skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an airbnb host and user for more than 2 years, I would just like to say that I find Airbnb to always accessible and thorough in all matters related to my experience. They have taken the measure to have insurance in which to protect those renting out. I do not expect them to keep me abreast of laws ordinances in my neighborhood as that is my due diligence. I have been completely thrilled with my experience and recommend it to others.
As I mentioned at the start, it was an extended explanation for people who needed more than just links to KDP and iBookstore.
so the purpose of the whole scheme is so that you can publish a very small amount of information that would decrypt the entire blob. a key has these properties.

the 'key' in this case would be a multi-gb random document. how do you publish this quickly?
I'm not in classical crypto, so I occasionally mess up and call algorithms based on computational difficult "based on factoring". The end result is the same though. Publication with delay.
Well, PostScript probably doesn't have the indirect-object-reference index at the end, but I don't really know much about PostScript so I couldn't say for sure.

I wonder if PostScript is to COS as JavaScript is to JSON.
This depends on the exact meaning of sale. It is certainly possible to implement a license agreement, that looks very much like a sale of a physical object. However I think that such a license agreement would be unenforceable, essentially because a physical good has a certain uniqueness. It makes sense to talk about 'my car' which is distinct from 'your car.' ( And if someone steals 'my car', I am able to identify this specific car.) By contrast, I can not really talk about 'my mp3 file' because there is simply no difference between my file and any of its copies. This applies also to watermarked files, since given a copy of a watermarked file you can not determine if this specific representation of the file was created by the original licensee or from an intermediate copy.

So the important point of me buying a book, is that a unique physical object becomes mine, by contrast there is no such thing as a unique digital object. [ IANAL, it is entirely possible, that there is some case law which defines a sale of software. But my point is, that this would be kind of a default license.]

See also

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/04/why-cont...

which had a huge influence on my thinking about digital goods. (Or economics in general.)
Well, actually Mer, the MeeGo spin-off http://merproject.org/

Some background on this whole Maemo/MeeGo/Sailfish story http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/meego-diaspora/
I assume because there's four different "xd" variables differing only in the number of underscores prefixed ("xd", "_xd", "__xd" and "___xd"). (Same for "yd" and "zd").
In that video, Moxie argues for a slightly different focus due to a different situation, but the overall concern is the same.
Ah, I remember those days - or the days right after those days (I was at NYU and got Facebook in late '04). It was so much fun to friend someone you met, see where they were from, all their interests (some real, some comical), what crazy comments happened to be on their wall, and what "groups" they belonged to.

The Facebook of today is still valuable, but in an entirely different way. Facebook in 2004 had nothing to do with sharing content, it was just a database of people that you'd met in college that was exceptionally fun to browse. That database of people aspect is almost entirely hidden now in favor of the feed (useful but different), and what you "like" (the pages where you clicked "like" to get a $2 coupon).

I recall reading somewhere PG saying there may be an opportunity now for a "Facebook for college students", which I'd imagine as a realization of the early value of Facebook. I've batted around the idea of setting up oldfacebook.com, just as a copy of that early version. Heck, you could even let people sign up by connecting with Facebook.
Are there any APIs to have people buy products and services with bitcoins? Also, How can I turn them into cash once people have bought services with those bitcoins?
I would argue that that represents an unusual case: people here pay you out of respect/gratitude for your contribution to the community.

For unknown authors, the sales picture is different.
Hell, it would not have even been a bad idea for Assange to send them a copy of the key when he initially released the insurance file. If the insurance file has anything of substance, it would work better if they know what is in it. Giving them the key would be giving them proof that you are not bluffing.
Hey guys! I haven't forgotten you too! How are you guys doing? Let's skype! ;)
Here's another excerpt from "Cypherpunks" at Salon:

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/02/julian_assange_the_web_can_c...

You can only buy this book direct from the publisher. Amazon isn't carrying it.
Assange is very aware of Rubber hosing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose_%28file_system%29
It's also a case of massively skewed risk/reward ratios for younger people.

The reward of smoking pot is pretty limited for a young person. The risk of permanently affecting their cognitive abilities for the remainder of their lives may be small, but the costs are large if this is the case.

Most people are able to identify someone who is now a stoner loser and who was once a bright young thing. The same applies for alcohol and other drugs. There does need to be a concerted effort to prevent young people from developing a pattern of usage for any drugs.
>Can't tell if you are being serious here. That's just not true at all; it's well known that LOC is a poor indicator of bug occurrence.

I looked for the reference but couldn't find it, but there was a meta-study of lots of different papers claiming that this or that new programming methodology would reduce the number of bugs in code, and the meta-study came to the conclusion that, in fact, if you just count the lines of code in similar implementations, you find a correlation between LOC and number of bugs that explains all of the claimed methodological improvements.

