skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty minimal. If you have TrueCrypt installed you can run a benchmarks of various algorithms. It's especially fast if you have a modern processor with AES-NI (hardware AES instructions) -- I get around 1GB/s Encrypt/Decrypt using AES on a Core i5.
Great list, but do keep in mind of language/tech specific job boards. To give a concrete example, if I was looking for Perl developers (or to work as one) I would surely check out jobs.perl.org first. Such focused boards or mailing lists usually exist for most popular technologies and might give more solid leads. YMMV of course.
Coursekit Raises $5 Million to Reinvent the Classroom
Still doesn't answer the question. How does mailchimp know? Do MUAs commonly send some kind of response to the sender when the user flags a message as spam? Or is this something they're getting via webmail services?
I tried going to the author's site (https://imusgeographics.com/) to see what the map costs just out of curiosity, but at this point the site seems to be down due to exceeding its quota. Too bad.
Thanks a lot. Of course you'll have done your homework, I just had the immediate 'Hmm.. Most of this exists already' reaction.

Interpreter: Sure. I've no clue how many concurrent users you have (or is that the 4000 above?) - at some point that becomes a good point again.

Anyway: Thanks a lot, appreciated the feedback directly from the source. :)
You use the term "article" as if it was supposed to be a well-written piece intended for a particular audience. It wasn't. It's a personal blog post recording a light bulb going off for me on one particular aspect of chord naming.
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You can't shut down an IP. An IP is like a phone number, so you could close the subscription or even bust through the door and shoot the guy with it. But it makes no sense to talk about shutting down the phone number.

However assaulting something that is presently in space is really difficult and it is likely that physical violence would do no good at all.
Mobile browsing hits record level in December
And when are encrypted tunnels getting banned? Individuals responsible for this kind of oppression need to be tried at international court for crimes against humanity.
Oprah Winfrey with OWN, her new network: hopes doing better this year.
Who said anything about banning women from being objectified?
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Ah, so may be I will see you there :) I agree that this is a fantastic conference!
The /only/ part of the "article" that was related to the title

"Many people are resistant to the new Facebook layout changes and are opting to use old outdated browsers to maintain the more familiar Facebook page layout. In addition, companies frustrated with their employees' wasting precious work hours on social media sites are using these outdated browsers to enforce employee compliance."

[citation needed]

And just to be clear - we are saying that companies would rather risk increased security risks and more manhours spent waiting on page requests and execution...to stop people from getting rounded corners and facebook layout updates? That has to be one of the silliest things I have heard in a very long time.
> This would require the bank to serve its home page from https, including a redirect from http for every visitor

And that's a bad idea why exactly?...

> Setting all login ID's to users' email addresses: This just removes more entropy from the login security process, since I now know that logins come from the set of valid email addresses.

Currently the username in my bank is a 9-digit number and they've got "over 30 million customers" I'm pretty sure I can guess a valid username in under 10 tries ;) Meanwhile, emails are almost an unlimited search space. The only thing that changes is that you're more likely to know who does the email belong to.
I only see one little image at the head of the article, but the text refers to what seems to be a few closeup shots. I bet it's Slate's damn tablet view dropping them on the floor. God I hate Slate's tablet view, it's slow and makes reading HARDER.

edit. Found the Normal view link. Yep. Tablet view is missing images. YAY.
Bands Pivot Just Like Startups
According to the WayBack Machine, it wasn't available for sale on his site the last time it was updated in 2008 (however individual states are relatively cheap: $10 - $35 depending on quality).

http://web.archive.org/web/20080703202153/http://www.imusgeo...
Edit: Wordpress somehow got the numbers all wrong. It's still 50 things though :)
Coding well being the key here.

As was recently discussed though: there is no shame in good enough.

http://blog.phiz.net/theres-no-shame-in-good-enough
It's bit more complicated than that. The balloon lift will decrease with pressure, which will decrease with altitude but so will aerodynamic drag. Ion engines design for satellite operation also prioritize low reaction mass usage and I am not sure the low thrust is a hard limit or a design choice. The device could also use vertical thrust to compensate for the loss of lift and then gradually rotate until it reaches orbital speeds.

It's probably impossible with current propulsion technology, but it would be useful to have a number when it starts to be possible.
you can't ban encrypted tunnels if there is any kind of global connectivity.

you can put an encrypted tunnel into a connection which looks quite ordinary.
Those models are free to leave modeling just as baseball players are free to leave baseball.

