stencils and into cutouts of tiny cats and a trident [...]. The yellow beam traveled on a separate line, never hitting the objects. [...]

> After the red light passed by the objects, the physicists ran it together with the yellow laser beam at both parallel and right angles.

> The red light was then discarded, and the yellow light headed for a camera. There, that yellow light revealed a picture of the object. And a negative of the picture emerged from the light that had interfered at a right angle.

This is a very important detail. After the red light hits the target, it interacts with the yellow light. So it's not unbelievable that the yellow light may form some kind of image.

In the mnn article, it looks like the red and yellow laser never meet again, so the information about the target is transmitted in some spooky way.
It's a pretty common trend for people to complain about prices period though on hn (I've seen people people complain about Intellij and it's pretty reasonable IMHO).

However, I do think their asking price for the edition that lets you use Visual Studio is a bit steep (I also pay for it, but still think it's kind of high).
He should just rewrite it in Lisp. We've actually had this discussion on HN.

Here's a recent comment I made this year:

"My comment is that he should have built more of it in Lisp since it's a better language. First he needed a better Lisp (ie. high-performance Lisp). Then he would have had a better foundation. Wouldn't we be better off with hundreds of millions of lines of free software in Lisp rather than C?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9559800

I'm not sure why most people don't get it. Well, at least rms is now onboard.
You should learn a new language, a weird one that isn't like others you have used, e.g. if you have only ever done object oriented stuff learn a functional language. I spend some of my free time just learning new, mostly impractical languagess, and I have found that new ideas come through from the text at hand, or from thinking about problems in a different fashion.

I suggest J, Erlang, and Idris. The first two have been around a while and have a good set of larning utilities. Idris on the other hand has a little more stuff going on, but learning about dependent type systems is fun. For me at least.

J: http://www.jsoftware.com/help/learning/contents.htm

Erlang: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/

Idris: http://docs.idris-lang.org/en/latest/index.html
Without having looked at the numbers, my knee-jerk interpretation of the ad was "The gummint is taking OUR HARD-EARNED MONEY and just giving it to LIBRARIES, and the damned things AREN'T EVEN OPEN LATE."

There are less awful interpretations, but most people don't spend a lot of time pondering the implications of bus station ads; they really should have known better than to run something that could possibly be interpreted that way. And I can't think of any interpretations that are actually positive. I mean, at root, they're trying to remind us that they pay taxes which are spent on government services. And...what? So does everybody else. We're supposed to praise them? Feel sorry for them?
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And it happens at all levels of dealing too, not just the CIA flying in bricks... I know people who have been robbed by the cops for drugs.

One friend got off with only a warning for having 10 ounces of high-grade weed, which were then "confiscated". Another, who has been selling cocaine since his mid-teens, begrudgingly gives out 8-balls to a few cops that recognize his cars and pull him over at any opportunity.
It will stay free for libGDX folks.
It's $9.99 per-month, where in the article the word "month" doesn't appear once. Great journalism there techcrunch.
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[Also as a boss] I'm fully convinced that a lot of the badmouthing you hear about "bad bosses" comes from people who never made any effort to create a functional bidirectional trust relationship with their boss. There certainly are bad bosses, and I would never claim otherwise, but I think we'd all be better off if there was as much employee development training on "how to build a relationship with your boss" as there is "how to be a boss" training.
I agree; it's a fun and inspiring story, and the automation is great, but IMHO getting a PDF of a DRM'd book which consists entirely of bitmap images of each page is near the bottom of my list of options if I were in the same situation; it's probably somewhat above the "analogue hole" option of taking a picture of each page with a camera pointed at the monitor. Unless that's what the downloaded PDF consisted of, it would be far better to work with the PDF directly since it is intrinsically a vector format and removing the watermarks from the page content stream that way (it's a PostScript-like language) would be superior in terms of filesize and quality.

A few years ago I was involved in a project that required capturing content from an online document viewer site that used a SWF for each page, and our product basically did a vector-vector conversion from SWF to PDF. One of our competitor's product did the "render each page as an image, and combine the images into a PDF" and the output difference was amazing. IIRC it was around 2 orders of magnitude in size, and 4 in speed of generation. (They used Java, and we used C, which might account for some of that too, so it's not a totally fair comparison.)
Yes I agree...instead of importing low skilled labor, we should import highly skilled immigrants. Increasing the H1B and employment based greencard quotas is absolutely necessary.
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I was thinking the same and then I noticed that the article was written in March this year.
Just because borders are open does not mean that people will immediately move.

That said, CA and RI have similar quality of life, but Africa and North American probably do not. So CA/RI is not a good example.
Indeed, that's why DRM was broken and will be broken despite any attempts of DRM lobby to proliferate it.
There's a massive difference between chasing down one person's DNA and gaining unwarranted access to a consolidated database of millions of genomes.
Would that actually be true for credit cards? With the sheer volume of global electronic card transactions nowadays (168 Billion transactions in 2013 [1]) it seems they'd be multi-billion-dollar businesses just on card transaction processing fees alone. On top of that, many cards charge an annual fee as well. Seems they could survive even if everyone paid their card off every month.

[1] http://www.nilsonreport.com/publication_special_feature_arti...
He said low interest rates have encouraged many investors
to pour capital into private tech investing, fueling high
valuations. If interest rates “stay at zero, rather than
seeing a hard correction, you might start seeing volatility.”

VCs are investing in private tech companies expecting 10-100x returns on about 20% of their fund. Which works out to at least 20% return per year on a 10-year fund.

It doesn't make sense to me that an investor who would choose a VC fund as their vehicle would suddenly choose a Treasury note when interest rates go up 1-3%. A VC fund should still outperform that.
> Acting in a way that isn't considered stupid is a goal shared by most reasonable people, but many of them likely overlook one key attribute that might allow them to better achieve it: modesty.

Unfortunately that doesn't pay. We're somehow encouraged to take risks here.
It's super negative and doesn't fit the Airbnb brand. I mean you could imagine Uber taking a combative tone like this, but this ad is like watching your parents fight.
So YouTube Red is an opt-out for creators? Not an opt-in?
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Well, you could say "this service has no ads" and then include ads. Hulu did. People just may not like it or respect you for it.

Hulu 'No Commercials' Plan: "A small number of shows are not included in our No Commercials plan due to streaming rights. But we’ve still made them available to you uninterrupted. They will just play with a short commercial before and after each episode. These shows are: Grey’s Anatomy, Once Upon A Time, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Scandal, Grimm, New Girl, and How To Get Away With Murder. "

- they reserve the right to add to this list over time
Got a convincing and well-sourced statistical argument on that one?