skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While that exact realization did make me stop being freaked out by giant spiders in movies, technically "they can't breathe" in earth's current atmosphere. Presumably, if it was worth the expense involved, you could grow giant insects in closed biomes with higher oxygen levels and (I assume) higher atmospheric pressure.

Also: Jurassic Park is BS for the same reason. The T Rex would not function in earth's current atmosphere -- at least not without tampering with their physiology and/or some kind of extra support system.
I'm not sure how to interpret this. "WotC has given us permission to republish their old books, but absolutely will not lift a finger to give us access to any of them, so we've got to fall back on begging fans to scan their old stuff" is my best guess.

And then they're telling people to cut the spine off their 30-year-old collector's item for best scanning results. In exchange for $50. Good luck with that.
Yahoo hasn't been a search provider for six years. They resell Bing.
> Your assumption about someone understanding your position based on rational arguments is flawed.

I'm not attempting a rational argument. I am attempting to phrase the argument in terms that a set of authoritarian advocating individuals can relate to.

To most of them, their guns are more important than preventing terrorists from killing people. By driving home the fact that this precedent will eventually apply to their guns, you get their attention.

Otherwise, they just fluff it off as a "whining from a bunch of liberal, elite pansies".
Read book.
Where are you putting the button? How big will the button be?

Honestly I would guess 75%, depending on the questions above. My thinking is, why would they not want me to click it if they put it on the page?
Ask HN: Where to find first employee?
I've been working on a Mac app for a couple of years and I've reached the point where I can afford to hire my first employee. But how do I find an employee?

I've tried a couple of things that cost no money:

- attending meetups

- posting on Facebook groups

- posting to local university job board

- posting on Twitter

So far nobody seems interested (and I feel a bit bad for spamming social networks)

I'm considering buying an ad on a commercial job board, or on Stack Overflow, but these ads are expensive -- $500+ per ad. Are they worth it?

Any other ideas?
I agree with this; nothing I wrote is intended to contradict that or dispute it, didn't mean to convey it as such. Thanks for the link, it was very interesting.
I don't see where we disagree. Like voting for an intolerant political candidate, I'd consider donating to them to be use of force. It's no longer a matter of simple "intolerance" once that happens. At that point I've lifted a finger, so to speak, just as if I'd paid a thug to beat up some gays outside a bar.

Simply expressing verbal support for the candidate, on the other hand, wouldn't be an instance of the use of force.

The passage from Karl Popper you quoted contains the problematic language, "But we should claim the right to suppress (utterances of intolerance) if necessary even by force." That's where an arbitrary exercise of unequal power comes in. Unless Popper is claiming that an external source of morality exists to decide who's allowed to respond to speech with violence and who is not, he's on very shaky philosophical ground.
This would never go to court, but if it did, I could see a jury being sympathetic. You could sort of argue that WSJ had an obligation to Google to allow referred users to view the pages, and that Google passed that right onto the user, so you were contractually authorized to access it.

IANAL and this is most likely wrong, but kind of plausible to my NAL mind.
I consider meditation to be the most productive thing I can do. Since meditation affects my perspective on life, my relationships, my faith, my health - it supersedes everything else.
This sounds like an armchair-philosopher platitude to me.
Seafood can be quite stinky also and yet lots of people have no problem eating it.
It isn't. But I have seen top internet companies (Netflix and the like) use it to authorise requests. It boggles my mind.
>It is left as an exercise to the reader to think about why it’s impossible to have cycles in this graph.

This was funny. Suppose you wanted to build a node that linked to itself. You'd have to find a fixed point in the combination of functions that adds other data to the link and hashes it. Finding a fixed point of a hashing function is hard.
Exploring the World On-The-go Using Google Cloud Vision and Twilio
The Singularity Must Be Decentralized
Starting with Varnish Cache 4.1, backends are dynamic and configurable from VMODs. This means proper DNS support for backends. There is already a DNS backend implementation here [0].

[0] https://github.com/Dridi/libvmod-named
So that's one model out of many. With a specific version of the software. What about other smartphones?

There's no guarantee it still going to be secure in the future and there's no guarantee that it was secure in the past.
U.S. Government Says Hoverboards Are Verboten
I came back here to post this line! It's so perfect.
You can also access WSJ for free at the library.
It's pretty flawed - for example, if you open a file read-only, open it again read-write and the write to it, any read from the first file descriptor won't show the writes. The corner cases don't bite people under most circumstances, but when they do they're awful.
That probably explains their acquiescing to American concerns about human rights, torture, press and reproductive freedoms as well as their speedy roughshod trials of dissidents and others.

