skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The numbers that we're talking about are not big. The number you specified:

641071800653367850802176606120792275422168080497001121

OK, so take a 64 bit integer. That's the typical size of an integer in a modern programming language. A signed integer can represent 2^63-1 which is 9223372036854775807.

Imagine a "big integer" which is a composite of multiple 64-bit integers. With a big integer made up of two regular integers, you can represent the value 170141183460469231731687303715884105727. With three, you get to 3138550867693340381917894711603833208051177722232017256447 if I'm doing the math right. That's already in the ballpark of the number you mentioned - just three regular integers together.

Granted, I'm not talking about how difficult the factoring is, but it's worth noting that the size of the numbers are pretty small to a computer. Modern computers are really fast and can brute force a large number of computations. Mathematica probably has a fairly optimized general purpose factoring algorithm as well.

A number like this might be more difficult to factor:

16158503035655503650357438344334975980222051334857
74201606517271376232756943394544659860070576145673
18443589804609490097470597795752454605475440761932
24141560315438683650498045875098875194826053398028
81919203378413839610932130987808091904716923808523
52908229260181525214437879457705329043037761995619
65192760957166694834171210342487393282284747428088
01766316102903890282966551309635423015707512929643
20885583629718018592309286787991755761508229522018
48806616643615613562842355410104862578550863465661
73483927129032834896752299863417649931910776258319
47186677718010677166148023226592393024760740967779
26805529798115327
Best sales advice I've ever received: Ask yourself not how to sell, but what is worth selling.

If you're struggling with the how, you're probably not very happy with the what.
What a farce.

The pro statist tptacek is top comment after the last thread gets buried. And then mods turn off comments for new accounts.

Congrats HN on controlling the conversation to be pro state power, way to be the mind police.

What fucked up place.
How much does a gigabyte worth of data physically weigh on a hard disk?
South Park made fun of getting sick from Chipotle many years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlIHDauX3ao
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Speaking of regional planning, here's a huge fuck-up happening in SF planning today:

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2015/12/no-progress-for-a...

Basically, they built the SF Central Subway all the way up to the Pagoda site in North Beach. Due to bureaucratic BS, the city can't buy the site and therefore they can't turn it into a subway station. As a result, the city's only subway line (other than BART) will stop at Chinatown.

It's stuff like this that just proves the impotence of the SF government.
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dont you think he'd notice if his napping left him groggy
He can still appeal the case to a higher court in New Zealand, and may have a chance there. Copyright infringement isn't extraditable from New Zealand, because it's not a crime there. To counteract this problem, the US also charged him with conspiracy to commit a crime and money laundering, which are extraditable offenses in New Zealand. However, those charges are wholly dependent upon the main copyright infringement charge. The conspiracy charge is based upon conspiring with others to commit copyright infringement, and the money laundering charge is based upon his use of the proceeds of an alleged crime - namely, copyright infringement.

Based upon this, a higher court may very well reverse the lower court's decision. Kim Dotcom isn't going anywhere until he has exhausted all of his extradition appeals.
I was under the assumption the primary reason is reusability on earth only. This would drastically reduce the cost for building new rockets and would decrease turn around time for new launches. Having it work on other planets is a nice plus but there's no demand for that and likely wont be for decades.
> They've said they're setting up an experiment to demonstrate this novel form of neutron spallation.

They'd need to have some results besides Rossi and then others would need to replicate it, and then replicate it again by yet another team for it to start being believable and taken seriously.

Not a physicist, just a regular computer programmer, but reading that paper I see some pretty serious claims -- matter transmutting to different elements (isotope formation), neutron emission and capture, at 2000'C environment, there are claims about having 1-10 kWh generators running for years with a few grams of fuel only.
Perhaps because, instead of targeting the inbox of the victim, they may need to attack the victim him/herself?
Kim Dotcom was running a bunch of servers in the US, which means he was running his business at least partially in the US. Secondly, arguably the majority of the infringing content was produced in the US. The US undeniably has significant interest in this case. Does someone become immune to the laws of another nation just because they cross a border? Tomorrow if a US citizen defrauds you, would you not want them brought to justice regardless of where they reside? International treaties exist for a reason.
> A lot of education isn't really about what you study or where you learn. It's about training your brain to think about things in a certain way.

Music is one of the traditional 'learning to think' disciplines, along with grammar, logic, mathematics, and has a lot to offer in this regard.

And I wish you success with your personal mission.
What I find interesting is that Wittgenstein seemed to view his students not as "students" per se, but as foils for his ongoing inquisition into his own understanding of philology, ontology, and philosophy.

