skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RC4 isn't perfect, but it's immune to some attacks (e.g. BEAST) that block ciphers like AES tend to have problems with.

RC4 actually has a huge internal state. You could use a 1600 bit key with it if you wanted to.
I was referring to LastPass's Chrome extension specifically, not Persona's UX. Sorry for the confusion.
I find it disconcerting that people who are so good at pulling heart strings would believe and sign anything with such limited information.

It makes me want to protect my heart strings more.
This is the problem with the state of journalism today: Information is released AFTER the bad decision has already been made and it's too late to do anything about it.

The media isn't doing their jobs in this world and that's why WikiLeaks is important.

If a soldier has lunch with Julian Assange, he could be executed. If he has lunch with David Pogue, no big deal. The reason is because the New York Times answers to the politicians and Wikileaks answers to a higher power.
Certainly, historically the US has gone after the folks who allowed confidential or classified information to get out of their, not the people who received it.

In 1971 Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times, which published them and embarrassed the administration, in '72 Woodward and Bernstein would get information from Mark Feldt (aka "Deep Throat") which would they go on to publish and it toppled the Nixon administration.

In both of those cases neither the New York Times or the Post, the journalists, or the editors of those papers was ever in danger of criminal proceedings, much less military action.

How Wikileaks got their information is not known, it is clear that Julian Assange was not the source of the leak, he merely benefited from it.

So the line goes like this:

1) A government that prosecutes people who leak their information.

2) ... to a Government that prosecutes people who publish the information leaked to them.

3) ... and next up ... prosecuting individuals who express influential opinions based on documented knowledge of otherwise classified material.

Do you really think this country would have tolerated President Johnson declaring the New York Times and its journalist Neil Sheehan "enemies of the US" ?
What is this doing on the front page of Hacker News? If I correctly understand the thoughtful comments already posted here, the story is old, every buyer of a house sold under those low-price conditions has the same risk from any seller (and thus should inspect the house before buying), and there isn't even any proof of significant harm. If I discover that my car needs repair before the next scheduled dealer maintenance, am I going to post a petition on change.org and then have a link to that petition on the front page of Hacker News? This is at best a TV news kind of story (from some undetermined previous time, with most of the journalistic who, what, when, where, and why details omitted), and the Hacker News guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

say "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
Where do you get your info that this is 10 years old? It seems they moved in June 2012.
For our original server, after the first full day after the HN post, we racked up an AWS bill of about $1.62. Most of that was in the first few minutes after the announcement before we implemented the user cap.

From earlier today for about 20 hours of run time: we had 13,000 successful connections to the server, 22,000 failed attempts to connect. The server is averaging about 100k per second outbound when fully loaded with 20 clients. With the quick improvements we made after the HN flood we got the CPU down to about 1-5% on a t1.micro when 20 clients are connected and interacting. The real issue for us is the bandwidth.

The server and protocol could be MUCH more efficient (visibility pruning, binary messages, etc). But it was something chouser and I hacked up over the weekend and it's now working quite well within the cap.
I see these all the time in my neck of the woods as well.

This sounds like a sweeter deal though, 20% of billions of dollars is better than the $500 offers I've come across.
I find it curious that the same people that complain about evictions complain about high rises getting built.
This sort of article gets written year after year.
People have to live somewhere, any if there continues to be resistance to higher density housing, rents will keep skyrocketing.
What does it matter who JoeClerk is mailing state secrets to? Clerks can't be mailing state secrets to random people on the Internet!
Sure, that's what they were supposed to be. However, my argument is that to most people they were just cheap computers, for both senses of the word cheap.
This petition offended me long before that. It was today's lucky SPAM email from change.org. Sheesh... you sign one petition with them... and SPAM!
It says it's by NianticLabs@Google. Any more information about what The Niantic Project is? Their website doesn't say much: http://www.nianticproject.com/
The Zenbox homepage is completely baffling. What does the product do? I have absolutely no idea...
> However, if you read the article, you'll see a very bad law that prevents the FDA from doing so in the case of supplements.

I did read the article, and that isn't true. If the pill does not have what it says on the bottle then they can easily shut them down.

> Really? I don't know one way or the other for sure about historical snake oil: My usage there was 'snake oil' as a synonym for 'an untested product guaranteed to cure anything and everything, sold by a con artist'.