So yes, fewer LOC (for implementing a particular problem) IS a good indication you will have fewer bugs.

I didn't find the reference, but I thought it would simply be obvious that if it took many more LOC that there would be more opportunities for a bug to hide out.

Your reply to another question about LOC seems to indicate that you think I'm making a claim about LOC as a measure of productivity or of absolute # of bugs created per LOC.

This couldn't be further from what I'm saying. I've also taken great happiness out of deleting lines of code -- especially other people's code ;) -- and so measuring productivity in LOC is insane. At the same time, can't you see that if I delete 10000 LOC, then I've deleted a huge number of potential bugs in all that deleted code? I've CERTAINLY reduced the maintenance costs of the code, no matter how you slice it.

I'm also not talking about comparing MY code to anyone else's, but rather how many bugs I'm going to write if I have to write 400 lines of code in Java vs. 40 lines in Lua, and I am going to tell you right now that it's far less likely I'll write a bug in those 40 lines of Lua -- I almost don't care what a study alleges, I'd need iron-clad proof with REALLY specific results before I'd believe otherwise. It's pretty obvious to me that there are fewer chances to make a mistake, static analysis in Java notwithstanding.

And if I do end up with a bug, that looking at those 40 lines on one screen it will be easier to see what's happening and FIX the bug than if I have to jump all over the place to see what's happening in 400 lines of code.

And a 10-1 ratio of code size may not always be true, but it does happen. Java is VERY verbose compared to Lua.
Your politics is broken too. Publishing with a delay would mean "no use going after wikileaks, it's already out there". Keeping the key would mean "if we close them down, it's over". Given the delay to crack AES might be far longer than it takes stuff to emerge anyhow as declassified obsolete history, that's as good as keeping the key. And they have gone after wikileaks.
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The OTP idea is incredibly idiotic. It is functionally no different than not releasing the insurance file at all, and just claiming that you will release it in the future.

I am frankly stunned this isn't downvoted to oblivion already. I guess people really just like hearing that Assange is dumb.
Amusingly enough, it looks like the company he's working for to destroy that site makes its money - at least indirectly - from putting up embarrassing information about people and making them pay to get it removed.
I don't enjoy comparing the length of relatively similar lines. Why not use xa, xb, xc, etc... instead of xd, _xd, __xd, ___xd, yd, _yd, __yd, ___yd, zd, _zd, __zd, ___zd?
The business concept is fine and there is a market for this but HN is not the correct market imo.

More importantly you also need to put some contact info on the site and not use "whois privacy" for your domain name. How is anybody supposed to know who they are dealing with and why they should trust you?

I mean seriously why in the world would anyone send someone who is (virtually anonymous) a copy of their hard drive (not that putting contact info alleviates my fears or can't be faked) but it is certainly a step in the right direction.

As a social engineering test I wonder what the results would be if some official looking company sent 100 hard drives out to random small companies along with software to clone the hard drive and a postage paid envelope (forgetting mail fraud etc issues or with an overseas address)
James Gates: Symbols of power – Adinkras and the nature of reality [pdf]
Why are there two thumbs up icons? Great work though!
Well, the metrics could definitely use some work and context, but there is some real truth behind them. Up until the 18th century or so, non-state spaces existed in abundance, and given a choice between either being a subject of a sedentary state or being a person outside state control, you were nearly certainly better off by choosing the latter. Many people did, in fact, and there was a constant flux of people out of and into state spaces. It was only when technology became sufficiently developed that virtually everyone was subjected to the State.
If someone figures out how to crack AES or how to factor very efficiently, leaks will be the least of our problems.
> (irreversibly on human time-scales)

This comes across as ambiguous and I didn't understand what you meant until I read the article.

"It's happening at a rate that is irreversible on human time-scales"
I've never used Backblaze, but restoring with Crashplan is pretty simple. I can restore my entire user folder as backed up in under an hour. I've done it more than once, and would never consider it lacking.
I thought it might be too! But there are some people that swear by it (have even ditched their Macbooks in favor of an iPad). Neither of them does have a good text editor (at least yet), but you are not limited by the native platform when using a VNC solution. Also, as mentioned if you keep your host device connected to your tablet, your VNC connection is always alive.

All that said, it really depends on how you personally need to work - there is no one-size-fits-all solution.

Personally, I would never use a tablet to get work done, although I have been thinking of ways to effectively turn them into supplementary monitors (2560x1600 for $400? I'll take it).
> we shouldn't be looking to the past

History informs the present and future. My point in bringing up anthropology was that the OP's implicit suggestion that there is no alternative is demonstrably invalid.

