skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not Salsa10; it's just that the author is counting double-rounds, which makes it looks like it's half the iterations. This has as many rounds as Salsa20, but whoever converted this to 16-bit words didn't know what they were doing---the security degradation is enormous.
There used to be a not-quite joke that the UK's art colleges produced the UK's top pop talent.

It was a not-quite joke because it was true. Art schools were much better at producing creative musicians than the music colleges, because they taught creativity and experimentation, not just mechanical technique.

>a student gains a certain expertise and rigor in an academic environment needed before she can create her works of art.

It's more usual for students to learn a stock set of academic techniques and philosophies, which are really just there as a form of social signalling that qualifies them for tenure or adjunct track professorships making academic art.

Unfortunately academic art values theory, technique, and philosophy over direct expression, so it's rare for academic art to have much of an audience outside academia.

CS has a similar problem. I think it would be incredibly valuable for everyone doing a CS degree to combine with it a non-technical creative minor, preferably working on a collaborative project with someone with an arts background. It would highlight how brittle code is, and how attempting to model an open problem domain with relatively trivial code constructs can miss a lot of important detail and subtlety.
I think Supermicro makes motherboards in the United States, and I believe at least some of Intel's boards are made here as well.
Wanted to give the same critical emphasis to the economic theory explanation as you had given to the socioeconomic class interest bit.

The statement articulated two "parts" of the explanation.

The second "part" was phrased as a matter of class self-interest, with a critical tone.

But the phrasing of the first, as being "from" economic theories, can very easily be read as giving those theories a pass, esp. in environments like HN.

If we wanted to explain with some finality, we might answer, "why do we mandate lead shielding around radioisotopes" by saying the reason is "from physical and biochemical theories [about harm from ionizing your DNA]."

Or we might answer, "why are some traits observed to be epigenetic / both heritable and environmental" by saying the reason is "from biological theories."

The appeal to science-y authority is pretty conversation-ending in technically-oriented conversation venues like HN, I find. Or more properly, it might not end conversations but it makes that piece a leaf node.

I just like to remind people that economic theories are far, far more than their hard-science counterparts, political products.
See also scanlime http://youtu.be/UTUYl-2g-r4
Over 80 Percent of Water Is Polluted in Tested China Wells
Very fascinating continuing research!

This group has been doing a number of studies on psychedelics and this is not their first rodeo.

You can see some of their previous research here https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267512525_Homologic... (PDF) which talks about the brain under the effects of Psilocin, which is the active chemical which comes from Psilocybin Mushrooms.

It's a fascinating area of research, and I've found it surprising how few drugs are actually examined in this manner. The lack of rigor that goes into the law with regard to drugs is deplorable.
As someone with a conservative upbringing, I can't say I've heard that argument.

If only I'd received a nickel for every time I've seen that online. I might buy myself a latte.

(Downvote? If one is arguing for the evidence based life, then it's a bit weird to engage in non-factual hyperbole. I doubt I've encountered that more than about 30-40 times, because by the time one has seen that stupid non-argument and all the other stupid arguments about 30-40 times, one is done with the places online where people think it's clever to post such nonsense.)
"Oh, I don't understand computers."

To be fair, I rarely understand what they do even if it's rather mundane. I do like to hear passionate people talk and see them work, but I admit that my curiosity is higher than most.
Anker is ex-Google employees.
Never imagined doing a triathlon, since my swimming isn't very good, but I agree about ultrarunning, though I was only ever on the edges of it.
Haha. Yes. You could swap your battery in under two minutes.

If: you had pre-made an appointment, first.

And: you paid to use it.

And: you ignored the fact that the pilot program was only in one location, and that location was meant solely to service SF-LA drivers on I-5, but was 15 miles from the freeway, so 2 minutes, plus a 45 minute round trip).

And: you ignored the chargers across the street from the battery swap program.

This is pretty disingenuous. If I was Elon Musk and I wanted to prove how little people "cared" about the time of a "2 minute battery swap", all of the above variables are pretty much how I'd set my pilot program for guaranteed failure.

Source: http://fortune.com/2015/06/10/teslas-battery-swap-is-dead/
The Case for Free Trade Is Weaker Than You Think
Russians do it better. Gulag Archipelago, War and Peace. OK, so they use more pages...
Pretty cool. I'd like to point out that meditation might have a similar dampening effect on the default mode network as well. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25904238

The question arises again, can psychedelics have lasting effects or is meditation the only way to create permanent positive change in that direction?

