skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> End-to-end encryption is useless without endpoint security

No, not in a practical sense. Securing data in transit and at rest drgrades the value of breaking endpoint security, and it degrades the value of massive internet snooping.

Breaking endpoint security, one machine at a time, and exfiltrating data, is vastly riskier than hoovering it up from the backbone. It is more likely to be noticed, and the exfiltration traced. It doesn't scale well.

Endpoint security sucks now, but if people, governments, and enterprises find out data being exfiltrated from their machines, the demand for secure hardware will increase.
I wish I could use Rawtherapee as it has support for DCP profiles. Rawtherapee has a big disadvantage though. AFAIK you can't affect just parts of the image, you always work with the whole image. One could argue that this is fine as you can open the image in GIMP or PS post raw conversion. However, this has more than a few cons.

Example: let's say contrast is increased during raw conversion. Parts of the image will be darker then they were before the edit. If you want to lighten up the the areas around the eyes in a portrait, they now contain less information and there will be a lot more visible noise by bringing up these shadows post raw conversion.
Succinctness is Power (2002)
Yes, when I see NKVD/KGB/FSB officers in full uniform, I think of nothing but good deeds and altruism.

..the criminal underbelly of a society is usually a small-scale reaction to the crimes officially sanctioned by the state.
No, we don't know that.
Take a look at this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1411.0247
Well at least cycling and treadmill running are very well suited to multitasking. With enough motivation it is possible to squeeze in 4+ hours per day of cycling that you would be spending stationary while on your job or at home doing emails, at least some calls, reading, research, TV-shows/documentaries/online courses/hacker news. Throw in the "normal" 2 hours of exercise before or after work and voilá!

It does take one 4-5 years to build up to that even from non-sedentary active lifestyles, otherwise maintaining energy for everything else will be impossible.

And my (completely speculatory) hypothesis is that amateur sports (or some pro-sports) or serious goal-oriented strength/physique training will offer benefits down the line, as long as you quit "heavy" exercise after a reasonable amount of time and maintain a moderate amount of exercise for the rest of your life.

After all, Tour de France riders of the past century outlive us by many years, despite most allegedly having been on quite a comprehensive cocktail of anabolic steroids, erythropoietin stimulating drugs, amphetamines, etc..
I'm not convinced that a comment on Hacker News is going to lead to any noticeable financial benefit for the poster's company, and by proxy, the poster himself.

Furthermore, I find your comment extremely suspect, considering you also have a top-level comment [1] in this thread that basically amounts to "guys, guys... there's no reason to worry about this bill!"

If anyone's motives should be questioned, it's you.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10789550
I’ll say it again — avoid random startups! In the words of Sam Altman, “unless you are getting multiple percent of equity, it’s usually a bad deal to join an early-stage startup that hasn’t yet found product-market fit and the resulting growth (there is a big exception here for hard tech startups that will take a long time to produce a product but be incredibly
valuable if they’re able to).”

I've seen advice to not work for startups that aren't well on their way to becoming the next big thing at least a dozen times this month. Instead go with an established company (Google often mentioned at this point). It seems that this sentiment is spreading quickly right now and often backed up by citing lower wages and lottery type chances at the equity being worth anything in the future. This article gets into it a bit as well as noted in the above quote.

Maybe it is a vocal minority right now, but it seems that it will be difficult for "random" startups to get anywhere if they can't bring talent onboard.
more like - if you are not an exec....
Broadband usage drops in the US
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10788742
Along the same lines (speculatory evolutionary biology?) is the observation that in training for endurance sports such as running, cycling, skiing and rowing we best respond to either long, slow distance training at very low intensities (like in persistance hunting) or high-intensity sprints/bouts (like combat) because those were the main "athletic" stimuli for our ancestors.

http://www.sportsci.org/2009/sai.htm
Ask HN: Approach to pricing? Launching for the first time to targeted users
I'm a longtime lurker - consistent advice seems to be that one should
1) identify a need
2) build an MVP
3) reach out for feedback from users
4) iterate from there

I'm done step 1 & 2, and fine with step 4. I thought I would be okay with step 3 but I find myself with alot of questions related to pricing. Background information: my app is targeted for a specific market of users. It started off as a sideproject to build my portfolio but now I want to monetize it if possible.

My questions boil down to: how do you ask your potential customers how much they will spend for your software? I don’t have a problem negotiating once I’m in the middle of it but I don’t know how to start it; after they try it out and like it, do you just ask them how much their budget is and negotiate an agreeable price from there? Or is it better to have a pricing plan set up ahead of time? The problem with the latter is that I can come up with tiers but wouldn’t know what’s a realistic price for each; I don’t want to lowball myself with something too low and I don’t want to insult them either with something too high. I realize the best answer would be to just straight up ask before even embarking on coding...

