skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may be underestimating the NSA's resources.
You might want to revise your challenge.

IMAP and MIME are hard because there is a higher level of information that is available. Can you attach an archive over Twitter (not link to but attach)? Can you send HTML? They are not the same thing. If you want something really simple your code will be simple. If you want more use cases than "i can haz cheeseburger" then you need more expressive power and more complexity.
> All data that's ever sent to or received from the server would be in JSON format. JSON is much more human-readable than XML.

I don't need my protocols to be human readable. I need my computers to read them and know that I've got good, bug-free, reusable, efficient, and easy-to understand implementations.

This isn't an argument for XML over JSON -- I've made good use of both, but I don't want to consider how easy it is to type up communication protocols when I'm defining stuff the replacement for something I expect to take over the world.

It's by far easier to implement the memcached binary protocol as a client or a server than it is to implement the text protocol. Easier to get right, more regular, and just generally more pleasant.
the article says that accepting a low wage will make you independent. I wouldn't conclude like that. Working with low wages will seldomly enable to get a better standard.

If you aren't a top performer, you'd have to live forever with those wages. One job is be enough for a living.
From Wikipedia:
"The total rest masses of the fission products (Mp) from a single reaction is less than the mass of the original fuel nucleus (M). The excess mass Δm = M – Mp is the invariant mass of the energy that is released as photons (gamma rays) and kinetic energy of the fission fragments, according to the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc²."

So the energy released by the reaction would be Δmc², right?
And those East-Germans, too. (Or at least lying naked on the beach.)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aki3...
Thanks! I am a fan of Daryl Morey and what he does in Houston. A tidbit you might find interesting: he among others hold a sports analytics conference in Boston at MIT every year. The big thing last year was evidence that the hot hand theory in basketball is false.
"The telegram companies and the old-school telcos were virtually monopolies; customers had nowhere to turn, if they wanted private communications. Bing and Yahoo Mail are just a click away."

The idea that bing and yahoo mail aren't consuming your personal data in order to show you more ads, or wouldn't cooperate with the government if asked, I find to be laughable.
"On iteration": Why people leave Python
I'm sure your plausible alternative explanation feels great to say to yourself, but that's just not how it works. If you're born in a poor family you have 10 million things going against you from day 1: quality of educational opportunity, access to credit or a buffer if you have a bad run of luck, spare capacity to actually try and get better at things because you're not trying to put dinner on the table constantly, neighborhood cultural factors, etc etc etc.

Hard work matters -- but your baseline is probably more important.
Agreed, I spent some time talking to some of the people @ the Change Congress group when they first started. I told them the problem wasn't speech or lobbying it was the amount of money that was being spent by congress, and that if they instead spent their efforts having legislation moved from federal to state they would succeed in making lobbying to expensive to be worth it. They told me I was pushing my own agenda and that I didn't care about corruption.

You have to ask yourself are you looking at fixing systemic causes or merely putting a bandaid on a flawed system.
Apple would because nowadays Google is a more direct competitor than Microsoft is. Mozilla, I would consider far less likely; they're less profit-driven, more ideological, Google aligns more ideologically (although not completely), and Microsoft and Google are about equally direct competitors.
If this interests you and you want to go forward, I'd personally suggest the book Reversing by Eldad Eilam over any other resource. However, I don't think books are the right way to go about it. I'd strongly recommend writing some simple C apps and compiling them to assembly (gcc -S) and just reading it back. You'll quickly learn your way around your ISA of choice (x86 for most of you, I'd imagine) and see how code compiles down. Once you get your feet wet, have a friend write up some code and compile it for you to decompile by hand.

This was how I learned RCE and I really can't recommend it highly enough. It's a bit steep at first, but you'll quickly get your bearings and be able to do real work.
You can do the same with an embedded <iframe> sourced from your own adserver
So are there any laptops completely manufactured in US? At least such parts as hard drives, CPUs, motherboards, keyboards, displays...
the laws of physics all hang together. you can't just have some phenomenon violate the laws of thermodynamics and not have that imply the universe works in a completely different way. thought experiments can't disprove reality. you need empiricism and theory.
Google has Mozilla LOCKED in through 2011.

Mozilla makes $50 - 80 million a YEAR from their search referrals.

But in context, MSFT has tens-of-billions in CASH sitting around, and is trying to win the internet space.

If they did a 1.5x revenue payout vs google (keeping in mind that's not all cash lay out, they net gains from use of their search engine) and dropped a billion in 5 years I would vote for that as a shareholder.
I used to play quite a bit on PCs. Multi is generally free, but the experience is far from seamless in a lot of cases. My impression of Live is that It Just Works. I've heard very varied things about PS3 in comparison, many of them not kind. That's what I was drawing on.
"ESR is the prototypical Libertarian in my mind"

You might pick a more representative prototype. Even someone as iffy as Ron Paul makes more sense.

