skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kenya, for example, has 500Ksh for a GB, which comes to about $4.92, USD; this is comparable to rates I encountered elsewhere in SSA.

Meanwhile, the less money you have, the more you pay! Smaller bundles cost more per GB, and many of the Kenyans I knew would regularly buy 150MB top-ups due to lack of upfront funds.

On AirTel in India, it looks like they charge about $3.88 for a 1GB bundle good for 28 days (there's a cheaper 1GB bundle good for 1 day, however, and some other deals available). There are also a few articles floating around on the _increasing_ cost of data in India, suggesting that companies started with cheaper data while establishing themselves in the marketplace, and over time have been more obliged to turn a profit instead of burning investor money on subsidized plans. Cambodia does look pretty cheap, though, I agree.
Ant Financial to Harness Blockchain in Updated Philanthropy App
Not that I'm aware of, but based on the interest in my comments here I feel like there definitely should be.
There's a fun (toy) crypto challenge I do every year for undergrad students, you can see the past problems here: http://www.cwu.edu/math/previous-challenges (I wasn't a big fan of the 2016 problems)
Don’t Wrap Anti-Competitive Pay-TV Practices in a Copyright Flag
Serverless deployments
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He was recently in the security world news for finding some serious bugs in LastPass. Finding bugs is kinda his thing.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2466181/lastpass-pa...
I remember thinking I understood how a Van de Graaff generator worked. Simple enough, you'd think.

What I learned when I built one was that there is nothing simple or intuitive about electrostatics.
Exactly. I like this analogy especially because our needs as a more advanced civilization are drastically different from the function performed by beaver dams. It's not even about energy per se. We could dam all the streams, but that's not a meaningful pursuit given our interests. Likewise, wondering about damming all the stars assumes that solar energy requirements are both the bottleneck and the ultimate purpose of advanced civilizations.
There are good web clients for video chat, e.g. talky.io. Therefore it doesn't make that much sense for Firefox to have its own version.
> It's always tricky to me to figure out how to phrase a statement about a frequentist method

That seems to me to be a fault whose location is not in your stars.
> Piano design didn't really mature until around 1850. So a lot of the most famous classical piano music was composed on not-quite-there yet prototype instruments with a thinner and less powerful sound, and sometimes also a less sensitive action.

This is really apparent in the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. In the original instructions, the pedal was to be held throughout the entire piece. On a piano of Beethoven's time, that would lead each chord to blend into the next without overpowering it. But if you try to do that on a modern piano, the tones are sustained for so long that all the chords get muddled together and the result is a mess.
Scientists invent a way to create CO2 fuel from a solar leaf
I have a hard time calling the result of negotiations between the single cartel of teams and the single (probably less-skilled) cartel of players a market.
Blackbar needs context link
Every time there is a black bar, I have to CNTR-F (died|dead|"Passed away"). If you're going to change UI to signal something, please explain it to the user.

Please!
I agree with your conclusion, but the common thread I see is more the type of person than the subject matter. I don't mean that HN's audience is homogenous across some simple metric, but even among its vastly different members I see a shared respect of logical reasoning and evidence-based argument. That, and just generally smart people, are the hallmarks of the culture here for me (at least the positive part of it).
Nice book! I'll add it to my reading list.

Just to add to what you said, the part of the Bronze Age collapse that was specific to Greece has been dubbed, the "Dorian Invasion".[0]

After the Dorian Invasion, the culture and languages/dialects in Greece were replaced by those prevalent in Classical Greece, the era of Greece most people think of when referring to "Ancient Greece".

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorian_invasion
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12194106
> It's not surveillance that's the big problem for static content.

Why would you say this? Surveilling what URLs someone is accessing / content they are watching / books they're checking out of the library has been a major security issue, historically.
Irrelevant. On a personal level, he didn't get to his current net worth by not seeking out lucrative deals. It's also irrelevant from the legal perspective (see Martha Stewart).
but maybe changing them is not the author's goal, but rather routing around them.

Something about your phrasing made me think of this;

https://xkcd.com/810/
Thanks so much for sharing this. IAAL, and I found it a well-written, informative, and accurate summary of the L-1A process.