Any answers or anecdotes of first time sales that address these questions would be really helpful. (I've tried to keep my questions as general as possible so that any other newbies in a similar situation can benefit). Thank you.
Other than a GUI, there's no compelling reason to use Ubuntu, so linking to "yet-another-server-distro" isn't helpful.
I hope Gusto/ZenPayroll uses it to hire some customer services reps or whip up some of that advanced machine learning I always hear about now. To fix a payroll mistake they once magically sucked money out of my account, without any notification. An email or a message in their portal would have been nice.

I am no longer part of the Gusto/ZenPayroll ecosystem, but at the time I found annoying their cute messages about how I could buy 500,000 gumballs with my paycheck if I really wanted to, plus how I should tweet about how much I love my gumball money via ZenPayroll. My paycheck and social media should not mix!
Except that it isn't. It would take a lot of obviously sitting-related deaths for it to warrant comparison to smaking. Stress may be the new smoking, but sitting is definitely not.
Teaching “algorithms for Big Data” at Penn
Disappointed to find out no Windows support.
And then there is clojure where you just keep things as data all the time.
> It won't be, because he'd get the same intel briefs as Obama, the same advisors would tell him the same things, and they'd be generally right.

Well, first, they wouldn't be the same advisors -- even same-party administrations don't tend to carry over very many of of the President's direct advisors.

Second, even with the same advisors, Sanders, while he might agree with Obama on some things, is likely to have different priorities and values, which will shape actual policy, even if he had the same advisors presenting the same facts and similar interpretations of the facts.
I never heard the 'we blocked our progress for Ebola' story before.
I agree. The centralized client-server model will look outdated very soon
Neodymium magnets,China magnets suppliers
I've not seen too many cases where people going back has succeeded. It is certainly a different sort of relationship post partum.
Is the Cybersecurity Act more of that "balance" the US government has been promising us since the Snowden revelations? And I bet this "balance" between privacy and security will keep moving towards one side of the scale (you can guess which) in the future.
You've consistently proven yourself to be a state apologists, you're likely funded directly or indirectly by the state, and you are also violating HN guidelines, but since you seem to be a favored child of the mods they will let it slide.

But do go on and defend those who torture and commit mass murder.
'Less Than Human': The Psychology of Cruelty (2011)
There's a classic book called "art and science of analog circuit design" and there's a whole chapter on scope inputs.

The TLDR is at the input you limit lightning / hand of god level of voltages using the usual RF techniques for lightning protection, so you never have to protect against more than a couple hundred volts, then implement a ridiculously high impedance / voltage attenuator such that it'll arc over before the output exceeds a volt or so, then you limit the output with (optimistically) low capacitance diodes to the power supply. Then a buffer that converts from high impedance in to low output impedance and from there on its pretty boring analog stuff, gain stages etc.

Or the TLDR of the TLDR is you have multiple protection stages and (controllably) attenuate the heck out of the input signal. Also you rely on some ohms law tricks... a voltage big enough to damage in series with a ridiculous resistance will be a very low current which any protection diodes can survive.

Its a tricky business to work around all the RC time constants that occasionally are not fun at all.

Three things to think about. Everyone uses 10x 100x 1000x scope probes, so when you sniff 460V VFD power you're probably using a 100x probe and only measuring 5 volts or so. Also protection circuits tend to protect against the usual 60hz and DC overvoltages... shoving the output of a MRI amplifier at hundreds of MHz will just arc across and blow it to bits. Finally its possible to build RF front ends that sniff RF down to thermal noise limits, and scopes throw all that away to survive hundred volt transients on the input; I assure you ultra low noise microwave preamps will not survive more than a couple volts input, but those are bazzilionths of a picowatt not mV range.

Oh and a warning... you pick up a 100x scope probe, your scope handles up to 500 V input (perhaps) so you think you're good to 50000 volts in, but the probe has its own input voltage limit and unless you have bottomless pockets it probably tops out around 2.5 KV, so if you try to measure a 35 KV flyback transformer for an old fashioned CRT using that 2.5 KV probe, kaboom...
You can change the mouse scrolling direction on mac
Yeah but if you do that what happens if you want to use the site again the following week? Do you have to do the check your email thing every time which could get annoying or leave them logged in for ever with cookies which could be a security issue. Not saying it's necessarily a bad idea but I wonder how well it would work in practice compared with the normal stuff.
Checklist for a JS lib

1. NPM
2. Demo page online

I see that on NPM you are already good, lets do the demo now :)
They couldn't have found someone better for the camera than moustache lady?!
and we seem to have started feverishly building half-arsed workarounds too [0]

[0] "Alibi Routing" [pdf] suggests a way to avoid routing packets through certain locations (e.g. to counter dragnet surveillance) http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p611....
That's what got me to make the switch. I just wanted a command line without all the crud that comes with Windows. I don't see going back to Windows as long as I'm writing code.
So this complains about not including the 0 on the y-axis but then complains about it in the national review global temp chart.