But yes, like every single other political group outside of pacifists, you could find pro-Iraq libertarians. However, the huge majority of libertarians were vehemently against the war in Iraq. Many of them balked at the war in Afghanistan.

(Also, a footnote: Libertarians are members of the Libertarian Party, libertarians are people who have libertarian views.)
It's a reskinned Internet Explorer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aol_Browser
agreed ... your blog post tried to convey a very simple and punchy idea, and you didn't make any pretenses about it being 'mathematically accurate' or whatever, so i'm astounded that people have nitpicked on your curves not being accurate or whatever.

a piece of presentation advice i've heard for creating graphs and diagrams is that if you don't want people to nitpick on details, make a really crappy low-fidelity sketch so that people don't have an expectation of precision. i once got ripped on because i drew a line that looks like 1 / x^2 to talk about inverse correlation, but people nitpicked on whether it was a power law, 1/x, whether the integral converges, etc., which was totally irrelevant to my argument. if i had made a crappy hand-sketch on the board, then people might not have been as critical
I still wonder why the fax machine is in such use when it offers lower reliability than the internet, I wonder if it's for security reasons. The worst you'll ever got through fax is either hatemail or someone photocopying their butt and faxing you it. However, your entire system can be taken down if you're not properly protected from receiving a single malicious email.

Now, back to the topic. I live in southern Ontario and virtually every building is heated by natural gas, and in more rural locals oil is more common, however the prices have begun matching between gas and oil where it has to be delivered. The only properties I see that are heated electrically are in apartment buildings where heat is only truly lost through far less than 1/6th of your property's surface area.
...

I am actually saddened I now know that. I kind of wish I could have had that same experience.
More Talks with Anti-Jihadi Hacker The Jester
I'm not sure that I meant hallucination in the clinical sense. I meant that if I was trapped inside my own mind for months on end, I would have nothing else to do besides create elaborate fantasy worlds in my mind and I suspect many others would do something similar.
It says "the total rest masses." This is talking about the rest mass, which is different than the relativistic mass. I believe that the relativistic mass is the one that actually matters.

To your question, I agree that the energy released would be Δmc², but there would be no conversion between mass and energy in the process. The total mass and the total kinetic energy would remain the same after the fission as they were before it.
hey its a way to save money... its prolly more durable than my leather wallet
Money is speach though.

Should an unemployed person have more influence on the government than an employed person? They have more time go and talk up their candidate, can an employed person pay to have people hired to spread their message?

Should a celebrity have more influence over our electoral process because their statements get covered in the press than a successful businessman who isn't well known but works hard to earn money?

This is a band aid solution and does not address they systemic problems.

1. Too much is controlled at the federal level.
2. The government has significantly overreached in its authority.
That's child's play!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2114/2083501630_d6ecff43e4.jp...
>>saying everybody else was speeding is technically not an excuse

Actually, it is. You can't get in trouble for traveling the same speed as everyone in your lane. Actual speed of traffic takes precedence over posted speed limit on California freeways.
i feel pretty strongly that making an explicit hypothesis about who the customer is (it's okay to be wrong!) completely solves this problem, because if you know who you are trying to reach, it's obvious. if you say: "im making scheduling software for film festivals" it's trivial to find an email or phone number and call them up and find out if you correct. if it's a consumer niche, find a forum or a blog and email someone.
this just goes to show that social engineering is the most important part of being a hacker. That is a good payout 4 million in one day for a simple phishing site.

I know stealing is wrong, but I am impressed with their execution.

It also enforces the belief that network security is more dependent now on educating the people that use it.
The two aren't mutually exclusive (specialization/trade and buying/investing local). Buying local food from farmers is still specialization and division of labor.

if "Trade is the stuff of civilization" as you say, is it not critical that our trade reflects our personal beliefs?

If you don't like what certain large corporations are doing, don't give them your money. In many cases, as with food, an easy way to do this is to buy from local farmers directly or through local coops.
You generation is screwed, too. Social security net revenue went negative this year. You'll never see a dime. Medicare will also be bankrupt much sooner than anyone thinks.

Only the "next older generation" has made out on these ponzi schemes.
Typically we don't consider epsilon naught to change as we move around in a gravitational field, we consider spacetime itself to change and leave the Maxwell equations unaltered. So that doesn't explain away the current in a wire or rotating shaft versions.

Really, the resolution of all of these problems is left to general relativity. Redshift is a consequence of gravitational time dilation, or the fact that if you bring a clock high up in the air and then down again, it will tick off more time than a clock you leave on the ground. If we consider each tick to be a spent pulse of energy, then it's pretty easy to see that the clock that went up and came back down spends more energy than the one on the ground.