I really don't see them persuaded by that logic. They'll do what they want to do regardless so long as its impact on their economy is minimal.
If you look at my example, the person with peak income of $10 spent a bit under $5.5/month. Both time periods were "fluctuations" from his average income of $5.5.
This might be one of the things they are doing to prepare for a wave of negative news about the state of their economy.
That use case makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the response!
I don't mean this in a derogatory manner, mostly curious, as I've heard similar stories from extended family and have become rather concerned. Looking back, do you see any warning signs of a future marriage like the one you described? How long did you date before you got married/had your daughter? It seems strange that traits like you described could remain hidden until bursting out once you're "trapped" by marriage, but the tale you tell is not an incredibly uncommon one.
She's not getting another crack at CEO. She's done. She'll sit on a board or two, maybe.
Haha! Thanks for catching that :)
I suppose the free form nature of HackerNews and the wide sprawling community make a lot of topics fair game. I recant my sentiment.
Searching for the paper mentioned in the article turned up this: http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/fileadmin/downloads/5D_Data_Stora...

The five dimensions are in the first paragraph:

More recently self
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assembled nanogratings produced by ultrafast laser writing in
glass were proposed for the polarization multiplexed optical memory,
where the information encodi
ng would
be realized by means of two birefringence parameters, i.e. the slow axis orientation (4th dimension) and
strength of retardance (5th dimension), in addition to three spatial coordinates
[3,4]
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Unless I was under some big time crunch, I would gladly trade that amount of time for the luxury of being driven on a long roadtrip.
That is so freaking awesome. CPLDs are approaching 308 logic blocks :-). And given the small footprint of the core it suggests you could probably build the entire IBM PC architecture on a single FPGA with CGA or Hercules Mono framebuffer support. Then boot Microsoft Flight Simulator and chortle at how much imagination you needed to use to believe you were flying a plane.
Interestingly, the CFAA does not define the term "without authorization" however it does define "exceeding authorization" exactly as I quoted above;

- to access a computer with authorization and to use such access
to obtain or alter information in the computer that the accesser
is not entitled so to obtain or alter.

So arguing User-agent is not an authorization mechanism probably won't help you, because exceeding authorization means, first, that you were authorized to access the computer (HTTP GET returns 200) but then that you used that access to obtain information in the computer that you were "not entitled so to obtain."
(In the UK)

American Express cards offer the best rewards, but the cost to the merchant is much greater. Many shops or restaurants don't accept AmEx, and sometimes those that do will say they prefer you to use an alternative card.

But within one network, I think it's correct that the cost is the same regardless of the card's promotion.
Or, China could acquire Apple's signing keys and/or source code through espionage, and then unlock any device -- now, or at any point in the future. We already know this occurs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/20/technology/20google.html

The backdoor already exists; Apple is just being forced to admit that they designed their security (in this case, the security of the KDF-performing hardware) around the idea that Apple can neither be coerced, corrupted, nor compromised.

Pin numbers are weak passwords, and Apple built tamper-resistant hardware to provide a physical solution to this inherent weakness in the keying process. They also left a door open for themselves to subvert this physical solution in the 5c, and also in later devices with Secure Enclave.

If they hadn't left that back door in place, then the FBI would have nothing to ask for, and Apple wouldn't be an extremely high value target for authorities in states like China. They did leave that door open, however, and whether or not the FBI compels Apple to use it now limited bearing whatsoever on the risk going forward.
That's not really the GPL though, that's just because very few people run Linux without also running countless GNU utilities. The people that argue for calling it GNU + Linux don't bring the GPL into it at all.
Yahoo is one of those companies in which I don't really know what their core product is anymore. Similar to Blackberry.
echoing what vpalan2 said below:

"If I wanted to do massive, irreparable harm to China, this is the law I would pass. And yet, they have done this willingly to themselves, without hesitation or incident."

These aren't the smart engineering politicians with a 10 year view China has foisted its fable onto the world. These are the corrupt paranoid politicians who know they are one mass protest away from having all their families disposed. These are fat and lazy billionnaires who have siphoned off local schools, hospitals, people, environments, and is about to abscond with riches. These are the people that see their debt-fueled economy collapsing, and know there's no more workers to be paid in pennies to be exploited.

"In total, 106 members of China's National People's Congress and 97 members of Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress, are on Hurun's China Rich List. Their combined wealth hits $463.8 billion. By comparison, the median wealth of American politicians was just over $1 million in 2013, according to CNN Money. "
http://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-politicians-are-rich-...
If you're comparing to Akamai, then shouldn't your data be in a CDN rather than S3?
I'm ex-staff (left long ago, still a chanop and regular user). Roughly, it seems like what happened was there was a disagreement over what freenode was supposed to be, a bunch of people resigned in frustration, there were a bunch of discussions, and everybody unresigned again on the principle that the future plans in the blog post were worth trying to bring about.

About the only reason it was worth mentioning the drama part in the blog post was that we'd been inundated with people asking about the resignations (since they were visible due to cloak changes), and now we're getting a fraction a many people asking about "what else aren't you telling us?", which is overall still a lot less annoying.