The generic concept of "women" cannot disassociate themselves from the images of these particular models in the same way that the generic concept of "men" cannot disassociate themselves from the image of these particular baseball players. I find it hard to be concerned about either of these situations.
I'm fairly certain there are enough "douchebags" to keep this running. The service was apparently doing well before professional criminals got involved.
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Forced SSL isn't a bad idea, nor is it hard. Many banks already do this.

Most banks already offer an API, in the form of OFX. The security measures (like challenge questions) are already circumvented, and I've seen some really bad security flaws in OFX implementations when I last played around. e.g., inter-customer money transfers without requiring anything but the password, no auth lockout making brute-forcing possible, ability to crash the OFX gateway, &c.

(Yes, the newer OFX standards support multi-factor authentication, but I don't know of a single bank that uses the newer version.)

Also, most FIs hate the idea of financial aggregation, being worried about other companies cross-selling to their customers.

A sane REST API would be a wonderful step in the right direction, but I doubt it'll happen in the next ten years on a large-scale. Getting OFX to where it stands now took the combined market forces of Intuit and Microsoft many years, and didn't turn out well.
No. That looks crushingly boring.
My dad was the security officer in a major department of UK gov, and he asked this very question to legal. The response was that if the key doesn't exist, you must prove its non-existence. His protest on that fell on deaf ears. Furthermore, if the key is controlled under the Official Secrets Act, you will brake the law both when you hand them over you and when you don't.

Basically, laws that don't make absolute logical sense are fine, they'll just decide who to prosecute. Totally fine, nothing to see here.
New incubator opens in Hong Kong, offering startups up to $82,000
1.) Just write me an email with your offer.
You are not giving away anything. You are looking to get something in return.

2.) Sound's great doesn't it?
I do not mean to be rude but no, it does not sound great. My good friend runs http://www.blurtit.com, a very high-traffic Q&A site that is built on SEO and this tool is very underpowered. There is no focus on content or simple link-data. The interface is too complex.
On Facebook, Obama Has The Most Fans, Ron Paul the Highest “Viral Reach”
How Google and Apple Won the Smartphone Wars
This was always the case, Phil Zimmermann was very open about it, even back in 1991. Sun fellows know the same. There were even case stories from Romania around the nineties, a country which is not even 250 years old.

http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/news/PGP_10thAnniversary.ht...
those guys are in power for 20 years already. I wouldn't expect them to be at any international trial -- not in their lives
I don't mind the crappy web interfaces because I have bigger complaints about modern consumer banking. I really don't understand how loose sloppy a lot of it feels to me, and how old school other parts feel. Here are a few of examples from my very recent past:

1) I had a check stolen. The thief was able to write themselves (or someone they know) a check for $100, sign it with my name, and deposit or cash it. I only discovered this after seeing the transaction in my history and notifying the bank. The forged signature was looked completely different from my own. What's the point of a signature if it's not used for authentication?

2) Because of the above, during the fraud claim process I had to close my account. This disrupted my direct deposit and my employer attempted to deposit my paycheck into a closed account. I didn't realize this until the payment was being returned. I was told that I would have to wait 5 business days for the payment to be resolved. Why isn't this instantaneous? Why do high frequency firms enjoy millisecond trading while consumers have to wait what is basically the equivalent of postal mail delays for electronic transactions? I'm sure this is vastly simplified (HFT firms colocate with exchanges, consumer banks must have to comply with regulations that necessitate these delays) but it does seem that the ordinary consumer is being screwed out of some innovation here.

3) Finally, just this past week, someone accidentally deposited over $1000 into my account. They must have made a mistake with the account number. I told the bank about it, and it still hasn't been resolved. How is this even possible? From what I understand, all you need to withdraw and deposit money from an account is the combination of routing number and account number, and this seems so crazy in the way it opens up for mistakes or abuse.

Of course, I'm likely underestimating the complexities and histories here so I would be very happy to have my naivete corrected.
Shifting reading habits boost Read It Later in 2011
The ugly truth: why beautiful wins in 2012
No. More cheerful designs for paid customers would not make the free users read directions carefully or appreciate a thank you email.
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I think tables can work great for expressing such concepts, but Sturgeon's Law applies here, too: almost all table-based systems do it badly. Subtext has no problem with recursion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtext_%28programming_language...
Rooting for the downfall of credit cards
I love USAA. Great customer service, great web access, and I can always get someone on the phone no matter the time.
be reassured, that "nobody" actually checks thoroughly in practice, so don't rely on it.

http://www.h-online.com/newsticker/news/item/Debian-package-...
Google+'s Biggest Traffic Month of All Time
I guess it depends on what % of your writes were simply updating a boolean or integer value. My benchmark shows that simple updates like that don't affect query performance much. Writes that take longer probably have different performance characteristics, YMMV, etc.
I've used the same bank since 1999, and their internet bank has always been stellar. In the beginning you logged in with your id and a PIN and you had to have a personal browser certificate. Since then they've added an additional one-time code, and you can also log in with something called BankID which is a national electronic id system.

