skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this I am constantly reminded of the story "GCHQ intercepted webcam images of millions of Yahoo users worldwide" [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7312212
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If you sign the SHA1, how does that make you any more secure against collisions?
Or you can do neither. It's not like the false dichotomy you're presenting is true.
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Yes, get a property mogul as your chief executive! I suspect that Donald Trump will be available early next year.
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Generation loss: comparison of FLIF, WebP and JPEG [video]
Wow. You make enough on affiliate alone to do this full time? You must have pretty good organic traffic. Care to comment on any techniques you are using to drive traffic to your website, advertising or otherwise?

Also, the pricing on the comparison table is useless. It doesn't really show you how features scale with price, nor does it indicate the "median" price, ie: the price most people end up paying because thats the plan that actually offers what most people are looking for.

What would be really awesome is a widget where I can put in my monthly budget and it tells me what sites offer what features for that price-range.
The 1:48 Lap time was a record for electric vehicles and the Model S in general. Focus on that time, and notice how much faster actual "performance" cars are than that.

FastestLaps.com has the P85D (aka: Ludicrous mode) explicitly in its Autozeitung test track database in case you want another data-point.

http://fastestlaps.com/tracks/autozeitung-test-track
Live sports moving online would be the final nail in the coffin of the cable television industry.
I live in SF and 100% agree with you. There's nothing in SF that you can't find in some other place. I do like living here, but I don't see myself living here longer than a few years.

If I had to start my own tech company, I would probably have the exec team here (because of VCs, really, that's the only reason, not a "tech thriving community") and build my team in EU, maybe Berlin.

We're currently hiring at my job and it's getting harder and harder to get high quality candidates.
maybe, i have neither a moral stance nor suggested solution for that. Seems to me that is a trait of capitalism/market economies; those who can pay the most get what they want.
Perhaps if you are an engineer this perspective entirely makes sense, but if you're an investor, entrepreneur, or in any other occupation where 'the ecosystem' matters, you'll find that nothing compares to the Bay Area.

This isn't about going to a meetup or going out for craft beer, it's about access to resources behind closed (unlocked) doors.

But listen, I used to live in New York and there's a lot there too – just less, and a different vibe. The decision between living in New York or San Francisco should really come down to your particular interests.
Would it make sense to use a reversing valve and use the hot fluid to melt the collected ice?

Agreed that it'd be better not to freeze the water at all, but that might be difficult at low dew points.
Rents are where they are because of state and local governmental policy. I beg you to go out and find a real estate investor to talk to.

In any city in the world with a functioning open market for land use, there are compelling profit opportunities in high-density high-rises, economy box living pods with beige walls, high-end glass condos with verandahs, and everything in between.

Prices do not have to do with the Bay Area's beauty. The draw is economic. And if policies do not moderate, it is a draw which can go away as quickly as it arrived.
I have to say... I'm already nervous in my 3 story building when there is a earthquake. I'd be even more nervous around buildings, when I know the ground is basically sand.
Let's say your city has a massive homeless population, and increasing rents are making it difficult for long-time residents to make a living. Now make the buildings twice as high - it's a lot nicer now, isn't it?
Oh cool, another Toronto developer!! I never see a lot in HN. Are you working for a startup? Also, why Hamilton or London? Have you tried looking for jobs in the Kitchener / Waterloo area? There are a lot of nice startups there as well as established companies. My friend recently got a job there at a bank.
Thanks, that's interesting. Every time I see someone with iPhone earplugs driving their car I am thinking about the "experience" ;-)

I did some IT forensics on Mercedes models a couple of years ago, and you could retrace the bad guys' routes by looking at the exception log of their Windows CE navigation software. It had an exception ~5 minutes, and always dumping the stack including the filename of the currently played audio file that told the current road to the driver.

The horrible thing I have learned from car shopping during the past year is that all manufaturers are just repackaging the components delivered by continental. If you buy the premium options at Audi or Volvo, you basically get the same component from a third party. There is no secret sauce in the car apart from the engine and the navigation software, and they screwed up both big time.
That is an order of magnitude more effort than most people are willing to put into it. Try teaching a not-computer-savvy relative to use it and exchange email with them.
The underlying data source for Second Measure is Yodlee. You can see a history of their data sales here:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/provider-of-personal-finance-too...
I will definitely look into that, and probably test a commercially available model or two.

If you end up beating me to it:
https://github.com/openawg/openawg/pulls
I read your blog a lot. Thanks for writing it. But some of the conclusions you're trying to draw in this post feel forced. The "websites -> apps -> bots" deal especially jumps out to me as odd.
> People like you perpetuate some myth that you have to pay $4500 a month if you want to work in tech. Nonsense.