I'd love to see a US immigration process that was so simple it could be 100% lawyer-free. Probably not in my lifetime though!

I especially enjoyed the emphasis on compiling good documentation, paying attention to detail, and figuring out what the immigration officer will be looking for, then tailoring the application to those priorities.

That's how lawyers do it, and he's right, it's not rocket science.

Also appreciate the link to the Startup Grind blog. New to me, and helpful.
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We're a small startup in fintech space looking for a couple more backend engineers. Our ideal candidate will have experience writing Java services with Dropwizard backed by Postgres serving a React frontend and hosted on AWS, whether you've been an engineer for 12 months or twelve years, we'd love to talk to you. The team is small with five engineers and twenty total in the company.

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Yeah I didn't get his comment either. I read their security document. They use SSL to encrypt traffic in transit. That is all. It's not encrypted at rest or in any other fashion. Big deal almost everything is SSL these days during transit the big sales point that catches MY eye are products that encrypt your data at rest like tarsnap, where no one, including the state can access it. THAT is the only products I will use or trust. These guys mine your data just like Google. Don't kid yourself.
Why do they want to keep them?
His very late pieces are very interesting. His piece "Nuages Gris" is often cited as being the first impressionistic piece and his piece "Bagatelle sans Tonalité" presaged Schoenberg's move towards atonality a few decades later.

He also received the four minor orders in the Roman Catholic Church (these are porter, lector, exorcist, and acolyte, and are one rank below a subdeacon).
Well, by preventable, I think I meant something different than you. I meant you could not share needles or you could always use a condom. Sex/needles are what, 99% of transmissions?

And yeah condoms break, but if HIV transfer was limited to the condom breaking that would be a step in the right direction.
That's why Firefox mobile is the best browser for Android.
I rather thought of:

- Clinton

- Trump

- None (give me someone else)

In case 3rd option gets most votes parties have to re-pick candidates in a week.
Tell me more about why the place you live is better than every other place in the world...
Oh interesting. Nice info.
[Engineer drinking that black liquid]
I listened to this podcast about Liszt a few months ago and recommend it to anyone who wants to learn more

http://www.missedinhistory.com/podcasts/lisztomania/
Very cool - I recognised the Pigpen cipher immediately, as we used to use it all the time in my boy scout days back in the 70's. The process of figuring out the substitutions was very cool, and I might use this article as the basis for teaching my kids about cryptoanalysis...
he's one of those people in the running for 'most gifted person who ever lived' IMO

as purely a composer he's somewhat overshadowed by some of his great contemporaries, but the Piano Sonata in B Minor combines all the strengths of his music into a kind of unparalleled masterpiece with fascinating oscillations between struggle and serenity
You are probably right. Western companies think long term, not about profit today but profit tomorrow. Chinese software companies don't have that luxury of longer term thinking given the environment they are in.
Finally there's a way for the millennials to pay off their student loans.
But that is largely incorrect advice, given based on the fact that mysql never implemented any reasonable join algorithms, just nested loops. It didn't apply to real databases.
Thanks for taking a look at it –

Regarding resources for absolute beginners, I haven’t read it myself, but this book [1] takes a similar approach to my site, but since it has full English translations of the text it seems like it could be useful to beginners (however, it looks like you still need to understand basic grammar and vocabulary).

As to pricing, the comma is in the American sense. So that would make it about $10/month.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Breaking-into-Japanese-Literature-Cla...
Ya, it often isn't very comfortable. Even our office has this problem, they can never see the bigger picture that humidity is just as bad as temperature for getting work done.
Not feeling on edge today? Read this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislav_Petrov
User sessions is not an example of that, why would your user session have lots of indexes? And sessions don't belong in a database to begin with. I've never made a table like this in 15 years, and can't even think of a reason I would want to.
Or some investor did.
Blocks – a minimalistic, highly addictive game out now for iOS
Scientists Wanted Transparency from Theranos, but Got a Product Launch Instead
You'd think codes for routine messages and for starting WW3 would not be easily confused.