So it's secure, works in all browsers, and gives you choice in how you want to log on. And on top of that, the actual service is great, paying bills is easy and free, opening accounts and moving money between accounts is instant and free, transferring to other banks or other people is free (but takes time), automatic bill payment is easy and free.

And the other banks in my country aren't bad either, competition forces all of them to be secure, free to use, and easy to use.
drug trafficking, illegal immigration don't serve as counterpoints; you're putting the cart before the horse

The drugs trade is the flow of narcotics from source to sink. Stopping them at a national border is one approach; stopping them elsewhere in transit (as it leaves the source, on the open sea, at the destination by local police, etc) is another. And then you have one more: tackling the existence of a source and a sink. In other words, you look at supply (i.e. creation/generation of stock) and demand. I believe that this is perhaps the best approach, and it is definitely one to which borders are irrelevant. So I don't really accept that as a counterpoint to what I was saying. In some ways, the fact you thought it was illustrates my point: our focus on borders is simplistic and maybe distracting us from finding more effective approaches that might be inspired by a thorough analysis of the system dynamics.

People trafficking is to some extent the same thing: source, sink, and a flow over many miles from one to the other (maybe across a border, maybe not).

As for illegal immigration, you have a flow that exists because of inequality (i.e. it's a flow down a gradient) - a difference in living standards, job opportunities, safety, etc. This inequality makes the recipient country a sink and the donor country a source. But of course, once again we shouldn't be talking about countries. Some regions are more attractive than others, and people have always moved between them, generally to the gain of one region and the detriment of another. Population flows can be cross-border, or not, despite the similarity in causes. Once again; should borders really be the focal point at which destabilising migrations are addressed by modern, globalised societies?
If we vilify those who do it, the effective message is a desired ban.
MAME ported to Google Chrome
1. All email providers do the HTTPS thing. Have you noticed any problem with them? Almost every user who visits the bank's website will want to log in.

3. You might get some tiny fraction of additional security (through obscurity) by obfuscating people's logins, but this is ridiculous, unnecessary, and at great expense to the user experience when a decent password provides all the security you need.
Not sure exactly how this would be implemented, but it sounds like a bad idea, since they would just wait for your automated updater to decrypt the decoy. Even if it was in some limited fashion, the encryption key would be in RAM, so it would be as vulnerable as any running system.

(BTW, if you're worried about a state-level adversary, that means you should always turn off your computer when not using it, and wait a few minutes before physically leaving it to prevent a cold boot attack)
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What bands/musicians do you feel pivoted?
PostSecret shuts down iPhone app due to abusive posts
Cioc, it depends on what type of "launch" you are talking about.

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If you mean the first time showing your product to users, you don't need an official "launch". You should be constantly posting about your startup in circles where your userbase resides.

Starting from scratch, it's hard enough to get a decent number of users to care. You shouldn't restrict yourself to trying to get a lot of users in a short burst. The goal here is to incrementally grow out the feature set as well as the userbase.

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If you are talking about the big tech publication launch, it should happen when you are sure your product is magnificent and you are confident that people will love the novelty / utility / efficiency. You have to somehow convince tech publications that you are interesting. You don't want to mess up by having them visit a substandard product and establishing a bad impression.

Note that if your targeted audience is not tech, what you are doing with tech publication launches is building brand familiarity with investors. This is a different aim than blowing up your user count, but is an important goal nevertheless.

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I think a big source of confusion is the term "launch". It somehow predicates that in the pre-state, there are zero users and in the post-state, there is either a huge number of users if your startup is a success or a low number of users if your startup is a failure.

I like to think of launches as a way to get a nice boost up in user count or awareness on top of the incremental increase.

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You should know before you "launch" whether it will be a successful or not.
Awesome site, thanks for creating it! I tend to keep mine pretty clean, but it's such a PITA to hunt down all the dangling ends that shortcuts are very much appreciated :)
Help HN : Why I think about people, what they think about me?
Whatever I do in my day to day activity I always thinks what people think about me. I am too much worried about other people's though about me for every activity.

Certain time I do day dreaming for the same like I am doing public speaking and people/friends appreciating me.

Due to this I feel less confidence because I hate to make any mistakes and that's why I try less. I also waste lots of time in thinking about things which doesn't matter much.

It also reduce my focus point.

Am I normal or need some kind of treatment.