Physically speaking, this would mean that if the shaft was, indeed, rigid, then it would actually be spinning at a lower rate if you went to the top and timed it with a stopwatch than it would be if you timed it at the bottom (your stopwatch is running "faster" higher up in a gravitational field, relative to the bottom). Similarly, the rate of electron arrival would be measured to be lower at the top than the bottom, etc.

NB: these rates I'm talking about are the locally measured rates, i.e. hz as measured at the spot with a properly functioning stopwatch. The shaft doesn't need to twist or anything for these rates to differ, in fact, our assumption is specifically that it does not twist.

So when the frequency-based energy is obtained at the top and converted to mass-based energy (which doesn't undergo redshift, but instead exchanges kinetic and potential energies), the "exchange rate" between the two is based on the local measurements of frequency, and we end up with less mass created at the top than we put in at the bottom.

Problem solved, as long as you trust the claim that any such energy transmission that doesn't suffer the kinetic energy penalty that normal projectiles suffer in a gravitational field has to be frequency based and suffer the time dilation effect. Briefly, energy is the time component of a four vector, so it has to be affected like this, no matter how you try to transmit it, but I'll leave that for another rant...
? I don't get it. Could somebody explain it to more human terms, please.
The most direct and obvious way is to cut the amount of money the government is spending.
That's just EVIL. And hilarious.
Note: I'm a registered independent and little "l" libertarian.

I supported the use of force in Iraq and Afghanistan based on utilitarian principles -- I felt (and still feel) that less people will die and less pain would be inflicted by the use of violence in those areas) I find that the careful and appropriate use of force by the state does not conflict with my libertarian views.

So there's another example for you.
$ man fortune
It allows you to pay for pamphlets or tv advertisements so that others can here your message. It actually favors the unknown, those whose opinion won't be covered in the newspaper.
My assumption is that they're working to recover fixed per-account costs, and anticipated support costs.

When I've done tiered pricing, that was my logic.
I just don't get safety freaks. They're great at pointing out dangers, but never seem to offer realistic solutions. No doubt many of the activities they criticize are harmful, but what's the alternative? Not hitting ourselves with hammers and not walking barefoot on rusty metal and hoping that our bodies will somehow magically avoid trauma and tetanus?

Seriously - in the real world, a perfectly valid way to solve a problem is to stop doing the thing that causes it. Why the defensiveness because a libertarian pointed this out?
Maybe you should just take up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASE_jumping instead
I just don't get libertarians. They're great at pointing out problems but never seem to offer realistic solutions.

I think the default libertarian solution is "don't do anything, the problem will take care of itself", which in point of fact often is a better idea than the hodge-podge, incoherent "solutions" that actually get adopted.

On the other hand, perhaps you're asserting that "do nothing" isn't a realistic solution in the sense of being politically impossible to implement; in which case you'd be completely correct, which is why libertarianism remains a fringe political position for naive idealists (along with many other philosophies that could plausibly work better than the status quo).

Most of the issues he cites exist because the free market failed people in the past and there was public outrage over a government that allowed it to happen.

...to be fair, most problems caused by the market arise because of perverse incentives and government meddling that allow profiteering looters to exploit the system at everyone else's expense. The counterintuitive part is that reducing regulation is roughly as likely to "create" these problems as solve them, because in a semi-stable equilibrium removing one distortion may open a new opportunity to abuse an existing one.

The energy crisis in California is an excellent example of such, where making a (stable, inefficient, heavily regulated) market more free created exploitable distortions that allowed a bunch of (unprintable) people to screw everything up.
Agreed. The NSA employs the most Math PHDs of any organization in the world, as well as a lot of CS PHDs. They also have a huge budget and some of the most powerful computer clusters in the world. Further, they almost certainly know more about China's cyber-warfare capabilities than anyone outside the Chinese government.
There are some things that we shouldn't joke about.</scarred long-time windows user>
Really? If I can't find it in Amazon, I would go to Barnes and Nobles or somewhere else, but I can't imagine buying a different book because it's not available in Amazon..

But then, none I have wanted have been unavailable there.yet.
if this job entails working with the militaries technology (servers, networks, etc) you should take it. A lot of the very smart network engineers and programmers that I have met have worked in military; Iraq and DOD.

You are going to be dealing with some high tech environments in Iraq and will get good experience and money in the process.
I'm sorry if the writers of thousands of years ago don't meet your expectations.

Also, I'm not sure how you can call a paragraph(s) a story.
Considering they're in the same chapter of the same book.

(Actual chapters were added later, the chapter is genesis and the book is the old testament.)