I realized that right after I said it, so I edited out that sentence. But to reply to you: If the product has what it says it has, then the FDA has no business regulating it. They should regulate fraud - a product that does not have the listed ingredients for example. Or a false claim. But they have no business telling people that they can not buy/eat this or that plant.
If we stay in the grow-or-die culture that we've been in for the past 15 years, then the other option is to move. You can't grow if you can't hire, and you can't hire if your employees don't have any place to live.
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Can't reply to the child, but I'll just say I'm super pleased with this disagreement / thread in general. Polite discourse hasn't died on HN!
Is it just me, or is the programming language called Clean not on there?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_(programming_language)
Just because a piece of land doesn't have a building on it (even if it isn't currently legally buildable) doesn't mean its address "doesn't exist". New York City is glad to point you at the address:
http://gis.nyc.gov/dcp/at/f1.jsp?submit=true&house_nbr=3...
The Washington Post reported an event in excruciating detail, but its later disclosure by Wikileaks is a "revelation" because nobody reads the news?
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If enough amazing apps come out that require an App.net account to use, people will get on it. Think about it like this: if Netflix came out with a developer program whereby devs could create new video-watching-related apps that required a Netflix account, guess what? They'd probably do just fine because millions of people already have Netflix accounts. App.net is starting from scratch, yes, but if they can build up to a few hundred thousand or over a million paying users who perceive value, this thing is frankly a no-brainer.

I think the logic behind the feedback system is pretty good too. A lot of users won't bother submitting feedback, but the ones that do are already motivated to submit feedback and therefore reward apps they like. So it's in the best interest of devs to create apps that delight their users. Win-win all around.
Grey Times New Roman at 12px on pastel background makes it an effort to read. It looks good visually, but actual reading is difficult. I would change the font size to 14px and make the font darker.
What do you think about his point?
Things "expected of any military" might actually be crimes. It is against the law for the US Government to propagandize the American people. At present, a few hawkish members of congress are trying to overturn those laws, and clearly both major parties support overturning them in spirit.

It's reasonable for a US citizen to support the wars if he/she feels that overall they are the right thing to do. But it's an insult to our democratic process to hide the bad news and then turn supporters into dupes who cheer on the team without having a clue about what is actually going on.
Ask HN: High Volume Email Marketing
We are a software company with about 15 million users (and growing very fast) in Silicon Valley and are having trouble scaling our email marketing campaigns. We will have 25 million+ users by end of month and we can't find a good saas platform to scale with us. Need advice. We are fine with transacation emails (drip emails, autoresponders), but can't find anything good enough for our marketing campaigns.

We tried Sendgrid, we've just temporarily switched to mailchimp right now, but are finding it difficult to:

a. manage large data - uploading a list of 10 million takes about 10 hours+ and is not agile. This sucks.

b. do fast, advanced segmentation of our list based on a dynamic variable such as when we release a feature for 5% of our users, then send. We'd like to just parse this 5% against our master list and quickly send. Or, segment easily using certain variables like license type, sign up date, etc.

c. Easily connect through an API to stop dealing with big data on a website's servers.

d. Robust analytics - we test everything and want to be able to a/b test & get open / click / bounce / manage unsubscribes, etc.

What do high volume senders use? We code all of it our own, just want a sender with a good reputation who handle our advanced segmentation and send well.

Thanks in advance.
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But the assertion only gets sent if the user logs in to persona first (with their email and persona password)
Preofessional students of language would seem to be authorities on use of language, which is why I queried your use of the word "stature". It's an odd word to use about authorities on language, and it took a while to get to what you mean since you seemed to be assuming that I already knew what you meant.
Ask HN: development collaboration tools & best practices?
INTRO: I'm having difficulty collaborating remotely with a project lead who has little time and specialized knowledge.

BACKGROUND: I am recreating and optimizing a complicated image processing algorithm. The algorithm has been developed within a specialized image processing framework, we are recreating it within OpenGL.

CONSTRAINTS: We are not able to access the original code and framework. We are limited to working with input files generated at various stages in the algorithm, processing these files and compare our output file to that of the output generated by the original framework. MATLAB is relied on heavily. In addition the contact has limited time. Sending zipped folders back and forth for comparison has become quite laborious.

REQUEST: Can anyone share best practices in making the best of this situation? Any suggestions for developing-focused project management and collaboration tools would be extremely helpful.
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Sorry, but I cannot see any photos of inside the Hotel. Have they been taken down?
AFAIK Niantic is a internal google "startup", from what I've heard their real product/project (that I haven't seen) will be released soon-ish.
Like Google Now it uses your location to display a variety to things; Some are historical landmarks others are upcoming concerts or movie locations. You choose in what frequency the app notifies you. For example, I was walking from work to home and Field Trip notified me of where a scene for Oceans 11 was shot.
You lawyer up or move on. It sounds to me a part of you wants to get even because Nintendo sent you a C&D and you want justice that Nintendo should do the same for these other guys. Putting aside the merits of right and wrong, its childish if this is actually the case.