> being equally poor

I would also heartily recommend the same book to you. It's quite an eye opener.
Both work on Sky (first one with www. prepended - seems to be a config issue), but the second link looks like just a TPB mirror/proxy - it has the search for torrents mainly. That's something completely different than the first link, which is actually a promotion site.
>For anyone doing audio, video, or compilations frequently, I'd imagine they would appreciate the extra speed on their computer.

I think anyone like this should already have a NAS for local backups. That is the proper device to run cloud backup software on, not your workstation.
I don't know how the blocking is actually being done, but it's not via DNS. I've been using 8.8.8.8 at home and piratebay.org remains blocked.
It is important to also consider whether or not these drones are actually effective, and what kind of response to they stimulate from the target.

As fancy as the technology is, these "precision" munitions are only as good as the intelligence on the other side of the joystick. A bomb landing on the wrong target acts a recruitment tool for the opposition. Moreover, sending a drone also indicates that one is not willing (or too cowardly) to send a human being.

A nice piece in Al Jazera makes a strong case against drones because of how the usage of these tools is perceived by the opposition (and the "collateral" damage): http://aje.me/tFAGe1
It seems "easy" but meaningful whitespace is a cluster-fck.

Tell that to everyone using Python. If your editor can't handle meaningful whitespace transparently, it sounds like you need a better editor.
I think the point was that this code can work in any environment where you can write to specific pixels (without magic WebGL transformation/rasterization operations or complex Canvas drawing routines).
> If he used a one-time-pad (Vernam cipher) and kept the key on his person he'd be in a far better position, but he's apparently too stupid to do this. How do you use a one-time pad?

A 1.4 GB key... Yeahhhhhh, very practical.

edit: and btw I hope you're also confident on the quality of your RNG to output 1.4 GB of random bytes.
Some new iMacs marked as being 'Assembled in USA'
This also sucks; you have to maintain your own hardware and make the files / blocks redundant. Whilst possible, it's certainly going to add complexity and overheads; RiakCS (http://basho.com/products/riakcs/) springs to mind.
I think both claims are spurious.
Funnily enough, this site isn't blocked from within JANET (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANET)
I don't think the prize for the 3rd place has been given out yet. Possible contenders are BlackBerry, Bada, and WP. Symbian still sells ok-ish, but is clearly a dead end. And then there are some new players including Tizen, Sailfish, and Firefox OS.

Personally, I'd like to see a properly open alternative do well. Firefox OS would be the best for the web, and Sailfish for Linux in general.
Missing is any information about what percentage of donations go to the charity...
"Why is everyone so fucking concerned with multitasking?"

Some of us can do more than one thing at a time, some things I do require it. Don't be so myopic.
They might have a soft spot for modern board games, but that isn't going to get them to invest. The investment will come based on cold hard numbers, given that someone who knows boardgames may be LESS likely to invest. Jeff Bezos when starting Amazon was turned down by everyone he talked with associated with the book industry.

You need to to get into high gear, get a plan together and just start cold calling VC's. HIRE someone to craft your plan/pitch if you need to.

They'll invest because you lay out.
Boardgames are a $750 million market, closely related to the $2.25 billion casual gaming market.

And oh yea, we just got an acquistion offer.

Also consider the acquisition, if it's worth considering you'll get the money for your next venture and learn things and build a track record for your next thing.
That demo video is terrible. If it really has anything new in it's UI, that guy failed miserably at demonstrating it. Changing the background/ambience is one of the pillars of a "more personal user experience", really?

I'd like to understand why this Quartz guy is jizzing all over this company, but the article doesn't help either.
matt, getting the keywords is our secret sauce -- as you'd said, the info is not public so we're not 100% accurate, but we're pretty close. Is your app J23? What keywords did we get wrong, considering that the words in the app title for all intents count as keywords.
The problem with one-time pads, is that they require a password with the same length as the data you want to encrypt. That mean, if you don't pre-distrubute the key as well, you are in the same boat as if you don't distribute anything at all. To give everyone the one-time pad key, its the same trouble as sending the actually data unencrypted to everyone. As a threat value, pre-releasing xor'ed data has exactly zero value.

One could suggest that he could use something semi-random but well published information instead of random generated blob for a one-time pad. Earth rotational speed, stock market numbers, intensity of the sun radiation comes to mind. In that case, the password would be the exact dates to take data from, something that could be spread faster than gigs of data. The problem with this is, as soon people start to use it, people would start testing those data to decrypt with, and the key-size essentially becomes the size of time ranges of existing data.
Yeah, the whole point of distributing huge "insurance" data in an encrypted form is that the key is tiny. It's possible to maybe censor distribution of a 10GB file, at least generally, but it would be exceedingly difficult to prevent distribution of a 128-256 bit key. Literally you could shout it from the rooftops.