This is a little harsh and I doubt what the OP was saying. If someone interprets it like you suggested that is their problem. I don't see the implication that you NEED to live in SV to work in tech.

I don't think anyone claims that you can't find thriving tech communities outside of SV, but the reality that OP put forth is undeniably true. SV is where the most money is. SV is where most of the talent goes. SV churns out its own home grown talent through 2 of the best schools in the world. Did the automative industry all move to NY & Austin? No. They moved to SV (not exclusively, but I'm sure you've seen the map of automative companies moving in to SV).

Hollywood isn't the only place you can make movies and SV isn't the only place you can make software or start software based companies... but how are you going to deny that they are the most thriving communities in the world respectively?
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I am not a Node developer. Is there anything like this out there for Go?
The main thing stopping me from doing the same is that I do my work on three different machines: my personal laptop, my work laptop, and a build server in a lab. Those represent three different trust levels. So I'd need to make two more GPG keys than I currently have, and handle key management, which at the moment doesn't yet seem worth the trouble.

Apart from that, half the patches I prepare go out via git format-patch rather than a push and a pull request. So I'll need to confirm if the signature survives that workflow, and if it produces unwanted noise or other effects on development mailing lists.
Well, I have two (2012 & 2014) and let me tell you: the UI is great; all important touch screen buttons are near one edge of the frame, allowing blind muscle memory to actually work. I really don't care one iota what the color or gradient is. I also have many iDevices and frankly the Tesla UI wouldn't be improved by iOS/CarPlay-style UI.
I agree with the above, but I think there's also a more general Scandinavian/Swiss/German ethic that strongly values playing by the rules. Many citizens in these countries have a very different view of government than most do in the US: if collective adherence to rules results in better collective outcomes, and you if you value collective outcomes (perhaps because they are relatively culturally, ethnically, and socioeconomically homogenous populations), then regulation isn't a thing to find a way around for personal benefit.

I think the above sentiment gets further reified as it becomes pare of the national identity: corruption scandals are for tropical dictators, not well-off postindustrial democracies.

this varies by region in the US, obviously. I suspect that the frequency of Pittsburgh lefts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_left) is a pretty decent proxy for valuing system-optimal outcomes
And comparison of FLIF, WebP, BPG and JPEG:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IheZzcYUV9w
That would require the --sign flag with every commit would it not? That sounds like a pain. I would like git to automatically sign my commits if that were the case.
If you're reading that as an argument against signing git commits, I suggest you re-read it.
Not really.

First of all, if the parliament gets dissolved, the parties have really short time to actually prepare a campaign, which means that bigger parties will probably be more in a bit of an advantage, because they have a lot of experience. Pirate Party is not really big in Iceland neither, but according to the polls, it currently does have huge support (~40%).

Second of all, prime minister did try to dissolve the parliament by asking the president to do so before he resigned, but president rejected this proposal. This means that the parliament will probably be functional until the elections (set for autumn), just with a different Prime Minister. This gives the Pirate Party much more time to actually prepare for the elections, and, in my opinion, gives them enough time to actually crush the competition.

This is, by far, the best possible outcome for the Pirate Party.
> I get the feeling that it was taken down only because it was inconvenient for someone

It's a tempting feeling to get, and a contagious one, but no—the only inconvenience we care about is that of HN readers who don't want to read tedious flamewars tacked like burning barnacles onto the top comment. I'm kind of glad you said that, though, because usually the sinister implication goes the other way, Gitlab being a YC-funded startup and all.

Speaking of convenience, it's not that inconvenient to scroll down to find the flamewar. Seems like a reasonable balance to me.
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As someone who lives in Toronto proper, $1k/month is ridiculously cheap unless you live in a basement apartment with possibly a roommate, depending on location.
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There's a lot of room for expansion to the South as well – I pay $1,300 in Bayview.
That's an interesting observation. Obviously it doesn't take 20 sec for an A8, but you really need to pay a lot of money for it to have a reasonable acceleration of ~5 sec. And I think this is the most striking thing about Tesla's cars, because right now, every potential Audi buyer knows that every single Tesla car will beat the 5 seconds 0 to 60 you bought with a lot of money (speaking of mainstream models).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom...
Most of your post there is valid. But for the record, if they meet their goal of delivering ~85,000 cars this year and can sustain the previous growth from 25k->50k->85k, then 2017 would see deliveries of ~100-110k and 2018 would see ~130k-150k, and 2019 ~160k-185k, which puts them very on track.

That's assuming continued linear growth of adding 20-30k per year. Musk has said repeatedly he is aiming for 500k by 2020. While I don't doubt that will be missed, it implies we'll see more than linear growth.