For anybody not directly involved in running the network, what'll be more interesting will be the changes made over time, which I'm not able to predict but am looking forward to watching.
Their 'great firewall' is incredibly sophisticated and has lead to domestic companies like Baidu filling in gaps left by foreign companies.

Weirdly, I think its helped China become a bigger power.
What if we raise them in a pure oxygen environment?
Pratchett was a genius when it came to knowing just the right phrase to conjure up an image, although reading all the Discworld novels in one go as I am at the moment reveals he's not quite so good at the storytelling side, often dragging on a few chapters too long.
My take is, that all the things that go wrong for the Pied Piper guys is based on real life. The parts where they come out on top are inaccurate.
I haven't done any VHDL in about 9 years. Anyone know of a good site/tutorial to run through that starts out relatively basic and goes through to advanced topics? (bonus points if it has step-by-step instructions for a low cost / free for noncommercial dev environment).
China is definitely the leader on the matter. Not a follower.
The backdoor already exists, in cryptographic terms.

All they're being asked to do is to use it, entirely under their own control, for this one phone.

Tim Cook is trying to pretend that commenting out a few if statements in the key derivation code path is what creates the backdoor.
A friend of mine in a communal living situation once got sick and stayed in his room for days. We did not see him at all, and his door was closed. The den mother of the place, a SUPER paranoid woman, kept telling us to leave him be, let him have his space, that he was fine.

Day 3, we busted down the door and found him unconscious, dehydrated, nearly dead, all from the freaking flu he just wouldn't take care of.

Took him to the hospital and pumped him full of fluid and he was fine. I'm very glad we were nosey and did not just "let him be."
Yes, but the process is destructive and quite time-consuming, requires expensive equipment and cannot really be automated.

That's not a problem if your want to, say, extract secret keys once from one device that you own in order to break DRM.

But it makes it completely impractical if your aim is to extract crypto keys from smartphones to decrypt peoples data.
0.3 seconds for me, just now. HN was 1.3 seconds.
Dear Writers,

Stop using the term "activist investor". It strongly connotes political and social change.

That is not your intent. Find better words.

Sincerely,
Apple's longest-serving employee looks back over 34 years with Steve Jobs (2011)
I wouldn't be surprised if WotC didn't actually have access to the older reference materials anyways. Stuff is lost all of the time.

That said, this definitely sounds like "We'll give you $50 bucks so that we can start reselling it since the rights are ours anyways. Thanks Chumps!"
As you say, the big platforms are FB, Google, and Bing. The only non intent driven advertiser on the big list is Facebook for a reason. According to this list, https://www.quantcast.com/top-sites, Yahoo traffic is not insignificant compared to FB at all. With FB's targeting, Yahoo could be monetized soo much better.

Most direct acquisition marketers I know would say that Facebook is the main scale player in non intent driven advertising, all because of its superior targeting.
Turning capslock into backspace has been one of the best usability improvements in my life. It just feels so natural. And if you look the keyboard it totally makes sense to have it on home row.

This, on a standard Elcheapo rubberdome keyboard.

I even throw away the original backspace keycap.

The downside is I've quite alot found myself subconciously struggle understanding why the "backspace doesn't work" when hitting capslock on other computers.
>Mayer's tenure at the helm of a big co like this is over, she will take a multi year hit before she resurfaces somewhere else (will take a while for her to get another CEO job)

That's a shame really, we need diversity in tech, and she could continue her excellent job in a company like Microsoft or Apple.

That would also help ending a monopoly, so everybody would win.
"selective enforcement" is an interesting concept...

I have a neighbor (lives across the lake from me) who is a retired police officer...23 years on the job...

I asked him once if there was any truth to the rumor that traffic cops had to meet a quota...

He said, "Not in so many words...every now and then the Captain, during the shift briefing would say, "Boys, I need to see some paper" and we all knew what he meant."
To think the two are comparable requires a complete lack of perspective.

The scale and degree of poverty in China now, let alone 20 years ago, are just a tad bit worse than trouble finding jobs and long commute.
The video is by Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater, and it states that it's just his personal mental framework to understanding the economy; not claiming gospel or anything. Either way, he's kind of a big deal.
What does it mean to be 'licked'?
>>why do people buy things they can't afford and most often don't need, putting themselves in this position?

Irrationality. They don't think the situation through.

"Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth — the irrational." - Ayn Rand

Bad things happen to people when they decide to put their feelings above rational evidence and thought.
And you are equally as wrong there.

China could steal Apple's key, but it doesn't immediately get them anything. They would also have to build up a completely parallel OS. That would be really expensive.

However, once Apple builds the malicious software, NOW you now have two very clear, very desirable targets.