Finally, a quote from a letter to Osho: "Many people are experimenting with the drug ecstasy. I heard you say once that a lie is sweet in the beginning and bitter in the end, and truth is bitter in the beginning, and sweet in the end. I have been meditating, but I don't have the experiences people report from the drug ecstasy. Is the drug like the lie, and meditation the truth? Or am I missing something that could really help me?"
All those and no mention of the classic "Forth on the Atari: Learning by Using Forth"? http://www.globalnerdy.com/2007/09/14/reimagining-programmin...
Why Apple’s Stand Against the F.B.I. Hurts Its Own Customers
Related website:
http://www.democracyspring.org
great video. I don't know a lot about electronics, so I am left wondering two things:

why did the fault not stop after i pulled out the first two components? wouldn't that break off the power circuit inside?

why did the fault stop after he removed the transformer?
You might give a listen to Jason Isbell. I'm no country aficionado--closest I'll go is Jenny Lewis or Neko Case, usually--but Isbell seems to get back to the thoughtful lyrics and good execution that used to make stars.
Ask HN: What programming languages produce code most/least prone to bugs?
تحميل+تطبيق+MiniMovie+لتحرير+الفيديو+العملاق+بأضافة+الكثير+من+الادوات
Why, oh why, didn't they study this kind of stuff when I very nearly managed to drop out of the History of Science program in college?
Even if they do, the per-file keys must be algorithmically-derived from the master key. (Otherwise, how can it unencrypt the files after you pay the ransom?)
Cubicaltt: Cubical Type Theory
Yes, resist in selling. And yes, she doesn't want her legacy to be Yahoo's value nosediving under her watch (whether or not it was her fault).

I'm not saying she's wrong in resisting, only that resisting is a "neg" when it comes to getting future CEO jobs. The tanking value can be explained away ("the momentum was insurmountable", etc.), but resisting stakeholders too strongly cannot.
It may have been higher. But it seems that weworkremotely seems to have a good bar for candidates. Also: I'm counting candidates, not agencies and such spamming.
Deep Space Industries
I agree. Just so long as we don't mandate a degree for everyone.

A friend of mine works in non-tech recruiting. Just about every job they post requires a degree. Their understanding of the world now leans towards the idea that getting a degree is more important than life itself.

It's pretty bad when your HR person, a recent psych grad, doesn't know what bipolar is. My friend tells me tons of stories like this all the time..
This teenager will be singehandeldy (maybe with help from voters) responsible for several onsets of midlife crises. Words can be dangerous.
See http://www.runnersworld.com/races/marine-corps-marathon-issu... for an interesting case.

(Full, ludicrous, disclosure: I once took shortcuts on the Marine Corps Marathon course; but I was following the pack. The finishers' certificates for the 1980 race went out with a finish time and an estimated adjusted time.)
Not sure the relevance. You agree to data being collected every time you apply for a card, open a bank account, rent an apartment, etc. If you don't do any of those things, you won't have a credit file, as far as I know, or if you do it will be based on public data (like your birth, perhaps).

Freezing is not opting out of data collection, it's a control over who can get that data.
Haskell, and Rust tend to be pretty safe.
Believe it or not, but moving is up there with death and divorce in terms of stress inducing events. We wanted a calming brand. We are also fans of minimalism. Most people pay a lot to move crap they don't need. We are all about only moving the essentials.

We provide price comparison, so moveBuddha is closer to Kayak or Travelocity than Uber. However, moving is way more complicated than booking a flight. A big part of our value add is walking you through all the complexity and explaining the process.
"we've wasted thousands of years of collective experience" - nicely put.

It's exactly this what good education of history should counter - the waste of collective experiences. It is very inefficient to go through the same cycles over and over again.
I think using medium format film forces you to become a better medium format film photographer.

I upgraded from a heavy DSLR to an iPhone. Now I can take as many photos as I want without worrying about the weight or the cost. I can concentrate on composition without worrying about focus or aperture.

I find taking a long series of spontaneous shots is better for making memories than taking one very thoughtfully composed shot. Sometimes my unconscious combined with luck is a better photographer than I am.

Is this better than your approach? Is it worse?

Neither. It's all photography.
Cars are limited to just 200hp during races, and FIA has blocked the teams from innovating much. It's almost as if it pains them to have electric racers that they made them bad on purpose. These things accelerate slower than a tesla family SUV.
>> I'd never argue that all software has to be free or that everyone should do it.

> Why not?