If you have an agenda it will show through, regardless of what you do. Both graphs accurately portray the data, but most of the public doesn't care to interpret graphs objectively.
A Bipartisan Outcry in the House of Representatives, Over the Cafeteria
Would be great if it could deal with Equirectangular <> Gnomonic/Cubic images too.
I still run my own open id, but very few people support open id anymore. Slashdot removed support, shirt.woot removed support after the Amazon buyout ... The only thing I use that still supports it is stack overflow.
In 2015, Apple's environment got bigger  than at any other time
> "If we succeed in keeping this bill from passing ..."

We're too late. It already passed.

FTA (first sentence):

> "... President Obama signed into law last week ..."
I tend to agree with your view of Silicon Valley, but it's not flattering to your intelligence to jump to a conclusion and subsequently get on someone's case due to a false premise.
Sounds like a blast, good luck. I concur with the "dumbest person in the room" advice.
Hyperbole (if that is what the commenter was using and didn't seriously think it) should be used carefully when it reinforces stereotypes that are so damaging.
SD cards have SPI pins, so I recommend SD for Trusted Stick rather than repurposed USB.

I've bought a 512GB SDXC card for the purpose of backing up my laptop, and often wonder whether to use it as a boot device. It's much less vulnerable to theft when it's safe in my pockets, compared to in a bag.

I'd make one small change. Rather than aim for a laptop first, mod a WiFi SD card or other pocket-sized device. The KeyAsic platform (PQI Air Card/Transcend) has been extensively hacked, and Ubuntu can run on it. Client devices (laptop, phone, etc) could connect over WiFi and run VNC through a web browser. It's still vulnerable to keystroke logging on the client, but it would be possible to switch clients halfway through typing important messages. In my opinion the most secure client device would be an iPod running Rockbox, and connecting to the PQI Air Card over serial. My "WiPod" seems like the closest thing we have to a practical pocket-sized open source device, and it lets me share photos from an SD card to my phone :).
> "I thought about adding the disclaimer and chose against it. Maybe I chose wrong."

Yes, when one is advocating for and recommending a product, it is pretty standard (and, in my opinion, an ethical requirement) for one to also disclose that he/she is heavily involved with that product. It is even more important when one stands to benefit -- especially financially! -- from the product's success.

One's credibility quickly goes right out the window when one fails to disclose these basic facts.
Styling in js != styling inline
You can opt-out of the web app install prompts.

Edit: http://askubuntu.com/questions/206710/how-do-i-disable-unity...
The Broadcom Trident 2/+ chipsets, that a lot of vendors use for their merchant silicon, only support 1, 10, and 40 gig PHY's. No more 10/100 on these switches (which are all over every datacenter).
This article smacks of lefty bias. I'm not sure this is even newsworthy.
I'm sure I will get downvoted; but I wish people would get over bitching about systemd.

You are wasting your energy (just as I am writing this) in anger. You are not doing anything productive except saying I don't like this; let me put my head under the sand.

You don't like what you see; so help fix it. Instead of being a Doubter who makes his doubts loud and known; roll up your sleeves and help out.

I hope systemd makes an appearance in FreeBSD as the old init system is old; it needs to be retired.

Sometimes pain can come from something new; but with that we learn.
Ford and Google Move Forward Together Towards Consumer Self-Driving Cars
My only experience with DBs has been MS SQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL. I've always been intrigued with CouchDB. How friendly is CouchDB/PouchDB to someone from a SQL background?
And in Ubuntu. Although I don't know if Ubuntu lets you specify the behavior based on the type of the device, e.g. trackpad vs. mouse. Certainly you can configure X per-device but that's not just a checkbox in settings.
Did you produce this video yourself or was it done by an outside firm? It looks really professional!

What is your backend/technology stack like for supporting the video chat?
The Baha'i world center is beautiful by the way. Well worth a visit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_World_Centr...

Persian authorities -> let's just say muslims, and stop trying to claim that these people are treated differently in any muslim country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy#/media/File:Apostasy_... (note that Indonesia is not correct, people are executed there for leaving islam all the time : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyq6WMatTEQ )

If anything, Iran is very flexible in it's interpretation of islam (events like in Indonesia are pretty much unthinkable in Iran). Even in this case. You see, the prescribed punishment for what this guy did, according to islam, is not imprisonment at all. It is execution:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostasy_in_Islam

The constant weaseling out of stating the fact, the sort of treatment muslims give people of non-islamic faiths, and atheists (read the blog "the big pharaoh" a bit) is very a very controversial fact : just read the wikipedia article, the constant sentences about "a minority thinks different". Reality is that polls place the number of muslims that want to execute people like this physics teacher is just over 70%, and more in countries like Saudi Arabia or Pakistan and a dozen others. You will experience the same constant weaseling out if you talk to muslims in America. When you're in an islamic ghetto, in Europe (some have quite nice food), they (in one case the same muslim) will readily point it out though. Seems to have something to do with how many muslims there are.