Nothing remains sensitive forever. It's likely everything in the "insurance file" would be public and mainly of interest to historians in 50-100 years, even without Assange. Most sensitive information in government ceases to be sensitive once everyone involved in the decision-making process is dead, and almost all of it is only operationally sensitive or for the lifetime of a piece of technology or particular source.

I mean, if we found out incontrovertible proof about the USS Maine or Gulf of Tonkin being engineered casus belli, who would really care?
> I've batted around the idea of setting up oldfacebook.com

I wouldn't recommend using that domain name.
Antirez meant to say that notch is using canvas as a dumb framebuffer.

He builds the raster image pixel by pixel instead of using higher level primitives (polygons).
Both mobile and server-side software are kind of a big deal at the moment --to understate drastically. And both can benefit greatly from C++ for the simple reason that computation (and especially memory traffic) requires power and power comes at a cost --either in the form of data center electricity bills or in the form of bigger, clunkier batteries in your device. "Servers are cheaper than engineers" is certainly true in small-to-mid-scale development. But, I expect Facebook is shifting from PHP->HipHop->C++ to save money. Meanwhile on mobile, you can't just tell the user to buy multiple phones. Your only alternative to more efficient software is to sit and wait for faster chips to start using less power. Unfortunately, it looks like there is a power-wall coming up there pretty soon... http://darksilicon.org/
S3 with RRS would be better, but the economics may not work out. However, unlike normal internet based backups, you can't replace corrupted / lost files sneakily, well not until the next backup-drive arrives.

Also, be aware that you'll not be able to de-dupe files across users (this also has issues if you could) as you're encrypted. Also, if the encryption key is different, you won't even be able to do this cross backups...which will suck.
Nobody goes there anymore, it's way too crowded. -Berra
You could actually get those small businesses booted off Facebook once Facebook gets its fraud detections algorithms in order (i.e. on a par with those of, say, Google). Which probably isn't too far off.

Same comment goes for all other services of this nature out there.
Same for me to, but just upgraded the drive to 3TB (it's really easy). Works really well.
Remember those laptops for African kids? They integrated Python for learning to program. I only watched the video, back then, but I remember them showing the Python console.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Laptop_per_Child

Pippy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7aQxYuKJ18
Turtle Art https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2MblcmwWo8
In contrast to others here I actually kind of liked it. I really dug the idea of making app icons interactive and useful, it's an intelligent use of limited real estate.

Also, I'm not sure if it's just novelty or actually more intuitive, but I really liked how the icon grid scrolls vertically rather than horizontally. Maybe it's because of the aspect ratio of mobile screens but it just looked more intuitive to my eye.
Memory use and startup time?

I'm just guessing here, but I believe, if anything, Dalvik is better at those.
I don't get it. You seem to be inferring that it's impractical to store a couple of gigabytes on your person.
You broke (3) with this comment!

Similarly, there's some research that less-legible text is recalled better: http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/12/harder-to-re...

Compare also bloggers who intentionally oversimplify and make small errors in their headlines/articles, guaranteeing more attention via outrage-forwarding, a vibrant comment section, and 'hook' for a followup post that extends/clarifies/apologizes.

Strightforwardness is good for many things... but not memorability.
Recommending AGAINST a strong password manager is pretty awful. Why wouldn't you want a solution that would let you use unique, strong passwords on each site you use?

The idea that you could do so (unique, strong passwords per site) without a password manager is ludicrous.
Alternatives to C++ are not universally slow for browser engines. I have first-hand experience here :)
Are Apple's new iMacs being assembled in the U.S.?
In your scheme, the random key is as large as the message. It would be pointless to publish the ciphertext.
Actually I'd like it if I could respond to an incoming message over whatever app is running right now, without switching away. This would be useful for videos, games without a proper pause state saving, almost any application really.

There's also the problem that comes up every other week for me: the phone number I want to call is in a picture / not selectable / selecting is completely broken due to some onmouseover handler. It still happens from time to time and I really wish I had an ability to see both apps (the one with the information and the dialer) at the same time.

Video over other things seems less useful though...

So yes, I'd like to see a little bit easier multitasking because not all apps/pages are properly taking advantage of the UI possibilities yet. And I'm talking about simple things like href=tel:...
As tptacek says, many states do ban discrimination on the basis of marital status, and they have a good reason to - historically most businesses refused to employ married women at all on the rather sexist basis that they should be at home raising kids.
Somewhat OT, I can't believe I'll end up dropping out of college before I take a class with Ierusalimschy. I've been told he will usually wear a bermuda and flip flops to class but unfortunately those are few and far between for undergrads, only Compilers that I've heard of, while most of his work is with grad school.