Because not all useful types of software have volunteers willing and able to write them or business models that sustain them. Expecting all software to be free is unrealistic.
Thanks ian crowther and nodeconf london team for the hard work, you are really taking it to the next level.
Web we want: How can we end online abuse and have better conversations on the web?
Kepler recovered from emergency
He's like the "Bob Ross" of electronics.
I was actually impressed that pcworld covered this story, which is part of why I used their link. I didn't see it anywhere else! Is there an official HN policy on what the "canonical link" is for a thing?
Kathleen Edwards is another female voice for the list.
Thanks but I'm a woman.
There's no need for a caching proxy for this, Bro IDS will do this out of the box if you drop the hashes in it's intel framework
+1 for X Country and Outlaw Country on Sirius. Also, take any artist from the lists above, start a station on Pandora and you will get a wonderful lesson into today's musical storytellers.
Were the batteries brand new? Were the battery swap stations everywhere that had a supercharger? Did everyone know about it? It seems like there are possibly some other explanations than people didn't care about the recharge wait. I know I wouldn't swap out my known good batteries for some dodgy unknown batteries from the last Tesla that went through here just for convenience, but that wouldn't mean that I didn't care about the inconvenience..
Fucking $23.50 for a pack of 8 films plus S&H I assume. Fuck that shit.
I always wonder with these "nothing we do has meaning" pieces... what WOULD give life 'real' meaning? As in, what alternate reality would provide meaning?

I can't imagine a universe where things would have 'meaning' in the manner the author of this post seems to desire. Even if you believe in a God that gives our lives meaning, doesn't that just push up the search for 'meaning' one level? How is God choosing an arbitrary meaning for our lives any different than some other human choosing a meaning for your life?

I can understand being frustrated by the drive for status and recognition, but that doesn't have to be the source for meaning in your life. We can find meaning in all sorts of things in our lives. We can find it in our relationships with our loved ones, in our enjoyment of our favorite activities, in our striving to advance human discovery and understanding of our world. These are things that can have intrinsic meaning, not things that only have meaning in the way they increase our status or grant us some secondary benefit.

I would really suggest reading "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankl
Well said. +1 for mentioning Aubrey.
>Unfortunately, this is likely going to be a problem till strong AI becomes a thing, since there's no real way to judge content quality automatically without it.

While this is true in absolute terms, there are ways to improve that I don't really know of Google doing (not that they aren't, as I don't have information on their internal workings). Google's algorithms seem to consider linking supreme and they don't appear to do any of their own research. I think a research/polling program to get users to rate some content would greatly improve search results. Other signals like the average reading level of the page's text could also be used to surmise the type and quality of content.

Overall, we need more humanity in the search results and less blind belief in the academic theory. This is a lapse in judgment frequently made by academics and mathematicians; they refuse to accept the evidence of failure that lies in front of them (since their theory/model/whatever doesn't say it should exist) until the failure reaches catastrophic, impossible-to-ignore thresholds. We need more humanity in a lot of systems, in my estimation.
Free software licenses have to do with copyright law, not patent law. And the only major change in copyright law in the last few decades was the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which isn't super relevant to the issues in free software.
I don't know, this line seems pretty male-centric:

"It’s as if you are now in the elite of the elites of the monkeys, in the good part of the forest where the trees grow bountiful and most female monkeys would kill to be considered a worthy partner by you, so that they too can perform the successful monkey rituals with you"
NASA Begins Testing of Revolutionary E-Sail Technology
99% of all VPS providers (in the $5/mo category, not $75/mo) will kill your account for running an exit node. They do not want their blocks of ARIN, RIPE or APNIC ipv4 space listed in every abuse and spam swamp realtime black hole list in existence.
Here's one...maybe the actual developer who was contracted to build the damned thing purposely used weak encryption to try to ameliorate his/her part in making this malware mess.
I love contemplating this idea, but really hate when people write about it. They always talk about "The Matrix" or being "Video Game Characters", which really muddies the water. Of course a lot of people will reject the idea when presented like this. The Matrix, for one, is real humans in a real universe being plugged into the simulation of the real universe, which seems absurd. The idea of being inside a video game detracts from people's inherent feeling of free will and self awareness, because it seems to imply they are either a pre-programmed NPC or a character being controlled by some consciousness outside of the simulation. I feel like this flawed first impression makes them less likely to entertain the idea.

At least the way I think about it, these analogies are neither accurate to the theory nor necessary to explain it to the layman. Let's look at it academically. If our technology had the capacity to completely simulate any sort of universe, you can bet a least one research team would do just that. Well, if you, like me and many others, think of the intelligent mind simply as a very powerful and self-aware computer capable of learning and abstract thought, and if the so-called universe simulated by researchers has a model of matter capable of creating the logical gates needed to replicate such a computer, and the simulated universe contains natural processes by which these logical gates might evolve, then you must agree that it is possible intelligent life may emerge in such a simulated universe -- no matter how different, similar, big, or small it is in comparison to our own. Then, following the same reasoning, you must also agree that there is the slightest possibility that the nested universe may produce one or multiple collections of intelligence capable of the same thing.

In this thought experiment, the simulation isn't imprisonment, doesn't violate a sense of self-awareness or free will, and doesn't even rule out the concept of a god or ultimate creator. It simply abstracts the container in which our universe lives from something mysterious to something relatively relatable to our current technology.