You have a right to defend your open source project and if you really want to get these guys to follow the rules, enforce it. But don't expect Nintendo to do anything. If they do, its great. You did your part in reporting this (albeit you probably wouldn't if it wasn't your project specific maybe; I'm totally guessing on this part).

But if it bothers you that much, have an attorney send them a letter.
Reading the link that the techdirt article is based on, the document is about an analyst with Top Secret clearance who had been actively expressing support for Wikileaks. The document suggests that he could be charged with "communicating with an enemy" if he had leaked secrets to Wikileaks, and because it mentions no other organizations, some people are taking this to mean that Wikileaks itself is considered an enemy of the United States.

That same article, though, mentions that Bradley Manning was charged with this exact thing - but the enemy he is accused of communicating with is specifically Al-Qaeda, not Wikileaks. Apparently, they consider Wikileaks an intermediary for communicating with terrorists.
Respectfully, Marsh (you know it's all respect with you & me, even though I think you wear a tinfoil hat and you think I'm a tool of the status quo), you believe this stuff because you only read about the NDAA from advocacy sources.

Material support has a specific definition. Your donation must be made "knowing or intending that they are to be used in preparation for" an actual terrorist attack. You cannot be killed by the death robots for donating to Islamic charities.

What specific people do you believe have been unjustly imprisoned for donating to Islamic charities?
Maybe you can help us on this one..

It's a browser extension that you connect all of your SaaS apps to (Desk.com, Stripe, Shopify, Mailchimp, Salesforce, etc.), and whenever you hover over an email anywhere on the web (in GMail, your admin panel, your help desk, etc.), you'll see a summary of everything you know about the user (pulled from all of your SaaS apps) pop up immediately.

Any help on how to phrase it, or changes to make to the homepage, to get the idea across quickly and compellingly?
Nice! It's a metric shitload faster than HDFS.

Has anyone gotten it running on EC2 yet at scalee?
I'm sure Firefox will release a Firefox plugin that will complement the basic service of identification. Imagine a plugin that lists all the websites you can authenticate with Persona. Or what if you had multiple personas, the firefox plugin can help you manage the selection of personas. Eventually, it'd become baked into Firefox, giving users that sense of it fundamentally "safer" than other browsers. Sure, this is all speculation, but it's a good marketing strategy on Mozilla's end and the start of gaining back the average consumer market share.
I partially (mostly?) agree, but for Obama to promote free speech while at the same time claiming the government has the right to remain silent is not some grand hypocrisy.
They already have. Here's an example: http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/
ahh, I can see one photo, a singular photo of the inside.
That's not really how it works. You verify your email address once, and after that you can just log in with your address and password. You don't have to click on an email link every single time you log in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net#App.net

> It is designed to be similar to Twitter, but have no advertising, instead relying on user and developer subscriptions. They began directly crowd funding it on July 13, 2012, with a goal of $500,000 and about 10,000 backers. [They] exceeded the goal by August 13th, raising at least $750,000 with over 11,000 backers. The service is currently in alpha.

ADN has made explicit promises to try to align their own incentives with those of both users and developers.
If you log out, that's the password you'll use to log in again. The login session is good for a while so you can continue to login with already-authenticated identities (and you can have as many as you want) on persona-enabled sites.
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> There is no true "American English" that spans the country

Of course. You should hear the way they speak in the North of England ;)

But if I say "the blue-winged teal is an American bird" I do not mean that every bird in North America is a blue-winged teal. I mean that the blue-winged teal is found only in North America.

As is the phrase "I could care less".
Do you truly not understand why a developer creating a location-based discovery app - an app that will be judged mostly on the quality its location-based content - might need to launch in limited locations to start? Does this really need to be explained to you?
Oakland is only a suburb in the sense that Newark, NJ is.
I've hired two home inspectors in my lifetime, and none of them even suggested they were even capable of testing for meth byproducts. Is this really a service anyone sells?
Wikileaks is going to start releasing information before things happen?
Given your eager defense of US I doubt you see how dangerous this kind of reasoning is.

You basically said that US, in general, is a good guy and therefore it's justified in doing illegal, immoral things and then hunting down those who expose this behavior.

So exposing bad behavior of US government is bad and worthy prosecution but exposing bad behavior of other governments, those you deem to be worse than US, is good and worthy praise.

Please explain the rationale for that double-standard.

Please also tell me which which other country dropped two atomic bombs, fought a prolonged, unprovoked political war (Vietnam) and invaded another country based on evidence that is believed to be completely fabricated (Iraq) and destroyed the lives of many creative people during McCarthy's communist witch hunt.