He wasn't teaching just for the sake of doing something good; he was using grade school students as test subjects (in a very benign way) for his own exploration of paradigms of human consciousness.
I find this to be an interesting twist -- one might expect that a prominent philosopher hanging up the gloves to teach grade schoolers constituted an instance of the old "rapid burnout disguised as a moral epiphany". But no -- in fact, Wittgenstein realized that he could only learn what he wanted to learn by teaching grade school, and set about doing that without fully explaining his thought process to the rest of the world, who probably would not have understood anyway.
It's much better suited for open source projects than GitHub, not only due to the powerful issue tracker and other community features.

An incomplete list of projects using it, some of them VERY large:

- Blender (https://developer.blender.org/)

- LLVM (http://reviews.llvm.org/)

- Haskell (https://phabricator.haskell.org)

- Wikimedia (after lots of discussion and a lengthy selection process, https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/)

- FreeBSD (https://reviews.freebsd.org/)

- Fedora (in some places, for example: https://phab.qadevel.cloud.fedoraproject.org/)

- Khan Academy (https://phabricator.khanacademy.org/)

- Enlightenment (https://phab.enlightenment.org/)

- KDE (https://phabricator.kde.org/)

- Freedesktop (https://phabricator.freedesktop.org)

- lighttpd (https://review.lighttpd.net)

- Kolab (https://git.kolab.org/)

- ...

Wikimedia hat lots of content about their choice and the migration process: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Phabricator/FAQ

Phabricator has been in use as a production tool for years and it shows. It is much more sophisticated in terms of workflow and real-world use than alternatives.
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Yes, it does. It's called Harbormaster.
Nginx is great, and I absolutely love it. However, if you're under a true DDoS attack, the box is going to be completely bogged down at the kernel level way before traffic is even close to being accepted and processed by NGINX. So this post is not very useful against a decent magnitude attack.
The security of hmac is not based strictly on the collision resistance of the hashing function.

Oh, and if your HMAC seals over an origin timestamp which your API respects, you've gone and made things even harder.
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Sorry, I was referring to messages received at my mail system that originate on Yahoo!'s mail system; more specifically, messages that are signed by a yahoo.com key and coming from a yahoo.com mail host (according to DKIM and SPF).

Anyways...

> "Yahoo doesn't consider a properly DKIM or Domainkeys email something that should not just end up in the spam folder"

Nor should they. There's plenty of actual spam that passes SPF and DKIM checks -- which brings us back to my original point (the amount of spam that I receive from Yahoo!). A message should not be treated as non-spam just because it passes those checks -- they are merely one factor to consider.
When I first read this, I thought "Are they building a Slack competitor?" And then I got excited over having the power of Google and my gmail within a Slack-like tool and interface.

Then I was disappointed that it's an app that is just an IRC bot that makes Google searches.
Here is the discussion, which was interesting but inconclusive about the merits of this rubber sheet model: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542244
If your shared secret is vulnerable to brute forcing, it's vulnerable to brute forcing. An easy fix for this: generate your shared secret by hashing or salthashing a low-entropy password.

As a general rule though, HMAC is used with randomly generated secrets. I don't know why GitHub doesn't just tell you the secret.

Amazon's implementation is much more correct.
Skype has always been the gold-standard for me. Pretty tough to beat.
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It's a fine substitute for GitHub. Both are source code and project management tools. Just because they have different user interfaces doesn't meant that they don't solve the same problem.

Phabricator is much more flexible and that comes with a small cost in complexity, but the result is a system which provides a superior workflow, especially in enterprise environments:

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-advantages-Phabricator-ha...

http://cramer.io/2014/05/03/on-pull-requests/
You appear to be using the value from the "Persons, age 25+, employed full-time" row and "Bachelor's degree or higher" column? If so, that is not the median per-capita income of people in the US. Median per-capita income is, as the person you just replied to quoted:

15 years and older: $28,567

18 years and older: $24,062

25 years and older: $32,140

And note that we should not be using the median of the general population, but instead the median of the population that did not attain a bachelors degree and comparing that to the median of the population that did attain a bachelors, but no higher, degree.

Taking the unweighted average income of those over 25 years of age who have completed some high school, graduated high school, and completed some college and comparing it to those over 25 years of age who have attained a bachelors degree you come up with

($25,039 + $31,539 + $37,135) / 3 = $31,238
Income of those with a bachelors degree $50,944

I only meant to dispute the claim of @wyldfire that a difference of $640,000 (1987 USD) is "really small." Even this comment does not represent a rigorous assessment of the value of a college degree. See The College Payoff: Education, Occupations, Lifetime earnings [0] if you want that assessment.

[0] https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/55930...
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This -- I recently switched to Android thinking "iPhones are luxury phones. Surely a bunch of my friends use Android." Was immediately known as "Green Bubbles" guys for a few weeks by family and friends.
My only rational objection to this is that I don't think we've figured out how to predict actual losses to piracy.