Another interesting thought is if we ever become capable of simulating such a universe, it seems much more likely than not we're also a simulation, since there's a possibility for each simulation to produce it's own simulation or collection of simulations.
It's a 16-bit version of Salsa20, which is far less secure. Proof: this project. I have no clue what possessed the author to do this.

Stop hand-rolling crypto, people! Ransomware needs security too. :(
I think it is a cool idea...however this does not solve the student debt crisis. This looks to me like swapping one type of debt for the other. Unless I am misunderstanding your offering. I would reconsider the last statement..."We hope, with your help, we can solve the student debt crisis together."
But people are fine with exploitation so long as a group of people we call "government" are the ones doing it. ;)
He claims that he doesn't like that either, but that without those subsidies ICE cars are economically viable but Tesla would never sell cars. Anyway, I'm giving you the reasonable summary, don't go actually reading those comments, they're worse than the article.
A Yacht, a Vine Star, and his 10M followers
Just because the hardware is made there does not mean data is not encrypted in transit and at rest.
Here is a fun fact. Apple and Inspur are both UNIX vendors.

It is not news that Apple has given up on Mac OS X as a UNIX server platform, but seeing one UNIX vendor outsource to another UNIX vendor at this level is still weird.
I still get along pretty well with html 3.0
When you remember that we are evolved monkeys it all makes perfect sense. Not saying it's somehow gratifying or inspiring but leaves little mystery. Probably not the answer you were looking for.
Probably nothing. I'm just making this explicit, because people tend to not come right out and say "if you disagree with me then you're evil."
It looks like the implementors failed to follow the recommended usage and design (and indeed common sense) of the algorithm:

* They used 16 bit math instead of 32 bit math (with, I'm assuming, a 32 bit output size rather than the recommended 64 bit output). Which has the effect of looking like 10 rounds, but it's a rather more serious security failure.

* They generated keys in the alphanumeric range (instead of the full byte range) significantly reducing entropy.

All which seems to have weakened it substantially (understatement).
Deceiving Blizzard Warden (WoW, SC II and Diablo 3 Anti-Cheat System)
The premise is absurd if considered superficially and irrelevant if discussed in detail.

The further you pursue such possibilities, the less significant they become, because you reach the boundaries of human epistemology.

The difference between simulated and "real" reality is beyond the scope of the senses and deduction. We would have to be outside the world to know the truth, and this is of course impossible.
I played "Odyssey: The Compleat Apventure" as a grade school kid. Looking back on it, I think the guy at the Pittsburgh computer store was thinking "sucker!" when my dad was checking out with it. It was done using Apple "shape tables" instead of proper sprites, so getting caught in a whirlpool would cause you to "spin" with the very flashy animation consisting of 8 frames. And the ones at 45 degrees were ~sqrt(2) times too large because of how shape table "rotation" worked. (Or didn't work)
Why does he handle the bare wires of the test lamp near the mains? Is there no risk the way he hooks it up?
They say security is only for the paranoid. But wow, I never thought it would come to this level!

I'm curious, why isn't apple producing their own servers? They had XServe back in the good old days...
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11475507.
The wires are insulated. Yes, there is a risk but this is what he does.

Check out this video for a story of a risky thing he did with a heating element and a bath (4:30 is where it really gets going): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUn17ccR2a4
Loki. and Thor.?
It looks like [3] is a reboot.
Extensible Access Methods Are Committed to Postgres 9.6
Daily Mail confims talks with potential Yahoo bidders
It's against HN's rules to accuse other users of astroturfing or shilling without evidence. If you're worried about it, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look at the data and investigate (which we always do). But it's not ok to turn threads in that direction based on nothing more than opposing views. Few things are more destructive of civil discourse, and it's nearly always the case that opposing views are honestly held.
Newspapers Send Cease-And-Desist to Brave
What Are the Panama Papers? Things You Need to Know
Anybody Read “Technologies of the Future” by Alec Ross?
It's a must for any person who's fascinated by tech and economics.
The technologies mentioned are well known, but just imagine what they will do to the world economics once become mainstream.
Scary and exciting at the same time.
Anker is fantastic. With one weird exception - when I use my Anker USB to Ethernet adapter, my (Microsoft brand) wireless mouse stops working unless it put it right next to the USB receiver. I bought a much crappier-looking Ethernet adapter and had no issues.
755 MP Lytro Cinema camera enables 300 fps light field video
coming soon to bearded skinny pants hipsters everywhere!!!

don't forget your portable mechanical typewriter so you can write your memoirs at the local coffee shop.
ePub and PDF covers most. ePub for best display on a lot of readers, PDF for your own nice layout on computers and for printing.

Furthermore, don't put DRM on your eBook. DRM will hurt your customers and won't stop the pirates.
What Is Heatstroke? Heat Stroke Symptoms and Prevention
I agree! Discovery is a problem for me as well, hard to find quality.