I understand there will be challenges -- I just have strong faith in their ability to surmount them.
Taller, flexible buildings are much better at distributing shock waves.
My tinfoil-y suspicion is they make my 3-yr-old mac feel slower right before a major OS upgrade. Then i download the new version and am so happy about how snappy everything is for a while. ;)
You should probably also count man hours needed to consider deductions, amortization schedules, tax credits etc. Doing corporate taxes is another layer of work that adds a burden to running a business. Simplified tax systems do not have these costs.
Not that I know of. Everyone who's enthusiastic about modern crypto seems to want to throw out the proven cryptography baby with the horrible UX bathwater :(.

Honestly the agent is better than it was (not that that's saying much). Other than that, GPG relies on one part-time developer - I'm sure contributions would be very welcome.
I'll second this to amplify the message to please not add CloudFlare for all custom domains and if you feel you must add it then at least make it optional.

This would be an absolute showstopper bug which would prevent some of us from using GitLab Pages if it became a requirement. Definitely do not want.
Yeah -- you're right. I was making a different point involving how wealth is built. It takes creative capital. It isn't just money. So stick with an uncompetitive tax system, and eventually the brightest won't end up on your shores, and they'll live, create, and bank elsewhere.
I don't agree with the amount of vitriol in your comment, but I agree with the overall sentiment.

I feel like tech workers in San Francisco are fully bought-in to the "this is the best and only place to be if you're in tech" idea. So much so that they can't quite see that the grass is just as green on the other side, so to speak. You have to be fully bought-in to it, there's no other way you would be able to justify the cost of living there.

I'm curious about the different lifestyles- I live in Seattle and there's startups and meetups and hacker spaces all over the damn place, with decent public transportation, awesome coffee and beer and restaurants and anything else you could want. Maybe not as many conferences, but they're a quick flight away if you really want to go.
Also a Portland resident.

Portland now has the fastest growing real estate price increases in the country: http://content.kgw.com/photo/2016/03/29/s%20and%20p%20home%2...

This increase is not being matched by increasing salaries (they're increasing, but not at the same rate): http://koin.com/2016/03/31/report-portland-wages-not-keeping...

There are potential implications of this. Not just for people living here already, but for workers that may or may not be able to maintain mortgages at these rates if there's a contraction in the "tech" sector. I don't know how many people are weighing these decisions on a 10+ year timeline.

At the end of the day, I'm not sure how much of this is sustainable wealth. Portland got burned pretty badly in the 2000 crash, and really badly in the 2008 crash (at one point the unemployment rate was around 14%). History suggests it's a legitimate concern.
> If you don't have the skills to do basic verification of a non-obfuscated binary, you don't have the skills to verify an encrypted messaging protocol implementation from source either: the latter task is harder than the former!

Those aren't quite the same skill though. Some folks could have the skills to verify protocols from source, but not the skills to work with a non-obfuscated binary. Task 'A' being harder than task 'B' doesn't mean that everyone who can do 'A' (harder task) is capable of 'B (easier). Nor does the inverse follow at all.

If we admit that doing basic (non-messaging protocol impl) verification on a binary is difficult and doing messaging protocol impl verification is also difficult, it seems reasonable to presume that doing both will take more time, work, and as a result, allow for more errors in verification.

Essentially, verifying impls without source code is more difficult/time consuming/error prone than verifying ones with source code.

Of course, they could give someone the source code to verify without making it open source. But that requires that one trust this other party, selected by folks who have an interested in their protocol being reported as secure (whether it is or not).

The goal when folks are looking for freely available source code is to eliminate some of those needs for trust (by allowing a greater number of verifiers) and eliminate some of the conflict of interest (by removing some control the interested party has).

Sure, closed source bits that promise to be good and that we can (potentially) look at are OK. But having source code for them is still better.
The C7 is the first 'vette ever that made me say, "I'd like to own one of those" when I first saw it. Then my Mom bought one. She just bought it a few months back, so I can't vouch for long-term reliability, but $50K buys one hell of a sports car. Currently the best go-fast value out there, IMO.

(And just like every other car out there, the in-dash software sucks, but that's mitigated by it having Car Play.)
Modern mid rise and skyscrapers are actually safer in earthquakes than the Victoria homes of San Francisco. If our housing consisted of modern housing our city would suffer way less damages than what will happen today if the big one hits.
This thread is making me want to reread Dune.
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I'm not disagreeing with your point, but I love it when I get great customer support as a free/low value customer, and it definitely increases my chances of conversion.
The cert is valid, but the server is misconfigured (not sending the cert chain).
Lots of naysayers on HN, but I left SF last year and moved to Austin. I have zero regrets.

In SF, my 1 bedroom, 650 square foot apartment in SOMA went from $2,600 to $3,200 over 3 years.

In Austin, my salary went down $10k to $120k/yr. My 2 bedroom, 1,100 square foot apartment is $1,150/mo.