This is not to say that other countries aren't worse but let's not blindly wave patriotic flag and pretend that US government is immune to immoral, corrupt behavior. This kind of blind patriotism is easily exploitable. One thing that the "bad" governments have in common is that blind patriotism is a main propaganda technique used by Nazi Party, North Korea, communist countries to build us vs. evil them (except to them it's the jews or US is the "evil") and explain away their bad behavior (because the other side is even worse).
New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise
http://www.voomly.com is being built for this.
Exactly, see my 'connecting the dots' response below. I get it that the US is pissed off that people are sending Wikileaks classified information, the Nixon administration was really pissed off by Woodward and Bernstein's revelations and the Johnson adminstration was in a tizzy over the release of the Pentagon papers, but they didn't turn around and declare the papers and the journalists 'enemies of the state' now did they?
This for the end users who just own a phone will provide a bias as a user will only scroll so far, for those who can use a web browser then things become more palatable.

If anything a rise in alternative market search applications will rise perhaps. I do see a increase in mobile application review sites and with that opening up a whole new bias and targeted adverts.

What independant review sites do you trust today as nothing jumps to my mind, though I'm sure somebody has a favorite. For me the I have found alot of applications from not just the reviews but following the comments looking at the best as well as the worst rated ones and from that I get a feel for if I want to try the application out in the first place.

The ability to directly link a application to its respective markets and enable selection and install that way is realy the saviour from this change being diabolical. Reason being I see no sane reason for Apple to limit user choice and indeed purchase, but any bias - even at the expense of users attention span to swipe multiple times is one which serves no sane sence to anybody except with extreamly poor eyesight.
I agree with you that there is a "major" difference between the NYT and Wikileaks. But it's subjective.

It's "freedom of the press" not "freedom of the reasonable press (as determined by the government)"
Do you have a link to the original story? A lot depends on how something is framed.
It's a great app, but for different purpose. Induction is mainly for viewing/analyzing _data_, where pgAdmin, while horrible looking, is for managing database schema.
Really surprised this article doesn't mention tcp_tw_reuse or tcp_tw_recycle. These have a more substantial impact that simply adjusting TW, as those ports will still be in a FIN_WAIT status for a long time before reuse as well.

Excellent article on the subject.: http://www.speedguide.net/articles/linux-tweaking-121
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Full title is "Former Copyright Boss: New Technology Should Be Presumed Illegal Until Congress Says Otherwise" but HN does not allow more than 80 chars in title.
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As someone resident in the UK, I am quite sure that it is in fact a UK vs US-ism. I wouldn't know if everyone in the US uses the phrase "I could care less" but I am sure that no-one over here does. Which makes it an American turn of phrase since it is found no-where else.
You are above average, right?
> the military has an extremely valid reason for criminalizing contact between Wikileaks and active servicemembers

Surely leaking classified information was already a crime.
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Hide your Email for HTML Scammers/Parsers
Created a cool little script that allows you to display your email but hides it from the html, JS so know when can scrape. Try it:
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<p id="eid_id"></p>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.leoreavidar.com/js/email.js">
</script>
<script>
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What do you think?
Errata to the writer: the hotel name you could not locate in Sapporo is written in kana, specifically katakana, one of the four distinct alphabet and glyph systems the Japanese written language requires.

Only the name of the city of Sapporo is written in kanji as you suggest.
In other words, if you waive your right to a speedy trial, you don't get a speedy trial.
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Blizzard is often revered as one of those few studios, like Valve, that operate on "when it's done" time - game releases happen when they're ready, not when some publishing house requires it. As a result they have been monumentally successful.

It is interesting to hear that this was not always the case. As graphics have gotten better, storage has gotten cheaper, and budgets have gone way up, studios can't just pump-and-dump franchise cash-ins and casuals quite like they used to (with the exception of smartphone titles). ION Storm did Blizzard a great favor by wounding their pride and motivating them to create one of the greatest games ever - and to continue that brilliance until the present day.
"No server required courtesy of PubNub."

There most definitely is a server, so can anyone explain what they meant by that instead?
Here is their twitter account: https://twitter.com/nianticproject
> would have yielded no improvement to the conversation

thats true freehunter didnt need to use the most best word in order to get acrost the course grain jyst of his thaughts but at sum point the lak of exact language use does become a hinderance to smoothe discorse and i guess id rather air on the side of accurasy and preciseness and ask the same of others even if that meens i risk being thaught a pedant
IMO, the vast majority of home inspectors are people looking for an easy income. All the "certified home inspector" label means is that they crammed for a few days to pass the test.