skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, the most convincing argument is, what if you legitimately forget your password?

If that alone gets you thrown in jail, then you're going to be jailing a lot of innocent people. On the other hand, if that does not get you thrown in jail, then one can simply claim to have forgotten the password without repercussion.

Personally, I'd rather let people hide evidence by encrypting it than jail people for being forgetful, since those seem to be the only two choices.
Sounds like you're talking about genetic programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_programming
There is a mindset amongst some of the worst sort of managers that "we only want the best people" and so they design hiring schemes or post jobs ads which over specify their needs and/or are designed to stop lesser candidates wasting management time.

The end result is often that the best people just walk on by. Honesty in the hiring process cuts both ways.
It may close off an outside career, but it also opens it up within the huge company that you are doing the secret work for.

I don't know of any reqs within my company (GlobalDefenseCorp) that indicate salary is increased when you go dark. Your compensation is that you get to work on cool shit, which will likely lead to another project in the same vein.
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Yup. He's right.

The future isn't going to be programming digital machines anyhow. Its going to be programming living matter.

But that's another story.
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Ask HN: Isn't it time for an Apple alternative?
Ok ok its not that easy... I know, but is there no one outthere that can combine beauty of design with kick ass technology and software?
Hey all - we built this because we really like buying off craigslist vs dealerships. Its still pretty new but we'd love to know how we could make it better, so any and all comments are much appreciated. Thanks!
yeah,

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Link to Bootstrap 2 repo:

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/tree/2.0-wip
In fairness, few companies test anything as much as Microsoft tests everything.
Oh, I get that, I'm not saying it's a way to avoid the ramifications, I'm just wondering what they are.

I have to say that I somewhat agree with the ruling because there are similar situations with physical objects, not true one-to-one but they are there. I'm just wondering how the courts would react to the destruction of digital evidence that was not directly initiated by the defendant, but indirectly by preparing for the possibility.
The headline is a fairly misleading: I thought it was a quote from somebody at Mozilla saying something stupid.
Some people already make their own molds out of miniatures and use the to build their own. It's a lot harder than printing them, though.
In my area, you're on Comcast if you're pissed off at Verizon, and you're on Verizon if you're pissed off at Comcast.

I'm on Comcast because I was a Verizon early adopter, with DSL in the 90s. It got to the point where even their cheapest packages were at least an order of magnitude faster than my speed. Sure I could have called and gotten a new package, but it's like they were just keeping me at the original speeds out of spite, like they actually had to do work to keep me so slow. Just like the stories of that little old lady who's still paying a monthly rental fee for the phone in her house.

I'm sure Comcast will do something to piss me off in the next few years and I'll go back to Verizon.
Just moved into a new place and were about to sign up for Comcast, but instead I think we will be going with Sonic!

Thanks!
They must have created a request router based on the User-agent that pulls in all the right stuff for various combinations of device/browser type. This isn't hard to do, but very few take the time to do it. Nice.
Would also be cool if we could download it for different editors.
Indeed, when I saw the HUD screenshot I thought of Emacs Apropos… but LaCarte + Icycles is an even closer match.
> Well, their goal is to make it self-replicating, but it's far from it for now.

Indeed. Replicators are at roughly the same point today that personal computers were in 1975. So expect that in a few decades everyone will have one in their house, able to make a very wide range of objects.
Or, for that matter, a custom OS whose only task is to run an (in-kernel, perhaps?) database server.
If you're interested in a very good exploration of this topic(in the broader context of managing a large endowment), David Swensen's book Pioneering Portfolio Management is worth a read. Swensen manages Yale's very successful endowment and has been a thought leader in investment management. He is also an outspoken critic of actively managed mutual funds and supports his argument with solid data.
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Headline is very misleading--link and karma bait. Should be flagged and removed.
> If you aren't spending as little as possible on all your costs, you're doing the business thing wrong.

This needs to take into account the costs of turnover (including the cost of training a replacement) and hiring. There is an inverse relationship between the salaries that a company pays its employees and turnover costs.
I agree on that being a problem (was tempted to say "I hear you on that one..."); Windows Vista+ with separate audio levels per-process comes in handy; it's not too hard to notice the transition from annoyance to "hello, hello, hello?" even when turned way down with Spotify on top!
To counter this, you need an encryption method with these properties:

- you can be banned or self-banned, irrevocably, from accessing your data;

- you can prove to the judge that you can't access your data;

- even with full forensic copies of your disk, you can't be un-banned.

You can do that by having part(s) of the key on server(s) online. Give yourself, a couple of trusted friends and optionally a script, the ability to wipe those keys: it will irrevocably seal your disk's content. Obviously, pick servers under foreign jurisdictions which dislike to collaborate.

Even better, there's no proof that you're the one who destroyed the keys: you can't be charged with evidence tempering.
By SF standards, it's large. A 900 square foot 1 bedroom would be absolutely huge here; a studio that large would be insane. (example: 800 sq foot luxury 1 bedroom http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/2814694274.html.)
This sounds like a good change.

Also, just skimming the article and looking at the pretty pictures, it seems similar to ido-mode for Emacs. Just with more eye-candy.

Since everybody I know loves ido-mode, I am fairly confident in this change.
Exactly, if you've got a complex environment, you might not even know that one of your suppliers deployed an insecure ruby gem (or any other package), but you'll want to do full testing before upgrading.

All this leaves big windows of opportunity for attacks.
While the points you make are valid it is naive to believe that the FBI and other major government organizations are not political animals who will consider the political and PR impacts of such high profile raids. Like most things in life this is a very complicated issue with no black and white answers or clear division of sides.
The solution will probably be to largely abolish copyright and patents.
Just to make this clear: this was not said by Mozilla, despite it being on the Mozilla domain. It was written by "Screenshot Pimp", who wrote their own Privacy Policy. If you read it, the whole policy attempts a humorous tone.

The add-on is clearly marked on the download page as having been only preliminarily reviewed, which means that it is yet to get a thorough review (and can be treated as "experimental"). Here's what it looks like: http://cl.ly/1a2b2T2v2V2L3M0f3G3W

We're looking into it now, but as far as we can tell there is nothing malicious about their actual add-on.

(Disclaimer: I'm a Mozilla employee who works on the site linked to, addons.mozilla.org)
Tumblr's also got a lot of additional "social" features (e.g, reblogging content and tracking it across blogs) which I don't think Vox had, though. I'm not sure how instrumental those features have been in Tumblr's success, but I'm sure they haven't hurt.
Even when I use a laptop my hands are positioned off the keyboard. In fact, I find the transition from the Mousepad to the Keyboard more disruptive than on a desktop because you usually have ot move your non-mouse hand off the keyboard to make room for movement.

And, Laptops are great for consumption. If I'm doing some serious creation I get the hell off my laptop and go up to my office at home and work on my desktop.
My best guess for #1:

First, pretend that the Mathematicians know there are an even number of white hats, and an even number of black hats. In that case it's easy for each one of them to guess what color hat they're wearing. So have the Mathematicians assume there are an even number of each type of hat. There's a 50% chance that the number of hats actually is even (non-trivial, but I'll leave out details for now), and therefore a 50% overall chance that the Mathematicians get every guess correct (and a 50% chance they get every guess wrong!)
This is similar to one of my favorite Haskell "tricks": Tying the Knot. It's kind of a mindfuck the first time you do it, but it also feels really really cool.

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tying_the_Knot
Did anybody see this?

But the police had recorded a phone call between Fricosu and her husband in which she seemed to acknowledge ownership of the laptop and to reference incriminating material on it.

I'd like more details about this - without any clarification, this sounds extremely scary.
I always found the small stick on IBM laptops utterly imprecise to the point of being unusable. OTOH I find that current Mac trackpads are as good as a mouse most of the time, even slightly better because of three and four fingers gestures.
I really like this idea, but with current technology its a non-starter. 3D printing would need materials which improve in orders of magnitude upon the strength, the heat resistance, the hardness and the printable accuracy. Not to mention that the materials must be available in a reasonably abundant supply.

I do however think there is probably scope for 3D printing small replacement parts (I'm thinking of things such as plastic pump impellers etc) , if not at home certainly at a main dealer. I doubt this would come cheap but that might be balanced against the reduced turnaround times and ability to maintain a smaller supply chain.
It does indeed. However, what are they going to do? Torture you until you give them the "other" password? How can they distinguish whether you just cleaned your hard drive or if you gave them the wrong key?
This really depends on the cost structure of the work you're doing. If you're an IT body shop then you really do want middle-of-the-road talent who can work well in a team and won't rock the boat. If you're a smaller specialty shop with a long client list and a reputation for top-notch work then you can't afford a single NNPP.
I agree 100%

I'm thinking about the case where a person never even knew the key to what they have. The example is a business laptop being carried through customs, that was encrypted by someone else, who will decrypt it upon your arrival (or something similar)
Federal judge rules suspect must unlock her encrypted computer for prosecutors
It is hard to tell unless all the funds in question only picked S&P tracked instruments. It could be for example, that some funds invested heavily internationally so international market in general delivered better returns than S&P tracked market?
Privacy policies are entirely optional for add-ons unless they do something with user data.
i don't think you are doing anything wrong. as others mentioned, you put in a lot of effort and developed something that people actually want to use and contribute to.

from a conscious perspective, i see how you could feel guilty and if i were in your shoes, i would probably just send them some money through paypal as a token of appreciation. don't need to get any lawyers invovled for min. wage etc. theya re doing volunteer work for you and you are giving them a "bonus" as a token of appreciation.

i'm sure they will be happy with anything since their expectation is to receive nothing!

good luck
Cool article.

Reminds me of the best calendar/to-do list software I ever used and have spent years trying to re-locate on another mobile os: DateBk6 (http://www.pimlicosoftware.com/datebk6.htm)

What did it do?

1) It let you make to do items, but assign a date to them too.

2) If you didn't assign a date to them, they'd stay in your general to-do list.

3) If there was a date for the to-do, the to-do item would show up 2 days in advance, right on my daily calendar (not in a to-dolist).

4) Each day, I could promote items from my to-do list for that day, onto the calendar at a specific time.

5) MOST IMPORTANT: If I didn't finish something, scheduled for a specific time, or a date, it would carry over each day that you don't get them done.

I've never been more productive in my life than the 2 years I used this app on Palm OS. The hotkey to a calendar means I pressed two buttons and I was directly in the calendar to enter a to do.

No bullshit swiping, tapping, home screen, start an app, click a plus. It was made to capture things quicker than writing them down. I've tried Android, Windows Mobile, iOS and this Palm App still kicks everything's ass.

Just thinking about it makes me want to buy a Palm Treo PDA and start kicking butt again.
There are actually plenty (for some value of plenty :)) casual Ubuntu users. Most of them have had Ubunutu set-up by somebody competent, but once they have it, they can use it as casually as they like. The only reason they even need somebody to install it is that they don't realize it's an alternative.
I don't think this is really about typing, this is about how do we make complex applications hands free?

Vast menus full of commands are pretty much a no go in mobile mouse-free computing and are what kill Windows apps on the tablet.

As for your specific comment -- typing doesn't involve clicking a box (windows or command key) and if your leaning your entire body forward to reach the keyboard your desktop is set up wrong.

As for web development, try a touchpad. Users aren't posting to facebook, ordering things online, and navigating Google all day with only a mouse.
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Comparing the returns of a basket of all mutual funds to the returns of one large-cap stock index over a highly volatile period isn't very meaningful. The mutual funds weren't even 100% equities, so you're partially comparing the returns of entirely different asset classes.

As the article mentions, it's impossible to invest in the total mutual fund market. There is no index fund of mutual funds, nor is there any need when you can diversify across the entire market through existing index funds.

See also The Arithmetic of Active Management: http://www.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/active/active.htm
Can someone else be charged with it? Will you have to go through a long court case with it?
A 12-column grid lets you easily mix 3-colum and 4-column layouts. A 16-column grid does not.

[edit] Essentially it's more expressive. Another commenter correctly mentioned that it could have the same advantages above for a responsive design. 12-columns allow for greater freedom of expression at all display sizes.
Ada has a reputation for being dramatically overengineered, especially among programmers with exposure to Ruby or Haskell (or Lisp, naturally). I've never seen a demonstration of how well it works for rapidly prototyping code and "filling in the blanks" iteratively. Would you mind providing examples?
As a developer who just doesn't seem to "get" CSS, I love bootstrap. I can understand how it all works and it's so simple to use and quick to get things up and looking nice.

Thanks so much to the twitter team.
> Even better, there's no proof that you're the one who destroyed the keys: you can't be charged with evidence tempering.

How much do you want to bet?
> It allows Super PACs to collect unlimited donations to run campaign ads supporting or opposing specific candidates. That may open the door to corruption in a certain sense, but it doesn't allow quid pro quo on active legislation.

If the Citizens United decision did not allow Super PACs to talk about supporting or opposing candidates based on their actions with regard to particular legislation, then I was wrong. But that would mean Dodd committed a particularly egregious violation of the law in public. I don't think he would do that, and I think you were wrong to say I was wrong.
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Thanks. I am pleased with how it's come out, it's just interesting to have no designer to externally validate it!
Hey sequoia,
Yes, that does need to come down. That image was actually a leftover from the original 1-page splash landing site that runs running since June until yesterday. Never thought twice to take it out as my eyes literally skip over it when scanning that page.
I agree, to-do lists don't work, and the proposed agenda thing won't work either (not for me at least). I am hooked with GTD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getting_Things_Done) and use http://activeinboxhq.com/ with gmail. It sounds like an advertisement, but this method really works for me and gives me control over my workflow (100s of emails per day).
Interestingly, as someone else afflicted with red-green colourblindness I didn't really struggle that much with the colourblind assist off.

I think it is because when the colours are displayed exactly side by side it isn't nearly as difficult to match them up than it would be for you to ask me to pick out that same colour from a pallet of similar colours.
They can eavesdrop on encrypted mobile phone connections? Do you have a solid source on that?
Great idea, definitely will use this for my next car. Probably much easier to build a business around this than Padmapper.
High school graduation actually meant something back then too though. Today it is no guarantee of even basic literacy and math skills, which is why the requirement of a college degree, of any sort, is so prevalent for jobs these days. Meanwhile, high school graduation rates have declined in the past few decades.

I think if people were still getting a 1970s era quality of education from K-12 schools the economic outlook for high school graduates would look a lot different.
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Now that we’ve got our background images squared away and set to break themselves down nicely across various devices and screen resolutions we can look in to populating our home page with some content. Let’s begin with our header. I always like using a separate file for all the things that will stay uniform throughout my site, header, logo, navigation, etc.
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I posted a comment there, but I thought I'd bring it here as well.

His title should be "To-do-lists-without-context-and-forced-prioritization don't work"? It's clear it's not living by the calendar that solves everything, it's the proper elimination of unnecessary tasks and doing the things that are important first. I think the best part is the one sentence that said "whether or not you can or should (say yes) to a project". That's the hard part. That's the part I think we all need to learn, and doing that first is a priority over changing how you manage your lists.

I've seen too many managers at big companies who live by the calendar. It's obvious. They always say, "let me check my calendar first". Is this how you should be managing your priority and time? Shouldn't your decision to do anything be on the importance and urgency of your tasks? (You can always delay the less important tasks).

I think this is a failure in most time management strategy. Anyways, I'm a developer of Priority Matrix (www.appfluence.com), which is about managing priority, rather than time, and I'm bias against the calendar as a pure way to manage anything. I think it's a hard problem to solve, and I do spend half by time writing lists, and half my time determining what's critical.

Interesting post. Thanks for sharing.
Can you provide a breakdown there?

I'm doubtful it is that bad, from both how high this income is compared to the median as well as personal numbers. I blow $1,650 a month, before auto/rent, with my pretty comfortable life. Even if children were at the same level of expenses (they are realistically maybe half that), family non-auto/rent is $6,600. The two cars throw in another $1000/month; housing is $2,200. That's about $9800 a month or $2,200/year in savings (18% rate)
I actually have given thought to writing an app that works along the same lines. A shared planner that someones and their groups can use. Take for example a household, everyone in the household can enter tasks, either their own or group tasks. When they do, they place a priority on them and a estimated time to complete. Tasks can have subtasks, this way a group of tasks can be rolled up into a task project. As well, scheduled tasks can be entered into it, that have very specific time requirements. Such as go to the doctor at X time/date. From there they system can generate a calendar of tasks that are to be completed. The user can then mark a task as completed or not, if it is not then the task list is recalculated based on priority and schedule tasks. I saw the same issue as the author, tasks have to transfer to the calendar, if they don't they get skipped. The thing that a system like this would do is show the aging of a task is being procrastinated on.

The other idea that I had was to have a checkbox on every task that asked if someone could be hired to do a task. If the answer is yes and at a certain aging point, the app would ask if they want to solicit bids on the task, the app would then place the task in a market place where people could bid to perform the work of the task. This way people could hire to complete the task once they realize that it has languished in their queue.
Bootstrap is incredible. Incredible generosity! Thank you twitter!
hehe, I wonder what makes a serious browser for them. Chrome is pretty serious to me.
Pre-charged (slow leak) NiMh for the win.

Though we really are overdue for a battery revolution.
If there were canonical sports stats data sources to include, it wouldn't be difficult. Email us at info@kemvi.com if there's something specific you have in mind.
Its really great that so many people signed up listing actual US rates.

On the other hand, almost all of the projects are $500 or less, most of them $300 or less. Which are outsourcing budgets, and pretty much incompatible with the US rates for most projects.

I wonder what you could do to get U.S. organizations with actual project budgets to use these types of sites. I have always wished there was something like a US-only freelancer's site. Maybe this person could create a section where only US freelancers could bid, or a section that had a minimum rate at $40 or something.

I really like odesk because I am used to being poor and I always know I can find a spec to prototype and get a job without having to leave my house or network or anything, but I can't afford healthcare or my own apartment.

I had a few "real" gigs with a good US rate but I spent too much time working on my startup and ran out of money, sort of panicked and picked up a job at an outsourcing rate, and now I feel like I should to move to Bangalore in order to maintain my standard of living.