Do you really think that China, Russia, etc. wouldn't bribe, steal, threaten, kidnap or blackmail their way to getting a copy of those?
Well, ya, of course it is. It will work if that is what consumers want.
Criticizing a peer-reviewed study is both healthy and welcome, but it really should be done with peer-reviewed studies of one's own. Respectfully, all I see here are extraordinary claims without any evidence, extraordinary or otherwise.
I'm sure one could: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11127534

But rolling out a paid service like that comes with a lot of expectations that being part of a free app doesn't.
A couple of questions I've found helpful when talking to startups are as follows:

1) What is the funding situation like - specifically, how much capital is available, is any of it tied to contingencies (i.e. hitting a sales number), what are your plans for getting more if it runs out/is there investor interest in giving you more?
2) When do you expect to be cash-flow positive? (incoming cash >= expenses)
3) What's your burn rate? More specifically, given the current rate of cash burn, when is drop dead?
4) When do you anticipate being able to make a decision on whether to bring me on full time if I join you as a contract-to-hire worker?
5) What's the duration of the contract and what are the renewal options if we don't go full time hire?
If the computer on the public Internet responds to a standard HTTP request, it has explicitly authorized my access to whatever information it sent me.
How does ads affect this hypothetical world where quality of web content skyrocket?

The web isn't a closed platform for a limited number of service. Multiple website are trying to survive without ads, Wikipedia is one of them. Nothing stop them.

Ads allow for content creator that still need to pay rent, to actually produce content while still paying rent. You know like any job.

The one that still can produce without anything, are still free to do it currently and plenty are actually doing it.
Aaaaand now there are tens of IPs trying to access /etc/passwd. Tailing my "failed hack attempts" log is kinda fun now.

But if you wrote this to warn me, then thanks!
Vim cryptmethod is not authenticated
Even then they probably didn't get much bigger than a cat.

http://listverse.com/2013/01/14/10-prehistoric-bugs-that-cou...

The huge dragonflys were still only somewhere between a crow and raven in size.
In that case, I'm just going to set my User-Agent permanently to Google's crawler for fun and see how the web renders, in general. Just for fun, because I want to see what the world looks like from a different perspective. That's my intent. I've stated it. Now that my user agent has been changed, I'm going to go grab lunch, carry on with life, maybe check out some cat pictures and then maybe some news sites over tea and snacks, and then go for a run.
Also, buy a coffee roaster and roast your own beans. There are lots of ways to get started on the cheap (popcorn air roaster), and unroasted coffee is around $5-$6 a pound. It's a very rewarding hobby. http://sweetmarias.com is a great place to get started.
Gil Fronsdal's podcast is great. A lot of meditation teachers seem to be either very distant or have an alienating New Age-y-ness about them. I found Gil to be very relatable and informative.
I have to agree. I wonder if part of the general illiteracy is a reaction to the dreck that we are forced to read in school.

At least in high school English classes you get to read some legitimate literature. In middle school, I remember being subjected to an unending string of aggressively mediocre young-adult historical fiction and science fiction that featured teen-aged girls as protagonists by my all-female English teachers. Hard to summon much enthusiasm for that kind of thing when Arthur Clarke, Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Asimov, Ben Bova, Tom Clancy, Robert Ludlum, Ken Follett, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, Tolkien, Robert Jordan and George RR Martin beckon.
I take it these suspects didn't have any backups of their phone? It clearly cannot be the case that the backup can only be decrypted by the original device, since the entire point of the backup is to be able to restore it to a different device.
I recommend you this: https://entreprises.42.fr/en/
Regwall.
I suspect they want totalitarian control over the south "China Sea" like Turkey practically has over anything leaving the Black Sea via their naturally formed strait, the Bosphorus.
>>I find that a lot of his advice is fairly useless unless you have some money to begin with.

Any investment advice is fairly useless without some money to begin with, investing is the art of bootstrapping.
Yep, that's what I'm arguing. The SHSH blob servers probably aren't trivial + I'm certain they have a lot of process in place to keep someone from "accidentally" releasing a software update, or the release of iOS 9.3 from taking them all down.

You'd be talking about creating both a special version of the OS and updating the SHSH servers to accept that code signature.

What are they gonna do, just hardcode the device's UDID in a sub-routine and distribute it to the entire cluster? What about testing? If they do it wrong and the SHSH blob/update gets in a bad state, they could end up accidentally wiping the phone... so now QE needs to get involved + build test cases.

I'd just spitball a 20 person team with at least nine months, lots of meetings w/leadership/pm/and VPs, hardware being purchased, and several executives having to get involved.

Hell, it takes more than 100 engineering hours at my company just to update some chef cookbooks; let alone schedule a release and get sign off.

I'm guessing you haven't worked at a large company before?

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They probably did something very different than custom firmware before.
Yep. I then pasted it but it didn't work on wsj.com. Oh well.