Just a UX tip for anyone designing these things.
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> Atom may not be as fast as some native editors but I've found it to more than fast enough for 99% of the code editing I do and the plugin ecosystem and overall user experience is better than any other editor I've tried.

How big are the projects you are working on? When I was messing around with atom yesterday on a single small file it was great. But when I opened a project I'm working on, about 15,000 lines of C across 50 or so files, atom becomes unusably slow. 15,000 lines is pretty small compared to lot's of other projects and atom couldn't handle that. It's too bad because I like atom, I thought the plugin system was much easier than Sublime's and I liked the overall look and feel better than Sublime.
The freely available online book Think Python is a fantastic introduction to both CS and Python and includes a chapter on turtle graphics with some fun exercises.
I was lucky to meet the ex director of the Musee Guimet by chance, and he explained to me that his career started on nautical sites in the Philippines.
Yes, and almost always used as pre-emptive optimization that didn't need to be done. Often times even making things slower because the person doing it didn't understand what they were doing, they just heard "denormalizing makes it fast".
> You don't park your car at red lights and turn off the engine, then complain about how long it takes to pull away when the lights turn green.

You didn't, until car startup time was optimized enough that modern cars do turn off the engine at red lights to save resources, then turn it back on when you put your foot down.
Don't sell yourself short. If you can write the Python code to work out the Pigpen key "VAMPIRE", you can break poorly-implemented AES, RSA, and ECC.

http://cryptopals.com/

Set #1 starts out with a simpler problem than Pigpen, and then a problem that's just barely harder than Pigpen, but that requires actual code and whose solution will also help you break repeated-nonce AES-CTR.
JetBlue still storing passwords in plain text, after 4 years
Yes, and an even better message is the reply to it, pointing out how almost all of their issues aren't really issues: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20160727002711.GI4028%...
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Who we’re looking for
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That's what lobbying is.

Except lobbyists answer to the people who pay them. Closest thing we have to the tech community paying lobbyists is the EFF.

If we had a professional organization, that would be a reasonable place to organize such a lobbying arm.
Works just fine at bodegas in New York, often with more than one. Just don't expect them to come over when your colleagues want to see them.
My point though is that a failure to maintain military aircraft is sensitive information that could be used by the enemy. You don't want your enemy to know your weak spots. I'm happy for the courts to give the government broad deference in these cases, especially when constitutional principles are not hanging in the balance.

Don't forget the time period that this happened in. The Soviets had tested their first nuke only a few years prior, Eastern Europe had fallen behind the Iron Curtain, communist movements were on the rise in the rest of Asia and had succeeded in taking China. The prospect of total war was very real. That you're doing a bad job of maintaining a certain class of warplane is very sensitive information in such an environment.
Cryptanalyzing a small text with a weak cipher is pretty hard, but not impossible.

Of course, assuming you're not using a really super duper weak cipher like ROT13. Just moderately weak.
I have seen high-power WIFI card with amplifiers that can do really powerful TX output and the linux drivers are free to tune that output to its physical upper limit.
I'm having trouble understanding the relationship between two pretty abstract ideas: this one, and the Richardson maturity model [0].

Are the two futures at odds? Kinlan seems to be imagining annotations embedded in Hypermedia, so that documents could be "displayed" by non-traditional "browsers" that didn't actually render the document but rather extracted data from it and displayed it in some other interface to the user.

Richardson describes a system in which web APIs can be explorable by software, so that the software doesn't need to be written to an API. In a sense, the API contains program-readable documentation about how to use it. This works as long as a set of "nouns" and "verbs" are understood commonly by the API and the client program.

I can't wrap my head around how these ideas would fit together. Are they the "read" and "write" halves of a post-browser Web? Or are they contradictory futures?

[0]: http://martinfowler.com/articles/richardsonMaturityModel.htm...
>In case 3rd option gets most votes parties have to re-pick candidates in a week.

How about not having the parties choose one and only one candidate? Maybe let it be a competition between the top three?
Choosing the right text editor or IDE to start coding
I agree actually, but state funding of higher education, as the GP is suggesting, would probably only further cement the current broken system.