Please help...
What annoys me most about the Occupy movement is that they aren't even intellectually active enough to study other contemporary protest movements. I'm staggered at the number of people involved in Occupy who genuinely see police as a bunch of cretinous thugs and don't imagine that they might organise international conferences or share case studies.

Public order policing has been a game of cat-and-mouse for decades, following the movements of European anarchists around the usual circuit of Mayday protests, G8 conferences and arms fairs. It's a highly evolved field and there are extensive playbooks on both sides.

This strategy was devised years ago, in response to police lines being used to control and prevent marching. A core group, usually a Black Bloc, lead other protesters in a fast march, choosing their direction only at the last possible second. The goal is to move faster than police dispatchers can react, preventing the police from establishing organised lines quickly enough. The police response in the UK is pre-emptive kettling[1], in much of the rest of the world a mix of roadblocks and simple brutality. Unless the protesters are angry enough to run into a baton charge or prepared enough to run into CS gas, it's a completely ineffective tactic.

Some commenters seem to believe that kettling would be illegal under US law; It may well be, but that hasn't stopped the extensive use of "free speech zones"[2] to pre-emptively restrict the movement of protesters. Without a Supreme Court ruling, there's nothing to stop Portland PD or anyone else from using kettles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kettling
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
It worked on Ubuntu 11.10 64 bit, Google Chrome browser, 6.5 year old machine with nVidia 6800. It took 29 seconds. It works on my newer 4 I5 core laptop running Ubuntu 11.10 and using Intel graphics, it took 17 seconds.
> There is no mass for which one ball attracts the earth more than the other ball if the other (fixed mass) ball is less than the mass of the Earth.

Are you talking about inertia?

If ball #1 or #2 does not have the mass (and hence gravitational pull) to overcome Earth's inertia ... the Earth does not move towards it.

But wouldn't that force or energy still be conserved and transferred into the ball's own acceleration?
23.3.x and python.el. It's very stock. What function does C-S-backspace give you? I see kill-whole-line on my install. Once I am writing in a block, the indents work fine, but... I can't paste something into a block and whack the 'reformat all' to come out correctly, especially if it has multiple levels of indentation. Since my code gets reworked substantially while I'm in the middle of it, this wastes my time. Braces are not noise...
Actually this post exemplifies the problem by hijacking an otherwise helpful thread with a crapload of handpicked pubmed citations.
The battle between your present and future self
Interview with map creator and cartographer David Imus.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AatQI-wCbj4

Nice close-ups of the map and his own words.
Six:

* my full name (couldn't get fischer.com as it's a world-famous company :) )

* 3 side project / startup attempts

* 1 nonprofit attempt

* 1 hopeful startup attempt

PD: how do you format lists on HN? (a link to post formatting would be helpful)
Weird, don't know why its not there - I'll shoot you an email now -
(Also, not all men want gto look at hot girls)

No, but something around 90% of men do. Sex sells, people need to get over that.
As well you need one to be accepted as a legitimate peer in science communities where everyone else has one.
You can find some of my opinion about the content in my other reply in this thread. Also, the whole rummaging about light infantry and heavy infantry is completely wrong, short of some movies I really don't know where the author actually saw the kind of formation he seems to think is standard.

He also gets retreats completely wrong. If your adversary is competent he will actually encourage a retreat since his objective is not decimating your forces but keeping ground, that is why it's always easy to run away from the police in protests... not because retreat "conveys a tactical superiority". If you are lets say holding higher ground, or for example participating in a siege, retreat may mean you are coming back home completely decimated.

Getting further into this would sort of actually be against my own perception of HN not being the place to discuss how to securely protest. I'll also like to keep the internet as free as possible of myself advocating civil disobedience in a country I'm not a citizen of.
Well, yes, but for something that seems to be standard advice yet I'd never seen in operation, I was curious if I was missing it actually happening or whether it was more a localised phenomena. I think I've got my answer :-)
We're getting way off topic but I'd be interested to see a source for that claim. I imagine that the costs associated with a prostitute (food, shelter) would be significantly higher than those associated with a stock of inert crystalline powder, pills, or resin. Even if nominally borne by the prostitute, those greater costs still reduce the profitability of the overall enterprise.
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The first closeup, of Cincinatti is an odd choice because the Imus map does not color the river on the border blue. It was not clear to me that it showed the river at all.

The Chicago closeup has a confusing combination of a time zone line and dotted line. Still it is nice to have the time zone lines.

Paper maps are my favorite thing to put on the wall. My favorite right now is a map of the Appalachian trail. A tall, very narrow map, it cuts diagonally across the traditional map of eastern America, giving a very different perspective.