The tech scene here isn't as vibrant as SF, but there's still plenty of great meet ups.

All in all, yes there are some things I miss about SF, but the benefit of having way more cash month to month outweigh the negatives.

Edit: Clarity.
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The decryption key you're talking about can be a simple password. For symmetric encryption (e.g. AES-256) even a simple password would be secure enough, while something like a 24 chars password would be unbreakable.
I really love how open Candy Japan has been with the business on HN, since the beginning. Thanks!
The problem is when people in power seizes people's banks account like it was done in Iceland because "the country needs sacrifices" and they themselves don't do the sacrifice.

Before banning possession of gold, FDR and all his friends and family actually sold their gold:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

When taxes were 95% in UK or US(during and after the big war) it was better for the big guys that paid very little at the end.

In times of emergency measures, just having info means you are not affected by that. But everybody else is.
Wow, I didn't realize they were shipping HBM2 already. 720GB/s - with only 16GB of RAM, you can read it all in 22 milliseconds!
What did you find fascinating about it? (I assume you're referring to the content of the journals not the story about it)
I'm with the others in that I don't like fixed content (particularly in landscape mode on phones), but I have seen a variation that works better; hide the nav when the user scrolls down, show it when the user scrolls back up. Safari on iphone does a similar thing with the back/forward buttons.
Well you also have a significantly higher probability of getting shot when you live in Oakland. So there's always that.
Telegram secret chats are device specific which means you can't recover them if you get a new phone. How can Whatsapp recover encrypted chats on iCloud?
I would argue that a taller building would actually be safer in an earthquake, given that for a taller building you'll need pilings driven down to bedrock in order to support the weight of the structure. Also, taller buildings receive more attention from safety inspectors and the like.

A new 50-story apartment building is far more likely to survive an earthquake without damage than a 3-story apartment built in the '70s or '80s (even with retrofitting).
The waveform idea is simply to convey the sieve to non math folk in a more intriguing way. I dont see how talking about first differences of reduced residue sets of primorials is crank. Its being studied as we speak by PHD Fred Holt from UWashington...

Wheres the issue with the method of mirroring and partitioning I discussed? Do you have something better than wont involve division?

Also, there is a lot of merit in understanding how the sieve works because gap sequences work until the next prime squared. As the primes tend toward infinity, the sieve matches all primes. Its a valid way to study primes aside from the attacks on the Zeta function
I hate this train of thought; you can have tall builds and be safe even in earthquake-prone areas. I spent a month in Tokyo in 2015 and experienced at least three pretty good shakes. Once I was in the apartment on the 9th floor of a tall building. The swaying was very disconcerting and scary, but I think it's wrong to believe that you can't build tall in earthquake-prone areas. Tokyo has tall buildings and gets hit with earthquakes often.
>Xenix in general was the most widely used Unix in terms of installs into the late 1980s.

Interesting, didn't know that ... Because PC hardware was cheaper and more ubiquitous, could be one reason, maybe.

On a related note, UNIX became big in India (people used to call it a Unix country) in the mid or late 1980's, per what I've read, because of a government decision on computerization. The Rangarajan Committee (he later became the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, which is like the US's Federal Reserve) recommended use of UNIX as the operating system for nationalized banks' back-office automation, because of its multi-user and multi-tasking nature (and possibly / likely because it was cheaper than mainframes, maybe even because less proprietary).

UNIX usage in India took off due to that (thousands and thousands of bank branches in India), and hence many devs and admins developed Unix skills ... I was part of that trend, and benefited from it a lot, professionally, in terms of learning ...
There is if you take a step down on the housing ladder. Replacing a 1BR with a 3BR that you share with 2 roommates will reduce your rent. So will replacing a 2BR duplex with a 2BR apartment, usually. So will replacing a 3BR with a 2BR and having the kids double-up.

...which explains a lot about why residents dislike this
I did and it failed to parse.
> They are publicly announcing...

So? They clearly have an opinion on this. Why isn't a company, especially a big company which has many types of stakeholder, allowed to share its opinion?

I'd much rather it did this than just bribe the politicians to change the laws.

> what about the harm that comes to the citizens who would have held those jobs

Well, indeed. This was going to be a huge operation that would have involved shipping in many families, exposing them to these laws.
"...The computing device associated with that IP..."

Just the NAT router? Computer(s) behind the NAT router? Phones which have wi-fi and may or may not have been on it at the time? Computers on the other end of the site-site VPN which routes traffic out that NAT router to get around Geo IP restrictions? Any computer in the world which has TOR installed and therefore may have been "behind" that NAT router?

The Internet is really complicated, how specifically would you write that warrant without details of the network design?
Allowing someone to push branches to the "central" repository versus requiring them to have forks of it is functionally the same thing, assuming you set up branch protection for master.