In other words, it is extremely naive (and quite unfair to infringers) to assume that EVERY pirated copy of something is a lost sale. The folks I've known who pirate are more like... data hoarders than payment evaders... Oftentimes they never even bothered consuming the media, it was all about collecting things first for them, and they would have never paid for said media to begin with, so it really becomes nebulous to start swinging around accusations of theft, because... what was "stolen"? Some unknown percentage of the copies surely ARE lost sales, but how can we determine that percentage? Would it vary based on attributes of the media?

In any event, I think the entire state of China would probably be the worst copyright offender, if they're looking for someone to go after...
Here is a sweet trick for dropping traffic with NGINX. When I mean drop, I mean, don't send a response, literally terminate the connection.

location = / {
if ($http_user_agent ~* foo|bar) {
# return non-standard (NGINX only) 444 code
# closes the connection without sending a response header
return 444;
}
}
A previous big "natural" and "organic" company which had a major food poisoning problem was Odwalla. Their slogan: "Killer Juice". That backfired big-time. Sales dropped 90%.[1] Eventually they sold out to Coca-Cola, and are now a minor brand there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odwalla
Opposite for me. After using Phabricator for a while, the GitHub issue tracker feels so primitive.
Just posted a few minutes ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10782193
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You'd enjoy travelling in Scandinavia. End station in Swedish is "Slut-station" http://hugelolcdn.com/i700/103510.jpg
Ack, OP is talking about Phabricator vs. GitHub though. For anyone wondering.
This is how I first came to a good understanding of assembly language. A basic, working knowledge of how transistors and logic gates operate was really helpful. The PIC12F615 remains my favorite <$1 computer.
title should be: ... and Gitlab Page (EE only!)

They do so many good thing thus it's hard to complain. But Pages-EE-only makes no sense imho. The blog post even mentions open source projects needing a static web page. But do (small) oss projects have the funding to buy into EE?

A quick integrated project website could be especially helpful for smaller projects were one doesn't want to setup a proper site.
> excruciating detail

Sure in 140 characters.
How citizens and investigative journalists handle privacy protection
Most people would agree that profiting off somebody else's labor without their permission and without remuneration is wrong, and hence it is correct that it is unlawful. I see no incoherence in this particular case.

Unfortunately, to many on HN, when people freely take the information created by content creators it's "disruption of outdated business models", but when the NSA freely takes their own information it's an "invasion of privacy". They simply don't realize that everybody would like to control the spread of information that is significant to themselves. This is why certain laws exist, yet they denounce some laws (such as copyright) as "wrong". The cognitive dissonance is astounding.
It started when the agent asked if I had ever been patted down before. I said something like "many times." He told me a story about some guy who flies out of SFO twice a week and always opts out. His tone was creepy, and he suggested that this fellow must really like getting patted down. Meanwhile, he was taking his time, giving me an unusually thorough "screening." I was disturbed by the whole thing and felt violated.
Like I said to GitLab numerous time, GitLab should split ( or go back to ) their original Gitlab.org and Gitlab.com

Their current SaaS is simply not up to standard and it will be hard for others or business to trust and run on it. They should instead run GitlAb SaaS like a proper business.
A while back - I made an AI simulation with one of my friends for boid simulation using various path-finding algorithms on procedurally generated roads!

Photo: http://shakilthakur.com/content/images/2014/11/Screen-Shot-2...

Github: https://github.com/FourierTransformer/Boid_Racers
Still Elon is more geeky, technical, coder, not-care about money than Jeff is.
http://www.gog.com/
Celtic sedang mempertimbangkan tindakan hukum
I haven't bought physical media of any sort in years, but I also live in an area where I have FIOS and I can afford large hard drives/SSD's.

Those are really the limiting factors, I think.
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Exactly the kind of information I was looking for; thanks.
That's the fallacy of uncritical rationalism. See Popper.
There is almost no reason to give him the benefit of the doubt. You could watch tv instead or go for a walk than listen to him and you'd spend your time better.

Who he is matters and his past matters as well. I (some no name from the Internet) can't walk in to a public University and say, I want to be a physics professor. Sure, there is a 0.000001% I maybe be qualified and be a great professor. But my background doesn't warrant them even listning to me talk about it. They'd have as good a chance finding a professor by picking randomly from a phone book. Same thing here with this guy.

> but major scientific advances only occur 0.01% ...so maybe humanity would benefit more if we loosened up a bit

Yeah sure. We can loosen up a bit and maybe give NASA or some college professors random grants to go study this in more detail. As far as Rossi, we'd probably have a better chance discovering cold fusion just by taking a walk and stumbling on it. So no, in his case, based on what I've seen, it is not worth loosing up.
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We tried it, setup was easy, but our response time for dynamic content increased by 150 millis so it didn't work for us. It's worth noting that their model is different from CDN - they proxy all of your traffic through their own servers.
Even if copyright infringement is not extraditable in New Zealand, it is still a crime, right? So how would it in any way invalidate the extraditability of money laundering "based" on some crime, if money laundering in itself is extraditable even without any other crime having committed by the accused?