Of course this means that the basic article of the current politically correct order, that humans just want to live together in peace, is not true for around 70% of muslims. Whether they'll take immediate action on that opinion is a different matter, true, but that obviously doesn't apply once muslims are ~60% of the local population.
Found the report: https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/14436304/ppfa-annual-...

Supports up to 25% YOY change from 2007. Can you find this report on PP's site? Or the breakdown of the absolute values?
SMS though provides a higher level of security. Some hacker anywhere on the planet could have accessed my email and passwords but they can't get a code sent to my phone unless they are nearby and have got hold of the phone. I'm not sure it being plain text and monitored matters much as all that's bring sent is a random number usually. I'll admit it could cost more and so may not be the thing for sites with lots of free users. If you can't get sms some sites will phone you with a recorded message.
> you're saying modern processors can no longer be physically plugged into a motherboard

In a literal sense, yes - laptop parts are designed for SMT only.

> Everything else, including cooling, could be built into laptop part

The point of this design is to allow users to take their state with them when they leave a hotel room without having to worry about the rest of the system being tampered with. You need the removable device to be packaged such that it's trivially removable, fits in a pocket, and is sufficiently hard-wearing that it won't be damaged. Your approach would require it to have a several hundred-pin connector and some means to bind into the cooling design, and that's an incredibly non-trivial engineering problem.
It's pretty standard around here for people to disclose their affiliations with $product when {commenting about|recommending|suggesting} $product, regardless of any (financial or other) benefit. Hardly a day goes by when I'm reading comments about some $product that I don't encounter one that includes "Disclosure: I'm a developer for $product".
I buy the Perles off of eBay for a few hundred dollars. Way cheaper than this, good software support, multiple gig PHY's, and often dual psus.
> allow the American government to continue wholesale slaughter of millions

You sure about those numbers?
Ask HN: What is the performance review process at Google as of 2015?
Glad I dropped MacOS. Looks like today, I can't even build a hackintosh without first disabling SIP.

Lion pissed me off when they removed Spaces/Expose with that Mission Control rubbish. It's only gone downhill with each new release.
It's in the Opinion section so...
Nutanix, Okta, Twilio and Coupa Ready 2016 IPOs
I know that what you can do in a poll is limited, but frankly any answer to this question will tell me almost nothing:

> Please tell me if you agree or disagree with the following statement: A big problem this country has is being politically correct.

I would ask anyone who agrees with this statement, what concrete problems does it actually cause? Is it depressing wages for the middle class - is PC culture to blame for increasing disparity in wealth and income? Is PC culture shipping jobs overseas? Is PC culture shooting unarmed men in the streets? Is it spying on us and reading our emails?

There are aspects of political correctness that irritate the hell out of me, as well, but it's almost always very abstract. Rarely does it encroach on my personal life at all. As near as I can tell it is mostly restricted to college campuses, and the gulf between academia and real life is a much larger leap to make than most people realize, I think. PC culture has no chance of co-opting the broader American culture to any significant degree. I have a single friend who has gone all-in on PC lately, and yes frankly talking to him sometimes can be a real pain in my ass. But he's still my friend because he's still a decent person, he can still be reasoned with, and he often makes good points.

On the other hand I have several people in my life who years ago doubled down on the opposite of PC culture - right-wing arealism, and I can tell you that these people are orders of magnitude more insufferable than the most ardent Social Justice Warrior I can imagine. They ruin Thanksgivings. They tell racist, or sexist, or otherwise bigoted jokes and get incredibly upset if you don't laugh or, heaven forfend, you insist they cut that shit out. They repeat outrageous lies they read about on the Internet or heard on talk radio or occasionally cable news, and it is absolutely impossible to reason with them about any of it because they have been basically brainwashed beyond all reason at this point.

Frankly I think all the bloviating we see about "PC culture" these days serves mainly to draw attention away from the fact that much of the right wing in America has become completely disconnected from reality, to the point of it being a mental health issue. Why is no one talking about that?
As it turns out, they made a great offer for me to return in 2014, but they don't allow remote work and we're staying in Austin. I have many friends in IE/Edge and wish them all the best.
What if the numbers work out against vaccination?

To quote CDC http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd-vac/polio/dis-faqs.htm

"Of the 162 cases, eight cases were acquired outside the United States and imported. The last imported case caused by wild poliovirus into the United States was reported in 1993. The remaining 154 cases were vaccine-associated paralytic polio (VAPP) caused by live oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV)."

162 polio-related issues, 8 from actual virus, 154 from the vaccine.
How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice