skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Attacks to expose your identity via tor already exist and there are accepted methods to avoid them, no default route etc so even if something you are running does manage to try to initiate a remote connection it will not get anywhere anyway.

Usenet is already a haven of scum and villainy as the saying goes due to being commonly used as a vector to distribute malware, people that are accustomed to this environment once again take plenty of precautions to reduce their exposure to these attacks. Another agency joining in on the poison would just be par for the course for our theoretical target.

The idea that a person would go to this extent to avoid detection and then not use deniable encryption volumes to stow their black data is somewhat crazy, even if you grant that someone downloading high volumes of data for illicit purposes is distinguishable on a probable cause basis from someone who just really loves watching a lot of online video or uses a high volume update channel operating system or runs a bunch of computers behind a single ip etc.

This really is asymmetric warfare terrain highly favouring the policed rather than the policing entity if you assume infinitely competent actors on both sides
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Do you have any coworkers that you got along with at your previous jobs? If so, go on LinkedIn, look them up, ask them to connect, leave a positive review for them, ask them to do the same for you. If this process is completed successfully, send a personal message to them, "hey, I just figured I'd check in.. enjoyed working with you blah blah blah... hey, I'd be happy to give you a reference anytime, would you mind if I used you as a reference in the future, if so, could you give me your phone number just so I can keep it for when I may need it"?

That's all you need, I have used co-workers for references before and it works just fine most of the time, you don't necessarily have to have your superior give you a reference
Thanks! You definitely made things much easier for me. I had also played around doing some raw ctypes work with OpenCV and now greatly appreciate your efforts.
Oh god, yea I am sure this will go great. As if every single phone sold in the world doesn't have an alarm clock function.
Dude, I live here, and I love the connections I make here. Your plan is still ridiculous, unless what you wanted was media attention, in which case, congratulations.

Development requires more than just attitude and being in the right location. You need to sleep and eat well.

If you are sure you really need to be here, and want to do it on the cheap, then hit Craigslist and get a room in a shared house somewhere in the peninsula.
Trade to a honda element, and throw an ecamper conversion on it. It'll be much more comfortable.
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Why is using material non-public information to trade illegal? I don't know, I didn't write the law.
Both of your reasons are circular--one buys a suit to support the manufacture of suits? Buying a shirt to support a band is quite a different thing. And if all your clothes are in the wash except your suit, well why did you own the suit?
His rebate is cumulative with the casino according to the article, except that they allowed him to reset it when he started this streak. He effectively only has one session per casino for rebate purposes.

Taxes are always computed on net winnings annually. Filing as a pro can affect the rate and allow deductions for expenses, but even amateurs can deduct losing sessions against winners if they have documentation.
Parisoma is in SF.
The problem with "they can stink up the joint" is that writing that relies on adverbs and adjectives does stink up the joint. Jazz musicians can break the rules because they both know the rules and understand the rules. Beginners can't break the rules because they don't know when broken rules are ok.

You have to learn how to write without adverbs and adjectives before you can know when to "be judicious in your use of them". Our natural inclination is to use them constantly (see, constantly). Learn how to write without them then the occasional use of them will strengthen and empower your writing.
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Couldn't be happier for ya man. I'm sure twilio will miss you but Justin knows he couldn't ask for a better engineer.

Kick some ass over there and keep building out an awesome service
This is a better article than it sounds from the title. It sums up the most important principles I read in pricing books (of which I recommend The Strategy and Tactics of Pricing: http://www.amazon.com/The-Strategy-Tactics-Pricing-Edition/d... )

Just copying the pricing mistakes from the subheadings (parens are mine):

* You’re pricing based on costs (but costs change with volume which is dependent on price)

* You have no idea what your value is (so you guess based on their reactions and your gut feelings)

* You are trying to be cheaper, not better or different (and you lose the pricing war)

* You don’t believe in your own value (and you feel apologetic when giving a quote)

* You fear price objections

* You surprise your prospects with your price

* You have no plan for negotiation

* You think you need one price (you don't segment your customers and leave a lot of value on the table and/or outprice some potential low-effort customers)

* You’re too busy (by underpricing yourself)
Here's a little tip. Safari Books actually has a 5-slot $9.99/month plan but you can only see it if you are already a member. So just sign up for the free trial and then change your membership over to it. I guess they offer it to people who sign up but then think $28/month is too much.
Kojima: Japanese developers lack global outlook, technological skills
I could get good coworker references from about 3-4 coworkers at my last programming job. I had one coworker even recommend me for a job at their current company, but I didn't pass their interview process, though they were only hiring for one position and said they wanted someone that was a perfect fit.

I guess I feel the gap in employment in tech is the bigger problem now (almost a year at this point).

That is reassuring to hear that not every employer is interested in a supervisor reference.
I didn't show the false positive video. :P There were some additional features thrown in, but for presentational simplicity I went with some strong, easy ones to explain. I think one thing helped keep FPs low was some frame-based signal thresholding. So, I required a significant squirrel signal (over multiple frames) before it went hot. That prevented any small FP blip to trigger the gun.
I've never done anything but have just a single room to myself, with up to 4 roommates sharing the apartment/house together. I've always had to sign a lease and have a deposit. What are these rooms with roommates you're talking about that have no deposits?
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One reason to use E>3: Side channel attacks which reveal random bits of exponents (e.g., the hyperthreading attack) are much easier with a small public exponent.
I thought about going that direction, but was concerned the birds might eat the pellets.
I call it the Walmart Business Model.
That's impressive. He stated less than 24 hours ago that it would take 7-10 days [1]. I guess both Marco and Apple are working around the clock.

1. http://www.marco.org/2012/03/16/instapaper-for-retina-ipad
PlayStation 3 hacker arrested for marijuana possession
Desperation.

Storage vendors are between a rock and a hard place these days because their business has been commoditized.

The huge storage deployments of today are not running on EMC or NetApp anymore. They are running on arrays of beige boxes, for good reasons[1].

At the same time the low-end of the market is moving to the cloud, also for good reasons. Their customer-base is shrinking from both ends at a rapid pace. And they don't really know where to go from here.

(the CDN market is a another example for this phenomena btw; Hi Akamai! How many auxiliary products have you invented today?)

[1] http://blog.backblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/cost-of...
Simply put, natural law doesn't presuppose that only physical objects can be property. That's a separate premise you're trying to sneak in. The act of writing a book creates an information/intellectual good, not just a physical artifact.

Look, I'm tired of repeating myself, and you're either not understanding my argument or too tendentious to even try. I don't even believe in natural law, and I think it's possible to use natural law to argue either side of the copyright dispute. If you want to obsessively argue that the natural law justification for copyright is wrong from a natural law standpoint, I honestly don't give a damn. My point is that such an argument can be made, and the fact that we are repeating ourselves to each other only proves my point.

If you want to discuss this further, my email address is in my profile.
Those moments, its been a while since I've had one of those. (Must open compiler book)
I've often felt that there is a world of terse, clear code waiting to be unlocked in R, but haven't been able to find it myself. This is a great example.
Macrumors reports that vegetable stands near the theater are running out of tomatoes.
Relationships are crazy man, I'm glad that you and your wife were able to work it out, and hopefully this crazy journey will be a success for you.

If you ever want to try to move the startup back to LA, let me know, I'm sure there are a few other hackers in the area that would love to start up a little monthly or bi-monthly meeting to bounce ideas and have hacking events.
That's maybe a route I could take. I guess I always felt to freelance you had to be really good at selling yourself though, that there was a lot of competition, and I'm probably not the greatest at that.

I do have some pretty marketable skills:
a fair amount of experience in PHP, Rails, Javascript, SQL, HTML / CSS.

I'd have no idea how to go about getting the first few clients though.
I suspect that you do need a reasonable app ecosystem to get a tablet off the ground, but that once you've got the bases covered the difference between 100k apps and 400k apps becomes largely academic. If you've got a solid browser, clients for email, Facebook, and Twitter, and a reasonable ebook, movie, music and photo apps you've covered the needs of 90% of your potential buyers. Oh and Angry Birds, of course.

Which is why I expect Apple to continue to own the top end of the tablet market but continue to lose overall marketshare to the greater diversity of increasingly acceptable Android alternatives. I particularly think that the 7" form factor is going to be more than a niche and the pain Android developers have suffered up front in coding to multiple screen sizes and form factors is going to pay off.
No. The point is that the Nexus S was planned to receive ICS many months before any other phone (aside from the Galaxy Nexus). If you had any other phone you had to wait a long time to even get confirmation that your current flagship device would even get ICS. Most enthusiasts run ICS on their Nexus S and have done so for months. And google never announces when to roll out updates since it isn't rolled out for everyone at once.

And don't blame google for the messed up market in the US. Best of all is that you are not locked in some vendor version of android. Even if some carrier managed to install bejeweled on your device (again, sucks to be in the US?) that's it, you don't get a vendor specific phone-application etc. etc.

Nexus devices are getting updates sooner, they get longer support, they don't get ruined by bloatware (you might still argue that they don't get enough support, or get updates soon enough but you can't get anything better in the android world). You've tried but you seriously can't point to a single exception to that (surprised it took samsung so long to get ICS out for SGSII, it took HTC what, two weeks to roll out Froyo for the Desire?). Given the current situation the only reason I'd ever not chosing a Nexus was if I intended to use a custom rom from the get go, with a Nexus I don't have to fiddle with that.

A lot of phones released after the Nexus S will never get ICS. Regardless of whether their hardware can take it or not. HTC won't update the Desire Z (pretty much same hardware as the Desire HD (which will get ICS)) because they don't feel like updating sense for it, and without sense they can't possible give you ICS...

Can anyone even point to a phone that was released before the Nexus S but will still get ICS?
And if the de jure political process no longer has enough de facto power to assert control over the bureaucratic institutions, isn't external money a very useful source of de facto power to challenge the bureaucracy?

It seems like getting money out of politics would be surrendering one of the only viable tools for re-asserting public control of the apparatus of government.
Ask HN: How do you reach women online?
I started a dating website (http://Circl.es) and am finding it is very easy to reach men online - they read tech blogs, Digg, HN, Reddit, etc... but it's very hard to reach women.

Are there similar sites that women frequent? Major blogs? Anecdotally women are more active on Facebook, and Facebook sharing has been successful so far. Do any HN readers have any other ideas for how to reach this rather large segment of society?

It seems like many fashion blogs are getting tons of traffic, but they would be unlikely to writeup something like a dating website.

You guys (and girls!) have been a tremendous help in the past so I just thought I'd throw it out there and see if anyone has ideas for marketing to women.

Thanks! Justin
why would the attacker setting the password field be a problem
The most of this Zen comes from array paradigm, not functional; still it is nice to see another soul on the path to Renlightenment (-;
This response is telling.

Hypothetical Mike Daisey who takes pride in his decisions: "I use a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell the story, and I do so with integrity."

Actual Mike Daisey who knows he's full of shit: "It uses a combination of fact, memoir, and dramatic license to tell its story, and I believe it does so with integrity."
But this just means that a laptop would also have been a luxury for you. Apparently you don't need a mobile computer or you would have bought one before the tablet became an option.

Like a lot of people I'm working on the go all the time and as much as I like tablets for certain things I need a real laptop.
"...At the same time the low-end of the market is moving to the cloud, also for good reasons. Their customer-base is shrinking from both ends at a rapid pace. And they don't really know where to go from here..."

They do own the company that owns the majority of enterprise cloud market...
I'd love to see that pitch to a VC.

VC: So what do you need this money for? Are you gonna improve your UX and distribution?

Startup: Oh no, we're just gonna use the UX and distribution our users hate. We need the money to lobby congress to pass laws that punish users who use competing products that do have better UX and distribution.

If you ever convince a VC with a pitch like that. Then you can say it's the best deal ever regarding cost/benefit for the RIAA. ;)
To raise something to the 3rd power in modular math is done by computing:

x² = x · x
x³ = x · x²

In other words, two modular multiplications. I have grouped them like this because, to raise something to the 17th power in modular math is done by computing:

x² = x · x
x⁴ = x² · x²
x⁸ = x⁴ · x⁴
x¹⁶ = x⁸ · x⁸
x¹⁷ = x · x¹⁶

So that's 5 multiplications. If the exponent is 2^m + 1, we can generalize to say that it requires m + 1 multiplications; 17 is 2^4 + 1 and thus requires 4 + 1.

Of course, we're a long way from that, even. To raise something to the 2¹⁶ + 1 = 65537 power requires 17 multiplications. When you see these times of 10.6 μs and 23.9 μs for these respectively, this means that the multiplication isn't really the bottleneck yet. Let us imagine that the multiplication needs to be initialized in a constant time, then we could say that:

10.6 = 2 t + C
23.9 = 17 t + C

Solving, I get that the constant overhead is 8.8 μs while the time t for a multiplication is just 0.9 μs or so. So the constant time is about 10 multiplications worth! We can then test this for the next case, e=2^32 + 1, which is listed as 42.7 μs, the linear fit above suggests 0.9*33 + 8.8 = 38.5, which is not too bad of an estimate. (I suspect that it starts to use the general exponentiation algorithm, which requires that you do some bitwise operations to figure out whether you multiply an accumulating variable; that control logic might make up the missing 4 μs.)

All of these have the same number of 1 bits. It runs in time proportional to the number of total bits in the binary representation of e, not just the 1 bits. Other than that you're mostly right -- in the real world there are evidently constants and perhaps some curvature when nonstandard exponents are used.
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There's also a market that considers the 10" form factor uncomfortably large.

Personally I think Apple is going to come to regret refusing to cater to users that want a phone bigger than the iPhone or a tablet smaller than the iPad.
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> "Remember, when you aren't paying for the product, you are the product."

This meme is getting boring and should die.

It's not true in many cases, from e.g. open-source (you don't pay, you gain) to buying at Wal-Mart or Target (you pay, but they track and analyze you anyway).
Don't forget worrying.

OP, SF is an epicenter of car break-ins. Chances are high that you're gonna get your stuff stolen. If you're lucky, it won't be your tech gear cuz you'll be in a coworking spot (good luck finding parking - I have memories of driving around for an hour+). But it would suck to have your clothes, blankets, sleeping bag, and other things stolen. Thieves in other cities won't bother with that stuff, but SF is different.
And the reason why is because the human eye is more sensitive to green than other colors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision
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Those look very limited in their ability to detect addons.
Christ I hope not. I love that tool.
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But people can start disintermediating their lives right now, without having to wait for 'the world' to change. We're seeing more and more of this - it's once again becoming prevalent for individuals families to grow their own food, educate their own children, generate their own energy, etc., and there are a growing body of open, substantive 'amateur' resources for them to turn to for external guidance.

It might take 50 or 100 years for these movements to become dominant, and for the modern institutional centralization of culture and politics to fully recede, but it seems that the way it's most likely to happen is for the 'issues' we now fight over to fade into irrelevance as people gradually cease being dependent on the context of those 'issues', not by one faction or another winning some sort of pitched conflict and imposing reform from the top, downward. I'd think that the success of a top-down reform program would actually demonstrate the failure of its motivating intention.
I don't think so. Tablets are for people that want to get the most possibilities out of their $300. e-ink readers are for people with $300 that want to read books with the least eyestrain. I read on my phone and it just doesn't feel like reading. When I use my Kindle, it does.

(I think the problem is actually with page turns rather than the pixels; turning pages on the Kindle Android app is very flaky. On the physical hardware, it works much better.)
CSP doesn't impose that restriction, but it's something we're changing at the same time:

"A package's resources are no longer available by default to external websites (as the src of an image, or a script tag)."

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/manifestVersion...
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I'm going to be "that guy" and say it: who cares? I was expecting a substantive blog post, but what I got seems better placed on twitter.
My Verizon Mobile allows you to check your data usage. I don't think they can really get away from that.
Yeah, I get all that, and I'm a fan of movies, theatre, and even the occasional football game. But I think that entertainment in general is less worthy than anything that moves knowledge and understanding forward. To your original comment, it's a bad idea to try to derive something's true worth from its profitability, especially in the short term.
Ha! Very good.

The reason it is sometimes worth saying "highly available" is that most people don't know or don't understand the CAP theorem. Also, the A in CAP is one (very strict) definition of availability and not necessarily the one that everyone chooses to use.

The choice of "yield" as an alternative word for that use was spot-on:

http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/people/fox/static/pubs/pdf/c18...
I had become almost completely out of touch with my already thin network, and was in essentially your same financial and employment situation. I got my current job because a recruiter was trawling LinkedIn.

Use it, it costs you nothing, and works while you're asleep.

You might try CraigsList, I've heard of people getting decent jobs that way.

Follow through on your unemployment, and any other benefits program you run across. Your job is to keep breathing until your job becomes a job.
75K for top 1%? Anecdotally an average(not top 1%) fresh grad in companies like Microsoft,Google,FB or (insert any other big co) etc these days get about 80-120K(depending on your negotiation skills,competing offers,school where you went to etc), not to mention ESPP every year,RSUs/options. If any average grad at these companies can make so much, shouldn't top 1% be getting much more?

Also more than the offer, Fog Creek is not known to people who don't follow tech news, read Joel's articles etc. But everyone knows and uses a (insert a big co)'s product and that reputation definitely stands out.
In my experience, you have to worry much more about people saying they won't pay (when they actually would) than saying they will pay (when they actually wouldn't).

I can't tell you how many folks went from "gee, why on earth would I ever pay for that?" when we were building our apps to plunking down money after they saw all that we offered, & how much better our apps would really make their daily lives. Or after they heard about it from their friends.

Don't ask your close friends & family, unless they're total straight-talkers. They may say "yes" when they really wouldn't. But you can't just ask "Would you pay for x?" and take a "No" at face value, either.

That's where salesmanship comes in, and if you're bad at salesmanship, then you will never get a truthful result by asking.
Yes, perfection is a 50% chance of "unknown or expired link."
This is fixed in manifest_version 2:

"A package's resources are no longer available by default to external websites (as the src of an image, or a script tag). If you want a website to be able to load a resource contained in your package, you'll need to explicitly whitelist it via the web_accessible_resources manifest attribute."

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/dev/manifestVersion...

See <http://blog.chromium.org/2012/02/more-secure-extensions-by-d...; for information about other security improvements in manifest_version 2.
Except when cushy 1st world jobs move to high-repression countries with few worker rights, it's trending the other way.