Money laundering would be extraditable even stand-alone, right?

Yes, of course appeals will always be used to delay extraditions and anything. This is not really to the credit of justice systems, though it may sometimes lead to outcomes that are "right".

(I just recently got decision for my friend's mother's residence permit where our local government tired out after a repeated appeal process of seven years, after two full rounds of all court stages plus the ECHR. We lost in the courts at all stages but the authorities just realised that this is never going to end so it's better to give in.)
I respectfully disagree.

The primary purpose of the GPL is to insure that users have the freedom to modify and redistribute the software they use should they choose to do so. Whether the user does so or not is irreverent. That's why I don't think it's a matter of whether end users care, or how large of a percentage they form of the overall user base.

Developers who decide to license their work under the GPL do so to safeguard their own freedom and the freedom of their users. To that end, I think the GPL hits its mark.
I'm just spitballing here, but I wonder how much of this food-borne illness is a function of a person's environment.

I grew up on a farm in Central Texas. We fertilized our vegetables fields with sheep manure. From our sheep.

I drank raw milk from a dairy down the road, pre-pasturization. It was wonderful stuff. The cream would rise to the top, and my mom would skim some of it off for coffee, but often we would just shake it up and drink it.

Until I moved to NYC last June, I still spent a lot of time on that farm with my family, eating vegetables and fruits fertilized by feces, eating sheep and chickens that I slaughtered myself, eating eggs right from the chickens with the detritus of chicken vag still on them. (yeah, you would rinse the eggs a little, but probably not enough to get rid of anything serious. The rinsing was purely cosmetic.)

My family runs a situation that I wouldn't call either organic, nor safe by any standards. They call it mutually beneficial.

The sheep eat the grass, then the sheep poop on the garden, the garden grows and is healthy. The chickens wander around the garden and eat the bugs that tend to eat the produce. The chickens also poop on the garden.

The chickens lay eggs that we mostly eat, and the ones we don't turn into more chickens. Sometimes we eat the chickens; sometimes we eat the sheep. Sometimes the eggs don't hatch, and we shoot them for target practice.

Anyway, my point is this: Not a single one of us has ever gotten sick from this scenario. I'm not suggesting that it's scalable or sustainable at all. Just that it hasn't been a problem for us.

I think it's interesting to note that a lot of people who go to my parent's farm from places like L.A. or Chicago or NYC do, in fact have digestive problems. I'll be curious to find out after a year or two in NYC if I have problems when I go home.

It isn't unreasonable for multiple things to be going on here.

There's an idea that because the vast majority of people live in urban areas and are not biologically equipped to handle natural food doesn't mean that really natural food is bad.

It might just mean that our bodies' adapt over time.

On the other hand, I get the point that the way of doing things that my family does is definitely not sustainable. Hell, we spend as much or more buying feed for the animals as we would just buying the stuff we eat there.

And that's using 43 acres for 30-something head of sheep and maybe 25 hens. And only maybe 20 acres for vegetables.

That's not even enough for a family of 5.

Though, I have to say, as proud as I am to be a part of Brooklyn, I'm probably a little more proud of my 96-year-old dad for managing that farm and taking care of all of it every day.

Especially in that crazy heat.
It does do a tad more than that as it has filters and works on links and embedded images with pause and resume.
I tried LibGDX but the thing that troubled me was that while other engines had a relatively straightforward approach to cross platform builds (click a button or build a particular target), LibGDX required you to write a bunch of boilerplate for each platform.

Is that still around?
And even in the case of the "payment evaders", I'm willing to be that a large percentage is made up of people who would opt to not consume rather than pay the full price. This is especially true in countries with less fortunate economic situations. Multiple downloads and situations where one would actually prefer a cracked, DRM-free copy are also probably counted as "lost sales". The list goes on, and I'm pretty sure the percentage of lost sales is a lot lower than what the industry would like to believe.

That's not to say that blatant piracy is a good thing either. I just don't think the industry has figured out a very good response to it. Rather, convenience features and price point could be adjusted to make piracy a less attractive option.
Your median income figure appears to be wrong. I think that you might be using median household income rather than median per-capita income. The $680k (sic) figure is also in 1987 USD, and if you don't adjust for inflation then it throws your calculations off. See The College Payoff: Education, Occupations, Lifetime earnings [0] for a rigorous assessment. What you said about buying stock vs paying for college is interesting and something to consider.

[0] https://repository.library.georgetown.edu/handle/10822/55930...