Complete non-sense.
present consumption must come out of present production

yes, that's the starting point of my argument, thank you for phrasing it clearly. The next step is that future demand for durable goods is not a good savings mechanism for a number of reasons:

1. The demand isn't large enough for a whole generation of people
2. Those goods have to be stored and maintained, which is
costly and eats into the savings
3. It may unpredictably lose value due to technological
innovation, and if you made a poor bet you will starve
when that happens

Therefore the premise of my argument is that the idea of long-term savings is fictitious.

Absent that there are only so many way to defuse the demographic bomb:

1. Saddle the young with debt by enticing them to spend beyond their means. Later they are compelled to pay via social norms and coercion of the state.

2. Collude on ownership of a crucial scarce resource such as land or oxygen. Collusion is likely to kill the economy very quickly though.

3. Make more babies. Costly in the short term, especially given that anyone who is making babies is also under the opression of debt, and the more babies the more crushing that debt is.
So?

I supported the Iraq war at first, and I was very keenly aware how thoroughly that put me outside of the libertarian mainstream.
OPAC seems to be quite common in Germany. It works reasonably well (from a library user's point of view).
Perhaps Big L libertarianism, but not the vast majority of independents who have strong libertarian leanings, I'd bet.
A republic is not necessarily a democracy, and the two terms are not strictly interchangable. A republic may take many forms, including but not limited to democratic, mercantile, classical, and religious republics.

Constitutionally the USA is a representative democracy defined as republican in modern political argot. If you have the time a reading of Federalist No. 10 is quite enlightening (although a little tough).
tl;dr: Microsoft has tons of money, so they could just buy the search market out from under Google.

Has that ever worked? Wouldn't they just be catching up then? Playing catch up is very backward looking -- not innovative and future oriented.
I also like that nethack will tell you "core dumped" if you eat an apple or a pear.
So Newton's 'Laws' were never proven to be wrong. They are still consistent in all cases, right? And every theory in physics has been completely and 100% proven through lab tests and empirical evidence.

> thought experiments can't disprove reality

Reality is what it is. If thermodynamics is wrong, it doesn't change reality. It just changes our understanding of reality. Don't be so melodramatic. Once a law/theory is dis-proven there isn't some deja-vu-the-matrix-is-changing-something moment.

At the very least, figuring out where the energy loss is in the system will teach others something, and possibly yourself as well. Thought experiments are where theories come from. Unless you think that theories spring into existence without thought.

{edit} Please don't say, "but I already know about thermodynamics, so there is nothing more for me to learn!" because you would be entirely missing the point.
For those not on *nix: http://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune
I just did a search for "football checkers acequia moon" (without the quotes). It says there are about 11,400 pages, but when I go through them it ends up with 221 pages. I assume the estimation is based on some statistical predictions using the individual search words. Here they are relatively common terms (well, except 'acequia') which rarely go together.

I found http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008851.html say "I work for google these days, though not on search. The number of hits for phrases are estimates, based on overall word frequencies". The invalidity of the estimated results has been haphazard for a long time. See http://danfingerman.com/dtm/archives/000004.html from 2003.
A while ago, I couldn't buy a new netbook with Linux from Amazon -- which prides itself on earning money on "the long tail".

Most of the netbook market was Linux a year or two earlier.

I really doesn't doubt the articles I've read about Microsoft leaning on ASUS et al.
" We're there to stop safe havens for terrorist groups from being set up by the Taliban, a group that was formed in and supported by Pakistan."

I was talking about Iraq, not Afghanistan. The topic is about hackers going to Iraq. Nice trick of deflection.

Why are you in Iraq again? Persuading the American public that the invasion of Iraq was a response to 9/11 is the greatest con game in history.

As as to the Taliban, they are holed up in Pakistan (and Somalia, and Yemen) these days . Will you be invading those countries too?
That article makes some really good points, but I disagree. To me, Python is quickly becoming a good middle ground where I can use these powerful functional ideas, then drop down to imperative whenever I need to. In particular, this means that I can use Python to do scientific computing or to easily work with native libraries while still maintaining a lot of the functionality of more pure languages.
Some day, fortune really is going segfault, and nobody will look into it because they think "Segmentation fault (core dumped)" is one of the clever fortunes.

A fortune in and of itself.
Several I have wanted have been out of stock, but were in stock on Indigo online and in their stores. When I want to buy a certain book, I'm buying it from whomever has it.

I love Amazon, I bought several of my christmas presents off of them and I've spent a small fortune with Amazon, however if they don't have what I want in stock I'm going elsewhere. I'm sorry, but if a brick-and-mortar store can have several copies in stock at several stores, why the hell doesn't Amazon have it?
Seems like there is a program called "fortune" that prints a random "fortune" on boot.

And some joker took it upon themselves to add a somewhat distressing boot message into the default list.

(man fortune: http://linux.die.net/man/6/fortune)